Well people I am so sorry Gold had to die but there was no other angle I could play, but I hope you can forgive me and read this chapter, it might make up for what I did. Enjoy!
Chapter 13,
Forgiveness and Love,
Cabin,
"Bae I know it offers no consolation now but you were right." Gold said,
"Yeah about what?" Bae asked,
"I was a coward, and I never should have broken that deal, I put power before you and I was foolish to have done so, after you left I went to see the blue fairy to ask for a way to go with you but she said there was no way. In every waking moment I've been trying to find a way to come here and find you and now if I must pay for my mistake with my life than so be it, it truly is what I deserve." He explained,
"But before I do I'm asking you to do what you've always done, be the bigger man and…forgive me…I'm so sorry Bae, I wish I could make up for the past for the things I've done but I can't, to hear you say you forgive me before I go would set me off in peace. Even if you don't mean it to hear those words coming from your mouth would mean the world to me." He continued,
There was nothing but silence before there was the cocking sound of the gun that was being aimed at Gold's head; Gold was then jerked to his feet, before a blade was brought fluently down on the strips of duct tape that were tying his hands. He only had seconds to comprehend what was going on before Baelfire took him into a tight and emotional embrace and Gold returned it whole heartedly.
"I forgive you Papa." He sobbed,
"Oh Bae, can you truly forgive me for everything that I've done?" Gold asked, hesitantly drawing away far enough so that he could look into his sons eyes,
"Yes Papa, but can you forgive…"
"Hush son, you have nothing to ask forgiveness for, I am the only one that needs to beg for forgiveness." Rumplestiltskin interrupted, as he placed his finger over his sons lips, before taking him back into his embrace,
"I love you Papa."
"And I love you Baelfire."
"Where you really looking for me the moment I left?" He asked,
"Yes Bae, you couldn't even begin to imagine what I felt once I realized the gravity of what I had done." Gold answered,
"So what should we do now?" He asked,
"Well we can start with something that you've always wanted to do." Gold said, as he removed the duct tape from his wrists, before he picked the knife up off the table, "Destroy this like you want to, there's no magic in this world so it won't hurt me and I'll be free from its ties, I broke the deal we made long ago so now that I can I'm fulfilling my side of the agreement." He added,
"How?"
"There's plenty of wood here, and there's gasoline in the back room that we can use to start a fire, once we get it hot enough we can melt it." Gold explained,
"I'll get the wood and pile it on the driveway, while you get the gasoline." He agreed,
They both went to their set tasks, and soon once there was a roaring fire going on the driveway to the cabin, Rumplestiltskin handed the dagger to Baelfire, and watched as his son tossed it into the extremely hot flames. They stood there in silence starring into the flames watching as the dagger began to lose its form and slip away into droplets of molten metal.
"I'm proud of you son you've grown into a fine young man." Gold praised,
"And you look exactly like you did years ago." Baelfire said, with a small chuckle,
"Well that tends to happen when time becomes your jailer." Gold explained,
He rested his hand on his sons back, and Baelfire did the same, but the moment was not long cherished as two cars soon pulled up in front of the fire, with Emma, Graham, and Ruby getting out.
"Gold are you alright?" Emma asked,
"Please Miss Swan I think everyone here knows who I really am." Gold informed,
"Yeah well who's he?" She asked, indicating who she thought was Jason,
"Miss Swan this is Baelfire my son." Gold introduced,
"Graham said you killed Gold, but from where I'm standing you look very much alive." Emma explained,
"I saw him die too." Ruby chimed in, as she stepped closer to the fire,
"Ruby what are you doing here?" Emma asked,
"It's Red actually, and I'm here for the same reason you are I had a vision where Rumplestiltskin died, and his son killed him, but I don't know why when that obviously never happened, strange isn't it?" she asked, still trying to comprehend what was going on,
"Miss Swan it seems you're breaking this curse one person at a time." Gold announced,
"My Grandmother knows everything too; I found that out soon after I got home." Red, added, "So if you're Baelfire then that would explain why I saw a vision of you and your father, because you touched me earlier." She realized,
"What's the fire for?" Emma asked,
"We're destroying the dark one once and for all." Baelfire replied,
"How?" She questioned,
"Even as we speak the dagger that I used to kill the dark one is turning into nothing but molten liquid." Gold explained, as he looked back into the flames, to see what was left of the dagger,
"Wait wouldn't there be some sort of consequence for destroying a magic that was tied to you, if I break the curse and you return to…where we were before?" Emma questioned,
"Not if that magic was destroyed in a land without magic?" Gold assured,
But while this conversation was going on Graham had been strangely quite and not even paying attention to what was going on around him, in fact he wasn't even looking at anything it was as if he was starring past it. But as this went on his mind was racing wildly as it was burdened with yet another vision that should have had noting to do with him, but this, this was different.
