Okay, I'm sorry for the delay in updates! Life's been crazy! VERY, VERY Crazy!! But, thank you so much for sticking with me, I appreciate it! And, the next chapter should wrap all of this nice gooey mess up, so I hope you enjoy, and thanks for sticking with me!

Chapter Seven:

Revelations

Trunks's POV

I went into the office calmly enough, I guess. I had, after all, had years of lessons on composure from my father, so it wasn't really hard to stay calm. What was the hard part was not beating him black and blue right there, right then. But, if he was to help my precious Serenity, then I could not have him broken, however much I wanted to brake him into millions of pieces. Moving on...

I waited for him to look up from his papers, to make some sign that he knew somebody was in there with him, to make the first move, but he did not.

It took all of three seconds for my impatience to turn to boiling blood. I loathed this man more than I had or have loathed anyone or anything on this planet, and more than I will ever loathe any one thing again in my life. I could feel the heat of cold, hard hatred radiating off of me, and I was slightly surprised he didn't notice it sooner.

He finally seemed to sense my presence and looked up. His eyes held a mixture of animosity, fear, loathing, disgust, hatred, just to name a few. "Get out of my office now!" he yelled, standing up and pointing towards the door of his office.

I stood firm, shoving my own feelings down, and somehow manged to get out as calmly as I could, and yet my voice still shook with surpressed rage. "Serenity and I need your help,"

"No," he said simply, refusing point blank, his dark eyes boring into my own.

I held his glance. I wasn't afraid of him; quiet the opposite. Here he was, a spineless shell of a man, and he was challenging me. Oh, we shall see how well this ends, but later. I fear if I do anything to him now, I shall lose all that I hold dear.

I repeated my plea with a little more firmness, urgency and all that, and he still refused, so, I lost it. I have absolutely no idea what was going on with MY Sere, and quite frankly, the thougth scared me to death. Time was of the essence, and he was wasting it like the fat toad I'm convinced he was in another life. I pushed him up against the wall. "I will not have my wife and unborn baby die just because you hate me," I hiss so viciously I almost scare myself, and my face inches from him. I can feel him cringe from the heat of my gaze. "I promised Serenity the best doctor around, and I know none better than you. So, either you will come willingly, or unwillingly, it makes no difference. But you will come."

I was starting to feel a little desperate, like one of those crazed homeless hobo's, and I think he knew this, because he sighed. "Fine,"

I let him go and he gathered his stuff and off we went, even in a horse and buggy.

I looked out the window, my heart pounding in my chest, a knot forming in the pit of my stomach, and a lump in my throat as I tried to keep my emotions in check. Even still, I could feel a cold tear trickle down my cheek.

"What seems to be the problem?" he asked calmly, looking out the window.

I shook my head. "I don't know," I replied. "She just suddenly went into labor,"

"How far along is she?"

I sighed. "Almost seven months," I replied, starting to feel a little hopeless.

"Was she under any stress?" his tone was chilly now, as if somehow I had caused her to go into labor prematurely.

I glared at him. "No," I said defensively. "I've been doing everything in my power to keep her stress-free, and off of her feet."

"I see," he replied, then looked at me. "You know, Trunks, ever since that rehearsal dinner, I've been meaning to tell you what happened. WHY things turned out the way they did. Why Mina hurt you the way she did, and why Serenity went back to you."

I frowned. Because she loves me, you dolt! went through my mind, but I had enough presence of mind not to say it. "I'm listening."

He sighed. "It's a long story, but we have time,"

Flashback

Endymion's POV

I stood, rooted to the spot, and looked at Mina in shock. I knew she was mean, I knew she was evil, but I NEVER had imagined her capable of something like that. All those lies she spun, and what she had said about Trunks. My head was reeling.

I watched as Trunks left the rehearsal, and then turned to Serenity, and my heart broke as I saw the expression she wore. An angel should never wear such an expression, and to see one on her, ripped my heart out of my chest.

Now, I know that I've not been the best to Serenity. I'll be the first to admit that I have been horrible to her, and that I don't deserve her, or anyone near her caliber. And the only one person I know that truly deserves her has just left, probably for good.

I turned to Mina, eyes blazing, my soul trembling with the events of what had just happened. "What did you do?" I asked her, voice sounding, cold and harsh. "What did you do?"

She spun 'round to me. "Something that should have been done a very long time ago!" she spat, glaring right back at me. "She never should have been allowed to be with him! It should have been me! I deserve the best, not her! I've worked for the best, she's had everything hand-fed to her, because she's the BABY and-"

"Shut your mouth!" I yelled, startling her into silence. "You are nothing but a self absorbed brat, and your the one who has had everything handfed to you. Your older sister babies you, and makes Serenity feel awful about something that you've done, Mina! If there is anything you deserve, it is misery, the misery that you have been bestowing upon the lives of your family and friends ever since you came into this world, and will contine to do so until you leave this world!"

