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A Brief Flicker Of Light

@wastingstarsss

I won’t lie this is basically just rumple rot fan account. 19 // queer // too consumed by this tiny little man // Ao3 account is @wastingstarsss || Side account is divinity-in-chaos

Okay, so everyone says this is the prelude to couch sex, and I don’t disagree, but also…

IMO this is them getting over a spat. Which will happen between any two people, even ones who eternally and truly love each other, who live together for fifty years.

This is the only time in the montage when they are physically separated. For all the rest, they are working together or touching, hugging, holding hands, dancing. (I’ve seen the complaint that this is unrealistic, as if you’re supposed to show realism in a minute and twenty seconds out of thirty years). But here, they start out with at least six feet between them. Belle is spread out taking ALL the couch, leaving no room for him (I’d expect him to be on the other side with her feet in his lap). Rumple’s chair isn’t even next to her but across the room. He’s doing his nervous fidget spinning.

Then he looks over at her, still a little concerned, and catches her eye. And instantly, she gives him that little smile and neither of them are angry anymore, and he breaks out in that enormous grin because he knows they are thirty seconds out from makeup sex. 

Source: tzaharasykes