All Our Happy Endings

by Ultrawoman

A collection of unrelated one-shots, originally written for a prompt memes, challenges, gifts, exchanges, etc. over at Livejournal, Dreamwidth, and AO3, re-posted here for those that have not seen them. Various lengths, ratings, and genres. Rumbelle, except where indicated in the chapter titles.

9. Stop Loving You

Title: Stop Loving You
Timeline: post-1x12 Skin Deep
Prompt by: n/a – for Shuffle Drabble Challenge 2013.
Rating: PG/K+
Originally posted: 12th April 2013
Notes: inspired by 'Stop Loving You' by Toto.

The image of her lived there within his dreams, both sleeping and awake. She danced behind his eyes and in his head, a hypnotising nymph, a light never to be distinguished.

It was a pain Rumpelstiltskin had to endure, second only to losing his boy all those years ago.

She was lost forever, more so than Bae who may yet be found in the land without magic.

"Belle," he whispered in the dark, closing his eyes against the pain of his heart breaking in two, wishing her present even though it were beyond impossible. "I love you; I always will."