A/N- MAKE SURE TO VOTE ON MY POLL ON MY PAGE! I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU WANNA SEE ME WRITE! Also I wanna give a HUGE thanks to my Beta, and friend, CharmedMilliE- Karry Master.

"So you wanna stop somewhere for lunch?" Ruby asked. Belle nodded and the two started to look around at all the restaurants and fast food places that they passed. The girls had been walking around, trying to get to know the area a little better, as well as buying some things for their apartment.

"Ruby? Belle?" The girls looked over and saw a handsome man almost run over, a tanned woman and small child behind him. "What are you doing here?" He asked clearly excited. "How are things back in Storybrooke? How's..." Robin paused not wanting to say Regina in front of his wife "everyone?"

"I'm sorry, but do we know you?" Ruby asked him curiously looking at them. He looked at them baffled and let out a small laugh.

"It's me Robin!" He told them. Whether it was the looks on their faces or the way they stayed silent, Robin simply shrugged and waved. "Sorry, I must've mistook you for someone else" He apologized, walking away slowly, but looking back over his shoulder at them. He was sure it was them. The girls shrugged it off and continued to look.

"Hey that pizza place looks good!" Belle pointed out a tiny pizzeria and Ruby nodded in agreement. "I'm in the mood for a nice slice of cheese pizza"

"Me too!" The girls picked out a nice table outside the pizzeria and Belle sat down, her shopping bags beside her. "I'll be right back" Ruby smiled, walking into the pizza place to place their order.

"Ok, remember to get me an ice tea please!" Belle called out, leaning back into the metal chair and looking around at the sights. They had been in New York City for a few days now and they finally were able to explore the city like they wanted. The first few days were spent unpacking their things and getting jobs. Both women got extremely lucky with Belle getting a job at New York Public Library and Ruby was able to snag a job at Grand Central Station. Both jobs were only a few blocks from the girls apartment and they both paid very well.

"Belle?" Belle looked up and saw an older man slowly walking toward her with a bewildered look on his face. He walked over to her slowly, his silvery hair falling into his face as he stared in awe of the girl in front of him. "Belle you came back for me! I knew you would!" The hand that wasn't holding a black cane reached over to her, his eyes shining with hope and love as he came up to the table.

"Um, I'm sorry. Do I know you?" Belle asked leaning back farther in her seat. Immediately the mans face warped into confusion as he retracted his hand.

"Belle, It's me." He said softly. "Rumple" Belle simply looked at him in confusion. This was the second time today someone who she didn't know claimed to know her. She looked around, wondering when Ruby would be coming back.

"I'm sorry I don't know anybody named Rumple." She said softly, her body stiffening as he looked at her strangely.

"Hey, I got us some garlic knots too. They looked so good." Ruby smiled placing a tray on the table. She was about to sit down when she saw the gentleman standing in front of them. "Belle, who's this?" She asked hesitantly.

"Ruby?" Rumple was even more confused now than he had been a moment before. "What are the two of you doing here? Why are you not back in Storybrooke?" He asked them. Ruby immediately placed a hand on Belle's shoulder and squeezed it comfortingly. This person was mentioning Storybrooke too. A place they never heard of.

"I'm sorry, but who are you and how do you know my name?" Ruby demanded softly, staring at Rumple venomously.

"It's me, Mr. Gold! Rumpelstiltskin! Belle I'm your husband!" He started to yell, causing Belle to jump up from her seat and grab Ruby's hand tightly. "Don't pretend like you don't know me!" He threatened. Ruby was seeing red, she removed her hand from Belle's and flew over to Rumple.

"Now you listen to me," She growled, stabbing a finger into his chest. "I don't know who you are or how you know our names, but if you don't get away from me and my girlfriend in the next 10 seconds I'll make that the only way you'd be able to get around is with a wheelchair!"

"Girlfriend?" He said, slowly backing away. Once he was a good distance away he watched the couple in disbelief and horror. Ruby walked back over to Belle and placed a hand on the girls cheek as she talked to her softly. Belle said something back to Ruby and Ruby smiled sweetly and kissed her lovingly. Rumple gasped at the interaction, but turned away as Ruby and Belle sat down to eat their lunch. Even from far away Rumple could see the love Ruby had for Belle, the way she held her close and made sure she was ok something Rumple never did for his wife, or ex-wife technically. It was easy to see that they were under a spell or something and Rumple knew he wanted to fix Belle's memories and get his wife back, but right now he had other priorities to take care of. So with one last look at the couple, Rumple turned away and headed back to Ursula's apartment.

~ 10 Years Ago ~

It was the end of Ruby's sophomore year of high school, but it was by no means the easiest. Ruby, who had another 20 minutes or so until first period, was currently sitting on the floor against her locker. Her knees were drawn up to her chest with her backpack at her side. Even though her eyes were glued to the floor in front of her, her mind was going a million miles a minute.

All she could think about was Belle. She thought about the way her brown hair falls into beautiful curls, resting perfectly on her shoulders with no effort needed, how her eyes look like the ocean after a storm. She could hear her beautifully thick accent and infectious laugh perfectly in her head. She could picture her smile, the one where her nose scrunches up a bit and her eyes sparkle. The way the blush goes from her cheeks all the way to her neck when someone gives her a compliment or flirts with her. The way her eyes and forehead scrunched up when she was confused or figuring something out was Ruby's favorite expression. She liked to think about how when Belle starts talking it's almost books, it's almost impossible to get her to stop. Or how she always would expect the best from someone, even when they've done wrong in the past. No matter what it was, Ruby could never get Belle out of her head and it made her start to wonder about things.

