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Day 6 - Skin Deep

At Rumplestiltskin's castle, Rumple is staring out of his tower window. He turns around when something suddenly occurs to him. He then dahses out of the door and down the tower stairs.

Meanwhile, Belle walks into the dining room, ready to kiss her true love. "You're back already?" Rumple asks at his wheel as Belle walks over to him. He says it's a good thing as he's nearly out of straw, she puts the basket of straw next to him and talks to him from the other side of the spinning wheel, "Come on, you're happy that I'm back." Belle says, "I'm not unhappy." he says, they both smile, Belle reminds him that he promised her a story, she walks over to him and places her hand on his shoulder, the wheel stops. "Did I?" he asks, Belle nods, standing up, she takes the straw from the wheel and sits down next to him, ready to listen. "Tell me about your son." she says, "I lost him... there's nothing more to tell, really." Rumple says, "And since then... you've loved no one? And no one has loved you?" Belle asks. Rumple leans in and looks into Belle's eyes, he asks her why she came back, Belle explains that she wasn't going to up until something changed her mind, the two stare at each other and Belle leans in to Rumple, they begin to kiss. As they lean out, Rumple's skin begins to turn pale, he seems weak, and he asks what happened. "Kiss me again, it's working!" Belle exclaims, noticing Rumple's curse wearing off, "Any curse can be broken." she says, hopefully. Rumple stands up, stormily, and knocks his chair over, he;s angry and his skin turns gold-plated once more, "How do you know that?!" Who told you that?!" he asks, in a rage. "I don't know, she, er, she..." Belle tries, "She..." Rumple mutters, he walks across the room and pulls the sheet from his mirror, "This was you! You turned her against me!" he exclaims, Belle walks after him, cautiously, "You think you can make me weak? You think you can defeat me?!" he yells, Belle asks him who he's talking to, he exclaims that it's her friend, the queen.

Rumplestiltskin asks Belle how Regina got to her, "The queen? I don't-" Belle tries, Rumle advances on her, saying that he knew she never really cared for him, saying that she must be working for Queen Regina, "Or is this all you? Is this you 'being the hero'? And killing the beast?" he asks, "It was working." she reminds him, touching his arm softly, "Shut up!" Rumple screeches, batting Belle off of him, "This means it's true love!" Belle tries, he tells her once again to shut up, in a rage, "Why won't you believe me?!" Belle asks, scared and saddened, "Because no one, no one, could ever, ever, love me!" Rumple screams, shaking Belle by the arms, scaring her.

Downstairs, Rumplestiltskin throws Belle into her old room in the dungeon, pushing her to the floor. Belle breathes heavily, sad and confused in her cell.