@leni-ba asked for cursed!Papafire in Storybrooke.
I have to contained my idea and not let it become 5+pages comic. So, this is what I’ve got. I hope you like it.
AU where Baelfire find a way back to EF before the curse hit. He become Neal Cassidy, orphan boy who work for Mr. Gold.
Neal and Gold was close, even if Gold won’t admit it. The pawnbroker feel a strange bond with the boy without knowing why. They even thought about what might have been if they are really a family…
I kinda thought about something happens during the curse and prompt Bae to run away, maybe he somehow got his memory back and decided he can’t face his father like this. He succeed, of cause, he can escape Neverland after all.
And maybe in this verse, he will decide to stay and help Emma break the curse, because, even if he knew his father has a hand in the curse being casted, he wants his father back.
You see, what you don’t understand is, I am the strongest version of us. Because I…I’ve evolved.
#Rumpelstiltskin #not a coward #i don’t understand why they kept trying to hammer this into the audience season after season #it’s not true #it’s never been true #he was manipulated by Zoso number one #and he ended up the Dark One because he was trying like all hell to PROTECT HIS SON
And is basically erased from Rumple’s Happy Ending? Or at least not MENTIONED as relevant to Rumple’s Happy Ending?
Cause I am. Yes I am.
I am
I love Belle. I do. But she alone cannot be Rumple’s happy ending. She shouldn’t even be the majority of it. And to act like her and Gideon are it is just…maddening.
For the Remembering Baelfire event, from Rumple’s point of view. Because nothing is forgotten.
I loved you before I knew you Did what I had to To be there for your growing up. To hold you, to love you, to rock you through the night. I regretted only that I couldn’t give you piggyback rides Or kick a ball around with you But I could tell you stories, And sing you songs. I could give you hugs, and kiss Each bump and bruise better; I could wipe your tears away And tell you it was okay to cry When you were hurt, or scared,or sad. I tried to shield you from your mother’s slights From her indifference, And if I could not wholly succeed (You were always a smart boy – My sweet, brave, beautiful boy) Then I could make sure that you went to bed every night Knowing that your papa loved you More than anything in the world. And I could be there for your triumphs, First steps and first words and Each new mark that I carved upon my staff To mark your growing, into a boy That any man would be proud to call son. I would have died for you – Instead I had to kill.
For the Remembering Baelfire event, from Rumple’s point of view. Because nothing is forgotten.
I loved you before I knew you Did what I had to To be there for your growing up. To hold you, to love you, to rock you through the night. I regretted only that I couldn’t give you piggyback rides Or kick a ball around with you But I could tell you stories, And sing you songs. I could give you hugs, and kiss Each bump and bruise better; I could wipe your tears away And tell you it was okay to cry When you were hurt, or scared,or sad. I tried to shield you from your mother’s slights From her indifference, And if I could not wholly succeed (You were always a smart boy – My sweet, brave, beautiful boy) Then I could make sure that you went to bed every night Knowing that your papa loved you More than anything in the world. And I could be there for your triumphs, First steps and first words and Each new mark that I carved upon my staff To mark your growing, into a boy That any man would be proud to call son. I would have died for you – Instead I had to kill.