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This chapter is actually a request from a guest where: What if either Henry or Emma gets sick over a weekend together (nothing big, just enough to keep them home,) so they have a pajama party and watch Netflix all day?

I do not own OUAT or its characters just my imagination.

Chapter 8: Damn near perfect day

Emma is getting stuff ready; she had Henry staying this weekend. Regina wanted a undisturbed weekend to shop for his Christmas presents, and she wanted to make it a great first Christmas together. Emma had seen Henry the week before for thanksgiving, but was excited for some alone time with him. And had no problem helping her friend out so she can shop for him, so he would have a amazing first Christmas with her.

Emma looks at the clock; she knew that Regina was taking Henry out of school early so they got here at a decent time. She is broken out of her thoughts by her phone ringing, she sees its Regina "Hey Regina what's up?" Emma answers.

"Hello Emma, I was calling cause I'm not sure what to do."

Emma raises a eyebrow "Is something wrong?"

"No, um… Henry, I think he's sick. He woke up this morning saying he wasn't feeling good. I sent him to school he had no fever, but I just got a call from school, he went to the nurse, and now he has a small fever. So now I don't know…"

"Regina you can still bring him, I can take care of the kid for a couple nights. You said this is the only weekend you have open to do this, go shop your heart out for our boy. I will take care of him."

"You're sure Emma?" Regina asks.

"Yes me and the little dude can manage."

Regina sighs "Alright… we should be there by four like I planned then."

"Alright, see you guys then" Emma says and they hang up. Emma sighs she had hoped to take Henry to have some more Boston fun, Christmas stuff was starting up, but it had to wait, taking care of her little man was more important.

The hours pass, and Emma is officially all ready for the weekend, she had to do some grocery shopping; it looked like they would be eating in more than she originally planned. Emma gets everything put away, when the buzzer sounds on her intercom. "Hello?"

"It's us Emma" Regina says.

Emma hits the button "Come on up."

A couple minutes later Emma finds Regina and Henry on the other side of her door. Henry the poor little guy, you can tell he wasn't feeling well. "Hey kid" she says softly.

"Hi Emma" Henry says, not in his normal excited manner.

Emma hugs him, leading Henry to bury his face into her stomach. Emma feels bad and lifts the boy up. Henry wraps his legs around her and lays his head on her shoulder "My poor buddy" she says rubbing his back. She notes that he is actually wearing pajama pants already. She takes him to the couch where she already has it set up for him. She gets his coat and goes to talk to Regina "He really doesn't feel good huh?"

Regina frowns and bites her lip "Yeah, I'm sure it's just the flu, rest and fluids he should be good. I know you said you went and got Gatorade already but we stopped and I got a few more bottles in case" she says handing Emma a bag.

"Thanks" Emma says taking the bag, and then Henry's duffle bag. "I will put this away while you say bye."

Regina walks over to Henry "Ok sweetheart, I need to get going" she says taking her sons hand into her own.

"Ok mom" Henry says sitting up.

"You sure you're ok staying with Emma?" Regina asks.

"Yeah" Henry says nodding his head "I know Emma will take care of me, she loves me right?"

Regina smiles at the innocence of his question. She knew he was right, but he in reality hasn't been with her long, and leaving him sick is scary "That's right Henry; I know Emma will take excellent care of you."

"Then… why did you ask?" Henry looks at her tired and confused.

"I just want to make sure YOU are ok with it, I wasn't sure if you were ok with me going on my trip still" Regina says.

"It's fine mom, I know you are excited for it" Henry says. Then he holds his arms out to her "I love you mom."

Regina takes him into the hug and holds him tight, kissing his head "I love you too my little prince."

Emma is standing in the doorway from the hallway watching them, and then Regina walks over to her "We got this Regina, I promise. If I get over my head I promise I will call, and we can go from there."

Regina nods "Alright Emma, thanks… thanks for taking him still."

Emma shrugs "He's my kid too, then what is the point of me being around if I can't help in some way?"

"Cause you make that little boy happy, you are very important to him" Regina says putting a hand on Emma's arm. "I should go…" Regina heads to the door "Bye Henry, I love you."

