jadeddiva replied to your photo: She’s so big. One day, she won’t want to have...
She is so big! I remember her being like 6 months or something right before I got pregnant. Omg!
RIGHT??? it’s insane. she’s going to be in PRESCHOOL in the fall. I can’t.
My son is reading now. My baby brother is graduating high school. STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF
#ben solo#okay so i was going to let this pass BUT damn if canon didnt make it clear#that ben solo’s life growing up was not sunshine and rainbow#that han peaced out when things got tough#that leia was busy#that he didnt know about vader until he was 23!!!!!#that he had a parasite feeding off him like david haller did
‘What are you doing here?” he asks with a low chuckle when he finds her in the library. “Avoiding your ball, my lord,” she says with a perfunctory curtsy, “although it appears I shall have to do so somewhere else, as I cannot abide being in the same room with someone who disparages novels as you do.” “I do not disparage novels,” he insists, reaching past her to pluck a volume from the bookshelf behind her. “Merely your taste in them.” He presses the book into her hands and gives her wink. “Hide out here as long as you like.” He leaves as suddenly as he came, and she settles into a chair with the novel, her mouth quirking with an involuntary smile when she reads the title page: Pride and Prejudice, by a Lady. Her heart softens towards him, just a bit.
Title: Marry Me, He Said
Rating: M
Summary: “When I'm beheaded at least I was wedded and when I am buried at least I was married”
Princess Emma marries Rumpelstiltskin to save her kingdom from destruction. She’s given up on her own happiness, but every so often, in a flash of blue eyes, she thinks that she glimpses it. Lt Duckling/Enchanted Forest AU. Angsty slow burn.
You can read here or on ff.net!
Prologue
Emma shifts uncomfortably for perhaps the hundredth time since sun up.
The light in the unfamiliar throne room is blinding in its brightness, assorted colored glass panes doing little to shield the room’s visitors from the harshness of the realm’s summer sun. Her back aches from the stiff posture that her corset demands. She lowers her eyes to the ground but attempts not even the small shred of comfort of movement, breath barely coming to her, much less any other human emotion. She feels frozen in place, heart pounding, yet numb as she ponders the morbid thought of whether death by dagger or hanging by the neck with the yards of sheets piled atop her new bed would be more agonizing one than the other.
(She is yet to decide.)
(It isn’t a luxury she could ever afford herself.)
She finally shifts nearly immovably at his side, longing to crane her neck until it cracks.
The ache in her back has been a long familiarity to her. She is all of twenty, and for years now gone she has been required to accompany King and Queen of Mistahaven to their business. The masses of negotiations, meetings with dignitaries and politicians, trial hearings, and simply the hours spent listening to each and every member of their kingdom’s complaints (or at least it seems so).
(But this isn’t her throne room and she will likely never join them there again.)
(She would give all she had in the world to be there.)
It’s no difficult feat to hear the kind but chiding words of her parents whenever a complaint threatens to rise from her thoughts to her lips. Now is no different. Soon, they will be your responsibility, Emma. Their protection will be your duty. Truly, she had muttered and moaned for just as long as she had been allowed, disciplined by only sharp looks from first her maid and then her mother and long, quiet talks with her parents of duty. After a time, she had come to understand. A princess, yes, but inherently selfish, Emma was not. As a child, she thought as a child, mind full of horse rides and games and secret sword lessons with the King...but as she grew into a woman, she put aside childish things – mostly, perhaps - and with that, her parents’ words stayed with her.
It was with those words, held close to her heart, that the day’s fate had been sealed.
He holds her hands as they rise.
He kisses her lips after the words are said.
She feels ill.
A/n: Welp, there it is. Just a prologue. The first thing I've written in over a year as far as fanfiction goes. I have two more chapters written, so let me know if you’re interested or would like to see more, because I’ve been wanting to write this for over a year! lol I have a huge plan for this story that will undoubtedly be angsty and painful, so lemme know if you’re into that. :)
I feel like you should know that I think of Emma Swan, rodeo princess, a lot. And I love "the night before a new life begins" as well as the one I can't remember the title of where it's a five times and one time.
Interesting! I really liked that period in canon where it looked like they were headed toward a relationship, but we weren’t sure yet. I think that’s when I wrote “the night before” and the five + 1 fic. And in the 5 + 1 I got the chance to write my “what if they all moved back to the Enchanted Forest” scenario, which is something the show never really explored.
I’ll also confess that I’ve seriously considered re-writing the rodeo queen fic, aging both characters up by two years, and turning it into a romance novel to see if I could make any money self-publishing on Amazon. I really like the fic, but its one of the few stories I’ve written that could potentially work as a contemporary romance with only minor tweaks.
No lie: I kinda want to hang out with you but you're too cool for me. Seriously.
HAHAHAHAHAHA oh my god just ask @startswithhope or @caprelloidea, I’m endlessly nerdy. Hang out with me any day; I’ll spend most of it talking about my cats and you’ll completely regret your decision.