It's now the 23rd of December in England so I found some prompts on Tumblr and decided to write some Charming Family Christmas oneshots- I hope you enjoy them!

Set just after Emma and Snow get back from the Enchanted Forest.
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David had volunteered to go Christmas shopping with his wife but she had refused his help until she had eventually revealed she was shopping for his gift. Judging from the look on Emma's face when Snow had left she had also wanted to go shopping with Snow but had been refused (Snow and David had bought Emma's presents from the both of them but had also decided to buy one from just David and one from just Snow).

"So how do you usually celebrate Christmas?"

David wasn't sure how he managed to stop himself at jumping from Emma's question, one because it was so unforeseen, and two because he had been trying to fix the DVD player in a semi-comfortable silence. He turned around, having tightened the final screw, and tried to keep the surprise off of his face. "Well, back in the Enchanted Forest, Snow and I would throw a ball on Christmas eve for the people of our kingdom. Then on the actual day we would have a big meal with our friends, neither Snow nor myself had any living family," he watched Emma's face turn slightly confused and sad to hear that they didn't have any family and in a weird way it warmed his heart slightly to see that, "so we'd exchange gifts and eat a lot of food and play games. It was different than a traditional family, I suppose, but it was nice and being around those you care about it what Christmas is about anyway."

"It sounds fun." Emma said though she could see the slightly homesick look in David's eyes. "How many of those did you celebrate? The way Henry's book tells it you seem to have just been in one fight after another since before you and Mar- Snow met."

"We had one like that shortly before we were married, but we were planning on having more like that."

"Thank god," Emma joked, "I was waiting for you to tell me something soppy like you had just found out Snow was pregnant or something."

"Nope," David smirked awaiting her reaction, "that was after we got married."

"Urgh." Emma complained. "Seriously? Was that really necessary?"

"Sorry, I meant you were dropped by a stalk."

"Better."

David had to laugh at her serious tone. "How about you? How do you usually celebrate Christmas?"

"Oh I usually just end up watching loads of Christmas movies and eating way too much."

David could tell from the way she quickly brushed it off that Emma didn't have any family like she did now or friends like he and Snow had had in the Enchanted Forest. He wanted to ask more, to ask if she had better Christmases when she was a kid or if she had many friends when she lived in Boston who simply couldn't spend Christmas with her for whatever reason, but he knew if he tried she would clam up. "Well, I just fixed the DVD player, perhaps you could introduce Snow and I to some good Christmas movies."

Emma smiled relieved that he didn't probe into her past but also that he seemed to want to spend time with her. "Are you sure? I'm sure that Snow knows some already…" she trailed off not wanting to pick a terrible movie and for him to never ask to do this again. There never used to be such pressure in just picking a film to watch with Snow when she was Mary Margret, but now she had parents, a family (which she was still trying to wrap her head around), everything just seemed much higher stakes.

"Of course I'm sure, I may not have movie knowledge, but I'm pretty good at making popcorn." David reassured with a smile. "Plus I think it's high time that we start creating some Christmas traditions, I think movies could be a good place to start."