BookDragon: "Hey it's been another week…"
Bill: "So she came back with another chappy!"
BookDragon: "I find it easier to write it over the week instead of craming it into one whole day, it comes out better that way."
Bill: "If something doesn't make sense blame her."
BookDragon: *rolls eyes* "Okay, I don't own Yu-gi-oh, even though I kind of wish I did, be prepared it's like eight or nine pages!"
Chapter 7: SAY WHAT?!
This was getting ridiculous. Ann thought annoyed by Rex's persistence about chasing her, holding his nose due to a bad nose bleed she had caused him. She was having her own blood problems though. It seems with her heart pounding in her chest with adrenalin mixed into it, her hand wasn't healing very well; the blood was gusting from the palm of her hand almost like water from a fire hose.
"I should've got stitches…" She muttered breathing hard, trying to stop the bleeding by creating a fist and tightening the stained red cloth. She gritted her teeth at the snitch growing in her side and kept running the best she could, wishing she had joined cross country, well…not really, but it would've paid off. She kept up the run, slowly trying to get faster to loose him, but still getting increasingly tired. The sun pierced red light into her eyes as she followed the sidewalk running toward the glowing haft circle, wondering where the hell she could get away and take a breath. He had gotten so close that he could've jumped and grabbed her shirt and took her down easily, why he hadn't was unknown, but hey, she was glad he didn't. Wondering where the hell she could get away and take a breath. He had gotten so close that he could've lunged and grabbed her shirt and took her down easily, why he hadn't was unknown, but hey, she was glad he didn't. Instead they were both running and running and running, this was the worst day ever.
Abruptly she turned the nearest street corner and found a stretch of deserted road and what looked to be the ocean waves hitting the poles all the way at the end of it. It appeared she had just found another familiar place. It was the same ocean Yami had taken Tea to during the "date" episode. It was both a relief and creepy at the same moment. Rex made a grab for her arm, but missed at Ann's sudden burst of speed she mustered. She watched the ocean come closer and closer to her in her bouncy vision until she slammed against the pole and ducked as Rex had a swipe at her, she sneaked out from under his arm to a building behind him, a grand one at that, with a huge marble stair case and columns on the front of it. She bounded up the stairs clumsily, sweating bullets and clutching the snitch in her side that felt to be the size of Texas and slowly scrambled up the steps. Her heart pounded in her ears loudly as her speed decreased, climbing up and up, making her want to throw up right there. She didn't. She made it to the stairs and was relieved to find a glass door, and ran into it. Unfortunately, it was locked. She pounded on it desperately and turned to find Rex on the third to last step, grinning at the relief she couldn't get away. She was dead.
Then, amazingly, the door's hinges squeaked and the door opened easily under her grasp. She fell into the room hard and flipped over to the open door quickly. Rex's look faded fast and made a grab for the door but instead had it slammed into his face. Ann never saw anyone drop so fast in her life. Watching his body go to the ground like a ton of bricks to the side of her foot, still pressed hard on the glass door at closing it, she heaved in the air in a panicked manner, watching the limp body cautiously from the other side of the glass. He didn't move at all, for what seemed like hours that she watched. Getting bored, she looked around after a very long time of just staring and being sure he was probably out cold she opened the door, or tried to. It wouldn't budge. She pulled it again and found it jerked her arm back. Groaning and increasingly annoyed she placed her foot of the wall and pulled the door handle with all her strength. It was stubbornness door she had ever come across in her life. Puffing breaths she tried everything to open it and get out of here, she didn't want the owner of the place to come across her in the morning, to find she had broken in and couldn't get out. Deciding she'd have to break the door with her foot, she lifted her sneaker and froze at a quiet mutter.
She turned around quickly and discovered that she was in a museum, in the Egyptian part of it, and a head of her was a bream of bright light coming from the wide hallway in the corner of the room. Her eyes darted to the things in the glass cases, to the light, and to the door. Her jaw tightened as the voices seemed to whisper from somewhere, nipping at her curiosity. She started forward at it, letting the callings win as she went along with it.
"This is _really_ stupid Ann…" She told herself, but didn't stop her legs from going forward, following the light to a roped off door. Being braver than she thought she was, she lifted the yellow rope and ducked under it and pierced through the ajar door. She opened it a bit more when she found it was only dark steps leading down farther into the light, perplexed she kept going down, slowly remembering about Yami and Tea going down a similar stair case.
