Finding The Light

Part 12 - Every Last Part

Wait? What's happening?

Is that?

No no it can't be.

A new story.

I looked over at Henry who leant on the table above me, smiling. "Henry? What do you know about this? What is it?!" I flicked over the pages in the book.

The pages were filled with a new story, not yet completed all the way through, but an ending perfectly sealed like a bow. "It's the normal storybook, but as you can see, there's a new story." He smiled and sat down next to me as I kept watching the pages grow and grow.

The first pages were the first part, the darkness taking over Belle and the dagger in the middle off main street after she had been taken away by the cloud of darkness. The following pages were all that has happened so far.

The conversations at Granny's with the softball team, my nightmares, well, the first one, the dagger and chipped cup disappearing off the table, me getting through to her in the library, all off it.

Every last part.

"I don't understand... How is it all here? And the ending, what is it?" Henry took the book from my hands. "Ah, that you can't look at." He sighed at me.

"If you know the ending you might take a different path to try stop it, or you might change it and if you see it, there's more of a chance that you'll try too, or you'll will." He clenched the book across his chest.

"So, if check the end, and I see it, I might mess it up and it might never happen?" I sighed.

Great, now I know the ends in this book and I can't even look at it, too reasurre myself. How fantastic.

"Yeah, that's it Grandpa, I'm sorry, you probably thought you could check it." He passed me the chocolate bar after breaking of a chunk and eating it himself.

Oh yes! Chocolate! Because I really want chocolate at a time like this!

I sighed and took the bar off him, taking half a piece of and dropping it in mouth, letting it drip into my tounge as I trailed it through my teeth, savouring the taste as I gulped it down.

"It's not your fault Henry, in fact it's fine because I might have a way without checking it. Now, can I borrow the storybook and I'll bring it back to you at..." I checked my watch. "7pm tonight, Granny's?"

I watched as he stood up and nodded, passing me the book into my hands as I followed him to the door. "That's fine Gramps, be careful!" He smiled at me as he walked down the driveway. "And thanks for lunch it was really nice!" He walked down the street and I watched him dissapear.

"Now, let's get this started." I smiled to myself as I walked up the stairs and got ready.

I mean, what could go wrong?

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Belle's POV:

So my plan, it's pretty simple you see.

I'm taking it like the olden times, back to when Rumplestilkin nearly died and that blue fluttering fairy gave me a rose "connected to my beast" as she said.

My beast.

How pathetic.

He's definitely not my beast.

He's no one's beast, as a matter of fact, he's just a love sick puppy dog now.

"This rose," I played with it in my hands as I drew a circle around the petals, "so I don't have to keep checking up on this pathetic excuse of a being will be very helpful."

I placed it on the floor Infront of me as I adjusted my hood. "With just one look of this rose I'll be able to tell how much hope the former dark one has, and when the petals have all gone, simple it'll affect the whole town and then no one will have hope." I laughed to myself.

"Storybrooke will be under my control, there will be no more Storybrooke." I flicked my wrist as the glass case covered the rose.

"Simple."

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Rumple's POV:

I got ready in almost an instant and ran down the stairs, throwing the dinner pots in the sink as I ran past, grabbing the storybook and heading to my shop.

Please, honest to god, please make sure this works, what can go wrong?

Nothing I hope.

As I got to my shop, I paid no attention as to where I was going, and due to this, I had the pleasure of running into the evil queen and her bow boy.

"Can you run a little more carefully Gold or should I do the pleasure myself and throw you into the road and let you become a carpet?!" She crossed her arms across her chest, with bow boys still interlinked with hers.

"A pleasure to see you too this afternoon." I spat my words out and placed a hand on my hip, looking at the shop behind them, two blocks away.

"Right, well in that case run and keep to one side of the pavement or it'll be the road next time, got it?" I continued looking at the shop, a relative distance behind them. "Gold? Hello?!" I continued to ignore her, half zoned out, half not.

"He's a stupid as he looks, come on Robin let's go." She started walking and bow boy was quick to follow, like a dog on leash.

Can that woman get any ruder? I continued running to the shop, one thought in my head as I unlocked the door and went to the back of the shop.

"If I can't look at the future and see how or if this all comes to end, I need to see the one person I can't speak too now."

I rummaged through the boxes behind the desk and after a while I found what I was looking for.

I placed it in the palm of my hand. A small black and grey embellished box, one which could help me change everything, or make it all worse.

Either way, it's worth a try.

"I'm going to talk to Belle, my Belle."

I gripped my palm with two hands and started to shake my hands.

"Before this all happened."

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So, Rumple has a plan to talk to his Belle, will it work, is there any hope? And Belle has a rose where she can keep track of hope, right until the last petals falls, will she see the last petal fall though?
That's a question for another day.
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