A/N

I know I didn't put any disclaimers or anything in the last chapter, sorry, The brothers grimm unfortunately don't belong to me. I also clicked I've been calling Marbaden Maraban, sorry, realised after I'd watched the dvd last night.

Sorry it's been so long since I updated I've been sewing my costume for a re-enactment event I'm attending.

Previous chapter

"Angelika I do not mean nor intend to trespass but, do you have somewhere I can stay for a few nights, I will of course look for a place to live in the morning." she asked shakily.

Now Breaca is home how will she adjust to being back in village life rather than in the life she knew in the army.

Staying the night

"Breaca you are welcome anytime." interrupted Jakob trying to make up for his brothers rudeness.

Angelika nodded as if to say you will be safe here.

"Thank you." smiled the young redhead.

"My brother here." said Jake dragging Will to a door. "Will ensure you have a bed tonight with clean sheets and a warm blanket, won't you?" he added as he nearly threw his older brother out of the tavern door.

"Sir are you intending for your brother to give up his bed for the night?" questioned Breaca.

"No, no we for once managed to find a house to stay in with more than 2 rooms." grinned the young man swiftly following his brother out of the door.

He quickly popped his head back in.

"Oh Angelika could you show her the way, I want to make sure he does as he's been asked to do?" he asked sweetly.

"Yes, don't worry Jake she'll get there, we'll have to get her things from the stables though first."

Breaca looked at her old friend with a bemused expression on her face.

"Why do I have to be shown?" she asked "Why not just give me directions, I'm sure I can find it."

"It's quite a difficult house to find, it's tucked away so if you don't know where it is you won't find it.

Breaca chuckled at that, and was rewarded with a bemused look from Angelika.

"What's so funny?" she asked as she and her friend made their way through the village.

"Nothing, I was just amused slightly by the fact that the famous Grimm brothers are living in the most concealed house in the village, I thought they'd have wanted a more openly reachable house."

"Will did, but Jacob won the argument this time. He was fed up of finding the village maidens outside the inn every morning swooning when the brothers came out, he said it was time for some peace and quiet for once, which reminds me, you haven't seen a mad Italian any where around on your journey here have you?" enquired the darker haired woman.

"Was he bald with what looks like a dead rat perched on top of his head, and a dodgy tache?" she replied.

"So you have seen him?"

"Yep, and I think he was heading here except he was on foot not horse back like me. So it's going to be a while."

"How long ago"

"About 2 days ago, he should be here in another 2 days."

The two friends continued their conversation as they neared the house.

"Well here we are." said Angelika by way of breaking the silence that commenced as they approached.

"Angelika, do you think the brothers will mind if I stay?" enquired Breaca, her old childhood lack of confidence returning.

For a moment Angelika saw the small, forlorn, red headed child in the tightly laced dress, her hair hanging down her back in tight curls, who had moved to the village after the death of her mother, and had taken so much out of the children just trying to get her to talk to them, let alone play.

"Breaca, the brothers will not mind, they never have minded taking in a friend of mine, and they are well known for helping folks hereabout, I'm sure you have heard about the forest and the mirror queen?"

Yes, I have, though I hear that part of the mirror was found in the claws of a dead raven not so long ago."

Angelika gasped.

"Breaca you jest? Surely you jest, do not tease me so friend."

"No Angelika I swear it, one of my old friends in the army found the bird. It was Hans i think, yes it was he kept it with him, until the day I left for home, when he gave it to me for safe keeping, said it would bring me luck. Then again he always was a strange one Hans."

Breaca then stopped.

"Angelika why are you so scared of a piece of mirrored glass, surely it cannot do any harm, the queen was destroyed by the ever mighty brothers Grimm." she chuckled.

"Yes she was, but knowing her kind of magic Bre, she will have found a way to survive what Jake and Will did, and she will do everything in her power to return, and destroy the brothers."

"Well we shall see, you know what birds are like for picking up shiny things, the raven probably found the glass on a rubbish heap."

"True, that could well be. Oh well let's keep going they will be waiting for you, and despite his calm and quiet exterior, Jake never likes to wait too long for anything."

The two young women stopped at the dilapidated door of the Grimm brothers house and Angelika turned the handle admitting herself and Breaca into the front room. The youngest of the brothers turned at the sound of their entry and smiled.

"We shan't keep you up long Breaca,you must have had a long day today and be exhausted."

"Thank you, I am, and thoroughly puzzled as to why you would take in a woman like me, an ex soldier and one who dresses like a man at the best of times never mind when relaxing." she smiled, suddenly turning shy.

"You intrigue me, and completely confuse my brother, yet you seem to be a gentle soul so far, and add to that any friend of Angelikas is a friend of ours, and therefore welcome in our home anytime they need help or a place to spend the night." he explained.

NEXT CHAPTER

The dreaded queen comes into play as her small reserves of power begin to build and affect the everyday life of our heroine, can she resist the queen, and will she get to know the brothers and learn to tolerate Will never mind like him?