Chapter 39
Neal: You look ... amazing.
Emma: You think so?
Neal: Absolutely, please sit down.
(Neal then holds out a chair for Emma and she sits down after which Neal sits down opposite her)
Neal: I took the liberty of ordering a bottle of your favourite wine, I hope you don't mind?
Emma: Of course not, thank you.
(A silence between the two permeates the air with tension)
Neal: Thank you for coming, I wasn't sure if you were going too.
Emma: Neither was I till I talked with Mary Margaret, she convinced me to at least hear you out.
Neal: Well I'm glad she did
Emma: Don't know whether I am yet, you've got a lot to do before I'm anywhere near trusting you again.
Neal: You trust me with Henry.
Emma: That's different, I know whatever happens between us, you wouldn't harm him.
Neal: Do you remember the day we met?
Emma: Of course I do, I was stealing your stolen car.
Neal: And after that we got on like a house on fire.
Emma: Until you left me alone and pregnant to rot in prison.
Neal: Ok first off I didn't know you were pregnant and secondly I was convinced not to by August, you know that.
Emma: Yes but if you loved me like I thought you did then you would've come to find me anyway.
Neal: I wanted to, believe me, but I couldn't.
Emma: Just because someone told you not to, in what world is that an excuse?
Neal: He told me that I had to let you go in order to help you fulfil your destiny and also he blackmailed me.
Emma: With what?
Neal: With my real identity, Emma, I had spent so long burying my past, I didn't want to be found.
Emma: I LOVED YOU AND YOU LEFT ME.
Neal: I know and no amount of apologising is going to make up for that but know this Emma, I have done and always will love you.
(A waitress comes up to them - its Cinderella a.k.a. Ashley)
Ashley: Hi my name's Ashley and I'll be ... oh hi Emma, how are you?
Emma: Ashley, hi, I'm fine thanks for asking. How are you and how's Alexandra?
Ashley: I'm good and she's perfect, absolutely perfect, apart from the fact that she till wakes up during the night a few times. Who's your friend?
Emma: Oh this is Neal, he's Rumplestiltskin's son and Henry's father, Neal this is Ashley.
Neal: If you don't mind me asking, who are you, back in the Enchanted Forest I mean?
Ashley: I'm Cinderella
Neal: Nice
Emma: Hey if we're talking about cool fairytale characters my mom and dad are Snow White and Prince Charming. So Ashley, when did you start working here?
Ashley: Last week, we needed a bit of extra money, both me and Shaun are only working part time so that Alexandra always has one of us with her. And talking of work, what can I get ya'll to eat?
Neal: Do you want to have a starter as well?
Emma: Is that ok? I am starving?
Neal: Sure
Emma: Okay then , I'll have the seared Calamari please
Neal: And I will have the King Prawns three ways
Ashley: Okay then, I'll be back in a little while with your food
Emma: Thanks Ashley
(Ashley walks away)
Emma: I wonder how Henry is?
Neal: He's with your parents right?
Emma: Yeah
Neal: Then he'll be fine
(At the Charming's house David/Charming is chasing Henry around the living room when Snow/Mary Margaret walks in)
Snow: Alright when the chasing in my NEW house starts that's when I step in.
Henry: Oh come on grandma
Snow: You wanna play, go in the yard, or better yet, why don't you go do that last piece of homework.
Charming: Your grandma's right Henry, come on, sit down.
(The three of them sit down and Henry sits next to Snow)
Henry: Umm Grandpa?
Charming: Yes Henry
Henry: Can we go up to the stables again soon?
Charming: Sure we can
Snow: Hey, I'll come with you, it's been a very long time since I've ridden a horse.
Henry: Cool, do you think mom would come?
Snow: Maybe, I don't know
Henry: I hope she does, it would be like a family outing
Charming: That would be nice
Henry: I just hope she's getting on ok with dad
Snow: Me too Henry, me too.
End of Chapter