Chapter 11: Just be yourself
Okay I'm so uninspired! But I hope you guys still like this chapter!
She stood in the middle of a deep, dark forest, the leaves on the trees were gone and there was a thick fog in the air. The ground was wet, dark and scary. Everything was scary. All she could see was the thick fog, the dark ground, the bare trees, and above her, a heavenly night without any star. As the mist cleared away, Taylor saw someone walking towards her from afar. And the closer it got, the more people it was. Suddenly she realized that they were all some small part of her. Killian, Rumple, Regina, Belle, her father, Sir Maurice and the girl out of the forest with the name Allison. Her father yelled at her "I wish you were just like Belle." and he disappeared into the depths of the lingering gloom. Taylor tried to run away, but her feet were stuck to the boggy ground. Rumple walked over to her, to help her, but before she could grab his hand, he disappeared. Belle was sinking into the wet ground as Regina smirked at them both. Taylor tried to scream but no sound came out of her mouth. " Be yourself." was the only thing Killian said before he disappeared, and Regina dissipated into thousands of bat, disappearing into the dark night.
"No. No!" Taylor screamed through her room while she sat up right in her bed in a single second. The sweat ran down her forehead and she was breathing heavy. She heard a noise from outside of her room, it was footsteps running up the stairs. The door of her bedroom jerked open and Rumple rushed inside.
"Taylor, are you okay? What's going on?" He felt her forehead, "You're burning up, you'll stay in bed today."
"But ..." Taylor wanted to finish her sentence, but before she knew it, her eyes closed, and the only thing she could hear was Rumple screaming her name. She heard it as an echo, his voice became fainter and fainter. Until it suddenly stopped.
She slowly opened her eyes, she felt a wet towel lying on her forehead. Where was she again? Oh yeah, in her bedroom. Slowly she looked around to regain her vision. There was no one in her room, at least that's what she thought. When her eyes were finally open wide, she saw someone sitting on her window sill, in the open window.
"Look who's awake." Killian laughed and stood up from the windowsill. He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Taylor.
"What are you doing here." Taylor said without any emotion in her voice.
"I had thought that we would meet 'accidentally' today. But that wasn't the case, no one knew where you were." He looked down, a little uncomfortable.
"So basically you just missed me." Taylor grinned and looked at him as he raised his head and looked at her.
"You could say it like that... Anyway, Alison and I talked. She knows how to get, without being seen, into the castle of Regina. Then we can see if Belle really is alive... That's if you want." He looked straight at her, Taylor almost drowned in his ocean blue eyes.
"Sounds like a plan, but don't say anything to Rumple about it. Does he know you're here?" Taylor knew Killian, of course her had never made a decent conversation with Rumplestilskin.
"Now that subject has breached, I think it's time I go." He put his hand on her upper leg, which was hidden under the blanket. "See you soon." and he walked to the window.
"See you soon " Taylor said with a shy smile.
Taylor stood up and walked up to the bottom of the grand staircase. She didn't have to lift her light blue nightgown, it was short enough not to trip on. Her hair was stuck, by a white ribbon, in a high ponytail, the little tufts that did not fit into the tail hung gracefully down her face. There was Rumple, he stood in the large main hall. He held a solid teapot and poured tea into some cups for Taylor and himself. Taylor took a place in one of the big chairs that faced the fireplace and took the piping hot cup off of Rumplestilskin. She just nodded and without a thank you, she took her first sip. After thinking about the dream, about Killian and how she actually liked the 'accidental' meetings, her encounter with Rumple who was so sweet, Belle and how she might be lost already and Regina who could come back to take her sweet revenge out on her.