"What is this?" Regina asked frustratedly.
"You know exactly what this is." Gold said, stepping with his cane toward the casket and swiping his hand across Jasmine's name plate. After, he looked at his hand and rubbed his fingers together, demonstrating the dust that began to build up in the three months she's been there.
"It's time for you to feel." David said.
"I do feel!" She snapped. "Why do you think I drink every night?" She refused to move. Her feet were glued in one spot to the floor.
"So you don't feel." Victor understood, being a former drunk himself. "But you know what, Reggi?"
"Don't call me that-"
"What happens when you wake up?" She didn't answer. "What's different?" She still just looked at him, really wanting to kill something right now. "Nothing." He answered for her. "Nothing changes. You still feel horrible about everything and nothing is different. She's still gone."
Regina looked away from him, trying to ignore the fact that he was right. All four were silent and she still hadn't moved yet.
"I remember when you told Jasmine something." David broke the silence and walked over to the coffin, slowly setting his hand on it. "'It's alright to be vulnerable sometimes.'" He whispered, causing Regina's eyes to move toward him. He kept his eyes closed for a moment as if he were trying to remember something. "'Sometimes even the strongest people need a shoulder to cry on.'" His eyes opened and looked right into hers. "'So, go ahead...Cry.'"
For a moment, she couldn't move, she couldn't even breathe. Suddenly, she began to hyperventilate just for a second before her eyes closed and she slowly stepped closer to the casket and reached her hand out to touch it. As soon as her hand made contact, the tears fell.
She sobbed, barely audible, for a few seconds and the three men just stood and waited. Regina took slow, hesitant steps around the coffin to see the cold, dark plaque on the other side, which read her daughter's name. Victor and David's hearts both broke as they watched her fall to her knees beside it, hugging herself, and Gold had to look away. When she stopped crying, she looked up at the name plate on it.
"I-" She sniffed. "I promised Henry I would change. And I've done my best to. I haven't used much magic since I devoted myself to being redeemed."
Rumpelstiltskin slightly lifted his head, unaware of what she might do and David and Victor looked at eachother, confused. Regina's right hand slowly waved in front of her and a bouquet of fresh calla lilies formed in her hand. In the middle of the bouquet was the feather Jasmine had given her outside of the stables the day before she died.
She stood and put the bouquet beside the one that Henry had put there yesterday. Slowly leaning forward, she kissed the name plate. When she leaned back again, it seemed as though they had stayed in the mausoleum for hours in silence.
"Will you be okay alone?" David asked her when Gold magicked them back to the mansion.
"I'll be fine." Regina seemed very stoic.
"Regina-" Victor began, but was interrupted.
"And I better not find out about either of you sleeping here without my permission." She gave them a reprimanding look as if waiting for them to bow down to her. They both defensively nodded and she turned back to her house to walk up the pathway to the front door.
They watched her go inside and they stood there, confused by this new emotion neither have ever seen before.
Aladdin gasped as he sat up in the bed from his nightmare. After a few seconds, he realized that he was back in his bed at Granny's. He wiped the sweat from his forehead as he turned to look at the clock on the dresser by the bed. It was three o'clock in the morning and he let out a breath of air as he tried not to cry.
"Are you okay?" He felt the hand on his shoulder blade as she sat up beside him and kissed the bare skin on his left bicep.
"Yeah, I'm-Yeah."
"Was it her again?" She asked sincerely.
He didn't answer, but he looked over his shoulder at her before moving out of her grip around his waist and put his legs over the side of the bed. She put her head down, discouraged, and stood up to walk around to his side of the bed. She knelt down in front of him and put her hands on his knees.
"Hey." She practically whispered, trying to get him to look down to her. "Al. Look at me." He started to cry softly. "Look at me." Her eyes teared up as well, having known Jasmine herself. He finally looked at her. "Everything's gonna be alright." He looked away again. "Aladdin." She gently touched his chin and turned his head to look back to her. "Everything's alright."
He sniffed and closed his eyes as he nodded.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" She asked about the nightmare.
He shook his head. "There's nothing to talk about. She's dead."
"What happened?" She grabbed his hands after wiping away his tears.
"I couldn't save her. That's what happened. I should have been able to." He looked down at her again. "I'm sorry. I just-I guess I just miss her." He looked away from her again and she moved to sit on the bed beside him, still holding his hands.
"So do I." She looked down at her hands clutching his. "I-" She began to tell him something, but paused for a moment. "I love you." She said for the first time.
Caught off guard, Aladdin turned to look at her and she brought her right hand up to his cheek and caressed it. He slowly leaned in for a kiss and she returned it softly before they both lay back on the bed together, falling asleep in eachother's arms.
David awoke the next morning to Henry yelling his name in excitement. It took him a few moments to realize that he was back in his motel room before he finally sat up to see what all the fuss was about.
"David! David!"
"David?" Charming asked, sleepily rubbing his eyes. "What happened to Grandpa?"
"Grandpa!" Henry corrected, too excited to tell him that calling his sister's dad 'Grandpa' was strange.
David was sure he was awake once Henry grabbed his hand, pulling him off the bed and onto the floor next to Olivia on her baby blanket beside it.
"What is it, Henry?"
"Just watch!" Henry smiled, staring at the baby.
They sat and watched for a few seconds before David realized that nothing happened.
"Henry, wha-"
"Ssshh. Just watch."
David looked at his grandson and smiled at the optimism on his face before looking back at his baby girl to see her roll over on her stomach by herself. She tried to get up on her hands and knees, but hadn't quite mastered that ability yet.
"She did it this morning and I wanted you to see it!" Henry said as he saw the completely overwhelmed and excited look on David's face.
"Was that the first time she's done that by herself?" David wondered.
"Besides the one time when you were still sleeping, yes!" Henry answered.
Overjoyed, David picked her up and threw her in the air before kissing her on the cheek multiple times and Henry laughed.
"We should tell my mom!" Henry stood up.
David's smile grew a little smaller, just now realizing that Regina had missed this. "Good idea." He said, happily. "Here." He stood as well, handing Olivia to her big brother before walking over to take his phone from the charger by his bed and dialing the phone number to the mayoral mansion.
He got no answer, so he called her cell. Worried when she ignored his call (he could tell by the fact that it only rang twice), he believed she probably just needed a day to herself. Although, he was so excited to share the news with the mother of his child that they're baby was getting big so fast already...and it was happening with only one parent. Something he never wanted.
