Reunited at last
Jade Star asked for a oneshot of *season 6 finale spoilers!* adult Henry introducing Lucy to Snowing, little Neal and Emma, who have been frozen in time. Emma gets to see Henry as an adult, and has to come to terms with becoming a grandmother.
Just a reminder that I won't be writing into season 7 canon unless we get an appearance from Snowing at some point. I wrote this because it included the rest of the family, but it will never be this story's focus. Our Charming Family continues, it's just taking a different route from the show lol.
This was it. They could finally be reunited. Another curse had been broken. This time, by his daughter.
Henry hadn't been able to properly talk to his family in years. Two years after the Black Fairy had been defeated, another curse had been brought to the people of Storybrooke. It had forced them from the town they had called home and into yet another cursed town in the Land Without Magic. This time, on the other side of the country. They found themselves in an isolated town in the state of Washington. Henry had just been spared from the curse, although without his memories of any of his family. It was Lucy who had brought those memories back, and now Lucy who had reunited him with their family.
It was so strange for Henry. None of them had aged a day since he last saw him, but over a decade had passed for him. He was a man now, something none of them had been expecting.
"What do we do now?" Lucy asked her father, shortly after the curse broke. He looked down at her.
"Now," He said, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Now we find our family."
"So it's true." Came a voice from behind him. Henry turned. He was shell shocked. They were all exactly how he remembered them. There stood his mom, flanked by his grandparents with Neal on his grandma's hip.
"Hi mom." Henry greeted, his voice cracking slightly with emotion. Emma smiled. She never thought she'd hear that voice again. She ran forward, taking Henry in her arms.
"My boy." She said. "You did it." She praised him. She took Henry's face in her hands. "Look at you." She said. "You're all grown up. My big boy." Henry just smiled.
"I had a little help." He pointed out, placing a hand on Lucy's shoulder. "Mom, meet Lucy, your granddaughter." Emma crouched down beside the little girl.
"Hi…grandma." Lucy said nervously. Emma laughed.
"That's going to take some getting used to." She admitted.
"Now she knows how we felt." Charming said from behind her. Emma laughed.
"That just makes you a great grandpa." She reminded him. Charming grimaced. He supposed it did. Lucy decided to throw caution to the wind. She wrapped her arms around Emma's neck. Emma froze for a moment, thrown off by the contact. Then, she wrapped her arms back around the girl, her granddaughter. Yeah, that was going to take some getting used to. Henry was the first to join the two and create a group hug. Snow (with Neal) and Charming quickly followed suit. They were finally together again.
