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Please please don't sue me

(Serena and the scouts are 21 and Darien and the generals are 25 except Jadeite who is 24 'he was always the youngest')

Chapter 1

Darien awoke and cried out as a series of agonising pains assaulted his body, his left thigh and right side felt like it had been sliced open, his right arm felt like it had been dislocated and his head felt like it had been cracked against a cement wall, but the worst of the pain seemed to stem from his abdomen, burning pain radiated out in waves from the centre of his belly right around to his back as if someone had wrapped a red hot rope around his middle and was alternating between tightening it and loosening it. Racked with pain Darien rolled onto his side, tears falling from his dark blue eyes at the intensity of the pain. 'What the hell is happening to me, where is this excruciating pain coming from?' For the next hour Darien lay curled up on his side, trying to control the pain, he knew that it was all in his mind but for the life of him he couldn't work out why his mind was putting his body through so much agony. Finally, just as suddenly as it had appeared the pain was gone but as it finally disappeared altogether he heard a faint voice in his head whispering his name 'Darien'. Feeling like he had just gone 200 rounds with a boxing kangaroo, Darien stumbled out of bed and went to the bathroom of his small apartment in Kagoshima, where he had lived since leaving Serena and the Sailor Scouts behind six months ago. After Serena had contacted him two months after he left he had changed his number and made it silent, so as to avoid any more painful contact with the woman that he still loved. Staring into the mirror Darien found himself thinking about Serena again, like he did for almost every hour of every day, whether it was during the day or night she consumed his thoughts, his mind tortured by memories and dreams of her. 'Serena would be twenty one now, legally old enough to marry without her parents permission' his brain commented, torturing his heart even more. But for reasons that only he knew, Darien had decided to throw away his one chance at happiness and had done it in such a way that there was no chance of him ever getting it back again. Unable to bare being near Serena after he had shattered her heart he had packed up and left, leaving all his friends and the scouts behind him. There had been no enemies that they had been fighting, and he only knew this because he would have still felt the tingle of energy at the back of his mind if Serena had transformed into Sailor Moon, that was one thing that he was grateful of in this god awful mess that he had turned his life into, and that was that he had been unable to sever the bond that existed between him and Serena, by having the bond still there he knew that she was safe and unharmed. Forcing himself to stop thinking about Serena, he glanced at his watch, noticing that it was just past 2am he decided to take a couple of sleeping pills and get some more sleep, he had a long day ahead of him both with studies and work, after taking the sleeping pills that had become a habit of his over the last few months so that he was able to get a dreamless sleep Darien slipped back into his bed and fell into a deep sleep.

TWO WEEKS LATER

Andrew stared at the address on the piece of paper that Ami had given him yesterday morning, checking that it was indeed the same as the one in which he stood in front of that precise moment. Once determining that it was indeed the correct address, Andrew looked at the shabby interior of the hall that he stood in, it was a far cry from the comfortable and modern apartment that Darien had left in Tokyo. Once again facing the door Andrew raised his fist and knocked sharply on the door, he remembered Rei's instructions regarding what he could mention about Serena as he heard the muffled sounds coming from the other side and Darien's voice yelling that he would be there in a minute, Andrew stood back and waited till the door swung open and a rumpled looking Darien stood on the other side of the threshold.

Darien stared in shock at the man standing in his doorway,

"Andrew!"

"Hello Darien" Andrew said coolly

"Come in man, sheesh its been ages since I have seen you" Darien commented as Andrew entered, and sat down on the shabby couch,

"You have my phone number you could have rang me you know" Andrew answered with a censoring look. Darien had the grace to flush at Andrew's words.

"I had my reasons" he replied defensively

"Of which is anyone's guess"

"Why are you here?"

"To talk to you"

"About what?"

"About why you decided to turn your back on all your friends and disappear"

"I don't want to talk about that" Darien answered as he walked into the kitchen to grab a couple of beers from his fridge, Andrew took a look around Darien's small apartment,

"This place certainly is not like your place in Tokyo"

"Hey, just how did you find me?"

