Title: Home
Disclaimer: Once Upon A Time and its characters belong to Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and are owned by ABC. Not Mine!
Warning: K+
Author's Note: Chapter 3! Thanks for all the reviews, favorites, followers! :) I hope you enjoy this chapter! Enjoy! :)
Breakfast Interrogation
"Just let her sleep. She's been through a lot this last week." David whispered.
Snow and David had been up since Neal had woke them up at 6:30, but it was now 8 o'clock.
"I'm surprised that she hasn't woken up with all the noise Neal has been making." Snow said after a moment, thinking of how light she had been sleeping.
"It's Emma. She can sleep through anything." David responded with a chuckle as he wrapped his arms around his wife who was cradling his son in her arms.
Emma was snuggled in the middle of their bed sleeping peacefully; totally unaware that she was the focus of her parents' thoughts at the moment.
"Well I think I'm going to make some breakfast while our princess sleeps." David said before kissing his wife's head.
"That sounds good." Snow replied.
David went over to the bedside and grabbed the book before lightly kissing Emma's forehead before heading into the kitchen to make breakfast.
"Why do you need the book to make breakfast?" Snow asked as she saw David come in the kitchen with book.
"If I'm going to question my daughter about what I read in this book, I need to know all the facts." David replied.
"Oh, David. Just let it be and leave her alone." Snow said with a sigh.
"Can't do that." David said with a chuckle. "Anyway, I never finished reading the story last night."
Snow shook her head before sitting down at the table with Neal. "I have a feeling this is just the beginning of your Daddy going crazy over Emma dating."
"I heard that and she isn't dating." David said seriously.
Snow just raised her eyebrows as she thought of what Ruby had told her about a certain kiss that had happened outside Granny's the other night. She was keeping that little secret to herself or else she had a feeling that Emma wouldn't be sleeping for much longer. Also she was afraid that David would be grabbing his sword and running out to find a certain pirate.
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Emma woke up feeling well-rested and very comfortable with two different, yet familiar smells lingering by her. She recognized them as her father and mother, but were they near her? She opened her eyes to see that she was in the middle of her parents' bed, but her parents were in the kitchen making breakfast, she presumed. She closed her eyes sinking in the moment as a smile came to her lips she was finally home. She hadn't had a morning like this with her parents since before Regina destroyed the curse, but even then it was only one night. And she never felt this comfortable with them at any point since she 'found' them. She wanted to memorize their scents and this feeling of home that created peace within her. Wait is that bacon I smell? I have to get up. Emma thought as she got a whiff of bacon that she could now hear sizzling and slowly got out of her parents' bed to walk into the kitchen. Her Dad was busy in the kitchen making breakfast, but the book was on the counter opened up to the new story that she was apart of. Her Mom was sitting at the table with Neal. She was totally mesmerized by baby Neal and for a second she felt a pang of jealousy for all the attention he was getting from their Mom. Stop it Emma, he is a baby.
"Well good morning, Emma. Did you sleep well?" David asked as he looked up to see his daughter.
"What? Oh yeah, I did." Emma replied after she caught up with what her father was asking.
"Hey, Emma. Come sit down." Snow said with grin at her daughter.
With that look from her mother, the jealousy instantly disappeared because she could see the love and joy in her mother's eyes from just seeing her daughter. Emma walked over to the table with a smile on her face and sat down at the end of the table.
"Hey Neal." Emma said as she took one of his little hands. She then looked to her mom with a look of confusion. "Does he sleep most of the night already?"
"Uh no. You just don't wake up." Snow replied with a laugh.
"Your mother's right, I don't think sirens could wake you." David said as he came over with two plates of food, putting one plate in front of his wife then placing the other plate in front of Emma while placing a kiss lightly on top of her head before going back to the kitchen for the rest of the food.
Emma smiled softly at her father's gesture that would have made her feel uncomfortable a day ago, but today it was just perfect. It wasn't long till everything was on the table along with two hot chocolates topped with whipped cream and cinnamon and one coffee. Emma watched as her mother put Neal in his bouncy seat that she put on the other side of the table. Emma for once truly felt part of a family; she had her Mom, her Dad, and her brother.
"So Emma. Since you are now staying in Storybrooke, are going to start looking for place for you and Henry?" David asked, loving the idea of his daughter staying in Storybrooke, which could be seen on his face.
"Yeah, but I'm guessing Henry already picked a place out." Emma said with a chuckle at the way Henry had been looking for apartments since he got his memories back.
"That's true. Will you have to go get your stuff from New York?" Snow asked.
"Yeah, I guess I will have to." Emma replied, thinking it would be nice if her parents could come with them. Last time, she just had her stuff sent to her, but this time she had more.
"It would be nice if we could see where you have been living, but the curse is the same as the last one, or at least it should be." Snow said, wishing that they weren't trapped in Storybrooke.
"I'll take pictures for you." Emma said in between bites with a cocky grin.
