Anya's chore for the following week was to do the grocery shopping. She was pleased with her assignment. Shopping was easy and she liked being in charge of the money that Giles gave her to pay for the groceries with.

It was a very pleasant Saturday morning in Spring when Anya left the house to drive to the grocery store. As Anya drove through town to the store, she was curious as to why there were large pictures of colored eggs stuck to the windows of the various shops she passed. The grocery store's parking lot was rather full and it took awhile to find a space. Once the car was parked, Anya walked up to the store. The grocery store's windows were also decorated with eggs and also with...bunnies. Horrible, horrible, cardboard cutouts of different colored bunnies!

Anya uttered a small scream. She tried to get a hold of herself. They were just pictures after all. Not real bunnies. She mustered up her courage to enter the store, but her hands still shook a bit. To her horror, there were more bunnies inside! Big displays of chocolate bunnies, and stuffed bunnies, and more cardboard bunnies, some for sale, some just for the store's decoration.

"What kind of terrible madness is this?!" Anya exclaimed to herself. She tried her best to concentrate on the list Buffy had given her as she scooted through the store, trying to avoid the dread inducing bunnies.

At last the shopping was finished. Anya raced to the nearest checkout line, elbowing several people out of her way as she did so.

"I would like to purchase these items. I have money. Please be quick about it!" She told the clerk who gave her an odd look as he rang up the groceries. Anya quickly handed over the wad of money, snatched up the bags and headed outside.

As she was loading the bags into the trunk of her car, Anya's bad day grew worse. A man in a bunny suit came hopping up to her, holding a wooden crate of real, live, bunnies!

"Want a bunny lady? He asked in a chipper voice. "Free to good homes!"

"Arggh No! Get away from me you freak!"

She quickly tossed in the rest of the bags, slammed the trunk, and was soon speeding off, leaving the bunny man in a cloud of dust, very confused.

"My goodness Anya! What happened?" Giles asked as a very visibly upset Anya entered the house.

"Bunnies! Bunnies happened Giles! That damn store was full of bunnies, and worse, I was accosted by a man in the parking lot who had the nerve to be wearing a bunny suit!"

"Accosted? You mean he tried to rob you, or hurt you?"

"Worse than that! He tried to give me a live bunny!"

Giles tried to be supportive and suppress his amusement, but a chuckle escaped him. The chuckle soon turned into a giggle, which turned into a guffaw, then the next thing Anya knew, the normally uptight watcher was howling with laughter like a hyena and wiping his streaming eyes on a handkerchief.

"What's so funny?!" She demanded

"Oh! Oh my! Oh, I'm sorry Anya." Giles said after he was able to stop laughing and catch his breath. "I'd completely forgotten that Easter is next week. That's why there were so many bunny decorations and things out."

Anya snorted. "Easter. Celebrating a holiday with those evil bunnies! I'll never understand you humans."

After hearing about the bunny fiasco, Xander tried to cheer Anya up.

"How 'bout a movie? I've got Monty Python and the Holy Grail!"

"Is that with the same men who do the amusing walks and fight the giant Blanc Mange?"

"Yeah."

"Yes, I should like to see it very much. I find them most entertaining."

Xander of course had completely forgotten the part with the killer bunnies until that particular scene sent Anya screaming from the room.

"Anya? Anya! Don't go! I'm sorry!" He called.

Anya was sitting at the kitchen table snuffling and shaking as Buffy consoled her and fixed her a bowl of ice cream. Dawn came in with a smile and said "Hey Buffy, Anya, Check out my new bunny slippers!"

Thud! That was one bunny too much. Poor Anya fainted.