Closed space. I don't believe it...Well, I should since I've been through this crap enough times that I pretty much have to. Still, I have never been able to combat the unnerving feeling I get from this place. There is no light, no life and no sound. It's as if the entire world had been turned off. Like the batteries had run out in the Earth's core and every living thing powered down. Hmm, I wonder if Nagato runs on batteries.

Dammit I'm trying to escape reality again! And besides Nagato isn't a robot despite her mannerisms, she's an alien or something like that...

"Kyon! Stop spacing out!" Haruhi yells right in my ear. I don't think she understands the concept of inside and outside voices.

"Don't yell! That hurts!" I snap. I probably sound like a whining little kid but I don't care. That did hurt!

Haruhi slaps me on the back of the head and waves around herself, "Look Kyon! We're in the club room! But everything is...wrong. Why are we here? I thought I was asleep?"

"Maybe you sleep walk?" I suggested to which Miss Suzumiya snorted derisively and turned away from me.

"This is just like that nightmare I had back then..."

Everyone's eyes widen in surprise, well except for Nagato. She just looked up, but I guess that counts as shock for her. Anyway, we all know what nightmare she is talking about, because that was not just an ordinary nightmare. That had really happened.

Haruhi looks around anxiously with a slender finger pressed to her chin. With her face pursed in concentration she actually looks kind of sweet...

Urgh! Stop escaping reality! This is serious! This is a closed space with Haruhi inside. That must mean she is going to destroy the entire world! All over a film? What the Hell is wrong with her?

"Maybe we should search the building? There might be other people here, or a phone or a radio or...Something." Haruhi took the lead and stepped outside. She looked to the right and then the left as if she were crossing a road and then took Miss Asahina's hand.

"Come on Mikuru, we'll search up this way. You guys take the other end of the hall and meet back in ten minutes! Got it?"

Koizumi smiled. I said nothing. Nagato jumped up to her feet, danced around, laughed and said, "Aye, aye captain!"

No just kidding she said less than nothing and stared at Haruhi in the way you would when there is a crumb on someone's face that they aren't aware of.

With that we set off. Haruhi was running, dragging Miss Asahina along like an unwilling participant in a three legged race. She took a firm grip of the upper-class man's wrist and yanked her along down the hall, ignoring her cries to stop and slow down. We waited until they were out of sight before we turned to each other.

None of us moved a step. We didn't have to. We already knew there would be no phone, no radio, no communication with the doomed outside world.

I instinctively turned to Koizumi. In times of crisis he always had a thoroughly confusing explanation for everything. This time was no different. With a smug grin on his face he spoke so softly and calmly that I wanted to strangle him.

"It seems Miss Suzumiya really disliked Twilight."

I glared at him and snarled, "Don't ever say something like that with a straight face!"

He laughed.

I got mad.

"Don't laugh! This is serious! What if Haruhi destroys the world? What if we are the only people left alive in this new world she creates? I don't want to spend eternity with you people!"

Koizumi smiled again and my fists convulsively clenched. "There should be nothing to worry about. We are all here together so any troubles we may face should be no hassle." He stepped over towards the wall and leaned his back against it while staring at me. Then he added, "I'm glad we're friends too."

If this were an anime a big vein would have popped up on my forehead. But instead I nearly had a mental breakdown and beat the living shit out of that smug smart-ass! I struggled to reserve my composure and was about to snap when Nagato spoke.

"Snow White"

I froze and stared at her. You've got to be kidding me? Again with that? Nagato met my gaze and returned it with an intensity I had never seen before. It was kind of frightening, but dazzling all the same.

"Miss Nagato is correct," Koizumi explained, folding his arms across his chest, "All we have to do to free ourselves from this closed space and return everything to normal is-"

"By 'we' you only mean me right?" I spat. "Well I already told you to forget about it! I won't be doing that again! I still can't get the after-taste out of my mouth!" Koizumi looked like he was about to respond to that so I shot him a fierce glare and growled, "Don't!"

He raised his hands up like a hostage in a bank robbery and stepped away. I was so focused on the esper boy that I forgot about the quiet little pseudo-alien thingy standing beside me. There was a gentle tug on my sleeve and I glanced down at her frozen face. It's actually kind of cute seeing her standing there, a slight hint of desperation in her eyes. I'm sorry Miss Asahina; I don't know how much longer I can resist-"

"Snow White." she says again in a voice as flat as tap water. That spoiled it.

