Date: 6/23/99 12:16:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Katherine Mc Entire
To: SilvVenom@aol.com, sparrowskit@hotmail.com
The midnight hour tones and a tired brunette blindly fumbles for her glasses in the utter blackness of her hidey hole under the dueling platform. "Ugh," she grumbles, but it actually comes out more like "Mughm," she sneezes, and tiptoes over the snoring body of the leather jacket man and begins looking for his computer.
"Stoopid flying swords," she coughs. "Now I..ah, ah, ahchoo! haf to buh ah new compooter." She logs on, finally glad to be over her cold enough to get out of bed, then laughs a wheezy, raspy cough as she sees two particular messages blinking on her email accounts. "Yeah! Fly-by hug! Oohh, fansubs!"
Happily she logs off and blindly searches for regular clothing in the mess of bachelorhood in which she had deposited herself out of sheer neccesity. "Ah really need to find ah new place. Achoo!" She gathers up some clothing and struggles it on over her ratty old Rent t-shirt, and around her baggy Sailor Moon boxers.
Stepping carefully over the snoring man once more, she pulls her hair in to a stringy ponytail and peeps out the trapdoor. The coast was clear, no duelists in sight. "Ah should hope not. It's lahke one in the morning. Achoo!" She hoists herself out of the hole, then pauses to reach in and pull out a box of wheat thins and her trusty compass.
The new moon was out, so no cries of "MY SHINING THING!" were heard. She chuckled to herself, and squinted carefully in the dim pulsing light from the castle to read the direction. After her previous experience with Miki, she knew better than to turn on the Indiglo function on the compass.
"Ahkay, let's see here. North by Northwest..." She muched absently on a wheat thin and gathered her bearings. Sneezing softly, she pulled on fluffy Rabbit slippers and began padding down the stairs. "The tahngo...achoo, Maureen..." she sings softly, one of her favorite songs stuck in here head, playing back perfectly in her mind, despite the scratchy rendition she was howling gently along. Surprised to reach the commons without one incident of maurauding mongoose, maligned manipulators, or mealy Miki's, Kate decides that she is having way too much fun with the M key and goes back to humming about Maureen. "Achoo! Hello? Ahnyone here? Has ahnyone seen...achoo...Becca or Karen?" Not an answer.
Partially put out, the girl furrows her brow and reaches in to her box of wheat thins to munch some more. "Ahnd here ah was, preparing to be...ah don't know, manipulated or something. There's no challange here." She turns and bumps in to something hard...and tall...hard and tall in that familiar "manly" sort of way. "Achoo...*eep*"
"Guendzudite," Akio smoothly replies.
Meanwhile in Utena and Anthy's dorm room: Utena, Anthy, Karen, Becca, Juri, Nanami, Wakaba, Kanae, Kozue, Shiori, and Keikio all sit around watching The Breakfast Club. As the end credits roll, Utena wipes a tear of happiness off her face and Nanami snores. The other girls glance at her filled mildly with disgust, but leave it at that."So, do you guys think this whole bonding sleepover idea was good?" queried Becca as she dug through her bag to find her spatula. Karen was currently occupied in a like manner, only searching for her pin up of Touga to hang on Utena's wall so he would be the first thing she woke to in the morning. Nanomi snorted as she woke up and stretched.
"It has it's merits," remarked Juri with a slanted glance at Shiori, "though I think Konzue would rather have spent the evening thus far otherwise occupied." Shrugging, Kozue viewed the room with a look of mild scorn. "If I wanted a man right now, I would be calling room service, not sitting around here..."
Suddenly the door sprung open and a frantic and still sneezing Kate bounds through and behind Becca now holding up her spatula. "Hide Me!" "Did someone say room service?" purred Akio from the doorway.
"Oh no, not again," Karen groaned, searching for her pillow to hide under. "Geez, girl. Haven't you learned how to avoid him yet?" "AChoo! Well no, since ah have yet to see the lahter episodes...achoo...ahnd you don't have ah page on how to avoid Akio *though that might be interesting* ...achoo...ah ahm still ah novice aht this...whole...achoo...Utena world thing!"
Becca glances behind her. "That reminds me. Did you get my email? You haven't responded yet."
The girl nodded vigorously, ducking further behind Becca. Akio was currently centering on the room full of barely dressed *or the potential to be* female flesh, thus he hadn't noticed Becca's as of yet, straight-jacket-less state. "Ah don't have ahnything worth trading, but if you could say how much you wahnt for dubbing me some copies of the subtitled versions...14-25, the rahw would be silly since ah don't understand any language other than english at the moment...ah can get the dinero to you asap."
She grinned before sneezing again. "Muchas gracias, senioretta." The Spanish words catching his attention, Akio swivels to catch Becca, Karen, and Kate in the oncoming glare of his devilish eyes. A simultanious *eep* is heard.
"Oh no you don't," commands Utena. "This is a ladies only thing. Out!" She points to the door menecingly. "Before I do something really drastic." "Oh and what could that be?" oozes Akio. "I have all the back up I need out there." He points outside. Karen, Becca, and the others crowd the window to see the spectacle. Nanomi gurgles with glees as a lawn full of drunk, barely dressed college guys led by Touga and Saionji meets her gaze. They both are wearing scarves over their heads, ala sneaky anime ecchi types, but Karen and Becca both recognize the perfect pectorals of the post-pebescent patron gods *drool*, and all of the men are holding up large bags of stolen underwear.
Only three men present weren't bare chested and prepared for a panty raid. One was a large blue glob holding tightly to the shiny sword of another floating individual who was shaking his head in disgust, and the third was trying to prevent the men from breaking in and stealing his Nanomi's precious unmentionables.
Glancing out the window, Kate has to laugh, raspy though it is. "You don't know college guys very well do you?" she snorts. "Hey guys!
Wrong dorm! Go down three blocks pahst the theater ahnd take a left. The mahssive pahrty is there, hot wahsted freshmahn chicks, ahnd ahll the FREE KEGS you wahnt!"
The crowd roars and disapears down the hill, leaving a stunned Akio alone with the girls. He glaced to the skies, hoping to save some grace through Dios or perhaps the shy Miki. But alas, Miki and Dios had returned to the castle once they realized the philandering was through, and once his princess was safe, Mitsuru dropped the crowbar and snuggled up on the front steps to stand watch. Not even Touga nor Saionji remains to help him in his needed time. Suddenly realizing he had never attempted to manipulate so many at once, Akio eeps and dives to the floor, protecting his face as the girls begin to beat on him violently, all save Anthy, who is content to just watch and feed Chuchu.
Kate giggles as best she can and glances towards Karen. "Thahnks for the letter. Ah really needed it. Ah hope your inspiration sticks. Ah like to feed my muse wheat thins, it makes her happy." The girls snickered, and Kate rose to go. "Well, hahve fun beating Ahkio to a pulp. I hahve to go ahnd move my stuff. Leahther guy is getting ahngry, ah keep moving it ahnd organizing when he's not ahround. Bye."
The door softly closes with a snick, and several second later a loud ACHOO vibrates the hall. Karen pulls out her straight jacket and mallet, Becca stands ready with her spatula, and the rest of the night continues as every night at the Ohtori Academy must, mired in pure, unadulterated mahem.
