I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING

The curse has been broken but he still feels like that little boy who was left with a baby in a land without magic. He feels like a traitor and how could she ever love someone that had brought her so much pain.

A/N: POST 1X22. ENJOY!

Before...

She hurried down the way so she wouldn't miss him. She knew where he would be. How she knew that it was beyond her reach, most like most of what had happened these past few weeks. Her finding her family and him turning back to a man who despite of all his flaws and mistakes had come for her. She knew that he felt guilty for failing her, and failing her parents for that matter, for not keeping a promise that he had made, but did they really expect a kid who was just learning to be a kid to be the guardian of a baby?

"August!" She called. She kept walking down until she found him sitting on the sidewalk outside his father's shop where he now lived. Gepetto wasnt there, he must have gone out with... Archie?. He looked up to see her walk towards him but didnt speak. She could see the shame in his eyes. She could see the sadness. She just sat there next to him. Waiting...


"We should go home" James tells Snow and Henry "Emma will be fine" He assures the boy who puts on his bag pack and follows him outside.

"Grandpa?" Henry asks him softly as they watch Snow talk to Red "I really don't think you should be mad at August... he didn't do anything..."

"Henry" James says sweetly looking down at him "There was a lot happening and that we could have prevented.. but I am not mad at him. Snow isn't mad at him... it's just... complicated... can you understand that?"

"I guess" Henry shrugs "So you should show him" James ceased at eyebrow at the boy "That you are okay with what happened.. I mean you are not okay with it, but it just makes him so sad"

"I will... talk to him... but first I have to talk to Emma about it" James concedes "Will that be okay?" Henry smiled "And we must tell Snow"

"Yeah" Henry agrees "But it's a start right?" James nodded as he pushed the door open now that Snow was coming back.


"We can sit here all day" Emma tells August after a few minutes. August looks at her.

"You have a war to fight" He says sternly "They need you, I am just in your way.. I was always in the way of you becoming who you were destined to be"

"August" Emma says slowly "Stop it okay?

"It's the truth" He smiles weakly "And I am not supposed to tell lies, so why would I? I was in the way of your parents going with you.. having a family and..."

"Well" Emma says "If you hadn't gone with me..." She laughs a bit "My mother would be older than my dad and that would be just..."

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?" He curves his mouth.

"And I probably wouldn't have Henry" Emma thinks sadly "Even if you had stayed with me back then, there would be no kid"

"And that would be..." August begins as an image of the little prince came to his mind "I really like that kid"

"Me too" Emma smiles "And he looks up to you"

"He does?" This is the first time he actually looks at her.

"Yep" Emma says "Says his favorite fairy tale was actually Pinocchio"


"Emma" James is sitting on the couch in the living room of the home he now shares with his family. The small apartment where Emma and Mary Margaret used to live in is not big enough but it is enough for them, Snow is there by her side.

"Can you answer me now?" She asks them hopefully crashing on the couch next to her mother "How can you blame him"

"We don't" Snow tells her "But just as much you were searching for us your whole life"

"Your mother and I looked for answers as why Geppetto would have lied" James tells her wisely "And as much as we understand his motives"

"You are still confused" Emma finished for him "Look I don't expect you to be okay with it, I mean I wouldn't be, but there you..."

"We..." James looks down at her daughter "We are parents and we would have given anything to.."

"We are not mad at Pinocchio" Snow tells her "It just hurts us to only learn the truth just now"

"And you would have let August" She remarked the name "Go with me..?" Emma asked in disbelief. Her mother looks at her with a sad smile.

"No" Snow admits "I would have not"

"So there is your answer" Emma stands up without another word and heads upstairs. Her parents just watch her pull away from them once more.


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