"Ami, she tracked you down and told me where you lived, she also gave me your phone number but I decided to come and see you instead"

"I changed my number"

"Yes we know, and we have the new one" Andrew replied smugly, Darien grimaced he should have known that, the blue haired genius would have been able to find him, then he asked the question that had been foremost in his mind since he had seen Andrew on his doorstep,

"How is everyone? Mina, Lita, Ami, Rei and… Serena?"

"Lita is good, she is working at a restaurant learning the trade under great chefs, Rei, Ami and Mina are all in uni and doing well"

"And Serena? I know that her grades would have prevented her from being in uni, what's she doing now?" Darien asked, ignoring the twinge in his heart at the mention of Serena, but unable to help himself from asking,

"Well as to what Serena is doing at the moment I wouldn't know, she hasn't spoken to me for two weeks, but with her getting into uni you couldn't be more wrong" Andrew answered pride and another emotion that Darien couldn't identify in his voice,

"What do you mean?"

"After you left Serena threw herself into her studies and by the end of the year ended up tying with Ami for top of the class" Darien's jaw dropped,

"Are you kidding?"

"Nope, she graduated with flying colours"

"Oh my god, I would never have thought that Serena would put her mind to her studies"

"She has matured up a lot since you left, she has had to in order to forget about you" Andrew retorted, getting angry at Darien's disregard for Serena's abilities. Darien flinched at the implication that Serena had forgotten about him, when he thought about her every day.

"Don't start on me Andrew"

"Are you ever planning on coming back?"

"Not in the near future no"

"You should, you left a lot of people with unanswered questions" Darien managed to make his tone sound indifferent, even though it was tough,

"They'll forget about me eventually. One day I may return but not for any reason other than because I want to"

"You know Darien you really are a heartless bastard sometimes. You had people that cared about you and you just ran away from all of that, and while I'm on that subject, although I promised Ami that I wouldn't, I'll bring up the biggest chip I have on my shoulder about your behaviour" Andrew growled,

"Oh? And what would that be?" although Darien thought that he had a pretty good idea,

"How could you treat Serena the way you did? All that girl ever did was love you wholeheartedly and yet you ripped her heart out and crushed it under your heal" Darien turned away, angry at Andrew's insinuation that he had purposely set out to hurt Serena,

"Like I said before I have my reasons"

"Yeah well if you ask me, that's a load of bullshit" Andrew retorted,

"Well I didn't ask you, did I? Darien ground out from between clenched teeth,

"Fuck this man, you are not the guy I used to know, I'm out of here" Andrew stated as he placed his hardly touched beer on the coffee table and rose to his feet before heading towards the door. Opening it and walking through Andrew turned back to face Darien who had followed him to the door,

"I do have a message from Rei for you, I don't understand it but she said that you would know what she meant" Darien raised a cynical eyebrow,

"Oh and that message would be?"

"Rei told me to tell you that the generals are back and that they were gunning for you, so watch your back" then unaware of the significance of the news that he had just delivered he turned on his heal and walked away, leaving a shell shocked Darien staring mutely after his retreating back.

Jaden awoke to the feeling that Rei was no longer beside him, glancing over at the side of the bed that she occupied when she stayed over at his and the rest of the generals apartment he noticed that it was indeed empty. Slipping out of bed he found a pair of boxers and slipped them on before walking out into the lounge room. Spotting her standing by the glass doors that led out onto the balcony dressed in one of his shirts and gazing out into the night. Walking up behind her he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her body back against his,

"Couldn't sleep?" he whispered softly, Rei shook her head

"Ever since Andrew called two weeks ago to let us know how his meeting with Darien went I've felt so angry. I'm sorry if I woke you"

"That's ok, you didn't really. But I do indeed share your anger, I thought for sure the news that we were back and free from our stones would be the catalyst needed to get him to come rushing back to see if you and the rest of the scouts were in any danger, especially in the way which we worded the message" Jaden replied, anger at Darien lacing his tone. Rei sighed heavily then turning in his arms she buried her head into his naked chest,

"I think that we are going to have to tell him what has happened, and if that doesn't work, then we have no choice but to use our trump card to get him here"

"When do you want to make the call?" Jaden asked,

"We should all gather around tomorrow and all ring him" Rei answered, Jaden nodded then without any further words he led Rei back to his bedroom and once they were in bed pulled her to his body and held her as she cried silent tears into his shoulder.

