Chapter 10

Darien hit his head against the closed door of the bathroom where he had locked himself into, attached to the waiting room of the Tokyo General Hospital, for the umpteenth time that day, trying to distract his soul´s suffering with physical pain. When he reached the hospital and lost his transformation as quick as he could, Serena was unconscious again and her beloved could feel with horror how her life was again slipping through his fingers. He cried for help with all the despair of his heart as soon as he entered in the hospital and the doctors, realizing the danger of the situation, saw her immediately and, putting her on a stretcher, took her in the hospital´s dependences. Darien, already a succesful medical student, had done a lot of clinical internships; he had seen a lot of older doctors tending their patients in the emergency room and he had learned very well to see in their eyes the life expentacy of every new patient. And in that moment he saw, in the eyes of the doctors that was tending Serena´s wound that her options to survive were very short. When he realized that, Darien, who tried to maintain himself under control while he was Serena´s only hope, let the panic flow as free through his veins as blood and were necessary half of the hospital´s security members to distance him from Serena by the doctor´s demands. And there he was left, at the emergency room´s doors, fighting against the security members, seeing her being dragged away while he was crying for her desperately and prying that wasn´t the last time he saw her alive.

After that, the waiting became a Hell for Darien, his particular Death Row, as his defensive cynism liked to call the distressing long hours that passed without any news of his Serena´s state. After the fight with the security members, Darien was sent to the waiting room without further notice but wait, while the guards had to be treated of the wounds Darien inflected them in his desperation. Later, the sailors arrived and, with Saturn as their leader, bombarded him with questions about what had happened with Destiny that Darien didn´t want or be in position to answer. But them, also worried about Serena, didn´t accept his refusal and continued their third degree until the police arrived.

Serena´s wound was made with a sharp weapon whose kind was unknown for the doctors and they called the Police to investigate what had happened to their patient. It was their duty and the Sailors and Darien knew it. The Police was at the hospital as soon as possible after the doctor´s report and went straight to Darien to interrogate him because he was the one who brought Serena to the hospital. But Darien wasn´t worried about that: Luna and Artemis, knowing very well that sometime the Sailors or Darien could need some medical attention for their wounds after any nasty fight, had made Darien and the girls practise their alibi so many times that they could recall it even in their dreams. Darien told the police the appointed version.

Darien told them this: he and Serena had gone to Rai´s temple to meet with her friends until very late at night. When their meeting ended, every one of them headed to their respective houses and Darien walked Serena to hers because it was very late and he didn´t want to let her go to her house alone in the dark. Then, suddenly, they were attacked by a thief: he knocked Darien out, too surprised to act, and tried to steal Serena´s purse. She resist him and the thief stabbed her with some kind of weapon Darien couldn´t identify in the dark and ran away with his prize. Darien, too worried for Serena to even contemplate chase the runaway thief, gathered her in his arms and, when he gave her the first aid he could think of, ran towards the nearest hospital with her. The thief of their common lie would have had his face covered by a mask or cloth of some sort, making him unidentificable for them and, hidden in the dark, Serena and Darien would be unable to see any kind of mark that could identify their attacker, avoiding the possibility that any innocent could be blamed if he unluckily matched the description of their false thief. The sailors supported his statement with theirs as they had agreed on, as well as Rai´s grandpa and his assistant will do when they asked them, because it wasn´t tecnically untrue that they had met in the temple that night and Rai had made them leave as soon as they got there with Serena´s corpse before they could see anything to be with her friends, so they couldn´t deny their version. And Serena, when she'll be in position to declare, will tell the Police the same story as them. When they were satisfaced with the answers they got, the Police left them alone one more time.

