Authors Note: Hey everyone, thanks for all the wonderful Reviews, they really keep me going. Here is the next Chapter with a five year old Emma who has a question for her parents. Again Reviews are always appreciated. Thanks guys and enjoy :)


Chapter 6

"Mama? Papa?" Emma came running into the council room. Her blonde hair loose and showing her natural waves.

"Emma? What are you doing in here?" Both parents shocked to see their daughter who was suppose to be playing with some friends outside.

"I have a question," she got to her point.

"And what would that be my darling?" As Snow sat down next to her husband, she chuckled at her daughter's ability to skip all the small chatter and get directly to the point.

They both watched as the little girl stood by the door obviously trying to figure out how to word her question. It took her to open her mouth before her father decided to speak. "Why don't you come and hop up here." He patted his lap and the little girl ran over and jumped onto his lap while he caught her and set her down. "Alright, now what did you want to ask?" He looked down at Emma, her cheeks turning red.

"Where do babies come from?" Emma looked up at her parents who were both sitting, jaws dropped to the ground and unable to answer her question.

It took a minute or two for Snow to snap out of shock and attempt to answer the question, or at least to speak. "Why would you ask that, Em?" Snow blinked a couple times trying to bring herself back to reality.

"Because someone said that their Mother was having another baby and that it was in her belly, but we don't know how it got there, so I came to ask you. Papa, are you ok?" She looked concerned and as Snow took a look at her husband she knew exactly what he was thinking. Charming was pale, his mouth was open, he couldn't stop blinking and at some moments he would have to remind himself to breathe. Out of everything that went through his mind when his daughter said she had a question, that was not one of them.

"I think your Papa is just thinking of a good answer for you" Snow covered, not knowing how to answer the question herself.

"Uh... ummm... I..." Charming managed to spit out.

"What your father is trying to say is that when two people love each other very much. When the love is pure and true-" Snow started.

"But that doesn't happen until a person is much, much older," Charming chimed in, getting back into his protective Papa bear mode.

"Yes, something that happens when people are much older," Snow laughed and rolled her eyes at her husband.

"OK." The little girls furrowed her brow in thought, not truly understanding the situation and not fully content with what she has so far been told she tries to take it further. "But how does a baby stay is their mama's tummy? Does she eat it?"

Snow tried to hide her laughter, she loved her daughter's imagination so much. "No, baby, a mommy doesn't eat anything in order to have a baby in her tummy. What happens is when you have that true love, and as your father said, when a person is much older..." She took another quick glance at her husband who was getting back some of the colour in his face but was starting to sweat. "It is with that love that a baby is created."

"Ok," Emma started to understand. Snow let out a silent 'Whew' for her victory. "But what does the baby do in the tummy then?" Boy was her daughter full of questions today.

"Well, baby, what happens is the baby will grow inside the belly. There's a special spot inside of the mommy for babies and that's where they stay for 9 months"

"9 months? But how does a baby stay inside for 9 months?" Emma was surprised. She'd seen a baby and was now wondering how that baby fit inside its mother.

"Well, when you were in my tummy I started off like I am now, but when the baby grows the mommy's belly grows as well. So when you made it known that it was your time to enter into this world my tummy was this big so you could have room to grow." Snow held out her hands to show her daughter the size of her pregnant belly. "Do you know how long it took me to walk anywhere or sit down and get up when I got that round." Charming laughed remembering that time well.

"Ok." Emma smiled and blushed. "Thank you, mama." Emma kissed her mother's cheek.

"You're welcome, Princess." Snow took her little face and cupped it with her hands. "You know that you mean the world to us, right?" Emma nodded her head and smiled brightly. "You will always be my baby." Snow gave Emma a kiss on the cheek and nose before Emma managed to hop of her father's lap. Charming was still in shock and Snow could easily tell this was going to hit him more when he could actually speak. "Where do you think you're going, little one?"

"Back outside to play, if that's ok?" Emma batted her eyes at her mother, giving the same face her husband gave her when he wanted something.

"Alright, have fun, but don't get too dirty, your Aunty Red will be over later for some tea." Snow saw the excitement in her daughter rise. Emma loved her Aunty Red and would never miss an opportunity to spend time with her.

"Love you, Mama and Papa." Emma waved at her parents and they both waved back.

"Love you more." Snow smiled as Emma walked out of eyesight and she could hear her footsteps in the hall that made it clear she was running back to join her friends. "Well, that was interesting. How you doing there, Papa?" Snow laughed as Charming came to.

"She's five years old, why is she asking that?" He ran his hands through his hair.

"She's a curious five year old who found out her friend's parents are having a baby and when she realized that she didn't understand how that happened she decided to ask." Snow laughed at her husband's discomfort.

"I wasn't ready for that." He took a deep breath in.

"I could tell." She playfully joked with him as she sat down on his lap. "But that was a good point about being much older, thank you for adding that in." She tried to give her husband some reassurance that he at least helped the conversation a little.

"Well, it's true." He stated "Like I said when she was a baby, not until she's 30 years old."

"Well, as I said before she isn't old enough to even think about that yet. She was just curious as to where they come from. So calm down and stop overthinking this." She patted his arm.

"I'm never going to be able to stop overthinking anything when it comes to our daughter, Snow." He looked up at his wife and gave her that charming smile of his. "She's my baby, I always have to protect her."