Belle
"Please don't take him from me!" I pleaded with the officers who were escorting Rumple to a police cruiser. I held tightly to the throw quilt around me, but there was no denying what we were doing. Even the dumbest person could easily tell me and my father were having sex. "Please Emma, let me go to him. He's never hurt me. I swear!" I shouted through my violent sobs. This was my worst fear, him being taken away from me. Never to see him again and it was all my fault.
"Belle calm down." Deputy Emma said holding me back from Rumple as Graham places him in the backseat. "He's not allowed to touch you! You're father is disgusting!"
Sheriff Graham slams the door of the cruiser loudly waking me up suddenly from the intensely lucid dream. I looked around my room with confusion. Everything seemed the same, although something felt different. I needed to see him. To see if he was still here with me. I knew my mother was home so I couldn't talk to him. But I could at least peek into their room to make sure he was still there. I drew the covers from around me and jump from my bed quickly.
When I made it downstairs to my parent's bedroom, the door was closed shut. I became even more apprehensive. My parents never kept the door closed all the way while they were asleep. The door was even lock when I try to softly twist the doorknob. I knew a trick that could open all the lock doors in the house, I quietly ran the short distance to the kitchen to retrieve a butter knife and returned to my parent's locked door. I delicately jammed the knife through the tumblers before twisting it until I heard the familiar cling that the door was unlocked. I open the door just enough to peek inside without being seen. The room was dark, but I could clearly hear the subtle squeaks of my father's bed frame.
"Oh fuck Rumple, yes, keep fucking me like that!" Cora cries out in passion. "Oh my God, I miss this."
He didn't respond. I only heard his low-pitched grunts with every thrust he made in her. Rumple's eyes were closed tightly, clenching his jaw as he made love to her. It sent a surge of jealousy coursing through my body. She was on her back with hands and arms spread out above her, gripping their golden sheets. Her legs flowed up to rest against his chest as she takes every inch of him without difficulties. I was stunned and I felt like I was dreaming as I watched them for what felt like hours. My mother was moaning heedlessly, begging him loudly not to end her torment he was providing for her between her legs. Rumple's arms were grasped around her legs at the knees as he shows no resistance, not even a look of despair, for the woman he said he didn't want.
My stomach dropped as a knot formed in my throat that didn't allow me to swallow the pain down. I closed the door silently and collapsed on the floor in front of their door. Why would he do this to me? I thought he loved me, but he lied to me. He told me he wouldn't have sex with her. He promised me we would find away to be together, but he wasn't looking for a way, he was just looking for a way to keep me on the side like trash while still being able to fuck my mother.
I couldn't hold my tears back. I was betrayed by the man I loved. I was betrayed by my father. I picked myself up, letting my feet aimlessly carry me to my room. I hated this family. I hated my last name was Gold. It wasn't a privilege, it was a nightmare. I hated being the daughter of the man I loved. Once I made it to my room, I threw myself onto the bed and continue to cry until my tears tired out my aching eyes and they gave weight to sleep.
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It was Monday morning and I woke up groggy with stiff eyes. I was getting ready for school when my mother walked in my room.
"No school today, you have a doctor's appointment." Cora said in a condescending tone.
"What are you talking about? You never said anything about a doctor's appointment."
"Well you have one and your going. And I would appreciate it if I didn't get any attitude today."
"Whatever." I said with a quick shrug of my shoulders.
She shook her head at me before leaving my room. I wasn't sick. Why did I have a doctor's appointment? It didn't make sense to me, but I didn't ask her why to avoid prolonging her stay in my room. Once I got downstairs, Regina was drinking coffee before leaving for work. I unintentionally ignored her. There was just so much on my mind.
"Well, I didn't think you had it in you Belle." Regina said before taking a sip from her mug, her deep brown eyes still peering at me from atop the rim.
"Regina whatever it is, today is not the day." I retorted uninterested in what she had to say.
"And don't make whatever you got going on, my fucking problem. Don't ever sneak into my room again. Especially to steal my things. You wanna be a grown up soo bad, then buy your own shit." She snapped back at me before leaving me in the kitchen alone.
