Because the world needs a little slush with our snow. (Spoilers likely within)

[badappled]

I don't know why you've brought me here. If you're trying to torment me, I'm sure there are better ways. 

But if it's what you want, so be it. Nothing can be worse than what I've done. I can feel it in my chest like a cancer. You can't ignore your own heart, can you? You can drink potions to forget love, but you can't ignore what you are.

Or what you're becoming.

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[jolting]

It's the least I can do. ... You can just call me Whale, if you like.

[badappled]

Whale.

[And okay, despite the hella awkwardness of their past (It was the curse!) aside, it's nice to hear from someone else. Someone who has no real attachment to her; no obligation, that is, to tell her what she wants to hear, or remind her that she's let them down.]

Thank you. Things have been...crazy. To say the least.

[jolting]

[perhaps it's because Whale is an outsider among them, but he never really sees things the same as everyone else]

That's putting it mildly. We've had a lot to deal with lately, and it's not getting easier. Sometimes you have to make difficult choices.

[badappled]

It seems like we always make the wrong ones, don't we?

[jolting]

I don't see it that way. I think that you had an impossible choice and did the best you could with it. If they treat you poorly because of it, that only shows they can't understand.

[badappled]

There's always another choice besides murder.

There has to be.

[jolting]

Maybe, but there wasn't time to think of one. You made the decision during a heated moment.

[badappled]

I know. But it changes nothing. I used dark magic. And...I can't say that vengeance for what those women did to me and the people i love wasn't a part of it.

[jolting]

Dark magic is tempting... it's such an easy thing. But using dark magic and being dark yourself are two different things. You have to see that or you'll just sink deeper into darkness.

[badappled]

But Regina showed me my heart, Whale. I saw it with my own eyes. And it's all I can see, now.

[jolting]

Don't you think that was the whole point of her showing you? So the image would consume you? So you have darkness in you now; so what? No one should expect you to be pure and perfect all the time.

If they do, it's unrealistic and only puts more of a burden on you.

[badappled]

I...

It's what I'm supposed to be. It's what they think I am. It's what my mother wanted. For me to be good.

[jolting]

[oh don't even get him started on parent issues]

And you're worried about disappointing her. I understand... But you have to be your own person, Mary Margaret. Don't try to be something just to please everyone else.

[badappled]

[Come, come wallow, Victor]

It's just a matter of who that person is. All I know is...this? Is not who she's supposed to be.

[jolting]

[he'd need a stiff drink first]

Then change. You're strong enough to do that.

[badappled]

I think I need to be.

[jolting]

You are, you just need to remember that.