"That was delicious, Regina." He leaned over the table and kissed her softly. "An amazing lasagna, better than the first one you gave me."
"I'm glad you enjoyed, dear."

Snow White could see them through the window. Was David really kissing The Evil Queen? How could it be possible? She tried to understand why but there weren't any explanations she could find in her head. All she wanted to do was walk into the house and find out what was going on. She needed explanations and she needed them urgently.

"Let's go in!" She said.
"And what exactly are you going to say?" Emma asked. "Henry told me you guys could be here and here you are making out over a plate of lasagna?"
"I have no idea what I'll say, but I need to go in there and stop whatever is going on between them."
"We cannot hurt her, she is my mom." Henry looked at his grandma and she could see how worried he was. "I know she did bad things, but I love her."
"I won't let anything bad happen…to any of them." Leroy said as they knocked on the door.

When David opened the door, he knew he was in trouble. He tried to understand how they had been able to find them, but when he saw Henry the answer was too obvious. Regina was in the kitchen washing the dishes, he could push everyone outside and make up a ridiculous excuse that would keep her safe and wouldn't piss Snow off; but he realized that wasn't an option. They were all staring at him waiting for him to talk and explain what was going on. All he knew was that he wouldn't let them hurt Regina.

"Dear, who is it?" She said as she walked towards the door. Her mouth widened as she saw Snow White, Emma, Henry and Leroy standing at her beach house door. "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you two the same question." Snow asked. "Charming, what are you doing here? Why were you kissing her?"
"Mary Margaret, we shouldn't discuss this in front of Henry." Emma pointed out. "Maybe we should wait until later."
"No!" Henry refused. "I want to know what's going on."

David looked at Regina trying to tell her that whatever he said next wasn't true but she wasn't looking at him. He had to let her know he had a plan. His idea was going to hurt Regina, if she didn't know it before but there was no way he could explain it to her. He closed his eyes for a minute and hoped that in the future Regina would forgive him for what he was about to say. "Oh god, please Regina know I'm lying. Know that I am falling for you and that nothing I'm going to say is true. Please." He thought before he started speaking.

"I've known she is The Evil Queen for a long time. I found out when Kathryn died, I heard her and Gold on the phone. No one was supposed to remember, so I got closer to get to know all her secrets. That's why I came here; I wanted to learn her weaknesses in order to destroy her." He looked at her and felt her heart crashing. He had hurt her.
"You bastard!" Regina pushed the tears away; she didn't want her enemies to see her crying. "How could you do that to me?! I trusted you!"
"You are asking me how could I? You? The evil bitch who destroyed our lives and made us live under a curse? Who the hell do YOU think you are?"

Each word David said was like a knife going through her skin. Regina felt so stupid. She couldn't believe she had let her guard down for David Nolan and now he was embarrassing her in front of her enemies, in front of her son. Nothing anyone could do from that moment on would be as painful as everything he had said. For a few days, she had felt loved like she hadn't in a really long time and now she felt beyond hurt. Regina wanted to be alone; she wanted everyone out of her house because she knew she couldn't keep pushing the tears away for much longer.

"Just leave! Go away and leave me alone! All of you!" She said pushing them out of the house. Her eyes never left David eyes, she tried to find something in him that would tell him he was lying, but she couldn't see it. "I want to be left alone!"
"You've always been alone!" He said and touched her hand to let her know he would come back later, but he knew she didn't understand his lies and that each time he said something, she got hurt.

As she watched them walk away, Regina broke down and allowed the tears to roll down her face. She played in her mind the events of the last few days over and over again. The memories of a few hours earlier, when she was telling him about her past, were swirling around her mind and each time she replayed the words she had said, she felt a throbbing pain in her heart. How could he do that to her? Yes, she had done terrible things in her past but she had never humiliated him that way. Sitting on the floor against the door, she wondered if he had actually been drunk the previous night…or had he been faking that too? Was it possible that he had been faking his drunken state and just pretended to say he loved her? Everything seemed so confusing…so painful.

"I can't believe you risked your life just to find a way to destroy her." Snow White said as she kissed him. "You are still my brave Prince Charming!"
"I made a promise once that I would always protect you and our daughter." He faked a smile and Emma could see there was something wrong with him.
"Kid, why don't you and grandma go buy some hot cocoa with cinnamon from Granny's? It was a long trip back from the beach and we deserve something sweet."

