Drabble Day

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This week's prompt:
Acceptance

~100-1000 words. Anything longer post a link, please.

~Graphics always welcome.

~If your creation contains spoilers, you can use the spoiler cut: < lj - spoiler > < / lj - spoiler > (but without the spaces)

~Have fun!

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It is a know fact that sharing a meal can make or break a relationship.

Gold’s words rang in Regina’s ears, “They will never accept you.”

However she was sitting down with her son, Emma, and the Charmings having a meal at Granny’s.

Of course they were discussing the current crises with missing memories and lost time and the witch.

But they were listening to her and making her feel part of the conversation rather than being interrogated about her motives or how she was responsible.

“Dessert?” asked Ruby.

Regina smiled as Henry ordered the apple pie with ice cream.

The Growing Pain

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Characters: Snow/Charming
Rating: PG

The Growing Pain
“David, you can’t tell Emma that she can’t do it, if that is what she wants.” Snow said as she sat on their bed.

“Yes I can! She is still my daughter and I am her father. I do not accept that.” Charming said as Snow glared at him.

“David! She is as old as we are now. We can’t treat her like a child. She’s an adult.” Snow said. “If you don’t learn to accept that then you are going to have problems.”

“She is the child we wanted. The baby I put in that damn wardrobe to save us all. Forgive me for just wanting to be her father.” Charming raised his hands as if to surrender.

“You can be her father without being a jerk.” Snow said. She put the pile of laundry she had been folding in the basket and put it near the bottom of the stairs. “If you keep telling her what she can and can’t do, she will go back to New York and take Henry with her. Is that what you want to happen?”

“No but …HIM!” Charming made a face.

“It’s not like she marrying him. It’s a date.” Snow said. “She really likes him.”

Charming sat down at the counter and put his head in his hands. “How do you do this? How do you be her mother when we missed it all?”

“You have to accept that we can’t change what has happened. We also have to love her for who she is now not what we had dreamed she would be.” Snow gave him a sympathetic look. “It’s difficult but it’s also a necessary part of loving her.”

Charming looked at Snow. “I will give it a try.”

“It was difficult for me too at first but it will get easier.” Snow said. She put her hand on his arm. “She turned out to be more of a true princess than we could have ever hoped.”

“That is because she takes after you.” Charming said. “I better go apologize to her.”

Snow smiled as Charming got up and walked to the stairs. Snow took a deep breath. She knew her family would be fine.

Happy Ending (PG/K+)

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Outlaw Queen goodness, but with some minor spoilers for season 3!




"It's going to be okay," Robin whispers, stroking her hair.

"Robin, there is not a single person in this place who I have not attempted to kill, tortured, threatened, or otherwise harmed!"

Gently, he clasps her hands and raises them to his lips. "Do you trust me, my Queen?"

She can not help but to smile. "With all my heart," she assures him.

"Then let me down this honor for us." He kisses her hands, then releases her and raises his glass. He taps a spoon against it to draw the attention of all those gathered in Granny's diner that night, and once he has it, he begins to speak.

"I thought I knew once before what love was. When I lost what I thought was love, I thought I could not go on, but I had to for the sake of my son. It took many years, but I was rewarded with something greater, more powerful, and wonderful than I'd ever dreamed possible. I have now learned what real True Love is and am honored to have been given our Queen's heart." He grins at the whispers. "Aye, in more ways than one."

"Here, here!" Hook calls, laughing and waving his own glass. The Pirate has had too much to drink, but Robin doesn't care, not on this night. He waits until Emma has quieted him before continuing.

"Now I am to be blessed with a second honor, one almost as great as the first for our wonderful Queen -- " He hears a few whispers of how she is not their Queen but ignores them. " -- has agreed to marry me."

The negative whispers are lost in the shouts of celebration, and before Regina even knows what is happening, Mary Margaret, Snow White, or whatever she is calling herself this night has grabbed her and is hugging her tightly. Shock keeps her still for a moment, but then slowly, she returns the hug. She remembers a time before she was forced to marry Snow's father and before Snow betrayed her, and in that moment, she feels almost like she is being hugged by that sweet, little girl again. Only Snow is no child any longer. She is a grown woman with every reason to hate her but who is smiling and laughing in her joy that is being caused by Regina's own happiness.

"I'm so happy for you!" Snow exclaims, but before she can answer her, Regina is tackled again, this time by Tinker Bell.

"I told you," the Fairy says joyously, "you could still have True Love!"

"You were right," Regina admits, for once not at all ashamed or angry to have to admit that she was the one in the wrong. She is surrounded by the smiling faces of people almost as eager as Snow and Tinker Bell to tell her how happy they are for her, and it is a while before Robin pulls her once more to the side.

"I told you," he speaks, beaming happily. "Regina, you are no longer the person you were when you fought against these people. They have accepted that you have changed. They're happy for you. They're your friends."

He raises each of her hands again to his lips and kisses them before pulling her closer. "You're no longer a villain, my Queen. You're going to get your happy ending, and you deserve it more than any other lady I have ever known."

Regina smiles, her dark eyes alight with joy as they look up into his. "You are wrong about one thing, my thief."

"Only one?" he teases, still grinning.

Her palm strokes his face, then cups his cheek. Her breath washes over his smiling lips as she tells him, "I already have my happy ending," and then she kisses him. She knows her words have never been truer. He is more than her True Love. He is her happy ending for none of this could have happened if he hadn't loved when she had been unlovable. She can feel Henry and Roland nearby and knows their children are nearly as happy for them as they are. She leans in closer to Robin and deepens their kiss of True Love. She has everything she could ever want. She has her happy ending, and no one is ever going to take it, or any of them, away from her again.

The End