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-Jack ;)

Chapter 10

Belle woke up to her lover missing, a note was resting on the pillow.

Someone will be here to pick you up. Get ready for a fun day -Rumpelstiltskin

She would have preferred if he'd take her out, but a fun day sounded good so she got ready. In a couple minutes a knock sounded at the door, she went and answered it. Jefferson stood in front of her with a young girl beside him.

"Belle darling, this is my daughter Grace" The little girl smiled and waved. Belle returned the gestures and grabbed her bag.

"So where are we headed?" Belle asked.

"You'll see" Jefferson replied and bent down, letting Grace hop on his back. He gave Belle a goofy grin and they walked out and into the street. "I couldn't find a babysitter for Grace, so we're stuck with her for another twenty minutes until she can go to her friends house" Grace stuck her tongue out at her father.

"Who are you?" Grace questioned innocently. Belle told her that her name was Belle and Grace frowned. "No, I mean how do you know my papa?" Belle didn't want to tell this child that her lover beheaded her father, she shot a worried glance at Jefferson and he laughed.

"Don't be rude sweetheart" He quirked an eyebrow at his child. "Belle is your uncles maid" Belle blushed, Uncle? She looked flustered.

"Actually he's my true love" She muttered.

"Pardon?"

"He's my true love" Belle said a little louder. Jefferson almost dropped his daughter, Belle has never seen a man turn so fast.

"WHAT!?" He practically screamed. "Rum never said anything about true love!" Grace slid off Jefferson's back and walked off. "Grace?! Nevermind, she'll be fine"

"Oh? Okay. What did Rumpel say about me?" She asked. He still looked shocked from her confession.

"He said he won you in a deal and that you were his maid. To be honest I was confused about you sitting in his lap last night but I just shrugged it off" He was smirking and he grabbed Belle by the arm and called for his daughter who appeared in front of them in a matter of seconds. "C'mon, we need to have a talk with our friend Rumpelstiltskin" Grace beamed and held on to her fathers hand. All of this fuss was really confusing to Belle. A tall building came into view and Jefferson picked up the pace and they stood in front of the large engraved doors, Jefferson pushed them open and rushed inside, Belle was dazed and cautiously followed the man and his daughter. Rumpelstiltskin stood in the centre of the room with an old man and his wife, he was holding a long contract and a quill. The sound of the doors alarmed his and he whipped his head to face the odd trio that had burst in.

"What in the world Jefferson?!" He fumed, "I told you I would meet up with you after this deal" Rumpelstiltskin looked furious, but his anger faded when he saw the young girl running up for a hug. "Hello poppet! Have you been good for your father?" He lilted. Grace nodded her head and he swooped her up into his arms and sat her on his shoulder. He turned and glared menacingly at the couple in front of him. "It's my goddaughter, just sign the bloody contract" This made Belle giggle and he turned once again to watch her as she hid just behind Jefferson. He grinned and suddenly Grace was the one holding the contract out to the couple and Rumpelstiltskin appeared behind Belle, "How was your sleep?" He whispered in her ear, nearly scaring her half to death.

"Not as good as what happened before I fell asleep" She retorted, her reply made him blush and Jefferson watched in awe. These two made so much more sense when he knew they were true loves. Rumpelstiltskin saw the look of bewilderment on his pals face and his grin grew wider. He realized Belle must have told him about their relationship, he sent the old couple home and made Grace disappear to her friends house so the three of them could talk.

"Oh, that was good" Rumpelstiltskin's voice was low and seductive. The way his eyes undressed Belle when he spoke, the pure lust when she bit her bottom lip.

"Alright kids, you can enjoy yourselves when I'm not in the room" Jefferson mocked and the others snapped out of their trance. "You didn't tell me about Belle"

"Didn't want what is about to happen, happen" Rumpelstiltskin growled. Belle was once again confused.

"What's about to happen, Rumpel?" She questioned, and before he could respond, Jefferson squealed and hugged his friend. She'd never heard a man squeal before...

"Ohm'god! I'm so happy for you!" Jefferson started hopping and pulled away from Rumpelstiltskin. "I knew this would happen! I mean EVERYONE has a true love, but what did you have to do to get someone like her? Seduce fate? You? Her? Like WHATTTTT?! This means Ruel Ghorm owes me 10 gold! WOO!" Jefferson was extremely excited "So, tell ME Everything!" Rumpelstiltskin had his head in his hands at this point and Belle was keeling over with laughter.

"You want a story? Well here it is" Belles ears perked up when she heard her lover speaking. "One day, I am sitting in my castle, when I get a call from the king of Avonlea. I didn't get up and answer it immediately for some reason I waited, I still don't know why I waited, but when I do go, the kingdom is in shambles. Ogres are everywhere and the people are panicking, I knock on the front door and appear on the throne because, well, I'm a showman" He twirled his arms magically and grinned "Someone lifts the barricade and I announce myself, as I recall there were three or four guards, the king, a poor excuse for a man and Belle. They want my help to rid them of their ogre problem, I agree but the king had offered me gold. As you know I spin gold as a hobby so I have more than I could ever hope to spend. I tell the king that what I desire is the young princess" Jefferson's eyes go wide at this information.