I sigh and lean against the club room's door. I can't even be bothered looking at the others anymore so I just face the window and look out into the abysmally darkened sky. It looks disturbingly empty out there. I can't see anything out there.

"So then. What to do?" Koizumi asks.

"Snow White." Nagato persists. Is she broken? She sounds like a broken record. Maybe if I rub her a little she might start working again? Actually you know what that also sounds really wrong and could definitely be misconstrued by people such as Taniguchi...So let's just forget that was ever said and get back to more pressing matters shall we?

Koizumi looked to me expectantly. "So, what will you do?"

"I'm not doing the Snow White thing with Haruhi again! You can forget that! I'm sure I'm not the only person here who can snap her out of her delusions right? After all you are both here as well. That just proves that she trusts you as much as she trusts me!"

"As expected, you understand Miss Suzumiya well."

"What is that supposed to mean?" I snap back at him. I'm starting to pant. This is really wearing me out. I don't think I've been this angry in a long time.

"You are Miss Suzumiya's chosen-"

"No I'm not! I'm not like you okay? I'm a normal person! I'm not an alien or a time traveller or an esper or whatever else is lurking around this school like parasites! I'm not special in any way so why am I the one dragged into all this crap? If Haruhi wants to play around with unusual characters then she can do so herself. You guys can sort her out!"

Running footsteps thudded down the hall. In the near silence of the closed space the footsteps were deafening, thunderous explosions of reverberating sound.

Koizumi closed his eyes and sighed heavily. "Time is running out. What will you do?"

Haruhi and Miss Asahina bolted down the hall towards us. Their shadows crept over me as I stared straight at Koizumi and declared, "Nothing."

"Kyon are you alright?" Haruhi called from up the hall, "I heard yelling!"

I didn't look away from Koizumi. "Someone else can play around with fairy tales. I'm done!"

Haruhi finally caught up. She looked fine, but the poor little angel beside her was doubled over and panting like an over-worked puppy. The eccentric Miss Suzumiya was oddly serious as she placed a hand on my shoulder and asked, "Are you alright? What happened?"

Koizumi shrugged. "I don't know. Kyon, what happened?"

I glared at him and mouthed the word "No!"

It was then that Nagato took a step forward. Her sudden yet slow movement caught me off guard and I almost let out a yelp of surprise but managed to bite my tongue before I embarrassed myself further.

"Yuki..." Haruhi muttered as she stared at the mute young girl who stepped forward again, her arms outstretched like a zombie in a George. A. Romero film. "What...What is it?" Haruhi stepped back, her eyes narrowing. I'd never seen her truly terrified like this. What in the world (That was soon to be destroyed) was going on? Was Nagato going to kill Haruhi? But that's insane! Or maybe she was going to seal away her powers or something with one of her magic chants? Or maybe...Oh no...No, no, no, no ,no!

Nagato closed in on Haruhi still moving at her usual snail's pace. She grabbed Haruhi's arms and held her still as she closed in. The robotic young girl stared deep into her captive's eyes as if there was something written in fine print there. She appeared to be concentrating hard. She stared at her with her gleaming little eyes and her mouth moved ever so slightly as she whispered, "Miss Suzumiya..."

Haruhi wasn't in the mood for conversation. She was struggling to free herself from the inhuman grip of Yuki Nagato. She didn't realise it, but we all knew there was no way she would be able to escape. For Nagato isn't a normal girl.

Nagato turned her head to one side and then jerked it over to the opposite side, flicking what little hair she had in an unusual gesture. Then in a blank, emotionless voice she whispered, ever so softly, "Pony-tails really turn me on."

Haruhi looked like she was about to explode, but she was diffused when in the blink of an eye, Nagato pressed her mouth against the soft pink lips of the supposed God/time warp/key to auto-evolution, and kissed her.

For once Koizumi wasn't smiling. In fact his eyes were as wide as golf balls and his jaw had dropped. He looked like he had a stroke. Miss Asahina fainted and I...

I couldn't look away...

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