A/N: I do not happen to own OUAT or its characters. Sadly.
Ruby howled at the moon, it was about 2 a.m. but she didn't care. The only one she cared about had been married for a few hours by now… She used to think it was just a dumb crush, a childish fantasy, but yet she believed until the last moment, she believed that Rumple would finally break Belle's heart so the blue-eyed beauty would come to her arms. It was a selfish thought and she knew that, but there was no other way she would ever get Belle to love her half as much as she did.
"And yet you still love her" she thought as she sprinted to the heart of the forest that surrounded Storybrooke. It was one of her favorite places to be in her wolf form and as she could control it now, she would get to look at the night sky with human eyes. She finally reached a small clearing, almost at the exact center of the forest. Peacefulness finally engulfed her and she turned back, breathing in the sweet scent of the forest. She could think better in the silence. Ruby sat down and buried her face in her hands, a few tears leaking out of her eyes "Why is love so painful?" she whispered to herself. She remembered the first time she talked to Belle and how her legs almost gave away at the sound of her voice, and her accent, Ruby smiled "That goddamn accent…" she thought and bit her lip, not so much as a dumb crush after all.