"You're a princess!?" He sounded extremely surprised. "You are pretty enough to be one" He added because of the sneer he got from Rumpelstiltskin.

"Yes I am. Now continue Rumpel, I've never heard our story from your point of view" She smiled.

"Continuing, I tell the king that my price is Belle. Everyone in the room objects to this idea, her betrothed says that they are engaged and I tell them that I don't desire a whore, I need a housekeeper for my rather large estate. Belle makes the insane decision to come with me, I'm still questioning your judgement on that one dearest. I tell her it's forever and she's like yeah, yeah whatever. We get back to the castle and I throw her in a dungeon, meanwhile I'm trying to comprehend why in the world I'd say that I wanted a princess. Now I realize It was fate or some stupid thing like that trying to get me to awaken my true love but back then I guess I thought she was hot and my castle was really dirty? I'm not exactly sure the excuse I told myself but I gave up trying to reason with myself months ago. Now here's where it gets interesting, I get home after a particularly nasty encounter with Regina and Belle is there. She's sick though, and I don't like germs. I leave because I don't want to catch whatever she's got, a couple minutes later I decide that I need to check on her so I go back downstairs to see if she's okay and she's lying on the floor next to my spinning wheel. I check her for a pulse to make sure she's not dead, turns out she's alive and I'm thanking god, didn't know why I was thankful, maybe I thought my castle would get dirty, did not expect to be falling in love with the girl. So I picked her up and I'm carrying her down to the dungeon when I realize that it's super cold and this is probably why she got sick. I'm berating myself because I forced her to sleep in a bloody DUNGEON for two months, I take her to an unused room and need to get her out of the ratty dress she'd been in since she got there" Rumpelstiltskin blushed and coughed into his hand. "I take the dress off and put my own shirt her" He looked up to meet the eyes of his audience and shrugged. "She looked cold, anyways, I leave to go spin. Spinning usually calms me down but this time I was left with my own, embarrassing thoughts. She comes downstairs still wearing my shirt, jokes about it whilst I admire her and then she goes upstairs. I had been avoiding her since that terrifying encounter when one day I'm spinning, Belle comes in and starts attempting to tear the curtains down. I'm curious so I go over and ask her what she's doing, she actually rips it off the nail and falls, I catch her. One thing leads to another and all of a sudden I'm leaning closer to her thinking to myself, 'what the actual fuck am I doing right now' she moves closer to me and my brain at this point has given up on me and then we're kissing. We fall asleep and then she wakes me up with a kiss, I hadn't remembered the night before as it very closely resembled a dream I'd had a couple nights before. I freak out and yell at her, I believe she's so angry that she regrets kissing me so I go upstairs and start stabbing myself with a pin. My body was using magic to heal myself so I was already not at full power. I feel that somebody's using the front gates and go downstairs to see what happened, Belle had run off. I go after her and then I see the wolves, I begin running thinking 'if anything happens to her I'll die too' I couldn't live with myself if I caused her pain. She trips and I run faster to protect her, turns out I could be a track star. I deflect the wolves until one claws my back, I'm ok because my magic healed it but then a wolf bites my wrist, it rips my main veins and if I wasn't immortal I would have been dead immediately. I take whatever magic can be spared and shock burst half the living things in the damn forest. I collapse and Belle takes me back to the castle to dress my wounds, I don't like my own blood so I'm kinda queasy. She sits on my lap and lets me play with her hair, I'm basking in this newfound joy when she brings up the fact that my curse didn't break when we kissed and I tell her it's a binding not really a curse and that we are true loves. She falls asleep on my chest and I continue playing with her hair because it smells like lavender, honey and roses and I'm entranced. Snow White eventually shows up and I'm disappointed, she threatens me because of Belle who looks drugged and I'm sitting there like a wretch toying with her hair, Belle wakes up and I send her off and deal with the princess. I go upstairs when I'm down and make Belle gag on the food in her mouth, I'm losing it cause I made her choke. Belle then slams her mouth onto mine and um- yeah, that happens. Some more things happen but that is the really important stuff."

He's positive he looks flustered when he finishes, he never planned on telling that story from his point of view. Hope I didn't screw anything up. Jefferson is acting like a crazed fan girl and his eyes have never been wider. Belle is smiling at the floor, she has her bottom lip between her teeth. "How'd I do?" Rumpelstiltskin asks timidly. Jefferson goes on a rant about how amazing that is and Belle glances up, she steps closer to her love and wraps her arms around his neck, "I'm assuming that's a yes?" She smiled and pressed her lips against his in a soft tender kiss and the Jefferson soundtrack behind them stopped immediately.