Summary : AU Darien Shields is a rising actor in Hollywood, He has everything fame, riches, and his lovely wife Serena. But what's happening behind closed doors? How will Serena deal with her husband's journey to destroy himself?, will she pick him back up? Or leave him to fall?
Authors note: Ok so I felt like I owed a Sailor Moon fanfic to this site because well I've read almost all of them. So not sure how the story will go with people, it's alternate universe no Sailor scouts or negaverse stuff because I can't do that justice. But here is a story about my two favorite fictional characters of all time. Hope you enjoy! Please Review!
Darien Shields walked out of the limo greeted by flashing lights and cries of admiration. He gave them his famous smile which made the girls melt to their knees. He looked around at his adoring fans and turned to help his beautiful wife out of the limo. She was the women all others envied. Being married to one of the most successful young actors of the century is only the start of their envy, she had beautiful fair skin and long golden blonde hair which she mostly wore in pink tails, it was once said that only she could pull of pink tails as a sophisticated look. Her smile travelled all the way to her beautiful blue eyes, she was one of the girls who wore little make-up because she could attract anyone without it.
She was just the kind of women that would be expected to be with a man such as Darien Shields. But they didn't know, they didn't know what her life was really like, what she had to live with behind closed doors. They just assumed she lived the perfect life, perfect job as a model, perfect loving husband, and it used to be, but that was before.
As he guided her down the red carpet arm around her waist, waving to his admiring fans, behind her smile, her mind wandered wondering when everything began to crumble….
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Serena Jones was the heiress to the Jones Modeling agency, and when she turned 18 her father allowed her to begin her dream of modeling. She had just had her first show and it had been a huge success. The girls decided to take her out to celebrate at her favorite restaurant. It was there and then that she first met Darien.
"Oh my god Sere you were amazing!" Mina was more ecstatic than Serena herself.
"Aw thanks Mina! I was so nervous, I thought I'd fall off the stage!" She could still feel the anxiety rushing through her veins.
"Serena you did wonderfully" her friend Ami chimed in. All of her friends gave equal praise as they took their seats. She found herself in deep conversation with fellow model Rei about how they thought the next show could be better, and who'd they'd love to model for next that she almost didn't hear the waiter come and introduce himself.
"Good evening ladies, my name is Darien and I will be your server today, what can I start you ladies of to drink?" She turned to order her iced tea when she saw the face of the man that had just spoken. They shared a moment of being entranced with each other before the others started ordering their drinks taking his attention back to the other girls. She ordered her tea and he went to get their drinks and give them time to order.
All of the girls squealed quietly over how handsome he had been. The only girl in the group that seemed to be silent about it was Serena.
"Don't you agree Sere?" Mina's voice took Serena's attention away from the knife and fork she had been fiddling with.
"Hmm? Agree with what?" He obliviousness had them all in a fit of giggles.
"We were saying that our waiter is a hunk." Lita said with the suggestive wiggle of her eyebrows.
Serena found herself blushing a bit. "Oh, I mean he's ok, I didn't really notice."
"Bull!" Rei gave her a knowing grin and then motion with her eyes to everyone that their waiter was returning with their drinks.
"Here you go ladies" He handed them their drinks and took their orders, then with a short lingering glance at Serena left to turn in their orders.
The girls continued their dinner with no further discussion of Darien. It wasn't until it was time to pay the bill that he was brought up again.
"You should leave him you're number." Mina said to Serena with a grin. All of the girls agreeing in unison.
"What? No, I don't even know the guy, and besides, I'd come across desperate." She slightly admitted to wanting to see more of the cute waiter.
They continued to pester her until they realized they were never going to break her. She gave a sigh of relief after they all gave up.
"Fine, have it your way." Rei said as she called to Darien asking for the check.
After a while the group came to the restaurant more often and coincidentally always had Darien as their waiter.
They began to converse with him, getting to know him better. Serena was always the one with few words but she always found herself admiring him. She liked talking with him when she did though, he was very easy to talk to, she was just afraid she'd start talking to much or get too nervous and talk nonsense.
