This is the third story in a series of four stories. The first story

is Queen Serenity's Childhood, and the second story is called Beyond

the Façade. The first story is not essential to the series, but it

makes a few details in the second story make more sense and gives

some background information on Queen Serenity. The second story

however should be read to get the full idea of the next story.

There should be about ten chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue

in this story.

Prologue, Time Gate:

She stood at the gate and watched the destruction of the

entire Silver Millennium Alliance, and she wept in misery and defeat.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw Queen Serenity's ultimate

brave sacrifice. Her breath was caught in her throat. *She is

so selfless and brave,* Sailor Pluto thought to herself in

admiration.



She stood at the gate for many many hundreds of years, and

as time passed she got more and more lonely and miserable. Each

passing moment began to feel like an eternity to her. She stepped

through the time gate once to join the people of Earth for a short

time. She was so lonely she could not resist. She looked around at

the cobblestone streets and the horses and carriages. She approached

someone getting into a carriage. "Excuse me sir, but could I trouble

you for the year?" she asked politely.



"Seventeen hundred and seventy eight," answered the

gentleman. "Have you knocked your head on something and forgotten

things? Perhaps you should go to a hospital," he kindly suggested.



She shook her head, distracted now by her own thoughts. The

man looked at her strangely and then got into the carriage.



She wandered around the area for some time alone, watching

all the people walking across the edge of the street in their rags

and the rich with their parasols, or if it was raining umberllas,

and canes getting out and into their horse-drawn carriages. Her

eyes flitted over the scene several times in wonder. Her curiousity

thus satisfied, she went into a nearby bakery and there stood the

man she had met earlier. *He must have taken the carriage to this

store,* she thought briefly. When he saw her enter the store, he

smiled at her and approached her. "Is there anything I can do to

help you my lady? You seem lost."



"Indeed...I am lost, but please do not trouble yourself. I

just do not know this area very well. I should be fine in some

time."



"Ah, so you are from another area, but pray tell which area

of England do you come from?"



*So this is England.* "There is really nothing to tell,"

she assured him. He did not seem convinced, but after asking for a

loaf of bread and getting ready to exit the store, he asked her

another question. "Would you like me to accompany you to wherever

it is you are headed?"



"I have nowhere to go," she admitted.



"Now what is a beautiful lady like you doing in a foreign

area of this country with no destination?" he asked curiously.



"I am not sure," she admitted.



"You may perhaps have amnesia," he said. "You see I am a

doctor. I will lead you to the hospital and make sure you are

looked after," he reassured her.



She thought to herself for a moment. *If I say yes I get

a chance to see him again,* she thought happily. "Yes, all right.

Thank you kind sir," she said.



"Anytime my lady," he said, tipping his hat at her.



He then proceeded to take her to his carriage and then to

the hospital. She lay in the white bed with the white walls

surrounding her. She remained there for the next few nights

visited often by this man, Charles. He soon declared that he could

find nothing wrong with her, but he asked her to accompany him to

his home and allow him to continue to look after her.



She obliged readily, inwardly rejoicing at the thought of

spending her days and nights with him. Charles did look after her,

and they spent much time together-walking to the park, reading

together, seeing plays, and many other exciting activities,

together. He made her smile, and he made her heart flutter inside.

*So this is the love everyone talks and writes about,* she thought

happily.



He took her dancing one night and proposed to her under

the starlit sky. She gasped, and her breath caught in her throat.

"Yes Charles," she joyfully agreed. "I would like nothing better

than to be your wife," she said sincerely.



The wedding was a gigantic one with people from all sides

of Charles's family there to watch the two be wed.



Their lifetime together was full of love and joy, but as he

began getting older and older, she remained outwardly the same age.

She had forgotten about living on for three milleniums. She still

had much time left. In sorrow she watched as more of his body

withered away each day. She sat with him devotedly and helped him

as he grew older and older. One night, as death was drawing quite

near, he broached the subject of how she had remained so young. She

told him the honest truth as he died that night in her arms. Silent

tears escaped from her sorrow-filled eyes. She sighed and vowed

never to come back onto Earth until the others were reborn. She

continued all her duties at her post without ever leaving the gate.

In the time with her beloved Charles she had of course come back to

the post often enough to do her duty, but not more than she had to

spend to still enjoy her time with Charles and get her duties done.

She made sure the timeline stayed secure of course, and now she

resumed living at the time gate alone and lonely. Her whole heart

ached for her love CHarles, but she knew he would never again hold

her in his arms. She knew she could go back in time and meet him

and go through the whole process again, but somehow she felt that

was wrong. She decided to not do that in order to have closure and

move on from him.



As she waited, she was finally rewarded by hearing the

cries of the newborn Amara. She continued to watch their lives from

her post until they became sailor scouts, and she could join them.

To Be Continued...