A/N: This is another optional chapter, but I just had to. This was my morning.
The actual chapter will be up before anyone even reads this.
GAH!
Nenya stared at her bed in regret because she wasn't in it.
Damn delivery guy ringing the doorbell at 8:40 am.
That's just so wrong.
Especially considering she hadn't gone to bed until 4.
She really should put a sign on the door that read "Works nights, wake before 10am and die."
After posting a chapter last night, she didn't write, even though she had stayed up an hour later than usual. Shame on her, she knows. But she got distracted by other people's fanfiction.
She really needed to stop doing that.
Then she picked up a book and read for an hour.
A book she'd read so many times she knew what was coming next.
She opened the envelope (without her glasses because she had literally stumbled out of bed, threw some sweats on, and answered the door) thinking in her half-awake haze it might be that check her friend said she was going to send her so she could buy RHCP tickets for everyone, the thought not crossing her mind that her friend wouldn't send it via-delivery person, and stared angrily.
It was a credit card.
She was woken up for a credit card.
Okay, Nenya was expecting it and everything since she had called and yelled at them for getting her name spelt wrong on the card they'd sent her.
One she did actually want.
Was there a law that said that had to be an 'l' at the end of her first name?
In anger, she had checked her mail in hopes of a review or two to cheer her up.
Which she got thank you very much.
Now she couldn't get back to sleep and new plot bunnies were starting to nibble at her ankles.
Techie.
It was all Techie's fault in that email.
Sure, they were brilliant plot bunnies but… but…
Damn it.
Nenya really wanted to write the last chapter and be done because Meeting of Minds was getting to her.
The other night she had a dream.
Not a good dream, but one where she woke up in terror and fright. Did I mention the terror?
(shakes head to get the Wash moment out of it)
Flashback/
Nenya looked over to her right to see a man she'll refer to as Oscar from now on because as far as she could remember he didn't represent anyone.
Except he kinda was like Giles.
Okay, so now he's Giles. Rupert Giles. You know, from Buffy?
(Nenya wondered why Joss Whedon had invaded her brain this morning)
Giles was reading from a book what sounded like Latin. Two others were on the other side of him, but she couldn't see them very well, and all were facing the front of the church.
Yes, church.
A whirly portal started opening and Nenya looked on in fear.
Were they crazy?
Did they know what they were doing?
A large creature started to crawl out of said portal, a large disgusting, scary monster.
A horror bunny.
She turned her head around and saw her dog, who had somehow gone from an English Springer Spaniel to a large collie, bolt out the door.
She followed.
The horror bunny followed her.
She ran around the corner, green grass lining the block, and her dog was gone.
Just gone.
So was the horror bunny.
But she kept running down the endless block until she looked behind her and saw Jonas.
He was walking towards her on the other side of the street and waved her down.
For some reason, she went with him back to her house, where the others were waiting.
Giles apologized for her loss and then it hit her.
The horror bunny killed her dog.
Oh god.
She started to bolt again but was stopped by some unknown force.
At some point a package was delivered for Jonas – bundles of letters and one large envelope.
She spied on the letters as they sat unopened on her kitchen table, and looked up.
In the living room, Jonas was standing with his face buried in his hands.
Giles had a comforting hand on his shoulder.
The other person, unspoken of until now, was a woman known as Techie.
It hit Nenya that a Buster had died, a Buster Jonas knew well. Madison.
Giles stepped away, "We're one Buster down. We can't continue with the mission."
Nenya swallowed hard and left.
Madison was gone, so there was no hope of replacing the spot Nenya left on the team quickly.
Giles came out of the house, looking dejected.
For some reason, bravery surged up in Nenya and she went up to him, "I'll do it. I'll come back."
"Good." He shoved a bottle of water in her hands, without the cap on, "Practice."
Nenya flung the bottle around, trying to get the water out of it satisfactorily, but to no avail.
It wasn't fair. The others got ones with sport-tops, easy to squirt a steady stream of water at the horror bunny.
(For reasons unknown, the dream had crossed WPBA and MoM with Signs, a movie Nenya had seen exactly 1.6 times. It also crossed with Buffy somewhat, with Giles and the portals thing)
Before going back in the house, Giles poked a hole in the cap and handed it back to her, making it easier to use.
They entered the house, Jonas and Techie looked at her and nodded, getting into fighting position in the living room.
Nenya left the three on one side, facing where they were going to call the horror bunny, and went in the hallway, next to the wooden slats that made up part of the wall in between the living room and hallway.
A perfect ambush position.
The horror bunny returned in another swirl of a portal, but everyone was ready this time.
Nenya would avenge her dog.
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She was aware of noises coming from outside her window, voices specifically. But what were they doing…
Oh right. The road construction crew.
Nenya remembered the dream they had cut off, and shivered.
It was just so weird.
The horror bunny attacked her dog, that was just so wrong.
Along with dreaming about the WPBA 'verse. Yes, it was a twisted version, but that was a horror bunny.
Damn she needed to get MoM over with.
/Flashback
Nenya looked at the clock.
10:02 am.
Should she crawl back in bed like she said in the review for Bartlett's fic?
… it was a slim chance she'd actually get to sleep, but…
But…
It was worth a shot.
A/N: Yeah, that was my bizarre dream about a week ago. I tried to write it so it made some sense, even gave all the dream-characters names and everything.
I did get back to sleep for about 40 minutes amazingly.
The plot bunnies sent by Techie did get used and molded into what I had in mind for the last chapter, so carry on!