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"They leave in an hour." Mina said staring at the ground.

"You are affected by this?" Serenity asked, she gazed around her studio. She could not look at her in the eye. She had always been there for her and now that Mina needed Serenity, all she could do was deny such request. But she had herself convinced that it was for the best.

"Of course I am, I will miss him. I was growing rather fond of him." she said smiling sadly.

"Today it isn't love?" she asked, sympathetic.

"It is, but is easier to deny such feelings. Hurts less if I confuse it with fondness." she replied finally gazing back. But when she did she hoped she hadn't. Serenity's face was twisted with pain and confussion. Regret and guilt. "But I'm sure that I will find a suitor within the palace walls." she tried.

Serenity sighed. "Perhaps it's selfishness. I have convinced myself that this decision is for your best interest, I'm starting to doubt it." she said in a strained voice.

"No, I trust you, I know you only do what's best." Serenity looked in her eyes disbelieving.

"For god sake's!, would you yell, slap me or do something!" she said rising to her feet.

"Serenity -" her voice was interupted by Anna Belle who entered pushing the double doors with anger. When she entered her face was red in anger. So were her eyes. She had been crying.

"You!, why did you ask them to leave?" she yelled. Serenity looked at her, confusion eating her. Then it dawned on her. She had heard rumors of her fondness to Endymion.

"I didn't ask them to leave." she said calmly. She had to remain calm.

"Yes you did!, you were so envious that Endymion favored me that you had to get them out didn't you!," she yelled louder. Mina closed the doors and stared at the whole scene.

"No I wasn't!" she finally yelled back. "It was their choice!, we discussed a few things and they thought it better to leave!, I had nothing to do with their decision!" Anna Belle stopped then she grabbed a book and threw it at her.

"They asked for my hand in marriage and you denied it!" she affirmed. She began grabbing books and throwing them at her. Mina panicked, she opened the door and looked around the hallway, Endymion was walking next to Kunzite.

"Endymion!" she yelled. She had had a few talks with him and Kunzite. She was comfortable enough to speak to him without titles.

He gazed at Mina and fastened his pace. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Then they heard it. A crash and someone screamed. They both jerked and began jogging towards Serenity's studio. When they entered they saw Serenity on the floor struggling with Anna Belle on top of her grabbing her hair and hitting her skull against the floor. For what they could see, Serenity had gone unconscious with that hit.

Kunzite was the first to act. He grabbed Anna Belle by the elbows and began dragging her out of the studio. She looked crazy, hitting and kicking around. Trashing like if she were having convulsions. Endymion rushed to Serenity. She was bleeding. He turned to Mina.

"You should seek for the medic. I shall take her to her room." he said lifting Serenity efortlessly, bridal style. When he walked out from the studio Anna Belle, nor Kunzite were anywhere to be seen.

"... She had a hard hit, but with this she will be alright..." Serenity heard the voice whisper. She couldn't remember anything. Her head was pounding, she couldn't see nor hear with clarity. When she fully opened her eyes, she wish she hadn't. She moaned loudly. Endymion was at her side in a second.

"Are you alright?" he asked pushing some hair out from her eyes.

"It's too bright." she whispered. Mina heard her and hurried to close the blinds.

"I will light some candles." she muttered and walked away with the doctor.

"How are you feeling?" he asked in a low voice.

She didn't open her eyes. "My head. My head feels huge... Is it huge?" she asked mortified. He laughed slightly at that.

"No, it is head size." he answered smiling.

"My sister where is she?" she whispered. His smile faded. How could she be worried about her sister, when said person had almost killed her.

"She is in her bedroom. Guarded by guards." she opened both eyes at that. She tried to sit up, but he wouldn't let her.

"I have to see how she is feeling." she said.

"She must have hit you hard. Are you insane?, or you just pretend?, she tried to kill you." he said. She began shaking her head.

"No, you don't understand. My sister is ill. She panics and she takes medication for it." she said. He frowned.

