Staring down at Stephanie, her blood warm and thick against Daria's lap, staring at her numb and insensate and blind while inside her some dim, drowning fragment of consciousness fought and screamed. Not okay not okay she just lost Jen she's lost so much she's hurt you did this it's not fair gimme s...

Was this the third gunshot? It was, right? First with Carrie, facing Quinn; second with Chris, Ty, and Amelia, when Daria had been pretending to be the badass gunslinger girl. Now the third. Rule of threes. Chekhov's gun. Third gunshot. Steph, slumping back against the mirror, her hands cradling her...

Daria swung the bat. Blaise fell. Daria swung the bat. Blaise fell. Daria swung the bat. Blaise fell. Over and over in front of her eyes, over and over as Daria helped Steph, bruised and bloody, to her feet (Daria swung the bat, Blaise fell). "Thanks," sniffled Steph. "It's no-" ...

(Daria Bhatia continued from Terminal Gardener ) "I'm freshening up," Steph said, as Daria looked at everything in her pack. "I'll be out soon." Daria smiled over her shoulder, and waved her on as she pulled her stuff together. When she was packed, she stepped outside, taking a g...

"Thanks," Steph said, and... Somewhere--Daria couldn't remember where--she had once read the phrase "sagged with relief." She had found the phrase faintly disquieting when she'd first read it. She didn't understand what it meant. Daria was always poised, always focused, always co...

Oooh fuck yes into this one. Intentionally not listing Daria until she dies, as my feelings for her are going to vary pretty wildly depending on how everything goes down. 12. David Meramec David and Simon's profiles are the ones I was probably proudest of going into V4, which is why I find it faintl...

One less to go through . Daria smiled, and said, "Wrong genre, Steph. We're not zombies, we're...gladiators?" She frowned. "That doesn't seem horrifying enough..." Still so clever, Daria Bhatia. In your little safe house, making your little jokes, trying to comfort a woman who h...

Lost in her own whirling thoughts, in her own uncertainty. She was barely listening to Stephanie, staring listlessly into the mid-morning sunlight around them. Everything felt so warm, so pleasant, so peaceful. Everything felt fraught, fake, and futile. She sat here, playing at peace, while people t...

Not such a comfortable silence, back inside the house. The air felt heavy, and stagnant, and she didn't think it was the weather. She could mock Danya all she wanted (and she fully intended to, right up until the end), but that wasn't changing anything. She kept thinking of the bodies in the garden,...

As of the latest post in Terminal Gardener, Amber's body, covered in an old quilt, has been moved to join Bill and Alexander's.

And for a few days, life was almost normal. There was no shovel she could find, to lay the dead to rest. She gave up on that idea soon enough, and with Stephanie's help wrapped the mangled body they found ine one of the nearby houses in an old quilt, and carried its bloodsoaked weight out into the s...

"Yeah. Sure." Daria offered the slightest smile, trying to maintain her poise, trying not to snatch the tin of crackers or the water bottle. She nodded, took both (careful, careful, slow and careful, look like you're careless, look like you don't have tears in your eye), and put the water ...

Daria wanted to say something poignant. Daria wanted to say something pithy, insightful, clever. Daria wanted to be the force of nature waiting in this little zone of peace, speaking with heroes, killers, and pacifists alike, sparring with their deals and sharing pearls of wisdom. Daria wanted to do...

Stephanie blew a kiss at the camera. Daria grinned at her, but the grin was already fading as she asked her question, and was gone entirely by the time Stephanie answered her. Her eyes traced over the bat and the shield. Unbidden, she imagined that bat hammered into her skull, flecks of bone scatter...

Daria pulled her face into a mocking pout. "You mean you didn't follow my channel?" She shook her head sadly. "That should be at the top of your list of regrets. I don't want to see anything else on it." She smiled a little. "Actress. Was figuring out if I could swing New Yo...