chapter eleven
A few months after Rumplestilskin had kicked her out of his castle , Belle was standing on a ridge that just over looked the lake not far from the dark castle which could be seen in the distance. Belle let a small smile stretch across her face before saying out loud to herself " I'm coming back, Rumple." Then she turned away from where she was standing and started off down the near by path though as she was walking she could hear a voice in the distance behind her.
" Isn't that sweet?" the voice said as the person with the voice was standing right behind Belle which caused Belle to slowly turn around to see who the voice belonged to . Once Belle was Fully turned around she was face to face with the Evil Queen her self , then the Evil queen went on to say " Still fighting for true love. Even to the bitter end." Belle looked slightly shocked to even see the Evil queen before asking her " How did you find me?" .
The evil Queen smriked to her self before replying with " You really should be nicer to your travelling companions." just after she that the Evil queen turned toward a group of men from the hunting party belle had been apart of before meeting up with mulan and helped her instead, along with the evil queen's guards who stood right next to them then the evil queen asked on of the men " Right Claude? " to which the man named Claude just nods his head.
Then the evil queen points to belle before saying " Take her to the tower." Suddenly the evil queen's guards grab belle by her arms which causes belle to cry out " What? No! What are you-what are you doing?" the evil queen just smiles at belle's distress she was causing her as her guards started to drag belle towards the cage the evil queen had brought with her. As the Guards push belle into the cage belle studder's out " I-I- can save him! Just let me go to him! I-I can break his curse."
the Evil queen let out a small laugh before looking at belle as the guards close up the cage and lock it up then she said " You've already tried and failed. That monster's beyond saving. I'm sparing you a lifetime of pain and misery. " Belle grips on the bars of her cage before yelling out " You can't keep us apart forever. I'll fight for him " , the evil queen just smiles as she gets on to her horse and started to ride off but in the back ground belle yelled out after her " I'll never stop fighting for him!"
A few months after trapping belle in a tower at her castle , the evil queen walks into Rumplestilskin's castle with a sly smrik on her face before chuckling as she walked in the main room and said " Flimsy locks " then she glances at a tea set on the table and said " I have a deal to discuss. A certain... mermaid." Rumplestilskin looked up from his spinning wheel he was sitting at and said " I'm not dealing today." Then he went back to his spinning while The evil queen started to pour herself a cup of tea .
" Are you angry with me? , What is it this time?" the evil queen asked rumplestilskin as she place a lump of sugar into her tea to which rumplestilskin replied with " your little deception failed. You'll never be more powerful than me. You can keep trying, dearie, but you're never gonna beat me." Rumplestilskin placed more straw into his spinning wheel then the evil queen clicked her tounge and said " Oh. " Then with a bit of a mocking tone she went on to say " Is this about that girl I met on the road?" then she let out a small laugh before asking" What was her name?" , then she started to list off some names " was it Margie? Verna?"
Rumplestilskin kept on spinning but said and with a deep sorrowful voice " Belle , her name was Belle " then the Evil queen took a sip of her tea and said " Right. Well... you can rest assured I had nothing to do with that tragedy." Rumplestilskin stops his spinning and walked over to the evil queen who was stirring her tea a bit and asked " What tragedy? " the evil queen gave a look of being shocked before saying " You don't know?" then she let out a bit of a chuckle before setting down the sppon she had used to stir her tea then said " Wow. After she got home... her fiancé had gone missing."
which the evil queen flashed rumplestilskin a all knowing smile to him before taking a few steps and turned around before saying " And after her stay here, her... "association" with you, no one would want her, of course. Her father shunned her, cut her off, shut her out." rumplestilskin then asked the evil queen " So she needs... a home? " the evil queen just chuckled before saying " He was cruel to her. He locked her in a tower and sent in clerics to cleanse her soul with scourges and flaying. After a while, she threw herself off the tower. She died."
Rumplestilskin looked at the evil queen with anger in his eyes before saying " You're lying " to which the evil queen replied with " Am I?" in a slightly snarky tone. With a wave of his left hand rumplestilskin magically opened his castle doors and said " We're done " the evil queen shrugs her shoulders before saying " fine " as she placed her tea cup on the table before running her finger along the table to touch the small amount of dust that had collected on it.
" Hmm. The place is looking dusty, Rumple. You really should get a new girl. " the evil queen said as she left before the doors closed behind her , after the evil queen left Rumplestilskin walked over to the cabinet he kept his and belle's special cup in before opening it and pulling it out and walking over to a near by pedestal that was holding a golden gobblet on it then he removed the golden gobblet off the pedestal and placed his and belle's special cup on it before brusting into tears over the loss of Belle .