Rumple and Milah returned home, where their two children were patiently waiting. Milah had gone out for the whole day again. Leaving the twins behind home alone. Rumple was out working, not knowing what his wife was doing. When he returned home, he knew instantly where she would be. She was at the bar, drinking and playing with others again. It wasn't news for him when she acted like this, but it still pained him to see how easily she could leave the children without a second thought. She didn't even try to have someone watch over them for her.

After finally getting Milah home, it was very late and Rumple just had managed to get his kids to sleep. He even made some some tea for his "exhausted" wife.

Milah continued to tell Rumple that they should leave the village and live a new life where no one knew his name. But for the main purpose of no one knowing of his name and what he did in the Ogre War. For her, this was not a life, and she could not see a way to be happy with what she has. Not even thinking about her children.

"I know that this isn't the life you wanted. But it can be good." The sound of their daughter's cry interrupted them. The two parents got up and made their way to their daughter. Milah was faster than Rumple because of his crippled leg slowing him down. Milah found Rosemary sitting up with her stuffed handmade bunny for papa made for her, in her arms. Rose was hugging it tight as she continued to cry.

Surprisingly, Bae was still sound asleep. His sister's cry did not wake him at all. Not even a stir.

Milah got down on her knees to get a better look at her only daughter. The small child, didn't look she was physically hurt, she must've had a nightmare.

"Sweetheart, what's wrong?" The woman asked her softly. The girl didn't say a word to her mother. She only shook her head and looked at her bunny instead.

"Rose, let mommy help-" Rose pulled away from her mother's hand.

"I want papa." She whispered. Milah was shocked and felt a stab of pain on her chest. Rosemary has never acted this way before. Her daughter always would ask for her, and followed her around. But now…..

"Rosemary, what's wrong." The father asked tenderly to his little girl.

"Papa!" Rose cried out and got out of bed, running towards him and hugging his legs tightly. Milah watched rumple slowly kneel down to his daughter's eye level and calmed her down in his embrace. He even started to sing a lullaby that Milah had never heard of. Or perhaps, she just never payed attention to it before.

Watching father and daughter together made the woman make a final decision, she did not belong here anymore. Not even her own children are a good enough reason to stay and try harder.

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"He is still treating like a jewel in a locked box!" Rose screamed out as she continued to throw her pillows on her bed. It was her way to let out her stress, at least some of it.

"Sweetheart, papa's gonna go for a drink. It's my time to think and your time to sleep. HEE-HEE-HEE" She mimicked her father's words from earlier that day. His annoying way of talking in rhymes was bugging her more and more.

"AAAAHHHHH!" She shouted out one more time. She was prepared to throw one more object that was in her hand. She froze before she could, noticing it was her old stuffed bunny. She let out a breath and rolled her eyes for stopping herself. Despite everything, she couldn't take her anger out on her old toy that her father from before made for her. She was mad at the new Rumplestiltskin. She layed on her bed thinking.

'What to do? What to do? I could obey him and go straight to bed…. Or I could follow him and stop him from killing another person.'

She got up, and left her room. But not after placing Mr Rabbit back on her bed nicely.

Rose went to the bar that she knew her father often go to. She remembered the many times when her mother would come to the place. But while her father came here to think, her mother came here to drink drink drink. Or so she was told from the villagers. Rose never understood how her mother died. Rumple refused to speak about it, and the town's people were afraid to tell. Rose always wondered what was wrong with that.

The lady at the bar recognized her and informed her that he had left not that long ago and was head down the road close to the docks. She ran through the road in the night and heard swords crashing into each other. It was getting louder and louder, meaning she was close.

'Oh no'

Rose picked up the pace and prayed that she would get there in time in order to save a life. Then there was a moment of silence. Rose slowed down and quietly hid behind a barrel. She took a peek and saw her father facing down at a man who was on his knees dressed in all black leather. He looked like a pirate. The Dark One had his sword close to the man's neck.

"To feel powerless to stop it? It feels like having your heart ripped from your chest." She hear Rumple say to the pirate. "Actually, I'll show you."

Rose once again watched her father stab his hand into another person's chest. Hearing the familiar screams of pain from the victim. She had to stop him from crushing the heart.

"Stop!" Those words did not come from her mouth. Someone else was watching them them too. Rose looked at who had just saved the day and stopped her father from making a mistake.

