Hey, it's me, Mercury Ice Storm. Sorry I've been gone forever but I've been working on this, and let me tell you I'm loving this story and I hope you feel the same. I don't own Sailor Moon OR Gundam Wing, but I own the plot, so PLEASE don't steal that! This is centered on Ami my personal favorite. Its set before all the inner senshi are found and the outers are unknown as well, everything's kind of out of order so please go with it! GW and SM combined world and set in California. Well, anyways, here's the 1st chapter. Adios and remember to review!
"I'm standing next to a girl with strange styled blonde hair who is smiling. Then there's this crash and screams from the distance and I look forward to see smoke pouring from this huge office building. I look back at the girl but now she's wearing a short blue skirt, knee high red boots and a white bodice that had a blue sailor collar. She tells me to hurry up then runs for the building. Then everything turned white and I was awake, back in my room." Ami concluded, staring across the room at the woman with long green hair who sat behind a mahogany desk, looking pensive. Ami crossed her legs at the ankles and waited for the woman on the other side of the room to speak, which could take a while. In the months that Ami had begun to see Ms. Setsuna Meiou, she had discovered that the woman much preferred to listen then to talk.
"Is that all?" Setsuna asked as she wrote in her notebook with the pen Ami had gotten her for Christmas. Ami nodded and glanced at the clock above the exit to the room. Only ten more minutes and she was free to go. She couldn't wait to get out of that room and into the nicer temperatures that were starting to increase to the normal seventy degrees all around Northern California.
"Yes." Nine more minutes and Setsuna hadn't asked one question about the 'incident' that had occurred on Halloween. This week was a lot better then the last two. She had left them feeling worse then she had when she walked in.
"That's interesting. Having any other dreams about you-know-what?" Setsuna's piercing garnet eyes staring intently into Ami's blue ones caused the younger girl to look away to the floor.
"No." Ami said quickly. She didn't have to look up to know that Setsuna was writing in her little notebook. The words 'chronic liar' had to have been written in those pages a myriad of times.
"You know that you can tell me anything. I have a very strict confidentiality policy and you know my motto. I won't say a thing unless you want me to." Ami mouthed the last sentence along with the woman, chipping off some of the remaining blue nail polish that was left on her thumb. Ami looked up from the floor and met Setsuna's gaze. She half expected the woman to look away like all the people at her school, and even her own father, did but the Setsuna just smiled. "Are you excited about the move? LA's a very big city compared to Carmel." Ami nodded. Seven more minutes. "Have you ever been there?" Ami shook her head. Her mom had just gotten a job at a hospital there but before had lived in San Francisco while her dad stayed in Carmel. Since her parents had gotten a divorce Ami switched between them every year. It was a little annoying most of the time but in this case Ami couldn't be happier. Sure she would miss her dad but he promised to send her a painting or two of Carmel when she was homesick. As if she needed anymore of a reminder of Carmel and what had happened here. "I'm sure you'll like it. It will be good to get away from here for a while." Setsuna said, obviously getting that Ami wasn't going to say anything else.
Only three more minutes. Ami thought, chewing on her lip. Setsuna was straightening up her desk so Ami stood, pulling her blue purse with her. "Well, it was nice having appointments with you but I'll see you next year." She gushed and Setsuna looked up, her eyebrows arching slightly.
"Next year? Ami I'll see you next Saturday. Then every other weekend after that." Ami's grip on her purse slackened and it fell to the floor with a small thud. "Didn't you know?" Ami shook her head and sat back down on the bench. "Oh dear. Ami, your parents arranged it so that you still have appointments, only now they're every other Saturday. Your mother will either drive you here or send you up on a train. I thought surely they would've told you."
"But, I thought I was better. I don't have the nightmares that often anymore and nothing strange has happened ever since I started using the pills." Ami said.
"Your antidepressants you mean." Setsuna said and again Ami looked down at her shoes, feeling her cheeks burn. She never liked to call them that, it made her feel like even more of a freak. Setsuna let out a sigh and picked up the glasses she wore when she was reading. "Ami you're a very special and unique girl but as long as you're dependant on them we must continue to see each other. You're not fully cured until you can live your life as a normal person, without the help of medication."
"What if you take me off, just as a trial period?" Ami asked, feeling a little ball of hope rising in her chest.
