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Disclaimer: Damn it, I forgot! I own nothing from Animaniacs, nor do I own The Dark Knight Rises, which is mentioned. As a side note, I'm making up a musical based on songs from my favourite singer, due to the fact that a: she is underrated, and b: the Spice Girls have a musical coming up. I do not own her songs or ideas, I just own the idea of the musical.

About a week after I'd been talking to Dot, I decided to visit my parents. Obviously, things had been awkward when I first made my choice to become toon. Well, they'd been pretty mad at me for making such a crucial choice without talking to them first (and leaving a behind a normal life at the age of fifteen wasn't exactly the brightest thing to do, I accepted). Also, they'd still had the responsibility of taking us all in the summer one more time (since Yakko was eighteen after that), so that was a little awkward too. (The awkward moment when your daughter changes herself to be with her boyfriend...but not Grease-style!)

Things had gotten a little more relaxed recently, since I became a legal adult, but I couldn't get away from Burbank much. The rare times I was able to visit were made that more valuable.

The best thing was that I had learned to create an illusion of human form for up to 24 hours at a time. The Warners had all learnt to do it by my sophomore year, and I'd been able to do it after I became a toon. So before I left, I made myself look like the 22-year-old I'd look like, had I stayed myself, and set off to visit my parents.

Only Mom was home, but she seemed happy to see me. "Hi, Alexandra." she greeted me enthusiastically.

I smiled a little. "It's 'Alex' only now." I reminded her. I wasn't ever going to be Alexandra to anyone. Sure, it had been part of my full name, but for all official purposes, I was simply Alex. "How's it going, anyway?"

Mom shrugged. "Come in. Things have been pretty slow here."

We caught up on all the usual things. At some point, it got to the other Warners. "Dot's just started working at a beauty salon." I explained. "She says that the minute she's got enough experience, she's going to run her own. Oh, and you should see some of the songs Wakko's recording at the moment! I mean, they sound great on recording with all the music, but when he just sings them as a cappella, I have no idea what he's trying to say." I giggled.

"Speaking of the boys," Mom said, "I saw Yakko's last review on The Dark Knight Rises. I had no idea that it was even possible to write that seriously and keep people laughing."

I shrugged. "You know Yakko. It's a talent, being able to be witty and serious at the same time."

I had to leave before Dad got home, because I had an audition. "It's for a new movie musical, Symptoms Of Opheliac." They wanted toons to play hallucinations, and my agent recommended me to it.

Mom smiled sadly. "Good luck, honey. Come back soon, OK?"

I waved as I left, smiling, but a little worried. As a toon character, I'd have to be tested for singing, as well as acting. During the hallucination sequences, I had to sing, but apart from the finale, that was about it.

When I walked in, I could hear the auditioning singers for the role of the background singers (The plot was that lead Olivia is feeling suicidal, and is haunted by the Shakespearean character Ophelia, who drowned, possibly deliberately. Olivia descends into madness, just as Ophelia did, in short. The story is illustrated by Emilie Autumn songs, using "I Know Where You Sleep", "Liar" and "Gothic Lolita" to illustrate her husband's relationship with her, "Opheliac", "Swallow" and "Misery Loves Company" for Olivia's mental illness, etc).

"She's locked up with a spinning wheel," one of the auditioners sang, "She can't recall what it was like to feel,

She says..."

"This room's gonna be my grave, and there's no one who can save me." sang one of the casters, probably acting as Olivia.

People wanted the toon actors in another room, so I had to wait in line for a few minutes.

"Alex Warner?" a voice called. I had to run. This particular audition was just to test my singing and speaking voice. My role was to sing during "Misery Loves Company".

The woman acting as Olivia sang Olivia's parts. "It's not the time, it's not the place, I'm just another pretty face..."

"So don't come any clo-oh-oh-ser!" I sang.

"It's not the first, it's not the last, how many more? Don't even ask-"

"You're one more dead compo-oh-oh-ser!"

"Do I need you?"

"Yes and no!"

"Do I want you?"

"Maybe so, you're getting warm, you're getting warm, you're getting warmer, oh-"

"Did you plan this-"

"All along?"

"Did you care if-"

"It was wrong!"

"Who's getting warmer now that I'm gone!" we both sang that part. It was a beautiful, and not-too-hard song, although that was maybe because of the voice coaching I'd begged the Warners to give me (since they all had a good sense of pitch and rhythm).

I, as usual, was just told "Thank you. We'll let you know."

Finally, I went back to the movie lot. On the way there, I passed Katie, a woman who was on Animaniacs when she was a teenager due to the humour of her literally explosive temper. The Warners had told me that it hadn't erupted since she was nineteen, but people were still careful about what they said around her.

"Hi, Katie." I greeted her as I went past. I'd talked to her a couple of times before, so we knew each other.

"Hi, Alex." Katie said with a smile.

I headed straight for the water tower. "I'm ba-ack!" I sang out in true overactive toon style when I got inside.

Instantly I got two answers.

"Hellooo, beautiful!"

"Hellooo, sister!"

The third answer chimed in with a simple "Hi, Alex!"

Well, the boys always had a way of greeting girls. At least over the last seven years, Yakko had moved on from "nurse" to "beautiful" - with me, anyway. He and Wakko still occasionally used their catchphrase, but only around the lot.

Once I'd asked why they didn't use it outside the lot any more. "They expect it of us." they'd said. "Outside, we have to be normal to blend in."

"So, what are all you guys up to? Any interesting customers, Dot? Did you write anything new, Wakko? What's the next movie up, Yakko?"

"I was just about to go out." Yakko said, looking unsure for some reason. "But I do have a break from the movie biz at this very moment. See you when I come back." He quickly kissed me, then left the tower, leaving me a little confused. Even more so when Dot exchanged glances with Wakko. She quickly rolled her eyes at me, as if to say "Men!" But I'd seen it, and I wondered what it meant.

Anything you've noticed yet? BTW, I have to write the story of the musical Alex auditioned for now! Please review this chapter.