The Visit

Wow!!! Chapter ten! This one is short, but It will be updated soon!!! Some quotes in this chapter are taken from Into the woods, but not all of them. Just so you know that I don't own everything written here. wink ENJOY!!!

Narrator: Because Joseph, the baker, lost his mother and father at a young age, he couldn't wait to have a family of his own, and he was vexed that up until now, all endeavors had failed.

The next afternoon, Anne watched as the sartor's daughter, Amy, left the bakery with a bunch of goods for her grandmother. She shook her head, as she remembered that encounter. She was sorry to say it, but Amy ate like a pig, and she wasn't even sure how many sweets she would have left by the time she got to her grandmother's house.

She was torn from her thoughts by a nock at the door. Looking up she watched her husband go to see who it was.

"Who could that be?" He asked her.

Shrugging, she replied. "Amy just took the last loaf of bread."

Furrowing his brow, he peeked out the window. "It's the old witch from next door." He said as he opened the door.

The hunched fofrm of Pansy stepped over the threshold, and sneered at the couple. Over the years, she had come to dislike the couple sometimes. Rapunzel's brother, Joseph, had grown into a man with many similarities to his father and he seemed to let his wife push him around. what he needed was a backbone, or so Pansy thought.

Assuming, as they usually do, that she was there for a loaf or two, they told her that they had none.

Pansy rolled her eyes. "Of course you have no bread." She snapped.

"Then," Joseph started. "What do you wish?"

"It's not what I wish, it's what you wish." At the couples confused faces, she pointed her cane at Anne's stomach. "No bun in that oven,"she stated. "Is there?"

Joseph sent her an incredulous look. "Where do you get off making statements like that?"

"I'll tell you where I get off," Pansy said with a glare. "Eighteen years ago, I placed a spell on your house."

Anne immediately covered her mouth, in shock, with her hand.

"What spell?" Her husband inquired.

Pansy rolled her eyes and sat down on an old rickety stool. Sighing, she proceeded to tell them about the night Rapunzel was born. But, she conveniently left out information about her, including her name. All she told them was that a child had been born.

"I had a brother?" The baker asked.

Rolling her eyes again, she replied. "What, you think that all children are born as boys, and that certain parts fall off when some of them reach a certain age? You had a sister, you daft idiot."

The baker bristled at the insult and his wife blushed. Before they could reply to that particular comment, Pansy continued by telling them about her special beans and how she made a deal with the baker.

"I don't understand," Joseph said. "What does all this have to do with a spell?"

"Let's just say that when I collected the child, I wasn't mollified. So, I cursed your house to a childless existence." Pansy informed them as if something like this happened every day.

The couple gaped at her. Pansy smiled. She used to love saying off the wall things when she was in school just to get a reaction like that. Apparently she still loved it. Smirking, she leveled the baker with a glare. "I'm going to give you a chance to lift the spell," She said. And help me in return, she added to herself as an afterthought.
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