Lost Souls [Once Upon A Time]

Closed, Dearie

I stormed forward to the shop and blew off the door. Rumplestiltskin look up at me from showing Belle a necklace.

"Sorry, dearie. The shop's closed."

"Not anymore, bastard." I sprinted up to him, wrapping my hand around his neck. "You knew who I was! You left me on that island to ROT IN THE WATER!! You left me with your freaking father!! Do you know what I saw? You know what I remember about him? He was a murderer. SO ARE YOU. You killed Milah. You killed hundreds of men. You abandoned your son on the streets of London. I watched him grow up. Something you obviously didn't want to do. You ripped me away from Killian, and made him suffer. Now, I'll make you suffer."

"Please, no! He's a good man!" Belle pleaded. I turned to look at her. 

"How could you say that? How could you love him? After all the things he has done?"

I let go of Gold and came over to Belle. I touched my hand to her temple. I transferred the memories. She shut her eyes tight like she was trying to block the images out. Too late. They're in there permanently.

"You see what I mean? Stay away from him. You'll get yourself killed." I told her and turned back to Gold.

"I know what you mean. I know he was a monster. But he has changed."

I looked back at both of them. 

"I won't be like you, Rumplestiltskin. I will not kill you. Or her. But know this: she knows the monster you are now. Every single bad thing you've done to me, Killian, or Bae. She can leave you whenever she wants. If you try to stop her when that happens, I won't hesitate to have you removed."

I backed out of the shop and grabbed hold of Killian's hand. We walked down the street and back to the ship. Ruby was gone. He took my hand to help me onto the ship, and I ran my hand over the smooth wood. 

"Miss her? You've been gone a while."

"Yeah, extraordinarily. She's home." I said sadly. I turned to him."I missed you. I didn't even know that I did. I knew something was missing."

"Aye. I knew you were on the island. I didn't know you were under my ship."

I shook my head.

"You had a life. You searched  for me for a long time. You could've found someone else 25 times more quickly."

He walked up to me and took my hand.

"I waited for you and searched for you because you're worth it. I have you now, and I'm not letting you go. I wouldn't have done anything differently." 

He put his hand around my waist and drew me close to him. I was just leaning into him when he drew my sword and stepped back.

"Let's see if you need some practice."

"Oh, you'll see. No magic. Loser has to dance with winner."

"You know I have two left feet."

"I have two right feet. We can trade one and one."

"Deal."

He lunged forward with my sword, his own at his side. I spun around him and hugged him from behind. I grabbed his sword from it's sheath, and the fighting began. I was pushed past the plank where we entered, and my heart flipped inside my chest. My foot stuck on the loose plank. I stumbled back and Killian got up on me, his legs on either side of me, kneeling. 

"This is the same situation we were in a long time ago. Remember?" he asked.

"Of course. This one will end differently though." I answered.

I kicked the board up and rolled to the side. I did a flip off the side of the ship and twirled over him. I landed behind him and put his sword to his throat. I reached my hand down to his and grabbed my sword out of it. I sheathed his from behind. 

"You owe me a dance."

"I knew this would happen. Too bad I'm not going to dance." he gave me a wicked smile. I just rolled my eyes. Typical.

"I'm going for a drink. Want one?" I asked.

"That's something I CAN help you with, love."

Wewalked to the bar together, our hands on our swords. 

We didn't need to hold hands to know we loved each other.

Hey all! I hope you liked it! Keep on reading oncers! -Annie