CATS IN THE BALCONY

I know, I´m supposed to stick with Let me be the one to love you more. But I got attacked with desire to write this story and here it goes. I promise I wont slow down my first story... I just needed to release all that inspiration and words in my mind...

Why the tittle? Spanish song from my childhood. The singer name is Fey and her music quite pop and girly...And since it goes about cats, well, it fit the history quite well.

Let me know what you think about this one and as allways I dont own any of Sailor Moon characters.


1. Incomplete

It had been a horrendous day. Even her birthdays were doomed to be like that; work had been really hard today and some costumers had treated her like total scum. She had also a quarrel with one of her colleagues at the restaurant because the guy tried to shame her in front of their boss. People stayed speaking of the German GDP and stuff like that, until late and she had to work almost three more hours to sum the beautiful and tiredy number of 14 hours of work, a lot given the fact that she usually had to work just ten… Another, really good looking guy had tried to hit on her, and she had had to dismiss him. And to make things even better for her, it had started to rain hard as soon as she got off the bus; she had forgotten her umbrella just that day…

At 26 years old, Serena was about to proclaim her life a total failure. Why did she keep alive despite all? Life for her had always been such a problem. Always in fear, running away, always alone… And always waiting for something that didn't quite arrive to her life… Always clinging to a little hope that just seemed to fade with every passing day.

Dammit!! She should be the only woman in this planet virgin at her age!! She wanted to love and be loved more than anything else in this world. She knew her expectations weren't that crazy; she just wanted a guy that respected her, honest and above all, loved her with all his soul. For she didn't mattered the looks, the social status or the money; she wasn't asking for a prince or Mr. Right, just for a nice guy… But she also knew that things being with her as the way they were, that simple thing was totally out of her reach.

BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD EVER LOVE A FREAK LIKE HER….


The day had been horrendous. Mostly because he had feared its coming since he hit his 3900 birthday, one century ago… Now, after a series of accidents and non planned battles with his enemies that wanted him dead more than anything, he was lying there, injured and unable to move… They had attacked him knowing that today he was hitting the limit. The group had been large because despite his weakness, he was still the King and his power just overwhelming. They knew he had lost all hope and injured him badly. But when they saw that he wasn't fighting back, they just laughed at him and left him there, bleeding but alive enough to wait the next two hours to come. The last two hours of his life as the powerful King…

Why? He had seen others in his race getting it while just being little kids. Yet, he was an Ancient and it had avoided him all those centuries. He had traveled all around the world looking for it without any result. Why was he the only one from his brothers and sisters who still hadn't found it? 4000 years…Darien was going to be that old in just a couple of hours and when he finally reached that venerable age, he was going to lose everything… He, who had so much, who was rich enough to appall many kings of the human world, who had a family and an enormous nation who loved him…Friends and power…

Yes, he thought closing his eyes to the rain that began pouring, he was being stupid. For love was not something to be comparable with anything. And maybe that was the reason behind his failure to find it. He had had so much in his life that maybe he didn't deserved the love he needed to keep alive, that eternal feeling between two beings that could build and create so much… Things that all his wealth and power could never do…

He really regretted not being able to find her… His only and real love…He had waited for her so much time already. He managed a smile and remembered that he used to imagine her like a beautiful princess when he was young. With the passing of the years, he had grown wiser and concluded that he wouldn't mind her lookings or status as long as he could find her…And how frustrating had been to see the time passing, drawing nearer and nearer to this day that had finally arrived… The day when he would disappear to the world without being able to see her face not even a single time…

But maybe, this was ok. Life without her had been hard and lonely…Maybe losing everything was the best way to finally escape to a better place as the heaven humans believed in. He just felt so empty without her…

Serena saw the black cat lying in the alley and at first thought he was dead. The poor thing was all soaked and its view moved her almost to tears. She got near him ignoring the heavy rain falling into her and examined him… No, he wasn't dead, but had a pretty bad injury in his left shoulder, and the rain had already washed a lot of his blood away.

Maybe, just maybe, she could cure him. Her house was just a couple of minutes away and it seemed like the cat was not in death danger; she thought of the bandages and medicines she would need and felt relief when remembered the recent stocking she made to her first aid supplies. If she just left him there, she would regret it and she knew it perfectly. Not that she was Mother Theresa of Calcuta or anything, but it just wasn't her style to see such things and keep walking.

