A/N- I am kind of guessing in terms of time as I wasn’t really sure how long was in between David being taken to be Prince James and when the curse started but I am going to say about nine months.

Camille’s POV

Running across the field, I looked back in hope that no one had noticed that I had left the farm and had stopped doing my duties. Turning back to look in the direction I was running I could see the person I was looking for. He was walking across the field behind a herd of sheep, herding them into their pen.

As I grew closer to him, I picked up the pace of my running before pouncing at him. I smacked into his back pulling him down to the ground with me. I rolled off of him allowing him to let out a light groan.

He rolled over onto his back looking over at me, “lovely entrance,” He chuckled.

“As always,” I smirked propping myself up on my elbows on my back with a grin on my face.

“Did you escape again?” He questioned rolling over again so he was now hovering over me, before pecking my lips.

“Of course I did. Father would murder me if he knew I was escaping from my duties to see you every day. He would certainly take back his blessing for our marriage,” I shrugged.

He let out another chuckle before he kissed me again. When he pulled his lips away from mine he stood up, putting his hand out to me to help me up. I took his hand gratefully standing up and brushing the grass off of my skirt.

As I smiled at him, I could see his house behind him. The actual house wasn’t actually out of the ordinary but standing outside of it was his mother and a man. No one ever came here without a good reason as we were so far out of the way of anything. My Father’s farm was literally next door to David’s but other than that there was nothing close to us as everything was far away. The closest thing to our farms was the market but even that was about 45 minutes away from here.

“Who’s that?” I questioned pointing to the main that was stood outside of his house with his Mother.

“I have no idea, but we’re going to find out,” He sighed taking my hand again, leading me towards him home where the man and his Mother stood.

As we came closer to the pair David wrapped an arm around my shoulders pulling me into his side in a rather protective manner.

“Who are you?” David questioned with a frown.

~*~

The conversation soon became further complex and rather odd as the man who I had learnt was Rumpelstiltskin explain why he was here. What he explained to us shocked both David and I as neither of us had any idea about it. Ruth did her best to explain and justify it too in a nice way, but I don’t think it really made it any better.

From what the man had said, I had learnt that David had a twin brother that had been given up and taken to act as the son of a kind but he had died. Neither David nor I knew about this, and we certainly didn’t expect that he now was needed to act as his brother and kill a dragon with an enchanted sword. In return Rumpelstiltskin would make his farm thrive again as it certainly wasn’t in the best state to put it lightly.

Soon after we were told all of this, David decided to pull me aside before he would leave to go and hopefully soon return once he had accomplished the terms of his deal.

“You know I don’t have a choice in doing this right? I need to do this,” He sighed looking down at me with a small comforting smile whilst he rested a hand lightly on my arm.

“I know that you need to do this, but nevertheless I don’t want you to do this. David I love you more than words can say, but if you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever and if it doesn’t then it was never meant to be yours. So all I can hope for is that you do come back to me and the pain of losing you will ease,” I whispered with tears filling my eyes.

“I’m so sorry my love,” he said in the same sorrow filled tone, before pressing his lips against mine. As he pulled away moments after he spoke again, “I promise I will do everything in my power to come home to you.”

With that he kissed me once again before taking my hand in his and leading me back to where Rumpelstiltskin and Ruth were.

“Go and get ready, we must leave right away,” the man cackled.

David gave me a sad smile before he walked into his home with Ruth soon following him, meaning I was left alone with Rumpelstiltskin.

Even though he did look slightly old and frail he still scared me. I guess mainly because he was taking the only man I loved away from me. Before he could talk to me David was back along with Ruth who both had tears running down their cheeks.

“Goodbye my love,” David whispered kissing me and pulling me into a hug.

“Goodbye David.”

I could stop the tears falling down my cheeks.

With that he began towards the cart Rumpelstiltskin had ridden here on. Before the older man followed David he leant in to my ear and whispered, ‘I’ll be back for you dearie.’

Out of pure shock, I took a step backwards as he followed the man that I loved to his probable impending doom. As the two men left the farm I turned to Ruth, David’s Mother.

“I am sorry for making him leave,” She smiled weakly.

“Why should you be sorry? You’re his Mother. You’ve lost him too,” I responded in the same quiet and shaky tone.

“Well it’s my fault. I gave up my other son, and now that means I have lost them both and you lost your fiancé.”

I smiled softly before saying goodbye to her knowing it was probably time to head home. As I headed back to my own farm I knew that my Father would probably kill me for abandoning my duties but at the moment I didn’t really car. All I wanted was for time to fly by so I could be back in the arms of my true love once again.

Slowly I walked home, and I finally reached my own home. As I entered the small building I could see my Father arguing with my brother about something. As I got closer I could hear their argument.

“You let her leave again; she is probably off gallivanting with that fiancé of hers. She can’t just give up on us and go off with him, not until she is married. She’s still my little girl,” My Father yelled.

“Well she isn’t my responsibility. She loves this man, so why can she not be with him? You’re letting her marry him,” my brother retorted.

“Just stop okay,” I stated loud enough for them to look over at me, “I love David and yes I was with him. I know it was irresponsible but I love him. Just he is being forced to take the place of Prince James and slay a dragon. And when he comes home I want to marry him as soon as possible, now I am going to go to my room and sulk.”

I wasn’t ready to put up with an argument as I just wanted to go and cry away my pain until he came back to me.