Eleven Reasons why Rumpel and Belle are certain they love each other.
11 Reasons General theme: Eleven Reasons why Rumpel and Belle are certain they love each other.
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Character/s or Pairing: Rumpelstiltskin/Belle
Prompt: 1-mouth/lips/tongue/sense of taste
Title: True Love’s Kiss
Rating: Gish
Warnings/Disclaimers: This series isn’t mine and the only offensive thing you might find in here are spoilers.
A/N: Writing Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin is going to be the death of me.
Rumpelstiltskin had been in love many times, but the cost to finding out when he had true love was more difficult than he could have imagined. He should’ve known, he himself was a wielder of magic and all of its rules. But love can make people do silly things. He couldn’t have known with Mila, he didn’t have anything to for proof then. But with Cora, well it was staring him right in the face but he was blinded by affection for a woman with too much gumption for power than should’ve been allowed alive.
With Belle it was different, he wasn’t convinced that he loved her right away, probably for the reason that he didn’t want to be. He had had his heart ripped out (figuratively speaking of course, he still had it safely placed where it needed to be) too many times for him to test how far a woman’s desires could drive her. But Belle’s dreams were simple. She didn’t demand anything from him and, in a way without his knowing, he even helped fulfill her dream of being a hero. She thought of herself, she knew what she wanted, but didn’t lust for it quite as strongly as Mila and Cora did.
But she wasn’t sedated, no, not at all. She was an eccentric in her own style, but unlike the other two she was so by finding happiness and amusement in the simplest of things. The only thing the other two did was repent the past. Belle looked forward to her future, even if she couldn’t be sure what kind of a future that would be.
She was happy with him, satisfied.
The others wanted more.
And that’s when he decided that he might, just might, love her. So he sent her away, because whenever he loved someone it always seemed to end badly.
But she came back. And her lips felt like something entirely new. Lemons cleaning metal. The smell of ink first hitting a parchment. The spine of a new book being broken into. A new deal forever sealed.
Her kiss was how Rumpelstiltskin knew he had true love, because true love’s kiss can break any curse. And nothing had happened with Cora, but his demise could’ve been met at Belle’s hands.
Rumpelstiltskin truly loved his son, and because that love was so much stronger, he suffered more. The same fate would befall Belle. True love brought people close enough together that they burned. Baelfire suffered because he wanted change from the dark one, he saw who he truly was, and wanted that to be his constant. Bae would’ve been proud to show everyone his father, a kind coward, than give no one else the chance to try and love him as well. Rumpel could only guess that Belle wanted the same, which is why she would be pleaded to leave instead of dropped.
And then Rumpelstiltskin was alone once again. But now it hurt more, because he finally understood that he could’ve had something more substantial than Mila, Cora, or anyone else who left him behind for their own personal gain. Power though, magic, is exactly why he is just like those that had wronged him.
His castle is full of things. Objects, talismans, contracts. But the only items that any value to the man who owned them, were ragged and broken, but held inside them, without him ever knowing it, last reminisce of true love for a monster.
A centuries old scruffy shawl and a chipped cup.
He could’ve had it all. Somehow, he could’ve. But he still fooled himself into believing he did.