"Yes, yes, I _know_ the world is in unbalanced! We need one of the doubles to come to this world to even it…"
"We can't do that! That would cause more chaos!" Ann listened to the growing voices a bit frightenly, but found her feet wouldn't listen to her any more, they were too eager to find who she thought was down here.
"Why bring a double of the girl there would be more evil in the world, you know that! It would cause more of an imbalance!" She swallowed uneasily at the male voice she knew to be Shadi's yelling loudly. He sounded close enough to touch, as thought on the last step, eyes locked on the opening of the brightly lit door, suddenly hearing foot steps coming to the door.
"Time to go…" She uttered quickly and tried to make a leap back up the stairs; her legs refused. Her brown eyes widen at her feet, to the on coming human shadow through the door, and back to her feet panicked.
"Shit!" She took her leg with her hands and stop at someone's shoes in her line of vision. She slowly looked up to white robes, to his Millenium Ankh, and to his tan horrified face. She was immediately taken by the callor of her shirt and lifted off the ground easily by his powerful grip on her, looking completely angry he spun on his heel and took her back into the room, charging furiously. She was taken by surprise at his amount of force and painfully squinted in the sudden brightness around her, noting Malik's sister as a darken object looking at her surprised. She could only glance at her a moment when his fists dropped her onto the ground hard.
"KAKRA! YOU KNEW DEATH LAYS HERE! WHY HAVE YOU COME?!" His voice was commanding, deep and commanding, but humble. Ann looked up at him in confusion at the tone, staring into navy blue eyes looking down at her saving the puzzlement.
"I'm not Kakra." She replied stiffly on the floor, sitting up gradually, rubbing her head were it had hit hardest. His tan face looked her over sternly as the look slowly changed to unbelieving. Ann sighed, recognizing she'd have to prove it now, and took a large amount of air.
"Your name is Shadi, you watch over the millenium items to make sure the future does not go a miss. You're met the pharaoh at least once, during the finals on Kaiba's blimp. You spoke to Yugi Motto, and saved Tristan's and Dugan's life while you where there, and I can tell you they we're definitely grateful. Anyway, you told him you lead Pegasus to the tablet with his image on the tablet with the Egyptian god cards carved into it. He then created them to find he had no control and sealed them away with you, Isis Ishta, older sister of Malik…or Marik… I don't know the difference right know. They both and T.R and Kakra are trying to either kill me or capture me, one of the two, and now I'm trying to get the hell out of here to just go home to my own world. Is that good enough?" She took a huge gasp of air and looked at him irritated. He blinked at her surprised and yielded a tiny grin on his lips.
"No. You're definitely not…Annora I presume?"
"Just Ann thank you…"She hated her full name. It sounded way too girly…then again Ann wasn't exactly manly either. She kind of wished that her mother's name was Annora too, then she could've had some kind of cool nick name like A.J or something, but no she was stuck with just Ann. It was then realization swept into her mind.
"Hey, wait a minute; you guys know my name…" She stood up quickly, and looked at both stern faces looking at her plainly.
"Oh no, no WAY! I'm not doing listening to any "Save the world" bull shit! Where's the exit?" She yelled at them furiously; both of them looked at each other uncertainly. Ann knew what they were thinking.
"Look, when you live in a world were Yu-gi-oh is one of the most popular animes in the whole world and you're a kid that like cartoons, you tend to learn a few things…I unfortunately know about you guys, and you're mission in life. Now, if you don't mind I'm going to go-" She felt the point of the Ankh press against her forehead, making her stop talking immediately. Shadi somehow had gotten behind her, Ann felt stupid not to expect that, he always did have that way of disappearing and reappearing in places.
"Oh shit." She said annoyed before he entered her mind, seeing bright light, and awaking her somewhere she found familiar yet strange. Everything was clearing than usual, the grass and the sky mostly. She woke up to a lush green meadow, sitting Indian style, looking at the one huge tree branching out to different types of doors, most of them small, but three stood out the most, in the light blue clouded sky, an a occasional gray cloud here and there. The wooden door stood firm and tall, unmoving in plain air above the blades of green; and Shadi stood by the trunk of the tree, looking at them, wondering which to open first. She stood up irritably and walked over as he opened the right of the three doors first. Mist poured out of it, voices and random pictures floating around him, filling her place instantly, and making her even angrier.
