A/N: Hey, there guys! It's me, MBAV fan66!

So, that was some last chapter, huh guys? Benny taking on his father. Ethan killing Benny's father. And now the villagers show up! I wonder what that means for Benny? Actually, I already know, but you don't! Lol! But soon you will, as it will all be revealed in this chapter! Yay! Lol! :)

But not so yay, as this is also the last chapter for this tale. Boo! Lol! :(

But that just means it's time for another geat fairytale to unfold, starring our favorite MBAV characters! So, yay again! Lol! :)

Now! How about we get to seeing how it all ends for Ethan and Benny in this woodsy kind of fairytale. Shall we? Lol!

Shout outs:

Bethan Forever- Well, the wait is over my friend! Lol! And yeah! Demetri underestimated Ethan. He never suspected that he would be armed with a knife. Hehehe! He was too cocky for his own good. Let's just hope that they don't jump to conclusions and try to kill him. That would be terrible! Not too mention, Ethan would be so heartbroken as well. But this is a fairytale after all, so who knows! Things just might work out in the end! :)

TiredOfBeingNice- Lol! That's alright, fanfic buddy! I tend to forget certain details that just happened in a story too. But to be fair, it was only two chapters back from that one and was rarely ever mentioned. Thanks! I'm glad that you liked the fight scene! I hope that "someone else" isn't me, fanfic buddy. *looks really nervous suddenly at you* I guess we'll just have to see how it all ends. Won't we? Lol!

Love Laugh Live Your Life- Thanks for following the story and me!

Story: Little Red Riding Hood Part 9

Chapter 9: Proving Benny's Innocence

Main Pairing: Ethan/Benny

As soon as Mrs. Morgan had said that, gasps were heard from the crowd and the sounds of clicking from guns beinging cocked and ready to fire, were pointed right at Benny. Mrs. Morgan immediately pulled her son away from the wolf and into her arms in a bare hug, trying to keep him safe.

Benny gulped as he slowly took a couple of steps back with his hands raised in the air, as a sign of caution. He was scared for his life now, because he had nowhere else to run and there were way to many people to out run at this distance. He began to tremble some and felt a bead of sweat begin to run down the side of his head.

"You stay away from my son! You monster!" demanded Mrs. Morgan harshly, but very sternly to him, as she held Ethan close to her.

Getting fed up and annoyed from all the tension in the air, Ethan managed to break free from his mother's embrace and quickly stood in between Benny and the ready to shoot guns pointed at him. He held his arms out wide, and looked at them with such seriousness and determination in his eyes.

"No! Don't shoot!" he yelled out to them.

Benny couldn't believe what Ethan was doing for him. He was sticking up for him against a whole angry mob of people with guns pointed at him. Instead of him protecting Ethan, this time it was Ethan protecting him. It all kind of made his heart go all warm and fuzzy, but at the same time he was also feeling really fearful and concerned for his safety, in case they still fired and wind up hitting Ethan in the process.

Ethan's mother on the other hand was a bit out raged and shocked by her son's action. "Ethan James Morgan! What in the world has gotten into you?!" she scolded very harshly to him. "You get away from that...monster, right this instant!" she command sternly, saying the word 'monster' in emphasis.

"No, Mom! I won't!" refused Ethan to her strongly and defiantly. His mother was a bit taken back by his reply. "And Benny's not a monster!" he declared in pride. "Instead, he is!" pointed out Ethan, pointing at Demetri's dead body.

Everyone looked in the direction that he was pointing and saw the dead bloody creature laying there. Mrs. Morgan gasped slightly, but then looked back towards her son again with a serious face. "I'm sorry, Ethan honey. But I'm afraid I just can't accept that. Not without proof." she responded back in a soft, but flat tone. "So, until otherwise...I don't want you anywhere near that wolf! Do you understand me, young man?" she said in a scolding tone to him.

