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Chapter two

Belle's POV

I was young when my mother passed away, so the memories I have of her are few. One of my better memories was right before she died, she called me to her and my father's room and she told me that one day I would meet a handsome prince and live happily ever after.

I was young, so I didn't realize that this was her goodbye, her way of trying to tell me that I would be ok after she was gone.

I wonder if my mother knew how wrong she was, that instead of loving a prince her only child would fall for a man who most of her beloved people thought to be a monster. I wonder if she knew that the man she married would become an indifferent father after she was gone because she didn't give him the son he wanted.

My father loved Gaston though, he was everything he ever wanted in a son and since he wasn't born into our bloodline; my father made it his mission to marry me off to him, even though he knew I despised him.

I loved Rumpelstiltskin, and I was happier as his maid than I ever was in my father's home. It broke my heart when he sent me away, I understand that in his mind I betrayed him but it still hurt that he couldn't trust me.

I had nowhere else to go but back to my father's kingdom after I was sent away, I believed that my father would welcome me back with open arms since I gave away my freedom so that he and his people could be safe. I had given up everything for my father just so he could betray me.

My father locked me away in a tower upon his return, he sent in priests and his guards to torture me for what he thought was betrayal, but he never broke me.

I never considered myself to be strong so to be able to withstand everything that was thrown at me was shocking, but I wasn't kept in the tower long. The Evil Queen, or as I knew her the woman that destroyed my happiness with Rumpelstiltskin stole me from the tower my father locked me in just so she could put me in a prison of her own creation.

The Evil Queen wasn't like my father, she rarely harmed me physically, and she took her pleasure in trying to destroy me emotionally. I suffered more at her hands than at my father's hands, her favorite way of hurting me was by bringing up Rumpelstiltskin, and how I loved a monster that couldn't even stand the sight of me.

A side effect of becoming the queen's prisoner was that she took pleasure in telling me about every life she destroyed, and the cures she planned on using to destroy her enemy's. Somehow she got her hands on one of Rumpelstiltskin's spells that would send everyone to another world where only her happiness would matter.

She told me that I would still be her prisoner there, so she could use me if she ever needed a bargaining tool with Rumpelstiltskin. What she was to idiotic to realize is that there is no such thing as bargaining with Rumpelstiltskin.

That was twenty-eight years ago; I am still the queen's prisoner which is often thrown in my face when she visits me. I have bided my time here, hoping that one day the queen will trade me to Rumpelstiltskin or kill me. Whatever she decides will be better than being her prisoner; I don't care because either way I will be free.

I hope you enjoy. Please review but no flames please

Amanda