A little after, a doctor came to talk to them. To his desperation, he didn´t bring any news about Serena´s state; he only wanted information about Serena´s parents to inform them of the situation their daughter was in. Darien and the Sailors refuses, knowing that overprotective parents would compromise Sailos Moon position greatly, but the doctor was adamant; laws always force the hospital to inform the family about their new underage patients. Darien specially would never allow it; he was sure they would also believe their make up story about the thief, they would want to take care of her and he would be moved out of the way by them, pushed into the background obligued to wait in the shadows. They could even blame him for not protect her properly and try to move him away. As well, they would like to bring her home with them when they could and Darien wanted to protect and take care of her himself, without getting her out of his sight for a momento until her complete recuperation, if not more. For that and saying that Death´s minions could attack Serena again and they should protect Serena without civilian´s interference until Serena could protect herself, asked ChibiUsa to use Luna P. to make the doctors think he was Serena´s husband and he has every right to sign every necessary authorization. Minutes later, after being under Luna P.´s influence, the doctor left the waiting room with a wide smile, thinking that Serena was eighteen years old, she and Darien were happily married, her parents were in their second honeymoon in the Caribbean Sea and her brother Sammy was with their grandmother in Fukuoka, a distant city in the other side of the country. Darien made ChibiUsa promise that she would never use Luna P. to manipulate people ever again and asked the Sailors to take his daughter away from there, saying that hospital was no place for children, ignoring her protests, trying to be left alone. But only Mercury and Jupiter left with ChibiUsa and all of the rest stayed with him, breaking the solitude he was used to and making him loose, with their cries, their shouts and their clams, their little patience, far too broken by the nerviousism, the fear and the angish for Serena´s situation. An hour later, seeing that they wouldn´t go, he locked himself up in a near bathroom, from where he could hear if the doctor came into the waiting room and cried protected by the shadows.

Another hour passed. Two. Three. Four. Darien lost the count from the fourth. Every minute was a torture. He could almost feel Serena´s pain. It was driving him insane, if he didn´t have any news of Serena soon, if they didn´t let him see her, he was going to do something stupid. He was going to go after her, the doctors be damned. He only wanted to be with her, he wouldn´t bother the doctors at all. She would be better if he was with her too, maybe she was needing him. He had to go with her no matter what. Darien opened the door in hurry, ready to fight with the other half of the hospital´s security members if that was necessary to reach Serena when a doctor arrived to the waiting room cutting his advances. His sad face sent Darien´s sould directly to the dephts of Hell itself.

"I´m sorry", told the doctor to the man he thought was his patient´s husband. "I´m afraid I don´t have a good news".

Darien opened the door of his apartament carefully with Serena in his arms, aware of the precious burden asleep in them, two days after the hospital incident, ignoring the knowing smile the caretaker of his building showed when he saw him going to his home carrying his young girlfriend. Her wound was far from being healed, but fearing a new attack from Death in such crowed place, Darien and the Sailors convinced the doctors to let them take Serena home as soon as she was out of danger. Reluctantly and with a long list of recommendations, the doctors let her go. Of course, the Sailors wanted to take care of her, but Darien refused; telling them that Serena needed peace, something impossible with nine warriors and a child around her, Darien kept Serena to himself. The Sailors, understanding the real reasons beyond his decision, let him go and stayed in Timmy and Vicky´s with ChubiUsa, because it was the nearest house of Darien´s and he was left alone at last with his Serena.

He left the keys in the hall, trying to move Serena as less as possible, but she, dazed by the painkillers, wasn´t bothered by his movements. They both were again in their sanctuary, their private place, where the only people who really mattered in the world were Serena and himself. How many times, blinded by passion, the costume and the hat of Tuxedo mask had fallen liked with the tiara and the boots of Sailor Moon? Too many to count, as Serena´s little uniform of school had been tossed aside to a forgotten spot of his room, wrinkled with Darien´s hideous green jacket because of desire. Other times, these walls were witnesses of declarations of unconditional love and devotions, of fears and doubts, with many thing to say and too much others to keep in silence. In that apartament, where Serena and him had passed so many sweet moments, Darien kept his most precious memories; there, Serena and him had loved each other without mask and pretensions, like the world would come to an end in the same moment they left the security of these walls because, for them and they knew that very well, each encounter could be the last one of their lives.