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On the day of her third runway show, Serena was the star model. She started the show and ended the show with the best pieces. In the end she announce the charity that all of the proceeding would go to, thanking everyone for their donations and gave thanks.
Her father came back stage to give her a warm hug and told her how great she had been. He was a very busy man but he always made time for her. He never missed a birthday or even a show. She felt very blessed, she knew that Rei had only seen her father maybe once a year if even that, he was a CEO of a big hotel industry. It didn't seem to bother Rei that much but Serena wondered if she'd have survived in a life like that.
Rei approached her after her father took his leave for his meeting in Japan.
"You had an admirer out there tonight!" she said in a singing voice.
Serena looked at her with a confused look. "What do you mean?"
Rei gave her a huge grin, "Well I might have sort of gave Darien passes to the show, and invites to the after party."
"What? Why?" Serena found herself horrified that Darien had been watching the whole time, what if she had messed up?
"Whoa…I didn't realized you hated the guy. Oh come on ya'll are always flirting at the restaurant, I know you have a crush on him and I'm pretty sure he likes you, especially with the way he was watching you tonight! Come on get ready for the party!" With that Rei ran off to get dressed for the after party, leaving Serena speechless.
Serena changed into a gold dress with roman loose sleeves that had holes in the arm that went from the top shoulder to the end of the sleeve at her elbow. It almost reminded her of the style the roman women wore all those years ago. She had matching gold pumps and wore her hair up in a bun for once with random strands hanging down around her face.
She was nervous, she had never seen Darien outside of his work. She admits she had always wanted to get to know him better but she'd had like a little bit more time to prepare.
She took a deep breath and walked out into the party. The party was hosted by her company so it was only appropriate that everyone applauded as she entered. She always found this too much but everyone always insisted. She calmed the applause down with a motion of her hand and gave another speech but this one more personal, seeing as she knew almost everyone in the room well.
She walked around and conversed with old friends. She looked around to see if she could spot him anywhere but no matter where she looked he seemed absent. Maybe he decided not to come.
She then felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned to be face to face with the man she had been searching for.
"Darien." She said, with a little more excitement in her voice than she would have liked. She blushed a little when he smiled big at her enjoying the fact that she seemed to be happy to see him.
"Hey, You were amazing out there!" His complements only made her blush more. She smiled as she took in his appearance. He was wearing black slacks and a nice white button up shirt with the first few buttons undone, showing off just enough chest. His hair fell freely down his face just barely above his eye. He looked perfect.
They continued to talk the whole night, her attention was only torn away when mina came with a man who was later introduced as Darien's roommate whom he had allowed to tag along, Andrew. He was good looking and seemed very sweet but Serena's attention was still directed towards Darien.
Darien never glanced at anyone other than her at the party. It somewhat amazed her, there were so many beautiful girls at this party and yet somehow this hot guy is paying attention to her and only her. This was a first for her, and she liked it, she liked it a lot.
Darien stayed with her till the party was over and walked her back to her apartment.
"You know I had a really great time." He said as they approached the entrance to her building.
She smiled back at him "I did too, I never knew you like fashion."
He gave a soft chuckle and looked down to the ground. "To be honest, I've never really been that into fashion, I mean it's great! Don't get me wrong, but that's not why I… I mean, well…. I um came so I could see you.."
He had trouble fumbling with his word and his cheeks were red with embarrassment but Serena only felt that made him cuter.
"Really?"
"Yah, I sort of have a crush on you." His embarrassed demeanor quickly morphed into one of confidence in a matter of seconds. It amazed Serena that he could say something like that so coolly.
She smiled and looked down to her shoes and then back into his eyes. She had never been daring in her life but here she was with a guy who just blurted out that he likes her and doesn't show the least bit of regret or uneasiness. He's just admiring her…why not
She took a step closer to him. "You want to know a secret?" Her voice was low and seductive as her eyes followed suit, he suddenly became speechless and it made Serena almost laugh how she had that effect on him.
He was frozen as she approached. She stood on her tip toes and put her lips to his, it was a soft short kiss but it was heaven for the both of them.
"I sorta have a crush on you too"
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They went on a few dates after that and then a became an official couple.
