chapter 25
Fire.
The Adversary Camp was burning behind them, the smell of the enflamed rubble and flesh invaded her nose.
She tries to look back but her Grandmother tugged her hood further down and embraced her tighter.
"Don't look back Silvie" She said to her, while her eyes stay hidden under her grey hood "Never look back.."
The girl in red nodded and hugged her grandmother back with the same amount of strength. Her eyes wondered forward, landing on the back of the two others with them. the sisters, one with the hair red as rose, the other with the skin as white as snow. They where holding hands while whispering words of comfort to each other, all following behind Red's mother.
Her eyes continues to wandered until they stop at the green hood of her mother. Her feet fast and quiet, her hands on the bow of her dead husband, Red's father. Red eyes her mothers hand as it caresses the feathers of the handcrafted arrow, the very kind of arrow that is only used for one certain beast.
The very beast the group was following.
She eyes the Wolf from the distance, the very wolf that fooled her for calling him friend, for falling into his trap.
"We're here" he spoke suddenly.
All the prisoners gathered around at the witch's cave, the border from this world to the mundane, to sanctuary.
to freedom.
"You know the rules now, the payment for this toll is for me to taste your flesh, to make sure you are no enemy" The Wolf continued.
"You will lay dead on our feet before you sink your teeth in our flesh wolf" Said Yvette as she draws her weapon.
"Yvette please" The woman with raven hair said with caution.
"Save your begging for yourself girl, how do we know this is not some trap?"
"You think I would risk this location just for the sake of tricking you? " Bigby growls back
"Right now I rather risk anything than to go back there! " cried out the girl with the rose hair
"Well I'm not, just because you saved us back at the camp, doesn't mean you should be trusted" spat Yvette.
"Please think this through my child. We don't have-"
Red's grandmother was cut short by The Woman named Snow, She wordlessly stepped forward and in front of Bigby, and raised her arm to him.
"Snow White no! " Red yelled as the Wolf wraps his jaws around her arm, but only bit down hard enough to break skin.
Red stepped back, gasping at the blood that he drew, the wolf licked his lips then stepped aside, nodding his head towards the cave.
"you may pass Snow" he said to her
Once Snow passed to the other side everyone lined up so the wolf would taste each one. One by one they would pass the wolf's test and go to the cave, all but Red Riding Hood, who was the very last one.
"Red..." He quietly greeted her with acknowledgment
"Mr. Wolf..."
They stood silent as the night sky runs red with fire, the escaped prisoners praying for a safe journey as they go into the unknown, war taking over there homeland. Yet despite everything, they were in there own little world as they stare into each other's eyes.
"You've aged..." He finally spoke, breaking the silence.
"Well, thats what happens when people forgets about you...you age at a faster rate" She gave out a small bitter laugh and hugged herself tighter, breaking eye contact she looked away, eyeing the passing fables.
"I..lost your scent. for a moment I thought you were already.."
"I was in hiding Wolf, never dead"
He looked away from her then, he's ears slightly droopy at that. "Red, I'm sor-"
"if you need to taste my daughter's flesh I suggest you do it now" Yvette snapped at him, holding her bow close.
Red swallowed the ball of air in her throat and took a deep breath. "We should get it over with Wolf" She pulled back the sleeves and exposed her flesh to him, the same arm he bit her in the first place.
The Wolf leaned in closer, sniffing her scent off her smooth skin, making Red tense. He breathes out and opens his jaws, and then...
"No.."
Red Riding Hood looked up at him and blinked "What?"
He pulled down her sleeves with his jaws and circled behind her so her back was facing him.
"if we're gonna start a new life, I want us to be friends, real friends, I wanna barry that past Red. " He rested his head on her left shoulder, becoming submissive to her as a sign of surrender. " And I wanna barry it together. So please, lets start fresh"
Red sighed out a breath and shrugged him off. "Thats not gonna happen Wolf. Now if you excuse me, my family is waiting for me. "
The wolf sighed and walks towards the entrance of the cave, not realizing that Red gently held on to her shoulder where she felt the comfort and confessions of the great Big Bad Wolf...
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Red was standing under the shower head, letting the hot water burn her bruised skin. Her mind a cluttered mess of emotions old and new, she doesn't know where it starts, or where it ends. All she knows it all revoles around one person.
Bigby Wolf.
Bad guy in the homelands, Terrorizing pigs, eating people whole, lying to little girls to gain trust only to take it back.
And she hated every single fiber of his being because of it, even the time he saved them that day.
Saved..Bigby saved her life back then, and even now,a Sheriff, law enforcer, protector, and a struggling good guy. And she liked everything about him because of it, maybe even...
