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3/6/17

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Chapter 4

Later that night Bigby arrived outside of the Trip Trap, he looks around the place as he steps out of the cab and shook his head.

"This can't be right..." He said to himself in disbelief as he looks up at the sign while trying to picture Little Red Riding Hood here drinking and starting bar fights, but the full picture just couldn't be complete, it was just so unlike her to do such a thing.

Bigby heads down the steps until he sees a trail of blood coming out of the bar. He hunches down and lightly touches the blood with his index and middle finger, once stained he observed the blood in the light and he rubs it between his fingers and thumb.

"This was at least two hours ago..." He estimated.

It was definitely Red's blood, no denying the scent. With Bigby's sensitive nose he's able to smell blood miles away, however due to devouring Red and tasting her flesh back in the old days Bigby is able to distinguish her blood from anyone else. He gets up and scratches his cheek out of habit, scraping his fingernails to the stubble of his beard then walks right into the bar.

"You still should have left it alone, why do you always gotta-" Holly stops mid sentence as the Sheriff walks in.

Bigby takes a look around before glancing at the bartender tieing a knot on the black trash bag and Gren leaning on the pool table with a broom. They both looked at Bigby then to each other then they continue to clean up the place.

"Seems like I missed quite a show." Bigby says to them as he continues onward to where they were standing.

Holly quickly puts the black garbage bag behind the bar and walks in front of the bar with arms crossed.

"Well show's over now so you can buzz off." She said to him as she tries to stand her ground.

Bigby gave her a serious look then walks around the mess of glass.

"Mind telling me what went down here?" He asks while shifting his eyes at Holly then to Gren.

"Yeah Sheriff, we do actually mind now fuck off." Gren replies as he steps in front of Bigby.

"I just want to know what happened here, there's no need to be defensive about it."

"Isn't it obvious Sheriff? It was a fuckin bar fight between some drunken asshole with another drunken asshole." Holly replied with annoyance.

Bigby frowned at that, and shook his head in disbelief once again, so the picture of what he thought happened could have been true after all.

"Has Red Riding Hood been here?" he asked both of the Fables.

"What's it to you wolf? Planning on eating her up again?" Holly asked him sarcastically.

Bigby looked back at her with annoyance growing on his face, clearly losing patience with these guys.

"Because I can smell her blood all over this place, now tell me why she was here and where is she now." He Ordered.

"Yeah she was here, she was in the neighborhood and came to say hello until she got into the crossfire of the fight." Gren spoke up.

"To say hello? How are you involved with Red? She a regular here?" Bigby asked as he raises and eyebrow.

"We're real buddies." Gren replies with more sarcasm.

"Alright, so where is she now?"

"How the fuck should I know?" Gren grunted out.

"Well seeing how you said you guys are 'real buddies' I'd assume she'd tell you where she was going." Bigby answered while rolling his eyes on the 'real buddies' part.

"Well where would you go if you're hurt Wolf? She probably went somewhere to fix herself up. That sums it up for ya?" Gren replies while clenching his fits.

"Now if you excuse us 'Sheriff' we gotta finish cleaning this shit up."

Bigby looked back and forth between both Holly and Gren, then one more look around the bar, "Where does Red live?"

"We don't fucken know, and even if we did we wouldn't be telling you. Now fuck off!" Gren forcefully poke at Bigby's chest

Bigby looked at him with a hint of anger and a low growl came out of him before he backs away. Clearly he wasn't gonna get anymore answers from the two.

"You guys have a good night." Was all he says then starts heading out the door.

Once Bigby left the bar Holly glanced at Gren with a worried look on her face. "You should get going and warn Red about the Wolf looking for her."

Gren glanced back at Holly and nodded in agreement and puts down the broom.

"You're right, I better get out of here and give her a heads up." He says to her as he starts heading to the door.

"And don't forget to talk to her about-" Holly called out.

"Yeah yeah, about the bar and the Mundies. Got it." He says out loud then heads out the door.

*x*x*x*

Red was sitting on the picnic table outside their usual coffee spot, with only the street lamp and coffee sign lighting them up as Cindy fixes up Red's forehead.

"There, all fixed, lucky for you you don't need stitches Red." Cindy says to her as she finishes with the cut by bandaging it up.