--Nee, Koneko chan…--she said taking the unconscious animal in her arms and covering him with her already soaked jacket. At least that way he would be shielded from the rain while she arrived home…


Darien opened his eyes just a little bit and saw a blur, the rain making him blind… Were those arms lifting him from the ground? Was that the face of an angel? Had he already died and someone was sent from heaven for his soul? That would be nice if he had actually died…

No, it was a human girl. Her eyes wide and blue beyond possible. He couldn't make out too many of the details because of the rain, but she looked beautiful even with her gorgeous blonde hair all soaked by the rain. He closed his eyes and let her do. At least he thought, he wasn't going to die all by himself…

Serena decided it was better for him if she carried him like a baby. His wound worried her and she wondered if the next day she should get him to a vet. Well, not that she thought of keeping the cat. After all, she couldn't have any pet, friend, boyfriend or family…

And Darien felt her warmth in between flashes of consciousness. She was a nice young girl. He knew many humans and most of the times he thought of them like extravagant and stupid creatures with the big luck of numbers and no other dominant species to allow them to take over the world. In his 4000 years, he had witnessed how fast they corrupted and damaged the world… He had tried many things to mend what they had done from the shadows of his enormous power, but still it was hard… Yet, this young woman was being nice with him in a moment when he had been completely abandoned by his luck.

She ran up the stairs and finally reached her floor. Serena lived in a small and very old looking apartment complex. That was all her payment could afford for her. Not that she needed more because in the end, it was only her and two or three plants. She had only the necessary things to live and survive and every time she moved from one place to other, she made sure her landlord provided her with the minimum of things: a bed, a wardrobe, a stove, a small fridge and a shower. Being poor was not that easy…

She took a towel from the small cabinet beside the shower and proceeded to dry the cat up. Wrapping him with one of her two wool coats, she left him over her small bed and turned the lights on. She usually didn't need them for she could perfectly see in the dark and that was a big help to her pocket since she could save a lot in her electricity bill. Now, however, she wanted to be as accurate as possible while curing the cat.

Darien opened the eyes once again to find himself in front of the girl who had picked him in the street. He was feeling kind of better and his body was beginning to dry because of the coat she had put around him. Now, he could see her better and also the place where they both were.

--You feeling better, Koneko chan?—she asked softly.—Just wait a moment, I´ll cure you, feed you and take care of you and you´ll be feeling a lot better tomorrow…

Darien stared at her. She was still all soaked and yet, she was worried about him and was trying her best to make him feel better and comfortable. Crazy girl, talking to him like if he were another human being… Sure she lived alone for that space was just enough for one person.

Serena bandaged the cat the best she could and when she seemed happy with her job, she allowed herself to look at the cat in the eye. He was staring at her firmly and she wondered how many cats she had seen before with such beautiful midnight blue eyes. Not many for sure. The color was amazingly beautiful as it was the blackness and softness of his fur. She smiled. And Darien kept looking at her feeling puzzlement.

--I´m sure there should be many ladies in love with you, Koneko chan…--she said—You are a very handsome one…

She turned and went to the fridge to get some food for him. Pay day was still far and her expenses didn't allow her to have a full supply as she would like, but still, she wanted to share some of the smoked salmon she had bought the other day with his unusual visitor.

Darien savoured the offer but remained calmed and quiet in his place. That girl was poor, but still she offered her the best she had. He had never met such a kind person, such a nice human. By then the clock showed that there were just fifteen more minutes for midnight. Well, he thought while closing his eyes, at least he got to die in a comfortable enough place, in the company of a very gentle human girl.

--So late…

She dried her hair the best she could and then began to pull her clothes off and Darien saw that her soaked figure covered with a baggy shirt and that long skirt became a slender body of creamy white skin. Her curves so full and yet soft…Perfect. Everything was perfect with her.

Darien closed his eyes; since when in his long life had he ever felt anything at the view of a naked human girl? His power and status were too high to even lay his gaze in such low creatures. But still, he had to accept that she looked simply beautiful…

Serena looked at the cat. He seemed too tired and wounded to even try to attack her. His eyes were fixed in her and she felt kind of embarrassed when she stood there, totally naked in front of him. She sighed thinking that maybe working so hard was finally getting into her sanity.

