I am the worst math problem solver in the world, so I did a bit of research on how loans work and tadaaa...imagination.
Disclaimer:
I don't own 'The Wolf Among Us Rap' it belongs to Dan Bull and it is awesome, I tweaked it a little bit, but it's still his song, you should check it out.
WARNING:
You better not be doing drugs guys M'kay? Cause there's a lot going on here.
Chapter 15
"That was quite a meal" The Wolf thought to himself as he licks his lips, He had not eaten in 3 days and has never tasted the flesh of people before, so the grandmother was quite an interesting yet delicious meal, but now all that's left Is the dessert that made her way here.
He looked around the tiny cottage for a place to hide, while the smell of blackberries and Oak trees invaded his wet nose. He looked towards the bed where the old woman laid and thought of something mischievous, In one quick stray move the large wolf climbed up onto the bed and crawls under the covers before pulling the bed curtains together with his jaws, it was not long after when he heard the door creak open and The scent of wildflowers filled the room, along with the sweet mouth watering scent of the innocent girl in red.
"Grandmother...?"
"Hey buddy, were here. Now pay up! "
Bigby got snapped back into the present by the rude demands of the cab driver. He glances out the window and remembered what he had come here for, he paid the driver then got out of the cab as he stares at the bright yellow lights of the sign that was in cursive. 'Tea Time Cafe'
He fixed his tie before taking a breath and walks into the building. The cafe was very small looking, with a few fancy coffee and tea makers along with the shelves decorated with teacups and plates that were made of porcelain. Right away he sees the fable he wanted to talk to, the long blonde haired girl had her signature blue dress on with a white apron and a ponytail. She was setting up more teacups on the side before Bigby calls her out with his gruffy voice.
"Alice" she stops on what she was doing and looks back with annoyance, but once she saw Bigby her eyes became large light blue orbs, she started turning around, fixes her dress and gives him her full attention.
"Sheriff Wolf, what a pleasant surprise. what can I get for you? " she said to him in a sweet voice.
It was hard for Bigby to imagine that He caught this girl selling mundy drugs not to long ago. her naive and innocent look was what gives her the upper hand to get away,, until he caught a whiff of the shit she sold and caught her selling to teenage Mundies in the streets.
"I'm here to ask you some questions and you better give me the right answers" he started
Alice sweet smile quickly became dark as she stares him down and crosses her arms, " I'm not selling to kids anymore if that's what you wanna ask" she said to him.
Bigby raises his eyebrow at that "but you're still selling? "
"You looking to buy? "
"No, to be honest, I'm interested in the clients." Bigby was frank on what he wanted, he didn't wanted to dick around too long. He rested his callous hands down to the wooden counter between them and leans in. "Who have you been selling your shit to Alice" He said with a quiet threating growl.
Alice just gave him a grin and brushed her hair away from her shoulder. " I don't know what you're talking about."
Not this again, he always hated when they don't corporate. "I'm not fuckin around here Alice, If you have been selling to the wrong people I'm gonna have to arrest you again, and this time, you'll be locked up for a long time. "
Alice lost some of her smug from that, showing a hint of fear but then masked it away in a blink of an eye. " I suggest you bugger off Wolf, Maddy won't like to hear the threats you're throwing at me"
"'How has the Mad Hatter been? " He studies her face as she pauses to answer.
"He's been alright" she answers as smoothly as she could.
Bigby walks around the counter without breaking eye contact while Alice backs away, intimidated by his look. Bigby casually picks up a teapot from the shelves and moves it around from one hand to the other.
"I'm assuming that he's the one who got all this crap? he was obsessed with tea time, even named this business like that, tell me has he been around?"
"Put, that down! that came from London, it's one of his favorites!" Alice said with fear of the delicate thing, normally Bigby wouldn't be doing this sort of thing to a woman, but he had to get the truth. He has to know if Alice is Red's drug dealer, if so he has to shoot fear into her in order to keep Alice away from her.
"If memory serves right, it was the Mad Hatter who bailed you out right? I wonder, is he also your boss on this drug dealing business too?" He asks her as he tosses the teapot over his shoulder as if it was trash.
Alice shrieks out as the teapot shatters onto the black and white tile floor, "You're going to pay for that Wolf! "
"Tell me, Is he the one who makes you sell all the drugs? What kind do you sell again? let me think" he says to her as he reaches for a teacup without looking. "Herion" he then throws the cup over his shoulder and reaches for another as he walks closer to Alice. " Cocaine, shrooms, meth," he starts to throw more teacups one by one over his shoulder each time he names the drugs with a smooth calming voice as if he was talking about the weather.
