What is sleep?

Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs. They're the product of KAA and Scholastic. Although, since there are no canon characters in this piece, (except for mentions of names at the beginning, but they're used in reference) I'm not sure how necessary the disclaimer is.

All of my friends are used with their permission/consent. All of their names have been changed to protect their reputations within my college campus. (except mine, 'cause everyone already knows I'm crazy)

I own every Yeerk you see here. Especially Tarash 514, 'cause she's my favorite. grins

Translation: If you use them, ask me for permission first. I'll probably give it to you, as long as you keep the fic rating to a PG, tops.

If you want to know about man names, email me. Otherwise, just know that Susan is Mel or Merl, Claire is Ted or Terd, and Anne is Ned or Nerd. Emily's Tim-just-Tim (Ned's son), Tom is Denise, and other people have them but they're not going to be used since it's mostly just Susan, Claire, Anne, and Emily who use them in real life.

Thank you's go to:

My friends, without whom this ficcie would not exist. You guys are amazing!

"Claire" for letting me type in her room while she read a book of insane length for one of her classes. (and letting me read parts of it to her, and explaining what Animorphs is)

"Carol", for reading over parts of the fic to check for OOCness and other stuff.

"Claire", again, for helping me with staying IC.

KAA for creating the Animorphs. Even if she did murder them.

Summary: Emily's friends in college are workaholics who are in desperate need of sleep. Can the Yeerks bond together to help her and her friends receive a decent amount of sleep at least a few nights of the week?

Humor. A parody. Basically plotless, depending on your definition of plot.

Enjoy!

Vocabulary:

(Not needed for Animorph fans, but if my friends actually do end up reading this, they'll need this list to have an idea of what's going on)

Yeerk: Alien slug that is a parasite. Can live in a person's mind or in a liquid substance. Blind and pretty much deaf in their natural state; need to live inside another being in order to experience life to its fullest potential. Must leave its host every three days to swim in the Yeerk Pool for a few hours.

Yeerk Pool: Place where the Yeerks receive Kandrona rays. General meeting place for Yeerks to communicate outside of their hosts.

Host: A being that a Yeerk lives inside. Can be voluntary or involuntary. Examples of hosts: Humans, Gedd, Taxxons, Hork-Bajir

Gedd: Monkey-like creature that lives on the Yeerk home world.

Taxxon: Giant centipede that struggles daily with constant hunger. Good at digging.

Hork-Bajir: peaceful creature that eats tree bark. Has lots of blades in order to eat this bark, so a good fighting machine.

Involuntary Controller: Someone who has a Yeerk inside of them but does not want it to be there. None of these exist after book 54.

Voluntary Controller: Someone who agrees to have a Yeerk live inside of them. Generally, the two will end up getting along, if not friends.

Kandrona: Replica of the Yeerk's home world's sun.

Kandrona starvation: Being deprived of being able to go into a Yeerk pool that a kandrona has poured its rays upon. Generally takes three days, but can take as long as weeks if the deprivation is slow.

Controller: Someone with a Yeerk in their head.

The Sharing: Place used in the Animorphs series as a way to recruit people to become Controllers. "Full members" were people with Yeerks in their heads.

Visser: Rank of command. Usually has murdered a fair number of creatures in order to advance so far.

Sub-Visser: rank of command, lower than a Visser. Probably killed a few amount of creatures in their day.

Council of Thirteen: In theory, a group of Yeerks who rule the empire. In reality, one Yeerk who rules the empire (the emperor), but speaks for twelve Yeerks so that no one knows who's the leader, and therefore there's less of a chance of him getting killed.

Visser three: Later became Visser one. The only Andalite Controller. Ruthless murderer who ends up in jail (without a host) for the rest of his life.

Peace Movement: a group of Yeerks who object to taking hosts who don't want an alien living inside of them.

Dracon Beam: Weapon used by Yeerks to kill or stun, depending on its adjustable setting.

Andalite: Enemies of the Yeerks. Extremely arrogant and think they're better than everyone else.

Elfangor: Gave the Animorphs the power to morph. Killed by Visser three shortly afterwards.

Morph: to change into another being. Need the escafil device in order to be able to morph.

Escafil device: Contraption created by Andalites. Once you touch it, you can morph.

Nothlit: Any creature who stays in a morph for more than two hours. They stay trapped as that animal for the rest of their lives.

Non Animorph vocabulary:

OC: Original character. Character from the figment of the fanfiction writer's deranged imagination.

Fanfiction: Fiction written by a fan of a story, series, movie, TV show, etc. Its authors are generally known for being slightly crazy. ;)

OOC: Out of character. A character in a fanfiction piece not behaving as they should, according to basic interpretation of canon. (Ie: "Tobias was so OOC in that chapter! He would never have suggested bombing the Hork-Bajir!")

Canon: What the author determines about the book she/he has written (or movie, TV show, etc.).

AU: Alternate Universe. Something that ignores canon on purpose, providing an alternate, "What if?" scenario. If they're not marked as such, they can be considered anti-canon and OOC.

Fandom: Collection of stories written by fans. Can consist of forums. Often holds similar ideas about certain characters or situations, whether or not they are actually spelled out in canon.

RL: Real life. Which does not exist here. ;)

IC: In character. Well written. For example, "Rachel was really in character during that last chapter. I thought you were KAA in disguise!" (Being compared to the author is generally considered a compliment in the Animorphs fandom)

KAA: Creator of the Animorph series, and murderer of the Animorph series. Also murderer of many Animorph characters. Thought, by many fans of the Animorphs series, to be a Controller.