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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 25, 2012 18:55:24 GMT -8
KitchenThe kitchens inside the Dark Castle
Events occurring 4 years before Dark Curse
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 15, 2014 16:55:01 GMT -8
**Belle and Rumpelstiltskin went downstairs heading to the kitchens**
"What's that?", Rumpel heard her say, as they entered, pointing at his hided hands.
"That is...", he began, again a little awkwardly. "Oh, nothing special..." The battered book came out from behind his back. "Actually just a boring book I found in the library." Probably it didn't mean something to her.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 15, 2014 19:15:09 GMT -8
Belle smiled, as she headed down to the kitchen to make his breakfast. Belle stopped outside the door and looked at him, the way that he was nervous made her think that she was right about him being a nice guy. "Let me see it. I think I recognize it." Belle smiled looking at Rumpel with another sincere smile.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 15, 2014 20:19:33 GMT -8
Rumpelstiltskin watched her wordless. He liked the way Belle smiled at him. He liked the.. what?! Rumpel wondered about his own thoughts, and then decided to ignore them.
"It is yours.", he sayed to her as subsidiary as he could. "...if you want it."
With the same minor matter he tried to fill his words, he handed out the book to Belle. In the inner he wondered if she would recognize it or if Rumpel maybe erred about her interesting in it.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 15, 2014 21:08:15 GMT -8
Belle smiled and took the book from Rumpel. "Thankyou" Belle said, looking at it. Belle remembered what she thought about the book when she saw it in the library. "I was interested in this one" Belle took another look at the book and smiled. She was right, there was something good about this man.
Belle smiled again before turning towards the door and entering the kitchen to cook breakfast for this man.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 15, 2014 21:57:50 GMT -8
Rumpelstiltskin was glad he was right and that Belle liked his gift, but this got way too much smiling in his rooms. So he couldn't resist to give her a little shock.
"Oh and Belle!", he shouted after her, as she headed to the fridge. "Please use the meat from the second shelf... it tastes better if the children were young."
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 15, 2014 22:47:57 GMT -8
Belle agreed and then was confused by what Rumpelstiltskin said. She hoped he wasn't sure if he was serious, she really hoped not. Belle opened the fridge and saw the meat on the second shelf, she took it out and put it on the table and began to carve it up for breakfast.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 15, 2014 23:02:12 GMT -8
Rumpelstiltskin watched her amused, as she stagnated for a moment. Obviously a bit too conspicuous he looked out for her expression when she began to carve the meat for breakfast. If he should tell her? Nah, not yet. Maybe she has been here too long with him, as she would be taken in by his jokes anyway.
"We will go into town today, Belle.", he suddenly sayed.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 15, 2014 23:48:45 GMT -8
Belle was serving the breakfast and smiled as Rumpel sat down at the table. Belle became curious when Rumpel mentioned about going into town. Belle placed his plate in front of him and asked "Why?" Belle sat down next to Rumpel and smiled as she looked at him.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 16, 2014 0:08:58 GMT -8
Rumpel has awaited kind of that reaction. She has been here for already a while, but the days they left for town were nearly countable on one hand. The recent day was even two behind. It was the day when Rumpel took her with him, searching for that thief. He remembered Belle's look from inside the caratella.
"I need to have some more straw for the spinning wheel. And before you ask...", he added with a raised finger, sounding like he had to defend himself. "You will accompany me, just because I don't want you to stay here on your own. If again a thief breaks in, you probably get the idea to serve him some tea or something!" Of course he alluded to the fact Belle did set the last one free, before Rumpel could have finish up with him. The reproach in his words seemed probably to come out harder than he meant it. Particularly as it was just a pretense anyway. So that she don't get again that thought about a bright side within him.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 16, 2014 1:17:38 GMT -8
Belle looked at Rumpelstiltskin and nodded "Of course." Belle had a strong feeling they weren't going to get straw especially after he went off about that thief that she released again. Belle sat down across from Rumpel and began to eat the food she had made for both of them, as she looked around the kitchen and looked at him and smiled.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 16, 2014 6:57:46 GMT -8
Rumpelstiltskin let his words open like that and appreciated Belle's reaction without any opposition. Wordless he began to eat the breakfast she had served, as he suddenly felt observed.
