Second Love to the Right (Neal Cassidy/Baelfire Love Story)

Chapter 29: Back in Time

The next day, I woke up with a bright smile. A smile no one has seen on my face in quite some time. Why you ask? Well, because Zelena was officially defeated. The woman who killed Neal and brought this town misery and torment was finally defeated. I was thinking that it was near impossible to do so in the this entire time, but I'm just glad I never said it. I got dressed and headed out. I had a shift today at the pawnshop, but before I go, I'm going to my usual location. The graveyard.

I plant myself in my usual location. Right in front of Neal's grave. I didn't buy flowers this time for I had little time. I run my hand over the gravestone once more as I smile.

"We did it Neal. We defeated Zelena. For a while I thought we couldn't do it, but we did it" I croak.

The peaceful silence strays in the air, but I always took the silence as Neal responding.

"I wish you were here to actually experience it though. But I'm just glad that you were watching over me that entire time. I couldn't have done it without you" I say.

I smile as I stand up and look down at the grave.

"The best part was I didn't even have to use revenge to defeat Zelena" I say.

I look around out of habit to see if she appears, being that she's done that too much. She doesn't, fortunately.

"She may have lied to me about getting back to you, not that I would've listened to her anyway, but I will never stop fighting to get back to you Neal" I say.

I breath in and out to prevent myself from getting more choked up.

"I have to head off to work now. But I'll see you later. I promise" I say.

I turn away from the grave and head towards the pawnshop with a smile on my face.

I walk into the pawnshop and the little bell on the door goes off. However, when I walk in, the first thing I see is Belle and Mr. Gold kissing and embracing. As soon as they heard the bell, they looked up.

"Oh sorry guys. I should've assumed you guys would be...having a moment. I'm just gonna go" I say.

"No it's fine Molly. Stay. What bring you here anyway?" Mr. Gold says.

"Well, it's time for my morning shift" I say.

He looks at me with wide eyes. I bite my lip knowing that Belle had not yet told him about giving me a job here. Mr. Gold looks at Belle.

"You gave Molly a job here?" he asks.

Dear God, I hope he wasn't angry.

"Yeah, she said she just needed some things to do in her free time and she needed to do something where she could make a little cash, so I gave her the job. Plus, we really needed the tidying up. I hope you don't mind since you're the one who usually gives out the jobs" Belle says.

Mr. Gold looks at her and smile, then does the same to me.

"Not at all" he says.

He takes a look around at all the once dusty books.

"It seems like you did a good job tidying up" he says.

I smile and look at them.

"So is there anything I can do right now?" I ask.

Both Belle and Mr. Gold take a look around.

"No I don't think so" Belle says.

"Actually Molly, since you've done a good job without me taking care of the place, I'm going to give you the night off" Mr. Gold says.