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This is the third story of a series! Please go to my profile to start at the beginning, if you favor this couple and don't want to hear the rest... well I guess I can't stop you... but I warned you.
"Oh my god Molly! I'm so happy it's you!" Rei said exasperated as Molly did a double take at Rei and dropped the gun as both ladies hugged. What the heck! Jedeite still had his arms up wondering if this was some sick joke. Was he really going to believe that Rei's 'random house' was the residence of a personal friend?! Rei let go of Molly and sighed,
"Oh, this couldn't be more perfect. Molly will you let us stay here for a bit? We are being chased," Rei said quickly searching Molly's eyes, she hasn't seen Serena's junior high best friend in a few years but still the girls have stayed close to Molly over the long span of time.
"Oh course Rei! We have to be quick though, I have a feeling the broken window will be a dead giveaway where you are," Molly said clearly going into motherly mode noticing Jedeite hurt leg. Rei turned around and put her body under Jedeite's arm to support him.
"I can fix the window just a place for him to lay down. This idiot took a bullet to his leg," she said shooting him a look from the side.
"Ahh, I'm mortally wounded and you still find a way to insult me. I feel so comforted," Jedeite said being sarcastic and glaring back at Rei. Both Rei and Jedeite shot glaring daggers at each other but was distracted by the stifled laugh of Molly. Clearly she found the whole scene funny.
"Come down the hall here, there is a spare bedroom. Then I can go down stairs and get my nursing kit," Molly said showing the two down the hall of the upper floor to a small quant room with a small bed. After Rei made sure to help Jedeite on the bed she followed Molly out of the room and down the stairs.
"I will fix that window right away Molly also," Rei pulled out a small vile from one of her pockets. "Apply this to the bandages for Jedeite's leg. It will cut down the healing time. We don't want to barge in on your hospitality too long," Rei said as Molly took the container rolling her eyes.
"Just got here and already talking about over doing your stay. How very much like you Rei but really your fine. It shouldn't take more then three days with this," Molly said hold up the vile with a smile. Molly continued to gather up her supplies and went up to treat Jedeite. Rei followed Molly up the stairs and turned to inspect the damaged window. Rei noticed the rope was long gone obviously pulled with the helicopter as it crashed. Rei pulled out her communicator and with a few choice words the window magically glued itself back together. When it was done, it looked as normal as ever. Rei then turned to look at the room Jedeite was in; he was being very quite for getting a bullet pulled from his leg. Not long after Molly came out of the room and did a double take at the window.
"Oh magic. Sometimes it's hard to remember you guys can do that now. Jedeite is knocked out I thought it best," Molly said like Rei was at a hospital waiting to hear news about a family member.
"Good idea, he can be obnoxiously loud when he is under a lot of pain," Rei said with a snarl but stopped when she saw Molly's un-approving face.
"Rei you shouldn't be so negative and give him a bit more credit. It's not easy to keep up with you. I will be down stairs calling up Melvin, you can go in and see him but don't wake him," and with that Molly left down the stairs and Rei sulked for a little bit. Well maybe Molly was right. Jedeite doesn't have the advanced human skills, at least not yet so she should be happy he isn't dead right now. 'He has died before why should it matter now?' she thought to herself. Still her only bitter reply wasn't very honest. She has grown use to Jedeite constantly being around. Rei decided to peek in on Jedeite's disheveled self. He was asleep rather calm compared to his normal style of sleeping, which was rather disheveled. Rei sighed noticing the bandage on his leg, well at least it will heal soon. She went to go sit down on the edge of the bed and sank lower then expected. Rei looked down at the bed and poked at the mattress and noticed it was a waterbed. Rei couldn't help herself, she started to laugh as softly as she could but still it was enough to wake up Jedeite. He woke up with a slight smile.
"Good to see that you can laugh," he said noticing his voice caught her attention.
"I wasn't supposed to wake you. Not that I can see how you can sleep," Rei said making the mattress move now it was Jedeite's turn to chuckle.
"Yes if I lay rather still then it doesn't affect my leg. One little outing in a helicopter and I'm already lying in a hospital bed," Jdeite said with a grumble.
"Hey now, this is a water hospital bed, very fancy. Molly said it shouldn't be more then three days before it's healed. Now I had better go," she said trying to stand up slowly not to affect the bed.
