I'm a huge Red Snowing shipper (Ruby x Snow x David), but it's such a rare-pairing (trioing?) that there's barely any fics about them, so I figured I should probably try to rectify that, these are going to be Red Snowing family oneshots, so feel free to request anything!

I dedicate this to Justanoutlaw, who I dragged into shipping this, and who has just started her own Red Snowing fic called One Day at a Time which is a deaged Emma fic, I suggest you check it out as it's awesome (along with any of her others really)!

In my universe, Emma is only 20 years old but acts younger mostly due to her childhood. Henry was still adopted but he isn't Emma's son, though he was the one who got her from Boston claiming to have found her family, Emma was living in a crappy apartment when he had found her so took up Mary Margaret's offer of staying with her. Emma isn't working as sheriff or even working as Mary Margaret told her she'd rather have her get her High School diploma than pay rent.

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After the Evil Queen Regina had been given a second chance instead of being executed by Queen Snow White she had been trying to make amends. Her long-lost sister, the witch Zelena, on the other hand fell even darker – she had been planning on using Regina's position as the queen for her own gain. So, she set about making a curse.

Regina's step-daughter was Snow White, who had found not one true love but two, it wasn't commonplace in the Enchanted Forest, however it happened enough that only certain royals looked down on her choice to marry Prince Charming and Red, who became Princess Red as soon as the three were married. Soon, Snow White fell pregnant, and the three were overjoyed. The whole kingdom celebrated, and Red and Charming set about making the nursey, under Snow's watchful eye. Red's grandmother, Widow Lucas or Granny as she was known to all, knitted a blanket for her soon to be great-granddaughter. Even Regina gave the unborn baby a gift, a simple teddy bear, but it meant the world to the all, especially Snow who insisted on Regina being a grandmother to the baby.

But soon tragedy struck. The found out about the curse Zelena was planning on enacting. The terrified trio of parents-to-be sought the advice of the Dark One who warned that they would be separated from their child until the child was twenty years old.

And so, they were.

Emma Swan had always wanted to hate David Nolan. Well, maybe not always, she hadn't been his biggest fan when she had had to trudge through the woods at night when he had decided to escape from the hospital during the curse. And she had gotten very close to absolutely hating him when he had been having an affair with Mary Margaret and she still saw him flirting with Ruby whenever he ordered at Granny's, and despite Ruby being Mary Margaret's best friend she always flirted back. But there was always some part of her of her which had liked the man, even if she tried to show that she hated him, he was always kind to her even after he and Mary Margaret broke up, she barely spared a word to him. But then the curse broke and she was given her explanation for why she couldn't quite bring herself to totally hate him, he was here father, and Mary Margaret, Snow as she now liked to be called, was her mother….

And, apparently, her mother's best friend was also her mother…

She had gone from an orphan to having three parents all in one day.

It was a lot to take in.

Emma had protested when she had been referred to as 'the kid' by Ruby, as they had bid farewells to Granny that night at the diner where everyone had been celebrating, but had been dragged home along with David and Ruby by Snow. David had barely spoke to her, but she saw him watching her through the night as she learnt about who everyone in the town really was, she had simply stuck to Snow's side, Snow may have changed from being Mary Margaret the least of all being the name, but she was who Emma felt safest around.

"Why do I have to do this?" Emma grumbled, Snow was in the closet pulling out blankets and throws and piling them into Emma's waiting arms.

"Because your parents are building a nest in the living room, that way we can all stay together tonight, you included. We need blankets and cushions and pillow to make it"

"We're not birds we don't need a nest." She leant against the doorway of the closet and glanced through the bedroom curtains to the living room. Ruby and David had pushed the couch and chairs back to the edges of the room, on the floor led Snow's mattress along with Emma's and the spare bed's mattress. They were placing all of the couch and arm chair cushions around the edges of the mattresses to make a nest like shape.

Snow rolled her eyes and sighed. She knew this was going to be hard, Emma having to get used to having other people there, let alone the fact she now had parents, even if Mary Margaret mothered her already, Snow would only increase that. "Because, we've been apart for twenty years, and you've gotten yourself into danger already today, I'm not letting you out of my sight."

