Sorry this took so long. We update when we can.

Note: ***** = swearing. It's censored 'cause we're keeping that T rating. No higher, but you can probably figure it out if you think about it for like two seconds.

Mai's POV

I blinked at the way too bright light filtering in through the window for a few seconds before realizing I was in my room. How had I gotten here? Memory was a bit fuzzy at the moment. I stretched, or at least I tried to stretch only realize something warm and heavy was preventing me from moving. I looked down to find Zoro snuggled up against me, his arms wrapped tight around my waist, and snoring softly. My face flushed lightly and I furrowed my brows in confusion.

I mean I was dating Zoro so I didn't really mind that Zoro was in my bed. It's just Zoro isn't usually so cuddly. Also, my body was getting the prickly pins and needle feeling you get when you start to go numb. I was torn between letting him stay like that, sleeping peacefully. He was just cute like this and all snuggly. He reminded me of Tao. It was sweet; little Zoro-kitty.

"Aw. Zoro-kitty. That's so ******* cute. I should start callin' you that," I slurred.

Clearly I was still drunk. I would never say something like out loud if I were sober. Zoro hated being called cute almost as much as he hated weird nicknames.

Eventually I decided I needed to get up to get ready for the day. I squirmed around in Zoro's grip for a while but only managed to get one hand free.

"****!" I swore loudly in frustration. Even while sleeping, Zoro was insanely strong.

"Zoro-kitty, wake your *** up!" I half yelled half slurred as I shook Zoro's shoulder with my free hand. Zoro woke up groggily blinking up at me, and letting me go before rolling over onto the other side of the bed.

"Good morning to you too Mai," He said to me, his voice laced with sarcasm. I tried to stand up off the bed only for a wave of dizziness to wash over me, making fall back onto the bed.

"Whoa, the worlds is spinning, spinning, and spinning Zoro-kitty!"

Zoro turned to me with a slight frown on his face.

"Are you still drunk, Mai?" He asked.

"No."

"I don't believe you." He said.

"Well, maybees a little bit." I admitted with a small giggle.

"Zoro-kitty is so cute." I said as I crawled over to Zoro and poked his cheek.

"I am not cute." He said as he moved my hand away from his from his face.

"And stop calling me Zoro-kitty. I thought only Cassie gave people weird nicknames."

"Nope. Mai gives them too when she's drunk," I heard a familiar voice say from the direction of my bedroom door. "She also swears a lot." I turned my head in the direction of the doorway to see Jareck leaning against the door frame.

"Mornin' Jare-bear!" I cried as I hopped to my feet. I swayed slightly but managed to stay up this time.

"Hey darlin'. Hey sweetness," he replied.

"Stop calling me sweetness!" Zoro answered back. His demand was of course ignored by Jareck.

"How are you now that you've woken up babe?"

"Fantasma*******gorical!" I replied cheerfully.

Jareck grinned.

"Is she always like this when she's drunk?" Zoro asked.

"Yup," Jareck answered. "You probably don't remember her being like this last night cause you probably still were drunk you're self then." He said as he walked into my room and started looking thru the random piles of stuff on my desk. Zoro closed his eyes. He looked like he was going to go back to sleep.

"Whasha lookin' for Jare-bear?" I asked as I walked/staggered to his side.

"Your camera, babe. You brought it with you when we went bar hopping, didn't you?"

"Yush!" I exclaimed excitedly as I pulled out my camera and handed it to him.

"Here ya goes!" I told him. Jareck chuckled as he took the camera and started flipping through the pictures on it.

"You're so silly when you're drunk, Mai. Lay back down before you fall down," he told me as he continued to flip through the pictures.

"Okies!" I said as I flopped back down on the bed next to Zoro. Zoro didn't even stir.

"Boring building, boring, boring stage, boring, and more boring," Jareck commented as he went through the pictures. "Wait. What's this? Hey sweetness do you remember anything you did at the Lion's Den Tavern?" Jareck sounded amused. I must have took a picture of something really good.

"No. Not really, and how many times do I have to say not to call me that?" Zoro answered, not even opening his eyes.

"So you don't remember making out with a guy with red hair with purple streaks and a lot of piercings?" Jareck's voice was practically dripping with amusement at this point.

"What?!" Zoro exclaimed. He shot so fast out the bed that I felt another wave of dizziness wash over me. If I'd have been standing I would have fell over.

"Let me see that!" he said as he snatched the camera away from Jareck to look at the screen. He blinked at the screen and began to stutter.

"Wha-Ho-When the **** did this happen? I do not remember doing this." He said.

"I do! I was awesome!" I shouted from my place on the bed. It figures one of the few things I'd remember from the night before would something like this.

"I so dared you ta do thish. You went waaayyy over the dare time lemon."

"You mean time limit?" Jareck asked.

"That's what I juss said."

"How long was the time limit?"

"Five seconds!"

"How long did they kiss?"

"Therteen seconds. I counted. They had to stop cause some *** started a fire in the back of tavern so we had to leave."

"I don't remember doing any of this." Zoro said. I giggled.

"That's what the pictures for silly Zoro-kitty." I told him. Zoro sighed.

"Why would you dare me to do something like that anyway? I'm dating you. I shouldn't be kissing other people."

I shrugged my shoulders.

"Guys kissing is hot?"

"It definitely is," Jareck said agreeing with me.

"Do not encourage her. She'll just keep daring me to do these kind of things of whenever we're both drunk," Zoro told him.

"And that's a bad thing?" Jareck asked. "Looked like you were having fun."

