Time for chapter four! I'm glad a lot if you were supportive of the idea of some Bloody Mary X Snow White (Bloodysnow) fanfics. Come on folks, lets make lesbian Bloody Mary a thing! Well without further ado, here's the story!
Even with the heavy rain coming to a halt the sky was still as grey and as gloomy as ever. Or maybe it was just her current mood? The term feeling blue didn't seem to fit. Blue was a pretty colour, it had many meanings, Baby boys, bluejays, cotton candy and many more. Blue was too cheerful of a colour to be used to describe depression and sadness. Now the colour grey might be more suitable, it's a sign of getting older, storms and sometimes mould. Yeah... that was more fitting term, she felt grey.
Not even the cheap cassette playing some of her favourite classical music was helping ease her grey mood. It's been a whole day since hers and Beast's separation... never in her life has she felt so empty. She decide she would be the one to move out, it seemed fitting since Beast was still pretty beat up after the recent fight that occurred between him and Bloody Mary. She rented a small and cramped run down apartment. It felt nothing like the apartment nor castle she used to live in.
No matter where she was or lived it lacked something... it lacked companionship, a lover, someone to love and cherish her...
Even with Beast's long work hours wherever they lived the apartment and (formerly castle) always carried the feeling of love and warmth... even when he was gone, it was always there, she could feel it.
Beauty rested on her side on the small bed. The apartment room was anything but nice. Creaky floorboards, leaks coming down from the ceiling, the green stripped wallpaper was peeling off, the room had no heat and lastly the lights tended to flicker. Beauty let out a groan as she looked at the digital clock. It read " 6 : 27 PM". It rained all day and yesterday... Now she only had the dreary sunset evening to mess with if she ever wanted to go out. Not like she would want to go out anyway, she lacked the money.
Right after she got the apartment she got a phone call from work, after the recent events that had taken place her boss fired her. Now not only was she husbandless, she was jobless, broke and alone. Feeling the sensation of a headache coming on she slowly sat up and pressed the button to turn the cassette off. She wished she had remembered to packed some aspirin... she doubted she could call Beast to drop it off... He haven't been answering her phone calls at all.
The sound of the white and rather rusty tea kettle whistling, finally summoned the depressed woman out of the hard and stiff bed. Walking to the small and cramped kitchen, she took the tea kettle and poured herself a cup of tea.
She didn't want tea, she wanted love and never ending affection from the person she loved, but it seemed she wasn't going to get that anytime soon. After adding two large spoonfuls of sugar and cream she drank the tea. Beauty let out a sigh and glanced out the window, much to her dismay it appeared to be raining yet again, but only a mild drizzle.
Beauty hated rain, but she hated this damn apartment more. Setting her tea aside she grabbed a ruby red umbrella and left the apartment building.
Much to her surprise it was rather refreshing, maybe because she was stuck in that god awful apartment for so long. The rain trickled off her umbrella, she breathed in the crisp rainy air. Maybe this was what she needed? Away from it all...
Beauty just needed time to think, she didn't want this, she didn't plan for this! All she wanted was a glass of water, and all it took was a single sip of alcohol and a stranger with such charm to ruin her life. A sigh escaped her lips as she stepped around a puddle.
She and Beast were... or was, the oldest couple out of all the Fables, they been though thick and thin together. She loved him and would fallow him to the ends of the earth and beyond... but she guessed that wasn't enough if she threw that all away for a couple nights of freedom.
'No, don't say it like that.' Beauty though. When worded like that it sounded like she basically was chained to her marriage. She liked being married to Beast, married life treated them fairly good... but maybe it loses it charm over time.
She looked at the necklace Bloody Mary had given her.
"Why did I even keep this?" she questioned to no one. Bloody Mary was evil, vile, cruel, murderous and dangerous! Why would she keep this token that was just a constant reminder of the very woman who caused this shit storm..."Why did it have to be her?" Beauty groaned.
She wasn't even into women...
