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LadyDV011: This time he did, but Hades is still a villain and you never know what he has up his sleeve.
5x19
"It's me Belle." Rumple said as he sat beside his wife's bedside while she slept. "It's time for me to fix this. I know how you would want me to do it, how you would want me to use light magic, but I can't. I'm sorry Belle, I really don't want to let you down, but there's only one way to save our child. I have to do things my way now."
The front door of the pawn shop opened and the small bell above the door rang alerting Rumple to his visitor's presence. He walked out the back room and into the front of the shop to see his father enter with a smug smile on his face. It made Rumple's heart boil with rage but if siding with his father was the only way to save his child he would do it.
"Glad to see you've taken my offer, laddie."
"Things have changed, this seemed like the best option given the new circumstances."
"It is the best option, a way for the both of us to get what we want. I need a heart," Peter lied, "and you need to save your child." Rumple looked shocked as Pan shared what he knew.
"Oh don't look so surprised Rumple, word spreads quickly here. And it's obvious why you're desperate enough to seek a truce with me. You don't want to let down another child." Rumple scowled at him, "Perhaps if you had raised Baelfire better he wouldn't have been so easily fooled by that witch and he'd still be alive."
"Are you really going to critique my parenting?"
Peter shrugged, "True neither of us were good fathers, but you will notice that my boy grew up to be a very successful Dark One while your child is sitting in a grave. I wouldn't win parent of the year but I do come much closer than you by a long shot."
"If you think talking about Bae's death will allow you to manipulate me. . . "
"I'm not manipulating Rumple, I'm simply asking – wouldn't you like to make Zelena pay for taking him from you?"
There was a pause before Rumple spoke, "What did you have in mind?"
"I need a heart remember?" he said keeping up the act, "Why does it have to come from one of the people you care about, when it can come from her? Make Zelena and Hades pay in one move. Two birds one stone."
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Peter returned to the broken clock tower after his meeting with Rumple. His son was going to do some sniffing around to find Zelena and that gave Peter enough time to do what needed to be done.
"I take it he finally took your offer?" Fawn asked when she saw him return. Felix was asleep in a pile of blankets and pillows they'd looted from other places in Underbrooke and Rufio was on the platform practicing with his new stolen sword.
"Like you said it was all about waiting for the opportune moment." Peter replied fiddling with the trinket in his pocket.
"He still thinks you need a heart?"
"Didn't even stop to question it." He replied smugly. His son was so set on saving his wife and unborn child that he hadn't thought about why Peter was only asking for one heart.
"He thinks your both dead." Rufio piped up, "So shouldn't he be wondering why you're not asking for two hearts?"
"He should be." Peter replied, "But Rumple's always been selfish and that can blind a man. Besides it doesn't matter, no matter who he decides to kill that's all it will take. The others will turn on him and his delicately balanced life comes crashing down around him."
Rufio chuckled, "This is more fun than the food fights we used to have at dinner." He laughed before returning to his swordplay. Peter took Fawn's hand and led her over to their makeshift bed, they sat down and he looked through one of the cracks in the wall at Underbrooke.
"Peter what's wrong?" Fawn asked sensing something was off about him. He turned to her and gave a reassuring smile before leaning in and kissing her sweetly. Then he whispered in her ear, "Forgive me." Then he pulled the needle from his pocket and pricked her finger.
Fawn gasped in shock which caught Rufio's attention just as she fell forward into Peter's arms.
"Pan what happened?" the Lost Boy asked concerned. His question was loud enough to wake Felix who woke with a start and grabbed his club looking for danger.
"Sleeping curse." Peter explained laying Fawn down on the bed more comfortably, "Sorry love." He whispered, "Had no choice. You're really not going to like this next part."
Then he stood tall and turned to his comrades, "No big deal. I'll wake her when it's safe. I trust you'll both guard her well until I return?"
Both Lost Boys nodded their heads before Peter made his way down the stairs to meet Rumple for phase one.
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Zelena was just about to walk into the Underbrooke version of Granny's when a voice stopped her.
"It would appear love is blooming." She turned to see Rumple behind her. "And here was me thinking nothing bloomed in the Underworld."
"What do you want?"
"To see a woman about a curse, pesky sleeping curse –which you gave to my wife."
"If Belle preferred eternal slumber to one more moment with you that's hardly my fault. I'd say her judgements improving."
"See thing is, I don't think she'd have come to that decision on her own. I think you saw an opportunity and you took advantage. Much like I'm doing now."
"You can't hurt me. We made a deal, remember?"
"Oh I do. Funny thing is, I have another deal on the table. One I hadn't considered taking until you did what you did to Belle."
Zelena turned as she heard footsteps approaching and saw a young boy with a scowl on his face, someone she knew she'd never seen before. If she had she surly would have recognized him.
"Who's this?" she asked starting to worry.
"Well he's what I like to call, a loophole." Rumple said with a tone of satisfaction in his voice, "Zelena, meet my father – Peter Pan."
Zelena turned back to the boy with wide eyes. Had Fawn done it? Had she revived him? Or was Pan still dead and Fawn was back in the world of the living? Surly if she was here she wouldn't let Pan hurt her, they were friends. Either Pan didn't know or he didn't care, that much was clear from the look on his face.
"I hear you're wicked." He said before taking a deep breath, "Well I'm much worse." Then Zelena's world went black.
