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by @sfridley
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Thank you for picking my story to read. I'm an author with a small amount of readers, so I'm grateful for all of my readers. So, thank you for giving this story a chance.
I'm super excited to start writing this story. This story means a lot to me. I hope everyone who reads this story enjoys it.

I originally came up with this story idea when I was watching Once Upon a Time with my bestie and I was like, "Rumple needs a love triangle" so here we are. Enjoy.

Just so you know, ☾ and ☽ will be around the start and finish of each flashback.

Table of Contents
Preface. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑰 𝑾𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒅
1. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉
2. 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔
3. 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔
4. 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔
5. 𝑹𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒏
6. 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒆
7. 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔
8. 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓
9. 𝑰 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑰 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒊𝒎
10. 𝑹𝒆𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏
Epilogue. 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒀𝒐𝒖

Aryanna Johnson has spent her entire life running—from her past, from her pain, from the ghosts that refuse to let her go. But no matter how far she goes, there is one demon she can never outrun. Herself.

Mistakes have followed her like shadows, relentless and unshakable. Again. And again. And again. No matter how hard she tries to move forward, the past has a way of clawing its way back. But what if the demons she thought she had left behind all those years ago never truly faded? What if they were only waiting in the dark, biding their time, watching—until now? Until the moment they could finally take their vengeance?

•─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•

Rumplestiltskin is a man caught between two lives, two choices, two loves. Torn between past and present, between the man he once was and the monster he fears he will always be. Belle, with her unshakable faith, urges him to be the man behind the beast, the better version of himself. But Aryanna? She calls to the darkness inside him, the one part of himself he has never truly been able to let go of. With her, he doesn't have to pretend. With her, the darkness feels like home.

•─────⋅☾ ☽⋅─────•

In a world where every action has consequences and the past never stays buried, Aryanna and Rumplestiltskin find themselves standing at a crossroads. Will they forge their own destinies, carving out a future free from the chains of their mistakes? Or will the weight of their sins drag them under, forcing them to pay the ultimate price for the choices they've made?

❝just accept it!❞

❝accept what, aryanna?
what do you want
me to accept?❞

❝you! and me! us!❞

❝i- i can't.❞

━━━━━━━━━ Ariana Grande as Aryanna Johnson ━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━ Robert Carlyle as Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin ━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━ Emilie de Ravin as Belle French ━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━ Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David Nolan ━━━━━━━━━

━━━━━━━━━ Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margret ━━━━━━━━━

with

━━━━━━━━━ Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rebecca Mader as Zelena/Wicked Witch of the West ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Colin O'Donoghue as Killian Jones/Captain Hook ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sean Maguire as Robin Hood ━━━━━━━━━

positions〔E〕 - Ariana Grande
Just A Little Bit Of Your Heart - Ariana Grande
Daydreamin' - Ariana Grande
bloodline - Ariana Grande
One Last Time - Ariana Grande
Bad Decisions〔E〕- Ariana Grande
God is a woman〔E〕- Ariana Grande
Almost Is Never Enough - Ariana Grande
eternal sunshine - Ariana Grande
breathin〔E〕- Ariana Grande
supernatural - Ariana Grande
we can't be friends (wait for your love) - Ariana Grande
pov - Ariana Grande
bad idea - Ariana Grande
the boy is mine〔E〕- Ariana Grande
i wish i hated you - Ariana Grande
break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored〔E〕- Ariana Grande
main thing - Ariana Grande
Love Me Harder (A Capella) - Ariana Grande & The Weeknd
Best Mistake - Ariana Grande feat. Big Sean
Better Left Unsaid - Ariana Grande
Disturbia - Rihana
Gravedigger - Livingston
happy ending - Bailey Spinn
Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift
broken parts - Clide
The Show (Dark Version) - Jake Daniels
Come Follow Me Down - George Taylor
Midnight Rain - Taylor Swift
Something Blue - VOILÀ
Bed Chem - Sabrina Carpenter
Earned It - The Weeknd
Always You (Wedding Version) - Ruth B.
Sick To My Stomach - Natalie Jane
Criminal - Britney Spears
I Feel Like I'm Drowning - Two Feet
Liar (Dark Version)〔E〕- Jake Daniels
Where's My Love (Acoustic) - SYML
Dangerous Hands - Austin Giorgio
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 〔E〕- Taylor Swift
Intrusive Thoughts 〔E〕- Natalie Jane
You Put a Spell on Me - Austin Giorgio
War of Hearts - Ruelle
Nervous - John Legend
Vigilante Shit 〔E〕- Taylor Swift
Blank Space (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
Dirty Nikes - Ruth B.
Heaven - Julia Michaels
Crazy in Love - Sofia Karlberg
Happy Face - Jaguar Twin
Style (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
Broken 〔E〕- Jamie Grey
Good In Bed 〔E〕- Dua Lipa
Enchanted (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
Play with Fire - Sam Tinnesz feat. Yacht Money
GOSSIP 〔E〕- Måneskin feat. Tom Morello
River - Bishop Briggs
The Man 〔E〕- Taylor Swift
Don't Smile - Sabrina Carpenter
If This is Love - Ruth B.
I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE 〔E〕- Måneskin
Taste - Sabrina Carpenter
Lose Control - Teddy Swims
Fast Times 〔E〕- Sabrina Carpenter
I miss you, I'm sorry - Gracie Abrams
Changes - Hayd
Vicious 〔E〕- Sabrina Carpenter
Sweet Delusion - Bella Poarch
God's Favorite - Dior Goodjohn
That's Not How This Works (Sabrina's Version) - Charlie south [feat. Dan + Shay & Sabrina Carpenter]
For Tonight - Giveon
skinny dipping - Sabrina Carpenter
Train Wreck - James Arthur
because i liked a boy - Sabrina Carpenter
Not Sorry for Loving You - Jorge Rivera-Herrans
STAY〔E〕- The Kid LAROI & Justin Beiber
My Blood - Ellie Goulding
Fallout - UNSECRET & NEONI
Love is BS〔E〕- LALA SADII
Narcissist - Avery Anna
Dancing With Your Ghost - Sasha Alex Sloan
Shivers - Ed Sheeran
Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - Adele
Heather〔E〕- Conan Gray
Lonesome〔E〕- Sabrina Carpenter
Paralyzed - NF

━━━━━━━━━ 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: I do not own Once Upon A Time, it belongs to Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. I do however own Aryanna Johnson and any other characters that were not originally in the show.

━━━━━━━━━ 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓: So this a friendly warning, if you came for descriptive smut, you will be disappointed. I do not feel comfortable writing descriptive sex scenes, and don't know if I ever will. There will also be sexual references and cut-offs from scenes that would lead into sex. Lastly, there are also depictions of adultery. I do not support this idea but it's inside this, so if you aren't comfortable with that topic, this story might not be the one for you.

━━━━━━━━━ 𝐃𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒: Thenry123, tarakay821, and TrishDraa for listening to my ideas and helping me with them, along with helping me read this over. Bobs1stGoldfish for being a constant motivation. (Aka keeping asking me if the next chapter is done lol) JasperHalesSlut for giving me the motivation to publish this and for just being an all in all amazing support.

━━━━━━━━━ 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆: This material contains topics such as language, violence, death, gore, thoughts of self-harm, and PTSD. Viewer discretion is advised. Please take into consideration your own sensitivity and comfort levels before proceeding.

━━━━━━━━━ 𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓:
Copyright © 2024 by sfridley
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