"Bye mom" Henry says twisting to look towards the door.

Once Regina leaves and Emma securely locks them in she walks over to Henry. He had laid back down like he was before. Emma squats down and takes his hand, feeling his forehead, yep he had a fever. "Can I get you anything bud, juice or something?"

Henry looks at her pathetically "Gatorade would be good" he says giving her a small smile.

Emma gives him a sympathetic smile and ruffles his hair "I can do that." Emma goes into the kitchen and pours some Gatorade for him into a glass, she remembers seeing somewhere about watering it down some, so she does, she gives it a small taste, it still tasted like fruit punch so it should be good. Emma takes it over and hands it to him to take a sip.

Henry sits up and takes his sip "Thanks Emma" he says laying back down.

"No problem kid" Emma says, she sets the cup onto a coaster on the coffee table "it will be right here ok?"

"Yeah… hey Emma?" Henry asks.

"Hmm?" Emma asks as she sits in the chair by his head.

Henry turns to his stomach to look at her "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Well, on thanksgiving, I… I called you mom" Henry starts "I was sleepy and it slipped out and…" Henry says getting worked up.

"Woah kid, calm down" Emma says moving to him "it's ok."

"It is?" Henry asks.

"Yeah, I mean… I don't know how your mom would feel. But it made me happy, I don't know if I deserve that title yet though" Emma says.

"You do, you do the same kind of stuff for me like mom does, the only difference is I don't live with you" Henry points out.

Emma had to shake her head; the kid had a point, but that title belonged to Regina not her.

"So can I… keep calling you that?" Henry asks, she's not sure if the puppy eyes where from him being sick, or if they were to get his way.

Emma bites her lip; god she wanted to say yes, more than anything. "I don't know kid…"

"What if… when it's only us?" Henry asks innocently, now purposely giving puppy eyes.

"Oh… that is so not fair" Emma whines. Henry chuckles, making it worth it "Alright… when it's just us, here, ok?"

"Ok… mom" Henry says with a grin.

Emma smiles at that, and ruffles his hair "Ok son" Emma mocks him some. Then she moves back to the chair, she turns on Spongebob, hoping the kid will relax some, it was too early for dinner so they might as well chill. After a few episodes Emma figures they better eat "Hey Hen, you feeling up to some soup?"

Henry shrugs as another episodes starts "I don't know."

"I got that broccoli cheddar you like from that restaurant" Emma says.

"Maybe a little" Henry says with a sigh.

"That's my boy" Emma says. Emma moves to the kitchen and dishes and warms up some soup for both of them. "Can you sit at the table bud?"

Henry nods and gets up, grabbing his cup and makes his way to the table. "Thanks" he says as Emma scoots him in.

Emma kisses his head "No problem" and she moves to her own seat. Henry takes a few bites and sets down his fork. Emma raises a eyebrow "Is it ok?"

"Can I have some crackers with it?" Henry asks.

Emma nods and grabs some oyster crackers from the bag "Here you go, anything else?"

Henry takes a sip of his drink before adding the crackers to the soup "I can get it" Henry insists.

Emma reluctantly lets him, she knows he can. But with him being sick she wasn't sure now his strength was and didn't want him to overdo things. Emma sees him successfully get the Gatorade even adding the water. "All good now?" she asks as he sits down.

Henry nods "Yep" and starts eating his soup.

Once Henry was done, although he didn't eat much, he said no to seconds. They retire back onto the couch; Emma slipped in a movie, and sat with Henry letting him use her lap as a pillow as she ran her finger through his hair, hopping to make him comfortable. By 9:30 Henry was out like a light. So Emma moved him into her room to sleep, it was his when he stayed. She got his pillow and blanket from his duffle bag and he was good, even tucking his bear into his arms with him.

The next morning Emma is surprised to find Henry was still sleeping, she felt his head, it was still warm, but at least it didn't get any worse. Emma moves back to the living room, she had plans set for today, but they apparently needed to change. She stood there trying to figure out what they could do. Then it clicked.