Red lightly touches the bandaid on her forehead, making sure it's on right while Cindy checks on her wrapped up hands. Travis sat alone on top of another table smokin up half of his new pack of cigarette, lighting one up as soon as the other one was done. He had a black eye and his Jaw hurt But It didn't stop him From grinding His teeth together because of the bar fight and Red getting hurt.

"Red, are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital? You could have a concussion or something." Kristen says as she wraps up Randy's arm, it wasn't broken thankfully but he sure as hell can't be moving it for a while.

"I'm fine, I don't want to make this a bigger deal than it already is. At least you guys are alright." she says out loud as Kristen pats Randy's good shoulder.

"What? Your head got split open and you're still worried about us? Are you kidding me?" Cindy asks with shock.

The twenty-three year old just raised up her hands as if giving up then she gets out a smoke. "You got crushed by an asshole in a bar and got pushed into glass, you should worry more about yourself Red."

Everyone got quiet at that as Red looked up at them and just shrugged. "Gren is an ass sometimes but he's not always like that."

She defended her neighbor without realizing of doing so until she made a face at her own words and shook her head.

"No idea why I'm defending the jerk but what I'm trying to say is I'm alright and I know it was an accident. Just don't know why he wanted to start a fight like that..." Red confessed as she thinks back on could have been in his mind.

Everyone looked at each other than at Red as if she was crazy until Kristen spoke up.

"Forget what I said about you not dealing with jerks. Why didn't you say anything about your neighbor being there when we entered?" Kristen asked.

Red only looked away in embarrassed, "I tried my best to convince you guys to leave so without telling the truth, but failed so I just endured it I guess, I didn't wanted to completely ruin the night, and you guys needed a drink."

Red trailed off knowing that she was hoping to avoid the two Fable's by hiding. Travis got off the table and stomped his way to Red. He grabbed her hands a little too hard as he pulled them close to him in order to check the bandages.

"The guy was talking as if you and him got something going on, is that true Red?" He asks without even looking up at her and not even caring if it was in front of the group.

Red looked at him with surprised eyes by the question.

Is he serious? Can't he tell Gren was just talking out of his ass just to stir the waters?

Red thought as she stared at him with disbelief and anger, no there was nothing going on between her and Gren, she was nice to him sometimes sure and would even flirt with him on occasions when he would flirt with her first but that was it and nothing more.

"What are you talking about?" she asked him with annoyance.

"He means have you been screwing around with your neighbor Red." Kristen said it out loud and clear, it had to be her, Red rolls her eyes knowing her friend would always get to the point rather than make around on it like the others.

"You know what that would make so much sense, the times you daydream, the part where you didn't wanted to be in the bar, you knew he was a regular didn't you Red." Cindy called her out on her theory.

"And if I can be a little honest here, the guy isn't that bad looking. Oh my god, Red! You are sleeping with your neighbor aren't you!"

Cindy said it openly, making Red blush by her outbreak and the random thought of sleeping with Gren, an image came to mind of Gren on top of her in bed and with that Red quickly shook her head to get the image out and started to make gagging sounds as she covers her mouth. Getting grossed out by the very thought.

"Not even a snowball's chance." Red replied.

She felt Travis relax then, his serious knitted face went soft by Red's reaction to the question.

"Asshole..." He said under his breath while he soothes her hands.

"I should be heading home now, it's late." Red says out loud as she gets up.

"I'll take you home." Travis says to her as he stands next to Red.

"No, you've done enough already!" Red snaps at him while dodging his arms as he tries to wrap around her.

"What? What the fuck did I do?" He asked surprised of her actions.

"The very thing Gren wanted you to do! Can't you ever just drop the subjects or ignore them? You always have to resort to violence Travis!" She said out of frustration as she hops off the table.

"I'll be fine on my own always have and always will. See you guys later." Red bid her goodbyes as she heads to the street to call a cab.

Travis only stood there trembling until he grunted out of anger and forcefully tucked his hands in his pockets as he kicked a paper coffee cup on the ground and starts walking the other direction. Leaving Cindy, Randy, and Kristen in a state of confusion of what's going on between them.

