"A Rose By Any Other Name"
By: Rena Cresten
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. If I did I would be rich and famous and I'll bet none of you have ever heard of me. Did I make my point? I thought so. Oh, and if this sounds like anyone's story it is a coincidence. I've heard of that happening before and I would hate for someone to think I did.
Author's Notes: This is the first story I have ever published on something as large as FanFiction.net. I posted for a short while on a web site that isn't operating anymore. I hope someone out there likes this. It just occurred to me today and I figured I should start writing. Oh, and I love reviews. Good, Bad, or Indifferent. I'll take them all. Oh, and thanks for reading. I hope to get this up and finished as soon as I can. Waiting for chapters bugs me too. So...... On with the show......
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"Darien!" I splashed her furiously a few more moments and then stopped, staring at her as she stuttered and wiped at the wet hair clinging to her face. She glared at me, oh if looks could kill, and all I could think was how angelic she looked. She was the most perfect woman I had ever seen, more than I could ever imagine. And she was all mine. Well, not yet.
"What?" I smilled innocently at her then. She sighed in exasperation and rolled her beautiful blue eyes. I had a sudden and familiar urge to take her in my arms and kiss the breath out of her.
"Don't you 'what' me mister! You ruined my hair! I was trying to keep it dry so I wouldn't have to deal with it before dinner. Now what am I suppose to do? I look like a drowned rat!" The image struck me as funny. And I could just picture a giant rat with those precious pigtails and furious frown. And the longer I imagined it, the funnier it became. Soon I was laughing hysterically and nearly drowned myself. Of course she took the opportunity to push me under and swim back to shore. When I finally came back up stuttering she was gliding out of the waves. The rat picture dissolved from my mind instantly when replaced by the glimmering vision before me.
I lost track of time and space just watching her and nearly got swallowed by a huge wave. Thankfully it washed me ashore and a little closer to her. When I finally walked out of the ocean I had managed to focus my attention on my plans for dinner tonight. I had reservations for the two of us at the new hot restaurant just a few miles down the sea shore from here. She thought we would be meeting friends, and I planned to surprise her with ...
Bikini.
Oops, lost track of my thoughts. Where was I? Oh yes. When she is sitting there, looking at the menu, I'll quietly slip out of the booth and ...
I want to be that towel.
Damn, I did it again. If she weren't so beautiful ... if she weren't so beautiful what? I'd still have trouble thinking. How could she be anything other than the most perfect woman in the world, an angel fallen from heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if God himself came down and demanded her back.
Even being next to her isn't enough. Touching her wouldn't be enough. I just can't have enough of her ...
"Marry me." Oh no. Did I just ...?
"What did you say?" What about my plans? But look at her. Those eyes of hers grew just ever so slightly in shock. Her perfect rose petal lips are open just enough for the gasp I can barely hear rushing past her lips. Did her porcelain skin go pale? Yes. But now it's gaining color rapidly. She's even more beautiful when she blushes.
"Anna ..." I had to touch her then. So I dropped down next to her on our beach towel and grasped her slender little hand in my own. She fit so perfectly. "You are my world. You always have been. You are the woman of my dreams. More than I could ever ask for. You, my darling, are the sun in my day and the moon and stars in my night. I can't get enough of you. Your smile, your laugh ... your touch, and God help me, but I will never get enough of your kiss. You would make me the happiest man on earth if you would just marry me."
I watched her falter for a moment, and my heart started to crack and nearly shatter. She can't say no. God please don't let her leave me. I'll die inside. She bit her lip and frown lines began to appear between her brows. I felt like I had to do something, and fast. I let her hand go and began fumbling idiotically in my bag for the tiny box buried down at the bottom where we wouldn't find it.
"Darien ..." Her voice was so soft, so faint. I felt my soul slowly dying inside of me. She was saying no to me. She was going to leave me forever. I could just see it. "Baby, you can stop looking for the ring." I did stop. But my heart stopped along with my hands. I slowly pulled my fingers out of the tangle of junk they had found in there and tried desperately to reason through this. Then it came to me. I wouldn't go down without a fight.
"Anna, please you can't leave me. I need you. I love you. I-" She placed a finger to my lips and I felt the electric shock travel through my whole body.
"I'm not going anywhere. I just hope you aren't mad at me." I would have contested that point vehemently but she shook her head against that and kept talking. "I was hunting through your bag for your sunscreen earlier and found this." She held up the ring box and her behavior suddenly hit home. She wasn't going to turn me down. She was guilty about being found out for having the ring that was suppose to be a surprise. "I would have put it back when we got back to the hotel room but ..." By the time she shrugged and turned her sorrowful eyes on me I was in near hysterics. I didn't especially care that my surprise had been ruined, I had ruined it myself anyway. Just as long as she said yes ... wait.
"Is that a yes then?" The guilt and sorrow left her face, a brilliant smile braking through. Every part of her perfect face seemed to glow with happy, heavenly light.
"Of course it's a yes silly. I would follow you to the ends of the earth." She seemed so happy then. I couldn't remember her being any happier at any time before, least not while I had known her. And to know I had been the reason made this moment even better. Then again it took a moment before I realized she had said she would marry me.
When it did hit me I let out a whoop and pulled her into me so quickly it knocked both of us over. I will never forget how it felt to kiss her just then. It was like holding some sort of goddess in my arms and feeling the power of every star ever created just under my skin.
