The castle was already starting to look like their old home again. They still had to put in some walls and then the inside needed to be decorated, but it was getting that much closer. Everybody had been working day and night just to get it finished that much sooner.
Snow stood next to Charming with their hands interlocked. "Charming, where's Emma?"
"Grams!" Henry came running up almost knocking over Charming and her. "Emma is…stuck." Snow and Charming exchanged a look.
"Lead us to her, Henry." Charming said, and the boy grabbed Snow's hand and drug them along. They started going a ways into the forest, making Snow question what they were doing so far out in the first place. She knew her daughter though. Snow told her it was dangerous and Emma would go against her wishes just to prove she can make it on her own.
"Henry, what did you mean when you said Emma was stuck? I don't think it is really possible to get-" She stopped midsentence as she looked ahead and saw her daughter was literally stuck in a trap. Not just any trap, this was the exact trap that Snow had gotten herself into while she was with Charming.
Charming started laughing at the irony as he saw his baby girl hanging from a tree in a trap. "This scene looks familiar." He teased as he looked back at Snow who rolled her eyes playfully and smiled.
Emma peeked through one of the openings and smiled sheepishly. "This wouldn't have happened if we were still in Storybrooke." She grumbled, but her parents just looked around, amused.
Snow tried to stifle a laugh, "Emma, are you hurt?" Charming was looking around for something to pull to get his daughter on the ground again.
Emma sighed, "No, I told Henry that we shouldn't have gone out this far, but the kid insisted."
Henry shook his head and grinned as he looked at Snow, "This was totally her idea." Snow and Charming giggled at that.
Emma didn't hear Henry's response, but shot a look at her parents. "Why are you guys laughing?"
Charming looked up and smiled, "Your mother was once in a trap similar to the one you are in now when we first met. She refused to give me what I wanted." He eyed Snow with a sparkle in his eyes.
Snow giggled and looked at Emma, "Trust me, I put up a good fight." Henry listened to everybody talking and smiled. This was his dream. To be a prince and to have a family that loves him and not just any family: a fairytale family.
Usually Emma didn't care if her parents told stories, but at the moment she was just annoyed and wanted down. "Can we save the story for another time?" Emma was starting to get irritated at the situation she got herself into. Snow and Charming exchanged another look. Emma sighed.
Charming finally found the place that the rope was wrapped around and he showed Snow. "Do you think we should tell her?" He grinned mischievously.
Snow shook her head and began to share the same grin. She looked back up at Emma and continued the story they began to tell. "Can you guess what I stole that Charming wanted so desperately?" Emma didn't want to hear these stories right now, but Snow continued as she walked closer to where Emma hung. "His mother's wedding ring. My wedding ring." Snow smiled as she pointed out her ring to Emma.
"That is great, but can we focus on getting me down?" Emma said, clearly annoyed by this point. Charming chuckled behind Snow at his daughter's determination, even though she didn't have the upper hand in this battle.
Snow started twirling her wedding ring around her finger, "Emma, I told you that coming out here would be dangerous and you didn't listen." Emma looked through one of the holes and then away because this voice wasn't Mary Margaret's it was her mother's.
"I don't need you to ridicule me on my decisions. I'm an adult." Emma stood her ground, stubbornly. Snow looked back at Charming for support.
Charming looked up at his daughter, "Since you clearly don't need us, we will leave you alone. When you decide you need us just…" He paused and then smiled, "holler."
Emma began to panic at the thought that she would be here all night, but composed herself just as quickly. "Fine. I'll figure out how to get down... by myself." Snow held in the giggles that were coming. Her daughter was just like her.
Charming grabbed Snow's hand and squeezed it, "Come on, Henry, let's leave your mother be. When she wants down she will let us know." Emma rolled her eyes and sat back in the trap with her arms crossed. She watched as her family walked away all because she was too stubborn to admit she needed help.