A roar like a lion leaping for her throat. A slash of scarlet agony in her head, feverishly bright. An explosion of pain and mortal terror that blacked out her senses, the final curtain of final dark drawing down upon her. I don't want to die. Fucking Christ, Daria, that's all you've got? Shot in th...

"Stop!" bellowed Daria, as she pounded down the trail winding south of the Leadership Circle. "Fucking just...stop it, god damn it!" She hadn't known she intended to talk. She hadn't known she intended to shout. That small, distant part of her that watched her actions--the part o...

(Daria Bhatia continued from This Carousel Called Life ) Once again, Daria was racing towards the sound of gunfire. Once again, Daria was plunging into danger like she was hungry for it, Stephanie's bat clutched tight in her hand. The surprised part of her that had first marveled at her behavior was...

Willow, stumbling back from her. Daria, hands slumping slowly to her side. Too much emotion on her face, too uncontained, too wild . She saw that wildness reflected back at her in Willow's face. Both of them almost feral. They could have done anything. Become anything. Then Willow leaned back toward...

Listen up motherfuckers, you will give me your Hero Card and you will thank me for the privilege, I am a god damn delight and you should welcome the chance to sacrifice yourselves on the altar of my talent I would genuinely appreciate a hero if anyone has one to give, as I think the best version of...

"Stop," Willow whispered, and clung to Daria harder, and Daria didn't know what to about that, didn't know what to do with any of it, her arms were around Willow but it wasn't Willow she was looking at. Her eyes were on Stephanie's house. "Stop it, please stop." Sagging in her ar...

"I-" Stephanie Willow was rigid in front of her, like a deer in the headlights. She leaned heavily on her gun as though it were the only thing keeping her upright. Daria wondered if she looked the same, staring at Willow, waiting for her answer. "I don't matter, Daria," Will said...

"Because we don't know any better." But that was the source of Daria's endless cycles of emotion, that was the knot she couldn't entangle, the one she'd been picking at since she woke up. Why didn't they know better? Why wasn't it obvious that every blow struck against your fellow student ...

Silent and still as a statue, staring up into the bright sky with the echoes of Announcements fading away. Silent and still and focused like someone on a death march, only trying to put one foot in front of the other. Because if she looked up- "Si-Daria?" Willow asked. "Who do you thi...

"Not everyone was a winner though, as Aurelien Valter faltered under the spotlight and was shot by Blaise d'Aramitz as a result." Standing in the center of the ring of houses, Daria's hand tightened upon the bat in her hand, and stared up into the sky. (Daria Bhatia continued from ali boma...

This is stupid . She already knew that. She'd known it long before she left the house; she'd known it the moment Will had answered Daria with affirmation. She should have been glad. The plan wasn't over. Her plan to save the Island. The plan she'd been working on when she and Carrie had found each ...

"I'll meet your halfway," Will smiled, with a smile so wide it washed away any trace of her pain and rage. "I'll help you to find people who want to join our cause." Daria tried to smile, and found she couldn't quite manage it. Or maybe she was smiling--she couldn't see her own f...

Daria's eyes were wide, her face pale: she looked stunned or struck, barely able to think or speak. One hand fumbled out, looking for Willow's. Her racing thoughts careened, threatening to crash. Not again . She'd been here before; Steph, standing in their little home, kind and funny and true. Steph...

There were many things Daria could have said, and they played in their head almost as quickly as Willow Spoke. Of course I'm wrong, she wanted to say. It would have hurt to admit it, but Daria didn't know what else she could do. Carrie and Connor had abandoned her while she slept; Quinn had decreed ...

"It feels fine," Willow lied, and Daria chuckled at the sheer audacity of it, Will lying as she sat there, pale and shuddering and shaken as she tried to leverage herself upright. Daria started to reach out to to help her, and stopped herself; she wasn't the only woman in the room playing ...