spoilers. and rage. soooo much rage.

[gild]

How absolutely lovely for the Charmings, having the luxury to sit about to catch their breath around a bit of breakfast. As if everything in the world is as neat and pat as that, hm. Not a worry in their empty little heads.

Isn't as if Cora's on the loose with magic running wild. Isn't as if they've yet to clean up the muck they'd left laying about with Regina. Isn't as if that hooked bastard went and absolutely-- No, no. They've their cozy happy endings thanks to the Sheriff's infallible truth-telling abilities, don't they, and that's all that really matters.

Best of luck to them with all that. I've got better things to do than hold anyone's hand through their stupidity any longer, much better things. And don't you worry about me, dearie. [ Venomous and barbed: ] Was just a cup. Chipped, at that. No matter to anyone at all.

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yeah you're only getting two tags out of this tops, w/e w/e

[giftigen]

Sounds like the future gets quite interesting for you.

ain't no thing but a chicken wing

[gild]

You're one to talk. Mommy dearest, back again. Wonder how long it'll take 'til you're back to whine at me for another mirror.

hold me bb.

[seesbeauty]

[She may be frightened of you, Gold, but she also slipped out of bed and took a piece of that cup off the floor. Something made her do it, and she isn't sure about it. He doesn't need to know about that though.]

...It was just a broken cup.

sobs on forever

[gild]

[ ...Nope. Can't do it. Can't handle how lost she looks, how she's scared of him, because even before they were anything, before when he was a beast (still is) and she was a lord's daughter, she was never afraid. Cautious and wary, but... Not afraid. And now. Now after everything else, having and losing then having and nearly losing again--

She's gone. There's no coming back from the line they'd crossed.

The venom drains from his voice as he drops his gaze, hides behind the curtain of his hair. He'd thought he was done paying for some things. Apparently not. ]

Was only chipped before. Definitely broken now.

[seesbeauty]

I...

I'm sorry. About breaking it. Even if it was just a cup.

[And she is, even if he frightens her. Despite it all, she's still Belle. Even if she doesn't remember ever being her.]

[gild]

[ It should be impossible for a single word to cause that much pain. "Just". Trying to shrug it off, he shakes his head without ever quite looking at her. ]

As I said. No matter. Certainly not now, if ever it was before.

[seesbeauty]

[She nods, lips tight and head spinning. Still, she's too inquisitive even when she wants him to leave her alone, simply to let this train of thought go unanswered.]

You seemed very attached to it, is all. It...You shouldn't have forced it on me but I shouldn't have done what I did. It was wrong.

[gild]

An old man's eccentricity. Nothing more. Please, don't-- Best to go and simply. Simply put it out of mind, yeah?

[ But oh, Belle - or whatever it is her name is now, he'd never taken the time to find out in the short span before the curse broke and then never had reason to because it was in the past - he doesn't want to answer. Doesn't want to talk or see you because all that's left to do is run (again, coward - it's a theme) from the mess of his own indirect making. ]

[theboywiththebook]

[Yup, so afraid right now. Just hiding way, way in the back. But the mun's obviously pushed him forward.]

[gild]

[ As well you should be, young Henry. Everyone always thought Gold was scary before, when all they knew was the lawyer who came round once a month for the rent. Now you get to see why they called him Beast. ]

Enjoy your cereal this morning, Henry?

[theboywiththebook]

[Just utter silence. While Henry had been fearful of Gold before, he never thought he'd get a death threat.]

Please...please don't hurt them.

[That's all he can really say. He can't lose his family. It wasn't their fault Belle got hurt.]

[gild]

[ Aren't fairy tales fun, kiddo. ]

Long as they keep their end of the deal, then they'll be safe as churches. Can't say as much for Cora and your lovely other mother, but I honestly couldn't give less of a damn for that.

[theboywiththebook]

Emma wouldn't break a promise. I know she wouldn't.

But, Cora? I thought Emma and grandma stopped her in the Enchanted Forest.

[gild]

Doesn't matter what she would or wouldn't, does it? She knows what will happen if she fails to deliver.

The cricket would say otherwise, wouldn't he? After being kidnapped, interrogated, and all.

Oh wow i just made henry sound hugely stupid. Can we forget that i made him herp due to sleepiness?

[theboywiththebook]

....Would your son want that though? Or Belle?

[Henry is using guilt trip.]

no worries gold is being enormously pissy after all

[gild]

Belle doesn't know enough to know what she'd want. Not anymore.

[ Nooooooooo, Henry, you don't want to go that road. ]

And you know nothing about my son or what he'd say.

[theboywiththebook]

If she did remember though...

[but he's going to freeze up after he gets snapped at.

He's read the story Rumple. You're still technically a fairy tale character.]

[gild]

How exactly d'you propose that'd come about, hm? The curse is still in effect in spite of how much kissing your grandparents seem able and willing for, in spite of your dear savior of a mother, and those blasted fairies seem to be about as much use as Pongo.

[ Not everything's in the book though, is it? Vic took care of that theory. ]

I need to find this stuff about what's in that book

[theboywiththebook]

There's always a way...everything looks it's darkest before there's good news.

i know right these writers are left right center all over

[gild]

Hate to ruin your lovely little view of the world, but the darkness doesn't stop. It never does. There are no happy endings.

[theboywiththebook]

[Sorry, Gold. While he may waver he's not going to lose that Charming attitude.]

But, good will always fight and it will win. Happy endings do exist.

[If only Gold ran into the KH universe, someone there could surely help with the memory problem.]

So I know there will be a way to save Belle.

[gild]

[ Your hair is nowhere spiky enough nor your pants belted enough for this to be anywhere close to Nomura territory, Henry. ]

Really? You've the book, been living through this same as the rest. Found many happy endings with us so far, have you?

[unhand]

Hurts, doesn't it? Glad to hear it.

[gild]

By the time I'm through with you, you'll be begging me to let you die. You think you know pain? Grief? You don't know the meaning of the words. Get better soon, Captain, because soon enough I'll be back and the one singular thing that stood between you and an end, you took out of the equation.

[unhand]

[This threat would probably hold a lot more weight if Hook hadn't already been pretty much begging for an end.] You had her pretty well deluded, didn't you? Thinking your heart had any good in it.

;-; Gold, bb

[swanprincess]

I'm not going back on my word, Gold. I owe you a favor, yes... But threatening my family is not the way to go about claiming it.

And I understand that you want to find your son, I do. I probably know better than a lot of people. But right now, we need to find Regina and keep her away from Cora.

And we need to find a way to get Belle her memories back..

[gild]

I know you won't, Sheriff. Otherwise I'll see I get my price in however way I best see fit - and there really won't be much of anything you can do to stop me.

Know better, do you. What with doing nothing for ten years before the scamp dropped himself on your doorstep, hm? [ Congrats, Savior, you get to see the Beast in fine fettle and is ready to claw and bite and ruin whatever he can along the way because misery does so love the company. ] I meant what I told you all earlier. Do what you will with Cora and Regina because I don't bloody well give a damn about how you conduct yourselves. If they so choose to raze Storybrooke to the ground and all in it, it's no hair off my head - whole world's my oyster now. Isn't as if I've anything left there, anyway.

[neverneverlandboy]

[ Well, for once he doesn't actually have a smart comment for that.]

[grandmas_gurl]

Hey! They are trying. Which is more than you've been bothered to do, lately.

[A small pause.]

...The cup? [She knows about the cup. Belle and her have talked quite a bit.]