A little surprise
Pam asked for a oneshot of Snow giving birth to Neal during the missing year.
Emma chapped on the door nervously. How was she even going to begin to explain this situation to them? Barely a minute later, her dad answered.
"Hi." Emma said, feeling her heart pounding. She was so wrapped up in her nervousness that she didn't notice the mix of shock and joy on her father's face. "Don't close the door." Emma begged him. "My…my name is-"
"Emma." Charming interrupted her. Emma was surprised, he remembered?
"David?" She responded happily. He remembered her! She moved closer into his now familiar embrace, she had missed this. Missed the security of feeling his hand come up to cradle the back of her head.
"You remember?" Charming said, how was that possible?
"You remember." Charming placed his hands on Emma's shoulders, completely confused.
"Of course. What are you doing here?" He asked her, leading her into the apartment.
"Hook found me." Emma told him. "He brought me here. He said you were cursed?" Emma said, confused.
"We're back, or we never left…well we don't know." Charming told her, conveying his confusion. "We're trapped again."
"But you know who you are?" Emma confirmed.
"This curse; we don't know who did it or why…all we know is our last year has been wiped away.
"Wiped away?"
"All we remember is saying goodbye to you." He told her, the pain still clear. "It feels like yesterday." But then something confused Emma.
"But, if you don't remember then how do you know it's been a…" Emma's sentence was broken by the sound of a crying baby. She looked up to the source of the noise and found her mom standing at the top of the stairway…with a baby in her arms. "Year." Emma finished her sentence. Emma had never seen a woman carrying a baby run so fast before. Snow flew down the stairs, handed the baby over to Charming and pulled her daughter into her arms. Snow pulled back, keeping hold of Emma's hands and looking deep into her eyes, worried this was a trick.
"As you can see," Charming said, placing the baby in one arm and wrapping the other round Snow. "A lot has happened." Emma stared at the tiny baby in her father's arms. She had a sibling?