The bespectacled boy rubbed his glasses to make sure they were smudge-free, then put them 
back on.  He read the fanfic he'd downloaded, chuckling at the funny parts, gritting his 
teeth at the battles, even crying at the tearjer...

[["I was not crying!"

<sound of flying objects and writer ducking for cover>

"Doing *what* for cover?"
"It's just an expression. Go back into the story."]]

...gritting his teeth at the battles, even cry... <erase erase>... remaining stoic during 
the tearjerker bits...

[[Silence]]

"What a wonderful story." He said to himself. "All these stories with me them are 
wonderful. " He sighed and set it down. "Pity they keep spelling my name wrong. It's 
M...."

[[At that moment, the author chose to have a certain toothless old Amazon throw cold 
water onto the protagonist for no adequately explored reason.]

*SPLASH*

".. Quack."


...
Lt. Trakal
Operative of the Galaxy Police SIU