HELLO READERS! The old and the new of course!

So this is my second fan fiction! My first is something similar to this (for those who haven't read it) and now that I am not so shy about mixing things up, this story will be much more AU than the last!

EVERYONE! Meet Autumn Gold! Unlike my last Gold's Daughter fic, this one is the daughter of The man himself and Belle! (Again for those who are new readers; my last one was from Rumple's marriage to Milah).

ALSO different.. she's 10! ( My other one.. Gold's daughter is much MUCH older!)

I hope you all enjoy this one! I am pretty excited!

Since my main character is soo young, this is (obviously) not a 'ship flick' or anything of that kind.. just enjoyable and fun!

It is T because I rate my things like that for safety..

PS I do not own OUAT!

Autumn Gold walked to hand and hand with her father, all bundled up in a fur coat with her school uniform underneath it, white tights and freshly polished, Italian leather shoes with gold buckles. Real jeweled berets with their precious metal casings hung in her curly brown hair. Just as her and her Daddy did every day. She looked up at her father with her bright blue eyes and smiled.

"Daddy.." she said.

"Yes sweetling." He replied back, smiling down at her.

"I love walking to school with you." she said, leaning on his arm slightly. Trying not to lean too much of her weight on him. She did not want to throw her father off balance, because he had a bad leg which gave him a limp and required use of a cane.

"I live walking you to school." he guided his arm lovingly around her. Autumn knew the names the people in the town called him. They said he was a monster, but Autumn never believed that.. he was her Daddy. And she loved him. They arrived at the entrance of the school. "have a wonderful day at school my loveling. I will come and pick you up right after school." he said.

"Yes Daddy." she giggled and hugged him, he handed her over directly to her teacher Miss Blanchard, as he did every day. The other children, Autumn knew, were told by their parents not to make friends with her. She she walked into the school with her teacher by her side.

"How are you this morning Autumn?" Miss Blanchard asked sweetly.

"Wonderful, and yourself Miss Blanchard?"

"Just the same, thank you." the raven short haired woman replied back sweetly.

"Oh! I had almost forgotten!" Autumn squeaked politely, she reached into her satchel and pulled out a book.

"Finished already Autumn?" Miss Blanchard asked amused.

"Oh Yes.. I just couldn't put it down, its my favorite. Far off places, daring sword fights, a Prince in disguise." Autumn sighed swooningly.

"Well.. If you liked that book, you should talk to Henry." she smiled. "I gave him a lovely book of fairy tales, maybe he will share with you. At the rate you read, he wouldn't even miss it for an hour." Miss Blanchard chuckled.

"I will. Thank you!" Autumn said, hurrying into her seat in the front of the class. Autumn was always the top of her classes, and luckily Miss Blanchard understood, so as long as Autumn sat up front, did her homework, and answered any questions that came her way to the best of her ability, she was allowed to read during class. That made it tolerable to mindlessly listen to a lecture on how to build birdhouses. Miss Blanchard was taking role;

"Henry Mills?" Autumn perked up, and turned. The seat where the normally quiet boy sat remained empty. "Oh.. he must be ill-"

"I heard he ran away, the Mayor had the sheriff looking everywhere for him." Came a little girl's voice, it came from a little girl Grace.

"Actually Grace, Henry was home last night. Its not nice to start rumors." Miss Blanchard said in a bit of a slight. Autumn went back to her book, hopefully she could see Henry, today was rent day anyway, and she could hopefully convince her Daddy to take her along. She wanted so bad to read the book the little loner boy had. Autumn devoured the three books she brought with her before the day was finally done. The bell rang, and she grabbed her coat and satchel. She heard three girls whisper.

"A fur coat?" one whispered.

"Shush Jennifer. Her dad is Mr. Gold. He had the coat made from he kitten of the last girl who upset Autumn." another girl whispered, Autumn looked at them and the three glared and sulked away. Autumn looked at her shoes and sighed, knowing that the fur was minx.. not kitten. Autumn then saw the mayor marching through the school with a blonde woman in a red coat after her. The little girl couldn't help but stand near the door and hear the conversation. After a few seconds, she heard that Henry was missing. Then the mayor came out of the classroom and Autumn jumped.

"Good afternoon Madame Mayor." the mayor stopped and looked at her, Autumn smiled, remembering that her father always told her not to be frightened by the Mayor. Her bark is worse than her bite she said his words to herself. The mayor looked her up and down and walked away. Autumn walked into the classroom and watched the blonde woman helping Miss Blanchard picking up books that obviously the Mayor knocked down. "Umm.. Miss Blanchard?"

