Disclaimer: I don't own Once Upon a Time.
AN: Charming family feels ahead! Sara K M asked for Snowing and baby Neal cuteness at the wedding. I loved the musical episode for all the Snowing stuff. However, I left most of the wedding stuff vague so the readers are able to imagine Emma marrying whoever they would like. We're also going to pretend the Black Fairy did not ruin Snow's dress so that's the one Emma is wearing...cause I just can't with the dress she actually wore. And they waited till after the final battle for the wedding so she's gone. This focuses mostly on Snowing and Charming family.
Once Upon a Snowing
Happy Beginnings
Regina blinked, trying to bring her vision back into focus after being blinded by the camera flash for the ninety seventh time or so it seemed. She wasn't even the focus of the camera, so she was pretty sure the baby was blind by now too.
"Don't you think you have enough pictures by now?" the Queen commented to her step-daughter.
"I don't know, how many albums of Henry do you have that chronicle his every moment?" Snow countered. Regina smirked.
"Touche," she responded.
"He's just so adorable," Snow gushed, as her son grinned up at her.
"Yes you are...aren't you baby?" she cooed. Regina smiled.
"I have to admit...the baby tux is pretty cute," she agreed, as she brushed her fingers affectionately through Neal's soft blonde fuzz.
"Such a handsome boy...just a couple more," Snow said, as she snapped a few more photos. Regina rolled her eyes.
"Snow...I can't get this thing," David complained, as he struggled with his bowtie. His wife put her camera down and turned to her husband.
"Ooohh...and my handsome man too," she cooed, as she started helping him with his bowtie.
"You're looking pretty amazing yourself," he said, as he put his hands on her hips. She grinned and finished with his tie, as he kissed her tenderly.
"Do you two mind?" Regina asked in annoyance. Their lips parted and they shared a smile. Charming lifted Neal into his arms and kissed his little head.
"Looking good, little man," he said, as Neal babbled in baby gibberish.
"We better get going or we're going to be late," Regina said, as Henry walked into the loft.
"Hey...look at you. So handsome," Regina said, as she hugged him.
"Thanks Mom," he said.
"Looking good, kid," David said.
"Thanks Gramps," Henry replied, as they hurried out to make it to the venue on time.
Emma stared at her reflection in the mirror, a bundle of anxiousness and nerves. She hadn't really thought this day would ever come. She, Emma Swan, was getting married. Emma Swan, the orphan, was anything but that now. She had parents, a son, a baby brother, and an odd assortment of other family and friends. It was weird even without adding the fairytale element to all of it. But it was a good weird. And now she was going to have a husband. She was even wearing her mother's wedding dress and it looked gorgeous on her. Plus, it provided the something old part of wedding traditions.
"Oh honey…" she heard her mother say. Emma turned and smiled at her.
"What do you think?" Emma asked.
"You're so beautiful…" Snow answered, tearing up instantly. Emma grinned and hugged her.
"I know you're not much on all the princessy things, but I thought this might make a wonderful something borrowed," Snow said, as she handed a velvet cloth sack to her daughter. Emma gasped, as she looked inside.
"Mom...this is the tiara your mother gave you," Emma said.
"And now I'm giving it to you to wear on this day," Snow replied, as she placed it on the crown of Emma's head.
"There…" Snow stated.
"Thanks Mom," Emma said, as Snow swiped a tear.
"I told myself I wasn't going to cry…" Snow said.
"I just missed so much and I was afraid I'd miss this too," she continued.
"But we're together and nothing is going to change that," Emma assured her. Snow nodded, as Regina and Henry came in next.
"We have something for you too, Mom," Henry said, as his mother handed him the small case. We saw this while we were looking for your something new," Henry said, as he handed it to her. Emma gasped, as she opened it, revealing a beautiful glittering, diamond encrusted swan attached to a hair comb.
"It's gorgeous!" she said in awe, as Regina inserted the hair piece at the top of Emma's french twist. She shared a hug with the queen and then her son. As she released her son, she grinned brightly at the sight of her baby brother toddling toward her with her father carefully holding his hands from behind as he did. She bent down and kissed him on the head, before her father plucked him up and put him in her mother's arms.
David couldn't help but stare at in awe at his beautiful baby girl.
"Emma...you look absolutely radiant," David said, as he got misty-eyed.
"Thanks Dad," she said, as she hugged him and then watched him take something out of the jacket of his tux.
"I was put in charge of something blue and I didn't know what I wanted to get you, because I thought the perfect item was long gone," he said, as he unwrapped the cloth.
"Oh Dad…" Emma gasped, as she looked at the silver locket that had tiny sapphires encrusted into the border.
"It was my mother's and was passed down in her family to every daughter for many generations. Unfortunately, one winter when I was ten, things got really bad and she was forced to sell it to put food on the table," he explained.
"I thought it was lost forever, but when I was looking for the perfect thing in Gold's shop...there it was in one of his cases. I thought with the sapphires, it qualified as your something blue," he said, as he put it on her.
"I love it, Dad. Thank you," she said, as she hugged him again and he cradled her head gently.
"I love you too Emma...so much. And I know your grandmother would be as proud of you as I am," he replied. Snow sniffed and wiped a tear away from her cheek.
"Are you ready?" Snow asked. She nodded. Regina took the baby, as she and Henry went to take their places. And as they did everything, together, they walked their daughter down the aisle…
After the ceremony, the reception followed immediately, as they celebrated with the happy couple. This time though it was Charming with his phone, as he recorded his wife dancing with their baby boy in her arms. Neal flailed his arms happily, as his mother danced and twirled around. She smiled at her husband, as she was cheek to cheek with their baby.
"Say hi Daddy...hi Daddy!" she cooed and Neal babbled something in baby speak.
"Yes...say we love you Daddy. We love you Daddy," she said, gazing lovingly at him.
"Daddy loves Mommy and Neal too," he replied.
"Daddy should come dance with us, don't you think, baby?" she asked. Neal cooed and pointed at his father with a grin. She smiled and kissed his little cheek. David turned off the camera and joined them, slipping his arms around her and pressing a kiss to their baby's forehead. In the end, the reception went well into the night. David and Snow both danced with their daughter and truly believed that they were finally getting that happy ending they had been chasing for what seemed like forever now. It was then that they realized that this was not an ending at all, but rather a happy beginning.
The party died down and they saw the happy couple off. They arrived home soon after and watched their baby boy sleep with arms around each other. This was it. No more separations or curses or villains. This was their happy beginning, because love really did prove to be the most powerful magic of all.
