Started it on 3/11/2017
Title: Happily, ever after
Author: DavidBoreanaz'swife247
Pairings: Rumple/ Belle
Gene: Romance/ family
Warnings: spoilers for season 7 beauty and characters
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I do not own OUAT if I did it would center on Rumbelle Bae and Gideon not the Charming's
Intro: fearing for Belle's safety if the darkness in him stays Rumple goes to Belle hoping for a 2nd chance at true loves kiss but first he must tell her what she's been wanting to know for months WHO HURT HIM
****Hours later***
Found Belle in the Library dusting she had already done the dishes mopped the floor polished her Masters trinkets and done the laundry she didn't hear her Master enter only felt his hands on her waist.
Belle gulped, and her heart rate picked up stammering
"M…Master I... did not… hear you…. Enter"
Belle felt like kicking herself she sounded so pathetic, yet she swore she felt her Master smiling yet hearing no replied she tried something else.
"Master did you need me for something?" she asked.
Waiting with bated breath she felt the warmth of his hands though her dress.
"No in fact when I came up here I thought I would find my little maid READING but instead I find her on this death trap of a ladder."
Belle giggled.
Hearing the giggle Rumpelstiltskin's inside knotted with anxiety.
"Turn around Belle?" he asked softly.
Slowly with her Masters hands on her waist to steady her, Belle turns around to face him then in a blink he was on the ladder with her, his feet on either side of her on the steps he felt herself being pressed back into the ladder Belle closed her eyes when she felt him give her a breathy kiss. Yet they flew open when she felt his LIPS on her own, for the first time since her first/ true love kiss a month ago she could see the change in him and gently pulled back and watches as his skin returned to the grey gold colour.
"Master" she said softly
Rumple closed his eyes and stepped off the ladder.
"Come down sweetheart I need to speak to you" he said.
So, taking her by the waist he lifted her off the ladder and set her down, looking at the ladder he looks back at her
"That ladder has to go" he says.
So, with a wave of his hand the ladder turns into a rolling spiral staircase ladder Belle stares at her master in wonder at the beauty of the new ladder
"Now you will have no chances of falling it will lock in place once you stop and will move when you want to again" he told her in the impish tone
Belle just smiled.
She then just happens to glance out of the window.
"The sun is high"
"Well that is because its noon dearie" he told her.
Poor Belle began fretting.
"Oh, master I'm so sorry I'll get started on lunch right away, but Rumple stopped her before she could get to the stairs and wiggled his fingers there atop the table lay their tea tray minus the chipped cup and some cheese and bread with fruit
"Lunch is served mademoiselle," he said with a bow.
Just as he did after he handed her the rose Belle giggled and blushed.
He then took her hand and walked over to the sofa and sat her down
She smiled shyly at him and took a piece of fruit.
"Belle I'm sorry about just now"
"No don't I've… I've been wanting to kiss you since our first kiss, but I was afraid"
"That I'd freak out again?" asked Rumple
"Yes" she said sipping her tea.
"I'm sorry darling but that was the darkness in me he was angry very angry next to the darkness in me the queen is the most Dangerous person in this realm I should know as the darkness or dark one trained her made her the evil woman she is today. He wants you gone you scare him you have a pure heart you are light that's why he wants you gone. The only thing I can do to keep you safe, from him is to get rid of him but without him I have no magic and the queen, she will be unstoppable, and I will be nothing but a slightly disabled coward a man you can never love" he said looking away in shame.
"It's time you know the truth something you have been wanting to know for a month now and that is who hurt me"
He could tell by her posture and the look on her face that he had her attention.
"Belle I'm over 300 years old during the time before I was the dark one I fell in love and Married a woman name Milah our life was good really good then the 1st ogres war hit she was with child and I was accepted to go to war. I had no idea what I was getting into so when I was at the war camp I was to guard a prisoner it was a child a girl and she told me a prophecy that my son who had been born would grow up fatherless, so I took a hammer to my ankle and shattered it"
Belle's eyes widened and looked down at his feet.
"My right ankle darling"
Belles brows knitted together
"I've seen you walk with no pain no limp no nothing how?"
