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Fic: Harmless - Chapter 9

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rufeepeach:

AU: Belle arrives, bruised and bleeding, on the doorstep of a lame spinner and his son. On the run from the war and its causes, her short stop-over becomes something else entirely.

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6- Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Chapter 9

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Harmless
Chapter 9

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Baelfire wakes early, to the sound of his papa hobbling around in the kitchen. It’s too early for spinning - they need the sun risen for the light to be good enough, and papa eats breakfast before he works, always - and yet Rumpelstiltskin is out of his bed and leaving their home.

Bae knows that something important happened yesterday, that Belle and his papa have not agreed on what to do about the knight. He glimpses Rumpelstiltskin’s face as he passes Bae’s cubby, and it is set with something Bae has only seen a few times before: his papa is determined, his jaw set against the fear that so often grips him. Whatever he is leaving so early to do, he is terrified.

Papa’s fear should not cause Bae to feel the same, but it does, every time. Papa is a coward, but he is also one of the few fathers in the village still able to look after his son. The few other men in the village of fighting age are sickly or lame, as Papa is. Papa is in the best shape of them all.

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And today, Bae is proud to call himself the son of Rumpelstiltskin the Spinner.

That line was making me tear up too! Stupid perfect fluffle-headed child.

#fic: harmless

Notes

  1. fuckyeahbelleandrumpelstiltskin reblogged this from rufeepeach
  2. rufeepeach reblogged this from delilahbe and added:
    Molly Weasley had a point. And there’s a war on: people go out, they don’t always come back. I’d be pissed in Belle’s...
  3. ushioamamiya reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    sejfhagferjge jajajaja, poor rumple and bae
  4. whiteorangeflower reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    I love Harmless
  5. fyeahrumpelstiltskin reblogged this from rufeepeach
  6. delilahbe reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    “You should be! Brainless child, vanishing before daybreak. No note, nothing, just gone!” she stands, breathing hard,...
  7. wondertwinc reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    Rum, you are so amazing when being brave.
  8. marquesadesantos reblogged this from rufeepeach
  9. faerietailsandslimysnails reblogged this from rufeepeach
  10. 0ceanofdarkness reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    Hmmm… interesting....Rumplestiltskin kill...too much...
  11. missgolightly29 reblogged this from rufeepeach
  12. thestraggletag reblogged this from nothingeverlost
  13. nothingeverlost reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    All this talk of the Dark One has me worried about all three of my babies!
  14. iambicdearie reblogged this from rufeepeach and added:
    And today, Bae is proud to call himself the son of Rumpelstiltskin the Spinner.
  15. amuseoffyre said: YAY! Dark one! I was hoping he would show up in it again, and really, you could do anything with him versus them and I would love it.
  16. rufeepeach posted this