Mommy and daddy
avc.382 asked for a oneshot of *mid-season finale spoilers!* Emma calling her parents mommy and daddy when she returns from the wish realm because it's still in her head.
Emma had refused to give her parents many details about her time in the wish realm. She said that it wasn't worth going over, that it hadn't been real anyway. Snow and Charming couldn't converse about it, still being cursed, but both knew from her reluctance to talk about it that there was something Emma was hiding from them. So, when she was awake, Snow visited the only person who could shed some light on the matter. Regina. Snow asked her stepmother what Emma had been like in this wish realm. She hadn't expected Regina's reaction of bursting into laughter. Only when she had calmed down enough did Regina explain that Emma had been a proper little princess in this realm. Skipping, singing, flowers and all. She wasn't the same fighter she was in this realm. She had her "mommy and daddy" to fight her battles for her there. This was when Snow knew that it wasn't exactly how things would have been had they got to keep Emma. Neither she nor Charming would have wanted to raise a helpless princess. However, Snow couldn't help but smile when she thought about Emma being all cute and innocent like that. Nor could Charming when Snow left a note explaining what Regina had told her.
When they both knew, things started to click together. Emma had been calling them mommy and daddy more frequently since her return. She had said it was because people were saying it more and more as Neal was nearing a talking age. They had no reason to believe that wasn't true. But now they knew the truth. It was because she was still in the habits she had been in the wish realm. Not that they particularly minded this habit. In fact, they wouldn't mind if it stuck.
