David scoffed. "A break? Are you serious?"

"Deadly." Snow whispered.

He leapt up. "So after twenty eight years of being separated, now were finally together you want to split up again? What is wrong with you?"

Snow stood up quickly to join him. "Nothing is wrong with me!" She sighed and started to fiddle. "It's just over whelming. The amount of stuff we know now and have to come to terms with... It's a lot to handle."

"So splitting up is going to solve this?!"

"I didn't say split up... I said a break."

"It's the same thing Snow and you know it! And then what, what's going to happen after? You just want to get a divorce?"

"No!"

"You just want to give up on twenty nine years of finding each other?"

"You know that's not what I meant."

"So what did you mean? Your acting like its so easy to forget how we risked our lives time and time again. How we were willing to die for each other. You just want to forget everything and give up on true love, everything we have worked for. Our family?"

"David I didn't say that!"

"Well you might as well have." He stormed to the door grabbing his jacket. "I'm going out."

Snow slowly sat down taking a deep breath. She knew this conversation wasn't going to be great but she had no idea that he would react this badly, she just wanted to fix their marriage not break it. Of course she wanted to be with him, she loved him with all her heart. That's why she wanted to do this, she wanted to save this.

Not long later David returned back hoping she had changed her mind, he hoped it was just a thought that got out of hand. That he was going to come back to the apartment and be welcomed in with a big embrace and her telling him she was sorry and she didn't mean any of it. Much to his dismay she was packing a small bag. He stopped at the front door.

"Snow. What are you doing?"

She took a deep breath. "I'm leaving."

"But... Why?"

"Did you not hear me before?"

"Yeah but I didn't think you were serious."

She laughed trying to hide her pain. "Well I certainly wasn't joking."

"Snow please, we can work at this, don't leave me."

She took a breath and tried to hold in her tears. "I have too, for us."

"So where are you gonna go? What are you gonna do?" His sadness turning quickly in to anger.

"I'm going to go stay with Red. Clear my head for a little while."

"What are we going to tell Emma?"

"The truth, we have lied enough already."

"Fine. Well can do it, it was your idea to give up."

"David." She sighed "I'm not giving up."

"Well it seems that way to me."

"I'm sorry." She choked.

She grabbed her bag and slowly walked towards him until the distance between them was no more. she looked up at him at leant in to kiss him goodbye. He turned his head to give her his cheek. She almost cried right there and then. She kissed his cheek and walked out of the door, closing it behind her. She leant against the door drawing a sharp breath and started to cry heavily.

A few moments after she left, Charming picked up the vase beside him and threw it at the wall, the glass smashed and the flowers were spread across the floor. The glass was left empty just like his heart felt. For the first time in a long time his sadness over whelmed him and he just fell to the floor, he had no control over his actions, he felt weak, as if his world was about to collapse. When he regained his strength he walked over to the glass and started to pick it up. He heard the door unlock and he turned around quickly.

"Snow?"

"No it's just me." Emma replied.

"Oh right. Hi Emma." He said trying to hide the disappointment in his voice.

"David your bleeding!"

"What?" David looked down at his hands. "Oh it's from the glass." He gestured to the floor.

Emma knew there was something wrong. There wasn't a moment when David didn't have a cheery tone. It was one of the things she loved and hated about him but now here he was without it, something was definitely wrong.

"David, are you ok?"

"Yes, I'm fine." David paused. "No I'm not, my hand is bleeding, I'm so confused, everything's falling apart!"

"What's falling apart?" Emma questioned.

David sighed and stopped to think before replying. "The vase. It fell apart."

"Are you sure that is what's going on here?"

David sighed and sat on the couch running his hand through his golden hair. He couldn't tell his daughter what was going on but he couldn't lie to her either. Snow said she would tell her, but she left and he couldn't lie... Not to Emma. She would know anyway it's her super power, there would just be no point in lying to her. Charming was an open book, every single feeling he had was shown on his face, it was a curse at times.

"Emma I-" he sighed once more. "I don't want you to panic but your mother has gone. Not forever! She hasn't left me. Snow, she just wanted time apart, time to figure everything out."

