Not even fifteen minutes later, all the children and both parents were in the living room. Belle had sat on the floor and Bae had sat next to her.

"Now, where were we in the story? Oh yes…"

Flashback

A few months had passed since Neal's birth and Adam's pride for son grew more and more with his son's growing. At this point Neal's was seven months old and was able to pull himself up. Which meant he was grabbing everything and pulling on it. Sometimes they were things that weren't that heavy which meant they went with him. Kind of like Adam's laptop did earlier that day. Adam sat at the coffee table grading papers since he had become the professor at Storybrooke University and he looked at Neal who was quietly watching TV. He went back to grading papers and looked up when he felt someone next to him.

"Well hello there Neal." Neal didn't say anything instead reached for the papers. "Oh no, Miss Trish will be very upset if you mess up her paper. Not that she worked very hard on it." Adam said moving the papers out of his son's reach and back into his bag. He looked up when he heard the click clack of Milah's heels.

"Mama." Neal said reaching for her. Milah rolled her eyes and ruffled her son's hair. Adam rolled his eyes.

"Adam do you have any classes tomorrow?"

"Yes, all day actually."

"Well, you'll have one more student. I have to go to the city."

"You just found this out today?"

"No I've known for three weeks I just forgot."

"Three weeks?! Seriously, I could have made arrangements. He's not even a year old. You want me to bring him into a college classroom which college students."

"Yes, hey maybe he'll get you a young girl you can sleep with."

"No Milah, that's you that's unfaithful." He ducked to dodge a bottle that was flung at his head. "Very nice Miranda, throwing things in front of your son to his father." Miranda stomped her foot and left the room. Adam sighed and turned to Neal. "Well son, it looks like you'll get to see what Papa does during the day." The next day, Adam got Neal ready along with anything he would need. When he got to the school, he went into his classroom and set up a playpen on the stage where he usual walked and talked. He decided since his class was learning about children, Neal would be the perfect in class experience. Students started to file in and he could hear the whispers of how there was a child in the classroom. Neal stared at all the kids in awe before crawling back to Adam. He grabbed Adam's pant leg and pulled himself up. He lifted Neal onto his hip, kissed him, and put him back down.

"Okay I'll be the one to ask. Professor Gold, why is there a baby in here?" Jenna asked.

"Well Miss Talls, I'm glad you asked. Those of you who were listening and paying attention last class will remember me telling you I would bring in my son for an in class learning experience. Neal is not by any means a perfect child. He's now in the almost walking phase that's what we'll be covering in class today anyway. I didn't mean to bring him in so early in the semester but well my wife didn't inform me that she would not be home to watch our son so he is. Where'd he go?" Adam looked around the stage and the class looked around their desks.

"I found him Prof. Gold." Ashley called out getting up and pulling Neal out of the garbage can. "I guess he wanted to play hide and seek."

"It would appear so Miss Boyd. Would you mind holding onto to him for me for a little while?"

"Not at all." Ashley sat back down and gave Neal some crayons she had in her book bag for her art class. Adam watched for a few moments making sure Neal was in good hands. After being sure, he turned back to the lesson. A few minutes later, he heard a whisper and turned around. He saw it was Ashley telling Neal not to put the crayons in his mouth. He smiled internally and continued to talk. When he was done with his slide show, he turned around and found Ashley was watching him and rocking Neal at the same time. Upon further inspection, he found Neal asleep.

"Miss Boyd, how in the world did you do that?"

"Do what, Prof. Gold?"

"You got him to sleep in the amount of time it took me to go through one twenty slide slideshow. My wife and I can't get him to sleep within the time it would take to do three of these."

"I'm not quite sure. He just curled up and starting sucking him thumb. I didn't really rock him to sleep more did it keep him calm. He went to sleep on his own." Ashley said making eye contact with Adam with whole time. Adam walked over and Ashely stood up so the transition would be easier for all three of them. Neal shifted but just laid his head on Adam's shoulder. He heard a few of his students awe and say how cute Neal was. Once Adam's back was turned, Ashley shook her arms to get the blood flowing again. She sat down and put the crayons back in the box.

"Well, that's all for today. I trust all of you have started you reports due next month. I'll want to see a rough draft by Monday. Class dismissed." The students filed out and Adam had a chance to relax before his next class. By the time he and Neal made it home, he was exhausted. If he wasn't teaching, he was chasing after Neal who had found a pen or pencil on the floor and decided it was his new toy and crawled away from Adam quick as lightning. He swore his child had some sort of super powers to be so fast. Adam threw himself onto the couch while keeping an eye on Neal. Miranda got home around almost midnight with a smile on her face. "Good day, Miranda?"

"Great day." Miranda said not offering any explanation before going into the bedroom.

"Pa."

"Yes, Neal… Neal? Say it again my boy." Neal looked at Adam with a huge smile. "Come on Neal. Say it again." Adam urged.

"Pa." Adam shot up and grabbed Neal, hugging him tight.

"That's right. That's right my boy. I'm your Papa."

End flashback

"I finally talked?" Bae asked.

"Yes and I was overjoyed that day."

"When did I change from Neal to Bae?"

"You'll find that out later in the story. Right now though, it's time for bed. You should remember that though Bae." The door was kicked open and Ruby came running in.

"I know it's late but I wanted to make sure my nephew is okay." Ruby said not stopping, kneeling, and hugging Bae. Bae was stunned for a moment then hugged his aunt back. "Let me you something Baelfire Gold you ever scare me like again and I'll hurt you, bad."

"I promise I'm not going to run away again." Ruby let go and smiled at her nephew. She slapped the side of his head and got up.

"Is that the reason that you're here at almost midnight?"

"No, Granny wants to yell at Bae too but she was sleeping. I came over and did that for me, she'll be over tomorrow. Oh, she wants to beat you too for what happened."

"We're not talking about that again. We're going to move past it. I'm lucky she forgave me the first time let's not remind her of that." Adam said wrapping an arm around Belle's waist. Ruby shrugged. "Okay, you need to leave and your kids need to go to bed."

"Fine, fine, I'm leaving." Ruby kissed her nieces and nephews then left. The kids got up and went to their rooms. Belle got up and pulled Adam out of the chair. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips to his. Adam kissed her and pulled back. That's when he noticed the small bruise on her cheek. He cupped her other cheek and kissed the bruise.

"Don't worry about that. It'll heal."

"Then your skin will be perfect once again."

"Let's go to bed. I believe I promised you something." Belle said slowly getting go of his hand and walking away. Adam smiled inside and out and followed his beautiful wife into their bedroom.