"You were the one lying in the hospital in a coma." She was unable to hide the hurt and fear in her voice.

Snow stood up out of the closet for a moment, she placed the pile Emma was holding onto the bedside table and hugged her tight. "I'm not leaving you again Emma, Regina has Zelena in one of the cells under the hospital, she's not getting out. She can't hurt me and I'm never leaving you ever again… But, I could have lost you when you decided to fight that dragon." She told her. She hadn't told David or Ruby about it yet, she thought it'd be best coming from Emma, when Emma was comfortable enough to see her mother and father go into full protective mode over her. "You're never doing that again."

Emma shrugged her shoulders, Gold had tricked her into getting the magic egg and had then left her stranded to get out on her own, it was crazy and terrifying and she hadn't gotten her head around it yet. "I needed to save you." She mumbled.

Snow placed her hand on Emma's cheek and smiled gently at her. "And you did. You saved me, your mother and father, and the entire town. That's all we needed you to do, you've done your job as the saviour so now I get to wrap you in bubble wrap, no more dragons."

Emma rolled her eyes but saw Snow was deadly serious so she nodded. The town had already changed a little with the magic now there, she didn't want to find out if there was some tower Snow would lock her in, to keep her safe.

Snow went back to collecting the blankets and Emma picked the pile back up.

"So, Prince Charming's a man whore, Walt Disney never saw that coming."

"Emma." Snow warned.

"What! He is! He's a bigamist!" Emma defended herself. She didn't think she was being that loud but Ruby looked over at her not looking happy.

Snow stood up out of the closet again, though this time she had a stern look on her face, one which made Emma suddenly look down. It was a look Mary Margaret never had. "He is not." The sternness of her words made Emma look up, she looked like a kicked puppy, but Snow continued – she couldn't let Emma think terrible things about David, not if she wanted the two to ever have a relationship. "He is married to myself and your mama, Ruby. Ruby is married to him and me. And I am married to both your mama and your daddy. We all love each other equally, and we all love you, but you need to treat us all with respect even if you're not ready to call us by our proper titles yet – not because we're your parents, because I know that you need time to get used to that, but because we're people, so you need to treat us all with respect regardless."

Emma slouched like a chastised child.

"Do you understand?" Snow asked gently, she knew it was all a lot for her to take in and she wasn't sure how to deal with it all, and she'd feel embarrassed and guilty about ever thinking those things as soon as she got to know David and Ruby for who they truly were.

Emma bit her lip not looking up at Snow's eyes. "Yeah."

"Good girl." Snow gave her a soft smile to show there was no bad blood. "Why don't you go take those through and help them set them up, I'll grab the others, then I'll come join you.

Emma had been withdrawn from the all during the evening, it was late enough that she could claim that she was tired and wanted to sleep, her parents agreed, though suspicious, and they all settled down.

As soon as Emma believed that they were asleep she left the loft, taking only her jacket and slippers with her, intent on leaving the town. This was all too much for her.

But Snow, David, and Ruby were not as asleep as Emma had thought. They all sat up immediately, panic and fear at their missing child hung thick in the air. They all wanted to go and search for Emma, to prove to her that they loved her and that they cared. But Snow and Ruby insisted that David went alone. The two mothers already had a relationship with her, and would be able to track Emma down and help if David needed it, but he also needed to prove to his daughter that he loved her, that he cared, and that he wasn't like the cursed version of himself.

So, David left the loft, spotting Emma's abandoned baby blanket on the mattress where she had slept. He was touched that she still slept with it, and he realised that she wasn't really going to leave, though he wasn't sure that Emma had realised that yet.

David quickly caught up with Emma. But instead of talking to her, or stopping her, or even throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her back home, he just walked alongside her, in silence waiting for her to speak first. They were at the edge of town, near the woods and the town line, by the time Emma broke.

Anger had built up in Emma, first from David being at her side, but as time went on it had changed to anger at him not trying to stop her. And hurt… he clearly didn't care about her enough to stop her, he was just escorting her out of the town…

"Why can't you just leave me alone?!" She shouted. "Go have some weird charming- Disney- wolf hybrid babies and leave me alone!"

