Okay, AU? Check. Characters? Check. Craziness. Check. Brain? Not a chance.

Because I'm particularly obsessed with this, here we go!

/Dandelion's P.O.V/

"Skye." I whispered, tapping her with my arm, she groaned, and turned over, facing the opposite direction of me. "Skye." I spoke louder this time, she either ignored me or didn't hear me. I sighed and shook my head. "Please don't kill me." I whispered and prepared for the worst. I slunk back about five feet and pounced on Skye. "WAKE UP!" Skye jolted awake and kicked me with her back legs.

"DANDELION!" Skye screamed, getting up, teeth bared. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"I WAS ONLY WAKING YOU UP!" I yelled back, running away from here.

"What'd you do this time?" Bluebell asked me as I hid behind him.

"I woke her up." I confessed, and he laughed but shook his head.

"If she finds you, you're on your own." He told me, and I looked mock-hurt.

"It's nice to know that you have my back!" I shot back, and he chuckled.

"You don't get it, she's going to kill you." He told me, and I shuttered at the thought of it. He pointed his ears towards a hole in a hollow tree. "You'll be safe there." He told me, I quickly ventured into the hole and got as close as I could be without going too deep inside.

"Bluebell." A voice spoke, but it didn't belong to my sister, it belonged to my foster brother, Blackbird. Blackbird was Bluebell's older brother, and my foster brother, he's the eldest out of the five of us, but he can be very… Rude? No. Mean? No. aggressive, hostile, offensive, argumentative. There we go. He may be all those things, but he's never actually hurt one of us, not on purpose.

"What is it, Blackbird?" Bluebell almost seemed scared, afraid, nervous. But he's our brother. Why would he be scared of him.

"Look at me when I'm talking to you." Blackbird growled, I moved closer slowly and quietly so that I could see what's going on. Blackbird was in Bluebell's face, inches away. He looked terrified.

"Why are you such a brat? You never do anything I say, it's your fault that mom died!" Blackbird growled and we both winced at the mention of Snow, the one who took me in when no one else would. He circled Bluebell and raised his paw, smacking his face. I gasped and slunk back. Why would he do that?!

"Next time, don't be a brat!" Blackbird growled and stormed off. I quickly ran out to comfort my best friend.

"Is this what you didn't want me to know?" I asked, and he nodded slowly. "Is this why Silverwing has a scar on her hind leg?" Bluebell sighed and looked at me.

"He didn't want you to know. He didn't want anyone to know." He confessed, tears in his eyes. I sighed and hugged him, comforting him. He didn't deserve this. None of us do. "This is what Skye suspected?" He asked, and I nodded in approval and he sighed, looking at me. He smiled slightly. "Can't keep anything from her, can we?" He attempted to make a joke, I let a small smile form, for his benefit.

"How long?" I asked him, he didn't answer. "Bluebell, how long?" I asked, moving to stand in front of him.

"Since before you came to live with us." He answered, and I cursed under my breath.

"Frith…" I whispered, looking at him. "Why didn't you tell me?" I asked him, softly. He needs to know that I'm not mad. I want to help him, and yelling isn't the way to do it.

"He told me that if I told anyone, he would kill me, he would kill Silverwing, he would kill Skye." He paused for a moment and looked at me in the eye. "He would have killed you first."

"Now that we know that he is capable of killing, we need to take this up with Hazel." I told him, and he shook his head in fear.

"Uh-uh, uh-uh, no, no, no, no. Blackbird will kill us! I'm not kidding! And it's my word against his anyways!" Bluebell agreed, but I shook my head.

"I have proof, I heard him and Skye and Silverwing will vouch for us, no?" I asked, and he sighed.

"You have his word against ours. If Hazel saw Blackbird hurting one of us, that's a different story. But we have no proof." He admitted, and I thought for a moment. Silverwing.

"What about Silverwing's scar?" I asked, speaking on the long scar that goes down the silver bunny's back to just above her foot. Bluebell shook her head in disagreement.

"She played it off as if she got it in the battle against Efrafa. It's not valid." He confessed, and I sighed, looking down. How am I supposed to help him if it's a physical impossibility?

