Treated Like a Kid

VuryEvilquem asked for a oneshot of Hanna getting into trouble again and getting grounded, but she says she's too old to be grounded because technically her and Emma are the same age.

"You're late," David said as Hanna walked into the station. Hanna was riding the bus to the station after school because Snow had parent-teacher conferences this week.

"Only by a few minutes," Hanna said as she slowly made her way over to the desk to start on her homework.

David raised his eyebrows at her. "Try 20 minutes."

"Oh, well I…" Hanna didn't think her detour to get hot chocolate at Granny's had taken that long.

"You're suppose to get off the bus and come straight here. Where did you go?" David asked her.

"Nowhere," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Hanna, it does not take 20 minutes to come in here from the bus stop. Now just tell me."

"Fine…I got off at the stop by Granny's and got a hot chocolate, then walked here."

"I thought I spotted some chocolate on your face."

Hanna quickly wiped her mouth and looked up at her dad with pleading eyes. "I'm sorry, Daddy."

"Well, I forgive you, but you're still grounded for the rest of the day. No phone, tv, or dessert and you will go straight to bed after dinner."

"But, Dad…"

"Do you want the same punishment for tomorrow too?"

"No…you know you shouldn't even be able to ground me. Technically I'm the same age as Emma, so you shouldn't treat me like a kid," Hanna said as she pointed to her sister, who had been quietly doing paperwork the whole time. "You can't ground her."

Emma looked up at her sister. "Oh Han, trust me…"

David held up his hand to stop Emma. "Would you rather have the punishment I give your sister when she doesn't follow the rules?"

Emma widened her eyes and shook her head at her sister, trying to tell her not to take their dad up on his offer, but she wasn't paying attention.

"Yes," Hanna said with a nod of her head.

"Alright," David said with a shrug of his shoulders as he left the room.

"You shouldn't have done that," Emma told Hanna.

"Why not?"

"You'll see…"

Hanna watched as her dad came back with several file folders. "What? You want me to file those?" That would take like five minutes. Hanna heard her sister let out a laugh.

"Nope. I want you to copy down every word written on these files into this," David said as he placed the files and a notebook in front of her.

Hanna's eyes went wide. "But Dad, this will take all night!"

"You better get started then," David told her as he went back to his desk to continue working.

"I tried to warn you," Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders. There were a few times when Emma didn't listen to him while they were out getting a perp and put herself into harms way unnecessarily…Emma didn't think so, but her dad did. She tried to tell him that she was the Sheriff, but he played the dad card and punished her anyways. He would stick Emma on desk duty for a few days and make her do paperwork. Most of the time Emma was doing actual paperwork, but right now Hanna was just copying down old files from years ago they had stored in the back. Although, there was one time when they completed all of the actual paperwork and Emma had to do the same thing Hanna was doing. That was not fun.

Hanna sighed and got started on her punishment. Now she wished she would have just taken the original offer. Being treated like a kid definitely would have been better in this.