woodelf68:

still-searching47:

Synopsis: Alternate Season Six. Storybrooke is visibly under threat once more from Hyde and the Evil Queen. However, not all threats are visible as an old forgotten foe has been manipulating events from behind the scenes. The very nature of darkness is revealed as everyone struggles with the most difficult beast of all – acceptance.

Note: Another Tuesday, another chapter. I just checked and there are 10 more Tuesday’s before the premiere. I want this finished before then, so I think I might have to increase the posting schedule. After RCIJ is over, I will try for twice a week, or twice a week on alternate weeks or something. I have other WIP’s I want to write as well 🙂

On Tumblr: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three

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When Belle
jabbed the needle into her finger, she had expected that the next time she was
consciously aware, would be when her father woke her. She hadn’t done any
research into sleeping curses, there had always been something more pressing,
and she already knew the most important fact. While she was under the curse,
her body was effectively in suspended animation – Hades would not be able to
take her baby.

That was all
she cared about, protecting her child. Finding herself in a room full of
mirrors hadn’t been what she expected. This didn’t feel like a dream, it felt
like she was really here, wherever here was.

Belle swallowed
hard and placed a hand protectively on her stomach. The baby was nothing more
than a collection of cells right now but she loved it fiercely already. The
nearest mirror flashed, and Belle took a wary step back, but it was too late.

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She really hadn’t thought this one through.
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YOU DON’T SAY, BELLE. I’m glad that she realised that, and not to sound horrible, I’m glad she’s paying for her rashness and seeing all those painful moments of her past. It would have been different if Hades had actually threatened the baby, but she put herself under the damn sleeping curse simply based on a comment by ZELENA of what EMMA had done to her. Which was because Emma wanted the baby safe so she could kill Zelena. Nothing about that situation applied to Belle. Hades wanted to control Rumpel, not kill Belle. There was no reason for him to want the baby to come more quickly. *Sigh* The way you’ve written what is happening to Belle is perfect;  I bet the show writers won’t even address it. 

Oh wow thank you, such a nice comment to wake up to this morning 🙂

I’ve no idea what will happen in the real season 6. I know spoilers are starting to filter through now but I have my plan for this story and I’m going to stick to it. I won’t be changing it to bring in anything ‘official’. That’s why I want to get this fic completed before the premiere. It’s going to be wildly AU I’m sure but hopefully still enjoyable.

I’m scrambling a bit today as I only have half of tomorrow’s chapter written. I was finishing up my RCIJ and then I’ve got a cold, which destroyed my weekend. I doubt tomorrow’s chapter will be that popular, it’s quite plot focused. Last weeks chapter was mainly Rumple and Belle and this weeks will pay for it. I don’t think Belle will appear and I think Rumple will only appear in flashback as the dark one. However, the following weeks chapter should have them both again.

Thanks again!

Tuesday’s chapter of The War Within is done! Nobody is going to mind that it’s almost entirely Rumple and Belle, right? It’s also about 1k longer than normal, I kinda got carried away.

My brain is stupid though. I told myself this morning I needed to finish next weeks chapter. I finished early and still had some time left, so I thought to myself “why don’t I do some more?” and my brain said “I don’t want to” and basically decided it was break time.

So not helpful.

Oh dear, I was just .. procrastinating (ok I admit it) and I opened up He’s Behind You and ooops.

There’s this section:

Regina had never got the full story of what had happened in the land of untold stories. Several months after Henry’s ill-advised attempt to destroy magic Rumplestiltskin and Belle had returned to Storybrooke.

They hadn’t been forthcoming about how Belle had been woken from her sleeping curse, or how their reconciliation had occurred. Regina begrudgingly had to accept that they were entitled to their privacy. It didn’t matter, by far the biggest question on everyone’s lips had been what on Earth had happened to Rumplestiltskin’s hair. That was another story that had gone untold, and thankfully for the towns collective sanity, it had soon grown back and he looked the same as he always had.

and I said that He’s Behind You happened in the same verse as The War Within, about five years after the end of that. Only, I wrote this oneshot before I planned The War Within and I’ve just realized what I wrote here does not match what I have planned for the fic.

It’s just a small reference and I could go back and change it. That would probably make more sense than leaving it. Although it is funny. When I wrote this I didn’t want to have to think about how the events were resolved but clearly I thought it would be amusing to write in the haircut.

Ok I will fix this later. See procrastination has benefits. I can discover I’ve been an idiot and fix it before anyone else notices.

