I find it hard to believe that Emma didn't at least try to move on a little bit and that she goes to the Underworld the next day, so these are just my thoughts about things that would have happened if Emma took some time before realizing that she needed to go after him.
Every time she goes back to the loft, she glances upstairs and imagines he'll appear with a quip, apologizing for the mess.
She walks through town and looks up at the Clock Tower and remembers when she thought she lost him.
She can't sleep alone in the bed upstairs in the house that was meant for their future, so she stays up all night holding onto his ring, and at least that much hasn't changed since the darkness left her.
Regina tells her that something needs to be done with his 300 years of belongings, so Emma goes onto the Jolly Roger to look, but she ends up drinking alone in the Captain's Quarters instead.
Snow and Charming try to talk about funeral arrangements, but all she can imagine when she thinks about it is the ocean.
When they try to say that he should be placed next to Neal, Emma loses it and goes to the pier where he would protect her heart.
At the town line, everyone gathers to turn Dopey back into a person, and Emma knows that not a day has gone by that she hasn't thought of him.
When she makes the decision to go back to work, she picks up the box of her childhood and puts on her old glasses and that plastic ring for a little while.
She goes home and smells the flower he gave her in Camelot. Fearful that the flower might lose its scent, she enchants it so that the scent, and the memory, do not fade.
On Sunday nights at Granny's, she can't bring herself to play darts with Henry because it reminds her of him
Everything reminds her of him.
A/N - I'm hoping to write these little thoughts into scenes and maybe even a longer fic over the hiatus, so think of this chapter as a prologue. Also, the title is a song by Spoon. Please review and thank you so much for reading.