Alright, it's rather abrupt, but I've decided this fic is through. Much of the direction of the plot was set to follow the tone of the last chapter, but that one didn't seem to be very popular. Therefore, I decided to end it with this. You'll notice that it's kind of an open ending, so I may write up some of the other scenes that never made it into this fic and post them as a series of one-shots or something.

Anyway, enjoy the ending, and thanks to those of you who stuck with me.

Pale hands buried in beautiful blond hair, a slim neck exposed. Fangs glinting in the eerie blue light. A mind invading hers, intoxicated with the scent of magic not seen for a thousand years, so thirsty. . .

A pulse slowing. Breathing stopped. Broken. Drained of the blood of the Moon that all vampires so craved. . .

"No. . . No. . . DAMMIT! NOT AGAIN! of all the bloody STUPID, IDIOTIC-"

"Yelling at yourself won't solve anything." Came the deadpan voice from behind him. Diamond whipped about to glare at Pluto.

"That's not me. I wouldn't be as stupid as that." He retorted irritably as yet another dimension crashed. While it was true that all dimensions formed some branches that were simply too unstable to remain (like the one where the Hero decided that it wasn't too dangerous to go alone after all), this dimension, his very favorite, had produced far too many.

Judging by the rate of the crashes, if something couldn't be done the entire branch would fall, and he would never see his Serenity truly happy. Then again, if his past self would just stop killing her. . .

He really should have known his past self was somewhere near her. He really, really should have suspected that the Prince of the Department of Mysteries would become as obsessed as he was the moment he met her.

Every bloody time his past self met the girl, the dimension crashed because he killed her, no matter what Diamond tried to do to stop him. Someone out there really, really hated him.

And most annoyingly, he couldn't seem to find a way to keep her away from him. As soon as the Ministry became involved in her life, as it inevitably did, he found her. Within a year, he always killed her.

"Face it." Pluto said darkly, "that dimension is an abomination. It cannot possibly succeed."

"No!" Snapped Diamond. "There is a way. There HAS to be a way."

Pluto sniffed. "That branch made it further than any of the others. If your past self doesn't kill her, her own powers do. Earthen magic and the magic of the Moon Kingdom cannot coincide in one body. That's why Prince Endymion was born without his power. He would have passed it to Small Lady, and that would have destroyed her."

"The wizard Severus Snape made it stable!" Diamond protested. "She was doing just FINE!"

The bottom of Pluto's staff smacked sharply against the unseen floor of the fourth dimension. "It wasn't stable and you know it. The methods he used were deplorable, dark. Her soul is too pure. If she ever survived to her seventeenth year she died when he was killed, or the warring magics within her destroyed them both. He bound them too closely together, but never close enough."

Diamond groaned, losing and unwilling to surrender. "But the possibilities are infinite! He could survive the battle! Somehow-"

"NO!" Pluto snarled. "Think for a moment. Once the laws of the universe are laid, the dominant form of matter selected and the laws of Physics written can they be broken? No! No, they cannot! Even infinity has its limits. Give. Up."

Another dimension crashed. Then two more. It seemed to him that she was right. Sailor Moon could not survive in the world of wizards, not when her father was the Dark Lord.

His vampiric past self killed her.

Her own powers overwhelmed her.

One of her father's many attempts to drain her succeeded, and he gained her powers for his own, or didn't.

Even something as mundane as the temperature on that October night.

Somehow, she never made it to eighteen.

And yet. . .

There.

Splitting off from the very beginning of the branch was a new direction, a new timeline. Diamond waited with bated breath, ignoring the destruction of its fellows as he watched Severus Snape duck and stun Sirius Black that night, running through the house to what remained of the nursery. He watched Snape lift the infants, both Serenity and young Potter, and vanish.

That had never happened before.

It gave him. . .hope.

(Bonus scene. Actually, this one sort of started this entire thing, so I can't leave it out.)

"It's not funny."

Diamond had a hand pressed to his mouth, shaking with laughter.

"I said it's not funny! This never would have happened in the proper time stream!" Pluto ranted angrily, hair disheveled as she gestured with her staff to the headline blaring from a projected image floating before them.

August 24, 2006

Pluto Demoted, No Longer A Planet

Diamond only laughed harder.

About the bonus scene. So, I was re-reading the Sailor Moon manga, when I happened to stumble across mentions of a couple of dates. I calculated that Crystal Tokyo should have been formed around the year 2000, hence Pluto would have never been demoted in "the proper time stream," but would be if Crystal Tokyo never happened.

Thanks again for reading this. I really did think I should end it before it went the way of the other versions, where I ran myself in such circles I just gave up. Hopefully I don't do that with my other fic. Ha. Anyway, keep a look out for some related one-shots.

Bye-bye!