The violet eyes stared out the window.
The violet eyes said so much, yet there was deafening silence.
The violet eyes wandered, wishing to be far from here.
Six months had passed. A lifetime had passed. Minako had now come into everyone's lives and like a sun she became a substantial and centre of existence for many. Usagi had taken a more central role as queen and the scouts relied on Minako as the leader she had once been in the silver millennium.
Peace had reined, the nightmares of life fled except for one raven haired woman.
Night after night she had dreams of ancient and present death, to the point her sleep was often stolen from her grasps.
Staring out of the window, she tapped a finger on the window sill.
Consecutively she tapped, S – O – S
She needed to be saved, even though she didn't want to admit it. She knew why the dreams visited her, all paths led back to the day they had been given Minako back from the clutches of death.
Minako knew what was going on, that much Rei knew. Every time she asked her though, fluidly she would change the conversation. Rei had seen Minako's eyes; there lied a clarity she could never explain. Why couldn't she obtain that, why could she get no rest, no peace.
"Hey firebird" a tender voice called from the doorway.
She turned around to see a familiar dirty blonde haired man staring back at her. Gratefully she smiled only to get his worried look back at her,
"What?" her innocent words caressed his ears,
"What's wrong" he asserted surely, striding confidently into her bedroom he walked up to her and took a seat beside her.
She looked at him; it was hard to describe how he made her feel. He was funny, he was safe, he was loving and he knew her inside out. In truth he was the only man she ever did trust with her heart she realised, the more she looked over the pages of her life.
"Every night, I have these nightmares; I see death, always death" she started to cry, burying herself in his chest.
He had known of her nightmares but she had never told him till now, she was stubborn in that way.
Lovingly he wrapped his arms around her, pressing her to his chest. His touch brought comfort to her skin, to her body, to her soul. Jaedite smiled comfortingly yet his heart was tearing, he hated to see her like this.
"It's just a dream" he soothed, wiping her hair away from in front of her eyes.
"It seems so real" her body started to shake as she recalled how vivid it had seemed, death was cold.
"Who dies" he asked, rocking her gently in his arms,
"Well" she sniffled, pulling away from him to answer the question.
"There's two dreams, in the first one I see people… I don't know who they are but I'm crying" she explains, wiping away a tear from her right eye.
"Yes" Jaedite answers,
"There's fire everywhere and this voice, it makes me so scared" she whispered,
"What about the second dream?" Jaedite asked,
"It's the same but it's not people, it's Usagi and everyone dieing" she started sobbing again.
Jaedite shuffled closer to Rei and wrapped his arms around the fragile raven haired beauty,
"Rei it's just a dream, it can't hurt you" Jaedite soothed, rocking his maiden in his arms,
"But" she protested, burying her face in his shirt.
"I'll protect you, no need to worry" he coerced, for several moments the two sat side by side, Jaedite concerned, Rei frustrated and tired.
" I'm tired" Rei yawned after five minutes had passed,
"Then go to sleep, I'll be right by your side" he suggested, ready for the habitual retaliation she would offer.
"But, don't you have to patrol?" she yawned, the retaliation was not as forceful as he had first expected.
"No, I swapped with Kunzite so he could go to lunch with Minako" Jaedite explained, happy by the pleasant coincidence,
"Ok" she yawned, closing her eyes as she leant against his frame. Jaedite smiled, as he shuffled slowly off the couch that overlooked the window. Carefully he picked up her delicate frame, fluidly she melded comfortable to his body as he walked over to the Arabian styled, king sized bed that stood to the left in the room as a central feature.
Carefully he manoeuvred to pull the satin and mink blankets down, cautiously wary not to disturb the treasure in his arms.
After he had successfully pulled down the sheets, he placed her rested figure to one side of the bed. For a moment he watched, when suddenly her eyes shot open and her hand reached out towards him;
"you promised you'd stay with me" she whispered softly,
"Of course" he replied, hopping on the bed to lay down.
Quickly he shuffled over till he was next to her, she rested her head on his chest, letting out a small content sigh.
One thing was certain, he needed to help Rei soon.