Title: World On Fire
Author: ondragonflywing
Verse: Degrassi: The Next Generation
Rating: T
Character(s): Darcy
Warnings: Involves Rape
Disclaimer: I own nothing having to do with Degrassi.
Table/Prompt: Mental Illness—Pyromania
Summary: Darcy gets revenge in an unlikely way.
I watched the car burn with satisfaction. I couldn't stop the smile that spread across my lips. I almost felt like cheering. Like jumping up and down. Instead, I settled for basking in the warmth of a fire that I had set, that no one else knew was burning, that wouldn't stop any time soon.
It's not that I'm a firebug, or a pyromaniac or anything. But I still can't help the satisfaction that I feel as I watch the car burn. It was like the physical representation of the anger and wildness that I felt inside everyday. It was perfect.
The flames were mesmerizing as I stared, reflecting on what had led me to this place. To this fire.
They had found him. After months of not knowing, I finally knew what his face looked like. The face of a rapist. It was decieving. He looked harmless. But his words, his touch, were far from harmless.
He had killed everything good inside of me. Where once stood a happy go lucky spirit squad member, now stood a girl who had lost her faith in everything. A girl who cried more then smiled. The hollowed out shell of a girl who could vaguely remember what it was like to be happy.
And soon his car would look the same. The hollowed out shell of a machine that could vaguely remember what it was like to run.
There was a slight explosion and I jumped. Before smiling my first genuine smile in months.
Lights turned on upstairs. The house was waking up, the noise having stirred them.
"Burn, baby, burn," I muttered on last time before running into the darkness, on my way home.