The Fox, the Cat, and the Wolf

Here’s a little snippet from their comic that kinda explains the baseline of their situation LMAO

There’s a point in the comic where Bailey needs to run by Bigby’s place for work reasons. She’s a very quiet woman and accidentally interrupts Faith talking to Bigby in the doorway; before either of them see her, she shifts into the shadows to give them some privacy because she Doesn’t Know Bigby Like That and wants to save the awkward interaction. She doesn’t see enough of Faith to actually realise who she is/have the “eureka that’s the girl that’s meant to be dead” moment, she just assumes this is his girlfriend/wife. Bailey’s apartment is also on the floor above Bigby’s, and she has pretty enhanced hearing. So against her will she gets relatively solid “confirmation” that they are partners. She also doesn’t know she’s not meant to know that Faith is there.

Luckily she never brings this up in front of anyone before she casually mentions it to Bigby, who immediately freaks out and tells her they need to have a conversation. He essentially invites a very confused Bailey to meet Faith and explains their situation, and Bailey agrees to keep quiet out of general respect for both of them & also because the last thing she’d do is give Snow a reason to be mad.

Part of Bailey’s reservations around Snow are about the similarities she sees between the way Snow acts with Bigby and the way Snow acted with Bailey before she was fired. So when she finds out Bigby has a girlfriend she gets even more prickly with Snow; and while this is definitely out of respect for Bigby, it’s also certainly a tiny bit of jealously that Snow’s got a new favourite coworker/employee. She recognises that the way Snow was/is treating Bigby isn’t healthy, and that the same was true for how Snow treated her, yet, in a weird way, she misses when it was her.

4/90