"What do you think you're DOING?!?!?" She yelled at him, but he ignored her and watched the images fly around them. Her sister giggling as she did some kind of weird impression at eight years old. A kite flapping joyously above the sparkling waves on the ocean water with a pair of strong hands holding her tiny smooth ones, she had been three, flying kites with her father. Sitting in front of a large television, watching Yu-gi-oh eagerly, that had been a month ago. Holding her baby brother for the first time in her life, she had been four. She watched all her happy beautiful memories stream out of the door annoyingly, prefect in her mind. Shadi looked upon them plainly for a few horrible minutes, infiltrating her own private place with out her permission. He shut the door carefully with a prefect jerk and moved to the middle one, she made a move to stop him but he ignored her yet again and twisted the knob. Foggy snarled out, unleashing screams and shouts of anger. Her sister glaring at her screaming I hate you at the top of her lungs, she was ten. Crying her eyes out in one of those rubber tire paths little kids crawl through, being rejected by a boy see thought she had loved, she was five. Holding the same boy into a fence by her throat angrily, she was still five years old. Watching the horrible look on another girl's face at something she did, she was eleven. Ann turned from them angrily, closing her eyes tightly and holding her ears, trying to forget them and the guilt they each possessed, screaming.
"SHUT THE DOOR!" She shouted, making him shut it quickly, noting her almost curled up in a ball on the ground shaking. He looked down at her pityingly, as she slowly stood again, knowing he was staring at her, and kept reminding herself that it was over.
"Guilt." He said to her carefully, as she dusted the green grass blades off her jeans, trying hard to ignore him.
"You are different from you're others." She swallowed her rage in a thick air bubble, and looked at him with fury gradually taking her over. She slowly lifted his hand to enter the third door, but Ann got there first. Spanning out in fort of the door, holding her arms out, she glared at him.
"Okay, you can search through my bad and good memories, piss me off, and enter my mind like a door mat, but these, I wouldn't let you go in here. Now get the hell out of here." She raged at him, fuming uncontrollably at him as it suddenly started to storm and blow at him enraged.
"…what is in there?" He asked over the wind. She looked away from him, avoiding eye contact as she thought to tell him or not. No one knew about this in her head, and she never wanted anyone to know.
"Look…I'm not Kakra, I'll listen to you're stupid speech and do whatever you want, just leave this alone…"
"WHAT is in there?" He persisted in a commanding voice, looking down at her seriously.
"Daydreams." She sighed, "Now please leave." He took a step toward the door. She glared fully at him; her eyes threateningly clear to him, on the brink of growling at him. She spoke in the lowest and sternest voice she had within her, sounding very much like Kakra's voice.
"If you take one more footstep… and I swear I will kill you..." He froze his stance, looking at her stunned at her in the same twisted moment. Long moments ticked by at her warning, making her more on edge than before and getting ready to lunge at him if necessary; he just kept staring at her until he recoiled and left in a puff of dense swirling smoke. She relaxed for only a moment, when she was called back.
The moment her eyes flashed open she took Shadi by his robes with a huge amount of force and immediately threw him to the ground enraged.
"IF YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN…I'LL…I'LL…" Her face was crimson and going plum as she shouted hoarsely at him. Isis was looking from one to the other blinking as Shadi got to his feet and dusted himself off gradually when someone strode into the room staring straight at him strictly. He wore blue jeans and a striped shirt, with a golden staff at hand, and a sloppy job combing his hair. It was Ammon. She was slightly relieved to see him here, somehow in the short period of time she spent with him, even through being betrayed, she somehow trusted him subconsciously. Probably because he looked so much like Bill. And Bill was chatting at his heels happily and immediately shut up when both men stood looking at each other in such a stance.
"Ammon."
"Shadi…" His voice was soft, but somehow still had a bit of a harsh sound to it. They shock each other's hands stiffly and jerked apart in the next second, both looking as unyielding as ever. Ann looked from the both of them confused, wondering why they looked so mad at each other. She guessed her won rage must be contagious, after a few minutes of thought and her eyes slowing with tiredness, until Ammon spoke loudly in a cruel voice.
"She was under my guard."
