This Sailor Moon story is AU with some OCs of mine. Sailor Moon and the cast belong to the magnificent Naoko Takeuchi.
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Darien Shields:
"Ow," I whimpered to myself as I applied the cold compress to the side of my face. If I had been anywhere but home I would have held it in, despite how much it hurt.
"Alright," my Uncle Carlisle said as he sat down on the couch next to me, "do you want to talk about it now?"
"No." I said as I readjusted myself on the couch. Carlisle pressed on the ice pack. "OW!"
"Hmm, guess it still hurts. Want to talk about it now?"
I stared at him intensely as I heard footsteps coming down the stairs, "What's all the noise about?"
"Oh, nothing to worry about, Ike. Darien says he's fine." Carlisle scoffed as he walked over to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk. Isaac was a few inches shorter than Carlisle, who measured at six feet. Isaac's hair was black like Rei and mine, due mostly to him being our mother's brother. Carlisle was my father's brother and he had light, sandy blonde hair.
Isaac walked over to me and tapped the side of my face. "What happened here, bud?" Isaac jeered.
I grimaced, "I don't want to talk about it."
Carlisle headed back over to us, "I'm sure that Rei will love to fill in all the details, that is, unless you want to tell us first." He smirked as he sat back down next to me, relishing in his victory.
"Alright, alright," I said as Isaac sat down on the love seat, "We were at Parker Peterson's after-game party."
-FLASHBACK-
Kenny Chesney's "When the Sun Goes Down" was playing in the background as I stepped out of my sneakers, slid my cargo shorts off and then proceeded with my black V-neck. I took a deep breath as I walked over towards the pool in only my dark green boxer-briefs and jumped in to join the small crowd of people.
When I surfaced, a couple of girls were whooping and hollering, but I focused on making my way towards Serena. I blinked my eyes several times. Is there water in my contacts? I can't tell who that is.
As I neared them, I tried to act casually and called out, "Hey, Serena! Hey, Kairi!" The man turned around the rest of the way and I realized that it wasn't my contacts.
"Who are you?" the guy asked somewhat angrily. I looked to Serena and she seemed a little scared.
"I'm Darien," I pulled up my hand from the water to offer, "Darien Shields." The guy looked at my hand and turned back to Serena.
"Do you know this loser?" Serena nodded.
"Yes, and he is not a loser. He's—," Serena glanced over towards me and then back to the guy, "my friend."
"Friend?" he asked as he looked to me. I grinned widely to keep up her supposed charade, "Or boyfriend, Serena? Is he your boyfriend?"
"What's it matter to you if I have a boyfriend?" Serena started to build up courage. Who is this guy?
"Um, excused me," I butted in again, "I don't believe I caught your name."
The guy grunted and turned to me, "Donnie Jensen. Now, get out of the pool." Donnie Jensen? As in the Jensen's that work with Carlisle?
"I actually like a good late-night swim," I smiled over at Serena who shook her head slowly. Donnie was glaring at me and I took that as a sign that this guy expects to get what he wants. I can't leave Serena here with a guy like that. I looked to her and offered my hand, "Perhaps we can go grab a soda?"
She reluctantly agreed and we started heading up the pool staircase near the shallow end. I didn't realize it until we were out of the pool but Donnie had been following suit. Perhaps I was hoping to find a towel first, but instead I felt a hand on my shoulder turning me around.
"Who do you think you are?" Donnie started shouting.
"I'm just trying to help the lady out. I'm not sure if you're drunk or how you know Serena, but I'm just helping," I looked over to see Kairi coming to join our conversation.
"Hey, Don. What's going on?" Kairi asked once he reached us.
"Same old-same old, Manners. Except this twerp thinks he's going to get sweet on my Serena," Donnie responded. Kairi gulped before shooting me a glare. Hey, if I'm in trouble, then so are you.
"I'm not your Serena, Donnie." Serena chimed in. "We're exes, remember? Been that way for a while now."
"This is your ex?" I couldn't see her wanting to date such an awful guy.
"Not for long. I'm getting Serena back." Donnie reached for Serena's hand as she tried to shrug away. He seemed especially angry by this and started to lunge towards her. Kairi stepped in his way to block his path. "Get out of my way, Manners." When Kairi refused to budge, Donnie grabbed his shoulders and threw him into the pool.
