I own no one but my own people
A/N I started on this before we even knew Belle existed much less loved Rumple. So if you could just forget he already has the love of his life, that'd be amazing.
Gold felt the Queen's presence before the tiny bell on his shop jingled angrily twice. He smirked without turning around to face her as he continued to dust his knick knacks.
"We're closed I'm afraid."
"You lied to me," Regina spat venomously.
"I'm afraid you're gonna have to be a little more specific than that, your majesty," he added with an air of sarcasm.
"About my daughter!"
"Forgive me, is Henry having some sort of special surgery I'm unaware of?"
"You know what I'm talking about!" Regina stormed up to him, wrenching him away from his knick knacks. "You promised me I'd never see my daughter again!"
Gold clicked his tongue as he walked past her as if she was an annoying beggar. "Not quite, Dearie. In fact as I recall, and I'm rather good with recollections, the only thing I promised you is she'd be safe in a land without magic."
"No, you said I'd never see her again!"
"I said it, didn't promise it."
Regina glared at him as she once again stormed in front of him, her eyes blazing with hatred. "What is she doing here and with that servant boy and that kid anyway?"
Gold shrugged once more. "You're the one who sent the servant boy here. That's your own doing. I can't help it if her romantic interests run alongside her mother. Loving the poor and desolate of the land with no future…" Gold smiled a particularly snide grin at Regina. "Her father would be proud don't you think?"
"Don't you speak about him," Regina challenged in a venomous whisper. "Don't you dare speak about Daniel, you didn't know him!"
"I know everything, Dearie." Gold shrugged. "But rather you believe it or not, that part isn't my doing."
Regina glared at him but Gold offered nothing more on Cassidy and she knew all too well that when Gold didn't wanna talk, nothing was going to make him. "Well what about the kid? They both said it's not biological but if he was born in this world he wouldn't be able to see Storybrooke."
Gold chuckled as he shrugged again. "That, my dear, is a story worth saving for a rainy day." He turned from Regina's venom filled stare and went back to dusting his knick knacks.
After several moments had passed that told Regina that Gold wasn't going to mention anything more about the boy who her daughter claimed as her own Regina walked over to him and looked down at the floor. "Did… did she have a good life?"
"No idea."
Regina's head perked up as she looked over at him. "What the hell do you mean you have no idea?"
"What I mean," said Gold once again turning from his chores, "is that you wouldn't let me kill it so I had to put it elsewhere. You needed to get your baby's soul and body out of your body, another woman was pregnant in another world, this world to be precise, so I merely took her baby's life and soul and replaced it with your dear Olivia."
"You have no idea who she went to? That woman could have been a drug addict or a psychopath that slammed her head against the wall for the fun of it for all you knew!"
"But she didn't. It's not my fault you weren't more specific."
An insufferable rage boiled inside of Regina. She pushed Gold against the wall and in a moment she was pressed up against him, his wrists firmly in her hands grasp. "If I find out," she whispered with a deadly viperous tone, "that my daughter had anything less than the perfect life, it'll be your head, Rumple…"
Gold leaned forward, his lips an inch away from Regina's. "I'd like to see you try, Dearie."
Regina didn't back away. If anything she leaned more forward. "Oh I won't try, Dearie. I promise you I'll succeed."
The two villains looked at one another for several long moments before Regina finally released him and stormed out without a single look back with Gold staring after her licking his lips.
XxXxX
Olivia awoke in Cassidy's arms using his bare chest as a pillow. Olivia glanced at her watch and saw it was almost eight a clock. She twisted in his arms which woke him up and instead of letting her go he tightened his grasp.
"Morning, Baby," he muttered as he placed a kiss on her forehead.
"Morning," Olivia yawned as she looked up at him. "You sleep well?"
Cassidy shook his head. "It was weird. I had the strangest dream last night. It was about my parents."
Olivia narrowed her eyes in confusion. "Your parents? I thought you didn't remember what they looked like?"
"I don't. I mean they said they were my parents... They were sheep herders," he explained, "they were dressed in like middle ages type clothes. My dad was muttering something about some wolf… Probably considering feeding me to it," Cassidy muttered gloomily.
Olivia remained silent as Cassidy ran his fingers through her hair gently. Her mother may have hated her but she at least had kept a roof over her head.
Cassidy had woken up in a Bronx alleyway with no memory at the age of sixteen. He went to the cops who looked him up in the system and found no missing children reports so they put him on the news as a missing child but no one had come in to claim him and no one had ever went looking for him.
So Cassidy lived in Foster home after foster home after foster home until he was eighteen and went right to the police academy the day he aged out.