"Then what are we supposed to do? Give up?" I asked, and he shook his head.

"We either wait for Hazel to catch Blackbird hurting us or we let it go. I think that the latter is going to be true in the end." Bluebell walked off before I could say anything more.

I sighed, looking down and closing my eyes. What am I supposed to do? I can't help my brother, my best friend who is in pain. What am I supposed to do about that?

"Gotcha!" I heard my sister scream and she attacked me, causing me to yell out in surprise, and we rolled off the thicket and right in front of the entrance to the honeycomb. I sighed and shook off the dirt off my pelt.

"Really?" I asked, and she giggled, standing on top on me, her front paws on the back on my head.

"It's your fault, you woke me up." She confessed, I sighed, pushed her off of me and grabbed her by the ear and dragged her to a place where nobody could hear us.

"Ear, ear, ear, ear, ear, ear, ear! Ow!" She whined the whole way, when I finally let go, she licked her paws and smoothed her ears out. "You could've been gentler!" She grumbled, and I rolled my eyes.

"Shush, this is important." I told her, and she finally got the hint.

"Is it about Pathun and Silver?" She asked, and I nodded.

"Blackbird is what's wrong between them." I told her, and she looked shocked, as I still was.

"Nildro? But Nildro would never hurt them or us, not on purpose." Skye told me, but I shook my head and sighed.

"Skye, Blackbird hit Bluebell." I told her, and her eyes hardened.

"What?" She asked, coldly.

"I saw it happen, I was hiding from you in a hole, I saw Blackbird smack Bluebell. Hard. He just played it off, he told me that it's happened before, ever since I started living with them." I confessed, and she looked shocked, horrified, outraged.

"Why would Nildro do that?" She asked ad I shook my head., pacing in front of her.

"I-I don't know… I don't know! But we need to help them! he doesn't want to tell Hazel, it'll be our word against Blackbird's. However, he said that if Hazel catches him in the act, then he'll have to punish him." I admitted, and she sighed.

"So, what, we lure Hazel to where Blackbird and Bluebell are and let Bluebell get hurt?" She questioned, not seeing the rational. I shook my head in disagreement.

"No, we need to play this out tactically." I told her, and she smiled.

"Thank you Frith!" Skye exclaimed, thankfully. Skye hates it when we wing it, and don't have a plan. Skye thinks rationally and thinks with a rational outcome. She hates winging it, thinking without a plan. She was on Hazel constantly when we were on the journey to find Watership Down.

"We can't go about this unplanned. We need a plan, and a good one. Let's see…..." I looked around the down, examining the perfect place. My eyes landed on the trees, down the slight hill away from the honeycomb. I nodded in approval.

"There, away from the honeycomb but close enough that Hazel or someone else can witness something." I declared, Skye gave a small nod looking where I decided would be the location of what's going to go down.

"Now what?" She asked, and I sighed, shaking my head, looking down.

"Now comes the hard part." I told her, and her eyes went wide, scared, but filled with determination.

"Just before sunset, you are going to accuse Blackbird of the abuse." I told her, and she looked shocked that I would say such a thing.

"Me?! why me?!" She whined, pulling on her ears, scared.

"You're the logical choice. Blackbird won't hurt you, you're the one whom he actually likes." I told her, looking back. She deeply inhaled and let it out.

"Very well." She decided, sitting next to me.e "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to be in the honeycomb, listening in. when something bad or serious is happening, yell for me and I'll help you." I explained, and she nodded, looking out.

"Will you fight him?" She asked me, concerned. ht

"If I have to." I decided.

"No offence, but compared to Blackbird, you're a mouse." She stifled a laugh ad walked towards the honeycomb. A mouse? How dare she!

"Hey! Come back here!" I yelled, playfully chasing after her.


I sighed, keeping an eye on Skye from the cave. I was not to exit the cave before she calls my name, it could end badly.

"How dare you!" I heard Blackbird scream, I perked my ears towards where they were. "You dare accuse me of this!"

"It's the truth!" Skye's shrill scream was almost as loud as Blackbird's.

"That's it… You're done for!" I was tempted to look out or go help her, but I can't until she calls my name.

