Authors note: Short chapter this time I'm afraid, but I promise to get better soon, this is all I could manage to write with all my silly exam revision (ok, maybe it's not so silly, but it's a pain having to do it). Anyway before we get on with the chapter I have to thank a few reviewers.

Chimalmaht: Wow, do you know how much you made my day with your reviews? I think I jumped up and down and squealed in delight when I saw how many reviews I had, oooh happy days. Ok, to answer some of yourquestions about this fic, yep the kits are from the show, and we'll hear more from them at a later point. Nah, I couldn't kill Munk, well not so early on in the story anyway winks I'd have to find a new narrator :-s Anyway yep, I have plenty more to put these characters through before I'm done, yes I'm cruel, hehe. Thanks for your reviews, and inspiring me to get off my backside and get this chapter up here, no matter how short.

Mystitat: Aww, thank you for your kind words. I think I'm growing to like the Buffy-ish aspect of it, even though I much prefer Angel now, come to think of it, Munk is a little like Angel, dark, brooding, oh heck, I've found a new Angel-ish aspect now, lol. Give me a bit of time and I'll be able to link up most of the characters with an Angel character now, I really think too much.

Xris: Thank you for your review. I hope to be getting this story updated on a regular basis after exams, depending on how much work I have to do at Uni. Thanks again.

Yeah, I love all reviewers. They all get a cookie hands out virtual cookies And just coz I'm a little bored, can you link up characters in this story with Buffy/Angel characters? I've realized now that I can do it with a few, so I want to see if it's just me being paranoid, lol. Now that I'm done waffling on here is the next chapter of Entropy and Apocalypse. Enjoy.

I couldn't sleep. The truth was that I didn't want to, not that I would have admitted that to anyone other than myself. The rest of the house was silent, Misto, Tugger and the queens were asleep upstairs. Me, I was downstairs, sitting on the sofa, very much awake. The nightmares that had plagued my dreams the last few months made me wary of sleeping, for fear of waking the others. So here I was stuck with only my thoughts for company, a familiar situation to me by now.

I had given the queens the master bedroom; mine and Gaia's old room. Since she died I hadn't been able to stomach that room, in there I was continually reminded of her absence. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I knew that permanent separation ate into you, killing you slowly.

Tugger and Misto now shared the second largest room while I had the smallest. I preferred the living room to be honest, it didn't stifle me so much and the television at least provided a crude form of company. The voices took my mind away from my problems, the screams...

I jumped to my feet, the screams weren't coming from the television, but from inside the house. I raced out of the living room and up the stairs. The screams were louder now. I tugged open the door to the queens' room, prepared to fight whatever I may have found, vampires, demons or worst of all Macavity himself. I found none of those things. Bombalurina was curled around Demeter. The younger queen was shaking and thrashing about, caught in the throws of a nightmare. Looking up, Bombalurina returned my gaze, and smiled, that told me all that I needed to know. She had it under control.

Acknowledging her smile, I backed out of the room quietly, bumping into Tugger.

"You stand too close you know," I sighed quietly.

"With a body as sexy as mine I can usually get away with it."

"As much as I'd like to agree with that, Tugger, you're not my type."

"Do mine ears deceive me? Did I hear an uptight, moody Lutador very nearly crack a joke?"

"Bite me."

He did.

"What? You told me to, it'll stand up in court and everything," Tugger drew himself up to his full height, and flashed me his best innocent look.

I rolled my eyes and started to head downstairs again, too tired to argue with him.

"Yo, wait up a minute, what was going on in there?"

"Looks like Demeter was having a nightmare, Bombalurina was sorting it out. You can go back to bed, three o'clock and all's well."

"And what about you Munkus? Shouldn't you be getting a little shut-eye too?"

"I'm too tired to sleep, and maybe it's better if someone stayed alert while the queens are staying here."

Tugger frowned,

"Suit yourself, I'm going back to bed."