All Magic Comes With A Price
Chapter1: All Magic Comes With A Price
A haze of purple magic has broiled up from the well and is enveloping us in its sickly shade. What have we done? I can feel the evil spreading like cold fingers digging into my heart. It sends chills up my spine as the spell races forth and covers the small town of Storybrooke. I feel the fear of its inhabitants as they watch it approach. It is too much. I do not think I can go on. I have been waiting twenty-eight years, locked away in unending punishment for this release; yet my escape is not what I had hoped. Closing my eyes I can feel the touch of his lips and that one magical kiss we shared. The kiss that changed the course of my life, forever. Now I am bound, my heart a willing slave to a love that will surely end badly.
His laugh breaks the silence of the woods where populars loom, great prison bars that hold us here. I shiver at the touch of his hands on my shoulders. This is what I have dreamed of, what I have craved all those long days locked below the hospital in the Queen's new dungeon. His lips caress my ear as he whispers my name, "Belle." I cannot resist.
Gold's eyes seem to glow then flicker with danger, a hard glinting shard that colors them black. Our lips touch and for one moment the magic swirls around us binding us as ropes. My fate is sealed.
"There will be time for that later, dearie," he whispers, "Right now, we have a job to do."
Gold's fingers tighten around mine as he leads me from the woods. If I had not seen the curse, felt its power surge through me, I would think all is well. But it is not. Magic has returned, and it will not rest until someone has paid the price.