"Ami, we've had this talk before and I'm afraid we'll have to continue when your mother brings you back here. My ten o'clock is sure to be here." Setsuna said as she stood up. Ami let out a sigh and glanced up at the clock. Time was up. She grabbed her bag and stood as well. The little bit of hope she had worked up, squashed. "Have a good day." Setsuna called as Ami opened the door.
"You too." Ami halfheartedly replied as she walked into the waiting room. Her father was sitting in his paint covered jeans and a flannel shirt with two brushes sticking out of the pocket. His long blue hair held back in a loose ponytail, looking like the very paragon of an artist. There was a small pale girl sitting across the room, her short black hair barely brushing her shoulders and a bored look on her face. She looked up as Ami closed the door behind her. She was Setsuna's ten o'clock.
"Hey sweetheart, you ready?" Her dad asked and Ami nodded. The girl across the room stood and walked towards the door. Ami sent her a small encouraging smile as she followed her dad. The girl returned it before she closed the door to the room with a small click.
"So are you all packed? Your mother is supposed to be here any minute." Ami took a last glance around her almost bare room, her eyes sweeping over anything she'd intended to pack. Once she was satisfied she looked at her dad and nodded. "Anyone you want to say goodbye to?" Ami shook her head. She didn't have any friends here. She thought she did but had learned the truth behind them a few months ago. "Alright. I'll take some boxes down." Her father picked up two boxes. One with bedding and one with her books. Well, some of them at least.
She nodded her appreciation and turned to look out of the window. One thing she would miss was the view from her bedroom. It had a great panorama of the Pacific coast and some of the beaches. She wanted to get a balcony installed but because their house was historic the city wouldn't allow any adding on, thus ending her dream. She closed her blinds and checked around her room one last time. She was leaving the paintings her father gave her, a few clothes and all the main furniture of the room. Everything else was packed.
The doorbell rang and Ami grabbed her two suitcases then went downstairs just as her father was opening the door. She watched for a second as her parents gazed at each other then glanced in different ways like teenagers who had just broken up and forgot why. Ami chuckled at them and stopped at the bottom of the stairs.
"Oh Ami, you look so grown up!" Her mom rushed in the door, happy to have a distraction from the awkwardness, and over to Ami. Ami hugged her mother, glad to see the woman again. She had grown out her navy blue hair to her shoulders. She also looked a lot less stressed then she did the year before and was actually wearing some white slacks and a teal colored boucle warp cardigan. A big change from the normal business suit.
"You've lost weight!" Ami said pulling from her mother, who smiled and kissed her on the forehead.
"I lot of things have changed." She said, and then Ami noticed she was wearing a little makeup as well. A ping of grief washed through her for a second. She had seen her mother only a few months ago and hadn't noticed these changes.
"I see." Ami said as her mother counted all of her bags.
"Sorry to make this brief but I've got to hurry back to town. Traffic is going to be crazy by the time we get there." Ami nodded and picked up her things then her mother frowned. "Nonsense, we'll make the guys come get them." With that her mom walked back out of the door. Ami looked at her father as if to ask if he knew what she was talking about but he shrugged. Their question was answered a few seconds later when a tall guy with brown hair that was swept in front of his right emerald green eye walked in, closely followed by another brunet who's hair was long and held back in a braid.
"Hello. Duo Maxwell at your service, I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie." The guy with the braid said, his violet eyes twinkling as he took Ami's hand and kissed the back of it. Ami blushed and looked to her mother for an explanation. Ms. Anderson just laughed lightly.
"Isn't he sweet? He's a friend of Trowa's." Ami raised her eyebrow as if to ask who Trowa was. The other guy stepped forward and extended his hand.
"That'd be me." Ami shook it and glanced back at her mom.
"Trowa volunteered to help get your things. I figured that you'd want someone your own age to chat with. The drive is roughly five hours so we've got to get going if we want to be there before dinner." The guys picked up her things and went outside towards the SUV that was parked outside. Ami thanked them both and Duo wiggled his eyebrows at her, causing her to blush again.
"Well, I guess this is it." Her dad said. Ami nodded and looked down at her feet; she wasn't very good at goodbyes. "Come on over here." Ami gave her dad a tight hug and he kissed the top of her head. "You be good for your mom you hear me. And take care of her because you know how badly she cooks." Ami laughed as her mother let out a fake sound of protest.
"Thanks for everything dad."
