Foreknowledge is a curse. Plagued by visions of his son's death, Rumplestiltskin learns that only one person can help him — a woman who hasn't even been born yet. Desperate, he makes a deal he never thought he'd make, becoming the kind of monster he never wanted to be. (Enchanted Forest arranged marriage AU)

"Emma, these... these people aren't real... they're hallucinations... a fake reality." - Real!Regina / "What's the harm of letting a not-real me out of a not-real prison into a not-real world, hmm?" - Wish!Rumple / Well, they're real now, dearie, and they're coming to the Land Without Magic. (Season 7 AU in which all the characters are the Wish Realm versions.)

They say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. Well, locked up in solitary confinement, who else is there to talk to? The Thirteenth Doctor can't stop talking, or she might start thinking, and thinking leads to... yeah. Another mad Time Lord, the universe can't take it. So keep talking, Doctor, keep yourself sane. (post-episode S12E10 "The Timeless Children")

In a universe full of clones and android duplicates, people will inevitably take countermeasures, but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. (Written for the Writers Anonymous Drabble Challenge)

Tong Pik plays the qin and waits with hope in her heart, but Ling Fung never returns. Last seen spitting blood as he leaves the palace, did he truly die of the emperor's "farewell wine"? And was Tsun Wai's poison ever cured? Let's dream of a happier ending, even if that means we have to forgive Cheung Shing too. (Blade Heart 2004, post-series)

Regina is the /good/ queen in the same sense that it was a /good/ life in the Jerome Bixby story. Her Light Curse may be even harder to break than her Dark Curse was, but someone's bound to try. (post-s7, written for the Writers Anonymous POV Challenge)

When the Black Fairy is banished to the dark realm, she takes her son with her. Rumplestiltskin grows up in darkness with his mother, only able to escape when he is summoned for a deal.

Every game of cat and mouse comes to an end, one way or another. The movie ended one way. This is another. (Machine/Soul AU ending. Written for the Writers Anonymous Role Reversal Challenge.)

Five times Rumplestiltskin was selfless for his son and one time he wasn't. (Six drabbles)

"The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace." Very poetic, but in fairy tale land, dead isn't dead, and love is eternal until it isn't. Death has parted Rumple from Belle, and Cora meets him in hell. (More or less canon up to 6.05, then it diverges.)

A burden shared is a burden doubled, or so it seems when Rumplestiltskin inadvertently infects Belle with the Darkness. Even as they struggle with their curse, their child's fate becomes entangled in bitter conflicts rooted in ancient history. (Alt-Season 6 with Dark One!Belle, spoilers for season 6)

Before he was the Doctor, he was Theta Sigma, the only student at the Time Lord Academy reckless enough to break into the Cloisters. (Written for the Writers Anonymous Forum's All Dialogue/Narrative Challenge)

Love is a fine thing, and so is marriage, but when one of the fey wants what he cannot have, his father's attempt to satisfy that longing by creating a woman out of flowers ends in tragedy. (Written for the Writers Anonymous Character Development Challenge.)

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper." Rumplestiltskin saves his son Baelfire from Neverland, but at what cost?

The Three-faced God made the mistake of choosing the ancient Gallifreyans to serve as its bulwark against the primordial evil of Caramel Darkling. Now, after millions of years of procrastination and denial, the final battle is nigh. If the universe is lucky, the three prophesied avatars of God known as the Tyr-ridan will show up for the fight. (AU)

The course of True Love cannot be stopped by death or the laws of magic, but it may take a detour through a zombie apocalypse. In which Wish!Rumple and Wish!Belle find their happy ending, despite the inevitable Rumbelle angst. (post-episode 6.11)

A wooden soldier swept up in the Blue Fairy's crusade is cast aside for his flaws. He is helpless to change his fate; she makes her own. Because destiny is a fickle beast, their paths eventually cross once more. Written for the Writers Anonymous Forum Alternate Format Challenge (Unusual POV option)

After watching 6.01, Rumple and Belle decide to get the hell out of Dodge. They aim for the Dark Castle, but end up in the land of Chinese fairy tales instead. (Post-season 5 canon divergence AU)

Sometimes it helps to get a change of perspective. Belle wakes up from the Sleeping Curse, and it's Rumple's turn to take a nap. (Post season 5 fix-it)

War is hell. Reconstruction isn't always a day at the beach, either. In which the Doctor and Amy pursue a mystery on a planet once ravaged by the Time War. (Written for the WA Broken Object Challenge)

This isn't the first time the Doctor has unraveled the Web of Time for the sake of a companion's life. He should know better, but he can't help himself. His recklessness opens the door to the forgotten ghosts of the Time War. (post-Hell Bent)