prompt: Graham talking to Emma's belly
prompted by: arianakristine
2 more months. In 2 more months, Emma is going to give birth to Graham's child. Every time he thinks about it, he's blown away.
Not just his child, but his daughter. Whale had told them as soon as it was possible that Snow's pendant was, indeed, correct. They are having a little girl. They haven't decided on her name yet; it's down to two options, Noelle Margaret and Gabriella Marie.
Over the weeks, he's gotten into a routine.
When he's sure that Emma is fast asleep, Graham pulls out Henry's storybook and starts to read softly to their daughter. When that's done, when he runs out of stories that are actually in the book, he starts telling her about Storybrooke, about the battles that he and Emma fought together that lead to the breaking of the curse, about her older brother's bravery and unwavering faith. About her grandparents and how they were drawn together even without their memories.
Then he starts telling her about his wolf brother, telling her only the good things about growing up in the woods with his family. He tells her about the kind couple that took him in in the winter when his wolf mother would leave him at their doorway because he didn't have the fur to survive in such cold, and how they taught him to be human; he leaves out telling her how he lost them and it turned him against humanity completely until he met Snow.
Some things, she doesn't have to know.
He tells her every good story he can think of, every truth he thinks she needs before entering this world, and then, finally, 2 months before she is due to arrive – he runs out.
So he checks to make sure Emma is sleeping one last time, and then he presses a kiss to the swell of her belly and whispers "Daddy loves you, little one."