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With the gift of Sight, Rumplestiltskin is overwhelmed by a thousand, thousand possibilities unspooling all around him. He sees Bae as a child, as a man, laughing, hurting, hating, forgiving. He sees Belle, come back to him, dead in his arms, choosing him, reviling him. So many possibilities, but perhaps the most unlikely one of all is this: that they both choose to see him in return. Him as he really is...and still they love him.
(Rumple's POV of S1-3A; canon-divergent in the last couple episodes)
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- Part 2 of Touch/Sight
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There are many ways to touch someone — through a hand on a shoulder, a platonic hug, a kiss that can break a curse…or a love that goes deeper, touches the heart buried beneath three centuries of pain and darkness, as well as her own heart, idealistic and compassionate. Belle falls in love with a touch, and with a touch her world is both destroyed and given beauty.
(Belle's POV of S1-3A; canon-divergent in the last couple episodes)
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- Part 1 of Touch/Sight
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He hoped wherever his son was, he was warm. He hoped he wasn’t hungry. He hoped he was alive.
One more day down, Gold thought. He’d survived one more day without his son.
He wondered if he’d make it through the next.Five years ago, Gold's son went missing. Ever since, he's been living in a haze and wondering what the point of it all is. To keep himself from the gun calling his name, he makes a list designed to keep him alive, one day at a time. Step 1? Go outside. Step 2? Talk to someone. Step 3...well, he'll see if he gets that far. Good thing for him the first person he sees is Belle French, the kind librarian, who might just have more experience with depression than he'd have guessed.
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The Jabberjay And The Mockingjay by AntiKryptonite
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
27 Jun 2024
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They’re only scared, broken children when they’re alone, Katniss thinks. Damaged and weak and unsteady.
Together, though...together, they are unstoppable.When Peeta returns to District 12, Katniss resolves to help him in the only way she knows how: by answering his real-not-real questions. Together, they play a game piecing their pasts together, but this time, maybe there can actually be two victors without any bloodshed. This time, maybe they can find their way to each other once and for all. (A Growing Back Together story because you can apparently never have too many)
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“Belle and Bae are going to want to save me,” Rumplestiltskin says. “And you can’t let them. This is my favor: You will not let Belle or Bae anywhere near me. No matter what it takes, no matter what you have to do...” Emma still owes Gold a favor, and a new threat to Storybrooke has Gold cashing it in. Will Emma hold up her end of the deal or find a way to save everybody? Either way, she's bound to betray SOMEONE.
(Pan comes to Storybrooke and the prophecy demanding Rumple's undoing comes due -- can villains get a happy ending?
Spoiler alert: Not easily. Not quickly. And maybe not forever.)Series
- Part 3 of Per Our Deal
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"That was our deal, after all, wasn't it?" Neal asks August. "I let Emma free to find her family and in return you let me know the moment it’s safe to come for her. Well, here I am." Neal arrives in Storybrooke only a day after the curse breaks, but which will win out: his fear of his father? Or his desire to reunite with the woman he loves? Either way, there's bound to be a lot of fallout in every direction.
(What if Neal came to Storybrooke of his own volition and in his own time while Rumbelle are still navigating their new relationship and Emma is stuck in Storybrooke to deal with everything she's only just realized is true?
Spoiler alert: The results may not be pretty.)Series
- Part 2 of Per Our Deal
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"I want comfort," he told the Evil Queen. "A good life--with all the usual amenities that come with that." And Regina delivers, complete with a wife he doesn't know what to do with. Is Isabel Gold Regina's spy or just a poor woman the Evil Queen hated enough to shackle to him? Either way, Rumplestiltskin isn't happy with this development...at least, not at first.
(Rumplestiltskin and Belle never met in FTL -- will they still fall in love in cursed Storybrooke?
Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, they will.)Series
- Part 1 of Per Our Deal
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“I think you have your own reasons for wanting to go to Neverland,” Belle says, her voice so soft he has to lean forward to hear it. “And if I knew what those were, maybe I could help you. I could find a way to get you exactly what you need.”
“Like magic?” he asks hoarsely.
She smiles at him, a smile so bright it lights up the whole room. “No,” she says. “Like a friend. If you want.”Rumplestiltskin went through the portal with Baelfire, and together, they fell into a Land Without Magic. But nothing ever comes easy, and when fate leads them to Neverland, Bae must find a way to save his papa from Pan's captivity--even if that means enlisting a bookish princess who asks too many questions. Even if it means facing Neverland all over again.
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Every fairy tale has multiple variations. Every story has a dozen endings. Here are just a few that might have been changed if only...