Emma moves the coffee table, and then starts grabbing the chairs from the table and all the blankets and pillows she could find. She makes a excellent fort/tent for them, she has a couple thick blankets draped over the chairs, then inside she had a bunch of blankets on the floor creating a bed of sorts along with pillows, they could rest in there while watching movies all day. It was perfect.

Henry wakes up and walks out about 20 minutes after she finished, his eyes go big when he sees the fort "Woah, what is that for?" he asks when he spots Emma.

Emma smiles "Well… with you not feeling good, I had to come up with a new plan. I thought Netflix and a blanket fort in our pajamas all day sounded good."

"Really?" Henry asks.

"Yeah, so this is what I was thinking. We can eat breakfast, then how about you take a shower and put on fresh pajamas. Then me and you all day in that fort?"

"That sounds great… mom" Henry adds with a smile.

They eat breakfast and then Henry showers, meanwhile Emma boots up Netflix when she hears the water turn off. Emma goes into her room and grabs Henrys pillow and blanket, so he could use them in the fort.

Henry comes out of the bathroom in plaid pajama pants and long sleeve grey shirt on. "Ready" he says.

Emma smiles "Great, just in time. I got your pillow and blanket in there"

Henry crawls in "Woah, this is so soft in here" Henry says as he feels the make-shift bed.

Emma goes in behind him, remote in hand. She even set up a small table with their drinks on it. "Glad you like, this took a lot of work."

"Thanks" Henry says "it's cool you did all this for me" he says adding a smile.

"I was happy too, we can't go out, so I thought well… we could still have a good day together." Emma brings up Netflix "I was thinking… Christmas marathon, Netflix just added a bunch."

"Cool, is home alone on there?" Henry asks excitedly, scooting closer to Emma.

Emma puts her arm around Henry and kisses his head, she notes it actually didn't feel as warm but he still had a fever. "I think it's on here" Emma says looking around finding the movie "Here it is."

Emma hits play, and the two lay together and watch, laughing away as Kevin outsmarts the two men. Next they watch Elf, and just like before they sit together, under blankets and cuddled laughing away. Henry laughed especially hard when Buddy got hit by the cab. After Elf, they decide to take a small break for lunch.

"Besides not feeling well bud, are you at least enjoying the movie marathon?" Emma asks as she sets the grilled cheese in front of Henry.

"Yeah, watching in the fort is cool mom. Makes it feel special" Henry says with a smile to her.

"I'm glad kiddo" Emma says taking a bite of her sandwich. "Eat up, we got plenty to watch" she says with a wink, which gets a laugh from Henry.

Next Emma puts on The Santa Clause, Henry sadly falls asleep about a half hour in, but Emma doesn't mind he needed some sleep. As he slept she held him close, combing her fingers through his hair and dropping kisses on his head. She was enjoying the time with him, feeling like this is how it should have been. Henry wakes up as Scott and Charlie fly off in Santa's sleigh at the end, bummed he missed the movie but was reassured it was ok. Next Emma starts up Nightmare before Christmas; she knew her and her son both loved the movie. Once that was over Emma threw in the oven some finger foods; pizza bagels, mozzarella sticks and egg rolls, she even had gotten some chocolate chip cookies for dessert as well. Once they had their plates filled up, they settle back into the fort, Henry picked Home Alone 2. They had filled bellies and Henry was relaxed into her side again.

"Mom?" Henry asks.

"Hmm?" Emma asks, as the movie played, Kevin was at the hotel.

"Would you and mom come look for me… if this happened?" Henry asks, meaning the movie.

"Yeah kid" Emma says pulling him even closer into lap and rests her chin on his shoulder. "I will always search for you, so would your mom. You are ours now, we would search to the ends of the earth for you" Emma says kissing his head.

Henry wraps his arms around Emma "I love you mom."

"I love you to Henry."

It's going on 8:30 now, Emma decides one more movie, and Henry chooses How the Grinch stole Christmas. Henry through the whole movie fights falling asleep, but when Emma glances down while the Grinch and the who's are singing around the tree at the end, Henry is out like a light. He's cuddled up to her using her lap as a pillow, his bear, the one she got him, close to his chest. Emma smiles down at him, this may not have been how she planned to spend their Saturday, but it was pretty damn near perfect.

Thoughts?