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Chapter 1: Tension

Neo-Queen Serenity rolled over in her bed, her gaze resting on her husband, King Endymion. His breath rose and fell like a child bouncing happily on a trampoline. She had thought about this moment for quite some time now and she never expected it to come to this. She swiped a stray hair away from his forehead and gripped onto his shoulder. She rocked him gently back and forth, slowly at first and then a little more vigorously to wake him up.

"Darien," she whispered. "Darien… Darien… Endymion!"

"Huh?! What?" His grey eyes suddenly popped open and he looked around a little bit before relaxing. He stared back at Serena and cupped her face into his hand, "What's the matter?"

She braced herself for what she was about to say and removed his hand from her cheek, "I want you out of here tomorrow morning."

The sleep that had wrought his face disappeared suddenly and he sat up slowly in their bed. With his eyes wide open, his jaw unhinged, he asked wearily, "T-tomorrow morning? Are you sure about this? Serena I thought –"

"You thought what?!" she snapped as sat up straight and puffed her chest out slightly with confidence. "You thought you could sneak around, you thought you could cheat on me?!"

Darien swallowed hard as he felt his blood freeze in veins. The light bouncing off of earth was illuminating the early morning hours and made his face look even paler. As much as he loved his planet, he couldn't bare the thought of leaving the moon and leaving his family. A cold sweat blanketed the edge of his hairline and he did his best to stand his ground.

Serena stood up from the bed and turned around to face her once beloved husband. His mouth opened and closed a few times while his eyes searched for an answer. She crossed her arms over her chest and said sternly, "Don't say anything. Don't even try. You can't. You persuade me from my decision. Please leave in the next few hours. We'll sit Rini down, talk to her like the adult that she is becoming and tell her what happened. Everything. From when we supposedly started to drift to when you thought it was smart to get together with fast and loose women—"

"They weren't fast and loose!" he exclaimed suddenly. Darien was a goddamn king! He would not sit around and let his wife ridicule him or his conquests.

"Don't you dare defend them!" she screamed. There was a rage in her eyes that he had never seen pointed at him. He had seen it when she fought monsters, battled evil, even telling their teenage daughter that she couldn't go out late or getting into an argument with Rei. But never with him.

"You broke my heart, you broke this family, and it was all your choice," she declared with a low and steady voice. "I don't know what I did in order for you to move away from me, but you should have talked to me!"

"When?! When was I supposed to talk to you?!" he burst as he shot up from their bed, matching her stance. "In between meetings? After your address to the one of the many planets? After your training with the scouts? When am I supposed to come forward and talk to you about our sex life? You're right; I should've just walked up to you after a planetary dinner and ravished you."

"I can't listen to this," she breathed as she stormed over to his closet area and dragged out his luggage, opened them up and started to throw his clothes into them.

"No, of course you don't want to listen to our bedroom problems," he scoffed. "Why would you? Just shut me out like you always do!"

She spun around and screamed, "I am queen of this planet! I put my planet, my people, and peace before anything else between you and me! But you… you became selfish! Don't you dare blame me for the destruction of our marriage; you did this all on your own."

"So because you're queen of the moon, I have to stand on the side lines?" he asked. "Am I not king?!"

"Not of this planet, you're not," she muttered, continuing to put his things away and plopping down on the carpeted floor of the closet. "You are king of the earth. When you married me, that didn't make you king of the moon. Know your place."

"I thought my place was alongside you."

Darien knelt down beside her and placed his hand cautiously on her shoulder. She turned and looked at the hand that had cupped her face, held their baby, gripped her own hand as they spoke vows to one another. Vows … those vows meant something! It meant that he shouldn't run away at every view of a problem in front of them.

"You lost your place alongside me the moment you ran to someone else," she said with venom. "Please don't touch me."

He removed his hand and fell back against the wall of the closet, "Can't we at least figure out what to do before you ship me off? What about therapy? Or a vacation? Something…"

Rolling her eyes, "Right, when can we schedule time for that?" Pausing for a moment before she continued, "I need to think about our relationship before we can another step as husband and wife and in order to do that, I need you away from me."

Darien pounded the back of his head against the wall as tears streamed down his face. He couldn't believe this was happening. Had he really strayed away so much that neither of them could get back to the way they were?

"I love you Serenity," he whispered through his thick, wet tears.

"That's just it," she replied, "you love Serenity, not Serena. There is a difference. You've forgotten that." She stood up and stepped over his legs. Pausing at the door, she looked over her shoulder, "Like I said, I want you out of here in the next few hours. We will have a private breakfast with Rini and tell her exactly what's going on before you leave. To the press we will tell them you are looking into what is happening down on earth and personally investigating it yourself. Don't write to me or call me. Let me come to you first."

Once she was done with her speech, she walked away from the closet and strolled into their bathroom. She locked the door behind her – a first in their whole entire relationship. Serena turned the large shower on, undressed and stepped inside. She slid down the wall of the shower and let the tears mix in with the water that poured down on her head.

What had they come to?

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