"Not much for sick rooms? " Jedeite asked surprised she wouldn't stick around.
"Molly will have my head if she found out I woke you. Best I do as the doctor demands. If there is anything I've learned in this life it's do what the doctor says," with that Rei gave a small smile and left the room, it didn't take long before Jedeite fell back asleep.
Meanwhile Jedeites sleep induced dreams haven't been all to kind either...
The masked woman sent a glare that was noticeable by Jedeite as he asked her for a dance. He couldn't help but sort her out of the crowd, past the elaborate head dresses and well disguised masks he could still find her. He was magnetized by her aura, and when she accepted the dance he has gotten so use to her warm touch it has a calming effect over his whole body. Jedeite lead the masked woman out to the floor as the instruments started playing their next song.
"Well aren't you selective," she said in a light whisper as they stepped close making sure only he could hear her words.
"I have refined tastes," he said snaking his hand on her back pulling her closer. They danced into the crowd not wanting to draw attention to themselves.
"Well you have to dance with other people so no one will notice," she said under her breath actually accepting the situation, a rare sight for this masked beauty.
"Ah yes but that is the joy of wearing masks," he said with a light chuckle a joyful ring to the females ears. "Anyways if I dance with someone else you might get jealous," he said wisely knowing all to well of this girl's motive.
"I would do no such thing," she said proudly her voice silly raised and she got some surprised looks from other dancers. This just made Jedeite laugh again but he made to keep his chuckles hushed and danced away from that group of dancers.
Jedeite sharply gasped as he awoke from his dream, he felt a soft hand clasp is arm. It was quickly removed just as soon as he felt it; he opened his eyes to see Molly with an odd reluctant smile.
"Eh he you have a bad dream?" she asked making conversation. He looked around and noticed he was in an odd kind of cold sweat.
"You could say that. You ever had dreams that have a theme like they are telling you a story every time you sleep," he asked looking up to Molly hoping she won't consider him crazy.
Molly raised her eyebrow, "Can't say I have," Jedeite sighed adjusting his body on the waterbed telling himself to sleep some more. Molly sighed and left him to sleep. Walking out of the room she shut the door and turned to Rei who was literally standing right outside the small doorframe.
"You don't have to run out of his room every time he wakes up," Molly said almost as concerned with Rei as Molly was of Jedeite.
"No, he can't know I'm in there while he sleeps. It's hard enough seeing him when he is sleeping I don't think I could handle him awake," Rei said showing a surprising amount of compassion for the situation.
"Ok, well he says he keeps getting dreams that are in sequence like telling a story," Rei nodded subconsciously.
"Yes he is getting memories back from his past life. They seem to happen in his sleep but I don't know how long that will last. Soon they might disrupt him in the conscious. There isn't a way to suppress it, even if I couldn't I wouldn't, they are vital to be reincarnation process," Rei said making sure Molly didn't ask for Rei to stop them, as if she could. The last thing Rei would do is try to suppress those memories and make him have a crazy laps of memories. Not only does it hurt like hell, it's a mental nightmare. Molly nodded accepting this as an odd phenomenon that only the royal family understood. Going to school with the blond bubbly Serena was one thing but calling her queen serenity was another thing. If anyone told Molly Serena would be queen of this solar system when she was in high school she would of directed them to the nurses office.
"Hey Molly I'm home," came the distinct voice of Melvin from down stairs.
"Go ahead down stairs I will stay with Jedite," Rei said as Molly half smiled and went down stairs to greet her husband. Rei went into Jedite's room noticing he was once again asleep she sat down in a chair next to his bed that she sat in before she touched his arm when he woke up startled just a few moments ago.
The princess of Mars worked hard in the fire temple. She always went to her people's shrine when she was troubled. Lately she has been going quite a bit more then normal.
"Peobias Deboioas this isn't the time," she said calmly but really she wanted to snap at them. Both crows, which were perched outside, looked at each other and then few into the shrine. In the blink of an eye the two crows turned into humans both identical twins holding a black feather.
"We are just worried about you princess," said Poebias edging closer to Mars.
"Yes ever since that general Jedeite came to the moon," Deboioas started but was quickly silenced by a rather snappy reply from Mars.