Emma waited a few minutes after Snow and Henry were gone before she started talking. It was the first time she would talk to David knowing he was her father and she was afraid of what might happen. She hadn't really spent time with David as his cursed self and she didn't really know him, but she could sense there was something bothering him, something that he would never share with his wife.

"David, what's going on?" She finally asked.
"What do you mean?"
"You look sad." Emma made a pause trying to find the right words. "I thought after all these years you'd be happy to be with Mary Margaret."
"I am happy I found you and that Henry is my grandson."
"And what about mom?"
"I…I just don't feel the same way I did before."
"Is it because of Regina? You've been kind of blue ever since we left the beach house."
He looked at his daughter for the first time and something in his heart told him that he could share his feelings with her. "I lied. I remembered who I truly was the same night everyone else did. Regina and I were together. We spent the night talking about Kathryn and when I was walking her back home we kissed…that's when everyone remembered. We broke her curse and I still haven't figured out how or why." David tried to see if he was hurting his daughter with his words but for some reason she looked peaceful and not angry at all. "I willingly agreed to go to the beach house so we could spend some time together and share our stories. It was the first time I've had a conversation with Regina that didn't involve cursing or bad feelings. While I was there with her, everything felt right."
"Then why did you lie? Why didn't you say this to everyone else?"
"Because if I spoke my true feelings, I'd be hurting your mother and Regina at the same time. Even though I don't have feelings for Snow White anymore, I still care about her and I can't just tell her I've fallen for her "enemy". And if I start talking about my…my thing with Regina, they will start speaking badly about her and I cannot let anyone hurt her; for some reason I have to protect her."
"What are you going to do?"
"I have to find a way to tell your mother I no longer have feelings for her and be able to be with Regina. I want to get to know her. I have to learn everything about her because I've spent my whole life fighting this woman that I didn't really know. And nowadays I find myself attracted to her even though I know she has hurt me and my family in ways that aren't even imaginable."
"I don't know the Regina everyone talks about, I didn't really know her back then." She laughed awkwardly. "Yes, she brought all of you here and thanks to that I grew up without my parents, but she never directly hurt me. She raised Henry these ten years in a wonderful way and never did she let something bad happen to him. The Regina everyone is talking about doesn't fit the Regina I've known since I got to Storybrooke." Emma looked at David with a genuine smile on her face. "You fell for her because you got to see a glimpse of what she used to be before she lost her loved one and a glimpse of the woman who raised your grandson. I don't think she is that bad. We've all done bad things in our life."
"So you don't hate me for falling for her?"
"Not even a bit."

Later that night, as he laid down in bed next to his wife, David felt proud of his daughter. She had become a unique and special young woman. He could see in her eyes that she hadn't had an easy life but whatever had happened in her past, helped her become the person she was today. Talking to her and letting someone know about his feelings for Regina was like lifting a heavy burden from his shoulders. He had no idea what he would do next, but now he understood he wasn't alone and that, no matter what he chose to do, his daughter would have his back.

Regina couldn't fall asleep. She kept staring at the one photo David and she had taken together earlier that day. It was her cell phone's background and every time she looked at it, she felt her heart break. She wished she had the courage to rip her own heart out, but just thinking about doing it scared the hell out of her. As awful as it was to accept it, she knew she was in love with David Nolan. But now she knew she had been a foolish woman for believing that Prince Charming could have fallen for The Evil Queen.

Henry knew he had done a terrible thing by leading everyone to the beach house. He knew Regina more than anyone else in town and he could see the tears forming in her eyes as she heard David talking. It was his fault he had said all those awful things to his mom, he had pushed him to do that by bringing everyone to their secret place. When he got back from Granny's, he could feel Emma and David had been talking about something important and when he questioned his mama about it, he sensed she was hiding something from him. He had to figure out what was really going on between David and Regina; he had to make things right. Because of him, Regina had been hurt and he knew that even though she was The Evil Queen, she was the woman who had taken care of him all his life. Henry Mills-Swan was going to find a way to make his mom and grandpa happy no matter what the consequences would be.