Lydia Gold's life in Storybrooke has always felt empty, as if something was missing inside her that she just couldn't see. As strange events begin taking place in the little town, the teenager begins to wonder if true fulfillment can be found in the life she forgot, and the man she hates the most.

Belle French wants nothing more than to be a writer. When an idea comes to her, it consumes her: it's a twist on the Snow White fairy tale and eerily similar to her own life… The story begins to consume her every thought, but is it really a story at all or something… more? Eventual Rumbelle, Snowing, Graham/Ruby. AU. Assume nothing…

Episode tags, epilogues, missing scenes, etc. from season three. Final update: a "Special Master" tag. Sharon tries again to persuade Rusty, and comes to some decisions.

AU post 3x11. Rumplestiltskin's curse breaks when he stabs Pan, but when one darkness falls, another rises. Enter the Black Fairy as the power behind the Witch. This is the price to be paid—war in the Enchanted Forest that our heroes may not be able to win. Now Rumplestiltskin must play a dangerous game where the rules keep changing...and nothing will ever be the same again.

Rumplestiltskin has always avoided his own end if possible, and it's that habit that has made him a creative problem solver. In which Rumple makes a different choice in defeating Pan and sets them all on a path that should never have been. AU to Going Home. Rumbelle. SwanFire. Likely some OutlawQueen as well, because they're just awesome.