"No! Blackbird, leave her alone!" I heard Bluebell's frighten yell and a scream. I clawed the ground to keep me from leaving the honeycomb.

"Dandelion!" Skye called out, that's my cue, I got up from where I was and ran outside. I growled as I saw what was happening. Blackbird! He kicked Bluebell into a tree head-first and he blacked out! That's it... This ends now.

"Hey! Leave him alone!" I yelled, attacking the much-bigger rabbit, biting at his neck and he threw me down, but I got up quickly. Only then did I realize how much bigger Blackbird was compared to me. Skye was right, I was a mouse compared to him.

I clawed at him and he bit me on the back, not letting go. I growled as I tried to get him off, running in circles, until eventually I slammed him on the ground by rolling on my back.

He tried to attack me again, but I clawed his ear, leaving three permanent claw marks on his right ear. He growled and pinned me to the ground. I kicked him off with my back legs, growling in anger.

"You have no animality!" I accused, as we circled eachother.

"Which is why I have no fear!" He hissed, clawing my face. I kicked him in the back, but he only slid a few feet away.

He attacked me, pinning me to the ground again and he laughed.

"You know, your mother was right." He growled, and my blood ran cold. He leaned down and whispered in my ear. "You are a weakling. And weaklings don't have families. It figures, doesn't it?" I growled and kicked him off of me.

"She's not my mother!" I spat those words out like they were poison.

"You're weak like her, no wonder she couldn't kit your other siblings!" He growled. My eyes stared at him in anger. He has no right to speak like that. Mother or not, she had me. I have to beat him. Not just for Bluebell and Silverwing, for Watership Down.

I yelled out in anger and attacked him, I clawed his left eye, leaving another eye scar to match his right eye. He kicked my off and pinned me to the ground, this time forcing his paws on my back. He laughed evilly.

"I'm done with your crap, Dandelion. You're not my family, none of you. But you… Your nothing to me. you're finished." I gasped, looking at him before he kicked me in the stomach that threw me in the air and he then slammed me to the ground, back first. No. this isn't happening. The pain is worse in real life than in my dream. I screamed. I couldn't feel anything. Not just in my legs, but my vision blurred, and there was a ringing in my ears. Skye ran up to me in worry. I could barely hear her, but I could somewhat understand.

"Del! You'… Okay…. Silver… We do…"

I ended up shaking my head a bit to see if I could get my hearing and vision back. My vision cleared a bit, same situation with my hearing. I sighed and tried to get up, to no avail. I could not get up whatsoever.

"Can't get up, can you?" Blackbird chuckled, Silverwing growled at the comment. I turned my head around and saw Hazel and Blackberry running towards us. I relaxed. Thank Frith.

"HAHEAN!" Hazel yelled, Blackbird turned to look at him, unfazed. Hazel looked madder than anything and Blackberry only had eyes for me.

Hazel looked at Blueberry passed out, Silverwing trying desperately to wake him up, he moved his eyes to me, on the ground, unmoving. Skye was beside me, scared to death and she was showing it. I was breathing heavily from fear and from fighting. Hazel bared his teeth at Blackberry and faced his head-on.

"You have attacked two of one of your own, knocked out Bluebell and have hurt Dandelion! I have had enough of your recklessness. You have always been uncultured, but this. This is the last straw! You are hereby exiled! I never want to see you anywhere near Watership Down for as long as you live." Hazel growled, getting in Blackbird's face, he showed no fear. Blackbird growled but backed off, surprisingly.

"Very well. Your highness." He mocked and hopped away, hopefully to never be seen again. I sighed in relief and laid my head down. The ringing in my ears was back.

"Dandelion! Are you alright?" Blackberry asked, running towards me, and I shook my head, gritting my teeth to try to ignore the pain. Though I could not feel my hind legs, Blackbird slammed my back really hard and that hurt. Plus, he beat the crap out of me.

"What hurts?" Hazel asked, kneeling beside me and I sighed, combined with a gasp of pain.

"My hind legs. I can't feel my hind legs." I confessed, scared. "Hazel, I had a dream." That got his attention.