Emma looked at him. "And is that what you want?"

"Of course not. I want to figure things out together, as a family, it's what we do. At least I thought it was."

"So go tell her."

"Emma I tried, it's no use. I think we should just let her have a bit of time."

"Time? Do you know how valuable that is now? I may be new to this fairytale stuff but I know that Regina hasn't always made life easy for you. Us being together now... It's important. She shouldn't get time. Time isn't what she needs, what she needs is-"

Emma stopped. Releasing her feelings to David was strange for her. She had hated him for a while. For hurting her best friend, she hated him. It was hard to see him as a good guy, it was hard to see him as her father. How could she open up to the man who crushed her mothers heart? She needed to remember that he is not the man she thought he was. That he was family and you shouldn't have to hide away from family.

"Emma?" David asked concerned.

"You... David. She needs you."

"Ruby do we have to? Especially tonight, I've just got here."

"It's not my fault you came on a Saturday. Plus it will be good for you, take your mind off of things." She saw the hesitation on Snow's face. "Come on Snow, for me? For your best friend." She smiled sweetly.

"Fine. But I don't have anything to wear."

"That's alright you can just borrow something of mine." Ruby noticed Snow raise an eyebrow. "My clothes aren't that bad!"

Snow just laughed at her. Red was right, her clothes weren't that bad... Ruby's on the other hand. After laughing Snow smiled realizing Red was taking her mind off of things. Of course she still felt guilty for leaving David but she did it with the best intentions. Ruby suggested they go pick out an outfit, snapping Snow out of her daydream, she agreed and willing followed her up the stairs.

A couple hours and a layer of makeup later, the girls were ready. Ruby wore a a floaty red lace dress that came to her knees and because it was the only thing they could find for her, Snow wore a simple tight black dress with long sleeves. It wasn't really her style but Red had insisted she look 'gorgeous' in it. And so the night began.

They went to the only bar they knew of in Storybrooke, 'The Rabbit Hole.' It was quite a well known bar though the town, however Snow couldn't see many people she knew. She assumed that they weren't from her part of the forest but Ruby reassured her they were nice. For the majority of the night Snow just sat at the bar sipping martinis claiming she wasn't in the mood to dance. Ruby tried to persuade her at first but eventually gave up and danced by herself. Snow just watched as her friend enjoyed herself and started to day dream, she was back in the forest.

"Charming stop it, I'm ticklish!"

"You really shouldn't have told me that." He laughed.

He winked at her and Snow's heart melted she was completely in love with him. It hadn't been long but that's what she felt. Love. She had never thought it would come to her, something so pure and true but it did and she felt so blessed.

He grabbed hold of her waist and whispered in her ear. "If you're good, maybe I'll let you go. Only maybe."

She whispered back to him. "What if I'm not good?"

"So what are you saying? You intend to be bad?"

Snow smirked deviously and turned around so she was released from his grip, not that she minded it. His touch gave her goosebumps. Just one simple touch could make her loose all sensibility.

"I can't be good, all the time." She murmured against his neck.

"I agree. Especially when you're so good at being bad."

He ran his hands up and down her arms and she shuddered at his touch, there was no doubt in her mind that she wanted him and she wasn't afraid to show it. She left trails of kisses up and down his neck before focusing on the scar upon his chin. A gentle moan escaped his mouth. She smiled against his skin.

"Snow..." His voiced echoed.

"Snow!" Red shouted.

She quickly snapped out of her daydream to find Ruby glaring at her. "Yes ruby? What's wrong?"

"You have not been paying attention to a single word I have said."

"I was having... A moment."

"Yes. I noticed."

"You did?"

"The smirk on your lips gave you away." She saw the smile appear again when she mentioned this. "You was thinking about David, weren't you."

"No. Ruby, I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, I am now. Whatever your question was, yes."

Ruby smiled deviously. "My question was 'shots?'"

"Well it looks like I'm doing shots then."