I stormed out of the... whatever we were in, because, quite frankly, I was, and always have been, too preoccupied to notice a place, let alone a fancy seating area, especially when I had a mission in mind, one that I was hell-bent on accomplishing. Easier said than done, I could already tell, but I had to make my peace somehow, and I knew the only way I could do that was to try and convince Serenity to go back to him. He gave her hope, he gave her meaning to the miserable life with which she has been dealt. He didn't complete her, because Serenity would never NEED somebody to complete her; but, somehow, and I wish I understood how, he made her WHOLE. Whatever little things Serenity lacked, and there were very little things she lacked, he made up for them with his personality, with his being. They belonged to each other... Gracious, she even fit snugly into his arms, for heaven's sake. You can't tell me that that is not destiny somehow.

"Serenity!" I called to her, my voice echoing off of the empty street, and into every little corner that filled the alleyway's that stood between her and I. "Please, wait a moment."

She did not turn, she did not look at me, but still she stopped. That woman has unending patience, and her tolerance is above and beyond anything that I have ever seen. "What do you want, Endymion?" she asked, her voice cracking, and I relaxed the stance which I took, fully prepared for her voice to smack me as if a whole lumber mill had fallen on me. Quite the contrary, really. Her voice was not harsh, nor bitingly sarcastic, which I deserved, and nor was there any malice to it at all. The sound of her voice that came out of her mouth scared me the most. It was weary, tired and cracking, as if somebody had taken her fragile little body, porcelain like as it was, and tossed it from a second story window onto the sidewalk, where it shattered into millions of little shards upon the pavement.

"I wanted to talk to you for a moment...if I could?" I asked tentatively, taking a small, slow step towards her.

She slowly turned towards me, and I could now fully see the havoc that Mina had wreaked upon this poor girl. Her hair hung loosely into her face, and into her eyes, which were bloodshot and dull from crying. Her stature was no longer confident and straight backed, her demeanor was no longer chin-up, happy-go-lucky type, but had taken a somewhat zombie like curve. Standing before me was a shell of what Serenity had used to be, had been not only a couple of hours ago, and the thought scared the living daylights out of me. "Continue," she said in a quiet monotone.

I swallowed hard. "Serenity," I said softly, keeping my distance. "I know that I am probably the last person that you wish to see, or that you even want to talk to at the moment." I smiled sadly. "I have made such a mess out of things, and I do not blame you one bit for wanting to never see me again in your life. But," I looked at the ground for a moment, considering how to phrase this without her going into hysterics. "If there is anyway to rectify my mistake, and to help clean up the mess that I left in my wake, it would come in the form of a suggestion."

She looked at me, curiosity burning in her eyes. "And what might that be?" I was glad that her tone had lightened a tad. It was a lot less unnerving.

I could feel the corners of my lips pull up a bit, but it didn't reach my eyes, and it lasted for a fraction of a second. "You love him," I murmured softly, looking at her suddenly tense figure. "Don't give me that look, you know you do. And he loves you, too. It may take awhile for things to be okay again, but... go to him. I have no doubt of his feelings for you, Serenity. Go to him."

Serenity raised her eyebrow. "Go to him?" she laughed, her usually sweet, innocent laugh burned with bitterness. "You have to be joking, Endymion. He left more of a messy wake behind him than you did. He," her voice raised with intense anger, her eyes lighting up as if there was a raging fire behind them that longed for release. "He deceived me more than you ever could. He was the one that made the decision not to tell me who he was, though he had multiple chances to; I would not have cared! I-"

"Than what changed?" I asked softly, mourning every second of the hate burning in her eyes, held for the man that was just trying to protect her from the harsh world around her. He had done a better job than I ever could have. It hurts to realize how much his affection and love had cost him. "If you did not care then, what makes things different now? Serenity, I know better than anyone that you cannot stay mad at anybody for very long. Do not prolong his pain, or yours. You shall only be making yourself and him miserable, and it needn't be like that. If you go to him now, you shall stop the pain for both of you. You can end this hurt today, Serenity."

Serenity stood there, hopefully considering the words which I spoke. If anybody deserved her, it would be Trunks. I understand that now. There were times that I was resentful of him, and the affection that he and MY Serenity shared, but I soon came to realize that she was no longer MY Serenity, and that she was his, and would be until the stars fell out of the sky.

She slowly shook her head. "No," she whispered, her voice carrying on the chilly wind that had suddenly decided to make an appearance. "If he wishes to apologize, he will do so on his own. As for myself, I have nothing to say to him. Good night, Endymion." and with that, she strode away, not looking back.

I just shook my head, then looked up and called after her. "Than you are the one that does not deserve him, Serenity." I was surprised by the own venom in my voice. "If you are unwilling to accept him for something that was not his fault, than you do not deserve him in the slightest."

She just kept walking... Walking away from a future that I KNEW she could not walk away from for long. I KNEW that they were to be together, and I would make sure that happened.

End of Flashback

I looked at him as if he had grown thirteen heads or something. HE of all people cared if MY Serenity came back to me? In what weird, alternate time were we in?

Of course, it does make sense, I thought to myself, and it would explain a lot. However, I have a feeling that this carriage ride is only about to get stranger.

So, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I hope it was worth the wait, and all that jazz. The next chatper should be out soon, and it should, as aforementioned, wrap everything up. Just a warning, I shall try to mark it clearly, but mostly it will be a compilation of flash-backs from different people, mixed in with the story, so it may get confusing a bit. But I still hope you enjoy, and thanks for holding out with me! You guys are awesome!