A Potter In Storybrooke

Chapter 18: Part 5

Smee was chaining Belle to the mine cart.

Belle was struggling to get out "Please, please stop, what are you doing?"

"Sending you on a little ride under the town line." Smee answered "Once you cross, you'll forget who you were in the other realm, your family, who you loved." Smee gave her a flashlight "This should help you find the key. I left it at the bottom of the cart. Good luck."

Smee pushed the cart and ran away.

"Oh, William, I am begging you please don't- don't do this please!" The wagon came to a stop "What's happening?"

Enid and Luna pulled the cart using magic, wands out.

"Are you alright, Belle?"

"Do you remember who we are?"

"Yes, I do. Thank you."

Gold and Maurice approached them, and Belle backed away.

"What's wrong?" Gold asked.

"Thank You for helping, but that doesn't change that you're too cowardly to be honest with me."

"Ouch." Enid quietly said and whispered to Luna "I don't think Hope will take that very well."

"She was angry when people called him a coward after the curse breaks." Luna whispered back.

"But Belle, I-"

He was cut off by Maurice "I tried to tell him that, Belle." Maurice said "Come with me, Darling."

Enid glared at him "After what you just did to her? You're no better, Belle's dad and she'll decide what she wants to do in her own timeline."

Belle looked between Gold and Maurice "If either of you cared about me, you would've listen. I don't wanna see either of you, ever again."

Belle left the mine with Luna and Enid, Jefferson isn't surprised.

Belle used the key to open the library door and looked inside.

Hermione Granger would be so jealous.

"We may sit in  the library and yet in all quarters of the earth."

"You gave me the key?" Belle asked.

Gold nodded "I heard of your interest and I... Uh... Made some inquiries. There's an apartment for the caretaker of you want it."

"If this is some way to bring me back after everything..."

Gold shook his head walking closer "That's- that's not why I'm here. I came because you were right about me. I am a coward. I have been my entire life. I tried to make up for it by collecting power. And the power became so important that I couldn't let go. Not even when it meant losing the most important person in my life."