"You have your medicine?" Ami nodded and her dad smiled. "Alright, why don't you go see if the guys need any help?" That was the international excuse for 'Your mother and I need to speak alone' so Ami picked up her purse and headed outside. It was late-February and the sun was out but the wind was keeping the temperature cooler so Ami wrapped her light hoodie around her shoulders. She was starting to regret changing into her short denim skirt and a tank top. She hadn't known that there were going to be guys coming along and had expected to be in a car for most of the trip.
"You're a witness, I call first dibs on Ames, she's hot." Ami heard Duo say to Trowa as the taller boy put one of her suitcases in the back of the car.
"I really don't think she'd appreciate you claiming her like a piece of meat." Trowa said and Ami couldn't help but to smile.
"Yea, I know. But you can't tell me she's not hot." Trowa grunted. "Don't turn into Heero on me."
Ami looked down her block one last time. Everything was perfect like normal. The city wouldn't have anything less. There were a few kids out, running around but many of them spent their weekends at the beach or playing tennis and crochet at the country clubs located a little out of town. Ami had once been one of them, trying to get the cabana boys to give them alcoholic beverages despite their age and giggling and sending the drinks to random guys when they did. But since October... 'I hope things are different in LA.' She thought as she looked back to the car.
"Okay, are you ready to go?" Ami's mom walked out of the house. Ami nodded and headed to the car as Duo shut the back door.
"Yep! Let's get on the road. I wanna drive." Ms. Anderson just looked at the boy oddly and went to the driver's side.
"I just got my daughter back, I don't want to lose her in a car crash." Ami laughed as she got into to the passenger seat and the guys got into the back. Her mom started the car and Ami soon drifted to sleep to the rocking of the car.
"Where are the guys? They were supposed to be here so we can start on our video project." Lita said as she looked down at her watch. She, Mina and Serena were seated at a booth at the Crown Arcade, staring out of the window.
"Well Duo and Trowa had something else to do and you know how Quatre is. He's probably in some emergency meeting about the business." Serena said as she played a game on her cell phone. Mina crossed her legs and leaned forward on the table in front of them.
"I'm hungry for kitten heeled flip-flops. Let's blow this off until the guys can show." Mina said and Serena looked up, her baby blue's lightening significantly.
"Rodeo Drive anyone?" She asked folding up her phone and dropping it into her purse.
"Did anyone forget that our parents haven't gotten us cars yet? I don't know about you but I'm not walking from Newport to Beverly Hills." Lita said crossing her arms and leaning back in her seat. The two blondes next to her sighed.
"I'm still don't forgiving my parents for that." Mina said, slumping down in her seat.
"We could always call Darien. It's not like he has a life or anything." Serena suggested.
"Oi, what a way to treat your ex-boy toy." Mina said as Lita laughed and Serena shrugged.
"Hey, he calls me Meatball Head, I get to call him a football playing jock with no life."
"Glad you didn't just love me for my money." Darien said as he took a seat next to Serena and gave her a hug, causing the aforementioned girl to blush.
"Dare, what are you doing here? I thought that you had to go out to eat with your parents." Serena said as Darien took a sip of the chocolate milkshake in front of her.
"I did but then they decided to turn our family bonding time into a more private week long trip to Cabo. I've got the house to myself so party tomorrow night, spread the word." Mina smiled as she wrapped her arms around her knees.
"Finally I get to get out of the house. My mom's been hooked on us bonding or something like that." Mina said and Lita shrugged.
"Sounds cool. I'm in."
"So, how about a quick trip to Rodeo Drive?" Serena asked elbowing Darien in the side. Suddenly there was a familiar beeping sound that made all the girls and Darien look down at the small devices on the girl's wrists.
"Hold that thought." Darien said pushing the little button on Serena's wrist. Raye, well, Sailor Mars came on the screen.
"Hey, youma in the park. It's that Jadeite person again and I could really use your help." She said panting slightly.
"Be right there." Lita said as they all stood, threw some money on the table and took off for an alley. Mina bumped into a familiar blond as they were rushing out.
"Hey, what's the rush? I thought we had a project." Quatre said as the rest of the group continued running.
"Sorry, we, uh, have prior engagements. We'll have to reschedule later." Mina said as she sprinted after her friends. Quatre just shook his head.
'I wonder when they'll figure out that we know who they are...' He thought before he turned and headed back home.
