div data-p-id="ccf63c6a523602d5ca583cf9a465b129"strongWhat if Rumple killed the author at the wedding instead of striking Regina. He changes his mind and takes Belle's words to heart and finally believes he is a hero, that he wouldn't strike an innocent to save his own happy ending. Henry could use the blood/darkness that the author has to write the story back to the way it was...then back in the pawn shop Belle could use the true loves kiss to bring him back from his stasis/unconsciousness and he can be the hero he always wanted to be, free from the curse./strong/div
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div data-p-id="920df93faa756ee69fc875b27ba8401e"Rumplestiltskin holds the sword, ready to strike but he can't do it./div
div data-p-id="20d9df7822896e7369dcc06f810b7933"He thinks of Belle, how she has been with him in this universe, how much he has loved being Rumple again but then whenever he thinks of Belle, he thinks of the lies he told her and the look in her eyes when she pushed him over the town line, the disgust, the hatred, the betrayal./div
div data-p-id="65a25d16f1a48bbdab983a5d6b01c5e6"He thinks of how happy she is./div
div data-p-id="6c33e76f8815e48b20e2e85b27a13c78"How this world is as full of lies as their last world and in his anger at being written as such a huge coward. Even as a hero, he's a villain./div
div data-p-id="8b4d377d0aeff9c005588a2a8f726c61"He thinks of what/div
div data-p-id="aafb9f8037713536969aed05797a6985"And he uses every piece of his anger to ball up the strength from every corner of himself to fling the sword in his hand at the Author's head./div
div data-p-id="533907ba3d01f2efb8ad14d098548311"Henry yells and Regina, who came to save him, falls to her knees./div
div data-p-id="860ab66da4753de256d58016ad4e14dd"The Author collapses to the floor and somewhere in the distance Rumple can hear bells tolling./div
div data-p-id="18fc6a7f6f6762b08d0ea1a72c0f2d03"Emma has woken and is shouting. Shouting that there's no way for them to get home now./div
div data-p-id="bca9e4c89e884d6373eec69b4bbd5f20"That it's over./div
div data-p-id="530100fbefec5182375122bdd3ad8c33"Regina didn't kiss Robin and now everyone is stuck in the book and Hook is dead and Rumple still isn't a hero./div
div data-p-id="f38abf6cc00593a039c22d9ffe78e9e1""I'm sorry." He struggles to stand and once up, notices the Author bought his notepad and quill, apparently Henry notices too because he's grabbed them up, the quill begins to glow and - for a moment - hope is found./div
div data-p-id="008a27ec9f35260f5b768047dc820974""I'm afraid, my boy, it can't be used without ink." Henry, who had been beaming, spun round and stared at Rumple, "the only way to make ink is to have the blood of a Dark Saviour and in this world, there is no saviour."/div
div data-p-id="90a72ea7c2f74fa54bc51261af82f395""But we have the blood of a Dark one, who tried. He tried to be a saviour, even though it was for the wrong reasons, he wanted to save the villains from living without happy endings." Emma looks tired, Rumple can't help but notice, but the new hope seems to have added a little light to her eyes./div
div data-p-id="1755083cc7ebc8e7ba4d70e637668f3b""It is possible." Rumplestiltskin nods at Henry who dabs the blood on the Author's head. He opens the notepad and scrawls in a new line, 'Thanks to the hero Rumplestiltskin's act, Isaac's villainous work was undone.'/div
div data-p-id="d2c482815a2b58a566e76f4dade6ab87"And when Henry's quill touches the page a wave of warm, light magic washes over everyone./div
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div data-p-id="aaf48bcc7f7b3117a775bc56dcc5317c"In the next moment, Gold wakes up in his shop. The moment he wakes he feels the darkness coursing through his veins. Infecting him./div
div data-p-id="d094f14503e630c7cd461969afc5a9f0"He struggles to breathe and when he tries to stand up he collapses./div
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div data-p-id="86f44ef2ddb4e3c168bb667b2e0f27cb""Rumple?" Belle enters Gold's shop cautiously, she heard he avoided the bad path and she wanted to tell him. Tell him how her thoughts were of nothing but him, she knew it was wrong and dating Will was cruel but she loves Rumple and what he did hurt her and she wanted him to see her and Will, she wanted him to hurt like she did./div
div data-p-id="cd0dc7629bc48c3fbae8c475e6204744""Rumple!" He lay on the floor of his shop, barely awake./div
div data-p-id="d60c590ab4115b341c733cea9dcc7123""Belle..." he rasps, "I wanted to do right by you. I wanted to make you proud."/div
