25 Days of Christmas

Day 4: Snow

Annabelle Swan- Mills was very very excited! Today was Christmas, Santa had brought presents for her last night as she was a very good girl. Sitting up in bed, Annabelle was trying to decide what to do, her mothers had told her not to go downstairs without them, but she was so excited that she was thinking about not listening to them. But she would then be in trouble... could you be in trouble on Christmas? Could they take all the presents that Santa had brought her away? Send them back? She did not want that.

She slowly gets out of her bed, trying not to make a lot of noise. Walking across the hall to her mom's room, the door was not closed. It never was at night, opening it more she slips inside. Stopping at the bottom of the bed, Annabelle just looks up at her mothers who are cuddled together. Smiling she walks over to one side of the bed, she always loved to see her mother's show affection.

"Ma?" She half whispered. Emma stirs a little, but doesn't turn towards her, huffing Annabelle climbs onto the bed settling right next to her blonde mother. Leans down.

"Ma!" She says a little louder. This gets a reaction, Emma jumps up so fast, they almost hit heads. Annabelle moves away just in time, she moves half on top of Regina so now she is all so awake.

"What is going on? Annabelle what are you doing in here?" Regina ask sleepily.

"Giving me a Fu…"

"Do not finish that word!" Regina growled. Emma looks sheepish.

"Sorry babe. But Annabelle scared the crap out of me! She is just like you." Regina smiles at her daughter, then at her wife.

"That does not mean you need to swear in front of her." Emma rolls her eyes, they have this fight a lot.

"Now Anna what are you doing up at…" She turns and looks at the clock., then back at her daughter.

"At 5:30 in the morning?"

"I am excited to open presents from Santa!" Annabelle says excitedly. Regina laughs, she is a lot like Emma.

"Anna it's too early. What did we tell you last night? When can we go down stairs?" Annabelle sighs.

"When its light out. But I know Santa came and I want to open them now!" She pouts.

"You don't even know if he came yet."

"Yes, I do!" The little girl rolls her eyes.

"Annabelle." Regina says warningly.

"Sorry mommy. I'm excited."

"I know you are honey. Why don't you lay down between your mother and I and when the sun comes up, we can go right down?"

"Ok. But I am not going back to sleep." The two mothers laugh.

"You don't have too." The three cuddles back into bed. Annabelle puts her hand on her mother's slightly rounded belly.

"How is my sister today?"

"She was sleeping until her older sister woke her up." Regina says as she starts to tickle her.

"Sorry mommy." Annabelle says laughing.

"You two are going to wake Henry." Emma says

"Yeah mommy. You are going to wake up Henry." Tickling her one more time, Regina stops.

"Alright, you are right let's settle back down."

"Mommy, can you tell me a story."

"Which story would you like?" Thinking for a second.

"The one about the Savoir that saved the Evil Queen and made her good."

"You always want to hear this one. You should know it by heart." Annabelle laughs.

"So, it's still a good story."

"Ok. Once upon a Time your brother brought the savior into the Evil Queen's town and it changed the Queens life forever…."

Regina is the first to wake a few hours later, looking to her side she smiles. Her wife and daughter are snuggled together next to her. One of their hands are touching her belly. They always slept like that. Looking past her family she sees that it's snowing. Annabelle is going to be sooo excited, maybe more excited than the gifts that Santa brought…maybe not. We will have to see.

Regina reaches over and pokes her wife. Nothing, she does it again. This time Emma moves slightly. Green eyes slowly open up meeting brown.

"Hey." Emma says sleepily.

"Hey. It's snowing."

"Is it?" Emma turns her head trying not to wake up their daughter.

"Oh, yeah. Annabelle is going to be excited." She says looking back at her wife smiling.

"Yes, we should wake her up. I have to pee." Regina laughs. She leans down and kisses her head, then all over her face. Annabelle starts to squirm.

"Mommy." Annabelle wines. Emma starts with the kissing war.

"Mommy! Ma! Stop!" Annabelle laughs trying to move away from their lips, but she can't get away. There is a knock on the door, the three on the bed stop and look towards the door. Henry is standing there sleepy eyed and rumbled hair.

"Merry Christmas Henry!" Annabelle yells, jumping up and starts to jump on the bed.

"Ahhh, why is she soo happy this early in the morning?" The women laugh.

"She came into our room at 5:30 am. This is nothing." Henry laughs as he walks closer to the bed sitting on the edge.

"Good morning monkey." Henry says as Annabelle crawls over to him jumping on his lap.

"Did you see monkey? It's snowing!" Annabelle's head wiped towards the window and her eyes get wide.

"It's snowing! Yay! Mommy can we go outside to play? Please?" She batts her eye lases at her brunette mother, who tries not to laugh. She looks so much like Emma right now it's hard not to laugh.

"Do you want to open your presents first?" The young girl stops and thinks for a second. Does she really want to wait and go outside first? Or does she want to open Santa's gifts? This is a hard one.

"Why don't we go down and eat and we can talk about it over breakfast?" Emma suggests. The young girl nods her head.

"Yes! Alright let's go monkey." Henry says picking her up over his head and acts like he is flying her downstairs. Annabelle laughs the whole way. Regina looks over at Emma who is also laughing.

"Let's go babe. I am hungry." Regina lifts her eyebrow.

"And here I thought I was the pregnant one not you."

"Very funny, you are pregnant. I am just hungry." Emma pouts. Regina gets out of bed, straighten her clothes.

"Why don't you go down and make sure our children are not getting in trouble. No opening gifts till I get down there."

"Yes, your majesty." Emma smirks.

"Don't start Emma. Just go." Laughing Emma walks to the other side of the bed giving her a quick kiss before leaving. Regina goes to use the bathroom. She didn't miss this part of being pregnant, having to pee every 5 minutes.

After making pancakes, the family goes into the family room where all the gift is. Annabelle decided to open a few then go outside, well a few turned out to be all of them. All the presents have been opened, and Annabelle was not begging to go outside. It had started to Snow again, it really looks pretty. Henry agreed to take his little sister outside, they get all dressed up and go out. Emma and Regina watch from the front window, smiling as they watch them run and jump around. They build a snowman, Emma even goes out to help build a snow fort. When the sun starts to set Regina calls them back in the house for some dinner and hot coco, Annabelle doesn't make it through the hot coco before she is sleeping, Henry drinks all his before he falls asleep. His sister wore him out. Emma and Regina sit cuddled on the sofa watching the snow fall as they sleep.