Authors Notes:
Assuming anyone's interested, this story was started July 13, 2002 and finished on March 16, 2003, so it took me a hell of a while. This is actually the first Daria story that I ever started, but it hit a point where it stalled for a long time as I tried to work around the initial scene that this story began growing out of, a decidedly more dramatic version of the "Daria Discovered" scene. I quickly came to the conclusion that a dramatic route was not the one to take with this story, at least not one so heavy as I had initially started with. I got that out of my system with "Something Didn't Happen" and "Daria we have to talk."
I decided that something had to go on after the Homecoming events shown in "I Loathe a Parade," a hotly contested stretch of in time, I'm sure (I have no proof of this, since I so new to the biz). So I made the assumption, for continuity's sake, that "I Loathe a Parade" and "Of Human Bonding" took place within the same week. I also borrowed rather heavily from Daria's speech to Tom in DDMD, having her throw a different version of it in Jane's face. It makes sense, to me anyway, that a "low yield" version of that speech would have come out at some point in time.
I don't know what kind of reaction that readers are going to have to how I portrayed Daria's cutting loose while under the influence. It was an interesting experiment to come up with, I have to admit. I will also have to admit, as far as alcohol is concerned, I'm a lightweight in knowledge and resistance, and wouldn't know Texas Everclear from a pitcher of kool-aid. Which might just be a good thing, depending on how you look at it. As far as the very end goes . . . Well, I don't think that we ever found out weather or not that she didn't go back to Axl's, so who knows?
Well, that's enough of that, I think. Thank You one and all for reading my story.
Questions? Comemnts? Even better - a route to Lawndale??
Send 'em to Greystar@Hotmail.com
And Fan Art! I'd really love it if someone drew some fan art! Really!
Legal Drek: Daria and her cohorts are property of MTV and Viacom
This story is Copyright March, 2003
