To Watch Trees Smoulder and Burn

It's dark and quite in the house but that's something you are used to by now. It's late and Henry is asleep, as he should be and Emma is, well you don't know where Emma is. She told you she had things to do, that there was things she needed to take care of but you know she lied to you, she has been for weeks. You pretend like you don't know what she's really doing but it tugs and pulls at whatever's left of your heart because you're meant to be her True Love but that's not how things work in this world.

You sit alone in the bed you share with the blonde Sheriff, wondering just who it is she's chosen tonight. You know for a fact she doesn't like going to one person too often because it makes her feel like she's having an affair when really she isn't. Instead she's just betraying you every night with someone new. You never breathe a word to her about it though because you want it to hurt more than it does; you want to feel that agonising heartbreak but it never comes because she's not your True Love.

So you let her have her little affairs, you let her run around town with Gods only know who because that's your curse. Even though Emma truly and honestly love's you, she will always resent you for what you did to her parent's, to her family.

You were never meant to have love, even your own son doesn't love you but you can accept that because you can never fully love someone in return. It's the way she treats you a fool that makes your blood boil and your anger sky-rocket at her. She thinks you do not know, that you are blind and deaf to what's going on but you're not.

You've always known, from the very beginning what was going on behind your back and you hope one day, one day soon one of you will have the courage to end whatever it is that's keeping you together. This relationship, if you can call it that anymore, is ripping at the seams and you have no idea how to fix; you're not sure you even want to. You know you'll try though because Henry is happier than he's ever been and you don't want to ruin that, you don't want to ruin the life he's got now.

You lay down, trying not to notice the cold expanse of bed beside you where your lover should be. You bring your hand up to clutch at the plain gold ring you now wear on a chain around your neck. You hold it tightly as tears brim in your eyes, thinking of the love you've lost and the love of someone that doesn't want to love you back.

You lay for wait feels like hours, silent tears staining your cheeks as your bed stays empty beside you. You hate this part, you hate how it makes you feel but most of all you hate how she creeps in here, acting like you don't know. It makes you almost physically sick when she climbs in to bed, trying to kiss your cheek goodnight, still smelling of her lover of the night. You don't understand how Emma can be so stupid as not to realise that you know, that you've always known.

AN: I don't even know how I thought of this. Anyway, it's angsty and sad so be warned now, it probably won't get happier.

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