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Hair (Fairy Tale)

A/N: So I was think of what I should do for this chapter and I decided to do a Fairytale AU (Not the anime!)

This is for Shy_fawn24

Thank you for leaving all those kind comments! :3

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Once upon a time, there lived a man and his wife who had long wished to be graced with a child.

When the wife found herself pregnant, it was the beginning of a particularly cold winter after a particularly dry summer and she and her husband were quickly running out of food and resources.

Behind their home was a garden planted by their neighbor. Even as cold as the winter was, the many vegetables and flowers that grew there still blossomed and grew as healthy as they had in the most perfect of summers.

No one dared to ask for any though, for it was said to be guarded by a wizard who would kill anyone who so much as stepped in his garden.

However, afraid for the health of his not-yet-born child, the husband grew desperate in his search for food.

He begged for days but his friends and neighbors were as poor as he was and no one proved to be any help. He came home one evening to find his wife staring out the window at the garden.

"I'm so hungry," she said. "So hungry, in fact, even those leafy things on the far edge of the garden look appetizing."

The rampion (also known as rapunzel), had been the leafy plants she was staring at. The husband, meek and nervous as he had always been, decided that it was time to get even more desperate.

That night, he snuck onto the far edge of the garden and stole some of the plants for his wife.

She devoured them quickly and, finally sated, slept the first full night since her pregnancy began.

The next morning, they were awoken by angry rapping on their door. When the husband answered, a tall and beautiful man stood in their doorway.

Surprised as they were to see such a handsome man at their door, the husband and wife invited him in immediately.

Little did they know, this man was their neighbor the wizard and had come with the intent of killing them. The wife served what she could for breakfast and, taken by their hospitality, the wizard decided he should not indeed kill them.

"I have a confession, friends," the wizard says. "I came here today to kill you but after the kindness you have shown me, I am willing to offer you a bargain."

"But why would you kill us?" the husband asks.

"Last night, just after midnight, I saw you pilfer a few of my plants. As I can see your wife is with child, I suppose the plants went to feed it and not either of you.

Therefore, should you accept my offer, I will only take your child and not both of your lives."

The husband and wife looked at each other with fear in their eyes. If they were killed, their child would be to. If they let their child be taken they would surely die anyway but perhaps their child would have a chance at a better life than theirs.

They accepted the wizard's offer and by early spring their child was taken away.

The wizard left the village to raise the child in a tower in a forest far away. "I would name you Rapunzel," he said. "After the greens your mother and father took for me, but since you are a boy I believe I should name you something else. Levi."