"Stop it! We don't sell anything of a sort! now get out! " she yells at him.
"Tell me Alice, where is your boss anyways? " he asks as he throws another teapot.
"He's not here, now stop it!" she continues to yell at him
"Let me think about that. nope" off went the porcelain saucer.
"Stop!"
"Where is he" smash! went the china plate.
"I'm warning you!" Alice threaten
"Just tell me where. " Smash!
"Never! "
"He." smash!
"No!"
"Is! " smash!
Alice quickly pulls out a knife from the under the counter and raises up high and was about to bring it down to stab Bigby until the phone rang. She stands still, panting for air as she still holds the large kitchen knife close to Bigby's neck as the phone continues to ring.
Bigby just looked at her with a calm expression, not even afraid of the fable with the knife that's so close to stabbing him. Alice takes a deep breath and goes to answers the phone.
"Tea Time Café." She answers in the best calming voice she could possibly do. "You sure?...okay..." Bigby continues to eye her as she puts down the knife and fixes her hair. Once she was calm and collective she glares back at Bigby and walks pass by him. " This way"
Bigby continues to remain silent as he follows Alice into the back of the little kitchen the café, she then opens up the freezer door and starts moving some boxes around until she revealed a secret door. She enters a code and looks back at Bigby.
"Welcome to Wonderland Mr. Wolf" she says to him before opening the door. Bigby looks around as he walks in, Alice closes the door behind them and walks pass by him."follow me"
Smooth rap music was playing in the room as he looks around, the smell was disgusting to him, thick with weed smoke and sweat. He glances to the corner of his eyes and sees a woman straddling a man in a booth. She was laughing as she kept shamelessly grinding on the man's crotch, while the man reaches for another pill on the table. Bigby sniffs towards their direction and made a face as he rubs his nose.
ecstasy, thought to himself, he looks around to the other booths and realizes everyone in this dump is doing drugs.
"Looky Looky, who's here everyone! its the Big Bad Wolf" said a man in a microphone, Bigby looks up at the stage and sees two slim men with mics grinning at him.
One of them was paled skin, curly blonde hair with black high lights and his eyes were the color of honey. He had a chain loop hanging out of his baggy white pants and he wore a button up black long sleeve shirt that's only tucked in front the front and not in the back, his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows revealing his tattoos on his arm of a twisted clock with the time showing '4:20' and words saying 'Don't be late'.
"We are so honored to have you here Bigby, really we are" he says with his similar accent as Alice
"So honored, that were gonna be free styling a song just for you, so we hope you enjoy" it says the other fable with a more rougher voice.
This man was the complete opposite from the other, his skin was dark and had short dark hair that was buzz cut in the word 'March', he had light brown eyes that glinted with something mischievous. He was wearing the similar clothes as The other, only he had a red shirt instead.
"Sheriff, meet March Hare and White Rabbit. " Alice introduced them to Bigby as she waves them off. "shall we continue? "
Bigby eyed the two shifty fables then continue to follow as March Hare started to rap first.
"Look this is Fabletown"
"The place where fables are found, Grimy roads replace the yellow bricks paved on the ground"
"How many of them stay here?"
"I'm unable to count, Because labelled as outcasts, They stay underground"
White Rabbit extended his arm and points to everyone as March Hare sings next.
"They keep themselves to themselves"
shh
"Invisible among these mundies"
"They use a spell to repel"
Glamour
"Every community needs a way to keep in order"
"Someone to police the place"
"A sort of senior lawman, formerly the Big Bad Wolf, They call him Bigby"
"Went from eating pigs to drinking neat whisky"
"When alone he broods, 'bout the girl he tricked in the woods, You know who?"
"Who?"
"it was Red Riding Hood"
ah
" he thought she looked so good, so he stole a bite"
arr
" it was so wrong"
"Yet so right"
Bigby clenched his teeth at the verses they sang about him and Red, He was tired of people bringing in up over and over, he was thinking about dragging them down and kick there ass until someone spoke to him in a calm tone.
"don't like the words they spit Sheriff? " Bigby turns to the one who called him out and sees the one and only Mad Hatter, sitting alone in a booth, drinking tea.
He had tight black and white pants on that glowed white from the black light above the booth, he had a red patch that's shaped like a heart on his left knee, along with a black vest with a red handkerchief In a pocket, under that he had a white dress shirt with his sleeves rolled up, he had silver and gold rings on every finger and a fancy gold rolex on. He had wild black hair that spiked out of his top hat that had an Ace of Spades card on, he had unnatural eye color of pink and had a small red heart tattooed on his light right cheek under his eye.
