Dear Readers,

Due to recent events on the show- approximately the whole last season and the half- I have decided that this story needs a serious rewrite.

There will be none of this "author" rubbish. All of my characters will remain the well rounded humans that Adam and Eddie originally created and won't turn into cartoon heroes and villains. There will be a grand total of NO Captain Swan- while I have no over all objections to the good Captain, and at her best Emma is one of my favourite characters- I just don't ship it.

There will be none of this Belle throwing Rumpel out of Storybrooke business- I mean what the hell?! Characters, Rumpel and especially, might seem a little OOC- but only because different choices lead to different actions.

I shall attempt to post my revised chapters and post all new ones, with some degree of regularity, but real life does have a tendency to get in the way far more often than it should.

I would like to thank you all for your patience with me for this change of direction and I hope you will all enjoy this revised story.

Prologue.

It had all come together so perfectly, every element had fallen neatly into place. Regina had cast his curse, and the Charmings as he had taken to calling the to royals he had set up to produce his curse breaker were now parents- not that they'd get to enjoy it for long.

Rumpelstiltskin was so close to having his son back that he could almost reach out and expect to touch the boy's soft dark hair. Hair which reminded him of another, a blue eyed beauty who would have made a better mother for his boy than Milan ever had...

No!

Thinking of Belle now would only cause yet more unnecessary pain. Better to think of Bae- the one true love that Rumpelstiltskin still had a chance to reconcile with.

"I'm coming Bae." The Dark One whispered into the darkness of his cell- focussing on the image of his brown eyed boy as the winds. of change whipped his ratty curls for the last time in twenty eight years. "I'm coming son."

~v~

Chapter one to follow...