Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. As Certain Dark Things are to be Loved by TheStraggletag

   Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   28 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
   • Belle (Once Upon a Time)
   • Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
   • Soulmates AU
   • Alternate Universe - Soulmates

   Summary

   Rowan Gold knew there were three certain things in life: death, taxes and his innate inability to be loved. Which is why he hardly believed it when he found himself, pushing fifty and a pariah in the town he lived in, sparking with the local town librarian, after an accidental public touch that left them both reeling. Belle French was everything he wasn't: beautiful, kind and loved. And now a stone around his neck he can't wait to rid himself of. Love made you sick, after all. Made you weak.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   28,124

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

   100

   Kudos:

   127

   Bookmarks:

   24

   Hits:

   1,944