Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon... What? Are you serious? ... Yes unfortunately


"The hospital said they would let me know as soon as they had an anwer." Amy said as she walked through the streets with Serena.

"Hopefully they will have the decision soon." Amy looked at her.

"But not soon as in the sense of a bad decision, soon as I am so good they chose not to let me get too far away. Right?" she asked nervous.

"Of course how could any one say no to you." They looked through a glass window. "I love the shoes." she glanced at them. "I don't have anything ... of whatever color that is." she said.

"Serena we should carry on with the conversation. " she said moving from the glass window.

"Where was I?, oh yeah, no one would dare say no to that innocent face of yours Amy."

Amy blushed. "No, you were telling me last time we talked that you were interested in someone."

"Oh that. How could it skip my mind?" she asked smiling. "I don't even know if I am interested in him."

"Yes you are or else you wouldn't have brought it up I mean it takes a lot of effort to get you to admit any sort of feeling towards a guy at all and when you all of a sudden bring it up that means that the guy is doing the job well into seducing you..." she realized her mistake then. "Not that he would be trying to seduce you into doing something with you because come on it's you.. and is it too late to choke on my own saliva?" she asked running out of breath.

She laughed then. "It's just that he is gorgeous in an obnoxious kind of way."

"You mean you like him because he bothers you?"

"No, I like him because he hasn't tried anything with me... he has just been my friend." she said walking slowly.

"Maybe he is gay." Amy wondered out loud. "No, I didn't mean that in the sense that he would have to be gay to not try anything..." she trailed off. "Do you want me to go away?"

Serena smiled, " I wish you wouldn't. Have you been drinking coffe Amy?, we've talked about this." she said sternly.

"Makes me jumpy, but no. Listen I don't mean to be saying all this weird things but I got to thinking and I compared notes with Andy and well..."

"You compared notes with your brother? Amy I am really hoping the notes were about your PHD."

"I got to the conclusion that you are interested in Darien." Serena stopped then. They went into a coffee shop. They sat at a small table.

"It's not, ... I didn't mean to like him like that, I tried I started avoiding him when -..."

"When you already sort of liked him?, I think that was pretty much too late."

"Amy I can't... I don't want this feelings I saw him yesterday and he was so cold to me, like I didn't matter to him at all."

"Andrew told me some of the situation, you told Victoria that you guys were dating.. and then he practically moved in with you..."

"We spent a couple of weeks together that were amazing and now I have begun to miss him..."

"I don't know what to say Serena, I mean you know the way he is and everything... I won't encourage you nor disencourage you.. I will be of help support... I know what you can do!" she exclaimed.

"And that would be?"

"You could ask him for coffee one night." Serena looked at her. "It's the non-relationship drink of choice It's not a date. It's a caffeinated beverage, okay it's hot and bitter like a relationship that way but-"

"What am I supposed to say?" she asked in shock.

"You are asking that to the wrong person. Either way." they stood up. "just coffee, I mean you've had those before right?"

Serena made a face. "Yeah, you know twice every morning."

"I meant with him."

"Oh, we had breakfast a couple of times. No biggie, we acknowledge the fact of non datorial approach. I left it pretty clear that I wanted nothing to do with him. And that maybe we made a little of a bet..." she trailed off.

"A bet?, what kind of bet?, oh God, please don't say is a sexual bet, as in the one you take your clothes off and have sexual intercourse with him."

"You mean in a bet where we end up having sex?"

"You can put it that way Ms. Technical."

"Really Ames, it's called sex." she shook her head. "I bet him he couldn't keep it in his pants until Mina's wedding and if he did I would have sex with him."

"Wait Mina is getting married?"

"Yeah, didn't I tell you?"

"Mina the Ms. 'I will kill whoever disagrees with me' ?"

"Yeah, she is just going by Mina this days."

"Yeah my invitation got lost in the mail hopefully." she asked smiling.

"No she didn't send one. You are my friend not hers." her eyes widened. "Yeah it got lost, God!, I have to do everything myself if I want it right."

"Sure thing. ... When will you and Darien you know?"

"Oh that's supposed to happen after the wedding but I don't know if we will I mean he is not even around anymore."

"I meant having the coffee, not sexual intercourse."

"Ohh, um I don't know when I will see him."

Amy checked her watch. "I have to go and see mom, I promised her I would have lunch." Serena smiled. "Serena when was the last time you had lunch with your mother?"

"A little while ago of course you know how I don't like it when it passes a year without getting butchered."

"I hardly believe that your mother tortures you so, she is just concerned."

"Yeah, sure say hello to Sofia from me."

Amy smiled brightly. "Sure thing I will."

