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[dishearten]

( it's not to say he hasn't considered their future together. he does, and he doesn't hide his thoughts either. he's made the suggestion he live on his own long enough for Henry to grow comfortable with the idea of his mother marrying. he's found himself quite determined to have a place that is their own, a concept of home he's only started to build recently. he wants to find a way to be a part of her family without overstepping any boundaries — and in a family so complex sometimes that seems easier said than done.

more family than what she already had? It honestly hasn't occurred to him. perhaps it should have before his in laws brought it up, but it hasn't. )

I've never really considered it before. It is a little strange to consider, but not a bad strange.

[sheriffing]

Like I said, it'd have to be something we wanted. Something we were ready for.

[Something where she wasn't in a prison cell or handcuffed to a hospital bed. She never thought she'd be with someone who she would just volunteer this information to, but they don't keep anything from each other anymore. Her father mentioned it, she started thinking about it.

And when Emma thought about it, she realized it's a distant possibility. All she wants now is a home she can share with both of the men in her life, but they're not as far away from that as they used to be. Maybe it's okay to consider life beyond returning to Storybrooke.]

Something that felt right.

[dishearten]

Do you think I'd be any good at being a father?

( that seems to him to be the variable that is still unknown. he's seen Emma with her son, he thinks she's more than capable. he's raised wolf pups and plenty of puppies but never a human. in fact his childhood was so far from the norm, is he really the best influence on a child? )

[sheriffing]

Yeah, I do.

[ She wouldn't have married him if she didn't feel like he could be a good stepfather to Henry, even if the thought of them having their own kid hadn't crossed her mind. It's not something she's ready for, the conversation probably won't come up again anytime soon, but they've never talked about it before and now that they are - yeah, she feels like they could do this someday.]

[dishearten]

I think I'd have a lot to learn. I've not much experience with children.

I watched Henry a few times when he was small, but I always missed the worst of it. luckily he was easily distracted by keys.

( hopefully just the sound, right graham... please dont let the baby suck on dirty keys )

[sheriffing]

You'll have to tell me more about that later.

[In person, so she can hear what a terror her son was. He probably gets it from her, but she doesn't know what he was like before he turned ten. Who knows what Henry got into as a baby?

Keys, Graham?]

We'd both have a lot to learn. And trust me, I'm not saying I expect anything. I'm just not afraid of the possibility of us learning together.

[dishearten]

( what else was he gonna shake Emma, doughnuts don't jangle. ngl Henry has probably drooled on his badge though. is that better, as baby appropriate toys go? ...no? )

I'm not sure here is much to tell. He was a better baby than I was a babysitter. I'll try to remember details if you want to hear hem, though.

If that's what our future holds, I'll be ready for it. I don't think there is anything we couldn't face together.

[sheriffing]

Any details are more than I have now. I'd like to hear about it.

[ And she'll try not to hold the key thing against him.]

That's why I'm not afraid to want a family with you. We're a good team, we'll face our future together.

[dishearten]

( he did his best okay... don't hate... )

not afraid at all? those are bold words, Emma Swan.

[sheriffing]

[ in the future, she'll know what to look out for.]

You've created a monster, Graham Humbert.

[oops, last name.]

[dishearten]

seems an awfully wretched curse, to give a child a name like that.

( lbr. He's not wrong. )

[sheriffing]

Not when the kid has parents who would threaten anyone who teased them.

[dishearten]

considering I'd guess it'd be other children, we might have to think of another solution.

I wouldn't mind having a little Swan, you know.

[sheriffing]

If you say so.

I know that now. Your last name's not so bad, we could always go for the hyphenate.

[dishearten]

There's worse names than Humbert, but it isn't really mine.

( Graham technically isn't, either, but at least he associates himself with that one. Humbert is... well it's sort of just there. )

[sheriffing]

Could be worse, you could be Prince Graham.

[Don't think that also hasn't entered her parents' minds.]

[dishearten]

( sorry but wut. Somehow this is barely comprehensible to him. )

I'm not sure why anyone would call me that.

[sheriffing]

[ it is a legitimate slightly insane concept, alright?]

Because you married up.

[dishearten]

why would marrying a princess make me a prince? marriage doesn't change the means of my birth, that doesn't make very much sense.

( friendly reminder your hubs was raised by wolves. not even a curse gave him a lot of insight on the finer points of royal titles. )

[sheriffing]

David wasn't born a prince, either. He was a farmer.

[Friendly reminder that the means of his birth doesn't count for a lot when he's married to the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.]

It's not like we're going to go back and rule the Enchanted Forest, I'm not expecting you to be king someday, Graham. But you're my husband, my family. You'd technically have a title.

[dishearten]

your father also took on the title of a prince before he married.

( that makes it easier for him to run around as king. for his part, graham is never going to feel like a prince. )

I like the title I earned. I don't have any interest in one granted by technicalities, being your husband is more than enough for me.

[sheriffing]

That's a romantic way of saying the only one of us who's ever getting dragged down by a stupid title is me, Graham Humbert.

[dishearten]

by your own account the titles mean little, and let you're being dragged down by it? which is it?

( sorry, Emma, but it either means something or it doesn't... and you're not likely to get the contradiction past the man that married you. )

I've never known you to be dragged down by anything, Emma Swan. any title you take on you learn to master. being a daughter and princess are like to be much the same.

[sheriffing]

Depends on which one lets me call you the brave and bold Prince Graham.

[ it means she gets to tease him about being a prince, basically.]

I'm still learning how to take on most of them. Mother and daughter and wife are the ones that mean the most.

[dishearten]

I don't suspect either will manage that without a few faces.

( you can marry him to a princess but you can't make him willingly take the title of prince!! )

I think you're quite grand at all of those, though arguably I could be biased, since I'm so intensely involved in the last.