Emma arrived at Gold's house promptly at 7:00pm on Wednesday evening. She was dressed casually, in shorts and a tank top, and she hoped Gold would be casual as well. As in sync as usual, Gold answered the door dressed in khaki pants and a polo shirt. "Good evening, Emma." Gold put his arm around her waist and drew her to him. "You look lovely, as always. " He kissed the top of her head as he caressed her cheek and pushed the hair back from her face. "I missed you."
"I missed you too." As she said the words, Emma thought about how true they were.
Gold pulled her closer, capturing her lips with his, and kissed her with undisguised passion. Emma responded in kind and they lost themselves in each other for several minutes. Gold gradually broke the kiss and looked deeply into her eyes while he traced her lips with his thumb. Emma noted that this was a change for him. Up to this point he had always let her take the lead and set the pace. Something had shifted between them and she wasn't sure if she found it unsettling or exciting. What she did know was that her body was already in a state of arousal from the kiss and she found herself yearning for more.
"Are you hungry?"
Emma wasn't sure how to interpret his question so she took his hand and kissed it. "Very."
Gold grinned and then kissed her again pressing his aroused body closely against hers. "I could tell." He chuckled. "But I'm talking about food, my dear. We'll have to continue this when we return. Right now we're heading out for dinner."
Emma felt a wave of disappointment. She was extremely aroused and anxious to have Gold's mouth and tongue on her.
"I'm sorry, my dear. I know you can't wait to have your way with me." Gold's eyes were mocking her.
"Very funny, Gold. I have no problem waiting." She tried to sound convincing even though she wasn't feeling it.
"A little denial will make things even better later. Trust me." He attempted to kiss her once more, but he was laughing too much to make it effective.
"Bet you won't be laughing later if I'm not in the mood." That made Gold laugh even more, and though Emma tried to look upset, she couldn't help laughing along with him.
When they walked into Granny's together, the whole restaurant became quiet while everyone tried to pretend that they weren't staring at them. Emma could feel the color rising to her cheeks. The short walk to their table seemed endless. She was relieved when they were finally seated.
"Seems as though we made quite a stir once again." Gold commented unnecessarily. He seemed to be truly enjoying the attention and Emma felt annoyed.
"This may be amusing for you, Gold, but I feel very uncomfortable."
It was almost too subtle to notice, but she thought he looked hurt and that made her immediately regret her words. "I'm a very private person and I don't like people gossiping about me."
"I'm sorry, Emma. I shouldn't have subjected you to this. I know that you're only fulfilling your end of our deal. It's not right for anyone to misinterpret the nature of our relationship."
Emma didn't know what to say. What exactly was the nature of their relationship? It had certainly gone well beyond the terms of the deal. "I'm not sure that they're misinterpreting it." The words escaped her before she even realized what she was saying.
"Ah…" Gold pounced on her words. "Did I hear you correctly, darling? Are you trying to tell me something?"
Emma refused to look at him. "You heard me Gold. Now let's look at the menu and order."
Gold looked like the cat that ate the canary. He was smugly grinning from ear to ear.
"Hello Emma, Mr. Gold." Ruby bounced over with a look of pure joy on her face. "So nice to see the two of you again." She kept looking at Emma as though she wanted to say something to her.
"Should I leave, Miss Lucas? I don't want to interfere with whatever you're trying to say to Miss Swan." Gold confronted her.
"No need to leave, Gold. I have nothing to hide. What is it, Ruby?" Emma sounded impatient.
Ruby looked shyly at Mr. Gold and then leaned over to whisper in Emma's ear. "Mary Margaret said it's the best sex you ever had. Is it true?"
Gold's grin told Emma that he had heard every word. She could feel the heat rising to her face as she glared at Ruby. "Yes, it's true."
Ruby let out a little shriek and then happily chatted on as she took their orders. Gold spent the whole time observing Emma with an amused look on his face while Emma seemed completely engrossed in the menu.
When Ruby left, Emma immediately turned to Gold. "It's true, Gold. Best sex ever. That should help your fragile ego."
Gold laughed. "I'm flattered my dear, though I must admit that it's the same for me."
He took her hand and kissed it. "I'm enjoying every minute of my time with you. There's magic at play here, darling."
"Now you're starting to sound like Henry… which reminds me, Gold, he thinks he knows your name and who you are in the book."
"Is that so?" Gold gave her his full attention.
"He says that you're Rumplestiltskin, aka The Dark One."
