Hey guys, here is chapter 3. Thanks for all the reviews, follows, favs and views :)
It's not often that Neal, Emma and Henry all have the day off when it's beautiful outside, but today is one of those days and the family is not going to sit inside and waste the day. Emma, surprisingly, is the first one awake. It takes her a moment to open her eyes and let them adjust to the light shinning through the windows, but she smiles. Neal is beside her, his hair standing up on his head, his face tucked into his pillow to shield his eyes from the light, his arm is draped over her waist, making sure to keep some form of contact with her. Slowly, very very slowly, Emma takes Neal's arms and places on the mattress, when he starts to shift in his sleep she stops and stays still. But Neal just simply curls further into the sheets with a small frown on his face at the loss of contact from his wife.
Once she was completely sure that Neal wouldn't wake up, Emma go out of the bed threw on her robe and made her way down the hall of her house to check on her kids. She wasn't use to not having at least either Henry (with his nightmares) or Anna with her at night. Although Henry hadn't been having any nightmares lately so it was mainly just Anna. It had only been a couple days since they had started putting Anna in her nursery after her late night feedings.
Emma creaked Henry's door open to find him sleeping exactly like his father. His face shielded from the light shinning into his room and the blankets cuddled around him. Henry's hair, like Neal's, was standing up, both having bed heads in the morning. Just leaning on the door frame she could watch Henry sleep for hours, he just looked so peaceful, and after the year he'd had, Emma was glad that Henry was still able to be a kid.
Emma loved the days that she could just relax, let her family sleep in and not worry about what was going to happen during the day. Like Neal she stood at the door and made sure that Henry showed no signs of waking up before she very quietly moved closer to the bed and gave Henry a light kiss on his forehead. "I love you kid." She whispered as she tried to tame his bed hair. It was then she noticed Henry's book of the week in his hand. She chuckled to herself and was able to get it out of his hands and place it on the bedside table next to him. Having a chance to actually be able to see her son's room clean (Something that didn't happen often) she scanned the room, wondering what he kept and thrown out. His desk was full of papers, some of his own stories or drawings. Picture frames scattered across the room of his family. A couple pictures of him and Anna. A few of his grandparents and his new uncle. Emma smiled when she saw a couple pictures of Henry with his other mother from over the years. But her eyes started to water when she noticed the pictures that sat next to his bed. One was a picture of Henry, Emma and Neal, all smiling after they returned from Neverland. A small frame held a picture of Henry and Anna the day she was born and the first time he held her. The last picture she spotted made her smile as a tear managed to escape and fall down her cheek, it was of just Emma and him. It was from the day that Emma and Snow had returned from the Enchanted Forest over a year ago, at the dinner where everyone cheered the family's home coming before they all went home too exhausted from their travels and agreed to a party the following night. She ran her fingers over the picture, still remembering the moment, she had pulled Henry into her lap after they ate and Henry just curled up into her. They had both fallen asleep at the diner before her parents woke them up to head home.
She gave her son one final kiss before she moved on to the next room. When she closed the door to Henry's room Emma heard a small sound from nursery and hurried to the room a little faster now knowing her daughter was awake. She made her way directly over to the crib and found Anna's bright green eyes staring up her her. Apparently Anna's, like her father and brother, hair was a mess and Emma laughed. "Well I guess it's just my girl and me for a bit." Anna's arms reached up for her mother. Emma laughed at her daughter's eagerness and when Anna let out an annoyed cry Emma reached down and scooped her up. "Alright, alright." Once the baby was in her mother's arms she let out a content sigh and leaned her head against her mother's shoulder.
With her daughter in her arms, Emma made her way down towards the kitchen. "Should we go and get things ready for today? I was thinking we could go to the park. You love the swings." Having gotten some food from the fridge out, Emma started to organize the picnic lunch for later today. "Maybe we can even invite grandma and grandpa and your uncle to join us." Emma stopped working and shook her head, Anna mimicked her. "I cannot get use to saying that. No one should have a 28 year difference between their siblings, or at least not have parents that are the same age as their oldest kid. This family is way to complicated. But we learn to love them. Right?" Emma held Anna up over her and the baby giggled. "Right." She brought her daughter down so that their noses touched. Emma couldn't help but let out a loud laugh as Anna covered her nose with her mouth. If this was Anna's way of kisses they were going to need to re teach her. "What are you doing silly? Are you trying to eat mommy's nose? Or are you trying to give mommy a kiss? Because this is a kiss." Emma peppered her daughter's face in kisses and the baby couldn't stop giggling.
