The Swan-Mills Family is here, Ava and all! This is after "Telling Ava", so Ava knows about magic. This might become one of the stories in the "Swan-Mills" universe, but for now it's an oneshot :) Enjoy!
"Emma we have a very big problem!" Regina shouted, running into the living room.
"What wrong?" Emma asked. She stood up from her spot on the couch and crossed the room quickly to where Regina was.
"Lola," Regina said. "I can't find her!"
"What do you mean?" Emma asked. "I thought that you were reading to her."
Regina nodded. "I was! But I turned my back to get another book, and she was gone when I turned around! What do we do? Oh my goodness I lost out daughter. I'm a terrible mother."
"Calm down," Emma said soothingly. "She probably just thought that it would be funny to start a game of hide-and-seek. I'm sure she's around here somewhere."
"But that's the thing," Regina said. "I've looked everywhere! I can't find her."
"Let's just check again," Emma said. She grabbed Regina's hand and they walked together to Lola's room.
"What's that smell?" Emma asked. It smelt like a mixture of vanilla and apples.
Regina's eyes widened. "No no no. This can't be happening. I really didn't want this to happen. Not so soon."
"You didn't want what to happen?" Emma asked. She reached over and rubbed Regina's back soothingly. Clearly something had caused her to panic.
"That smell," Regina said. "Lola made it."
"How would she have done that?" Emma asked.
"When you poof from one place to another, you leave a scent behind," Regina explained. "Mine is apples. Yours is vanilla."
"And since she's our child, her scent is a mixture of both," Emma said with wide eyes. "So Lola poofed?"
"Yes," Regina said. "She poofed. Which means that she used magic. She has magic, Emma. Do you know how powerful that she's going to be?"
"We both have magic," Emma said gently. "I'm sure that we can teach her to control it."
Regina ran her fingers through her hair. "So how do we find her?"
"Mom? Ma?" Ava called. "I think we have a problem."
Regina and Emma quickly walked to the foyer, both breathing a sigh of relief when they saw Ava holding hands with Lola. "Thank goodness," Regina said, scooping Lola up. "Don't you ever scare me like that ever again!"
"Sorry mommy," Lola said. "I just wanted to see Ava."
Emma could see that Regina was beginning to panic again, so she grabbed Lola and set her next to Ava. "Why don't you two go play for a little bit?"
"Mommy's mad?" Lola asked, looking down at her feet.
"No honey, not mad," Emma said quickly. "She'll be okay. Go play." Lola looked cautiously at Regina before Ava grabbed her hand, leading her upstairs.
"Emma she's 5," Regina said. "She shouldn't already be able to poof!"
"She's the product of true love," Emma said. "Of course she's able to poof already."
"Magic is hard to control when you're an adult," Regina argued. "Can you imagine what it's going to be like for a child?"
"Relax," Emma said. "We can handle this. Besides, we have magic of our own."
"Do you think that we could make a cuff like the one that Greg put on me? To take away her magic until she's older?" Regina asked.
"Regina Swan-Mills," Emma scolded. "We are not going to take away our daughter's magic because it's unpredictable."
Regina sighed. "Then what are we supposed to do?"
"She already knows about magic," Emma said. "I'm sure that it will be easy for us to teach her how to control it."
"Don't you remember how I taught you?" Regina asked. "You can't do that to a child."
"No, you can't," Emma agreed. "But I think it's pretty simple to see that her magic works like mine."
"What do you mean?" Regina asked.
"She told us that she wanted to see Ava. So she probably visualized herself with Ava at school, and she poofed there by accident," Emma said.
"That helps you," Regina argued. "But how am I supposed to help her? All I know is how to use magic with anger. I can't teach our daughter dark magic!"
"You've been getting better," Emma countered. "Why don't you learn at the same time that Lola does?"
"But I already know how to use magic," Regina said in confusion.
"I'll teach you how to use magic without having to go dark," Emma said. "You'll learn how to use light magic, and Lola will learn how to control hers."
Regina bit her lip and thought about it. It actually was a good plan. "Okay. Let's do it."
"And who knows," Emma said. "Maybe teaching her magic will be like some crazy family bonding activity."
"Except our other two children don't have magic," Regina pointed out.
Emma waved her hand dismissively. "Details."
