AN: this one is going to be a bit of a mixed POV and you'll see why as you read it because of a few very important reasons.
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Epilogue:
Just Something Stupid
Serenity was looking at him curiously, not in the cute way she sometimes did, but while there was some of that, trying to work something out, there was also a bit of anger in her gaze. What had he done now? He checked his own memory of the last several hours from which he had been away from her and couldn't recall doing one thing out of the usual.
Maybe that was the problem?
Was he forgetting some sort of anniversary? No... No birthdays either.
She was still looking at him that way, hadn't really moved, just seemed to be getting tenser as every second ticked by but he had no way of knowing what was wrong so he had no hope of fixing it before she blew and she was going to blow soon. Usually he handled these calmly but she was just staring at him and it was starting to unnerve him. He could never take her silence. "What ?"
"Did you break up with me?" Her question shot out of her mouth with so much fury behind it, just for the thought that it could have possibly have happened.
"No?" He asked, they were married, if he wanted to split from her, which he didn't, he would have asked for a separation or a divorce and he would have definitely remembered doing something like that.
Serenity grasped her throat as she stared at him in shock, he still had no idea what she was talking about, though he was starting to expect... he could never forget the nearly 6 months of pain he had suffered through practically alone. He never wanted to remember even a moment of that but it was always there to remind him at the oddest times. "What did you do?"
"Probably something incredibly stupid." He acknowledged with growing dread and a bit of panic bubbling up in his stomach. He never thought he'd be able to lose her at this stage of the game, they had a solid marriage in all ways and they worked through all the problems they faced and he never did anything stupid anymore, except send his past self the dreams that caused all of this. Which he still did this time around though he knew the solution wasn't what his idiot younger self concocted up but he couldn't just tell Mamoru what to do, he would never fully grasp the idea until he lost everything first and this time had to live through it. "What exactly did I do?"
"The girls, they said something about how we were broken up for about 6 months. I don't remember breaking up with you, though I do remember that you went to America for a semester and I never got any letters from you."
"Venus shredded and burned them all and Mercury blocked all my calls." He said instantly, ready to kill the girls. They would have, especially at that stage, though seeing how depressed Usagi got they might have then given her his most recent letter.
Serenity frowned. "See the weird thing is I don't remember you saying anything about America until after you got back and there's other gaps..."
He wasn't able to insert memories and he knew she would see through any he did add so he had left the dark moments blank, after 6 months of being gone, did it really matter if 2 of them were almost completely erased and the other four had a few gaps here and there? She probably wouldn't have remembered everything she did during any of those days anyway. Though he knew that something as important as going to America would have been noted as missing but there was no other way to explain his absence while he worked on figuring out a way to release most of her memories and feelings.
She pressed a hand to her stomach as he could literally see her turn green. "It's not what you think."
"Did you pressure me to do something I didn't want to do?" Serenity asked, though she knew that her hymen was still intact the first time they slept together. "Did you hurt me in some way?" She believed and trusted completely until that very moment when things after all these years finally made so much more sense. She had just never spent a lot of time dwelling on them though she had thought about it on occasion, that hard time while Mamoru was in America wasn't as hard as it should have been and that had worried her for awhile, that she hadn't had as strong of feelings as she thought. She barely remembered him being gone though she had no memories of him there so he had to have been gone, she didn't mention him once in those 6 months, and nobody asked her about him. "Is that why we broke up?
"No." Endymion growled and took her hands in his. "Don't start distrusting me now." He begged. "I didn't touch you against your will." Not for that reason at least. "I broke up with you and it was a very dark time for you, I had to take away those memories and feelings before you killed yourself, you were wasting away. Afterward you were so much better." He ran his thumb down the side of her face but she pulled away frightened.
"You just went in and manipulated me like that?" Her voice all but disappeared.
"I had to!"
"You had to rape me like that?" Serenity accused using a word that had him blanching, he'd never thought of it like that but he had forced himself into her mind and feelings and took away a part of her and she was never exactly the same since though she was pretty darn close and it hadn't mattered, she wasn't any better or any worse to him for the change.
