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Finally Back
This one takes place during season 2 right after Snow and Emma get back from the Enchanted Forest. Hanna doesn't want to be away from her mom because she's afraid she might get taken away again.
"Han, do you want to come to the store with us?" Emma asked as she walked up next to her sister. "Henry and I are getting the stuff for the party at Granny's tonight."
"Yeah I'll come!" Hanna said with a smile as she stood up from the couch. She looked over at her mom. "Are you coming too?"
"No, sweetie. You go on ahead. I'll stay here with your father," Snow told her.
"Oh…maybe I'll just stay here too," Hanna said as she sat back down.
Snow gave her daughter a questioning look. A few seconds ago she seemed to be excited to go to the store with Emma and Henry. Now, all of a sudden she doesn't want to go? Something was going on with her, Snow had an idea of what it might be. She noticed Hanna had been practically glued to her side just about every moment since she and Emma came back from the Enchanted Forest yesterday. Hanna maneuvered herself so she was sitting right beside Snow at Granny's for dinner last night, and she seemed awfully sad to have to go to bed when they got home. This morning Hanna made sure Snow was in her sights at all times. Snow knew she was trying to be subtle about it, but she could still tell what Hanna was doing.
"Hanna, why don't you want to go?" Snow asked as she took a seat beside her youngest daughter.
"I just want to stay here instead," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"But you seemed so excited to go. Can you tell me why you changed your mind?" Snow asked. She was trying to ease Hanna into talking about it. She knew she had to be delicate.
"I'm going to run upstairs and see if Henry is ready yet," Emma said as she walked towards the stairs. She wanted to give them some space to talk.
"So, what made you change your mind?" Snow asked again once Emma was upstairs.
"I don't know…"
"Hanna, please talk to me," Snow said with a gentle smile.
Hanna looked into her mother's eyes. That was what her mom said to her right before Hanna pushed her away…right before she got sucked through that portal with Emma. Hanna told herself then that she would try to open up to her more. Hanna decided maybe she should give it a try now.
"I just…I don't want to be away from you," Hanna said quietly as she looked down.
Snow couldn't help but smile at that. Her little girl wanted to be with her and that made her happier than anything, but she also knew this had more to do with Hanna being scared. Snow didn't want her to feel scared about anything.
"Can you tell me why?" Snow asked.
Hanna sighed. "What if something happens again? The last time we were apart you got sucked into a portal, and it took us so long to get you back. What if you get taken away?" Hanna was talking about a mile a minute now as all of these fears popped into her head. "What if another portal appears or…"
"Hanna…Hanna, slow down," Snow said as she put her hand on Hanna's arm to try and calm her.
Hanna just shook her head as a few tears fell from her eyes. "You're finally back. I don't want to lose you again."
"Oh sweetie," Snow said as she pulled Hanna into her arms and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'm not going anywhere. That's not going to happen again. I promise."
"But how can you promise that?" Hanna asked as she sat up and looked at her mom.
"Because I'm your mother, and I know these things," Snow told her with a wink. She knew in her heart she couldn't promise Hanna that for sure, but their family always finds each other…that was something of which Snow was completely certain.
Hanna gave her mom a small smile, but she still wasn't sure if she could believe her.
"Hanna listen," Snow said with a sigh, she could tell her daughter wasn't buying it. "You're right, bad things do happen. Sometimes there's not anything we can do to stop them, but that's no reason to stop living your life. I don't want you to always be scared of what might happen."
Hanna thought about that for a minute. "Yeah, I guess you're right," Hanna said with a nod of her head. Her mom had a point, she couldn't let herself be afraid all of the time.
"Now, I would be more than happy to have you stay here with me," Snow told her with a smile as she tucked some of Hanna's hair behind her ear. "But if you want to go with Emma and Henry, then I think you should go. I promise I'll be here when you get back."
"Alright we're headed out," Emma said as she came down the stairs with Henry.
Hanna looked over at her mom, who gave her an encouraging smile. "Wait, I want to come too," Hanna said as she stood up and walked towards the door to get her coat.
"Great, let's go!" Emma said.
"One second," Hanna said as she ran back to her mom and wrapped her arms around her. "Bye, Mom."
Snow held Hanna tight in her arms. She could never get enough of this. "Bye sweetie, I'll see you when you get back."
Hanna ran back to where Henry and Emma were waiting.
"We decided to make tacos for the party tonight," Henry told Hanna as they walked out the door.
"Where are they headed?" David asked as he came up behind his wife and wrapped his arms around her. He had missed all of this while he was in the shower.
"To the store," Snow said as she turned and looked up at him with a smile.
David gave her a kiss, then realized something. He raised his eyebrows at Snow. "You know…we have the whole place to ourselves."
"That we do," Snow told him with a grin. "You know my trip back was awfully tiring, I could use some rest."
"I think I can help with that," David said as he scooped his wife up into his arms and carried her into the bedroom.
