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That's a great question gothic. maybe he just assumes. I recall in the poor unfortunate soul episode that ariel (at least i think it was ariel) said that perhaps villains don't get their happy ending because they go about them in the wrong way. This implies that we have free will and that we all make our own choices. so what if the author just simply records what has already happened. in season 1, that's what we see. there were no future stories in there, only ones that have passed and served to remind them all of who they were. That's perhaps the point that rumple will discover after he finds the author and attempts to force his way to his happy ending.