kathy_fraggle

Well, this is gonna nag at me 'til I write it down, so here goes. The beginning is a bit fuzzy and didn't even make much sense in the dream, since apparently some events took place before the dream started. It was sort of if people started acting out a TV show, and the cameras only got turned on 10 minutes into it. Anyway, April was working in this strange place that was like a combination research lab and movie studio. Sort of a crossover of the 2 best known versions of her, as a news reporter and a lab assistant. Anyway, she worked more in the lab part of it, but her boss was in the movie industry. He wasn't a director, maybe a producer? Anyway, he did something behind the scenes having to do with them. Near as I could figure out, April's job involved reconsulting and researching ideas to make them as realistic as possible for the movies. Anyway, she would routinely sneak into the lab after hours to anylize some photographs she had using the equipment there. One night an assistant caught her at it, and it was brought to the attention of her boss. The story she told, and I assume it was true, was that someone, it was actually Don as I recall now, had given her the pictures that they had managed to capture of sprites, (yes, as in little nature spirits), and she was figuring whether or not they were real, in order for the company to make a movie about them. Anyway, it was known throughout the building that she had her 4 brothers living with her, (they were living in her apartment at the time), and for some reason he demanded that she bring all of them in to meet so he could meet them. Of course this made April incredibly nervous and stressed, and of course she couldn't let him know that.
So she tells the guys, and they decide to go as if nothing is wrong. At least they were wearing their disguises, I think. Thinking of it now she had sort of the air of a stressed mother herding children along the sidewalk, although from what I remember they were well-behaved for the most part. The exception was when a young kid got in their way. I don't think he had a bike, but still somehow he was blocking their way or something, and Raph yelled at him. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it included the word dirtbag, (a more common variation of Raph's usual "whackbag" perhaps). Anyway, when they got there I was starting to wake up, but I was in a deep sleep and it was a long process, so it was the kind of thing where I was sort of pushing the dream along, and what happened was more suggestions than clear events. It would've made sense that Leo would've been the first to introduce and reveal himself, and I think at one point the boss's secretary walked in on them by accident, screamed, and was let in on the "family secret" as well.
I just want to add that the part about about April sneaking into the lab after hours was probably inspired by an author on fanfiction.net that I like, Connie Nervegas. In her stories, April attends NYU, and sometimes uses their science labs to do work for the guys. As for the rest of it, all I can say is that I was watching a couple of early season 1 episodes over again last night.