Dirk Gently and The Waking Sea of Reality

No Hunches, Just Bed

       Dirk and Todd indeed woke up hungover, much earlier than they would have preferred. Maybe having Amanda and The Rowdies over wasn't such a good idea.

"I don't want to get up," Dirk groaned, burying his head into the pillows to block out the light assaulting his sensitive head. Frankly, the sun was getting on his last nerves.

"Me neither," Todd said. "But we've got a case, remember?"

"Case can wait until I feel better," Dirk whined and wrapped himself deeper in the covers.

"Come on, we've gotta get up, we've got to save the world," Todd gently shoved Dirk, signaling him to let Todd out of bed.

"If you want to get up so badly just slither out of the bottom, you can't make me move!"

"Aspirin? Toast? Herbal tea?"

"Mmhmm," Dirk nodded, eyes clamped shut.

Todd was once again being the responsible one out of the two of them. Somehow...

It was time to head out. They were feeling better. Slightly. Not really. They were functional.

Amanda came by to pick up Bean.

They went to the agency to meet up with Farah, Mona, and Robyn and to all ride together. Mona, who they weren't quite sure where she came from, appeared as a moth who landed on Dirk's shoulder before turning into a small, fuzzy, dwarf hamster. Farah took one look at Dirk and Todd's pale demeanors and sighed.

"What the hell? You have a case, a world-saving one at that, and you're hungover? What happened?"

"The Rowdy 3 happened," Dirk said.

"Oh my god," She said, shaking her head. She looked down at her ticket to look at the departure time but then realized it had no name on it. Just departure time and room number. "Shit, in all the panic around... Thor and Atlantis, we forgot to make new personas." The rest of them pulled out their tickets, no names. Except Robyn's

"Mine has my name," Robyn said, frowning quizzically.

"That's probably because they don't know that you're involved with us," Farah said. "But we," gesturing to the rest of the group, "Need to go undercover."

Dirk smiled almost too widely. "We get to go undercover again?"

"Get? Dirk, we're this close to being wanted by the FBI," Farah rolled her eyes.

"But going undercover is fun!" He said, his lingering hangover the only thing keeping him from bouncing in his typical Dirk manner.

"I will admit..." Todd said, maybe his reason had left. "Pretending to be a married couple was fun."

Dirk's smile widened, "Maybe we should- "

Todd cut him off very quickly, "Not yet, Dirk."

"Did you just say... 'yet' ?"

"No-"

"You said 'yet'!"

"No!"

"Fine. Not 'yet' ... So... married couple again?"

"Married couple again."

"I'll be Collin Marcus-"

Todd smirked, he knew exactly where the name came from. Dirk had very few shows he cared enough to pay attention to and actually learn the names of the characters, let alone their actors, and get invested in the plots with. Movies were easy, they lasted only for a short while, and then they were over, a show? That was asking too much. According to Dirk, you have to be dedicated to actually care about it, it's too much time. But every once in a while, Todd, Farah, Tina, or Amanda would try to get him into a show, and it succeeded. Todd didn't even really like Once Upon A Time, but he figured that since it was basically Disney for adults, Dirk would like it. And oh boy... he was right. Because Dirk loved that show. One of the many reasons was the character, Hook. While he would like to deny it, Dirk had a thing for the charming pirate. And Todd found his reason absolutely adorable. He reminded Dirk of Todd.