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deal 006 ❖ [video]

[The video is on. But Rumpelstiltskin is unaware of this, largely because it was turned on as it was flung against a wall.

He's having a bit of a tantrum. These are, thankfully, quite rare, but also quite violent. There is broken glass strewn about, vials and bottles shattered and small pools of variously colored liquids.]

Useless! All of this entirely useless. How is it there's not one pair in true love in this entire mess of an existence?!

[It's about here his eyes fall on his communicator and he realizes he's being watched. He straightens up a bit, schools his face into a bit of a smile. Tense around the edges, pulled a bit too taut over his features.]

Well dearies, sorry you had to see that. Call it a bit of frustration and homesickness. I suppose perhaps while I have some of your attention, I should make the most of it. What is the happiest memory you have? What would you be willing to sacrifice to reclaim it?

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For him, yes. For my son. And for myself too.

[A shrug of his shoulders here, as though it's easy to dismiss. His voice is remarkably quiet, tone lower pitched, strangely thoughtful.] But all magic has a cost. I'm not the man I used to be.

I changed. And Bae was... Bae was a good boy. He couldn't abide by it. He found a way to break the curse I took upon myself. But I was still too much of a coward to go through with it at the end, and I lost him to another world, alone. I promised I would go with him. It's the only deal I've ever broken.

[He stares at him quietly. This is probably the most human he's ever seen Rumpelstiltskin. The regret is easier to see, and believe.]

It's hard... Why another world?

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[It's rare for him, and already there's something uneasy growing in discussing this. But then, perhaps it will work to his advantage. Tidus is the hero type, after all. And at the heart of this part of his story is a father searching for a lost child. It's a noble enough cause.]

In a world without magic, even the curse I am under would have no power.

[Oh, it's working. He can't help but want to help Rumpelstiltskin, hating the idea that he's been suffering from a power greater than him, while his son was probably scared, lost, and even angry. He has to help, while there's still time.]

So it is a curse. What was the method he thought of?

It is. Few more powerful have ever existed.

[But there's no menace in his voice for once when he mentions this. He's not trying to intimidate.]

He asked a fairy for help. [Horrible, meddling little things.] For a way into this world with no magic. And he wanted us to go together. And that was the last that I saw him.

Did you...know it was a curse?

[He doesn't seem afraid. Curious, and a little sad, but there's no fear.]

So I guess it was just a one time trip.

Oh yes. Quite clearly. But at the time, it was the only way I thought I could save him.

[A nod.]

The last of its kind, that. The fairies did it on purpose, I'm sure. Horrible, nasty little things.

You did what you had to-- what you thought was right.

Was it a trick on their part? Why would they be so willing to help?

Yes, I did.

[And he doesn't regret the power. No. He's terrified of being weak again, but that terror, it's its own weakness and he realizes this at least in part.]

It does seem strange, doesn't it? Certainly not for any love of me they may have had.

But it's strange that they would want to do anything to make you upset, too, since you could probably just kill them.

[Could kill them. Does kill them. Gleefully.]

True true. I have no idea of their motivations. All I know is that after that portal closed, there was no way to open it again and Bae was gone. Because I hesitated.

Since then...have you been looking?

For another way from my world to that other world where Bae has gone, yes.

So far to no avail. [No need to mention the curse he'd cooked up to get him into that world. It hadn't been cast yet, after all. He couldn't cast it.]

How can I help?

[...such a good predictable hero, Rumplestiltskin tells himself. But at the same time, some small part of him is rather genuinely touched by the offer, given as readily as it is.]

I need to find my way back to my world. Or perhaps even better yet, a way to the world that Bae has gone to -- if it's out there in this darkness as well.

[He is doing it partly because "it's the right thing", but also because he wants to help Rumpelstiltskin himself.]

Then I'll help you find a way. We just have to figure out where to start.

I appreciate it, deary. More than I'm good at expressing.

But yes, where to start. That is the tricky part.

[He smiles, before becoming more serious.]

Maybe if we could use some of the known methods of travel but somehow changed them around a bit or something.

Perhaps. Though how many worlds do you expect are lost in that darkness? It seems quite varied.

I don't know. Maybe a countless amount of worlds. Wait--! Why don't you enchant something of his like you did for me with Yuna?

I wish I could, but I have nothing of Bae's. Back in my world, I knew full well what world he was lost to. I had no need. It wasn't a matter of finding him so much as reaching him.

Here, things have changed significantly.

Oh...the darkness doesn't exactly give us time to just grab something that belongs to someone, does it? I guess there goes that option.

No it didn't really let me pack a bag, unfortunately. I had a few trinkets I would have liked to bring.

Does it have to be something of his? I mean, don't you share the same blood?

[Pardon him for a moment here where he has flashbacks about Zoso taunting him that Bae wasn't really his son -- even if Rumplestiltskin knows that not to be true. Bae is his. He's certain of it. Even so, he's a coward, and half afraid of the idea.]

Perhaps, though... with the way I have been changed by this curse, I fear that my blood may lead me to darker things.

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