Author's Notes!
The book Lann was reading is called Watership Down, in which a group of suddenly-homeless rabbits search together for a new home. Fitting, no?
Why write a prequel? I felt like it, and I wanted to write something mostly from Ellis's point of view because I mention him in my stories (mostly the AU ones) a lot but never really expand on it.
This is also another tie-in to the harassment theme I had going on in We Are Young, but it mostly focuses on domestic violence. It is a problem, but it's been swept under the rug too many times for me to count. Also, it's not always going to be a man hitting his wife for something; it can also be a woman doing things to her husband as well. Or in same-sex pairings... you get the point. My baseline is simply that at no point is it okay to lash out at others because you're feeling shitty. Go break a real punching bag or run a few miles instead of stewing on the couch. Trust me, it's healthier (physically, mentally, and relationship-ly) than assaulting the people you love.