Darien coughed slightly because of the dust the keys raised when they fell, but it was everywhere in the house, given that he hadn´t been there since the attack. He didn´t let Serena out of his sight during her whole stay in the hospital, tending her smallest needs himself, in spite of the Sailors´constant nagging to make him go home to sleep, eat and have a proper shower. Unable to even consider being far away of his injuried love for his free will after everything that happened to her, Darien refused to let anyone to take care of her but himself. During that days, Serena´s wound healed slowly, but she still was very weak, so when Darien achieved his purpose to bring her home with him, her state was very fragile, but he didn´t care. He would take care of her no matter what.

"Alone at last, my love", whispered Darien with a relieved sigh. He wasn´t used to have so much people around him like he had to put up with the last days and they made nervious and irritable. He was used to being alone, he only wanted and missed Serena´s sweet presence in his daily life. But they were Serena´s friends and he had to be kind with them for her sake; if they weren´t, Darien would have sent them all to Hell long time ago and he would have been left at peace with Serena. He laid her carefully in the centre of his bed and began to undress her trying to brush as less as possible her bandages. When she was in her underwear, a million of perverted thoughts passed by Darien´s mind but one more time, the tenderness defeated the lust and Darien caressed her lovingly before cover her with a tick quilt to protect her from the cold while he was looking for something that she could use as nightgrown. He dressed her with the top of one of his pijamas, a forgotten gift from someone who obviously didn´t know him very well because whorever it was unaware he usually slept in his boxers. Darien smiled when he saw how the huge top was dancing around Serena´s tiny frame and undid with practised ease her characteristic buns before kissing her in the forehead and tucking her in to sleep. Darien saw her sleep for a couple of minute, wishing she would be dreaming of him, before go to the shower.

Darien let the hot water relax his sore muscles, tired beyond belief after so many days of tension. But he didn´t close his eyes; when he did it, the images of Serena dead or severely wounded came back to him with force. As much as he tried to get ride of that visions, telling himself that his Serena was back, alive and with him, he couldn´t do it. The feeling of helplesness, sorrow, raw pain for the loss of his beloved didn´t leave him even for a minute. He ate a frugal dinner avoiding thinking about the past days and came back to Serena. He laid on the bed next to her, letting her presence soothe his worries and, feeling at peace for the first time in days, he kissed her one last time before he fell asleep.

Darien slept without nightmares for the first time since the attack. Serena gave him peace, but when he searched for the warm form of his girlfriend in the bed, he only found a cold spot next to him. Feeling her abscense, Darien woke up quickly to find out with fear that Serena wasn´t in the bed with him.

Darien tried to bring himself under control while the panic spreaded through his veins like a fire. She was too weak to had gone for her free will, she couldn´t even maintain herself awake, somebody had to take her away from him while he was sleeping! Who? Another Death´s minion, perhaps? Darien jumped out of the bed towards the rose of his transformation before looking for her when a shadow in his balcony alerted him. He was surprised and relieved when he saw Serena leading on the rail watching the moon.

Darien ran towards her, watching her trembling sightly in the cold night under his too large for her pijama´s shirt. He hugged her tightly, trying to warm her and Serena smiled burying her face in his willing chest.

"Never do something like that to me ever again, do you hear me?", said Darien, kissing her passionately. "You sholdn´t be here, you are very weak and there is so cold… You almost gave me a heart attack when I saw you weren´t with me. You are so reckless, Serena".

"I´m sorry Darien. You are so cute when you are sleeping that I didn´t want to bother you. I only wanted to see the moon...for a minute, I thought I would never see it again", said Serena. A shiver ran through Darien´s spine and Serena noticed it with a frown. "Darien, we need to talk".

"We don´t have anything to talk about", said Darien.

"Yes, we do. Do you think I haven´t noticed your anguish, your sorrow, your fear? How the pain for what happened follows you wherever you go? Please, Darien, talk to me. You can´t carry on like this", begged him Serena.

"Why did you do it?", asked her Darien, after a minute of silence. She looked at him without understand his question. "My life is worthless compared with yours; I would have died gladly for you and you know it. Why did you save me, then?".

"Because I love you, darling. More than life itself", said Serena. The tears filled up Darien´s eyes quickly while he separated from her embrace.

