Finding You Always

Electric Love

Finding You Always

Chapter 16: Electric Love

"And then she gave me another apple, even though I ask every day for an orange. But she keeps giving me an apple! I hate apples," Emma chatted animatedly and had been since the diner. They were now at the door to the loft, but Snow and Charming had been soaking up everything about their baby girl.

"I hate apples too," Snow said.

"That makes three of us," David agreed.

"Cause of the poison apple? Is that why? Cause I never liked them, even before the book," Emma asked. Snow nodded.

"They don't make me physically ill anymore, but for a while I couldn't even look at one without getting nauseous. It only stands to reason that it translated to you, baby girl," Snow said.

"And I couldn't stand them either anymore. It was a symbol of the Queen at that point," David added. Snow smirked.

"Ordering all the apple trees within the three mile radius of the castle be cut down might have been a slight overreaction though," Snow teased her husband.

"No, as you pointed out, my original order to cut every single one in the entire Kingdom down was the overreaction," he pointed out. She giggled.

"It was, but endearing as your usual over protectiveness is," she teased, as she opened the fridge.

"Late night snack?" he asked. She smiled.

"No...just bedtime hot chocolate to go with a bedtime story," she mentioned.

"Really?" Emma perked up.

"Of course...and a solution to your apple problem," Snow replied, as she pulled out the peanut butter, jelly, and bread, along with a couple other items that Emma quickly identified as an orange, and a few cookies for a treat.

"You won't have to worry about the less than stellar cafeteria food if we pack you a lunch to take everyday," Snow said, as she brushed her hands through her daughter's long blonde locks.

Emma looked up at her in wonder, for something as simple as her mother making her a lunch and brushing her fingers through her hair. David felt tears brim his eyes, as he watched them together with his own awestruck expression.

His daughter had been denied such simple things that should have been a given for any little girl. It made him sad for her, angry at those who had mistreated her, livid at Regina, who had caused all this...and yet his joy won out over all just at the sight of them together. Snow's voice broke through his reverie again.

"Go pick a story and we'll read it together," she suggested, as Emma hopped down, while Snow finished their cocoa. Snow put the tray on the coffee table and took David's hand, as they sat on either side of their little girl on the couch. Nothing had ever been more perfect to him.

Regina fumed at her desk, as she tried in vain to work on the budget proposal. But she was furious and endlessly distracted. She growled and papers and folders went flying, as she swiped them off her desk.

She had been so close! This was supposed to be her happy ending! And Snow...Snow was supposed to suffer! But instead, Regina was alone and Snow had her Charming. They didn't even remember their lives before, but they had still gravitated to each other the moment he had stepped into town. The way he looked at her...no one looked at her like that. No one had since Daniel.

Then she remembered her brief encounter with Jason Locksley again...the man with the lion tattoo. If Tinkerbell was to be believed all those years ago...