Chapter 1

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Serena could see him from the mirror in front of her, from what she could see they were having a bachlor party and he was the bachlor. Goddess, but he hadn't changed at all from when she saw him last! Still tall and broad of shoulder, commanding in such a way that everybody would defer to him without wondering why they did it to begin with.

'He does look pretty incredible doesn't he?' she sighed to herself.
*You gave him up though, willingly and knowing what you were doing* her thoughts told her back.
'I know, but I can still look, it's not illegal you know!' she snarled back to the voice.

She knew before she had even seen him or his friends that he was in the club. The conection was true for all of the scouts also. That was how she avoided them for so long. It was a feeling of missing pieces coming together when she was near, the puzzle that was almost complete. Did he feel that jolt too when he came into the club? Or did the spell that she had cast that night still hold true. When she had kissed them she had given her blessings on their union and prayed that they would forget her so that they could go on in peace. There were no more battles to be fought and peace was theirs for the taking. Although it had crushed her heart, she knew that even though they were destined from times begining, destiny doesn't always go hand in hand with fate. Destiny is what your parents tell you at bedtime when you are 4 and dreaming of princes riding up to the castle to rescue you from the evil queen. Fate is what happens when you make your own decisions and let your heart follow its own course.
Her friends wouldn't remember anything having to do with the Sailor Scouts , except that they were all good friends. The cats, Luna and Artemis, had regained their human forms and were also a part of the group. No one at all had any memories due to what she had done. Except her, everything that they had ever done together all the good times and bad could not be erased. That was one of the prices that she had paid for their forgetfulness.
She glances back into the mirror to look at him again, thankful that when he came in she was already in a dark corner of the club so that she could think in private. Maybe, just maybe, she would use the Silver Crystals power again just so that she could watch their union without being seen. Not that they would know who she was, but it would be kind of awkward to try and explain why she was there when no one knew her. It still hurt sometimes to know that he wanted someone else, but she knew that it was for the best. Raye could make him happier than she ever could, and that is all that she had ever wanted for her friends.
For them she would give up anything, even her love. Darian was the one that destiny had given her and she had given him away. There would be no one else that could take his place. No love, no Crystal Tokyo, and unfortunatly no children. That was the other price of her gift to them, her body was barren. The line of the Moon Kingdom would end with her and this life. Or at least until she was reborn, if she would be reborn. When she had cast the spell she had signed the contract without reading the small print in her haste. All magick had its price, and this one no less than any other. She had truely expected to lose her life, the spell was that great. It would have been a small price to pay, her life for her friends' happiness. She would do it again if she had to. Not that she would change anything at all. They were happy and that was all that mattered to her.
Getting up from her table in the back of the club, she slowly made her way to the bar. Smiling her fake smile and swinging her hips with every step she took she knew that she was getting alot of attention throughout the whole club, just one look into the mirrors on the walls showed her that. The mens' eyes just following her movement through the club. Her knee length hair and amazing eyes being only part of it. The dress she was wearing was a shimmering, skin tight, clevage showing dress. Solid black and leaving nothing to the imagination, it was the embodiment of sex. It's pretty incredible how a dress could do that, but this one did. Plus she just always had this aura around her that made people notice her. Serena gave a mental shrug at that.

*Well that aura of yours helps to pay the bills at least.* her inner voice sighed to her.
'Oh just shut up! Like I don't already know that.' she shouted back to herself, 'I am just thinking that is all!'
*Plus hoping that he doesn't recognise you or anything else that would make things complicated, like maybe being attracted to you?* her voice said slyly.
'Hmm, maybe your right. I wonder if I should tell the Manager that I am sick?' Serena thought to herself.
*No, that wont work, you have been here most of the night and he won't believe that you just got sick all of a sudden!* her voice said back.
'There is that.' she thought back to herself as she got to the bar, 'But maybe an accident would work just as well?'
*Sometimes Serena you can be so bad!* the inner voice said with a laugh in her tone.

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