A few days later Amara found herself in the Nolan's living room with a bunch of people as they all welcomed David home from the hospital. There was a sudden round of applause as David and Kathryn walked through the front door. Amara was standing over with Emma and Henry by the staircase as Joseph was walking around socializing with Regina. "You know why he doesn't remember?" Henry asked excitedly at Emma and Amara. "The curse isn't working on him." He told them as if it we're obvious. "Henry the reason he doesn't remember is because he has amnesia." Emma told him. Amara was just sitting there watching David true to socialize with people who he didn't know. She had the sudden urge to save him from those people. "The amnesia is stopping the curse from putting fake memories in his head instead of the fairy tale memories." He argues back with her. Amara turns to look at Henry. "Right because everyone here has fake memories from keeping them from knowing who they really are, including me right?" Amara asks jumping back in the conversation. "Right." Henry agrees with her, happy that someone is finally agreeing with what he's saying. "Now is our chance to get to him to remember who he is." He turns back to Emma. "That he's prince charming." Emma finishes his sentence for him. "We just have to jog his memory by getting him and Miss Blanchard together." Amara look over with a face. "Didn't we just try that?" She asked skeptically. "And it woke him up didn't it?" H retorted back. Before Amara or Emma could say anything back they we're interrupted. "Hey." David said walking over to them. "You're the ones that saved me right?" He asked them and they stand up so they could talk to them better. "Oh yea that would be us." Amara says smiling awkwardly. "You're also they only ones I know." He admits to them. "Well you can hide out with us." Emma invites as the waiter comes up and offers what's on the tray. David grabs a tooth pick and stabs the mini hot dog with it. Henry notices what he does. "So." He starts. " Have you ever used a sword?" He asked as the adults laugh at his question. "A sword?" David asked clearly amused by Henry. He turns to talk to Amara and Emma. " Amara? Is it?" He says looking at Amara. "And Emma? Right?" He asks looking at Emma. "You guys know Mary Margaret right? Emma you live with her. Do you know if she's coming tonight?" He asked and Amara almost felt sorry for him that she knew her friend didn't make any plans to show up tonight. "No she couldn't make it." Emma says keeping it simple, also knowing that she didn't want to come tonight.
In the next room Joseph and Regina we're talking to Kathryn in the kitchen. "You should go out there." Regina tells her trying to get her to go out of the kitchen. "There is plenty of food. Go." She tells her again as she grabs the bowl Kathryn had in her hands. "My sister is right you should be with your husband." Joseph said trying to coax her out. Kathryn looks like she is going to cry any second. "I've lost him once. And I have him back. But it feels like I don't really have him back. You guys have no idea how that feels." "Actually we do." Regina tells her. "I lost someone once too. But the love I lost there is no bringing him back. You have a chance here. Go to him." Regina tells her again grabbing the plate she picked up and placed it back down. "You're right. Thank you both." She looks at Joseph. "Amara is very lucky to have you." He smiles at her. "And thank you Regina, for being such a good friend. I've been so lonely I'm not use to having one." She confesses to her. "Neither am I." Regina tells her back. "Well you have one now." She looks at Joseph too. "The both of you." She walks out into the living room to look for David. Joseph turns to look at Regina while leaning one arm on the counter. "Looks like your plan is still going good. As long as Mary Margaret stays away from him all will be fine." He reassures her. She looks at him and glares. "Keep Amara from helping Emma and things will go a lot better." He glares back at her. "Nothing is going to happen Regina." He stands in front of her staring down at her. "So stop being so paranoid and relax and reflect on the fact that we won. Snow White is unhappy and not with her prince and Amara is finally mine. So enjoy yourself. Emma will move on in time." He turns and walks out of the room.
Amara was sitting on the front porch drinking a beer and thinking about everything when David comes outside. She looked at him. He didn't notice her yet. He looked like it was all too much for him to be inside. She makes a noise and he finally seen her on the porch swing. He walks over to her. "Hey." He says. "Can I sit?" He asks pointing to the empty seat beside her. She smiles at him. "Sure come on down." She says scooting over so he had room. They sit in silence for a minute before she breaks the silence. "I take it, that it's all too much for you in there." She says figuring it out. He looks at her with a sigh. "Yea. As much as I try to remember my life I can't. And I want to so badly for Kathryn. But something is telling me that it's not right." He looks at her." And the only person that I can think about is Mary Margaret. Does that make me a bad person?" She chugs the rest of her beer before answering. "It doesn't make you a bad person at all. Mary Margaret was the first person you seen when you woke up so that makes sense. And I totally know what you mean. It seems as soon as Emma came to town I've been questioning everything. And I don't understand why." She turns so she's facing him completely. "Life is too short for 'what ifs', if Mary Margaret is someone you want to see and spend time with then I think you should." She finished. She goes to take a drink but realizes that it's empty. "Damn I'm empty." She says standing up. "I'm gonna get another. Do you want me to grab you one?" She asks heading towards the door. "No. I'm fine thank you. I think I'm gonna take a walk." He tells her. She smiles at him knowingly. "Alright. Good deal. I will see you inside." She walks back in the house and straight to the fridge for another beer.
