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Chapter 3

The drive to the mysterious bar was a long and silent one, everyone lost in their own thoughts. Red kept to herself, having no words of comfort when it came to money, how could she? If she was having a lot of money problems herself.

Red and her family used to live in a nice little apartment, nothing expensive and fancy but it was middle class. That was when Red was still hidden, and her mother worked two jobs while her grandmother picked up the hobby of making jewelry to sell in the streets.

It was alright for a while, until they couldn't afford the apartment and got evicted. They had to move into a run down apartment building where they have trolls and monsters as neighbors. Not all of them were bad honestly, except maybe James's evil aunts Spiker and Sponge.

It was still unpleasant for Red's mother and grandmother to be living in, so they just try there best to avoid anyone from that complex. Red didn't want to admit it but the money Travis gave her will definitely help complete this months rent.

She looked over at his face that's still painted with concern, he stared out the window while biting the nail of his thumb. Not only was he worried for himself but for his band members as well, he was just that kind of person to be worrying about others too. Red reached over to his hand and held it in her small ones, making him look down by the sudden affection than up to her eyes.

"You're going to chew your nails right off." She tried to joke as she squeezed his hand. "Things will be okay."

Travis gave Red half a smile and brought her hand to his lips, giving her a small kiss of gratitude. Just as he puts her hand back down Randy parks the van and unbuckles his seatbelt.

"Red's right, things will be fine, starting right now. Look." He said to the group as he gets off from his seat.

Everyone started to climb out of the van,excited and looking forward for drinks until Red saw the sign and gasps.

"Trip Trap? Never heard of the place, Is it new?" asked Kristen as she looks up at the sign.

"Don't think so, this place is pretty well hidden so not many people know about it I bet." Replied Randy as he fixes his jacket to hide the cold away from him.

"How did you find out then?" asks Cindy as she fixes her hair.

"With this, found it lying in the streets." He answers as he takes the match book out from his pocket and showed it to everyone before tossing them into Cindy's hands. Everyone was making there way down the steps until Red finally spoke when she found her voice.

"We can't be here!" She shrieks out, everyone turned to Red and gave her a questionable look.

Red tries to mentally calm herself down as she looks for a good excuse to say to them. "I heard they have bad service, also thugs and other bad people come here."

She tries to say in a calm voice, Red knows it's not entirely true but she tries to say anything she can to not let her mundy friends step foot in this place since the real reason is that this bar is run by Fables.

"It's gonna be okay Red, Travis, Kristen, and I will be with you the whole time. We won't leave you alone." Randy tries to comfort her worried mind as he glances at the gang.

"Yeah don't worry Red, we won't let anything happen to the youngest band mate." Kristen said with confidence and wraps an arm around her, as if proving a point to the meaning of her words.

If Red wasn't in a frightened mood she would have laughed, since her mundy friends believed she just turned eighteen last week while everyone else were either in their early and mid twenties, the youngest would be Kristen at her age of nineteen.

Red grabbed Kristen's arm and started pulling her to the van while looking at everyone else with pleading eyes. "Please guys, I just don't feel comfortable being here please!" She begged.

Kristen pulled her arm away from Red's grip and gave her a serious look. "What's gotten into you Red?"

"Nothing! I-i just."

"We're going in Red, it's four against one. And like Randy says we'll keep you safe." Travis interrupted her with his voice of authority.

Everyone started going down the steps once again when Travis pulled Red close to him by her waist. He was leading them down the steps when Red slips away from his arms, crossing hers over her chest and looking away with nervousness.

Red knew what he was trying to do, he was trying have her close to him to keep away any strangers who would approach her, but going into a Fable bar in the arms of a mundy would be much worse, in a way she was trying to protect them as well as her freedom.

If anyone would send word that Red Riding Hood brought a bunch of mundies into a fable bar she would be thrown back into her old life of being hidden away, as well as getting in trouble and being interrogated on how much do they know about her kind. Red has always played on the thin lines but this stunt can possibly break that line.

She took a deep breath and started walking down the steps herself, pulling away from Travis's reach to her hand. "Red, if you are that afraid stay close to m-"

"Just please don't touch me while we're in here." She cut him off while looking at him with begging eyes. His jaw clenched and he exhales through his nostrils before he finally nods and walks into the bar with Red far behind him.

