Here's a new installment hope you'll love it!!!

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Last Time:

"Hey Luna" Serena said as she crept into the window painfully.

"Serena where have you been, the girls are worried sick, I heard about the fight, and WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING TO ME!" Luna screeched.

"Luna I awoke in Darien's apartment, I am in pain and I just want to sleep, hopefully without those dreams." Serena said as she slipped under the covers.

"Those dreams are really bothering you aren't they?" Luna whispered as she snuggled into her legs.

"Not as much the dreams as more of the memories. I don't think I have slept a wink in at least a month. I'm not myself, I'm easily irritated, I dream of Darien and I and it's always just a dream. I haven't laughed in god knows when and I cry myself to sleep every night. Luna I think I'm falling apart." Serena said as she started to tear up as she hugged her pillow and cried herself to sleep as Luna watched her attentively.


This Time:

(With Darien)

I don't remember what time it was when I realized I had been sitting on the bed for hours. I didn't understand why I did it. I mean, I've been staying away from Serena for almost a month now, and tonight I take her back to my place to nurse her back to health? What is wrong with me? And what was up with the memory, I don't remember that back on the moon? Maybe, this dream is just testing me? (No….you think!!)

Serena's POV

I can't do this anymore. I wake up and I'm in Darien's apartment and he was….he helped me…and hates me. I don't understand this anymore. It hurts too much I need to know where the line is. I can't keep thinking that he will come back to me and whisk me in his arms and hold me. He may have helped me, but maybe it was just a momentary lap.

I guess I'll just have to go see him.

Regular POV:

It was late, at least ten o' clock. The street lights had gone out hours ago. Stores put down their windows and locked up their doors as they went home. You could hear the faint tremors from the loud music from clubs down a few blocks and the only people out on the streets were the one's you wouldn't want to meet in the day. Save for a young woman with golden hair as she walked quickly to a towering apartment complex as she rushed inside to escape from the chilling night.

Serena's POV

I hope he's at least awake. I hope he at least lets me come in. I just have to talk to him. It's important I set this straight. For the both of us. And if I decide that I can't do it, at least I have an excuse,

"Um, hey Darien, mom wants Rini back for the night…" Yeah that will do. I know I kind of like the little squirt but in the last few days it seems she likes Darien more than me.

I slowly walked up to the door with the brass numerals of 715 and knocked on the door.


Darien's POV

I had just put Rini to bed when a light knock came from the door. Who would be up at this hour its 11:15? Rini and I had been watching some absurd childish and boring cartoon when she fell asleep. I shuffled quietly as I closed the door to my room and walked to the door. I opened it and to my surprise I saw Serena.

Regular POV:

"Serena what are you doing here!" I yelled quietly as I opened the door completely.

"…I…I had to talk to you…" Serena stuttered.

"At 11:20!" I yelled.

"I'm sorry, I just had to, I…we need to talk about us." She said as she looked up at me.

"There is no us." I said as I began to close the door.

"No, don't close me out of your life. We need to talk; I can't stand this life anymore!" She screamed as she put her hands in the door.

"We don't have a life anymore!" I screamed, I didn't care anymore if I woke the whole floor.

"THAT'S RIGHT I DON'T HAVE A LIFE ANYMORE! I can't sleep without seeing your damn face! I can't eat without you there; I can't breathe without you any more. I can't live without you anymore….and I can't love you anymore…" She said as she quieted down into tears.

"Serena…" I said but I couldn't finish.

"Please don't say my name… it hurts too much to hear on your lips." she said quietly

"What did you want to talk about?" My voice hard and callous.

She noticed as she flinched.

"About us…or the lack of "us"….I need to know where the line is." She said as she passed me into the room.

"What line." I said to quick as she flinched again.

"The line of where you stand. One night you help me after a battle, the next your cold and uncaring. You can't pick both. For my sanity, pick one. You're either the man I used to love, or the cold empty man I see now." She said as she looked into my eyes.

I knew my eyes scared her; they scared me when I looked in them in the mirror. With there unreadable cobalt color. They were once a dark and mesmerizing navy.

