On my blog I entitled this weeks post ‘evil be thou good’ which I know comes from something creepy, and it probably doesn’t mean what I’m intending it to mean. However, ‘evil be thou good’ keeps popping into my head these days, because often it feels when watching Once Upon a Time that everything is flipped in reverse. The ‘evil characters’ are more good, than the ‘good’ ones.
Anyway spoilers under the cut.
Synopsis: The phone in the library had always been silent, until one day it started ringing. Belle French answers it and discovers that life really can turn on a dime – or in this case a wrong number.
Note: Have some fluff before the episode tonight 🙂 There’s definitely going to be another chapter or two, but the next thing I’m planning on posting is Chapter Five of Faith of the Heart, on Tuesday. Enjoy!
On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two (Part One), Two (Part Two), Three
Gold was
sweating. All that could be heard was the clinking sound of the cutlery against
the plates. This was a disaster, it
was beyond awkward and Belle would never want to see him again. He swallowed
nervously, he knew he should break the silence and make conversation, but he
didn’t know what to say.It felt
uncomfortably warm in the kitchen, perhaps because of the heat from the stove,
and he was grateful that he had shed his jacket and tie, undoing the top two
buttons of his shirt. Nobody aside from Bae and his doctor had seen him this
undressed in years, his suit was his armor but he didn’t think he needed that
with Belle.Aww! All the adorable awkward babes. Holy crap that first part though, Gold with no jacket, no tied, and buttons undone is like practically naked! 😉
I’m glad Mary Margaret let Emma come over. Sad though that Belle had to be there. I mean Gold is obviously a good father, why wouldn’t he be good to Emma too. Ugh.
Heh thanks, I’m really pleased you are enjoying it 🙂 Yup I was going for the look Gold had at the beginning of ‘The Crocodile’. Actually I’m not sure now whether he had a tie on, or not, but he was at least just in a shirt (no jacket) when he stepped in from the garden.
With Mary Margaret I think she knows that Gold must be a good father, because she has spent time with Bae. However, all the rumors about him around town just make her uneasy. She probably rationalizes it to herself as “Bae is welcome here” and “Mr. Gold is a busy man, probably doesn’t want two children under foot” etc. and doesn’t even really realize how prejudiced she’s being. However, having a second adult (and a woman) around makes the situation look different.
I headcanon that David will probably apologize for the initial wariness at some point in the future. Gold will accept it because he loves his son, and wants to protect him so he understands why they did it. He’s probably slightly bitter that people think he’s someone they need to protect against, but there’s nothing he can do to change that.
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How cute is this! Bae asking the important question made me laugh. Poor Bae, he must be imagining the horrors of being stuck with a stepmother IN PINK. Could there be something worse? lol
Not sure why MM called Gold’s house if she wasn’t going to let Emma have a playdate. Maybe she wanted to suggest they go to a public place or sth? Anyway, her reaction to Belle’s presence was too funny. I could almost hear her going from ‘Is this woman crazy??’ to ‘DATENIGHTWITHHUBBY!
LOL. And of course I love that they’re officially dating now. ADORABLE!
Mary Margaret called Gold’s house to arrange a playdate. However, she was originally going to invite Bae over to their house again, despite Emma’s wish to go over to the Gold’s house. Bae would have likely said something like “you should come to my house, the garden is awesome.”
Learning that Belle was dating Gold, changed Mary Margaret’s mind. That is why she said “well that changes things.” She’s still suspicious of Gold but that will change in time, once she actually gets to know him, as right now all she knows is the rumors that fly around town. Mary Margaret knows that it doesn’t quite add up, as Bae is such a lovely happy child, and having Belle as a chaperone just sealed the deal.
I’m really glad you liked it! 🙂
Decided to practice writing my NaNo daily pace today to see how it felt. It wasn’t easy and it’s going to be a real challenge to do it every single day for a month. I’ve learned from bitter experience that the marathon is so much harder than the sprint.
I learned some things to watch out for:
Tomorrow I’m going to do this again but try a couple of different things:
Then on Monday – I’ll do it again!
Only I’ll have to work as well. Let’s see how that goes, when I don’t have all day to play with. I’m thinking it will be interesting to say the least. However, this is why I’m practicing and building it up. Today I’m finding out what my trouble points are, tomorrow I’m seeing if I can fix them, then Monday I put it into practice and then I’ll take it from there.
Naturally, I should at some point plan my actual projects for NaNo. However, there’s still a few weeks left, and I have a lot to finish writing this month before NaNo starts, so one thing at a time 🙂
I’ve been meaning to write a word crawl for ages and today I wrote one for Once Upon a Time.
