Ten unrelated stories that I wrote to help my friends count down to the season premiere tonight. They run the gambit from K to M, and some are even cross-overs. If you don't like the look of one based on the short Author's Note, you can move on to the next installment without missing anything.

When musicians bargain with dark forces for limitless talent, the soul is the customary currency. The Pied Piper is rather put out when Rumplestiltskin does not accept this as a valid form of payment.

Rumplestiltskin can pinpoint the exact moment when everything went wrong and for once, it wasn't his fault. Not really. Belle, on the other hand, never saw it coming. An AU in which Regina fails to enact the Dark Curse. (Part 1 of the "In That Darkness When I'm Blind" series.)

Jefferson was sitting at home, when a young beauty once named Belle stumbles into his life. It is his life goal to protect her. Includes slight Rum/Belle, Emma, Regina, a new Rumple and his wife in Storybrooke, and Mad/Beauty.

The famous painter Arthur Gold disappeared from the art scene years ago after a tragic accident. When he need an assistant his old friend Archibald Hopper recommends one of his student, Annabelle French.

Baelfire finds himself in a strange world. He can survive here, he knows. He isn't afraid. But he also knows he will never, ever, see his father again.

In honor of Once's return, these are a collection of drabbles, one-shots, and fics. All About RumBelle. These have been posted before on my blog, but are new to . (Rating is to be careful, most fics will be T but some are M)

At a Halloween party, Regina and Emma get trapped together. Neither are very happy about it, and some angry words get tossed around. Set around 1x12, Skin Deep. Two-shot, complete. Note rating change.

The coffee was bitter and piping hot. But he would do anything to evade the nightmares that plagued him, the guilt that tried to work its way into his dreams. Dreams of the woman he regretted leaving every moment of his life.

Rumplestiltskin knows a desperate soul when he sees one-and it just so happens that this particular soul is more alluring than most. AU Tumblr/RMC prompt "Belle tries to steal Rumple's dagger!smut." Rough sex, including non-con and bondage.

Storybrooke's Fall Festival needs actors for Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night or What you Will' and Regina and Emma both volunteer.

Baelfire arrives in a world without magic, cold, afraid and utterly alone. It is many years before he realizes that tales of his father arrived with him. (Or: The one where Bae discovers the "fairy tale" of Rumpelstiltskin.)

Rumpelstiltskin's wife left him when he was branded a coward. Now, when designing the curse to end all curses, he gets revenge on her the best way he knows how. This is NOT Milah. AU

Snow sacrifices her life to save Emma at the climax of the final battle. Emma's perspective while they're at the hospital. "She's screaming. She can't hear it but she knows she must be." One-shot.

when you love someone, let them go. if they come back, they're yours. if they don't, they never were... a series of moments in Rumplestiltskin's life as he mourns the loss of the only person who had learned to love him.

Takes place a couple months after the Curse breaks. Ruby and August trying to keep Regina from finding something out about Mary Margaret. There's some David too, and Emma and Henry coming up. Even threw in a sappy Snow and Charming scene from FTL.

My very own season 2. Magic has returned to Storybrooke, and Regina seizes her opportunity for revenge. But plans go awry as an unexpected enemy surfaces, leaving the townspeople reeling in the wake of a tragic loss. No Swan Queen, but lots of good Emma/Regina, Regina/Henry and Emma/Henry moments to come. Plenty of Snow/Charming/Emma as well.

Since the start of the series, I've wanted these two to get down to it... This started out as that, then... got... weird. Enjoy, anyway.

Rumplestiltzkin, better known as Mr. Gold, is reunited with his love whom he thought dead long before the curse was in place. He must, now, rebuild his relationship with her while dodging Regina's gaze, atleast enough to plot his revenge. Slightly AU as some events are omitted or rearanged in time. M rating for later chapters

Red remembers.

Every hero needs a sidekick, and Henry is the perfect boy for the job. Pure Emma/Henry fluff.

Jealous Regina fic. Regina can hardly contain the green-eyed monster inside of her when she witnesses Emma with Graham. Emma was supposed to be her princess. A/U. Rated 'T' for language.

Emma's diary, freshman year. Growing up is difficult and Ruby's theories are not helping. Sequel to Raison d'être, but works as a standalone as well.

A bit of fun. To get Emma laughing...it just takes David and Mary Margaret to loosen her up a bit.

Emma Swan is eighteen and alone. Six months pregnant, she accidentally drives into Storybrooke and finds a friend, and maybe even family, with Mary Margaret. How would their relationship have developed if this had been the plot of Season 1? How would Emma's arrival have affected the town? Lots of Emma/Mary Margaret BrOTP love.