Darien walked into his apartment exhausted from this horrible day, everything was going so wrong. Today was his first date with Serena, since he returned from the enemies clutches. But nothing had gone the way he planned.

He met Serena at the arcade to take her on an amazing romantic date to make up all the time they had lost.

"Darien finally!" called Andrew, who hadn't seen him in months "why didn't you call?" asked Andrew.

"I was really busy," lied Darien, the truth that he was dead wouldn't make any sense to the blonde.

"Well I guess that's ok, but you could have at least called Serena," he said pointing to Serena who was playing a new arcade game.

Darien felt like he was killed a thousand times more, he knew his neglecting her had hurt her a lot, and that was one thing he hated to see his Serena feel, especially when it was his fault.

"I know but I am going to try and make it up," Darien said walking over to his princess.

Andrew walked away hoping things would work out, between two of his favorite people.

"Are you ready Serena?" Darien asked, he felt like an idiot he was going to say something else, more affectionate not casual 'what an idiot' he thought to himself.

"Yeah sure just let me beat my score," Serena said her eyes trained on the game in front of her.

"Ok," Darien answered pulling a stool up to the game, he was slightly disappointed but any time with Serena was better than nothing.

An hour later Serena was still playing, Darien was on his fifth cup of coffee, and was becoming pretty jittery and bored.

To distract himself he looked at Serena, her face was scrunched in determination, Serena felt his eyes on her and turned to him and blushed.

"Sorry you must be very bored," Serena said turning her eyes back to the game, Darien just nodded that was the only thing said between them.

Thirty minutes later Serena was too tired and went home, Darien followed her but all he got was a quick hug nothing more. Darien returned to the arcade sad and confused

"Can I have another coffee?" he asked Andrew

Andrew looked at him his eyes filled with pity, he saw the way Serena had treated him but he also knew the pain she had endured without Darien.

"One more, then I'm cutting you off," Andrew said wiping down the counter and getting ready to close then he handed a hot coffee to his friend.

"I just can't understand," Darien said staring down at his coffee cup

"Don't worry I know she loves you," Andrew said, trying himself to believe his own words. Deep down he knew they were true, but at this moment her feelings had seemed so far off, so cold, so un-natural.

"I know she does but something's missing…" Darien said trying to find the word, he was usually great at finding the right words after all he was a college student- but Serena's mood had left him unsure of many things.

Andrew stopped his cleaning and looked over to his friend, an idea popped into his mind.

"You know the nights still young and I'm about to close up for the night why don't we go see that new action movie," Andrew suggested with a grin.

Darien looked up from his coffee cup at his blonde friend, even though the idea sounded great and would probably distract him for a few hours the fun time would be ruined by his thoughts in the back of his mind.

"No thanks," Darien answered, and then he pulled his wallet out and paid for his six coffees and left the arcade.

Darien, sat down on his couch trying to find the word that had escaped him earlier. When he couldn't think of it he turned on his TV, all that was on was a bunch of movies about love. Darien stopped on one channel when a commercial came on.

"Hi, I'm Malcolm Greene," introduced the man in the commercial "and I have one question about your love life," Malcolm started.

This stopped Darien from flipping through the channels

"Ha your love life lost its spark?" asked the commercial "well then come to my new…" Darien switched of the TV.

'Stupid commercial' he thought but now he realized the word that had left him earlier spark.

AN: Was it an ok start? I'm sorry for those who enjoy reading There's Still Life After Galexia, I'll update when I know what to do next. BTW I don't own Sailor Moon.