How I wish I could have known then what I know now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. If I did I would be rich and famous and I'll bet none of you have ever heard of me. Did I make my point? I thought so. Oh, and if this sounds like anyone's story it is a coincidence. I've heard of that happening before and I would hate for someone to think I did.
Author's Notes: This is the first story I have ever published on something as large as FanFiction.net. I posted for a short while on a web site that isn't operating anymore. I hope someone out there likes this. It just occurred to me today and I figured I should start writing. Oh, and I love reviews. Good, Bad, or Indifferent. I'll take them all. Oh, and thanks for reading. I hope to get this up and finished as soon as I can. Waiting for chapters bugs me too. So...... On with the show......
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"Darien!" I splashed her furiously a few more moments and then stopped, staring at her as she stuttered and wiped at the wet hair clinging to her face. She glared at me, oh if looks could kill, and all I could think was how angelic she looked. She was the most perfect woman I had ever seen, more than I could ever imagine. And she was all mine. Well, not yet.
"What?" I smilled innocently at her then. She sighed in exasperation and rolled her beautiful blue eyes. I had a sudden and familiar urge to take her in my arms and kiss the breath out of her.
"Don't you 'what' me mister! You ruined my hair! I was trying to keep it dry so I wouldn't have to deal with it before dinner. Now what am I suppose to do? I look like a drowned rat!" The image struck me as funny. And I could just picture a giant rat with those precious pigtails and furious frown. And the longer I imagined it, the funnier it became. Soon I was laughing hysterically and nearly drowned myself. Of course she took the opportunity to push me under and swim back to shore. When I finally came back up stuttering she was gliding out of the waves. The rat picture dissolved from my mind instantly when replaced by the glimmering vision before me.
I lost track of time and space just watching her and nearly got swallowed by a huge wave. Thankfully it washed me ashore and a little closer to her. When I finally walked out of the ocean I had managed to focus my attention on my plans for dinner tonight. I had reservations for the two of us at the new hot restaurant just a few miles down the sea shore from here. She thought we would be meeting friends, and I planned to surprise her with ...
Bikini.
Oops, lost track of my thoughts. Where was I? Oh yes. When she is sitting there, looking at the menu, I'll quietly slip out of the booth and ...
I want to be that towel.
Damn, I did it again. If she weren't so beautiful ... if she weren't so beautiful what? I'd still have trouble thinking. How could she be anything other than the most perfect woman in the world, an angel fallen from heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if God himself came down and demanded her back.
Even being next to her isn't enough. Touching her wouldn't be enough. I just can't have enough of her ...
"Marry me." Oh no. Did I just ...?
"What did you say?" What about my plans? But look at her. Those eyes of hers grew just ever so slightly in shock. Her perfect rose petal lips are open just enough for the gasp I can barely hear rushing past her lips. Did her porcelain skin go pale? Yes. But now it's gaining color rapidly. She's even more beautiful when she blushes.
"Anna ..." I had to touch her then. So I dropped down next to her on our beach towel and grasped her slender little hand in my own. She fit so perfectly. "You are my world. You always have been. You are the woman of my dreams. More than I could ever ask for. You, my darling, are the sun in my day and the moon and stars in my night. I can't get enough of you. Your smile, your laugh ... your touch, and God help me, but I will never get enough of your kiss. You would make me the happiest man on earth if you would just marry me."
I watched her falter for a moment, and my heart started to crack and nearly shatter. She can't say no. God please don't let her leave me. I'll die inside. She bit her lip and frown lines began to appear between her brows. I felt like I had to do something, and fast. I let her hand go and began fumbling idiotically in my bag for the tiny box buried down at the bottom where we wouldn't find it.
"Darien ..." Her voice was so soft, so faint. I felt my soul slowly dying inside of me. She was saying no to me. She was going to leave me forever. I could just see it. "Baby, you can stop looking for the ring." I did stop. But my heart stopped along with my hands. I slowly pulled my fingers out of the tangle of junk they had found in there and tried desperately to reason through this. Then it came to me. I wouldn't go down without a fight.
"Anna, please you can't leave me. I need you. I love you. I-" She placed a finger to my lips and I felt the electric shock travel through my whole body.
"I'm not going anywhere. I just hope you aren't mad at me." I would have contested that point vehemently but she shook her head against that and kept talking. "I was hunting through your bag for your sunscreen earlier and found this." She held up the ring box and her behavior suddenly hit home. She wasn't going to turn me down. She was guilty about being found out for having the ring that was suppose to be a surprise. "I would have put it back when we got back to the hotel room but ..." By the time she shrugged and turned her sorrowful eyes on me I was in near hysterics. I didn't especially care that my surprise had been ruined, I had ruined it myself anyway. Just as long as she said yes ... wait.
"Is that a yes then?" The guilt and sorrow left her face, a brilliant smile braking through. Every part of her perfect face seemed to glow with happy, heavenly light.
"Of course it's a yes silly. I would follow you to the ends of the earth." She seemed so happy then. I couldn't remember her being any happier at any time before, least not while I had known her. And to know I had been the reason made this moment even better. Then again it took a moment before I realized she had said she would marry me.
When it did hit me I let out a whoop and pulled her into me so quickly it knocked both of us over. I will never forget how it felt to kiss her just then. It was like holding some sort of goddess in my arms and feeling the power of every star ever created just under my skin.
How I wish I could have known then what I know now.