I think Belle has been in the hidden ward since Storybook was created because Rumple thinks she is dead and that she died in fairytale land. I like the theory of her being the librarian because of her love of books in the Disney version, but I just don’t see that she was ever a part of Storybrook outside of the ward. Mr. Gold would have seen her and known she was alive…it doesn’t seem like a big enough town for him not to have seen her. Maybe if she eventually gets released she will open the library back up!
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