"So what's Hook planning on doing?" David asked after a moment, which happened to be right after Emma had taken a bite of her pancakes.
Emma choked on her food. Do they know? They couldn't know or else they would have said something last night. "I don't know what he is planning on doing." Emma responded truthfully, but knowing he wasn't going to be leaving Storybrooke. She was actually excited about seeing him again. The kiss they shared last night was something she wanted to repeat. She had to contain her excitement and swallow the smile that was trying to come to her face. She didn't want a whole string of questions from her parents.
David caught that smile at the mention of Hook and it bothered him that maybe his wife was right or close to right with the idea that Emma was dating. "Speaking of Hook, I read something interesting in the book last night."
"David." Snow said with a sigh.
Emma looked from her dad to her mom and then back to her mom. "You guys are doing it again aren't you? Having a silent conversation." Emma said with a look that said 'seriously' before turning to her brother and saying, "they do this all the time. Hey, we'll create our own language so they won't know what we are saying." Emma said with a wink.
Snow and David shared an amused smile before David responded, "some conversations aren't meant for our children's ears."
Emma rolled her eyes and then winked at Neal. I'll teach you all my tricks and Neal's tricks too. You are named after him.
"Hey, stop that." David said playfully.
"What? Some conversations are meant for our parents' ears, right Neal?" Emma said with a cheeky grin.
"Great, what did we just create?" Snow said with a grin at her husband and daughter.
Emma just smirked. The best thing about this conversation is that I distracted Dad from talking about what he wanted to talk about, which was obviously something about Hook. Distraction is the key brother.
"Anyway, Emma we need to talk." David said seriously.
Snow rolled her eyes.
Crap. "About what?" Emma asked, trying to act like it was no big deal, but inside she was starting to panic.
"Are you dating Hook?" David said forcefully, without tact.
Emma choked on her food and had to drink some water before she could answer. "What?" Emma managed to say.
"Are you dating Hook?" David asked again.
"Uh..." Emma started, not sure how to answer her Dad.
Snow got up from the table, which got a questioning glance from her husband, and she returned it saying, through silent conversation, 'I'm not going to be apart of this.' She started to clear the table and then walked over to the kitchen.
Emma saw her mom start to clear the table and thought she mays well try to get out of this conversation. "Hey mom, I'll help you."
"No you don't, we are talking. You didn't answer my question." David said.
"We aren't dating... yet. I'm guessing you saw us kiss." Emma replied.
"You did what?!" David yelled.
"You didn't know about that, did you?" Emma said sheepishly with a grimace. Opps.
"No, but you're not dating him right?" David asked with a sigh.
"No..." Emma answered.
"Good." David said with relief. "Ok, so that brings me to my next question, what were you doing with the Hook from the past?"
"Do we really have to talk about this?" Emma asked with a groan.
"Yes." David answered.
"Didn't you read the book?" Emma asked, still avoiding the question.
"Just answer the question, Emma."
Snow walked back to the table to clear more off of it.
"Do you need help? I'll help you." Emma said as she started to get up, but was stopped by her father's hand on her shoulder, pushing her back down on the chair. "A little help, please?" Emma asked her mom.
"Sorry, I tried to reason with him." Snow said with a chuckle at her daughter's predicament. She then walked back to the kitchen.
"Emma." David said in a deep voice, in the way he only says it. "I'm waiting."
"Ok, I was just distracting him while the real Hook talked to Mom about stealing your ring." Emma replied.
"Oh yeah not only did my wife steal my ring, but my daughter did too."
"I was just helping Mom steal it." Emma said slightly offended.
"And that's not stealing?" David said with a smirk.
"I was just trying to fix everything which required Mom to steal your ring, but she dropped it so I had to get it to her. I just got stopped before I could get to her, but then I gave the ring back to you." Emma replied.
David chuckled at Emma's explanation, which didn't quite add up to her not stealing the ring.
"So are we done with the interrogation?" Emma asked hopefully. If all else fails bring the puppy dog eyes, bro. Watch and Learn, Neal. "Please, can we be done?" Emma added with her puppy dog eyes.
Snow walked back to the table to see Emma's puppy dog eyes and her husband trying really hard to not buckle under them. She chuckled as she picked up the last of the breakfast on the table to bring it back to the kitchen.
"Emma..." David said stretching her name out with a sigh. "Can you just avoid taverns or bars? And I don't want to see you acting like that ever again." David said firmly and very seriously.
"What...flirting with the Hook from the past?" Emma said with a giggle. "Don't worry I don't plan on time-traveling any time soon." Emma added with a smirk.
"Well that's good, but I think that was a little more than flirting." David said with a raised eyebrow.
Emma rolled her eyes at her father's over-protective scolding over her actions in the Enchanted Forest. "I was just doing what I needed to do to distract him so that I could put your story back on track so that I wouldn't cease to exist." Emma replied cheekily.
