She woke up the next morning and found herself playing the previous night in her mind over and over again. Did David really know she was The Evil Queen? Did he really have sex with her knowing all the terrible things she had done to him before? Regina couldn't wrap her head around everything she had felt as David held her in his arms. She had felt loved for the first time in a really long time.
David could feel she was awake but for some reason he kept his eyes closed and pretended he was asleep. He had slept with his enemy and he had enjoyed it. After kissing Regina at the doorstep, he realized she was The Evil Queen. He couldn't understand how it had happened since he knew only true love could break the curse and it was impossible Regina was his true love. Snow White was his woman, the woman he had chosen to love for the rest of his life. But last night as he watched Regina run up the stairs, he knew he wanted to be with her.
"If I know who you are, does that mean the rest of the town knows as well?" He asked as he sat up in bed.
"I don't know, dear."
He got out of bed and put his boxers on. "I should go find out." He looked at her. "No one can find out we slept together, Regina, no one."
"I'm a very discreet person, Mr. Nolan. I won't go around telling people who I've fucked."
"Well…if my memory doesn't betray me, I was the one who fucked you." David winked at her as he put his jeans on.
Weird, she thought. Seeing him winking and getting dressed in front of her made her feel different. The word she was looking for was horny. Every time she looked at David Nolan, she felt horny. It was something she hadn't expected to feel. Graham had made her feel horny, but not in the way she was feeling right now. She understood that with David everything was different.
Last night, he had been a gentleman from the beginning until the end. He had made sure he had a condom with him. Before fucking her, as they had just said, he kissed all over her body making her feel wanted. He looked into her eyes to make sure this was what she wanted and he wasn't forcing her into doing something she didn't want to do. And as he had sex with her, he took care of her, of her body, of her feelings. David had treated her a way no one had ever treated her before, not even Daniel.
"Now that you know who I am, I'm sure you won't want to see me again."
"I knew who you were before we slept together and still I decided to stay here with you. That must tell you something."
"That you are as crazy as I thought you were."
"Not really." He looked at her. "I'm going to find out if anyone else has remembered who they are and then I'll come see you again. Just in case, stay here and don't let anyone see you."
"Why do you care what happens to me?"
"I don't know why, but I do."
After he said that, David left her house and Regina, surprisingly, did what she was told to do. He went around town trying to find the people he had spent his life with back at home but for some weird reason there was no one on the streets. He looked everywhere before he decided to go to Granny's, something told him they were all there…and he was right.
"Charming!" Snow yelled as she saw him walk into the diner and ran towards him. "Oh my god, where were you?! I looked everywhere for you."
"I…I was trying to clear my head." He looked at her and all he could think about was Regina naked the previous night. "Has everyone remembered who they are?"
"Yes, we all started remembering last night around 1am." Leroy said. "A wave of air hit us all and our memories came back. Now let's go find the bitch that did this to us!"
"No!" David yelled furiously.
"Excuse me?" Mary Margaret said. "Why wouldn't we go find Regina? She did this to us and she has to pay."
"Snow, that's not you. You don't make people pay, you try to make them change."
"Well…yes you are right." She looked at everyone else in the room. "We will find her and we will talk to her."
"What?! That's not what we need. A single talk won't change what she made us go through; she made our lives a living hell!" Grumpy said exposing his real personality as he got angrier and angrier at the mention of The Evil Queen. "What's wrong with you?" He looked at David. "Back at home you wanted to kill her and now you expect us to talk to her?"
"I just think we shouldn't be like her. She did terrible things and we shouldn't imitate her. I say we bring her to justice and that's how we'll make her pay."
"We shouldn't forget she's Henry's mom as well." Emma said from the corner of the room. "And even though she hurt all of you, including me, she raised Henry and took care of him."
"I'm with Emma." David said. "I will talk to Regina and come up with the best way to settle things down."
"I'm going with you." Snow White told him.
"No, it's something I should do alone. Yes, I know she did all this to revenge you, Snow, but I feel like I should be the one talking to her."
David drove his truck around town for a few minutes before driving to Regina's house. He was lost. For the first time in his life, he had no idea what to do or how to act. Everyone in town wanted to bring Regina down and make her pay for what she did. He couldn't let them get to her, for some weird reason he wanted to protect her more than he had protected Snow White before. Just the thought of someone hurting Regina made him feel terribly, he couldn't let anything happen to her. Was he falling for her? No, he didn't want to think he was. Maybe he wanted to protect her just because they had slept together the night before and she had made him feel good. As he parked outside her house, he promised himself he wouldn't let anyone hurt Regina or let them harm her.
Regina saw him pulling into the driveway from the window of her living room. She had stayed home, as he had asked her to do, waiting until he came back to tell her the news. From the moment he had left the house, she had wanted him to come back and hold her in his arms. She searched in her head signs of the moment she had started falling for David. Was it when she had become friends with Kathryn? Was it when he had been so vulnerable that it called her attention? Was it when he had have dinner with her and she had tried to kiss him? She couldn't find the answers to those questions in her mind, but she could feel inside her heart that she would not let anyone hurt David.
"Do they know?" She asked as she opened the door.
"Yes, they all started remembering last night."
"Do you think us sleeping together broke the curse?"
"All I know is that the moment I kissed you I knew who you were and everybody else in town remembered who they were."
"The moment you kissed me?"
She didn't understand how it was possible that kissing David had broken the curse. The minute Emma arrived in town, Mr. Gold had known it was her the one to break the curse, so how was it possible that she had broken her own curse while kissing Snow White's Prince Charming? True love was the most powerful magic of them all, the only one strong enough to break the curse. Was that what had happened? Was David her true love? Was that why he had remembered? Was it possible that she had been able to break her own curse? Regina was confused and couldn't understand how it was possible that with a simple, passionate, kiss they had been able to bring everyone's memory back.