A/N: Alright fast note before you read. I'm aware that her character doesn't exist in the show, I wanted it that way. While watching the show this season, this character kept coming up, and I thought it would be interesting to see her in it. I wrote this BEFORE the season was complete, so somethings aren't going to align exactly. I plan on having the story run close to the episodes, though some are going to be changed and others added to. Please feel free to read and review! Also, I own nothing except Sophia!

It's really funny how sometimes the person left out of the stories is the one that influences it the most. I know, how clichéd or strange does that sound, the one not in the story influences it the most? But think about it, how the author writes the story, and how you the reader perceives the story has the most impact. However, in this fairy tale I'm neither the writer nor the reader, just a player, a background character you could say. I'm no hero, and I'm not a villain, I'm not even a friend, just a girl looking to escape the fairy tale she's trapped in without even a role, or a name in the fairy tale.

Let's start at the beginning shall we? My name is Sophia Katherine Gold, also known as the daughter of Rumpelstiltskin. I know, you are probably thinking that he doesn't have a daughter, and you're right, in the stories he doesn't, he had a son. But did you ever wonder if the stories tell everything? News flash, they don't. A lot gets left out, including people, like me. My mother is a mystery to me actually, though I always speculated that she may have been one of the princesses in the land we once came from, because I definitely share no maternal lineage with my former half-brother (though that's a story for another time). Not sure which one, though my blonde hair and blue eyes point towards one of the fairer ones I do suppose. I wasn't raised by her though, no when I was just a preteen child I was abandoned. My father was imprisoned, leaving me to be raised by some of the fairies in the forest. Even at an my younger age people knew I was powerful, the fairies all remarked about it. I could see things that were happening, the future, and the past. I could make myself disappear and reappear, and most of all I could cast spells. For awhile the fairies worked to teach me good magic, but it seemed I never had a skill for it. Like my father, my skill for magic seemed dark, but unlike him I wasn't content to be evil. No, I wanted to be good like the fairies who raised me.

The fairies who took care of me, act as my nannies in this world. My father in this world is Mr. Gold, and thanks to a pact with the evil witch, he runs the entire town. Basically rules it, and when I was younger that was fine, him running the town meant that I got whatever I wanted as a child. But I'm seventeen now, and money can't buy my freedom. I want out of this miserable fairy tale town, but I can't get out thanks to the curse.

Which is why I put the ball into motion two years ago, agreeing to volunteer in Miss Blanchard's classroom. I knew that Henry would have to pass through the class eventually, every kid does, heck I did. With me one day I brought the book of fairy tales my father kept and that the nannies used to read to me, completely unaware that they were reading their own story to me. Only me, my father, the evil queen, and now Henry know the truth of the town, and it's thanks to me that Henry knows. I left that book in Miss Blanchard's classroom with a note to let the next lonely child read it because it had given me much comfort. Really, I knew that Henry would understand, he had been born outside the curse, and to get the ball rolling I had to make sure he read the book and understood what I did. I couldn't spell it out to the kid, that would bring down the queen's wrath, but I could suggest the truth.

I was also around to watch Henry get on the bus to find Miss Swan, glad that he had figured it out. It was me who hid the child's plot from my father, well aware that while my father may of known the coming war was inevitable, that didn't mean he wouldn't look to help stop it. He likes ruling the town, while I just want an out. I know this town holds nothing for me, it's why I've been trying to run away my entire life, only to get stuck at the town's sign by the curse and driven back to my father's house with the determination to get out someday. Now is that time, and no matter how much the queen may hate me, I know I have to fight along side Emma and Henry, I have to help them because without them I'll be trapped here forever. Selfish? Sure, but look at who my father is, I don't know the meaning of kindness or happy endings. But I refuse to be trapped here any longer.