The warm breath felt nice against her cheek as her eyes opened slowly to find the brunette playing with fine golden strands, "you're here…" she felt the smile that graced her face as she was met with one quite the same in expression yet so much more beautiful.
"I told you I would be," dark eyes flickered between green as their heads remained on the pillows, foreheads touching as they always had, "I will always be here, I will always be waiting for you"
"But then you leave," it came out almost in a soft whine as a hot tear trailed along her cheek, they let it fall, let it prove that this was in fact real and not some kind of illusion, "you leave me…"
A gentle hand moves to cup her pale cheek, the tear wiped away by the pad of a thumb, "no my darling…you forget but one day…one day you won't, one day you will awaken and remember who I am, we will find each other once more, whether it be in this life or the next…I would wait an eternity for you Emma Swan"
Her smile returned as she moved forward to capture full lips between her own in a tender caress, she could feel consciousness sinking its claws into her as the scene began to fade. As they pulled apart their last encounter crossed her mind, their last moments together before the curse was to rip apart all that they knew and the promise that came from the woman she wasn't supposed to fall for yet had so deeply.
"You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you… That's where I'll be waiting."