3 rounds of tequila later it was safe to say that Snow was no longer sober. The heels made it worse, ten times worse. She decided it would be safer to stay where she was until Red concluded it was home time. Snow leant against the bar to keep herself steady. She felt a pair of hands on her waist and quickly turned around.

"Your majesty! I am so sorry. I didn't realize it was you, you look so... Different. Not in a bad way, you look really good actually. not that I was looking, well I was but only because I didn't know it was you. I- I apologize."

Snow just laughed. "It's fine. Don't worry about it."

The man apologized once more. "I am really sorry, I hope the prince isn't going to come and kill me." He laughed.

"I'm sure you will be fine." She smiled.

"Are you going home? I can give you a ride if you need one?"

"No I'm good, thank you. You enjoy your night."

She stood up, a little to fast it would seem and stumbled towards the door. She spotted Ruby and told her she was leaving. She just nodded even though she couldn't hear her over the music. Snow trailed her hand across the wall to keep a steady pace, all the way back in to town, she was almost home.

At the same time Emma had managed to convince David to go bring Snow home. He was running from the apartment to Grannies inn when he saw a woman with a pixie cut and could only assume that was Snow, although it didn't look exactly like her.

"Snow! Snow don't ignore me." David shouted after her.

She turned around and much to David's surprise it wasn't Snow, it was a teacher recognized from the school. He immediately felt embarrassed.

"I'm so sorry, I thought you were my wife." He apologized.

"I assumed." She laughed. "Easy mistake, we look alike from the back."

"Your telling me." He smiled.

"Well I better get going, my husbands waiting for me."

"Well sorry again, goodnight."

He was disappointed that wasn't her, he had it all planned out what he was going to do, what he was going to say. First he would kiss her, to make her forget any objection she had towards him, but mostly to shut her up. He would tell her that he loved her and that he wanted to sort this out just as much as she did, but separating wasn't the answer. Then he would take her home and lay with her in his arms all night. The plan was ruined. He had no idea where to find her, she wasn't at the inn and he didn't want to go searching the town if she didn't want to be found. Granted, he said he would always find her but he had assumed she would always want to be found.

David gave up all hope and walked in to grannies to get a drink and drown his sorrows, count his losses. He bought himself a whisky, he felt like something strong, something to numb his pain.

"Driven you to drink? I know she's annoying but I thought that what you considered cute." He heard a voice call.

"It's none of your business Regina."

"Quite the contrary dear, It's all my business, I wouldn't want you driving home in a drunken state, you could hurt someone and then I'd have to go through the trouble of putting one of the lovebirds back in it's cage at the sheriff station." She smirked.

"You know what Regina, I don't find your sarcasm remotely funny and even though I would normally put up with it, I'm not in the mood so do us all a favor and leave."

Regina noticed there was something seriously wrong with David and for Henry she decided it was her time to prove she could be nice.

"Is there something wrong David?"

"What if there is. It's certainly none of your concern and you don't give a damn about it anyway."

"Not true... My son values your happiness and I'm trying to tolerate it. So would you like to tell me what's going on?"

David sighed with frustration. "Snow decided she wanted to take a break. The curse being lifted gave her a lot of stuff to think about. So are you happy now your majesty? You finally broke us up, congratulations."

"David despite what you think of me, I am trying to change and for a while now I haven't had any intention of splitting the two of you up. Henry loves you both dearly and who am I to hurt the people he loves?" She turned her attention towards Granny "I ordered two burgers and fries, if they're done."

"You really are trying to change, aren't you Regina?"

"I really am David. For Henry." She took the food from Granny and gave her some more money "And a coffee too please." She looked at David. "I think you've had enough liquor."

She walked out and closed the door behind her. If Regina was trying to change why should he give up? It seemed anything was possible. It didn't matter if Snow didn't want to be found, he wanted to find her because if their relationship had told them anything, it's that you don't give up on the people you love.

Ok so I know a few of you wanted to hurt me after the last chapter, I hope this made it a little bit better. I know they would never split up forever! But I just needed a story line plus we all know it will be cute when they forgive each other.

I hope you like this chapter, it took me a while to write it.

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Thank you for reading.