"You let her leave the house, she came here of her own free will."
"She didn't have a choice when you locked her into this place!"
"She was in danger."
"In danger from that pile of thoughtless flesh lying at the door?! That's up surd."
"Not when she barely escaped from the boy." Ammon stamped his foot.
"BARELY ESCAPED?! I would think she would take him to the underworld!"
"She hates to fight." Shadi stood expressionless staring at him boredly as Ammon looked for a clue of bluffing on him but didn't find any sign of one at all. He turned to Ann disbelieving and fuming with anger.
"He isn't telling the truth…correct?" She rubbed her foot into the creamy colored tiles, interesting in the floor when she answered.
"Not really…sure I like kick boxing…but I never wanted to actually fight anyone…" Ammon slapped a hand over his face and started pacing around.
"RA! You aren't anything _like_ Kakra! Not even the good characteristics! Do you have _any_ sense of honor?!" Looked at him furiously, finding this a bit unfair.
"Hey! I don't want to kill anyone! Besides, this is a time were you're supposed to verbally talk yourself out of that situation…" Ammon turned to her purple faced.
"VERBALLY?! What are you going to do?! Go to Kakra again and say, 'Oh! I'm sorry I can't fight, let's talk it out over a nice cup of tea!' You'll be dead faster that you can think of any other rubbish comes to your head." Ann was silent at this mocking voice.
"Then WHAT? 'OH LOOK I'M DRIFTING TO MY DEATH! You be a dear and pick me up? Oh no, not that! Don't suspense of my small mind! My small little fake daydreams I keep there! For I'm-" She punched him in the face after this and sent him down to the ground, with his eye know turned the darkness plum color she had ever seen.
"IS THIS ANY BETTER?! DO YOU _LIKE_ RUTHLESS PEOPLE! MAYBE I SHOULD JUST KICK THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE THAT PISSES ME OFF! OH! OH! I KNOW! HOW ABOUT I JUST TAKE YOUR STAFF AND START USING YOU AS A PIN CUSHION! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT?! VIOLENCE IS DEATH IN MORE WAYS THAN YOUR LIFE! THAT'S THE TRUTH!" She spun away from him bitterly to Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea, Bakura, and Mokuba staring at her white faced at her in disbelief and found herself turned away from there gawking looks pitifully. Ammon got up off the ground quickly, stuffing cloth up his nose as Shadi turned his head back to Ammon, with thick hoped earrings swinging, as his navy eyes fixed upon his strict face.
"She will attack if provoked. Satisfied?" Ann did dare turn around and hit him again, but instead stood stiffly, looking as if suddenly interested in the creamy ceiling paint. Bill nudged Ammon in the side painfully, making him wince as Bill looked at Shadi almost in awe of him as Yugi walked up to him politely and started speaking to him as if he was an old friend.
"Can you tell us what the problem is, Shadi?" His navy blue eyes casted to Ammon clutching his side, to the group of teens looking puzzled, to Bill looking at him like he was a famous actor, and Ann staring at the roof intently and listening to him.
"Yes, Kakra had caused a huge disturbance in the cosmos." Bill looked at him confused.
"How exactly?" Ammon regained his composer and looked at his twin glaringly, a bit angry with him.
"Picture the worlds as a beaded string," he said in a huge puff of air, "the worlds are the beads and the string is the shadow realm, connecting them together as a different dimension. If any of the beads are chipped, it is only a mater of time until the whole bead cracks and the whole structure is flawed. As when Kakra is freely moving around in this place in a body of her own. With out Ann's."
"Then how come our world isn't flawed when I'm here?" Ann asked him suddenly curious.
"Because, our world and your world have a strong connection being held with magic to keep the worlds stable when it had split apart, almost two beads being held together by extra string in the structure, it does not matter which world you are in as long as you still exist somewhere in the whole thing." Ammon said, sounding like a history teacher on a Friday after noon, trying to make a point. It did explain a lot, Yami and Yugi, and Bakura and TombRobber. Bill looked baffled.
"Well then how come they can walk around freely in my house?!"
"That's my doing, its more magic on the house, it was my idea to do it in your sleep, while we we're connect of course."
"But what about TombRobber?" Everyone was silent.
