A/N: Thank you to all the subscribers and people who favorited this! I appreciate having my email inbox blown up by you guys! J Anyways, as a fair warning for things to come, expect the unexpected. I am going to have Belle in the town of Storybrook as a… Well, you will see. She will not be living in the psych ward. This will be before Emma comes to town, almost as a "how the fairy tale characters settled into the town" kind of deal. I promise, I will not let you down. Also, please comment? Here's the update!

13. What Are You Going To Do To Me?

I awoke to the total darkness of my cell, not knowing what time of day it was or how long I had slept for. I felt around in the dark and let out a small yelp. I had burned myself on the hot teapot.

Shakily, I found the cup, and poured some tea blindly into it. There were slices of bread on the tray that held the tea, and I took a small piece and began to eat.

I shivered, feeling the draft from in between the cracks of the stone walls. There was no blanket, or even a straw cot. He had taken any sort of comfort away from me.

"Rumplestilzkin?" I called hoarsely. "Please, sir. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for anything I might have done to upset you. Please, let me out. I swear, I did not do this to hurt you or manipulate you. Please, sir, listen to me!"

Silence answered me back.

I sobbed into my hands, frustrated and miserable. So, this was what love was like? I doubt my father and mother shared this kind of love. The love I had longed for, the thing I had desired for my whole life, was now my own misery. Maybe Nova was wrong. Maybe the only happiness would be in my own death.

. . .

Weeks went by, and I had not left my cell. I was sore from laying on the cold, stone floor, and very dirty and bloodied from tripping around in the dark, trying to find the tray Rumplestilzkin would leave me.

Suddenly, the door opened, and my cell was filled with light. I rested against the wall, feeling broken and beaten. "What are you going to do with me?"

I had waited a long time wondering this, coming up with sadistic, sick, horrifying ideas befitting the situation. I looked down at the stone floor, unable to meet his gaze, my heart pounded in my chest as I waited for his answer.

"Go."

My eyes opened, and I saw him standing before me, not even looking my way. He was gesturing towards the now open cell door.

"Go?" I questioned, wondering where he expected me to go to.

"I don't want you anymore dearie."

"But… our agreement?" I responded, slowly getting up. "You will still uphold it?"

"As far as I am concerned, you ruined things for yourself," he said icily. "Our agreement is null and void."

"Please, you have to protect my people!" I cried, reaching out to him. He moved away from my touch, still refusing to look at me.

"You should have thought of that before you had tried to take my powers away from me dearie," he said harshly.

"Why couldn't you see that I loved you?" I whispered softly. "Even now, as you crush my world, I still love you…"

"That's a lie," he whispered angrily.

"Why couldn't you just let yourself be happy?"

"It's simple, dearie. My power means everything to me. My power is what make me. You, on the other hand, mean NOTHING to me."

Tears fell down my pale cheeks. "No, I refuse to believe it, and you know it's not true. You denied yourself happiness and true love. And now you've made your choice…" I picked up my tea cup that I had cracked when I had first come here. I placed it in his hand, and looked into his eyes. "You are going to regret this… forever… All you will have is an empty heart… and a chipped cup."

I walked out of the room quickly, and headed for the main entrance. Surprisingly, the doors opened for me, and closed behind me as I made my journey back to my own kingdom, the castle of Rumplestilzkin fading in the distance.