AN- you guys are amazing. Thank you so much for the follows, favorites, and reviews. Writing this has gotten me in the Christmas spirit, and each email notification I get is like a Christmas present. Much appreciated. I'm leaving for Christmas vacation on Tuesday, so I'm writing the rest of the story today and tomorrow so I can post them while I'm gone. Then in the new year it's back to the Captain's Return.

Christmas-

As one would expect, Henry was the first up on Christmas morning. He immediately opened his stocking, tearing in to all of the small gifts rather quickly. The family had agreed that he could open that before the adults were up. Now, the kid was stuck waiting on everyone to wake up in order to open the rest of his gifts.

He called Regina to see if she was up, as he also had to wait for her to get to the apartment before he was allowed to open anything. She answered the phone groggy and grumpy from having been woken up, and told Henry she would get there when she could.

He finally decided that maybe the best way to wake the adults would be to make them breakfast. If there was one thing he learned from his grandparents it was how to cook a morning meal. He put on the pot of coffee, and set out ingredients for eggs, french toast, pancakes, cocoa, and bacon. If the smells of coffee and bacon didn't wake everyone up, he'd have to resort to banging the pots and pans.

Emma was the next one up, too excited to even try to go back to sleep once she smelled the bacon. Shuffling out to the kitchen she greeted her son with a hug and a kiss to the top of his head.

"Merry Christmas, kid. Smart move making breakfast. But now you're going to have to wait for us all to eat before you can open anything."

"UGGHHH," he groaned. "Can I open one, just one while I wait?"

Emma smiled, and finally gave in.

"Yes, go look outside the front door. There's something there for you that we couldn't wrap."

Henry ran out into the hall as fast as his feet would carry him, as Emma followed. She got there just as he saw the adult sized bike with a big bow on the handlebars.

"Oh my god, Mom. This is awesome. Thank you."

"You're welcome, kid. Now you can get around town a lot faster. Don't think this means I won't still meet you at school some days. Because I reserve the right to meet my kid at school and walk him home."

Henry came over and hugged his mom and she held him tighter than she usually did.

"Henry, you mean everything to me. Thank you for coming to find me, and for not holding it against me that I gave you up. I may be this town's savior, but you're mine. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me."

"Thanks, Mom. I'm glad I found you too."

Emma didn't expect much out of a teenage boy, so she was content with the hug. He asked if he could go out and ride his bike, but she said he had to wait until the helmet was unearthed from the pile of presents under the tree. They both went back inside to finish cooking breakfast, and saw Killian snooping, looking at everything under the tree.

"Okay, Swan, maybe you're right. It's going to take us all day to open these."

The two sat on the couch opening their stockings, while Henry started a fire.

Killian found gifts from everyone in there. Henry had slipped in a tree ornament of his namesake, which earned him a dirty look from the pirate. Mary Margaret had put in an iTunes giftcard, with express instructions that he was to download a program that would tell him the constellations of this realm when he held the phone up to the sky. David had put in a bottle of a rather choice rum, which surprised him. David must have finally realized the rum had no affect on him after all these years of drinking. Emma's stocking gift to Killian was a keychain with a fob with the initials ESJ and KJ engraved on to the sides. The note along with it said it was for his keys to the new place. He kissed her on the cheek, and thanked her for his keychain. It felt good to know that soon he would need it. Maybe next he would get her to teach him to drive the bug, and he'd need keys for that as well.

Just as Mary Margaret and David came out, Regina arrived at the apartment with bags of gifts. Henry was going to be one spoiled kid.

The family welcomed her in, and she set the gifts under the tree while they passed around plates for breakfast. It wouldn't be their last family breakfast at the apartment all together, but it would be their last for awhile. Emma and Henry were trying not to rush it, but were in a hurry to get to the mounds of gifts.

Finally, when the family was sitting around the tree, ready to start opening, Henry announced that his moms and grandmother had to open their gifts from him first. He distributed the 3 boxes, and instructed them to put them on once opened.

Regina and Mary Margaret laughed and put on the tiaras as soon as they saw them. Emma looked a little confused.

"Mom, it's your tiara. You're a princess. You need a tiara." Finally, she smiled and donned the headgear. Thinking to herself it was silly, but if her son enjoyed it she'd wear it. She would also ask Sylvia whether it would go with her wedding dress on Saturday. She thought maybe Henry would like seeing his gift get more use.

After the women had put on their tiaras, the gift opening began for real. Henry gladly distributed gifts, and would tear into some of his between each round of the adults opening their presents. Soon, each person had a pile of loot at their side.

Henry, David, and Killian had bought spa days for Regina, Emma, and Mary Margaret. That earned them hearty thanks from the three women, as they tried to figure out how soon they could get over to the spa.

Regina had brought gifts for everyone as well. Having gone by Gold's shop, she brought something that had come over from the Enchanted Forest for each of them. For Mary Margaret, she brought her mother's jewelry box. David received a sheepskin rug. She'd found one of Hook's old maps in the shop and even brought that for the pirate. For Emma, she brought the crystal mobile that had been over her crib until the curse struck. She figured if the Joneses ever had a child, maybe they could get use out of it.

All of the family were touched by Regina's efforts towards peace. She had a long way to go to make it up to the family, and this morning she'd shown them again that she was trying.

After all the gifts were opened, each of the members took stock of their loot. Emma had made out the best, due to Killian's buying frenzy. Henry was a close second. He was already over by the TV trying to hook up his new XBox. Killian and Emma had given it to him for the new apartment, but he couldn't wait until then to play. Killian had gotten recommendations for games he could play one-handed, and purchased those as well, so that he and Henry could use the toy together.

Mary Margaret instructed everyone to clean up, and get their new gifts out of the room. Robin and Roland, who had spent the morning with Marion, and Belle, Granny and Ruby were all coming over for a large Christmas day dinner. David took Henry outside to ride his bike while he experimented with a remote controlled helicopter. While Mary Margaret cooked, Emma cleaned the apartment and Killian gladly climbed down on to the carpet to play with Neal and some of the new toys the baby had received. Mary Margaret noticed her daughter looking at Killian with the baby, and finally asked the question she'd had been dying to ask for ages.

"He's awfully good with Neal. Do you think you two might have a baby of your own?"

Emma wasn't thrilled by her mom's prying, but Christmas wasn't the day to start any fights about boundaries. "Well, once we get married and settle down in to our apartment that will be something for us to think about." Taking in the pirate playing with the baby she then added, "But yes. I think we will."