Lithium (Once Upon a Time)

Chapter Thirty-Seven: I'll always find you

Storybrooke, 28th December 2012....

David: "Snow...." I mumbled, as my cheeks felt hollow and numb with the weight of tears.

After everything we'd been through, all the times we found each other, it was so painful for our love to end that way.

Death was never thought to be a lethal enemy, not when you have true love. I always thought that nothing could tear us apart, not the Evil Queen and her curse, not a sleeping spell or even time and distance. But of all the things that I knew that couldn't rip us apart, our daughter, wasn't even an option.

It couldn't be over this way. It was so painful to realize we brought a monster into the world. For when I looked deep down into those emerald eyes, the place where once I saw a shining beacon of hope, was drowned in blackness and nothingness.

Emma was gone, and all that was left was the darkness... The dark swan, to be exact.

I've always been the hopeful one, I never thought for a second that darkness could snuff out the light. Even when Snow had doubts that we could battle Regina, I never did! And now, we were defeated, not by the queen, but her swan!

"David?" A small, tiny, feminine voice called me. "Oh my, the fairies felt what happened, but...We never thought it would be true." Blue mumbled, with her hands covering her wide opened mouth.

In tears, I looked at her, wrapped my hands around hers and begged her:

"Please, you have to do something!"

"Oh, dear. There's nothing we can do. Magic can do much, but it can't bring back the dead."

"But true love is the most powerful magic of all!" I yelled.

"Nothing is more powerful than death. Not even light and darkness." She wisely replied, yet I couldn't believe it that easily.

We shared one heart since the day we've met, so I refused to believe that it was an option to walk on this earth without Snow.

"When I found Snow, caught in the sleeping curse, I breathed my own life inside her. I woke up her heart. Why can't I do the same, now?!" I refused to believe that was the end.

"She was under a spell, not Death! Plus, she had a heart back then, it was just dormant. Now, not even that is left. She's gone, Charming. I'm truly sorry."

"But if a heart is what she needs, then.... Maybe.... She can use mine!" It shined above my head. The incredible solution for that challenge.

"You don't know what you're saying. This is dark magic, David."

"For her, I'll do anything. Please, Blue, we have to do this. We have to fight fire with fire. The shadows already took Emma but I'd be damned if they took away Snow, forever!"

Blue was truly reluctant as to helping me, but after a lot of begging, she finally agreed.

"Okay, we can try. But just know, that there's almost a hundred per cent of chance that it won't work."

"It's okay, I'll hold on to the decimal percentage of chance."

The fairy exhaled sharply and then ripped my heart out.

All I felt was an echoing pain around my chest. As I lied down and grabbed Snow's hand, I closed my eyes and believed the power of our love.

Blue split the heart in two and then placed it in both our chests. One half for each of us.

I woke up instantly, but as for Snow, she still didn't wake up.

"Snow, honey?" I whispered in her ear, but she was still peacefully asleep.

"I'm sorry, you're too late." Blue said, and a Deja-vu sprung on my mind's eye. That's what Doc said when I found Snow lied in her glass coffin.

My lips touched her beautiful rosy ones and with a breath of true love and belief, it engulfed her soul with the whisper of life.

Her eyes opened wide and a pulse of true love shattered through all of Storybrooke. Bringing darkness to light and lifting the sleep of death from my wife's soul.

"You... You found me!" She exhaled, as her breath took over.

"Did you ever doubt I would?" I asked, with a hopeful smile.

"No!" She replied, lifting her body from the ground and kissing me, as she wrapped my arms around me. "Although having my heart crushed gave me pause."

"Well, you don't have to worry, I will always find you!" I promised her, once again.

"Do you promise?" She asked, lost in my eyes.

"I do."

We kissed again and again under the shadow of trees and the bright of the sun. The pain of that day washed away, as we entangled in our love and felt hope breathed inside us.