He stumbled over to the bench by their bed and sank onto it, as pale as the sheets on the bed. Serenity wasn't looking much better. He'd definitely kill those girls, after all these years they let it slip that he'd broken up with her, especially being so vulnerable with the Demando thing? They probably let her overhear it, pissed that he'd done it again.
"There were so many things I had to do at that time Serenity and I will explain it all to you."
"I want my memories back, all of them." Serenity folded her arms across her chest and Endymion shook his head.
"No." The word was ripped from his throat. "You don't want those memories."
"I do and any other memory you have stolen from me over the years because you thought I couldn't handle it or forgive you for your actions. God Endymion you could have been having an affair or doing horrible things to me this whole time and I'd never know-" She sagged against the door as the possibilities rammed into her.
"I have not touched a single memory you've had since those six months. I promised you, myself and everyone else that I wouldn't. If I had gone back on that promise, don't you think I would have removed the nightmare that you went through after Hotaru died? Removed all memory of the girl before she came to Haruka and Michiru as a baby?" She'd woken up screaming when she did sleep and wouldn't go back no matter how much coaxing they did and she'd slump in exhaustion days later wherever she was standing because her body couldn't handle it anymore.
There were a few terrifying moments after that fight ended, scarier than any enemy they'd actually faced.
"Since I don't remember that promise, it's a moot point anyway, isn't it?" She was furious and he'd never seen that anger for himself. That was usually reserved for the enemy after they killed everyone she loved. "God, I have to think of a way to tell myself about this if you decide to steal my memory of this moment."
"I won't and I will bare any ire you have towards me for the rest of our days because of this but please don't make me give you back those memories. You're happier without them. I promised you. Hell, you made me promise you to never give the memories back."
"I don't know if I did or not because I don't remember." Serenity centered back on that point and Endymion sighed and left the room for a long time, then he was back with two objects in his hand, a remote power device that would turn anything on, no matter how old the technology was and a smartphone. She hadn't seen one like that in such a long time.
"You had me record it and as this is the best technology we had available at that time, it's what we used and I've kept it ever since despite getting a hundred new phones since." He turned it on, found the file he wanted and opened it for her.
She watched on the small screen as her younger self appeared, talking in her usually bubbly way but as Serenity watched she realized that she was faking it and the girl was definitely shaken. "This is Tsukino Usagi, under my own volition, that's the right word right?" She asked someone behind the camera and there were a few girls talking, oh god the girls had been part of this too! She didn't know who to trust anymore. "Anyway, I'm fully aware of what's happened and what will, though I have to say that was a dirty thing to do to me. I'm very cross and hopefully after everything is set right again I don't jump straight into this Asshat's arms." She directed the camera towards Mamoru who was looking contrite.
"Though he did have his reasons and I do feel kind of bad that he suffered all these months on his own when it wasn't even hisfault but bloody King Endymion's for being so mysterious and lacking the main point, but anyway, back to the point-point. Mamoru ripped out my memories of him, Kamen and Prince Endymion and all my feelings for both of them and Kamen.
He's assured me that he's got them locked into a box that's been kept in good condition and that they'll all be returned to me. Well not all of them, I'd rather not remember the days that I was so depressed that everything suffered so severely... and I suppose we'll have to come up with some excuse for why I haven't seen him for 6 months though he's been stalking me... and I've seen him around Motoki's. He really never does think anything through, does he? Well at any rate, if it ever comes to light that you've got memories missing, let me assure you that you don't want them. Not only the 2 months of utter misery I apparently was in but these last 4 haven't exactly been a picnic either. I always felt like part of me was missing and I was a horrible, horrible person and nothing was making sense. Then to top it off, Demando saw the holes in my memories and starting placing himself into them, twisting the feelings I would have had for Mamoru and the other two around his own being so there were a few regrettable events that happened with him and in Mamoru's presence. That and the fact that I killed Mamoru, again."
