Fake News: The Thing With Feathers, Chapter 5
Title: The Thing With Feathers, Chapter 5
Fandom: The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
Rating: PG
Words: ~1600
Disclaimer: Two.

For the Report characters: They and their universe are property of Stephen Colbert, the other Report writers, and of course Viacom. Not mine. Sue me not, please.

And for the real people, the poem:
Please, make no mistake:
these people aren't fake,
but what's said here is no more than fiction.
It only was writ
because we like their wit
and wisecracks, and pull-squints, and diction.
We don't mean to quibble,
but this can't be libel;
it's never implied to be real.
No disrespect's meant;
if you disapprove, then,
the back button's right up there. Deal.

Notes: The coolest thing about this story so far is how much people are predicting what's going to happen next. In this chapter, some of you will find that you were dead-on.

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( In which Stephen misreads the situation, and Stephen begins to figure things out. )