Heres chapter 9! We see a little bit of Danny here... Please review, it makes my day :)


Carmilla sighed, walking through the door to her dorm. The lights were dimly lit and Carmilla's eyes were just adjusting when-

"Hey, Carmilla," came a voice from Laura's bed.

Carmilla nearly jumped a hundred feet in the air, bounding like a cat onto her own bed from surprise. When she saw who the voice came from, she squinted her eyes and growled. It was only Danny, Laura's stupid literature class TA from the Summer Society. Laura sometimes went on and on about how 'cute and tall and pretty' she was, and to say Carmilla was jealous... Well, she hated to admit it, but it was a total understatement.

"Woah! Sorry I scared you. Don't bite my head off or anything," she said jokingly.

"I'll try my best, but no promises," she grumbled inaudibly. Then, louder, she asked, "What are you doing here?"

Danny sighed. "Oh, well, Laura and I are trying to figure out what happened to Betty, since, of course, no one at this school really seems to care at all…" She closed her eyes and shook her head. "God, this school is so crazy sometimes. Giant mushrooms attacking the students? Girl goes missing? Who cares! I can't believe this school and their nerve..."

Carmilla only continues to scowl at the redhead. She then picked up a book and began reading. Without looking up from her book, she asked, "And where's the cupcake now?"

Danny gave her a quizzical look. "Cupcake? Oh! You mean Laura. She's just in the bathroom."

As if on cue, Laura emerged from the other side of the room. She noticed Carmilla sitting there and felt her stomach go into knots. "Oh, hey Carm... I-I didn't know you were here."

Carmilla looked up from her book, liking her new nickname. She gave Laura a smirk and an extremely subtle wink before looking back down at her book.

Danny looked at Laura and raised an eyebrow with a frown. Laura ignored the look and Danny decided not to question her, especially with Carmilla around.
"Okay so tell me again. Everything you remember," said Danny to Laura.

Laura sighed. "We've been over this like a million times already! Besides the man, the lips, and the simultaneous feeling of pain and pleasure, I don't remember a thing. We need to try something else."

All of a sudden, a guy with nice muscles and a cute face walked in. Laura recognized it to be Kirsch, one of the Zeta's. He smiled and looked around.
"Hey little hotties. Well, two little, one... Not so little. I mean damn-"

Danny gave Kirsch the death glare. "Okay, Kirsch, we get it, I'm ridiculously tall. Move on!"

Kirsch nodded. "Right. Sorry. So, you called me?"

Laura gave Danny a quizzical look. "Ummm, Danny? Why'd you invite Kirsch?"

Danny smiled. "Well, since he was the one who set up and hosted the party that night, I thought he might know something."

Kirsch looked confused. "Know something about what?"

The two girls filled Kirsch in about Betty and how she had disappeared. They described what she looked like and what she was wearing, asking if he remembers anything.

Kirsch scratched his head. "A blonde chick in a pink halter top? Sorry, little nerd hottie, but that sounds like just about every chick at the party." He gave Laura a dopey smile. "I hit like so many blonde's at that party, and also at last nights party. Man, you should've seen this one chick, Rebecca-"
"Kirsch!" Danny interrupted. "Off topic! This is serious. A girl has gone missing. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"

Kirsch sighed. "Sorry, psycho society. But you know how big of an appreciation I have for the ladies..." He began to smile and nod his head.
Carmilla smirked and chuckled loudly from behind her book. The three looked over at her as she laughed.
"Don't we all, Kirsch," she said is a slow, drawn out voice, a suggestive smirk playing on her lips. "Don't we all..." She then proceeded to lower her book and looked right at Laura.

Laura's face quickly turned bright red and she looked down, trying to calm down her beating heart. Meanwhile, Danny looked back and forth between the two, clearly looking confused.

Kirsch suddenly broke the silence with a laugh, and then proceeded with, "Well, I better get going. We gotta clean up the Zeta house from last night's party. It looks like a freakin' tornado hit the place. See ya! Hope you find, uh... Breanna!"

Danny rolled her eyes as Kirsch walked out the door. "Well he was a lot of help," she said sarcastically once he was out of range to hear.
Laura laughed. "You think? It's Kirsch. The poor guy can't tell the difference between right and left."

Danny put a hand to her forehead. "Okay, so maybe he wasn't the best person to ask... Have you tried going back to the Zeta house and asking anyone if they remember Betty being there, if they saw anything?"

Laura nodded. "Yeah. They had nothing. Everyone said that the picture I showed them looked too much like so many of the girls they had seen that night."
Danny sighed, looking defeated. "Maybe... Maybe we should give up. There's nothing else we can do..."

Laura looked down. "I don't usually like giving up, but… I think you might be right." She looked up at Danny. "Well, thank you so much anyway, for being here for me through all of this. I… I don't know what I'd do without your help. So... thank you. I really appreciate your company."

Danny beamed at Laura. "Of course, Hollis," she said softly.
Carmilla felt like she was going to hurl. She could see exactly where this was going- and she didn't like it at all.

Danny leaned in. Carmilla wanted to shut her eyes, but couldn't bring herself to do it. And just as their lips were about to touch…

Laura backed away.

"Woah, Danny… I…" Laura began, eyes wide.

Danny had a puzzled expression. "But… I thought you wanted this."

Carmilla could have sworn Laura's eyes darted over at Carmilla for half a second, who was now peering over her book, quite interested. "Um… things have changed, since then. I'm… it's confusing. This really isn't a good time for me to… other, other things have come up."

Carmilla couldn't help it. She had to smirk at this. Laura wa totally talking about her and what had happened between them last night. She felt as she had successfully marked her territory, and Carmilla couldn't feel more satisfied with herself.

Danny backed up and scoffed, her face twitching in annoyance. She looked quite offended. "What? Is that even possible, Laura? We had a conversation about this, like, yesterday."

Laura closed her eyes, her hands shaking. "As I said before, things have changed-"

"In a 24-hour period?!"

"Danny-"

"You know what? No," growled Danny, suddenly standing. "If I'm really not worth it to you, if so much has 'changed' that you can't even think about kissing me, then fine. Whatever, Hollis. Go on and change some more, for all I care." She turned to Carmilla and squinted her eyes at the smirking brunette, who was clearly enjoying this. "This is because of you, isn't it?" She turned to Laura again. "I can't believe I'm being rejected over Elvira, Mistress of the Snark!"

Ooh. Ouch. Carmilla had to scrunch up her face in disgust at that one.

"Danny, no, that's not-" Laura cried. But Danny was already approaching the door, not giving any time for Carmilla to say a word or for Laura to explain herself.

"Fuck off, Laura," she yelled without turning around. "Don't call me." The door slammed behind her, and the two were left alone in eerie silence.

Suddenly, Laura began to cry. It started off as a small, guttural sound, but quickly developed into stifled sobs. She didn't cover her face, she didn't throw herself on the bed- she simply sat there, crying, in the utter vulnerability of Carmilla's presence.

Carmilla simply watched as Laura continued to cry, wanting crack a sarcastic joke, such as 'stop it, cupcake, you're making a complete idiot of yourself,' but this moment between them felt too intimate, too tender to say something so harsh. Laura was allowing herself to be at her weakest right in front of Carmilla. One little nudge and all hopes of Laura ever trusting Carmilla like this again would be shattered and lost. So Carmilla decided to continue how she was- watching Laura silently and thoughtfully, realizing that it was amazing how incredibly beautiful Laura was even when she cried. Carmilla hadn't had such a tender and romantic thought about anyone in a very long time.