Ethan shook his head in refusal. "No! Mom! You don't understand! Benny's not anything like his father! He's not an evil dick of a monster, like he was!" shouted Ethan.

"Father?!" she exclaimed in shock. "You mean to tell me that that dead black wolf over there, is...his father?!" replied Mrs. Morgan in disbelief as she pointed first at Demetri and then at Benny.

"Yes! He is! But Benny's not evil! His father was the one behind all the killings. Not Benny! His father is the real Big Bad Wolf." stated Ethan truthfully. "Benny would never harm anyone...especially me, Mom." he then said softly, as he looked back behind him at Benny, smiling. Benny returned the smile back. "So, stop blaming him for the murders because he didn't do it!" he said with slight desperation in his voice, as he looked back over towads his mother with pleading eyes.

Mrs. Morgan didn't say anything. She just stood there in silence as she let her son's words sink in, but she was soon snapped out if by the sounds of hearing Evelyn's voice emerge from the crowd as she stepped foward. Evelyn stood by Ethan, ready to defend Benny as well.

"It's true, Samantha. Benny's not the monster that we all made him out to be. He's a good kid with a kind and gentle heart. He would never hurt anybody." she said confidently. "And I should know because he had plenty of times and opportunities to kill me when he had the chance over these past weeks, but he hasn't. Instead, he's been helping me around the house with some chores that have gotten a little hard for me to do in my old age and in return I've even letting him stay a few nights over, as well." explained Evelyn.

Then Rory came up to them, agreeing with Evelyn's words. "She's right." he said speaking up. "Benny could of killed me too, if he really wanted to. But he hasn't. And I've gotten to know him pretty well myself, to the point were we're now even really great friends." spoke Rory wholeheartedly to everyone. "I'm mean, sure we might get into our usual friendly little scuffles and agruments over things from time to time, but he never once did ever want to hurt me physically over it. No matter how much I might of gotten on his nerves at times." he said with such earnest and honesty.

Benny stood there, smiling fondly at Evelyn and Rory also sticking up for him and for the kind and sweet things that they had said about him. It had brought a small tear to his eye, that he quickly wiped away. But he knew that he wasn't out of the woods yet...no pun attended. He knew that it would take a lot more for the villagers to believe them, before they ever start to trust him again. But he continued to hold on to that small glimmer of hope that it will all work out in the end...without him dying of course.

"And how do we know that he's not just in cahoots with the dead wolf or is just trying to place the blame on one that's already dead?!" shouted out someone from the angry mob of villagers.

Ethan gave that some deep thought before coming up with the answer that will prove Benny's innocence. "Easy!" she said speaking up, gaining the crowd's full attention now. "A DNA test." he answered simply to them. "I'm sure that on all the dead bodies that the killer wolf left behind must've had some kind of traces of DNA left behind on them from it's saliva. You can do a saliva test on Benny and the dead wolf there to cross reference it with any DNA found on the victims, to see if they match. The one that matches will prove to you just which wolf was actually behind all the killings." explained Ethan suggestively.

The villagers all looked at each other. Then a police officer from town spoke up. "He's right! There was traces of DNA found on the bodies." replied the police officer. Murmuring and mumbling was heard from the people before they all looked back towards Ethan, giving a nod of approval. "Sounds good to us. Let's do it." said one of the villagers out loud. The officer agreed and had some of the male villagers help move Demetri's body out of the woods for transport to the morgue.

As the men caring the body left, the officer stated to Benny on what's to happen now. "Ok, son. We're taking the wolf's body down to the morgue to gather a DNA sample. Now, I need you to just stand there while I swab the inside of your mouth for your DNA." said the officer, as he pulled out a little DNA gathering kit from his pocket. Benny gave a nod as a reply, meaning he had his promission to do so and then opened his mouth. The officer opened up the kit and took the cotton swab and started to swab the insides of Benny's mouth. He then removed the swab and placed it in a little plastic test tube thing, and sealing it shut with a snap of the lid.

