Breakout
The next night Vakko slept over at the water tower. Even though he was not yet used to having Xakko in his thoughts, he had to make it seem to the Warner sibs that everything was normal with him, and he also had to make it seem like he was guarding them since the news was now reporting that Xakko had "escaped" again. Vakko was careful not to be caught on camera at the jail though. Vakko only caught the first few news stories before going to sleep, so he missed the story on Witches, Doctors, and Witchdoctors being broken into and the owner suffering a broken arm.
At somewhere around 2:27 AM, Dot woke up thirsty. She headed for the kitchen area to get a glass of water. (((A/N: I just realized, like in my first story, the Warners aren't even in it until the fourth friggin' chapter…I take more time to set a plot than Stephen King (the books, not the horribly crappy (for the most part) movies)…anyways, returning to the story…)))
At the same time, Vakko was tossing and turning in bed. He was having a nightmare. In a few minutes, he wouldn't remember what it was about, but it was quite frightening at the time (((A/N: you know how it is with most nightmares, you forget them before you wake up most of the time, and that's why I didn't even include the gist of the dream; Vakko couldn't remember, so he couldn't tell me.))) Vakko was thrashing back and forth on the fold-out couch. Suddenly he tensed while on his back, and then relaxed. His eyes continued in REM (that's rapid eye movement, it happens while you are deep in dreams, but you knew that) for a few seconds, then his eyelids flew open. His eyes had turned red.
He swung his feet over the side of the bed, bowing his head while getting up so that his hair fell in front of his eyes, and walked to a nearby mirror (((A/N: a mirror just sitting in the middle of nowhere, there's a plot contrivance for ya.))) He looked in the mirror and ran his hand across his face softly, along his jaw to his chin, with an inquisitive look on his face.
"Well, Vakko," he said, "You can't keep a good man down," and a psycho smile spread across his face. (((A/N: I pictured "Breakout" by the Foo Fighters for that sequence.)))
"No…no, that line is no good, let's see…" he continued, but was distracted by Dot walking by, going back to her room.
Dot wasn't even looking in the direction of Vakko/Xakko, so she did not notice him. He used this to his advantage and slipped into the shadows.
While walking, Dot spared a second to take a sip of water. The glass was half empty (or was it half full?) (((A/N: Half empty in my opinion, since it started nearly full.))) So of course, she was looking up for that second or so. Just after finishing the sip, but before lowering her head, she walked into a solid object of some sort. She emitted a short yelp, but was quickly overcome by relief when she saw Vakko standing there.
"Oh, it's just you," she said, then joked, "you scared me, you fool."
Without saying a word, he leaned down in front of her, face-to-face. She could see through his hanging hair that his eyes were red, like Xakko's. Almost glowing red.
"Hello, Dot," he said. Gone was the light Austrian accent (((A/N: bet you didn't remember that from the first story, eh?))) and he was clearly speaking in Xakko's voice.
Dot screamed her lungs out (((A/N: remember Meatballs or Consequences? Of course you don't, but if you did that was the type of scream she did.))
Yakko and Wakko came running from their respective rooms. Vakko suddenly looked very confused, then very scared, then very angry (but still scared.) He began looking in every direction, and when he could find nothing to be alarmed about, he said, "Dot, what are you screaming at?" His eyes had returned to his normal shade of light blue.
Dot stopped screaming, and upon seeing that Vakko's eyes were blue again, she did what any proper lady would do in such a moment of relief: she backhanded him on his face, hard.
Vakko was much more confused than hurt, but now Yakko was confused as well. Wakko was almost always confused, but this did nothing to help that situation.
"That was a mean trick to play on me, Vakko!" Dot said in a strict voice. "I don't know how you did it, but it was mean."
"What was mean?" Vakko responded, genuinely perplexed.
Dot growled briefly. "You somehow got your eyes to turn red, and changed you voice so that you sounded like Xakko."
Dot continued on yelling at Vakko, but he wasn't paying attention to that. He stared off into space and flatly said, "oh, no."
Dot noticed this. "Oh, no is right. You won't hear the end of this from me for quite a while."
"That's not what I meant," Vakko said. "Let's sit down at the kitchen table, I have something to tell you."
