This is where we live? David said skeptically inside his head. He'd been released from the hospital that afternoon and Kathryn had made such a fuss. David knew that Kathryn just wanted him to feel happy, but for whatever reason the harder she tried they more David wanted to distance himself from her.

"You know you had the same look on your face before we bought it too." Kathryn gushed. "You couldn't see past the ugly windmill on the lawn and said you'd never buy an old lady house. Do you remember what made you change your mind?"

"I can see the windmill is gone." David said sarcastically.

"Come on," Kathryn took him by the hand. "Everyone's waiting."

"Who's everyone?" David asked as they reached the front door. Rather than respond, Kathryn swung open the door where most of the town was waiting. Everyone was cheering and welcoming David home. Together he and Kathryn wandered around and she introduced him to over a dozen people he didn't remember. David breathed a sigh of relief when he spotted a familiar face.

"Dr. Whale!" David shook the doctor's hand.

"Hi David," Dr. Whale greeted his former patient. "Look, I know this is a lot, but it's good for you. The smallest thing can trigger your memories. Just try and have fun."

"Thank you Dr. Whale I'll do my best."

"You know why he doesn't remember?" Henry asked. Emma was sitting on a bench in the hallway of David's house between Sarah and Henry. She'd only come to the party because it was one of the few times Emma had Regina's permission to see Sarah and Henry. "The curse isn't working on him yet."

"Henry, David has amnesia." Emma reminded him.

"Well it's preventing the curse from replacing his fairy tale story with fake memories." Henry replied.

"Right, because everyone here has fake stories that prevent them from remembering who they really are." Emma had hoped that after Henry's experience with Dr. Hopper, he would have disbelieved the curse even a little.

"Right." Henry nodded. "And now's our chance to help him. We just have to get him to remember that he's..."

"That he's Prince Charming." Emma nodded so Henry knew she understood.

"We've got to jog his memory by getting him and Miss Blanchard together." Sarah explained. She might not believe in the curse, but she didn't trust that Kathryn lady's story. Emma had been right that day at the Hospital, it was awfully convenient that Regina found her the same day David woke up.

"Didn't we try that?" Emma asked.

"Yeah and it woke him up." Sarah pointed out. There had to be a scientific way to explain that happening, hadn't there?

"Hey!" David said with recognition as he approached Emma, Henry and Sarah. "You're the ones who saved me right?"

"Yeah I guess." Emma nodded.

"And, uh you're also the only ones I know here." David chuckled.

"You can hide with us." Emma invited.

"Emma, you live with Mary Margaret right? Do you know if she's coming tonight?" David asked hopefully.

"No, she couldn't make it." Emma explained.

"Oh." David said looking crestfallen.

"You should go out there!" Regina suggested to Kathryn from inside the kitchen. "There's plenty of food. Go! Be with your husband."

"I lost him once, now I have him back, but it's like I still don't have him back. You have no idea how that feels."

"Actually I do." Regina said sharply. "I lost someone once too."

"Really?" Kathryn asked looking up.

"Yes, but the love I lost...there's no bringing him back. You have a chance here, go to him."

"You're right," Kathryn said setting down the platter she'd been preparing. "And Regina, thank you. Thank you for being suck a good friend. It's been so lonely, I'm not used to having one."

"Neither am I." Regina supposed.

"Well like it or not, you have one now." Kathryn promised before stepping out into the hall to look for David.

"Have you seen David?" Kathryn asked the first group of people she came across.

"No." Emma answered.

"Come to think of it I haven't seen him either." Dr. Whale said. Kathryn thanked them anyway and went off to check the living room.

Mary Margaret was outside her apartment building trying to hang a bird feeder in a tree, when she heard someone calling to her.

"Mary Margaret! Did you not get the invite?"

"David." Mary Margaret sighed.

"Here let me help." David said jumping the fence and hanging the bird feeder for her. "So I head you resigned from the hospital. Was it me? Cause of what I told you? About how I felt about you...oh come on, don't tell me it's one sided."

"You're married! It should be no side." Mary Margaret exclaimed.

"Shouldn't be doesn't matter." David told her. "Whoever married Kathryn, it's not me. I didn't choose her. I'm choosing you. I know you feel it, I can tell."

"I know you think that we have this connection, but maybe it's because I happened to be the person who saved your life? So why don't we leave it at that?" She smiled as she walked away, but on the inside Mary Margaret's heart was breaking.

David returned to the party much earlier than Emma had expected. When Kathryn asked where he'd been, David just told her the party had been too much at once; he'd gone for a walk. Emma could tell by his tone that things with Mary Margaret hadn't gone the way he'd hoped. Emma took this as her cue to go home. As much as she hated leaving Sarah and Henry, she knew Mary Margaret really needed her so she thanked Kathryn and David for their hospitality and made a retreat back to her apartment.

Emma found Mary Margaret frantically scrubbing dishes in the kitchen sink.

"You might wanna ease up or that Brillo pad's gonna press charges." Emma smirked.

"The dishes were just piling up!" Mary Margaret said in a huff.

"This have anything do to with David stopping by? I saw him sulking at his party."

"We just...uh...He just..."

"Yeah I know." Emma nodded. "You're both just, and you're doing the right thing." Emma promised.

"He made a pretty compelling case." Mary Margaret said as she glanced up from her dishes.

"But he's still married." Emma reminded her.

"What do I do?" Mary Margaret asked, tossing the cup she held back into the water and placing her hand on the counter.

"You need to stop cleaning and have a drink." Emma found a bottle of wine and two glass. She poured herself a glass and filled the second for Mary Margaret.

"Here's the thing, I don't know a lot about relationships, other than having many that failed." Emma handed the wine glass to Mary Margaret and sat on one of the barstools. "But generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is. So you've got to stay strong and he has to figure out his life."

At David and Kathryn's house, all of the guests had gone and the house had been cleaned. The couple was snuggled together on the couch, a box full of pictures nestled between them.

"You look different." Kathryn said suddenly. David looked up from the handful of photos he'd been pretending to look at. "You used to always have a buzz cut, you used to complain that long hair was itchy and hard to take care of."

"I guess it grew while I was in there." David said running a hand through his hair.

"So, I was going to go to bed...Did you want to join me?" Kathryn asked softly.

"Do you mean, go to bed go to bed or Go to bed?" David asked.

"Whatever you want." Kathryn said, running her own had through David's hair.

"Why don't we just sit and talk some more?" David said reaching for the box of photos. Rather than responding, Kathryn leaned forward and kissed David. She was his wife, so David kissed her back, but the kiss didn't last very long.

"This..."David gasped as he pulled back, "Isn't right."