"There's got to be a better way of doing this!" Sailor Jupiter called as she dodged the black tentacles of the youma in front of them. It looked like a mixture between a girl and an octopus but its additional limbs were only apart of its midnight black dress.
"No kidding." Sailor Mars said before she cried out. "Fire Soul!" The youma let out a screech that made all the girls cover their ears and all the nearby glass to break. "Goodness, she's worse then you Meatball Brains." Sailor Mars said.
"You're so mean to me Mars!" Sailor Moon wailed as tears trickled down her cheeks. Suddenly the youma stopped its screeching and its paste green skin began to turn red and its tentacles stopped moving.
"Stop that infernal crying you Moon Brat! You're beginning to give me a headache. First Jed yells at me and now this. I can't take it anymore!" It said as it clutched its multi-pierced ears.
"You did it Sailor Moon, now use your tiara." Tuxedo Mask said from a nearby tree. Sailor Moon promptly stopped crying and nodded. She took her tiara from her forehead and it turned into a discus.
"Moon Tiara MAGIC!" She cried and flung it at the youma. It let out another scream and melted into a pile of moon dust on the floor, complete with a dark crystal that fluttered with light for a second then dimmed. "I did it all by myself! See, told you I could hold my own Sailor Mars!"
"You brats got lucky this time. I assure you this won't be the outcome the next time we meet." Jadeite said before he disappeared.
"Whatever loser!" Sailor Mars yelled before she sprang to the roof of a building. The rest of the girls followed her lead and after making sure no one was hurt or following them, they headed back to the Cherry Hill Temple.
"That was really close. If Serena hadn't started wailing we would've been in real trouble." Lita said as Raye gave everyone some lemonade.
"Like I said before, there's got to be another way of finding weaknesses to youma's. Guessing isn't working and Serena could pass out if the youma's aren't weakened enough as we so gracefully found out two weeks ago." Mina said as Serena blushed lightly.
"Well, what are we supposed to do? I can't stop and do a fire reading every time some ugly monster with a hideous costume shows up." Raye said as she sat next to Mina.
"I don't know. Maybe Artemis or Luna knows what to do. Until, we just have to keep an eye out for more senshi and try to find the princess and this mysterious crystal she has that everyone wants." Mina said chewing on her lip.
"Do we have to? I'm so tired of trying to find her. I say, if she wants to be found, she'll make herself known, right?" Serena said and everyone rolled their eyes.
"Maybe you should ask Luna when you go home." Lita suggested right as her cell gave off a text message ring. She picked it up and read it then laughed.
'Sitting by hot babe right now. Can't wait 4 u 2 meet her.'
"My brother's so weird some times." She said and Mina perked up.
"What'd he say?" She asked, her blue eyes glowing.
"That he's sitting next to some cute girl and he can't wait until I meet her. I'm guessing he's talking about Ms. Anderson's daughter. She's coming to live here. Trowa told me about her. She's supposed to be his new step sister or something." Lita said and Mina frowned.
"Think she's cuter then me?" She asked and Raye rolled her eyes.
"How can you like that pompous jackass. No offence Lita." Raye said and Lita shrugged, putting away her phone.
"He's just so cute. I love guys with long hair." Mina said with hearts in her eyes.
"Date Chad then. He's got long hair and he's in a band!" Raye said and Mina rolled her eyes.
"But he's your boyfriend Raye." Mina said and Raye turned red.
"Say that again and you'll see black and blue for a week."
"But he's your boyfriend Ra-epp!" Mina jumped up and ran around the room after Raye had shot a little fire towards her hair. "You're so mean Raye!" Mina said and Serena smiled.
"See! Told you I wasn't imagining it."
Ami lay on the bed of her new room, in her new house, in Newport, California. Everything was perfect. Her room was blue and her bed had a huge canopy that hung around the bed. She still had a gorgeous view of the ocean and now she had a balcony too and her very own computer and bathroom and everything a girl to wish for, but it wasn't home. At the home she knew there wasn't a tall brunet man downstairs who went by the name Triton who was engaged to her mother and there wasn't a guy named Trowa in the room next to her or a girl name Catherine across the hall. In her home she never had siblings who threw knives at each other or a future stepfather who ran a company that was behind one of the most known circuses in the world and colonies.