For anyone that doesn’t know, a word crawl is like a story, which has challenges throughout it, which breaks up the writing process into more manageable chunks. So you aren’t trying to write an entire story, you are just writing for 15 minutes, or writing a couple of hundred words at a time etc.
It’s very generic because I posted it on the main word crawl board on the NaNo site and obviously everyone likes different characters/ships and I just side-stepped all of that. I could do a more Rumbelle-centric one if people were interested in that. However, for now here’s just a general Once Upon a Time themed word crawl 🙂
Enjoy!
How’s everyone doing? I have done appalling at not drinking this week, but I went running yesterday, and I’ve been doing my fitness challenge app.
I also made a decision. Usually Mr Sprite gets up at six a.m. and makes me breakfast, and I lounge around until seven. I’m going to try and get up with him starting Monday. That way I can do my Fitness Challenge first thing before the day pummels me into submission. I’ll let you know my success :p
– Sprite –
Good luck! 🙂 I definitely recommend doing exercise first thing in the morning. That works for me, I wouldn’t do it otherwise. I get up and go to the gym when it opens at 7am, if I didn’t then I would never go because I would start my day and that would be that.
I’m still on week three of the Couch to 5k program. However, I’ve managed to do it several times now, so on Monday I’m going to try out week four and see how far I get. Swimming is going well. I’m doing over half a mile every session now. I don’t have the time to do anymore than that, so if I want to increase the distance there, I’ll need to work on my speed somehow.
I’m starting to notice a difference in the muscle tone on my legs which is nice. I’ve only just started doing a tiny bit of weights on my arms so there’s no change there yet. Man, this is such a game of patience and I am so impatient but you know one day 🙂
Oh my heart
I have to reblog because that bottom right gif is too damn cute and pure for this world
This killed me on the show. The rabbit he made for her looked better and was made with love, but all he could see was that it wasn’t perfect and his heart ached for all that he couldn’t give her. His desperation led him to fall into Regina’s trap. While I understand why Regina did it, she was very cruel. I often wonder what happened after Jefferson and Grace were reunited in Storybrooke.
Synopsis: The phone in the library had always been silent, until one day it started ringing. Belle French answers it and discovers that life really can turn on a dime – or in this case a wrong number.
Note: It’s possible there might be two more chapters now. Part of it is that these chapters are 1k shorter than my usual ones. I try and keep all chapters a similar length and the original oneshot was even shorter than these chapters, if I’d done my regular length chapters they would have been twice as long as the original oneshot and that seemed odd. Another part is because I am rubbish at guesstimating length. Anyway, there will be more soon. Enjoy! 🙂
On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two (Part One), Two (Part Two)
Gold was
starting to wish he had worn something other than his usual three-piece suit.
It wasn’t exactly the right outfit to wear for a picnic in the woods. However,
he supposed he hadn’t been planning a picnic in the woods. When Belle hadn’t
suggested somewhere for them to go, he’d blurted out the cabin as a possibility,
before he had adequately thought about it. The moment the words were out of his
mouth, he’d panicked in case she’d got the wrong idea but Belle hadn’t even let
him start recanting, just smiling and accepting.Now, they were
here. He had Dove come up here frequently to check on the place, and give it a
once over, so he knew that everywhere was relatively clean. He’d had problems
in the past with kids breaking in, and using the place as a make-out spot, at
least he assumed it was teenagers. They’d never caught the offenders, but by
having Dove make frequent visits, it showed an interest in the cabin and the
break-ins had soon stopped. He opened the main door and Belle followed him
inside, looking around with obvious interest.“I thought we
could eat on the terrace,” Gold suggested, gesturing towards the back of the
cabin, which opened out onto a small deck, and faced the lake.I never would have guessed that about Gold’s past; but it goes to show what a stand up guy he really is. And I love Bae’s response to Belle coming over “ok.” Adults get worked up but kids look at everything so simply. Its already screaming floof family feels!
Thanks! Yeah I was a bit worried about that twist on the backstory that I invented. I thought that it suited this Gold and I’m glad you felt it was ok. Yup this is a family fic really. I really pleased you are enjoying it 🙂
Nice twist with the backstory for Gold and Bae. I could see lots of future angst there, and it’s clear Gold still has a lot of self loathing and issues over the whole thing, despite having Bae. Belle is so easy going with the whole thing and with all of this, and Gold is an anxious puppy. I love it. <3
Future angst in my fluff fic? Perish the thought haha 🙂 No, I will go there if someone prompts it of course, but yes you are correct about Gold’s feelings on the matter. I mean it all contributes to his anxiety because this Gold has never successfully courted anyone, had a relationship or even really dated.
