A/N: OK, I just found the 'Stats' section on the account info, and it said that this story has been hit over 600 times! Holy shit! I don't know if that's considered a lot by comparison, but that's more than I ever thought possible. That being said:

THANK YOU, treehugger101,ffgirlmoonie,Yasaboo, mystic soilder, and of course counterfeating shakespeare. I cannot put into words how much I appreciate you guys's continued...um... patronage? What I'm really trying to say is I love you, let's get married.

Ok, I'm done, ON WITH THE SHOW...story.

Resurfacings: Chapter 3

"There you are! It's 2 o' clock! Why were you out so late? Where have you been?" Usagi was greeted by a barrage of questions from Luna, who had been sitting on her bed waiting for her arrival. Startled, she stumbled backwards falling into her small white vanity table. She reached out frantically for the sides of the table trying not to fall to the ground but only succeeding in knocking several bottles of various beauty supplies and a music box off of the table. She cringed as the items clattered noisily to the floor, the snowglobe surrounding the music box shattering spilling it's glittery liquid contents onto the pristine carpet.

"Damnit" she whispered quickly collecting all of the fallen objects into her arms daintly trying to avoid the shards of broken glass as she waited for what she knew was getting ready to come. Luna had stood up on the bed, readying herself for an argument with Usagi but now stood shocked as the loud noise echoed through the house. Stealing a glance at the clock, she winced guiltily. This wasn't good at all.

"Damnit Damnit Damnit." she repeated over and over as she hurriedly placed all the items back on their shelves. Suddenly, through the crack in the door she saw the hall light flick on.

"DAMNIT!" she whispered fiercely as she quickly threw her purse into her closet trying to hide all signs of her late arrival home. She was supposed to be home by eleven but apparently her parents had fallen asleep before then. If they knew that she had just gotten home. No, if they knew that she had just gotten home from a boy's house. NO, if they knew that she had just gotten home from an OLDER boy's house...

"Usagi-chan what's all that noise?" she heard her mother's muffled voice through the door. Usagi's thoughts blurred as she saw the doorknob turn in slow motion. She made a quick movement to jump into bed but the door swung open before she could even move, ushering in a very frazzled looking Ikuko.

"Usagi-chan are you ok? What's all that noise?" she looked at her daughter who was standing in the middle of the room, fully clothed from head to toe.

"Did you just get in?! It's almost two o'..." her speech was quickly cut off as she narrowed her eyes on her daughter.

"HAVE YOU BEEN WITH..." Ikuko quickly glanced behind her to make sure she hadn't woken up her husband before whispering the next word. "...boys?"

"No! Of course not!" She must have answered a little too quickly because the look in her mother's eyes deepened. Usagi mentally scrambled around for an excuse.

'Just say the temple, say you were at the temple with the girls, SAY IT USAGI!' she thought to herself but her brain and tongue were simply not communicating at the moment. Her mother's accusing gaze was still piercing into her.

"No, Mom. I was at the...the..."

"Temple?" Ikuko finished skeptically.

"YEAH!" Usagi yelled brightly. Assuming the conversation was over she walked over to her dresser drawers and began to pull out her pajamas.

"You were with that dark-haired boy." her mother stated matter-of-factly. Her tone didn't sound very malicious but still had a lightly threatening tone to it. Usagi feigned ignorance.

"What? Dark haired boy, I don't know any dark-haired boys Mom." She mentally smacked herself

'I don't know any dark-haired boys? In Japan? Oh... GOOD ONE.'

"The upper-classman." Ikuko said and Usagi could tell she was beginning to lose her patience. Normally, her mom would have been very understanding, but she seemed to be getting pretty bent out of shape over this.

"OH! THAT dark-haired boy... oh well, yes, he um... is my friend...and he is an upperclassman...and he certainly is dark-haired." She scratched the back of her head nervously trying her absolute best to pull off the 'I'm-too-cute-to-be-punished routine' Her mother simply put her head in her hands and groaned tiredly. Before looking up to her daughter obviously unaffected by Usagi's attempts to weasle her way out of this. Usagi's face went slack as she saw her mother's serious gaze.

