Synopsis: Alternate Season Six. Storybrooke is visibly under threat once more from Hyde and the Evil Queen. However, not all threats are visible as an old forgotten foe has been manipulating events from behind the scenes. The very nature of darkness is revealed as everyone struggles with the most difficult beast of all – acceptance.
Note: This chapter is about 1,000 words longer than normal. I did think this fic would be about 50k once completed but yeah .. it’s going to be a little bit longer. My next fic update will definitely be Friday, I’m putting that in black and white so I have to do it, but it won’t be this, it’ll be Painting Layers of Love. Enjoy!
On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine
The land of
untold stories wasn’t completely without it’s charms. The ability to go into a
tavern, order a drink or three, and be able to drown his sorrows in peace was
rather nice. Nobody recognized him here. If they knew of the dark one it would
be his imp form, not the Mr. Gold look he’d now worn for over thirty years.Back in
Storybrooke he had his liquor cabinet, which provided the alcohol. However,
there was something to be said for drinking anonymously in a crowd. He was
surrounded by people, yet completely alone. The low buzz of conversation
provided a small distraction from his maudlin thoughts, anything to keep from
dwelling on the situation he was in.Rumplestiltskin
recognized the name of this establishment, the Benbow Inn, it was from Treasure Island. That was a story he had played no part
in. From what he remembered from his cursed memories, there was nothing within
that story that would help him either. For all that he was here to forget, he
was also on the lookout for anything or anyone that could help.He needed to
find something he could use, or see something that would spark an idea. He
really couldn’t bear to fail another child.Very heartwarming scene where Jim was happy to see Silver, and Rumpel realising that it was his own disbelief in himself that has screwed up his life before. I like that Regina has recognised that it was perhaps the wrong thing, an unnecessary thing, to split the ‘evil queen’ part of herself off into a separate persona.
Thank you so much! Yup Rumple’s revelation is very important and yeah Regina has begun to realize something about the split. I don’t want to say too much (no spoilers) but it leads into the Evil Queen’s motivation and will tie heavily into the big dramatic finale scene I have planned.
This fic will be done by the season six premiere so we’re getting closer to the end, everything is going to start tying together, it should be good hopefully 🙂