[Authors Note: A New (Yay)... (Planned to be) Short story, inspired by Britney Spears :P...The title seems not to go with the story much- for the first couple of paragraphs, but it does . Enjoy ...Lou x]

Chapter 1: The Wasp

'Did you come 'ere for a pie, Sir...?'

Nellie Lovett awoke early one morning and began her everyday jobs. Bits and Bobs, you know. Cleaning the surfaces... Preparing the pies... Removing the clothes, hair and unwanted bodily appendages from the dead bodies in her cellar...

'Do forgive me if me 'ead's a little vague...'

Just lately, her business had been booming (All thanks to Mr. Todd, of course) who, by the way, she was completely devoted to. In love with, whatever you wanted to call it. Had been since he had shown up from his long absence about a year ago. Unfortunately for poor old Nellie, this love was not to be... He was still, day and night, night and day pining for his wife and child. Lucy and Joanna. Long lost, but still not forgotten... They remained happy, together. A family in the eye of his mind. Sighing gently to herself, the sullen looking yet rather ravishing woman known simply as 'Mrs Lovett' was busy setting up shop for the long day ahead. She usually started by arranging the tables and chairs in her small, dreary front room (Where the customers ate)

She had nearly finished when she spied an extremely odd looking object that had seemingly been left behind, towards the back of the shop... Which was odd, she thought running her hands through the messy tangle of frizz she called hair, because she was sure nothing was there last night when she closed up shop. And nobody had been in since then, other than herself, just now. Moving towards the object she saw that it had...Buttons of some description, and seemed to be made out of...Metal? Or some similar substance... It had a small glass...?...Window...? On it, in which case it probably had something inside of it that you were meant to look at... It also had the words 'Sony Ericsson' printed across the top. She didn't really know what to think, so she shrugged and began to walk off. But as soon as she had turned her back she heard a loud buzzing noise.

'What was that?'

Raising an inquisitive eyebrow she turned back round and discovered, as she had thought, that it was the small rectangular object called 'Sony Ericsson' (She assumed, anyway). When she reached out to pick it up, a thought briefly crossed her mind. 'Wha' if it's one o' them Wasps...?' She hesitated, then decided 'Wha' the hey' and picked it up. It was still buzzing, and vibrating rather violently in the palm of her hand. In the small glass window on the front, words and a series of numbers had appeared. Panicking slightly now, she mashed the key-pad with her free hand, until eventually... It stopped and was replaced by a woman's voice, cackling. Slightly taken aback that the small box with what she assumed was a wasp, for some reason named Sony Ericsson inside was now laughing at her... Not being able to think of anything else, she raised it slightly closer to her mouth and asked "'Ello...? Wha' the 'ell's goin' on...? Wha'...? 'ELLO!-"

But was cut off by a woman's voice shouting back at her "NO NEED TO SHOUT!"... Followed, yet again by an insane cackle. Before she could gather the courage to talk back, the voice continued. "Good morning. My name is Bellatrix Lestrange, Care for a chat?" The still awe-struck baker replied "'Ow are you talkin' at me through this box...?" She received a giggle from the voice, which answered. "Stupid Muggle... Don't worry your pretty little head- I'll soon be with you in the flesh..." and after a moment's silence, added "Nice dress by the way, It really complements your figure..." at this Nellie's jaw dropped and she dropped the phone down on the table. Staring down at the rectangle she heard these few last words

"Close your mouth for Christ's sake, you'll start to catch flies"... There were then three or four loud beeps and the voice disappeared. Nellie ran to the window, peering outside, looking for the figure of a woman. But there was nobody... Not a soul. Little did she know that Bellatrix was much closer than she thought... Ready and Waiting.