[b]Collaboration between YoshiSkittlez and Tanderbolt[/b]

David watched with confusion as he pushed through the hospital hallway as each and every single nurse and doctor seemed to be running around like a flock of lost sheep. There was so much commotion it was impossible to stop one of the nurses to ask what was going on, or even try to listen in on one conversation so see what had the hospital all up in chaos. His heart immediately got a sinking feeling that something might have happened to Mary Margaret, and so without further hesitation he began to run, pushing through the crowd of people and not stopping until he reached her room. He was able to breathe when he saw that she was sitting up in bed looking as content as ever and not surrounded by frantic doctors. He smiled warmly, completely forgetting about the seeming emergency the hospital had gone under.

David wrapped his knuckles on door jam, alerting Mary Margaret to his presence and cleared his throat, still wearing his smile as he ventured further into her hospital room and set down the small vase of assorted wild flowers he had picked up from Game of Thorns on his way to the hospital.

"Hey."

Mary was happy to have a visitor, the hours passed very slowly when she was alone in the hospital. She saw it was David, she had become quite fond of him since waking up. She smiled and said "Hello David, what brings you here today?"
David took his usual spot and took a seat at the foot of her bed, turning his torso to look at her better. He removed his paper-boy cap now that he was inside, the tips of his ears slightly red giving way to the fact that it was starting to get rather chilly outside.

"Well, I might have overheard a couple doctors talking about your potential release today." David started, not realizing that his hands were wringing his poor hat in his slight nervousness. Still, it was better than wiping his sweaty palms on the thigh of his blue jeans. "I uh, wanted to be here...to uh, well, congratulate you and..." His beady eyes looked around the room quickly, noting that the security guard was no where to be seen. "...maybe, walk you home?"

"That's great news. I'd love some help finding my way home, I doubt I'd be able to get to it without some guidance. I want to know more about Storybrooke, I can't wait to get out and experience it on my own." said Mary. She noticed David's nervousness, and tried adopt a calming tone of voice.

David's smile faultered a bit at the mention of home. That's right, he would be walking her to Knox's place on the edge of town. He wouldn't admit it, not openly anyway, but that rather irked him in a way he couldn't explain. He wanted to voice his opinion that if Knox were a good husband, he would be taking Mary Margaret home, but he kept his mouth clamped shut.

"Great! I'll see if I can't wrangle down a nurse and see about getting those papers signed." He said getting up from the bed and put his wrinkled hat back on before heading back out into the hallway.

David returned a short time later with an exasperated looking nurse who practically jammed the clipboard into Mary Margaret's hands, anxiously asking her to sign the release papers so she could attend to an emergency. David's brows furrowed, wanting to say something about the nurse's abrasive behavior but again, said nothing and waited his turn to sign the papers.

Mary borrowed a pen and signed, hoping that her attempt at a signature looked like the ones from before the accident. She said "I hope Knox is home, otherwise we won't be able get in to the house. I guess if that happens you can just show me around the rest of the town."

"The job I offered you down at the pet shelter still stands." David said unable to keep his teeth from clamping down a bit harshly at the mention of Knox's name. He took the clipboard from Mary Margaret once she was done and signed his own name where her husbands name [i]should[/i] have been.

The nurse snatched the clipboard away and hurried back out into the hall, leaving David with a rather scornful look on his face as he followed her out with his eyes.
"Must be quite the emergency..." He said a bit bitterly before returning his gaze back to Mary Margaret and then clapped his hands together, rubbing them a bit. "Right, let's get you out of here then, I'm sure your anxious to see something different than white walls." He halfly joked.

"I'll see who's hiring, but I'm pretty sure I'll end up working there anyway. My resume isn't exactly up to par, I love animals, and I think it would be great to have a co-worker like you." She got out of bed, giving her legs some exercise. She had walked around a little bit since waking up, but not enough to fully shake off the feeling that so much bedrest had given her. "I hope it's not a long walk, I'm not sure I'd be up to that."

