I had 'Howling For You' by The Black Keys, playing while writing this chapter, up to a certain point that is. Try to guess what point ;D


Chapter 12

"Red? You okay? " He as asked while reaching for her hand.

Red was stunned, she was shocked, and most of all, she was terrified. She quickly got up on her feet and started to drag Randy to the stairs. " What the hell are you doing here! How did you find me!"

"Woah easy, I was doing my rounds on my clients and saw you, I assumed you were going home so I followed you so I can know where you-"

" You don't need to know anything! Don't you realize what you done? How much trouble I can be? It's dangerous for you here! " Red blurred out while dragging him down the stairs, she kept looking around each floor and made a run for it while holding tight on Randy's arm.

" What the hell Red? You're making it sound like this place is a death trap or something. "

" It is a death trap! You have to get out of here before someone sees you! "

They were close to the first floor, Red kept praying in her head that no fables were in the lobby. " Red you need to calm down, if this place is as dangerous as you say, you need to move out of here, live with Cindy or even Travis or-" Randy tried to pull his arm away from her grasp.

" I can't move away from here don't you get it! I had a reason I never wanted to tell you guys where I-" Red's sentence cut short once they made it to the lobby, out of all the fables she didn't wanted to see, Bigby Wolf was way at the bottom of the list, and there he was, entering the building.

oh god oh god oh god! She kept cursing in her mind as she turns around and pushes Randy back up the stairs before Bigby saw them. " Red what the fu-" Randy protested as they got out of view shot from the lobby.

" Go back, go back! " she urged him as she kept pushing him up further and further, until a cold chill ran up her spine.

" Red? " Bigby asked out loud from the lobby, he obviously heard her voice due to her lack of whispers. Her body started trembling as she heard the Wolf's footsteps coming closer. She passed Randy since he was being too slow and started pulling him up.

" Randy please, just trust me! Please! " she whispers to him as she looks back with eyes full of fear. He studies her face with an arched eyebrow and looks over his shoulder to the sound of the footsteps. Whether it was Red's pleads or the sound of the man getting closer the realization begin to sink in and started running up the stairs on his own with Red.

They went up to the second floor and Red gasps by the sight of an apartment door opening, fables were too distracted to notice her and her mundy friend but she had to think fast. With the group of fables in the front and the wolf in the back Red tries to break into an apartment and hoped for the best.

"Randy come on! " she calls out to him while slamming herself to the door, but Randy quickly moves her to the side and kicks it down and pushes her inside. Once in the dark room they heard screams in the hallway, the fables heard them break into the abandon apartment.

" That apartment has been broken in!" They both heard someone scream.

" To the fire escape!" Red said to Randy as they head to the window. She gasps out loud by the sound of running in the hallway, the quick footsteps were getting closer and the familiar voice calls out.

" Red?! Where are you?!" Bigby called out again, his voice was laced with worry and haste but she couldn't afford to stop now, not when Randy's life could be at risk.

" Who the hell is that Red? " Randy asks her as he goes through the window.

" Someone you don't want to meet! " she replies, Randy was about to head down to the latter but it broken down to the ground.

" Shit! We can't go down! " He informs her, panic starts to rise and curses at the troll that broke the latter while escaping. She looks up and urges Randy to the other latter.

" Go up! Go up!" She demands, with out a seconds thought Randy starts to climb up as Red closes the window and starts to follow.

" It's too far of a climb for the top floor and the dude can catch up to us" Randy shouted out to her, Red tried her best to make the calculation of which window belongs to her room when she looked up until she saw her bedroom lamp on, lighting up her balcony to reveal her red flower pot with the mini red roses.

" There! The window with the red flowers is my apartment! Go there! " she ordered, they reach the 3rd floor and Randy started to jump from the next balcony as Red looks down and sees Bigby climbing up the latter, he messed up on his footing and slipped down, cursing out loud by his clumsiness. For once she was thankful for the buzz he has from drinking the beers he ordered at the Trip Trap.

