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Urban Legends: Fairytale Style-Chapter 8
The Girl With The Red Eyes
August Wayne Booth drove his motorcycle all around Storybrooke. He hadn't meant to arrive here so late at night, but it couldn't be helped.
Still, at least that blonde woman had helped him out. He was fairly certain he knew who she was...but that would have to wait until morning. He'd been on his bike for God knew how long, and he was exhausted, and so he rode to Granny's inn.
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Seeing Widow Lucas for the first time in twenty-eight years was like a hammer to the senses. Sure, he knew that everyone had been cursed but to actually see that they had never aged a single day...
"Hello?" said Granny, and August only realised that she had been talking when the old woman was waving a hand in his face "Anyone in there?"
"Oh, sorry!" August quickly apologised "I, uh, I was miles away"
"Hm" Granny said, eyeing him warily "So...did you want a room or not?"
"Yes, I did" August responded, and Granny pulled out her check-in book and a pen. After August penned in his fake name, Granny closed the book and held out a door key, which August reached out to take.
And that, was when things got strange.
"You should probably know that this inn is haunted" Granny said. August blinked.
"Uh...what?"
"This inn? One of it's rooms is haunted by a sprit who died here" she repeated, as though it was a completely normal thing to talk about to a someone she'd just met.
"Right" August nodded, wondering what the hell he'd just walked into "Is...there a reason why you're telling me this?"
Granny gave him a look "Of course there is. I'm telling you this because you're room is next door to the ghosts"
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The first thing August noticed when he walked into his dark room was that there was a hole in the wall. It was the wall that was facing the foot of his bed, and the only reason August noticed it in the first place was because there was a small trickle of light coming through it. A light that could only be coming from the room next door.
The same room, that was supposed to be haunted.
August frowned curiously at the light, but then decided it didn't matter. He quickly collapsed on the bed-hissing in pain when his damned wooden leg screeched in protest-and soon settled into an uneasy sleep.
A few hours later, he awoke when a shooting pain ripped through his cursed leg. Groaning through his teeth, he sat up and clutched his calf until the pain subsided.
"Oh God, please let my plan work..." August muttered, and was just about to settle back down to sleep when he noticed a spot of light on his duvet. He then looked up at the wall facing him and saw that the light in the next room was still on, although it was surely far too late-or early, he had no idea what the time was-for anyone to be up.
A trickle of curiosity found it's way into his mind, and August left the comfortable mattress and slowly walked to the wall. He then bent his head, and looked through the little, light-flooded gap.
The walls of the next room were completely white, not adorned with a painting, or mirror, or even a cobweb in the corner. There was also a single light bulb on the ceiling, which had undoubtedly been glowing all night.
August had only realised the minor details later though, because the first thing he truly saw when he looked through the gap was the woman.
She was strange, this woman. She was stood with her back to him, her long, dark hair flowing down the back of her white dress, her pale arms held rigidly at her sides. She was completely still. August wondered if she was even breathing.
Pulling himself away from the strange image, he went back to bed and tried to get back to sleep. He had to start trying to convince the Saviour that the curse was real tomorrow, and God knew he'd need his strength for that.
Unfortunately for him, he woke again a few hours later, the pain in his leg intensifying more than it ever had before.
Hissing and groaning in an effort not to cry out, he again waited out the pain. Soon-but not as soon as he would've preferred-the pain left him, and August sighed in relief.
Pulling his bedcovers back over him, he noticed that something was different. Light had started to come into the room, and he could see the dark brown sheets.
But that was it. The strange spot of light from the other room had disappeared.
His forehead denting in confusion, August looked up to see that the hole that had, previously, been aglow with light, now appeared to have gone dark. Had the strange woman finally turned off her light or something?
His nosy nature overtaking him, he went back over to the wall, feeling along it until he found the small gap in it. Slowly, he lowered himself down, and looked through the wall.
The scene in the bedroom had completely changed. There were now no walls-white or otherwise-no light, no woman. All he could see was red, complete, untextured red.
"What the hell?" August breathed. Shaking his head in complete bewilderment, he went back to bed again.
After all, what else was there to do?
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The next morning, Granny asked him if he had seen the ghost. When he had shaken his head, she looked a little relieved.
"Well, that's good. She's said to frighten most people"
August frowned. She? "Wait...the ghosts a girl?" he asked, and Granny nodded.
"Oh yes. She was before my time, back when my father owned this place. She'd been a relatively normal girl, apparently she had even been a little pretty. Except for one thing..." Granny trailed off, but August gently pushed her to continue. She sighed solemnly.
"I really shouldn't say..."
"Tell me" August said, needing to know.
"Well...my father used to tell me and my brothers that, although her face was quite pretty, it was her eyes that made her so shy"
"Why?"
"Because...they were bright red!"
Creepy, right? Scared the hell out of me when I first read it (and my big sister...*evil laugh*) and I hoped you guys liked it. If there are any legends you wanna see, PM me. I'm currently looking for a legend for the Blue Fairy so if you have anything let me know.