Disclaimer: I do not own Zodiac PI.

A/N: This was inspired by a Law& Order: CI story I read called LateNight Musing written by Traci. There's also a sequel called More Musings by Robert Goren. Please read them they'll provide many laughs.

"I can't believe you said that!"

"But it's true!"

Lilly was spending her lunch hour reading an old book of fairy tales that she had rediscovered when she had cleaned her room. It had been a birthday present from her mother and she had almost forgotten about when it was rediscovered. She had opened it up and started reading and hadn't been able to put it down since.

Thus Hiro had found her intently reading. Curious of her book he had peered over her shoulder and read a few lines. After discovering that the story was Little Red Riding Hood he had made an offhanded comment. Lily wasn't pleased with what he had said.

"I was enjoying myself until you opened your mouth!"

"All I said was it was originally told to warn girls of sexual predators. I can't believe you didn't know that. What did you think it was about?" Hiro asked.

"Anything but that!"

"Next you're going to be telling me that you didn't know that in The Little Mermaid the princess doesn't get the prince."

Lily's eyes widened.

"You mean you didn't?"

"No!" Lily was appalled. "She's the princess! She gave up her life for him! They're married and living happily ever after!"

"You have to be kidding me." Hiro sighs. "He falls in love with another woman and gets married. She turns into sea foam."

"But… that's terrible!" Lily sputtered. "All fairy tales are supposed to end happily! Have good morals and romance!"

"Actually a lot of the stories and nursery rhymes and an evil underlining messages." The disbelieving look propelled Hiro to continue. "The song 'You are my sunshine' is all about a man's wife leaving him for another guy. Alice in Wonderland is nothing more than a drug induced fantasy. The smoking caterpillar, the height changes, the Cheshire cat were pretty obvious clues. She was hallucinating."

"How do you know these things?" Lily was extremely curious as to how her friend came across this kind of information. She would never have thought any of this was true if it wasn't coming from Hiro. He was an encyclopedia when it came to most things.

He shrugged. "Common sense. If you think about it I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusions. For example There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe promotes child abuse."

Lily buried her head in her hands. "I cannot believe I'm hearing this."

"Think about it. The Ugly Duckling is basically saying in order to be accepted you must be beautiful." He argued.

"The I suppose Peter Pumpkin Eater is all about a jealous controlling husband?" Lily commented. "Or that Rock- A- Bye- Baby is talking about abandoning children?"

"Now you're getting it." Hiro approved. "You're starting to see the true lessons behind the sugar coated words."

"Stop right there. I don't want to know any more just leave me to my happy ending and romance." Lily waved him off. "I want to be able to read the rest of this without thinking about abuse and all the evils of the world."

"But I didn't explain the deep trauma issued by Hansel and Gretel-"

"Not another word!"

"-She was going to eat them-"

"I'm warning you!"

"-Cannibalism! That's what it was! These are the kinds of stories we're reading our kids at night. We could be causing paranoia, emotional scarring, irrational fears, and who knows what else!" Hiro concluded.

"They're stories. They aren't meant to be taken so seriously."

"But we could be installing unintentional messages into young and impressionable minds. What kind of people are we?"

And so the argument went on. Only the bell for class saved Lily and even then she could hear her friend arguments in her mind. And the more she thought about it the more Hiro's logic made sense. Crud.