Chapter Summary: The Swan-Mills children make a video for Regina and Emma for Mother's Day.
A/N: It was such a joy to have Henry make an appearance in this one. I love the dynamic of Henry and the twins and hope to write more of them together.
Chapter 1
"Okay monsters, you know what to do right?" Henry asked his younger twin sisters as he held his phone up to record them for a special Mother's Day video for Regina and Emma.
Audrey directed a pointed stare at her older brother and quipped, "Yes, monkey breath. We know what to do." Sophie giggled into her hand and Henry smiled.
"Okay... Mother's Day Interview, Take One!" He made a pointing motion with his finger and the girls spoke to the camera.
"Happy Mother's Day, Moms!" The two 5-year olds beamed joyously and perched on the edge of Audrey's bed.
"We're making a video of you," Audrey erroneously shook her head, "I mean for you. I messed up," she chuckled and her sister comically smacked a palm against her forehead over a wide toothy grin.
"No, that's okay, that's okay, let's keep going because it's cute. So can you tell us your names?"
Sophie's little brow crinkled, "You know our names, Henry."
"But this video isn't for me, goonies."
"But the moms know our names too," Audrey stated matter of factly rolling her eyes at her brother. Sometimes he could be so silly.
"Yeah, but if someone else watches this..."
"Ohhhh, okay...I'm Sophie..."
"And I'm her older sister, Audrey," Audrey said good-naturedly while Sophie half rolled her eyes.
"Why do you always say that?"
"Because it's the truth."
"Fine. I'm Sophie and I am the younger, cuter one."
Audrey twisted her face and lowered her brows as if to say "Oh really?"
"We're TWINS Sophie, we look exactly the same."
Sophie just shrugged and looked at the camera and smiled, "But I've got personality," and she gave an enthusiastic wink and the camera started to shake with Henry's laughter.
"You two remind me of the moms... a lot. You even bicker like them."
Audrey pointedly glared at her brother, very much like their dark haired mother. "We don't bicker, Henry, we... discuss."
He chuckled and rolled his eyes and remarked to Audrey, "Okay, Regina."
Both girls smiled fondly and Audrey said, "I'm going to grow up and be just like mommy." The little girl held her hand up and started counting out on her fingers, "I'm going to be mayor, maybe even president! I'm going to wear pretty clothes like Mommy too; drive a nice car. Maybe, I'll even be Queen!"
"Queen?"
Sophie jumped up and announced, "Mommy is the Queen of Everything!" Then the little girl sat down on the bed again and wished, "I want to know MAGIC like mommy! Then I can just pop up behind people and scare them too!"
"Oh Henry, like in the kitchen yesterday when Ma was helping us sort out our bracelet beads. We saw the purple smoke first..." Audrey giggled.
Sophie continued, "...and Mommy put her finger up to shush us and then she just started talking really loud and Ma jumped so high! Beads went everywhere!" Sophie cackled slapping her knees.
"Yeah, the Moms are so funny." They said together.
Audrey rattled on, "I like when Mommy calls Ma "Miss Swan."
"MILLS!" Sophie added gleefully!
Henry watched his oldest sister place her hands on her hips and stand like his mother, Regina, and it was as if he was suddenly looking at a 5 year old version of his oldest mom. "You need to cut the vegetables a little more evenly, Miss Swaaan."
Sophie crossed her arms and imitated with a lower voice, "Who cares, Regina. It's all going to end up in our stomachs anyway."
"EMMA!"
"REGINA!"
The little girls started howling with laughter wildly in a half hug and Henry couldn't help joining them silently trying to hold the camera still.
"And then they usually just end up kissing." Sophie threw her hands in the air.
"They're ALWAYS kissing." Audrey affirmed with a smile.
Henry chuckled. "Yeah they kiss A LOT now. It wasn't always like that."
"That must have been weird." The girls chortled, not being able to imagine their mommies not kissing.
Sophie suddenly shook the thought away and remembered what she wanted to say about Emma. "But Ma is really funny. I want to be really funny like Ma. She tells the best jokes and gives the best piggy back rides and is the best wrestler and sheriff in the world. And she has her a super power so she can always tell when you're lying." Little Sophie punctuated the sentiment with a nod.
"Yeah," Audrey agreed. "I hope I get that super power too. Do you think she had it when she was 5?"
"I dunno," the younger twin reflected, "Quick! Tell me a lie and I'll see whether you're telling the truth."
The camera started shaking again along with the sounds of Henry's chuckling, grabbing their attention and they remembered their video.
"Oh yeah… and our mommies are beautiful," this from Audrey as she straightened the pleat of her skirt. "We got Ma's dimples."
"And Mommy's LIPSH," Sophie puckered her lips together as if to display the obvious fact that they had Regina's lips.
"Our Mommies are stunning!"
"The stunningest moms in the world." Sophie added, "I love them."
"I love them too."
"So tell THEM." Henry said, pointing to the camera.
"We love you, Moms, more than anything and everything!"
"You're the bestest moms that ever… lived." Sophie tipped her eyes upward and tapped her index finger against her lips, "…even if you won't let us have cookies for breakfast."
"You're total MILFS!"
"Yeah, MILFS!"
Henry frowned and said over the camera, his eyes darting between his two sisters. "Um… do you two monkeys know what a MILF is?"
Audrey raised an eyebrow at him. "Of course, we do Henry. We're smart. We figured it out. We're five, you know."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!" They both remonstrated as if offended.
"What does it mean?"
Sophie frowned and said, "Mommies I'll love forever!" Audrey nodded in agreement and they suddenly looked at their brother with question marks in their eyes.
"Uhhhh… yeah, ok. We'll go with that, for now. Just… don't say that to anyone else, ok?"
They both jerked their heads back in bewilderment and looked at each other with a Regina-like crinkled forehead. Then very Emma-like Audrey shrugged and then so did her twin.
Rushing Henry with giggles, they hugged him around the neck and he turned the camera's view around so the three Swan-Mills children were in the frame and he wiggled his eyebrows in greeting, while his sisters, who were his biggest fans, cozied up to him. "Thanks for these two, moms," he said sincerely.
"Now you, Henry!" Audrey gave an enthusiastic shout, snatching his phone, backing away and reactivating the original view so she could get only her brother in the shot. Sophie stood beside her and peeked at Henry on screen. The 20 year old blushed immediately unprepared to really be involved on this side of the camera. Sophie felt sorry for her brother and came into view throwing her arms around Henry's neck, and he lovingly embraced her and then she tried to jump on his back. "Say something, Henry," Audrey could be heard whispering from behind the scenes.
"Yeah, Henry. Don't be awkward." Sophie had just learned that word and she was trying to use it as much as she could to remember it. She learned the hard way at dinner the other night not to use it to describe grandma's cooking. Their grandma had wanted to make a new casserole recipe and upon tasting it, Sophie had wanted to say that the new dish tasted different, but she used the word "awkward" instead, which made Mommy snort into her napkin and Ma tell grandma that she probably meant the word "different". She nodded that she did, and Grandma smiled.
He chuckled, "Okay, okay." Henry rubbed the scruff at his chin and thought for a moment. "Hi moms…"
"Say your name." Sophie reminded over his shoulder, hanging off of him. He began to laugh at that. "Henry! Say your name!" The young man shook with more uncontrolled wheezy laughter and at this point had a red face and his eyes were a little misty with mirth. He collapsed to his side, taking a happy Sophie with him, in a fit of giggles.
"Henry!" Audrey whispered. "Come on we don't have all day. Say your name."