"He has half the ring in his position. Enough magic to give himself a body. Kakra as the whole sword so it is easy for her." Bakura spoke softly behind Bill, making him jump in surprise at his soft voice. Shadi nodded at his thinking as Isis smiled at catching on so fast.
"How do we fix this?"
"Either put Kakra back in a hibernating mode and now connect both halfs of the ring, or connect the ring and place Kakra in her body if we are unable to make her sleep again. Killing her is not an opposition; her death is not by the hands of any of you." Ann's eyes went wide in horror, at such a thought, wondering what it would be like to have someone evil in your own head, infiltrating everything in your mind to use against you. That would be a living nightmare. Bakura when through that every day, a thought almost shouted at her from the back of her mind. Feeling stupid at how bad she felt about something that hadn't even happened yet and how Bakura must be suffering in silence all these years.
"Are you going to take this task, Annora?" She blinked at her the sound of her whole name annoyed.
"Yes. It's not like I have a choice."
"Good. Ammon, you're to ad her with anything in your power," He looked disgruntled but swallowed down a huge breath of protest and nodded watery eyed from the pain as it slowly slipped down his throat into his stomach.
"I will be helping too." Yami had over heard the conversation through Yugi's ears and was now standing tall as usual as Shadi immediately bowed to him.
"If you wish it my King." Ammon looked at him astonished and almost got down on his knees, but found Bill holding the callor of his shirt and unable to get down. Ann downed a puff of laughter at his disappointment as Yami didn't even make eye-contact with him.
"And now, we must depart Shadi. Please let us meet again in the near future."
"Yes my pharaoh…" Yami turned to leave when Isis interjected.
"Please wait a moment!" He turned to her gaze lordishly with a clam stare.
"Please, bring my brother Malik back." His name set Ann's mind into more confusion.
"Malik? Some one told me it was Marik." Isis blinked at her mystified. Yami didn't look surprised when Bakura tuned in.
"He's being controlled by his aibou..." Ann turned to him wide-eyed.
"WAIT A MINUTE! Marik is Malik's double? HOW do you know what?!"
"I've learned a bit of magic through my double using the ring…we've been able to speak very few times…" Bakura answered her peacefully, a very tiny smile creeping onto his lips. Bill smirked at him, knowing all along that Bakura had a lot more going on in his head than anyone else, as they left at a slow pace, wondering what the other was thinking. Ann was feeling pretty sick at all of this, having someone search through your most precious thoughts, and then to be handed something like this. Yes, she had wanted the task, and somehow she'd get herself to go out with a bag.
Bill hadn't brought his car, so it was a while waiting for a bus to show up at such an hour of the night, pitch black except the balls of light in the street lights around them, only hinting at the nine bodies walking on the street, with sober faces.
"You know what we need?" Bill finally spilled out his mouth with his regular tone of voice. Joey and Tristan's heads went up at such a tone, daring to believe it might just have to do with free food, which happened a lot when Bill sounded like that.
"What?"
"Let's go to a party! We need to get piss drunk!" Ammon looked at him confused as Tea immediately protested.
"You're too young to even think about drinking!" she shouted rather shocked at such a thought, Yugi now back and looking at him wide-eyed in disbelief with Bakura, both stopped dead in their tracks at that small out burst. Ann didn't say anything, actually thinking it might do her some good, but not willing to admit it. Mokuba was standing there knowing Kaiba would kill him if he came home drunk at his age, at any age really.
"Drunk?" Ammon looked at him with baffled coffee eyes, making Bill laugh a bit.
"You know, taking a large amount of beer or wine into your system? I know you guys had beer in Egypt back then." Ammon looked at his fifteen year old aibou with surprise in his clear eyes, knowing that somehow he was rubbing off on his counterpart, in a bad sense.