"I'm afraid that until the test is completed and we get the results back from the lab, you are still not permitted to set one foot in town. Is that clear?" explained the officer to Benny, slightly glaring at him in a stern manner to get his point across. It must be police thing or something. Benny didn't argue with the man and nodded again and replied with a simple 'yes, sir.' Satisfied, the officer nodded back and then left along with the rest of villagers.

The only ones left now were Mrs. Morgan, Rory, Ethan, Benny, and Grandma. Ethan left out a breath of relief knowing that they had decided to go with his suggestion on the DNA test thing, which he was guaranteed that it will once and for all prove that Benny had no part in the killings that took place over the years.

Benny then walked up next to Ethan with a smile on his face and placed an arm around his shoulders. Ethan looked up at him, smiling too. Just then Ethan felt as someone grabbed his wrist and yanked him away from Benny's harmless and kind gesture, harshly. When he looked to see who, he found that it was his mother who had a stern look on her face.

"Come on, Ethan honey! We're leaving! It's not safe here, as long as that other wolf his still around here." she said determindly, sounding a bit over protective and rudely as she pulled him along. Ethan looked at her as if she was crazy or something and then stood his ground and jerked his hand out of his mother's, earning a shocked and puzzled look from her.

"No!" shouted Ethan defiantly to her.

"Ethan Morgan! I am your mother and you will listen to me! Do I make myself clear, young man?!" scolded Mrs. Morgan in a stern tone.

"That maybe true, but I'm not a little a kid anymore, Mom! I can make my own decisions! And I decide that I want to be with Benny! Mom!" exclaimed Ethan strongly with some sass at the end. He was now starting to get really frustrated with his mother's stubborn and over protective behavior towards him. "I already told you! He's not a danger to be around!" he said, as he walked back over to Benny and stood next to him, with a smile.

Mrs. Morgan was starting to get annoyed with her son's recent stubborn and back talking behavior towards her. "Until that test comes back saying otherwise, he's still a danger to me! And why are you acting so rudely to me, lately? What is it about this...Benny that makes you want to defend him so badly?" asked Mrs. Morgan, saying Benny's name with vemon laced in her voice.

Reaching his boiling point and not even thinking, Ethan then shouted out to her something that he wasn't ready to tell her yet. "BECAUSE MOM! HE'S MY BOYFRIEND! THAT'S WHY!"

Mrs. Morgan gasped, covering her mouth with her hands with a look of utter shock on her face. Everyone else stood there with their months hung open, but not because of what Ethan had said, but more rather that he actually finally came out to his mother about it in the way that he did. They all knew that Ethan was too afraid to tell Mrs. Morgan about him and Benny being boyfriends together.

Realizing what he just said, Ethan's look of anger and frustration soon turned into one of shock and surprise. He then looked down at his feet nervously.

"Wha...what did you just say?" repeated Mrs. Morgan in disbelief. "Did...did you just say...that he's your boyfriend?" she asked shakily, still stunned by her son's sudden outburst. Ethan didn't say a thing as he only nodded a 'yes' to her. An awkward silence soon fell over everyone.

Benny saw how scared and embarrassed Ethan was. It was clear that he didn't want to tell her like this, but it just sort of all came out like that from all the tension between him and his mom. And Benny knew that when you're angry at someone, things tend to come out that you don't mean to, due from a clouded mind filled with anger and frustration.

He came to Ethan and then gently grabbed his hand, lacing his finger with Ethan's and gave his hand a light comforting squeeze to let Ethan know that he was here for him. Ethan looked up at Benny's reassuring smiling face and gave a small smile back to show that he feels slightly more better now. Ethan was still scared of his mother's reaction a little, but thanks to Benny's kind gesture and knowing that he's there by his side for this, he wasn't as afraid anymore.

Finally someone spoke. "How long have you two...been seeing each other?" asked Mrs. Morgan in a calm, but curious tone.

