ENCHANTED FOREST – The Past
Rumplestiltskin grabbed the Doctor by the wrist
“If what you’re doing here, means Belle will be hurt, I won’t be responsible for my actions!” snarled the Dark One
“Look that dagger didn’t come from here, it came from where I come from, Gallifrey, one of my kind escaped with it, we were fighting a war, a terrible war, but the man who stole it was a coward, he ran from the battlefields of the Crimson Heart, tiny place, you won’t have heard of it, he ran for so long until he ended up nowhere” said the Doctor
“How can a person end up nowhere?” Asked Belle curiously
The Doctor shook his head “That’s just it, he vanished into the Void, he carried a terrible weapon which could manifest the energies into whoever held it, if you had dark thoughts, it amplified them, if you had evil thoughts, it made them far worse”
Rumplestiltskin thought, could this be Zoso’s dagger? An artefact from another world? Maybe it was from the other place, the Land without Magic, where he could find Baelfire, he wasn’t going to give it up easily
Belle decided to take control “So if I remember rightly, there’s killer statues in here trying to kill us?” As she said this she was busy placing a few roses into a vase. Rumplestiltskin watched her with interest. if only she knew who those roses once were.
“Pretty much” said the Doctor “There’s a legend I need to look into concerning the origin of these things, but I’ve learned everything I know about them from experience, that dagger and it’s technology can’t belong in a world with magic, like giving a firework to a child”
Belle sighed and thought, she had had to deal with a lot since making the deal to leave her village and her family, but for some reason, she didn’t feel like the stranger was lying.
“Maybe there’s a book in the library I could take a look at?” asked Belle in eagerness, Rumpletsiltskin rolled his eyes, this girl and her books………
“I have a library in the TARDIS, but I’ve yet to see a book on the Weeping Angels, very little is know about them” said the Doctor, until he had a brainwave
“Maybe a tale as old as time can help us after all, you’ll get the irony later” said the Doctor jumping up and down like a child, he held his hand out to Belle and said in three simple words
“Do you trust me?”