"You shouldn´t love me! Everyone who loves me ends up DEAD!", shouted Darien, incapable of hold back his tears, returning to his room. Serena tried to follow him, but her weakness didn´t let her and began to fall to the ground, but Darien´s powerful arms stopped her fall and craddle her against his chest.

"Darien…", whispered her, hugging him. Darien simply accomodated her in his arms and returned to the bedroom, tucking her again in the bed.

"I´m sorry, love…I know it isn´t your fault, but…", Darien tried to go again, but Serena didn´t let him. Serena gave him a warm smile while she caressed his trembling hands. She guided Darien to sit down next to her while he tried unsuccessfully to repress his tears.

"Let it go, love. You don´t have to worry about anything. I am with you", said her with a whisper and Darien couldn´t hold on anymore. All the emotions, the anger, the fury, the helplessness amd the fear he repressed while Serena was in danger exploded in that moment and he beagn to cry without control like a baby in Serena´s arms, being a victim of a panic attack. She hugged and let him cry as long as he wanted.

"I am…so pathetic…!", said Darien between cries. "Now that everything is all right once more…now that you are the one who needs care and comfort, I break apart like some china doll…!".

"You aren´t pathetic, my love", she told him, caressing his black locks. "You are human. How many times have I cried like you do now; that´s the least glorious part of the heroes, the one that was never told. While we are in the battle and we should fight to save more than our own lives, there is no time for doubts and sorrow. It´s later, when everything has passed and we thought about what could have been when the fear traps us and pain arises. But that´s nothing to be ashamed for".

"Of course, how could I forget? The crybaby Serena, as Rai would say"

"They aren´t that kind of tears. Serena the crybaby whine because she have fallen or because ChibiUsa have eaten her cake, but that are innocent, temporary tears. I am talking about the tears you shed in silence; the ones that adorn your deepest fears, in the solitude and the darkness ofñ your room with the defeaning silence as your only companion. At night, hidden, because you don´t want the others to see your true weakness and the true feelings of your sould that you can only share with your soulmate, no one else. The tears of true suffering", said Serena, smiling down at him. Darien looked at her astonished, still crying.

"I hoped that you…never know that kind of suffering. You are describing the same I had felt so many times…", said Darien, putting his head on her lap. Serena looked at him saddened.

"How could I not, Darien? When Luna came to me with the mission of save the world from Beryl´s menace and try to find the Moon´s princess, I was barely forteen, I was a scared little girl who thought she couldn´t bare the responsability of being Sailor Moon. And after all of that I found out I was the reincarnated princess. I could bare all of that, the fear, the doubts, with the help of my friends. But the pain of losing you…of seeing time after time how our enemies kidnap you and take you away from me…is indescribable. When Beryl kidnapped you…it was like someone had broken my heart in two. Since then until the last battle, there wasn´t a second that my heart didn´t cry for you. And at night, when I didn´t have to feign to be fine anymore, I made Luna go out of my house and broke down and cry until I fell asleep. Sometimes even, when the pain was too strong to bear, I usually jumped out of my window and ran to the woods to shout in dispair without any of the sailors knowing it. Nobody else could understand my pain and I didn´t want to see it in their eyes while they told me how sorry they was for my loss and that I had to hope everything would be okay. Their clumsy comforts didn't help me, they only made me feel even more misunderstood. I needed you…and you wasn´t there. And, when Beryl´s issue was finished, it happened again and again…And each time it was a torture. I envidied you when you died because you were gone and I was alive, suffering, crying your abscense forever, because I love you to death and beyond", explained Serena, shivering at the memory of her past dispair. Darien hugged her tightly, trying to shield her from pain.

"Serena, I was so scared…! I thought I would never see you again, every breath hurt without you! I would have killed myself if I didn't find a way to bring you back! How could you bare it?", asked Darien.

"Because I hoped I would see you again. If I failed, you would never be alive again, so I had to remain strong, to bring you back. Without me, you were truly lost and you deserve to live. But that didn´t make the pain go away. The pain never ended until you came back".

