I remember that day.  We were on the beach, and Klaus started taking my picture.  The beach was empty- just the two of us and a gorgeous golden sunset. Klaus shot until the sun went down.  

Duchess looks out the window wistfully - "I do go on trips with Klaus, and yes, the other girls talk about it."

"I like spending time with Klaus, and he likes spending time with me.  And the trips...they're a lot of fun."


When Klaus goes on business trips, I usually go along with him.  He says I'm there because it's part of my job.  To keep him organized, to make sure he is at the right place at the right time.

Then he will buy me a new dress, or a necklace, "To fit in with the locals" he'll say.

We once spent three days in the countryside photographing roses.

I packed picnic lunches and had water for Klaus.  I sat under a tree reading while he moved from flower to flower, like a little bee. 

Those days were luxurious. 

In the evening I'd pour him some wine and he'd tell me about what he'd seen. 

He always brought in a flower and gave it to me.  Sometimes it was beat up from being in his pocket all day and he would say, "When I picked that rose, it was the most beautiful rose in the world.  A few hours in my pocket doesn't change that."

Actually, it did.  but I never told him that.

But I think I'm done.  I think I'm done with those trips.

​Let me tell you about the last trip I went on.

Klaus says we're going out to shoot some sunflowers.  I go along of course, put on my dress and I'm ready.

But then I see a girl climbing up the flower, and I see who it is...

Apple.

MF'ing

White.

​Are you shitting me?  Klaus is shooting with Apple White?  After she's tried twice to steal my man?

So I go out there, and I throw some abracadabra her way.  Some devilry and witchery too.

My grandma taught all of us the hocus-pocus, but this is the first time I needed it.

"Goddess of the sunflowers, come to me,  and burn up Apple White.

Make me the chosen one.

And I live my life with my honey."

And that my friends, is why I'm standing next to this damn beehive.

You know, maybe Grandma Swan didn't know as much about enchantments as she thought?

​Anyone know how to break a curse you put on yourself?