David's hands went to his hips. "Why would I go do that, when my only 'charming- Disney- wolf hybrid' baby is out here, all alone?"

"I broke your stupid curse! Now I'm out of here, you don't need me anymore, I'm not sticking around somewhere I'm not wanted."

Emma said the words with heat but David's heart broke as he heard the pain and fear behind them. He couldn't take it anymore, he pulled Emma into his arms and held onto her tight, even as she yelled and tried to hit him and eventually broke down into tears. He rocked her as she cried, slumped against him, it was an automatic reaction to rock her but it seemed to work. When she stopped crying he pulled her back, his hands firmly on her arms, so she could look him in the eyes and know he wasn't lying. "The only reason we care about the curse being broken is so that we can be with each other and you again. Yes, we're happy for other in the town too, but our family is our main concern. We need you because we love you, you're our child, we don't just want you here, we need you – not because you're some saviour or whatever, but because you're Emma, you're our daughter who we wanted before we knew of the curse, and who we watched grow in your mommy's stomach. We couldn't wait to meet you, the few minutes we had you for we were the happiest we've ever been, we've been feeling the same since you broke the curse, because we have you again. We love you."

Emma could see he wasn't lying, not at all, she could also see the love he had for her on his face, and she'd be lying if she claimed that didn't scare her just a little. "You signed up for a baby, I'm an adult," she watched doubt flicker across his face and she mistook his doubt that she was an adult (it felt like only yesterday he had her in his arms after all) for doubt that he could parent her, "I understand." She finished quietly.

"You're our baby, no matter how big you are, we signed up for you and we want you." David sighed and pulled her back into a hug, he knew this would be hard for Emma, it was even harder for her with her harsh past, he didn't know the details but he knew it was the reason she tried to push everyone away, and he figured there was a reason she didn't talk about it.
"You have me, and mommy, and mama, and we all love you more than you'll ever know." He told her, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. "We're not going anywhere. You can shout, scream, cry, tell us you hate us, try to push us away, try to build your walls higher, stick to us like glue, never let us leave your sight- but that's not going to change a thing, we're your parents, we love you, and we're going to look after you not matter your age." He was rocking her again, just enough to soothe her, it worked, she practically melted against him.
He knew how guarded she acted around everyone in the town during the curse but Mary Margaret had told him she was the opposite around her, as soon as the walls had come down, she was much more trusting, almost childlike but she seemed to be more comfortable than she ever was around other people, he could only hope that she'd be comfortable enough to act like herself around him and Ruby too, one day.
"Now, how about we walk back home?"

"Urgh." Emma made the noise of complaint against his chest and she heard and felt him laugh, the vibrations going through his chest to her face. "Too far. We stay here." She mumbled already starting to fall asleep against him.

David laughed again and shook his head. He rubbed her back and ran his fingers through her curly hair. "So, you can't walk home, but you were going to walk all the way out of town and to some new place in just your pyjamas and slippers, without even taking your blankie?"

Emma frowned against him, okay maybe she hadn't really been going out of town when he put it like that, it didn't mean he had to call her out about it. Her heart quickened when she remembered she had left her baby blanket behind, she was glad he had stopped her before she had left, she was only now realising that she didn't have a plan or take her car or clothes or anything.

He scooped her up into his arms and saw her look confused, but she didn't try to pull away, so he supposed that was something. "You're obviously way too tired to walk home, and I'm way too handsome to be killed, which I will be if I don't get you back to your mothers soon." He began to walk.

"Scaredy cat" Emma mumbled in good humour, but she led her head against his chest, he smelt like a forest mixed with his aftershave, it was a good and comforting mix, and the forest part reminded her of her blanket.

"Well, your mama's kind of like a big dog," he smirked knowing that if Ruby was there she would have smacked him upside the head, "I'm kinda right to be a scaredy cat."

"I'll tell her you said that." She closed her eyes.