Amara walked back out into the living room and seen Emma and Henry talking with Dr Whale. Before she had the chance to go over there. Kathryn came up to the group. " Have you seen David anywhere?" She asks them. Emma looks around but nobody seemed to know where he was but Amara. Before she could walk over to them Joseph comes over to her. "Hey sweetheart." He greets her putting his arm around her waist. She tenses a bit but not enough to where he would notice. Ever since she had that dream she became a bit distant from him. She didn't know why but her head was telling her not to get too involved with Joseph Mills. "Hey." She greets back smiling at him softly. "Are you enjoying the party?" He asked her leaning down closer to her. "Yea. I'm having a good time. I've been catching up." She tells him. "Regina and I are going too leave here soon. Do you want to go with us or are you going to stay?" She seems to think about it. Even though she wants to distance herself she can't seem to want to do it. "Yeah. Sure I'll leave with you whenever you're ready to go." She tells him snuggling up to him. That seemed to satisfy him as he pulled her closer to him. She went up to talk to Emma. "Hey. We're going to leave." Amara tells Emma. She looks up from talking to Henry. "Already?" She looked around "Have you seen David?" "Yea. He said he was going for a walk." Amara reassured her. "Awl OK." Before she could say anything else Joseph came over and wrapped his arm around her. "You ready to go?" He asked her. "Yea whenever you are. I'll talk to you guys later." "Bye Amara. Bye Uncle Joseph." Henry said giving them both a hug. They said their goodbyes to the party and made their way out the door. Joseph walked her to her apartment. They reached the steps and she turned to look at him. "Thanks for bringing me tonight. I had fun." She told him with a smile. He smiled back at her. "Good I'm glad." He leaned down and kissed her. She kissed him back. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he gently grabbed her waist pulling her closer to him. After a couple minutes the kiss started getting heated. Amara pulled away breathless. "I could come up." He whispered in her ear. For some reason the thought of him coming up to her apartment didn't sound so good. "I would love that, but I have to get up early." She let go of him and made her way to her door. "Good night." She said and went through the door. She shut it softly behind her before she could hear his reply to her.
The next morning Amara makes her way to Granny's. When she got there she heard that Regina was giving Mary Margaret a hard time. "You're this close to wrecking multiple lives." She heard Regina say to her. Wanting to defend her friend she made her way over to the table. "Regina. If you want to talk about ruining lives you should look in the mirror." She had no idea why she said that or where that thought came from but she just had to say it. Regina looked at her in surprise. "Excuse me! But nobody was talking to you." Regina stood up and got inches from Amara's face. "I think you should leave now. Clearly she has no idea what you're talking about but you have no right to come in here and accuse her of anything. And clearly if he left his wife he was unhappy." She moved so she could whisper in her ear. "So you mind your own business and leave my friend alone. Your Majesty." Amara said moving away from Regina to sit down at the table. Regina bent down putting her hand on the chair. "You need to remember who is in charge around here. My brother won't be able to save you for long." She grabbed her purse and stormed out of the diner. "Are you OK?" Amara asks Mary Margaret. "Yeah. I'm fine thank you. But you shouldn't said that stuff to her. Now she's going to be coming after you now." Amara rolled her eyes. "She can bring it. I don't know what I was thinking being friends with her." She said as she flagged Ruby down to order breakfast.
Amara was pulling a box of beer out of storage in the back when Joseph came storming in. "AMARA!" He shouted to get her attention. She came out of the back with the box. "What?" She asked putting the box down and facing him. "What did you say to Regina earlier? She's very pissed off?" He asked her looking mad. Amara sighed and defended herself. "Look she was grilling Mary Margaret for no reason and I'm tired of it. I'm sorry that she's your sister but I won't keep my mouth shut because she's your sister. If she's pissing me off I'm going to tell her." She said defending herself. Joseph just looked at her and grabbed her and slammed his lips on hers. She was in shock for a minute then recovered and kissed him back. He pushed her against the bar counter and deepened the kiss. She wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled him closer. Before it could go any further Mary Margaret came in. "Hey. I really need to talk to yo-" She stopped when she seen the scene in front of her. Amara pushed Joseph away to his annoyance. "No it's fine what's' up?" She asked trying to catch her breathe. "I was wondering if you could come with me to see Emma, I need both of your advice." She asked shyly catching the eye of Joseph who scoffed. "Yeah. Sure I have a few hours to waste." She turned to Joseph. "I'll see you later?" she asked grabbing her coat. "Of course. I'll text you." "Great." She said giving him a peck on the mouth and rushed out the door behind Mary Margaret.
