"Hey." Emma said wearily as she set her coat down on the couch along with her keys, entering the apartment.

"Hey." Mary Margaret replied, a cup of hot cocoa in her hands as she stood in the kitchen. "What are you doing back?"

"I thought we could go get some lunch, if you're not too mad at me."

"Emma, I'm not mad at you."

"You're not?"

"No. I'm just-things have been weird lately."

"Lately?"

"Okay, okay." Snow chuckled. "Things have always been weird. They just-have gotten weirder."

"Yeah." Emma agreed.

Suddenly, Snow White's cell phone rang and she picked it up to look at who was calling. After seeing who it was, she ignored the call.

"Who was that?" Emma wondered, joining her mother in the kitchen. "Was that him?" She assumed when Mary didn't answer. There was a moment of silence. "Why'd you ignore his call? I thought things were getting pretty serious."

"Well...Like I said before, it's complicated."

"Why won't you tell me who he is?"

"I will."

"When?" Emma asked almost immediately.

"When the time's right."

"Why is that time not right now?"

"Because..." She said the next three words into her mug before taking a petite sip of cocoa. "...he's not ready."

"Not read-" The blonde paused, thinking she was picking up the pieces. "Ooohhhh...Is he still getting over an ex?" There was no answer. "Of course." Emma smiled and leaned on her forearms on the counter in between the two of them. "You're both each other's rebound." Sarcastically, she said, "How great!?"

"It's not like that."

Emma slowly nodded.

"Can we please just-change the subject?"

"Fine." Emma stood up straight. "Lunch?"

"Sure." Snow answered, and they left, trying to forget about the conversation.

"Regina?" David slowly opened the front door to the Mills' mansion after he received no answer at his tenth knock. "Regina?" He called through the house one more time, hoping to find her with a reason as to why she had been ignoring his calls.

He had left Olivia and Henry with Snow and Emma when they arrived at Granny's so he could see if the Queen was alright.

He decided the first place he should look was her bedroom. Quickly jogging up the stairs, he heard something come from inside the nursery causing him to change directions from the master bedroom to the door nearest to it.

His heart skipped a beat when he found Regina sleeping in the rocking chair by Olivia's crib, clutching a small teddy bear in her left hand. It was obvious that the bear was old, as David could see the faded colors and few small holes that it held. How sad Regina looked in her sleep broke his heart, and he couldn't imagine that she was comfortable in that chair.

He stepped closer and kneeled beside it, gently caressing her face with the back of his hand before letting the same hand slowly find its way to her free hand that rested on the arm of the chair. Her eyes opened slightly and she blinked the sleepiness away before taking a deep breath in and letting shattered tears escape her broken, glassy eyes when she realized it was him.

"Hey." David whispered with comfort, wiping away her tears with the opposite hand that wasn't holding hers. "Please don't cry."

She sniffed. "Why not?" Her eyes closed as if to fall back to sleep.

"Because it hurts me too much." Both brown eyes shot open once again and the tears continued to slowly rain.

Her voice was still hoarse from sleep. "You're the one who told me to cry last night."

"That was the hardest thing for me to watch. I'm deeply, madly in love with you...and seeing you cry rips my heart to shreds. But you needed to feel her last night." He looked down. "I'm so sorry." His eyes teared up as he pictured her agony from the night before, feeling daggers go through his chest.

She couldn't find the words to explain what she felt. No one had ever...EVER told her that they were deeply in love with her before. No one. Not David, nor Daniel, nor Victor...not even Sydney.

"I love you so much that it makes it hard to breathe."

That caused her to let out a short, loud breath of air that she hadn't known was built up in her lungs, her heart releasing it without their permission upon hearing those words.

"Love is so many things." David continued. "But for me, the definition of love is your name. I can't even explain it. But the second I hear it, it's like my world crashes because I'm not with you. I never meant to hurt you or make you upset when Whale and I fought over you. It's just that...the thought of someone else being with you makes me crazy. I would need to know every second of everyday if they were taking care of you. With everything you've gone through, you deserve the best from anyone and everyone and you deserve true happiness. Watching you lose your daughter killed me, because all I can think of is 'what if we lost Olivia?' She is our love in one person. And we can't let that love die. Even if you found it with another person," He tried not to picture his daughter and her mother with Victor. "...at least our love would live in her."

His tears finally fell and she slowly slid out of the chair and onto her knees in front of him, holding both of his hands in her own.

"My heart can't stand it much longer, Regina." He sobbed as if in terrible, terrible pain.

"What?" She moved in so close that their knees touched and he was able to rest his forehead to hers.

"Marry me."

Another shocked breath of air left her lips and her hands let go of his to move up to his shoulders as she leaned her head away from his to look him in the eye. "What?"

"Marry me, Regina. Or else put me out of my misery. If the answer is yes, then tell me. If it is no, don't let me live another day." He shook his head and looked down. "Not another day without you." He paused before looking back up into her eyes. "If the answer is no, take my heart from my chest as you already have." There was a moment of silence as Regina struggled to catch her own breath. "Please. Please." He pleaded.

It was as if he were begging her to kill him. The way he touched her, she could feel him shaking and her hands found their way up to his neck and she massaged it as she cried, putting her forehead to his once more. "David."

He sobbed, afraid of the answer. "What?"

"I can't-" She shook her head and his heart lowered itself into his stomach. "I can't live without you." She lifted his face and they looked into each other's eyes. "Yes." She tried to smile, but the way they sobbed in unison forced her lips not to curl.

"What?"

"I will marry you."

Regina lifted David's heart back into his chest with four simple words and, again, their foreheads made contact as they continued to sob. He reached his hands up into her hair as her hands wrapped around his neck and they just kneeled there, for what seemed like an eternity.

"I need you." This caused David to look back into her eyes. Regina, drowning in his blue orbs. "You are my everything." She whispered, both of their hearts fluttering.

They could feel themselves spinning, spinning in a hall of mirrors. All they can see when they look at their reflection is the other person. She's got his heart, his life...and he has hers.

The silence in the room made them feel each other's hearts beat as one. Their breathing, in sync. Their lives intertwined. Their bodies, controlled by the other. Their eyes, stuck on each other's. And their souls, staying...Staying forever. Their shattered worlds, pieced together by one simple question and one simple answer.