Serena went back to her apartment. She placed her keys on the table. She walked to her fridge and retreived a small jogurt. She started eating it when she heard a bang on the door, she jumped at the sound causing jogurt to spill over her shirt. She trew the jogurt to the sink and walked to the door with a washcloth. She opened the door and cleaned the front of her shirt.

"Raye?" she asked confused. Raye walked in looking around.

"Nice apartment."

Serena closed the door. "How did you know where I live?"

"Oh, well Darien said you lived in the same building as him and I just checked the database to see what apartment you were registered."

"Is that supposed to make it less creepy or more creepy?"

Raye smiled. "I just needed to talk to you." She sat at her couch.

Finally Serena eyed her. "Would you like water, clothing, a cookie?" she said looking at her little red dress. How could she walk around with that small dress in the cold.

Raye's head jerked. "Clothing?"

"I also said water." she defended.

"No thank you, this is a short visit. Before Dare comes and realizes I came here. You already know that I've known him for like forever. He is like an older broher for me. And I have never seen him the way he is right now."

"The way he is right now?, I don't understand."

"He is depressed he barely even talks to me now. He was happy when he was with you. He was different."

"We haven't seen eachother for a couple of days -"

"He went back to sleeping around with women."

Serena's heart sank, he was sleeping around again. "I don't know what to say. We were never really together Raye, he was petending to be dating me..."

"I know."

"You what?"

"I know you were pretending. But somewhere along the pretending he began having feelings for you, he is very insecure, his mother left him when he was five, and his dad filled his head with the motto 'women are hoe's why can't we do the same?', I want him to be happy. He deserves to be happy."

"I don't know what exactly are you asking of me.."

"Talk to him, fix things I don't know what happened..."

"He found me talking to Andrew and he freaked, he thinks we have something."

"Andrew?, his best of bestes buddy?"

"Yeah why?"

"He told me, and we talked about it. It seems like you are avoiding him more than he is avoiding you."

"Look it's incredibly good kind hearted, of you to come here and be this nice and try to make me change my mind. You said it clearly he is back to the way he was, I can't do anything Raye, I have my own insecurities and I am not selfless enough to just go and try something." she thought about it for a second, "I won't promise you anything."

"Well I already did my approach that's as much as I can do." She stood up. "Please think about it."

Serena smiled. "Will do."

Raye walked outside. Serena closed her door and took her shirt off. She walked to her closet and grabbed a black V neck shirt and put it on. She heard another bang on the door. She walked to the door and looked around there was nothing Raye could have left.

"W- hooo- is it?" she studdered. Another bang. "I asked who is it?" Then she heard it the unmistakable whistle tune Lucius sang. "Leave!, I'm not opening the door. " The tune kept going. "I said leave!, I'll call the cops." she said now in tears. The tune kept going until there was an even louder bang.

"You know Darling, this door seems pretty fragile. Why don't you just let me in and we will talk, or do other things we might like." he said through the door.

Serena cowered to a corner next to her bed. She hugged her knees and began crying. "This isn't happening." she mumbled. Another loud bang made her jump. She covered her ears and began crying. The door made a final crash. She jumped and saw that it was fully open. Lucius inside. He smiled and closed the door.

"Like I said the door looked very fragile." he smiled and walked slowly to her.

"You are married, why do you torment me like this." she mumbled crying. He rushed to her and took her arms delicately.

"SSShhhhh.." he talked like if he spoke to a little kid. "My wife isn't what she used to be, she is old. And she doesn't appeal to me like she used to, and you darling, I'm in love with you." He caressed her face.

"That's an insult. How dare you say that you love me, when all you do is hunt me down."

"You loved me too, remember?, that summer we snuck out all the time." he kissed her lips softly. She pushed him.

"This is over stop tormenting me!, leave me alone!" she screamed. She pushed him and began running towards the door. She screamed. "Stop!" as he pushed her to the bed.

"We will do this the nice way or the un-nice way. It's all up to you." he said as he kissed her neck.

"NO!, let go!" she screamed. All of a sudden the weight dissapeared. She opened her eyes to see Darien standing there in front of her.

"Get the fuck out!" he screamed. There was so much venom on his voice. Even Serena was afraid. Lucius smiled sardonically.

"We will meet again Serena, you know we will." he left then .

"They can never just leave, they always gotta say something." Darien mumbled. He turned to see Serena staring in shock to the door.

He touched her but she jerked. She began breathing with dificulty, had that just happened?.

"Hey, it's me, I'm not gonna hurt you." he whispered taking her hands.

She broke in tears. "That's what they all say." she mumbled. She took her hands back and looked down. "What are you doing here?"

"I was in my apartment and I heard the door." he searched for her face.

"I'm okay." she said. "You can go back to whatever it is that you were doing."

"I was -"

"I don't need to know." she said with pain in her voice.

