He's Not Always A Beast (Rumplestiltskin x Reader)

Chapter 17: Nailed Curtains

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Your POV

It's been a few days since Rumple came clean about everything. Things have mostly gotten back to normal. Rumple spends his time making deals and spinning his straw into gold.  Wiping down the counter in the kitchen as I  hummed gently, I  jumped after a pair of hands rested on my waist. They pulled me closer to them and I heard the high-pitched giggle that I learned to love. 

"Easy, dearie. It's only me." I heard before he kissed my neck gently. Turning to face him as I put my hands on his shoulders, he looked down at me. His glittery skin glowing in the candle light for a bit as I looked at him. 

"It's not every day you disrupt me from my cleaning. What is it?" I asked and he wrapped his arms around me a bit more, pulling me closer to him. 

"What? Can I not admire the prettiest thing in my castle?" he asked before he smirked. I giggled gently as I tried not to smile, wrapping my arms around his neck before he leaned down and kissed me. 

"Come here, I want to show you something," he said before he grabbed my hand gently, and a swirl of smoke showed up around us. Blinking as the room changed from the kitchen too, one of the few rooms I wasn't allowed to be in, I looked up at him. 

"Where are we?" I asked. Looking around as I saw the different tables and hutches, that held only what Rumple knew. "This is where I keep the most dangerous things I have in my possession. Being the Black Fairy's Wand, or my dagger." 

Turning to look at him I held my hands for a moment. Stepping over to him after a second, lifting my head to look up at him.

"You don't have to tell me about it if you don't want to. I know it's supposed to have something to do with your power, or whatever since that was the only reason the Evil Queen would have used me to get to it." He stepped closer to me before his hands grabbed mine gently. 

"I want you to know about it. It's the only thing that I haven't told you about since you came to live here. Since you want me to be truthful, then you should know the blade that holds my power." Giving him a small kiss before he looked down at me and smiled gently, brushing some hair from my face, I leaned into his touch. 

"The dagger is kept in here for safety reasons. The blade is what holds my power. If someone gets ahold of it, they can use it against me. Using the power inside of it to make me do their bidding. Though with that, they can also use it to kill me. If I'm killed with the dagger then whoever kills me with it, takes my power." 

I looked up at him as I blinked for a moment. "What about if they don't kill you with it, can you be brought back?" I asked. He nodded gently as he pulled me to him again. "There's a vault. It's in the forest. I have a key for it, that I got when I became the Dark One. If you put the key into the door and turn it, it'll bring me back, but there's a price." he said. Tilting my head I looked up at him and looked between his eyes. 

"What happens to whoever opens the vault?" he sighed gently. "Whoever opens the vault to get me out of it again, will sacrifice themselves. I'll be back, but I'll have the other person inside of me, and it's a giant headache." 

Giggling gently as he smiled at me, I looked up at him. "We should go back to the main part of the castle now, thank you for telling me all of your power sources love." He gave a small kiss before we ended up back where we were earlier. Pulling away he looked at me for a moment and smiled gently. 

"I'll go up to the west tower to work on some potions. If you need anything, just call for me." kissing more forehead for a moment as I closed my eyes, I sighed gently before the warmth of his skin was gone from mine. Frowning as I was alone again,  deciding to let some light into the castle, and walked over to the large curtains that were hanging in the dining room. I've been here for quite some time, but with everything going on, I hadn't yet gotten them down. 

Walking over to them, I grabbed onto the bottom of it and pulled on it a few times. Furrowing my brows for a moment, before I pulled a couple of more times. Looking up at them for a bit I rose a brow and put my hands on my hips.

"Did he nail these down?"

Shaking my arms as I took a breath, before pulling some more. Only this time I was able to get part of it down. Covering my eyes with my hand as I tried to get them to adjust to the bright sun. 

Once my eyes had adjusted and I was able to see outside, I smiled at the light. Though the courtyard in front of the castle was run down and a mess, I looked around it before I noticed something that I didn't want to see.

Gasping as I covered my mouth, my heart pounding. Remembering that Rumple said I could call for him, I yelled for him. 

"Rumple, you need to get down here, right now!" I said. Hearing his fast footsteps as he came down from the tower, I turned to see him as he got into the dining room, he panted as he got up to me and put a hand on my back before looking at me. "What? What is it?" he asked before I pointed out the window. His face fell and he pulled me closer before he sighed gently. He knew what it was.