Authors Note: Hey guys. I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to update. School, work and homework have dominated my life lately. I'm going to try to be better. Anyways here's the next chapter. Hope you all enjoy. The next couple chapters are written, they just need to be edited. Thank you for all the lovely reviews, follows, and reads :)


Chapter 9

"Snow, what on earth are you doing?" Snow turned her head slightly and saw her husband resting against the door frame.

"I'm waiting," Snow replied and turned her attention back to her growing belly.

"Waiting for what, dear?"

"A kick," she says a little frustrated, her patience growing thin.

"You've been waiting for a kick for the past week Snow. The baby will kick when it wants to kick." He walked over to grab Snow's shall. "And if you keep on waiting for the baby to kick and keep on watching it, it won't."

"Can you stop calling our baby 'it' please, it's getting annoying," Snow huffed and didn't budge.

"When I refer to the baby as a 'he', you get angry," Charming stated, bringing the shall back over to Snow and covering her shoulders.

"Then don't refer to the baby as a 'he', it's that simple."

"So, I'm not allowed to call the baby 'it' or 'he'. That leaves 'baby', and 'she', or 'her'." Charming started to think about his options. "You're still dead set that it's going to be a girl."

"Charming!"

"Sorry, you're still dead set that the baby is going to be a girl." He caught his mistake and quickly changed it.

"Thank you. And yes I do." She looked back down at her belly. "Come on, kick. Let me know you're in there." Charming laughed at his wife's impatience, not out loud, he didn't want to risk getting yelled at or anything, pregnancy hormones scared him a little.

"Now, I know you're plenty busy waiting for the baby to kick, and I know I've told you that you're not allowed to ride your horse, but I was thinking that we could go to the stables and spend time with the horses?" Charming looked cautiously at his wife. Once the pregnancy was revealed, Charming had a slight issue with what was safe for Snow to do and what wasn't. Let's just say the list of unsafe things was a lot longer than the safe list.

"That would be nice." Snow rubbed her belly. "Hmm, what do you say? Should we go and visit the horses?" She again looked at her belly hoping to get a kick as an answer. She gave it a couple second until she sighed.

"I'll take that as a 'yes'," Charming tried to guess the answer.

"Yeah, let's go." Snow propped herself up and then realized that she was wearing her shall. "When did I put this on?"

"I put it on when I came in," he chuckled. "You were really giving the baby all your attention there." He placed his hand protectively over his wife's belly and gave her a quick kiss.

"Oh, well, thank you." She kissed him back and took his hand.

They walked into the stables and right away Snow could see her horse stick its head out of the stall. Snow smiled at her horse's excitement realizing that her own excitement was growing as well. Charming went to the stall across from Snow and as she opened the door and was greeted by her anxious horse. "It's nice to see you too girl." Snow gave her a nice pat. Once Snow was fully into the stall, she gave the horse's muzzle a kiss. "Now, how about we make you all shiny? Hmm, Casiella?" Cas responded by licking Snow's hand. "Oh, you want a treat?" Snow giggled and looked around to make sure no one saw. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a sugar cube.

Snow took the brushes out and started to groom Cas. As she would run through the motions she could only think of doing this to her daughter's hair, brushing it, combing it. She got lost in thought wondering what kind of hair her daughter would have. It would definitely be like her wavy hair, that wasn't even a question. Her mother had the same type of hair, and same with her grandmother. She thought, would her hair dark be like mine? Or maybe blonde like her Papa's? She just laughed and walked over to the other side but stopped and twirled Cas' mane. "We're going to have so much fun. Me, you, and Emma. I'm thinking that you're going to love her as much as you do me, and I think she's going to love you just the same." Snow placed another kiss on Cas' face and the horse moved her head down and rested her nose on Snow's belly. "I promise I'll come and visit more often. And once Emma's here, we can go for a little ride. I've missed riding." Snow patted the horse and moved to groom the other side. It didn't take long for Snow to get pulled into thoughts about her daughter when she felt something. She came back to reality and rested her hand on her stomach and paused. Cas turned her head to look at Snow confused about why the grooming had stopped. After a few second she felt it again. "Charming!"

"Snow, is everything alright?" Charming ran into the stall and looked at his wife, her hand on her stomach and a smile across her face.

"She kicked!" Snow said proudly.

"The baby kicked?!" Charming rushed to her side, giving Cas a pat, and placed both hands next to Snow's. "I don't feel anything," he said disappointed.

"Hold on. Give the baby a minute," she laughed

"Come on baby, kick for Papa," he begged. Snow looked over at Cas who was watching both humans, trying to understand what was really going on. "I felt that! Did you feel that?" he exclaimed. He tried to move his hands to a different spot on the belly trying to feel more movement.

"Yes, yes I did, Charming." Snow smiled and looked down at Charming who was kneeling on the floor. She ran her fingers through his hair to get his attention and he looked up.

"The baby kicked," he said proudly and turned his attention back to his wife's stomach. "You're really in there aren't you?" He smiled and gave Snow's stomach a quick kiss before getting back up on his feet to kiss his wife, his hands still over the belly. He looked at Snow and his smile turned into a smirk.

"What?" she questioned, tilting her head in confusion.

"I told you this morning that the baby wouldn't kick if you kept on watching and waiting for it." He kissed her cheek.

"Yes, you did." She scrunched up her face to act annoyed. After a few minutes passed feeling the kicks Snow looked back at her horse who was just eating calmly from her food bin. After one final kick Snow took her husband's face into her hands and laughed. "Now that last kick was a "papa, go groom your horse so mama can finish with hers", I think."

"Yeah, yeah. I'm going." He kissed her cheek. "But don't think that because I'm going away now that my hands won't be glued to your stomach later." He walked out of the stall and into his own.

"I wouldn't dream of it." Snow rolled her eyes and felt another kick. "We're going to have our hands full with this one," she said to herself laughing, as she rubbed her belly and returned to Cas.


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