"Why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Pretend that there is nothing going on!" he passed his hand over his hair.

"There is nothing going on." she said. "What you saw... Forget you saw it, I appreciate the help but you don't have to stay, you have no penance with me."

He grabbed her arms and pulled her towards him. "I need you." She acted as calm as she could. "No. You don't need me. You have all the other -"

He crushed his lips to her. It felt different. For once the she wanted to give back the touch. She wanted the touch. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer. But he pulled back.

"You can't, you just..." he began.

"shut up and kiss me." she demanded pulling him to her.

They fell on the bed. Then all of a sudden he stopped.

"I don't... it's not okay you are sentimental, I don't want to take advanatge of you."

"You don't what?"

"I don't take girls against their will."

"I was willing." she argued.

"Didn't think I would get to see this side of you." he said amused.

She blushed. He smiled and kissed her cheek.

"And I don't ever have sex with virgins."

She gazed at him with those big blue eyes.

"I'm not a virgin." she declared looking at her hands.

"What did you say?" his eyes widened. "Did that bastard -"

"No, I mean yes... Let me explain.." she hurried as he went walking. "I was fifteen when I met him... he was charming, and he would say everything a fifteen year old would want to hear. He would come every summer from Chicago with his family." His head jerked. Tears formed. "I started flirting with him whenever his wife wasn't around and sometimes even when his wife was around. I could tell she hated me, and I could understand why, she was getting older and I was young and seducing him. Or thats what I thought. When I was being the seduced." she left out a bitter laugh. "He ... they left back to Chicago, and didn't come back until after I was eighteen. That's when the affair began." She couldn't look at him in the eye. "After that summer we never.. did anything, I would tell him everything absolutely and I told him what had happened with that library guy. He killed him for touching me." she started crying then. "Back then I was stupid that I was happy I thought he loved me, and I left all prejudices aside and loved him so much. When they came back next summer I was nineteen, we would snuck out everywhere and kiss and hold hands. And then one day we were on his car and it was dark, he was supposed to be giving me a ride and one thing led to another and we... had sex. After that things got worst. He would penalize me for looking even at a guy, he would get so jealous. He left and I rented this apartment because I wanted it to end. I just couldn't be sleeping with him while I looked at his wife in the eye and smiled." she began sobbing. "Then the abusement started, he would force himself in me. I just couldn't do anything, and then he would always be saying that I was his wife, and I had to respect him. Then dad bought this place for me and I dissapeared from the map. I changed my phone number and everything."

She finally looked at him to see he was giving her his back. He turned to her and wrapped his arms around her. She began crying harder.

"It's okay, he is never going to touch you ever again." he whispered. "I will kill him if he does." he muttered.

"Andrew is the only one who knows. He came in one time while he was trying to .." she burst into tears again.

"You are okay, we are okay.. Serena you have been nothing but good to me, I won't let that fucker near you. I promise." he kissed the top of her head. "I promise." he mumbled.


"They hired me in the hospital." Amy declared proud. "Are you okay Serena?" she asked seeing Serena's catatonic state.

"Yes. Everything is fine."

"You know what fine stands for?" Serena shook her head. "Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic and emotional. That's not a good sign." she touched her forehead then. "Oh God you are burning. We have to get you somewhere now."

Serena stood up. "But I'm fine." she said stumbling. "I'm fine Amy." her vision blurred and she fell on the floor.

"Serena!, somebody call an ambulance!." Amy screamed. "Serena? wake up..."

The double doors of the hospital opened as several nurses surrounded were Serena lay. Amy followed closely until they entered a door a nurse looked at her.

"You can't come inside, I'm sorry."

Amy stood there looking around until Andrew appeared from behind and hugged her.

"What happened?" he asked.

"I don't know we were talking, or at least I was and then she just fainted." she began sobbing.

"Come on let's sit down." they sat for over an hour. "Did you call Mina?"

"No, neither did I call Victoria, I didn't think."

"I will call them right now." Andrew left to call them. As he did a nurse came out from the room.

"Are you familiar of the young girl who we just attended?"

"I'm her best friend, her name is Serenity Atwood. Is she alright?"

"She had an overdose. We were able to wash her stomach, she is stable as of now but she will be out for atleast twenty four hours."

Amy looked confused. "I don't understand -"

"She was a suicude threat, we will keep her for observation."

Amy covered herr mouth. "Can I see her?" she asked fearful.

"Yes of course let me direct you to her room.." they walked until they saw Serena laying down.

Amy entered and sat down next to her.

"What happened? why isn't she awake?" Andrew asked entering.

"She overdosed.."

"Excuse me I don't think I heard you properly."

