Jacksprat Gets Lost in Fiction

A/N: The cover for this one was designed by NicoleMuenchSeidel.   She is the author of FF such as Journey of Twin Souls and many other beautiful stories. Chapter 3             Rumple placed books, parchment, and quills on the working table he set up for his new apprentice.   He smiled to himself, pleased by his triumphant achievement at claiming the daughter of Isabelle, one of the powerful members of his old order, as his apprentice before anyone else could claim her.   He had known Isabelle, but spoke to her very little.   She showed kindness and respect towards him as a friend and fellow magic user.   His relationship with the other members of the order had been far more complicated.   His brother’s Rasputin and Rothbart abused him, Jafar didn’t even acknowledge Rumple, seeing him as beneath him, Glinda felt the same, and Elphaba treated everyone the same.   Cora, the youngest, did sha...

Chapter Two                 Knowing Rumplestiltskin wasn’t a patience sorcerer and wouldn’t walkaway so easily, Maurice was forced to dismiss the guests of his daughter’s birthday celebration. The group: Maurice, Belle, Gaston, and Rumplestiltskin entered the war room.                   The war room consisted of a long wooden table with ten chairs, tapestries depicting scenes of great battles and tales of the heroics of individuals, a few maps displayed on the walls of the kingdom as well as neighboring ones, and a display of the armor that Maurice wore when he rescued the king’s daughter from the Goblin King.    At the moment, Rumple was admiring this armor touching it with his long, delicate calloused fingers.                 “Such fine a...