"Red, Little Red" Ruby jerked out of her stupor to see Leroy or Grumpy standing before her waving a hand in front of her to get her attention. She was standing behind the counter at Granny's staring out the window. "Sorry I guess I zoned out there for a minute" she said apologetically looking towards the window. "What, did you see a squirrel" he asked jokingly. "Ha-ha, so what did you need?" she asked. "Just a refill on my coffee before I head out." "You guys still mining for fairy dust?" she asked curiously. "Yeah, not that there's really much of a point now." "Yeah" Ruby agreed "with king George burning Jefferson's hat and not that we really have much of a home to go to anyhow it being destroyed and all" Ruby said pouring Leroy's coffee. "It just goes to show that no matter what land you're in evil will always win" Leroy said angrily. "Well it is an advantage when you don't play by the rules" Ruby said, Leroy agreed with her before leaving the diner.
Ruby walked into the back to get some of the meat out of the freezer. She pulled down a bag that had hamburgers in it. Walking towards the door she noticed a few French fries scattered on the floor in the corner. She walked over and began to pick them up when she saw the bag they had been in was shredded. She knew it was leftover from the night she had turned, escaped and then been led to believe she had killed someone. She hurriedly threw it all in the trash and buried it not wanting to remember. Sure she hadn't killed anyone but the possibility that she could have or still could in the future is what haunted her.
Ruby grabbed the hamburgers, went out front where she saw Granny in a deep conversation with Archie. Ruby threw the hamburgers on the counter causing them both to look at her startled. "Something wrong Ruby?" Archie asked concerned. "No, I'm fine" she answered then thought for a moment and said "yeah actually there is something." They both gave her their full attention "we all know that our stories are out there, one version of it at least. Don't you ever wish that story was the real one, you know the disneyfied one." "You want me to get eaten by a wolf?" Granny asked laughing. "Some days yeah" Ruby said jokingly then more seriously "I don't want to be the wolf. I don't want to have killed my boyfriend. I want to have been rescued by the lumberjack. I know I'm not a princess, I wasn't saved by a prince and I don't need or want to be." "What do you want?" Archie asked quietly. "Sometimes it would be nice to be rescued or to rescue myself, for good to triumph evil, for a happy ending" she finished breathlessly. They both stared at her for a minute before Archie broke the silence "if you ever need to come talk to me about any of this my door is always open" he told her kindly. She smiled at him gratefully "thanks I think I just needed to vent for a minute there, I'm okay now thanks" she said hoping they'd believe her. Neither one looked too convinced, Archie left having to get back to get back to his office. Granny took a step toward Ruby "good will triumph evil sometimes it just takes a little longer" she told her reassuringly. She gave a loving tug of Ruby's hair and went back to work making Ruby feel slightly better at least she would always have her Granny so she'd never be alone.