In the dark castle belle was polishing rumples collection of priceless objects, which he had earned through many deals. Meanwhile rumple was upstairs spinning gold from straw, when there was sudden knock on the castle door. The sound echoed through out the castle and then the silence fell over the castle.

A few minutes later rumple shouted "BELLE GET THE DOOR!"

Belle immediately placed a strange looking object back on to the shelf and hurried to the door, she opened the door expecting to see a poor old soul desperate to make a deal but instead she saw her friend red.

"Red!" Belle screamed as she hugged her and the quickly retreated back to the doorway.

Rumple appeared from a black cloud of smoke and quickly observed red.

"Oh look who it is, little red" before either of the women could say anything he snapped "why are you here?!"

Red rummaged in a side bag which hung from her shoulder and pulled out a piece of folded up paper.

"Snow wanted me to give this to you" she said as she held up the piece of paper.

Rumple snatched it from reds hands and quickly scanned the piece of paper and belle and red stood by the door in silence.

"Oh it's just a little deal she wants to make" he explained.

At that moment a loud scream came from outside. Red and belle quickly turned around to see snow charging down the road with the queens men in per suit.