There were screams but he couldn't see what was causing the sounds of misery, the world before him was black and void of anything, and all he heard were the sobbing wails of someone in pain and torment. Then there was another voice one that he knew all to well, one that belonged to an evil woman whose heart was as black as the hair she was born with, Regina.
At first he couldn't make out what she was saying but with time it all became clear, she was talking to the same person who was crying, and pleading for the pain to stop, but it went unheeded.
"Every time I hurt you I want you to think of who put you here, of who sent you away and told you that you were nothing to him." Regina said,
"Who are you talking about, why are you doing this to me?" Belle begged,
"You don't remember, you used to know you used to know everything before you came here, before I came to see you, has the pain destroyed you're past at last?" She continued,
"What are you talking about?"
"I thought you would be harder, but now I see they all fall before me eventually, and believe me when I say Rumplestiltskin, and Mr. Gold are the reason all this is happening, when he forgets you the pain stops." She said in a cruel manner,
The blackness of his mind was soon flickering with light as he saw things, the number pad, he saw Regina typing in the pass code, he saw Belle sitting on her simple bed pushed as far as she could in the corner of the wall, convulsing in sobs. Then there was the quickest flicker of a shape that he couldn't make out, if he had of known what it was an image of he would have known where Regina was keeping Belle.
By that time everyone had noticed that the sheriff had spaced out, but it was Emma who broke the silence, "Graham?"
He then jolted backwards and fell to the ground with a thud, as Emma soon followed him to offer any aid that was needed, she helped him back to his feet and helped right him.
"Are you alright what happened?" She asked,
"I don't know, I think I had a vision." He answered,
"What do you mean you think?" She questioned,
"Well it felt like a vision but I don't know what it was about." Graham explained,
"You might want to pay attention in future Sheriff because that might just have been a vital peace of information that we needed." Gold reasoned,
"I'll remember that in future." Graham agreed, "But if it's alright with the rest of you can we leave it's late, and I don't feel like myself at the moment." He continued,
"Well as soon as we put out the fire and step out the ashes, we should be right to leave." Baelfire explained,
He then left the group to walk inside the cabin and retrieve a bucket of water that looked like it had been collecting the droplets from a hole in the roof for a long while. When he had returned he dumped the bucket on the flames and they hissed with the sound of extinguishing, before a cloud of steam rose into the air and disappeared.
Red, Emma, and Graham, had returned to their homes because the hour was late, but Gold remained standing solitarily by the now doused fire, both his hands resting on the brass handle of his cane, starring at the ashes. He remained in the same position even as he heard his son come to stand beside him; he felt a hand on his shoulder before he finally turned around.
"Come-on Papa let's go home." Jason said,
"You want to come home with me even after everything I've done?" Gold questioned,
"No mater what we have both done to each other you're still my father and I will always love you, nothing will come between us again." Jason dismissed,
"Well there might be one thing." Gold protested,
"Whatever it is we can leave it behind and start a new life together." Jason dismissed again,
"No I can't leave this…I can't leave her, I shunned her once and I'm not going to give up on her now." He explained,
Bae was surprised to hear that his father had feelings for a woman, but it all depended on what this woman was to him, "Who's her?" he asked,
"Come, on the way home I'll tell you everything." Gold said as he gestured towards the caprice that was the only vehicle to remain on the loose stoned driveway,
He lives can it be, now you can all tell me how happy you are that he didn't die, but there was no way I could destroy one part to Rumbelle, besides he is my favourite character even though he likes to kill people. Review!