Hello readers. Thank you so much for waiting for this next chapter. I hope you all like it, please read and review. I do not own any of the Sailor Moon Characters however, the story line and title are mine… please, lets keep it that way? I have decided to add other couples to this story as well that I will touch base on now and then. In this chapter I would like to delve into the lives of one of my favorite couples simply because when I was younger and notice their romance I thought it was utterly impossible, over the years I've matured and though feel very confident in my sexuality I know others are different or unsure. This chapter is not only here to continue my story but to show that I support those different from me… and you should NOT be ashamed. Love touches everyone no matter who you love, how you love, or why you love… it touches everyone. Embrace it and cherish it when you feel it… don't let anyone tarnish it or make you feel bad because you might not be like them. Love is always precious no matter what shape it takes…
Your humble serving author,
Pearl Knight
Whenever there is something that shouldn't happen, something horrible and dark that fills a pure heart with the tightest grip of pain… it rains… The theory of emotion in nature… and now was no exception. The sky reflects the dark intensions of a sinister man… the streets are empty as the heavens, if you so believe in them, watch darkness outstretch its sullied hand towards the tired wings of a angel… Seiyas' outstretched hand held small droplets of water from the angry sky crying tears reflecting her pain. She stared at the hand wondering if perhaps the rain will stop. Or would the clouds crash in disdain…
"Let me show you that I can be more then I was Serena" His voice was smooth and powerful in her mind as her eyes drooped closed… lonely and pained she wanted nothing more but to press herself into warmth that she can enjoy and hide within… he seemed so inviting as he knelt before her unafraid of the cold wet cement that she had fallen to in her fit of upset… "Let me love you like I should have in the very beginning."
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Darien screamed her name again looking in horror all around for the women that had so easily slithered into his heart.
"Serena! Please, answer me!" Darien pushed his ebony hair away from his face trying to get a clear view of his surroundings. He couldn't believe he had been so blind! Sighing, Darien leaned his weight against the wall of a building as the water fell harshly on his warm skin, the cool droplets hitting like small needles against his form.
"Darien!" The small feminine voice of Rei seeped slowly into his conscious mind. "Have you found her?" Rei and Andrew stopped next to him out of breath from their brisk search.
"I can't find any signs of her at all. It's like she disappeared." Darien pressed his palms to his eyes in frustration trying to block out the world. Why him? Why her? Rei rested her hand on his shoulder to comfort him as she cast her violet gaze across the road to a small light blinking through a window… it was a fireplace… her pupils dilated suddenly and she started to approach the window as if in a dream… the world faded away as she came closer the sounds of the rain died, the color turned grey… and the fire danced.
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Seiya felt her small cold shivering body press to his for the first time in so long. His eyes closed and his arms gripped her form to him like life itself catching him seconds before death. She cried softly but no one would know thanks to the rain… no one would care… Serena thought bitterly on the ones she assumed cared for her… they were not the ones to come to her now… they left her… they would always leave her… Seiya had tried to warn her long ago when she still was his… but she didn't believe him then.
"Hush, don't cry Serena… I'm here for you and I always will be…" He rubbed her arms to warm her. "Come home with me and let's get you dry and warm." She hesitated on that… she looked up into his eyes… she knew those eyes… so much pain came with them. His eyes looked so much like Darien's right now… Darien's smiling face appeared in her minds eyes… his warm inviting smile…
"I don't think I'm ready to go home alone with you Seiya." Her voice was soft as she gained control of her tears her emotions once attacking her now calmed in memory... "I think its best if I went back home,"
"To him," Seiya interrupted his voice suddenly disconcertingly cold his form was stiff and his gaze pierced hers; "to them?" he amended quickly, "Why? What have they done but hurt you?" Serena paused, he was toying with her mind again this was a lie they only did this once… and she never gave them a chance to talk to her… to explain… they don't hurt her over and over…
"You have too Seiya… they at least deserve a chance to explain themselves…"
"As I do? Are you going to give me a chance Serena?" He towered over her now standing to his full height. She suddenly felt like a rabbit staring into the eyes of a wolf..
"Seiya… I don't know…"
"I do…"
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Darien said her name twice with no response. Andrew told him she was getting a vision…
The flames danced before her morphing their bodies and showing her a story… a story of a women… the flame moves in painful steps to a melody of mournful cries… the pain was powerful… the flames became bodies… a man… a women… reds faded to solid grey…. To cracked dry… a tunnel forms in her minds eyes… it clears… now she sees….
