Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.

This was a scribble I found in one of my magic bags. It is not for any contest or anything, just for the heck of it.

KEEPING THE IMAGE

Neo-Queen Serenity carefully inspected her image in the mirror and sighed. Her almost unearthly beauty could not be dimmed by the tiny freckles that still resided on her nose and cheeks, but she had to use make-up to hide them anyway. In her make-up kit the queen also had a special lip gloss invented by Sailor Mercury in order to get that special glow only sailor scout lips can have. It had a sticky feeling to it but didn't leave any marks. The queen had to be very careful applying it though, unless she wanted to look like she had drool or sweat around her mouth. Just a hint of a mixtures of eye shadows brought forth that impression of constantly half-closed eyelids that somehow gave a motherly and calm feeling to the queens by birth curious and happy eyes.

Then there was the long process of making her trademark "odangos", her hair buns, and decorate them with jewelry. Since some kind of unwritten rule had decided Neo-Queens were not to cut their hair like ever, making this particular hairdo was an accomplishment in itself. Not that anyone thanked her for it. This was just another thing she as a queen was supposed to do.

And the dress. The no-straps dress that contained fabric enough to make clothes for a whole dinner party AND their napkins, as Sailor Mars once had described it. It was supposed to stay put above the queens breasts without support. Yeah, right. It was long ago the queen had fastened the invisible straps upon it. No one but the family knew about them, though. The whole point of the design of the dress was that in case the queen needed it, she would be able to call forth her wings without ripping her clothes. The bow with the wing like shape was to remind everyone of that fact. This, along with everything else, was of cause part of the myth around the queen.

It takes the queen just about two hours each morning to get everything ready and this day is no exception. Finally done Neo-Queen Serenity rose and nothing in her calm face or regal standing revealed how much she missed the time when make-up and clothing were done by magic. But no. Neo-Queen Serenity is no sailor scout and the Silver Crystal can not be used unless against a threat, this she knows. And the one other item that could have helped is...gone.

//Still, if there was any justice in this world//, Serenity silently ponders as she sees her husband waiting by the breakfast table with his first cup of coffee already in hand, //I wish that Fate or whatever had decided that my husband was a transvestite so we could share the burden//.

Endymion however knows his wife and he knows what annoys her. Without her begging him, he rises and pulls out her chair for her. As she sits down his low voice whispers in her ear:

"I'm sorry again that I broke your magic pen."