Hatchling

EmmaMeline asked for a oneshot of Maleficent kidnapping Emma for revenge against the Charmings stealing her daughter. She intends to make Emma her "new baby".

Snow and Charming burst into the old farmhouse. They caught sight of Maleficent immediately, and what's more they saw Emma with her.

"Maleficent!" Charming called out, outraged. "Give us back our daughter!"

"Daughter?" Emma said. She sounded drowsy and quite dazed. She tilted her head and focused her eyes, staring at the couple who had just burst into the little house. "I do recognise them…"

"Hush now, my child. Here, have some of your special juice…" Maleficent twirled her hand slightly and with a puff of dark green smoke a plastic cup appeared in her hand. Emma walked over beside Maleficent and the witch tilted the cup up at Emma's lips.

"No! Emma don't drink that!" Charming tried to rush forward and knock the cup from Maleficent's hand, but found himself being bounced back by an invisible force.

"You didn't think I'd leave the protection to a simple bolt on a door, did you?" Maleficent asked, sounding almost amused as Emma finished the drink. When Emma was finished her eyes glazed back over. She smiled at Maleficent, who in turn stroked Emma's cheek. "Emma is my daughter now. It's only fair after what happened with Lily. Now that she has left town I have no hope of getting her back so Emma will make a nice replacement. You have your boy. It's not like I've left you childless like you did me…"

"Oh yes, since we have Neal we'll just leave Emma here with you!" Snow barked sarcastically. "You are drugging our daughter into some kind of hypnotic state and you think we'll just leave her here?!"

"Well have you haven't got much choice my dears. Emma and I are protected by that barrier. You can't break through." Emma hid behind Maleficent, as if just noticing the pair since taking the potion.

"Dragon." She muttered.

"What?" Charming said, not having heard her properly. Maleficent patted the top of Emma's head.

"She's asking me to turn into my dragon form to scare you both away because you are frightening her. I sleep in my dragon form with Emma curled up nicely in my tail. It keeps her nice and toasty during the chilly nights and sometimes her special juice wears off during the night and she can get quite fidgety so it stops her from leaving mama."

"Maleficent, are you aware of how crazy this is?! I know you lost your baby because of us, and I'm sorry. But kidnapping our daughter isn't a solution, certainly not when you're drugging her to keep her in some infant like state to treat her like a baby! It's absurd!"

"We dragons live for hundreds of years." Maleficent replied calmly. "To us thirty is but an infant. She would not even be flying yet if she were a dragon too. The potion is just helping her stay calm and act according to dragon aging."

"It's still damn creepy." Charming said. "And like Hell are you doing it with my daughter. She is not your prisoner." Charming growled. He then stepped as close as he could to the invisible barrier. "Emma honey. Come on out. We're not going to hurt you. Come say hello to us." Emma shook her head and hid her head against Maleficent's shoulder.

"Come on baby. Come give us a hug." Snow tried. Emma shook her head again, then an idea struck Charming.

"Well alright then, we'll leave and not come back. But before we go, would you like your blanket back?" Emma's head snapped up as Charming hoped it would. "We've got your blanket Emma, but you'll have to come out here to get it."

Before Maleficent could hold her back, Emma had left the safety of the barrier.

"No time to explain, sorry about this kiddo!" Before Emma could do anything Charming had her in a fireman's lift and the family were sprinting away. Since Charming had Emma in such close proximity to him, Maleficent couldn't use her magic.

"You haven't heard the end of this! I will have Emma and we will be a family!" She roared.

"What is it with crazy witches trying to adopt our daughter?!" Snow called over Emma's screams of protests. She wasn't going to be very happy with them until the effects of the potion wore off.

Eventually, about four hours later, Emma started coming back to herself.

"Was I hiding behind Maleficent asking her to turn into a dragon to turn you two into s'mores?" Snow and Charming nodded. "Yeah, sorry about that…"

"It's alright, we're just glad you're back to normal." Charming said, giving her a sideways hug and kissing the side of the head.

"But if you could avoid any crazy witches about town for a while that'd be useful." Snow teased her. Emma laughed.

"I'll try."