Hey everybody! This is the much demanded and awaited sequel to the story I wrote last year called The Toddler and the White Blanket. I hope you guys enjoy it.

A couple little notes before we begin. One, you will definitely need to read The Toddler and the White Blanket before you read this one, beacuse there are important plot points that I probably won't explain in the duration of this story. Mainly because I don't like repeating myself, and I am pretty lazy. And two, I really hope you guys will like this one as much as you liked The Toddler and the White Blanket.

I have also started another story to be writing along with this one, and it is called Magic Mirrors. I hope you guys will check that one out too. It will have a bit of Snowing, Captain Swan and Outlaw Queen.

I thing that is everything I have to say. So, please keep your arms and legs in the ride at all times and stay seated until the ride has come to a complete stop. Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.

Disclaimer: I do not, under any circumstances, own Once Upon A Time. Although I do love what they are doing this season!

Chapter One

"Happy Birthday Emma!"

The toddler squealed happily as her father carried her into Granny's diner in the morning of her birthday. She had her blanket in her hand and a little powder blue dress that made her look like a princess.

Snow clutched onto a blue leash that was attached to a little cocker spaniel, Lady. She was getting bigger, almost the same size as Emma, of course it was not that hard; the little girl was small for her age.

"Come her birthday girl and give me a hug!" Red smiled, rushing over to the little family and grabbing the little girl from her father's arms.

Emma smiled and reached for Red, gladly going to the waitress and sitting comfortably sitting on her hip.

"So, do you have any plans for your big day? I mean, you only turn 4 once," Red smiled, bouncing the little girl higher on her hip.

Emma turned to look at Snow. "Pawdy?"

"Yes, we are going to have a party Emma. But later," Snow laughed.

Emma had been eagerly been talking about her party, although she was not really sure exactly what was going to be going on. She had never had a birthday party before; her foster parents weren't usually big on splurging money on the toddler to celebrate her getting older. If she had been lucky enough to be in a foster home instead of a group home on her birthday.

"Cake?" she asked.

"Yes sweetheart, we will have cake. Remember, Granny is gonna make you a vanilla cake and she is gonna put Mickey Mouse on it," Snow reminded the little girl.

"Mickey!" Emma squealed, throwing her hands up happily and sending her blanket across the room.

She gasped and reached for the white knit blanket, whining desperately when she realised that it was out of reach.

David grabbed the blanket, standing up and handing it to the desperate little girl. Emma hugged it to her chest, clutching at it desperately and burying her face into the soft white wool.

"Tanks Daddy," Emma smiled at him.

"No problem baby girl," David smiled.

"So, are you gonna have presents tonight?" Red asked.

Emma nodded, a big, toothy smile on her face.

"And, what are you gonna have for supper tonight?"

"Tiny pizzas!" Emma cheered after thinking for a moment.

"Good choice. Any chance that I am going to be lucky enough to get one? Maybe you could save me one, cause I am gonna work so hard helping Granny make you an amazing birthday cake," Red smiled, poking the little girl in the stomach.

"Oh, yeah, you helped so much," Granny called from the kitchen.

Red snickered, but didn't bother to respond, knowing that her grandmother would get the last say in the argument.

"So, what time do you want us over for the party?" Red asked, turning to look over at Snow and David.

"Around four if that is okay. We are taking her to the park for a little while first, and she has to take a nap, or else she is going to be a bear by the time everyone gets to the loft," David said.

"Sounds exciting. Granny and I will be there by like 3:45. She wants Emma to see the cake and get some pictures before we cut it," Red smiled, handing the girl back to her father.

"I take it you are here for coffee then," Red hinted.

"And juice for the little lady," Snow smiled.

"I'll be back with that in a second," she smiled, heading into the kitchen to grab their drinks.

"Pawk?" Emma asked, looking at her father with a serious look on her face.

Lady looked up from her sniffing the floor to look at Snow, her tongue lolling out of her mouth comically.

"In a minute birthday girl, we have to get your juice first," David chuckled.

Emma smiled, her green eyes scrunching up cutely as she pulled the corner of her blanket to her face, sticking her thumb into her mouth.

Minutes later Red returned; a bottle of apple juice in one hand and a tray with two cups of coffee, fit with lids, in the other.

"Here you go," she smiled.

"Thanks a bunch Red. We'll see you later," Snow smiled, the parents turning to head out the door, Lady deciding she had to lead the way, scampering ahead, pulling at her leash.

Emma squealed happily as Snow and David pushed her on the swing, giggling excitedly as she flew back and forth on the black plastic seat. Lady yipped from where she was tied to one of the picnic tables in the park, wanting desperately to join her family.

People walked by the happy couple and their happy daughter, smiling and waving, sometimes even wishing Emma a happy fourth birthday. The little blonde would smile happily back and tell them thank you as she went back and forth.

Eventually Snow and David got tired and headed to sit at the picnic table for a while, letting the little girl roam free around the playground.

But what they didn't know was that she would bolt, running towards a lady sitting on a bench by herself, watching the children play with a sad look on her face.

"Hi," she smiled, clamouring up to sit beside the woman.

The woman turned to look at the toddler.

Emma didn't know that the woman was the mayor, Regina Mills.

"Hello," the woman answered.

"Why awe you sad?" Emma asked, looking up innocently at the mayor.

"I'm not," Regina answered.

And suddenly, without warning, Emma sprung at the woman, wrapping her chubby toddler arms around Regina in a hug.

"What, what are you doing?" Regina stuttered, completely unused to having any physical affection.

"You wooked wike you needed a hug," Emma said, pulling away to look up at Regina with her big green eyes.

But before they could finish their conversation, Snow and David ran up, Lady running on their heels with her stubby legs.

"Stay away from her Regina!" Snow yelled, scooping up Emma quickly and pulling her away from Regina.

"Are you serious? Just because I am sitting in a park and your daughter comes and sits beside me, it is suddenly my fault?" Regina asked.

Before Snow could answer, or remove the shocked look from her face, Regina was up from her seated position and was storming away from the small family.

"This is going to come back and bite us in the butt," David said, grabbing Lady before the puppy could run too far away.

"We had better get home, we have to start setting up everything for the party," Snow said.

"Yeah," David said.

They turned and started walking away. Emma looked over her mother's shoulder, watching the woman in the power suit walk away, again all alone. And in her little toddler mind she decided that she was going to make that lady happy again.

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