She touched the bite mark on her left shoulder, the shape of the crescent moon, created by wolf fangs as its tool, his fangs.
Red traced each puncture wound on her shoulder, remembering the moment it happened. she then sighs and turns off the valve of the water flow. she steps out of the shower, not even bothering to wrap herself up with a towel and wipes off the steam from the mirror, taking a look at herself, a good strong look.
Her breast small but full, the small patch of curls on her womanhood, the body of an hour glass, the maturity of her eyes, and finally..the mark from the man she slept with..
"I have you know Mr. Wolf that my mother says I'm a woman now."
She thought back when she first encountered Bigby long ago, when he commented her on being a young girl.
how silly and naive she really was.
She was just a young girl who had her first moon blood, she was nothing to the woman that was staring at her now.
And now Red has been marked by Bigby, it would never be undone what was hers is forever his. but is she truly angry with that?
No, it can't all that simple. She is here, is free, she is a human fable that does not stay tied down by the laws of animals...Right?
After a moment of poundering her worries Red headed towards her room and started to get dressed, she had many things to do, explanations to be said, people to check on. She would her bruises with makeup, and medicine to ease her pain, but everything will be alright now. everything will be fine...
there was a knock at her front door, making Red's heart jump and her neck hairs rise.
there was a second knock, more louder, more urgent.
Red's it went towards the door, though her entire body wanted to run the other way.
there was a third knock, making Red's hand trimble as she reached for the brass knob and opens the door...
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Bigby was sitting on his couch brooding, the ashes on his lit up cigarette started to fall on its own to the floor boards anong with the rest of the cigarette butts he carelessly dropped due to the problems in his mind.
The mundies, the club incident, Fabletown, but most of all, Red, and there night together...
She lied to him, this whole time she lied to him about everything, hiding nothing but secrets from him, hiding within a group of mundies that she cares for. No, that she loves.
The face of the man he bumped into outside the bar that night clouded his mind, he regrets running into him and not realizing it sooner. Whats worse, he regrets looking at him in the magic mirror at that exact horrible moment.
The annoying laugh, his dirty hands embracing Red, the way he called her 'his' red riding hood, the disgusting sight of his lips on hers. He wanted to break that bond, break him!
But no...after what Red told him this morning, he knew he would lose her forever.
No, he would never actually lose her..because of last night.
She came to him last night to the motel, she shared the bed with him, she gave him her virginity, her great gift. And he eagerly took it will pleasure, claimed her, made her his. Red is finally his now...is she?
"It doesn't matter anymore..." He said to himself, deciding it was no point.
Red Riding Hood broke the law, a very important law, to keep the secret of the fables safe. Even if she does say the mundies know nothing, Crane would see her down the witching well, hearing her side will be damned.
Bigby threw the already burned out cigarette in his hands and headed towards the closet.
Red's clothes were still in his apartment, filling the tiny airspace of her scent, Autumn season and wildflowers of the forest, a strange combination yet so fitting for her.
He grabbed her favorite red hooded pea coat and held it to his nose, inhaling it before he breathed outm To anyone it would seem strange, seeing a grown man sniffing a woman's coat, but Bigby is no ordinary man, and this habit is no strange thing.
He was a wolf after all, and his senses are sensitive, too sensitive to have living in a cesspool of a city. Everywhere he goes he would smell every meal, waste, sweat and every other type of smell of thousands of people. in every little apartment, in every corner of a street, its what drove Bigby to smoke in the first place, to dull every out.
But with Red...Her natural scent to him is like a drug addict is to cocaine. She is so addicting to him, so perfect, so, so GOOD, it just feels right, just makes him feel at home..
Bigby removed his face from the coat and neatly folded it over his left arm chair, he was gonna find her and take her away.
"No way in hell I'm gonna see you get thrown in some damn well Red.."
he grabbed His little duffel bag and started packing his and Red's clothes, trying to pack light while still getting her necessities.
"Were gonna get out of here, and go to Canada. Or maybe Island, anywhere green and big." he kept saying his plan out loud as he finished packing and zipped the bag up.
We'll be free Red, and you'll be safe. I promise..
The phone started to ring, making Bigby freeze on the spot. he looks back over to the table with the phone and stares at it while it continues to ring. One ring after another it fills Bigby with dred, he could just ignore the call, he wanted to, but something told him it would only make everything worse.
He dumped the bag onto the couch and cautiously headed towards the ringing phone. He felt his hand trimble as he reached out, so he took a moment to take a deep breath and cursed at himself.
"Just answer the fuckin phone already! " he said to himself and yanks it from the reciver
"Hello?" he snaps
"Bigby..." The sound of Snow's voice came from the other side, her tone quiet. a pause after that, making Bigby worry.