I sighed before putting my face into the palms of my hands. Nothing was going right. Today was going to be a long day.
On the way to the appointment, I was staring out the window listening to the radio as my mother drove me to the doctors. I wasn't talking to her. I couldn't even stand looking at her. All I could see when I did was her face from last night, enthralled in pleasure as Rumple embeds his body into hers. I sucked in a breath through my teeth when she turned the radio down to begin speaking.
"Belle have you ever heard of a pap smear?" She inquired.
"No." I replied tonelessly.
"You see, you're at the age where young girls become curious about certain things. Certain things they shouldn't be doing until their married." She annoyingly explains to me as if I were a child. I pretended to keep my eyes on the passing buildings outside the window. "A pap smear is an exam for women who are sexually active." She flips her turn signal on and pulls over to the side of the road, causing me to look at her questionably. "I need you to tell me the truth Belle, are you having sex?"
"What? No." I lied and turn my gaze back out the passenger window.
"The exam will show me if you have, so save yourself some trouble and be honest with me."
I couldn't take it anymore, now she was trying to control my life and what I did in it. Setting up doctor's appointments to find out if I've been having sex. Why the fuck should it concern her?
"You know what." I threw my hands in the air. I couldn't care less anymore. "YES I'M HAVING SEX! Is That What You Want To Hear? DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY KNOWING THAT I'M FUCKING SOMEONE?"
"Belle you're NOT allowed to do that, you're 15 for Christ sake!"
"I DON'T CARE. I LOVE IT. I love being his little play thing."
"You think you're being cool trying to grow up so fast? You're gonna get yourself hurt."
"You think this is about me being cool?" I scoffed at how she's so unaware. "You still don't get it, do you? I LOVE FUCKING HIM!
"You Shut The Hell Up Right Now!" She said pointing her finger at me angrily.
"Why? You wanted To Know If I was Having Sex. Well I'm saving you a trip to the doctor's! I'M. HAVING. SEX." I emphasized each word.
"I WANT YOU AND GASTON TO STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW. OR I WILL END THE RELATIONSHIP ALTOGETHER!" Cora yells back stupidly thinking I was speaking of Gaston and not about Rumple.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO, I'll STILL FIND A WAY TO BE WITH HIM, YOU WANNA KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I LOVE FUCKING HIM. HE'S EVEN TOLD ME I WAS THE BEST HE'S EVER HAD."
"Belle I'm sure Gaston has said that to a lot of girls and you're stupid if you believe him."
"HE MAY HAVE, BUT HE MEANT IT WITH ME! He loves me and no matter what you say or do won't change that fact. I will always love him." She could have sex him all she wanted but I knew what Rumple really wanted.
"Why you are this way towards me? What did I do?" She said almost in a defeated tone.
"Don't you get it, I HATE YOU! You're in the way."
"Belle I'm your mother." Her words began to falter.
"I don't care, I wish you weren't."
Cora looks away from me and begins to cry. I didn't mean to make her cry. Oh God, could my life get any worse?
"Mom I'm sorry, I don't really wish that." I apologized, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I just don't understand where I went wrong with you, how did I become such a bad mother?" She queries through her sobs. She sniffs and wipes her tears using the back of her hand. "Belle whatever it is your going through, all you needed to do was talk to me. I could've helped you, you're father could've help too. You didn't need to find solace in some strange boy."
"You're right mommy. I just want to start over." I said. None of this was her fault and after seeing her cry, I realized I wasn't ready to lose a mother yet.
"I can't trust you anymore Belle. If you would lie to me in my face about having sex, you'll just keep lying to me about it." She didn't understand that I had to. I had to lie to protect my father.
We continued our trek to the hospital and I received my first pap smear. It was the most uncomfortable experience in my life. Doctor Whale confirmed my mother's suspicion that I was sexually active and recommended that I be placed on a more reliable contraceptive. My mother complied and I left the hospital with a birth control implant inserted into my upper arm.