Serenity gasped and was glad she was already sitting because she would have sank to the floor otherwise. "But-"
He nodded towards the camera as Usagi frowned. "I still don't really feel bad about that and if what everyone is saying is true, I should. If I feel as bad as they said I would, then I don't want to recall that memory either." She was so apathetic when talking about Mamoru and Serenity could never imagine that. "Anyway future me, if you ever find out the truth then don't go through with it, I'm having him erase this conversation too along with a few others but the entire six months can't be erased, so just the parts that had me acting incredibly erratic. I hurt them all in different ways through the months and I never meant to, even before he got his fingers in there." Usagi sniffled and wiped at her nose. "They've been amazing and deserve a lot of thanks. Oh and if Mamoru or future Mamoru or Endymion ever touches your memories again, you have my full blessing to run him through with a sword or tiara or whatever." She turned the camera onto Mamoru again. "Now you."
"I solemnly promise to never touch another memory you possess now or in the future ever again. By the way this is completely pointless because it's on my phone and I can just erase it and erase all of your memories of this," he gestured to the entire room and not to just Usagi "and none of you would ever remember." He shook his head. "I already promised and I just wouldn't do that, I learned my lesson and it had been necessary and I intended to always give back all but those 2 months to you but I hadn't realized so many things would go off kilter because of it. Who knew you depended on my love so much that it allowed you to be the carefree happy-go lucky girl because you were so reassured that someone loved you so deeply and unconditionally even if you didn't even remember me in this lifetime and that we had met at such a pivotal moment in the past?" He had that charming cocky grin on his face and something was tossed at his head which he ducked.
It was Makoto's voice. "You don't sound so apologetic anymore."
All levity vanished from Mamoru as he realized how important this video might be in the future. "I am incredibly sorry, for all of it. If I had known how much breaking up with you would have torn you apart and devastated you I would never have done it. I thought it was the best way to save your life and I responded as best I could to those incredibly horrifying dreams that played on repeat night after night after night. I almost did it to you myself with my idiotic belief in what my future self was saying. I can't believe I was so dumb. I should have just had belief in the fact that you were different from your past self, in such important and vital ways, the ways that I fell in love with you in this lifetime that your past self couldn't even touch. You've both been strong and weak and vulnerable and sweet and incredible in so many ways but so very different from each other.
I promised you Usagi that I would never again hurt you by doing something stupid, like breaking up with you. I tried to protect you, keep you from the cross-hairs, keep you out of the middle of it, but I ended up hurting you by accident in another way. I hope no matter when or where you are when you are seeing this, whether we're together or you've killed me along the way that I'm sorry. If I could explain it all in this video I would but I can't. If I'm there I will try my best to explain it, just know I did it out of desperate love and I only wanted to protect you. I love you so much and I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me if nothing else."
Usagi had snatched back the phone. "Really, after the girls told me about him I looked through all my photo albums and had newspaper clippings and saw the most recent paper "where is Kamen?" it read. Really truly, hadn't thought through his actions at all." She rolled her eyes though when she looked at him this time, there was a strange affection in them that had been missing before. "He went through hell to save me." She whispered. "With no guarantee that I'd ever, ever take him on. There's that at least." She glanced down at the phone with a conspiratorial smile. "Usagi my girl, where ever you are and whoever you are, I can see why you liked him, don't let this ruin that."
Serenity watched as the video stopped and she stared at the screen, wondering how many times Mamoru watched this, if ever, and wanting to watch it again. She didn't recognize that person. "What was she like?"
"She wasn't you but she was and I loved her, I loved you, I love you." Endymion was kneeling before her now and she could barely wrap her mind around all of this.
"I'm not me." She ran a hand over her face. "I won't be me with the memories returned either because I hadn't lived with them all these years, and I won't be the same me now that I know for sure there's memories missing..." Serenity put her face in both of her hands and sobbed.
Endymion wanted to touch her but was afraid that would send her over the edge and make her pull away. Sometimes she sagged into him when she was mad and crying but sometimes it just pissed her off that he thought he could touch her when she was pissed. This was pissed plus so much more. There was no clear path forward for him and there was no clear path for her either, and that's why she was so broken down about it.
