beastlycheese:

still-searching47:

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.

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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.

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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 🙂

bookwormchocaholic:

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 🙂

leni-ba replied to your post “All Hallow’s Fall”

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.

rowofstars:

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!

woodelf68:

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!

thestraggletag:

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 🙂

bookwormchocaholic:

still-searching47:

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: I’m not very good at sitting on fic and this is fluffy. I was going to post it tomorrow and sit on the last chapter of Faith of the Heart in case I couldn’t finish my Rumbelle is Hope thing. However, it looks like I will finish it so enjoy all the fluff! 🙂

On Tumblr: Chapters One, Two (Part One), Two (Part Two), Three, Four

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David Nolan
whistled softly to himself as he slammed the door to his truck. He jogged up
the path to the pink Victorian that his daughters best friend called home. He
rang the bell and checked his watch, he was slightly late, due to
procrastinating on his paperwork at the station. David liked being sheriff, he
just didn’t like all the forms that went with it. A moment later the door was
opened by a young woman, the town librarian if he remembered correctly.

“I’m Emma’s
father, here to pick her up,” David said, giving the woman a curious look. “I
was expecting Mr. Gold.”

“Oh, Alistair’s
with the children.” the woman laughed, causing David’s eyebrows to raise at her
use of what must be Gold’s first name. She frowned at his obvious confusion.
“I’m Belle French, Alistair’s girlfriend, your
wife didn’t tell you to expect me?”

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Thank you for this! We needed something positive thanks to this episode’s angst fest. Anyway, loved it!

Yeah, as I had fluff written I thought given the circumstances I should post it heh. I’m really glad you liked it, thank you 🙂

anneelliotscat replied to your post:Transposing Digits (Chapter Five)

I *so* needed this! See what happened when they got rid of Bae? Everything would be all right if Neal (Sr.) were still around!

Well seeing as I can barely go a chapter, let alone an entire story, without mentioning Bae/Neal – 110% yes! He was so damn important.

In my opinion, without Bae there would be no show, or at least not as we know it, because there would have been no dark curse. Rumple’s quest to find him kickstarted everything. I think I have one AU fic where there is no Bae, it’s hard not to write him. Anyway, I’m glad you enjoyed the fic, and that seven year old Bae made everything right in the end heh 🙂

anneelliotscat replied to your post:anneelliotscat replied to your post:Transposing…

Want more! Sleepover! Pony rides! Halloween! One of them finds a book of practical jokes and swaps sugar for salt, and greases doorknobs, and so on…

Pony rides? I suppose perhaps if a circus came to town, I can’t think how that would happen … actually there’s the stables isn’t there? So yeah I guess if Bae wanted riding lessons or something. Hmm ok, I will file this prompt away and get to it when I can 🙂

leni-ba replied to your post “Transposing Digits (Chapter Five)”

*hugs fic* This is such a great series! I love David trusting his own eyes more than he does gossip, and how he gently makes sure that MM realizes she’s been wrong (can we have this in canon?)

Emma was a treasure! I’ll never get tired of seeing a version of her as a child where she’s loved and has a family. *hugs lil’ Emma*

And, yay, family time at the cabin! And of course Gold knows it’s too soon to their the L-word around, so I’m glad bae pushed his dad in the right direction anyway. LOL bonus points for Belle for showing the kids how to bait their hooks. Bet that will be the thing they’ll delight in telling their classmates! “We took these worms and…” Yeah. lol Tks for the update!

Oh wow thank you so much, I’m really glad you like it 🙂 To be honest that is how I see canon David, except in the last couple of seasons he hasn’t spoken up, instead just following Snow – downside of sharing a heart perhaps? I don’t know, I hadn’t really thought about that before. Hmm.

Anyway, yeah I imagine the gross worms will be the high point of the day heh and yup if it wasn’t for Bae, Gold would probably still be thinking it was “too soon” months later. He is continually surprised by Belle because he is just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for her to leave him, but instead she’s right there with him for every step forward. Gold is always expecting rejection and getting the opposite from Belle 🙂

rowofstars:

still-searching47:

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

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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.

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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.

leni-ba replied to your post:Transposing Digits (Chapter Four)

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! 🙂

bookwormchocaholic:

still-searching47:

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)

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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.

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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 🙂

rowofstars:

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 🙂

woodelf68:

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 🙂