"What you see is what you get." I said flinching myself as I realized how bitter I sounded.

I heard her hold back sobs as she stood there. Her arms hung limply as she looked out unto the open balcony doors.

"Do you love me?" Serena asked as silent tears ran down her face. She continued to look away trying to hide the fact that she was crying.

I didn't say anything as I went to walk away from her.

"If I wasn't in your life I bet you would be happy, if I just disappeared. No more Serena, no more Sailor Moon…no more. I'm tired Darien….I can't keep crying at night for you. I can't keep praying for something that won't come back to me. I can't keep dreaming an illusion. I can't love you. She said as she held back sobs of pain as she held her breathe. I knew this was hard for her. I could her painful breathes escape her lips as she tried to continue. She looked towards me, and I looked away.

"I don't love you Serena..." I said softly.

I heard her holding tears back as her breathing became quick and seemed painful.

"Is that the truth?" She said as she walked right in front of me.

"I wouldn't lie to you." I said unemotionally.

"You wouldn't do a lot of things." She said under her breath.

"Then I'll tell you again…" as I grasped her chin so she could look me in the eyes.

"I never have, and never will love you." I said rudely and let go of her chin.


I saw her eyes get wide, and then close as one tear escaped her cerulean eyes. I saw pain through her face as she said these next words.

"I understand now, but answer me one question..." Serena asked as she turned slowly as she let the tears fall now.

"Alright." I whispered as I tried to forget the knife in my heart feeling.

"I know you will forget about me... and I know I said I would forget you….but I don't think I can…I loved you too much…and I can't help that feeling." She said as sobs racked her body as she ran to the door ready to dash away.

That was it, I couldn't take it anymore. I was killing myself day by day and now I was going to kill her. I grabbed her by the arm and turned her toward my face. Her eyes were closed, tears still leaked from her eyes.

"I could never forget you, it's true I don't love you, because words don't describe what this feels like when I am with you, and if you walk through that door I would die." I said as she opened her eyes to look into my own.

"What?" She stuttered as she looked into my own eyes which were holding back tears.

"I don't know how to say this…..at night, almost every night I am plagued with dreams were you are murdered before my eyes, and I am helpless to save you." I said as I remembered her blood staining her white face as she died in my arms.

I looked at her and saw her concentrating.

"Where it's our wedding, and you're telling me you love me, when suddenly we are pushed apart from some sort of explosion and you call for me, and I see you and I see your pained expression, and I feel my face consort into pain. But I still feel your arms hold me, and I die in your arms before I tell you I love you…" She said scared and confused as we both realized we had the same dream.

"You had the same dream?" I said

"Down to the last scream." She said quietly.

"Darien…what does this mean?" She asked me

"I don't know…but we will find out together." I said as I held her in my arms.


"But I do know, that words couldn't describe how sorry I am I caused you pain. I saw you at night when you cried, I saw you that night when you went to the bridge, and it took all my will power not to hold you then. I saw you at battles when you looked for me. I saw you pray and cry out for me every night, and I know it will take a lifetime to fix what I have done to you." I said as tears ran down my face as I held her close as if she would disappear.

I felt hands caress my face and wipe my tears from my face.

"No Darien, I would forgive you in a heartbeat" She said as she held me close as she sat on the couch.

"I love you Darien, no matter what happens, now, or forever.

"Princess Serenity, Sailor Moon, Serena, My love, When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside and
When you say you love me
For a moment, there's no one else alive
You're the one I've always thought of.
I don't know how, but I feel sheltered in your love.

You're where I belong.
And when you're with me if I close my eyes,
There are times I swear I feel like I can fly
For a moment in time.
Somewhere between the Heavens and Earth,
and frozen in time, oh when you say those words.

When you say you love me.
When you say you love me.
Do you know how I love you?

"Serena I love you so much, and I don't deserve you." I said as I kissed her.

"I love you too, so much…..and…um…weren't those the lyrics to Josh Groban's "When you say you love me?" She said as she smiled on of those million watt smile. (This is my way of saying I don't own this song, Josh Groban does)

I laughed and nodded and held her close. I felt her laughing and soon I was laughing too.


