If Rumple IS Regina’s father, what if Cora kept her for the same reason that Regina kidnapped Belle: she knew that Rumple was done with her, and in turn that any illusions she’d had about being special to him were just that. But she didn’t take being used and discarded lightly: no, she would hurt him in turn. Even if that hurt came only in the form of her private satisfaction that she held something dear and irreplaceable to him, and he knew nothing of it.
(via youreallbowlsofsoup)



