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A/N: Here's some more weirdness and some explanations. Hopefully people are enjoying... or will be enjoy it, once the dreaded remake gets people interested in RHPS fanfiction (if it does). This chapter is all about the character Sophie, by the way. The next one is about A. Also... Sophie is named Sophie mostly because it's a nice name I haven't already used and the name of a friend of mine.

Three days after the previous 'jump' Sophie suddenly found myself in Williams' sitting room again. This time she hadn't gone to sleep, oddly. One moment she'd been at the library an the next she'd ended up here. She'd spent a few seconds in some sort of swirling blue place she hoped to forget this time, instead of just falling asleep. Mrs Williams, a dark haired young woman, and a unremarkable-looking man stood in this room already. They seemed to be too busy with some sort of conversation to notice Sophie.

"... and the strange girl just disappeared! It's been a few days since then and Mr. Williams is still annoyed about it all," poor old Mrs. Williams was saying to the others.

"Is that her right behind you?" the dark haired woman asked.

All three turned to face Sophie. She blushed, suddenly a bit bothered by their attention.

"Oh! where've you been? Did you go back to... your world?" Mrs. Williams asked.

"Yes, I did. For three entire days! Though I did sleep during the time, never did I come here until now," the girl explained. "Do you know why?"

Nobody spoke for a while. Finally Mrs. Williams, realized something. "This is Mr. Lucius Aelius - who teaches military strategy at the university - and his wife Livilla."

"Dolly here has been telling us all about you," Livilla Aelius said. "How are you?"

"Fine," the girl replied.

Mrs. Williams smiled. "My dear husband and a number of his co-workers at the university have been hearing all about you. Mostly from old Mr. Adams, though now most people seems interested in the subject. Even dear Mr. Aelius!"

"You'll love it, I'm sure. All the professors and students are terribly nice," Mrs. Aelius said brightly, lighting a cigarette. "Cigarette, anyone?"

Nobody answered her. Instead, her husband began to speak. There was a sort of strong, military air to him. Clearly he'd battled some dreaded enemy at some point. Though he'd also been a leader once, Sophie thought, because.

"Does young Sophie know the nature of this world? I think not. Before we take her to the university or arrange a meeting with the Council we'd better explain. I'd better explain...

"It began in what you'd call 1975. There was a film released based upon the highly popular Rocky Horror Show. Already there was something of a fan following. Belief has power, and very many people believed in this film. It gave them a place to belong and became a tradition able to last through centuries. It's only been about 31 years since this place was created by the power of fans. They would associate certain characters or ideas with their favorite obsession, which soon evolved into a city. Every single citizen is an actor or character that somehow relates to Rocky Horror. Only the dead actors and fictional characters exist here all the time. Living actors come and go throughout the day, as does the powerful fanclub dictator Sal Piro. The main actors - Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, and Nell - form the Council. That's the simplest explanation our government. They should be the only people from your world that end up here. Never before has any normal being from another part of time/space ended up in our city - there's one who travels anywhere in time and space, though he's all but a legend and currently irrelevant. Nobody gets here by accident.

"Though the fans' unknowing influence is everywhere. Thanks to the fanon believed in by the fans we've got Frank as a sort of honorary king who doesn't do anything useful. They believe he's a prince because of a badly written fan work that was thought by too many to be a draft for a sequel. A number of characters from that live in a semi-separate ghetto in the slums. I'll get someone else to explain the city's geography once we go to the University. That's our main gathering place. Many of the more important citizens have a specific area of study they teach to others. It's sort of like a school in some ways, but there's much more to it. It's rather hard to explain... though I know we should take you there."

Sophie wasn't much of a Rocky Horror fan, though she didn't really mind it too much. But being trapped in a world full of it's characters wasn't something she approved of. At least these other characters were likeable. By then she'd figured out who Livilla was. In the television miniseries I, Claudius an actress from Rocky Horror had played Claudius's sister Livilla. Since she liked ancient history Sophie had seen I, Claudius more than once and found it to be a fascinating programme. Of course, she'd liked other characters better...

"Shall we, then?" Livilla asked. "Go to the university?"

Mr. Aelius nodded. "Yes, we should. A visit to the Department of Sciences seems the proper thing to do. I admit Dr. Scott might know something because of his experience in the study of time/space travel, though I don't really like him. Germans aren't my cup of tea. The wild variety of people there will make it easier for us to find out what you are."

So it was decided. Mr. and Mrs. Aelius would go accompany Sophie to the university. There they would attempt to figure out why she'd suddenly appeared and who she really was. Of course, she kept pointing out that she was nothing more than a normal American girl who'd lived in the suburbs of Washington DC. Her adopted family was extremely ordinary and her birth family far from fantastical. She'd been left by an unknown woman at a hospital as an infant, like many children whose parents couldn't properly care for them, rather than a doorstep like in a fairy-story. There wasn't any way she could be important. If she had, wouldn't she have 'punished' her cruel classmates with some kind of powers... or something? Not that she had any need to. In her opinion going to he university wasn't useful in the slightest. What could they figure out? Anyway, she didn't really trust these people.

Though it wasn't like she had a choice. So she followed Lucius and Livilla Aelius out the door and into the not-so-busy street.

"Say 'hello' to my husband, for me!" Mrs. Williams called, as they left.

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