Author's Note: [Sweatdrop] Well, I was having trouble deciding
what to write next in Night Rain, and this seemed like a good
idea at the time. Weird, granted, but it may be good for a laugh
or two at my expense. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Romeo and Juliet- obviously. It was
written by William Shakespeare and belongs to him still. I also
do not own Daria, or any of the characters from Daria. (Okay,
Daria isn't anime, but I just love that show…)
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Chapter One
Act One
Prologue
CHORUS- Daria and Quinn
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"No way am I reading it."
Daria looked up at her sulking sister, annoyance evident
on her usually emotionless face. "Quinn, just read it and get it
over with."
"No! I don't wanna read Shakespeare! Isn't that what
geeks are for?" Quinn snapped, her full lips pursed in a pout.
Daria narrowed her eyes. "Look, if you want to stay in
this writer's block induced, plotless parody, be my guest. Just
don't drag me down with you."
Quinn's eyes widened in horror. "You mean if we don't
finish this prologue we're gonna have to stay here? Forever? But
think of all the parties I'll miss! And I was gonna go out with Skyler!
His parents have a summer home in France!"
Daria rolled her eyes. "Just read it already and we can leave."
"Fine," Quinn sighed, as if Daria was asking her to do
something that gave her great pain.
The redhead cleared her throat.
"Okay, like, there's these two houses, and they're both, like,
popular, and they live in Verona."
Daria groaned inwardly, but managed to keep a straight
face as she added the next line. "From ancient grudge break to new
mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes…" Quinn began,
then stopped, a disgusted look entering her face. "Ew! Daria!" She
whined, but was stopped by a death glare from her sister. She sighed
and continued. "These two kids started dating, and they're, like, star-
crossed or whatever, which probably means that their horoscopes were,
like, all wrong. Anyway, they take their life, and with their death bury
their parents'…. Um, hatchet?"
Daria was having to clench her teeth to keep from exploding.
"The fearful passage of their death-marked love, And the continuance
of their parents' rage, Which, but their childrens' end, nought could remove,"
Quinn continued the verse quickly, in a hurry to get out. "Is now
the two hour's…" She stopped her eyes widening. "Two hours? Dariaaa!!"
She whined, looking like she might start crying in frustration.
"Just read it, Quinn."
Quinn sniffed, nodded, and continued. "The which, if your patient
ears will attend, What here you missed, our… Toil… Shall try to bend."
Quinn looked up, cheerful again. "So, are we done here?" She
chirped hopefully.
"I am," Daria said, a look of pure disgust on her face as she turned
and left the author's mad plothole.
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