"A dream? Like Fiver" He questioned, and I nodded.

"Last night, it was very similar to what's happening now. If what's happening to me now is what I dreamed, it will be very bad." I told him and Hazel nodded.

"Blackberry, you have Strawberry help you attend to Bluebell. I'll fetch Fiver." He looked at me during that last part.

Silverwing looked towards me and towards her brother, feeling torn. I pointed my ears towards Bluebell.

"Go." I told her, she looked unsure. "I'll be fine, go." I assured her. She sighed, nodded and followed Blackberry and Bluebell.

"Why didn't you tell me about you dream?" Skye asked me, and I shook my head.

"I don't know." I told her, but I very well know what. She cannot know that she might try to kill Blackbird. She mustn't know, she might try to do it.

"What happened to you in the dream?" She asked, before I could respond, Fiver and Hazel came running up to us.

"Hazel told me what happened. Skye, can you move aside?" Fiver asked her, very nicely. She sighed but obliged and stood beside Hazel. Fiver started moving his paws along my spine, I could only feel his paw on the first half of it, only to my middle back, no lower.

"You can't feel me touching your hind legs of anything above it to your middle back and no further?" He asked, and I shook my head. I couldn't find my voice. Fiver hummed as lifted my legs with his teeth. "How about now?" He asked, I shook my head. He did something, Hazel looked shocked at what he was doing.

"What?" I asked turning my head around. He had bit into my legs, blood drawn. And I didn't feel it. How is that possible?

"You can't feel them, can you?" Hazel asked, and I shook my head, tears in my eyes. My dream I had was coming true.

"No, I can't." I expressed, my voice cracking as tears spilled. I was scared, terrified even. I stopped as I realized something. I will never run again. I'm the fastest rabbit alive and now I can't even run. How does that even make sense?

Fiver looked at me, sadness in his green eyes. He sighed, closed his eyes and looked away from me. "Your paralyzed, Dandelion. You can't ever run again." He told me, I gasped in shock. I know I had a dream about this but feeling it in real life was different. I don't know why, but it was.

"How are we going to get him to our den?" Skye asked, tears flowing down her fur.

"Hmm…" Hazel hummed, looking at me.

"I am not being dragged!" I declared, not hearing any other ways around it.

"Okay, Fiver, Skye, help me get him on my back." Hazel declared, and I raised an eyebrow.

"You can't carry me, I'm heavier than you." I told him, but Hazel ignored me as Fiver and Skye helped me on his back. When I was on, Hazel carried me actually quite easily, I was surprised.

"This seems easy for you, have you been working out?" Skye asked him, and I eyed her.

"Skye!" I exclaimed, with a slight laugh.

"It's a serious question!" Skye declared, having Hazel go first in the honeycomb. Bigwig walked beside us, eyeing what was happening.

"Do I even want to know?" Bigwig asked, and I sighed as Hazel laid me down in my den.

"I'm paralyzed." I confessed, and he remained emotionless.

"No really, why is he carrying you, you're our fastest rabbi, you can run from the human house to here in less than a minute." He told me, and I looked down. That was true once. Not anymore.

"Bigwig look at me. am I lying?" I asked him, and he looked at me in the eye and his eyes softened.

"How?" He growled, sounding threatening. He looked more concerned than angry though.

"Blackbird slammed him on the ground and his spine cracked, there's no way to fix it." Fiver confessed, and I closed my eyes as I could not get that crack sound out of my head.

"Is he still here?!" Bigwig got in Hazel's face, angered.

"No. I exiled him, Thlayli." Hazel told him, and he nodded.

"It's a good thing you did, otherwise I would have killed him." Bigwig growled, walking away.

"Go to sleep, you'll feel better in the morning." Fiver told me, pressing his face against mine in comfort and I smiled.

"Thanks." I mumbled, laying my head down. They left, and I allowed tears to fall down my face. What am I if I can't run? I'm not the fastest rabbit. I'm the useless rabbit, that I know. What was Blackbird thinking? He ruined my life! He ruined my legs. I'm done for, I'll never feel alive again.

Cut! Okay, this was way longer than intended, so here you go!