A Heart Mended

By Bashfulglowfly

Chapter One

Usagi could only cling to the wall as she stared in disbelief. Mamoru stood up and pulled on his jeans. Minako giggled and grabbed the throw from the back of the couch and wrapped it around her naked body. The throw that Usagi used to cover her legs with as she and Mamoru would watch TV.

She could see that Mamoru was saying something, but she couldn't hear it above the roaring in her ears. She could feel the tears start trickling down her face. Mamoru and Minako got identical looks of disgust at the sight.

Usagi swallowed painfully, she still couldn't hear what they were saying but she managed to rasp out of her swollen throat "I'll just go now." She backed up and fell. The jolt of hitting the cold tile shook her and she scrambled to her feet and ran out of Mamoru's apartment, down the hall and clattered down the stairs. She forgot about using the elevator…she just needed to run.

She ran out of the apartment building and ran into someone. Hands grabbed her and held her upright. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" she babbled and wrenched herself from the hands that tried to hold her. She ignored the voices that were shouting after her. She just couldn't stop.

She ran. And she ran. And she ran.

Finally, exhausted, she collapsed beneath a tree in a small park and broke down. She clawed at the dirt as she sobbed. She couldn't believe what she'd seen in Mamoru's living room…Mamoru thrusting wildly as Minako clawed at his back, both moaning loudly. Usagi had read some of her mother's romance novels and had pictured herself in Mamoru's arms but she never dreamed that her first "experience" with sex would be seeing the man she loved with one of her best friends.

Usagi sat up and took some deep shuddering breaths and sniffled. She gained her feet and staggered over to a drinking fountain and washed the dirt from her hands and splashed water on her face. There was supposed to be a meeting at the Temple, glancing at her watch she saw that she was already late but she still headed for there. She needed to talk to the others; she needed their advice about how she should go on.

She trudged up the long staircase and as she gained the top, she saw Mamoru and Minako enter Rei's room hand in hand. She stood and stared for a moment then, as quietly as she could, she raced over and listened.

"…walked in on us. You should have seen her face!" Minako was laughing. "You would have thought we stomped on her cat!"

Rei laughed too. "Well, you've only been having sex with each other for the last three months, she was going to find out sooner or later. I'm surprised it didn't take longer than this."

"Well, this sucks!" groused Makoto. "My bet was that Usagi wouldn't find out about the two of you until after she married Mamoru."

Mamoru snorted. "I wasn't planning on marrying her anyway."

Usagi felt her heart stop.

"Well, she knows now, so we might as well kick her while she's down." Said Minako.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked Ami.

"Look, she's a lousy fighter and a worse leader. She doesn't deserve anything that she has. So, when she shows up here, we'll tell her she's off the Team and she's to hand over the Ginzuishou."

Usagi felt her heart shatter.

"What's that?!" At Rei's yell, Usagi realized that in her shock she'd knocked over a flowerpot. The sliding door to Rei's room slammed open. The people she though were her friends and boyfriend were standing there glaring. "Well, people who eavesdrop never hear any good of themselves." Sneered Rei.

Usagi rose to her feet. She looked from face to face and saw nothing but hatred and contempt. "Why?"

Makoto swaggered over and shoved her off the porch and into the dirt. "Because you can't stand on your own two feet with tripping every two minutes."

Rei stood next to her. "Because you're a useless crybaby."

Minako shoved Ami forward. Ami wouldn't look at her, "Because you don't learn."

Minako rubbed her body against Mamoru's. He wrapped an arm around her waist. "Because you don't know how to provide for a man's needs."

Usagi slowly shook her head from side to side. "I don't believe you. There's something wrong." She touched her brooch and transformed. She pulled her wand out of her subspace pocket. "Moon Healing Escalation!"

Her power washed over the group…and nothing changed. They still stared at her like she was a piece of trash.

She saw, from the corner of her eye, Phobos and Deimos circling overhead. The two crows were calling frantically.

Minako stared at her. "Hand over the Ginzuishou Usagi and we won't hurt you."

"No. It's mine." Sailor Moon held her wand to her breast.

"Well, if that's the game you want to play…so be it!" snarled Rei as she transformed. "FIRE SOUL!"

Sailor Moon managed to dodge the attack and ran into the center of the Temple's courtyard. "Please don't do this!"

Mars readied another attack as she spoke. "Too bad. We're going to take what we want from you!"

Looking up Sailor Moon could see Phobos and Deimos diving down towards Mars, their claws outstretched. "NOOO!" She screamed.

Mars turned and flung her fire at the two crows that had been her companions for most of her life.

Sailor Moon ripped her tiara off her forehead and threw it with all of her might, "MOON TIARA ACTION!" The tiara glowed brightly as it tore through the air and collided with the fireball, knocking it off its deadly course. "RUN!" Sailor Moon screamed. The two crows winged over and flew into the sky away from the temple, screaming at the top of their lungs.

"Supreme Thunder!" yelled Jupiter.

"NO!" roared three strange voices. Sailor Moon didn't have chance to look before she was grabbed and covered by a cloak. She felt herself being transported.

The cloak was pulled off her head and she looked up at her rescuer.

"Kunzite!"

Sailor Moon fainted.