"How can I trust you again?" She wondered finally, he couldn't create memories but the fact that he had taken so much from her and then replaced 99% of it was difficult to wrap her mind around. All that he had done over the years- Serenity shook her head wondering how she could possible move forward. Despite it all she loved him and she had him tell her exactly what happened, then had him return all those memories, even the heartache, even the strange Usagi-Serenity, neither mix.
"Nothing's missing." She whispered, it wasn't a question but all of her memories were back. She had been right in the video, it had been better not to have the memories then, she wouldn't have been able to deal or handle it and there were so many fights left to face. She even remembered now not remembering so many things throughout the Silver Millennium and her years on Earth as a teenager. It was so weird to remember not remembering and remembering at the same time, kind of like those six months but remembering now exactly what happened in those six months. He even gave her the memories of him taking away her memories and feelings and the kisses he gave her grieving heart, even when she couldn't remember why she wanted him, she had whenever she looked upon him with such an anxiety. Even that kiss in her room that she had punched him for.
He nodded despite the lack of question but he didn't say anything.
"I think it's best if you spent the next several nights in your quarters until I say otherwise... if I say otherwise." Serenity reached out to push him back but withdrew and held her hands tight against her chest. There were so many good memories with him and now she was whole again, now all those fuzzy spots were filled and were already fading the way real memories did. It was so hard to match those years of happiness with what he had done to her and her forgiveness even when she couldn't remember him. That was very telling and would have been frightening if she hadn't forgiven him for so many other things instantly too. Was it that part of her that did so? No... she had forgiven him before she even got her memories back the first time, of the Silver Millennium. "I need time to figure this out."
He nodded and took a step back from her so she could stand. He looked absolutely demolished and she remembered the gaunt look he'd had during those six months, and the incredible abs he'd gotten while he was in America- no, not America, while stalking her.
She put a hand to her head. Even though she got everything back there was a very telling division between those six months and everything after. It made this life she had now seem fake, like it had all been manipulated, though it really hadn't. This was the life she would have had if the events never happened but she might have been even happier, if possible, had the events truly never happened, because often she would have caught herself and looked at something, as if trying to remember it or someone would have said something to her but she had no idea what they were talking about or really who they were. He'd taken away that stranger too, only keeping the good parts of her, the parts of her that hadn't changed, usually with the girls. Though there were moments he couldn't remove too, ones that were too important despite all of the surrounding situations and people.
"Are you going to be ok?" He asked, catching the motion.
"I don't know Endymion, I just... I don't know."
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A week of seeing his face around the palace but nothing more than the occasional meeting they attended together and the show they put on for everyone, who bought every word and action as if nothing had changed. The girls though had shared looks and Serenity had seen it, Endymion had seen it and they saw straight through the couple and wondered, worried about what happened.
A week after this and a confession to the girls about what she'd made Endymion do, to their shock and dismay, they accepted her next decision with some unease.
She packed up and headed to the other side of the planet. They had a mini-palace in Argentina that they sometimes used when Japanese winters got too cold or wanted a change of scenery for a bit. She would deal with the problems over here while Endymion handled Crystal Tokyo with all of the girls. She just needed to be away from all of them.
The girls had cheered his decision to remove himself so completely from her, after all she'd gone through in both lifetimes. Then they had back tracked when they couldn't handle the new her. Mamoru had never once judged that version or tried to change her, just tried to slot himself into her life again, somehow. He was even willing to forgo returning any of the memories to keep her the way she was, not because he liked that version better but because she was Usagi regardless of her personality changes. It was just another real version of herself, the what would have been, but it wasn't either, because she had been so torn up over the fact that she had been pregnant on the Moon with no knowledge of who had fathered the child or any emotions attached to the father. That's finally what convinced him to change her back, to interfere again, because she wasn't happy with who she was and had been so afraid all the time, despite outward appearances.