div data-p-id="8046a8edb00e7f60d708a53b87fff701""You did Rumple, you did." She pulls his head onto her lap and holds him, she pours her heart out about not loving Will and how she hoped he would be good for her but she realises he's gone./div
div data-p-id="0502ee3a7266aac7aadfbafd592a4968"She runs to Granny's where she knows the post-villain celebrations are taking place and shouts, "Rumple says we're not safe."/div
div data-p-id="8667d4170699f750cd04772e448d5963"This sobers everyone up and the 'Hero' crew follow her to Gold's shop./div
div data-p-id="912c40ea6d231c19ea44f12034a17cd5""We could remove the dark magic from his heart, it may not work and I can't promise you he'd recover but it's the only hope we have." The Apprentice has brought the hat box and is working his magic to open it./div
div data-p-id="bb0cc2c3d4c90fe1792156a867bd5369""Do whatever you have to. Just help him." Belle tries to keep the tears from her voice but fails, she wants to be a Hero not a damsel in distress - heroes don't cry, they fight./div
div data-p-id="d0dc01b7832b5d9ca83ad39b2d3b45e1"The Apprentice removes Rumple's heart and everyone recoils at the solid lump of darkness, he holds the hat up to it, being careful to keep himself out of the way and when all the darkness has left Rumple's heart it looks as pure as a new born baby's./div
div data-p-id="c27150893880aebf0abe96211aa9bc29"The sorcerer returns the heart to Rumple but he doesn't stir./div
div data-p-id="004675b9ba4cabde14f10a33a3f7a61d""He's barely breathing!" Belle lies on the floor with her head to his chest, tears are streaming down her face and she feels humiliated to be in this state in front of the Heroes but she can care about that later, right now she needs to think./div
div data-p-id="1d9e598f2de5c85797f1f300a62e5389"Snow and Charming share a heart, she knows her heart isn't strong enough for the two but maybe her lifeforce is, maybe her breath can hold them both./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"In a desperate attempt to save him she presses her lips to his, she kisses him like her life depends on it and life without her soulmate is no life at all, so it really does./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"All of a sudden she feels her kiss reciprocated, she feels him moving in to her and working with her and it doesn't hit her straight away what this means./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"She pulls away and wraps her arms round his neck, "I love you."/div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745" /div
div data-p-id="d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" /div
div data-p-id="920df93faa756ee69fc875b27ba8401e"Rumplestiltskin holds the sword, ready to strike but he can't do it./div
div data-p-id="20d9df7822896e7369dcc06f810b7933"He thinks of Belle, how she has been with him in this universe, how much he has loved being Rumple again but then whenever he thinks of Belle, he thinks of the lies he told her and the look in her eyes when she pushed him over the town line, the disgust, the hatred, the betrayal./div
div data-p-id="65a25d16f1a48bbdab983a5d6b01c5e6"He thinks of how happy she is./div
div data-p-id="6c33e76f8815e48b20e2e85b27a13c78"How this world is as full of lies as their last world and in his anger at being written as such a huge coward. Even as a hero, he's a villain./div
div data-p-id="8b4d377d0aeff9c005588a2a8f726c61"He thinks of what/div
div data-p-id="aafb9f8037713536969aed05797a6985"And he uses every piece of his anger to ball up the strength from every corner of himself to fling the sword in his hand at the Author's head./div
div data-p-id="533907ba3d01f2efb8ad14d098548311"Henry yells and Regina, who came to save him, falls to her knees./div
div data-p-id="860ab66da4753de256d58016ad4e14dd"The Author collapses to the floor and somewhere in the distance Rumple can hear bells tolling./div
div data-p-id="18fc6a7f6f6762b08d0ea1a72c0f2d03"Emma has woken and is shouting. Shouting that there's no way for them to get home now./div
div data-p-id="bca9e4c89e884d6373eec69b4bbd5f20"That it's over./div
div data-p-id="530100fbefec5182375122bdd3ad8c33"Regina didn't kiss Robin and now everyone is stuck in the book and Hook is dead and Rumple still isn't a hero./div
div data-p-id="f38abf6cc00593a039c22d9ffe78e9e1""I'm sorry." He struggles to stand and once up, notices the Author bought his notepad and quill, apparently Henry notices too because he's grabbed them up, the quill begins to glow and - for a moment - hope is found./div
