Red knew it was dangerous for him to get close to other animals, as they all seemed to suffer from some fetal accident after meeting him. It had started with a brown squirrel named Sarah. She had been beautiful and kind, so perfect in Red's eye. He had fallen for her... Hard. He had told Nigel about her once after capturing the spy and had even considered quieting being a villain and asking her to marry him. Yet it wasn't to be, as three days later, Sarah was fount dead. They concluded the death to be natural after finding no foul play. It was almost as if she had just fallen asleep and stopped breathing. Almost, at least. The second time had been after he befriended spotted puppy named Steven. He was fount with his skull crushed and his insides tore to shreds. Cause of death was said to be murder by a cannibal larger dog. The case was never solved. Then there was a penguin named Jacob, his death was ruled as suicide. George, was fount without his eyes and missing a hand. They put his death down as a vengeance killing. It soon became clear to Red that having friends was dangerous as they all ended up the same way: Dead. So he stopped trying to make any and that left him with Nigel and the Mice as company. Even if half the time, he and Nigel were fighting.
Nigel couldn't help but smile as things fell back into their normal routine. Sarah had tried to change Red into someone the squirrel wasn't. When Red told him he was considering quieting in favor of settling down, Nigel knew something had to be done and fast. It was easy breaking into her home and suffocating her with a pillow while she slept in her own bed. Nigel didn't have to get his paws dirty to get rid of Steven, instead he contacted a Rottweiler named James and paid him to dispose of the stray. With Jacob, all Nigel had to do with slip some powdered pills into his drink and the penguin did the rest for Nigel. As for George, Nigel personally took care of him. He would never look at or touch Red again. And finally his hard work paid off. It was just him, Red, and the Mice and it would soon be just him and Red. He knew Red would never understand what he had done, but it had done it for Red's sake. And what Red didn't know couldn't hurt him.