I was lying on my bed, reading, trying to look as preoccupied as possible. It was close to the time I would sneak down to my father's room. I wasn't going to go to him tonight. I wanted him to come to me.
"Cora told me you two had an argument today." I heard his voice say from my doorway.
"We did." I gave a short response with my eyes still in the book.
"And now you're on birth control." He sighs ruefully. "I'm sorry Belle, I knew that condom was a bad idea." He walks over and sits beside me. "I'm sure after everything that's happen, you're not in the mood tonight, but I brought you something to help you feel better." He said lying a bouquet of crisp white and pinks Camellias on the book in front of me. "The floral shop owner said he just got these in stock, imported from Morocco."
They were beautiful. I ran my finger along one of the flower's petals, and admired how soft it felt against my fingertips.
I rolled over on my back to face him. "Rumple can we just leave and run away together."
"We've been over this Belle. You know I love you more than anything, but I can't leave. What about my family?"
"I can be all the family you need, your wife and your daughter."
"That damn implant must be messing with your head. How can you be so selfish to your siblings?" He asked shaking his head.
"I don't care about them or Cora, just us." I replied my conviction.
"When will you get over this stupid pursuit, I can't leave. Stop trying to make this harder on yourself."
I picked up the flowers and threw them across the room, they swatted against the wall, petals and stems scattered to the floor. I knew he wasn't looking for a way for us to be together.
"So that's it, huh?" I shook my head in disbelief. "I'm just your daughter with benefits." I pushed him roughly off my bed. "I saw you and her last night."
"You saw us?" He flinched back in shock. "Belle the door was locked so you did that to yourself."
"Seriously? You said you wouldn't fuck her!" I reminded him.
"Belle I truly am sorry, I didn't want to have sex with her. I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a chore more than anything else." He said kneeling down beside my bed. "You're all I want Belle. I just want my little girl."
"Then why did you do it?" I queried, unsure if I even wanted to know the answer.
"You wouldn't understand." He said with downcast and remorseful eyes.
"You don't get to be the judge of that anymore. Just tell me."
"I had a horrible dream that I was arrested, for being with you."
"So a dream drove you to find comfort in another woman?" I said and grimaced. I had a similar dream and I sought him out, why couldn't he have done the same for me? "Did you get some sense of your normality back while between her legs?"
"You watch your mouth Belle." He spat his warning standing above me. "You will not speak to me that way. I'm still your father."
"Answer the question…." I demanded rising from my bed, scowling him in his eyes. "Father."
"What I feel is normal, is what I feel with you." He said trying to subdue his rage.
"If that were true, you would leave with me." I contradicted.
"And that's why I can't leave because you don't ever look at the big picture."
"The big picture is suppose to me and you."
"The big picture is what happens after we leave. I don't want my family to be divided because I've fallen in love with my youngest daughters."
"That's not it Rumple, it's your damn pride. You don't want people judging what you do in the dark, so you keep me out of light and on the sidelines like I'm nothing." I said before folding my arms across my chest. "Well not anymore, I won't to keep sneaking into your bed when your wife's at work."
"Belle please, it was never like that."
"THEN WHAT IS IT LIKE RUMPLE?!" I shouted, I just wanted to know what he truly wanted from me. I was sick of him beating around the bush with riddles.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS GODDAMN IT, ALL I KNOW IS THAT I LIKE IT!" He bellows, flourishing his hands to add emphasis. "IT'S WRONG AND I JUST WANT IT!"
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" I shouted pushing him out my door, not giving him chance to speak anymore.
Rumple leaves my room in an angry stride. I slam the door behind him before going to pick up the fallen flowers sprawled on the floor. While cleaning the mess I noticed a small card that came attached to them. I didn't notice it before, so the card must have been hidden well in the bouquet. I open the noted and read from it silently.
You are loved,
M.F.
Those three simple words were what I needed to hear, but who did the initials M.F. belong to.