It was all way too overwhelming for one day. It as just so surreal. Ami felt a headache coming on and groaned. She grabbed her purse and a bottle of water she had brought up after a brief lunch with her new soon to be family. After digging around in her bag for a second she pulled out a small orange, tubular bottle. It was a little early to take another but it couldn't hurt. Or so she thought. Dumping a small white pill in her hand she opened the bottle and downed it with a quick jerk of her head. A few minutes later a calm over took her. She put the top back on the water bottle and sat it to the side then closed her eyes.
A familiar figure loomed in front of her. Fear gripped her spine as a smirk appeared on the blonds' lips. She wanted to scream or back away but couldn't. Something, more like somebody, was laying over her, making her sink into a soft surface under her. Her breaths were already more like gasps, her chest confound by the blue dress she was wearing. 'It's too tight' she vaguely remembered herself saying in remark to the dress. 'No, it's fine. It'll drive him wild.' A voice had said back. That it had, unfortunately.
A rough hand rubbed away the tears that were forming in her eyes as dread settled in.
"Please don't cry. You know I hate it when you do." Ami moved her head to the side, away from the lips that had started descending towards her own, but they took their place on her neck instead. A feeling of revolution ripped through her and she tried again to plead for him to leave her alone but his hand was already traveling down her arm to her waist. She looked up at him, hoping her eyes would make him stop but what she saw scared her even more then the first time she saw this. His emerald green eyes were shining with what had to be lust, a darkness lurking behind them. A rich chuckle reached her ears. "Oh Ami, don't look so sad. I promise it won't hurt much."
Ami's eyes snapped open and she was back in her room, only tucked in with a towel on her head. She tried to sit up but a hand stopped her. She looked over to see her mother with a calm smile on her face.
"It's alright, you're safe, just relax." Ami could already feel the tears forming in her eyes like they had in the nightmare but she tried to wipe them away. Her mother got up from the chair she was seated in and pulled Ami into her lap like a child.
"I was so scared."
"I know you were. Just calm down." Ami nodded as she tried to push the dream to the back of her mind.
"I hate this. I wish they'd stop." Ami said as her mom rubbed her back.
"I know. Have you told Setsuna that you're still having them?" Ami shook her head. "Ami," Ami could hear the disappointment in her mom's voice.
"Mom please. I don't want to talk about it." Her mom's eyes softened slightly.
"I know you don't want to talk about it but you've got to understand. I don't know what to do if you won't tell me what happened." Ami's eyes clouded as numbness came over her senses.
"I'm just a statistic aren't I?" Ami's mother looked at her oddly. "You know the kind. Forty percent of all people who attempt sui-"
"Ami stop." Ami stopped talking and looked at her mother, pulling out of her embrace.
"That's what you want to hear right? How your perfect daughter could slit her wrists?"
"I want to know why you would do a thing like that." Ami looked down at her arms, the numbness fading away slowly until she felt more like a shell then a human being.
"I don't know." Ami said and her mother tensed up.
"Yes you do. But you don't have to tell me, hopefully that's what we pay your therapist for." Ami wrapped her arms around her knees.
"I want to be alone please." Her mother nodded and stood up.
"Alright. But tomorrow you might want to apologize to Trowa. He had quite a scare. Came in to say goodnight and saw you thrashing around in you bed. Poor dear thought that you were having a seizure." Ami just blinked so her mom nodded and walked out of the door, closing it behind her.
Trowa frowned as he moved away from the wall that separated his room from his 'step sister's'. She had tried to commit suicide? She didn't seem like the type. She was a prodigy at age six, could play seven instruments, and had been proclaimed a genius when she was twelve. Why would a girl who had everything in the world going for her want to kill herself? It definitely had something to do with some guy named Zach, that much he had heard while she was mumbling to herself in her sleep. He could always do a search on the guy but he'd need a last name too. There were just far too many Zachs' in California. And there was a possibility that he didn't live in California or the U.S.A. or on Earth. He'd have to do a little investigating first.
Trowa stopped thinking and his eyebrows burrowed. 'I've only known her a day and I'm already starting to pry. Note to self: Stop being around Duo so much.'
TTFN! Please tell me what you think. It's a little confusing but you'll get it, if you don't already. I hope there wasn't a lot of OOC-ness. I tried to keep everyone in character. I also tried to mix drama with humor so it wouldn't be too heavy, especially for the first chapter. Tell me if it was a little too much. Anyways, the rest of the characters will appear in the next chapter. I love Heero and Wufei as much as anyone else but they just didn't fit in quite yet. Ja ne for now!