Gold 's response was what Emma could only describe as a wickedly delighted smile, one that almost made a chill pass through her.
"I knew that you had a remarkable young man there, my dear. The boy has solved the mystery of my name. You've won our little game and now I owe you a favor." Gold seemed positively gleeful for someone saddled with a name like that and who had just lost a bet.
"Don't toy with me Gold. There's no way that's your name." Emma was having none of it. Gold was trying to turn this into some type of grand amusement for himself.
"But it's true, Emma. My name is Rumplestiltskin. It's an old family name that's been passed down for centuries."
"Right. And I suppose you're also known as the Dark One?"
Gold laughed. "I didn't say that, did I?"
"No." Emma was not amused. "Please tell me that you're kidding about your name, Gold. I just don't believe you."
"I'm sorry, my dear, but that really is my name."
I don't know how I'm going to tell Henry. He's already unhealthily obsessed with his book. He thought you were some evil sorcerer; now he'll think it's really true."
"Maybe I am, Emma. I seem to have a magical effect on you." Emma felt a surge of electricity pass through her when he said it.
"Very amusing, Gold, or should I say Rumplestiltskin? Emma chuckled. "What should I call you for short? Rumple? Rump?"
"You can continue to call me Gold, darling. Now you know why I don't use my first name."
Emma smiled to herself. If she didn't have to share this piece of news with Henry, she'd be enjoying this whole thing immensely. It wasn't as funny when you added him into the mix.
"So what favor are you going to request from me, my dearest?" Gold seemed almost too eager to hear.
"Not so fast, Gold. I'm not going to waste it. You'll be the first to know once I decide."
"I can't wait to hear. I never owe anyone a favor. The deal is always to my advantage." Gold gloated.
Emma was determined to make this favor well worth her while. She was going to have to think long and hard about it.
She looked up to see Gold staring at her, a look of lust in his eyes. "You're very sexy when you're deep in thought, Emma." He took both her hands in his and stroked them with his thumbs. She immediately felt herself becoming aroused. The man had the most inexplicable effect on her.
"I'm sorry. I hope I'm not interrupting." Ruby arrived with their dinners in hand.
Gold kept a tight grip on Emma's hands. "Not at all, Miss Lucas." He then kissed each hand before releasing them. Emma blushed and Ruby was all smiles. "Hope you enjoy your meal."
"What was that about, Gold?" Emma sensed the same shift in their relationship that she had felt earlier.
"I can't help myself, darling. I want you and I want everyone to know." Gold was looking at her intently. "I'd like to take you right now in the middle of this restaurant."
Emma blushed again. His words gave her a perverse thrill that she didn't want him to see. "As tempting as that sounds, Gold, it's never going to happen." She hoped she sounded sufficiently blasé about it.
"I guess I'll just have to wait until we get back to the house… unless you attack me in the car like you did the last time." Gold grinned.
He would have to bring that up. The man didn't want her to forget that she wanted him as much as he wanted her. "I'm sure I can wait until we get home, Gold." She caught herself as she said it. Why had she referred to Gold's house as home? It was his home, not hers.
"We shall see." Gold was laughing at her. Well let him laugh. Just for that she was going to make him work hard to get her interested tonight. She could hold back if she wanted to. It would be no problem whatsoever.
Emma was true to herself and managed to get all the way back to Gold's without showing the slightest interest in engaging in any sexual activity. Gold was as cool as usual, lightly touching her arm and back, but making no moves beyond that.
"You displayed a remarkable amount of self-restraint tonight, Emma." She could hear the smirk in his voice. "And just for that I'm going to let you win." He moved behind her and put his hands on her waist as he kissed her bare shoulder. Emma wanted to retort, but the jolt of sexual desire that immediately coursed through her body silenced her.
Gold pulled her against him and she could feel that he was also aroused. He grasped the bottom of her tank top and lifted it over her head to remove it while she pushed her shorts down and kicked them away. He then turned her around and moved away from her. She was wearing a silky white bra that did little to hide her hardened nipples and silky white panties that also left little to the imagination. "Have I told you how sexy you are, Emma?" His eyes caressed her body as he removed his clothing, revealing to her just how aroused he was. Emma wanted to touch him, but she could sense that he wanted her to let him take the lead.