Olivia snuggled closer to him, wrapping her arms around him. "It's their loss," she told him gently, the same thing she told Calvin every time he brought up his mother.
Cassidy chuckled as he twisted around so he was lying on top of her. "One man's trash is another woman's treasure."
"You are not trash," said Olivia as she rolled over so she was on top. "But you are a treasure."
Brian chuckled as he looked up at her, his hands going to her waist. "Thanks, Liv."
Olivia smiled as she looked down at him. His eyes began to wonder over her and he licked his lips. "As hot as you look in my shirt, I bet you'd look even better without it."
A playful grin appeared on Olivia's lips as she reached for the first button. "Oh really?" she purred as she undid it with a quick pop.
"Really," whispered Cassidy as his hands slid from her waist to her ass and squeezed.
Just as Olivia got the second button undone there was a light knock on their door.
"No housekeeping!" Cassidy yelled out, not taking his hands from the stunning woman on top of him.
"It's me," Calvin answered. "Can I come in?"
"We're busy! Go back to bed!"
Olivia gave him a look of slight annoyance before she climbed off of Cassidy and buttoned up the shirt again.
"Come on in, Calvin," she called out once she was at least half way decent again.
Cassidy rolled his eyes as Calvin opened the door and walked in the room wearing flannel sleeper pants and an oversized shirt. "I was wondering if I could order something for breakfast."
"Order the whole menu, kid. Now we're a little busy so-."
"Brian, stop," Olivia warned with a slight edge in her voice as she turned back to Calvin who appeared hurt at that last comment.
"Sorry, I was just wondering."
"Well now I've answered your question so-."
"Actually," Olivia interrupted, "I was gonna take you out to breakfast. There was a little diner just down the road I saw last night and I would bet anything they got French toast."
Calvin's face lit up. "You're really taking me out?"
"If you hurry up and get dressed. Be back here in half an hour and we'll get going okay?"
Calvin grinned at her and Olivia couldn't help but smile back. "Thanks, Olivia."
"You're very welcome. Now go get ready, okay?"
With a smile Calvin rushed out of the room, shutting the door behind him.
Once he was gone, Olivia threw the covers off of her and stormed over to her suitcase. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she spat as she wrenched open the zipper.
"What?"
"You're being an ass to him!"
Cassidy rolled his eyes as he got up from the bed and made his way over to her. "The kid's tough, he can handle it."
"He has a name."
"Okay, Calvin, is tough, and he can handle a little teasing."
"That's not teasing, that's being a jerk to a 12 year old boy who only has one person in his life who actually gives a shit about him whose boyfriend is acting like the rest of the assholes in his life!"
Cassidy rolled his eyes as Olivia continued to rifle through her bag. "Look, I'm sorry," he told her. "I never had to be a father figure to anyone before. And it's not like I had a lot of good examples to follow."
Olivia sighed as she finally pulled a towel from the depths of her bag. She stood up and turned towards him. "This is new to both of us. But he's had a rough life, Brian. You both know what it's like to depend on someone then have them screw you over to the point it changes your whole life. I'm just trying to give him someone he knows he can depend on and it'd help if the person I'm with could be someone he can depend on too."
Cassidy felt his heart sink. She was right. He would have killed for a parental figure who loved him as much as Olivia loved Calvin but instead all he got after that day the Cops told him no one was coming for him was people who could have cared less about him or abusers or drunks…
He always promised he would do better if he ever had a son but here was his chance and instead he was wasting it and turning out to be the same kind of father he vowed he never would be.
Cassidy took a deep breath before he nodded. "I get it. I do, Liv. It's just hard."
"I know. But… just promise me to try harder?"
Cassidy nodded. "I promise."
Olivia gave him a soft smile. "Good. Now..." A playful smirk reappeared on her lips. "You wanna go take a shower?"
"I thought you were taking one?"
"Exactly my point."
Cassidy smirked as he grabbed her hand, looking her up and down. "Lead the way, Liv…"
A half hour; and a very dirty shower, later, the three family members were walking down the steps to the front entrance.
Not seeing any sign of Granny or Ruby, they walked out the front door and began walking down the street to where Granny's Diner was located.
Cassidy held open the door for Olivia and Calvin and just as he was about to walk in he ran straight into Mary Margret, spilling coffee all over the both of them.
"Oh Jesus, I'm sorry!" Cassidy apologized. "I wasn't sure where I was looking."
"Oh no, it's my fault."
At the sound of her voice Brian's head snapped up and he looked into her eyes. A pair of eyes that seemed way too familiar to her then a stranger's should. "I know you," he muttered gently.
Mary Margret narrowed her eyes in puzzlement, cocking her head to the side as she did so. "I'm… I'm sorry I don't recognize you."