"An ally" Rei spoke in a distant voice as if to herself. The fire screams… no it's the women… in the ally… she's being hurt… why is she hurting? "Stop hurting… please" it's ringing in her ear so loud. "Stop I don't want to hear it…" 'DARIEN' it screams. "DARIEN" she echo's in the fires voice…
"Serena!?" Darien grabs Reis' shoulders the voice having erupted from her mouth being the object of his current fears. "Were is she?" Rei looked deeper to the fire as the screams enveloped her, the emotion of the fire bloomed in her chest like a solid iceberg of pain and fear. Her vision swirled and she saw what the fire saw… she became one with the flames…
"Seiya stop please! You're hurting me! Let me go!" Andrew stepped in as tears fell down her cheeks, turning her from the fire breaking her contact with it… she sobbed against him quaking with fear, "Seiya has her in the ally off Rio Street" Darien was gone before she could continue… "He's going to hurt her Andrew. He has to get there before he lashes out…"
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Serena watched him with surprise as he snatched her hand up.
"I know exactly what will happen! He'll shower you in words, pretty words about himself, and you'll fall for it! He'll seduce you and leave you with nothing!" he pulled her to her feet and she let out a chocked sob as her wrist made an interesting 'pop' sound. An accident her brain screamed just like it used to… falling into step with an old habit, making excuses for him…
"Seiya stop!" her voice cracked slightly, raw with emotion… he pulled her off balance and shoved her against the wall of a small ally far enough in to be out of sight to passer by's. He pinned her body with his own.
"He'll ruin you… but I wont let him Serena because your meant to be mine… you understand don't you? I don't want you to be hurt by him anymore… I already hurt you enough you deserve happiness now!" his hands moved to hers and he forced her to open her palms slowly inch by inch she slowly collapsed her will to him until his figures laced with hers… why did he always win?
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Amara watched as her brother ran past her like a bat out of hell. "Darien!?" dropping her umbrella she gave chase…
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Amy sighed as she gave up… she would never find Serena…
"Are you alright?" Amy looked up into soft gentle eyes.
"Um, yes." The man before her let his umbrella cover her as well.
"My name is Zoicite"
"I'm Amy" she blushed softly "I'm looking for a friend of mine… she has really long silver blond hair and,"
"I saw her… she ran towards Rio Street almost a half hour ago…"
"Really!?," Amy looked around as if she would find Darien on cue, "I need to go!"
"Wait, I'll escort you."
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Michelle watched as Darien, Amara's brother, ran by… followed closely by Amara.
"Interesting…" Michelle blushed at just the site of the beautiful women… quickly making up her mind she snatched up her coat and ran out of her lonely home to follow…
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"Let her go." Darien growled out finally rounding the corner. Seiya looked at him with eyes that could kill… Serena looked as well her body language reading fatigue. Slumped against the wall so she seemed liable to break any second now…
"She came to me because of you." Seiya spoke calmly now that they had an audience. He never released her hands
"Liar!" Darien was restrained by Amara and shortly after Michelle as well. Serena winced at his obvious desire to hurt Seiya.
"Micha?" (pronounced mee-sha)
"He's violent isn't he Serena?" Darien froze at his words. "Keep in mind what I said… I've changed… I just want you to be happy…" Seiya leaned in then eyes on Darien the whole time… the smug look in his eyes made Darien growl almost inhumanly. Amara wanted nothing more then to let Darien loose… but he wouldn't stop till there was serious injury… it would only serve to scare Serena more… Serena winced as he came so close… he placed a kiss upon her cheek and left without another word… Serena stared at the ground for a moment before turning teary blue eyes towards the three at the mouth of the ally.
"Serena?" Amara made a move to approach her, "Are you alright?" Serena stepped back slightly.
"I'm not sure… I'm so confused… I don't… I don't know what's going on." Amara moved to go to her… Darien intercepted… His were the arms to offer her comfort… real comfort… so much warmer and safer then Seiya.
"We didn't mean to make you feel alone Serena… come on… let me show you." He lifted her in his arms bridal style and carried her out of the ally pausing only to glare one last time at the area Seiya slithered away. 'I wont let you have her again Seiya… she WILL be happy… with me'
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Seiya watched them go… She was his love… She wouldn't stay with him… He'll see Serena will come back to him… She is just confused… but not for long. Seiya smiles ruthlessly.
"I'll take you back Serena, whether you like it or not. I'm going to have you inside and out…" Seiya sat back surrounded by photo's of the small blond imagining things that no one had a right to imagine… wanting things that no man had a right to want… save a husband… or a lover… he dosed off to thoughts of her screaming both in pain and pleasure… the question is… which brought him the most satisfaction?