He moved close to her and teased her nipple through her bra with his left hand while he placed his right hand possessively between her legs. "I want to possess you, Emma. I feel as though you belong to me and nobody else." Emma's knees felt like they were giving way as her body melted into him. "I'm all yours Gold." She didn't know why she felt this way; she just did.
He put his left arm around her and pulled her closer to him while he stroked her through the silky fabric of her panties. Emma moaned and rubbed her body against his hand. He kissed her lips passionately and found her tongue with his. He pushed her panties down to touch her bare skin. Emma gasped at his touch as he started to stroke her in all the right places.
Gold now focused his fingers on her clit and Emma moved her body against them moaning and whimpering. "Put your mouth on me… please." Emma didn't have to beg. He pulled his lips away from hers and knelt down in front of her, pulling her close to him so that he could take her clit into his mouth to suck on it and then torture it with his tongue. Emma cried out and pushed against him. She held his head in her hands. "That's it… don't stop." She barely got the words out as he sucked on her in a way that made her scream and gasp as she came and came, the orgasm stretching out almost to the point of pain. She suddenly pulled away from his mouth to end the intensity of the sensation and collapsed on the floor next to him.
Gold lay down next to her and pulled her close so that his erection was pressing into her. Emma took him in her hand and stroked his shaft. He moaned in response and she continued to stroke him. She loved the feel of him in her hand; she loved how hard and erect and powerful he felt.
She wanted to feel him in her so she put her leg over his hip and guided him into her. They maneuvered themselves into a comfortable side by side position. Gold buried himself deep inside her with slow rhythmic thrusts. The contact with her clit was intense and Emma started to feel a climax building again. Gold was controlling his thrusts, shortening them for maximum friction for Emma, but the change was stimulating him in an unexpected way. He could feel himself starting to lose control. The need for release was starting to overcome him. "Emma." "Don't stop, Gold. I'm almost there." He kept thrusting into her, creating the perfect friction, and she cried out as he took her over the edge. Her walls contracted around him and he couldn't hold back any longer. He thrust several more times as he came into her with an intensity that he never expected. They lay there together for a long time with their bodies entwined and their arms wrapped around each other.
Later they helped each other up and made their way up to Gold's bedroom.
Emma woke up the next morning to find herself spooning Gold, a reverse of their position from the night before. Gold was still asleep and she couldn't help running her fingers through his hair. She never liked men with long hair, but it suited Gold so perfectly. She loved how silky it was in her hands. Gold stirred slightly and she leaned over to look at him better. His body was fit and trim and muscular in all the right places. Gold was always attending to her needs and she really wanted to explore his body and to satisfy him the way he did her. It had felt so good to take him in her mouth the other day. She kept thinking about it and about how much it had excited her. She noticed that he was partially erect and couldn't resist taking his member in her hand and gently stroking it. Gold stirred again as he became harder and harder. Emma was very aroused and continued to stroke his shaft. Gold moaned in his sleep and then opened his eyes to find her staring directly at him. It took him a few seconds to realize what she was doing. "My, my, dearest, you really can't keep your hands off me, can you?"
"I guess I can't. I really like touching you."
He looked at her and she kissed him. "Relax and enjoy it. I want you to take care of you the way you take care of me."
Gold didn't try to stop her but let her continue to stroke him. She loved the feel of his fully engorged member in her hand. It was the feeling of possession he had spoken about and she wanted to possess him, to be the one who could bring him pleasure like no one else. She cupped his balls in her hand and he moaned. Then she continued to stroke him as he moved his body with her, urging her to increase her speed. Emma followed his lead and then leaned over him and took him in her mouth. Gold groaned loudly and immediately put his hands on her head guiding her to take in more of him. Emma enthusiastically obliged taking him in as far as she could, using her tongue to lick him as she moved up and down on him. She could feel him coming close so she pulled back a bit and focused her attention on the head of his penis, swirling her tongue around it and sucking on it in a way that had him bucking his hips and moaning in agony. "Please Emma. You're torturing me." Emma could feel herself dripping. She was intensely aroused by Gold's responses to her. She now applied herself to bringing him over so she once again took him fully into her mouth and sucked her way up and down increasing her speed and depth as much as she could. Gold was panting and straining to match her movements. He suddenly stiffened and cried out as she felt him come in her mouth. She continued to suck him until he had nothing left to give.