It appeared to be a quiet night in the Trip Trap, something Red was thankful for as she looked around the empty place, until she saw her next door neighbor sitting at the bar talking to the bartender with the white hair. Red swallowed hard trying to keep a low profile until loudmouth Randy blew it for her, then again, everyone's bound to notice four new Mundies walking in together.

"Woo, nice! I like the look of this place!" Randy yelled out as he looks around. "Nice little setup you got here babe."

The bartender looked up at Randy with an attitude and crossed her arms. "Didn't know I was getting a critic today." she said to him.

Randy only smirks as he sits down on one of the stools at the bar. "Good looks and attitude, nice. Are you a smart mouth to everyone here?"

"Only to no paying customers." She rested her hands on the bar and leans in as she arches an eyebrow.

"The names Holly, what can I get for you?"

As Randy continues to flirt with the bartender, Red stays standing in the entrance, covering her face with her hood while eyeing what everyone else was doing. Cindy takes one of the ashtrays and lights up a cigarette and calls out for a double glass of vodka while Kristen adds some coins in the pool table to start a game, lastly she eyes at Travis as he lights up his cigarette and Sits at the bar next to her neighbor.

"Whiskey, no ice." Travis grunted out as Holly placed a ashtray in front of him.

Holly pulls out a shot glass and fills it up for Travis, once done she was heading back to put the bottle back until Travis raises up his hand to her to stop from walking away.

"Leave the bottle." the white haired bartender looked at him for a moment than just placed the bottle down and started drying cups.

"Bad night?" asked the fable in disguised to the band member. Travis simply grunted out an answer as he takes a shot while Red's neighbor raised up his own shot glass. "Sucks to be you. Cheers."

Red felt more at ease, by the looks of it, the bar seemed like a typical night like any other places, minus the shifty eyes the fables give out. Red decided to sneak outside until everyone was done with their fun, seeing how the bartender and her neighbor haven't noticed her yet...Until Randy called her out.

"Yo Red, c'mon and have a seat with us." He looked back at her, Red stood still feeling panic rising as she sees Holly look at her for the first time with surprise on her face, making the other fable turn to see her. He gave her a creepy looking smile at her as their eyes meet.

"Well well well. If it isn't Little Red, here in the flesh." he started as he turns completely around and leans back to the bar.

Red swallowed hard as she tries to lick her lips, feeling them dry suddenly as well as her mouth.

"H-Hey Gren, It's nice to see you." she lied as she feels the heaviness of his eyes on her.

Travis and the rest of the guys looked at both Grendel and Red wondering what was going on. "Wait, so you guys know each other?" Kristen asks as she gestured her finger to Red and Gren.

"Know each other? We're neighbors, ain't that right Red." He said to her directly as he raises an eyebrow.

"Neighbors?" Randy spoke next questioning the answer Gren gave to Kristen.

"Yep, we live in the same apartment building, Red here would keep me up all night what with that noisy guitar she would be playing. Couldn't pick a quieter hobby huh?" He took a shot of his drink while glancing at Travis.

Both fables noticing how tense he grew with Gren's chosen words, he looked back at Red and caught it, his one blind eye staring at Red and gives her a now knowing smile while he thinks of a way to conjure up some trouble.

"You know Red, if you wanted to keep me up all night you could have just come over to my place."

"Hey you better watch what you say!" Kristen threaten as she throws down the sticks and pops her knuckles.

"Lay off will ya Gren, it's enough she gotta deal with you every day, now you pulling this shit at my bar?" Holly asks as she tries to extinguish the plan Gren is cooking up.

"I'd keep my mouth shut if I were you." Travis growled out as his teeth clenched. Red starts to panic and hurrys herself to Travis, she starts to massage his shoulders as she hides behind him to keep Gren's eyes on her.

"Hey Travis, it's okay. No need to get angry, Gren is just joking around." Red tries to calm him down for his sake rather than the Fable.

"Yeah lighten up Travis, Red and I always fool around." he laughs at his joke as he turns back around and gestures Holly for a refill.

"Did you guys know Red works at a bakery? Just baking sweets like cakes and pies and shit like that."