AMAMAM
Amy met up with them at the restaurant… everyone was there… Serena couldn't have been happier…
"Would you like to join me for coffee?" Zoicite smiled softly at the shorter women… her blue eyes looked stunning with the gentle blush that spread across her cheeks… she pushed shining blue hair from her eyes and nodded softly.
"Zoicite its been forever!" Darien and Andrew greeted the man with familiarity. The end of the day filled them with warmth… Amy stood beside Serena, "Serena?"
"Amy, I feel something inside of me that I can't really explain…"
"Let it grow." Amy smiled as she followed Serena's gaze toward Darien.
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Rei leaned in and whispered to Andrew, "Something isn't right… I still feel the effects of my vision…"
"Maybe it just affected you more then you thought it would."
"Do you think Serena is still in danger?" Darien looked to the women in question to find her watching him with an odd look upon her face.
"I'm not so sure that what I saw… had anything to do with today Darien… I think it was farther into the future…" Darien looked to Rei then back to the object of his concerns…
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Darien smiled as Serena bounced from table to table making sure the food was to everyone's liking… she was the perfect waitress and their restaurant had shot right up to 'the place to be'. He wondered if she realized just how beautiful she was in her black mid-thigh length skirt and white blouse… the strappy black heels… the long legs… the…
"Darien!" Leada glared at him, "head out of the clouds and in the soup! Is it good or not!?" Darien chuckled and tasted it… as usual.
"It's perfect." Darien caught, out of the corner of his eyes as Serena tended the bar area, a man reach out and grab her tail end. "OUT" he bellowed as he stood and stormed over, "This isn't a strip club and you will not touch the waitresses, get out. You can try again next week, if you do it again; you're gone, for good, leave now!" Andrew laughed as he sipped his drink and Serena scampered off. "Don't laugh Andrew!"
"Darien why don't you just tell her how you feel? Better yet! Why don't you just stop having her be a waitress? Just fire her then you wouldn't have so many issues… I half expect 'Next Contestant' by Nickelback to start playing every time I'm here!"
"Fire me?" they both met big watery blue eyes, "I didn't lead him on, I promise!"
"No Sere, your fine. He was being sarcastic." Darien glared at Drew. Leada popped out happily with a bowl of her soup for Serena… the smile was washed away in seconds.
"Your creepy shadow is here." Leada looked pointedly at the door to Seiya waiting to be seated.
"Its ok Darien, I'll seat him." Serena spoke softly. "I can show him I'm happy here with all of you." Serena smiled up at him and his heart melted… "He can't hurt me when I'm with all of you." Her eyes never left his as she spoke. He watched her as she smiled politely while refusing causal conversation with the man of her nightmares… she sat him and handed him his menu.
"How are you Serena?"
"I'm fine thank you. Can I start you off with a drink?"
"Have they been treating you well?"
"I love working here,"
"Stop it Serena, you know what I mean." He clenched the menu.
"I'm sorry I couldn't help but notice the tension," Michelle smiled warmly at them both; "I think I can wait this table Serena, you still haven't gotten your lunch break." Serena thanked her quietly and left hastily… Seiya watched her retreating form.
"Don't get in my way Bitch."
"Don't get in his fool." Seiya stood his face close to hers.
"He won't have her."
"He already does." Michelle slapped him as he pressed her to the pillar behind her. He simply grinned.
"I hope she has as much spunk as I'm sure you do…" he leaned his mouth next to her ear "when I bed her." He left before Darien had a chance to notice what was happening.
"You'll never know." He knocked a glass onto the floor letting it shatter on his way out.
"I wont let him get away with touching you like that again Michelle… don't ask me to stand back again." Amara rounded the pillar holding tightly to a knife.
"The sadist has no idea the danger he is in if he crosses the line…"
"A sadist's love… pitiful." Amara's eyes roam Michelle's' form a moment. Someday… someday Amara will admit to her best friend that she has much deeper feelings…
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Michelle felt Amara's eyes move over her and wished silently it wasn't just friendly concern for her… she wished she had the strength to tell Amara the truth… Michelle turned to the tall blond women and smiled softly.
"You're such a good friend Amara… thank you for protecting me…"
"The first week went well…" Amara started to head back towards the kitchen. "You should turn off the open sign… it's already 9:30" Michelle watched her go her long golden hair swaying behind her… she is such a beautiful women… Michelle went through the closing motions cleaning with the other waitresses… one by one they finished and left save Mina in the back office and of course Leada with Amara in the kitchens… Serena retreated last with Darien and Andrew on each side… how hard its been for her… Michelle smiled softly, how lucky you are Serena, she thought, to have him… just don't forget to let him know.