"What is it, deary?", he asked, raising his head just a little at her direction. He didn't know if he should respond her smile or not. He decided for doing not.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 17, 2014 4:28:41 GMT -8
Belle didn't realize that she was still staring at him. Belle shook herself back into reality and suddenly saw why he asked that. "Sorry. Nothing" Belle said, looking around the kitchen before looking back to Rumpelstiltskin and then back down at her plate.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 17, 2014 9:24:20 GMT -8
"I see...", Rumpelstiltskin mumbled back in her direction, let his eyes wander back down at his plate too. Maybe his last words about the thief thing were too hard? Should he... apologize... for them? Rumpel shortly raised up his head again. No, apologizing really was not his strength. And besides, why should he? Belle did totally wrong setting free that thief. He nearly had been in the act of torture him to hear his pathetic pleading. Not as it hasn't been pointless anyway. Rumpelstiltskin abandoned that thought and instead started watching at Belle for his part now. He stopped eating and put his fingertips together, kept watching her with an implied smile on his lips. "Let me ask you a question, Belle.", he suddenly raised his voice. "From your life before... this." Rumpel pointed shortly round them. "What is it, you do miss the most?" A pause. "Is it your... fiancé?" A little jiggle of his head accompanied the pronunciation of the word fiancé. Actually Rumpel wasn't sure himself why he suddenly asked her something like that, even though his eyes fixed her with an expectant look.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 18, 2014 3:29:01 GMT -8
Belle sighed as Rumpel asked her this question. "No trust me I don't miss my fiance." Belle smiled and continued talking to Rumpel "Honestly, it was an arranged marriage. My dad's idea" Belle began to get sad when she mentioned her dad "My dad I miss". Belle looked at Rumpel and smiled, as she sat there.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 18, 2014 9:00:35 GMT -8
"No trust me I don't miss my fiance."
Again he didn't know why, but Rumpelstiltskin couldn't stop himself to show a satisfied smile. "Is that so?", he just whispered, kept watching her interested.
"Honestly, it was an arranged marriage. My dad's idea"
Belle's sudden sadness didn't escape from his eyes. His view was getting more serious, too. No. Do not tell me it is your dad you miss the most., Rumpel thought with a pensive face. That desire he couldn't accomplish. He don't wanted. She was his now. Part of their deal.
"My dad I miss"
He knew it. Rumpel's lips curled scornfully regardless, as he heard her words. Intently he thought about something, not even noticed Belle was watching him. "There is...", he started, undecided if he really should continue. "...a possibility."
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 19, 2014 22:21:25 GMT -8
Belle looked up curious by what Rumpelstiltskin said. "There is?" Belle wasn't sure whether she should trust him or not, but, something inside her told her that she could. Belle smiled as she continued to look at Rumpelstiltskin happily and curious.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 20, 2014 11:46:44 GMT -8
"There is?", Belle's prompt inquiry sounded to his ears.
Rumpel should not have told her about. It was too risky... in more than one way. But he just couldn't see her sad. Wasn't that strange? She was his unfree servant, carried away from everything she had in her life. No, Rumpel sayed to himself. It was her decision to go with him. To consent the deal. The fact that Belle of course had no other choice, he disregarded.
"There is.", Rumpel finally confirmed with a little nod. "Follow me..." His face expression now was serious, thoughtfully. Not his usual creepy mirth. Rumpelstiltskin did not look back to make sure she's following, like she was told. While walking towards the door, he did not say another word.
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Post by etickner95 on Feb 20, 2014 14:31:43 GMT -8
Belle smiled as Rumpel told her about this and watched as he began to leave the room. Belle stood up as he told her to follow him, she wasn't sure where he was taking her but, she decided to trust him. Belle continued to follow, as the two of them walked in silence.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Feb 21, 2014 9:16:24 GMT -8
**Rumpelstiltskin and Belle left the kitchen towards a direction Belle wasn't allowed to go before**
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Post by Storyteller on Aug 24, 2014 1:26:23 GMT -8
*Belle and Rumpel enter from the Dark Castle - Great Hall*
Belle could feel him behind her as she entered the kitchens. The air hung thick between them with words left unsaid. It was a mildly uncomfortable silence that disappointed Belle somewhat. She had thought that they were past this stage but with Rumpelstiltskin, she was never quite sure what to think. It was that very feeling that often pressed her to learn more about the mysterious man who had taken her as his servant.
She was almost through putting together their breakfast when her conscience got the better of her nerves. "I'm very sorry about last night. Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me."
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Aug 24, 2014 2:34:36 GMT -8
When they entered the kitchen Rumpelstiltskin felt a little uncomfortable with the silence. Wordless he watched the back of Belle, leading the way to the kitchen. Was it too strict to ask her if he overslept serving his breakfast? Pshaw! He was the Dark One! When did he started to think such things...? Was he getting soft like Belle thought about him? God, no! Rumpel took a seat at his usual place at the head of the table, watching Belle putting together their breakfast.
"I'm very sorry about last night. Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me."
Her apology let him look up. "Your... curiosity?", he repeated in a high-pitched tone of his voice, accompanied his words with a wild gesture of his right hand. Rumpel was about to add something really mad, but for any reason he didn't. So his lips closed without a tone and just after a little pause, he said: "Let's call it curiosity." Again an uncomfortable silence was spreading out between the two of them. With a fast move Rumpel grabbed at the plate Belle had placed in front of him and began to eat the meal. Additionally not in a very... dainty way.
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Post by Storyteller on Oct 18, 2014 18:35:35 GMT -8
BELLE
The silence fell on them again as Rumpelstiltskin began to dig, literally, into his breakfast. Belle gently pushed some utensils towards him, feeling a little agitated herself.
"You know, I believe you owe me a bit of an apology as well." She chose her words carefully, not wanting to provoke his ire but needing to speak her mind. "While I was wrong about touching something that wasn't mine, you did not have to yell at me like that."
