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Daddy's Little Princess

Third Person POV

Chapter 1: The Curse

"My king!" The Blue fairy exclaimed as she rushed in the bedroom. The family of Snow White, Prince Charming, and their newborn baby, Emma, were waiting for the magic wardrobe to be finished. Snow White was supposed to go through alone while she was still pregnant, but Emma came early. "I have been told that the wardrobe has enough magic to protect two. One of you can go with Emma."

"You have to go." Snow White told Prince Charming. "You have to protect Emma from Regina's curse."

"I won't leave you." Charming protested, but Snow White just shook her head and handed Emma to her father.

"If she's the only one that can save us, first you have to save her. You're good at saving princesses." Snow said with a regretful smile. Emma would have to grow up without her mother, but at least she'd have her father. Charming would protect Emma with his dying breath. Whatever Regina considered justice and revenge, everyone else considered unfair torture.

"I will find you." Charming vowed with tears in his eyes as he left. "I will always find you."

The bells from the castle's defensives wall chimed, signaling the arrival of the curse. The sky turned a gray-purplish color and it covered all the land like a blanket. It was almost hopeless for all the creatures in the Enchanted Forest, and their only savior was a small baby. Charming weighed the options in his head. Growing up as a cursed family with no hope, or their daughter growing up without them. He took Emma from her mother's arms and ran out the door.

Down the hall, knights of the evil Queen Regina waited to kill the prince, and then Snow White. They didn't know that the baby nestled in Prince Charming's arms was the Savior. Regina didn't even know.

The knights rushed at him and Charming drew his sword. The metal clang of crashing swords echoed through the palace, or what hadn't been destroyed by the curse. Charming could only hope the wardrobe hadn't been destroyed yet.

Charming drove the sword through the knight's stomach, and he went down. Another knight cut Charming's face, but he didn't dare drop Emma. He couldn't put her down. They had to get to the wardrobe. More and more knights kept coming, but Charming defeated them all. He was slightly injured, but baby Emma was unharmed. He breathed a sigh of relief as Emma was put in the wardrobe. When she disappeared, he knew she was in the new world, the safe world.

Suddenly, Queen Regina stormed into the hall, and Charming walked away from the wardrobe. He was done running from her, done hiding. It was time to face her head-on.

"Well, I found half the happy couple." Regina said with a death glare. In this case, death could be literal. "Where is Snow?" Regina snarled, hands raised and prepared to do magic. She had magic and would wield it mercilessly. No sword would stop it, and she was much more powerful. Regardless, he swung his sword, and hit Regina across the face. She sent the sword flying across the room, leaving Charming defenseless. Anyone knew better than to go hand-to-hand with a sorceress or sorcerer.

Charming made a snap decision. His weapon was too far away, and he still had to protect Emma. He ran for the wardrobe.

"You'll never find Snow." Charming said and went in the wardrobe. He could feel Regina pound on the doors, trying to open them. Color flooded Charming's vision, flashes of light almost blinded him and suddenly it stopped.

He was standing in a tree. It was a broken old oak tree with a hole in the middle of the trunk. The tree cracked and started to topple over with Charming and baby Emma still inside. Charming grabbed Emma and jumped out of the tree. Within seconds of them leaving the tree, it fell over, or at least the top half did. It left behind an empty, ugly, cracked stump. Just like a dead tree would leave.

Charming just stood there a minute, looking at the stump of the tree. The last link to his world, and it was gone in a flash. His last link to Snow.

Baby Emma began to cry, and Charming looked around for something to soothe his daughter. Nothing was useful at all.

"Let's find the nearest kingdom Emma. We'll explain everything to the king." Charming said, more talking to himself than Emma. He had to have a plan, a course of action. That was exactly what he had now. Charming started to walk out of the woods, cradling a crying baby. One that was to save them all.

A/N: So yeah. Do you like it? I need Reviews to keep me going! If four of you would be so kind... I also need ideas for young Emma, what she'd be like. No little kid is the same, I've learned that from MANY years of babysitting. A girl's gotta have money. What are some things that you think young Emma and Charming should do together? Until next time! :)