She moved up to settle in against him. He pulled her close with his right arm and put his left hand between her legs. She automatically opened them wider for him and he smiled at her and kissed her. He put two fingers into her and his thumb on her clit. She gasped at his touch. She was so aroused that she was already on the verge of coming. "You're extremely wet, Emma. I guess you really do like touching me. "Gold very lightly stroked her clit and she gasped again. He stopped and moved his fingers in and out of her as she writhed under him. He now pulled his fingers out and lightly stroked her with his hand, very gently caressing her clit with the movement. Emma arched her hips and moaned in agony as he continued to lightly stroke her. She pressed herself against his hand, increasing the contact as she desperately sought release. He finally lowered his mouth onto her and used his tongue and mouth to lick and suck her clit until she was pushed over the edge. Her whole body shuddered as she came and he stayed between her legs soothing her as she came down from her orgasm.
"Kiss me Gold. " She wanted him to lie next to her and hold her close.
He kissed her and looked into her eyes. "Emma." He couldn't say more. This beautiful woman had taken possession of him in a way he couldn't explain and he didn't know how he was going to go on after it ended. He never thought he'd feel the way he did.
"Gold". Emma could barely get out his name. She felt a lump in her throat and a desire to cry. She was turmoil of emotions around him.
He held her close and she wept. This was the second time this had happened with him and she didn't know how to explain it. She was thankful that he didn't ask why, but she suspected that he understood it better than she did.
Emma was smiling to herself, thinking of Gold's latest invitation. Saturday was the second to last day of their deal and he was going out of his way to make it special. He told her before she left that morning that he wanted her to come over in the afternoon and to bring Henry and Mary Margaret with her. The thought of Mary Margaret's reaction to this had Emma grinning.
"You look happy this morning." Mary Margaret noticed Emma's smile the minute she walked in the door. "You and Gold have fun last night?"
"Yeah, we had fun, but that's not why I'm smiling." Emma started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Mary Margaret was dying to know.
"Gold wants you to come with me to his house on Saturday for a barbecue in his backyard. He wants me to bring Henry too."
"What?" Mary Margaret's eyes were open wide with disbelief. "Gold wants me to go to his house with you on Saturday?"
"Yes, you and Henry." Emma was laughing knowing full well that Mary Margaret would feel obligated to go with her even though it was the last thing on earth that she wanted to do.
Mary Margaret looked terrified. Emma could sense that she was trying her hardest to come up with an excuse, but the problem was that she was incapable of lying.
"Listen, it won't be that bad." Emma reassured her. "I always have a good time. He really doesn't bite." The thing was that she actually wanted both Mary Margaret and Henry to get to know Gold a little better so that they could see why she liked him. The man was generally difficult, but she had seen a side of him that nobody else knew.
Mary Margaret didn't look convinced. "I'm only coming because you want me to and I'm not staying long."
"No problem. I only have Henry for a few hours so it won't be a long drawn-out affair."
"Should I bring something?" Mary Margaret was already getting into her hostess mode.
"How about your chocolate chip cookies? Gold has a sweet tooth and Henry and I both love them."
"Good idea. I'll make them Saturday morning so they'll be nice and fresh." Mary Margaret was already looking relieved.
"Oh, by the way, did you ever wonder what his first name is?" Emma couldn't resist sharing this bizarre piece of info with Mary Margaret.
"No. I only know him as Mr. Gold. I never knew his first name."
"It's Rumplestiltskin." Emma could barely get the name out she was laughing so much.
"What?" Mary Margaret knew she had not heard correctly.
"Rumplestiltskin." Emma tried her hardest to repeat it without laughing.
"You've got to be kidding. He's named after the fairy tale character?" Mary Margaret was skeptical.
"Oh yeah. And just think how that's going to go over with Henry. I still don't really believe him, but he insists that it's true. He's named after an imp who spins straw into gold and who makes deals for other people's firstborns. Pretty creepy, don't you think?"
"I think he's pulling you leg, Emma. Who would ever name their child Rumplestiltskin? The poor kid would have a miserable time of it."
"Hey, it would explain a lot about him. The problem with Gold is I don't always know when I should take him seriously and when I shouldn't. I'm taking this name thing with a grain of salt. The only reason I'm giving it any credence is because he now owes me a favor for guessing it."
Mary Margaret looked shocked. "That must be a first for him, Emma. What are you going to ask him?"
"I haven't decided yet but I want to make it good. There's no time limit on it so I just might make him sweat it out." Emma knew that wasn't going to be the case. Gold seemed happy to owe her a favor. She'd have to come up with something to make him pay. The thought cheered her immensely.