Serena couldn't remember being so happy before in her life. They continued to date for a year and then on their anniversary Darien asked her to move in with him.
By that time Andrew had moved out and moved in with his girlfriend who had apparently been over seas.
Darien's career had started up, he'd been getting a few spots here and there on a few tv shows and he could quit his job as a waiter. Their relationship was wonderful. Serena was growing in her modeling career as well as training to take over her father's company and Darien was on the road to greatness.
After another year of living together both knew that they were the ones for each other. Any one you asked would say that Serena was head over heels in love with Darien and that Darien had only eyes for Serena.
He treated her like a princess every day. She was his world and he was hers.
No matter how busy work made them they always set aside time for the other. They were perfect for each other.
It was their third anniversary that Darien finally proposed. He waited outside Serena's work with a limo and rose in hand to surprise her. Drove her to her newly found favorite restaurant and went back to a rose petal covered apartment, where he got on one knee and popped the question.
There was no hesitation. Serena said yes right away and they were married within six months of the proposal. They chose to have a small wedding with only their closet family and friends.
They were the perfect newlyweds. Everything was perfect, that is until it started.
Only a few months after they were married Darien got a call from a big Hollywood agency. They were interested in making him one of their clients and getting him started on the big screen. He was hesitant to leave his small agency who had help him though the tough times but after a lot of consideration and a pep talk from his wife he decided to accept the offer.
When Serena first met Darien's new agent, Diamond, she thought he was a nice guy. He was kind to her and considerate to any of Darien's request with work. It wasn't until Darien had done his first big movie that the true color's started to show.
It was at the after party of the premiere. Serena had left Darien's side for a moment to use the ladies room and came back to find Diamond pushing a busty brunette into Darien as if trying to get them both lucky for the night.
Serena stormed up to the group and grabbed Darien's arm gracefully giving him a smile as she saw his apologetic look. He was like a lost puppy, he'd never be ungentlemanly towards a lady, but in Serena's books this girl was too drunk and loose to be considered a lady.
"Can I help you?" She asked the brunette and Diamond chimed into her rescue
"I'm sorry Sere, this is Ann, and she's a fan of Darien's. I told her I'd could let her meet him, she's just excited that's all." He gave them a smile and then walked away with Ann in his arms.
Serena's eyes followed them with an eyebrow raised, why did she not believe a word he just said.
Darien put his head on her shoulder in defeat and brought her attention back to him. "Uh, thank you so much, I didn't know how to handle that one." He looked at her with weary eyes.
She smiled at him and gave him a pat on the shoulder. "You don't have to handle those, that's why you married me, to scare away all the potential obsessed stalker fans." She always knew how to make him laugh.
"Ah, I knew there was a reason." He bent down to give her a kiss which gradually grew heated.
"Ready to ditch this party and start one of our own at home?" he said with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
She laughed and gave him an encouraging look. They started to walk away.
"Oh, shoot, I left my favorite lipstick in the bathroom, I'll be right back I promise."
She walked back to the ladies room and found her lipstick right where she left it. Just as she was about to walk out she heard a pair of voices. One she recognized to be Diamond, the other assumed to be Ann's.
"Dia! You said I could get him in bed!" the girls whiney voice was more of a screech. Serena stopped where she was knowing it was wrong to listen in but something in her gut told her to listen.
"I know, I know, but he's a married man."
"That's never stopped me before." Whoa!, Was she talking about Darien?
"He's newly married, give him a few more months and he'll grow tired of her and he'll be happy to accept every beauty like you that will come his way."
Their voices began to fade away and Serena left to find Darien when she was sure the coast was clear. She told him all about what she had overheard and furious Darien confronted Diamond.
Diamond admitted that he was talking to Ann and that he had been talking to Darien but explained that he only said those things to calm her down and hopefully get her to rest her case. He thought that she would continue to stalk Darien through the night if he didn't.
Darien saw this to be a reasonable explanation and Serena had to admit that it made sense but she still couldn't help but feel uneasy when it came to Diamond from that moment on.
