It's my first Once Upon a Time attempt.

I just like FrankenWolf so yeah. Friendship, romance, whatever. Spoilers for 2x12.

Partially inspired by some amazing videos on Youtube, especially "Iris || Ruby/Whale". Look it up, it was pretty damn good.


"And I'm the werewolf. I ate my boyfriend."

He'd always known that she was different than a lot of the people in this town. She was different than Snow or Charming, even when they were cursed. Something about her had whispered to him that she wasn't the same, and the red he always saw when he looked at her was just another hint. Now that the curse was broken, it was so much clearer.

He'd come from a world of black and white. Rumplestiltskin had been the first splash of colour to hit his eyes, but after he'd done his business and left the world was back to its dull grey. Even now, in a world full of colour, the only thing he could really see was red. Red was the colour of the blood he worked to stop. Red was the colour of her clothes, her cloak and, once, parts of her hair. The werewolf was polluting his vision and he wasn't sure if he minded or not.

He hadn't realised she was a murderer at first. It had just never occurred to him, that she was capable of hurting people. Every time he'd seen her or heard of her she was saving people, either by helping Snow and Charming or by throwing herself forward to stop people from getting hurt. To catch them. She'd caught him, quite literally, right when he had given up all hope.

"That's not my son! You are not my son! A ghoul and a grave digger! A fool and a witch doctor! You are a disgrace to this family!"

He hadn't been able to save his brother. He had come back all wrong and his father had been right. He'd been an idiot. He'd wanted his name to stand for life but all it made people think of was the monster he created. The mistake he'd made. It should have worked but something had gone terribly wrong inside his brother's mind. He hadn't been the same after he came back.

All he wanted was for his name to stand for life. He was supposed to save people but everything he tried just backfired. He hadn't brought his brother back properly. He hadn't brought Daniel back properly and his arm still ached enough to prove that. Every damn time he tried to save someone another person seemed to die and he hated it. That wasn't the way it was meant to be.

"Regina thought she was punishing us by erasing who we were, but I think she underestimated how much crap we wanted to forget. But we can't let it stop us. She gave us a chance to start over and I wanna take it. I think you should too."

She was right. She was so right. It was easier just to forget all of it but even as Whale some things hadn't changed. He'd still been alone. It seemed that some things would never change. As a child, his only friend was his brother and once they grew up, they drifted apart. He'd never had friends. That had just been part of who he was. It had seemed that would never change.

But maybe she was right about the other part too. There was no reason to think she wasn't. Regina had banished them here, ripped away their memories to punish them. Maybe they had a chance now, a chance for a new life. This might be his chance to be better. He couldn't save anyone before but things were different now. That man at the hospital had lived thanks to him. There might just be hope for this new world.

"Maybe there's still some stuff you can fix."


I seriously love FrankenWolf and if it ain't developed, I'll kill a bitch.

Also, this is going to be a series of OUaT one-shots, probably mainly FrankenWolf.

/shamelessly ships as she rolls into the sunset

~Klefan-Lover