I know Halloween was virtually two weeks ago, but I really wanted to write something for this verse. It's quite short but I hope you like it anyway.
When Regina returned home from work, the first noise that met her ears were the playfully shrieks coming from her little girl. A smile tugged on her lips as she hung her coat on the stand and took her shoes off. She peered around the doorway into the sitting room and spotted Robin laying on the floor with Heidi sitting next to him, she had a paintbrush in her hand and was putting it all over Robin's face.
Robin looked up and saw her and she had to force herself not to laugh, his face was absolutely covered in different coloured paints, they'd all merged together into a murky kind of brown, all except his mouth which was bright red. Regina gestured for him not to tell Heidi that she was there before she crept silently into the living room.
"Dada scary!" Heidi giggled clapping her hands together, "good!"
Once Regina was right behind them, she moved to kneel on the ground and reached to out lift her daughter into the air, "boooo!"
"Moma!" Heidi squealed, kicking her little legs, "face paint!"
"I see that you painted daddy's face," Regina cooed, kissing Heidi's cheeks as she cuddled her, her fingers playing with the tiny plaits in her daughter's hair, "good job princess."
"Dada scary clown!"
"Oh he's supposed to be a clown?" she asked, gently stroking the baby hairs sticking up at Heidi's temple, "well, he looks like a very scary clown."
"How was work?" Robin questioned, sitting up and kissing her lips softly, rubbing his hand up and down her arm.
"It was good," she hummed, "so, what have my two favourite people been doing today?"
"We were carving the pumpkins and then we went into the studio for a bit."
"You risked taking Heidi into the studio?" Regina chuckled, putting her daughter down as she wriggled in her arms before running on wobbly legs across the living room and into the dining area, leaving Regina to lean back against Robin.
"She seems to be an up and coming artist just like her daddy," Robin shrugged, pressing his lips to the top of her head.
"Hmm, do we have a miniature Freda Kahlo on our hands?" she laughed, turning in his arms to look at him properly. After their disagreement a few months ago Regina had decided that she would take over for him some nights at the bar, it wasn't fair that he should have to go to college in the daytime and then to work every night, she wanted to shoulder some of that burden, working at the bakery in the mornings just wasn't enough.
"Seems that way," he grinned, pecking her lips gently, "I'm gonna go upstairs and find our costumes."
"Okay," she nodded, brushing her fingers over his cheek as she watched him disappear upstairs to retrieve their outfits. Once he was gone Regina stood up and moved towards the dining room, she was about to go inside when Heidi called out to her, "no moma, stay. I show you."
"Okay, what are you showing me?"
"Sit moma," she instructed in the adorable bossy tone that she sometimes used, she was beginning to grow into a cheeky little madam just as Regina had been at that age, however that just made Regina love her even more, she was her beautiful baby girl. "Moma, close eyes," Heidi ordered as she crashed into Regina's legs, "look."
Regina opened her eyes and looked at the picture her daughter was holding and felt a smile tugging on her features. It was the cutest thing she had ever seen and she couldn't help herself from pulling her baby girl into her arms and kissing her face, "this is so amazing sweetheart."
"Cat."
"I see that," she hummed as her daughter cuddled against her. The painting was of a black cat and although it was just a few shapes, she could clearly make out what it was. "Shall we put it on the fridge?"
"Yay!"
Regina stood and moved into the kitchen, pinning the picture up before lifting her baby up onto her hip and heading upstairs, "I thought daddy would have put you in your costume by now. Robin, do you…" Robin came out of Heidi's room holding up a pumpkin costume. "Come on then baby, let's get you ready to go, we have a Halloween party to get to."