Bigby X Nerissa (The Wolf Among Us)

Chapter 6: Speaking the Truth

(Nerissa's P.O.V)

Time: Night

I sighed, looking around the shithole of a place that I called my apartament but even more so...

My home

It was a fairly sized place with a small living area, a kitchen, a bathroom just big enough to walk around in and a closet to hang all of my working outfits. Sadly, the place doesn't have a bedroom for me to sleep in but was lucky enough to have a built in bed couch to sleep on everytime I come back from work.

The place was a great location spot since it's affortable with the pay I earn and it's just a few blocks up the road so I could get there with plenty of time to spare it I wanted to.

But time seems to be dull and lifeless all over again...

Ever since the only friends I had...died, seconds seemed to be hours, hours seemed to be days and days seemed to be an eternity without them. Faith and Lily, they were the only people who knew, cared and understood how we all felt for each other. Everytime one of us were down, we would always comfort one another and talk about our deepest and darkest pasts, feeling the pain that it brought with it but we all felt it...

Together.

But now, they're gone and I still don't know what to do with myself anymore. Still keep doing what I've been doing for so long now? Maybe try to do something but with this damned spell haunting and cursing me, what can I do? Or am I just supposed to sit back and do nothing while Big...I mean, the sheriff, does his job?

"Bigby..."

I still thought about that night in the office, just the two of us, alone with only the sounds of our breathing filling the room and the wordless connection we both shared. I thought about the warmth that he brought to my cold body, I thought about the puppy eyes that he gave me, filled with concern and sadness and then I thought about the handsome features on his face as they drew closer and closer towards me when we almost...

Shaking the thought out of my head, I snapped myself back to reality even though I hated it, now more than ever...

I was laying on my couch right now with my head resting against the palm of my hand while my elbow supported me. My other hand held a T.V remote as I flickered through the channels, hoping to find something that could distract me from my dark thoughts. I was still wearing the same dress I always wore when I would go to work before I change out of it for men's...need and lust but had my heels off, laying my bare feet on the arm rest. Still slightly depressed, I placed the remote down and got off the couch into a sitting position with the soles of my feet flat against the cold and dark colored floorboards. 

My eyes were still glued to the T.V as I fiddled with my hands, feeling myself getting sucked back into my dark thoughts. I kept seeing the moments I spent with the only friends I ever had; having a coffee with them, going out together, helping each other out when we felt down, the fights that we had but the one that popped out the most was...

"Oh god..." I faintly whispered to myself.

Thinking that this was doing me no good, I stood up off the couch and walked into the kitchen. As I got to the doorway, I could see that I have work in an hour's time as I looked up at the clock over my head. I sighed to myself before shaking my head again and walking towards the fridge.

"Now is a good a time as any" I thought to myself before opening the fridge door to reveal what was inside.

There was fresh sea food inside which included fish, shellfish, squid, cuttlefish and octopus along with some canned sea food.