"Don't take kindly of people bringing up my past" Bigby replied with bite.
"Oh there's my little blue mushroom!" He baby talks to Alice as he reaches to her while kicking like a baby with his black boots. Alice giggles and sits on his lap and gives him a big open mouth kiss, "That's quite a shame Bigby, Since your past is quite an interesting tale" Maddy says to him once he pulls from the kiss.
Bigby looks around the table as they continue to make out, he notices 2 other hands of playing cards and 3 other half empty teacups on top of there saucer plates. "Had company with you? "
"Mmm, only company I had is the company in my mind" Maddy grins, Bigby just shifted his eyes at than looks back down to the teacup in front of him that had a stain of light pink lip gloss on it. " While we're on the subject, what can I do for you sheriff? "
"I am here to talk about your clients Hatter"
"is that all? You break all of my valuable collection and terrorize my little Alice, just for intell on my clients? You are quite the charmer Bigby, oh dear oh dear. "
"Who are they? How are they paying you? and how often do they come? " Bigby continues.
"I'm sorry but I cannot share such information to you. bad for business, you understand"
"What I understand is that you guys don't know The shit your in. Selling drugs Is illegal, and I can lock all of you up for a long time for this!" Bigby barked
"See the funny thing is sheriff, it's illegal for mundies to use. Never said anything about illegal for Fables. " he let's out a laugh at that, "We don't die so easily, so it takes a lot for a fable to OD so its a free for all. Sad part is, that our kind don't have a safe place to enjoy this worldly treat so I provide them with a safe haven here. Take a look around you, We are away from the mundane law, We are free here, plus, they can use my very own product That has a special secret ingredient that gives us Fables the right kick we need"
Bigby looks around while listening to what the crazy fable says...
"You better beware, for there's a wolf among us, but the truth is the food for which he hungers"
everyone had a face of bliss, everyone in a world of there own,
"You better beware, for there's a wolf among us, but the truth is the food for which he hungers"
everyone just wasting their lives away to become nothing but worthless junkies.
"I don't care if it's only mundy law or not, I'm gonna put a stop to this hell hole" Bigby snarls back at Mad Hatter
Maddy simply giggles to himself and gives Bigby a devilish looking grin. "That's ashame Bigby, if you do, I know a certain red hooded girl who would be very sad to see that" Maddy points straight ahead from where he sat, making Bigby follow his finger to see Red coming out of a hidden door beside the stage.
Bigby's eyes grew wide as they follow her movements, she held something in her right hand as she closes the little hidden door with her right. She bites her lower light pink lips while looking at the paper in her hand, as if thinking something over.
"You better beware, for there's a wolf among us, but the truth is the food for which he hungers"
"Re-!" Bigby was about to run to her as he calls her out But a topless woman with purple hair jumps right in front of him and wraps her arms around his neck.
"Think fast! " she says to him before giving him a open mouth kiss, Bigby tries to pull her off as she shoves her tongue in his mouth, forcing him to swallow a big pill down his throat. He finally removes her face away from his and knocks her down to the ground and starts to run towards Red, until his vision went blurry.
Beware
"Re...d" Bigby tries to call out but he looses balance and tops over a table and falls to the ground, he looks up and sees the woman's eyes glow yellow and smiling wide down at him, making them look big and white due to the black light, and the only thing he last heard was the mumble out sounds of Red calling his name as he passes out.
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Red sat there, quiet and still as she sips her tea while The Tweedle brothers started to take turns talking to her.
"So you need to borrow money to pay the Pied Piper in 3 days"
"and if you don't pay him "
"Your family will be eaten alive"
"All because your cat"
"Did what all cats do"
and killed one of his rats? "
They both exchanged glances and then started to laugh out loud by the whole story.
"It's not funny! I was scared and I don't know what to do!" she started to blush of embarrassment, "it does sound silly if you put it that way, but if you were there...it was terrifying.."
"Awww, you poor, poor child. " says the Hatter as he takes a sip of his tea. "I know! " He says out loud while throwing the cup against the wall, he then takes off his top hat and pulls out a large over sized rainbow lollipop and gives it to Red. " To cheer you up darling"
Red hesitantly took it from his hand and observe it if it was clean or even real. " Thank you kindly Mr. Hatter"
"Awww aren't you adorable! If your family becomes rat food I'll adopt you! " He giggles at the thought, "Alice and I have been thinking about having a child, and look at you! Perfect way to skip the baby years"
Red shook her head and gave back the lollipop, seeing it as if it was a welcome to the family present after what he said. " Thank you, but I have no intention of leaving my current family" Maddy just shrugs and throws the lollipop across the room, hitting someone in the head with it.
