Eternity
Chapter 1
By brjosk
Standard disclaimers apply.
If you want to flame me go ahead, but read to the end before you do.
In the morning, Usagi Tsukino smiles. Her lips are stretched and her face is peaceful. She smiles and smiles and can't stop smiling.
Luna is pale, paler than any black cat has the right to be. She's trembling and can't seem to stop. "Your majesty-" she begins.
Usagi smiles wider. "Not today." Her smile grows like it wants to eat the world. Endymion is no where to be seen.
In the garden, a red eyed girl is dancing. She is the princess of the land, and she is nine today. Her papa has promised her a pony, and her mama the world.
Queen Makoto looks lost today. At lunch time, she bakes muffins and cries in her tea. The head chef hovers near her, quivering with uncertainty.
Outside the garden two women are speaking in quiet voices, hair mingling in a wash of green. Michiru's eyes crack as her voice rises. She snaps. And then she crumbles. Setsuna does not move while the red handprint on her face fades from view. Michiru tells the ground, "I'..."
Pluto walks into the garden and the winds carry Michiru's voice away.
The little girl looks up at the footsteps and smiles, extra wide. "Setsuna-san! Setsuna-san! You came after all." Setsuna smiles at her armful of giggling princess and says, to herself, "I could not have stayed away."
Sailor Mercury lies by her work. Mounds of paper and crystal chips cover her. While she dreams, her mouth mutters equations and hisses paradox.
Setsuna glides into the Great Hall, looking oddly human, with a too-tall child in her arms. Saturn stops them. She is steel. "Princess Serenity. I fear you are too old to be transported in such a manner." The younger Serenity pouts and climbs down.
Neo Queen Serenity, Usagi, stiffens and then stiffly puts down her crown. She walks to her child proudly, with Minako grinning wildly behind her.
Usagi with her hands on her child's shoulders bends down to her knees. "Neko-chan, Sere-chan, I have a very important question for you. You must answer this very, very seriously."
Saturn's eyes are sorrowful.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Sere-chan, young Serenity, answers brightly, firmly, with all the conviction and enthusiasm she has. "I want to be a senshi! Just like Setsuna-san!"
Rei's eyes would cut glass, but she keeps them closed.
A/N: A second chapter might be coming. (After all something's got to account for the angst I'm giving it right?) I have the main ideas in my head, but I'm not sure if it'll work out in the way I want. Tell me if you'd like me to continue. Or if you'd like me to explain ;)
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