I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in a while! My only excuse is school, which is a pain.
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Henry and Emma sat on the park bench eating their ice creams. Henry had managed to get his smeared all round his face. Emma smiled at him, she couldn't believe how much she loved Henry in the little time they had spent together. She assumed he would resent her for giving him away but he wasn't like any other kid she knew, he was evolved and mature. he had a clear understanding of the way the world works, sometimes better than her own. She was lucky. she felt lucky to have him in her life finally, even if he wasn't completely hers. She picked up her napkin and started to dab at the ice cream mustache he was forming.
"Everywhere. You managed to get it everywhere. What are you three years old?" She joked.
"Hey, you can tell how much you enjoyed something by how much of it is around your mouth. I clearly enjoyed it."
"Clearly. Did you not think it would be easier to just eat the ice cream instead of decorating your face?"
"I thought about it but then decided this would be much more fun. You should try it."
"Not a chance."
He dipped his finger in to his ice cream and dabbed it on to Emma's nose, in reaction she winced at the cold substance and scrunched her face. When she opened her eyes, she had turned in to a complete child and started to put what was left of her ice cream on Henry.
"You have no one to blame but yourself." She commented.
Henry smiled back at her, realizing how far they had come in their bonding. He loved her and she was his mom. He loved calling her that because that's the way he felt. Soon he quickly got distracted and started to peer over Emma's shoulder.
"What's Grandpa doing?"
Emma turned around to see him chasing Snow down the street shouting after her.
"Snow please just come back here!"
"David just go back home I will meet you there in five minutes."
"No, you are not going alone."
"You have been following me for 20 minutes, do you not think this is getting a bit ridiculous?"
"No I do not. I think I am acting appropriately for what your about to do."
"I am an adult, he is an adult-"
"Yes. That's exactly what I'm scared of."
Snow ignored him and carried on walking. Emma and Henry both looked back at each other once again, confused.
"I really don't know what's going on with your grandparents lately."
"Why mom what's happened?"
"You don't wanna know kid."
"Please tell me! I can help, your forgetting I know more about them than you do."
"I suppose that's true." Emma sighed.
"So what is it?"
"No, I shouldn't be sharing this with you Henry, your just a kid and I don't fully understand it yet, it wouldn't be right to unload my problems on you."
He reached out for her hand. "Ok mom, I understand, when your ready." He smiles.
Snow and David stood in the middle of the street, both clearly angered by each others behavior The problem that they had always had is that both of them believed they were right. It caused numerous arguments. Snow was independent for a long time, only going off on her ideas and David, he was a leader. Being right is what he did, what he had always done. He wasn't ready to give that up now and neither was she.
"You want to see Whale so much that you will go against me?"
"You're not in control of me David I can make my own decisions."
"Your decision being that you want to go to talk to another man that you clearly had feelings for."
"Do you really want to start this argument now?"
"Yes Snow, I really want to start this now."
Snow had been repressing this anger for so long. She assumed if she kept it hidden it would stay hidden and they forget the whole thing, she was wrong. Their pasts are their pasts and that will forever shadow them. So many moments can not be so easily over come. No matter how much she hoped they could.
"Fine. I was angry and hurt at how you could choose her over me-"
"Snow I-"
"No let me say it. I loved you David, always, even with the curse. And fine David Nolan may not be you but Mary Margaret was me and for a long period of time I felt like there was something wrong with me, like I wasn't good enough for you because you chose her. It wasn't hard to walk away from Kathryn, you didn't know her, you told me that I was the only thing that 'felt real'. After all that you just stomped on my heart David. Do you have the slightest idea how that made me feel? What it made me question about myself? Maybe you can leave things in the past, but I can't forget what I felt. I just can't."
She looked down at the floor. For a while they both stood there in silence. Neither of them knowing what to do, all David's mistakes had just been laid out in front of him. He knew how she felt and he regretted what he did but he didn't know that even now, it affected her so badly. He didn't know what to say or how to say it but he knew that he needed to try. He reached up and took her small hands in his.
"I can't take it back Snow."
"I know." She whispered.
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know." She replied, a single tear dropping from her eye. "Lets just go home."
"But what about-"
"Just forget it." She mumbled walking away.
He felt like he just blew it. She told him everything she had felt in the past year and he did practically nothing. No apologies. No tries to reassure her. Nothing.
A couple of hours later David walked in to the apartment, he had been to clear his head and to give Snow her space. When he came in she was sat on the edge of her bed, legs crossed, in her sweat pants. She looked adorable. The look on her face told something else, she looked scared or nervous, something not good.
"Mare, you ok?"
She stopped biting her thumb and looked up at him, shocked. "Why did you call me Mare?"
He stopped in his tracks. "It was a mistake. You just looked so much like your old self with that look on your face, the shy look."
"Is that who you would rather I be?"
He quickly sat down next to her, taking hold of her hands. "Of course not, I love who you are, what would make you think otherwise?"
"Just because where not as happy as we should be." She noticed the confusion on his face and tried to elaborate. "It's been twenty eight years and were finally together and all we do is argue."
"That's not true Snow!"
"Yes it is. It's about the past or the future, where we're going to live, how we're going to get Emma to forgive us, you punching Whale. Why can't we just be happy and live a simple life."
"You know that's not possible... When have we ever had a simple life?" He whispered.
"That's precisely my point. I just want us to be happy." Snow cried out.
"And we will be! Snow we just have to get past what has happened. We can do things to take our mind of it, finally make this place ours? Spend more time with Emma, we could-"
"David... I think we should take a break."