Ethan looked at Benny who gave him a reassuring nod that it was ok to tell her. Ethan nodded back and then sighed, looking back at his mother with sullen eyes. "For about almost two months now." he answered meekly to her.

Ethan's mom then looked down as if she was disappointed at him. "I see then." was all she said. Ethan felt as tears started to prick his eyes, but he refused to let them fall.

"Please don't be mad at me for falling in love with him, Mom. And at Benny too. It just sort a...happened." said Ethan with a slight bit of sadness and guilt in his voice. "I really do love him. And he loves me too. Enough to even take on his own killer of a father, who wanted to kill him and then take me away so he could terrible and hurtful things to me. And Benny wasn't about to let his father do that to his boyfriend. He was even willing to die for me if it came to that, even though I begged him not to fight him. He was still determined to do it...for me, Mom." he explained wholeheartedly to her.

"Benny's not the killer that you think he is. In fact, he's much like you and me, Mom." stated Ethan. His mom looked up at him with curious eyes, as Ethan continued to explain. "His evil bastard of a father left him and his mom when he was little. Leaving him to be raised by his mother. So, you see...Benny was raised by a single mom who loved him very much and only wanted the best for him, just as I was raised by a single mom who loves me very much, too. She did right by him and taught him to grow up to be a kind and caring person and not some vicious, blood thristy monster like his father was."

Mrs. Morgan's eyes were now slightly wide, hearing that Benny was also raised by a single mother like Ethan was. She felt a small pang in her heart, knowing just how hard it is to raise a child on your own. So, she felt sympathy towards the young wolf and his mother.

"And like me...he also lost someone who he loved very much, as well." stated Ethan sadly. Mrs. Morgan had a hunch at just who that was, that Benny had lost that was so close to him. His mother. But unlike Ethan who still has his mother to look after him after her husband's death, Benny didn't have anyone to look after him. He was left in this world all alone with no one to care for or to love him. That is...until he met her son, that is. And she was surprised that even after all the cruel things that life had thrown at Benny, that he still remained good natured and kind hearted throughout it all.

"So...if you still won't let me see Benny then, then...then I'll just move out and move in with Grandma so we can be together because I refuse to not ever see him again, Mom!" replied Ethan determinedly.

When Mrs. Morgan looked Ethan in his eyes, she could see the love that he shared for this wolf and just how much that he means to him. She smiled at him, feeling a sense of pride and love well up inside her towards her son's bold determination to stick by the one he loves side.

"Well. Now that you say it like that, Ethan honey. How can I ever stand to come in between true love like that, dear." she said smiling fondly at Ethan. Ethan looked at her with a look of surprise. "Really?!" he questioned her in shock. She nodded. "Yes, dear. I can clearly see just how much you love him and how much he loves you too. And I'm grateful for him for protecting my son at such great links for his safety." she said sincerely, looking at Benny.

Ethan looked at her with a smile on his face and happy tears in his eyes. Then he charged towards her to give her a hug, with her hugging back. "Thanks Mom!" he said, his voice being muffled by her shoulder some. "Of course dear." she replied sweetly to him with a warm smile. She then broke the hug to look at him. "I'm so proud of my sweet precious baby boy! You've grown up so fast!" she cooed to him, pinching his cheek a bit.

Ethan blushed and then quickly knocked her hand away from his face, taking a step back from her with a rather embarrassed, but also a slightly upset look at her. "Mom! You're embarrassing me in front of Benny!" he whinned with a pouty look, that only made her giggle because she knew how much he hated it when she embarrassed him in front of people. But what could she do? She couldn't help but to embarrass her son in front of people. Especially, in front of his boyfriend. It was a mother thing, after all.

"Hey! No matter how much a mother's child might think they've grown up, they will still always be their darling little baby to them." she replied amusingly to him.