"No matter, I'll just kidnapp a munchkin or something. " he serves himself more tea as he puts on his hat.
"God have mercy of whoever you'll kidnapp, the poor guy might blow his brains out" says Jack as he comes back with a beer
"umm, excuse me. I don't mean to be rude, but I came herr cause Jack told me you can help me, not discuss about kidnapping. " Red cuts into the topic
"Oh relax kid, have a little fun while you're here" said a woman from behind, Red looks back and sees a top less woman walk up to them with a tray, she puts it down and takes a seat right next to Dum and starts to caress his chin as she rests her heavy big boots on the table. She had tanned skin with tight black short shorts on and black socks that went up to her knees, she had a purple feather boa around her neck and was wearing fake cat ears that poked out of her short wild purple hair.
"Who are you?" Red asked As she averts her eyes from her bare chest, it took all of Red's willpower not to grab her own breast as she saw the silver rings pierced on both the woman's brown nipples, thinking on how much that would have hurt.
The woman's brown eyes glowed yellow As she gives her a huge white smile by the question. "Cheshire Cat, but you can call me Kat," she reaches for a bag of mushrooms from the tray she placed down starts popping them in her mouth, "care for some? "
"No thank you" Red felt uncomfortable and out of place, all she wants to do is to just get out of here, "I'm sorry, I'll be going now. Thank you for your time" she quickly said as she takes one more sip of tea then gets up.
"Now hold on darling, we didn't say we're not going to help, we will. " Dee tries to stop her.
"We just need to discuss with you in private on the loan" Dun continues.
"Hatter?" they both said at the same time. The Mad Hatter shrugs and takes off his hat once again and pulls out his large portable phone and starts pressing numbers.
"One moment" he says as it rings, the fancy phone on the table started to ring, making Hatter squeal in delight as he answers. " Hello? oh hello! This is Hatter calling, asking if I should allow them in the secret room for there business. pfft, not exactly a secret since you say it out loud. OH! right you are, so I'll take it as a yes, goodbye! " he hangs up both phones and pulls out a skeleton key from the teapot.
"umm, What was that all about? " Jack questioned the Hatter,
"Just asking for permission from myself. " he giggles. Maddy gave the key to Dum and waves goodbye to Red as they head to the side of the stage,
"Red, I'm sorry for doing this to you, I have to go.i have something important to do at 10" Jack tells her with an apologetic tone, Red was about to object of him leaving but stays quiet and bites her lip.
"Go ahead Jack, I can take care of myself from here." she says to him
"Don't worry, you're safe with them. I'll see you around" Jack waves goodbye then starts to head out While Red glances back to the Hatter and saw his face go serious as Kat whispers something in his ear, making him grab the phone again and starts to dial.
"right this way Little Red, we'll talk here. " says Dee as Dum unlocks the wall and opens a door little enough for her to squeeze through. She looks back at the door and wonders how the two large men will walk through until Dee reaches for the little door to close then opens a much bigger one in the same location. She than looks around with a puzzled look on her face as she sees nothing but a small empty white room, with only a stuffed raven sitting on the left corner of a writing desk in the center of the room.
Red tilts her head to the side as she stares at it in wonder until one of the Tweedle brothers interrupted her thought. " Now Miss. Red, about our business" Dum started
"We are more than happy to help you and give you money dear, but to make you understand, this isn't a charity work." Said Dee
"When you borrow the money, you have to pay It all back, plus interest."
"And seeing how you only need one thousand dollars, we'll give you up to three months to pay us all back,"
"charging you on the monthly payment of 500"
"Towards the end would be the total of 1500,"
"Oh and not to worry love, if you find yourself in another pickle you can borrow more money even if you still owe us"
"And we'll even give you more time to pay it off If you do borrow more"
Red tries to do the math in her head as they explain to her the rules and found a flaw, "Wait, just 3 months to pay it all back? after paying my bills I only have 230 dollars left for the month, can't I just have the months extended and pay 100 a month? maybe 200? That's too much for me to pay in my salary"
Dee frowns and shakes his head, "I'm sorry love, it's something we can't do. It's just the rules the boss has, and we must follow the rules. "
"We wish we can help you more about on the matter, but it's just the way things are in this business. However I'm sure a smart girl like you can figure something out "
Red sighs and turns around, having her back facing to the brothers as she thinks hard on this. The Tweedle brothers both stood each of her side behind her, making it look like they were her shoulder angel and devil, "What if I miss a payment, what happens? "
"Well, that's something no one likes love, We'll start charging you extra per day you missed. But a smart girl like you would never miss such an important day I'm sure" Dee explains.