If only...Belle made it back to Rumplestiltskin before Regina could capture her.
If only...Belle didn't fall over the town line with a bullet in her shoulder.
If only...Belle came to Neverland to help save Henry.
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While waiting for Emma to return with the man who might be his son, Gold is attacked and the shawl is stolen from around his neck. Now, with his memories unspooling in every direction, there's nothing to anchor him in place. And Neal Cassidy might finally have to stop running as the secrets of his past are unearthed and every family he's left behind comes back to haunt him.
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"Why do you want me to kill you?" Rumplestiltskin asks him, this Dark One of myth and nightmare.
"You want power, and I have it to give," Zoso hisses. "Seems a worthwhile bargain."
"But not one I want to make," Rumplestiltskin decides, and his hand with the dagger that weighs a thousand pounds drops back to his side.(Rumplestiltskin controls rather than kills, Bae negotiates rather than runs, Cora delegates rather than confronts, Regina cooperates rather than rebels, and still the curse is cast, the Savior comes, the boy believes, and worlds are torn apart by a father's love. How much really would change if one decision was altered?)
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Red And Blue, Black And White by AntiKryptonite
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
28 Dec 2022
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Peter dreams in color. Bright, vivid color almost surrealistic in its hyper-focus--blood-red and poison green and bruise-purple.
Peter wakes up to a world draped in black and white with no shades of gray big enough to absolve him of his crimes.
The only haven is a diner with a girl--a girl with a bump on her head and a necklace she doesn't remember.
(Peter tries to navigate a world in which he doesn't exist, while MJ tries to exist in a world so strange she can't navigate all the forgotten pitfalls.) -
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"This is your fault," they all say. And they're right, Nathan knows. The sky fell. The world burned. Destruction reigned. The Troubles didn't leave. And all because he pulled the trigger. (All because he dared to believe, for once in his life, that something good could be his.)
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- Part 4 of Between The Lines
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"I’ll make you a deal, okay?” Belle said, her little fingers trembling. "I'll promise to take care of Bae and always look out for him...if you promise to try to be happy."
"Okay," Rum whispered, and hugged her for the last time.(Now adults, Gold and Belle come back into each other's lives, but Gold doesn't recognize her and Belle's become the confidante of Neal, a little boy who wants her help winning his papa back from the dark deals that define him.)
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- Part 3 of The Worth Of Childhood
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A Deal He Didn't Understand (The Farewell She Couldn't Say) by AntiKryptonite
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
07 Oct 2021
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"I never want to see you again."
She said it. She meant it (in the moment). And of course, being Rumplestiltskin, he had to come long enough to have the last word (Baelfire, the only word that matters) and then, instead of stopping him, she let him walk away.What if, instead of calling Rumplestiltskin back for hamburgers, Belle let him go?
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To Hope For The End; To Survive The Beginning by AntiKryptonite
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
11 Nov 2020
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His voice was very soft, tender and tentative all at once, and for just an instant, Katniss hated it. She’d been dating him for almost a month now—shouldn’t he have stopped being so nervous around her? When would she stop owing him?
(Katniss owes Peeta for the bread, and when she realizes what will make him happy, who is she to deny him -- even if it's her that he wants?)
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Belle is not as strong as others (not as brave as she would wish), and so sometimes she does wonder why she loves Rumplestiltskin (why she will not give up on him).
But only sometimes.
(A companion piece to 'Dealing For Trust')
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- Part 2 of Dealing And Daring
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“She’s right. People warned her about me and they were right to. She was only there because she thought she could change me, but you know, Bae, you know better than anyone, I hurt whatever I touch.”
“Papa,” Bae said, voice so calm, so wise, so naïve. “You love her.”
“Yes,” he admitted, a truth wrenched from deep inside his stubborn, hopeful heart. “But that’s worse. My love is a poison.”After years of slow and careful courtship, Belle and Mr. Gold are finally going on a date. If only the town's fears and their own insecurities wouldn't get in the way...
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"Do you know who I am?" Rumplestiltskin asks, and Belle lies.
"No," she says. It's a lie, and a well-intentioned one at that, so why does it all spiral so quickly out of control?After being rescued before she can cross the town line, Belle takes the opportunity for some breathing room to figure out what she wants from Rumplestiltskin.
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It’s like her kidnapper took her and tied her up and bled her dry of everything she knows. Everything she is. Her effectiveness. Her ability to reach the Troubled. Her fearlessness. With gashes in her wrists and thoughts bouncing aimlessly inside her skull, Audrey wonders if all she is capable of doing is failing.
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- Part 3 of Between The Lines