"You are right I don't understand. I don't understand how your first intinct is to see how she is, and her first instinct is to kill you, please enlighten me." he said sarcastically.

She lay back on her pillows and closed both eyes. "She accuses me of be the cause for your departure. Also of envy. Also of trying to lure you away so she won't marry you. Also of denying her hand on marriage. Also of being jelous of your favor towards my sister."

"This doesn't explain anything." he said. Anna Belle was more insane than he thought.

"She has this idea that I am out there to get her. Right now she must be thinking that I planned all this so you would be here, and she would be treated as a mental person." she explained. He frowned. "Why are you here?, I have also heard you favored my sister since that time you met her in town." she whispered.

"I did. I favored her, until I met you." he said. Serenity didn't react. "She was the woman I intended to marry indeed. But I saw through her. She wishes power so badly that she doesn't care for those who she stomp on. I despised you when she said you mistreated her. But then when I saw that there was no cruelness to you, I realized that you were nothing of what I expected. Nothing of the monster she described." he explained.

She still didn't look at him. He sat on the bed next to her. She felt him caress her face. She felt him kiss her cheek. Then her lips. It was only a peck. But it meant that he was there for whatever she needed. Whatever she wanted from him. Her hands snaked on their own around his neck and pulled him towards her. He crawled on top of her sliding one knee between her legs and the other on the other side.

He kissed her fully then not denying her anything. He kissed her neck. Her shoulder. Then he went back to kissing her lips. His forehead touched hers and she moaned. Not in pleasure but in pain. His hand rested on the side of her waist. His hand began going up and down caressing the side of her breast. This time she moaned in pleasure. He began kissing her more passionately his other hand reached the end of her skirts and began sliding it reaching her thigh. She shuddered and began grasping his shoulders. He only stopped kissing her when he felt he was out of breath. And even then his lips had to be touching her skin. He kissed her jaw, her neck. The little amount of cleavage her skin was exposed to.

There was a soft knock on her door, when he heard it he opened his eyes to look at her. Her breathing was raggedly and her small hands still grasped his shoulders. He slipped out from her grasp slightly composing her skirts and corsette on the top, covering what he had attempted to uncover. He walked to the door and opened. It was Mina.

"Anna Belle asks to speak to you." he looked back at Serenity. She looked at both of them. Her view strained, she squeezed her eyes shut and looked away.

"Will you stay with her?" he asked still looking at Serenity. Mina smiled.

"Of course. Unless of course you rather look after her yourself." she said. He gazed back at her. He shook his head smiling. He walked out then. She walked inside lying down next to Serenity. "Is that the reaction you were expecting me to take?" she asked looking at her.

"Perhaps she overreacted." she muttered.

"You believe so?" she asked sarcastically.

"When are they leaving?" she asked frowning. She tried smiling but her head hurted from any kind of movement from her face.

"Endymion and Kunzite were on their way to tell you that they wished to stay a while longer. His Majesty departed shortly before the altercation towards your health." she explained.

"Then Anna Belle's fit was senseless?" Mina laughed.

"Fit?, I call that a murdering spree." she commented.

"Sarcasm is not -"

"Welcomed." she interupted. "That way I won't ever be able to speak." she said causing Serenity to laugh not caring of the pain she felt.

"It doesn't matter Endymion. We can run away together." Anna Belle desperately said pulling on Enymion's sleeve.

"Anna Belle, I never asked for your hand in marriage. Nor my father nor mother know that I had been courting you." he said.

"It doesn't matter." she said hurriedly. "Please just take me away. She did this on purpose so she would look like a victim don't you see what she is doing to us?" she asked. Serenity was right. She was blaming everything on her.

"There is no us Anna Belle. I ... I don't feel anything for you. Perhaps is better to let go of this fondness, because that's all there is. I enjoy talking to Serenity. And I will continue to do so. As to courting you, that is no longer something I will do." he said coldly pulling his sleeve.

"Why?, what have I done?" she whinned.

