A/N- This is my first sailor moon fan fiction, so please feel free to tell me how I'm doing. I started this story a while ago and never got around to posting it. Please review and I accept constructive criticism and anything to that nature. Enjoy!

Running and running, it felt like it was taking forever to run through the small town house and through the front door.

It seemed everything was silent except of the rapid pounding of blood in her ears and the footsteps pounding heavily on the hard wood floor behind her.

Her senses seemed dulled, it felt like she was running through thick fog, sweat beaded and ran down her face.

Suddenly rounding a tight corner Serena stumbled and quickly caught herself before she fell to the floor. She hoped he didn't catch up to her too much, due to her little klutzy stumble.

A moment later her front door came into view, she was just down the hall from it and she almost let out a sigh of relief, but she felt a piece of her long blond hair being tugged on by something.

Frantically looking behind her, she saw him, his face was shadowed, he had almost caught her, in his hand was a piece of her long blond hair, she heard him laughing manically at her.

Swallowing her panic and her doubts about getting away she continued her trek to the door, which was only a couple scant feet away from her, it felt like a century when she actually reached the door.

Grasping the gold door knob she hurriedly undid the lock with clumsy and sweaty fingers.

Just as she had opened the front door, only a few inches and felt the soft night breeze brush against her sweating and panic stricken face, Serena felt heavy warm fingers gripping her arm tightly in an almost unbreakable grip.

With a very hard push from the man that was gripping her arm behind her, the door slammed shut and her freedom was gone, Serena felt like a trapped animal.

The man smirked down at her; he easily sensed her terror at being caught by him.

Serena felt disgusted with herself for getting caught this easily. With determination Serena quickly brought her knee up and instantly kneed him in the gut with all of her pent up adrenaline and strength.

With a grunt the man bent over in pain, his one arm holding his stomach, but surprisingly he was still gripping Serena's arm in a bruising grip. Serena realized this and tried to rip his grip from her arm, it didn't budge at all.

Recovering almost instantly the man hauled Serena up by her arm and looked at her with a murderous gaze. He raised his hand to slap her when she screamed the loudest she had ever screamed before and yelled out " Someone, help me, I need help now!"

Almost instantly Serena was dropped onto her knees on the hard wood floor. She didn't know what she did to make him drop her, but she was grateful anyway.

Everything seemed to be spiraling out of control, the room started to spin and she was getting dizzier and dizzier by the second, Serena suddenly closed her eyes and hoped that this would be all over soon.

Shaking, that's all Serena felt, just someone gently shaking her. Serena felt tired and scared; she slowly opened her eyes and was blinded by the very bright sun streaming through the open window.

Where Am I? Serena thought.

"Serena, wake up."

Serena recognized the voice instantly and relief flooded her features, she realized that she was at her home, and in her bedroom she shared with her husband, Darien.

Yawning and stretching lazily, Serena didn't want Darien to know that her reoccurring nightmare had happened again, so she tried to act like nothing happened in her dreams last night. She didn't want Darien to worry about her, she knew he would worry if he found out she had the nightmare again.

Serena jumped from the bed with determination and instantly started pulling on her clothes for the day and just as she started to grab her tooth brush, Darien spoke to her.

Almost accusingly Darien turned and said to Serena, "You had another one of the nightmares again haven't you? I could tell you did, so please don't lie. Like usual in the middle of the night you started mumbling incoherently and started tossing and turning, and I couldn't even wake you up. I was really worried about you."

Letting out a tired sign Serena turned to look at her husband. " Yes. I did have another nightmare, but what do you want me to do about them? It's the same man every single time, I can never see his face, it's in shadows."

" I really don't know, but if they continue anymore often then they already do, we are going to do something about it."

Darien walked over to Serena and placed his arms around her, resting his head on her shoulder and inhaling the smell of her hair, Serena put her arms around Darien and just took comfort in knowing that he was real and that he loved her and that she loved him.

After a few seconds Darien started to feel Serena shake and he knew she was crying. Gently he took them over to the bed and sat them on it while he was comforting her.

Darien knew that Serena was going through hard times. With all of her closest friends, Amy, Lita, Raye and Mina leaving for collage and along with the strange nightmares plaguing her almost every night, he knew Serena had a lot of stress. Darien just let her cry all of her stress and fear out onto him.

Approximately ten minutes later Serena stopped crying and was trying to catch her breath.

Darien must think I' m a cry baby again after all of these years, I should be stronger than this and stop whining about little things.

"Okay, I'm good now Darien, thank you for that." Serena said while grabbing some tissues off of the nightstand next to the bed.

" Serena, it's fine, you're going through a lot of stress right now, and it's okay to cry once and a while."

Holding her tongue, Serena decided to just agree with Darien.

"Yeah, your right, why don't we go downstairs and have breakfast, since it is roughly 10:30 in the morning."

Yeah, it's not alright Darien. Serena thought.

With that Serena left without another word, leaving Darien standing there looking like he wanted to say more to her.

A/N- Well this is it for my first chapter. I will try to update as soon as possible. Hopefully there wasn't a lot of errors or mistakes or anything like that. Pease review on how the chapter was, Thank you )