The next day at school there was a pep rally in the school gymnasium for the basketball team making it to the state championship. I was so proud of Gaston and his teammates. I cheered for him like any girlfriend would do, although we were only truly friends, but I always kept my false adoration for him believable. After the pep rally was over, it was time for the school day to start. I met Gaston in a hallway near the now empty gym so he could walk me to class. I also had a gift to give him for making it to the championship.
"Congratulations!" I said with a sincere smile, holding the surprise gift for him behind my back.
"Thanks babe." He said before kissing me. "Damn you're looking good today. I'm glad you chose that outfit to support me at the pep rally." He said while looking me over.
I rolled my eyes and brush the awkward encounter off before trying to continue being happy for Gaston's achievements. "I got you something for making it to the championship game."
He unwraps his gift. "Holy shit Belle, sick fucking hoverboard."
"I thought you would like it. I saved my allowance to get it for you."
"You're fucking awesome babe." He said before pulling me roughly into his embrace. I always hated this part. He began kissing me forcibly again, this time groping the gap between my legs, as he desperately tries to shove his tongue into my mouth. I pushed him off and ended his disgusting attempt to show his affections.
"What The Fuck? Why can't we ever use our tongue?" He asked with vexation.
"I'm sorry Gaston I just don't want to." I responded.
"You don't want to? Why don't you?" He asked in rebuttal. "You're my girlfriend Belle."
"I know but," I closed my eyes and just let the words roll out of my mouth. "I just don't feel the same way you feel about me."
"So you never cared about me?" He inquired doubtfully.
"Yes, but as friends." I said trying to make it sound just as important.
"So you've just been stringing me around as your friend?" He growls before hitting a nearby wall in rage. I reacted in surprise. "Why! Why would you play me like this?!"
"I'm sorry." I didn't know what else to say. I couldn't tell Gaston that he was a pawn only used to keep any suspicious eyes off me and my father.
"We've been together for a whole year and you never felt anything for me?"
"Gaston please don't do this. I didn't want you to get hurt."
"It's too late for that. I wanna know why Belle, why fucking lie to me?"
"It was the only way I could keep- keep..."
"Keep what goddamn it?!" Gaston shouted in the quiet hallway.
"Keep my friends. They said I needed a boyfriend." I partially lied to keep protecting my father.
"So you decided to play me for those fucking synthetic ass bitches?" He chuckles to himself in disbelief. "You deserve to be with those fake ass sluts. You're just as fake as them."
"Gaston please wait." I said grabbing the leather sleeve of his letterman as he turns to leave. I didn't want him to leave angry with me, I wanted to settle this. "Just listen to me for a moment."
"Fuck you Belle!" He forcefully snatches his arm from my hand and storms off.
Once he was gone, I was able to exhale. I felt so bad. I didn't want to break-up with Gaston like that. I was hoping for a way to let him down gently, a way where we could still remain friends. It wasn't long before he came back. His eyes were flamed as tears fell from them, his nose was running and he looked manic and unhinged.
"This isn't over Belle." He said tightly gripping my bicep where my implant was injected. "You owe me for that whole year you lied to me."
"Ow! Let go Gaston, I don't owe you anything. Just please calm down!"
"You owe me for all the times I showed you patience, waiting until you were ready. I wanted to fall in love with you."
"Gaston you may have loved me," I said ripping his hand painfully from around my arm. "But I never loved you."
He slams me against the wall causing the back of my head to hit the solid stone enclosure. The shock of it scared me more than it hurt me. But I still felt it, I needed to get away before he did anymore damage to me.
"I don't give a damn about your love anymore." He said with a deranged look in his eyes. "And since you won't give me a taste, I'll just have to take it then."
"Gaston I swear to God I'll scream my lungs out." I warned him in hopes he would abandon his attempt.
"How are you gonna scream if you're unconscious?"
I used quick thinking and kneed him in his nether parts before taking off, fleeing from him down the hall. I looked back as he regained his composure and began running after me. When I rounded a corner, I ran into a figure who turned out to be a boy with sad green eyes. Will Scarlet.