"It was the same for me…", said Darien.

"But you don't have to worry anymore. We are together now; that´s all that matters".

"But… what if it happens again? If someone stole you away from me once more? If I am uncapable of protecting you again? I won´t bare it; I can´t".

"Don´t think like that. First, nothing was your fault. I am sure that if you could have, that sword would have never touch me; you know it too, so stop berating yourself about that. And if something like that happens again…I promise I will protect you until my last breath".

"Oh, Sere, you know I don´t mean it like that!", protested Darien.

"I know, but while I protect you, we will be fine, because I know you will be always there to help me. And if something goes wrong…we will find a way to be together. We always do, don´t we?", said Serena. Darien nodded with a half smile, while she wipped away his last tears. "Don´t worry, love. We both have suffered so much, but maybe that´s why we love each other so much. There isn´t very people who could love as much as us. The most is uncapable to value what they have until they lost it and we had had the opportunity to return to each other´s arms many times in the past. In some sense, we should be grateful for it. What I am trying to say is that if we don´t see the good side of the things, we will become mad. We have the mission of protect the Earth and we couldn´t pretend we are a normal couple, but I can assure you that bonded us more than anything else".

"You are right. Please, forgive me, Sere", said Darien. She looked at him, confused. "I know I haven´t treated you as you deserve and I am sorry for it. But I want you to know I love you with all my heart and you are my life".

"I know. You don´t have to be sorry for anything".

"Yes, I have to do it. What happened reminded me how much I love you . I will worship and consent you every second from now on. What my princess wishes?"

"Ummm, you mean, besides you as my slave, right?", smiled her. Darien nodded. "Pancakes with chocolate for breakfast tomorrow morning!"

"Wish granted!", laughed Darien. For a moment, they stared at each other´s eyes in silence. Seeing through their bodies their matching souls. The outside differences didn´t matter anymore, their souls were one. The experience, the wisdom and the sense of responsability Darien had completed Serena, and her devotion, her naviety and her joy improved her partner. That fact scared Darien, but the hapinness that it brought him was woth it completely. And then they kissed, long, tender and passionately on the lips, letting their souls speak without words.

When the kiss endend, Darien felt Serena shiver in his arms and snuggling against his chest. Darien hugged her with a smile.

"What´s wrong, love? Do you need something or you simply want me to cuddle you a little?", asked Darien.

"I want a little cuddle…and I'm cold", said her, shivering with more force. Darien looked at her and put a hand on her forehead, remembering suddenly the wound they had forgotten during all their conversation and her weak condition.

"You are very warm, I'm sure you have fever", said Darien, worried, caressing her cheeks. "Stay put. I'm going to get the thermometer.

"No! I don't have fever, I'm only a very hot girl, don´t go!", said her, hugging Darien´s waist.

"Sere, love, it will only take a minute. We must know if you have any fever, in your condition it could be very dangerous", said Darien, getting himself free from Serena´s embrace, smiling sightly at her pouting expression. He looked for the thermometer in his messy medicine chest and returned to Serena as soon as he found it in the empty bottle of perodixe because he lost the protective box. Darien realized with a smile that if Serena would ever look in that cabinet, he would never have the authority to tell Serena she was a messy person. "Be quiet. It only take a minute".

Darien put her the thermometer and distracted her until the time necessary for it to mark was done.

"Serena, you have 38ºC! We are going to the hospital right now!", shouted Darien.

"I don´t want to go to the hospital again! I don't like it there! I want to stay here alone with you, I only need to sleep! Please, Darien!", begged Serena.

"No! Serena, listen to me, your wound is very dangerous, you could have an infection or something, we have to go to the hospital right now!", said Darien, getting up.

"No, Darien! We got out of there because if another attack happens, it could hurt innocent people. We shouldn´t return there if it isn´t imprescindible!", said her.

"But, Serena, it is imprescindible, what if something more is happening to you?"

"Please. I know you are worried about me, but I´m sure nobody can take care of me better than you", begged her, looking at him with sad eyes. Darien sighed, knowing perfectly well he couldn´t say no to Serena puppy dog eyes.

