AN: It's the second update this week! Sorry it took me so long last time. I've been very lazy this summer. Now that school's gonna start in a couple days, I feel like getting a few more chapters done.

Here's chapter twelve!

Chapter Twelve: Encounters with Colored Hair

We all looked at each other.

"Its done," I said, quietly.

"Yeah," he said, also quietly. "You didn't see the flash, but it happened right after you ran over Bluebeard." Suddenly he grinned, "Now this next part, getting the ring, is going to be fun."

I rolled my eyes, "It's not going to be easy though."

Granny, Daphne, and Red left the room, going to make dinner. We are practically having a feast tonight since it's the first night that he is going to be here since the day of the accident. I just hope that they thought of me and are going to have at least one normal thing to eat.

Puck and I sat in front of the T.V., neither of us knowing how to start trying to get the ring thing going. Granny walked out of the kitchen five minutes later. "Sabrina, can you go down to the pharmacy and get Puck's pain killers. I forgot to get them. Be careful though. Take the back way."

I got up off the couch, put on my shoes, and went out the front door. I went into the forest that was on the right side right side of our house. No one knew the forest better than us. I took the trail that led to downtown, feeling safe since no one else dared to go through here because of the number of horror stories that were told about it.

It's perfectly harmless during the day, but I wouldn't want to be caught alone in it at night. Not so harmless when it's pitch-black.

Granny had given me the slip of paper with Puck's prescription on it and I walked in and handed it to the person at the pharmacy counter. He smiled at me, and I smiled back, thinking he looked vaguely familiar. Then he turned around and started walking towards a shelf of bottles of pills, skimming the labels and finally finding the right bottle.

He plucked it off the shelf and then started walking towards me. I realized who he was by the way he walked like he owned the world. "Do you go to Ferryport High?" I asked, just to make sure.

"Yep," he said. "Name's Josh. You're Sabrina right?" I stared coldly at him, grabbed the bottle and the prescription and turned around, leaving abruptly. "Where does it hurt, babe?" he called behind me.

I turned around and glared at him, "I can tell you were it's going to hurt if you don't stop talking." With that, I left.

He was the biggest jerk on school, hitting on every and any girl in sight. He went out with my friend Andrea for two months, before she found out that he was cheating on her with two other girls. That was probably the longest relationship that he has ever had.

I walked out of the store and headed towards the woods. Just as I reached the edge and was about to go into them, a hand caught my shoulder, quickly spinning me around and pushing me roughly up against a tree.

"Well, well, well," a voice said. The last voice that I wanted to hear in the world. "What is a young Grimm like yourself doing wandering through the streets all alone in a town were half the people living there want you dead? And I thought that Grimms were smart. I was wrong I guess."

Bluebeard was talking in a low, menacing voice, his face barely half a foot away from my own. He then reached up, grabbed my necklace, and pulled hard. It didn't rip. After trying again, this time trying to pull it apart with his hands, and having still in one piece, he pulled out a knife and sliced it in half. He then did the same to my bracelet.

"Without the first two, the ring is useless," he said.

"How do you know about that?" I asked, trying to sound confident, but I couldn't stop shaking and my voice wavered.

He reached down next to a bucket that I hadn't seen, stuck his hand inside, pulled it out, then pressed it against the right side of my chest, right above my heart. When he pulled his hand away, a blood red handprint was left on my shirt. The mark of the Scarlet Hand.

He bent down to whisper in my ear, "That's for me to know, and you to find out." Then he pulled back and grinned, pointing at the red handprint, "Here's your first clue."

I saw the swing of a branch and then saw Bluebeard fall to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Peter asked, breathing heavily with the thick branch still raised in the air. He dropped the branch and quickly looked me over for injuries. Satisfied with his check, he pulled me into a hug. I was shaking in fear and tears started silently falling.

"How did you know to come?" I asked in a whisper, my voice shaking. I pulled back to look at him.

"You're grandmother called and said that she felt bad about letting you go alone. The parenting instinct probably. She would have come herself, but didn't want to leave Daphne and Red alone with Puck so hurt and defenseless."

"Thank you," was all I said. He gestured towards the path and as soon as I picked up Puck's medicine and the prescription slip, we started heading home.

We were silent the whole way, neither wanting to discuss what happened. There are just some things that your friends are better off not knowing.

As soon as I pulled open the door to the house after going through all the locks on the door, I was attacked by two people trying to hug me at the same time.

"What happened?" Granny and Daphne said.

"Are you okay?" Red asked timidly from behind Granny and Daphne.

"I'm fine," I said shakily. "Pete came just on time."

"Well," Peter said from behind me. "My mom wants me home before dark. I'll call you later Sabrina.

"Kay," I said, mouthed 'thank you', and smiled at him. He nodded his head, smiling grimly (ha, grimmly) and left, closing the door behind him.

I turned to face everyone and told them all roughly what happened, not making it sound as worse as it felt. I didn't want them looking pitifully at me.

After I was done with the story-telling, I said I wasn't hungry and went upstairs to sleep.

That night, I had a nightmare.

AN: The chapter was titled 'Encounters with Colored Hair' cuz of her meeting with Bluebeard. Kinda corny, but I liked it. This is part cliff-hanger. Lets you know what's going to happen next. Anyway, I really need to stop leaving two long author's notes per chapter.

I'll try to update soon!

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