"He's too old for you." she said maintaining her unusual matter-of-fact tone.

"But, mom..." she began, giving up all attempts of denying it any more. How was she supposed to explain all of this to her mother. Her relationship with Mamoru was much more complex than just a fling with an upperclassman as her mom was apparently perceiving it to be.

Ikuko's eyelids closed as if she was deep in thought and Usagi's stomach started to knot up.

"Mom, he's a good guy, he's a GREAT guy. I'll bring him over! We can have dinner... and when I say we, I mean you and I. Shingo would just spaz out all over the place and dad would probably just..." Ikuko silenced her with a swift raise of her hand.

"I don't want you seeing him Usagi."

And with that Usagi's vision began to swim in a way that was becoming all too familiar. She could see her mother's face begin to blur in front of her as she reached a hand out to steady herself on her dresser.

"Usagi?" her mother asked temporarily forgetting their conversation as she stood to feel her daughter's forehead.

"I'm fine, mom, I just need to lie down."

"You are forbidden to see him, Serenity." her mother's voice was clear and strong making sure to convey that there was no room for argument.

"Mother, he's not the ENEMY." Serenity nearly screamed her loud words reverberating off the palace walls. It took all the power she had to contain her rage into her tiny body. She found her nails digging into the palms of her hands as her royal visage slowly melted into that of one very angry Lunarian princess.

"Serenity, please watch your tone of voice." Queen Selenity said to her golden-haired daughter who stood before her. They of course, were speaking of that ridiculous Terran prince that had been sneaking up to the Moon Kingdom the past months for "diplomatic purposes". But she could by her daughter's restless sighs and sudden interest in the moon's relationship with their blue-green neighbor that he was much more than a passing diplomat. Usagi's eyes began to tear up as she yelled out of sheer frustration.

"WHY? WHAT'S SO WRONG WITH HIM? I don't UNDERSTAND this!" she had began pacing back in forth in front of her mother as she continued her tirade.

"He's from EARTH, I know their not part of the Silver Alliance, but they're not our enemies. He's kind and gentle and we're..."

"SERENITY! Enough." The silver hair queen said her usual calm tone quickly fading. But the Princess wasn't done, not by a long shot.

"NO, mother! I will not have my life dictated by some stupid rule. I WILL marry Endymion, and there's nothing you can to do to stop it."

There was a very long pregnant pause as they both stood their staring at each other. Queen Selenity spoke first. Her tone was collected again every word she spoke calculated.

"Serenity, I do not doubt your love for Endymion. But your relationship with him could bring about the end to the Silver Alliance. You are forbidden from seeing him."

"You are forbidden to see him"

"You are forbidden to see him, Usagi." Ikuko stated to her daughter, who did not put up the usual screaming match, but instead stood there with a very unnatural despondent look in her eyes.

"I don't care about the Silver Alliance." Usagi said quietly, looking through her very confused mother. Luna, who had suddenly perked up, stood on the corner of the bed equally as confused as Ikuko. What was she talking about? Were her memories returning? And if so, WHY THE HELL IS SHE TELLING HER MOTHER THIS?

"What, Usagi? What's the Silver Alliance? Are you ok? ARE YOU DRUNK?" Ikuko stood up suddenly walking over to her daughter and grabbing her shoulders.

"DID HE BUY YOU ALCHOHOL? You're underaged! How dare he! Did he take advantage of you!?" she yelled frantically.

"I said I DON'T CARE!" she screamed pushing away from her mother.

"We will be together, even if it means I have to give up my title as Princess of the Mo-OW! LUNA!" Usagi looked down at the cat that had firmly attached itself to her forearm. After prying Luna's teeth out of her skin she realized what she had been saying. Her mother just stood staring at her with a mix between fear and confusion on her face. Deciding she couldn't take much more tonight she took the easy way out.

"Sorry mom, I'm just really tired, can we talk about this tommorrow?"

