A/N: I wanted to do one more prompt for The Lost World to give it closure. Unfortunately, the show never had a chance to wrap it up so I am using my imagination combined with the original intent the writers had for this. Hope you like!

Also, this will wrap up the story for now. I know there are a few other prompts within this story that could be added on, and perhaps I will, depending on the Muse. For now, I think it will be best I mark it as complete. Thank you everyone for sticking with me and for giving me such great ideas and prompts over the years. This means a lot and I hope you enjoy reading these and maybe even re-reading!

The Lost World

Prompt: It is two years later and the explorers have made it off the Plateau. Rumpton made a promise to himself when Belle's secret was revealed and he is finally able to fulfill it. (Rated K+)

To say the last five years was an adventure was grossly understated. It was a literal trip to Hell and back and then some when the explorers, including Snow and Emma, had to face the biggest fight for their lives and the life of the Plateau.

Snow's parents, in particular her mother, was the Plateau's Protector. An ancient bloodline passed down from mother to daughter to keep the balance of good and evil, and it was Snow's turn to take her rightful place in the city of Avalon as her mother was dying. Her father, sadly, was already dead—killed by a man called Isaac Heller, a member of another bloodline from the Plateau whose only desire was control and destruction. Heller wanted to wipe out the Protectors and harness the power of the Plateau for himself. His ancestor was almost successful when he recruited a Druid High Priestess named Belladonna to help him. She used her powers to create a storm so massive and destructive, but the Protector was able to fight back. Isaac was trying to repeat the same tactic with Belladonna's reincarnated form:

Belle.

He almost succeeded too were it not for Rumpton and their friends. Somehow Isaac convinced her that everyone would be better without her and that evil coursed through her veins. It was why her parents abandoned her in the first place. Of course, Isaac had orchestrated Belle's lonely childhood with the help from Shanghai Dragon. She was kidnapped as a baby and given to a couple who had been cruel and made her feel unwanted until she was left at an orphanage. They gave her up as the money wasn't worth it anymore.

Yet Isaac died and took with him the secret to Belle's real identity.

With balance restored, Snow had the power to lift the fog surrounding the Plateau so the explorers could leave for good. Nolan and Emma stayed—Nolan because he was in love with Snow; Emma because she saw her as the sister she always wanted.

Hopper was alive—not dead like they had thought. When he fell from the bridge he had been severely injured and was taken in by the Avalonians where he learned the truth about Snow and Belle's purpose. Belle was meant to be the deciding factor and Rumpton was the anchor she needed to stay on the side of good. Love really won in the end and now they were home.

But…

Belle was avoiding him.

Rumpton couldn't figure out why since he told her he loved her and she had said the same. He had proposed to her the night before they left the Plateau and she said yes. Now Belle was avoiding him like the plague.

At first he thought it was because of the attention.

After all they were missing for five years and presumed dead, then Belle's past involvement from the war made her a lot of enemies and if someone recognized her… they might go after her. Yet all was quiet on the espionage front and Rumpton wondered if it was about Belle's lack of knowledge on whom she was and who her family was. If that woman thought he would be ashamed or regret what they shared, then she had another thing coming.

He found her and told her he loved her now and forever. He told her he was going to leave for a bit but he expected her to not run away.

Rumpton went to Shanghai and demanded an audience with the Dragon. He persuaded the crime lord and returned to England with his prize. His only concern was whether or not Belle would keep her promise and had stayed in London.

To his relief, she did.

She waited for him and when he reunited with her—Belle surprised herself when she didn't run for the hills.

"Almost," she said. "I almost left but I knew I had to stop running away."

"I'm glad you didn't," he told her. "I have something for you—something you have been searching your whole life for and thought it was lost."

Rumpton pulled out the envelope that contained the birth certificate and handed it to her.

She looked at him with a mixture of disbelief and fear and hope and she gingerly took the document. She couldn't believe she had it in her hands. Her name… her real name was here and all the answers to her questions she had been longing to know.

Lifting the tab, Belle closed her eyes and breathed in deeply before she looked down and finally discovered her true identity.

Her hand went to her mouth, tears welling up, as she fingered her name.

"Belle," she choked. "My real name is Belle de Villeneuve. My parents are Maurice and Collette. I was born in Melbourne and—and—" Her knees gave out as Rumpton caught her. He held her as she wept into his shoulder. He held her until the sobs subsided and she could look again.

There were other papers. And it was evident her parents were alive and well. In fact, they were blue blood like Rumpton.

"You know now," he said. "They loved you. They have been searching for you."

Indeed, the couple has been offering a reward for information on their missing daughter. Even after all these years… they were looking for her.

Belle tearfully gazed at the man she loved and kissed him. She couldn't stop kissing him.

At last she found home.