Disclaimer: Just playing, will put everything back when finished.
"Huh."
"What?"
"You have the same toes as me."
It's such a simple thing, a single hereditary trait, but suddenly it means so much more than Charming ever thought possible.
"We do, don't we?" he smiles, wiggling his toes next to hers on the coffee table.
He'd hardly believed it when she purposefully sat beside him on the couch as Snow and Henry put the finishing touches on dinner, too cautious to comment on it just yet. Her observation, however, is promising, and quick glance tells him she's smiling too. It's a small smile, but he'll take it.
"I always wondered about stuff like that. Who I took after most, whose hands or nose I got."
Just like that his smile wanes, thinking of a little Emma with so many questions every child should know growing up, and sighs, unsure what to say, if he can say anything, when she speaks again.
"But now I know, and it's fun to discover stuff like that, right?"
She's giving him an out, he realizes, an out for both of them, their personalities so similar that she's as unsure of what to say as him. So for now he takes her offer, and bumps her foot with his.
"Yes, it really is."
"Now I know where she gets it from. Honestly, you two, feet off the table! Time to eat!" Snow's voice startles them from their moment, too amused to be entirely scolding, and he watches with equal amusement at the devilish gleam that appears in Emma's eye.
"Watch this," she mouths, sneaking up marvelously on his wife and going in for the kill, her hands tickling Snow's sides. The indignant squawk that follows has him almost falling off the couch with laughter, especially when mother shoos unrepentant and laughing daughter with giggling grandson off to the bathroom to wash up and in the same breath turns on him.
"It's not funny, Charming!"
Of course that just makes him laugh harder, but finally he calms down and obediently goes to wash his hands as well.
He won't tell Emma he's done the same thing to her mother a hundred times, and received the same reaction each time.
Like their toes such things they have in common will be revealed in time, and he's happy to discover each one as they come.