Secrets

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Working Title: Secrets
Author: Kat Lee
For: valerie_jackson
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Character/Pairing: RumBelle (Rumpelstiltskin/Belle)
Rating: PG-13/T
Warning(s): SPOILERS FOR THE THIRD SEASON!!
Word Count: 348
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.



Everywhere we go,
They look at us.
They whisper about us;
They gawk at us.

They call themselves my friends,
And some of them truly are.
Yet still they do not understand.
Still, they fear for me
Because of him.

They look at him and fret.
What evil thing will he do next?
Whose life will he threaten;
What curse will he enact?

I look at him,
And I see the man I love.
I see a beautiful man,
Torn by tragedy,
Fighting to reclaim his life and heart.
I see a soul so burdened by sorrow
That I realize once more
There's no wonder he still has secrets.

He hasn't told me everything,
Not yet and probably not for years to come,
Maybe not ever.
He hasn't told me everything
About his past or even
About the horrors to which
He succumbed underneath her wrath.

There's so much he has yet to tell me,
So much about which he still frets,
So many secrets he has
But I already know.

I know more about him
Than any of them.
For a long while, I knew
Even more about him than he did.

I know a great many of his secrets,
Some of which he's shared,
Others I've deduced.

I know who killed Zelena.
I know why,
And I know where
The true dagger lays.

I know he's lying to me still,
But I know what he says that's important
Is the real truths.
I know he loves me.
I know together,
We'll save him.

He has no idea what all I know.
He worries every night,
Frets every day, about
What I'll learn,
When I'll learn,
And how I'll react.

They think I'll turn from his darkness.
He expects me still to leave him.
But I'm going to surprise them all.

When his darkness has come
Fully into the lights of day and knowledge,
I'll still be at his side,
Forever by the side of my True Love,
And the words I'll tell him then
Will still be the greatest truth of all time.
"I love you."

The End