"It's the power but when I don't have it I will revert back damaged ankle and all anyway I walked back after shattering my ankle since the camp doctors would not fix it"
"I understand you wanted to get back to your boy but why shatter your ankle?" asked Belle
"Only the wounded could go home long story short I returned home branded a cowered my wife told me I should have died because now everyone was ridiculing her and that was the start of our marriage break down I lived in fear of those with power. When my boy was 14 she told me she never loved me and left us for another man she met when she went to the tavern spending what little money I had earned for my family by weaving. Months later I get a letter telling me the man's ship that she and he were on sank in a wild storm they both drowned.
He saw the tears in her eyes, yet those beautiful blue eyes were hardened in anger.
"Don't cry Belle please sweetheart," he said
Cupping the side of her face and brushing his thumb pad over her lips she pressed her lips against the pad of his thumb
He then saw the anger in her eyes
"Belle why so angry"
Belle just exploded
Getting up she paced the library and screamed
"HER, MILAH HOW COULD SHE JUST CRITICISER YOU LIKE THAT SHE COULD HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL THAT YOU CAME BACK ALIVE MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN WILL NEVER SEE THEIR HUSBAND/FATHERS AGAIN. GOD IF THAT WERE ME I'D HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY THAT YOU RETURNED ALIVE I WOULD HAVE NURSED YOU BACK TO FULL RECOVERY AND MADE SURE LIFE WAS EASIER FOR YOU"
Rumple sat there shocked by his maid passionate outburst and how she said she would have cared for him after his return if SHE had been his wife at the time.
Oh, for the love of the light I now wonder how better my life would have been if she were MINE back then
He grabbed her hand and sat her down again taking her hands in his; he ran his thumbs over the back of her hands.
"Deep breath Belle"
Belle did as he asked and took a couple of deep breaths pushing her anger down.
"I'm sorry Rumple"
"No don't be in a way you just showed me how truly different you are from them,"
"Them?" asked a confused Belle.
"Her and Cora and how much you care for me" said Rumple.
Belle Sighed.
"So, Cora?" she asked
"Cora was a woman I met after becoming the dark one I showed her how to spin straw into Gold and fell in love with her its only now I realised we never had true love because if it was, my curse would have been broken long ago in the end she ripped out her heart and told me she wasn't coming with me when I arranged for us to run away together instead she became royalty she is also Regina's mother and Regina just happens to be the Queen you met on the road"
Belle's eyes widened.
"I also taught not only her but her mother Cora how to do magic" said Rumpelstiltskin.
"After what my wife did and then Cora I came to realise no one could love me that is until You"
He saw the tears and hurt in her eyes he pulled her closer and just held her he knew this was a lot to absorb for her.
"So now you know everything," he whispered
Belle sighed then sniffed.
"Someone's been brewing potions," said Belle.
Who changed the subject to something light?
Rumple smiled.
"How did you know?" he asked.
"You don't think I haven't smelt that same smell on your, clothes before I wash them. Speaking of Potions you still have magic as you still have your potion and your ability to turn straw into Gold so maybe we can find a way to combine the two, so you can walk as you do now also I've been reading…"
"Why am I not surprised?" he said with an impish smile.
"OI" she said
Playfully slapping his chest.
Rumple smiled and pulled her into his lap kissing her shoulder
"Any way I read about the different realms and I thought to protect ourselves we could somehow find a way out and go to a different realm to be safe from the queen's wrath" said Belle.
"A wonderful idea but time runs differently in some realms some slow down some realms stop and some speed up we don't know what it could do to us If we leave here." Said Rumple"
"The straw and potions could help," said Belle
Rumple smiled.
So, for the next few weeks Belle researched the realms and Rumpelstiltskin experimented with both the Gold thread and potion.
On one such day found Belle sat at the table in the great hall books on realms filled the long table.
Rumple glanced over at her from where he sat at the wheel.
"You seem to be buzzing darling"
"I'm just excited about our new life together"
"Me to, come here please?"
Getting up Belle made her way over to him.
He smiled nervously at her.
"Uh Belle um I've been thinking of asking you something for quite some time, but I didn't want to ask you until I told you the truth and now I have"
Belle saw Rumple reach down into the basket of straw and pull out something.
