((Sarah Xu continued from The Cavalry Arrives )) Angry, beaten and tear-stained, Sarah tromped through the sand, kicking it up as she went. Was it too much to expect sympathy from the people who were supposedly there to save them? She wanted to scream at them more, to tell them what she thought of t...

"I'm sorry. Ishida can't come. You two are fine, though." "If you still want to come, I mean." Sarah's eyes drifted to the pistol at the man's waist, her heart skipping a beat when the subtle threat registered. The tone of her voice had become a lot less excited when she opened h...

((Bridget Connolly, Reiko Ishida and Sarah Xu continued from Revolution )) The group approached the waiting rescue boat, one of Sarah's fears already being calmed at the sight of people . She squeezed Reiko's hand tightly as her feet scuffed the sand, their fingers had been locked for minutes, as mu...

((Bridget Connolly, Reiko Ishida, and Sarah Xu continued from Some People Care )) The sun rose steadily as usual, beating down on the heads of three individuals who walked along the road. Bridget walked in front, holding her improvised weapon. The other two trailed behind slightly, Sarah holding her...

With her eyes shut, Sarah tensed for a moment at Reiko's touch, as if it came unexpectedly. But it was the best she could have hoped for, and the reaction passed as quickly as it came. Somehow, being treated compassionately always made her cry more, and so she found herself weeping into Reiko's hair...

Sarah was oblivious to Bridget's presence, her full attention was on the girl in front of her, the one pointing a gun at her, Reiko. She looked terrible, and Sarah couldn't seem to get past that. Any thoughts of blame or justice were quickly slipping from her mind as she started to consider how much...

((Sarah Xu continued from And Knowledge Itself, is Power. )) "Reiko." The word had no sooner left her mouth than the butterflies in her stomach multiplied by several factors of 10. She kept the rifle trained on her girlfriend's chest, her body feeling tenser than it had in her entire life....

Sarah stared down at the shallow grave as she heard Bridget praying. Her eyes were red but she'd stopped crying a few moments before. If she could, she would have still been crying, it would have felt better than the numbness she felt now, gazing blankly at the makeshift headstone. She wasn't even s...

The minute he'd turned his back on them, Sarah burst into fresh tears. Most of her body was shaking from the adrenaline, she closed her eyes to try to gather herself back together. It was only the scraping of nails on the ground behind her that stopped her breaking down completely. Again. She turned...

Sarah's face was a mix of tears and incredulity. Supplies, he'd come for supplies? Fucking supplies . She'd almost shot him because of supplies. She'd almost shot him. She'd pulled the trigger, she'd tried to shoot him. She almost killed somebody. holy fuck i what. She channeled her fear and confusi...

"... the hell?" The sudden male voice threw Sarah into a panic. Without time to think about it, or unfog her vision, she pulled away from Bridget, scrambling to her feet before losing her balance and painfully landing on her hands and knees. Mia's rifle was within arm's length and she snat...

Sarah clung to Mia's body as her racing heart and laboured breaths tapered out. Her hand grasped the back of Mia's head, her fingers pressing at her clammy scalp. Mia's sleepy head lay on her shoulder, Sarah's mirrored it, and Mia's shoulder was wet with her tears. She hadn't managed to save her cla...

Mia felt like a child, screaming for help with a situation she couldn't handle and a problem she couldn't fix without her parent's expertise. She tried to stifle it, along with the blood, holding Bridget's hands against her body as she clasped at her pierced side. Scrunching her eyes she managed to ...

Mia's eyes opened like flood-lamps as the voice took her unawares. She raised the gun without a second thought, but before she could even aim it straight the other girl was already moving, pushing the barrel aside with one hand while grabbing her wrist with the other. Next thing she knew, Mia's feet...

(Mia Kuiper continued from that thread at the lighthouse .) Mia stomped daintily through the forest. She felt tired, she felt deprived of amusement, and she was sick to death of walking around this useless forsaken island. As much as she'd always born slight resentment for her home-country, all she ...