Chapter 2

Mary Margaret decided that a nap would do her some good after all. The talk she had just had with Emma left her worn out for the moment.

Emma on the other hand needed to get out of the apartment. The revelation that her parents wanted to leave left her angry and on edge. The anger she had expressed with Mary Margaret was very misplaced. She wasn't angry with Mary Margaret... she was angry with someone else entirely.

She walked out of the apartment and made her way down the hallway of the building. As she stepped out the door she saw the someone she was angry with coming up the walkway.

"Emma. Are you headed somewhere?" Charming asks with a small smile.

"I should probably be asking you that question." She answers sharply.

The pointed look and tone do not go unnoticed by Charming. "Did I miss... something? What's going on?"

"I had a talk with Mary Margaret. Seems you are really hell bent on leaving and going back to your world." She presses as she crosses her arms over her chest.

"Well... yes, I have been thinking about going back but Emma..."

She does not allow him to finish his sentence, "So it's true... So if you had found a way to leave before I got back from my trip with Gold then you would have left me behind without even a second thought? You would have left me here... left me behind... again?"

"Emma... I didn't think..." David tries to argue but she isn't giving him much of a chance to defend himself.

"No. You didn't think did you? I mean... what do you care anyway right? You sent me in to this world without a second thought so why would you start now right?" She was doing a horrible job of holding back her tears but she didn't care.

"No. Emma... stop." He reaches out and tries to hold her arms but she steps away.

"Don't touch me! I can't believe this... NO! You know what? I can! I mean I know I'm not the daughter you were expecting. Hell... I'm not a child anymore so I can see how you don't feel the need to worry about how I feel or what I think about all this but you know it's not fair to make Mary Margaret choose between you and me. You can't make her do that. You're hurting her by choosing this path. You can't decide things like that on your own. She's your wife! Shouldn't she get a say in whether you both stay or go?"

"This isn't the life I was expecting to live with her!" He finally manages to say. "In our world we took back our kingdom... together. We made plans to have a family... together. Now we're stuck here in a world that isn't ours with a daughter who doesn't even need us anymore. I didn't want this life." He says pleading with his eyes hoping Emma will understand him.

"Life is full of obstacles... and what... you just want to run away?" She asks as her voice breaks a bit.

"I just want to go back to what I know. This... this is not our life. This is not where we belong. We were supposed to be together... raise you in our own world, be a family in our own kingdom, and now there is a chance for us to make that happen."

"You're asking for the impossible. Things will not go back to the way they once were. You can physically go back yes... but it's not going to be the same. You have to decide now. You have to deal with what's in front of you." She watches as he takes a deep breath averting his eyes and then she realizes, "You've already made up your mind haven't you?"

"I will go back.. to what I know." He says definitively and he intends on walking in to the apartment but she grabs his arm in a firm hold which garners her some eye contact.

"You're going to try to leave her here aren't you?" Emma asks in a whisper.

"I can't make her change her mind. If she doesn't want to come..."

"Then you stay. It's as simple as that." Emma presses almost presenting this as a challenge to him. "She loves you. If you go without her... it'll break her heart."

"If she truly loves me she will come back with me. What you need to think about is whether that will be with you and Henry or without you both."

"No..." She starts to say and then repeats forcefully, "NO! You don't get to put this on me. I'm not the one pushing her away. I spent my whole life waiting, wishing... hoping... to find you someday and now that we're together it feels like we're further apart than we've ever been. If she really wants to go back then I can live with that but you're not going to ask me to do what you are doing. I will not make her choose!" Emma struggles to say as tears spill from her eyes. "You know what!?" She says harshly. "No matter who you are here or there... David, James, or Charming... you just continue to hurt her don't you? You don't even deserve her." She says poking a finger to his chest and shaking her head in disgust.

Charming remains silent as he watches her walk away.