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Oct 18, 2014 20:10:45 GMT -8
Rumpel's head rised up, as a fork was landing next to him. With a miffled expression he put it up and continued the meal. It wasn't long before he somehow felt observed. Oh dearie, what was it now? With an expectant look his head rised up another time.
"You know, I believe you owe me a bit of an apology as well."
His eyes widened, while something from his meal dropped down the fork.
"While I was wrong about touching something that wasn't mine, you did not have to yell at me like that."
"I could have send you back to your old room...", he lastly responded strictly, but with a whiff of his high-pitched tone, he never used in his voice when he was seriously angry. Belle has been long enough at his place to know that, hasn't she?
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Post by Storyteller on Oct 18, 2014 22:07:41 GMT -8
Belle
He picked up the fork she had pushed his way and began to eat with it. Well, began to attempt to eat with it. But the effort was not lost on Belle, who delicately picked up her own fork.
"I could have send you back to your old room..."
Belle sent him a look over the table, "You could have..." she said slowly, before letting an almost cheeky grin cross her face. "I don't believe that you would have, though. You like having me around too much." She was taking a chance by adding that last comment, she knew that. But somehow she knew it was the truth. Even if she wasn't sure that Rumpelstiltskin had let himself fully realize it yet.
She took a careful bite of her own breakfast, chewing and swallowing before adding, "Besides, who would make your breakfast if I'm locked down in the dungeon?"
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Oct 18, 2014 23:14:05 GMT -8
"You could have..."
What's the point of that again? Does he have to wait for a but...? A grin left her lips, as their eyes met each other. A somehow... lovely grin. Lovely?
"I don't believe that you would have, though.
Of course. No but, but a though... He had to know it.
"You like having me around too much."
Belle let follow a pause, continue eating her breakfast, while Rumpel irritated stared past her. What the...?
"Besides, who would make your breakfast if I'm locked down in the dungeon?"
Maybe he should really lock her down in the dungeon again... at least that would prevent such talks. They really were somehow... unsettling. "Well, you shouldn't have forgot about who did it back in those days, dearie.", he lastly answered with an amused grin, before continuing his meal, too.
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Post by Storyteller on Oct 19, 2014 7:31:13 GMT -8
Belle
She felt a moment of triumph. True, she had not obtained the apology she had wanted. Not out right. But she could see something in the grin that he sent back her way. A sincerity that she suspected not many others, if any, had seen before. That was enough for her.
The silence that they ate in was now comfortable. Still, as they were nearing the end of their meal, Belle was compelled to break it.
"Thank you. For letting me see my father last night. With everything that happened afterward...Well, I never got the chance to tell you how much it meant to me."
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Oct 19, 2014 9:57:03 GMT -8
Rumpelstiltskin's head didn't raise again while both of them ended their meal in silence. A somehow peculiar silence. Not as it was an uncomfortable one. More like... Uh whatever!
"Thank you. For letting me see my father last night. With everything that happened afterward...Well, I never got the chance to tell you how much it meant to me.", Belle suddenly broke that silence.
Rumpel's eyes again met up with hers. "Uh... it's no matter.", he answered a bit unskillful. Though this situation still felt peculiar, a warm glow seemed to spread out all inside him. Or was this even more peculiar? His eyes went down at the empty plate in front of him, actually just to look somewhere else.
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Post by Storyteller on Oct 27, 2014 18:08:08 GMT -8
When their eyes met again, Belle's breathe caught in her throat. There was something different. Something had changed somehow and the implications of it caused a heat to rise in her face. As if a force held her there, she couldn't look away and for the first time she let herself begin to explore the depths of the dark eyes before her. But as quickly as the moment had come, Rumpelstiltskin averted his gaze to his now empty breakfast plate.
Hastily, Belle stood, trying to hide her own redding cheeks as she gathered the soiled china together. "I should get this cleared up. I'm sure that you have... many things to attend to."
She couldn't imagine the things he may have to attend to that day. Part of her didn't want to know.
But as she carried the dishes away from the table, she was thankful to have a moment to compose herself.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 4, 2014 11:50:56 GMT -8
"I should get this cleared up. I'm sure that you have... many things to attend to.", Belle suddenly broke the silence, as she stood up and gathered the soiled china in front of him.
A curly strand fell down her shoulder. When Rumpel’s eyes were following that little move, his breath suddenly got caught. She was leaning close... somehow really close. Actually not closer as usual, when she did tidy up the table, but this time it felt kinda... different. Bashfully he was looking away. Maybe she didn’t notice his glimpse. Hopefully she didn’t. Well, actually Rumpel didn't mind what Belle was thinking. She was his servant. The truth of the matter was that he minded his thinking. Perturbed by his own mind, Rumpel quickly stood up. "Indeed.", he lastly reacted on her last words. "Duty calls." Just as he was about to leave, he turned around to Belle one last time and with a stricter voice he said: "Oh, by the way, dearie, don't forget to clean the stairs today!" "And I mean all of them!", he added with an impish giggle. When his back was again turned to her, a satisfied smile was laying on his lips. She better doesn't get the idea he would have lost his bite because of having done a little favor to her.
**Rumpelstiltskin leaves the Dark Castle**
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