When they got to the station Emma was talking to Graham eating donuts. "Hey. Can we have a word with Emma for a sec?" Mary Margaret asked coming over with Amara following behind her. "Yeah sure I'll just patrol my office." Graham said walking away from them so they have their space. Emma look at Amara and Mary Margaret. "OK. What's going on you two?" She asked eating her donut. "I have no idea. She dragged me here she wanted our opinions on something together." Amara told Emma but looking at Mary Margaret confusingly. After a few seconds she finally started speaking. "He left his wife." "What?" They both asked her at the same time. "David! He left her Kathryn!" She told the both of them excitedly. "Whoa." Amara starts but Mary Margaret kept talking. "He did it. He left her for me. And now he wants me to meet him tonight." "OK slow down." Emma says trying to catch on to what was all being said. Amara just looks at her with wide eyes trying to take in everything. "He just keeps coming. I tried to be strong I really did. But he wants me to meet with him." "Then you should go." Amara says cutting off Mary Margaret's rant. "He left her. He made his choice." Amara starts and Emma finishes. "Its one thing to say he wants you, but to actually do it. You should go." Amara looks at Mary Margaret with a smile. "I agree with Emma. He actually left her. If this is what you want you really should meet him tonight." Mary Margaret seemed to be calmed down a bit. "Given her new friendship with Kathryn I don't figure Regina will be happy." Amara snorted sarcastically while Emma replied to her. "All the more reason to do it." Mary Margaret just looked into space with a dreamy look on her face. "Good lord is this really happening?" She asked. Amara and Emma shared a look. Amara wrapped her arm around Mary Margaret. " I don't know you tell us."
Amara left and headed back to the bar. She had been neglecting the bar for a while for Emma and the problems in Storybrooke. Tim was swamped with customers when she went back in. She instantly took over giving him a break. Later on while she was wiping off tables when they slowed down Regina decided to show up. She walked right up to her. "May I have a word Miss Hurley?" She asked walking up to her. Amara looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Yea. Sure let's go in the back." She said putting the rag behind the bar, and leading her to the back room. Once they were in the office and she had the door closed. She turned to Regina. "What can I do for you Madam Mayor?" She asked leaning back against the door. "I have a few things to say to you. First don't you dare undermine me in public like that again. I am the mayor and I will not hesitate to take action against you. And second what did I ever do for you to hate me so badly?" She asked her catching Amara off guard. "I- I don't know Regina. But i know that I'm tired of fighting. It's not good for the town." Amara said putting up her invisible white flag. " I completely agree Amara. I don't want to fight I'm calling a truce. Don't interfere with my business with Emma and I won't interfere in your relationship with Joseph." Amara sighed. "You need to know Regina that Emma is my friend if I see you treating her bad I will say something. But I won't start fights with you in public about it." She finished and raised her hand to Regina to shake. Regina looked at her and shook her hand. Once her hand touched hers she got a flash of memories. Memories of Regina and her talking and laughing and having fun. The curious thing was they were dressed in dresses that she never once owned or wore a day in her life. She dropped Regina's hand and leaned back against the door. "Umm... I'm not feeling too well right now. You should go." She walked out of the room without a look back at Regina/
After Amara shut down the bar and closed down she was not feeling any better. She could not get that flash of fake memory out of her head. She knew it couldn't have been real. Not once has she been that friendly with Regina especially dressed as if it was a past life. She was so in thought she didn't realize she ran into anybody. She looked up and noticed it was Joseph she bumped into. "Hey sorry I didn't see you there." She tells him leaning into him and giving him a hug. "Are you OK?" he asked sensing that something was wrong with her. "I'm fine." She leaned back to look at him. "I just had a really bad day. Actually something weird happened today. Regina and I called a truce today." She started looking at him. He raised his eyes in surprise. "You did? That's good." He tells her with a smile on his face. "Yea it was. But the strangest thing happened. When we shook hands I got a flash of something in my head about me and Regina. But the weirdest thing was we were dressed as if we were in the past. What could that possibly mean?" She asked him once they started walking again toward her apartment. He stopped and looked at her in surprise, but quickly covered it. "I'm sure it was nothing. I wouldn't think too much about it." He tells her. They walk to her apartment and stop at the door. She turned to look at him. " Wanna come in?" She asked. He smiled and he leaned down to kiss her. After a couple minutes he pulled back. "Not tonight. I'll call you tomorrow." He kissed her again longer this time. After about ten minutes she pulled back and told him goodnight. He left and walked home with a genuine smile on his face. He was slowly falling in love with her and wanted to be a better man for her.
