IF ONLY I WERE ABLE
Spoilers up to 2x09. Emma is afraid of failing. As a mother. As the savior. As a daughter. Only now she wont have to learn to do it all on her own. She has her family for that.
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Enjoy and thanks to all for the support! A LOT OF EMMA AND DADDY FEELS AHEAD!
Chapter 7:
"Are you sure about this?" Henry asked his mother as he followed her to the back of Granny's B&B where they had enough space to practice. Emma was sure. She had fought against Hook and came out okay and she had never shielded a sword. The inner child in her was excited and terrified.
"Positive" Emma offered him a smile. Her parents were already there. There was actually more people there than Emma had expected. Red came running towards her.
"Ready?" She whispered to Emma. She nodded and then turned to see her father. He had a very goofy grin on his face. Emma smiled and then walked up to start her training.
"You are going to take easy on her, aren't you?" Snow whispered. Charming nodded. "Good"
Emma gave her mother a suspicious glance. "She told me to go easy on you" David told Emma as they walked face to face to each other. Emma rolled her eyes.
"Are you?" She inquired.
"Do you want me to?" Was his response. Emma waved her head. "I would not expect less of you"
"Here Gramps!" Henry came into view carrying two wooden swords. Emma rolled her eyes once more. "Don't look at me, it was his idea"
"Wooden swords?" Emma said frustrated. "Seriously? I defeated a dragon you know?" The look on Charming's face was priceless. He glanced at Snow and she winked at him.
"You have to start somewhere" Her father insisted handing her the sword. "Here"
"If I take you down, then can I get a real one?" She had noticed how childish that sounded and she did not care.
"We'll work our way up to it" Charming said with a dashing smile. And so it began. Emma fell more times than she could count and Charming enjoyed hearing her laugh and roll his eyes at him.
"Can we get some ice cream Gramps?" David chuckled at Henry's request after training. The prince was beat. He had forgotten how exhausting it was to practice sword fight and as he glanced at Emma she seemed to be the same way she was.
"Sure, why don't you ahead with your mom... I think I will call it a night" Charming winked at Snow.
"Okay" Henry said looking from Emma to Snow. "But just so you know... You are not that old Gramps"
"I'm not" David said quickly. Emma rolled her eyes. She knew how to take a hint. The grownups needed some alone time. She shivered at the thought of it...
"You better tell him you want to get rid of us!" Emma called after Henry as he began to drag her towards the dinner. David winked at Henry, who shot him an inquiring glance.
"Charming!" Snow scolded him "I cannot believe you would do such a thing! Get rid of them just because you want to have your way with me!"
"Right, because you are a saint" He mocked her as they walked back to the apartment hand in hand. "I saw you checking me out back there!"
"I was not!" Snow blushed hitting his arm. "Has it occurred to you that maybe I was watching how our daughter was doing?"
"Maybe so..." David leaned closer to her ear. "But you were also thinking how sexy I looked..."
"You are way over your head" She hissed as he captured her lips in his.
As the sun came trough the window Charming rolled to his side to find Snow still sleeping. He took a moment to take in his wife's beauty and slowly examined her face. Both Emma and Henry looked like Snow. Henry sometimes even more so. "Good morning" He whispered kissing her lips softly.
"Good morning" She giggled as he began to kiss the side of her neck. "We need to get up..."
"Not so sure I can" David said huskily against her skin "I don't think I can move a muscle..."
"That rusty you are from sword fighting dear" Snow mocked him "Age seems to.."
"It was not only that" Charming told her "I cannot believe what we did... it had been ages since"
"Before Emma was born" Snow said. "That was the last time..."
Without them even knowing the door flew had first thought her parents to be sound asleep. After all they werent even loud. How wrong she was. Emma covered her eyes quickly. "Ew.. right I forgot this... Can you cover up please?"
"Emma what happened?" Henry asked worriedly from downstairs.
"Nothing kid! Don't come up here!" Henry stopped on his tracks "Be right back down... I just came looking for Henry's book"
"It isn't here. Have you checked the kitchen?" Snow said blushing.
"Kitchen... got it" Emma slammed the door behind her.
"Oh, that was close" David breathed rolling up to the side.
"Close?!" Snow laughed "That was more than close. I think we scarred her for life" They both blushed with embarrassment as they got dressed. "Charming..."
"We need to get a bigger place" He said as if he was reading her mind "For our sake and theirs"
When they came down Emma avoided looking at them "Mind if you catch me up later at the station?" She could not bear to be alone with her father in the car. Charming nodded.
After he had dropped Henry off. He headed straight to the station. Emma was sitting in her desk. He avoided looking at her. "So..."
"I don't want to talk about it.. .ever okay?" Emma said awkwardly. David nodded.
"Your mother and I were thinking, maybe we should get a bigger place, so we avoid..." David trailed off. "Or you and Henry can keep the apartment and Snow and I can look for some other place to live" Emma's eyes snapped up. "It's up you"
"You want me to move out?" Emma said harshly. Maybe more than she had intended. "Whoa that was fast"
"I don't mean it that way" Charming said "I just want you to be more comfortable Emma"
"What I don't need is to walk on my parents okay...No matter how old I am. Being eyed raped is not nice!" She said and then offered him a smile as she saw the pain in his eyes. "I don't want to move out and I don't want Henry to be sad if we split up" I don't want to split up. I just got you back.
"Understood" David said sitting on his desk and taking the tried to hide the satisfaction over his daughter's response. "Maybe you can help me look" Emma smiled.
I had to split this chapter into two because I thought the ending would be better if I just left it this way. Hope you guys enjoyed it! This chapter is dedicated to SnowandJames4eva and our little joke
Happy OnceDay everyone! Next chapter has more Charming family bonding, Emma gets to hear the story of a certain pauper turned prince and she has mixed feelings regarding the house her parents chose.
Thanks for reading!
