Day 10 - Christmas Traditions, Part 2. In Storybrooke, Snow and Charming finally get to share Christmas traditions with Emma and Neal.
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Have Yourself a Charming Little Christmas
Christmas Traditions - Pt 2
When the final battle gave way to peace in Storybrooke at last, life became normal for the most part. As normal as it could be in a town with magic and a people not originally of this land. While it may have been called Saturnalia in the Enchanted Forest, it was mostly the same as the Christmas of this land.
Long ago, Snow and Charming had spent their first Saturnalia together with hopes of one day celebrating with their children. They could not know it would be thirty years before they could do so.
The Land Without Magic had many modern amenities that made decorating even more festive and elaborate. And the Charming farmhouse was no exception, as it was decked out to the hilt, inside and out.
"Wow...it looks like Christmas exploded in the house and on the outside too," Emma commented, as she took in her parent's living room.
"We're just so excited! This is our first Christmas as a family!" Snow exclaimed. Sure, she and Emma had spent a quiet one together before the curse broke, but it wasn't the same. Then they were separated again or fighting some looming danger. But no more curses, villains, or separations to spoil their lives any longer.
"Okay...it smells really good in here," she mentioned, as she took off her coat and went to the kitchen.
"That would be your Grandma Ruth's special cookie recipe. Wanna help?" David asked, as Snow rolled out another sheet of dough. In the Enchanted Forest, they made normal cookie shapes, but here in Storybrooke, they had the advantage of cookie cutters to make them extra festive.
"You mean help eat them, right?" Emma mumbled, as she ate a cookie.
"Wow...those are like the best sugar cookies ever!" she exclaimed, as she stuffed her face with another.
"If you want to help me cut out the shapes, I'm sure you can handle that part," Snow said. Emma nodded and started helping with the cookie cutters. Not even she could mess up cookie cutters. They spent the next couple hours baking and frosting them until they had a mountain of cookies. Emma had a plate to herself and sat down on the couch, as her baby brother played in his playpen.
"Bet you can't wait till you have all your teeth, huh kid?" she asked, as she started flipping channels and looking around at the decorations.
"Hey...why is there mistletoe everywhere?" she asked and then realized what she was saying.
"Never mind," she grumbled, as she spied her parents under some said mistletoe just outside the kitchen.
They eventually joined Emma and watched a Christmas movie that she secretly had loved all her life, enjoying this new tradition with their daughter.
After the movie was over, they turned on some Christmas music to share another tradition. It wasn't the music from their homeland, but they liked this land's music just as well and began dancing together around the living room.
"Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow," Charming crooned to his wife and she felt like melting. She absolutely loved his singing voice.
"Oh Charming..." she gushed.
"What'd ya think, kid? Should we dance with our overly affectionate parents?" she asked, as he lifted him up. He grinned, as she started dancing around the room with him to the songs. Snow and David shared a happy smiled, as they watched and soon, Snow took Neal to dance with him, while David shared a dance with Emma. She laughed and gladly switched again on the next song, dancing with her Mom, while David danced around the room with Neal.
Afterward, they sat by the fire, enjoying another Storybrooke tradition of hot chocolate with cinnamon together.
"Thanks guys...it's not even Christmas Eve until tomorrow and this has been the best one I've ever had," she mentioned. David kissed her hair.
"We're glad, sweetheart. We only wish it didn't take so long for us to finally have Christmas together," Snow replied.
"Me too," she agreed.
"We may have missed too many, but we'll still have many more," David said, as he pressed a kiss to Snow's lips.
"He's right. We love you both so much," Snow gushed, as she cuddled her babies close, as her husband put his arms around them all, content to hold them close.
Emma and Neal would both fall asleep there and David proved that she'd never be too old for him to carry, as he picked her up and put her upstairs in her bed, while Snow put Neal down in the nursery. They joined hands, as they went back downstairs, with the baby monitor in Snow's hand.
"You know...I saw the mistletoe you put in our bedroom," she mentioned slyly.
"Just keeping up with tradition," he said.
"It's one of my favorites," she purred and he grinned, as he swept her into his arms.
"Mine too, my darling," he said, as he carried her into their bedroom.
It may have taken thirty years for them to be able to share traditions with their children, but they had many years ahead to celebrate old traditions and new. And they would make cherished memories together...