Her Royal Highness
Doby asked for a oneshot of Emma and Charming after Emma's first experience of being called Your Royal Highness. If you don't like me calling Charming Prince rather than King you might want to skip this chapter…it's nothing against Charming at all. It's just trying to stick to royal protocol lol.
They'd finally managed to come to a system that suited everyone in the town. A mix of the style of the Enchanted Forest and this world. Snow ruled as Queen/Mayor with Charming ruling alongside her as Prince/joint sheriff. Emma was technically Princess/joint sheriff but she (unlike her parents) preferred to use her modern world term. It was the first town meeting with the new mixed system in place. Snow had gone on ahead with baby Neal to get photocopies done. Charming and Henry were arriving shortly before the meeting started. They were greeted at the door of the town hall by Edmond- Snow and Charming's old head butler. An old skinny man with a friendly disposition.
"Good afternoon." He greeted them with a warm smile before scoring their names off the list in front of him. He turned around to the fellow workers.
"His Royal Highness Prince David and Her Royal Highness Princess Emma." He announced. Out of the corner of his eye, Charming caught the surprised and slightly embarrassed look on his daughter's face. He smiled knowingly.
"I remember my first time too." He said, as they handed their jackets over.
"Huh?" Emma asked, confused.
"The first time someone called me 'His Royal Highness'. It was so strange. I kinda preferred just David…or James when I was being him. Didn't feel right being given such a title. Felt quite pressurised." Emma nodded.
"Yeah. Feel a bit like Sidney or someone is going to be hiding in the bushes trying to get pictures for the paper." Charming chuckled, wrapping an arm protectively around her.
"Definitely an advantage of getting used to the whole Royal thing in the Enchanted Forest- no sleazy reporters. But don't worry, I won't let anyone rattle my Princess." Emma rolled her eyes.
"I can punch people's teeth in myself thank you. Come on, mom will kill as if we're late." Charming laughed heartily.
"True, come on- princess."