I looked around and realized that we were drawing a lot of attention from the fellow party goers. "Hey, now. Let's not have a big fight in front of this crowd."
"Stay out of our business, uh," Donnie tried to remember my name, "What is your name again?"
"Shields."
Donnie's eye widened. "As in Shields & Jensen Law Firm?"
"The very same. And if you noticed, my name is first, despite the alphabet." He seemed perplexed by my comment but I saw Sere smirk a little, "Now, I would like to escort Miss Tsukino back to her car so that she may drive home safely."
"I'll make sure she gets home," Donnie grabbed Serenity's wrist and started heading back towards the house. I tapped on his shoulder and when he turned, I threw a powerful punch to his jaw. This is going to hurt in the morning, I thought as I looked to my hand. When I glanced back up I saw that Donnie was still standing and very angry.
Then everything went black.
-END OF FLASHBACK-
"Aww-yeah," Isaac cheered, "our boy has finally grown up!"
Carlisle smiled, "Indeed, it looks like he has." He turned to face me, "You stood up for a lady for the first time. Your father would be proud." He seemed very sincere, despite his teasing before. I nodded.
"So what happened next? Is your lady-friend alright?" Isaac tried to get me to complete the story.
"I hope so. Her friends snuck her off as I was going in-and-out. I think I saw Donnie going to the keg," I muttered as I flipped the cold compress over, "Yeesh."
Carlisle smiled and got up from his seat, "I remember the first time I stood up for a lady." He went through one of the China Hutch drawers, "This guy at lunch was bothering her every day, no big deal, until one day he started getting handsy." Carlisle held a photo out to me of a group of high schoolers.
"I remember her, Carlisle," Isaac said. "Michelle was beautiful."
"Look at y'alls hair," I chuckled, "Hers is blue and… are those frosted tips, Carlisle?" He snatched the photo from me.
"It was the style back then."
"Heh, we all know that I was the style champ in high school, Carl." Isaac grinned before Carlisle showed the picture to him as well.
"Remember your Von Dutch caps and your giant diamond earrings?" Carlisle laughed loudly as Isaac's face turned pale.
"Let me see!" I jumped up to see which of them in the picture was Isaac.
"Well, I'm not the one who was trying to look like JT." Isaac shoved the picture towards me, "Didn't you use an entire year's allowance to pay for you and Michelle to see *NSYNC?"
"Very funny, Ike." He grabbed the photo from me, "A year and a quarter's worth."
Serenity Tsukino:
"Thank you for driving my car, Lita," I looked towards the street and saw the reflection of Andrew's headlights in my side mirror.
"What are friends for?" Lita changed the station and "Kids" by MGMT came on.
Ami and Lita were staying the night at my place. I really needed it after tonight's ordeal. Andrew was driving Ami over so that they could talk wedding plans and attempt to nail down a date.
Lita and I took a detour to the grocery store and bought Trolli Sour Gummi Worms, Fritos Scoops and carrot sticks to keep it all balanced. When we got back it was past midnight and I was so glad that mom was a heavy sleeper.
As soon as the door was shut, Ami was at my side.
"Sere, are you alright?" She looked at me and saw the tears starting to well up in my eyes, so she wrapped her arms around me, "It's going to be alright." Lita joined our embrace.
"I love you, guys," I said between sobs, "I really do."
"We love you too, Sere." They said in unison.
I decided that I didn't really want to talk about anything, but I couldn't sleep either. Instead, we turned on one of my favorite films and chowed down on the snacks.
"I swear, this movie would be so much better if half those moves weren't illegal at the scholastic level," Ami said as we watched the opening scene of Bring It On.
"Maybe real life would be better if they were legal," Lita added.
"Touché, Lita." I motioned to her, "Hand me the worms?"
Twenty minutes later they were both out, but I kept watching the flick because of my wakefulness. It got up to the part where Torrance Shipman finds out that her college-aged boyfriend, Aaron, is cheating on her at Cal State. I mouthed along to the script: 'You're cute as hell, but maybe you're just not "boyfriend" material.'
I grabbed the remote and turned off the TV. Ami was on my right and Lita on my left. I stared up at my ceiling fan with the light from my dolphin rotating lamp turning my room into a blue hue.
Who would be "boyfriend" material?
Author's Note:
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