The air was fragrant with the smell of wet grass as Elizabeth walked down the path through the forest. The sky was still rather dark, being that it was five in the morning (she had been having bouts of insomnia lately), and a thin layer of fog wafted above the ground.

There had been a terrible storm the night before, and, as if to simply annoy its inhabitants, the roof of the Slifer dorm had sprung a leak, which continued even after the only remaining parts of the storm were thunder and lightning. But, as always, Jaden had found something to do. The four of them (including Hassleberry and Syrus) had pulled out an old portable DVD player (yet another of Elizabeth's eBay purchases) and watched Donnie Darko.

However, only Elizabeth truly enjoyed the movie. Jaden and Hassleberry weren't able to follow it, and from the second Frank the demonic six-foot-tall appeared, Syrus had hidden under the covers. Once the film ended, the friends went to bed, but Elizabeth couldn't seem to sleep (again). She eventually gave up and went for a walk, putting her in her current position.

She was just about to turn back, when a rustling and white flash beside her caught her eye. She scented the air, but the scents of the storm were too strong to discern from any other. The bushes on the other side of her rustled, and she walked over to them.

She got on her hands and knees, when something scratched her face and darted across the path, only to collapse in the middle of it. She walked over and picked it up in order to get a closer look at it.

What she saw was a rabbit, but its appearance was unlike any other rabbit she had seen before. Its eyes were very large, so that they seemed to be ready to pop out at any moment, ant it had not two buck teeth, but ten. The rabbit was shaking, wet, and Elizabeth now noticed that its right hind paw was bleeding.

Elizabeth took off her blazer and wrapped it around the rabbit before turning around and walking back to the dorm. She felt its shaking stop as it fell asleep. She smiled as the dorm came into view.

Once inside, she silently took the first aid kit out from under what she called the Loose Floorboard O' Junk and took out a bandage and some peroxide. As she cleaned the wound, the rabbit flinched and started to squeak. She quickly stopped and covered its mouth.

"Shh, you have to be quiet until the others wake up. Otherwise they'll throw you out for sure! You're just lucky I don't need a light to see what I'm doing," she whispered. The rabbit settled down enough for her to finish cleaning and dressing the wound. She set him down on the desk to get a better look at him since he had dried off a little.

"You sure are a strange little thing, aren't you?" she asked. "In fact, you look almost like…" she started, before being interrupted by a loud ringing.

"Yikes, the alarm clock! We've got to get you hidden!" she said, looking every which way for a hiding spot. She finally decided on the cabinet, and quickly put the rabbit inside before the others could see. Jaden woke up with a yawn.

"Mornin' Liz. You're up early," he said.

"Not really, usually you sleep through the alarm clock," she said as Syrus and Hasselberry made their way down from the bunks.

"Hey, anyone want some coffee?" Syrus asked.

"Sure private," Hassleberry said. Elizabeth's eyes grew wide.

"Uh, why do we need coffee, I mean, coffee's so bad for you and…" she started.

"This from the biggest coffee drinker out of all of us," Syrus said.

"Well, uh, see it won't eventually kill me, but you guys…"

"Liz, one cup's not gonna kill us," Jaden said.

"Jaden's right, private," Hassleberry said.

Elizabeth was about to make up another excuse, but before she could, Syrus opened the cabinet door and slammed it shut just as fast, his skin growing even paler than it was before.

"Elizabeth, why is there a scary bunny in the cabinet?" he asked.

"I don't know," she said.

"Liz," he started.

"I don't know," she repeated.

"Oh, so you don't know about this?!" he said, pulling the rabbit out by the scruff of his neck.

"Hey, don't hurt him!" she said, quickly, but gently, so as not to hurt him.

"Liz, explain," he said, obviously in a bad mood.

"Okay, okay. I couldn't sleep, so I went for a walk. Frank was running around, and…"

"You named it?" Syrus asked.

"Yes, anyway, he was running around and he collapsed. His foot was hurt; it looks like he was bitten or something. I couldn't just leave him to die, so I took him home, dressed the wound, and hid him so you wouldn't find him."

"You named it?" Syrus asked.

"Him," she said.

"What?" he asked.

"Frank's a boy rabbit," she said.

"And a weird one at that," Hasselberry said, looking at Frank's teeth and eyes.

"Yeah, I can see why you called him Frank," Jaden said.

"Well, you'll have to say goodbye to Frank here, because he's leaving," Syrus said.

"No, not until he's healed. He'll die out there!" she said.

"Good riddance, something like this shouldn't be running around," Syrus said.

"You shouldn't judge him by his looks," she said.

"And why not?" he asked.

"Because you didn't judge me by mine," she said, grabbing Frank and walking out, slamming the door behind her.

Note: I've never seen Donnie Darko because I was nervous about what Frank would look like. Ironically, I saw him on a flyer at Hastings around Easter and started thinking, "What if Elizabeth found a rabbit like that?" I still haven't seen it because I'm a chicken and don't want to watch it alone.