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• I Told You So, My Dear by GradualHope

  Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  25 Mar 2026

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  • Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Captain Hook | Killian Jones & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Prince Charming | David Nolan/Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills & Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Robin Hood
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills & Wicked Witch of the West | Zelena
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy & Evil Queen | Regina Mills
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy & Captain Hook | Killian Jones
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy & Wicked Witch of the West | Zelena
  • Belle/Mulan (Once Upon a Time)
  • Belle & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Belle & Captain Hook | Killian Jones
  • Belle & Evil Queen | Regina Mills
  • Captain Hook | Killian Jones
  • Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills
  • Milah (Once Upon a Time)
  • Prince Charming | David Nolan
  • Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
  • Wicked Witch of the West | Zelena
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy
  • Queen of Hearts | Cora
  • Peter Pan | Malcolm
  • Belle (Once Upon a Time)
  • Mulan (Once Upon a Time)
  • Robin Hood (Once Upon a Time)
  • Black Fairy (Once Upon a Time)
  • William Smee (Once Upon a Time)
  • Blue Fairy | Mother Superior
  • Huntsman | Sheriff Graham
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Savior Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Baelfire | Neal Cassidy Lives
  • Robin Hood Lives (Once Upon a Time)
  • Huntsman | Sheriff Graham Lives
  • technically
  • Dark One Captain Hook | Killian Jones
  • Blue Fairy | Mother Superior Bashing
  • Milah Bashing (Once Upon a Time)
  • Black Fairy's Dark Curse (Once Upon a Time)
  • With A Twist
  • Evil Queen | Regina Mills Needs a Hug
  • Spinner Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
  • Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold Needs a Hug
  • and better parents
  • Not Beta Read
  • No beta we die like Milah
  • Time Travel
  • OOC

  Summary

  Rumplestiltskin has had many labels.
  'Bastard'
  'Orphan'
  'Spinner'
  'Coward'
  And lastly, after his boy's been lost, he's been saddled with the worst one yet. "Savior". By the very fairy that tricked his son. Now he must juggle saving his best friend from being the dark one, living long enough to see his boy again, and dealing with fairies who can't seem to keep their mouths shut about who he is.

  Or

  A (hopefully) better twist on the Black Fairy Dark Curse. Where instead of just destroying everyone, she intends to prove herself in the right for severing Rumple from his destiny by showing him how worse it would be. With the help of a reused time travel spell, a "coerced" author, and some magic ink. And, of course, the Dark Curse.

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  English

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