Disclaimer: Same one that goes on all the stories. Don't own any of it, never will. I just like to play around with other writers characters from time to time.
AN: Ok, I have no idea where this story really came from. I've never written for SoN before; didn't really know if I ever would. But this story popped into my mind and I couldn't get it out to work on other stories until I'd written it, so I figured I might as well get it out there. This is just a one shot. Enjoy!
"Come here baby girl," she whispered to the infant who was wide awake in her crib. "You're supposed to be asleep," she said as she reached in and picked the tiny little girl up. "Mommy says you two had a rough day and that she had put you to bed a while ago and here I find you wide awake."
She cradled the baby against her chest with her tiny head at the crook of her neck. She rubbed her back soothingly and slowly rocked her body back and forth to try and lull the little girl to sleep. This wasn't the first time she had come home at the end of the day to find her little girl, who they thought was asleep, wide awake in her crib. She was always studying the world around here like she was trying to soak up and memorize all of it already.
Spencer loved it; she joked that it meant the baby had her smarts and would grow up to be a doctor one day. But they both already knew that their little girl loved music too. At first when they'd brought her home they tried one of those sound machines that are designed to help infants sleep. All their friends swore by them to help get their kids to sleep, but it never worked for them. One night, as another option, Ashley took one of her songs that she had recorded and played it. It had worked like a charm. Their little girl seemed to love her Momma's voice and music.
"Were you just waiting on Momma to get home and say goodnight?" She asked. Though some might have thought it a little silly to speak to an infant as though they would answer back, Ashley loved talking to her little girl. Most of all she loved these little moments. Spencer was still on maternity leave, so she got to be with Emery most of the day. But just before Emery arrived unexpectedly, a little early, she had been working on getting a new artist at her label launched. She needed to get that done before she could take any significant time off to be with her two girls.
Emery was still moving around even though Ashley had been humming one of the lullabies she'd been working on since they found out that Emery had loved hearing her music. "What's the matter sweet girl? You just not feeling the music tonight?"
At her questions Emery continued to squirm around in her arms a little bit. "Well then how about I tell you a story?" Ashley asked her as she headed over to the rocking chair to make herself more comfortable. "We are going to have a lot more time to have story time with all kinds of different stories, so how about I start with the best story that I know."
She started the story off telling it slowly, taking her time with the words that she chose. "Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there lived a beautiful princess. Now this Princess loved the kingdom where she lived. She knew just about everyone there and everyone loved her. But one day the Queen came to tell the Princess and her brothers that they had to leave the kingdom where they currently lived to move to another bigger kingdom. The Princess was scared to have to move so far away from where she grew up, but she was also excited because she knew that she would get to meet all kinds of new people there.
Once she had arrived in her knew kingdom the Princess discovered she would be attending a magical place known as King High, where all the Princes and Princesses of the land were sent to learn about to become great Kings and Queens one day. On her first day at King High the Princess suddenly became nervous about being here. She had never seen a place quite as big as this one and she was scared that no one there would like her.
Little did our Princess know that soon she would soon be meeting someone very important at King High." Ashley paused here in the story. She could feel Emery starting to settle down, but she didn't want to put her back in her crib just yet. So she decided to continue on with her story a little more.
"You see, at King High there happened to be another Princess; Princess Ashley. Now Princess Ashley was really more like Queen Ashley. She was on the cheer team, and that meant that she was one of the most important Princesses in the whole school. Her long flowing dark locks and chocolate colored eyes, along with her natural beauty meant that most people in the school either wanted her, or wanted to be her.
At the time though, Princess Ashley wasn't interested in any of the people who wanted her. She was trying to play it single for a while after an end to a bad relationship. Then though, Princess Ashley spotted a certain new Princess at the school. This Princess had the most beautiful cerulean eyes Princess Ashley had ever seen and beautiful dirty blonde hair. Princess Ashley's breath caught at the very moment she saw the Princess and she knew that somehow, someday she would have to meet this stunning Princess.
Just as she decided to head over and introduce herself the bell rang. Princess Ashley was disappointed, she didn't know when or where she might see the beautiful Princess again…"
"I took your breath away?" Ashley heard whispered from near the door. She smiled at the interruption. She had a feeling that Spencer was probably listening to what was going on in the nursery through the baby monitor, but she wasn't sure if she would actually come up here and say anything about the story she had been telling Emery.
Ashley turned her head to look at her wife and smiled even more than she was already. "Of course you did," Ashley replied to her inquiry. "You still do."
Spencer smiled and had there been more light in the room Ashley would have seen a blush start to work its way up to her cheeks. Until now Ashley had never talked about the first time they had seen each other across the grounds at King High. "Well it looks like story time worked. She's out like a light," Spencer noted.
"For now," Ashley whispered back to her. "There will always be the two o'clock feeding in a few hours."
"True, but for now let's get her back to bed," Spencer said reaching for their little girl.
Ashley relinquished Emery to her, but was slightly disappointed at having to do so. The minute she had held Emery in the hospital for the first time she'd fallen in love with holding her daughter. She held her every chance she had since. She followed Spencer across the room to the crib and they both kissed the little girl on her dark tendrils before Spencer laid her back into the crib.
They both stood there for a moment before Spencer took Ashley's hand. "Come on," she whispered, "let's get to bed ourselves. We have at least a couple of feedings tonight."
"Awe, do we have to?" Ashley whined. "I love watching her sleep."
"I do too," Spencer replied. She started to take a few slow steps back from the crib and was now gently tugging on Ashley's arm. "But I would be interested in hearing a continuation of that bedtime story you were just telling Emery. I think I might have some insight into what the stunning Princess thought about Princess Ashley the first time she caught sight of her."
"Oh really?" Ashley questioned as she turned from the crib and let Spencer pull her fully towards the door. Stopping in the doorway for one last look at the sleeping girl, she then pulled Spencer in for a light peck on her lips. "I look forward to hearing more about what this stunning Princess thought of Princess Ashley.
With that they pulled the door quietly closed behind them and made their way down the hall.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. I'd love to hear what you think about my first SoN fic or my writing in general.