I glanced around the small conference room nervously. While it was obviously a conference room, the air made it feel more like an interrogation/torture chamber. Next to me, Maddie fidgeted uncomfortably, as nervous as I was at the irritable glare Kanda was giving us. Next to him, Komui laughed quietly and nervously at the thick tension mounting in the air.

"Alright," I said finally, not able to take it much longer seeing as how I was hugging my laptop's case so tightly to my chest I was having trouble breathing, "I want to know why you're holding us here. I understand freaking you guys out in the middle of the night, but you don't believe what we told you, so what's the point in trying to lie and tell you what you want to hear?" I glowered at them, my moody gaze matching the murderous one aimed at me and Maddie from Kanda. Leaning half asleep against a wall was Allen and in a chair next to him dozing off was Lenalee. Lavi wasn't anywhere to be found and I wondered with slight horror just why he wasn't. I didn't want the creeper bookman to sneak up behind me. The thought didn't bode pleasant mental images.

Maddie grumbled next to me, placing her head on the table and using her arms as a pillow, "Not that you'd believe what you wanted to hear either. You guys are impossible!" Inwardly, I thanked her silently that she hadn't gone on a fangirl rampage over Kanda and was keeping her cool. That was one thing that I didn't need to deal with on top of entering an anime universe.

"Well, it's not so much they're impossible as they are annoyingly stubborn, but that's not the point," I said, rolling my eyes as I tilted my chair back on two legs, crossing my arms and glaring at the ceiling as if it was the slab of plaster's fault that we were in this mess in the first place. "Again, I'll even reiterate it; we shouldn't have taken that alleyway in the first place. I told you something felt off about it and, hey, low and behold, next thing we know we're pinned to a wall by some unseen force and falling through it!" I mock gasped and Maddie shot her head up, glaring at me with hazel eyes.

"I thought it was a shortcut!"

"Sure, a shortcut! I'll bet you're not thinking that now, are you, considering we're not at Marielle's house?" I rolled my eyes, propping my head on my hand with my elbow on the table. Komui looked frightened.

The purple haired scientist risked a nervous glance at a very irritated Kanda who looked like he was about to chop all of our heads off with Mugen, and, to be honest, I wouldn't have put it past him, "Settle down, girls, for the love of God settle down!" He was frightened and that mixed with his phrase made me burst out laughing.

I could tell that I'd taken everyone in the room by surprise save for a softly snoring Lenalee and the half asleep Allen when Komui asked timidly, "…what?" I laughed a few more times; wiping tears of mirth from my eyes as I straightened my chair and sat up straighter.

"Nothing, yo-your phrase…I can't believe you actually said that!" I chortled a few more times. "Sorry, I don't believe in God; I'm Agnostic." This caused the two already wide awake occupants of the room to blink at me in surprise and Allen to perk up completely.

"You're Agnostic?" The white haired teen asked me incredulously and I rolled my eyes.

"No," I said sarcastically, "really? Of course I am, you midget, I just said I was! Jeez, are you deaf as well as short?" He fell over and I could see the numerous people in the room, save Lenalee who was still sleeping, restraining themselves from laughing hysterically. Well, Kanda was probably trying not to chuckle, but for him that amounted to hysterical laughter anyway.

"Anyway," Komui said after a few minutes of raucous laughter from him and Lavi, the red head having snuck into the room at my sarcastic comment, "We need to focus on how you got here. Where are you girls from?"

Maddie answered before I could get the chance, "U.S. of A. You know, America. Land of the free, home of the brave. That place." If I'd have been able to, I'd have sweatdropped. We didn't even know for sure what time period it was, let alone know if America was formed yet…

Allen quirked an eyebrow, "I've heard of America, but I'm not sure it can be considered 'Land of the free'. It is, after all, a constitutional monarchy…" Maddie's head snapped up and mine swiveled around violently to meet Allen's eyes.

I stood up, outraged, "What! We're not a fucking monarchy; we're a damn democratic republic! What history book did you get your wacky information from and where can I go to burn it?" Lavi jumped up in the protest to the mention of burning a book, Kanda grew even more irritated if it was possible, Allen shrunk back at my glare, Maddie tried to pull me back in a sitting position that wasn't as intimidating, and Komui was freaking out about my…erm…colorful language.

A commotion began that Maddie made sure not to become a part of, which involved me yelling at Lavi that his sources were wrong – though I doubted they were, considering he was a bookman – me yelling at Komui to shove it and that I could swear if I wanted to and that he wasn't my father so he could stay out of my business, and me yelling at Allen that being Agnostic wasn't a crime. Basically, it was a lot of me yelling and Maddie trying to pass of that she didn't know me.

"Will you all just shut up!" Kanda roared suddenly, glaring at everyone, namely me since it was mostly my fault, and the others obediently sat back down. I glared back defiantly, not sitting until my blond friend tugged on my shirt to convince me to, and even then I didn't break my glare. Kanda closed his eyes and sighed, moving his glare from me towards Komui and the purple haired scientist pushed his glasses up on his face nervously before he resumed to interrogating – I mean, asking questions.

"What happened? You said you fell through a wall?"

I could tell that he was confused, "Something slammed into us." Maddie supplied helpfully and I nodded in agreement.

"We were going over to a friend's house for her birthday. We were going to spend the night, but we had to walk there since none of our parents could give us a ride there and my car was in the shop for repairs since the alternator belt decided to go on it again. Anyway, we were walking and she decided, sorry, we decided to cut through an alley because it seemed like a shortcut. Something, it kind of felt like a large arm, slammed into us. We hit the wall, but we didn't hit it. More like we went through it, and the next thing I know, we were falling through your ceiling. I don't remember anything else, and now we're trapped in this strange anime-verse where the United States of America aren't exactly the United States of America anymore." They looked at me weirdly for mentioning "anime-verse" but didn't get the chance to speak before Maddie spoke up.

"I remember a gravelly voice saying something about innocence, if that helps any," Komui must've exploded.

He was jumping around doing a happy dance and Kanda looked about ready to pull Mugen on him, "That explains how you got through! One of you holds innocence!" I blinked at him.

"How?" I asked and everyone froze, including me as I realized my slip up. We weren't supposed to tell them that we knew. I'd just given it away…damn.

Kanda's glare increased and Komui became startlingly serious, "You know about innocence?" Maddie and I looked at each other nervously. Well, Maddie looked more angry than nervous, but I ignored it and, with a sigh, nodded.

"Yes," I said, "I don't think we're originally from her, if falling through your ceiling and a wall wasn't proof enough. Where we're from there's a…cartoon, which is a show made of moving pictures, animations that…well, it has the whole exorcists, Millennium Earl, innocence thing in it." They looked at me like they really didn't believe me and I held up my computer in its case, remembering that I'd recently gotten the series on disc. I had one of the first discs in my drive and could show them.

"I can show you! I have it on my computer!" More blinks at the mention of a computer, but I ignored them and pulled my Alienware laptop out of the backpack and hooked the mouse up to it that I usually used. Komui nearly went ballistic when I turned it on.

He was crying tears of joy, saying something about experimenting on it to see how it worked and my face went white as a sheet and I hugged the piece of advanced technology close to my chest, stroking the ribbed lid possessively, "Nuh-uh! You will not come within fifty feet of my laptop carrying even a damn screwdriver or I'll murder you in your sleep, got it?" Komui shrunk back as I started up my DVD player, sat back, and watched the show…quite literally.

Rhiannon: So...how'd I do? Funny enough?...yeah, didn't think so -_-0 The next chapter will be by TheBlackButler, so keep an eye tuned for that!

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~WingedGoddess