Grandma
A guest asked for a oneshot of the curse not happening and Ruth not dying. Little Emma spending time with her grandma.
"Higher Grandma!" Emma squealed in delight as her grandma pushed her on the little rope swing in the field. Ruth happily obliged, pushing the little girl just that little bit harder. Emma loved when she got to spend the day out of the palace with her grandma. There was no stupid royal stuff out here. Sure, mommy and daddy made a couple of guards follow them, but they didn't try and tell her what to do like they sometimes did in the palace. They just stoop there, normally with their backs to Emma and her grandma. Ruth kept pushing Emma on the swing for another fifteen minutes until she saw her little granddaughter starting to droop.
"Come on angel," Ruth said, helping her off the swing "We can go back to grandma's cottage and have some dinner before mommy and daddy come and get you. Does that sound good?"
"Yay!" Emma said happily, taking Ruth's hand and walking off with her. Charming had tried and tried to get his mother to move into the palace with him, Snow and Emma but she point blank refused. She would never forget what royalty did to her other son. Having failed on that, Charming insisted on upgrading his mother's cottage and making sure she never had to work another day in her life.
It was a short walk between the field and the cottage. It was just as well really, Emma's feet began to drag more and more as the walk went on. Ruth smiled, she wasn't sure Emma was going to make it through dinner. They'd spent the majority of the day out in the field. They'd played hide and seek, made daisy chains, had a wonderful picnic. All in all it had been a fabulous day. To Ruth any day with Emma was fabulous. She was the light of her world.
Ruth was right. As the roast cooked over the fire Emma dropped off on the soft couch. Ruth smiled, grabbing a thick woolen blanket and covering her with it. She bent down and kissed her cheek.
"Sleep well my little lamb." She whispered. She loved her little Emma more than life itself. All the heartbreak she'd been through in her life- Emma was worth it all.