"This isn't about Jedite," the princess threw another log on the fire clearly thinking the already mighty blaze needed to be larger. Her reply had the opposite effect then what she wanted.
"It's ok to like him," said both twins at the same time. Mars sighed her head sinking in shame.
"I didn't say I liked him in the slightest," Mars was sticking by her statement, both of her most trusted colleges noticed there was no helping their princess.
"Oh, ok well we are going to leave so you can not think about him," said one of the twins with a smile.
"But if you did, you know, end up liking him. Know that we accept anything that makes you happy," and then the two girls turned back into crows and flapped away before Mars really exploded on them. Mars threw another log on the fire and smeared under her breath 'I don't like him' shuffling her feet under her and started praying.
Rei jumped slightly as she sensed Jedite moving. She looked over and Jedeite was just turning in his own sleep moving the ice pack off his leg. Rei quickly stood up wanting a distraction from her dream. 'I'm not the one who should be remembering stuff from my past life,' she thought as she picked up the ice pack and placed it correctly on his leg. Rei then looked up to Jedeite's face and smiled. She moved up and shifted some hair off his face and kissed him on the forehead. She can stand him a little better when he is sleeping. Rei walked out of the room and back to making plans once he was up and moving again.
"Get me out of this bed!" came Jedeite's shout from the small room upstairs.
"You have to stay in bed," came the meek voice of Molly clearly not expecting this outburst from her normally tame patient. Rei's eyebrow raised, well Jedeite did have a way of announcing to the world when he was uncomfortable. Rei walked in right when Jedeite had Molly's shirt collar gripped in desperation, she smirked.
"Molly, if you could please step out of the room. I need to talk to Jadeite privately," Molly didn't take long to shuffle out of that room. Jedeite still was irritable to no end.
"You can lean up but this is your last day to let that leg rest. If you get out of bed now it will cause permit damage," Rei said explaining why he can't leave this small room. Jedite sighed running his hands through his hair. At first sleeping all the time wasn't that bad but this room is getting smaller and smaller. Jedeite leaned up so he was sitting at the bed.
"I still want out of here," he said with a grumble.
"Hey just be happy your not getting poor hospital food talk about hard living conditions," Rei said jokingly which slightly lightened the mood.
"I still want out of here," he repeated not giving it up.
"How about we play chess then," Rei said still trying to distract him from getting out f bed. Jedeite's eyebrow went up,
"How do you know I like to play chess," he never suspected her to run such a thorough back round check on him.
"Well if you don't want to play and continue to sit in here staring at the wall," Rei turned to leave the room but Jedeite desperately head out his hand gripping her arm quickly.
"No, no I will play," his eyes big knowing his opportunity for entertainment might be gone forever.
"Ok then, I will go get the board," Rei moved once again to leave the room and Jedeite let her go. Once out she went down to see Molly.
"Sorry he snapped like that. He gets irritable when confined to a space for such a long time," Rei said going straight to the linen closet where the games are kept.
"Oh so I guess you always keep him in open areas then?" Molly asked taking Rei's apology quickly, she has dealt with worse.
"Oh my no! I think one time I 'accidentally' locked him in a room for a few days just to see what he would do. Started pulling up bed sheets to escape out the window of the five-story building. I laughed so hard when he fell," Rei said a big smile on her face going to a dream like trance at the revival of such a memory.
"Riight," Molly said not wanting to know the full story and she always found it best to let the queen of Mars to do as she pleased.
Rei went back up to Jedeite's room and he was quite happy to see Rei come in with her promised bored game.
"Now you can't expect me to be good at this ok. My friend Ami was the real champ," she said sitting up the board.
"You have friends?" oh that got a quick cold glare from Rei and Jedeite just smiled. "I use to suck at it but when you have the earth champion you learn fast," Jedeite said thinking to Zoicite's obsessive nature when it comes to chess. All the same they set up the game and fought a mighty battle. Honestly Rei can't say all the chess pieces where in tact after the several rounds of chess but she did have a lot of fun.