"Yes you did.. she -"

"Where is she?" Victoria screamed entering her room. "My little girl." she said with tears, she hugged her. "Why isn't she awake?" she said franatically.

"She -"

"She was sick, and they gave her some antibiotics. She got sleepy." Andrew cut in. "Please let me take you to get some coffee." he offered.

"But we just got here." she argued.

"Let's just go." he pulled her out so Mina could come inside.

"Sad to see you still have no style at all Amy." She said walking inside.

"Mina, please you can stop now with your pathetic Vendetta." Amy replied not taking her eyes off of Serena.

"I never understood why my sister loved you so much, I am her sister."

"Because I was always honest and I never pulled on her what you did."

"Please you did it to me." she scolded.

"It was a way of showing you Karma. You should have never slept with Serena's boyfriend."

"She didn't like him, she was just with him... she forgave me." she argued.

"Mina she is your sister and you act like you know her nothing. It is imposible for her to hold a grudge against you, it's not in her nature."

"Shut up, it's not your place to say anything to me. I was drunk we covered that."

"I wonder if your mom knows." she said looking at her finally. "It's sad to see years have passed and you still dress like a hooker." she said smiling.

"Oh -"

"Amy?" Serena mumbled. She rose and stood next to her.

"I'm here." she opened her eyes lazily .

"Call Darien." she whispered. She closed her eyes again.

"Andrew I need you to call Darien." she said through the phone. "Just call him and tell him to come." she hanged up then.

A few hours later he burst through the door.

"What happened?" he asked, he looked at Serena. "Amy?"

"She -" she looked around and saw Mina standing. "She had a sudden fibre, she got sick, and they had to give her antibiotics."

"Mina leave." he demanded.

"You are in no right-"

"I said leave!" he said louder. She scrambled to leave. "What really happened?"

"She overdosed, I don't know why or how did it happen. I just talked to her and she fainted..and she told me to call you."

He took Amy's seat and sat right infront of Serena. "You can leave if you want. You will need to rest."

Serena jumped. As she did she looked around confused. Darien sat next to her. He was asleep. She looked at him and smiled. his head was against her arm, his hand lightly touching hers, she didn't want to move to wake him, slowly she unwrapped the covers from her. She got out of the room. As she did she wasn't in the hospital anymore, she was where it had all began. That small park where she kissed Lucius for the first time. It was dark and foggy. She stepped on a rock and flinched.

"You think that's pain?" Lucius asked, her head jerked, he held a knife to Darien's throat. "Just wait and see." he slit his throat. She screamed.

"Serena, calm down now!" Darien struggled to keep her down.

She finally opened her eyes, "It's you." she wrapped her arms around his neck. "I'm sorry." she loosened her grip and layed back down. "It was a bad dream. I am awake now, clearly. Why am I in the hospital?" she asked looking around.

"You mean you don't know?" he asked skeptical.

"Um, no I was with Amy and I felt kinda dizzy. And then I was here. Shockingly I remember asking for you."

A smile crept to his lips. "You asked for me. Thats nice considering how much you hated me yesterday."

"I don't like going to your office, Raye gets this look, this maniac look..." she shuddered, he laughed. "Learnt my lesson, I won't leave your side, except when you are having sex." she said.

"I am not having sex." he said seriously.

She smiled. "That's what you say now." he made a face and she laughed.

"They will let you go in an hour or so."

"Did my mom come in?" she asked.

"Yeah, she saw you awake and Mina and her had an appointment, a wedding related appointment." he said.

"Well it's nice to know I am a priority." she smiled sadly.

"I'm thinking cereal and movies." he said.

She laughed. "Movies green light, cereal red light, I don't want to get into depression mode just yet."

"Happy Birthday!" Andrew screamed walking inside with a couple of balloons. Darien only stare.

"Whose birthday?," Serena asked. "Oh, my birthday, I completly forgot." she said.

"Well I didn't." he said smiling proudly.

"Nice, now forget it and kill the balloons before I kill you." she said crossing her arms.

Andrew made a face. "Come on twenty six -"

"Agh!, stop, and thanks Andy. The gesture is greatly appreciated, but..." she looked at Darien. "I take it back cereal is a go." Darien smiled and looked away.

"Okay, your mom made a get together and we are meeting at her place at six and then shots at nine."

"Wow is mom going to be there also?" Andrew smiled, "You know what?, I'd looooove to go, but I am in the hospital and I don't think I will be able to attend, but on my behalf wish everyone fun." she said pointing thumbs up.

"They are realising you today, Amy pulled some strings and BAM!" Serena jumped.

"And bam someone got shot?"

Andrew laughed, "No, they are just preparing your paperwork and in seconds youll be out."

"Yeay" she said with fake enthusiasm, she turned and looked out the window waiting for the doctor to enter.