Plush Bunny Reunion - Commission - WIP - 3/20/23 (Patreon)

“Phew…” The woman let out a long exhausted sigh of relief, slumping backward in her cheap creaky office seat as she stared at the ceiling. Exhausted, she simply sat in motionless as silence took over the room, not wanting to move a muscle after the hours upon hours she had spent working on her thesis. Katherine's curly blonde hair messily dangled from the back of the chair, and even her long fair eyelashes couldn't hide the absolute exhaustion in her eyes. Normally after a hard day's work of studies and essays, she would waste some time scrolling her phone or party with their friends, but not today. The young woman didn't want to do a thing, even sit up from her chair, could fall asleep where she said and be perfectly fine with it. 

Getting in bed wasn't worth it, her hoodie and shorts would suffice, Simply wrapping her arms over her belly as she began to slowly drift off. Even as she lay only half awake, the stress was still getting to her, feeling your heart beating her chest like a pile driver. Every thump made her wince in discomfort, feeling her whole body shake with every beat. With every passing second it got worse, until she began to dream that a pile driver was indeed pounding against her chest. But of course, being too exhausted to move, all she could do was sit there as she could feel the pounding of the loud thumps, until one last final shock shook her awake, nearly falling out of her seat. Flailing her arms and legs about, it took her a moment to get her bearings as she sat back upright, quickly realizing that it wasn't her heart that was pounding as she felt the entire dorm room shaking around her. 

“Earthquake!” she immediately thought, but quickly realized that wasn't the case.   While the building was shaking, it was with rhythmic and consistent thumps, like heavy,  weighty footsteps. Katherine could only hunker down on the floor as the thumps got louder, louder, and LOUDER… until they were right outside her door. Then a brief silence, as the doorknob slowly slowly turned, clumsy jiggling a few times as if whoever was on the other side was having trouble with it. But the very second the knob clicked, the door flung open so quickly it smashed against the wall, as a large fluffy and rather ominous figure stepped inside. “KATHRINE!” the figure shouted a loud, but cutesy voice bursting with excitement as they hopped into the room. The woman simply sat there as the figure approached, eyes wide open and frozen in bewilderment, unable to fully believe what she was seeing right in front of her.

The figure was tall, thick with wide hips and puffy haunches, large front paws with bright pink velvet beans outstretched, massive floppy ears with soft cheeks and wide gleaming eyes, and a figure so thick and plush it looked like a pillow. What was currently hopping into her room was a large, plush, soft-looking anthropomorphic bunny. It looked like a mascot, or one of those homemade costumes that people would wear to conventions, but more than that, it looked strikingly familiar. Finally snapping out of her bewildered state, Katherine let out a gasp as the bunny's large paws wrapped around her, followed by the rest of its body as it flopped on top of her with a thump. Before she knew it, she was pinned to the floor, squished by the bunny's heavy pillowy weight, its paws wrapped firmly around her back and head as it began to nuzzle her relentlessly. 

MMPH!!! The young woman didn't even have time to get a good look at the bunny's face before being smothered against it, her head squished into its large plush cheeks as if someone had thrown a pillow over her face. The bunny squeaked and wheeked with glee as it rubbed its face against the smothered human, keeping its paw wrapped tightly behind her head as it kept her nice and squished. Katherine meanwhile, could only whimper quietly as her voice was muffled unable to do anything but take the smothering hug as her arms were tightly pinned to her sides. Fortunately, after the bunny seemed satisfied with the nuzzling, it finally lifted its head off of Katherine’s face, but the plush wasn't finished yet. Just as a human finally took a breath of air, the plush put its lips to her cheek with a big affectionate bunny kiss. Its large plush button nose twitched against her face, tickling Katherine’s as she squirmed underneath its heavy plush body, unable to hold back a small giggle that made the bunny squeak.

Finally, the bunny looked down at the human with a longing but rather bitter-sweet smile, looking happy but with a hint of sadness in their eyes. “I missed you so much.” they said softly, gently stroking the back of Katherine’s head with her beanie paws. “I've been trying to track you for days, I thought I'd never find you.” the bunny said. The young woman just stared up at the bunny confused, there was something familiar about this giant living plush, but she couldn't put her finger on it. “Who… Or what are you?” she finally managed to spit out, calm but still completely dumbfounded. The bunny didn't respond immediately, looking almost as confused as they twitched their little plush nose. “Me?” the bunny squeaked. “You've gotten so big and I still recognize you, I at least still look the same and you don't recognize me?”

Kathrine’s eyes widened, taking another look at the plushies wide gleaming eyes as the memory finally came back to her. It wasn’t just a stuffed bunny, it was the stuffed bunny from her childhood, Rosebud. It used to be Kathrine favorite toy, and they did pretty much everything together. They would have tea parties together, sleep together, and she brought Rosebud pretty much everywhere if her parents would allow it. The bunny was more than just Kathrine's favorite toy though, Rosebud was practically her imaginary friend. Or at least… she was.