A/N Hey, haven't been around for a while! Soooooo sorry! Recently I've re-watched season one and have been thinking about Snow and Charming talking about what happened between Snow and Whale during the curse. Contains lots of fluff, I hope, and I really hope all you many (I hope!) Snowing shippers, this is for you. Set somewhere just after Season 2's portal to the Enchanted forest opening.

**Future A/N here! I've decided to re visit and carry on this collection as it feels like forever, and, well, OUAT is still a huge part of my heart and with Season 7 turning over a new leaf, I'm going to give you some Snowing eight here so you hopefully don't miss them too badly. (I still will) Enjoy!

Snow let herself fall onto her bed. The whole apartment looked so different now she remembered who she really was. The china birds and numerous clocks lining the mantelpiece reminded her of the time before the curse struck, when the pain of loosing Emma wasn't always a haunting ache in her chest. Smiling despite it all, she thought of her husband. Twenty eight years without him had certainly been the most miserable, and living as Mary Margaret meant she was all the more appreciative of the now much larger family she had received in return for the lost time. Not to mention the portal that opened right after they were all reunited. Almost silently, she was all of a sudden aware of Charming's presence next to her just as she pulled herself up into a seated position and leaned her head on his shoulder. Twenty eight years and love to last centuries. Almost instinctively, he snaked his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. With all this time apart they had the perfect excuse to want to be as close to each other as possible, to just be together with nothing in their way trying to tear them apart. It's not like an excuse has ever been needed for them a while, they sat in silence, comfortable in each other's company.

"What's wrong?" she asks, and Charming can't help but smile, she knows him so well.

"I just wanted... wanted to talk to you about what happened... with Whale." he sighed as she squeezed his hand in comfort" look. I honestly don't blame you, I was 'married' to Katherine , it's just I want to know why. David Nolan hurt you. Hurt the woman I love and now, with his life along with my own in my head, I am so, so sorry for that-"

"David." Snow practically whispered his name, her green eyes softening, the pain visible behind her eyes, the pain echoing of all the mistakes David and Mary Margaret made. He spoke before she could.

"Snow." He looked down at her and knew in an instant she wasn't angry. What he saw behind her eyes wan't anger, just more of a profound longing for what could have been. "I am so sorry. I love you Snow. More than I could ever put into words. But I need to know why."

Snow sighed.

"I would never want to hurt you, but David Nolan had hurt me, and I just wanted to feel wanted. Feel like someone could actually want to be with me. I just had to block it out, and I'm so sorry. I know it was unfair, on me, you, on him, but I had a choice. A choice of a broken heart. Take it, welcome the pain, hurt the world or person who brought me it, or just try and block it out. I chose one of the worst options, and- and I'm so, so sorry. I love you."

It may have been the happiness of being together at last that stopped them from crying, or perhaps the fact they've always been optimists. It may have also been that they've cried so many tears onto each other's shoulders recently that they can't bring themselves to cry any more. Pulling her onto his lap, Snow buried her face in his neck.

"I've missed you"

"I've missed us"