"Rude Awakening"

Summary: Jenn may never forget this midnight trip to the bathroom.

Note: The last chapter was kind of random, wasn't it, Hide-N-Seeker424? But then again, all of these are kind of random... Thanks to all of my recent reviewers: Abigaile, Sarai, Hemi Magnum, bloodredcherry, cmaf, starryeyes10, KJFlygirl87, and BrokenSkye. This chapter is a follow-up of Chapter 34 "Lost & Found".

Disclaimer: Harm, Mac, etc. are not mine, so don't sue me because I have an imagination and too much free time.

Written 31 July 2004
Jennifer barely opened her eyes as she groped for the sink in the dark bathroom. She wanted to keep her thought processes to a minimum so she could fall right back to sleep now that her bladder had been appeased.

All thoughts of sleep were forgotten the second something grabbed her toe. She shrieked, stumbling backwards into the hamper.

Moments later, she was blinded as Mattie raced into the bathroom and hit the lights.

"What's wrong?"

Jennifer pointed toward her foot, and Mattie turned her head in time to see something dart behind the toilet.

She stepped over her roommate's legs to see what it was and laughed. "Dusty escaped from his cage!"

"It's not funny—your rodent scared me to death!"

"And you scared me to death! It's not like he could've hurt you." Mattie gently scooped up the hamster.

"That must be why he tried to take a chunk out of my toe."