"2 months ago, we made a deal I'd save your kingdom and my price would be you and I told you it was forever, and you Promised you would go with me Forever, Sweetheart I now ask you will you wear this ring as a Symbol of our Forever and our love"
Belle beamed at him and blinked the tears away.
"Yes, Rumple yes" was her happy answer
He beamed and slipped the ring on her left ring finger
Belle closed her eyes as she felt a rush of something pass though her.
"Don't be alarmed it's just the potion I soaked the ring in taking effect so now as long as you wear this you will no longer age"
Belle smiled and hugged him.
"That look on your face you found our new realm?" Rumple asked
"Yes, a place where the sun is at its brightest and were time stops," said Belle
"I know that place it's a place called the edge of realms," said Rumple
"So that where we shall go the edge of realms?" said Belle.
***Edge of Realms***
Belle and Rumple now stood on a cliff looking out across the realm
"The edge of realms where time stops, and the sun is at its brightest in all the realms"
Belle smiles and turns to him
"Belle time moves differently here what could be an eternity for us would be like the blink of an eye back home." Rumple in formed his true loves.
"What Better place to start out life together and build our home then on an eternal summer day" says Belle
"Then how about a rose garden" he offers.
"And a cozy nook to read in" Belle adds slyly.
"Your wish is my command my lady" said Rumple
"Don't use the dagger we don't need it," she says before he could reach for it.
"I want to build our home right here on this cliff with our own 2 hands," said Belle.
The couple smiled and hugged tightly giving each other a breathy kiss before getting to work on their new home
Finally, when the work was done, and the house was built, they looked at each other and smiled.
"Do you have yours?" asked Belle.
Rumple smiled and pulled out his own gold ring he then pulled out 2 potions.
"One is to stop you aging and the other is to help your ankle, so you can stand and walk as you do now once the darkness is gone, right?"
"Very cleaver my beauty" said Rumple.
He then popped the cork on both and pored them onto the gold ring before handing the ring to Belle.
Taking the Ring she slipped it on to his left ring finger the pair smiled at one another before sharing a kiss Rumple felt the same sensation as before but fought the darkness as he felt it try to take over. In the end he heard it Scream before exiting his body. Gently they pulled apart and looked up seeing the icky blackness.
Rumpelstiltskin held his love close as they watched the darkness it attacked yet their joined left hands created a powerful light that obliviated the darkness once and for all.
"True love the most powerful magic of all" Belle Whispered.
She then got a good look at her love.
"Rumple your human again," said Belle.
He looked down at his hand and sure enough they were pink flesh colour he felt his face and it was smooth not rough like before.
He smiled laughed and picked Belle up swinging her around he noticed his damaged ankle never once gave out on him.
"The potion worked my ankle is fine just like when I had magic"
Shifting her bridle style, he carried her to their new house.
"Your Castle await my lady," said Rumpelstiltskin.
He carried her up the porch steps and over the thresh hold setting her down, just inside the door they began making the house a home as their belonging from the castle came with. Afterwards they relaxed on the sofa and read just enjoying their time together.
Over the years they enjoyed their lives. On one sunny day while enjoying the picnic a portal appeared in the sky.
"Belle go inside please sweetheart," said Rumple.
Not taking his eyes off the portal yet when Belle turns away something fell, it was a boy no older than 14 Rumple hurried over and turned the boy over only to get the shock of his life.
"Belle!" his voice quivered.
Turning back around Belle looked at her true love, he looked shocked yet happy and be wild.
"Rumple love what is it"
"Its…its ...my boy…it's Baelfire" he sobbed.
Belle's eyes widened and raced over.
"Rumple darling bring him into the house"
Rumpelstiltskin lifted his Boy into his arms and brought him into the house laying him on the sofa.
"I'll leave you to it love I know you have a lot to talk about"
With that Belle left them alone.
A little while later Bae began waking
"Where…. Where…. Am 'I?" asked the 14-year-old.
"Easy my boy its OK you're safe and you're home" Rumpelstiltskin whispered
Turning to the voice he was shocked to see his father the way he was before the bad stuff happened the only difference is his hair was shorter now.