David frowned, he wasn't getting very far with this conversation and it definitely wasn't going as he planned. She wasn't taking him very seriously. "Maybe I need to talk to Hook." David said mostly to himself.
"No, you don't!" Emma almost yelled, in shock and fear because he seemed very serious.
"David." Snow said in a voice full of warning.
"Ok, ok. I'm done." David said, not exactly tell them he won't talk to Hook. He had actually been warming up to Hook, especially after the new memory from Emma and Hook's time traveling excursion, but he was still Emma's father even if he didn't know it then. He would have to have a man-to-man talk with this man who was planning on courting his daughter.
Emma sighed as David got up and put one arm around her head to kiss her on the side of forehead before walking to the kitchen. "He isn't done, is he?" Emma asked her Mom with a grimace.
"I don't think so. Your father is a bit stubborn, especially when it is about his daughter." Snow replied with a sympathetic smile.
"Great, I think I may have to warn Killian to go into hiding for a while." Emma replied half-serious and half-kidding.
Snow laughed as she grasped Emma's hand. "Hey, can you do me a favor?"
"Sure, anything. What is it?" Emma asked, liking the feeling of being needed.
"Can you watch your brother while I jump in the shower? It won't be long." Snow said calmly, but their was a bit of separation anxiety starting to creep up even though it wasn't like she would be really gone and David was here too.
"Uh sure." Emma said a little unsure of watching her brother, even though she had her fake memories.
"Your dad is here too. He will help and it won't be long sweetie." Snow said to reassure Emma, but also to reassure herself.
"We will be fine. Go." Emma said with a little giggle.
"Ok." Snow said as she left to go get clean clothes and then went to take a shower.
Emma turned to her brother who was staring at her curiously. "Let's go watch some TV, brother. Let's see if mom and dad still have my movie collection." Emma said as she picked up her brother from the bouncy seat and walked over to the TV to sit down in front of it.
David walked over and with a chuckle said; "you know you don't have to sit so close to the TV for him to see it."
"Really?" Emma said as she looked up to see her father with another cup of coffee looking at her with a smirk on his face. Emma looked down at her brother and winked before whispering, "he has a lot of lame dad jokes, just to warn you."
David set his coffee down before going to stand behind Emma to help her stand since she was holding Neal. "So what are you going to watch?" David asked as he picked up his coffee.
"Snow White. He has to learn the basics." Emma said seriously as she sat on the couch with her brother in her arms.
David chuckled at Emma's answer before putting his coffee down again and grabbing the blanket to put over Emma and Neal. "If you need anything, I'll be in the kitchen cleaning up." David said before grabbing his coffee once more and walking to the kitchen.
Emma smiled as her father walked away and then glanced down at her brother. Neal had grabbed on to one of Emma's fingers and was holding on to it like his life depended on it. She smiled softly as she felt the immense love and devotion she had for her little brother. "Ready for Snow White? The real story is better because we are in it, but this is where it starts or at least where it started for me." Emma said quietly to her brother as the movie started.
David smiled as he watched and listened to his daughter. She was adorable with her brother and he couldn't help, but watch them together. He quickly finished cleaning up the kitchen as he kept an eye on his daughter and son. Emma still looked tired even though she did sleep more than he or his wife did last night, but Emma hadn't slept much, well he presumed she hadn't since she got to Storybrooke. Plus with Neal dying, she probably lost a lot of sleep lately. He frowned before going over to the couch to sit next to Emma, putting his arm around her shoulders. He was surprised when she leaned her head against his shoulder and then continued to watch the movie.
That's how Snow found them 10 minutes later with only one difference, Emma and her brother had managed to fall asleep. David had his arm around Emma with Emma's head resting on his shoulder with her head turned towards him. Snow smiled softly as David turned to gaze at her with a matching smile, obviously enjoying his time with his children. Snow reached down and took Neal from Emma's arms, which caused Emma to wake. "It's okay. I've got him." Snow said softly as she held Neal in the crook of her arm and then brushed her fingers along Emma's cheek.
Emma closed her eyes and snuggled closer to David, turning her body towards him. David pulled the blanket up to cover Emma's shoulders. Snow sat down on the other side of David with Neal safely in her arms. David leaned over and kissed Snow on the lips, keeping his arm securely around his daughter.
"I think it is safe to say that she is a Daddy's girl." David whispered with a cheeky smile.
Snow narrowed her eyes, "Well Neal here is going to be a momma's boy." Snow whispered back with a smile.
"Oh you think so, do you?" David replied with a grin before kissing his wife again.
"Uh huh." Snow responded after the kiss with a smile the showed how truly happy she was.
"Well we will see about that." David said with his own smile as he looked down at Neal and then at Emma. "We, my love, have a beautiful family." David whispered into Snow's ear and then kissed the side of her face.
"Indeed we do." Snow said before turning her face into his kiss to kiss his lips.
Snow and David continued to marvel at their family as Snow White played in the background and as their children slept. It was picture perfect moment as their little family had a relaxing morning snuggled on the couch.
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