"What was it that you wanted to know?" David asked the little girl sitting between her parents.

"Did the Prince get the ring back, or did he let Snow White keep it?" She asked impatiently

"Well the problem was Snow, had sold the the ring, so she could get enough gold to run away forever, deep in the forest, where the Evil Queen would never find her."

"No!" Emma shouted more than she needed to. "That can't happen."

David chuckled at how much Emma was getting into their story.

"Why not Ems?" It was Snow who asked, eager to hear her daughter's reply.

"Because if Snow White hid away, then the Prince would never find her again." Emma was very upset with this notion, that the a prince may not be able to find Snow White, never ever again.

"For one thing Snow didn't disappear, not yet anyway, and you have forgotten one very important thing." Snow tried to reassure Emma.

"What?" Emma screwed up her face trying to remember the important thing, she had apparently was forgetting.

David lost track of how many times he has had to say this to his wife. He happily say it now because at least this time, they were all together.

"He will always find her."

"Always? How?" Emma asked her father.

"Don't know, the Prince just has to faith."

Emma calmed down a bit with knowing this. Her parents seemed to believe it was true. "Where did the ring go?"

"Snow sold it to some very ugly, very scary.."

"David!" His wife warned him, she didn't need Emma up all night.

"Right sorry, trolls, Snow sold the ring to the bridge Trolls, so they went to get the ring back, together."

"I bet the trolls were no match for Prince Charming." Emma said in an almost proud voice.

"Yes, absolutely it was easy for him to get the ring back." This earned him a glare from Snow.

"Really? Because that's not how I remember it."

It was David's turn to give Snow a warning looking.

She had just realized what she had just said. "STORY. That's not how I remember the story." she looked down at Emma, hoping she hadn't caught on to what Snow had actually said.

"Fine, the Prince had a little trouble with the Trolls, not much but."

"It was Snow, who saved the Prince, using fairy dust." Snow finished David's sentence, with only a small amount of smugness in her voice. There was no need to tell Emma that the dust that she used, was from a bad fairy.

"Ok, yes it was Snow who saved the day THAT time. The point is that they got the ring back together."

"Did the Prince fallen in love with Snow then?" Emma looked at both her parents, who were looking at each other.

"I'm not sure? David?"

David looked back towards Emma, "Charming showed Snow his mother's ring and she tried it on, it fitted her, and definitely looked good on her. It was then he remembered his mother's words, about giving the ring to someone he loved, seeing it on Snow, it felt right for him, so I would say that is exactly where he fell completely, in love with her."

"And they lived happily ever after?" Emma was confused, that's not story she knows, where are the seven Dwarfs, the apple, the glass coffin.

"Not exactly, it's more the beginning." Boy if only it had been that easy, David thought to himself.

"But for now that is all you are hearing." Snow didn't want to over load Emma with information. The rest of their story contained some very dark things.

They spent the rest of the evening relaxed, both Snow and David enjoyed nights like this. They tucked Emma into bed, but only on the promise that they would tell more of the story another time.

They were both very tired, thinking about their past was exhausting, deciding to have an early night, they were both asleep before their heads hit the pillow.

A few hours later Emma crept into her parents room, she had tried to be brave like Snow White, but she was too scared to sleep.

It was Snow who woke first, "Emma, honey, what are you doing here."

"Couldn't sleep, can I stay here tonight?"

Snow looked at Emma, she was standing there holding her blanket, which dragged on the floor, and scuff looking teddy, that she had since she was a baby. Her hair not unlike Snow's was all wild and her blue eyes wide, pleading. How could Snow say no to her, when she looked so darn adorable.

"Go on then, hop in."

"Yay!" Emma said a little too loud, waking up her father.

"Sound's like we have a visitor. Did you have nightmare Princess?"

David picked her up from the side of the bed, placing her between himself and Snow. Emma wiggled down until she was comfortable. Which involved both Snow and Charming getting kicked with her little legs.

"I couldn't sleep."

"How come?" David was use to the women in his life having nightmares.

"Trolls." Emma said this so matter of factly, it caused snow it laugh.

"Well done Charming."

At least he had the nerve to look slightly guilty. "Guess you had better stay in here tonight, tomorrow we will search your room for Trolls.

"How about another story in the meantime?" Emma was very hopefully, she was liking her parents stories.

"Goodnight Emma." This came from Snow and Charming at the same, making Emma giggle.