He had never faltered in loving the returned Usagi so completely either. She'd have liked to say she didn't know how he did it but his reincarnations were all so different too but under it all he just was who he was and she loved him. She still loved the dummy.
Some might argue there could be no love without trust and she definitely didn't know if she trusted him with – well- um... he'd never touched her wrong when he had control over his body, he'd never hurt her emotionally again on purpose after the breakup, at least not while he had control over his actions and words, he had never marginalized her thoughts or feelings. She didn't know what else she could trust with him, that was pretty much all of her. Yet she wasn't ready to face him again and be near him. She still trusted the girls too, they hadn't taken her memories or feelings away and they had been there for her every step of the way trying their best to support her.
Part of her wished she could just go up to Endymion and have him take those memories and feelings away again, along with any knowledge of those six months, take them from the girls too, but she'd already made him break one promise to her, she wasn't going to have him break this one too. It was better to have the memories even if it was harder.
Tears welled up in her eyes again, dammit, she missed the idiot. If she was being honest, she missed her friends too.
While it had been too hard to be around him, ripping him completely out of her life now was too much like what he had forced upon her but this time she would have her memories and feelings intact and it would be by her hand.
She was up a creek and between a rock and a hard place and all those other cliches.
She holed away in Argentina for a week without seeing anyone except the maid who changed out her sheets and towels every other day and brought her food to her table every meal time.
Then two weeks after she learned about the separation, she got down to business and did what she said she was here for. She saw the outer senshi ghosting the halls and overseeing the guard. They lived here almost year round except for when they went on tour or had a big event in Japan. This was more their home than hers but she always had a room drawn up and Endymion's was in a completely different wing.
Haruka had been like Minako even to this day, wishing she had chosen to do it alone like her mother rather than choose a man not good enough for her, none of the men had been good enough. Not Mamoru, not Seiya, no one. Haruka hadn't even liked the inners that much, tolerating Makoto the most out of the lot. Now Serenity knew why. The senshi had shared all that information with each other at some point after Hotaru's death and rebirth and it had cemented the outer's dislike of the inners and Mamoru too.
It was the first time she'd seen them since her arrival, when they had greeted her and promised that they'd provide whatever she needed. Time away from everyone had been granted with an amazing attention to detail. Now that she didn't mind seeing them, they were more than happy to start moving closer too.
It was Saturn that was the senshi explaining the latest protocols to the men and Serenity watched the grown up girl for awhile. She never thought Saturn would reach her twenties, and yet here she was, nearing her thirties. She'd stop there, like the rest of them.
Sometimes it was boring not to age and sometimes she was glad she didn't, remembering all that her grandparents had gone through. She shuddered at the memory, it was like being a puppet to no one, unable to control yourself but for no purpose you did all these different things.
Saturn was gorgeous as an adult, her hair was less straight cut though the length was still at her shoulders, it was softer, with waves and a less even edge though she still looked very professional.
Uranus dropped a hand on Serenity's shoulder and she wasn't even startled by it. She knew when her senshi were close and heard people walk up to her so much easier now that she had her moon ears back. She was probably a little bit deaf as Usagi, she'd realized at some point, and it had been getting worse over the years. She remembered a bug she had when she was little. She had been unable to hear anything for a whole month and she had cried terrified that she was going to be deaf for life when the medicines slowly brought back her hearing over the next few months yet could never replace it completely. It was a wonder, with her being so sick as a child and weak and small that she even lasted a day as Sailor Moon. That anyone would think that she'd have been a good candidate.
Her senshi already knew the problem and so didn't ask what was wrong. Instead she leaned against the column that Serenity already was and wrapped that arm around Serenity's shoulders and held her tightly. "What are you going to do Neko?"
"Truthfully I have no idea still but I am going to get some work done while I'm here and stop pouting and sulking and hiding and try to be me the best I can. Whoever that is now. I have to figure out who I am first before I can make any further decisions."