And with good reason, things just got worse from there. Darien began to star in more movies and become more popular. Serena's modeling career was up the roof, and she even started her own clothing line to coincide with the modeling company. She would always set aside time for them but it seemed that every time they both were free, Diamond would call Darien up with a life or death career emergency.
One day Serena came home from work early. Darien had a meeting with one of the producers of the new film he'd be staring in. It was a dream role of Darien's something he'd pictured himself playing ever since he started acting and she knew how nervous he was about getting this job. To congratulate her wonderful husband she made him his favorite homemade dinner as a surprise for when he came home. She lit the candles at the dinner table and had the bath ready to be drawn for a nice romantic night.
She waited for him to come home, dressed in her sexy red dress with her hair down. She sat in the chair looking at the meal placed in front of her and continued to wait for him to return. After two hours she gave up and covered both the plates so that they could be re-heated later. And moved over to the coach after blowing the candles out.
She laid there for almost another two hours staring at the clock across from her before she fell asleep. She woke up with a start when she heard a bang from the entrance way. She looked at the clock and saw that it was 5 in the morning. Was Darien just getting home?
She ran to the entrance way and found her husband crouched over holding his knee in pain.
"What happened?" Serena said with a start as she got a good look at his appearance. His new suite was ruined, drenched with what smelt like alcohol. The sleeves were torn at the shoulder, his tie was nowhere to be found. His hair was all over the place.
He looked up to see Serena. He looked up and his eye's gave a drunken admiration.
"Aw, baby! My wife, you look so beautiful!, I love the dress. The door just hit my knee." He moved closer to her to give her a great big wet kiss. She repelled away quickly after smelling something more than alcohol. She examined his eyes and stared in amazement.
"Oh my God, are you high?" her voice rose with disbelief
"Shhh, no, I got the job baby! I just went with the dia and bob to celebrate, I didn't do anything they didn't do!" His words were slurred and he began to look very dizzy.
Serena decide that they'd fight this battle in the morning and right now she needed to make sure he didn't kill himself.
The next day she found out that the producer, bob, and Diamond had insisted on taking Darien out to celebrate like real celebrities do. He had met a few popular actors and somehow was convinced to smoke something he didn't even know what it was. He was so nervous he did it without thinking, then the boys got him drunk enough and took him to a strip club where he apparently lost his tie…
For some reason Serena was more mad at Diamond than Darien, and she told him what she thought. She asked Darien not to go with Diamond to parties anymore but his excuse was he had to. If he wanted the job her had to meet people, if he wanted to meet people he would find the people at parties, and Diamond knew what parties to find the right people. They had this fight multiple times but neither ever gave in.
Serena loved the times where Diamond would be out of town and Darien would spend his night at home with her, loving her like he had before. It was times like those that she could almost pretend that they were the young couple they had once been.
As Darien's fame grew so did his time with Diamond. He came home wasted more times than not. At times she could tell he was high. It scared her thinking about what he might be taking. She wished that he would tell her where he'd go before. She began to pray every night that he would come home to her alive.
Every time she'd bring up the fact, he'd brush her off tell her she wouldn't understand. Most women probably would have left him at this point, but not her, she took a vow, and she took it because she loved this man with all her heart and that still hadn't changed.
It got really bad when she stared working with her new business partner, Seiya. She started staying late with the clothes line and company business and she'd come home to Darien high off of something demanding to know where she'd been.
"I've been at work." She said with a sigh, seeing his non-sober state.
"Really? Don't lie to me Sere!" His voice began to raise as he nearly jumped out of his seat. He was standing tall now and he was angry, she could see it in his eyes.
Without tearing his eyes from hers he through some papers towards her feet. She looked down to them and grabbed them. They were pictures of her with Seiya at business brunches and coffee breaks.
"You were with him! Weren't you!" His voice began to tremble with anger.
She began to tear up, never seeing this side of him before but kept her voice steady.
"This is Seiya, my new business partner, he's helping with the fashion line and joining it with daddy's business."
"Oh I bet! So now you have a boy toy who cares about the husband you have at home?"
Serena lost all of her patients at that moment and let her own anger out.