The next day Jedeite was able to walk, and not a day too soon his smell needed new definition other then repulsive. Jedeite was drying off his hair after his shower and walked down the hallway and was surprised Rei didn't have a bed set up. All he saw was a blanket dropped over the armchair and raised his eyebrow. Did she really sleep all those days on that? Man, if she wasn't such a stick in the mud he might feel sorry for here. He was suddenly distracted by Rei coming up the stairs.
"Oh good to see your back to being human," she said with a cheeky smile.
"At least I know a new way to kill my enemy's," Jedeite said shrugging Rei paused giving him a look,
"Jedite if you could bottle that you would kill more then your enemy's," Rei always got the final word Jedeite raised his fist while her back was turned but said nothing back knowing full well she would just twist his words. "We will be leaving here at 0' nine hundred hours. I just don't know quite yet where we will be going," Rei started but was cut off by a rather hasty Jedeite.
"We can go to my contact and stay there," he said giving up on his hair and helped Rei collect some of their belongings.
"You have friends?" Jedeite just scrunched his face at her sassy reply, he should be grateful, before she would of just glared at him and said no. Maybe this side of Rei was nice, almost dare he say tolerable.
"Yes, he is in Tokyo. It would be a good place to hide with all the people," he said wondering how in the world Rei acquired all these guns and ammo. Was Molly also an arms dealer? Then again this pistol with silencer was really nice.
"Whatever works we just need to leave today before Nohi traces us to this house and tries to hurt Molly and Melvin," the last thing Rei wanted was a very cranky Serenity reprimanding her for getting Molly targeted by a secret underground gorilla military group.
"Melvin?" Jedeite said tilting his head. Molly never said anything about being married. Rei just turned to Jedeite and put her hand on his shoulder and looked him square in the eye.
"Melvin is Mollys husband. You didn't get to meet him, that's my gift to you," Rei didn't look like she was joking actually her blank face worried him. Rei picked up the bag she packed and Jedeite followed suit with his as they made their way down stairs. The house looked just as normal as upstairs, Jedeite was reminded that suburban life was not for him. "Ok Molly, we are going to be heading out now. Thanks for letting us hide out here. Remember if the Nohi gives you any trouble just make sure Melvin knows. I've given him the proper instructions," Rei said hugging Molly with a smile, hopefully it won't be another few years before she will visit Serenity's old class mate again.
"Any time Rei just next time... Don't break through the window," Molly said smiling to Rei and then went over to Jedeite and gave him a hug. "I hope you don't get shot again Jedeite," Jedeite's head sunk a little in shame. Of all the things she could have said she had to bring up the gunshot. Jedeite said his thanks and they left out the door.
Jedeite looked down the street to the long line of homes that looked exactly the same, the odds of them cashing into this one seemed even more unrealistic to him. He noticed two bikes parked right outside the house. They didn't look like they really fit in. Rei walked straight up to one of them and started strapping down her bag, when Jedeite didn't do the same she looked up to him. "What? Do you not know how to ride?" Rei said almost daring him to say no and give her a chance to rake him over the coals. Jedeite scoffed,
"Of course you just don't see motorcycles much," he said walking up to it giving it a close inspection. It certainly looked new and from the engine size Jedeite surmised it goes very fast. "Where did you get these? They are limited edition," he said leaning down and looking at the motor. Rei's eyebrow went up, did he really know about motorcycles or was he trying to sound impressive.