div data-p-id="008a27ec9f35260f5b768047dc820974""I'm afraid, my boy, it can't be used without ink." Henry, who had been beaming, spun round and stared at Rumple, "the only way to make ink is to have the blood of a Dark Saviour and in this world, there is no saviour."/div
div data-p-id="90a72ea7c2f74fa54bc51261af82f395""But we have the blood of a Dark one, who tried. He tried to be a saviour, even though it was for the wrong reasons, he wanted to save the villains from living without happy endings." Emma looks tired, Rumple can't help but notice, but the new hope seems to have added a little light to her eyes./div
div data-p-id="1755083cc7ebc8e7ba4d70e637668f3b""It is possible." Rumplestiltskin nods at Henry who dabs the blood on the Author's head. He opens the notepad and scrawls in a new line, 'Thanks to the hero Rumplestiltskin's act, Isaac's villainous work was undone.'/div
div data-p-id="d2c482815a2b58a566e76f4dade6ab87"And when Henry's quill touches the page a wave of warm, light magic washes over everyone./div
div data-p-id="26478db11a74b3c8675f463fee30cba7" /div
div data-p-id="aaf48bcc7f7b3117a775bc56dcc5317c"In the next moment, Gold wakes up in his shop. The moment he wakes he feels the darkness coursing through his veins. Infecting him./div
div data-p-id="d094f14503e630c7cd461969afc5a9f0"He struggles to breathe and when he tries to stand up he collapses./div
div data-p-id="cfe201de5943405c840233fec4378a45" /div
div data-p-id="86f44ef2ddb4e3c168bb667b2e0f27cb""Rumple?" Belle enters Gold's shop cautiously, she heard he avoided the bad path and she wanted to tell him. Tell him how her thoughts were of nothing but him, she knew it was wrong and dating Will was cruel but she loves Rumple and what he did hurt her and she wanted him to see her and Will, she wanted him to hurt like she did./div
div data-p-id="cd0dc7629bc48c3fbae8c475e6204744""Rumple!" He lay on the floor of his shop, barely awake./div
div data-p-id="d60c590ab4115b341c733cea9dcc7123""Belle..." he rasps, "I wanted to do right by you. I wanted to make you proud."/div
div data-p-id="8046a8edb00e7f60d708a53b87fff701""You did Rumple, you did." She pulls his head onto her lap and holds him, she pours her heart out about not loving Will and how she hoped he would be good for her but she realises he's gone./div
div data-p-id="0502ee3a7266aac7aadfbafd592a4968"She runs to Granny's where she knows the post-villain celebrations are taking place and shouts, "Rumple says we're not safe."/div
div data-p-id="8667d4170699f750cd04772e448d5963"This sobers everyone up and the 'Hero' crew follow her to Gold's shop./div
div data-p-id="912c40ea6d231c19ea44f12034a17cd5""We could remove the dark magic from his heart, it may not work and I can't promise you he'd recover but it's the only hope we have." The Apprentice has brought the hat box and is working his magic to open it./div
div data-p-id="bb0cc2c3d4c90fe1792156a867bd5369""Do whatever you have to. Just help him." Belle tries to keep the tears from her voice but fails, she wants to be a Hero not a damsel in distress - heroes don't cry, they fight./div
div data-p-id="d0dc01b7832b5d9ca83ad39b2d3b45e1"The Apprentice removes Rumple's heart and everyone recoils at the solid lump of darkness, he holds the hat up to it, being careful to keep himself out of the way and when all the darkness has left Rumple's heart it looks as pure as a new born baby's./div
div data-p-id="c27150893880aebf0abe96211aa9bc29"The sorcerer returns the heart to Rumple but he doesn't stir./div
div data-p-id="004675b9ba4cabde14f10a33a3f7a61d""He's barely breathing!" Belle lies on the floor with her head to his chest, tears are streaming down her face and she feels humiliated to be in this state in front of the Heroes but she can care about that later, right now she needs to think./div
div data-p-id="1d9e598f2de5c85797f1f300a62e5389"Snow and Charming share a heart, she knows her heart isn't strong enough for the two but maybe her lifeforce is, maybe her breath can hold them both./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"In a desperate attempt to save him she presses her lips to his, she kisses him like her life depends on it and life without her soulmate is no life at all, so it really does./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"All of a sudden she feels her kiss reciprocated, she feels him moving in to her and working with her and it doesn't hit her straight away what this means./div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745"She pulls away and wraps her arms round his neck, "I love you."/div
div data-p-id="b5225b77380a9668d322107aa02f7745" /div