"You're not getting the point. I'm dating Mai. Kissing other people is not an option."

"So what you're saying is that if you weren't dating Mai you'd make out with that guy all day long."

"No!" Zoro shouted. "That's not what I'm saying at all. I don't want kiss guys. I just want to kiss Mai! She's the one I'm dating." Wait. What? I blinked through my drunken haze. Did I hear that correctly?

"You wanna kiss me? You should totally do that now." I said, breaking off into giggles. "Miss me! Miss me! Now ya gotta kiss me!~" I sang loudly. Zoro sweat-dropped.

"One, I can't miss you because I never left. Two, you have alcohol breath. (So does he probably but I was in no position to argue at the time.) So there will be no kissing right now."

"Aw." I whined. "But choo kissed that guy…"

"Because you dared me and I was drunk!" He exclaimed.

I yawned sleepily. I guess was still tired.

"You should go to back to sleep babe." Jareck told me.

"Don't wanna. What about food?" I complained.

"Go to sleep babe. You can eat later," he told me as he pulled my cover over me.

I yawned that didn't want to once more before I heard Zoro say he was going to sleep too as I drifted off to sleep.

I was in the same park I'd been in before but now it was night. There was no cutesy bunny rabbit to lull me into a false sense of security this time. I was already trapped. Bound by the same branches that had me down before, there was no way I was going to escape. My clothes already ripped earlier from the beasts that had attacked me made me shiver in the chill night air. The man with the dark purple hair and coal black eyes was suddenly next to me. I had no idea where he'd come from. He seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere. He grinned as he knelt down next to me.

"I'm not afraid of you." I said, my voice shaking slightly.

"You're such a bad liar girly." He said. His grin widened.

"I can see all your fears, your likes and loves, your dislikes and hates, and you most definitely are afraid of me. Soon you will have something new to be afraid of. "He said with a smirk. He snapped his fingers and I couldn't believe what strolled through the darkness. It was Zoro. Only not. His eyes were dark like the man kneeling beside me with no whites at all in his eyes. I told myself this wasn't real.

I even pointed out to myself that the evil man beside had once even told me this was all just a dream. This was just a nightmare. Even as I told myself this I felt a wave of terror wash over me. Even if this was just a dream it felt way too real. It was horrible. I did not want to see this. I didn't want to see Zoro staring at me with those dark soulless eyes. I wanted to wake up but couldn't. I was terrified of what the man with the purple hair would make him do.

Zoro walked over to me and kneeled on the other side of my body. He grinned revealing sharp white teeth. The man with the purple hair grinned and stood. Zoro caressed my cheek with his left hand.

"Mai. You're so pretty. You look good enough to eat." He said to me. I recoiled with disgust. I really hoped he wasn't going to eat me after he turned into some creepy monster.

"Take her down. Once get down far enough you can do with her what you like." The man with the purple hair told Zoro. Zoro's grin widened even more.

"Alright. This is gonna be fun." Zoro ripped the braches away from my body and before I could even think of running away he threw me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"Don't struggle," he told me. "You won't get away." Of course I ignored him and struggled trying to get out of his grasp anyway. I didn't get free of course. Even in my dreams Zoro was extremely strong. Zoro walked out the park with me towards a cliff.

'Please tell me he is not going to do what I think he's going to do. Please tell me 'take her down' means something else,' I thought to myself as we got closer and closer to the cliff's edge. Of course he was going to do what I thought he was going to to do. What else is a person planning on doing if they walk to the edge of a cliff? When we finally got to the edge Zoro leapt off the edge with me still slung over his shoulder.

I let out scream of terror as we plummeted into the ocean below. As Zoro dragged me deeper and deeper into the water his body began to transform and I began to have a harder time holding my breath. Zoro began to grow in size. His skin was turning grey and his arms and legs were turning into fins and flippers. When he finally let me go I knew exactly what he was. It looked like my earlier fear of being eaten was about to come true because Zoro had become a large great white shark.

I let out a soundless scream of terror, water quickly filling my lungs, as the shark turned around, its jaws open wide above just as it was about to bite me in half.

I woke screaming and flailing my heart beating a million miles a minute. I felt something restrain my hands and that just made me struggle harder.

"Mai. Mai! Mai, calm down it's just me, Zoro!"

I opened eyes to see Zoro staring back at me, concern written all over his face; his real face, not that horrid thing with those soulless dead eyes, like in my nightmare. I broke down in tears I was so happy to see his face. I didn't want to cry but the tears just kept coming. Zoro just held me close and waited for me to stop. When I finally did his shirt was soaked with my tears.

"Are you okay now?" He asked.

"Yeah," I answered. "I feel a little better now."

"Mai, what were you dreaming about? You were screaming and thrashing in your sleep…"

"…I don't want to talk about…" I said while looking down at the bed sheets instead of looking at him.

"Should I wake Cassie or Jareck?" He asked. "Would you rather tell one of them?"

"No!" I exclaimed. "You can't tell them about this. They don't know anything about it."

"But haven't you had a nightmare like this before?" He asked.

"Yeah, but I'll be fine. It's just a dream it can't hurt me. Please don't tell them." I begged.

"I don't know Mai. I was really worried when you started screaming… I didn't know what to do. What if it happens again?"

"Please." I pleaded once more. "I don't want to worry them." Zoro sighed.

"Alright. I won't tell them." I sighed with relief.

"But I'm staying in here tonight."

"That's alright with me." I said. "I wouldn't have let you leave me now anyway." I told him as I drifted back to sleep, comforted by the fact that Zoro would be here to wake me if I had another nightmare.

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