Usagi turned the knob and prepared to enter the dining room. At
seeing her, Demando rose to kiss her. He leaned in and gave her a
passionate kiss. She just smiled in return and they both went to sit down.
"Serenity?" he asked.
"Yes?"
"You've seen that Mamoru and Setsuna are engaged for yourself. What do you want to do about it?"
"If you mean get revenge, my friends already tried to take care of that. I really don't care. It's Mamoru's choice if he doesn't want Chibiusa to be born, although he should have told me instead of just going off with Setsuna."
"If you want revenge…well…I could give you the power to get it."
Usagi shook her head no. "No, the Dark Energy will only mess up my personality and I'll be cranky and you'll be the person who has to live with it." She laughed, her first actual laugh in years. "If I were going to get revenge," she continued, "I'd want to do it as the "wimpy" fighter of justice that they always made fun of. But to do that, I'd need my crystal, which you have and really don't want to give up, am I right?"
"For you, I'd give you back everything," he mumbled.
"Say that again?" Usagi asked in shock.
Demando quickly shook his head. "I said that I'd give it back to you temporarily, so you could go bash Mamoru and Setsuna, but then you'd have to give it back."
"But it's mine!" she protested.
"Do you think I care?"
"Yes."
"You're wrong."
Usagi pushed away from the table and ran from the room. Demando didn't even try to stop her.
"Real smooth dinner," said Saffir sarcastically, walking into the room.
"Go away. I don't need your sarcasm right now. I'm going to attack and try and kill the Sailor Senshi now, regardless of what Usagi wants me to do."
"Okay…" taunted Saffir. "But you do know that if you do, she'll clam up again and it'll take you another two years to get through to her, maybe more."
"I'll decide tonight. If I attack, I'll attack at dawn," he said, closing the conversation topic and leaving the room.
"Yeah bro, SURE you'll attack the senshi. I know you better than you know yourself," said Saffir to himself.
***
Usagi threw herself on her bed, sobbing. "I never even got to tell him how I felt before he got angry with me," she wept.
"But if you do tell him," a nasty little voice said in her brain, "The entire world will be destroyed because of you."
Usagi rolled over and fell asleep, thinking about Demando.
***
Usagi awoke in the middle of the night. She sat up and thought a moment, then pulled her bathrobe over her dress and padded down the marble stairs in her slippers. She quietly turned the doorknob to Demando's study and went in. She went to his desk and opened the first drawer on the right and pulled out a key.
"Got it!" she thought triumphantly.
She went to the glass case holding the henshin wands and the present and future silver crystals and inserted the key. She turned it and heard the lock click. She jumped back, and peeked out the door to see if anyone had heard her. No one was in sight, so she went back and turned the key all the way, opening the padlock. She set the key and the lock on the floor and opened the glass case. She picked up the Imperium Silver Crystal and fingered it, remembering the many times she transformed with it or when she defeated the Dark Kingdom, with Mamoru at her side. She clenched her fist thinking of Mamoru, and then remembered that she needed to get back to her room.
She quickly put the glass lid down and relocked the case. She put the key back in the drawer that she had found it in, grabbed the crystal, and ran for her room.
She got back to her room, put her slippers and robe back where she had found them, and put the silver crystal on a small pillow in her nightstand drawer.
"Oh no!" she thought. "I forgot the henshin brooch."
She got up, ready to go back and get it, but thought instead, "I'll get it tomorrow night."
She lay back down in her bed and fell asleep, strands of her hair lightly blowing on her face in the light breeze from the open window.
"Serenity?" he asked.
"Yes?"
"You've seen that Mamoru and Setsuna are engaged for yourself. What do you want to do about it?"
"If you mean get revenge, my friends already tried to take care of that. I really don't care. It's Mamoru's choice if he doesn't want Chibiusa to be born, although he should have told me instead of just going off with Setsuna."
"If you want revenge…well…I could give you the power to get it."
Usagi shook her head no. "No, the Dark Energy will only mess up my personality and I'll be cranky and you'll be the person who has to live with it." She laughed, her first actual laugh in years. "If I were going to get revenge," she continued, "I'd want to do it as the "wimpy" fighter of justice that they always made fun of. But to do that, I'd need my crystal, which you have and really don't want to give up, am I right?"
"For you, I'd give you back everything," he mumbled.
"Say that again?" Usagi asked in shock.
Demando quickly shook his head. "I said that I'd give it back to you temporarily, so you could go bash Mamoru and Setsuna, but then you'd have to give it back."
"But it's mine!" she protested.
"Do you think I care?"
"Yes."
"You're wrong."
Usagi pushed away from the table and ran from the room. Demando didn't even try to stop her.
"Real smooth dinner," said Saffir sarcastically, walking into the room.
"Go away. I don't need your sarcasm right now. I'm going to attack and try and kill the Sailor Senshi now, regardless of what Usagi wants me to do."
"Okay…" taunted Saffir. "But you do know that if you do, she'll clam up again and it'll take you another two years to get through to her, maybe more."
"I'll decide tonight. If I attack, I'll attack at dawn," he said, closing the conversation topic and leaving the room.
"Yeah bro, SURE you'll attack the senshi. I know you better than you know yourself," said Saffir to himself.
***
Usagi threw herself on her bed, sobbing. "I never even got to tell him how I felt before he got angry with me," she wept.
"But if you do tell him," a nasty little voice said in her brain, "The entire world will be destroyed because of you."
Usagi rolled over and fell asleep, thinking about Demando.
***
Usagi awoke in the middle of the night. She sat up and thought a moment, then pulled her bathrobe over her dress and padded down the marble stairs in her slippers. She quietly turned the doorknob to Demando's study and went in. She went to his desk and opened the first drawer on the right and pulled out a key.
"Got it!" she thought triumphantly.
She went to the glass case holding the henshin wands and the present and future silver crystals and inserted the key. She turned it and heard the lock click. She jumped back, and peeked out the door to see if anyone had heard her. No one was in sight, so she went back and turned the key all the way, opening the padlock. She set the key and the lock on the floor and opened the glass case. She picked up the Imperium Silver Crystal and fingered it, remembering the many times she transformed with it or when she defeated the Dark Kingdom, with Mamoru at her side. She clenched her fist thinking of Mamoru, and then remembered that she needed to get back to her room.
She quickly put the glass lid down and relocked the case. She put the key back in the drawer that she had found it in, grabbed the crystal, and ran for her room.
She got back to her room, put her slippers and robe back where she had found them, and put the silver crystal on a small pillow in her nightstand drawer.
"Oh no!" she thought. "I forgot the henshin brooch."
She got up, ready to go back and get it, but thought instead, "I'll get it tomorrow night."
She lay back down in her bed and fell asleep, strands of her hair lightly blowing on her face in the light breeze from the open window.
