Sorry for the wait. here is the next part. Now that the season has finished (SOB!) I'm not sure what to include next. I was thinking about just one shots with them nothing to do with the canon. What you think?

Emma walked through the door in a daze. She must have looked a mess because the moment that she walked through the door both her parents turned around concerned. David found himself looking up and down at her to see if she was hurt or injured anywhere. "Emma?" she looked like she was about to fall down at any moment. "Where's Neal?" Snow enquired "Gone." It was such a simple statement but a loaded one, which both her parents understood.

The tears were threatening to come. I can not cry, I can not cry. She looked around as if she was going to sit down but realised there was nowhere to sit. Charming walked over to her and guided her to the stairs, she let herself be led. She was trying to be strong, like she had always been. They sat down and David's arm went around her shoulder it was nice to have the support for once. Maybe for just this once she can let herself need someone else. Those walls that she had kept round herself for so long had been breaking more and more the longer she spent with her family.

David was getting to know his daughter fairly well at this point "Emma it's ok, you don't have to be strong all the time. You have your family now. We are here for you,"

"What do I tell Henry?"

"I am so sorry Emma"

He leaned over and gave her a kiss on the forehead, this was one of the closet moments that he has had with his daughter. Storybrook may be in a lot of danger now but he didn't care his daughter needed him, so this is where he was going to stay.

"I tried to help him, I tried to hold on."

"Emma, what do you mean?"

"Tamera opened a portal we both fell through, but I managed to grab onto something to stop us, but he let go because he didn't want Henry growing up like we both did."

Charming let her words sink in, he was trying not to react to the news that he nearly lost his daughter again. He wouldn't know what Snow and him would have done if this had happened. He tried to slow his heart, panicking over the what-ifs would not help Emma at this time.

"He saved you because he loved you. I may have my issues with the guy but he did that for you and Henry."

"Why didn't you like him?"

Charming chuckled a little "oh Emma, it wouldn't have mattered who it was you dated. I would have disliked every single one of them. Because that what fathers do. I may have missed my chance to chase the boys away from the door step, but it doesn't mean that I still don't feel that way."

"I would have liked to have seen that."

"There is a good chance you still will"

Emma felt a little lighter it was nice to have family around. She leaned her head back onto Charming's shoulder "thank you"

"Anytime Emma." He was expecting her to move but she stayed there, he certainly wasn't going to move her. "Emma?"

"hmm"

"Can I ask what you were like growing up."

For the first time since Emma walked into the room she smiled slightly. "Believe it or not I was fairly stubborn child."

"Really that's a shocker."

"I was quite quiet though, like to spend as much time as I could outdoors." She laughed a little "actually in one of the homes I was at I spent a far amount of time in the forest near where I lived. It was odd, but make sense now I suppose."

"What made sense?"

"It's was almost like I felt a connection with it."

"It's nice to know that even if we couldn't have been with you there was a part of you that was connected to us."

"I didn't have many friends, I was never in a place long enough to gain any and then when I was I didn't trust anyone enough. Mary Margaret was my first real friend."

David was so happy that Emma was opening up to him, he wanted to know more but didn't want to push it. Yet she still wasn't moving her head.

"Could you tell me about the places you stayed please? Only if you don't mind."

"I don't mind, most of the places were ok, pretty much the same. We were there as a meal ticket, left to our own devices. There were only a few places that were truly horrible."

"Did anyone ever... no don't answer that."

"Why not?"

"It may just make me angry enough to try and hunt them down."

"You can't cross the line, you would forget why you were there. Plus we would lose you."

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm sorry you had to grow up like that Emma. You should have grown up a Princess."

"I think that even if I grew up with you guys I would not have made a very good one."

"That's my girl."