Lucid was a word rarely applied to her. And she knew why, her foresight was both a blessing and a curse. She knew everything that was going to happen, but lacked the power to change it. The last time she had tried her entire world had been destroyed, and her blessed powers lost.
And now she lived in a strange apartment building all by herself… Well she had Buyo, but the fat cat hardly made for great conversation. And then there were the visions… they came frequently and every time they did they overshadowed the present. To the extent that she saw the future or past better than she did what was going on right in front of her.
But either way she now lived in a world not to much like her own. But she had been dropped in a strange, haven of sorts. A place called Fabletown. A town that had been made when the various fables lost their homeland in some sort of exodus. They all had been unceremoniously dropped here as well… though they had apparently been here much longer than she had.
She was still having visions of that man (or wolf?) named Bigby, visions of a time long ago. If the passing of time was anything to go by, these fables were far from mortal.
Her vision became clouded suddenly, her mind giving her a view of Bigby at her door. She shook her head, willing the vision away as much as she was able, before making her way downstairs, sliding down the railing and hopping off at the end.
Grasping the handle she willed the apartment to look its best before she opened it.
And there he was, standing tall, his fist raised to knock on the door. He gave her a small grin… on that almost seemed nervous.
"Sheriff Bigby? Is there something I can help you with?"
She could tell he was trying to make himself as personable as possible with her. Though as for why she wasn't quite clear. She remembered he had been there just the day before, and judging by his demeanor and the dozen or so arrows lodged in her target up stairs he must have come by during one of her incidents.
"I was hoping you might be feeling a bit better today," he dropped his hands to his sides, his fists clenching and un-clenching, "I had a few questions for you."
Kagome rubbed her temple and stepped back to allow him in, pointing to a large sitting room that was just off to the side of the staircase. "Yes, I'm feeling much better. Go ahead and have a seat."
"Of course," He spoke, quickly stepping inside before setting himself down on a large couch, as she took the recliner that sat opposite of the coffee table to him.
"Ask away." She prompted him, sitting back as she fought off her visions, feeling she needed to exist in the here and now for this.
"Before we get down to business, I have a few personal questions for you," he started, waiting for her nod before continuing, "How did you get the power of foresight?"
She sighed, "Did you read the book at the mayor's office?"
Bigby nodded, resting his large hands on his knees as he stared her down.
"Well after I got my," she held up her hand and made air quotes, " happily ever after. Me and my so called husband had become estranged. And I had only accepted the Jewel of Four Souls becoming a part of me so that I could live a long life along side him."
"Go on.."
"After awhile, the powers that I once had had begun to dwindle. And without them I didn't have the means to protect my self. So I spent many years trying to unlock certain abilities that are innate in all humans. If one knows how to access them that is. But anyways, after a couple hundred years I managed to free my mind of its shackles. Unfortunately, I only managed to gain one of the less, reliable, abilities."
"How can foresight be unreliable?"
"I spend about three days out of the week with my mind completely enveloped in the future or the past. Which isn't all that great when my body is still in the present. On other days, I'm fairly lucid. I can see things clearly, but almost anything or anyone can set my visions off." She explained, feeling her mind becoming clouded at that very moment.
"One last question… you keep mentioning pups whenever I come by… do you and I have.. children at some point?"
Kagome heard his question but chose not to respond, her gaze trailing to the space beside her chair, which was currently occupied by two children and a young man. Seeing them made something well in her chest, a sense of longing and adoration. She felt her heart clench as the smallest, a little girl with dark brown hair, held up a paper crane for her.
"Kagome?"
She looked up at him then, he was sitting in the same place, but his clothes were different. He was smiling at her affectionately, holding a young babe wrapped in a swaddle.
"Kagome?"
SHe shook her head again, wrenching herself back to the present. "I'm sorry, what was the question?"
"Do you see a future of us having children?" He asked, a slight growl to his voice. He thought she was slipping again, which to be fair she was.
"Isn't that a bit forward of you Mr. Wolf?" She smiled coyly at him, as her vision came again, this time he was standing before her, his clothes stripped from his body, his rock hard length bobbing before her. She looked up at him, his eyes had turned that deep golden color and were filled with need. His features had become wolfish, his stubble had grown into a short beard, as it often did when he was riled up, his brow a bit more pronounced. She watched as his canines elongated into fangs and his dull nails turned into claws.
"Kagome!" He shouted again, dragging her back to the present a second time.
She blinked at him, almost owlishly.
"Can you please just answer my question?" He outright growled this time.
Kagome tilted her head at him. What question had he asked again? She wasn't sure. He'd wanted to know about that Beauty character right? Her vision flashed her an image of a conversation he had had with another woman. Hair black as night, skin white as snow…
That was right, Snow White had asked him to come by today to ask about Beauty's whereabouts. She clenched her eyes shut and focused for a moment, willing her vision to show her what she wanted to know.
She saw a woman, who quite frankly lived up to her name. Long luscious blond locks and wide blue eyes, soft red lips. She was a beauty.
Kagome craned her head, looking about the surroundings Beauty was in.
"She's some seedy bar, there are two large men escorting her to a back room. Tweedle Dee and Dum I'm guessing," Kagome stated, before her vision faded.
"That wasn't the question I had asked," Bigby growled,
"You were going to though, right?" she gave him a cheeky grin as his brow ticked and he gave a slight nod.
With her mind feeding her information on the girl, Kagome felt her grin become coy once again. "You best be off… if you want to find her before Dee and Dum do."
The big bad wolf glared at her before getting up and walking away, but not before she could reach forward and pinch his firm bottom. "Go get em Wolfie!" She cheered, earning a confused glance from the man as he made his way out the door.
Buyo chose that moment to jump onto her lap, to which she responded by happily scratching behind the cat's ear. "Handsome isn't he… so rugged and gruff at the same time."
She smiled down at the feline, before feeling like something was off… had she just had a guest?