I was planning on writing an outlawqueen Christmas story but I couldn't stop thinking about Rumbelle and how much their relationship has me cringing this season. If it's going to end this is how I want it to go down.
Rumple sat behind the counter of his pawn shop thinking about how he got there. Emma and Elsa had defeated the Snow Queen and her curse of shattered sight. The curse was meant to be his chance to escape this town with his wife and son- grandson, he corrected himself. But things didn't go as planned. During what was supposed to be his final confrontation with the pirate Belle had discovered his treachery. He'd forgotten that he had actually given her the real dagger. She prevented him from crushing the pirate's heart and ordered him to wait in the shop. He'd never seen her look at him the way she did today. Her eyes were filled betrayal and anger.
He looked up as the bell above the door rung. "Belle…"
She looked at him warily, her eyes were sore from crying. "Give me the heart." She whispered.
"Belle…"
"Give. Me. The. Heart."
He turned to the counter and grabbed the heart from where he'd left it. As he handed it to her he realized that he was giving her his last chance to be free from the dagger.
Belle stared at the beating heart in her hands. It was redder than she expected. It must be his love for Emma. The woman her husband had attempted to kill less than eighteen hours ago. "Rumple I have always thought that deep down inside you were a good man. It's why I have forgiven you for every hurtful, deceitful and cruel thing that you had done to everyone in this town. I have always had faith that when it came down to it you would choose me over power. Today you have finally proven me wrong."
"Belle please. I did this for us."
"You did this for you, Rumple. And I am quite certain now that you have never done anything for me." Said Belle with tears in her eyes. She sighed before she asked the question she already knew the answer to. "Did you kill Zelena?"
Rumple's silence told her all she needed to know. "You couldn't go a day without lying to me could you?"
"She killed my son-"
"DON"T YOU DARE BRING NEAL INTO THIS!" cried Belle. "For the last 300 years you have used your son as an excuse to hurt and manipulate everyone around you but not today. You will not disgrace his memory like that. Not in front of me you won't."
She took a deep breath before she continued. "Your son wanted one thing from you Rumple. And that was for you to become a better man. You failed him Rumple. You tried to destroy the love of his life, the mother of your grandson, just so you could be free of the dagger. You were willing to doom every person in this town and I cannot forgive you for that."
Rumpelstiltskin hadn't begged for anything in more than three hundred years but he couldn't lose Belle. Without her he would be completely lost in the darkness. His chin trembled as he begged the love of his life for one more chance. "Belle please don't leave. I am sorry for lying to you and the pain I've caused. You're the only light in my life. I don't know how I'll survive without you. So please just give me one more chance. I love you."
"And I love you Rumple." Belle slipped her wedding ring off her finger and placed it on the counter. "But just like it wasn't enough for you yesterday, it isn't enough for me now."
She turned to walk out of the store. "I'm giving Hook his heart back. I won't be coming back here again so please don't follow me."
And with that she left. It wasn't until she turned the corner that she finally allowed herself to break down in tears.
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