For a while, Ruby hadn't been sure why she was feeling the way she did, all she knew was that she was feeling incomplete, like she had a puzzle in her brain with a single missing piece. Sometimes, when she would go along with her friends and lie about having a crush on a boy, it felt like her brain was trying to force in a piece that didn't fit. Lying about crushes and lying to her friends about her internal battles and struggles made her feel broken and incomplete, like the puzzle. The only time she didn't feel like that was around Belle. Ever since they met, it was natural for Ruby to compliment Belle and lightly flirt with her, but when they entered high school she started to wonder if what she was doing was truly platonic or not. It was getting harder for Ruby to ignore the things she was doing, like subtly staring at other girls while they changed or wondering what it would feel like to kiss a girl, namely Belle. She was able to keep these things to herself in hopes they would go away and she would get a boyfriend like anyone else, but the longer she kept it a secret the more incomplete she felt.

"Are you ok?" Ruby didn't look over to acknowledge Belle, she felt like she couldn't move her body at all. She was thinking about what she read online last night, wondering what it would feel like to say the words she read out loud. "Ruby?" Ruby felt Belle sit down next to her and she could feel the hot tears rolling down her cheeks, but she didn't make any move to wipe them away. "Ruby please tell me what's wrong!" Belle urged once she saw the tears fall down her friends cheeks.

"I think I'm gay," Ruby whispered, still looking at the floor. Despite the tears that were slowly falling and the lump that filled her throat, she felt like smiling. The moment those two words came out of her mouth, it was like the last piece of the puzzle had just appeared and was fitting perfectly into it's place.

"What?" Belle asked, her face contorting to Ruby's favorite expression.

"I think I'm gay," Ruby whispered again. She turned her head and looked at Belle for the first time that morning, waiting for a reaction. She watched Belle's confused look disappear and a smile appear on her face.

"I know," Belle said back. Ruby's expression turned from upset to confused in record time. "You aren't that subtle when it comes to staring at girls." Belle shrugged nonchalantly. Whatever reaction Ruby had imagined Belle to have, and she had spent alot of time imagining, this was not one of them. Ruby couldn't help but laugh and she wiped the tears from her face and eyes.

"Was I really that obvious and didn't know?" Ruby asked, receiving a nod and a laugh from Belle. "Can we go to the bathroom so I can wash my face?" Belle nodded again and the two stood up off the ground and, after Belle gave her a quick hug, they headed to the bathroom. Ruby decided that, for the time being, she was going to ignore the other feelings she was noticing. The way her heart clenched when Belle hugged her, the way she felt a bit lighter when Belle was around, the way certain parts of her body heated up around her. In the back of her mind she knew what she felt and what it meant, but she was fine with ignoring it, at least for now.

~End Memory~

"I can get used to a beautiful view like this" Belle mused, looking out the window at the New York City skyline, wearing pajama pants and a tank top with a cup of hot coffee in her hands.

"Me too" Ruby smirked, walking up behind Belle and wrapping her arms around her stomach. Belle smiled and turned her head, capturing her girlfriends lips with a smile. "If we want to get to work on time we should have the delicious breakfast I made us" Ruby reluctantly let go of Belle and headed over to the table were two plates of eggs were sitting with some orange juice.

"I think your lips are a much tastier breakfast though!" Belle chuckled, sitting down at the table.

"Are you insulting my cooking?" Ruby scoffed, pulling the plate from Belle. "Because if you are you don't deserve to taste my wonderfully made eggs"

"Ok, no, I'm sorry! Your cooking is amazing!" Belle laughed, pulling the plate back and diving in. "I can't stop thinking about the old man from the other day, or that nice gentleman we met before him" Belle said a few moments later.

"Really? Are you still freaked out?" Ruby asked.

"No, I'm just curious at how they both knew our names. They both acted as if they really did know us." Belle shrugged, sticking a piece of egg into her mouth. "And the other guy, Rumple or whatever, he was... I don't know although you weren't very nice. I mean we clearly look like and have the same names as people they know."

"I don't care. I don't know how they knew our names, but whoever they were they're gone now." Ruby shrugged. While the gentleman, Robin, was polite and quickly left once he realized his mistake. The old man, Rumple, had freaked her out, but Ruby wasn't going to tell Belle that, since she knew Belle would just overreact and worry even more.

"These eggs are delicious, but I have to get ready to go to work and so do you!" Belle sighed, pushing her almost empty plate away and standing up, somewhat reluctantly.

"Ugh, why did you remind me?" Ruby groaned. She grabbed the plates and cups and placed them in the sink before following her girlfriend to their bedroom to get ready for another work day.

A/N: The memory is actually the story of how I came out to my best friend (except i wasn't in love with her and i'm bi).

Two important milestones are coming up in the next chapter, so it's gonna be a super long chapter!! So remember that comments make my world go 'round! The more you leave, the faster I'll update!

~ Forever&Always,

Kimmie