Synopsis: Set in The Right Wrong Number verse. Belle and Gold have been together for a few months when Halloween approaches. After some pumpkin carving goes wrong, and Gold is injured, they work together to ensure that Bae’s spooky sleepover goes ahead as planned.
Note: Written for @a-monthly-rumbelling in October. The prompt was Mr. Gold Loses His Cane. I also used part of a prompt from @anneelliotscat which was along the lines of “Sleepover! Halloween! Practical jokes!” they did specify some actual practical jokes but I just couldn’t visualize Bae or Emma being that naughty on purpose, so I hope this suffices.
Gold surveyed
the disaster zone that used to resemble a kitchen and winced. Belle laughed at
his expression and he raised his eyebrow at her, before his lips twitched and
he smiled as well. His girlfriend looked right at home, both she and the
kitchen were liberally covered in pumpkin pulp. Halloween was fast approaching
and they had just spent the last couple of hours with Bae and Emma carving Jack
O’ Lanterns. Belle looked oddly victorious, but then she had got rather
competitive with her pumpkin. It was very artistic, and quite impressive,
nothing like the jagged face he’d managed with his.“You sweetheart
are a mess,” Gold murmured.Belle held up
her gooey hands and an evil grin flashed across her face, she stepped forward
to hug him. He tried to evade but he was pinned against the cabinets. She
wrapped her arms round him and pressed up against him, wiping the pulp onto his
shirt. Gold pretended to scowl, and was about to object, when she pressed her
lips against his and he forgot everything but how incredible she felt in his
arms.I missed this and it is so sweet…
Heh thanks. I’m guessing you meant you’d missed the verse, seeing as I only just posted this. Well, I do have several unfilled prompts still to write for this verse, so there will be more incoming as soon as I can manage it. I’m really glad you liked it 🙂
Sweet, fluffy, Floof family! That was adorable.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I didn’t actually intend to write this fic, it kinda just happened by accident. I needed something to post today and oops 🙂
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Aw, this was the sweetest thing! I love how both Belle and Gold did their best so Bae didn’t need to feel all guilty, and I think my fav non-Rumbelle part was David helping Gold into the house. We need more friendship scenes between those two. 🙂
LOL at Emma being the cause for another interrupted kiss. I giggled so much at that!
And awww, all the Rumbelle feels here. Gold being at his weakest, at least physically, and fearing that this would be what’d finally push Belle away, while Belle only wants to help and is having dreams of ‘forever’. awwwww
Yeah if I’d had more time then I might have explored Gold’s insecurities and Belle’s reaction to them, and more about their relationship. To be honest I’m still deciding precisely what I want to do with this verse and how far I want to take it. Right now it’s a fluff family verse but there’s more to explore should I feel so inclined.
Yup Gold does have nothing to worry about. He doesn’t know it, but he and Belle are very much of like mind about their feelings for one another. They both want the same thing – forever. I’m really glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Thank you.
OH MY GOD.
So much Gold family fluff! I love the kiddos, David being a non-judgmental bro, loopy out of it Gold (*snort* I bet he said interesting things that night huh?), Belle fussing over him, all the hurt/comfort. CUTENESS OVERLOAD!! But that tiny touch of angst, Gold doubting himself, hating himself because Belle might resent having to take care of him OH MY GOD. My poor baby. 🙁
Oh you are making me wonder what Gold said now, I hadn’t really thought about that heh – oh the missed opportunities 🙂 Yup there is definite angst potential if I decide to explore it. Right now this is family fluff but I could expand it to include dealing with the relationship issues, as opposed to side-stepping it and saying that happened off-screen. This is very much a prompt verse so what happens depends on what people want to see 🙂
I’m really glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
I really can’t see Bae smashing a pumpkin just because some kids at school said they had to. Maybe if some older kids had actually been there, bullying them, Emma might have risen to a dare, but otherwise…why? Why were they supposed to smash their pumpkins? (Sorry to nitpick, but having some Bad Teens – like that troublemaker Peter Pan and his gang! – being the pumpkin smashers would have made a lot more sense to me.) Also, Gold really shouldn’t have been moved at all if he was in that much pain, but I probably would have been just as desperate to avoid the hospital. At least Belle called Whale. A hard crack on the head like that would very likely cause concussion. I felt Gold’s desperation to get off the couch so keenly, but he should thank his lucky stars that’s he’s a man and can simply pee in a bottle! The best line of the whole thing was Bae veering away from Emma with the succint comment “No brain.” XD The other night I realised that I love junior Swanfire so much because not only do I like the thought of Bae and Emma having been childhood friends who eventually become much more when they get older, but it gives Emma the happy childhood that she never had in canon.
And did they ever carve at least one new pumpkin before Halloween?
Wheee I love constructive criticism! Thank you so much 🙂
Yeah you are probably right on both counts. I did think when I was writing it that I was overdoing the description of Gold’s pain/injuries. I probably should have rewritten that section and toned it down a bit. As for the smashing pumpkins, I don’t know much about kids, and I was just going off old memories and the fact that kid logic doesn’t always made sense.
When I was 11 I went on the school bus and for a couple of stops, we picked up a few primary school kids. My classmates would teach them swear words and give them things to do so that they would “be cool” and then the next day the kid would get back on the bus and be all huffy for a day or two because they’d got in trouble. Then the cycle would start again because the “cool older high school kids” were paying attention to them. The older kids scoff and go “oh yeah everybody does it” and so it’s not so much a dare, as a “you are a complete loser because you didn’t even know” and so in kid logic, then have to do the thing because want to fit in.
Smashing pumpkins is actually a thing, part of mischief night and a real problem in some places. I googled Halloween specific practical jokes and that came up. However, you are right, it doesn’t really make sense. Yeah junior swanfire is sweet, I’m glad you liked it 🙂 As for more pumpkin carving? I don’t think so unfortunately, there likely wouldn’t have been time. Perhaps that was their punishment for not thinking before they acted.
Thank you so much for your brilliant comment!
This was literally like being enveloped in warmth. I read this on the train ride to work and, honestly, it made me feel like the world was a great place full of love, wonder and goodness. It’s fics like these that stay with you, those that elicit such emotions. Thanks for this.
Oh wow, I don’t know what to say. This is one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received. Thank you! I’m speechless, I’m really glad you liked it 🙂