I’m writing the next chapter of The War Within and you guys are really going to hate me. I say I can’t do angst and then I do this. To be fair though I’m just working with what canon gave me.

Want a snippet? Might as well.

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“I can’t lose you too, I just can’t,” Rumplestiltskin whispered brokenly.

Unbidden the memory of the town line came to him, with Belle saying ‘You already have’ and another sob ripped from his throat.

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Rumple needs a hug bigtime, poor guy.

I finished the outline for my post-season five fic – yay! and I kinda felt like sharing that fact. I haven’t actually started writing properly yet but I have half a dozen scenes sketched out in dialogue form, they came into my head and I had to write them down before I forgot them.

Here’s a couple of teasers:

“Oh I know all about your priorities Emma but don’t worry yourself, I already
solved that mystery.”

“You’ll have to do better than that dearie. I was there. The pirate had no effect on
the outcome of that little tragedy.”

“I laughed my ass off when Hades green wench tricked your son into exchanging his
life for your worthless one.”

I’m still not entirely sure when I will start posting, next couple of weeks hopefully. I’m also not entirely sure about the title, suggestions are welcome if anyone has any. This should be fun!

woodelf68:

still-searching47:

Earlier @woodelf68 replied to my post season five character headcanon post and said:

“The
image of Hook being left to watch any kids is hilarious. Just imagine them
running him ragged and he is JUST SO OUT OF HIS DEPTH. File that under scenes I
didn’t realise I wanted to see, lol.”

and it inspired me. I took it as a prompt and wrote a little oneshot. It just wouldn’t leave me alone. This is set in the same verse as “He’s Behind You” which I posted the other day but about 18 months prior to that.

This isn’t actually really anti-Hook, just anti-Hook being competent looking after kids. I hope it makes somebody smile.

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GUISE GUISE GUISE. READ THIS! READ THIS NOW.

That was more destruction than I even imagined. *Looks at fic in awe* I even feel sorry for Hook, he really was trying his best. 

@grace52373 @robertmarch82 thanks for the comments guys! Perhaps Emma has lost the upper IQ necessary for independent thought around Hook. It certainly seems that way sometimes.

@woodelf68 your enthusiasm is making me smile, thanks so much!

Yeah I felt a bit sorry for Hook. He was just inept not uncaring. I just couldn’t write him as uncaring because they are kids. I couldn’t let Emma leave them with him, if he would have been mean. She left them with him because she knew he wouldn’t hurt them. Although I’m sure she never imagined how incompetent he would prove to be.

My headcanon around the fic is Snow was still fretting about leaving them, so David allowed her to call Emma to check in, with the agreement that if everything was ok then they would continue with their evening. However, when they got Emma she was at the sheriff’s station “oh I left them with Hook, I’m sure they are fine.” and then Snow hangs up and looks at David “we are going home right now.” and David says “I’m sure they will be fine, Hook wouldn’t harm them.” and Snow says “that’s not the point.” or words to that effect.

Snow was barely comfortable leaving them with Emma and is basically looking for any excuse to go home. Then she gets there and the place is a disaster zone. David is going to be doing all the cleanup and sleeping on the couch for a week for suggesting it. Emma I think would be horrified in front of Snow but secretly find it hilarious and tease Hook about it for ages afterwards.

Hook just begs for them to tell no-one but Henry finds out and then everyone finds out and Rumple and Regina go full on sarcastic and snide comments. Belle finds him a book in the library and quietly, without fanfare, gives it to Emma because she is the logical one who thinks of the kids. Hook is bound to wind up looking after them again even though Snow has sworn “never again” and so for the good of the children, he needs some help.

Yeah I should probably stop thinking about this now. I really loved this prompt, it’s just so easy to spin the story around it.

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Spoiler alert. If you want to read Hook being spat on, sicked on and have poo thrown at him – by a baby – then this fic has that.

Anyone got any suggestions for tags? I was going to put this on AO3 and then thought better of it because I have absolutely zero idea how to categorize it. Maybe I will just leave it on tumblr as a prompt drabble. That would probably be safest.

woodelf68:

still-searching47:

Synopsis: In order to have a peaceful Christmas the
Charming, Swan, Mills, Gold family decide to leave Storybrooke behind and
travel to the other side of the world – where they see a pantomime with a
familiar story.

Note: @woodelf68 gave me a prompt for Rumbelle is Hope but I had already
started my entry and couldn’t work it in. I promised I would write another fic
using it. I’m sorry it took me a while. I hope you enjoy 🙂 Warning, there is a
side order of minor Hook bashing, I just couldn’t help myself. It’s post season
five and basically tooth-rotting fluff.