"Okay. But you are going to sleep right now and if your fever rises only a little more, we are going to the hospital, you like it or not, do I make myself clear?", said Darien, hugging her. She nodded with a smile and let Darien tucked her in the bed. Darien fetched a cloth and a bowl filled with cold water and returned to her bedside. He wet the cloth and put it on Serena´s forehead. She protested when she felt it and tried to remove it, but Darien pressed it firmly against her skin, glaring at her in warning. "No, missy. If you don't want to go to the hospital, you have to be a very good little princess".

Serena sighed and stopped in her protests while Darien lied down in the bed next to her and Serena accomodated herself on his chest. Darien thought with a smile that if the heaven existed, it had to be something like that moment frozen in time.

"Do you know something, Darien?", said Serena, after a while.

"What, princess?".

"That I love you".

"I'm sure I love you more", said Darien. She whispered in denial. "Now, you must rest. If you need something, anything, or you feel any worse, tell me, ok? I'll be very angry with you otherwise".

She nodded and they both was falling asleep when they heard a noise from the hall. At first, Darien thought it was his imagination, but after a while, the sound of someone trying to force the door reached their ears. Worried, Darien sat up quickly, keeping Serena at his side.

"It could be another of Death's minions", said Darien in low voice, holding his rose and transforming himself in Tuxedo Mask, ready to kill whorever try to approach Serena.

"Calm down, Darien. It could be a thief. How many supernatural monster try to force a door? They broke them down".

"It could be a monster that don't want to attract our attention", whispered Darien. Serena leaned to take her brooch, but Darien prevented it. "No. You are far too weak, don´t transform. We won´t fight; if it is an enemy, I'll take you to a safe place and then we will alert the sailors . You are my priority. Don´t argue and listen to me, please".

She nodded and Darien thought about the best course of action. He must make sure it was something supernatural before take the risk of moving Serena in her state, but he was reluctant to leave Serena behind; if it was indeed an enemy and it take him by surprise, it could avoid him easily and reach her alone and defenseless. His first instict was to pick her up and go to investigate, but if someone really attacked, Serena would receive the first blow. Darien decided to do the third option. Darien brough Serena to her feet and indicate her to hold herself onto his waist, protecting her with his body. He afianced her hold with his left arm while with his right was holding a letal rose. Carefully, they both walked towards the door and hidden between the shadows of the late night, they waited until their enemy finished to force Darien's door.

Serena and Darien held their breath while the time passed ever so slowly. When the lock eased off with a "click" that resounded in the silence of the night, Darien held the rose thighter, ready to throw it in the same moment the person do any suspicious movement. Then, Serena turned on the light and Darien was ready to attack when they discovered who broke into his home.

"ChibiUsa!", shouted Serena and Darien at the same time. The childe, still wearing her little blue pijamas and with her pigtail untied, cried in surprise while the picklock in her hand transformed back into her Luna P.

"Don´t scare me like that!", acussed the child. Serena and Darien sighed in relief. Serena closed the door again and Darien picked her up again before turn up to glare at ChibiUsa.

"Don´t you dare to do something like that ever again! Do you realize how worried we were? I almost killed you, for God's sake! How could you do that after everything that happened?", shouted Darien. ChibiUsa, who wasn´t use to Darien being harsh with her, began to cry.

"I only wanted…to see Serena…You didn´t let me see her when she was at the hospital, so…I came here when the girls fell asleep…Please, don´t be mad at me, Darien", said ChibiUsa with her best puppy dog eyes. But this time they didn't work with Darien. Darien tried to calm down. In the minutes the kid had taken her time to force his door, millions of possibilities had passed through his mind; he was at the brink to pick up Serena and jump through the window without check who was forcing the door and it would have ended with Serena again in the hospital due her weakened and feverish state. And all of that because the irresponsability of that child.

"And why didn´t you knock to the damn door?", shouted Darien and ChibiUsa cried harder.