Benny then came up to them chuckling lightly, as he wrapping an arm around Ethan's waist and placing a peck on his cheek, making Ethan blush even more. "She's right you know. In her eyes, you'll always be her baby boy." joked Benny with a smile. Ethan rolled his eyes playfully at him and gave him a small nudge in the side, making remove his arm from around him and holding it up in a surrending manner with a smile.

Then Rory and Evelyn came up to them. "Well, I'm glad that everything all worked out in the end for you two." complimented Evelyn. "Me too! Now I can hangout with my two best friends without the worry of ever getting found out by anyone, and them trying to kill Benny for being a wolf!" agreed Rory cheerfully, as he drapped both arms over Ethan's and Benny's shoulders, smiling.

All the tension that was once in the air was now completely gone and things seemed to be good now. "Of course, I do have a few rules though boys." stated Mrs. Morgan suddenly, looking at Ethan and Benny. The two looked at her in worry at what those rules are. "First, I'm afraid that Benny is not allowed to enter the house until the DNA test results come back and say otherwise, cleaingr his name of any wrong doing." declared Mrs. Morgan, giving her first rule.

"What?! But that's not fair!" complained Ethan frustratingly.

"I'm sorry son, but until I know for sure that he wasn't the one who's been going around town killing people, I just don't feel safe having him inside the house, dear. He's welcome to still come around, but you'll just have to stay outside during the visit." she answered back apologetically.

Ethan was about to argue back, but was stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Benny who gave him this look saying 'that it's alright'. So, Ethan didn't say a word, but Benny did. "It's ok, Mrs. Morgan. I completely understand. And I'm ok with that. Everyone's homes are their safe heaven from danger and you just want to make sure that I'm not a threat to that safe heaven from the inside. You're just trying to protect your family, is all." replied Benny kindly and understandingly to her.

"Thank you, Benny for being so understanding about my decision and respecting it." she said sweetly to him. "It's not that I don't like you or trust you. It's just that I want to make sure that everything gets sorted out properly before I decide to ever let a possible threat or danger into my house, is all." explained Mrs. Morgan sincerely to Benny. "After all, it's a mother's duty to always look after her children and to protect them. Even if they are grown up now. We'll never stop loving them." she chuckled with a loving smile.

Benny laughed with her, while Rory and Evelyn just smiled and Ethan looked away bashfully with a blush. "Mom! You're doing it again!" whinned Ethan again, trying to hide his small smile.

"Ok! Ok, dear! I'll stop!" said Mrs. Morgan in between chuckles, earning a very satisfying smile from her son. "Now! As for rule number two, I don't want any 'funny business' or aka, sex happening whenever you two are alone around each other. Got me?" she stated a bit sternly at them, while glaring.

Both boys then began to shift nervously around and their cheeks turning a deep red in color. Mrs. Morgan saw this and grew suspicious. "Don't tell me that you boys have already...done it before...have you?" she questioned suspiciously to them with a harsh glare and a raised brow.

Ethan and Benny then quickly stood up straight, shaking their heads back and forth saying 'no' or 'no ma'am' to her, all while holding their hands up and shaking them dismissively at her. Her hard glare then soften to a kind smile, believing the two boys. "Good!" she stated happily. "Cause just because you're both gay and can't get the other pregnant, doesn't mean that you should be doing that type of thing, yet. You both are still much too young for sex." replied Mrs. Morgan in a motherly tone.

"Don't worry Samantha. They haven't done anything like that yet over at my place, and I plan on making sure that it stays that way too. At least whenever I'm around that is." assured Evelyn with a smile, but then slightly glaring at the two boys in question to get her point across that she means it, too. Ethan and Benny both then looked down sheepishly with a small blush of embarrassment.

Mrs. Morgan then smiled and gave a nod to the elderly woman. "Well, that's all the rules that I have...for now anyways." she added satisfyingly. Benny let out a breath that he didn't even know that he was holding. Then Mrs. Morgan shot him a look in his direction. "And Benny, dear?" she asked suddenly in a sweet manner.