"What's so funny?" a little voice whispered.

We turned and we saw Rini there rubbing her eyes as she awoke from her slumber. Serena opened her arms to Rini as Rini walked to her open arms.

"Nothing Small Lady, just a funny thing Darien did." Serena said as she held the little girl in her arms.

She looked like a mother holding her child from a dream. And maybe one day I would get the chance to see her like that if they ever got married….and uh….his face got flushed a little…

"Are you alright Darien?" Rini asked in a jumbled speech from tiredness.

I looked into the concerned face of Serena. I believe my face got redder and I did nothing but laugh and grab Rini and put her in bed again.

I walked into the bedroom and placed Rini into the covers and Serena bent over and kissed her asleep. Rini softly mumbled mommy and drifted asleep.

We walked towards the balcony as we held hands and looked into the full moon.

"I believe you dropped this a while back Serena" I said as I reached into my pocket.

"You carried it with you?" She asked.

"I took it everywhere with me. I couldn't leave without it." I said as I handed it to her.

"That night I…." Serena trailed off

"It's all behind us now…." I said ending that topic as I held her under my chin and we looked towards the stars.


"Isn't that beautifully nauseating…"a wicked voice said above us.

I jumped in front of Serena and grabbed my rose to quickly transform into Tuxedo Mask if need be. Serena grabbed the back of my shirt I could feel her hand clutching her broach.

"You are exquisite." He said as he looked behind me.

I growled from within my throat angrily. I held Serena closer to me.

"Oh it seems I have angered the Earth prince…or should I say Neo King Endymion?

"What are you talking about?" I yelled. I thought of Rini in the other room and Serena behind my back.

"How you ask? I am from the future… and I am here to take the beautiful creature behind your back." He said sure of himself.

"Who are you!" I heard Serena yell

Diamond's POV

She is just like Neo Queen Serenity, those eyes are the same blue. She must be Serenity from the past. I must have her.

Regular POV

"I am Prince Diamond and I want Neo Queen Serenity. And I always get what I want." He said evilly.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Serena yelled.

"You don't? Well what if I had this?" He said as he snapped his fingers and the body of Rini appeared in his arms. She was asleep still or it at least looked like it.

"RINI!" We screamed as we both reached for her.

"No, no, I don't play that way you two!" He toyed as he backed away from them with an enregized hand raised above her small form.

"That's it you bastard! Let Rini go and I won't kick you ass back to the place you came from.!" Darien yelled as he transformed into Tuxedo Mask. He felt Serena turn into Sailor Moon.

"Oh well you two finally took your time!" He smirked.


Rini stirred in his arms and looked around in confusion and began to cry.

"Mommy, Serena!" Rini yelled

"Uh, you pathetic rabbit, I have no need for you anymore!" Diamond said as he threw Rini over the ledge of the balcony!


Serena's POV

I heard a scream and realized it was my own. I barely noticed that I had jumped off the ledge to grab her. Nothing fully kicked in till I heard the yells of Darien behind me. I didn't think of anything except the calls of my small lady, I don't know what made me call her that, but it just felt right.


Regular POV:

"SERENA, RINI!" I screamed as I jumped off, I got more momentum and soon reached Serena as she had grabbed Rini, but we were still falling. I was silently thanking I was on the twenty-third floor. I had a while till we fell to our deaths. I held Rini and Serena in my arms and grabbed the nearest thing which was a balcony ledge. I had Rini but I realized I was too light. I looked down and too my horror, Serena was still falling. And to add to my terror Diamond was there to catch her mid-fall. I saw him smirk and look up to my face as I held on for dear life. Serena was being held limply as she passed out on the way down. I called her name, but she did not hear me. I had lost her. I pulled Rini and me up and I held her as she cried in my arms. And soon I joined her.


Serena's POV

I remember falling and I feel Darien next to me and I feel him grab me and he grabbed a ledge, the jerk of him catching the ledge made me lose grip in his hands. I remember falling and hitting my head, right before I passed out I saw Diamonds open arms and then I lost consciousness. And my last thought was of Darien and Rini.

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