Her Deepest Pain and Greatest Joy

by No Fate 1990

This story serves as a sequel to my story called "Avalon". Regina must choose between her past and future. Regina's journey helps Emma to embrace her own past.

181. I feel her even as she is disappearing

Time Period: An Alternate Universe-Rumple and Belle's Dream World-Their Cottage

Rumple's p.o.v

"Do you want to cross over this bridge with me?" I ask my daughter. "Sure" Avalon smiles grabbing

a hold of my arm. "This bridge is as old as time itself" I joke with her. Avalon looks down at the

water below that stretches on for miles. I feel her even as she is disappearing. "Will I be reborn

or sent to a different realm if I fell off this bridge" she wonders. "Probably not" I chuckle squeezing

her arm tighter. I discover a butterfly in her hair. There is also a butterfly resting on her shoulder.

Maybe my daughter is destined to become a butterfly.