One Big Happy Family?

A Day At The Beach

Everyone was gathered around the car, "Who's driving?" Rumple asked, hoping Regina or Cora didn't volunteer. "I'd love to drive." Cora insisted. "No, that's okay. I'll drive, I know where we're going." Emma said, getting into the driver's seat. Everyone got in and Hook somehow managed to score the passenger seat. Emma glanced at him, remaining silent, she started the car and drove to the grocery store. "Mom, mom, mom!" Henry was bouncing up and down. Emma sighed, "Yes, kid?" "Can I PLEASE get some chocolate?" He asked with his puppy dog eyes. "No!" Regina called from the other aisle. "Well, no chocolate but you can have some gummy bears." "Yes!" He cheered as he threw the gummy bears in the basket. Regina and Cora came to the basket, one had a bottle of wine and the other had a 12-pack of wine coolers. "Whoa, guys, what's going on?" Emma inquired. "We plan on enjoying this day, don't you?" Regina smiled, "That's what I thought." She said walking off to another aisle. Snow and Charming came and put some chips and pretzels in the basket. "What else do we need sweetie?" Snow asked. Emma pondered, "Whatever else you guys want, I guess." Just then Hook came with a bottle of Rum, "This is ALL I will need, love." "Sure. That's fine." Hook decided to go wait by the car. Rumple and Belle put soda in the basket and they went to the car as well. Regina and Cora came back with another bottle of wine and some peanuts, "This is all we could think of, we're going back to the car." Cora said. "Fine, tell those outside that if they need to go, they better go now cos we aren't stopping." Emma went looking for Neal, Henry and her parents, only to find them all on the same aisle, staring at all the candy. "Guys, come on, we gotta go." Emma called but they were just mesmerized with the huge selection of candy. They each grabbed at least four kinds of candy and threw it in the basket. "Great, everyone's gonna be on either a sugar rush or drunk." Emma thought out loud. Everyone was at the car waiting, Emma pushed up to the cashier when she realized, she has to pay for all the groceries. "Great!" She threw her hands up in agitation.

"This family....why me?" Emma thought as she walked to the car. Everyone saw her frown and was trying to hide their laughs, "I'll help you Emma." Neal said as helped put the groceries in the car. Emma rolled her eyes at her family, trying to stay calm. "Jerks." Emma whispered as they were on the road again, heading to the beach. An hour into the three hour car ride, "I have to pee!" Henry was bouncing up and down, holding it in." Emma looked at him in the rear-view mirror, "Now I told everyone if they had to go, to go while we were at the store. Can't you hold it?" Still trying to contain himself, "I've been holding it in all day." Regina raised her eyebrow, "You better stop, because I refuse to have him use it in my car!" Emma grumbled, "Fine. Five minutes!" She shouted as Henry ran to the bathroom. Back on the road, "Can we have some music?" Snow asked and everyone was in agreement, it was too quiet in the car. Hook, with his good hand of course, turned on the radio, scanning channels when he found a station. "I'ma Goofy Goober YEAH! You're a goofy goober YEAH! We're all Goofy Goobers YEAH!" Hook and Snow were singing along while everyone was looking at each other confused. Emma glanced at Hook while trying to keep her eyes on the road trying to figure out what just happened. She changed the station to some pop music, "We are NOT listening to children's music. Nope. Not happening." Emma demanded. Hook crossed his arms pouting, Snow just put in her earphones and rested her head on Charming, who wrapped his arms around his wife while staring out the window at the view. Belle had fallen asleep on Rumple and Neal fell asleep on the other side. Henry was asleep on Regina, who was asleep on Cora. "Well, Lass, I guess that means it's just me and you." He put his hand on her thigh. "Move it or lose it." She frowned. "I like 'em feisty." He laughed slowly pulling back his hand. At the red light she looked at Hook, "You better pray I don't set you on fire." After two long hours, they finally got to the beach and everyone was knocked out, even Hook. Emma got a smirk across her face, she had the perfect way to wake everyone up. She took in a deep breath, she pressed the horn as hard as she could and screamed as loud as she could, "Fiiiirrreeee!!" Everyone jumped and the car rocked a bit. Hook hit his head against the window and so did Cora, "What the hell, lass?" He asked, rubbing his head. "We're here." Emma smiled. Regina glared at Emma, "And you couldn't just simply say that." Emma turned around to face everyone, "Payback's a b, ain't it? Now let's unload the car. C'mon guys!" She smirked and clapped.