"Snow? what happened? "
Bigby heard her take in a deep breath and continued. "Sheriff Wolf, you are needed at the Business Office mediately. Will you come here quietly or you can be escorted here by security. your choice." She said in a cold tone
Bigby felt his stomach drop, as if it was weighed down with stones, he could have asked what it was about, but if he was honest with himself, he already knew.
"I'm on my way.."
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Within the Business Office was Crane sitting at his desk, Snow White standing next to him, and the bastard Bluebeard was leaning in front of Crans desk.
"It seems like the wolf has returned to his normal self, his definition of it anyway. " Bluebeard commented with a smirk.
"Why are you here Bluebeard?" he growled
Bluebeard simply smiled and took a seat at one of the two chairs in front of the desk. "my money is what pays you Sheriff, its only right to see if my funds are not put to waste."
"In which case, its the very matter we are all here to discuss about. " Crane cuts in while folding his hands on his desk.
Bigby glances up at Snow, watching her staring before she looks away and clears her throat.
"Mr. Wolf, we are well aware of the events of last night at the night club, because of your actions you have risked the safety and secret of the Fable community. " Snow said out loud while shuffling the papers in her hand.
"Because of your foolish idiotic stunt you pulled the entire community is terrified! all night the Business Office has been getting calls from Fables who fear for there very lives! how can they feel safe if there own sheriff runs off killing and hunting at his own will! "
"Sir, if I can only explain-" Bigby tries to speak his side
"No need to explain Sheriff, we know full well of what happened. However it's no excuse for the damage that's been done!" Cran cut him off
Bigby clenched his teeth but holds his tongue to defend himself. "So I guess I'm no longer Sheriff then huh." He said instead, thinking it would be best, perhaps even easier for him to leave.
"humph, as much as I would love the opportunity to see you get the boot we have agreed that despite your actions you will still remain Sheriff." Bluebeard huffed out "I suggest you should thank the old crone for that Bigby"
"The old crone? What does Frau Tomenkinder have anything to do with this?" Bigby demands, surprised and confused about it.
"Because it was I who has erased the memories of all the mundies who were involved in the massacre" out of nowhere said the very witch they speak of
Bigby turns around and sees the old witch sitting in her usual rocking chair and knitting, "it was difficult to trace every one, but it is done"
"For what reason Tomekinder, knowing you, something gotta be up your sleeve" Bigby said with a bite.
"Maybe I do Sheriff, maybe I don't. Who's to say but myself and for you to never find out. " She quipped back with a chuckle.
"Alright then" Bigby changes the subject in order to ignore the grin of the old crone. "What is my punishment? Since I still have the position. "
Snow looks down for a moment and walks away to the exit door, Bluebeard only grins at him as icabob gives a light cough and clears his throat.
"That Bigby depends on the other crime you have committed that night..."
Bigby gives him the look of confusion, having no idea of what else he fucked up during the blood moon. "What the hell are you talking about? "
At the same time Snow opens the door and steps to the side, knowing now exactly what he was talking about the moment her scent flooded the room.
"Come on in Yvette" Says Snow as she reaches a hand out for the huntress.
"Thank you Miss. White, but I got her." She said to her as she walks into the room while her daughter leans on her.
"Red." Bigby calls out her name as he starts heading towards her but Bluebeard grabs him by the right shoulder and holds him back.
Red looks down from the heavy eyes of the room, her face hidden with the hunter green cloak of her mother's that she wears.
"Everything will be alright darling, look away from the wolf" Bigby hears Yvette whisper to Red as she sits her down to the second chair and stood behind her while rubbing her back.
"What's going on? whats this about!" Bigby demands as he looks at everyone in the room.
Crane pulls out a large book and opens it to an empty page "The mirror does not lie Bigby, given the right questions" Crane grabs one of his feather pens and licks the tip before dipping it in the ink. "And the question of your whereabouts showed me you in that filthy motel room last night.
The bomb finally dropped on Bigby's head, realizing where this is gonna go.."Wait..none of you don't get-"
"Even though your first crime is nothing to be taken lightly Sheriff, the other reason you are here today is for the crime of kidnapping and sexual assault of Red Riding Hood..
Hey everyone its been forever! Sorry about that.
Gotta keep this short for now. I hope you like this new chapter after a year I know but I hope its okay for now. A little rusty but I'll get the hang of it again I promise.
Alot happened the last time I updated but the most important part that happened is that I'm gonna be a mommy.
Thats right folks I'm pregnant! And I'll keep updated on my pregnancy for those whwt to know wa
