Chapter 6- Lullaby

"Emma." Snow said softly as their baby suckled contentedly at her breast. She was four hours old and already the light of their lives. "Oh you are so beautiful. Just like your mother." He whispered bending to kiss her forehead and then his wife's beaming lips. The kiss was warm and inviting, melting chocolate on a roaring fire, he cupped and stroked her cheek with one hand, while his little finger on the other was being adorably clung to by their new-born princess.

Everything about her amazed him, her tiny fingers and tiny toes, her eyes that seemed to call to him in a way that he had only ever felt once before when he fell in love with Snow. It was a deep, all consuming need to protect and love what were the most precious people in the world to him. His family.

"Mmm." Snow moaned happily, as their lips broke and watched as that infamous smile lit up the entire face of the man she adored.

"What?" David breathed, still mesmerised by them both. "I love your smile. You had it the first time we saw each other."

"When we shared our first kisses." He nodded and chuckled because he must have taken her lips at least six times before their child's future godmother walked in.

"Is it any wonder?" David interrupted, as Emma finished and was now steadily being rocked by her. "Snow, from the moment I saw you. I have felt it. If Ruby had not interrupted us…" He stops himself cheekily.

"We would have made love." Snow finishes for him. "And Emma would be toddling around but, she would still have us wrapped around her little finger."

"Yes." Her Charming agrees. "Our little princess."

Snow suddenly feels a sharp ache in her heart. They had sent word to Ruth but, a cold a few days before and her insistence that she was happy to stay at the farm than move into the castle meant that she wouldn't be visiting for another day or two.

"They should be here Charming. Your mother. And my parents."

He pressed a soft kiss to her hair. "They are my darling." "And… since you sent Doc to tend to mother… I can safely say. They will be here in no time."

She chuckled quietly, aware of their now sleeping babe. "She probably hates me."

"You just had her grandchild. She loves you more than words can say."

Turning her head to face him, she tilts it suggestively and grins. "And how does her son feel about me?"

"I love you more than words can say, until my last breath and in ways that you cannot even imagine. You and Emma are my world."

"And you are ours. We love you Charming."

"Mmm." He presses another loving kiss to her lips and then gently takes Emma from her to place her in her cradle.

The glass unicorns waiting for a gentle breeze so that they can dance for her.

The sound of Emma's cries wakes her. With a groan, she is about to say to David that she'll settle her but, as she opens her eyes she sees she doesn't have to. He's rocking her gently back and forth in time with his steps.

It warms her heart more and more with each passing day.

"Goodnight our precious baby it's time to close your eyes." He sings gently. "To dream of sails and fairy-tales and dancing with the fireflies."

Snow's eyes started to fill with tears as she quietly crept out of bed and moved to them causing him to smile as she came from behind to press a kiss to his bare shoulder.

"And in the morn when you wake, we'll be here to keep you safe. So dream away our precious babe."

"It's time to close your eyes."

"Charming that was beautiful." Snow let the tears fall down as he turned them both to face her.

"Well thank you my darling."

"And it seems to have done the trick."

"I learned from the best."

"Hmm. Come it's time Emma and Papa went back to bed."

"So dream away my precious love. It's time to close your eyes."