Rumplestiltskin shorts - open for suggestions

No Trust (no romance)

I looked at my sickly brother laying in his cot. He needed medication, medication we didn't have the money for. The doctor said he had a few days left, but not many.

Mother and father had gone to bed, but I couldn't sleep. I just tossed and turned in my cot. I needed to do something, but what could I possibly do?

I did have one idea, but my parents, the elders, and everyone had always told me to never call him. No one ever spoke his name, but everyone knew it. All I had to do is call him.

"Rumplestiltskin, I summon thy."

"Do you now dearie?" I heard a high pitched voice, followed by a giggle coming from a dark corner of our room.

"Rumplestiltskin?" I squinted.

A man stepped out of the shadows. He wasn't scary at all. He was very short for a man, let alone a beast. I giggled at the man's appearance. His shines gold skin was a bit creepy at first, but now it was kind of pretty.

He furrowed his brow, "Why do you laugh?"

I walked over to him and reached up to touch his face. His skin didn't even feel like scales. It felt like smooth skin. It was nice actually, "You're not at all what they say."

"Excuse me child?"

"I'm no child. In twenty years."

He scowled, as if he wanted to ask me something. Then he continued, "What do you want Y/N?"

"How do you know my name?" I jumped back, not sure what I had gotten into.

He walked around me like an animal circling it's prey. I was starting to see what everyone was afraid of, "You see dearie, names are my stock in trade. Names are power. I know names." I stopped and placed one long honey finger under my chin. His nail threatened to tip open my skin, and forced me to look up at him, "Even yours."

I pulled away, robbing my chin, "I want you to heel my brother." I pointed to the cot where he lay.

"Ah, that's what I though."

"What do you want in exchange?" He looked me over before walking up to me, and yanking a hair fro, my head. "Ouch."

"This will do." He threw it carelessly into the air and it disappeared. "Your brother will be heeled by morn." With that he giggled, took a bow, and disappeared.