I think the mystery of “how do people find people to go out with” is one he never actually solved. I think he had a couple of flings when he was younger and working for other people, before he got together his seed money and started to build his property empire in Storybrooke.
However, it was always “Gold do me a solid, my girl needs someone for her friend, so come along tonight” and so it just sort of happened to him, rather than him seeking it out. Once he moved to Storybrooke, that stopped happening and so this thing with Belle is just like “I don’t know how this happened but I want to hold onto it if I can, but I don’t know how.”
Anyway, I’m really glad you are enjoying the fic 🙂
Well, that’s one way to keep Milah out of the picture. I’ve never heard of a fridge that beeps if you leave the door open “too long”!
Yup, I usually go with the “ran off with a sailor” cliche but this came to mind instead, and it worked well for this story. As for the fridge thing – my fridge does that! It’s an American style fridge that we got at a mega discount. It’s quite fancy (has a water/ice dispenser and everything) but it does nag. I figured Gold would probably have something like that 🙂
Note: Here’s part two of the prompts from last week. The final chapter (unless I get more prompts), dealing with the date and a couple of other loose ends will be posted on Friday 🙂
On Tumblr: Chapter One, Chapter Two (Part One)
Before Gold
knew it, it was Friday. When he had been in his shop, at times Friday had felt
like forever away. He would pass by the window and catch sight of the library
doors, or he would see the back of Belle as she walked down the street, her
chestnut curls whipping around her in the light breeze. Every day he was sure
that she would cancel, and he wanted Friday to arrive quickly before she could
change her mind. The one thing he was sure of, was that she wouldn’t just stand
him up, she wasn’t that cruel.When Friday
morning dawned, Gold was just pouring milk on Bae’s cereal when the boy himself
entered the kitchen. Bae was sleepily rubbing his eyes, his hair sticking up all
over the place and making Gold itch to find a comb. Gold’s eyes flickered to
the clock, and he shook his head, as always they would be pushing it to get to
school on time. Bae was a terror in the mornings, he just didn’t want to get
out of bed. Merlin only knows what he would be like as a teenager.Adorable! Non-icky indeed!
I’m really glad you liked it seeing as this was your prompt 🙂 Yeah I don’t actually know any kids, so I think I probably write them too sweet but it’s fluffy fic so I guess that’s ok. The next part will be up tomorrow!
My 10yr old told me just yesterday about her friend having a crush but she wasnt into that cus all boys were yukky. So I think youve got it spot on.
Im kind of hoping for a rating change and some transposing of digits behind the cabin.
Oh that’s good to know, thanks! I won’t ever do a rating change because that’s not fair to readers that start thinking it was one thing, and then it becomes something else. However, I’m not adverse to oneshots in the same verse should I get inspired in that direction. I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Note: Here’s part two of the prompts from last week. The final chapter (unless I get more prompts), dealing with the date and a couple of other loose ends will be posted on Friday 🙂
On Tumblr: Chapter One, Chapter Two (Part One)
Before Gold
knew it, it was Friday. When he had been in his shop, at times Friday had felt
like forever away. He would pass by the window and catch sight of the library
doors, or he would see the back of Belle as she walked down the street, her
chestnut curls whipping around her in the light breeze. Every day he was sure
that she would cancel, and he wanted Friday to arrive quickly before she could
change her mind. The one thing he was sure of, was that she wouldn’t just stand
him up, she wasn’t that cruel.When Friday
morning dawned, Gold was just pouring milk on Bae’s cereal when the boy himself
entered the kitchen. Bae was sleepily rubbing his eyes, his hair sticking up all
over the place and making Gold itch to find a comb. Gold’s eyes flickered to
the clock, and he shook his head, as always they would be pushing it to get to
school on time. Bae was a terror in the mornings, he just didn’t want to get
out of bed. Merlin only knows what he would be like as a teenager.Adorable! Non-icky indeed!
I’m really glad you liked it seeing as this was your prompt 🙂 Yeah I don’t actually know any kids, so I think I probably write them too sweet but it’s fluffy fic so I guess that’s ok. The next part will be up tomorrow!
Hmm I think I might have lied. I said there would be one more chapter of Transposing Digits but I think there might be two. I wrote up a mini sort of plan after I got the prompts, to weave everything together, and I’m only working through that but it’s getting a lot longer than I thought it would.
Anyway, I don’t think anyone will complain if there are more chapters than expected. I’ll still be posting on Friday, so it’s all good. I just wish I had a better handle on guesstimating length 🙂