Author note: I own nothing! Well except for Stan, Carol, Zachie, Eevee, Uncle Will, and Stanton. Warning: This fanfic will get fairly gorey. It is advised that if you a have a delicate somach that you read something else. Anothe Warning: This fic will be terrible sad and tragic at times. Later there will probably be attempted suicide.

*Shattered*

-We All Fall Down...Hard

Marlene jerked up straight in her bed, covered in cold sweat. Her breathing was heavy and labored. The sheets that had covered her the night before were constricted around her in a mess.

"That dream again." She lifted herself out of bed to take a midnight dip in her pond. Standing at the pond's edge, she dove right in, letting the ice cold water cut right though her. The water was unpleasant but it let her know one thing: she was alive.

She crawled out onto the bank of the pond, her fur was dripping but she didn't care she let the water fall naturally. She didn't dry herself even whan a breeze ran though her fur, chilling her to the bone. Anything to remind her that she was living. She even considered waking Joey up and asking him to as he said 'wallop' her. Though she doubted he would. He was gentle with girls and the only ones he ever beat up had all been guys.

Marlene sighed. It had been awhile since she'd had a dream that scary since...since right before she'd moved here.

That first one she'd had been walking on a bridge with her family when suddenly it colapsed under her-only her. She fell through while her family stayed up on the bridge. None of them bothering to help. All of then with stoic masks on their faces. She plunged into the raging river below her. Underneath the waters surface Marlene was tossed tu and fro in the current. She was bashed and banged against dangerously sharp rocks and the sandy river banks. After what felt what hours of being thrashed in the water she was marooned on a new place that she didn't know. Shadows and blurry figures surrounded her and then she woke up.

The next night she was place in a crate and shipped of to New York, crying the whole way. That day had rocked her world. She was scared still and it felt as though she was being dragged though that ragging river yet again. Almost killing her this time.

Then there was the dream she'd had tonight. She recieved a chill down her back from thinking about this.

She was back at her old zoo only at the same time she wasn't. She was floating in the air, light as a feather. Her body was see-though as well. She looked around and saw her family. She cried tears of joy. There right in front of her was her over-protective father, Stan, her fair-but-scary mom, Carol, her younger brother, Zachie, and her baby sis, Eevee. They were all playing with the other otters, having there anual picnics. Carol roasting a fish while Stan entertained the pups with stories. Zachie was trying to build something to empress the older kids with little Eevee being gushed over by some of the granparents. Marlene laughed, wishing with all her heart that she could be there with them. She laughed when she saw little Eevee crawl over to Zachie and pull something loose out of his creation, causing it to crash to the ground.

That's when all hell broke loose. Out of nowhere strange humans came running in, carrying guns, knives, and all sorts of other weapons as well. Right in front of her eyes, Marlene's family and friends were slauttered. Her mother shot to a bloody pulp, her father hacked into by a cleaver like a piece of meat in a butchers shop- only bloodier! Her younger siblings, Zachie and Eevee, were burried under a pile of rubbled, most likely with broken bones and suffocating. Tears of horror drenched her face. The screams alone would haunt her, the blood and gore only made it worse.

Someone's yelling brought Marlene out of out of her nightmares. She looked over the wall of her habitat to see that some zoo residents were in the zoovineer shop. She ran to check out what was going on, temporarily forgeting about her nightmares. As she got closer she knew what was happening...Skipper and Julien were argueing...again!

She slipped in- unnoticed- during the arguement. She didn't pay any attention to it and simply watched. Then there fighting warped. Skipper, who had Julien pinned at the moment, looked like one of the humans from her nightmare and Julien suddenly looked like her Uncle Will with the wooded leg and glass eye. She didn't think- she reacted!

Scaring the crap out of everyone she charged at Skipper/human tackling him to the ground- she was still half-sleep.

"What the duece? Marlene? What was that for?" he didn't get an answer, all that he recieved was a low growl before Marlene colapsed.

"Um...Kowalski options!" It was both comand and question.

"Well, it appears that Marlene was half-asleep when she attacked you so she was probably halucinating, thinking that you were something from a dream of hers." Kowalski stated, writting something down on his clipboard.

"More like a nightmare," Private said, cowering behind Rico.

Marlene stirred in her sleep waking up to see that everyone was now starring at her.

"Marlene are you alrigh- hover dam Marlene why are you soaking wet?" Skipper asked, worried at his friend's strange behavior.

"Hmmmm...oh, yeah I'm fine. I had just had a bad dream and took a midnight dip in order help forget about it when I heard you and Julien argueing. I guess I forgot to dry myself off" she chuckled nervously.

"What was your fright about Marlene. It must have horrible if you ended up attcking Skippa` over it." Private looked extremly concerned about his friend's emotional stress.

"I really don't wanna talk ab-" Marlene was interupted by a crach outside. Every rushed out of the zoovineer shop to see what it was.

Instantly Marlene's eyes went wide. "Stanton?" everyone looked at her in question. What had caused the crash was a raven. Marlene knew this bird because he would deliver things across California. Whenever he delivered anything to her old aquarium he'ld always find her in order to, as he put it, court her.

At the moment Stanton was panting heavily, his feathers that once shined with beauty now were ruffled and greasy looking. "Stanton what's wrong? Wait did you fly straight from California to here!" she heard gasps com from behind her when he nodded a yes.

"Ma-Mar-Mar-lene. I c-came to-to tell you some-th-thing im-portant." She came clser to him, motining the others to stand back. Once out of ear shot of the others, he placed his beak to her ear and whispered something the others couldn't hear.

Meanwhile the others were talking about how crazy Stanton was for fly ing straight from Cali to here when something interupted them.

"No! No...this has to be a sick joke! It has to be! Please a sick, twisted, cruel joke. No! No! No! No! Noooooooooooooooo!" IT was Marlene her words were being choked back by sobs. She sounded sad, angry, confused, torn, defeated, and depressed.

Marlene's heart had been shattered. Al that was left was dust and one word.

"No!"

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