Once Red arrives at her apartment she sighs at the site of it and all its 'glory'. Broken down windows, garbage everywhere, hobos sleeping in newspapers and a hooker leaning against the building while the air is being echoed with police sirens from the distance. Red pulled her hood further down to her face as she makes her way in the building, while the cold winds started to pick up and blow her long red coat behind her.

She entered inside the lobby and climbed up the stairs to the third floor, she was looking down in her pockets to fish out her apartment keys until she felt a hand cover her mouth and a strong arm around her waist. Red started to struggle out of the person's grip while they bull her into an apartment, once they let go of her and slams the door shut behind them Red quickly turned around and saw a pissed off Gren.

"Are you out of your fucking mind Red? " He started as he went locking his door.

"Hanging out with Mundies when you know the risks you're in when they find out what you are! consequences if the higher ups find out! You wanna get thrown down the witching well?" He continued as he walks up to her and grabs ahold of the front of her coat, pulling her closer to his face.

"And what about you?! Picking a fight with a mundy! You know you can get in big trouble for that too Grendel!" Red hissed back at him as she tries to pry open his grip on her coat.

"Yeah well they shouldn't have been there in the first place." he said to her as he pushed her down and started heading to the fridge.

"Oh c'mon it's not the first or last time stray Mundies will walk into the Trip Trap." Red stated as she folded her arms in front of her chest.

"But they are the first Mundies to have a Fable show them the place." He threw back as he takes out a beer.

Red just looked at him with disbelief. "Really? You just came out of a bar."

"Get off my back." he puffed back as he opens the can and leans on the wall beside the broken window that's covered with a plastic bag and duct tape.

"And I didn't show them the way to the place, they found one of those match box things in the streets. You think I'm that careless to ruin everything?" Red continues as she eyes his drink.

Gren just looked at her with those eyes of his and shrugs.

"Maybe, since you're sleeping with one of the Mundies." He said before taking a drink.

Red glared at him and gave him a huff of disgust.

"I am not sleeping with him, or any other mundy. God why does everyone think I would sleep with people, they thought I was sleeping with you too!" She threw her arms in the air as if cursing the skies than threw them down at her sides, giving up of even trying to understand.

Gren raised an eyebrow at her and a smirk at the last comment "Not a bad idea Red."

He joked as Red looks back at his face and rolls her eyes.

"Ain't happening." was all she said.

Gren let's out a laugh and takes another drink "You're not my type anyways, I prefer my women with more meat on them, better grip."

He laughs as Red tries to hide her laugh as well."Anyways, that one mundy obviously does have a thing for you, you should really watch yourself Red."

"Thanks Gren, you should really watch on who you fight as well. Was that all you wanted to tell me? Can I go now?"

"Holly wants to talk to you as well so she asked me to tell you to go back to the Trip Trap as soon as possible."

Red's shoulders dropped and let's out an annoyed sigh.

"Is she gonna kill me for what happened at the bar? I told you it wasn't my idea, and you started it!" She reminded him.

"Just go see her whenever you can Red." Gren finishes the beer and throws it out the other open window.

"And another thing, The sheriff went looking for you at the bar."

Red froze on that, she felt her hands tremble but then made them into fists and tries to relax. "What did you tell him? Did you say anything about my mundy friends?"

Gren got up and headed towards her with a hurtful look in his features.

"You think I wanna see you in trouble Red? I like you kid." Gren pulled her hood further down, covering her eyes as she smiles at him.

"Oh my Grendel!" she teased him with a girlier voice than she already has.

"Don't push your luck kid."

Red laughs at that as he let's out a chuckle.

"I'm not really afraid of him anymore Gren, I'm just mostly afraid of losing my freedom..."

"I know Red...I know." Once their friendly moment was over Gren opened his front door and looks around the hallway.

"Coast is clear, go on home Red." He nods her out the door.

"Thanks Gren." She said back then takes a peek out the door and starts heading down the hallway to her apartment.

"By the way Red." Gren called out before Red went too far from shouting distance.

"I wasn't kidding around on what I said at the bar. When am I really gonna have another taste of your cherry pie?" He said to her as he crosses his arms and gives her a smirk.

Red couldn't help but laugh and roll her green eyes." Just get me the money for the ingredients and I'll bake you one." She shot back, Red waves him goodbye then quickly heads back to her apartment before anyone sees her.