"C'mon guys, we should go." Red tries to pull Travis away but he just sat there hands clenching as his anger rises.

"What? Don't tell me this guy never tasted your cherry pie Red." He continued while he nodded towards Travis, "It's the best In the world!"

"Gren!" Holly tries to stop him as well.

"Heh, every time I see Red outside or in the hallway or at her work, I always ask myself,"

"Stop it!" Red yelled at him.

"When can I have another taste of that sweet cherry pie of hers."

With that Travis stood up and punched him in the face, Gren fell back and started laughing which pissed Travis off even more, he climbed on top of him and started punching him over and over, anger rising more each time Grendel laughs.

"Hey that's enough break it up!" Yelled out Holly as she runs around to try and pull them apart.

"Oh man, forgot how much Mundy punches tickles so much." He said as he continues to laugh hysterically. Travis gets the bottle of whiskey and breaks the bottom and swings it down to stab Gren.

"No!" Red screamed and tries to reach Travis's arm to stop him, but Gren grabs his wrist first.

"My turn." Gren smiles darkly at him then punches Travis right in the face knocking him down.

"Oh shit." Holly breathes out as she tries to hold down Gren.

"Get them the fuck out of my bar Red!" She yelled out as Red stands there panicking.

"You mother fucker!" Randy snapped out, getting a chair and breaks it on Gren's chest.

Pissing him off, Gren shoved Holly off and grabbed Randy by the shirt and threw him across the room, breaking tables and chairs.

"Leave them the fuck alone!" Kristen yells out, she ran towards the Fable and punches his jaw with her brass knuckles. Gren took a step back and popped his jaw, moving it around and then stares back at Kristen.

"Don't think I won't knock you on your ass kid just because you're a girl." he threatens as he grabs ahold of her shirt but Travis got back on his feet and quickly broke a bottle over his head.

Once Gren let's go of Kristen Travis grabbed him and threw him right into the jukebox making it break and sparks fly. Gren gets up and quickly throws a punch at Travis until Red grabs his arm and tries to stop the punch.

"Gren please stop this! You can't do this you know you can't!" Red begged as Gren looks back at her and tries to shake her off.

"Let go of me Red! You wanna get hurt or som-" Gren quickly looks back at Travis as he catches him off guard and hits him with a bar stool, knocking Gren back against the wall and crushing Red with his back.

Gren falls onto his knees and looks up at Travis with rage until he heard him curse under his breath.

"Oh shit, Red!" Cindy calls out as she runs towards her from where she was hiding.

Red was laying on the floor with the broken glass and picture frames, she slowly starts to sit up on the floor, cutting herself more on the glass on her hands.

"Shit! Red? You alright? I didn't mean to I swear girl." Gren blurs out as he looks down at her with panic. He reaches down to grab her hand until Travis pushes him to the side.

"Fuck off!" He says to him then goes back to Red.

"Red, babe. I'm so sorry about this, come on. I'm taking you to the hospital." He says to her as he goes down on his knees to pick her up but stops as he sees her staring at her hands. "Red?"

"T-this is bad.." she says out loud to herself mostly than to anyone.

She looks at her hands as she feels more blood spilling out from the gash on her forehead and down to her face.

This is really really bad! My blood, this is WAY too much blood!

She thought to herself as she looks around her in fear, knowing who will know her current location. And get her in deeper trouble...

The same time at night, in the smallest apartment of The Woodlands, the sheriff is up late working on paperwork of Fabletown's complaints, case files, and charges.

Bigby Wolf drops his work right back at his desks and stretches his limbs, hearing his joints pop. He gets up and heads to the fridge to get a drink of anything to quench his thirst.

Once he reaches in for a beer he stops and is full alert, he sniffs the air as a familiar metallic scent reaches his sensitive nose.

"This is the smell of Red Riding Hood's blood." he says to himself as he puts his beer down.

Bigby heads towards his window and cracks it open, he looks around to the city as he takes one more whiff of the air, trying to focus more on the blood than the streets. Once he got the scent tracked down he stared at the direction of the blood.

"What just happened to you Red.."


I just love Gren and Holly, they are just awesome. And Bigby is in da house! Finally lol. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Review, fav, follow etc, I like to hear from the readers. Makes me wanna post faster. Till next time.