Hi, this is my very first fantiction, well my first story since leaving school trusts me awhile ago) I have been a bit obsessed with fanfic, in particular any Once stories involving the Charming family.
I was thinking of doing some one shot one moment I would like to see on the show. Please let me know what you think as it will really help to see if I am heading in the origin direction :)
This maybe obvious but I certainly do not own anything regarding Once Upon A Time.
Emma lay there watching the ceiling, Henry finally asleep next to after exhausting himself into a troubled sleep. The news of Archie's death was one Emma wished she could protect him from.
She carefully slid out of the bed and head downstairs, she had too much to thinking about to be able to sleep.
Emma came to a stand still at the bottom of the stairs, it looks like I'm not the only one who can't sleep, she thought. Now the option of sneaking back up the stairs or having to face a conversation with her father.. He father she thought with a sigh.
Just as Emma was about to turn around David looked up from staring at the probably now cold coffee.
"Hi" he whispered, "hey, I guess this kitchen is already taken, ill leave you to it." Emma made a second attempt to leave back upstairs.
"Emma, wait please, you want a drink?" "I guess thanks, hot chocolate with" before she could finish David interrupted her "with cinnamon, I know." He said with a small smile on his face thinking back to all the times he made the exact same drink for Snow.
"How's Henry doing?" He asked gently "not great, I just.. I just wish I could protect him better from this pain, he shouldn't have to go through this. He deserves better." Everything Emma had been thinking over the last couple of hours came out in a rush.
"As much as you want to protect him from everything, you can't. You just have to be there to help him through it afterwards. You're a great Mom, Emma and he loves you." No reply came from his daughter so he took a deep breath in, not sure to continue with what was on his mind. He decided to take the chance.
"Emma, can I ask you something about what happened today?"
"Suuure" she said with some uncertainty not knowing where he was going with this.
"Gold. He mentioned that you told him about you having magic before. I was just wondering what he was referring to?"
"Ah, that" Emma said slightly relieved is wasn't too personal. "When Mary Margret and I were fighting Hook and Cora at the lake. Cora tried to take Snow's heart.."
"She what!" David said slightly louder than he was meant to too, standing up and scraping his chair backwards.
"Shuu, calm down I said tried, she didn't succeed because... Well because I jumped in front of her and Cora's hand went through my cheat instead."
At this news Emma thought that she had never seen David so pale. He didn't say a word, he made his way over to Emma slowly as he was walking towards a wounded animal. Which in someways that was exactly what Emma was.
David put his hand on Emma's left shoulder and closed his eyes for a second before he re opened them, Emma was shocked to see the his eyes were glistening with tears . In a quite voice that could barely be heard he whispered to her " what happened next?"
Emma cleared her voice shocked by the reaction of David's "she told me love was weak, then I felt this.. I'm not really sure what it was.. But I felt something and told her she was wrong. That love was strength and I kind of blasted her away."
David couldn't hold back any longer he hugged Emma, he just needed the contact with his daughter. " I don't know if I should be grateful that you saved your mother or angry at you for stepping in front of Cora... Emma if anything had happened to you, I don't know how your mother or myself would do. We need to protect you too, I don't care how old you are."
Emma let herself be hugged by her father, but after he finished what he was saying she couldn't take the flood of emotion that hit her. She carefully shrugged out of his hold. Feeling her eyes well up she knew she had to get away from the kitchen.
"Thank you, I told Snow when we were over there that I'm not use to people putting me first, I guess this whole family thing I'm going to have to get use to it."
David then smiled, "I don't think you are going to have much of a choice other than to get use to it" chuckling slightly. He knew he had been lucky to have this time to talk to Emma, it was the first real conversation he had with her. David didn't want to push her too far too soon. "I'll leave you to it, don't worry about Henry as I said before, we will get thought this together."
Emma nodded and continued to drink her hot chocolate. When David had left the room she felt happier to try and sleep. Yes there were 101 problems to solve but there was nothing she could do about them now. And when she wakes up in the morning she will have her Family to help her.