A/N We learn a bit more about June in this Chapter, and we meet Rumple. Very sentimental and angsty a bit.
DISCLAIMER: Don't own Once Upon a Time or Bae or Rumple or anyone else that's not my OC. I wish I did, but I don't
Bae's heart stopped for a bit there.
Her father… was the Dark One. He barely noticed she leaned back, sitting on the counter top, holding her head in her hands. "It was just before the Ogre Wars… H-he was paranoid that once it started they would start taking in children to be soldiers… I tried to convince him it was a long way off, but he was sure that by the time I was fourteen, they would make me join… So he became the Dark One, killing anyone who got near me." June started rambling, as if the painful memories were just spilling out. "I was ten when I finally heard about the magic beans that could do anything… So I broke into the fairy vault, stealing the bag, but I noticed that all the beans were different colors and did different things, so I left one of each in case the fairies ever needed them." Tears started spilling down her cheeks. "I found the one that would send us here, to this world, but when I opened the portal, he was too scared to follow me through, he didn't want to leave his power."
"Just like my father…" Baelfire said. They were more alike than he thought.
June sighed, biting her lip and looking around, making sure not to look him in the eye. "He was a coward, couldn't leave his stupid power." She spat, but he knew she was only saying that to make herself feel better, for he had done the same thing years ago. Slowly he made his way over to her and put an arm around her shoulder. Another violation of the no touching rule.
"I'm sorry, for what my father did." Baelfire said. "But I'm glad you left some of those magic beans, otherwise you wouldn't have me?" He heard her chuckle and he looked over to see her wiping tears from her face. "Do you still want to go into town? It will get our minds off it."
"Sure, sure." She gripped his arm as they left the cabin, still not bothering to clean up the broken plate or put away the pancake mix. They could always do that later. "I've had enough sentimentality today." They got onto the motorcycle, putting on both their helmets as they rode steadily up the gravel pathway and back onto the open road.
It took them less than five minutes to get to town. It was small, but strangely had a lot of people walking about. There was a clock tower, with what looked like an abandoned library below it. A pet shelter, a school, a pawn shop and a few other trinket stores that every little town as such would have. "Have you realized everyone's staring at us? Is there a law that there can't be newcomers?" He heard June whisper in his ear. Bae looked around and saw that everyone was staring at them. Some had eyes as wide as dinner plates, as if they've never seen someone new. Others leered at them, as if they were some sort of pest.
He shrugged and pulled into a spot next to a diner. They both needed food badly. Bae let June sit down first into the red booth of "Granny's Diner" and as soon as they were both seated, a tall twenty or so girl with brown hair and red streaks came over. "Hello my name is Ruby or Red, which ever you prefer," She said. "Is there anything I can get you? Tea, Coffee?"
"Um, we'll both have coffee, two sugars no cream?" June said. Coffee was her favorite, and she had gotten Bae hooked on it too. "And then can we just have some toast and jam?"
"Sure thing." The girl, Ruby he had decided on, walked over to the counted and tapped it four times. An old lady came over, obviously "Granny" and listened while Ruby told her the order.
"Am I the only one who has that feeling like something's wrong?" Baelfire whispered as Ruby came over with a tray holding their coffees and toast. He let June eat first, pulling out the soft inside of the bread while he ate the crust. It had always been like that, whenever they got bread or toast, he would eat the crust and June would eat the insides, Bae liked the crust better anyways and she wouldn't eat it no matter how hungry she was. "Like we're going to get in trouble just by sitting here?"
"I've noticed it," June nodded as she gutted another slice. "I think we should get out of here… as soon as possible."
"Yeah, I want to walk around a bit first, just to make sure it isn't just a few people." Bae said. June rolled her eyes, but soon nodded in agreement. Ruby had come over with a check, and they paid for their food in loose change. They got up from their spot and walked down the street, June's arm wrapped around his as if she was afraid he would run away. Together the two walked up and down the streets, they noticed that the deeper they got into town, the more leers and stares they got. Bae realized something too, everyone looked vaguely familiar. Whether it was a hair color or a way of posture, they all looked as if he had seen them before. "Are you getting that sense of déjà-vu?"
"A little." June admitted. There was something very wrong about this town. Very, very wrong.
Then he saw it.
Him.
Him.
He was walking down the street, arm and arm with a young girl much like Bae was walking with June. His skin was normal, not dark and scaly as it had been before. He was content. Happy. Blissful. Whichever the word was, Bae only felt hate and anger and pain. He ripped his arm away from June, ignoring her protests. Stalking up to him, he stopped right in front of the man and girl. "You broke our deal!" He threw a straight right fist at the man's face, fury and rage filling his body. "You're a coward!" Another punch, sending the befuddled man the ground.
He felt someone grab him from behind and he tried to pull away, thinking it was June for attacking a "Random Person". But this man was not random. He was not a person. "You're under arrest." Was yelled into his ear and he froze. Under arrest? That was bad. It meant that June would have to bail him out, or hire a lawyer. Both would cost money and leave them on the streets again. It would leave June alone until they could figure something out. It was a lose-lose situation. "Get in the car." He felt a hand shove him into what looked like a yellow car, but everything was just a big blob of color.
He looked out the small window, and spotted June, standing on one spot jaw open. He mouthed one word. A word they had come to use a lot. A secret word. "Run."
Another short-ish chapter, but school's started to get tougher. I was supposed to be doing my History report when I wrote this O.O... Don't tell my teacher! R&R please!
