Fic: A Mad Tea Party

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Title: A Mad Tea Party
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Rumplestiltskin, Jefferson
Summary: Jefferson pays the Dark One a visit and things are not as he left.
Rating: PG
Length: Short (1,604 words)
Disclaimer: Once Upon a Time belongs to Disney and ABC.
Notes/Warnings: I've only just gotten around to watching any of S2, and this plot bunny grabbed me watching The Doctor.  It's based on the possibly already jossed idea that Jefferson was still traveling between worlds while Belle was living at Rumpelstiltskin's castle. It's a bit OOC, but I got a laugh out of writing it and hopefully someone else will get one reading it.
Excerpt: Rumple was, for lack of a better term, frazzled. Physically, he looked much the same- though maybe a trifle less scrawny- but he was definitely out of sorts. Twitchy. Well, twitchier. Rumple had never exactly been a poster boy for sanity, had he?

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Me too- I've thought ever since the end of S1 that Jefferson must have known Belle in FTL, why else would he have been so sure Regina would be toast if Gold found out what she did to Belle? And then he and Rumple turned out to have such lovely banter that I flailed all the way home and rote this.

PS I was looking through screenshots to make this here icon, and falling for that guy all over again. His face sometimes...