After unloading everything, everyone began to relax. Rumple and Belle were sitting under their umbrella. "You don't want to go get in the water Belle?" Rumple asked, taking his wife's hand. "I'll go later. And take you with me." She smiled kissing him on the cheek. Snow, Charming, Henry, Hook, and Neal ran straight to the water and began swimming. Charming picked up Snow and threw her in the water, while Hook and Neal were having a splash fight with Henry. Regina and Cora got comfortable under their super huge umbrella Cora conjured up. "Hey!" The author yelled, "You shouldn't be using magic in public!" Cora smirked, "Well you should have thought of another place, preferably somewhere inside." The author rolled her eyes and continued. They opened up some wine and began drinking. Emma went and sat next to them, Regina handed her a cup, "Here. Have a drink, loosen up and relax." Emma smiled and took the cup. She put her shades on and watched her parents and son having fun, before she knew it, she was on her fourth cup and had dozed off. "Look, Emma's asleep." Snow said. "We should wake her up like she did us." They all smiled, Hook and Neal crept up beside her while Henry grabbed his phone, preparing to film everything. They picked up her chair and slowly motioned towards the water, looking at each other they counted, swinging the chair on each number, "1, 2, 3." They whispered and on three they threw her in the ocean. Emma opened her eyes to find herself in water, she screamed and everyone saw the bubble float to the surface and they just laughed. She swam up to find everyone laughing, "Really guys?" She was heated, but she decided not to make a big deal out of it. Instead she swam over to Snow and dunked her under water. The guys ran back into the water, Emma got on Hook's shoulders, Henry on Neal's and Snow on Charming's and they were trying to knock each other down, pure family fun.

Eventually everyone was in the water and they all were enjoying themselves, water fights, dunking each other, Rumple enjoyed floating on his back, Emma hopped on a float and decided to take a small nap but of course her family wasn't going to let that happen. Time passed by quickly because they were having fun and the sun was beginning to set, "Come on guys, let's eat and get ready to go soon." Emma said, getting out of the water. "Aww!" They called. "Aww, nothing. Unless Regina wants her seats completely wet, everyone needs to get out so they can begin to dry. Regina stood up, "Alright everyone out!" She yelled, getting out and heading to her chair. Everyone was eating and smiling, enjoying the bonding moment. "It's nice to spend quality time with the family." Charming said wrapping his arms around Snow and Emma. "Indeed." Rumple nodded. Henry had fallen asleep again, "That sugar rush must've take effect." Emma laughed. Hook was acting weird, "Love, sleepy as well am I." Emma rolled her eyes, "You're drunk aren't you Hook?" He smirked, "Drunk! No such thing." He answered before falling asleep in his chair. Cora laughed, "Some people can't hold their alcohol apparently." Soon enough, everyone was tired and began packing up to head home. They threw Hook in the back and Snow sat up front while everyone else in the back, once they got comfortable, went to sleep. Snow looked at her daughter, "Have fun today?" Emma smiled, "Yeah. It was nice for everyone to bond." "I'm glad we got to spend time together." Emma grabbed Snow's hand, "So am I mom." She looked at her mom. "Fluff maker!" Snow screamed at the author but she ignored it. They made it home and Neal was carrying Henry inside, "If you kick him out of bed again, I will come kick you." Emma said before going up to her room and getting in bed. Regina and Cora were semi-drunk but they managed to get to their room before passing out. Charming had to pack Hook inside and threw him on his bed, Rumple and Belle got comfortable in their bed. Snow and Charming went to their room, hugging each other and slept in each other's embrace.