A/N: I was in the car listening to Wonderland the Musical when I got this idea. I've been wanting to do a fic for each of the Sailor Soldiers' guardians and this song was just perfect.

Heroes - Wonderland the Musical (Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy)

Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation

Saeko Mizuno

Heroes

They were fighting again.

Ami could hear the angry words of her parents as she sat at a coloring table her father had gotten for her. The fighting was nothing new-they'd been at it off and on for weeks-but it still tore at Ami's heart. She could have ignored it most of the time if her father hadn't dragged her name into their arguments. He always yelled things about her mother killing the joys of childhood.

The hours move, the days go by

We wait for heroes to fall from the sky

Ami colored the surroundings of the beautiful white castle that came to mind any time she needed to think of something peaceful. Her drawing of the structure was a bit lopsided and squiggly, but she knew what it looked like all the same. She focused on the still pools of water that reflected the stars and the darkness of space as her mother shouted back at her father.

Ami scrunched her nose and drew the Earth as the castle's moon while her father cursed at her mother. She didn't want to hear their fighting. She wanted to be in the castle on the moon. She wanted to sit by the still pools and look at the reflections of space.

Ami's father told her mother that he didn't know why he married her anymore. And that somehow, without ever being home and seeing her daughter longer than an hour or two, she was turning Ami into a little clone of herself.

"It's all I can do to keep her believing in fairytales and castles on the moon!" he yelled.

Don't wait too long

To learn what's true

At that moment, Ami's hand stopped and she stared at the castle she'd been coloring. Her father had told her that anything could be real. It had certainly seemed real enough when she dreamt of it, but then…so had the dreams of being a princess on the planet Mercury. Nobody could live on Mercury, she knew, but a part of her had hoped.

"Only the truth can be real," Ami muttered resolutely to herself.

With a numb feeling in her heart, she put her crayons neatly into their box. Slowly, that numbness was overcome by anger towards her father. Quickly, she stood from the little plastic chair, almost knocking it over. She ran to the other side of her room and opened the door, then dragged the plastic coloring table out of her room. She didn't want it. She didn't want the lies her father had let her create and she didn't want the hurt he had caused her mother.

After she put the little plastic chair with the table, Ami closed the door. She'd made her decision and chosen her side. She chose the side that did not lie to her.

Slowly, Ami moved to her bed. She crawled under it and dragged a massive book into the open. One of her mother's medical journals. The day she decided she wanted to be a doctor, she'd taken it. The book was so large and heavy that she'd had to slide it the entire way, but she'd gotten it back to her room. Ami had planned on keeping it until she knew enough to understand it, but now she decided to just read it over and over again until she knew and understood ever bit.

She heard her father yell one last time and stomp into the hall. She heard him stop short at the coloring table. She even heard her door open and her father demand she look at him.

She ignored it all.

She let Suoh Mizuno beg her to look at him for a time before she finally and angrily relented. She pegged her father with an icy stare that froze him to his very soul.

"You don't even know what is still keeping you here," she repeated his last shout in and even, icy voice.

The world was frozen for a time in Ami's room. She ignored her father as his breathing tightened, and returned to the medical journal to ignore him once more. She heard him whisper something to her mother about poisoning his daughter and how there was no getting her back. She listened to her father storm out of the apartment, heartbroken and angry.

I promise…you be a hero for me and

I'll be a hero for you

The front door clicked shut and her father's footsteps faded away. Only then did Ami let go of the icy shield that came so naturally to let the tears fall. Her mother was quick to her side, weeping right along with the girl. Ami snuggled into her mother's embrace, trembling as her tears fell to the breast of the woman's scrubs.

Ami listened to her mother mumbling reassurances and calling her "Ami-baby" as she so often did. She took comfort in the words and in the special name that only her mother called her. Her father had tried to put a stop to it, saying that Ami was no longer a baby and that Saeko had been spending too much time at the hospital to not have noticed. It was a few days later that Ami had waited up for her mother after her father had fallen asleep. When Saeko walked through the door, Ami ran and hugged her legs and asked her to never stop calling her "Ami-baby".

Ami loved her mother with all her heart and she understood why she spent so much time at the hospital. Her mother was a hero who saved lives every day. It was grand to think of a building filled with heroes like her mother. Someday, Ami would be a hero, too.