After stepping out of the warm shower and into her clean casual clothes, Judy felt refreshed after what had been another long day at the ZPD. Now that all of the paperwork and reports for Bogo had been done, watching one of the scary movies that was coming on TV was just what was on her itinerary. And the thing that made it an even better way to spend the evening was that Nick would be coming over to watch it as well.

Her apartment at the Grand Pangolin Arms might not have been the greatest compared to heading out to see something new on the big screen, but as long as her fox was by her side and the two of them were smiling, it didn't matter how or where they spent time together. With her more-than-obnoxious next-door neighbors, the Antlersons, heading out somewhere tonight, it would be even better since their shouting wouldn't be coming through the paper-thin living room walls.

Judy quickly washed her face again with the washcloth in her paws, happy now that she felt completely refreshed. The bathroom mirror had become fogged with steam from the shower she had taken a moment ago, and she wiped her paw across it so she could see her reflection in it. She smiled at the gray doe staring back at her before walking toward the light switch to turn off the bathroom fan above her, the room being casted into quietness.

It was then, while she was simply staring back at herself in the mirror, that she suddenly started to recall a myth from when she was younger, probably on account of the horror flick that she was planning to watch with Nick later. It was the one spread by one of her old friends back when they were kids in school, which probably all started through something said friend's older sibling told them to scare them.

It was this strange myth where if you wrote your names backwards on a fogged-up mirror in a dark room and said your name three times, something would happen.

She honestly couldn't recall what exactly she heard would happen if she ever did such a silly thing, since it was lost in her memories for quite awhile, but the recollection of it actually made her laugh thinking about it now. She, like some of her closest friends back in grade school, were, of course, scared to try it out for themselves, but now she thought her fear back then was quite silly.

"Nothing happens when you do that," she said to herself.

She had no idea why she possessed the urge to, but she decided for giggles just to try it out for herself to prove her younger self wrong about what to be afraid of. Above the spot where she had wiped off the mirror, she started to trace the letter Y with her finger. She went ahead and spelled her name backwards on the surface of the mirror. She sent the room into darkness with the flick of one of the light switches, and she returned her attention to the mirror.

"Judy..." she whispered softly, pausing for a moment.

Not a single sound stirred around the small bathroom, not even the faintest drip of water into the sink from the faucet.

"Judy..." she repeated once. Another couple seconds of silence went by, and she sighed before repeating herself for the third and final time. "Judy..."

She stood there for another ten seconds or so, not looking away from her silhouette in the mirror. It was after those seconds breezed by that she gazed around the room and turned the light back on. Nothing had happened, proving her theory correct: That myth from her youth was hogwash.

"Pretty silly of me to think something was gonna happen," she laughed to herself.

A loud thump that came out of nowhere caused her heart to suddenly skip a beat. She gasped as she turned herself around, walking back out into the tiny space of her apartment. Nothing happened to fall off her table, so that noise couldn't have come from something like that.

Perhaps someone just slammed the door a couple apartments away, she thought. After all, the walls of the apartments in the complex were thin as paper, so it was possible she heard something outside of the walls around her. Yeah, that was probably it.

Judy went back to straightening a couple things around the room, getting things in the best shape that she could keep her little living space. It was just as she was picking something up that she had the strange feeling that there was something behind her. Her ears perked up as she turned herself around, and a sharp gasp escaped her once she saw what she hadn't anticipated seeing.

Standing directly in front of the door to her apartment was the silhouette of a rabbit her size, a pair of reddish eyes looking back at her. The figure that she was mysteriously seeing took a few short steps forward, revealing that it looked exactly like her.

Judy was frozen with a mix of shock and confusion. What she was seeing was like staring at herself in the mirror she was just looking into a moment ago, only this time it was much, much different since there was another one of her blankly standing a short distance away. Even the bright casual clothes it wore matched her own outfit to a T. The only thing different about what apparently materialize before her was those wide red eyes glaring fixedly in her direction.

The doe rubbed her eyes to make sure her mind wasn't playing tricks on her because of what she had done in the mirror a moment ago. Nothing had changed. What she was seeing was still there.

Then that means... that something does happen...

What she thought was a bunch of malarkey, she was quickly realizing, was somehow actually true.

"Hello," the other her said in a deadpan tone from across the hall, not moving a muscle.

Judy's system was still in shock. She finally found herself feeling the ability to move once again, and she started to slowly take baby steps backwards. She continued to look in front of her in silence as she put one paw behind the other, stepping towards the edge of her bed.

The figure seemed to blink it's red eyes, which changed to the purple ones that Judy truly had. It was then, without any advanced warning, that the figure looking back at her swiftly lunged forward with its arms out in a flash, a snarl coming from it in that instant.

There was no time to react for Judy. Instead only a shout erupted from her as she instinctively placed her paws over her face.

Nick walked along to Judy's apartment, humming the tune that had been on the radio on the drive to the complex. He held the bunch of flowers he had picked up for her behind his back as he neared the door on the opposite side of the small hallway.

