A/N: Today's drabble is for the Guest who requested Charming telling Emma things about her that remind him of Snow :)


Watching

"You're staring at me."

David blinked, startled out of his thoughts by his daughter's voice. She was sitting across from him at the station, pen scratching as she completed another sheet of what seemed like endless paperwork.

"Do I have something on my face?" Emma questioned further, pen stopping as her brows furrowed in concern.

"No, no it's just…" David started, pausing to contemplate whether his next words were prudent given the emotional distance which still existed between them but deciding to voice them anyway, "When you're concentrating on something, you get exactly the same look on your face as Mary Margaret."

"Oh."

Now it was Emma's turn to blink.

Wanting to fill the awkward silence, David found himself starting to ramble slightly.

"I mean, I've seen other expressions before and things you do which are so much like her but I guess sometimes it just really hits me that even though we didn't get to raise you, somehow you ended up with so many of our traits anyway."

"Like what?"

By her surprised expression, Emma had obviously spoken without thinking but the edge of curiousity in her tone was enough to make David answer.

"Your smile, your sense of right and wrong, the way you fold your arms across your chest, the willingness to sacrifice for the sake of your child, your determination…your stubbornness…your heart…"

David could have probably listed many more but stopped when he could see Emma's walls starting to rise again…a sure sign she was uncomfortable. Another silence fell and David began to think answering her sudden question might not have been such a good idea until Emma blew out a breath and gave him a sheepish smile.

"I think I might've gotten a double dose of some of those…from both of you."

At that, David chuckled.

"Yeah, I think you did."