Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
By Icka! M. Chif

The windows were open, the day was bright and sunny, and no one in class could concentrate. It was simply too nice of a day to spend inside, especially since it was the first nice day since the winter snows had stopped.

"Spring is here..." Aoko sighed, looking forlornly out the window. "Ah, spring is here."

Hakuba followed her gaze. "Life is skittles and life is beer..." He absentmindedly rhymed, looking bored.

"I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring." Kaito remarked. "I do, don't you?"

"'Course you do!" Aoko elbowed him. It meant he could do magic tricks outside again. Which was a good thing, they sometimes got a bit too messy indoors.

"But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me," Akako dreamily joined in. "And makes every Sunday a treat for me. All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon...

When we're poisoning pigeons in the park."

Several people scooted their chairs away from the dark witch. Akako didn't notice, taking the opportunity to sling an arm around Kaito's shoulders. "Every Sunday you'll see, my sweetheart and me, as we poison the pigeons in the park." She leered.

Kaito did not look impressed as he quickly removed her arm off of him.

Hakuba grinned, thinking of falconing with Watson. "When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,"

"But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide!" The witch sneered.

"The sun's shining bright." Hakuba sighed dreamily. "Everything seems all right..."

"When we're poisoning pigeons in the park!" Akako cheered.

Hakuba pulled out a letter and handed it to Akako. "We've gained notoriety, and caused much anxiety in the Audubon Society with our games."

She opened the letter and began to read it out loud. "They call it impiety, and lack of propriety-"

Hakuba cut her off before they could get to the more insulting ones. "-And quite a variety of unpleasant names!"

"But it's not against any religion," Akako protested, tossing the letter back at him. "To want to dispose of a pigeon."

"So if Sunday you're free, why don't you come with me?" Hakuba offered Aoko who stared at him with a blank look. "And we'll poison the pigeons in the park."

"And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two," Akako suggested with a particularly smug grin as she turned Hakuba into a squirrel. "While we're poisoning pigeons in the park."

Hakuba-squirrel threatened to bite her hair and she changed him back, still grinning. "We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment..."

"-Except for the few we take home to experiment." Ai's voice floated in through the open window, much to Akako's delight.

"My pulse will be quickenin', with each drop of strychnine," She sighed, striking a dramatic pose. "We feed to a pigeon!"

"It just takes a smidgin." Hakuba noted.

"To poison a pigeon in the park!" Akako laughed, falling back into her chair with a huge grin.

The class stared at her in stunned silence.

"That-" Kaito commented, several of his doves cowering either on or behind him "-is not funny."

-fin-

Hakuba's not doing the poisoning, it's just Akako who's doing that. Hakuba's there with his falcon, Watson, who's hunting the pigeons in the park.

With the exception of Kaito's last line, everyone's lines are lyrics to the song. ^^;;

And we're just gonna walk away slowly from this one...