"What are you two doing?" Emma jumped and turned at the voice. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Neal laughed and gave both Anna and Emma a kiss on the head.
"Having some mommy and Anna time, while we waited for daddy and Henry to wake up." Emma answered as she continued to prepare some snacks for the park. Neal's hair was still a mess, and she noticed that he chose to put a shirt on with a hole in the back near the armpit. "Babe, come here." She waved him over. He obliged with a cautious look. "I think it's time to throw this shirt out." She said as the three other holes caught her eye.
"No it's fine." Neal pulled back, making sure the holes weren't in Emma's sight.
"No, Neal come on I think it's time that we throw it out." Emma put Anna on her hip and placed her other hand on the other hip.
"No Emma. It still has a tun of wear left in it." Neal fought back sounding like a child.
"What's the big deal dad? It's just a shirt." Henry walked into the kitchen. His appearance mirrored Neal's, just without the shirt with holes in it.
"For your information Henry. This shirt is older then you are." Neal said all mater of factly.
"Oh really?" Henry looked unimpressed.
"Yeah, one of the few things your dad had." Emma pointed at both the boys, then signaled for Henry to walk over to her.
"Hey you use to steal this shirt from me all the time." Neal argued, looking a little hurt.
Emma started to try and fix her son's hair to look somewhat groomed. "Yes I did. I won't lie about that. It did act as my pajama shirt most nights that I could get to it before him." Emma laughed at the fond memories. Not all of her memories from back then were good but she was happy that she wasn't curled up in the back seat alone.
"So the shirts over 12 years old. Why do you still have it?" Henry slightly tilted his head to the side, his sister mimicking him.
"Because..." Neal tilted his head to the side as well, to mock his son and daughter, which made Anna smile. "When I left and gave the car to August for your mom, I didn't have much from her. So when I really missed her I would put the shirt on. It helped me through some tough times." Neal looked at the floor slightly embarrassed.
"But now you have mom back. So the shirt is just a shirt again. I'm sure you can take back half the other shirts that mom steals from you to sleep in." Henry smiled trying to make a point.
Before Henry and Neal could go further into this "shirt" argument, Emma interrupted. "Alright." The blonde wrapped her arm around Henry, pulling his back to lean on her. "Why don't we drop the touchy subject of your father's clothing and get ready for a day at the park. Hmm?" Emma asked her son who nodded. She kissed his head and let him run back to his room to get ready.
"Thank you." Neal walked up to his wife and gave her a kiss while he ran his fingers through Anna's blonde hair. Anna just stared up at both her parents. Her wide green eyes looking at them in wonder.
"But your son is right. You got the real thing right here." Emma whispered into his ear. "Now go be a good boy and get ready for the park." Emma gave her husbands bum a little swat before giving him another quick kiss as she laughed.
"Hey" He huffed as the swat. "And the real thing is better." He gave her one more kiss before taking a few steps "But I like my shirt." When Emma rolled her eyes he just shrugged. "I'll go get ready. You want me to take Anna?" He asked, his arms already reaching out to take the baby who was very content in her mother's arms.
"No. She's fine here. Plus she's helping me choose what to pack for our picnic."
"Oh really?" Neal raised his eyebrow and smirked.
"Yes." Emma informed him and walked to the cupboard and opened it. "Watch. Anna what should mommy pack?" Anna pointed to the chocolate bars. "See she helps. Good choice." Emma took the box in her hand and placed it next to the already cut up fruits and veggies, Neal also spotted the sandwiches in bags ready to be packed.
"We do have a very smart daughter." He went over and kissed Anna's head and she let out a giggle. "I'll be right back."
"I'll be here." She made Anna wave as Neal walked back to their room to get dressed. "Now that the boys have once again left, shall we continue?" Emma asked and Anna let out a big smile. "I'm going to take that as a yes." Emma smiled and held Anna up in the air and blew raspberries' on Anna belly which made Anna laugh uncontrollably.
As Neal walked back to his room to get changed, he could hear his daughter's laughter followed by Emma's. Yes the real thing was the best thing.
Looks like the family is heading to the park, and maybe we will see some other's in the next Chapter :) Hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to leave a review :)
I probably won't be updating all that often, but I'm going to try when ever I can.