" Red come on! " Randy called out while gesturing her to jump with his open arms, she starts to take off her red heels and climbs up the railings, before she readies herself to jump she looks down and feels her stomach drop by the sight of the distance down below. " Don't look down and jump, I'll catch you trust me! "

"Red?!" Bigby's distant voice snapped her back to the reality of the situation, without even giving a second thought, Red jumps over to the other balcony and into Randy's arms.

" Let's go!" Red breathes out as they continued to run. They jumped over 2 more balconies until they had one more to jump to make it to Red's window, Randy jumped over first, almost knocking her flower pot. Red climbs up the railings and readies herself to jump, but she slips and loses balance, causing her to miss her target, but Randy quickly leans over and catches her by the arm making her body swing over and slam against the metal bars. " Ah!" She screams out as she hits herself by the impact.

" Red! Hang on! " Randy calls out as he pulls her up, he helps her climb over until she stumbles on the floor to catch her breath as Randy tries to open the window, "shit, won't budge" they both gasp by the sound of Bigby jumping over to the balcony from the distance, getting closer and closer.

"Break it!" Red demands, Randy was about to protest until they heard another grunt and a slam as Bigby jumps over to the second balcony.

" Sorry Red " Randy apologies as he gives a hard elbow to the window, causing it to shatter.

" Go hide! " she calls out as he climbs inside the room first.

" I'm not leaving you to-"

"I know this guy, i can handle him, you however are a stranger to him now go!" She cut down his protest. Red was getting up and started to climb in after him until she heard another slam on her balcony and a firm grip on her slim ankle. She screams out and turns over to face whoever grabbed her but Bigby let's go of her ankle and grabs both her wrist with his hands.

"Red? What's going on? Why were you running from me?" Bigby asks as he climbs in and rests his knees on her bed, her bare legs were trapped between his thighs as she tries to struggle out of his hands, she glances around her room and sees no Randy in sight, "answer me Red! Who was that man with you! Did he break into that apartment and took you with him?"

Red tries to calm her breathing and stares into his brown eyes, they were full of fear and concern. She took a deep breath to and quickly tries to think of an excuse. " There was no one Bigby, it was all me, I broke into the apartment and made a run for it. "

Bigby raises up his eyebrows by the answer but then Furrowed them together, "Red tell me the truth, I can smell the marijuana selling bastard in here, don't lie for them, have they threaten you? Where are-"

" I am not lying, thats my secret stash I have in here too, so keep it on the down low! And everything else, all the running and breaking and entering, it was all me. I was practicing on how to run on my heels if someone came after me in this building" she continues to lie to him, "so many bad guys here Bigby you know that! So I just wanted to prepare myself"

Bigby let's go of one of her wrists and gently cuffs her face then rests his hand behind her neck as he tries to think on what subject to scold her with first, "are you out of your mind? You could have been hurt, you could have fallen off the balconies! I heard you scream outside and thought of the fuckin worst! And you broke your own window?"

" I uh, lost my keys and this was the only way in.." she hesitantly replies, knowing by the look on his face he wasn't buying it.

"And you're smoking marijuana?" He asks as an afterthought "What the hell Red? You know that's-"

" Why are you here anyways? You're drunk, and don't deny it cause I was the one who served you the alcohol. You could have been hurt yourself" she tries to change the subject. Bigby blinks at her and let's go of her wrists and leans back.

" I uh..I" he tries to answer as he looks away of what Red believes to be of embarrassment, he leans further back and pops one arm out the window while the other holds on to the window frame for balance as he reaches out and pulls in a brown paper bag with the Trip Trap logo on the side. Bigby grunts out as he gets back into her room and shakes his hand as he gives her the bag. "You forgot your work uniform from the Trip Trap..." he says to her as he tries to bite the palm of his hand.

Red slightly opens her mouth with surprise, she reaches for the bag and peaks inside, seeing her lovely red and white dress folded at the bottom. "You seriously chased after me just to give me my dress?"

" Well, the original plan was to knock at your front door, but after hearing the break in I improvised" he joked on the last bit as he pulls out a shard of glass in his hand.

" Well, now that-" there was a light 'thud' sound of something falling from Red's closet, all the color left her face as fear shot back at her ten fold.

