Stealing mommy
Combining a couple of requests into one here. Lulu wanted a oneshot of Neal getting jealous because Snow is spending time with Emma and calling Emma her baby. And Nathalie Gripper wanted a oneshot of Neal getting jealous/grumpy because Emma isn't paying him enough attention. Neal will be aged 3 for this.
Neal just didn't understand. Emma had been in the house for ages and aside from a quick hello he'd been left to colour in while she and mommy talked. Why weren't they talking to him? He pouted, going back to his picture.
Mommy and Emma laughing made him look up again. What was funny? Normally he was the one who made mommy laugh, not Emma. She was stealing his job.
"What funny?" He asked them, getting grumpy.
"Nothing." Mommy said, shaking her head. Neal pouted, not liking not being told. He went back to his picture again, while mommy and Emma kept whispering.
"He did not try that!" Mommy said, after the laughing had stopped a while ago. Emma gave mommy a funny look.
"Relax mom, it's fine. I'm a big girl, I can look after myself." Emma said. Mommy didn't look happy at that.
"I don't care how big you are Emma, you're still my baby and-"
"Hey!" Neal interrupted, finally having enough. Both girls paused, looking at Neal. It wasn't like him to interrupt, or shout at them.
"I'm your baby!" He shouted, bottom lip quivering. Snow chuckled slightly, reaching over the table and picking him up, setting him in her lap.
"You are my baby, silly. Emma's my baby too." Neal wasn't happy with that answer and buried his head into mommy's shoulder. He felt Emma's hand reach over and touch his shoulder, he jerked away.
"No!" He shouted. "No talk to you. You no talk to me and you take my mommy."
Snow and Emma looked at each other, this was very unlike Neal.
"Neal," Snow warned. "That is no way to talk to your sister. And she isn't taking me, I'm her mommy too, she's sharing me. She's very kind and lets you have lots of my attention, so sometimes you need to let Emma have some too, ok?" Neal didn't say anything, just nodded into his mom's shoulder. "Good." Snow said gently. "Now, give your sister a big 'I'm sorry' hug." She told him, handing him out to Emma. Emma took Neal into her arms and he wrapped his little arms around her neck.
"I sowwy Emma." He said.
"It's ok, kid. I'll try and not hog mom, ok?" Neal nodded settling down in Emma's lap. He pulled his drawing over and started explaining it to them. They listened carefully, asking lots of questions. Now they were listening to him, that was better!