Authors Note : I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters. Naoko
Takeuchi does...
Serenas' eyelids fluttered open. Her hand quickly reached up and shaded her sleepy eyes from the sunlight coming through the folds of the window shade. She blinked a few times while looking around the room. She had never seen the white area before. As soon as her eyes focused, she started to notice the machines around her, the nurses walking past her open door, and the needle in her arm.
'Where am I?' She thought.
"Well Serena, are you awake today?" The nurse laughed. "Wake up sleepy head."
"But I am awake." Serena managed to get out.
The nurse dropped the tray of pills she had been carrying and turned on her heel towards Serenas' bed.
"Y-you're actually awake!? Oh my lord!" The nurse ran to the door and yelled down the hall. " Doctor Mills! Doctor Mills! Come see this!"
Before Serena knew it, she had four nurses in her room along with two doctors. Voices were coming from everwhere. They were checking her stats and pulse, they were checking the dialation in her eyes, they were stretching her limbs.
"How could this happen?"
"So long!"
"When did she wake up?"
"Everything is back to normal!"
"How can this be?"
"It's been such a long time!"
"She's stablized!"
"Nothing wrong with her temperature!"
"Nothing wrong with her pulse!"
Serena was growing impatient, but she knew that she had to wait. So she waited and waited. She waited some more. And finally when there was just one doctor left in the room, she felt it was okay to ask.
"Where am I?"
The doctor turned and looked at her. "You're in the hospital my dear."
"Well, I figured that much out. But, where are my parents? Where is my boyfriend? Where are my friends?"
The doctor scratched his fuzzy white and brown beard and sighed. "Well, your parents left you in our care some time ago. As for your boyfriend and friends, I'm afraid I don't know who they are."
"Could you please call my parents?" Serena pleaded anxiously.
"Yes, the nurse already called your father, but she couldn't get a hold of your mother. So I assume she'll try a bit later." The doctor smiled. "You surprised us all, you know that?"
Serena looked puzzled. "How so?"
The doctor looked outside to the city where the sun was almost hidden. The lights of the city were barely twinkling on, and the cool wind was calmly swaying the trees.
"Well, you've been asleep quite some time."
Serena furrowed her eyebrows together. "How long?"
The doctor took in a long, deep breath. "About fourteen months..."
Serenas' eyes widened. She held her breath. She couldn't believe it. "No...That's not possible. That means I am..."
"Going to be eighteen and that you have skipped a grade."
Serena couldn't believe what she was hearing. "No, no, this can't be!"
She started going into a panic. Her heart rate started going up. She tried to pull the needles out of her arms and wrists. She was screaming, she was crying, she was angry. She had missed out on fourteen months of her life. And now she remembered that it was her own fault. She didn't move from the car, she shouldn't have even turned Darien down.
"She's going into a hysterics!" The doctor yelled as he ran to her bed to restrain her.
Nurses ran in and held her down while another nurse gave her a sedative. Serena started wimpering.
"It's my fault, all my fault. I want my mom. I want my dad. I need my Darien..." She kept mumbling this before she fell asleep.
When she woke up again, it was still night. The only differences were her mother and father were sitting in the room with her.
"Mom! Dad!" Serena cried.
"Oh, baby we're here. Don't you worry! We're here." Her mom soothed her.
"Why mom? Why me? How come my life was wasted away?" Serena held onto her mothers' hand.
Serena was always the one to notice details. So this time, she didn't miss it. She looked up at her mother and pulled her hand away from her chest to get a clear look at it.
"Mom, where's your wedding ring?" Serena asked.
Ilene looked back to Ken, who was just standing back looking over the situation. "Well, after you went into a coma, we were very unhappy. And darling, it came to a point where...Well, honey we're divorced."
Serena couldn't believe it. She had been asleep for fourteen months. Her parents had divorced. What other surprises lay around the corner?
"Mom, Dad? What happened when they brought me to the hospital?" She looked pleadingly to both of them.
"Well, dear, we received a phone call from Darien the day you were hit..." Ken started off.
*FlashBack*
"Hello?" Ken answered the phone.
"Mr. James! Serena was hit by a car. By the school, on the south side of it. The driver is still here with me and the paramedics are on their way, but she's bleeding badly. I tried to get to her but..." Dariens voice faded off...
"Ilene grab your coat!" Ken roared as he threw down the phone.
"What? Why?" Ilene said as she came out of the kitchen.
"Serena's hurt! We need to go now!"
