AN: to LilyMayRose: yes, I will try to keep it as close to cannon as having a small child around can get.

"What do you mean you don't have a name?" Rumplestiltskin questioned,

"my mommy never gave me one" Ava said through the sniffles, she may call herself Ava but she knew that wasn't her name, she longed for the day that someone, not necessarily her mother, gave her a proper name.

"well i'll just have to give you a name, are you ok with that?" Rumplestiltskin said.

Ava nodded her head vigorously,

Rumplestiltskin couldn't believe her mother didn't even have the decency to give this poor child a name. Every child deserves one. Rumplestlitskin thought, he had never been tasked with naming a child, Milan had decided Baelfire's name without his consent in the slightest, even then, Backfire had been a boy. The nameless child's voice, though crying sounded sweet and lovely, as if in a beautiful harmony, aha! He would name the child Harmony.

"what about Harmony? do you like that?" Rumplestlitskin said calmly,

Ava, now Harmony, nodded

"Ok Harmony, how old are you?

Harmony held up 6 fingers, he assumed that ment she was 6 years old. He held out his hand to Harmony and she took it as she started to get up off of the ground. Upon further inspection he realized Harmony's cloths were soiled and much to small and that she weighed far too less. He picked her up and magicked them both to the Dark Castle.

"wow" an awed Harmony whispered under her breath.

Rumplestlitskin handed her some new cloths, and said

"go change into these cloths, I'll prepare something for you to eat

Harmony was puzzled, she had eaten yesterday though, she decided to voice her thoughts as Rumplestiltskin started to walk away.

"but, um, um, Rmpleslisskin" she slurred her words, he turned around to look at her

"yes?" he questioned

"I-I-I just ate yesterday" she stuttered,

Rumplestiltskin couldn't believe his ears, were they deceiving him? Yesterday was recent for this small girl? This was an outrage! No wonder she was underweight!

"I'm sorry I slurred and stuttered... and that I made you mad"

"I'll go change now" she murmured as she slowly walked away with her chin in her neck

Rumplestiltskin was infuriated, he wasn't focusing on her stutter or her slur. He was focusing on the fact that, this child, barely school aged, abused by her own mother was apologizing to HIM?! He caught her on the way out of the room.

"I'm not mad dear, I'm just surprised, I eat three times a day and that is how you will too"

Harmony's eyes widened to the size of saucers.

"Tank you" she said as she walked out of the room

He did start to wonder about her slur and stutter as he started to prepare the chicken noodle soup, but as she came back into the room wearing the dress he had conjured for her those thoughts were shaken. He sat the bowls on the dining table and they began to eat, and for what he assumed was the first time in a while Harmony smiled. She was going to make a person very happy one day, and as he sighed eternally, he told himself that person was not going to be him.