"Really? You're accusing me of being unfaithful? Seiya is no boy toy, he's my business partner, nothing more. You are my husband and I am faithful, something I'm not sure could be said about you! You say I have a husband here waiting for me? Really? When? Please tell me because for the past year I have been waiting for him to come home every night! Only for him to stumble in at late hours in the morning high and drunk!"
He tears of anger were now falling freely down her face.
"OH don't start that again! I'm doing what I need to do to get where I need to be in my career! You wouldn't understand! I wasn't born into the business, I wasn't given a free ride! I worked and fought for where I am!"
Serena couldn't believe what she had just heard.
"I worked for where I am! Don't you dare say I didn't. I went to school I studied for my career and I got the job I deserved! The only time I ever looked to my father for help was with the charities!"
"Yah, you got the job you deserved, because you had the money! You still make more than me! Is that why Seiya's joined the picture? This charity case of the poor boy husband marrying the rich heiress getting old?"
"You have nerve! How dare you! Maybe I should leave! I'm sure Seiya would sure as hell treat me better than you are right now!"
"SHUT UP!" His veins were popping out of his forehead from anger as he grabbed the closes thing next to him, which just happened to be a glass vase.
The glass flew everywhere as the vase shattered. He had thrown it so hard the shard of glass reached Serena's face. It was a small cut but enough to let the blood flow down her cheek.
The sight of her blood seemed to sober Darien up. There was nothing in his eyes but regret now. He stared at her wanting to go to her but she lifted her hand warning him away.
"Sere…" there was little left of his voice. She could see the tears form in his eyes.
"Don't… I'll be at Mina's" and with those words she left him there to drown in his sorrows.
She told Mina about the fight but lied about the cut on her face. She said that she had run out in so much anger that she had fallen and cut her face. Mina not believing Darien could ever harm Serena, believed this lie.
Serena returned home he next morning to see the glass cleaned up from the floor and Darien lying on the coach in slumber. As she moved towards their room she heard him start to stir.
"Sere? Baby is that you?"
She turned to see him quickly rising from the coach and he ran to her grabbing her into a smothering hug.
"Baby! I'm so sorry! I'm so so sorry! I didn't mean it! I didn't mean any of it!" He moved away to examine her face. "OH shit, I'm sorry! I would never hurt you! Oh God, what have I done."
She looked into his eyes and saw the deepest regret and he silently pleading with her for forgiveness.
What could she do? She loved him.
"This has to stop. No more drinking, no more drugs. It's done, Ok? No more, promise me that?" she could barely speak because of all the emotions she was feeling at this moment, but she forced those words to come out. Her tears began to fall again as she became the one pleading him.
He saw her tears and nodded. "It's over. No more, I'm done with that stuff from now on! I won't lose you! I'm going to go back to being the man you married."
And with those words he sealed his promise with a desperate kiss. But why did those words feel so empty to her…
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And now, here she is a week later, walking hand in hand with him down the red carpet. His new premiere.
She put on a façade for his colleagues and fans but deep down she was still hurting. The scar on her face had faded and was easily hidden with make-up.
But her mind kept wondering back to the promise he had made to her a week ago.
So far he had kept his promise. And he had done everything to make sure she was ok. He came home early, cooked her food, and bought her flowers. She accepted all half-heartedly wondering how long it would last.
And as she scanned the crowds of adoring fans pawning for her husband all that run through her mind was his promise, and all the things that had happened to them in the past two years.
But she knew one thing, She would make sure her husband got help, no matter what. This was his last chance before she would step in, and if that were to happen, it wouldn't just be close friends knowing about the problem but everyone of these fans watching him, their idol, walking gracefully to success.
She felt his arm tighten around her waist and she looked up to find him looking down at her with adoring eyes, she couldn't help but smile back, he bent down for a loving kiss and continued walking towards the premiere, never letting her go, holding onto as if life depended on it.
The thought of hurting him hurt her more than imaginable, but she loved him, and she would do anything to save him, even from himself.
Alrighty, so what do you think? Should I continue? I'd develp Dariens character more in later chapters I just wanted to give background in this. Thanks for reading!