@sloansheperd16 I know the timelines in once upon a time are so jumbled up lol so I am hoping this will work. So basically, rumple is really distraught after losing bae to the land without magic. So to try and relieve some of the emotional pain, he has a one night stand with some random woman. She gets pregnant and doesn’t want to be a mother so after giving birth, she finds rumples castle and pretty much tells rumple that she wants no part in the babies life. So he raises her, and then when she’s about 16, that’s when belle comes into it. I don’t know if I want to make Regina her godmother, still trying to figure that out.
