Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon simple as that. Very Sad. :(

A/N= This is a sequel to Arrange Marriage.

Warning: Bits and pieces from the anime, manga & PGSM are mixed in this as it follows AM. lol there are just some things that I love about PGSM.

Thanks for checking this out. Please R&R. Criticism is welcome and encouraged. As well as "nice jobs" or "please update" as long as you mean it. Flames with "WTFH is this" or close to that will get you blocked. ^_^

Summary: Two years since Galaxia defeat but same arguments still happen, the same teasing and Rei has had enough. Memories resurface and what she proposes next will drastically change their lives. How can the Scouts fight something that is of this world? Can they save the most important person in Minako's Life?

Remember Me

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Ch. 0 Prologue

Dear Minako,

It has been two years since Usagi defeated Galaxia. Do you remember our past together yet as I have? Do you remember us in the Silver Millennium? The things we put each other through because we were scared to be alone. No, I was scared of being hurt again. You were happy as you were then never caring what I thought or felt. I lied so you could be happy and never have I hated myself more. I know you had other plans and I was nothing more than a dilemma for you as a leader and a partner. If I went back to that time knowing what I know now I wonder if I have the strength to let you go and be happy sooner like you deserved to be… The way I could never make you.

The "good times" I know were short a few but I remember now, the snowball fight all of us had on Mercury. Why did you have to show off so much on that trip? Getting yourself dumped in that snow drift. You laid there laughing so much after we pulled your butt out. You were so opened. What a rare sight that was for me to see back then. Ami laughed and Makoto shook her head and Serenity was so worried about you, I would bet anything that she thought you were going to die. And that one wonderful flight on Tenshi.

You knew that Serenity loved us both then. But- You- Do you still love her? That kiss…was it everything you wanted? I deluded myself in thinking that maybe, just maybe we had a chance at love. It is in the past as they say but even now I can't shake the feeling that I've made a huge mistake somewhere. That I'm still making a mistake that will never end unless I break or am gone from your life. Would you want that? Why couldn't you see how much I loved you?

There is something that I need to say to you although I doubt that you will believe me. I don't love her. I don't love Usagi in that way. I know everyone thinks that I do and even in the beginning I thought at first that I did too, but I know otherwise. She reminded me of you Minako. Her hair is lighter then your golden hair is. Her cobalt eyes are like your deep cerulean ones. You both could be twins if the world didn't know better. But I do know. I can have a productive conversation with you for more then five minutes about something important or something as silly as your red hair bow. You complain at times but your antics don't drive me completely crazy. Sometimes I think I could strange her with that odango hair of hers. You don't cry at the drop of a pin for something that… I don't even know what happened in the first place to start it. Where she is innocent, you hide your real self behind your innocence. I adore our princess but my love, my heart is forever yours.

On that far away night surrounded by the golden trees of Aphrodite at the top of that hill on Venus where we were laying in the tall grass with you by my side I promised myself that I would love you forever. Our wedding night meant the world for me. Ask me if I love you and the answer is: I do Minako. I still love you after all these centuries. I love you my princess of Venus, Goddess of Love. I still love you even though we have been reborn and died many times my feelings have never changed.

When we first met on the Moon when we were thirteen I was your Akima. I told you as I lay in your arms dying. Our last dance at the palace was so special. I was terrified that you would refuse but you said yes instead. But then I broke my promise that you were to be the one that could put their dagger in my back. Did you forgive me for that? Did you forgive me for not telling you who I pretended to have been all that time we were together on the moon? I hope you did. I hope, even if it was just a little, that you loved me back too. I want to look in your cerulean eyes and tell you Minako. Would you accept my feelings for what they are? Or would you become angry with me?

I... I am scared. Scared that you won't return my feelings. Scared that I will lose you as my best friend. That would be worse then death if I ruined that as well. I can have you this way at least right? As my best friend? I wonder if I should even give you this letter. I am so pathetic. This letter and my feelings will never come to light. I can't give you this letter. I don't want to lose you. I can't lose you.

I need to think. But I can't. The fire won't provide an answer to me on this. What will happen has been kept hidden from my eyes. Will I do the right thing? Since this letter won't find you I suppose I could put this in as well.

Minako, I think we all are stuck. Stuck in a cycle of comfort and security that if we lost it each of us would feel as if they were alone again. But none of us want to admit it. I am sure that if any of you knew what I am about to do, there would be no end to the war that is going to start. I wonder if everyone will listen. Or will everyone hate me again like in the Silver Millennium? I think this has to be done. We know in this time that we will always be with each other but I do wonder who we are on our own. Usagi brought us together again and it's great not to be alone anymore. You and I know that better then anyone. We need to grow though. But we can't if nothing changes.

Now, even though it shouldn't matter, I am able to understand why all of these feelings exist within my heart. Now I can make sense of everything that has been in my heart. Your martyr attitude, your unbearable cute stubbornness, the hostility you feel towards your mother that you tell me you don't always understand and my own anger for my father. In many ways we are reliving our past with our parents. Funny thought huh?

I suppose that I should finish this letter up. My heart and this useless piece could never convey to you all I feel. So… Maybe in time these feeling will wither and die. For your sake anyway. Although I doubt it.

Forgive me Minako. For everything. I hope we can meet again soon. I love you. I always will.

Your Lover Now and Forever,

Rei

P.S. Will you marry me Minako? I want to hear you say 'Yes!' even if only in my dreams.

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Minako stood from the box she was sorting and walked over to Rei's bed sitting down holding the letter in her hands as silent tears streamed down her face. She had never known. Never knew until it had been too late to do anything. She silently scoffed at herself. What a lie that was. She may never have known Rei's feeling in this time or the last but she had known her own. And she had the audacity to call herself Rei's best friend all this time.

How… becoming of her.

She knew her feelings. She had cried herself to sleep because of them for years now. Once she had remembered their past life the pain had been far worse. Artemis swore to the moon and back that if she ever gave him one more cat bath for not telling her sooner that he would never speak to her again. For a week he didn't too.

Again her pride got in the way and now the price had been fully paid.

She was a fool.

She should have stayed.

She should have trusted her heart.

She should have come back sooner.

She should have done something.

She should have used her Love-me-chains to tie Rei up while confessing her heart and soul to the stubborn senshi of fire then kissed the hell out of her.

Feeling that something is wrong Rei turned around from digging her things out of closet stood then walked over stand in front of her confusion written across her face. Amethyst locked with cerulean and Minako's tears fell faster.

Mina could help but notice those eyes. When Usagi had been missing long ago at that first senshi meeting at the shrine it had been those eyes that had captured her. So familiar but never quite right, to put a bad phrase to it. Could they ever hold the same expression she wore on their wedding night? The one she had that night?

Now her eyes were just as they had been on those last days on the Moon. Traces of love were nonexistent within those beautiful amethyst eyes. Void now of all emotions that tied them together as one. Searching carefully there was nothing there to let Minako know that Rei felt the same as she had then and hopefully somewhere in her heart still did.

She, Aino Minako, Goddess of Love and heir of Venus was still in love with Hino Rei.

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"Why Rei? Please tell me why this had to happen?" Minako's whole body shook.

Worried Rei knelt down enfolding her in warm embrace. "Minako-san what is the matter? I don't understand."

Minako laugh bitterly. The irony was just too much…

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Preview Ch.1

"I think we should break up."

"What!?" The group shouted at Rei.

"Rei why?" Minako soft voice pleaded with her not to do this.

Rei turned her head away her biting her lip in shame. "Because by us being together we're hurting each other."

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