It was startling just how long ago it was, how far they'd come, what they'd been through. It had really been almost two full years that they'd been in this place, and so many monsters they'd faced in that time. Some of them being themselves.
Emma knew that she couldn't really dwell on what had passed, but for a while it was all she could think about. The things they'd had to fight to get to this point, the pain they'd been through. It was the first time she was the cause of her own suffering here since she'd learned to harness her magic and do something with her time, since she'd put her childhood fears to rest. Things that Jefferson had helped with, even back then.
"I think I need to take a break, I need to just..." She wanted to stop, just for a while, stop trying so damn hard and failing, stop looking for something she was starting the think wasn't there. Because she hadn't found it, and she'd looked everywhere. "I want to go home, of course I do but... Can we just take a break, and just not think about it for a while. I just want to be... to just be around you for a while, not doing anything."
Those constantly talked about 'vacations' from the work she forced on herself. That was what she wanted right then.