Chapter Three - Human Again

Rumple's soft brown eyes blinked weakly in the dim lit pawnshop. He looked around at the shop and the four other people in it and asked, "Where am I?"

"You're in your shop dearie. What's the matter don't you remember?" Zelena asked, looking amused.

"I think I'd remembering having such a prosperous shop." Rumple replied, trying to sit up and failing miserably. "There's more in here than I could earn in three lifetimes."

Zelena murmured something to Lily who returned with a nice cushioned chair which the two of them helped Rumple into, leaving Isaac to keep an eye on Belle. Oh my God, she thought quickly developing a new plan, the fool doesn't remember anything that's happened to him in the last several centuries...

"Thank you." said Rumple quietly, breaking into her scheming, "You're being so very kind, but I don't know who you are or how I got here and I..." he broke off and looked around quickly becoming agitated, "Where's my son?! Oh no... Bae... they took him didn't they?" he asked, tears running down his cheeks. "I tried... I tried to stop them. I had a plan to..." he cradled his head in his hands. "I can't remember anything. Please," he pleaded looking Zelena in the eye, "Tell me what happed."

Zelena smiled down at him and stroked his hair, "Oh, Rumple, don't you remember, you DID save your son, you were so very brave, but..." she broke off, "I'm afraid the witch has done a real number on you, love. You see, Baelfire survived the ogre wars and the two of you were very happy until..."

"Until what?" Rumple asked miserably.

Zelena turned and pointed one of her long fingers at Belle, "Until THAT witch murdered him!"

A look of shock and anger sat frozen on Rumple's features as he stared at an equally shocked Belle. Rumple tried to stand, but only managed two steps before his bad leg gave out and all he could do was to stare at Belle with a look of impotent rage. "Grab her!" he called to the others, "Please don't let her get away! She murdered my boy!" too weak to stand, he wept noisily on floor as Zelena petted him on the head and murmured soothingly, "Don't worry dear. We've got them trapped. That's why we came to this strange land. To capture her and make her pay for what she's done."

Finally Belle found her voice, "No! No! Rumple, she's lying." Belle cried passionately, "She's the one who killed Neal... Rumple please, I'm your wife, don't you remember me." she said as the tears spilled down her cheeks.

Zelena motioned to Isaac to cover Belle's mouth, "You see what a liar she is?" said Zelena, pointing once again at Belle, "She doesn't even remember Baefire's name. Neal indeed," she scoffed, "Obviously she's killed so many men she can't keep them strait anymore and as for being your wife...poppycock. How could she be your wife, when I'm your wife, hmm?" she wiped the tears from Rumple's face and kissed his tear-stained cheek.

Belle screamed into Isaac's hand and tried to break free.

Rumple looked in confusion from one woman to the other, when suddenly the little bell on the pawn shop door rattled madly as Will Scarlet rushed into the shop.

Will took in the scene and began rolling up his sleeves, "I know who you are, mates and I know none of you have any magic anymore... now get yer hands off 'er."

"No magic?" Zelena scoffed, "If I've got no magic, then how can I..." she stalked towards him, her eyes sparkling with venom and thrust her arm into his chest only to root aimlessly in his chest cavity in frustration as the prize she sought eluded her.

"Sorry love." Will said levelly, "But I haven't kept my heart in there in quite some time."

Isaac snorted, "You're sure not having much luck with that trick." added over his shoulder to Lily, "She tried the same thing on Regina a while back and came up empty. I would've written about it but I was trapped in a book at the time."

Zelena glared at Isaac and using her rage confusion against her Will shoved Zelena over and taking one last look at Belle he turned to run for help.

"Oh no you don't!" said Zelena, dragging Will back with streams of cloudy green magic that hurt him badly as they plunked him down next to Belle. "Aw," she commented seeing the pair together, "How sweet."

Rumple rubbed his eyes, "Magic?!" he exclaimed, "YOU have magic...I don't understand..."

Zelena crossed back to kneel beside Rumple and pasted a sickly sweet smile on her face, "Just a little trick you taught me love. After all we need to learn some magic ourselves if we were ever going to capture the wicked Belle of... Endor." Zelena silently thanked Robin Hood for showing poor little unsophisticated Marianne how to use Neal's cable remote.

"I taught YOU magic?" said Rumple skeptically, "No, I would never meddle with something so dangerous..."

"I'm afraid you had no choice dear." she held his face gently in her hands, "It may have taken you three hundred years, love. But you finally caught up with her."

"Three hundred..."

"Shhhh" Zelena silenced him with her finger, "I'm sure your memories will come back soon." she smiled, "In the meantime I think we should do what we came here for..." she rose dramatically to her feet and motioned Isaac and Lily to stand back from Belle and Will.

"What are you going to do to us?" Belle whimpered.

Zelena smiles and goes to one of Rumple's shelves to rummage around until she finds something she likes. Zelena comes back with the gauntlet.

"That's the gauntlet that leads people to the thing they love most..." Belle said with a tremble in her voice.

"Not exactly right, dear." she turned to Rumple, "You know for a witch, this one seems surprisingly ignorant." she looked back at Belle and Will, "This..." she began holding the gauntlet in front of her, "Is the gauntlet of Lancelot du Lac and it always leads the greatest weakness of whoever they want to know about... Now I'm going to show you another trick." Zelena holds up a tiny translucent bean. "Like it?" she asked the pair with a smirk, "I traded the giants for one some time ago, pity stopped trading with human shortly thereafter; a coincidence I'm sure. Now thanks to my green thumbs, Rumple and I need never depend on your dark magic to get ourselves home." she paused to glace at Rumple in what she thought was a loving manner, but was actually quite off-putting to the cowering spinner. She threw the bean at the floor which dissolved into a spinning vortex as she returned her gaze to Belle and Will and raised the gauntlet again, "I'm going to send you, your new boy-toy and this worthless trinket to meet its original owner." Zelena tossed the gauntlet to Will, "Enjoy Camelot." she said, adding with a wicked grin, "Oh and..." Zelena placed her hand over her stomach, "Don't even think of coming back to hurt me or MY husband or our child in the future. I assure you I won't spare you a second time." Laughing Zelena shoved Belle and Will into the magic bean-hole.