Disclaimer:

Ann- Aren't you going to let her go?

Jeh-kun- the same answer as if I own any portion of Sailor Moon.

Sky- that would be no.

Pretending It Was Yesterday

"Serena seems to getting her old shine to her life." Ray said as the four girls sat in their normal booth. They tried to make it so they were they met once a month.

"The other day she asked me if I would just put the books down and day dream for a while." Ami laughed as she sipped her drink and down casted her eyes.

"How did we let her get this way?" Mina started to cry.

"I don't know, there must have been signs she was showing that we didn't notice." Lita said pounding her glass on the table. "Where her friends! She is our princess and we should have seen this coming!" Lita's words cut through each of them like a hot knife slicing their deepest wounds to bleed again.

"That dumb meatball brain, she should have told us!" Ray let her tears fall into her drink.

"No way Serena Darien told me that you have been having bronchial attacks and need to stay in bed." A commotion at the front of the store.

"She'd put up a fit for her sweats now, she just wants to be able to make herself a glass of water without dropping it." Ami said with a sigh.

"I still here her perky voice!" Lita exclaimed.

"Come on Elizabeth were friends you know you can let me in for at least a little bit of sweets." Serena pleaded. She was wearing a long sweater and a micro mini, like she normally did and long knee high socks to keep her warm although it was at the end of spring and getting warm out.

"No way, I'm going to call Adam to take you home right now! Do you know what Darien would do to me if I let you get away with this." Elizabeth pulled out her cell phone and started dialing when Serena started let out a wet cough, free of blood.

"COME ON I'M GOING TO DIE IF I EAT ANYMORE OF THAT HEALTH FOOD DARIEN IS MAKING ME EAT! YOU WOULD BE SO COLD TO DEPRIVE A GIRL OF HER SWEET TOOTH? YOU'RE COLD ELIZABETH!" Serena shouted when she opened her eyes after a long cough and opened her eyes she saw her friends staring down at her.



"Oh, umm…hi girls." Serena laughed with her usual energy level.

"MEAT BALL HEAD WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT? AND ON YOUR OWN NONE-THE-LESS?" Ray shouted.

"Oh come on and lighten up guys." Mina defended Serena who led her to their booth.

"Yea, one ice cream won't be that bad for her." Lita said grabbing Serena's other side.

"Come on Ray, you too wanted to hang like we did before she got sick, it's been months since it was just us. Plus her symptoms are showing that she defiantly needs something to sooth her through and ice cream is what the junior doctor ordered!" Ami said taking a seat and a loud sip of her drink.

"Fine, but I'm sending Darien a text to let him know that you are okay." Ray pulled out her cell and started to type away.

"Yet! I can stay!" Serena cheered. "I would like a triple hot fudge sunday with strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream and lots of nuts!" Serena said to Elizabeth who took her order.

"You sure you okay? Darien was telling Adam that he was really worried you wouldn't get better." Elizabeth bit the end of her pen.

"I am fine, gosh everyone is treating me like I might die any second! I have a future ahead of me! I'm not going to let a little cough take over!" Serena said with a confident smile and then let out a horrid wheeze. Elizabeth left the table due to a customer's call biting the tip of her pen the whole way looking back in concern.

"Are you okay?" Mina asked her holding her hand.

"Guys come on, its just an ordinary cold…its just longer than normal." Serna laughed.

"A normal cold doesn't last this long. This is what happens when you fight with your heart crystal so much." Ami said slamming her glass on the table.

"When did you first start feeling bad?" Lita asked her, letting her question slip.

"After Reni was kidnapped by that Black hole creep-oid." Serna said looking down at the table.

( okay I know I didn't explain this earlier but this takes place after the last of the English episodes and Darien doesn't go to America to study abroad. After the last movie there weren't any new enemies. )

"But that was about six months before you got sick!" Ray exclaimed!

"So I couldn't breathe at night and it hurt to run or excert myself, I just thought all those sweets were taking a toll on me, when Luna told me that I might be having heart problems when I was getting palivitaions I thought what a relief, I didn't have a sweet problem! That probably helped it though." Serena laughed as her ice cream was placed in front of her.

"Regardless if you were suffering then why didn't you tell us?" Lita demanded.



"Because I didn't want you to worry you. But still that's just what I did. But it's going to be okay, I won't be around this area much longer." Serena took a big bite of her ice cream and smiled. "I totally missed this!" She laughed.

"What do you mean?" Mina asked her. "Darien didn't say that you were going anywhere?"

"Oh, I can't tell you where or when I am going. They you guys would come to get me. I need you guys to live your lives as you have tried. But do me one favor and stay as close as we are now. I don't know what I would do with myself if I left or because of my sickness all of you went back to being lonely. You need each other as much as I need to know that you will all be okay." Serena let out a long hard cough. All the girls looked away, they were already drifting apart.

"Don't worry I'll send a letter a week to one of you guys so you will be forced to meet to share the information I give you." Serena smiled and shoved more ice cream into her mouth.

"But why?" Ami said as she no longer hid her tears. "We need you, you're the glue."

"Oh Ami don't cry." Serna held her in her arms and patted her hair. "My future self sent me a note about this place that I have to go that will help me. It's in India. I don't want you guys to worry about me, but if I don't go then I will die." Serena said with a hardness in her voice.

"Cant we go too?" Mina asked letting her tears fall.

"I am sorry girls. I will be gone for three months and that is far too long for you guys to be away from school. I will be back in time for summer vacation. But I want you guys, No I need you guys to watch over my Darien. I really want to take him with me, he's watched me suffer for so long. I think I might have broken his heart." Serena looked down at her half eaten ice cream. "I need to know that everything will be okay when I come back."

"It will. If you are only gone for three months then it will be fine." Ray said holding out her hand so that Serena could give her a squeeze.

"Then I will tell you that I leave in two days." Serena let go of the others Lita and Ami where resting their heads on her and she held out her hands to Ray and Mina but in a snap she folded in her middle and coughed long and hard into her hands, little bits of blood in her hands.

"Let us take you home." Ami smiled handing her a wet cloth to wipe off the blood.

"Okay, but don't tell Darien, I will break the news tomorrow, so there is no time for him to try and stop me." Serena said with a small smile.

"Don't worry, we wont." They said together.