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This story is for Saskia's birthday. We aren't that old in the scheme of things. I thought forty was old, or at least older, but then I got here and I still feel young.

For this story I looked up Gnome (among other Faie) and found that according to some, gnomes are the spirits of prudish woman who look over other prudish women like a guardian angel. My youngest was helping me research and asked what prudish meant. I told him it was a bad way of saying the kind of girl upheld as good (a moral virgin) and then I looked it up. The original meaning of prude was a great compliment. A good women, but not just good, but also moral and modest. That's yet another word applied to women that went from good to bad.



Title: The Fruit of Love
Status: complete
Genre: m/m, fairytale
Rating: R
Content: barrenness, hope, despair, joy
Length: about 6,200 words
Summary: How does Rumpelstitzkin find the girl? Why does he help her? Why in the world would he want a human baby? What was the big deal with learning his name anyway? And did the girl really get to keep both the gold and her kid?
Warning: Kind of a cavalier attitude towards other people's babies.
Note: I'm spelling Rum's name with a z for aesthetic reasons, because it sometimes is, and as a reminder that the last syllable is kin (little) not skin, which I've always found both audibly and visually ugly.


“Rum, are you still wasting time on that egg tree?”

At long last )

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