The prompt was for a daughter and my head canon (until show canon says otherwise) is that she is called Nadia. It means ‘Hope’ and I thought that rather appropriate. I also have head canon for the name of a son, but that will have to wait for another fanfic I guess.

Prompt: Rumplestiltskin is teaching their little girl to dance by having her
stand on top of his shoes. Belle watches unnoticed from the doorway until their
daughter spots her.

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Wow, I didn’t expect something so long! Where to start? I think the only way that I could see Belle and Regina actually becoming friends. let along Regina being allowed the honorific of ‘aunt’, would be if Regina really stepped up at some point in a crisis involving Nadia, either actively saving the little girl from some danger or staying with Belle and helping her out when Rumpel couldn’t be there for some reason. Which would have given them time to talk, with Regina genuinely apologising for keeping Belle captive all those years.

Neal Nolan is really a tongue twister of a name, isn’t it? I don’t have any problem with Robyn being given as a name to honour her father, except for the fact that it was so contrived, with Robin not giving his own daughter a name. I get that she came much earlier than expected, but for pete’s sake, when the baby comes, you name it! More than a week or so just became ‘wtf?’. But I couldn’t choose a better substitute than Eleanor/Ellie, as Eleanor was a popular name, a queen’s name, during the time that Robin Hood lived. It seems like one he might have considered. And I like names that give you a choice how you want to be known once you’re grown up; either the more formal full name or a shorter nickname. I do understood that calling her Robyn might be a constant painful reminder of her father’s death to Regina, but maybe she kept it as a middle name?

England! I can’t believe someone didn’t quash Belle more firmly when she suggested a transatlantic trip with four children under five! And one more on the way for Snow, omg. And I love that you remembered Johanna and used that name for their second daughter; it’s both pretty and makes sense that Snow would think of it. But then I thought, despite their curse memories of this world, Snow and Charming and Regina and Belle don’t really have any practical experience or knowledge of travelling in this world. Henry’s old enough that Emma doesn’t really have to worry about looking after him, and Hook probably doesn’t care, only Gold knew just enough to really think ‘not the best idea’. But it obviously is turning out great and actually – with Henry soon to go off to college, away from home, making new friends and then a job afterwards  – who knows if he’d have time or desire for a big family vacation after that? He’s young enough here to still enjoy himself as a kid and have the adults deal with all the  arrangements and paying for things.  And he’ll certainly remember it more than the little ones. The panto was a lot of fun, I enjoyed reading it. And omg the wands, and Nadia knocking everyone on the head with it and Rumpel hoping the battery would wear out soon. These were very ‘real’ kids! And the dance scene was as sweet and fluffy as it could be.

Oh wow this is some comment 🙂 You have totally made my week. I’m so glad that you liked it! I don’t know what the correct comment etiquette is but I’m going to respond. You took the time to write a review and I really appreciate it.

Eeek I’ve just realized I’m practically writing an essay in response explaining all my character heacanon. I’m going to make that a separate post because there is a lot of it.

Anyway, I nearly didn’t write this fic because the premise is patently ridiculous. How do you get the whole gang to travel halfway around the world, when they never leave town? I’m from England and I go to panto every year and the idea just wouldn’t leave me alone. I checked and the US doesn’t have it, so I just sort of hand waved it to make it happen.

In reality, a last minute transatlantic christmas vacation, with four kids under five would never happen. Somebody would have totally quashed it. I do love the justification you gave though about nobody really understanding how difficult it would be, plus it being Henry’s last trip before college because that does make total sense. Yeah, let’s go with that 🙂

I have to call “Neal Nolan” his full name because of Neal, Henry’s dad. I always have Rumple refer to him as Bae, but obviously anyone else would say Neal and it just feels so wrong to not specify that it’s the Charming baby I’m talking about, not Rumple’s son.

In regards to Robyn, it’s just because of the nature of her conception, just calling her Robyn feels so wrong to me. I definitely think that Robin should be honored. I didn’t specify in the fic but her last name is Locksley because she is her fathers daughter. Your reasoning is exactly why I picked the name of Eleanor/Ellie as the substitute.

Yeah I kinda figured Snow and Charming would have more kids, I don’t know why, it just seems to me like Snow would want that. Calling their next daughter Johanna, keeps with their trend about honoring people they lost.

They were very ‘real’ kids? Wow. I don’t know kids at all, which is why they didn’t really talk at all because I have no clue how kids talk. I’m really glad that they seemed real.

Thank you very much 🙂