Bright and early the following morning the four inner scouts, the four generals and the two cats all sat around the dining table as Ami dialled in Darien's number then switched it to speaker phone so that they could all participate in the phone call, it had been decided that Rei would start and the rest would contribute, Rei was nervous about how he would take the news as well as to what he would say, Darien picked up on the third ring.

"Hello?"

"Hello Darien, long time no hear" Rei replied and was relieved to find that her voice didn't sound as shaky as she felt,

"Rei? Is that you?"

"Yes Darien it is.." Rei started but was cut off by Darien before she could continue,

"What the hell are you playing at woman?" Darien shouted, Jaden stiffened and was about to speak when Rei shook her head,

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that message you gave Andrew to give me, what the hell kind of trick is this?"

"It is no trick the generals are indeed back"

"How is that possible?" Darien asked, and they could all hear the shock in his voice,

"Serena freed them from their stones using the silver crystal four months ago"

"SHE WHAT?"

"She gave them back their lives" Rei answered calmly

"What the hell did she do that for, now if what you say is true they are gunning after me, did she do this as some kind of revenge thing? Offer them freedom in return for coming after me?" at this outburst all the men had to place hands over their respective partners mouths in order to keep them from blowing the conversation,

"Why you arrogant ass, as if Serena would do such a thing, she brought them back because she needed their help and they were happy to do so" Rei shouted, losing her temper,

"But you told Andrew to tell me that they were gunning for me" Darien replied clearly confused, at this Kurtis spoke up,

"And indeed we are Prince Endymion" after a few seconds of stunned silence Darien finally spoke again,

"Kunzite?"

"My name is Kurtis when I am not in general form" Kurt replied calmly,

"Why are you there?" Darien asked once he was able to speak over his shock,

"We are here because this is where we belong" Nate answered,

"Nephrite?"

"Its Nathan, or Nate actually"

"Are Jadeite and Zoisite there as well? What are your names now that Serena has released you?" Darien asked, anger and sarcasm building in his tone,

"We're both here and its Jaden and Zach" Zach retorted, responding to the anger in Darien's voice,

"Forgive me for bringing this up, but in the Silver Millennium weren't you my guardians?"

"That we were" Kurt answered,

"Then why the hell didn't you track me down like you were supposed to once you were freed" Darien ground out,

"Because we have been doing your job for you" Jaden spat, losing his temper,

"What job?"

"Protecting Princess Serenity or in this case Sailor Moon from the latest enemy to start attacking Tokyo"

"That's the scouts job, and there has been no threat, I would have known about it"

"Circumstances prevented the scouts from doing this, they were needed to fight and they couldn't do that and protect the princess at the same time, and they have just come out of the other side of a big battle" Nate responded,

"That's impossible, I would have known if Sailor moon had gone into battle" Darien insisted,

"Up until a month ago when we finally defeated them, Sailor Moon and the scouts, as well as the generals once they were free from their stones, were fighting monsters at an average of three a day" Luna finally spoke,

"What? When did this start happening? And why didn't I feel it?"

"It started about a week after you took off, and the reason that you didn't feel it is because Serena was using the Silver Crystal to suppress her link to you so that you couldn't" Artemis answered,

"But she isn't powerful enough to use the crystal in that way"

"All the scouts have reached their full powers, and Serena herself is now more powerful than Queen Serenity was in the time of the Moon Kingdom" Luna retorted,

"Obviously you are talking to me over speaker phone, is everyone there? Lita? Mina?Serena?"

"Oh I'm here Darien, and I wish I was there so I could kick your ass" Lita grumbled,

"Nice to hear from you too Lita" Darien retorted,

"Hello Darien"

"Hello Ami, nice hack job to find me by the way, are you there too Mina? And Serena? I have yet to hear your voice"

"I'm here Darien, but Serena isn't" Mina answered tears and grief evident in her voice. Darien was silent for a few moments before asking quietly,

"Where is she?"

