Finding The Light

Part 3 - Time For A Change

I rolled my eyes as I twisted my hands around my hips on both sides. One question flew through my veins, not making me tense, quite the opposite, relaxed.

How did I love that thing?

I scattered my eyes around the room and back over to where Rumplestilkin was stood. A shocked expression flew across his face the minute I interrupted there little meeting and it was still there now, just slowly degrading into more of a shocked unloved expression.

Aw a little love sick puppy dog.

How cute.

"Belle... What happened to you? This isn't you, this never was you." I watched as he gulped back down his tears. He's so weak. How did old me ever love this waste of oxygen?

"Well of course it's not your Belle I mean, look at me. Old Belle is gone. The woman you loved is gone."

I crossed my arms across my chest and pulled my hood further down my face, blocking nearly all of my eye view.

"Belle... You don't mean any of this, it's the darkness speaking. It's controlling you. Belle, listen to me." I watched as he reached his hand over towards my and tried to take my hand.

Of course I wasn't going to let that happen now, was I?

I lifted my arms up and pulled away from his weak grip, before blasting him with a ray of magic, pushing him into the table behind him, knocking over chairs and dishes making them clash as a few dropped onto his body, now slumping against a wall.

"Gold!" I watched as the group of them step over towards him and Snow knelt next to him, checking his pulse. "It's okay, he's okay." She sighed and stood back up next to her Prince Charming and crossed her arms angered.

"Belle! You love him!" She stood up close to him, obviously scared of me.

I mean, who wouldn't?

I scoffed, rolling my eyes whilst dusting my hands together. "Love him?" I laughed, "why would anyone in there right mind love that thing?"

Good luck answering that.

"Now, can I deliver my warning or must you all stand here with your mouths gaped open and watch me?" I placed my hands on my hips, curling my fingernails around my each other, intertwining them.

"Or I can throw someone else into a wall if that comes at your fancy?" I shrugged and awaited my answer.

"No! No! Don't, just say what you have to say and run along." Charming placed a hand on his wife protectively.

I thought so.

"My warning then." I stepped closer and placed my finger up circling them all. "If any of you, and I mean any," I stopped and looked at Rumplestilkin, now slouched against a wall, his eyes tightly shut.

"Come near me or decide to go all saviour on me and get old Belle back, you will suffer the consequences and, that means one simple thing." I prepared my hand for my disappearance.

"Storybrooke will fall quicker."

I clicked my hand and disappeared from the family reunion to start initiating my plan.

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Rumple's POV:

"Gold?"
"Wake up."
"Oh no the crocodile must be dead."
"Shut up Killian."
"What? Just expressing the truth."

I slowly moved my hand across my face, still keeping my eyes shut.

"Guess he's not dead, oh well, my day will come."

I should just stay in the darkness.

Opening my eyes will just be useless at this point in time.

Belle's dark and doesn't love me.

It can't get any worse than this.

Keeping my eyes closed is the most easiest thing.

"Gold come on, we need you awake so we can work on saving Belle together."

The Saviours hope speech.

God help me.

This is the last thing I need right now.

I open my eyes and push myself against the wall, grabbing my cane of the floor where it had previously landed. "Gold?" Charming crossed his arms and stops me from heading out the door.

"What? Let me go." I rolled my eyes and heard everyone else move closer to the door, surrounding me. "Your head, it needs healing, it's bleeding pretty bad." I moved my hand off my head, pulling it down to my eye line, seeing the blood.

"It's nothing a little magic won't heal." I placed my hand on top of my cut and moved it across, thinking it would disappear.

"Gold? That didn't work..."

Oh great. My magic's gone as well as my darkness.

Fabulous.

"What? Oh that's brilliant! How the hell can I defeat the darkness and get Belle back now?!" I kept my hand on my head and kept waving it across, hoping my magic would start to work again, and not be comprehended.

"It's not going to work Gold," Regina went and pulled the book of the table. "Did you guys even read the book?" She rolled her eyes and walked back forward.

"I'm not much of a bookworm dearie." I scoffed for about the millionth time and crossed my arms, giving up on my head.

"You left that to your girlfriend crocodile." I heard Hook laugh and didn't bother to say anything back.

Such a waste of oxygen.

Once I'm done with all of this I will get my revenge and finally shut him up.

"Honestly, I thought you guys would have just a little sense, but boy I was wrong." I was knocked back into reality by Regina's petulant words.

"Well come on then Regina, tell us what it says." Emma leaned over the book and looked down. "It's in some sort of transcript, I can't read it."

I rolled my eyes and leaned over. "That's because it is written in a type of cursive in which only people who have darkness, or have suffered from darkness can read."

"Oh so it's just the evil only club? How fun." I watched as Hook went and sat in a corner, grabbing himself the biggest rum he could find and chugging it down in a gulp.

"Whatever, just shut up and drink your rum and leave us be Killian." Emma rolled her eyes and turned towards him and it finally shut him up, thank god.

"Gold, I believe you should read it as it's your girlfriend we are attempting to save."

Attempting.

Oh I love how so much faith they have in themselves.

If I wasn't here, let's just say Belle would be stuffed.

"Alright then, get ready."

I skimmed my eyes down the page, preparing myself for what I had to decipher.

Let's hope this is easy.

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Dun dun dunnnn! What will the book say? Will it help to defeat Belle? What will become of her with the darkness because she's only getting started!
Thanks for reading!
emmascaptainhook :)