A Rose In Between Thorns

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Hi everyone! Hope you all had a nice holiday! Happy 2016! I'm transferring schools and I start in 2 weeks so I wanted to get this up before I started. Hope you all enjoy the story, and please, please, PLEASE COMMENT, AND VOTE! It always means a lot when I get votes love hearing what my readers have to say!

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Two more months the Enchanted Forest had passed by. The hero's have been looking for another way to stop Zelena but with no success. Only light magic could stop the Queen's long lost sister, with fairies magic not being enough... no one knew what other light magic would work.

Belle spent more time in the library now than she had before the threat to her baby was made. She hadn't had a restful night since, books were her only solitude, for escape, and finding a defeat for Wicked Witch. No one liked to see her this way, but they all knew there was nothing that could be done to help the ease expected mother.

"Belle, Belle." Snow quietly spoke and shook the pregnant brunette awake. She found her asleep in the library curled up in a chair with a book spread across her belly... yet again.

Fluttering her eyes open at the touch she saw Snow with her 2-month-old son in her hands. "Oh, hey Snow. Hi Gabriel." She gruelingly said to the pair while taking the boy's little hand

"Another sleepless night I assume?" The princess gave a look showing her known opposition to Belle staying up reading.

"I was looking in some old books on light magic. I didn't realize how late I was up, before I knew it I dozed off." Belle didn't want to look her friend in the eye and here how she shouldn't be up all hours reading. So she kept playing with baby's hands.

"I really wish you would quit doing this to yourself. You need to rest and all this stress is bad for the baby."

Realizing Snow wouldn't give up, she looked up from her son, back to her and answered, "Well maybe I am stressing myself out, but isn't that mothers do? They worry about their children." She said a little hostile. "I'm sorry. I-just-I can't stop thinking about. I know everyone wants me to but I can't."

"I know. I couldn't stop thinking about it either. Both times." Snow White said sympathizing as she painfully thought of the times her children's lives were threatened.

"You know I am grateful for everything you, Charming, Regina, Robin, Tink and everyone else has done for me. But I guess, not matter how hard I try-I just-"

"We're not the same as having your actual family."

Belle looked away feeling guilty for the words being taken right out of my mouth. She loved her "chosen family", but nothing could replace her other family. Rumple has been gone for almost a year and he missed the morning sickness, her late night cravings, rubbing her swollen feet, feeling their child kick for the first time. He missed it all. So did Neal. Who wanted nothing more than to be there for her, make it so this child didn't grow up the way he did. As well as her father, who she really hoped would want to be grandfather. No matter of child's blood. She had to go through her entire pregnancy all by herself. Now as it drawled to end, this woman now feared she wouldn't be able to keep her promise to Rumplestltksin and have to give birth alone as well.

"Well... I think I might be able to help with that." Snow White responded taking the former maid out of her head.

"What do you mean?" Belle didn't understand what her friend was talking about.

Gesturing her head forward, Snow answered, "Come on."

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As the pregnant woman followed the princess, the castle's former owner and their fairy friend waited for the two at the front of the palace. "Snow, Belle." Queen greeted.