"Bloody hell, watch where the hell you're-" He trailed off when he saw the fear on my face. "Belle, are you okay?" He asked holding me in his arms.
"Get him away from me Will." I pleaded.
Will pushes me behind him as Gaston approaches us. "What's going on man?"
"Get the hell out of my way Will Scarlet, that bitch is nothing but trouble!" Gaston yells out of breath pointing to me over Will's shoulder.
"Then let her go man, you got the championship to think about."
"You don't know what she did to me. She used me to gain fucking popularity like some fucking teenage movie cliché!"
"Chicks, am I right? It's not worth it man. I heard about that scholarship you got to UCONN. Congrats, home of the Huskies." Gaston was seizing with anger as he continue to glare at me with hatred, balling his hand into a fist. "C'mon man they're not going to let you in if you're hitting on girls. Just let it go."
"You're right man, she's not worth it. She's not even fucking cute." Gaston looks over to me before shaking his head in disgust. "Fuck you Belle. And I'm keeping the hoverboard." He said before turning to leave, venting his frustration on a nearby locker.
"Well it looks like you've just cost us of the championship game." Will said with a soft smile.
"Yeah I guess, sorry about that." I couldn't tell if his joke was serious or not, but I smiled nonetheless.
"We didn't have a chance anyway. Can I walk you to your class?"
"Sure." I agreed and he even held my book bag. Why was he being so kind to me? "My friends won't be happy about what Gaston did. I hope Mulan doesn't break his nose."
"The ones you used Gaston for?" He inquired.
"Yeah about that, it's a- a very long story."
"Gaston did a pretty good job of explaining. I believe he said you used him like a 'teenage movie trope'." Will said before laughing. "It's his lost then. I would have loved to have been strung along by you."
"You're not serious."
"Of course not. I would have wanted the real thing too. But I could have settled for the hoax, especially if I got a hoverboard and girlfriend as beautiful as you out of it."
I had the decency to blush. I knew he was only trying to make me feel better, but it felt good to hear someone call me beautiful after what I've been through.
"Wait-" It was then I remembered Will Scarlet was spoken for. "I'm sorry, but don't you have a girlfriend?"
"Me and Anastasia broke up weeks ago." He said with a doleful look.
"What?! Oh My God! You guys seemed so good for each other. Why didn't it work out?" I probably shouldn't be asking but it felt good talking about someone else's problems and not my own.
"I just wasn't good enough for her."
"She seemed really full of herself too." I said trying to make Will feel better. "She would get along nicely with my sister Regina."
We shared a laugh.
"You know Belle, My family and yours have history together." Will looks down to the floor, unsure of himself. "It sort of… bad history."
"How so?"
"Your sister's ex-boyfriend Robin. He's my cousin."
"You mean you're related to that asshole?" I asked. I met Robin once when I was younger, he was so proud and smug, nothing like this sweet nature guy who rescued me.
"Yeah unfortunately, but I hope that doesn't sway your answer."
"My answer? To what?"
"To me walking you to all your classes."
"Oh Uh- Will I don't think that's a good idea-"
"I think it's a great idea Belle. Besides I think I should stick around you until Gaston has completely cooled off. "
"Okay, but really, why?"
"Okay you got me." Will said stopping just before we reached my classroom door. "I've been interested in you since the moment I saw you last year. You're Mr. Gold's daughter, but you don't carry yourself like a Gold. You're so different. I just can't help but wanna know more about you."
I'd be lying if I say my heart didn't flutter. He was different too and a welcome change from what I was use to with my father.
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"So he just walked you to class, and that's it?" My bubbly friend Ariel asked during our lunch period.
"Well yeah, was something else suppose to happen?"
"Duh! He should of ask you out, you were like a literal damsel in distressed." Ruby said blatantly.
"I was not. I could have handle myself if I didn't run into Will Scarlet."
"Wait to I see that fuckboy Gaston, I'll make him wish he never put his hands on you." Mulan said with a disgruntled look.
"Mulan leave it alone, it's over and I just want to forget about him."