"Oh my god. Serena!" Ilene never did grab her coat.
****
"And then we were there when they were loading you up into the ambulence. Darien went with you of course. You died once in the ambulence. And they managed to revive you. And then when you got to the hospital, they told us you had slipped into a coma. And that they couldn't tell us when you would wake up, if ever. We were asked several times to pull the plug on you, but we just couldn't. We had hope. But four months rolled by, then eight, then a year came, and you still hadn't woke up. And all this pressure and mysery on us. Well, Serena me and your mother couldn't take it. And we figured it was best, well, if we just split up."
Seeing the sadness in her daughters eyes, Ilene quickly started another conversation.
"Darien stayed by your bedside for a whole week. He wouldn't leave, only when the doctors absolutely needed to come in. He made sure your medicine and food was on time. He read books to you, he even had your room decorated with flowers for Valentines day. He did so much. He sent money to help keep you on a respirator."
When Serena looked around though, she didn't see any flowers. She didn't see any books or Darien.
"Where is he Mom? Dad?" Serena asked, worried.
"Well, his grades were slipping from being absent for two weeks. He had to leave back to New York. He used to call and ask how you were doing everyday." Ilene smiled.
"Used to? Does he...still?"
Ilene shook her head. "He stopped a few months back."
"Oh..." Serena looked down at her folded hands in her lap.
There was an awkward silence before the doctor entered.
"Ms. Hall, Mr. James? We've received Serena's tests back. These tests showed that Serena managed to avoid any sort of brain damage. So, you may take her home in a few days. But, we'll need her to come back for some tests in a few months."
Ilene and Ken smiled. "Thank you doctor."
A few days later, Serena was walking out of the hospital with her parents. Serena stayed with her mother at their old home.
That night she made a few long distance calls to McCullen.
"McCullen Phone Directory. Are you a student or parent?" The operator asked.
"I'm a previous student at the school. I'm trying to reach some old friends."
"Alright. Can I have the dorm number and their names?"
"Mina Smith. Room number 408. Raye Manchester. Room number 529. Amy Lockhart. Room 354. Lita Farrow. Room 218."
"Let me put you on hold." The operator put on classical music.
After minutes of waiting the operator came back. "I'm sorry miss, but I can only find one of those students here. The rest have all transferred out. Did you still want her number?"
Serena stared at the phone. Now her friends were gone. She couldn't believe it, first fourteen months of her life, then her parents, then Darien, now her friends.
"Miss?"
Serena snapped back into reality. "Huh, oh yeah. Sure, may I be connected? Who is it?"
"Mina Smith. Hold on one second. If she doesn't answer just press one, and a recording will come on, there you can leave your name and number."
"Thank you." Serena was twirling the phone cord around her finger, when she decided to give up on Mina. She pressed one on the dial and left her message.
"Hey Mina! It's Serena. Um, no this isn't a joke. I woke up a few days ago. Uh, I tried to call the other girls but I can't get a hold of them. I can't find Darien either. He moved. My parents split up. And well, I've been asleep for fourteen months. I missed my seventeenth birthday..." Serena stopped. She looked down and started sniffling and tears began to fall.
"Mina, I really need someone right now...Please Mina, call me back at this number...I really need something to hold onto. Something that isn't broken or gone. Thanks." Serena left her number. "And Mina, I really miss you... Please...Please call back..."
Serena clicked the off button on the phone. She sat there. She had nothing left to rely on. How was she going to get through this?
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Starry*Eyez07: Ha! Thought I was dead eh? Thought I forgot about you guys eh? Thought about killing me eh? Well, I'm sure you thought about the last one. Heh, anyways. I'm back! More educated than ever. Funny thing is, the rating has stepped up on this story.Eek! Anyways, it will get better, but this is a necessary chapter for the next few. Oooh, you're going to have oodlez of surprises around the corner! Starry*Eyez is back! Better than ever!
Another note : If you are reading this story for the first time, I highly recommend that you read My True Beauty. The beginning is very...uh, ungrammatically correct, but it will explain a lot of things that is happening in this story. Or, you can email me (if you're lazy) and I can send you a summary of each chapter in the original. This is a Sequel. So, all information is in the first story. I hope you guys enjoy. (First chappie is kinda sad :'{ )
Anyways, more news for you Sailor Moon fans. Naoko Takeuchi is creating a live action series. Sorta power rangers-ish... Corny effects, low budget, but it'll be awesome. Check it out!