"Nuh uh," David shook his head as he smiled down as his daughter who didn't open her eyes, "you're meant to be on my side, your mommy and mama always gang up on me." He realised only after he had said it that he had been referring to Snow as Emma's mommy, which she was of course, but he was a little surprised she didn't object to the wording. "We made a deal when you were in Snow's tummy, I plied her with all the hot chocolate you wanted, and in return you stopped kicking her every time me or Ruby stopped talking to you, and you joined my team."

Emma was too tired to drag her eyes open, and too tired to stop the smile spreading over her face at the story, she snuggled closer but would stick firm to the claim that it was because she was cold not because she quite liked being close to David, her dad. "Do I still get the hot chocolate?" she bartered.

"Hmm…" David pretended to think. "I suppose that would be a good deal… and before you tell me, I know it's with cinnamon, that's your mom's fault she got us all hooked."

"Doesn't mean I like it." She argued for the sake of arguing, her voice was slurred with sleep as she fought to stay awake.

"You do." He smiled down at her, knowing she'd be asleep by the time they got home, despite her stubbornness, she had inherited that trait from all three of her parents. "Your mommy told me during the curse… she was always telling me stories about what you were up to and how you were." Even curse he and Ruby had always asked after Emma as soon as they saw their wife, though neither understood why, they just knew she was important to them.

Emma was now almost asleep which gave her the bravery she needed to ask the next question. "Did mommy tell mama too?" She copied her parents' terminology for each other naturally, not really think about how immature it might sound, she didn't care at the moment either.

David beamed as he heard her refer to Ruby as her title, he wished Ruby was there to hear it, but he knew that if she had been Emma would have been snatched straight out of his arms and into her so he couldn't help but be a little selfish and grateful that she wasn't. Snow's title also made him smile but he knew that that was a slightly easier change for Emma to make. "Yeah, your mama's always been making sure you're okay, when she didn't see Snow she'd ask me if I knew."
They were close to the town again now.
"When you were born, your mama was rushing to try and get to you, she wanted to hold her baby, but the witch had her forces in the way and they knew that she'd be hard to take down. Your mama fought so hard to try and be there. She didn't get to see you, the curse came too quick, but because she was so good at fighting to protect you it meant I was able to get you to the wardrobe easier so the witch didn't kill you."

Emma hummed a noise in reply but she was now asleep.

When David got back to the loft both Snow and Ruby were worried beyond belief, but when they saw Emma asleep in David's arms they calmed a little, and didn't bombard him with questions so that Emma wouldn't wake up. He carried her over to the nest in the living room and placed her down in the middle of the mattresses. Snow immediately led down and cuddled her baby against her. She grabbed Emma's baby blanket, and wrapped it around her, before covering her with other blankets.

"Is she okay?" Ruby asked with worry and insistence, her eyes scanned Emma as she stood beside David, looking down at her and Snow. Emma moved in her sleep to curl up closer to Snow which was a promising sign.

David wrapped his arms around Ruby, he kissed her temple as her head was turned onto their daughter, she may have insisted that he needed to hand bringing Emma back on his own that time, but she wouldn't be letting her out of her sight again, not for a very long time. "She'll be okay, she just needs some reassurance from us all…" He brushed a strand of her hair away from her face. "She fell asleep as I was telling her the story of how her mama valiantly fought the dark knights to try and be at her birth, and because she fought so many of them it meant I could get her to the wardrobe so she wouldn't be killed by the evil witch, her mama helped save her."

He could tell Ruby was worried that Emma wouldn't accept her as she wasn't related to her by blood, she always had been a little worried, that had only increased when they realised they wouldn't get to raise her- but Emma was just as much like Ruby as she was David and Snow.

He watched her lay down on the mattresses on Emma's other side. He led beside her with his arm draped across all three of his girls. He pressed a kiss to her neck, a sensitive spot below her ear, his lips tickled her skin as they barely touched it. "She referred to you as her mama." He could just about see Snow smiling over at what she had heard him say and he knew that Ruby was beaming. "And Snow as mommy," he continued, "she hasn't called me daddy yet, but it's okay she's still on my team."

His wives let out a quiet breath of laughter each, they knew Emma would have to have time to get used to this new family dynamic, but they would support her through it no matter what. It was all going to be okay.