"Papa" he asked in a small voice
Rumpelstiltskin's lips trembled as tears filled his eyes.
"I'm…I'm here Bae" he said through tears
Rumple was shocked as Bealfire sprung up and wrapped his arms around his father's neck and sobbed after both calmed down they just looked at one another.
"I'm so sorry my boy I'm so sorry I let you go"
"I'm sorry to papa I didn't mean to run away but I was scared, I was losing you and I did not know what else to do"
"Where were you this whole time?" he asked
"Neverland running from the shadow" said Bealfire
A shiver ran down Rumpelstiltskin's spine Neverland a place he never wanted to see again and had bad memories of. Neverland was the last time he saw his father after he abandoned him so that he may stay young. Neither Belle Nor his son knew of what happened in his childhood.
"Where am I Papa?" asked Bealfire.
"It's called the edge of realms, time runs differently here son, so you may find yourself aging a bit fast however I can use my gold thread and a potion to allow you to age normally if you like."
"How Papa you don't look like you can do magic any more?" said Baelfire.
"No, I can't but I can still do potions, the darkness has gone forever my boy it is a time of peace" said Rumpelstiltskin.
"How did you become this way again Papa?" asked Bealfire.
"The darkness I took on was a curse but a while ago I found love, love is what broke my curse and not just any love but the most powerful magic of all, true love." Said Rumple
Baelfire smiled.
"Who Papa who is she?"
Rumpelstiltskin smiled
"Her names Belle I saved her kingdom from the ogre's war they offered payment in Gold but I didn't need it I wanted company, so I lied and said I needed a caretaker for my estate and that Belle was my Price her father and fiancée at the time forbid her to go with me, but she was a brave woman who faced the beast and told her father and fiancé that nobody chooses her fate but her, so she end upcoming with me." Rumpelstiltskin explained.
"Would you like to meet her," he asked nervously.
He was unsure how his beloved Son would react to Belle.
Baelfire nodded.
Rumpelstiltskin smiled.
"I'll go get her," he said
Standing up.
"No need to Rumple I'm right here," said Belle.
Coming into the living room from the kitchen
"Hello Bealfire, I'm Belle." She said introducing herself to the teen.
"Nice to meet you Belle and thank you for saving my Papa"
"You never have to thank me I love your father" said Belle.
Over the next few weeks Baelfire settled in and helped his Papa and Belle expand their home and Belle teaches him how to read and write tutoring him in academics starting from a grade 1 level. A year later Belle learns she is pregnant.
9 months later the family welcomes a boy Belle and Rumple called him Gideon. They named him after Belle's favourite hero in her favourite book Her handsome Hero. The book had become both their sons' favourite book. Baelfire was a wonderful and caring older brother always offering to help feed or change his brother he would play with him and read him stories and kept him company when their parents were busy Bealfire even offered to share his room with his baby brother.
****12 years later*****
Bealfire now 27 had a house that he his brother and their father built by hand it was about a 20-minute walk from his parent's place. However like always he was over visiting his parents but this time is was for some wonderful news his Mama was with child once again
****9 months later******
Rumple and Belle welcomed their 3rd child a girl they named Tilly.
For the next 16 years the family lived happily together.
Gideon at the age of 18 moved out and was accepted into a prestigious academy while Baelfire now 43 had a family of his own a wife named Emma who he met when he went back to the enchanted forest some years back and their new born baby boy named Cole, when Belle had asked why the name Cole Bae told her he wanted to honor the memory of his grandmother Colette. Hearing that brought tears to Belle's eyes but a wide grin on her face. Gideon and Bae were loving and protective older brothers, to their little sister, so much so that when they learned Tilly was being harassed by boys at her school for loving a girl name Ivy it took all of Rumple's Belle's and Emma's will power to KEEP THEIR boys from going and beating the living crap out of the bullies and in fact Rumple wanted to do the same the only thing stopping him was Belle and the tearful look on his little girl's face as she told him
"Don't hurt them papa"
Rumple smiled he could already tell that his mighty little girl had her mothers compassion for others
The end
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Finished it on 4/11/17