I'm back to normal chapters! The musical is going great :) Only 3 performances left! Anyway, this chapter is for bstix with the prompt: "I had this in my mind for you a little while back, but it's now the time! How about they are watching the Olympics (Swan-Mills Family can be used if your little creative heart desires) and Emma/family asks Regina is they had something similar in the EF. She says well yes, sort of, the realms would gather and have competitions. Regina even competed in equestrian, most royals did. You can take it either way to be angsty and Regina gets sad and misses home, or funny and talks about other sports and how stupid they were, but comments this world has some daft sports too, like what is the function of dancing with a ribbon (or whatever)."

My heart desires to use the Swan-Mills family, BUT Henry and Ava are gone from the house and Lola is a teen. Who's ready to meet a teenage Lola? :)

"Ma, it's starting!" Lola called.

Emma quickly ran into the room, plopping down onto the couch next to Lola. "What's on today?"

"Gymnastics," Lola said. "My favorite, of course."

"You can thank your mother for your love of gymnastics," Emma said. "She's the one that signed you up for it in the first place."

"She signed me up for everything," Lola said, rolling her eyes. "It's like she didn't know what I would like better, so she signed me up for everything that she could."

Emma laughed. "Remember when you did tap dancing?"

Lola shuddered. "Those were dark times indeed."

They both started laughing as the first gymnast walked onto the floor. "Shhh," Lola scolded. "It's about to begin!"

"Did you just shush me?" Emma asked. She looked mock hurt, and Lola started laughing.

"What are you two laughing about?" Regina asked, walking into the room.

"We were just remembering my old days of tap dancing," Lola said. "And how I'm thankful that I only have gymnastics now."

"What are you watching?" Regina asked.

"The Olympics," Emma said. "The floor routines are about to start."

As the first gymnast began, Regina watched with disinterest. "That's all that they do?"

"What do you mean?" Lola asked. "Some of those moves are really complicated!"

"But she's just dancing and doing flips to some music," Regina said in confusion. "How is that hard?"

"Mom," Lola groaned. "You are so uneducated."

Regina rolled her eyes. "Well there certainly wasn't anything like that in the Enchanted Forest, I can tell you that much."

"You didn't have competitions or anything?" Lola asked.

"Oh no, we did," Regina said. "I was talking about the flipping thing."

Emma snorted. "So then what did you have?"

"Well I competed in horseback riding," Regina said. "Most royals did."

"Did you ever win anything?" Lola asked in excitement.

"Not everything is about winning," Regina scolded. "But yes, I won several trophies and ribbons. It was the only sport that I was allowed, so I took it very seriously."

"That's so cool," Lola said. "But I think that I'm going to stick to gymnastics. Horses seem to not like me very much."

"Yeah you may have gotten that from me," Emma said. "They don't like me either."

Regina laughed. "You can do whatever you want to."

"Well, then I'm going to be one of them someday," Lola said, gesturing to the TV. "I'm going to make it onto the Olympic gymnastics team when I'm older, and I'm going to win gold."

"Way to dream big," Emma said. "It's gonna take a whole lot of hard work."

"I know," Lola said. "Nothing in life is ever easy. But I know that I can do it."

Regina smiled proudly at her. "That's my girl."

"Come on, we have to get to our seats," Emma said, pulling Regina along behind her.

"There's so many people here," Regina said. "I hope that she doesn't crack under the pressure."

"This is Lola that we're talking about," Emma said. "She wanted to be here, and she earned this spot. There's no way she's going to mess up now."

Regina smiled as they took their seats next to Henry and Ava. "This is amazing," Henry said. "I can't believe that Lola is actually performing at the Olympics!"

"I know!" Ava exclaimed. "This is so incredibly cool."

Regina and Emma laughed at their other children's enthusiasm for their sister. The whole arena got quiet as Lola stepped up to the floor. They saw her take a deep breath and get ready. Years and years of training and hard work had prepared her for this moment.

The music began and Lola started her routine, earning cheers and applause from the crowd. The rest of the US team shouted encouragements to her as she landed perfectly every time.

As she landed for the final time, the crowd went wild. Lola's score had to be high, considering she had done a pretty perfect routine. As Lola left the floor, her score was announced throughout the arena. 15.600.

The crowd cheered as the rest of the team ran to Lola, tackling her in a massive hug. Lola had just won a gold medal.