Just the first chapter, more will be up soon. Sorry its kinda short.
Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon a Time or anything that goes along with it.
Dr. Whale walked down Mainstreet happier than he had ever been in his life. It had been just over a week since the night Ruby saved him and since that moment he could not get her off of his mind. Ever since he had spoken with Ruby that night on the docks he felt like a new man. He wasn't the same man who relied on alcohol to get him through the day and who's main goal was to sleep with just about every woman is Storybrook. It seemed as though the emptiness that he often felt was slowly being filled.
He had always been a troubled man, his mother died when he was just a little boy, his father thought he was crazy with all of his inventions and ideas and because of that treated him as though he were not even a part of the family, and he always felt guilty about his brother, Gerhardt's death. But when he was with Ruby none of that mattered, the past didn't haunt him when they were together.
Ruby was cleaning the counter in Granny's Dinner when she heard a bell ding, signaling that there was a new costumer, she looked up to find the doctor. But instead of taking a seat in his usual booth by the window he sat at the counter, right in front of her.
"Doctor" she nodded to him
"Ruby, please call me Victor."
"Victor, what can I get for you?"
"Just the usual, coffee and a danish." he responded
Ruby left to get his food, wondering why he was acting so strange, never had anyone call him by his first name. When his food was all done she brought it out and set it in front of him.
"Thank you." He responded, "Ruby, why don't you take a seat for a second?" he patted the stool next to him.
Ruby knit her eyebrows, "I'm working."
"There's hardly anyone here."
She rolled her eyes and took a seat, "This better not take long."