"Nothing." he lied. She had done everything. She made him not want to talk to her. "I don't think I could ever marry you. But I think I could marry your sister." he finished. Anna Belle seethed. "Forgive me if I cause abashment. I simply refuse to lead you on without a purpose." he finished walking out.

Gabriela walked in as soon as he left. "I spoke to Miranda. She says she wishes to have a word with you if she may?" she asked unsure seeing Anna Belle draw in oxygen.

"Bring her to me." she croaked. Gabriela walked out and went to get Miranda.

"I see with my eye something that starts with the letter C" Mina declared.

"Candles. You've used that one already." Serenity aswered.

"How are you feeling, perhaps that hit was beneficial. You'll think more." she teased.

"Please Mina." she yawned. "What does the medication had?" she asked, her eyelids felt heavy.

"I'm not a doctor." she hesitated, "jet." she laughed then. "I will allow you to sleep. Goodnight." she said sliping out of Serenity's room.

Mina walked with Kunzite along the gardens. Hand in hand. She smiled at something he said. Then grew serious. From a distance Anna Belle watched the whole scene. She made a disgust sound.

"He should be ashamed of parading around with that servant." she muttered. She looked at Miranda who stood next to her. "Tell me what you were here to tell me."

"I asked grandmother what was best for the lost heart. She gave me this." she produced a small container with dark liquid, "She said this to be tasteless. You can pour in onto any drink, he won't know it's there." Anna Belle smiled. "One last thing. The most important. You should only deposit two drops per drink per day. It would be prepostrous for him to ingest more than two." Anna Belle took the container and waved her off.

"Tell your grandmother she will be greatly rewarded if this is to work properly." Miranda nodded walking away. "If it is not on his own will, then I shall force him." she said to Gabriela grinning.

"I don't trust Anna Belle." Mina muttered gazing at Anna Belle talking to Miranda. "I don't trust Miranda nor Gabriela either." she finished. Kunzite followed her gaze.

"You shouldn't worry. She can't do anything to Serenity." he commented.

"Don't be a fool Kunz, she has a manipulative attitude. She lures people into believing what she want's even if it is extremely the contrary." Her eyes were still fixated upon Anna Belle. Said person returned her gaze and smiled. She waved at them and began walking towards them with Gabriela behind her.

"Why is she walking towards us?" Kunzite asked scratching his head.

"Prince Kunzite." Anna Belle curtsied. Then she turned to Mina. "Servant, you are far from your duty domain. I believe the mines are that way." She pointed at a point far away. Kunzite's jaw clenched. His muscles went rigid.

"Your Highness I must beg you to respect my fiancee." Mina's hand squeezed Kunzite's.

Anna Belle's cocky smile faded. "Your fiancee?" she asked incredulous.

"Yes. Mina and I intend to marry." Anna Belle laughed.

"Forgive me Your Highness, I understood that your King didn't approve of marriage's such as the one you plan to take into action." then she smiled and left out a sarcastic laugh. "Oh I see. You plan to take a mistress." she said laughing.

"No, Anna Belle he does not." Mina finally interupted allowing her temper to dominate. "If he would have then he would have gone straight to you." she muttered. Kunzite pulled her arm slightly bringing her slightly behind him.

"Your Highness, a little privacy could be used." Anna Belle looked between the two.

"Of course. Excuse me." she walked away then. "When I be Queen. She will burn." she said.

"Mina soothe yourself." Kunzite tried.

"How can I, you see how she humilliates me." she said between clenched teeth.

"I also see how you defend yourself." Mina rolled her eyes and began walking away. Kunzite had to jog to reach her.

"Endymion I thought we could make a toast." Anna Belle grabbed a glass of wine and gave it to him. He frowned and eyed her carefully. She served herself a glass of wine.

"What would be the ocasion?" he asked cautiously.

"Your fondness to my sister." she said smiling.

Gently he brought the glass to his lips. "For your sister." he muttered before drinking the glass in one gulp.

She sipped gently on the cup and smiled. This game had just began.

