So I finally freaking post something after hundreds of years. Here is an extremely out of character Animaniacs fanfiction for you! This was originally posted on Tumblr but I've squeezed some of the parts together into two chapters so far. More will be uploaded when I get to them!

Everything belongs to Warner Brothers!

Dot stared silently into her large mirror, examining her features, checking each nook and cranny for an imperfection she could adjust. None! Of course. Now just to check off another day on her calender that she was cute as can be…

Dot skipped to the calender hanging from the knob of her closet door. She dropped on her knees and pulled a pen out of her hammerspace. She checked the day with a tiny pink check. Saturday, May 11th… good. Sunday May 12th… well, it was obvious what it would be. Wait… May 12th?

Dot's eyes settled on the date. There was a bit of small text lined up in the bottom corner of the square containing the large number 12. She squinted, leaning closer.

"Mother's Day, US." It read

Dot sat back on her feet. She had forgotten. She suddenly felt her breath coming out in short puffs. Mother's Day… she had no mom… did she?

She'd always thought her Mother to be dead, and when she asked Wakko, he had no idea. Yakko never gave her a straight answer. He'd give her a grave look and say

"Well. Quite a question. I dunno, Dot. My memory's pretty fuzzy too. Something about Mom and Dad being sick is all I can remember. Then the orphanage."

She didn't buy it one bit. Yakko had this way of being very serious when he lied. Plus, his left eye twitched a little. Dot had a keen eye for picking out people's little quirks, and her brothers had plenty of them, making it easy for her to understand them better. She was sure she had some herself, but they were probably cute. Very cute!

"So.. if mom was sick, then she'd probably be gone…" Dot mumbled to herself. Heat came up behind her eyes. "In that case… there must be a resting place." She stood up and dusted off her skirt. "That's it! Yakko Warner, I've got some questions for you."

Dot flung the door to her room open and stomped across the length of the tower. Where the heck was her brother?

Upstairs, downstairs. Dot paced through each floor. Why did their tower have to be so big? Darn its physics defying nature! She could never find anything. Especially a moving target like her brothers. More so Wakko. He never sat down for more than three seconds.

Dot looked in living room after living room. There was a 90% chance that Yakko was sitting somewhere, reading, so that's where she looked first. Finally, in the LAST living room, she found him, sitting cross-legged in a pile of books with a small lamp being the only light in the room. He looked like an old hermit or a hardworking scholar with little round spectacles and a strained expression. Dot walked over to him and tapped his knee with her toe.

"Hey. I have a question." She said softly. Yakko glanced over his glasses at her. He saw the look on her face and immediately took them off and doggy-eared his place in the book.

"What is it?" He asked, siting back on his hands. Dot bit her lip. How to ask… how to ask. She scratched behind her ears.

"Well…" she stopped when Yakko stood and walked to the couch, sitting down and patting the spot next to him. She followed, sitting and bringing her knees close to her. "It's… eh… tomorrow."

"Mother's Day." Yakko said quickly. She could see a hint of pain in his eyes. So he'd been thinking about it too. Must hurt even more for him, since he knew… something about her.

"Yeah. I was wondering…well… if we could find her grave. And Dad's too." Dot spluttered out the last bit, anxiously chewing her lip again. Yakko puffed his cheeks and exhaled deeply.

"I dunno, sis. I'm not sure… where they are… or if they exist…"

"Can't you look it up? I'm sure there's a database for these kinda things! I'm sure they're not too far from Burbank." Dot was so sure there were graves. If not… well… she had tried white pages and got nothing. she could try though. Try. Yakko smoothed down his ears, and they popped right back into place when he let go. He was thinking hard. This, Dot could see.

"We'll see. I mean… I dunno…" He trailed off, furrowing his brow and leaning his elbows on his thighs with his fingers laced together. Yakko rarely thought about what he was going to say next. He was a quick thinker. Dot would normally be proud of herself for stumping him, but this was more serious.

"Please, Yakko? It would only take a little while. I promise! And if there aren't any we'll never talk about it again." She widened her eyes and gave him a little puppy-dog pout. His only weakness!

"Fine, we'll try." Came his answer. She had him. This part was so easy for Dot.

The next part wouldn't be.

Dot watched the back of Yakko's laptop as he typed. Her cheeks rested softly in her gloved hands, her eras listening to the quiet clicking of the keys.
"So… why won't you let me see what you're looking up again?"

Yakko poked his head up from his task. "No specific reason. I'd just rather do this without you breathing down my neck."

"Me? I'd never."

He gave her a stare that said 'really?' she sat back, defeated. She would ask a million questions, he was right. He probably didn't want her to see the fact that he knew their REAL last name. She huffed, crossing her arms and giving him a death glare complete with puffed cheeks. He stopped and looked up at her again.

"If you get all fussy I'm not gonna help you, sister-sib. Them's the rules." Dot unfolded her arms.

"Fine. Have you found anything?" She sat forward, trying to peek at the screen. He raised his eyebrows in surprise after a few more moments of clicking.

"Actually, yeah."

Dot's eye's widened and she scrambled over to his side, clutching his arm as she read the screen. Her eyes registered a database of toons with graves. The names "Lucy and William" stared back at her. The last name wasn't there. How did Yakko know?

"I'm not sure, but it looks like they're in Colorado. that's not far. If you REALLY want to, we can all go there tomorrow."

"Really, Yakko? Do you promise?" Dot squeezed his arm in massive amounts of excitement. He nodded, a strained look on his face from her cutting off his circulation. She released him and jumped up and down. "HOORAY! I CAN'T WAAAAIT!" Dot screeched as she jumped several feet in the air, pausing at the maximum height for a bit, then landing back on her feet. "THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" She sped out of the room at top speed leaving her brother in a cloud of dust.

Yakko watched her go, shaking his head and sighing. He looked at the names on his screen. No last name… so odd. He couldn't remember the old one. Maybe there was none, after all. Oh well.

"I'm coming back, mom and pop. After all this time. Sorry I left."