Crap! Randy you clutz! Red thought to herself as she imagine him knocking down something inside. Her heart beat was ringing in her ears when Bigby let's out a low hushed growl as he stares intensely at the closet door, he was about to get up from the bed until Red thought fast and quickly wrapped her arms around his neck, "Bigby-eep!" She gave a small shriek as she loses balance and falls back on her bed, accidentally bring Bigby down with her.

He landed on top to her tiny frame body, knocking the wind out of her. "Shit, you alright? " He quickly props up on his elbows as Red tries to catch her breath.

"I - I'm" she tries to speak as she rests her hand on her small stomach, Red tries to take a few deep breathes but another sound from the closet made her lose it again completely. Bigby tries to get up again with more haste to get to the closet but Red wrapped her arms around his neck once more and brought him down to her body for a close tight hug. " T-thank you, for the bag" she managed to say, while squeezing him for a tighter hug. She felt a little dizzy due to no air and the strong smell of alcohol from Bigby's breath was making it worse.

" Red, I gotta-" he started as he tries to pry open her hands behind his neck until she leans in on his face and gives Bigby a quick kiss on the lips, making him stiff up with shock as if she has froze him on the spot. He looked down at her with wide eyes and open mouth, all words and syllables lost by her small kiss as she kept panting to catch her breath.

"I - I'm really grateful for it" Red said to him as her breathing at last became back to normal. She looks down at his lips and let's out a light giggle by the small red stain from her lipstick, she rested her hand on his stubbled cheek and started to rub it off with her thumb until the realization hit her like a ton of bricks, she had just kissed Bigby Wolf. Red stops with her rubbing, leaving her thumb between his lower lip as she stares back into his eyes with the same shock as his, they laid like that for what felt like a lifetime, both getting lost in the moment as of what just happen between the two, the girl in red, and the big bad wolf.

Red parted her lips to whisper out an apology but the words got cut short as Bigby started to lean in closer to her face, his lips half an inch away from hers until both there heads snapped at the direction of the closet as the door slowly creaks open. Red's heart stopped, praying to god that Randy wouldn't come out until she saw her black cat Aiden, walk into the light and started to meow at his master.

Red let's out a loud sigh by the sight of her baby and lays her hand on Bigby's chest, trying to push him up as she sits herself up. " Aiden, what are you doing in the closet you silly kitty" she cooed at her pet as it jumps up to the bed and started to meow at her face.

Bigby quickly gets off the bed and clears his throat as Red carefully climbs off as well and shakes off the bits of glass from her coat. " Sorry about that..." Bigby said to her as he reaches for her back, making her jump by the sudden hand. Bigby raised up his other hand as a sign of surrender as he gently brushes off the glass Red couldn't reach.

" You cut your hand, " Red stated as she reaches the bleeding hand he held up. His fingers twitched as she starts to pull out the bigger shards sticking out.

" It's nothing...I had worse" he hissed after when Red pulled out another large shard. She stared at the gash in his hand to try to avoid his eyes but then got snapped back up by the sound of Aiden hissing at Bigby. " should have stuck to your hiding place if you don't like me" he said to the cat, reminding Red about someone else hiding.

Oh crap, Randy! "you stay here and I'll be right back" she quickly said to him as she takes a peak in her closet to find it empty, she ran out her room and looked around the small apartment until she found him under her mother's bed. " Oh god Randy are you okay? " she asked him with relief.

" I should be asking YOU that! " He whispered to her as he starts to crawl out.

" No no don't get out yet! I'm gonna walk this guy out the apartment you stay here until I come get you I promise" Red whispers back as she brushes the short strands of hair from his eyes.

" What the fuck is going on Red?"

"I'll explain later, but please don't get out" she quickly got out of the room and fetched the first aid kit from the bathroom and was about to head back to her room until she slams to Bigby's chest, "Bigby, you scared me. I told you I would be back"

" I was just gonna see my own way out, I doubt your grandma would be thrilled to have me in here" he said to her while scratching his cheek. Red nodded in agreement and grabbed Bigby by the arm.

" That's why I'm going to fix that hand of yours in the laundry mat, less eyes there. " she said to him as they head out the door.