He knew how much she liked the flowers he had the best, and he thought it would be a pleasant nice to bring them to her and a splash of color on the desk in the apartment. She was probably exhausted after that difficult case had finally gotten solved by her, so he felt that a pleasant surprise would bring a smile to her face.

He stepped to the door and knocked. "Hello?" he said out loud, only to be greeted with silence. Was she not home and waiting for him to come over to watch that show together? He knocked once more. "Carrots?"

"Hello there," a certain voice said from behind him.

The fox was caught off guard as he turned around and saw the bunny directly behind him. "Where the heck did you come from, Fluff?" he wondered. "I could've sworn this hallway was empty when I got there."

"Right this way, Nicolas," the rabbit said in an unusual tone of voice as she walked in front of him and up to the door.

Nick started to become a bit confused. Is it me or does her voice sound different? he thought. And since when has she called me Nicolas except for when I was in trouble?

He shrugged it off as he stepped inside the apartment. The space was dark with no lights on and the curtain in the opposite side fully closed.

"Oh, I got you these," Nick said as he outstretched his arm and showed her the bouquet of flowers.

Judy looked back at him, staring at the flowers for a moment before looking back at him. "Set them on the table for now," she responded before walking further into the room.

Confusion returned for Nick. That's strange. Normally she would-

His thoughts halted when returned his attention her and noticed that when she blinked, it seemed that her eyes went from that amethyst color to a fiery red and back again. Seeing that caused him to become even more perplexed, but perhaps, he believed, it was just the fact that he was thinking about that scary movie they'd be watching soon. Even though they were obviously fake, those always made you think something like what was in them could really happen.

"Is something wrong?" the bunny asked with a cocked head.

"Oh, nothing," he responded. "Nothing."

"Follow me," she said to him as she walked over to the mirror in the bathroom once again.

Nick followed her steps as he walked in and saw his reflection within it, noticing the majority of the glass had been foggy except for where he saw himself. She stepped up to his side and reached on her tip toes, tracing his name backwards above his reflection. He wasn't sure what was exactly happening, but he simply watched as she did so.

"Now say your name," the doe said, taking a few steps back with a wide and almost devilish grin on her face.

"Uh... Nick?" the fox muttered hesitantly, far from certain as to why he was asked to do this.

"Again."

"Nick?" he said once more quizzically.

"One more time..." she replied as if anticipating something to happen.

"Nick..."

The gray bunny to the side of him nodded her head. "Perfect."

Nick started to break out into laughter in response to the whole thing he had just done. "I see what you were doing there, Carrots," he remarked with a sly grin. "You were trying to scare with some sort of prank you had up your sleeve. Well, ya gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to prank me."

The whole thing she did with acting strangely and the saying-his-name-into-the-mirror shenanigan was all part of some trick she prepared, he deciphered in his mind. This, quite honestly, wouldn't have been the first time she had pulled a prank of some kind on him. And I guess me thinking her eyes had changed a moment ago was just in my mind, he told himself. Yeah, that was probably me just thinking silly.

"Nick, Nick, Nick..." he said aloud as he adjusted his tie and started walk out the room. "Nicolas Wilde. Yep, that's my name. Don't wear it-"

He turned his head and nearly jumped out of his fur when he looked at the other side of the apartment, the flowers he was holding onto hitting the floor. He looked down and back up again at what he saw, realizing this wasn't a trick of his mind at all. He, somehow someway, was really seeing this.

"Is that..."

Standing idly several inches away seemed to be another him, wearing the same Pawaiian shirt and tie as him and everything. Like the figurative deer in headlights was how it continued to stare toward him. The face on this other him seemed to be void of any emotion and the eyes were a deep red. That deep red color he swore Judy's were a moments ago.

"Are you surprised?" Judy said as she stepped up to his side.

Nick looked over at her and noticed that her eyes had changed to the same red as what he was seeing. So that was real when I saw that? But then that means...

He became stiff with horror as a scenario flashed through his mind. He had the sudden feeling that he wasn't talking to his bunny.

Standing beside him was whatever that thing that looked exactly like him was in the form of his bunny.

The vulpine barely had time to let out a shout before he heard a snarl and saw the other him pounce forward, those red eyes staring into his soul.

Author's Note: Had the urge, with it being Halloween and all, to try and come up with something on the creepy side. I hadn't done something of this sort in quite some time, and normally whenever I try to write something with spooky elements, I tend to make it on the mostly silly albeit spooky end or have it where the story was actually being told by somebody and hadn't actually happened. This time, though, after watching a couple scary movies to get in the Halloween mood, this was something I decided to do to be different than usual.

Anyway, I know this one was a spooky one, but I hope you all enjoy this little story of mine. If I get anymore of the other stories that I had planned finished up in time for Halloween to be officially here, those ones will instead fit the mold of the "spooky but silly at the same time." :)

As always, your feedback, whether good or bad, is gladly appreciated. And thanks to everybody that's been reading all of my stories.

'Til next time! :)