Bet you didn't expect another so soon! It's a short one but I hope you likes,

And I have a little announcement to make so be sure to read the ending Arthur's notes.

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3/7/17

Fixed

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Chapter 6

"Good morning, Red Riding Hood." Said the Wolf as he casually walked out of the woods and in front of Red's path.

"Good morning, Wolf." She answered politely while shifting her basket to her other arm to remove the strands of hair from her eyes and lips.

"Where are you off to so early in the day, little one?" He asked as he circles around the girl, closing in on her while swaying his tail side to side.

"To my grandmother's. She is sick in bed, so I'm taking bread and wine to her." She replies as her eyes follows the large wolf, she let's out a giggle as the Wolf's tail swayed to her face. The sly wolf let's out a chuckle of amusement from reaction of the little morsel.

"Isn't that nice, I should walk alongside you in order to keep you safe." Said the Wolf as he hides his toothy smile and glowing hungry eyes.

Here they are now, once again face to face. Red tries to keep a straight face as she feels the heavy eyes of the Wolf a upon her, she puffs out her chest and she stands up straight, held her hands in the front in a polite manner as she clears her dry throat.

"Welcome to the Gingerbread Man's Bakery sheriff." She said again in a shaky voice, "How may I be of service?"

"Never trust a Wolf Red, never..."

Her grandmother's voice echoes in her head as she stares at his hands in order to avoid eye contact. Bigby steps closer to the counter, making Red even more nervous than she already is.

Okay, maybe I'm still a little afraid of him after all.

She confessed in her mind, thinking back to what she told to Gren last night, Red however refused to look so afraid on the outside.

He said he has questions of last night, does he know of my friends? No, no it's not possible.

Her mind started to rant as he steps closer until he rested his hands on the counter top.

"Did you hear what I just said?" He asked as he scratches his cheek.

"Yes sir, good morning to you too . Today's special is fresh homemade apple pie, that comes with a free small cup of-"

"I'm not here to buy sweets Red." He interrupted her flatly, knowing that she's purposely trying to change the subject.

"Oh right, I never really imagined you to have a sweet tooth..." Red replied awkwardly while scratching her right cheek with her index finger.

" Yeah, can't really stomach too much sugar, leaves a bad taste in my mouth." He said.

"Well 's meat pies restaurant is just around the corner. Though between you and me, a lot of alley cats suddenly went missing." She tries to joke, receiving a smirk from the sheriff as a reward.

"Well I'll go check her place out when I'm done here. Wouldn't want your grandmother's cats ending up in pies." He jokes back as he leans over the counter.

Red couldn't help but giggle at that, imagining her black cat Aiden putting up a tough fight than jumping out of a pie.

"I think it would be who should be watching her back when it comes to my kitty." She shot back, feeling a little bit more relaxed after the mention of her pet.

Bigby couldn't help himself when he was around this girl, he came in to try and get some information out of her for the incident at the bar last night and yet here he is, cracking jokes and enjoying her company, despite the hint of fear he can smell off her.

The girl was trying to put on a poker face to him to hide that fear, that was obvious, yet he admired that from this sweet girl. Red had this gentle aura around her, that would make the wolf inside him sway his tail in delight like the first time they met.

Forgot how petite this girl is.

He thought to himself as he smirks down at her figure, Red kept looking everywhere but his eyes, taking a few chances here and there to glance up at him with those big green eyes of hers. Bigby was just about to compliment on her eyes until he saw her wrapped up hand move a loose lock of hair behind her ear, exposing the square white bandage on the side of her forehead.

He quickly blinked and shook his head as if he was released by a spell, Bigby then cleared his throat, reminding himself why he's here and thankful that he didn't anything awkward and stupid.

"Last night around 2:25 a.m, I found a trail of your blood coming out of the Trip Trap; Care to explain what you were doing in a place like that?" He asked her, standing straighter up and crossing his arms.

Red bit her lower lip, trying to figure out on what to say without changing the story Gren told him.

What did Gren even tell him anyways? I should have asked for more info!

She scolded herself in her mind as she felt the Wolf's gaze getting heavier on her.

"I just went to see some friends, but a couple of guys in the bar were kind of...well..umm.." She trailed off, thinking if she should mention about a bar fight or that she tripped or something until the sheriff helped her out on the sentence as if she couldn't remember the word she was looking for.

"Fighting?" He asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah they were fighting. Gren and Holly tried to break it up while I was trying to hide, but well, you know.." she continued on with her story and raised up her hands on the last part.

Bigby rubbed his temple and sighed by the sight of her injuries.

"You could have called me or filed a complaint, I could charge them with assault." Bigby reaches into his back pocket and pulls out the piece of paper Snow gave him then he reached for a pen that was next to the cash register and flipped over to the back of the paper.