Or was she?
She did find women and men to be very attractive. But she never felt sexual attraction to a member if the sane gender before. Maybe it was her up bringing? She never really learned about homosexuality until she was older, then again the majority of Fables such as hers, Snow White and Cinderella's stories always ended with "Happily ever after" and marrying a man, never a woman.
Times do change of course, any marriage with Prince Charming didn't last long...
Beauty though back to the times she slept with Bloody Mary. It was certainly was a woman, she had been intoxicated but when she woke up next to her there was... how could she explain it? There was...there was an odd feeling that would spread throughout her body, her heart would race, her palms were sweaty and there was an overwhelming guilt in the air...
Maybe... it was a thrill? Like a child sneaking out in the middle of the night to steal a cookie from the cookie jar. Maybe it gave her what she longed for, freedom. Some days she just wanted to spread her wings and fly. Fly far, far away from this god awful city with it's cruel ways and the lingering scent of smoke and cheap perfume. She wanted away from her everything that kept her chained down from freedom, fun and having a carefree life.
Bloody Mary had that life... but it was at a evil cost, full of lies and deceit. Even so, she was as free as the crows that roamed the city, she was far from being stuck in a cage at all. Maybe she was a bit too free, but she was happy to say the least.
But the life she lived... was wrong, but it felt so right...
Beauty stepped around a muddy puddle, she paused when the smell of fresh coffee found it's way into her nose. The blonde woman dug into the pockets of her scarlet coat, pulling out a crumpled five dollar bill she then entered the small coffee shop.
After ordering a coffee and a carrot muffin, she plopped herself down in a set and watched Mundies passed by though the muggy window.
Beauty picked at her muffin and sipped at the coffee. She was just wasting her life if she stayed in her moody state forever. The blue eyed woman couldn't just let herself waste away to nothing. She wasn't going to let herself die of loneliness, she was gong to seek out true happiness.
Reaching into her pocket yet again , pulling out a red cellphone she tried yet again to contact Beast. Like the last few times there was no avail, he wasn't going to answer her calls or texts. The red clad woman sighed and popped another small chuck of the carrot muffin on her mouth.
'Is Beast even the right person to call?' she pondered chewing away. True Beauty loved him dearly but was she doing the right thing for herself? It was true that you couldn't just put all your duties and set your responsibilities aside. You had to work hard and deal with the unfairness of life... because well... that was life.
Taking another swing of coffee, she continued to stare at the blank screen on her phone. Bigby and Snow were already on the case, plus it wasn't like she knew anything useful when she was with Bloody Mary, she was far to intoxicated to remember most of it. Mary may have all the freedom in the world, but she got it in a evil and vile way. That wasn't who she was though. Beauty wasn't going to turn away all her friends just be to selfish... even if it was okay to be selfish.
'Maybe I should just forgot both of them?' Beauty though. 'I could start fresh, get a new job and provide for herself. It would be a lonely life at first... but once she got the ball rolling Beauty could most likely get by on her own, and maybe meet someone knew.
After polishing off the muffin and coffee, the blue eyed woman left the coffee shop. The rain was still drizzling coldly. Wandering aimlessly throughout Fable town until she reached a phone booth. Inside contained of course a phone, next to it was a fading yellow phone book. Slender fingers flipped through the pages.
'If I'm going to live life I'm going to need some help.'
Beauty then paused, but who to call?
And more importantly... what choices was she going to make? This wasn't something she could take lightly... Beast was hanging around the Trip trap... so maybe Grendel and Holly? Then again they might not be so willing. Dee and Dum worked along side Bloody Mary... but that was highly risky and she could just be putting herself in danger.
Beauty inserted a quarter into the phone and dialled a number.
And there we go, Beauty's making a choice. And like the game Catherine there's going to be three different endings to this fanfic. So next three chapters will be the multiple endings. :D it will also be my first multiple chapter fic I ever completed! Thank you for all the reviews and faves on this tale!
