crimson_graces | open post 2017

Can't we just go? You're my parents, you're allowed to take me.

[ she wants to tell them this is all wrong; that she doesn't want to wait, it's too risky. every time she's ever had to wait for someone to make a decision, something's come up or they've changed their mind. now her parents are here, holding her hand and calling her princess, and if they really want her she doesn't want to have to wait to be told something went wrong, or someone won't allow it.

if they stay here, the system's just gonna mess it up again. Emma knows that better than anyone.]

If you talk to them, they might not let me come with you.

[Wonder where she gets that charming impulsiveness because it's pretty obvious the apple didn't fall far from the tree on that one.

He looks to Snow, for guidance because she always seems to have the right answer and because she's spent longer in this world than he has. She knows its rules better than him. Everything looks odd to him, recognizable in their shapes and functions for the most part but don't ask the man to explain cars or that thing Emma had on her head a moment ago because he has no idea. It's a silly looking headpiece, regardless.]

Why would it be a problem?

Well. Anyone could come and claim to be someone's parent. Could come kidnap the children.

[So likely, they would need proof. Not that they had a birth certificate or anything. Nothing to link them to her aside from similarities in appearance and that immediate affection they felt. That feeling. And yet that probably wouldn't be enough. They would need to figure something, of course.

But what? How to prove this? Themselves? To the ones running the orphanage, to Emma herself in being able to trust them? She's not yet quite sure, even if she figured what seems the obvious potential issue Emma might be referring to.]

They won't let me go with you today. There's a process. They'll want to know more about you; where you live, what kind of jobs you have, stuff about money.

[ they're her parents, but even Emma knows they're not going to make this easy on them. they might even make it harder if her parents claim to be what they really are. they'd have an easier time adopting her if she wasn't their real kid.

sometimes there are even judges, and those judges are pretty strict. she doesn't want to have to wait through all of that.]

But if we go, they'll just think I ran away again.

[ yep, again.]

[Snow, take the wheel.

Because Charming knows absolutely nothing about adoption processes in this world, thank you Regina for not giving him any curse memories so he can wander around like a clueless idiot. But he does understand that Emma doesn't appear to have had the good life they'd hoped she have when he put her in that wardrobe. It was supposed to be her best chance. It was supposed to be the best thing for her.

And she's talking about running away again.

He grips her shoulder, like he's trying to protect her from something.]

Running away? Emma....

Running? No...no, we don't need to go that far. I'm sure that would only worry everyone. I mean there will be...a lot to sort out, but. No matter how long it might take, we'll still go through with it. We came here for you, Emma.

[Snow only vaguely knows of the adoption process, not having really looked into it herself. She knows there is a process, money and such involved though. She's just not sure what this might look like when they are her real parents wanting her back.

Snow knows this might not be easy. That they probably won't be able to take her tomorrow or anything but they could at least talk to the staff once they returned to get the process in motion at least.]

No one looked for me last time.

[ she shrugs, like that's more a relief than anything else. no one had the time to look for a kid who'd chosen to wander off, or they would have found that she hadn't gotten very far. it wasn't anyone from her foster home who'd come looking for her. if she hadn't met a friend when she was stealing warmth from a fire, she would probably still be on her own.]

If you're my parents, and I don't have parents, why do we have to wait?

[ somehow staying here is even more unbearable when she knows they're here and they're ready to take her back. they found her, didn't they? that has to mean something. she'd like it to mean that they get to be a family now, but once the state steps in, it's not going to be easy.]

I don't like it here. The only reason why I came back was so I could find a family, and now you're here.

[And Snow wanted to stay in Storybrooke.]

Emma, listen.

[Charming gets down on his knee, so he's more eye level with her. She's just as beautiful up close as she was through the open door, it takes his breath away for a moment. This is his beautiful baby girl, and she has clearly being hurting for a while without them and it's not going to happen anymore.]

We want to do this right. We have to do it right. Because I don't want to give anyone a reason to say that you aren't ours. You are. We're not going to spend the rest of our lives running. We're facing it as a family. Together.

We'd look for you. Every time. However many times it takes. But he's right, Emma. We need to do this properly. Otherwise things may get more difficult later. I know it might take time, but once it's over, we'd be together for good. Can you do that? Wait a little longer for us? We'll visit as much as they'll let us, as much as we can while figuring this out, of course.

[There's a lot to get through. A lot to learn on orphanages and adoption or reacquiring kids of one's own in the system, but even so. Snow is willing to do it. Whatever it might take, in getting her daughter back. She'd known, the moment she'd step in that door, that she'd never want to be apart again.]

Okay.

[ Emma sighs heavily, taking two small steps back, like she's wary of them all over again. She can't know what it's like to have a family for good - she's never had that, even when she thought she did, and it hurts so much to lose people she wants to be with forever. If they're her real parents, somehow that's even worse.

It's okay that they want to do the right thing, she thinks maybe good people should, but she's not good, or wanted, or anything special. She'd rather run while they want her than risk someone changing their minds.]

I can wait.

[ she just doesn't want to, if they're her real mommy and daddy.]

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