"I think you might already know but it scares you." Haruka squeezed her even tighter for a moment. "But I can understand wanting to get a routine down so you can see how you react now. But whatever you find out, know that you're perfect and I, we, all love you no matter what."
Her words brought tears to Serenity's eyes and she nodded. It's why she came to Argentina. These women had never been manipulated or changed in her mind, they had always been free of Endymion and Mamoru until after things went 'back to normal'.
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Reni showed up after another week, 2 weeks since she'd come to Argentina and her senshi tried to keep her from Serenity but it was fine, Reni wasn't the problem. She greeted her teenage daughter with a kiss on the strawberry blond head. The pink had been a phase and not one out of rebellion, but like some redheads, their hair color changed over the years, starting out unbelievable, no one believing that it could be their real color and then settling into something a bit tamer, a bit more realistic.
Reni for her part threw her arms happily around Serenity's waist. "I've missed you mom! God the palace has been like a tomb, everyone is wandering around like zombies or ghosts with no purpose. Dad goes to the meetings and all but they seem a bit unproductive... I've had to actually step in a few times and settle a matter or two or send them all home when he's started zoning out (not that they noticed it but I did) or when he suddenly gets up and leaves the room." Reni shook her head. "Are they coming eventually? They said I could go but they weren't going to take me. I didn't even know we were coming here, you just up and left and said you'd see me shortly. I'm so glad to spend some time on the beach again!" They had a private beach that was heavily guarded both on land and in the sea. They even had air protection both from the land and an occasional drone sweeping the area.
Serenity smiled at Reni's exuberance. That's how she was at that age, how she had been even a month ago. Reni had all of the best traits from both Endymion and herself. She was a genius who knew how to let loose and have fun and always included everyone. She also got as cocky as hell when the situation called for it. Serenity ran her hand through Reni's hair. "That's not quite what I had meant but I'm glad you came." She tilted her head. "They're really that bad?"
"Yeah, it's like someone died but they wouldn't tell me who but it had to be someone important. Was it someone here? Is that why you came so suddenly?"
"Yes." Serenity said with complete conviction, someone important had died and that's why she'd come here. But... was she really that far gone? That there was no coming back from it? That the woman she was before was gone for good?
"Who was it?" Reni asked with wide eyes, and she started internally going through names.
Serenity shook her head. "No one you ever met. It was an old friend from our distant past but someone we never forgot." She was lying and Reni could probably see through it, she had never gotten better at lying but as she spoke, she realized that she was right. Although that innocence was now dead, it was not impossible to remember how to be that girl, to keep a part of her with her somehow... Serenity realized Uranus was right, she already knew the answer, of course she did, but she had needed time to sort it out.
Now it was time to work on fixing things. Yet first she would spend a week alone with her daughter and her outer senshi having fun, they had never poisoned anything and she could be herself with them.
She and Reni returned home about a week later with a tentative plan and a mission in mind. Endymion was at her door the moment he heard she was back and he stood there, waiting, but his eyes feasted on her like a starving man. He did look pale and tired and lacking sustenance. She shook her head and invited him in. This was going to change, they couldn't keep punishing their bodies in times of emotional distress. She laid down the guidelines for him then and there.
"You will eat." He nodded, not taking his eyes off of her. "I will stay, we will remain married and in the eyes of the public we are happy, all of us." She frowned, knowing that would be a challenge but he just nodded again. "You will sleep in your quarters still." He didn't like that but he didn't say anything or give away his dislike as he nodded again. "You will grovel and apologize every day, three times a day and you will do everything I require of you and never say a word against anything I want to do, no matter how reckless you might think it is."
"Serenity?" He asked tentatively. "I agree to the do anything but if you think you are going to start cooking again or trying to drive that motorcycle-"
"I bought a scooter the other day and I'm going to learn how to drive that first, instead. Then I'm going to attempt the motorcycle again, yes."
"You've nearly died on that thing so many times, a lot of the times when it was stationary and the guards were holding it up."
"Maybe that was the problem, it's meant to be in motion. At any rate I'm going to learn and you are not going to stand in my way because I have put it off because I know how much the thought terrifies you. You're going to have to get over that."
