Belle kept her prisoner locked in a small shed in her backyard. It didn't get much use as of lately since her father stopped gardening. It was used mostly for old tools and storage. Her family tended to stay away from it as it brought up painful memories of things that had long since passed.

Zelena was not happy with her stay in the shed. The first few days she cried mostly, angrily threatening to kill Belle and tell the cops on her, and after a few weeks, the begging started. Bargaining with Belle that she wouldn't tell anyone if only she would let her go, and pleading that she had learned her lesson and would stay away from Mr. Gold. But Belle had no intentions of freeing her prisoner, not yet at least, not until she'd broken Zelena's mind and her willpower belong to Belle.

Belle considered she was kind to Zelena. She gave her three square meals a day. Her breakfast consist of old leftovers, sometimes spoiled. After school, Belle fed Zelena half eaten school cafeteria scraps, and for dinner, just before Belle laid down to rest her weary head, she gave her prisoner some delicious cat food.

Zelena went unharmed. Belle had no desire to hurt her body, just her mind. She would repeatedly make Zelena say the words: I am nothing. I am worthless. Nobody loves me. I should just die. Over and over again until it stuck, Belle even left a tape recorder overnight if her saying the words so when Zelena slept they were absorbed in her subconscious.

After two months Belle was successful. She had fully cracked Zelena's mind and made her a slave. She was no longer a person but a mere object, a toy, if you will, that only obeyed the commands of Belle.

No one at Storybrooke High even seemed to notice that Zelena was missing and it was a common fact that she often skipped school to do drugs. Classes went on as usual, and most of the students appeared to have forgotten about her within those two months. However, there was one exception, Zelena's sophomore sister Regina. In the first few weeks of Zelena's disappearance, Regina would pass out flyers and hold search parties for her missing sister. Although, very few people came. Only Robin who had a serious crush on Regina, and Belle who only came to make sure Regina's trail always came up cold.

Mr. Gold didn't even seem to care that Zelena was missing and went on teaching his class like he never noticed Zelena was gone. Belle knew her Senpai didn't want that airhead, and now with all the competition out of the way. It was time to confess her love to Mr. Gold.

After class Belle gathered all her courage up and wrote Mr. Gold a note, telling him to meet her at 3:30 pm in the gym. She didn't include her name because she wanted it to be a surprise. As she was folding the letter up in a cute little origami heart, it got snatched away from her.

"Hey!" She exclaimed. "Give that back Gaston, right now!"

Gaston ignored her and proceeded to unwrap the letter and reads from it as the school bell rang for students to return to class.

"Well well." He chuckled before balling up the piece of paper and tossing it aside. "Belle, if you had a crush on me all you had to do was say something."

Gaston was a pompous jerk. He was so arrogant and superficial that it made Belle nauseated, and she often had to refrain from puking whenever he tried to hit on her, but he was overly conceited and stuck in his jockey ways to see that Belle was not interested in him.

He closes in on the small girl, trapping her between him and her locker. "You know I had my eye on you gorgeous."

"Yeah me and the rest of the student body." She said, rolling her eyes snidely.

"And none of which are more sexier than you," Gaston said with a devilish smile and wicked gleam in his eyes. "I just wanna see you in a little skimpy cheerleader outfit, cheering for me on the sideline as I score the winning goal. Doesn't that sound nice?"

"No. It sounds ridiculous." She said hugging her school books tightly to her chest. They were her only defense from Gaston getting a peek down her school uniform. "Can you please move? You're making me late for class."

Gaston slaps the books from her arms, and they came colliding to the floor with a loud thud. "Stop reading those pictureless comics. My muscles are all you need to pay attention to." He said, flexing his biceps. "Damn you smell good Belle. I bet you taste good too." Gaston said closing the small gap and licking her neck.

Belle shouted for him to stop, trying her best to push the overbearing brute off her. But his muscles proved to be a worthy adversary and Belle's thrashing was a wasted effort.

"That will be quite enough of that you two." A man's voice said. Gaston stopped, and Belle noticed that the man was her physics professor, Mr. Jefferson. "Shouldn't you both be in class?"

Gaston turned back to Belle, wearing a smug, satisfied grin. "Later Belle." He whispered before grabbing his backpack and running off down the hall.

Mr. Jefferson handed Belle back her books. "Are you alright Ms. French?"

"Yes, I'm fine." She said out of breath from her struggle with Gaston,

"Well okay, just get to class then."

As Jefferson turned around to leave, Belle became worried. The professor was close friends with Mr. Gold. Belle stalked her Senpai everywhere, so she knew about all the people that he was in close contact with, so it worried her that Mr. Jefferson might tell him what had just happened with Gaston, thus ruining her chances with Mr. Gold.

"Mr. Jefferson, nothing is going on between Gaston and me."

"Hmmm. Didn't look that way to me."

"I swear it, please don't tell anyone, please."

"I won't rat on you, Ms. French. Just don't let me catch you again." He told her. "Now off to class."

Belle was livid. Gaston might have ruined her chances with her true love. Perhaps it was time to test out Zelena's commitment to Belle and have her eliminate Gaston altogether.

