Make It Right.

AU. Prequel to "Soul of Steel" When you feel like you are losing your way, all you can do is try to make it right.

David Nolan was a young boy of twelve when he felt utterly and completely in love with Mary Margaret Blanchard. There was this one play and David would forever be thankful l for it. It was Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

A/N: ENJOY! DEDICATED TO ALL ONCERS SPECIALLY ALL MY "SOUL OF STEEL" FANS.

A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO SnowandJames4eva :) WHO INSPIRED ME TO DO THIS! And also my friend Viki who is the reason I even finished this so thanks girl!

So... Yeah I suck for not updating sooner but a lot of stuff you probably don't to hear anything about has keeping me from my OUAT muses!

Enjoy!

Chapter 16:

(Mary and David are 18)

She did not want to let him go. Letting go meant that she was accepting the stupidy of his descision of joining the Army. She understood the importance that it was for him to honor his father and yet she hated him for going.

"It's just a couple weeks Mare" He insisted touching her cheek. "You won't even know I am gone"

"How come if you are going to have a desk job, you have to go to boot camp?" Yes well, Sean's dad who knew people who knew other people had gotten David out of doing tours for the time being and hopefully forever.

He didn't have an answer for her and instead he kissed her forehead. Her growing baby bump pulling them apart a bit. "I love you" He leaned to kiss her stomach. "And you too"

He counted the days until he could go home and cuddle next to Mary in bed. Bunkbeds and the smell of feet and sweat were bad, he had made friends though, he had encountered Ollie and Steven in his first day. They both knew each other prior training and they seemed to take David under their wing even though they weren't but a couple years older than David.

He counted the minutes of when he would be able to hold her again. "Hey man!" Olie smirked at him and patted his back. "Stop torturing yourself. Call her"

"I cant" David sighed.

"Why the hell not?" Ollie ceased an eyebrow.

"Cause I will want to go home" David said gravely. He held a picture of Mary himself, his mom and Diane. He had his arms wrapped around Mary. "And I don't want that either because she will freak out on me"

"How far along is she?" Came Steven's voice. He sat next to David on the bed.

"5 moths next week" He told them. He then reached out from under his bed and pulled out a shoe box. "She sends me a sonogram everytime.."

"A girl huh?" Ollie examined the picture closely. "Nice"

"Have you thought of names yet?" Steven asked.

"No, not really." But he had. He had thought of about names and her face and eyes. He hoped she had Mary's eyes.

Names. Well the name thing was big, ever since he had found out about the fact that he was having a girl. He had thought about one name: Emma.

Emma had been a kid he had worked with when he was helping Diane at the center. She was shy and she seemed to be constantly be lost in her own world. Diane had told him that Emma had not had the easiest of lives. She had been tossed around foster care longer than any other kids Diane had worked with and she was barely ten.

"Hey" David sat next to the little girl who seemed to make an effort to ignore him. She looked up momentarily and he gave her a smile. "I'm David"

She didn't answer. She just kept looking down at the ground. "So, Emma right?"

"Who are you?" The girl asked facing him. "You don't look like a doctor or a social worker"

"Nah" David smiled. "I help out here sometimes."

"Why?" Emma asked. "Why do you want to be helping messed up kids?" David had had his share of bad words during the early years of Albert's abuse and he knew what she was trying to do. "Do they pay you?" David waved his head.

David took a deep breath. "Because once sad and I needed someone to talk to" Emma seemed more focused on him now. "And people like Diane helped me and I wanted to help them too"

"Oh" Emma smiled up at him. "I guess that's okay, sorry I was rude"

"It's fine" David smiled sweetly. "I know you don't mean it"

Emma had been moved from the center the week after he talked to her. She had been placed with a family and David had been told she was happy. She had even called Diane and asked for David personally. She sounded so excited about her new home and she had called him her lucky charm.

He had only spent a couple hours with her and yet that girl had spoken to him. And she wanted to honor her.

Okay I know this is short but we still have two chapters left on this. Want Emma to be here already? Yeah me too!

Thanks for reading!