The sound of rain hit against the small shop in Gotham City. The shop was none other than Gold's Pawn Shop. Mr Gold and Belle had been living in Gotham City now for 3 years, happily especially found their lost son, Arthur Fleck who also became the famous clown Joker. Sadly he wasn't the first, but the city did love him more than the other Joker, Jack White who was he Nephew of Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) Joker. But enough with the Jokers.

Mr Gold was working on potions until he heard te bell rang indicating the front door opened. He came out and to his surprise it was his son, Arthur. Usually it would be Belle his wife, or Sarah his long time friend and also Arthur's long term girlfriend.

"Son, good to see you. This is a surprise." Mr Gold smiled.

"Yeah...usually I am out on the streets running from the bad guys," Arthur chuckled.

Mr Gold smirked slightly. His son was a bit silly of course. "What brings you here?"

"Well...it's about Sarah," Arthur rubbed the back of his neck.

"Is the dearie alright?" Gold looked worried now.

"She's ok...she's just missing someone..."

"Well you know she can come here."

"Dad," Arthur sighed, "...Yeah she misses you, but...it's someone else."

"Please tell me it's not Rudy."

"No," Arthur smiled, "why would it be him?"

"I don't know...I thought I ask..."

"Why?" Arthur asked, "Dad, you know Sarah wouldn't want him back. She's done with him."

"I'm sorry...I just...had these weird feelings that Rudy would make her miss him or something...you do know how crazy he is."

"Yeah, and Sarah says he is worse than The Joker...no um...it's a childhood friend of hers...well friends."

Mr Gold looked at him confused. "Who are these...friends of hers, son?"

"A bear named...Winnie the Pooh? A rabbit, a pig, a donkey, and a owl? There's more, but she mentioned more." Arthur said, "they sound like they could be from your and mom's world. The fairytale world."

Mr Gold thought a bit. It could be possible. "Are they animals or...?"

"Stuff animals," Arthur said.

"Oh similar to Pinocchio and The Velveteen Rabbit in a way," Mr Gold smiled. "I think Belle would know more about this."

Before he called for her, Belle came down.

"Oh my baby boy!" Belle wrapped her arms her son hugging him.

"Hi, mom," Arthur smiled hugging her back.

Belle then kissed all over his face.

"Belle, let the boy breathe," Mr Gold said grabbing Belle by her shirt, tugging her away from their son.

"I'm sorry, Rumpel, he's my baby boy though."

"Our. And he's not a baby anymore," Mr Gold chuckled.

"He will always be our baby boy, Rumpel. Like Sarah will always be your little princess."

"Technically, she isn't biologically my daughter." Gold smirked.

"But you love her like she is. You two are very close, Rumpel."

"Well...I still think she should be close to her real father. And she is trying. But besides that, Arthur here says, Sarah is missing some friends of hers from her childhood."

"Really? Who are they?" Belle asked looking at him and her son.

"Some bear named Winnie the Pooh," Arthur said.

"Oh like my story books!" Belle squeaked happily.

"Story books?" Gold and Arthur asked.

"One sec'," Belle smiled and ran out of the room. She came back moments later with a box book set labeled The Winnie-the-Pooh Library.

"Mom? Where did you get these?" Arthur asked.

"At a thrift store, me and the girls went there in a town." Belle smirked and shrugged.

"Sarah has the same collection." Arthur pointed out. "It started with those which is when I noticed she was sad. And then told me she missed them. She even told me stories that she went on adventures with them and the boy too."

"Boy?" Gold asked.

"Of course, Rumpel," Belle smiled, "There's a little boy in the book named Christopher Robin."

"She does miss him too, but she told me there's no way she will be able to see him again...," Arthur said.

"Why?" Belle asked.

"He passed away...you see...he went to war. He was gonna get married and have a daughter, but sadly he died in the war. I asked her what war. She told me Afghan and Iraq War."

Belle looked at Arthur sadly. And then back at the book. Could it be possible these characters were real? Or just a coincidence? Because this Christopher Robin in the book served in World War 2, but he survived. Because it was similar but sadly the newer Christopher didn't make it home.

"She told you...adventures she had with them?" . Mr Gold asked, "what kind?"

"There's a lot." Arthur smiled.

"Could you tell us," Belle smiled, "you are a good story teller, Archie."

Arthur then chuckled, "ok, I will start with her first adventure. When she came to the Hundred Arce Wood..."