Please Review! ;) Thank you!
Serenas' eyelids fluttered open. Her hand quickly reached up and shaded her sleepy eyes from the sunlight coming through the folds of the window shade. She blinked a few times while looking around the room. She had never seen the white area before. As soon as her eyes focused, she started to notice the machines around her, the nurses walking past her open door, and the needle in her arm.
'Where am I?' She thought.
"Well Serena, are you awake today?" The nurse laughed. "Wake up sleepy head."
"But I am awake." Serena managed to get out.
The nurse dropped the tray of pills she had been carrying and turned on her heel towards Serenas' bed.
"Y-you're actually awake!? Oh my lord!" The nurse ran to the door and yelled down the hall. " Doctor Mills! Doctor Mills! Come see this!"
Before Serena knew it, she had four nurses in her room along with two doctors. Voices were coming from everwhere. They were checking her stats and pulse, they were checking the dialation in her eyes, they were stretching her limbs.
"How could this happen?"
"So long!"
"When did she wake up?"
"Everything is back to normal!"
"How can this be?"
"It's been such a long time!"
"She's stablized!"
"Nothing wrong with her temperature!"
"Nothing wrong with her pulse!"
Serena was growing impatient, but she knew that she had to wait. So she waited and waited. She waited some more. And finally when there was just one doctor left in the room, she felt it was okay to ask.
"Where am I?"
The doctor turned and looked at her. "You're in the hospital my dear."
"Well, I figured that much out. But, where are my parents? Where is my boyfriend? Where are my friends?"
The doctor scratched his fuzzy white and brown beard and sighed. "Well, your parents left you in our care some time ago. As for your boyfriend and friends, I'm afraid I don't know who they are."
"Could you please call my parents?" Serena pleaded anxiously.
"Yes, the nurse already called your father, but she couldn't get a hold of your mother. So I assume she'll try a bit later." The doctor smiled. "You surprised us all, you know that?"
Serena looked puzzled. "How so?"
The doctor looked outside to the city where the sun was almost hidden. The lights of the city were barely twinkling on, and the cool wind was calmly swaying the trees.
"Well, you've been asleep quite some time."
Serena furrowed her eyebrows together. "How long?"
The doctor took in a long, deep breath. "About fourteen months..."
Serenas' eyes widened. She held her breath. She couldn't believe it. "No...That's not possible. That means I am..."
"Going to be eighteen and that you have skipped a grade."
Serena couldn't believe what she was hearing. "No, no, this can't be!"
She started going into a panic. Her heart rate started going up. She tried to pull the needles out of her arms and wrists. She was screaming, she was crying, she was angry. She had missed out on fourteen months of her life. And now she remembered that it was her own fault. She didn't move from the car, she shouldn't have even turned Darien down.
"She's going into a hysterics!" The doctor yelled as he ran to her bed to restrain her.
Nurses ran in and held her down while another nurse gave her a sedative. Serena started wimpering.
"It's my fault, all my fault. I want my mom. I want my dad. I need my Darien..." She kept mumbling this before she fell asleep.
When she woke up again, it was still night. The only differences were her mother and father were sitting in the room with her.
"Mom! Dad!" Serena cried.
"Oh, baby we're here. Don't you worry! We're here." Her mom soothed her.
"Why mom? Why me? How come my life was wasted away?" Serena held onto her mothers' hand.
Serena was always the one to notice details. So this time, she didn't miss it. She looked up at her mother and pulled her hand away from her chest to get a clear look at it.
"Mom, where's your wedding ring?" Serena asked.
Ilene looked back to Ken, who was just standing back looking over the situation. "Well, after you went into a coma, we were very unhappy. And darling, it came to a point where...Well, honey we're divorced."
Serena couldn't believe it. She had been asleep for fourteen months. Her parents had divorced. What other surprises lay around the corner?
"Mom, Dad? What happened when they brought me to the hospital?" She looked pleadingly to both of them.
"Well, dear, we received a phone call from Darien the day you were hit..." Ken started off.
*FlashBack*
"Hello?" Ken answered the phone.
"Mr. James! Serena was hit by a car. By the school, on the south side of it. The driver is still here with me and the paramedics are on their way, but she's bleeding badly. I tried to get to her but..." Dariens voice faded off...
"Ilene grab your coat!" Ken roared as he threw down the phone.
"What? Why?" Ilene said as she came out of the kitchen.
"Serena's hurt! We need to go now!"