"Well then I'd just have to carry you." David said with a light wink and held out his arm for Mary Margaret to take, allowing her all the time she needed to get stable on her legs.
Mary grabbed his arm tenderly, and steadied herself "I think I can make it a short distance. Come on, let's go"

"As you wish m'lady." He said with a slight glimmer in his smile and led Mary Margaret out of the hospital, hopefully the last time she would ever have to set foot in that place.
While they were walking, Mary said "Do you ever get the feeling that something about this whole situation seems strange, like it's a dream you're about to wake up from? I talk with Knox about our past it and it all just seems so weird, I don't act anything like the way he remembers."

"All the time." David admitted with a laugh as he continued walking at Mary Margaret's slower pace. "But if I admitted that to anyone else I might find myself sitting with Dr. Hopper on a Saturday night." He chuckled before turning more serious. "Why, are you still not remembering anything?"

"I can remember what kind of person I am, the way I behave and think, but I can't recall any of my past. What I do know doesn't always mesh with what others have said, I don't connect with Knox the way his memories say that I should. My heart is moving me away from him, and bringing me closer to other people... including you."
David knew he should have felt bad for the security guard, but he didn't. Instead, a light smile played across his lips but he kept from looking at Mary Margaret and kept his eyes ahead of him.

"Have you tried, I dunno, kissing him?" He asked with a casual shrug, quelling the tinge of jealousy he felt rising in his chest.
She chuckled a little at David's bluntness. "No, I haven't, it just never feels right to me. Knox has wanted to a couple times, but I stop him. I feel bad for him, but I always trust my own judgment over anyone else's."

"Good." David said quickly, and then immediatly began to stammer after realizing his potential mistake. "I mean, good that you can trust your own judgment...a lot of people have a hard time doing that..." He covered, and kicked a stray pebble that suddenly annoyed him as they continued walking down the sidewalk.
"It's the only way to tell what is right and wrong. People will try to fool you, tell you that it's ok to compromise, tell you can't be sure about a course of action. Good people start to turn bad as soon as they let someone else convince them that there's a place between good and evil."
David nodded indefinitely, agreeing with each and every word Mary Margaret uttered.

"Yeah, I mean, maybe you're doing something wrong, but if it's whats meant to be - if it's whats right - does that really make you a bad person?"
"What's right is what's meant to be, and if you will never be a bad person for doing the right thing. Right now, I feel like we are meant to be here together." Mary said with a happy tone in her voice as she looked at David's eyes. David stopped walking, realizing quickly that she had a few paces ago and turned around to walk back to her, albiet slowly. His ears were getting red again, but it wasn't from the cold, not this time.

"If people are meant to be together, they find a way." He muttered softly, unsure what they were even talking about anymore, unsure if he was still playing the role of Knox's supportive friend, or the role that could quite potentially get him into a lot of trouble.
Mary said "That is very true." and reached out to tenderly hold David's hand.

David looked down between them at their linked hands, a very small amount of panic going through him and making his chest rise and fall a bit more rapidly than normal. His eyes looked back up to the soft features of Mary Margaret, seeming lost in her own eyes for a brief moment before he could find his words.

"Mary Margaret-"

She reached out a finger towards his lips, shushing him. She said "No matter what Knox or anyone else says, I know this is right." She moved her hand away and leaned in, ready for a kiss. Auto-pilot kicked in and David met her lips halfway in a hasty eagerness. He kept hold of her hand and pressed it between the two of them over their hearts while his other hand held the small of her back into him. The moment he felt her kissing him back, David released his lips from Mary Margaret's immediately as he felt something similar to a bull taking his gut head-on. He staggered backwards a few feet, holding his head as a slew of memories quickly entered his mind. He hadn't even time to exhale before it was all over, and panting as if he had just ran a mile, he looked back to Mary Margaret...Snow White...his wife.

"Snow!"

Mary felt a rush of energy the moment their lips touched. It was powerful, like nothing she could remember before. As soon as contact ceased, she remembered the feeling. All of her memories returned to her, clearing her mind like a lantern on a foggy night. She was caught up in a wave of emotions, but for now one triumphed over the rest. 

"You found me"

David grinned broadly and approached Snow White as he had before, though took the initiative to wrap his arms around his loving wife and hold her to him, looking down at her with a glint of adoration in his eye.

"Did you ever doubt I would?" He asked but didn't give her time to answer before pulling her into another kiss; everything else could wait just a little bit longer...