10. Baby-moon

"Mary-Margaret- honey are you alright in there?" David asked, concerned hearing heaving and wrenching coming from inside the bathroom mere moments after she'd attempted to enjoy their continental breakfast of chocolate croissants, orange juice and mixed fruit a mere 24 hours since arriving at the hotel and spa.

"UH HUH."

"I'm coming in."

"Noononoo!" She said, she didn't want him to see her like this, especially on their honeymoon but, it was too late, he was rubbing her back soothingly and dabbing a cool rag on her sweat-soaked brow.

"Better?"

She chuckled, "Considering you got me in this condition, I'd think it was the least you could do." She leaned into him and he took her hands helping her up before pushing the toilet handle down to flush the putrid sick away. They'd got their sonogram booked for two days after their return flight by then she'd be more like twelve and a half weeks but, with the wedding and moving they had barely had time to squeeze the appointment in.

"All part of the service." He said, kissing her forehead sweetly. "So, where would Madame Nolan like to go today?"

She turned smiling, a comfortable coral sweater hugging her bump and loose cotton pants. Apart from the morning sickness which was currently attacking her insides at least three times a day and needing to pee more times than ten average women, she felt wonderful.

"I was thinking, about taking a long soak in the bath for an hour. And then spending the day in bed… and tonight seeing Eiffel all lit up. Fancy joining me?"

"Absolutely."

"Mmm. Mmm. MA!" "If this is what married life is like, we should get married more often." She jokes after kisses. Wet hair, warm bubbles and her husband with a circle of tea light candles around the rim of the bathtub to compensate for the obvious lack of champagne.

"Not a chance, Mrs Nolan. I'm Mmm- never letting- you go- ever- ever EVER!"

She angles her lips to take more of him in before breaking to look into his deep orbs. "Well, that's alright with me."

"You know what else is alright with me?"

He quirked his brow as she whispered in his ear. "Slow, tender love-making because I'm super- hot for my husband right now."

He groaned. "But, the baby?" "Is it even safe?"

"Yes, if we're slow and careful but, you always treat me like I'm the most precious thing in all the world… and this will probably be the last time I'll want to without tearing your head off first."

"Right!" He gulped slightly at that before she kissed his fears away. "What my wife wants. My wife gets."

Her back is pressed softly into the mattress as he wraps the silk sheets around them.

"I love you."

"I love you Charming." Is all they say as she gets her wish;

"Beautiful." David says later as they stand atop the glittering tower clearly talking about more than view of the city.

"It is isn't it?" She says "And you are to me too."

He chuckles thinking that for once she might act as if she's unaware of how much he's in awe of her but, that's not his wife.

After all, he's known her inside out since they were four, save the missing years.

She leans into him. "Happy Baby-moon Charming."

They kiss just as the fireworks begin to set off. Red, gold and silver illuminating the Parisian sky offset by a couple of shooting stars.

Perfect.

"I don't want to leave!" She whined on their last day. They had seen so much, done so much in such a short trip that suddenly; going back to Story-brooke did not seem so appealing.

"I know, but, I think we'd have some people to answer to if we didn't come back. Have you seen my mother angry? It's not pretty."

"And there's Poppy…"

He nodded as she pecked his bare shoulder and snuggled into him more. "It'll be good to be home, in my own bed."

"Your bed?"

"Yes, Charming. My bed."

He looked at her aghast until, she guffawed with a glint in her eye. "Gotcha."

Turning, he flipped her flat on her back as she shrieked adorably. Gazing into her eyes his breathing hitched as her heart slowed under his dancing fingertips. Gasping at the touch his Snow smiles. "Yeah, you got me Princess, you got me."

Bending down slightly he joins their lips in several increasing kisses before they close their eyes soundly. After all, they have a flight home ahead of them.