"Alright Red, what were their names? Do you remember what they looked like?" He asked her while he clicked on the pen.

Red blinked at him and shook her head, "I'm not putting in a complaint sheriff, it's not like it was on purpose and I shouldn't have been there."

Bigby just glanced up at her and crumpled the paper in his hands.

"Why were you there Red? It's not like you to be in places like that." He looked up at her now with his full attention on what Red would say.

Her right pinky finger twitched at that, hitting a little nerve on how he said it.

"What's it to you sheriff? You don't know where I go or don't go." She said back at him with a little bite.

"So I'm assuming what Gren told me about you being buddies with is true, he and Holly are the 'friends' you went to see?" Bigby shot back with a skeptical tone.

Now that did it, Red looked up at him in anger, green eyes finally staring straight to his brown, unflinching, unnerving.

"And what's wrong with me being friends with them? Are they not good enough because they are trolls and creatures? Or because you think they are bad people? Hmm?!" She asked him with a demanding tone as she crosses her arms in front of her puffed out chest.

Bigby raised his eyebrows, surprised by Red's sudden outburst. In front of his very eyes he saw a cute timid girl transform into a woman with attitude.

"N-no it's not like I'm saying they are bad people, it's just..you are a real good girl Red, and You're starting to hang out in bad places. And-"

"I was a good girl, like how you were a bad wolf! People change over time Bigby, time changes them, saying they don't change is like saying the seasons never change, it would be like Winter all year every year!" Red rests her damaged hands on the orange colored countertop and leans in closer to Bigby, she yanked on his red tie to pull him closer to her face as she stands on her toes.

"Have you really changed Wolf? Or are you still as bad and as cold as you were?" Red hissed out with a smooth but dangerous tone, spilling out all of that gentle aura Bigby mention and being replaced with a darker one.

Red let's go of his tie then, looking away from him as she fixes her bandages on her hands, leaving Bigby with his mouth open. He stared at her for a long moment, not knowing who in the world was this woman standing in front of him. He closed his mouth then, breathing out through his nostrils as he kept staring at her. After a long moment, Bigby's tense shoulders drops, letting his guard down.

"You're right, I'm sorry for offending you and your friends." He said to her as he fixes his brown coat. Bigby glanced at her direction, seeing her pouty pink cheeks going back to her original color, his eyes drifted up to her green ones than to the kitchen in the back, after a moment he rested his left arm on the counter and leans his weight on it.

"Think I'll order something after all." Bigby suddenly said to her as he reaches for his wallet.

Red just looked at him, thinking he was pulling a trick on her.

"Really now? Don't lie to me just so I can bake for you for and then have you change your mind." She glared at him.

"I'm serious, it's like you said, people change. And I suddenly grew a sweet tooth."

Red squinted her eyes at him as she walked towards the cash register, "what do you want?"

Bigby scratches his cheek and thought for a moment. "I'll have a cherry pie."

"We don't have any." She flatly said

Bigby sniffed the air and raised an eyebrow at her, "I ain't leaving until I get one."

"Are you serious?" she questions his bluff until he reached into his coat pocket, took out a pack of Huff and Puffs and lit up a cigarette.

Red looked at him with disgust and grunted out of anger as she stormed to the kitchen, she grabbed one of the three pies she made and placed it in a white box, threw a plastic fork in and closed it shut, not even bothering to add a bow on it which was a signature for a custom pie.

She stomped back to the counter and forced it in his hands then started typing numbers in the register.

"That would be 4.25 including the tax, but since this pie is a different kind of 'special', it's doubled. So your total will be 8 dollars and 50 cents." She gritted through her teeth.

Bigby blew out smoke away from Red's face and threw the cigarette in the fish tank full of coins as he slipped a 20 on the counter. "Keep the change Red.."

"Don't choke on it Wolf." She forced out as she took the money.

Bigby smirks at her, tapped his forehead with two fingers then pulled down, tipping to her as if he had a top hat on.

"You have a good day." He kindly said to her, giving Red the nostalgic feeling from the past by his look as he walked out the door.


I decided to post this chapter today since tomorrow will be Sunday and I cut this chapter in half so I can post a warning on the second part of the chapter. Just a friendly heads up, I have something cooking in my little mind that is gonna be for mature audience only, I may have to change the rating from T to M on this fanfic because of it, better to be safe than sorry.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed writing it, it's kinda of fun writing about to pissed off Red lol

Oh and now that one of the 3 cherry pies are gone, write down in the review box on which of the last two Red should give away and I'll count at the end of Monday maybe Tuesday and see who has the most :D game time lol, I have so many ideas for each one but I rather for the readers to pick any of the two, whoever wins I'll be focusing on my writing on what happens. :o

A. Gren

B. Holly

Or C. Travis and the gang.

Until next time. Xoxo