Ok I just got a fourth plot bunny for Rumbelle Order in the Court. This is getting ridiculous. Whoever came up with this event is Evil, with a capital E, but only in the best possible way of course heh 🙂

I don’t know if anyone on here has seen the British legal drama Judge John Deed. It hasn’t been on TV in a decade, but it is perfect for a loose adaptation. A basic summary is John Deed (who is a judge) has an on/off again affair with Jo Mills, a barrister who frequently appears before him in court. Jo Mills is the social justice type, always looking out for the underdog.

Another barrister who frequently appears is Georgina Channing – John Deed’s ex-wife – who is actually not as bad as she looks. When push comes to shove she’ll do the right thing but the rest of the time she is just in it for the money, and she’ll cut corners/flirt with corruption but never actually really cross the line. She’s always defending big corporations who have done bad things.

Someone else that makes frequent appearances also in court is John Deed’s daughter Charlie. Now, there are rules about who can appear before a judge because of conflict of interest I guess. Children are a bit iffy, not wise if the case might go to appeal. Current lovers are a big no-no, but ex-wives or ex-lovers are fine. Quite often the show will have a case and John Deed will preside, and it’ll be Jo Mills vs Georgina Channing.

So Once Upon a Time’s tangled web of a family tree is represented. There’s the need for secrecy as nobody could know Belle and Gold were together if she was appearing before him in court, cue lots of “I can’t see you until the case is over” and then “ooops we just had sex in your chambers.”

This one is totally up for adoption if someone wants it. In fact please somebody take it off my hands *begs*

sarashouldbestudying:

woodelf68:

What if there had been another way to find Bae? What if a portal to him could have been opened by the blood of a sibling? (Just a drop or two, nothing harmful of course.) Between his innate decency and the fact that he would want another child of his to have a mother who wanted them, I can’t see Rumpel forcing just any woman to bear the child of the Dark One. I think he would have first considered that an option with Cora, but then that fell through. But what if Belle were the one to summon him to save her people from the ogres, and Rumpel can see that she’s not afraid of him, not too off-put by his appearance. What if the deal he offered was that she go with him and bear his child, and stay to help raise it to adulthood – say twenty years.? After that she would be free to leave if she so chose.  And of course there must be plenty of baby-making smut. 

Yes please. I’ve wanted a fic like this for years.

Angst it up by having kid Gideon wonder if he was actually wanted, seeing as he was only born to enable his papa to find/save his big brother.

Throw in some miscommunication between Rumple and Belle. Belle might have agreed to the deal but Rumple thinks that was all there was, and so the moment she’s pregnant he backs off because he would never force himself on her. Belle for her part then thinks that he has no interest in her. So they continue as platonic parents until something pushes them together.