When she made it to class, it had already started. She walked in with her head held low, avoiding Mr. Gold's eye contact in shame, but he didn't reprimand her like he would have done if it was another student. He looks at her, with a raised eyebrow like something about her piqued his interest. Mr. Gold smiled and used his hand to gesture the common way to alert someone that their button was open. Belle looked down and saw her cleavage exposed fully, even part of her lacy blue bra was showing. She closes the button and hides her face in shame. That oaf Gaston must have unbuttoned her blouse while he was roughly handling her.

After that embarrassing mishap, there was no way Belle was going to rewrite the letter and give it to her teacher. She decided to just play it cool for a couple of days until he forgot about it. Class went on as usual. Belle spent most of his lecture daydreaming about her future with Mr. Gold, sketching their names and drawing little red hearts around them. In the middle of class, Belle was pulled out of one of her relaxing daydreams of her teacher when one of the students tapped her shoulder to get her attention.

"Psst... Belle," Zelena's little sister Regina whispered. "Pass this to Emma."

Regina handed her a note to give to Emma who was sitting in the row in front of her. Belle was a very curious person so of course she had to be nosy and read the note. Besides, it could contain useful information that her best friend Ruby, the school's gossip, would love to know. She pretended to pass it off to Emma, instead kept the letter and secretly reads from it.

He's kind of cute, isn't he? No wonder my sister had the hots for the teacher. Maybe now that she's gone off on one of her drug benders, I can get his attention. -Regina

Belle rips the paper up into tiny pieces and tosses them on the floor. Regina saw what she did and quietly tries to get Belle's attention.

"Hey, what the hell is wrong with you," She whispered.

"No what's the matter with you, he's our teacher," She said deflecting her own problems onto Regina. "And besides what about Robin, he likes you."

"Robin, that smelly loner. No thank you."

An idea popped into Belle's head. Instead of eliminating her, she could simply steer Regina in the direction of Robin. They both recently lost a family member they cared about, so why not just play matchmaker and hook them up.

"What exactly don't you like about him?"

"Well for starters he's poor as dirt, he's not a bad boy, and he's unpopular."

Belle rolled her eyes. Regina was so self-absorbed, but her boyfriend requirements were easy enough to make happen. Now all she had to do was find Robin.

After class, she met her best friend at their joining lockers to discuss her ideas with Ruby.

"What's up Belle," She commonly greeted her friend. "Did you get your Senpai yet?"

"Not quite, but I'm really close."

"Who is it this time?"

"Regina," Belle revealed.

"Robin's crush?"

"Exactly, I just need to make her see that he's the perfect boyfriend for her."

"No elimination?" Ruby asked in disappointment. "I don't know, sounds kind of boring."

"Well I don't have room in my father's shed for another, so I decided to go about it a different way."

"Okay, so how can I help?"

"Regina like's rich, popular bad boys," Belle explained. "We can't give him money, but we can make him look rich with some new duds.

"Sure, I can do that. And a good make-over will give Robin that bad boy flare."

Belle nodded. "So that just leaves his school status."

"That's an easy one. He's already a loner. Nothing says popular then don't fuck with me."

"You're right Ruby!" Belle gasped. "And how about instead of boys, you can use your connections to surround him with a few girls. That would sure to get Regina's attention."

"You are an evil genius Belle," Ruby remarked with a mischievous smirk.

Belle blushed. "Why thank you."

Just in the nick of time, Robin passed the girls on his way out of school. He agreed to hang out with the girls for the afternoon, and they went to the mall. Belle and Ruby did all his shopping, picking out the best rich bad boy clothes and shoes. Mostly contemporary designers like Akademiks, Black Label, and Ralph Lauren. They even cut his hair differently and gave him expensive cologne to accentuate his new style.

The next day at school, Ruby arranged Robin to be escorted by a bevy of beautiful girls, they clung to him like he was God's gift to Storybrooke High. He didn't go unnoticed by his crush Regina, and at lunchtime, there was a note in his locker from her telling Robin to meet her after school. When Robin showed Ruby and Belle the letter, they felt accomplished in luring Regina from Mr. Gold. The bonus was that she made her friend Robin happy too by setting him up with his crush.

While the school day was coming to an end, there was another commotion outside, one similar to when the cops busted her student counselor Ms. Milah. A swat team, carrying large guns and rifles. Principal Nolan placed the school on lockdown, and no students were allowed to leave their class.

Belle became worried again. What if someone had discovered the girl she was torturing in her father's shed? But no one came to arrest her, and within an hour Belle's fears were put to rest when the cops left the school grounds, and the principal ended the lockdown.

It wasn't until after school did Belle find out what happen. Apparently, Will Scarlet was alive, but only barely and his body was scattered with cuts and bruises. He had told the police that Gaston had kidnapped him and held him hostage for three months. In Gaston's locker, there was an abundance of evidence to convict him of kidnapping and torture. Maps, rope, bloodstained clothing, and a copious amount of DNA was found on Gaston and his clothing. The police took Gaston to jail where he would be charged as an adult for his heinous crimes against a student.

Belle felt it was strange that Gaston went to jail, she didn't feel like he had the brainpower to concoct such a tremendous feat. She also supposed that was the reason why he got caught. He simply wasn't smart enough to pull off a kidnapping. But still, something wasn't adding up, Belle gave up on trying to figure it out and chalked it up to being just another one of Storybrooke High's mysteries.


Brought to you by the new matchmaker elimination
method from the video game Yandere Simulator.
-RL