"Yes Autumn." the teacher said sweetly. "Are you being teased again?" she sighed sympathetically.

"N-no ma'am." Autumn said. "I.. I am just supposed to wait outside with you.. and when I noticed that you weren't coming outside I came back in for you." Autumn looked down, picking up a book the two women had forgotten. "And I saw the Mayor.. Don't worry though. Daddy says her bark is worst than her bite."

"Thank you Autumn." Miss Blanchard chuckled, then turned to the blond haired woman. "By the way.. I would check his castle." winking at the woman, who smiled and left.

"Who was the woman Miss Blanchard?" Autumn asked.

"Ummm.. Well that was Henry's birth mother."

"Oohh." Autumn gasped, knowing full well when to stop asking questions. "We should get outside." she took the woman's arm, and the woman smiled down on her.

"You're right, as always Autumn. Your father is lucky, to have such an intelligent, caring, and wonderfully uplifting daughter as you." she said back, they walked out as her father was pulling up.

"Hello Mr. Gold. Autumn was perfect as usual." then she pulled a white envelope from her pocket. "And here is the rent."

"Of course she was." he hugged Autumn and kissed her head, then took the money. "Thank you Miss Blanchard."

"Have a wonderful day Miss Blanchard." Autumn bowed slightly.

"Goodbye Autumn." she said as Autumn climbed into the front seat of her father's black Cadillac

"Daddy. Can I go with you to collect the rest of the rent?" she asked sweetly.

"Why do you want to do that Autumn? Its dreadfully boring." he asked.

"Because I want to talk to Henry Mills. He has a book I want to read, probably the only book in the town I haven't read.. but he wasn't in class today." she said.

"From what I've seen from the mayor's mood with her son, Henry maybe in some trouble. How about we wait? I can see if I can find you a new book?" he bartered with her.

"You know.. you can always bring up at city council meeting to open the library.." Autumn smiled innocently.

"I will bring it up.. once again." he said.

"Fine.. but when Henry isn't in trouble.. can I talk to him?" she asked.

"Why wouldn't you be able to talk to him?" he asked.

"Well.. don't you and his mother, you know, don't like each other?" she asked.

"That has no concern of you or young Mr. Mills. I think it would be good for you to make friends anyway." he smiled, they pulled up to the house. "Now. I'll be home in a couple hours. You can watch TV as long as-"

"I do all my homework. Don't answer the phone unless its you or the sheriff, and if a person not on the approved list comes to the door, don't answer it or talk to them. Run up to your bedroom, lock the door and call Sheriff Grahm right away." Autumn smiled.

"And about making tea?" he asked, she sighed.

"Use the electric water pot, not the stove."

"Good Girl." he kissed her cheek and Autumn hopped out of the car and ran into the house. The first thing she did was do her homework, it took her no time at all. She walked upstairs and into the house library. She picked a book out, her favorite first edition of Les Miserable. The cost was extravagant, but it was Autumn's favorite book. She loved the romance of Marius and Cosette, the tragic fall of Eponine, the changing of Valjean's whole existence, Javert's change of heart, and the heart wrenching death of poor Fantine and the brave revolutionary school boys. She also appreciated Victor Hugo's writing style, even though his detail made her giggle sometimes. Her first edition was, obviously, unabridged, thus it had every single original word Victor Hugo wrote in it. He seemed, to Autumn, to have an attention deficiency sometimes. That added to the reading experience for Autumn. She couldn't wait to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but her father had yet to acquire an immaculate copy. As she read, she hummed show tunes from the musical. What seemed to be minutes, caused Autumn to look up and notice it was growing dark, and hearing keys rattling in the lock. She got up and slowly walked down stairs to see her Daddy entering the home.

"Autumn?" he called for her, he seemed to he uneasy about something.

"I'm right here Daddy." she said as she kept descending. On the second to last step, and to Autumn's surprise, her father scooped her up in a hug, brought her to the ground floor and spun her.

"Yes! Yes you are my beauty!" he said, despite the pain he must have been feeling in his bad leg. Autumn giggling girlishly.

"Daddy! Put me down!" she laughed. Her father hugged her and he felt a kiss placed on the top of her head.

"I just love you so much." he said whispering into her hair. "And I missed you."

"You were only gone a few hours Daddy." Autumn squirmed away laughing. "You're weird." she said.

"Oh I am?" he said laughing.

"Yeah. But it's okay. Daddy's are supposed to be weird." That night Autumn got double desert and double story time, and she couldn't understand why.

Soo there is my first chapter!

I hope everyone enjoyed it! :D I am sooo nervous posting this.. But I hope it was enjoyable!