This is going to be a story about Emma and Ruby's relationship. It is HEAVILY based on "Izunami" a hartbig fanfic. There is going to be a happy ending and a sad ending, so you may read the one you want it to end with. I am going to update it once a week, with pretty long chapters (this one is the shortest I think). Feel free to comment. I accept all reviews. Thank you. -Piger123
Chapter 1
Emma loves Ruby. She loves her so much that most of the time she can't bear to look at it directly, for fear it will burn her up. She jokes with Ruby and insults her and hardly ever says the words because they're so completely inadequate for describing how she feels and somehow 'Whatever' conveys it so much better.
There are times though, when they lie together in the middle of the night, sweating and sated and tangled up in each other like a Gordian knot, that Emma stops joking, looks Ruby in the eye and tells her. Those are the nights she drops all her defenses and lets Ruby see her heart, and the vulnerability of it is both terrifying and addictive. Emma knows if she didn't need Ruby so much, she'd run, but the thought of being without Ruby scares her way more than the thought of Ruby hurting her.
Ruby loves her back. No, that isn't right. Ruby worships her. Emma catches her sometimes, in unguarded moments, staring at Emma with the goofiest look of absolute awe and devotion, as though she still can't believe that she's allowed to be in Emma's presence. Ruby has no problem with 'I love you' and tells her at least six times a day and Emma smiles every time.
It's probably not healthy, their devotion to each other, but neither of them care. They have each other and Emma is so determined to make sure that never changes that she spends a ridiculous amount of money on a ring, gets down on one knee and gives a long, rambling, tearful speech that in the end boils down to begging Ruby never to leave her. By the end Ruby is on the floor with her, hands covering her mouth and tears of joy sliding down her face, and when Emma slides the ring onto her finger, Ruby breaks down into full blown sobbing only moments before Emma does. It's the weirdest sex they've ever had, including the time with the Dutch sex toy Hook bought them as a joke. They lie together afterwards, exhausted and tear-streaked, and laugh like idiots at how dramatic they managed to make something that was such a foregone conclusion that Hook and Robin were running a pool on how long it would take.
Ruby outs them in her first shift at "Granny's" after Emma proposes. Emma watches as everybody looks at Ruby's shimmering smile and then at the ring. All of them questioning if it was a joke.
"I love you!" Ruby murmers as she passed Emma while waiting tables, pulling the cork on a champagne bottle for Mr. and Mrs. Gold. The diamond on her finger sparkles and Ruby's grin could probably light a small house fire. There are the usual jokes and men eyeing her, and then, just to make it painfully obvious to the terminally unobservant among her viewers, Ruby carefully removes the ring, kisses it and loops in onto a silver chain around her neck before plunging her hands into whatever culinary disaster she's attempting to fix up at Granny's this week. The staring proceeds as normal and Emma can just feel the people of Storybrook screaming in their minds for Ruby to tell them who gave her the ring.
After the 'cooking' is finished, Ruby washes her hands, dries them and slides the ring off it's chain and back onto her finger and flashes another heart-stopping smile at the now-crowded diner.
"Real talk, guys," she whispers to Hook and Robin, happily and messily, "It's not a prank. I'm getting married."