Relationships: Snowing, Charming family
Prompt: Snowing, "That's your daughter."
Written based on spoiler photos for 'The Apprentice' before it aired.
"She's so beautiful," Snow whispers - and they're already out the door, but she's staring down at the camera in her hands and her heart is clenching. The simple pink dress and ponytail isn't Emma's usual style at all - she looks younger, more innocent, makes Snow think of every ballgown missed, of every time she didn't get to tease her daughter about boys, to tell her about the beauty of True Love, everything she's wanted and never had.
"Hey," David says, lifting her chin with his thumb to smile down at her, and - oh, his eyes are wet, he feels it too, with every bit of their shared heart, this simultaneous love and loss - "That's your daughter, of course she's beautiful."
"Our daughter," Snow whispers back, and he breaks into a grin, kisses her and tugs her close and doesn't say the words echoing in both their minds: all grown up.
(It's silly, they both know it, but - they wait up for her anyway.)