A Little Chat [Gold]

This was home, sure he had a house near the castle that was rather large but this was where he spent most of his time. He even had a bunk in one of the rooms upstairs. The basement was used for magic and everything connected to it… a lock room no one could get into. He didn’t want anyone to know he had his powers back, only one who really had an idea was Belle and he wasn’t sure how she was going to deal with it or was dealing with it.

He heard the bell ringing the moment the door had opened and closed. ’A customer…wonder what they are going to offer or want from me’ Gold thought as he sat the watch he was cleaning down on the table. He removed the black wool gloves he was wearing. Adjusted his purple tie that stood out from the deep plum color dress shirt that was under his typical black suit. Gold reached up and removed the glasses he was wearing before he headed out to the front of the store.

Standing there watching as Mary Margret handled the baby mobile, which had no use or propose for him. It was just another usually object that would most likely bring him some gold or something else of value from an expecting family. His brown eyes watched her closely, studying her knowing fully that she would want it back. However at this moment, she had nothing he wanted… ”What is it dearie?” He said, his voice carrying that bit of accent that was distinctive to him. Gold wasn’t sure what she wanted from him after all she knew magic came with a price.

Gold leaned into his cane a bit more as he stood there, waiting to hear what she wanted. His gaze was emotionless as well as his expression. There was nothing to read into him. He was always good at hiding things from people and remaining a secret.

Gold stood where he was just watching Mary Margret touch one of the unicorns on the baby mobile and he couldn’t pass up the chance to offer it to her...of course with a price that was. ”Must be heartache knowing you can never go back and watch her grow up. Not that you can’t have another child. Your welcome to that… for a price.” He grinned. Old habits were hard to break and some chances were too hard not to take. But he really didn’t want anything yet from Mary Margret, not yet anyways.

When she spoke of needing to ask him something, he already knew what it was but wasn’t going to let her know she had a part in it. Gold stood there emotionless, just as he always did. ”What would that be dearie?” He asked even though he already knew. His eyes watched as she came closer to the counter, closer to him. All the times she played right into his hand, all the times he managed to get what he wanted in the grand scheme of trying to get his son back. Luckily no one knew he was behind the curse, behind of all of his.

Then came the question about how they got here and more questions about the curse. A slight shrug of his shoulders was given. ”I am afraid, I have no answers. You should find Regina and ask her. Though I am afraid I have not seen her around here yet dearie.” Showing no of his cards or emotion on this subject, he just stood there as calm as can be. His eyes glanced back at the mobile she was playing with before looking at her. ”I have no magic, so how could I bring us back here?” Though that wasn’t the truth, he had his powers back and could do as he pleased but he would give that way even to Belle. There was no way Mary Margret would find out other wise either.

People were so narrow and closed minded… never talking time to stop and think first. This made dealing with them so easy. Playing off their emotions, not giving them any real amount of time to think about what they were doing. Oh how he loved to play around with people…use them to get what they wanted. ”Well your still young… haven’t aged in almost 30 years. Its not like you can have only one child.” He explained. Emotions, they were useless but now that he was in the human form again, he was finding some of them hard to deal with. Mostly deal with Belle… then again he always had trouble dealing with his emotions when she was around or something happened to her.

A shrug of his shoulders was given. ”How can you tell anyone is lying? Besides what point would I have in bringing us back here? I owned Storybrook, I had a mansion and my own store back there. Here I am lucky to just have this store. Back there, I had power… Here I don’t have much. So let me ask you again dearie what good would it do me?” He knew that would get her off his case after all it was the truth. He had given up so much in coming back here…not that it was his plan or anything.

”We are talking about Regina again…You were on the verge of finding the one thing she hates, happiness. And here you are ripped away from it yet again.” Gold explained, playing all the cards in the right way. Making it look like the Evil Queen was behind it. Ah…the murder trial, it was him who brought Kathryn back and that reminded him Emma still owed him. He would collect soon enough on that deal. When the time was right. ”Power isn’t just about rule, dearie. Don’t forget magic is here. She might have found her magic also and in time I am sure she will come.”

Then came the subject of his power and him being powerless. Oh how she was wrong about that. He had all the power he could ever want, the same powers he had back in the old days but he wasn’t going to show that yet. Belle was more important to him at the moment then showing off the fact that he was truly back. ”Things work in strange ways. I am not sure what happened but I am powerless. Could be apart of the curse or whatever brought us here. I don’t know. Now if you don’t mind, I really should get back to fixing that clock.” He told her, trying not to go too deep into the subject of him being powerless, he didn’t want her to find out anything more than what he told her. Then again he could just convince her that he was powerless, he had no trouble ever convincing anyone before.

“Of course time is moving forward dearie. Take the time to make most of life while you are able to. Don’t let Regina ruin your life like she has done the last twenty-eight years. It’s your life now and start living like you want to, have a family. Don’t let what happened take away from what you can have now.” It wasn’t often Gold gave advice like that but it was the truth. They were moving forward again so now their lives must reflect the same. People could be so blind and dumb when it came to things like that. They only on the very moment they were in… hardly ever thinking ahead. Its what made dealing with them so easy… Emotions made it hard for them to think clearly and when they had a rough spot added to the emotions they would take and give anything to get out of that tight spot. ”Its that is how you feel, then it is your lose.”

If Gold really wanted to, he could easily fool Emma like he had done some many times. Unless he was trying to get something out of her or work her into a spot he wanted, there was no way for her to tell if he was truly lying or not. He already proved that to himself a couple of times when dealing with her. ”Then I suggest you drop it for I am not the one who did this.” It was more of a threatening tone then he had shown before. Gold knew how to make it look like he didn’t like to be blamed for something even if he did it.

”Well clearly we are here back in our world of sorts. So what not start living the life you had before it was taken... You got a kingdom to rule again so stop feeling sorry for yourself and get on with guiding the people who are looking at you to lead them.” He was starting to get annoyed with all of this and just wanted to be left alone… to his own vices. To get back to work what he had been working on before she came in here.

Often times Gold was right more than he was wrong. Even though he was evil, he was smarter than most people. It was because of that intelligence that he was able to be one step ahead of everyone and knew how to play them… Glad Snow had finally seen things his way and would stop being all so gloom and doom. Okay, so there were days when he was all gloom and doom but he managed to keep those emotions like all the rest of his hidden. The only time he shown any emotion to someone other than his son or Belle was that when he was more than willing to beat the crap out of Belle’s father for what he had done to Belle… Emma and Belle’s father had seen his rage… it was not something to mess with. ”Yes, very well then dearie.”

A slight nod of his head was given to her as she spoke about forgiving her for disturbing him. ”Well you are doing the right thing, only in ending all of this can we truly have peace again. Be aware of those around you, there might be some who wish to take this city and your new crown away from you.” It wasn’t often Gold told anyone something like that but he knew in the end if Snow were in trouble without her Charming around, she would turn to him yet again. And it would be another deal for him to make and get something he wanted in return.

Gold was glad she was leaving but then came the moment she looked back at him, he stood there just looking at her waiting to see what she wanted. Then the mobile came up again. He moved out towards where it was and glanced at it before looking back at her. ”Nothing, it is yours after all. A good part of things in here are waiting to be claimed by their rightful owners… others are for sale. This however, is yours.” He reached up and took it down before holding it out towards her.