"No Bill…it's too late anyway. Sleep will do the same thing that beer will, and I know you're weary by now, let me take over the walking…all of it." Bill looked at his strict stare and sighed since he didn't have a choice when Ammon made up his mind, and closed his eyes, letting himself dissipate into Ammon, like bathwater seeping through a wash cloth. Mokuba gawked a moment at it, making Yugi sort of giggle at the awe in his face, as they all kept walking, the others seeing it so much they didn't mind it at all. Ann changed her gaze away up into the clear gray vivid stars shimmering over her head like sun on the wavy water, wondering when in the early morning that they would arrive at Bill's house, so she could collapse on a couch or bed, bed preferably, but it didn't matter, she needed to escape this reality. It was funny really, in the past she had always fled to this world in her mind to get away from her daily life, now she was running from this world; would she run from everything happening to her? It had always worked before, but now she knew she wouldn't be able to run off from this situation, like a coward. The only source of bravery she had ever been proud of was when she had attacked T.R in Bill's body, and even now she found herself wince as her memory replied itself like a movie in her mind. She hadn't hated herself that much at the time, but now it was just getting easier by the moment, but even that was wrong. Like this she stumbled through her own mind, lost, alone, and hurt from the others as they talked about which direction to take to get back to the cabin. She had watched her own world through a small window in her mind, looking in instead of experiencing it, protecting herself. God, if only she knew that wouldn't have worked. She felt herself smile at how screwed she had become in these short days, it was a huge joke, that soon would end.
"Are you alright?" Yugi's voice shattered the images in her mind with that small polite tone. She looked at him puzzled as he held out a white piece of cloth to her, and suddenly noticing her face was wet with tears as she had the stupid grin on her face. She took it stiffly and whipped away the wetness, trying to get her voice not to sound stuffed up when a person cries.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She told him gruffly, turning her skin red from the pressure she was using to get rid of the fluid covering her checks. Not looking at his face, aware that he was looking at her considered.
"We went through the same thing, it was tough, but we got through it, I know you can too." He was talking about him and Yami, in a polite tone of worry to her, trying to comfort her, making her wonder.
"…Why do you care so much?" She asked him, her throat closing in on itself. He paused a moment, past the part that would make it seem like she was insulting him, and jumping to an answer.
"It's in my nature; I can't stand the thought of someone being hurt for something they don't deserve."
"You believe in justice, god, you really do have the heart of a lion." Why she was talking about this was weird, it just she guess she needed to say it. He smiled at her for such a compliment, his eyes bright with the light of the moon.
"I have my friends to back me up; with out them I'd be no where."
"You are so lucky Yugi, you were always right about that, you fight for the right thing every time, and I envy you." She looked up at the moon with him, knowing the sky would be gray with light flakes of snow floating in space around Bill's home, ignoring Yugi's unfathomable look on his pale face.
"I wish I could be like you, to live in the good ideas like you. I try to fool myself into doing something like you, trying to be like you and do something truthfully good, but finding that every other one of myself going against such ideas, knowing I'm royally screwed. They were when I was sure I was good for the world, I was so young, the best days I ever had." She took a large breath of air, watching the moon follow them as they kept forward on the side walk.
"…But…it's not so bad." She turned to his violet orbs expecting for a speech but found them relaxing under the glance, knowing she was out of the woods and in the open.
"That's all I do, I try with all my strength to fix the world the best I can, you have the right state of mind, I'm relieved at it, but it will take you some time to patch yourself up, you've been running for a long time…haven't you?"
"Yes…I suppose I have." She glanced over to Tea, walking ahead of them slowly, just enough to know she was listening to them, and then to Yugi's longing purple eyes at the moon, dreaming of something, and to her own pale hands near her face. Slowly dipping her hand she took his wrist and made his hand meet with Tea's and quickly drifted away from them on ahead, knowing Tea was looking at him surprised, and he was waking up to a shock with rose colored checks, their eyes meeting. That was the first time she had ever decided to step in to a relationship like that, she hoped it would work. It was plain as day that they both cared for each other very much. Hopefully she had made a good choice. When no sound came from behind her back and somehow small steps jerked nervously she sensed that Tea had taken his hand fully, accepting his touch. Ann smirked despite of herself and buried her hands into her pockets and let the wind stroke her brown curls lovingly, taking in the whole night with each step, listening to the words just spoken go behind the good memories door, in the cricketing from her own head, like in all cartoons at night. Her heart felt lighter at those words and the small chirping making her grin wider at how funny it was. Yes, maybe she was still hiding from her own world, but she was making a life in the second one. For that whole night of the journey home, she felt like she was the good child all those years ago. It felt good to be that way again.
BookDragon: "This is the end of the chappy."
Bill: "Awweee, she went all mushy at the end…"
BookDragon: "To think I usually don't like to do that. Please review, I know this is confusing, I'm trying to reflect what's going on inside Ann's head to explain what she will do later on with the characters. Please review!"