Rose was more relieved when Rumple pulled his hand out completely and also looked at the person too. It was a woman in a matching black leather clothes to the pirate. Rose had to look closer because she swore that the woman looked oddly familiar. Like a ghost from an old dream.

Then her father said it "Milah"

Rosemary forgot where she was, what she was doing. She was feeling stuck in time after hearing her father say her late mother's name towards that woman. She felt even worse when she heard the pirate telling Milah to run.

"No. I'm not leaving. Not without you." Milah told the man. Rose heart was beating faster. Milah is suppose to be dead. Why would her father lie to her and Bae?

"Oh, how sweet. It appears there's more to this tale than I know." So rumple didn't know too. Rose felt a bit better that he did not lie to her after all. Which meant that the Pirate and Milah did.

"Tell it to me, Milah!" The Dark One demanded.

"Please, don't hurt him. I can explain." Milah said.

"Tick-Tock, dearie! Tick-Tock!"

"That first night when Killian and his crew came into the Tavern, he told stories about the places he'd been. And I fell in love with him." Rose didn't expect to hear that from her mother who just came back.

"I didn't mean for it to turn out this way. I didn't know how to tell you the truth." So all this time when Milah would leave her and Bae home alone, she was really with the terrible pirate! Rose's feelings for the woman were changing. And not in a positive way.

"And so here we are! You've come to save the life of your true love, the pirate. I didn't realise the power of true love before. It is impressive. I'd hate to break it up, actually no. I'd love to." And for once, Rose didn't mind. She did however accidently push the barrel, that was in front of her, to the ground. She forgot that she was holding it the whole time.

The sound of it falling to the ground made the three adults to look at who caused it. They saw a young girl with black hair and a simple red dress, standing up from what was once her hiding place. The girl was looking with a mixed of emotions. Sadness and hatred. Tears we certainly visible now.

"Runaway girl! Before-"

"I don't take orders from pirates." Rose yelled at the man Milah didn't understand why this girl was there and wouldn't leave. Also why she already hated them.

"What are you doing here?" Rumple asked Rose and immediately pulled the sword away from the man in black leather. He tried his best to not let his daughter witness another person's death. He didn't want her to fear him more than she already did. He doesn't want her to runaway too.

Rose stared at her father and mother. The truth was out. Her mother left her and the family for a pirates life. A life with a family wasn't good enough for her. It apparently couldn't be compared to a world of thieves and liars.

"Papa…." That was all she could say. Rumple felt as if his heart was alive again. She had stopped calling him that after they lost Baelfire. He wasn't certain for what her reason was to call him that title again, but he was content of hearing her saying it.

"Yes, sweetheart?" He made his way to her and slowly places his hands on her shoulders to help her feel a bit of comfort. He didn't want to push, but was again surprised when she moved on her own to be closer to him. She was not holding him, but she layed her head on his shoulder. Rumple held her in a hug, assuming that his daughter had heard everything.

"Rosemary?" Milah's voice asked. Rumple noticed his daughter's body getting tense after hearing Milah's voice. Not only did she get tense, but her eyes also narrowed at the woman.

Milah ignored the way how Rose was looking at her. She was too focus on being happy and was even getting watery eyed after not seeing Rosemary for so long.

"Oh my! You've grown up so beautifully. Rosemary I-" When Milah tried to step closer, Rosemary stepped back and behind her father. Using him as a shield.

"I'm going home" Rose stated and began to run away. Back to where she came from. Rumple did not stop her. He knew it would be better for to go home than to stay another minute here. But Milah was so sadden to watch her only daughter go away.

"Rosemary! Wait! Let me explain, please!" She begged. But Rose continued to run into the darkness. Milah looked back at the green scale man she once called her husband.

"What dark magic did you cast on my daughter to resent me?" Milah demanded to know.

"I did nothing, dearie. If you remembered correctly, you were never around. I was. How does it feel Milah, watching someone you once cared for choose to be with another rather than with you?" Milah didn't need a reminder. She remembered it all too well.

"How about I destroy the reason for you leaving, breaking our family apart." Rumple suggested and was ready to stab the Pirate with his sword again. Until Milah spoke up again, with a deal.

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Sorry for the delay.

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