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Storybrooke Librarian Bonnie French lived a quiet life with her books. A very quiet life. Occasionally she'd run into Mr. Gold, one of the few other book lovers in town, and they'd chat about their latest reads, but that hardly qualified as a social life. Still she was content.
Then Emma Swan came to town. And everything changed.
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23 Jun 2026
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When Regina cast the Dark Curse, among other things she wanted to make Rumplestiltskin miserable. She couldn’t do it by making him poor and powerless, he made sure of that. So, she gave him a husband he was supposed to hate.For twenty-eight years in Storybrooke, Mr. Gold lives beside Yakov Nikolaevich Kaiser, the town’s quiet paediatrician: kind, stubbornly compassionate, and inexplicably good with Henry Mills. The arrangement was meant to be a humiliation. Instead, it became a life.
Henry grows up with two unlikely adults in his corner. Gold grows far more attached than anyone intended and when Emma Swan’s arrival begins to fracture the Curse, Rumplestiltskin realizes the terrible truth:
Yakov Kaiser was never meant to survive in a world without magic.
Breaking the Curse might save the town. It might also kill the man Gold has learned to love.Time line:
1. “Asset Assessment” – prequel to the main story.
2. “Damage Assessment” – part 1 of the main story.- Words:
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22 Jun 2026
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Regina refuses to stick to the deal she struck with Rumplestiltskin and instead of giving him a comfortable life, traps him in a cage in a basement, forgotten for years. Then comes a runaway from a hospital, meeting the madman in a cage and somehow, despite everything, the two run and learn to live together, survive together, and become each other's world.
NOTE: This takes place before Season 1 starts, before Emma's arrival.
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It's been five years since Rumplestiltskin was banished from Storybrooke and no one knew what had happened to him. That was until Regina got a call from someone asking how she could transfer the remains of her brother from Storybrooke to Scotland. Canon until Rumple's banishment.
[Eventual Rumbelle but towards the end.]
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Wishing On a Shooting Star and Thinking that a Heart Can’t Lie by Dragonbat
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
06 Oct 2024
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Divergence AU in which Neal doesn't abandon Emma in "Tallahassee". Years later, the son Emma was pressured to put up for adoption tracks them down... but breaking the curse will mean forcing Neal to confront the father he never wants to see again.
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- Part 1 of Wishing-verse: A Swanfire AU