"I had someone drop them off. Its not limited edition but it's hard to find a Ducati 401cc so don't crash yours," she said pointing to the brand label, a famous bike brand from Italy. "Now let's get going, and don't drool on the bike as you ride," Rei said as she got on her bike. Jedeite just stuck out his tongue as he put on his own helmet and started up the bike. Rei took lead on the bikes getting out of the small community Molly lived in, before long Jedeite knew the streets and realized they were not too far out of Osaka. Which meant they had about five hours of straight riding before they got to Tokyo. Time went by rather fast Jedeite enjoyed the ride very much and even got to take lead for a while. When they entered into town something was really fishy when they entered the city gates. When you take roads there is normally a proverbial border crossing so your vehicle might get inspected. This keeps down smuggling or people running from committing some crime. Jedeite knew they had some very illegal weapons in their bags so to see Rei lead them right up to the gate for inspection certainly caught him by surprise. Rei got off her bike and took off her helmet, "Stay here for a second," she said shortly Jedeite leaned up and crossed his arms waiting. He doesn't like being told what to do, by anyone, but still he was curious. Rei went into the teller's office. The guard at the gate was certainly offended by the citizen's boldness. Jedeite noticed Rei pulled out some kind of identification and shock fell across the guards face. Rei pointed out to Jedeite and her bike, he waved to the guard playfully, she spoke to the guard who was nodding so much he could have been a bobble toy. Rei came back to her bike with a smile on her face. "And now we go through the gate," she said getting back on her bike buckling down her helmet as she revved the engine. Damn her, who in the hell is this woman! Who can go up to a border gate flash a card and just get through without a drop of inspection? Was she some military secret agent? It made sense for her training but to hang out in shrines? Is she some old school ninja, which would be rather cool Jedeite would have to admit. "Yah I travel with a ninja" Jedeite said to himself practicing it for normal conversation. He was taken out of his daydream when Rei signaled him to take lead, clearly she didn't know where his friend lived. At least she shouldn't because that would be a little cheaper. Rei knew this district well, they past the old park that was rattled with monsters every week of her middle school and high school life. Once they pulled up to the building Jedeite got off his bike and made sure to load up on weapons right then and there. Honestly there was too much guns to leave behind on a bike. Rei did the same, they really would look very scary to anyone looking out the window cocking loading and checking over guns that seemed to magically appear from the bikes side bag. Once properly loaded the two walked into the lobby of the condo complex and pushed on the elevator to go up a few floors.
"Is been a while since I've been in one of these," Rei said looking at the vintage form of travel.
"They kept the building in tact all the way down to the elevator. Who needs to go to a museum when you live in one. Well we are here," Jedite said his sly remark would of gotten a glare from Zoicite followed by a lengthy lecture about the history of the building.
"Will your friend be ok with you just dropping in?" Rei asked knowing well that she at least warned her safe houses she was coming.
"We aren't bursting through a window, so that helps," Rei rolled her eyes at Jedeite's comment. "Zoicite is use to me just coming over all unannounced like. It's a serious part of our unstable relationship," Jedeite said with a cheeky smile moving to open the door but Rei quickly stopped him.
"Did you just say Zoicite?" She asked her voice was rushed, she suddenly realized she had her guard dropped, she looked around quickly but no one was in the hall. Jedeite gave Rei a weird look for her sudden paranoid actions.
"Yes... Do you know Zoicite?" Why does he get the feeling that there is a lot he doesn't know, well he had that felling from the start but now he really feels left out!
"He came to my work a month or so ago asking about a case. He is dating my good friend Ami..." if Mercury knew she was in Zoicite's apartment without him knowing with Jedite... well lets just say no amount of fire will melt that ice.
"Dating? I told him to get to know her not date the poor girl! Now he really has some explaining to do!" and with that Jedite barged into the room ready to give Zoicite a piece of his mind but once the door was opened Jedeite stumbled into the room with shock. There was nothing in the apartment, not even a crumb on the floor as if all his personal items were magically lifted out of the building. Jedite quickly looked around the place shocked. "Did he really move out?" He asked to himself Rei didn't look too surprised.
"He must of moved in with Ami," after thinking about it, having his memories back and all it did make sense for them to move in together, to the palace no less...
Jedeite suddenly herd a beeping sound and turned to look at a small camera found in the corner of the ceiling. He snared pulled out his gun and shot it down.
"What are you doing! Gun shots alert the cops we are here!" she said pushing his hand down knowing the clock was now ticking.
"That was a Nohi camera, they never trusted me, they will be here in minutes," he said reality sinking in soon his eyes quickly fell to the window.
"Guess we have to burst through a window again," he said and quickly moved to the window and opened the seal suddenly happy his friend only lived on the second story of the building. Jedite prepared to jump outside ready for anything.
"Your crazy and stupid," Rei said mad, oh she knew they couldn't walk out the door like a normal person but why shoot a gun at the camera!?
"That's what you love about me," he said flirting in the worst moment possible was Jedite's strong suit. He jumped from the window and made it to the ground safely.
"I loved the crazy part not the stupid," She said under her breath as she jumped out of the building. Just in time because the cops had just gotten to the apartments door as they saw Rei's hair fly in the air as she jumped.