A Forbidden Fairytale Love

[Taiylor Wallace]

Everyone's heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood and how she skipped merrily to grandmother's house. She facedthe Big Bad Wolf and was eaten, saved by a passing hunter later who then stuffed the wolf's stomach with rocks. It doesn't matter which version of the story you've heard, just that you know that Little Red's story was not a romance. People have remade it many times, some as romances, but nothing delving into the life of the Wolf himself.

(Inspired by Red Riding Hood, the movie)

Lores, a tiny forest town on the border of England and Scotland existed back when the Anglo-Saxons still reigned, before William the Conqueror and the Normans took over. Between the 500's (said to be the time of King Arthur) and 1066, England was trapped in a time of myth, fear, superstition and turmoil. It is often said that this was the time of many of today's fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, the Gingerbread Man, and even the Princess and the Frog. Lores was much like Little Red's home of Daggerhorn, with the same superstitions and fears of the outer world. Few ever passed through Lores from the outside world, and even fewer stayed. But no person born there ever seemed to leave for long. It was said magicks bound the people to their home, when it was really loyalty and love.

Lores was a small village of people who all knew and mostly liked one another. There was a blacksmith's shop, a tiny church, stables, a tailor, and a general shop, but those were just about it. Everything else was made by the villagers themselves, traded or bought from one another as well. They all shared several large wells around the village alongside a huge river where salmon were plentiful. Everyone helped everyone else whenever it was needed. But everyone also shared superstitions and fears of witches, werewolves, vampires, dragons, and creatures of death and the devil. All were very Christian, and hated such creatures with a burning passion. When the men would get drunk or overconfident, they'd go out to hunt these creatures and get hurt. Every so often, one or two would die.

The most hated creature, like in Daggerhorn, was the werewolf. Or, werewolves. There were many, living in packs like their wild-animal counterparts, but the more sensible of the village didn't believe it. Only the 'village idiots' and priest believed in such dark things until livestock began disappearing without a trace, not even blood. Left in their place were rare herbs and such that the villagers didn't know how to use and called them dark magicks and witchcraft. They didn't know that whomever was taking the livestock was repaying them with amazing healing herbs and knowledge that only ancient races posessed.

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"Little Red," or Ginger had been one of the girls always questioning why things were the way they were. But after the first few beatings she had learned how to keep her mouth shut about things. This by no means of course mean that she wasn't still curious. Growing up she had been a cute child, with freckles that sat under golden brown eyes and a full head of deep brown hair that was streaked with red from the sun. She had grown out of most of her freckles and been left with lightly tanned skin from the sun.

She was to be married off to a suitable man, that her father approved of. While she didn't hate the lad, she didn't love him either. But she was a good daughter and despite her curiosity she would go along with hers father's wishes. That was until one day he vanished, just upped and left. Many claimed it was the dangerous werewolves about them that had done it. Though Ginger wasn't entirely convinced, one of these days she would soon figure out why her father had vanished, leaving her and her mother to fend for themselves. For now the wedding was put out of the thoughts of her mother and the man's family she was to marry, she was given the space to mourn. Though in her case she was solving the mystery without any clue as to what she was getting herself into.

[Taiylor Wallace]

(I'm not going directly off of Red Riding Hood, just the idea to start the story in the first place)

Lores was uncommonly lively that spring morning, the snow finally gone and the ground just dry enough to begin thinking about plowing, planting, and reviving the orchards. But the villagers feared going out alone to work in their fields, knowing something was stealing and killing the livestock. A few days before, a man had turned up dead in his fields, looked to be mauled by wolves. The villagers suspected werewolves, and when it happened again the day before, the villagers resolved to begin hunting the beasts. Any who protested were insulted and called witches, brothers and sisters of the devil's wolves.

One such insulted person was Ginger's grandmother, Alisia. She was cast out the village late that night, and she'd gone to an old cabin that had once been the home of real witch who'd been burned years before. The villagers were already spreading rumors that she was having an affair with a white werewolf.

"Hey, little Red," Ginger's best friend and secret crush, Lucius, stepped up beside her, smiling down at her handsomely. He had short black hair and amazing blue eyes with a goatee. His skin was Greek-dark and stubble stood out on his jaw, showing he'd not shaved in a couple days. He wore a white shirt and average black trousers with a green tunic and a wolf fang choker on a leather cord. His boots came up to his knee, made of soft black leather. He was a hunter, a lumberjack, and a blacksmith.

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"Lucius," She smiled, trying not to blush, as she had just been thinking about him and having him be the one she would have to marry not some man with apparently plenty to offer to her family. She still remembered the wedding that would come. Despite everyone else having to seem to have forgotten. "What are you doing here? I thought you were working today or something. I certainly didn't think you'd have time for me today."

She didn't understand why her father didn't think Lucius was enough for her. He was handsome, good at his job, and a good man. Oh but she wouldn't live a life of luxury, that had to be what her father was thinking. She had loved her father but oh he could be so clueless some times as to how a woman felt. Even her mother would admit to that. Being here alone and free of an arranged marriage for a week made it very hard not to tell Lucius how she felt. But it wouldn't be fair so instead of saying anything she just stood there waiting for his answer, feeling like a fool.

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"I always have time for you, lovely." Lucius chuckled as if it were the silliest thing before he kissed her cheek lightly. He'd always been a tease to her, never quite giving her enough love, leaving her craving more. He knew this very well, because it was how he could keep her coming back and he could keep his love insterested.

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Ginger blushed as he kissed her. How positively evil he was, she thought to herself. But she rather enjoyed their little game. "Alright, what is it you're after hmm?" She asked batting her long black eyelashes at him. If he wanted to play hard to get so could she, even on a day like today. "If you want me to make you lunch." She said crossing her arms and turning away from him. "It's going to take a lot more than a few cute words." She raised her chin looking quite the part of a spoiled rich girl. Ginger was quite the little actress when she wanted to be she could even make herself cry if she wanted. She was also a great cook with plenty of lessons from her mother and grandmother she was well onto her way to being able to win any man through his stomach. Lucius was everything Ginger wanted in a man, at least she thought so anyways. He would of taken good care of her if he'd been given the chance.

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"It will, will it?" Lucius grinned, stepping behind her and wrapping his arms slowly and seductively around her waist. "Then I guess I'll just have to try harder." Lucius's whisper gave her goosebumps which were intensified by a soft, warm kiss to her neck and a hand running to her hip. He was quite the seducer, and he knew it.

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Ginger moved her hand over his, shivering from his touch. "Lucius," she blushed slowly leaning back against him. "My fiancée will be very jealous." She whispered but didn't pull away. She honestly didn't care she wanted him, not some rich man who thought she was some prize. She tilted her head back and moved a hand to the back of his neck. "You're toying with me." She smiled.

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"Who cares if he is?" Lucius chuckled at her next words and whispered: "Maybe I am..." He pulled her to his nearby shop, closing the doors behind them before completely pulling her tight and kissing her passionately. This got his heart racing, but there was no telling how far he'd go.

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With her heart racing she let him take her into his shop and she melted into his arms. Slowly she pulled away from his kiss, "Lucius," She shook her head briefly, lifting her eyes to meet his. "Do you love me?" She wanted to know, she needed to know before her free will was taken away. She couldn't believe she was willing to put everything on the line to have him. "Honestly, I need to know." She tried to take a moment to be serious.