"That is the reason we have called you, I thought that if I sent the message with Andrew that the generals were back and gunning after you that you would come back, but as that didn't work we had to resort to this" Rei revealed, grief plainly evident in her voice as well, Jaden placed a comforting arm around her shoulders as she fought to keep the tears that were brimming in her eyes from falling,

"Look, if this is about me getting back with Serena then forget it, I'm a very busy man so just get to the point of this call already" Darien intoned frustrated,

"Oh shut up Darien, its not about that at all though Serena is the reason that we have called" Lita growled,

"Why? What's she done this time?" Darien asked sarcastically

"Its hard to do anything when your fighting for your life" Rei burst out, Darien was silent for a moment before asking carefully,

"And what do you mean exactly by that?"

"I mean that she is in a coma on life support, fighting for her life, after saving the world yet again" Rei snapped, tears streaming down her eyes,

"OH GOD!" Darien groaned, "What happened?"

"A month ago the scouts and the generals went into battle against the Priest Parthenios, it was a terrible battle and Sailor Moon, or Princess Serenity as she was, was severely injured, so badly in fact that we had no choice but to take her to the hospital" Luna explained

"Why the hell weren't you protecting her?" Darien shouted,

"We were, but with all of us scouts down and injured on the ground and two of the generals as well it was near on impossible, we knew that she was injured but she still fought on, she pushed Kunzite and Jadeite, who were the two generals still able to fight, out of the way and used the crystal to destroy Parthenios. It wasn't till after the battle was over that we discovered the extent of her injuries, as soon as we realised that the silver crystal was keeping her alive but wasn't able to heal her we took her to the hospital and Jadeite was able to use his powers to make everyone believe that she was injured in a hit and run accident" Mina retorted heatedly, resenting the fact that Darien was blaming them for Serena's current condition,

"You said that this happened a month ago?"

"Yes that's right"

"At night?" Darien queried hoarsely, thinking about the night that he had woken up in excruciating pain,

"Yes, it was just after midnight when the battle began, why do you ask?" Ami asked,

"What were her injuries?"

"Why do you want to know? Its not like you care anymore" Lita demanded,

"Please, what were her injuries?" Darien whispered

"Her left thigh and her right side had deep gashes in them, her right shoulder had been dislocated and her head had a deep gash just below the hairline, and we found out at the hospital that there was also a small crack in her skull" Zoisite replied,

"What about abdominal injuries? What were they?" Darien asked, realising that the pain he had experienced that night had come from Serena, and if it was that bad for him he could only begin to imagine how bad it was for Serena,

"How did you know about them?" Lita asked

"I felt them, all of them, I could feel the pain, I wondered where it had been coming from but after it disappeared an hour or so later I thought nothing more of it"

"Yeah well with Serena unconscious or in pain her control over the bond between you and her was weakened, hence why you were able to feel her injuries" Artemis replied, purposefully skirting the issue of the abdominal pain,

"Look Darien we are getting past the point of why we rang you" Rei broke in

"What exactly do you want from me?" Darien asked carefully

"We need you to come back, Serena needs you, now more than she ever did"

"Rei please don't ask me to do this, for reasons I will not discuss that part of my life is over, I can't come back"

"You have to Darien" Rei retorted

"Give me one good reason Rei" Darien snapped, his suffering and grief over Serena's plight evident in his voice. Rei looked at the rest of the scouts, cats and the generals, when they all nodded at her she responded to Darien with one simple word,

"Rini"

"What?"

"You wanted a reason Darien, I gave you one, Rini"

"But Rini shouldn't exist anymore, she would have ceased to exist when I left Serena" Darien reasoned pain at the thought of the daughter that he would have had spearing through his heart, he was floored by Rei's response,

"Not if Serena was pregnant when you left" then all he heard was the dial tone in his ear as Rei hung up.

Please read and review but be gentle, this is my first fanfiction and i'm not sure anyone will like it as i have created a new enemy for plot purposesand all that.