He looked at her nervously and gave a very meek and unsure 'yeah', afraid of what she had to say next, because let's face it. Ethan's mom can be a very scary person when she's in mother bear mode. He kind of wondered if maybe she was part wolf herself or something because of her fierceness and determination to protect her family just like a wolf does to protect their's, but he knew that she wasn't one because she smelt like a human and not like a wolf.

"You better not dare hurt my son, physically or emotionally ever. Or can expect to see some nice shiny bullets headed your way, young man. And I don't miss my target so easily, either. Got it?" stated Mrs. Morgan seriously to him.

Benny then gulped in fear. "Y-yes, Ma'am!" stuttered Benny nervously and trembling slightly at the intimidating woman before him, as he slowly nodded at her. Her dull expression then turned to a more happy and smiling one. "Good!" she replied, giggling some at the end. She was very happy to hear that.

"Mom! Would you please stop scaring my boyfriend like that! Geez! He might not ever want to come around now, with you scaring and threatening him all the time." complained Ethan annoyingly with a small pout. Everyone laughed, as Benny placed an arm back over Ethan's shoulders, causing the boy in red to lighten up some. "It's alright, Red. I know how you feel. My Mom used to do the same to me, too. She's just doing what mother's do, is all. Looking out for you." he replied with a small chuckle and a peck on the cheek. "Which is exactly what I plan on doing, too." he added lovingly, this time leaning in for a sweet kiss on the lips with Ethan, who smiled into the kiss.

Since that day, things had changed drastically for the better. It only took about a couple of days for the DNA test results to come back, proving Benny's innocence of any and all Big Bad Wolf related killings. And proving that in deed that it was Demetri who was the real Big Bad Wolf all along to the townsfolk. So, now with his name cleared, Benny was free to enter Whitechapel again, as he pleased.

Everyone in town was really sorry for blaming and accusing him of being the murderous wolf that was terrorizing their town for so long and apologized for their wrong doings like a million times to him. Benny, being the nice guy that he is, forgave them of course and didn't hold anything against them for it, either. He understood that they all were just afraid and that they let that fear cloud their judgement and clarity of the situation. So, he was cool with it. Benny was just happy that he could once again walk around in town freely again, just like any other citizen without being threaten or hated by the villagers.

Evelyn had decided to let Benny live with her, now that everyone knew that Benny wasn't the real Big Bad Wolf and stopped fearing and hating him for it. She had turned the spare room that she used as a guest bedroom for whenever company or more like her grandson, Ethan, would come over to stay a few nights at her place, into Benny's room. Ethan didn't mind giving up the room to Benny and whenever he did come over to stay the night at Grandma's house, he would wind up just sleeping in the bed, curled up next to his cuddly wolf of a boyfriend. With no sex involved, of course. Just strickly cuddlying and snuggling with eac other, taking place in the bed.

And after his name was finally cleared, Ethan's mom had started to let Benny now come inside the house. The two were always together it seems. On some nights they stayed at Ethan's house and on others at Grandma's. They also had their days alone as well, but very few because they couldn't bare to staying away from one another for too long. And with Benny being allowed to go back into town again, the two had also started to go out on actual dates now. Things were finally looking up for the two. And the boy dressed in red and the young wolf couldn't be anymore happier.

~ The End ~

A/N: And done! That was the last chapter to Little Red Riding Hood. I hope you all enjoyed it, because I sure did!

See! I told you all that I just couldn't leave it without a happy ending. Didn't I? Lol! But, seriously...did I really tell you guys that? I can't remember? *shrugs* Lol! Well, regardless there it is! Lol! Sad I know, but now we can start another wonderful fairytale to enjoy! As for which one? Well, let's just say...that in this tale, don't judge a book by it's cover. *wink. wink* Lol!

And that's all I'm giving you, until the next chapter! So, until then I say au revoir, mes amis! *bows out gracefully* :)