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Amara cleaned one pot after another talking lightly with Leada.
"You should tell her Amara." Amara caught the pot just in time before it hit the floor.
"I don't know what you mean."
"Yes you do…you should tell her." Amara sighed softly and stopped cleaning.
"She wouldn't understand… I don't know what I would do Leada… if she stopped being so close to me… If I ruin what I have with her already."
"But what if you could have more?" Leada came around the strip of 4 ovens she uses to get to the cleaning area… "What if she feels the same?"
"She isn't gay Leada…" Amara grumbled…
"Are you sure?" Amara paused "Has she ever been with a man? Been away from you?" Leada hugged her from behind. "Amara you and I have been friends for a long time… and I've watched you hide for so long… be true to yourself and maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised…" Amara closed her eyes almost pained.
"I don't want to lose her"
"But wouldn't you like to gain? Wouldn't it be better if the secret was out and you could be honest with her?" Mina stepped out of the office finally done with all of the monetary business Andrew asked her to look over for him. Amara looked to her unsure but determined.
MIMIMI
Michelle sighed softly and turned on her heel happy to head home… maybe tomorrow… maybe tomorrow she would tell her… The uniform that she and the other waitresses had to wear was a bit breezy but she had to admit it looked good… Michelle turned to head through the park as she always did and started to wonder how exactly she could do this…
"Amara," She practiced, "I don't think I will be around so much, you see, I've fallen in love… with someone… and…" She shook her head and sighed softly. Being around her is painful… to know she can't be with her… Michelle turned to look at the fountain…
"Evening Michelle." Michelle turned to late and received a swift fist to the jaw… delicate flesh instantly reddened and started to swell as her deep sea blue/green hair splayed out on the ground around her where she fell. "You shouldn't talk to people so rudely." The voice was male… a man was beating her? As a foot connected with her stomach spots burst into her vision her whole body convulsed in pain. She heard a scream it was so shrill and pained… her throat started to hurt and close up… that was when she realized the scream had ripped itself from her very own throat… the man laughed.
"Music to my ears."
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"There all done." Mina smiled.
"That was fast." Amara, instead of faking a light feminine tone let out her natural deep female voice… more masculine however decidedly female… so long as you know she is. She ran her pale hand through her now 3 inch long blond hair… soft smooth… and short. Leada grinned at her.
"Go get her tiger!" Amara blushed and left hastily. Mina turned her cornflower blue eyes on Leada's emerald orbs.
"They will be very, very happy."
"I know… they waited way to long if you ask me…" the two finished the kitchen and retreated home at a leisurely pace.
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Darien waved Andrew off as he started singing childish songs about a certain two individuals k.i.s.s.i.n.g.'ing in a tree… and returned to the living room… he wouldn't mind if the songs were true… is that so wrong? Serena smiled as she pushed in I AM LEGEND to watch together.
"Are you up for it Darien?" a chance to cuddle up to the blond beauty in a darkened room on the couch?
"Heck yeah" he couldn't wait… the restaurant had been a surprise but next week was the real kicker… a house… the apartment they were in now right above the restaurant that used to be a bar would be turned into a lounge… and they would be living in the house that was just finally finished… She wouldn't have moved into someone home… he made one just for them…
MIMIMI
Michelle looked up hazily as he knelt down but she couldn't make out his face… he spit on her.
"You think people can't tell the truth about you?" he back handed her, "Everyone can, a beautiful women like you… never taking a man? The way you look at her… we can all see it. You're disgusting. She'll never want you! You're a freak!" Michelle felt her tears rise up in her eyes… a freak… a freak… "Amara would want a man, a real man that can satisfy her every need… like you never will." Those screams again as he strikes her… that girl lying on the ground she's screaming… can't someone hear her screaming?
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Chills ran up her spine as the scream ripped through the air bouncing around on every single molecule just to attack her ear drum repeatedly till every ounce of sanity escaped her mind. She was in trouble! Amara followed the sound it lead the exact path Michelle would walk home… the park… Amara told her never to walk the park alone! A man was up ahead… he was dancing? No… kicking… no… no…NO
The man never saw it coming... He ran… bloodied and surprised… Amara's fist stung with the amount of power she put in her punch… but when he ran she chose to tend to Michelle instead of give chase...
Amara pulled her into her lap. This couldn't be happening! Why? Why would anyone want to hurt her!?