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Usagi laid in her bed, doing her best to fight sleep. Her eyelids were painfully heavy, begging her to shut them, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She had seen the senshi and her Mamo-Chan die too many times in the past 24 hours than she would have liked to. If she let herself fall asleep she would without doubt see ChibiUsa slowly fade away in her arms, or see Mamo-chan taken away by Fiore, battle Queen Beryl with the Silver Crystal. A thought suddenly hit Usagi as she sat up straight in bed.

'The Silver Crystal! It can fix all this!' Careful not to disturb Luna she slowly crawled out of bed and padded quietly over to her dresser where her small broach lay. She took it into her hands letting her fingers graze the markings over the surface of it. It was amazing how this one small item has had such a huge impact on her life. Ever since it had found it's place in her life, everything she had known became some crazy twisted version of the life she once knew. But somehow she had made it through, but she still couldn't decide whether the silver crystal was her savior, or if it was to blame.

She sat down on the floor and held the crystal in the air close to her chest, slamming her eyes closed as she willed it to do her bidding. She found that it seemed to be a bit more difficult than she remembered it but soon a warm inviting light engulfed her body illuminating the room. She could feel the waves of healing light rolling over her body. When she was using the Crystal she felt whole, she felt like she was a complete person, but this time she could tell something was different, as soon as it started the shine emitting from the Crystal began to die out before completely dissapearing.

"What the he... AHHHHH!" Usagi screamed as a wave of dark energy burst from the Crystal and out of the window. She stood stunned the room suddenly eerily quiet.

"What...What was that?" Luna asked from the bed. Usagi was still in a state of shock from being ripped away from her healing reverie. Her whole body shook violenly and her head was throbbing.

"I don't know Luna... I was just trying to.. and then that thing... oh...oh no...hold on." And with that she ran towards the bathroom. Luna cringed as she heard her wretching into the porcelain toilet. She silently padded to the doorway of the bathroom, looking in worriedly at Usagi who was leaning over the toilet with a look of pain on her face.

"I don't know what's going on Luna..." She paused as she turned and noisily dry-heaved over the toilet bowl. "But on a scale of 1 to working, this is NOT working."

Luna opened her mouth to speak but was quickly cut off by the familiar beeping of Usagi's communicator. Making no movement to get it Usagi motioned for Luna to take this one.

"Sailor Moon we have an issue! Oh, Luna!" came Sailor Mercury's voice from the small device. The small woman seemed to be very agitated and from somewhere behind her Luna heard the sound of a male shouting, but she couldn't quite make out who it was.

"Yes, Mercury, what's the problem?"

"Well, it's actually pretty interesting Luna, well you see..." Mercury seemed almost amused , suddenly turning her head and screamed.

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP!?" obviously to the male voice in the background then turning her attentions back to Luna. She opened her mouth to speak again but before anything came out the voice bellowed.

"I TOLD YOU SAILOR BRATS TO HAND OVER THE RAINBOW CRYSTALS!"

Usagi's head shot up from the toilet seat as she stared at the communicator then Luna then the communicator. Her brows furrowed as she quickly placed the owner of that voice.

"Is that..." she began.

"Hai." Mercury said as she nodded. Luna looked insanely confused.

"Zoisite?"

A/N: HA! Cliffhangers a-go-go! Everyone who replied about my youma activity inquiry wants the generals back! Obviously I agree with you. But now I ask for your help once more! Evil generals or senshi-loving-reformed-WAFFy-generals? Hmmmm?

Another thing I've noticed people on here put their myspace/facebook etc. on their profiles. I don't know if that's something that's SUPPOSED to be done but I'm thinking no. But, if you want mine, ask? and I'll give it to you? that works.

Besides that, PLEASE REVIEW GUYS, PLEASE. I'm practically begging you, seriously. The more reviews I get, the more I want to write, the happier you are. So there you go. There's your incentive! Review and then you get happy! I'll try to get the next chapter out before Thursday. It will explain a lot more, so uh... don't miss it?