I saw this on another blog. Thanks to @minssery, who responded to this question:
What’s the most ridiculous false rumor that has been spread about you?
I joined my wife’s workplace about 12 months after she joined. When we worked together (same department, same roles), we’d keep mostly away from each other so not to crowd each other. When we’d take breaks, we’d be hanging out together. You know, normal stuff. Thing is, no one picked up on the fact that we were husband and wife. They knew she was married, and that I was married – but not to each other. Someone saw us holding hands on the walk back to our car after work, someone else saw us kiss when I dropped her in to work when I had the day off, and rumours started flying around that we were cheating on our significant others. People took it upon themselves to ‘intervene’ and approached me to tell me she was married and that I should be ashamed of myself. Someone else made a comment to her that she should be more discreet if she was going to continue on her relationship with me. Truth be told, we both found it pretty fucking funny. Didn’t get a chance to run with it, because we were so taken aback by it when it was brought up to us individually, that we just blurted out the truth on the spot.
Only, you know Rumple. He doesn’t offer information he doesn’t feel people need to know. I want to see people try to fingerwag him while he keeps the punchline to himself!
And Belle is so sweet that no one can believe she’s doing something like this to her husband. People start to talk; she notices. She feels hurt and doesn’t know why everyone is treating her like a pariah. This “slut” (I only use that because I know how people are, and they would) might be after their husbands, next!
I guess it’d have to be AU and set in someplace larger than Storybrooke, because otherwise everyone would know he and Belle were married. NYC?
Someone entertain me and DO THE THING.
This needs to be done
SOMEBODY DO THE THING!
I’m tempted but if I wrote this it would probably be as Rushbelle. I have a similar scenario plotted already for my main Rushbelle WIP. Which goes along the lines of “Rush is married? Who the hell would marry him?!?” and then a deadpan blank face – “I would actually.” and then *jaw drops* because Belle + Rush does not compute for people that have never seen them together.
Although straight Rumbelle would be quite amusing as well. Oooh, oooh suggestion! Somebody should submit this as a prompt to @a-monthly-rumbelling because think of all the different versions we’d get to read then! Somebody go do that!