beyond the wide world's end

Title: After the Woods
Author: bedlamsbard
Fandom: Into the Woods
Rating: R
Summary: Not long before he had only one child and a wife; now he had a child of his body and two not, as well as a young woman whose purpose he could not begin to explain, only that he had no idea why she continued to remain here with him, when it was clear that their intertwined lives held more trouble than they did hope or pleasure. Baker/Cinderella.
Disclaimer: Into the Woods belongs to Steven Sondheim, not me.

( maybe we forgot: they are not alone / no one is alone )

So, the high school's musical this year was "Into the Woods", and apart from wanting to cry at the lack of any internal consistency -- the Baker and Rapunzel and the Mysterious Man and the Witch, my God! What a missed opportunity! -- I really want, like, Cinderella/Baker fic where they have hot sex up against a wall because they're practically married already.

YouTube clip from the 1988 Tony Awards, although, you know, since I see this with my high school's cast, my view of the characters is completely different. (See: Beauty and the Beast, last year's musical, and the resulting Belle/Lumiere fic.)

Although, you know, as far as UST goes, I think The Wolf and Red Riding Hood have it made. I mean, hello, little girl. (For emphasis: this year, one of our star football players, whose never done musicals before in his life, tried out -- and he was the Wolf. I mean, hello.)