"Oh my god. Serena!" Ilene never did grab her coat.
****
"And then we were there when they were loading you up into the ambulence. Darien went with you of course. You died once in the ambulence. And they managed to revive you. And then when you got to the hospital, they told us you had slipped into a coma. And that they couldn't tell us when you would wake up, if ever. We were asked several times to pull the plug on you, but we just couldn't. We had hope. But four months rolled by, then eight, then a year came, and you still hadn't woke up. And all this pressure and mysery on us. Well, Serena me and your mother couldn't take it. And we figured it was best, well, if we just split up."
Seeing the sadness in her daughters eyes, Ilene quickly started another conversation.
"Darien stayed by your bedside for a whole week. He wouldn't leave, only when the doctors absolutely needed to come in. He made sure your medicine and food was on time. He read books to you, he even had your room decorated with flowers for Valentines day. He did so much. He sent money to help keep you on a respirator."
When Serena looked around though, she didn't see any flowers. She didn't see any books or Darien.
"Where is he Mom? Dad?" Serena asked, worried.
"Well, his grades were slipping from being absent for two weeks. He had to leave back to New York. He used to call and ask how you were doing everyday." Ilene smiled.
"Used to? Does he...still?"
Ilene shook her head. "He stopped a few months back."
"Oh..." Serena looked down at her folded hands in her lap.
There was an awkward silence before the doctor entered.
"Ms. Hall, Mr. James? We've received Serena's tests back. These tests showed that Serena managed to avoid any sort of brain damage. So, you may take her home in a few days. But, we'll need her to come back for some tests in a few months."
Ilene and Ken smiled. "Thank you doctor."
A few days later, Serena was walking out of the hospital with her parents. Serena stayed with her mother at their old home.
That night she made a few long distance calls to McCullen.
"McCullen Phone Directory. Are you a student or parent?" The operator asked.
"I'm a previous student at the school. I'm trying to reach some old friends."
"Alright. Can I have the dorm number and their names?"
"Mina Smith. Room number 408. Raye Manchester. Room number 529. Amy Lockhart. Room 354. Lita Farrow. Room 218."
"Let me put you on hold." The operator put on classical music.
After minutes of waiting the operator came back. "I'm sorry miss, but I can only find one of those students here. The rest have all transferred out. Did you still want her number?"
Serena stared at the phone. Now her friends were gone. She couldn't believe it, first fourteen months of her life, then her parents, then Darien, now her friends.
"Miss?"
Serena snapped back into reality. "Huh, oh yeah. Sure, may I be connected? Who is it?"
"Mina Smith. Hold on one second. If she doesn't answer just press one, and a recording will come on, there you can leave your name and number."
"Thank you." Serena was twirling the phone cord around her finger, when she decided to give up on Mina. She pressed one on the dial and left her message.
"Hey Mina! It's Serena. Um, no this isn't a joke. I woke up a few days ago. Uh, I tried to call the other girls but I can't get a hold of them. I can't find Darien either. He moved. My parents split up. And well, I've been asleep for fourteen months. I missed my seventeenth birthday..." Serena stopped. She looked down and started sniffling and tears began to fall.
"Mina, I really need someone right now...Please Mina, call me back at this number...I really need something to hold onto. Something that isn't broken or gone. Thanks." Serena left her number. "And Mina, I really miss you... Please...Please call back..."
Serena clicked the off button on the phone. She sat there. She had nothing left to rely on. How was she going to get through this?
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Starry*Eyez07: Ha! Thought I was dead eh? Thought I forgot about you guys eh? Thought about killing me eh? Well, I'm sure you thought about the last one. Heh, anyways. I'm back! More educated than ever. Funny thing is, the rating has stepped up on this story.Eek! Anyways, it will get better, but this is a necessary chapter for the next few. Oooh, you're going to have oodlez of surprises around the corner! Starry*Eyez is back! Better than ever!
Another note : If you are reading this story for the first time, I highly recommend that you read My True Beauty. The beginning is very...uh, ungrammatically correct, but it will explain a lot of things that is happening in this story. Or, you can email me (if you're lazy) and I can send you a summary of each chapter in the original. This is a Sequel. So, all information is in the first story. I hope you guys enjoy. (First chappie is kinda sad :'{ )
Anyways, more news for you Sailor Moon fans. Naoko Takeuchi is creating a live action series. Sorta power rangers-ish... Corny effects, low budget, but it'll be awesome. Check it out!
Please Review! ;) Thank you!