--Well, maybe this time is ok to do it—she said…

And then Darien saw the strangest thing he had ever witnessed. Because the girl glowed with a gentle yet strong shine for two or three seconds and then disappeared. What the hell!! He was about to break the silence when she leaped from the floor to the bed. For Goodness sake!!

There, beside him stood a blonde cat with the most beautiful aquamarine eyes he had ever seen. He stood breathless and trying to figure out what was going on when she spoke again.

--I see even you got surprised, nee koneko chan?—she said sadly—It´s ok. I guess I´ll remain being a freak even if I took your shape…

Darien wanted to move, to snap out of the coat and reach for her. He wanted to talk but no words came to his mouth…She saw his intention and put a slender pawn over his head.

--Shhh. Don't move…--she demanded softly—You need to rest.

Darien´s heart was beating strangely. Suddenly, he felt something he had never sensed before. His body temperature rose in a matter of seconds and his senses perceived every thing of her. Her sweet aroma of chocolate and vanilla, the smoothness of her fur against his, the slow prrrr of her voice while she was trying to soothe him to sleep. Oh GOD!!

--Don't be afraid—she said in a whisper—I´m a monster, but I would never harm you…

Serena felt so much comfort while being with him like that. Had the cat been health, she would have never done it. Transforming into that form was something she avoided the most because it had given her all kind of problems. She only did it in special cases or like the normal situation, when she fall asleep or lost consciousness.

She lay behind him and trying to make him calmed, she began to lick his neck. She knew such an act showed concern and friendship in the cat´s world. If she was part of that at least she had to know about it. It was after all, her curse in this life.

Darien was breathless. Did she know what she was doing? He closed his eyes feeling so much pleasure that even the pain faded away. He could see it, she in her human form, naked and holding him from behind, slowly and sensually kissing his neck, brushing that soft and sensual lips of her in his skin, licking his ears…While her soft skin was glued to his back, and he could feel the roundness of her breasts, the caress of her hair…

And Serena felt it too. She totally forgot what she was doing and just enjoyed the sensations, her mind losing the thought of her licking a cat; instead, she was embracing the man of her dreams. And not only was he handsome, but somehow impossibly gorgeous… The epitome of masculinity… GOD, that back and his chest, his skin so warm and firm, his smell of freshness and his black hair…the taste of his skin, like spice and slightly salty…His nakedness…And she couldn't help but feel she needed him…

The clock chanted the hour. It was already midnight and Serena snapped from her dreams. And turned to see the cat she was licking. Hell, celibacy sure was making her go insane…She got all aroused with a cat… Sure she was behaving like a total pervert.

Darien felt her get all stiff and suddenly abandoning her ministrations. His body protested wanting more of those kisses, of her caresses… but he had to come back to his senses and just then he realized that he was still alive and very much in power. His time had run out and he was still breathing and feeling, he could feel his will as strong as always. Actually, more than ever before…

Then he understood. That blonde creature with human smell had just saved him from losing all. It was her, the one he had looked for all those centuries. And in the end she was the one to find him… His one and only love... Still amazed with the miracle that had just happened; he saw her yawning and laying her slender body beside him.

She was tired and needed to rest. She ignored the look of surprise the cat was giving her and dismissed the strange thoughts from her head. Life was sure a hard thing, even for cats. The next day she was free, but she still wanted to sleep for at least twelve hours…And she had to see if the cat was ok the next day…

--Sleep well, Koneko chan…--she murmured before closing her eyes and falling soundly asleep beside a total stranger of a cat.

But Darien was far too excited to be able to sleep. Beside him was the person he had waited for his entire long life. The only one who could have saved him from death… That strange woman who seemed so normal in the beginning was the most precious being in the universe for him, so beautiful and kind…He felt he would revert to his human form at any moment and just jump over her and cover her with kisses before taking her and make her finally his. He needed all of his self control to restrain himself from telling her the love words he had thought for her during almost four millennia…He just couldn't wait for the next day to come because he felt more alive than ever. Because he was finally beside her… And life was just beginning once again.

And with that thought, he allowed himself to close the eyes and rest beside her. They had time for all the things he had planned, and he knew she would need time to know him and accept him. She would certainly be very confused with all the things to come. But now that he found her, he would never let her go…