"Stop it, Darien. Let her alone. She didn´t mean to scare us like that, she is only a child", said Serena, before turning to ChibiUsa. "ChibiUsa, you can´t continue running away like that, it is very dangerous".

"Ok, Serena", said ChibiUsa and Darien cursed softly. "Can I stay with you tonight?".

Darien looked at the child. It was true that the presence of his future daughter was usually a bliss for him, but now he only wanted to be with Serena alone. But he knew that if he refused, he would have to accompany the child back to Timmy's and leave Serena behind, so he relented.

"Okay, but Serena is very sick and we have to take care of her", said Darien to the child. "Now you have to be very quiet and don´t disturb her in the slightest. If you need something, tell me, not her. But if you bother her only one time, I'll phone the girls to pick you up and I can tell you Uranus won´t be happy with you", warned her Darien. ChibiUsa nodded and ran happily towards the bed. Darien turned off the lights and left Serena again on the bed, next to ChibiUsa.

"Are you okay, Serena?", asked ChibiUsa, noticing her pallor. Serena dedicated her a weak smile.

"Yes, don´t worry about me".

"You are lying to me. I am not worried about you, but I don´t want to dissapear again neither", said ChibiUsa, frowning. Serena, who knew what happened after her death for the girls, shivered involuntary.

"What do you remember about that?", asked Serena, while Darien lied down besides her.

"Not much. I only remember that Daddy came saying that Mummy had dissapeared and when I ran to hug him, I went through him and I was so very scared and then everything was black and then I think I fell asleep and…", said the child, clumsily.

"It's okay, ChibiUsa. You don´t have to be afraid anymore. I am here and I am not going to die any time soon", said Serena, hugging her.

"You promise?", said the child.

"I promise", smiled Serena.

"Now, to sleep you two", said Darien. "Serena needs to rest".

ChibiUsa nodded and tried to take her usual position between Darien and Serena, but he didn´t let her and put Serena in the middle, resting in his chest.

"Serena…", said ChibiUsa, after a couple of minutes in silence.

"What?"

"ChibiUsa, I told you don´t bother Serena".

"I'm sorry, but I can't sleep".

"And what do you expect I do about that?".

"When I can´t sleep, Mummy always sings me a song…".

"If I sing for you, will you sleep?", asked Serena.

"Of course! Sing to me, please!", begged the child.

"Fine…What could I sing for you? Ah, I know!", said Serena, holding Darien hand with a significative glance.

With a smile, Darien let himself be lulled to sleep by his lover's sweet voice. And, while Serena whispered the last verse of an ancient lullaby of her days as the Moon Princess, both girls fell asleep. Darien leaned forward and pulled the cover up them. Looking a them, his present, his future, he knew that he didn´t have to be afraid anymore, as long as Serena was with him. She was his everything, his bastion and wing, the one who salved him from the cold and dark loneliness. And Darien fell asleep, hugging his Serena, sending a pray to the heaven:

"Death, you can do all you want, I don´t fear you anymore. Our love, after defeat three milleniums, battles, monsters and enemies, is still alive and stronger than ever. Love is stronger than death itself; that´s why the world fear you no longer, that's why I don´t do it either. The only thing I ask God is another day of life to worship her until the last second and then have the honor to die in her arms. Because she is my future, my hapiness, my truth and my life. Destiny, Life, Death, you have our existence in your hands, but you will never have our love. It doesn´t matter what will you provide us, whatever happens, in life and death, Serena and I will be together. Always and beyond",.

THE END

Hi guys! It took me so long I'm ashamed of myself, but this course had been a hell and on top of that, I was ill the last week of them and I miss two, so I don´t know what will happen with that subjects until september, when they do the recuperation exams. But I did yesterday my last exam (Latin II, the Aeneid and Tito Livio´s Ab Urbe Condita) and I hurried up to traslate this chappie at last. And today, June 19, it's my birthday! I don't know if when I post this it will still be my birthday, but it didn´t matter. I am 21 now!

This fic doesn´t end here, it still have an epilogue. I expect to have it traslated for Monday or Tuesday, now I'm on holidays. See you, gays! Please, let me know what do you think about this! Kisses!