"Please…" her voice is weak… "Please, help me sir…" Michelle looked up at the man leaning over her. He seemed to glow in the night… he looked like her angel… just like her but he wasn't… his hair was wrong; to short… his voice as he responded wasn't that light tone…
"I won't let anything happen to you, I'm sorry I wasn't there… I was late… I'm always late… I should have told you all along… Michelle please!" Her eyes had been drifting closed… but the man said her name… but the tone it went shrill to her angel's voice…
"Michelle! Look at me please!" She did… thank God she did… This man…. This wasn't a man… it was her angel…
"Amara? Is that you?" Michelle reached towards her face, 'freak', she pulled back as if burned. "You couldn't have known Amara… you're such a good friend…" her disguise.
"No I'm not!" Amara pulled her up closer pressing their bodies together. "I'm not at all! I lied, about everything!"
"Amara?" She lifted Michelle into her arms and walked as she spoke seemingly effortless… she never told Michelle she lifts weights…
"I don't worry cause you're my best friend, I don't care about what food I eat for dinner I care about what you like so I pretend to be picky just like you, I don't need to know peoples astrological sign to fulfill any hobby I just wanted to make sure I knew your birthday, I don't like classical music I just wanted to make sure you thought I loved it so you would ask me every time to be your date when you go to shows you're invited to cause of your violin playing. I don't enjoy chic flicks I just love the fact that if I pretend to start crying you would hold me and I can get closer to you. I don't like shopping I just," Amara blushed, "I liked the fact you would say 'lets just share a dressing room, we ARE both girls' cause I wanted to see YOU." Michelle listened with wide eyes never realizing Amara had brought them to her house. "I don't do the things I do to be friends with you! I don't want to be your friend! I want to be your lover! I've loved you for so long I can't remember not loving you! I want you like no friend should want someone! Please Michelle don't leave me because of this… if you don't feel this way, if you cant just please let me love you from a distance… let me keep as I have been.. I won't cross any lines… I won't touch you… just let me see you, hear you… let me pretend now and then I can have you… I would die if I can't at least have that…" During this confession Amara was already treating her wounds with surprising ease… Amara, being her, fights often… she knows exactly how to help her… she's had this happen to her many times…
"Amara… all this time…"
"Just tonight Michelle… let me pretend one more time…" Amara was staring in shame at the floor for a moment before starting to tend to Michelle's stomach wrapping it to help support while the bruising heals… she knew Michelle would send her away but… not yet… please… "Let me be your hero for tonight and pretend… for just a little while… that I can have you…" Amara turned her eyes on her… large and watery filled with a mixture of shame, frustration, and need… Michelle took her hand and sat up slowly. "No you need to lie down." Michelle pulled her with sudden strength wrapping her legs around Amara's full hips.
"Don't pretend Amara… let me give myself to you… like I always dreamed…" Amara, mindful of Michelle's wounds wrapped her arms around her slowly and pressed close…
The lights went out in Amara's home but a fire burned that would never go out…
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Darien sat comfortably in the living room watching Serena from the couch. He was sipping his drink he made downstairs at the bar he wasn't sure how many he had… or her… 'Her'… She was moving about the kitchen happily cooking just like Leada taught her. Snacks according to Serena were a must for the movie… Darien stood slowly and made his way to the doorway.
"Serena?" His voice was hesitant and slow deliberately saying each syllable of her name avoiding a slur.
"Yes?" She turned her head to look at him over her shoulder. He had never seen something so beautiful… shorts a tang top slightly mussed meatball styled hair and no makeup… a goddess… he moved towards her slowly silent…
Serena didn't understand the look in his eyes but for some reason her heart seemed to… it responded in a instant. Her ears thrummed with the sound of her quick heart rate.
"Darien?" in a instant he was before her… he tilted his head slightly and started to lean forward. She watched his eyes as they slowly closed and comprehension hit… he was going to kiss her… "D-Darien…" She dropped the spoon she was using to stir the slow melting marshmallow chocolate mix into the pot on the stove and backed away quickly. Darien let his eyes open at her shaky voice… her eyes were wide with apprehension.
"Serena…" She looked about as he moved in towards her again
"Darien, you should get some nachos going!" She started to turn to the fridge but he grabbed her elbow. Darien pulled her around and pinned to against the counter. Before Serena could say another word, his lips were crushing hers… he enveloped her body in his arms pressing her close kissing her deep and thorough and to his utter amazement, she kissed him back… until smoke filled the oven area.
"Oh no!"
Alarms went off at Darien's house that night… and they never saw the eyes of dark intentions on them… every step of the way…
Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. I now have a great job that I have a bit of time between tasks to write… so expect nice long chapters! I would like to get started on a new story but I can't make up my mind for a good strong plot… if anyone has ideas I can play with mix and match to make another Pearlized story toss them my way… See you soon I hope!!
Your humble serving author,
Pearl Knight