Chapter 13- Worth it
"They are growing up so quickly." Ruth chuckled, watching her oldest grandchildren playing with a lamb while David, Snow and Baby Eva sat beside her on the grass. "Too quickly." David joked as he caught their active little girl planning her escape. "Eva…" he warned only to be met by a grin that rivalled her mother's. "MA!" he kissed her and then placed her in his giggling wife's lap.
"Now who does that remind me of?" David suggested, feeling Snow's warm gaze on him as he held them tight.
"You." she breathed out gorgeously, not a trace of humour in her voice. It was true, Eva was her mini me in looks and attitude but, there were so many times in the last year where she just saw him, her Charming in their baby's eyes.
"You." David laughed, before joining their lips in a sweet kiss but, brief kiss before stroking her cheek tenderly as he always did, "It seems like yesterday when you two were here stealing kisses under the oak tree." Ruth sighed. "Now look at you." "Mmm. Now look at us Charming." Snow murmured kissing his scar as Emma and Neal came running into view desperate to tell them about their new friend. They did, again and again.
Later, when Emma and Neal are tucked up and Eva is fast asleep in the handmade crib Geppetto so kindly made for their visits Snow and Charming whisper to each other.
"Your mother was right." Snow says beaming in remembrance. "I love our family. Our babies."
"I love them too. And I love their mama for giving me them."
"It was a joint effort."
"It was wasn't it?" he smirked until she kissed the look right off his face. "Mmhmm."
And then suddenly, they couldn't wait to get home and work on another joint effort and another and another. Although, they knew that there were no guarantees in life, they were willing to take the risk. Because to feel this pride, this euphoria it's worth it.
It's so, so worth it
Sorry this is so short I just wanted to do a short burst of scenes while I figure out a last chapter.