Ficlet - Possibly Non-Canon

Darkstar sits in the shuttle with Mirage. The scenario they're running is long and boring and the Brazilian woman is bored. "I could be with my son. This is a waste of time."

Darkstar taps more commands into the computer, but is otherwise non responsive.

"No mention of your son? I know you have one."

"Pay attention to the thrust, Mirage. We're experiencing a 5% tilt and that could throw off our cloak."

"Pft, whatever." She adjusts the tilt. "It's just a simulation."

There's a glance and Donna stiffens a little, but doesn't say anything.

Mirage moves her head around her neck to remove some of the tension. "You were a lot more fun before, even if I was trying to kill you at first."

"Planet ahead," Donna notes keeping her expression hidden with her long hair. "Prepare for landing."

"Lighten up chiqua! Been trying to have a conversation of you for hours now and the best I get from you is 'planet ahead!' You know why our fearless hunky leader sent us in here, right? Team bonding and all that stuff." Her voice lowers to a purr. "He'd find more fun uses for this thing."

That gets a flicker of something. "I'm going to say this just once -" she says in a low voice. "Stay away from Roy." Not "Arsenal." Not even "Speedy" which she slipped up a few times with. Not even "our leader who flirts with every women except -"

Oh, ho. That got something. "Stay away? We're on the same team. You, me, him, and that cute boyfriend of yours."

Donna flips back her hair and so Miri can now see the anger in her eyes. "Yes. We all are. So it's ground rules time. Ground rule one? I will always try to save you despite everything. Second? Roy has enough problems right now without you."

"What did I do to you to get this treatment?! You have a rep for being all sweet and nice and I get full on bitch mode." Silence greets her. "This is because I seduced Dick, isn't it? You like him or something? Is that why you and Terry and him and -"

"You didn't 'seduce your boyfriend' from another miserable time and try to break him up from the girlfriend you didn't like." Donna snaps, turning to face her. "You raped my oldest, dearest friend under my roof while I slept! And, Gods help me, but if you were going to ruin someone's life due to your illusions you got lucky enough to pick the one that might even recover from the assault." She turns back to the controls, preparing the craft for an automated landing. "If I were an Amazon you would be dead. They have laws about what you did."

"Can't rape the willing -" Her smirk grows. Finally, she got some fire out of her! "Either of them."

That's it. Mirage finds her shoulders gripped in strong hands who aren't enhanced by the Darkstar suit but with the leveraged grip "sweet little Donna" has her in it doesn't matter much. "Touch either of them or harm that little girl and I'll kill you."

Miri assesses the other woman's cold eyes. "You're lying."

"Have you looked at my service record, Miriam?" she asks coolly. "I never learned how to lie - and whether it's an illusion or some other gone reality I am literally the mother of your nightmares." With that she lets go.

She rubs her shoulders. "What the Hell lady? What's what he does with a woman behind closed -" She sees Donna daring her to finish that thought. "...oh..."

The shuttle bumps once on landing. Donna turns on the "coms," not letting her eyes leave Mirage. "Landing successful. Exiting craft now." With that she walks out.