The liquid spilled over onto the floor, and Danielle's eyes were shut tight. She had her teeth clenched behind her lips. The blood that came out of her arm stained her skin. "That's what happens when I bleed," she said.

Mordecai was spooked. Danielle's face showed pain, that she hurt. Her blood was black, and to show Mordecai, she cut herself. "Why did you have to cut yourself?" Mordecai whispered. "Because," she said. "I'm weird."

Danielle wrapped her wound in bandages and lied back on her bed, with her legs hanging over the bedside. "So, we might as well take off." Danielle said. "What are you?" Mordecai said loudly, completely changing subject. "Huh?"

"Your blood. It's black. Your hair is blue, and your eyes are purple. You're starting to freak me out, Danielle. I need to know more about you in order to accept you."

"What do you care?" Mordecai could hear frustration in her voice. He made a mistake asking that. "Y'know, kid, it's hard enough being the way I am." She was walking toward him now. "People have been calling me a freak since the day I was brought into a crowd of people. No one ever liked me, and I'm starting to hate myself because everyone else does." Now she's yelling. "If you hate me so badly, why don't you kill me? No one will care. My parents dropped me off here." A tear strode down her cheek. "I have no family and NO friends. I thought I would be able to trust you, but apparently not!". She was crying now. Mordecai felt terrible. "I'm sorry, I just...reacted like that. I didn't know what to...I-" Mordecai was interrupted by Danielle's lips touching his.

She pulled away and slid open the glass door, picked up her knife, and jumped.

"DANIELLE!" Mordecai screamed. "Why did you do that?!" A tear soaked into his mask. He peered over the balcony. She was perfectly fine. "Oh, one more thing. My kind can jump unbelievable heights."

"You asshole..." Mordecai grumbled. Danielle just laughed. Mordecai went down the elevator to get to her. When he got out, sure enough, she was right there. She smiled and put her head on his shoulder. He put his arm on her back. "You, ma'am, are one arrogant girl." Mordecai picked her up. "Mordecai!" She laughed. She knew for sure now. She loved him.

Mordecai carried her into the building they used as a shelter earlier. Her gun was right there in the middle of the floor. He let her down and she ran to pick it up. "My gun..."

Danielle picked up the gun and ran outside. Mordecai picked up Bloodwing and took his gun. They shot a few bandits and skags as they ran, not really to a specific destination, but running wherever. They found a ditch that was absolutely HUGE. It looked like a dried out lake. There were dead bodies and such there, and towers all around it. It seemed almost like an enemy base, but almost vacant. Danielle hopped into the ditch with her gun in hand. Bloodwing followed her, and Mordecai noticed. Bloodwing was starting to like her, which is a good sign. Mordecai followed close behind her. She looked at him, winked, then shot a bandit in the throat. "What are you?" Mordecai whispered to himself.

Danielle crawled her way deeper inside the ditch, finding nothing but blood and sand. "Boring!" She joked. "Isn't there anything useful in this godforsaken ditch?!" Mordecai rolled his eyes. "Do you you hear yourself? It's a ditch, Danielle. What useful object would you find here?" Danielle shrugged and kept walking. The ditch was at least three miles long, and ten feet deep. They're gonna be walking for a while.

Mordecai got bored and starting throwing rocks at the towers' windows. He didn't hit any of them; they were too high. He threw one, and it hit a bird. The bird fell to the ground with a loud SKWAAK! Mordecai started cracking up. Danielle was way ahead of him, and had to stop to wait up. She put a hand on her hip and rolled her eyes. "Mordecai, are you coming?" She said, frustrated. "Yeah," he replied, trying not to laugh at the same time.

It had been hours walking in the ditch before Mordecai actually had to kill something, a mere fly. It was deserted out there. Danielle was so bored. Mordecai and her didn't talk for hours. She didn't know what to talk about. She didn't want anymore of that personal life bull. She looked up at the sky. Too much more time till sunset. She sighed and wiped her forehead.

Danielle got thinking. About Mordecai, about the ditch, and about the girl she almost befriended in school. She knew her name, but couldn't remember it. It had been too long. She tried to remember her face, and that started to ring a bell. She remembered she looked strange like herself. She had different skin. Not different colored, different patterned. She thought of her face, then she finally got it. "Mordecai?" She started. "What?" She looked over to him. "Do you know anyone named Lilith?"

"Yeah. Why?" He said, surprised. That name, the siren? Was that who she was talking about? The siren that always ditched him and stole his weapons? "Well, she was the girl in school that never made fun of me." Danielle said. Mordecai was confused. She wasn't that kind of person. She was never 'nice' to him. "Really?" Mordecai said. "Just a quick question, was she a siren?" Danielle nodded and said, "Yeah."

The sun had finally started its way out of sight. The sky started to get darker. Danielle stopped walking, and sat down on a large rock. "God, it's so hot." She complained. Mordecai leaned on his gun and said, "That's pandora for you." Danielle looked back over to the towers. There was something looking through the window on the left tower. She nudged Mordecai's shoulder, not breaking eye contact with the window. Mordecai looked over to it too, and saw it walk away. He shook her shoulder, and said, "We might want to run."

As soon as Danielle stood up to run away, a gunshot flew by her and cut her sleeve. She ran faster. The bullets kept coming from either tower. "Mordecai!" She screamed with a crack in her voice. He was ahead of her, and couldn't hear her. The bullets came faster, more bullets too. The bullets seemed to come from sentries, and they were on the very tops of the towers. Danielle wanted to know what was operating the sentries. Almost as if they read her mind, bandits spilled out of the doors.

She couldn't run anymore. She was exhausted. Her gun was weighing her down, too. She picked up her gun and started to shoot at the bandits that were chasing after her. She hit one in the neck, killing him instantly. She hit another in the arm, sending him into pain and hysteria. Then right at the wrong moment, she ran out of bullets.

She tossed her empty gun on the ground, not having enough time to reload. She'd come back for it later. Mordecai started to shoot at the bandits himself, hitting only six. Oceans of them kept piling out of the doors of the towers. Finally, one bandit hit Danielle in the leg. She had her arm outstretched to Mordecai, who had his back turned. She screamed his name once more before she fell to the ground.

"Danielle?" He said, stopping. He turned around and saw her on the ground. His expression changed from shocked to agitated. He took his scope to his eye and fired away at the bandits. He sniped all of them.

Mordecai ran over to Danielle, who was shot in the leg and her shoulder. The black liquid was spilling out of both wounds, staining her clothes and the floor. "Mordecai," she said quietly. "I want you...to have...this..." She reached into her boot and pulled a chain out. There was a black, sharp crystal on the end. "It's my amulet. I want you to have it." "I'm not leaving you here," Mordecai said grabbing the amulet out of her hand. He put it in his back pocket. He picked her up and started shooting at the bandits and windows. "i swear to god, Danielle. Don't you dare die!." Mordecai said as he shot. Danielle held her shoulder. "I don't die, Mordecai. That's how I roll."