"...and I'm just about to deliver the final punch and then POW! Outta nowhere, he comes up with this killer spell and all of my life bar is wiped out. Game over," Clive said passionately, waving his fork around.

"Dude, I already told you the combo to beat that guy. Use it," Adam said.

"Yeah, and we all know Clive's memory span; three seconds." Danielle teased, and everyone laughed. It was lunch time at the high school, and Danielle and the boys sat at their favorite table. The boys, as always, were talking about their video games. Danielle didn't have a video game player, and she wasn't allowed to go over to anyone else's house, so she liked hearing about the boys playing them.

"Wait I thought gold fish have a three second memory span," Hugh said.

"Well look at who's finally grown a brain stem," Rodney said, and he and Hugh started fencing with their forks. Clive started taking bets. Then both of their forks broke and they called it a draw.

"Tough speaking of gold fish, what kind of animal did you help this morning, anyway, Danielle?" Todd asked.

"Huh? Oh, a rabbit," Danielle said and spooned some corn in her mouth. "It's leg was bit badly so it couldn't hop away. I wrapped 'em up in my shirt."

"Thant shirt that you're wearing now?"" Freddy asked. Danielle nodded. "So you gonna get rabbit flu by next week?"

Danielle laughed and flicked a piece of corn at him.

"Well I think it's good that Danny's helping animals," Todd said. "That's a good career to get into."

"Yeah, thanks, Todd," Danielle smiled.

"Aww, ain't that sweet," Adam teased.

"Yeah," Rodney said. "They should have a make-out session."

"Ohhhhh yeah!" Clive said. "Make-out! Make-out! Make-out! Make-out!"

"You all are so immature!" Danielle laughed and she flicked her corn at them.

"Corn fight!" Clive shouted, and the whole table started flinging spoonfuls of corn at each other until the aids threatened them with detention.

The group headed outside to the large grass area where the students were allowed to hang out until the bell rang. Hugh and Rodney challenged Clive and Adam to a two-on-two at the basket ball court, so they disappeared. Then it was just Danielle, Freddy, and Todd.

"So what do you two wanna do?" Freddy asked.

"You wanna head to the library?" Todd asked.

"Yeah, sure," Freddy shrugged.

"Mkay," Danielle nodded. They reached the library. Freddy headed over to the sci-fi and Todd and Danielle went to the graphic novels. For a moment, neither of them said anything. There was still that awkwardness hanging above them, about the boys wanting them to kiss earlier. Danielle liked Todd as a friend, but the boys had it in their heads that there was something more between them, and they always teased the about it. Danielle still wasn't sure if Todd felt the same. They were just friends right?

"Um... Danny, a-about earlier...?" Todd whispered.

'Here we go...' Danielle thought.

"The boys were just being, well you know them," Todd continued. "We-We're just friends, right?"

"Of course," Danielle nodded. "Don't worry. I stopped taking their teasing seriously a long time ago..."

"Yeah," Todd said. "Just-Just wanted to make sure that you weren't getting the wrong ideas..."

"Oh, please," Danielle said. "We're just friends, right?"

"Yup... Just friends..." Todd nodded.

Rose wasn't sure if she should be afraid of her father or not. He had just told her and Belle everything that he had done and why; to get to the land without magic, where his son, Baelfire, was taken. But he had done so many bad things... Rose didn't even want to think about it now.

After Rumple finished his tale, both Belle and Rose were quiet for a long time.

"You wanted me to be honest, Belle," Rumple said after a moment. "There you have it."

For a moment, Belle didn't say anything.

"...Thank you... for telling us the truth, Rumple..." she said slowly. "Rose, come with me, please."

Taking her by the hand, Belle led her daughter out of the room and into Rose's bedroom.

"Rose, you need to start packing," Belle said.

"Packing? For what?" Rose asked.

"You and I are going," Belle said, heading towards Rose's dresser and pulling out some outfits.

"Going? Going where? What about Papa?"

"Papa's not coming. We're going to my father's castle."

"But I want Papa to come with us!" Rose cried and tried to put her clothes back in the dresser.

"No. We're not going to see Papa for a while, alright?"

"No! I want Papa to come with us!"

"Rose, enough of this. Start packing." Belle said, taking the clothes from her and putting them in a bag.

"Belle, what are you doing?" Belle and Rose turned to see Rumple standing in the door way.

"I'm taking her to my father's castle." Belle said firmly.

"What? I be honest with you, like you tell me to, and the first time I do, you take my daughter away from me?!" Rumple was agitated and... afraid to lose either one of them.

"I just think that it would be a good idea if we left for a little while," Belle said. "It's not safe for her to be here."

"Oh, because I'm the Dark One?" Rumple asked. "Both of you have been here for years and I haven't done anything to you!"

"Rumple, please!" Belle said. "Your history... I don't think Rose should be around... someone like you."

"Someone like me?! She's my daughter!" Rumple shouted. "What, I'm a bad example for my own child? Coming from the person who's taking her away from me?!"

"I'm not taking-"

"You're not taking her away from me!" Rumple yelled. Rose's eyes were filled with tears and her lip was wobbling. "I've already lost a child, I'm not losing another one! You're just like milah! You can't take her from me!"
"Now, there's where you're wrong, Rumplestiltskin," Belle said. "I can."

No matter how much Rumple begged her after that, Belle packed things for both her and Rose, and a half hour later she took Rose away. And the last thing that Rumplestiltskin saw of his daughter was her looking over she shoulder at him as she was led away by Belle, tears streaming down from her brown eyes and whispering

"Good bye, Papa..."

Usually, Danielle headed straight home after school. But as she was heading home, she decided to make a stop at the animal shelter were she had left the rabbit. He was curled up in the back of his cage, munching on some lettuce. When Danielle peered in, he looked up and stared at her with those shiny dark eyes.

"He likes you," David Nolan said. He worked at the shelter and had recently come out of a coma. He was a nice guy and kinda cute too... Too bad he was married.

"I'm glad," Danielle smiled.

"You're sure your mother will approve of you helping him?" David asked.

"It'll be fine. When he gets better, I'll release him and that'll be that." Danielle said. "It's not like I'm bringing him into the house as a pet."

"True enough." David smiled. "He's very lucky you found him, you know. Not everyone would have helped."

"...That's what I'll call him; Lucky," Danielle said. David smiled again.

After Danielle visited Lucky, she started heading home. Storybrooke was such a small town. Everybody always did the same things every day. She had been on a set schedule to come straight home after school, so only now was she late, offsetting the routine. She had been here as long as she could remember and the only thing that had changed around here was Henry's mom, Emma.

Henry had been adopted by Regina when he was a baby. They had been told that the birth mother didn't want anything to do with him. Suddenly she turns up out of the blue when Henry went to go look for her. He was so weird. Why would he want to be with someone who gave him up? It's not like-

Suddenly Danielle collided with someone on the sidewalk. Sh was thrown backward and landed on her back. She looked up and saw a man in a dark suit with a cane standing above her, looking at her like he had seen a ghost.