It's christmas Eve today (like 8pm so almost Christmas Day)! Sending love to you all and hope you have awesome holidays no matter what you celebrate/ believe in!

I'm hoping to get a few more of these done over the next few hours and into the early hours of christmas morning.

This one's based off this starter: "Can you help me untangle these lights?"

(Also thank you all for the reviews I will eventully get around to replying to them all!)

Emma stared at the tangled web of lights she had been handed earlier, Snow wanted to hang them down the stairs in the loft, and had said she would just buy some new ones as apparently the curse had made the lights a mess after twenty eight years. Emma, however, had told her mother to pass them to her and claimed that she could untangle them easily. That was three hours ago. Since then Snow had asked numerous times if she needed any help and had told her it was no problem for her to go and buy some more, but now it was a point of pride for Emma for these lights to become untangled. Emma glanced over at David who was sat reading his book on the couch, every so often he would glance at Emma, but she knew it was more out of habit than worry- at first it had made Emma roll her eyes at him until she noticed that he did it to both her and Neal so she supposed it was just a paternal habit. It was now just the two of them in the loft, Snow had taken Neal to go to a toddler's Christmas party and to grab some things from the store, and had refused David's company claiming that there was a surprise reason why he couldn't come.

Emma walked over from the table with the lights in her hand and dropped down next to David. "Can you help me untangle these lights?" she sighed.

David took a look down at the lights. "I'm not sure that they can be untangled, Em."

Emma sighed again. "I have to."

"Em," David laughed, "you can admit defeat you know."

"No, I can't, mom doesn't think that I can untangle them."

"But… you can't untangle them." David laughed again. He took a look at Emma's face and then held his hand out for her to pass them over to him. "Maybe if I pull this bit here… or maybe this bit under here… no that's wrong…." David kept messing about with the lights growing more and more frustrated. "Do these even work?"

"Apparently." Emma sighed still frustrated from trying to get them sorted for so long and it looked like her father wasn't having much more luck with them.

David continued to try to sort them out and he was surprised that Emma's frustration with them hadn't amounted to her magic appearing… "Emma…"

"Dad, we're not giving up." Emma insisted.

"I know but Emma… I don't suppose you tried to use your magic to detangle them?"

"Oh… no…" Emma admitted sheepishly. "Whoops?" She took the lights off of her father and placed them in her lap she then held her hands over them and concentrated with her eyes closed.

David watched as the lights slowly untangled and slithered to the floor like a snake. He beamed at Emma and saw she still had her eyes closed and her face scrunched up in concentration. He watched as the lights snaked across the floor towards the stairway and wrapped themselves around the banisters of the second floor, but as he continued to watch the light continued. He looked back at Emma and saw that she still had her eyes closed in concentration. "Emma!" he called bringing her out of her trance.

Emma jumped at her father's voice and opened her eyes she looked towards the stairs and smiled. "It worked."

"Erm, Em? Look at the floor."

Emma looked down at the floor and saw that the lights had tripled in length and there was now a neat pile of them on the floor. She bit her lip and looked up at her dad with an expression which clearly meant 'whoops'.

"At least they're not tangled anymore." David smiled. "But I think we should just use our hands to put the rest of these up."

Snow walked through the door with Neal and a bag full of Christmas crackers just as David and Emma finished putting the last light on the wall, they had hung them all around the loft from the entrance of David's and Snow's room around the kitchen to the living room.

"Wow you two this looks amazing!" She told them as she looked around in wonder. "I can't believe you got those untangled Emma and did you find some more lights?"

"Something like that." Emma smirked.

"Well, I bought these for down here," She said as she pulled out another pack of lights and passed them over to Emma, "but you can put them up in your room. You could use your magic to put them up in the bits you can't reach." She suggested.

"No!" David and Emma shouted at the same time.