He nodded while swallowing back the lump in his throat. "Anything else?"
"At the moment, I can't think of anything."
He followed all of her rules, everyone did, even Mars who grumbled at having to wash all the dishes for a week (it hadn't been her fault Serenity's memories were taken, she'd slapped him for that and tried to get them back) but she realized afterward that she got the lightest punishment of all of them, because at least she had protested. Jupiter got off the second lightest followed by Mercury, those two had tried to put things right. Venus's punishment was nearly as bad as Endymion's and that was for interfering so often and liking what he had done and trying to stop things from going backwards for so long, though because she hadn't actually done anything and had been coming from a place of love, she was let off earlier than Endymion.
It was nearly 3 months before Endymion was allowed back into her bedchambers and he thought maybe it was to scrub the porcelain in her bathroom but Serenity surprised him by kissing him and making it very clear what she wanted.
It was another two weeks before he was allowed to sleep in there again. He felt a little used during those two weeks because once Serenity was finished, even if he wasn't, she kicked him out. Those times were rare because she didn't mind finishing again and again and again in a setting.
Things slowly settled down to a pattern, Serenity had learned how to ride the motorcycle and had crashed a few times and he healed her dutifully without saying a word, nothing was overly bad. Though she stopped riding just as quickly a few months later. He had a feeling she was doing it more to rile him than anything else. Eventually their marriage went back to normal, or at least as close to it as possible but there were the occasional moments when she told him to do something that he protested and she would remind him of his promise and how he almost always kept his promises.
Just because he'd done something stupid years ago. Though he never once complained because the truth of the matter was, even if it drove him nuts, he was glad that he still had her. That's what was really important to remember and he never did anything stupid again because she was there to ask.
The End
EAN: Since this story is all timey-wimey-wibbly-wobby, I'll let you decide which Serenity-Endymion that was.
EAN2: Not story related but... I was just watching Tangled yet again and it kind of reminded me of SM and Anastasia but a Disney version of it though I do like Anastasia a bit better though Disney is of course really cute.
EAN3: I just watched Age of Adeline, awesome movie along the same lines as the TV series New Amsterdam and Forever. SPOILERS if you haven't seen the movie: There was only 1 thing wrong with it, and it's a shame because he's such a hottie but she didn't seem to have as much chemistry with the male lead as she did with his father in both the past and the present. So I think it was just them because he's super hot and has chemistry with women in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon in Wild and some of the other stuff I've seen him in. I reeeaalllly felt like she was from the past, something that I've had grievances over with other movies (like say, you are on a flying ship in 3 musketeers and you look down, oh my god, so far away, and I've never experienced anything like this before, but shrug, oh well, let me walk almost blissfully to the other flying ship, yes maybe you're super mature and learned how to make it appear as if things don't affect you but... that, no, something would have happened beyond a moment's hesitation) and yet she wasn't stuck in the past. She's become my new idol...
Sorry about the rant. :O
Story EAN: I debated over it for a long time but I feel like Demando and Reni get too much screen time on fanfiction and in the anime, respectively, and so I've decided not to really have either of them in here, more as an off-handed/in passing moment or two or three, except for of course the epilogue but really she's hardly in this too. So there you have it, my story. (Originally I wasn't even going to even mention Reni in the past but... eh it happened, she was a wonderful addition for a change).
Story EAN2: If the AN/EANs ever confused you, sorry, the story was written in parts and the ANs were written along side those parts and then I went in and filled in the story which created more ANs and then, while the story makes sense, I made sure of it, I didn't want to change any of the ANs because I liked them the way they were written but they might be all over the place.
EAN3: It's finished! Well, it's been sitting finished for awhile but I hadn't bothered to touch it or any other story because I spend so much time on my computer for work. That said, I also don't read as much anymore. I can't remember the last time I sat down to read a book. So that's why it's taken so long. It wasn't because I got bored, it was because I just don't like being on my computer as much anymore.
Happy Halloween everyone!
