Queen Riding Hood stormed through the halls of her castle fuming. She couldn't believe how wrong her plan was going. That wretched wolf and her son were both missing without a trace! Well that wasn't exactly true, there was some evidence as to how they left…

She had went straight into her mirror room after finding out the girl was missing only to find her shifting mirror turned on. She tried to refrain from calling it a 'traveling' mirror. It did not allow her to travel to anyplace more than once, and it was only opened to a selected spot within the kingdoms for an hour before closing. It was for that reason that she could not simply step through the mirror now and figure out where the two had gone. Even more infuriating was the fact that her seeking mirror could not locate their whereabouts.

She paced more fervently across the red carpentry of her private quarters, until an idea came to her. She immediately paused in her incessant pacing mentally insulting herself for not realizing such a brilliant (or at least so she thought herself) idea sooner.

Since Wendell, Wolf, and Virginia all believed that she was the cause for the missing girl then she could prove her innocence by exclaiming that her own son had now gone missing. It now cleared her from suspicion (at least a little). All she needed to do now was find the girl and the boy before Wendell did or at least hope that they weren't found until the upcoming full moon. She smiled cruelly as a malicious glint sparked in her eyes.

A servant who was about to turn down the hall where the Queen had stopped and noticed her sudden twisted features of glee and the shine in her eyes and immediately turned heel and bolted nervously from the hall not wanting to get in the way of the Queen's sadistic mood.

Wolf was a wreck, worse than that, he was a total mess. He couldn't even help to comfort his distraught wife. "Oh cripes, this is my entire fault." It was the most he could mutter as he walked fervently through the forest. He wandered aimlessly cursing himself and the entire House of Red for Linda's kidnapping.

He looked up from his musing after about an hour to find that he in front of the door that led to the traveling mirror. He hadn't remembered walking into the castle but he felt a strange draw towards the door. He grasped the cool metal knob and turned it slowly as if he expected something to leapt from behind the door and seize him like the shadows had to Linda.

He crept into the room and moved through it to the mirror. The mirror that had started it all. He shifted the catch and watched the mirror come to life as images that had once been foreign to him flashed by before settling in central park. Though he couldn't explain it, Wolf felt as if an invisible hand was pushing through. Wolf released a sigh before deciding to follow the impulse and step though to the other side.

Chris glanced at Linda who was now resting on the couch still unconscious. He paced idly across the room shooting nervous glances towards Linda's prone form every few seconds. Finally Linda made a groaning noise and she moved her hand to her head. Chris rushed across the room and came to kneel beside her. His anxious brown eyes were met instantly by hazy golden ones.

Linda's eyes suddenly grew wide with surprise at see Chris's face near hers and pulled backwards. Unfortunately, she was at the edge of the couch and with the sudden movement, caused her to fall over the arm of the couch. "Shit!" she said with a sharp yelp as she went down and she landed in an obscure position with her feet still hooked on the arm rest.

"Ouch…" she mumbled. She stood quickly only to grab her head. "Ouch, and my head." She then shot a glare towards Chris. Her head hurt and everything was rather hazy leaving her in a rather poor mood. "Damn it! What the hell were you doing?" She yelled then started growling in annoyance.

Chris looked surprised and then annoyed, "What do you mean! You're the one who fainted all of the sudden."

"Oh and like fainting was randomly something I had planed on doing after I woke up this morning!" Her voice dripping with sarcasm. "Why the hell were you in my face when I woke up, anyways?"

"I was worried about you!"

Linda paused for a moment in her rants. Her snarling was cut short. "You were worried about me?" she almost whispered. Then a quick smile fell over her lips.

"Th-that's not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean?"

Chris blushed furiously as he fumbled about for the right words. "I-it's what any gentleman would do…" he put out lamely.

"Gentleman? Since when does a gentleman scare someone half to death when they first wake up!" Linda shot back.

"How would a wolf know anything about gentlemanly behavior anyways?"

Linda growled at that comment and whipped a pillow from the couch at Chris's head, which hit its target directly. Linda broke out laughing at the look on his face.

"Hey" Chris yelled and through the pillow back at her but she dodged it with ease.

She continued laughing for a minute before taking a breath and then clutching at her head again. "Damn headaches!" She growled.

"Linda?…" Chris suddenly asked softly.

She shifted her golden eyes to meet his plain brown ones. "Hmm…"

"What's going on…I mean, your eyes keep changing to gold, you seem to be getting quite a bit of headaches as of late, and I get the feeling that you know why."

Linda looked down at her hands not being able to meet Chris's gaze. She noticed with dull interest that her nails had slightly elongated and so had her teeth she realized as she ran her tongue over them in thought. She wondered what other changes had come over her but decided to wait to go find a mirror until after she responded to Chris's question. "It's a curse…or a spell or something. Anyways, I have to figure out a way to break it before the full moon or else we are both in trouble." she said softly.

Chris was silent and pensive for a moment. "What happens if the curse isn't lifted and how do you break it?"

"I have no clue."

"Lovely" Chris stated sarcastically.

Linda chuckled and then seized Chris's hand in her own, a slight shiver ran up her spine from the contact. "Why don't I show you around New York a little." She smiled brightly at him. "Only right before I grab another aspirin."

Author's Notes:

This is chapter 11 redone, so hopefully its not too bad. I want to thank everyone who has been reading this story and a special thanks to everyone who has reviewed!! Please review and hopefully I will update soon.