Horse crash

A guest asked for a oneshot of Snowing teaching Emma to ride a horse. She feels like they're babying her and in an attempt to show she doesn't need mollycoddled gets hurt and ends up in hospital where the pain meds make her act funny and childlike.

Folks can I just reiterate that asking for a oneshot repeatedly with no breaks does not mean I'm going to get it done any quicker, it gets added to the list just like everybody else's :P If I've not wrote your oneshot after a couple of weeks by all means give me a bit of a nudge but that's a different situation entirely!

Snow, Charming and Henry paced up and down the hospital corridor. This was only her first lesson, she was only meant to be walking around the fenced in paddock with Charming holding the reins! But no, Emma was not having the easy route. She had been grumbling the whole time that she wasn't a child- that she didn't need her dad keeping the horse going at a slow, steady pace. If she was meant to be a fairytale princess she should be fine on a horse…shouldn't she? It didn't help that Henry was sitting watching already being much more advanced than Emma. She didn't like feeling like Henry might be looking down on her. The final straw was her dad's ever so slightly patronising tone when he told Emma he was just going to fix the laces on his boots so just sit tight, the horse wasn't going to move so she didn't need to be frightened. As soon as he was far enough away not to get trampled Emma kicked the sides of the horse and went galloping off around the paddock. Emma's big issue was that she didn't know how to "steer". The horse got spooked when it came to the fence and ground to a halt, causing Emma to come flying off and over the fence. Fortunately her helmet had stopped any head injuries but it would appear some of her other bones weren't so lucky. Boy were Snow and Charming grateful they'd forced her into the helmet despite her protests, it probably saved her life.

Whale came out to the corridor.

"She broke a couple of ribs and cracked a couple more." He told them. "Her shoulder came out the joint but we've popped that back in. She's under a lot of medication so she's not fully compos mentis, but you can go see her."

"Thank you Whale." Charming said as he, Snow and Henry breezed past him into the room. Emma was sitting up on the bed (propped up with a lot of pillows) with a funny smile on her face and a glazed expression.

"Hey guys." She greeted them. "Why do you all look so serious? Smile!" At that Emma started giggling and so did Henry. His mom was basically high. Snow shuffled Henry over to the chair so he didn't wind his mom up while she wasn't in full control of herself.

"How you feeling honey?" Charming asked her.

"I'm gooooooood." She said, extending the word. She looked up at her dad and placed a finger on his nose. "Look, your nose!" Charming gave a baffled expression as Henry nearly fell off the chair laughing.

"Um yeah." He said, moving her finger away. "Did Whale explain your injuries?" Emma nodded.

"Uh huh, but I don't think he's right. My ribs feel fine. Watch!" Emma went to jump out of bed and twirl around but Charming caught her.

"You can show us later. Stay in bed just now." These drugs had really knocked her for six! Huffily, Emma settled down.

"Kill joy." She grumbled. Snow came over and tucked the covers around her.

"You'll thank him later." Snow promised her. "Those meds must be making you sleepy. Why don't you try taking a nap?"

"Don't wanna." Emma whined. Snow smiled, tucking some hair behind her ear.

"Just try- for us." Emma wanted to say no, but she could feel her eyes getting heavy. There was no fighting it, she couldn't help but fall into a deep sleep.