Hey, I want to start by saying sorry for not updating this sooner, but we had a huge ice storm here and I didn't have power for two days, and then it was Christmas and I was hanging around with my family. So here is, a late, Christmas chapter for this story.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Once Upon A Time, I wish I did cause then we wouldn't have to wait until March 9th for another episode!

Anyways, here is chapter 11!

Chapter 11

The months ticked by and suddenly it was the middle of December and Mary Margaret was pulling bins out from the spare bedroom that she kept all the decorations in. They were all labeled 'Christmas Decorations'.

"Are you excited for Christmas Emma?" Mary Margaret asked, hauling the last bin out and placing it on the floor with the rest of the plastic buckets.

Emma nodded, looking at all the decorations in the bin that she had managed to pull the cover off of.

Today her blonde curls were pulled up into a ponytail and she was still in her little Christmas pyjamas. They were red footy pyjamas with little Christmas trees and snowmen scattered across the fleece fabric. The zipper was pulled right up and her neck and the bottoms of the feet were covered in the little things that kept her from falling all over on the clean floors of Mary Margaret's loft.

"Mary Margaret open the door!" a voice called from the other side of the door suddenly.

"That's Ruby," Mary Margaret laughed, grabbing Emma up from the floor and swinging her up onto her hip as she headed over to answer the door.

"Why didn't you just let yourself in?" Mary Margaret smirked.

"I can't very well open the door if it is locked now can I?" Ruby asked, barging into the loft and dropping her purse and the cardboard tray of three hot chocolates to go into the table.

"Didn't I give you a key a few weeks ago?" Mary Margaret asked as Ruby stole Emma from her mother and tickled the toddler, making her giggle uncontrollably.

"You might have, and I might have lost it in my room a few days after," Ruby said nonchalantly as Emma struggled to get out of the waitress' hold.

"You lost a key to my apartment, in your room, which is attached to the diner and the bed and breakfast?" Mary Margaret asked.

"Yeah, I think. That or it is in my purse somewhere," Ruby answered, giving Emma a raspberry on her stomach before finally letting the toddler free again to roam around and go back to observing the decoration boxes.

"Well, that is comforting," Mary Margaret laughed.

"So, is David coming over too?" Ruby asked, teasing her friend as the two followed Emma into the living room where Lady was sitting on the couch, chewing happily on her toy duck.

"What are you implying?" Mary Margaret asked.

"Well, you two have gone on a few dates now and since you are planning a party for next week, maybe you could invite him and things could happen," Ruby trailed off.

"I can tell you that he is invited to the party, I don't know if he is going to be coming over today or not, I left him a message on his phone, I don't know if he got it or not," Mary Margaret answered, pulling things out of the bins and placing them on the ground of giving it to Ruby who placed it on the couch beside Lady.

"I hope that he shows up, 'cause I can take Emma and you guys can hang out here, maybe get some romance on," Ruby teased, pulling out a roll of garland that Mary Margaret planned to wrap around the railing on the staircase leading upstairs to Emma's room.

"If David is coming over, he is merely here to help me decorate for Christmas, like you are supposed to be doing," Mary Margaret answered, handing a stuffed snowman to Emma, who giggled and hugged the plush toy close.

"Who is that Emma?" Mary Margaret asked.

"Fwosdy," Emma said, handing him back to Mary Margaret as Lady tried to get the snowman from the little girl.

"Yeah, where do you want to put him?" Mary Margaret asked.

Emma jumped off the couch, grabbing the snowman from her mother and rushing out into the kitchen. When Mary Margaret finally decided to follow her, she found that Emma was sitting in the middle of the table, the snowman sitting in the middle of an empty bowl that Mary Margaret usually filled with fruit. Now the fruit was scattered across the white table top and Emma was trying to make sure that the snowman stayed upright in the bowl.

"Emma what are you doing baby?" Mary Margaret asked, rushing over to grab the toddler from the table.

"I is decowatin' fow Cwrismas Mommy," Emma answered, settling into the arms of her mother.

"Well, next time maybe you should stay off the kitchen table, because the table is for food, not little girls," Mary Margaret told her.

Emma nodded, sticking her thumb into her mouth and hugging Mary Margaret.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Mary Margaret rushed to open it, hoping that it was David.

Not willing to disappoint, David was standing on the other side of the wooden door when Mary Margaret yanked the door open.

"David!" Mary Margaret exclaimed, happy to see what Ruby would call her 'boyfriend'.

Mary Margaret thought that calling David her boyfriend was very high school like, so she tried to avoid calling him that, instead, when talking to Emma about him, she would simply call him David.

"Hey Mary Margaret," David smiled, thrusting a covered plate into her free hand.

"What is this?" she asked.

"Christmas cookies, I thought you an Emma would like to have some of them," David said, sounding almost embarrassed.

"Thank you," Mary Margaret smiled, holding back the urge to kiss him. She figured that it was not something that she should do with Emma sitting beside her.

"So little munchkin, are you excited for Santa to come?" David asked Emma, who was hugging Mary Margaret's leg.

Emma nodded, a smile playing at her lips.

"How many days Emma?" Ruby asked from the other room where she was pulling garland from one of the bins.

"Mommy said two weets, bud dat is a lon dime 'way," Emma answered.

"That is fourteen days Em," Mary Margaret said.

"And now there is like ten days," David informed the toddler.

"Does Wady det pwesents too?" Emma asked, pointing at the quickly growing puppy.

"She sure will, if she was good," David answered, hauling the puppy off the ground where she was attacking the laces on his boots.

After a few minutes of Mary Margaret and David standing in the kitchen talking, Ruby and Emma were getting antsy to start decorating for the holiday.

"Are you two lovebirds coming or are we going to have to do all of the decorating ourselves?" Ruby yelled.

"We should go before those two make a huge mess," Mary Margaret laughed, grabbing David's hand and pulling him out into the living room.

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