Disclaimer: Just playing, will put everything back when finished.
"Look what I found! It was in a box at the old house this entire time!" David's voice rings through the small apartment, and makes Emma pause just as she's about to take another sip of hot chocolate.
"Found what, Gramps?" Henry perks up, knowing full-well Storybrooke to be full of Enchanted Forest relics and reminders.
"This!" Her father's hands open, his smile wide as he presents a small worn wooden horse, a child's toy she realizes, whittled by hand if she were to guess.
"A horse?" Henry frowns, less excited now and more confused.
"Yep! It was mine when I was a boy, your great-grandpa made it for me."
Once her son understands the significance he eagerly jumps off his chair to give the toy a closer inspection, and Snow follows suit, but Emma pauses.
She'd never considered it before, the idea that her parents would have keepsakes from their childhoods. Emma knew from Henry's book her father had very humble beginnings, but to see physical evidence of it is as eye-opening as seeing her nursery had been.
"So he made it for you, Gramps?" Henry's voice derails her train of thought, and she looks up to see David nod.
"We were as poor as the dirt we worked in, so even if there was a toy-maker nearby we couldn't have afforded them. And real horses were usually only for wealthy nobles and knights, but this little one was all mine."
Like my blanket, Emma thinks, but suddenly three sets of eyes are staring at her, and she swallows hard upon the realization she must have said that aloud.
The silence drags out after her slip, nobody quite sure what to say, but then David walks up to where she sits at the counter.
"Before you were born I never expected you'd like it considering all the other toys we could give you, and I know I'm a little late, but if you want-"
He offers the horse to her, and Emma tells herself it's allergies when her vision starts to blur, but takes the toy all the same with a small nod.
"I'll take good care of it."
"You better, that horse might be old but you won't find a more superior steed in all the realms."
Emma laughs, and her father smiles.