"I...I dunno" Red says to them as she brushes a lock of her hair in the back of her ear before crossing her arms. The look on there faces showed that they didn't like her respond.
"It would be a god awful shame for your sweet mother" Dee started
"And you're poor dear grandmother as well, waking up in the middle of the night, getting bitten everywhere by critters from a man that you didn't pay on time"
"What has your family ever done to you? to have them die in such a horrible way."
"Poor, poor lovely ladies"
With that guilt trip the brothers pulled, Red sighs and turns around to face them. " I'll do it"
"wonderful! wonderful news indeed! " Dum goes in and gives her a hug while Dee pulls out a card.
"Here's our card dear, Stop by at our business office tomorrow and we'll have the money and paperwork ready" Dee grins at her as he hands over the card
"Thank you both..." she thanks them as she heads to the door
"You are most welcome deary, and remember, you are now in good hands of the Crooked Man"
Red steps out of the room and starts to bite her lower lip, tasting the strawberry flavored lip gloss by doing so. She looks down at the card in her hand and reads the location of the Tweedle Brothers office, hoping she made the right decision. The sound of crash caught her attention, making her snap up to see a large figure fall to the ground with the table.
Was that...no, it can't be..."Bigby? " she said to herself, she wanted to find a way out of this vile place but her feet had a mind of there own as they lead her towards the fallen man, "Bigby?!" her mind kept saying it's not but her entire body kept telling her to call out his name.
Mad Hatter got up from his booth and started to kick the fallen man over and over as Kat and a blonde haired girl start to laugh, As Red got closer she saw the man her mind has been trying to deny, she recognized that shirt, tie, and coat combination, even in the black light. Once The Hatter stopped with his kicking, Kat straddled his unconscious body and leans in to grab his face, her grin wide with amusement as she makes fun of him then leans in and starts to kiss him.
Something came over Red by that, and she didn't know what. it was as if she was part of an audience that moment, watching someone else's actions as she quickly ran up to the group and kicked Kat hard on the side of her head, causing her to fall off of Bigby and land on her side.
"What the fuck!" Kat yells out while trying to get up on her feet, everyone stopped of what they were doing and went silent by Red's actions, even the DJ cut the track and abandoned his turn table to get a better look of what happened. Kat rubbed her head as she looked up and started hissing at Red while her eyes glowed. " What the fuck do you think you're doing you stupid bitch! "
"I should be asking you the same thing! what did you do to Bigby! " Red snaps back, glaring at everyone.
"Calm down darling, we were just having our little revenge that's all" said Maddy as he smirks at her
"Well you have it already, now wake him up!"
"No can do, we just gave him our new drug, 'The Queen's Heart'" said the blonde haired girl as she took out a round red gel pill, "It's mixed with ecstacy, heroine, Jabberwocky's breath, that's what knocked him out fyi, our little secret ingredient and other goodies"
"When he wakes up he'll be having one hell of a trip" said a man In black as he jumps off the stage.
"And it's gonna last all night, " said the other man in red as he jumps off after the first.
"Can he die with this?!" Red demanded to know as her body filled up with horror.
"No, he won't die...unless he gets a heart attack then yeah, he might" replied Maddy then starts to laugh.
Red's heart started to beat fast, she looks down at Bigby and hears him start to coughing his unconscious sleep, he started to vomit but since he was laying on his face he began to choke. Red quickly got to her knees and rolled him over to the side, making him puke to the floor.
"Who gave him this drug.." Red asked with a low and serious tone.
"It was me you cunt! now get the fuck out of here, I want to have my fun with him now" Kat said as she reaches down to grab Red by her hair, but Red grabbed her arm first and dragged her down to the floor. She started choking Kat by the neck with both hands as she stares down at her with cold eyes.
"You stay the hell away from Bigby, or you're gonna answer to me" Red threaten.
"Fuck yo-ahh!" Kat screamed as Red quickly grabbed one of her nipple rings and yanked it hard right off her breast.
Bigby caught Red's attention by vomiting once again, he let's out a moan as he starts to come around. "Bigby! you're going to be fine" she said to him as she tries to pull him up.
"March Hare, White Rabbit, help little miss. Red here with the Wolf, take them to the exit, don't want him puking up the place. And Alice my love, help out Cheshire Cat in search of her nipple, should be around here somewhere. " Ordered the Mad Hatter as he heads back to his booth.
"Come on Bigby, " Red says to him with her comforting voice "Where getting out of here."
Next time! Bigby follows the dragon...sorta...more like the wolf...and a little bit of smut! Stay tuned