"There's that Bitch" I heard a female's voice say over the many voices in the lunch room. I turned to see what all the commotion was about and an unhappy blond-haired girl was standing behind me. "Are you Belle?"
"Yeah?" I answered her suspiciously.
"What the fuck is my ex-boyfriend doing walking you to your classes?"
"He was being nice, and why should it matter to you, you guys aren't even together anymore." I shrugged my shoulders and turned back to my friends who were just as confused with the girl's rudeness as I was .
"I don't give a fuck, we just broke up and he already has his eyes on you. Were you guys fucking around when we were together?"
"No I'm with Gaston."
"You were with Gaston, don't play me, everybody in the whole school knows about your break up." I heard her say from behind me. "And what a perfect coincidence that now you and Will are both single."
I stood from the table. I wasn't going to let one more person verbally belittle me and treat me like I was less then who I was. I may have hated my father now, but his words rang loudly in my ears. Don't ever think of yourself as less then what you truly are. And I wasn't.
"Look Anastasia, I couldn't give two shits about what you think is going on between me and Will. If he wants to walk me to class, then he can. He's not your problem anymore."
"Bitch do you know who I am?"
"No bitch do you know who I am? You've seem to have forgotten who my father is. I could destroy you."
"How about you try it then bitch." She said pushing me. Fury was behind my eyes and I balled up my fist ready to strike this girl in her face.
"ANASTASIA!" A familiar voice called out gaining the attention of both me and Anastasia. It was Will Scarlet approaching to stand between us. "Back off!"
"How sweet." The blond said to him. "Come to protect your girlfriend Will?"
"She's not my girlfriend."
"You want her though."
"So what if I do."
"Did you break up with me for her?"
"No, you know why I broke up with you, I wasn't good enough for you."
"You were always good enough for me Will, I just realized it too late."
"Well now I want to see if I'm good enough for Belle, so get your stuck-up ass away from her."
My friends mocked and laughed at Anastasia who retreated out of the cafeteria with her tail between her legs and her pride cut down.
"She didn't hurt you, did she?" Will Scarlet asked.
"No I'm fine." Why couldn't Rumple do what Will just did? Will Scarlet didn't deny what he wanted just to spare the feelings of another. He openly chose me and announced it to practically the whole student body. Rumple couldn't even admit it to himself that he truly wanted me and me alone.
"I'm sorry I didn't realize how fast gossip travels around this school." He gave me the most caring smile. "See you around okay?"
"Wait Will."
"What's up?" He said turning back.
"Could I call you sometime?"
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I was holding my phone nervously with my finger hovering above the call button of Will's contact information.
"Oh my God Belle. Stop being so afraid, you're actually making me nervous. Just call him." Ruby said.
"It's not like he doesn't want you sweetie." Ariel added.
I couldn't tell my friends the reason I was so hesitant was because I was still in love with my father.
I exhaled deeply. "Okay here goes nothing." I tap the call button, along with the speaker button so my friends can listen in. The phone rings.
"Hello Love. Just the call I've been waiting on." Will Scarlet's voice said through my phone.
I quickly hit mute so me and my friends could shrill together in delight, bouncing on my bed in our excitement. Although, excitement wasn't the only thing I was feeling. I was also scared because I knew that by starting a new relationship with Will, I was ending the one with Rumple. And deep down in my heart, as much as I wanted to, I knew I wasn't ready to completely end things with my father.
Hey guys, I'm going on vacation to Vegas for 5 days. So I won't be able to upload for at least 2 weeks. Find me on tumblr poca-staks. I'll be posting a video discussing The Climb sometime early next week. You can send me any questions you have about me or the story there also. And I'll talk about the first episode of OUAT season 6 in the video too. Thanks again guys so much for your all kudos, comments, and support on this crazy story and I just want you to know I hear all you're pleas for a happy ending. I do see a possibility. Let me know what you think about Belle's chapter. As you can see I've developed her character into a more bratty teenager after learning what her father did. She basically feels what every teenager does, that the world is against them. This chapter had a lot of angst so I'll make it up to ya'll in the next chapter.