Three weeks had passed. Three long weeks in the one's Anna Belle had been ministring the liquid to Endymion. Yet there was no change. If anything he seemed to follow Serenity more. She attempted to be unaffected by this development. But inside she was burning. She wanted to rip Serenity appart from limb to limb. In frustration she poured the remainders of the solution into his wine. It was more than two drops. More than six. Definitely enough to supply for a month.

He was reading attentively on his bedroom. He finished his glass of wine. Seconds later he felt an urge. An urge to see Serenity. He rose from his chair and paced around his bedroom. The last couple of weeks had been a bliss to him. Serenity seemed to accept him. Right now he needed to see her. There was a fire consumig him and she was the water that would put it to rest. Without thinking it again he walked to Serenity's bedroom and knocked softly.

She opened the door slightly. She tied her robe tighter to her body. "Is everything alright?" she asked in a whisper.

"May I come in?" he asked.

She smiled and moved from the door to allow him to enter. When she closed the door he pushed her against it. He hugged her from behind sliding his hands across her waist. She sighed when she felt his hands undo her robe. He began kissing her earlobe. Her neck. She threw her head back when she felt his hand traveling down her thigh.

"Endymion" she moaned.

"Shhh." he said.

Her robe slided from her body. He turned her and pushed her against the door. He began kissing her like he had never kissed her before. Like if he wanted to devour in that same moment. She wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. Her nightgown began being an issue. He growled and ripped it appart. She pulled on his shirt.

"Take it off." she moaned. He complied and ripped it from his body. Her center touched his aroused member and she moaned. He devoured that moan that very second. At some moment he walked to the bed. Then Serenity grew self couscious. "No." she began. "Endymion this is too fast." she said. He wouldn't stop his desperate moves. She slapped him then. He stopped and gazed at her. His eyes were dark. His hair hung slightly over them. His breathing came out tiresomely.

"Forgive me." he said hopping out from her bed.

She sat up on her bed, her elbows supporting her. "You don't have to leave." she murmured. He smiled teasingly.

"I think I do." he began to walk to the door.

"Is this the way it's going to be?" she asked, no longer looking at him.

"What do you mean?" he turned confused. He began walking towards her.

"When you don't get what you want from me. You'll leave me." she whispered. His gaze softened.

"Of course not. If I am trying to leave is for your benefit not for mine." he sat next to her.

Even though she sat only in her undergarnments she felt comfortable with him. But when she finally met his darkened gaze was when she blushed profously and pulled the covers around her.

"Perhaps it is better for you to leave." she said. He grinned and caressed her cheek with the back of his hand.

"I don't think is proper for me to stay in your room regardless." She laughed then.

"I think we are passed the point of properness." she pat a seat next to her. He jumped happily next to her and wrapped his arms around her back. He kissed her cheek. He inhaled her scent intoxicating himself. Imprinting that smell in his memory.

"Good night my love." he muttered just before falling into a deep slumber.

"You fool!" Anna Belle screamed as she slapped Miranda. "Three weeks!, three goddamned weeks and he still has no purpose of coming back to me!" she screamed slapping her again.

"Your Highness you must understand.." she was cut off by other slap.

"Understand what!"

"His Highness wasn't lost. His heart belongs to Her Majesty. If anything that poison only made His Highness grow more fond for her Majesty." Anna Belle turned to her window. "Your Highness you never mentioned of his fondness. I have discovered this past weeks." Anna Belle glared daggers at her.

"Leave! And tell your grandmother to get me something else. Something that works. Or else you will be tortured for attempted murder!" she yelled. Miranda left almost running. "Must I do everything?" she asked Gabriela.

"I have heard about truly good medicine." she said fearful, Anna Belle gazed at her.

"Finish." she demanded.

"It is sold on the Forgotten lands. The oldest people live there. People who created this kingdom everything around it. They have their ways." Anna Belle smiled at that. She looked around.

"Perhaps it would be beneficial to make a small trip." she said looking at her. "Prepare everything. We leave at dawn." she commanded just before slipping into bed.

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