"Brian, you okay?" asked Olivia as she glanced from an almost stunned Cassidy to a confused Mary Margret.
"No... No I know you from somewhere…" he mumbled. "Were you ever in New York?"
"No. I'm sorry, but I really don't remember you."
"You're blocking the door way."
All the patrons gathered around the door turned towards Regina and Mary Margret almost cowered in fear. "Sor- sorry, Madame Mayor."
"Don't you have class to get to?" Regina snapped at the woman.
"Why don't you leave her alone," Cassidy snapped, making the entire diner go silent. No one spoke to Regina like that…
Regina turned towards Cassidy and clasped her hands in front of her suit. "Forgive me, but who on earth do you think you're talking to like that?"
"You," Cassidy challenged, refusing to back down. "Leave her alone…"
"It- its fine. I mean it is Saturday so I don't actually HAVE class but-."
"Then surely you must have some planning to get done for Monday?"
"Ye- yes, Madame Mayor, of course," Mary Margret stuttered out as she ran a gloved hand through her short hair. "I'm actually gonna get going."
"Good. You already caused enough trouble for one day."
Mary Margret swallowed a retort and instead simply ducked out of the diner.
Cassidy glared at Regina who simply smirked at him before she turned to Olivia and smiled at the Detective. "How are you doing this morning, Olivia?"
Olivia appeared slightly shell shocked at the sudden 180 personality change in Regina. "Good…" she answered carefully. "Yourself?"
"Couldn't be better. You know instead of spending money eating out, I make a mean apple turnover if you wanted to come over for breakfast. Henry's home from school so Calvin could even have someone to play with."
"We're fine here," Cassidy spoke before Olivia even had a chance to think about it.
Regina raised her brow in puzzlement. "Forgive me, Olivia, I didn't realize you were one of those who allowed the man in the relationship to make all the choices."
"He doesn't," Olivia shot, casting a glare at Cassidy. "I promised Calvin I'd take him out for breakfast but afterwards we'd be happy to come over."
"Terrific. I'll have a city car waiting outside for you when you're done."
"That's very generous, Regina. Thank you."
Regina smiled at the small family. "You're very welcome, Olivia."
With a nod of the head towards Calvin and a smug condescending look shot towards a glowering Cassidy Regina turned and exited the diner.
"What is with you today?" Olivia chided in a hushed whisper as they began to make their way to an empty booth. "You're being extremely disrespectful."
"She was EXTREMLEY rude to that woman!" Cassidy argued as he sat down next to Olivia while Calvin took the booth across from them.
"Who was she by the way? The way you were looking at her reminded me of the same way you look at an old ex girlfriend."
Olivia gauged his reaction carefully, his face giving away nothing but confusion. "I don't know who she is but I do know I know her. It's like… not just her but Regina as well… it's like I'm seeing their faces underwater. I know I know them but they're hazy and foreign. I don't understand it."
"Sounds like you're going crazy," Calvin said, trying to hide a smile. Cassidy raised a brow at him and Calvin's smile quickly fell as he gazed down at the table.
"The only one crazy around here is you with that haircut," Cassidy said as he reached over and rustled Calvin's hair.
"Knock it off, you'll mess it up," Calvin chided but a small grin reappeared on his face.
"Hate to tell ya but it's already messed up, Kid," Cassidy teased as he draped his arm across the booth. Olivia smiled as she settled into Cassidy's embrace.
Ruby made their way over to them and Cassidy swallowed hard. "Can I help you?" she asked with a friendly smile.
Olivia turned towards her and her brow raised as if to say 'really? That short?'
For the first time since she started working there, Ruby suddenly felt the most self conscious she ever had in her life. Ruby's smile fell as she cleared her throat. "Can… can I start you off with some coffee?"
"Black, please," Olivia said with a certain nip in her voice.
"Also one crème and sugar," Cassidy added, struggling not to look at the waitress in the scantily clad clothing in a way that would make him pay with Olivia later.
"And I'll take chocolate milk please."
Ruby wrote down the order in her book and swallowed hard under Olivia's icy stare. "I'll be right back."
Ruby turned and began to walk back to the counter when she ran into Emma. "Sorry," the waitress mumbled.
"No problem. You okay, Ruby?" asked Emma as she looked over the slightly depressed face of her friend.
Ruby released a shuddering breath and nodded towards Olivia. "I think we finally met someone who's as intimidating as Regina," muttered Ruby softly before she went back to work.
Emma glanced over at the small group. "Somehow that doesn't surprise me…"
With a shake of her head, Emma turned and left the diner, deciding she'd just pick some coffee from the store and take it back to Mary Margret's apartment.
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