Bigby wasn't to sure about this.
This being the shoddy apartment complex that looked like it was barely standing.
But Mr. Toad had given him a lead on a foreign Fable. One who possibly had the ability to see the future.
And right now he could use all the help he could get.
Opening the door to the complex he found the insides to be strangely… immaculate. The walls were all decorated with fresh floral print wall paper, the railings on the staircase looked to be made of polished wood with dark red carpet running down the steps.
He looked up to see a low hanging chandelier, decked in crystals and small shining lights.
His instincts told him to run. To get the hell out and never look back. The place was clearly drenched in magic. And while he didn't mind magic all that much (it had it's uses: glamours and the like), finding this much in one place was just asking for trouble.
"Don't lurk in doorways!" A voice rung out from up the stairs. His dark brown eyes peered up to find no one standing at the top.
"It's rude!"
Bigby huffed, she was a Seeress, so of course she knew he was there.
Closing the door behind him he took the stairs two at a time till he reached the top. Peering down the well decorated hallway he saw one door was open… and bubbles were slowly encroaching on the hallway carpet.
Scratching his stubble he made his way to the open door and looked inside. Only to find a large bathroom with white walls with black trim, at a large claw-foot bathtub sitting in the center of the room. Bubbles seeming to be flowing like a river over the rim of the tub and onto the floor.
In the tub sat a young dark haired woman, giggling happily as she pushed more and more of the suds onto the floor.
"You know you're supposed to turn the water off, right?" He asked, wading into the room and reaching for the faucet that fed the bubbly disaster.
Her blue eyes looked up to him then, as if in surprise. She had been the one to call him up here right?
Her smile became coy. "Oh I know, but I do so love my bubble baths. There's only so much I'm able to enjoy these days," She spoke standing up in the tub, completely unashamed of her nudity as she grabbed a towel from the nearby rack and proceeded to dry her hair.
Seeing the expanse of her creamy white skin made his fists clench, had his glamour slipped, his claws would have been aching to latch on to her.
"Now, how can I help you Bigby? Mister Big Bad Wolf?" She smiled up at him, her lips full and pink, her blue eyes going from looking playful to suddenly vacant.
"I need your help. I've got a serial killer here in Fabletown. Figured, the quickest way to find the bastard would be to ask you, the new seeress," He spoke, watching as she stepped out of the tub and onto the floor, the bubbles that had once filled the room suddenly gone as she toweled herself off.
Wrapping the black cloth tightly around her chest she looked up to him again, her gaze somewhat alarmed that he was there, "Who're you? Why are you in my bathroom?" She looked down at herself, "Oh god did I get drunk again last night? Please tell me you aren't one of my new professor's at the college."
"What?"
Was this woman insane? She knew who he was, hell she had yelled at him the second he entered the "apartment complex."
Maybe this was a side affect of her being a Seeress. It must make her lose touch with reality.
"I'm Bigby, Sherrif Bigby Wolf," He introduced himself, her gaze became even more alarmed.
"Oh god! The Sherrif!? Look, I promise you that guy said he was over 18 he had an ID and everything!" She grabbed the front of his shirt as if to plead for mercy, her face stricken with a look of panic.
Taking her hands in his he pulled her grip off his shirt, his eyes taking in the luscious sight of her body when her towel fell, before he forced his gaze away. "Look why don't you just tell me your name?"
She blinked a few times.
Then her hand rose and slapped him right across the cheek. "It's Kagome, you ass!"
To say Bigby was confused would be an understatement, but he shook it off, not quite ready to give up on this chance to find the serial killer. Running his hand back through his dark brown hair he pulled it back out of his eyes, rolling his jaw all the while. She had quite the slap.
"Kagome? I don't think I've heard of your fairytale before," He spoke, looking back down at her, she looked to be brimming with fury.
And it aroused him? He could practically feel his mouth watering as he stared at her, a sudden instinctual urge making him want to pin her to the nearest wall and make her submit.
"That's because I'm new! My fairy tale world came to an abrupt end recently, and then I ended up here. But don't worry, if you want to do a bit of reading I already dropped off my story book with Mayor Crane." She was smiling again, as she casually picked her towel off the floor and sauntered out of the room.
Great, now he'd have to go back to the mayor's office to read up on her. With a sigh, he jogged out of the bathroom after her.
"Look can you just tell me where I can find the serial killer I'm after," He asked, walking beside her now down the lavish hallway, stopping only for a moment so she could opened a door to a massive bed room, filled with silks and tapestries hanging from the ceiling, a large circular bed sitting in center.
"Nope!" She spoke, her voice chipper, earning a growl from him.
"Why the hell not?"
Her smile became coy once again, her dainty hand grasping his tie and pulling him forward till she fell back on the bed, pulling him down atop her. "Hey~!"
"You know the rules, Bigby. I can't give exact details, or something bad might happen," she whispered against his ear, her voice deep… almost husky. She spoke as if he payed her visits all the time.
Her naked hips ground against his. Was she attracted to him? To the big bad wolf? To the guy who blew down homes and devoured girls in red hoods?
Bigby pushed himself back up on his hands, shaking his head. He wasn't that beast anymore. He'd changed… even if few others thought he had. His brown eyes gazed down at her, locking with her blue ones.
Kagome looked at him, with a look of… love? And adoration? The hell was going on here!?
When her gaze shifted downwards his own followed, till it landed on her trim stomach.
He almost missed it…. almost hadn't heard her whisper..
"My pups…"
His look turned incredulous as he looked straight back up at her face, ignoring his urge to ogle her plump breasts. "What!?"
"You heard me! I can't go giving details! If you don't find the serial killer at the right time things could go wrong… you could get killed… or worse," She grinned cheekily.
And with that she slipped out from under him and all but dove into a pile of clothes sitting beside her bed, eventually extracting herself from the heap fully dressed in a pair of jeans and a shirt that was just a tad too big for her, evident by the way it hung lazily off one shoulder and left the other exposed to his gaze.
He bit back a growl at her fickle ways, "Alright, but is there anything you can tell me? At all?"
She shook her head and gave him a quick "Nope!" making a soft popping sound with her lips.
Bigby scratched his stubbled chin, he was gonna need a bottle of whiskey when he got home.
"Alright but what about…" he hesitated, wondering she was lucid enough to answer this last question. "What was that you said about… pups, earlier?"
Kagome gave him a confused look in return, "Pups? I don't have any of those…. I have a cat though…"
Her face became strewn in a look of panic as she raced out of the room screaming "BUYO!"
Bigby took that chance to make his exit.