Angela Caffrey has been associated with bunnies since her first appearance. (See last week's post on Angela Caffrey). When I decided to feature Angela in a Crossed Lines story, I was faced with a quandary. Should Angela remain Funny Bunny, as her grandmother nicknamed her, or was she ready to go dark side?
I opted to do both. Initially I knew I wanted to include Bunnicula, the tale of a veggie-sucking rabbit, into my story. Bunnicula, despite its weird eating habits, is harmless. It was given the unusual name by a family who found it abandoned at a movie theater that was showing Dracula. Only the paranoid cat in the family believes it's a vampire.
Vampires are an important element in the Crossed Lines series, so including them in this story was an easy fit. But what to do with Angela? Should she be an innocent victim—a bunny in other words? When I asked Angela, she made a face at the idea. Her counter-proposal was to draw inspiration from the song "White Rabbit" by Grace Slick and turn her into—you guessed it—a dark rabbit.
Angela made a compelling case. Peter and Neal had crossed lines to work with the Winchesters, who similarly had to overcome their initial mistrust of the FBI to work with them. Angela argued that she wanted to cross lines with her demonic self. When I asked her for specifics, she tossed out a slew of ideas ranging from spells and possessed music instruments to witchcraft and an evil doppelganger.
Neal is provided plenty of evidence that Angela is not herself, but he's baffled as to the cause. Is he being overly paranoid like the suspicious cat in Bunnicula? Now that he's been exposed to the work of the Winchesters, does he leap to a supernatural explanation every time something perplexing happens? If Neal rings the alarm, what will Peter say?
While Neal stresses, Henry paces. How could he be excluded from Crossed Lines stories? When I explained that introducing him into the series presents a special set of challenges, he was unimpressed. Could it be more complicated than what he's already experienced in our series? I'll have more about Henry in next week's blog post.
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