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Once they arrived at the buildings laundry room Red guided him to sit down on the only chair as Red prepares the tweezers and alcohol, she grabbed his hand and placed it above the trash can as she squirts the liquid in the gash.

" Son of a bitch! " He cursed as his hand trembles when the alcohol started to foam in the gash. Red places down the bottle and tries to pull the glass with the tweezers, but Bigby kept frigging so she went on her knees at his side and wraps her arm around his in order to keep him still. She blew his hand to ease the stinging pain as she continues to pluck the glass out.

" Hold still" she ordered, something Bigby tried in all of the fibers of his being to follow. He felt the tiny pitching of the tweezers in his hand as he glances down at Red, started to bounce his other leg and looked around the empty room, the heat of the two dryers was making him sweaty and uncomfortable and the loud spinning sound was driving him crazy.

" Did it really had to be here? " he asked, Red simply pulled out a glass and threw it in the trash can to join the others.

" Didn't wanted to be seen with you" she flatly replied.

" That's a little harsh-owh!" He clenched his teeth as Red pulls out a big shard.

" It's the truth, I don't like to be seen with people I don't like"

Bigby scoffed at that, " Yeah, you don't wrap your arms around someone and-owh! Damn it Red you did that on purpose! " He growled out, Red just shrugs and throws the glass away.

" I was just thanking you for bringing my uniform" she said to him as she opens his hand wider.

Bigby was about to say a smart ass comment but quickly decided not to and kept his mouth shut, there was once again an awkward silence that filled the not so quiet room. He scratches his stubbled cheek with his free hand and then starts to rub his chin as he thinks about what else to say until he wipes his mouth then stops midway. He glances down at Red as he held his hand over his lips and thinks about the kiss. It was a small kiss, just a tiny peck, but a jolt ran through his entire body because of it, like a shock from a short circuit outlet.

" I think that's the last one" she said to him as she looks up, Bigby's heart started to beat faster by the sight of those green eyes of hers and turned away the same time she turned away as well. Red got up to her feet and fetched the gauzes and bandages from the first aid kit, she kneeled down in front of him and started to clean out the blood then dressing his hand.

" You didn't have to do this" he said to her

"I know, but I feel like if I don't do something about it now I'm gonna hear about it later, and I don't wanna see you at later. "

"Fair enough" Red started to wrap up his hand until the bandages ran out.

" That should do for now, don't go putting more work on that hand or you'll get it infected" she said to him as she collects the supplies back to the kit. Bigby got up from the chair and flexed his hand in to a loose fist then looks up at Red as she quickly heads out the door.

" Hey wait" he calls out to her as he follows her to the lobby, she stops and sighs as she looks back to him.

" What is it '

Bigby lost his train of thought by the sight of her small red lips "I uh..." he tries to think on what he was about to say and forum out the lost words, all while Red made a face that showed she was losing patience with him. Has she always looked this cute while mad? What the hell am I thinking? Bigby shook his head to get the random thought out of mind until Red scoffs in annoyance and walks towards the stairs.

" Goodbye Sheriff Wolf" she said to him without looking back.

" Hey wait! Uh, be more careful, and...stop breaking into people's apartments" he called out.

" Got it" she plainly answered as she starts heading up.

Bigby was about to head out the door until he remembers something else and shouts out to her, " and don't do drugs Red!"

"Whatever" she shouted back as her voice sounded small from the distance, Bigby quickly went out the door and to the sidewalk and stood there.

He grabbed ahold of his shirt as if he was gonna have a heart attack and looks back up to the building before he lit up a cigarette and started walking home.

What...the hell did that kiss do to me?


Did you guys get what point? If so then yay for bomb dropping! Lol

I want to wish everyone a Happy Mothers Day today, I hope are all having a wonderful day today, and also wish your mothers a happy mothers day as well, I don't wanna sound depressing but spent as much time with them as possible because you never know when it's there last day.

I don't celebrate it much since for my family this day is a special yet sad day, we think of loving memory of my grandmother who left us on this very day 6 years ago. I love you abuelita, todos an nosotros de amamos y de extrañamos mucho.

I gotta go now, everyone's waiting for me, Dx

Until next time

Xoxo