Disclaimer: I, Shadow, do hereby state that I do not have any privileged to Sailor Moon only the great Naoko-Sama does.

Summary: AU, Nyctophobia is fear of the dark and in post-apocalyptic Tokyo, the survivors have everything to fear from the shadows of the night as evil runs amuck in the eerie ruins of the city, hunting the humans.

Nyctophobia

By: Shadow

Chapter Twelve: Gnosiophobia

Fear of Knowledge

Serena giggled as she felt Darien's lips travel down her spine, shivering. "So…" she said looking over her shoulder at him as he nuzzled his nose into the small of her back.

"So what?" Came his muffled reply.

"Tell me about sex." She said leaning up on her elbows.

"What?" Darien asked laughing looking up at her.

"Well…is what we did last night and this morning the only way to do it?" She asked shrugging her shoulders.

Darien chuckled and kissed the back of her neck. "No. There are several techniques." He said.

She pushed him down and laid her top half against his stomach looking up at him. "Tell me about it."

He said and nodded running his fingers through her hair. "Well…um…sometimes a girl will mimic sex by taking the man's…um…"

"Penis." Serena said laughing a bit at just how uncomfortable he seemed.

"Yes…into her mouth. Or the guy will do that with his mouth on a girl's…sensitive area down there. Sometimes a man and a woman can have sex while the woman is on her hands and knees and the man will come from behind…Serena…please…if you want to know I can show you some of them…but its uncomfortable to try and explain…" He said, almost pouting.

She just sighed and nodded "ok…why is it that everyone who was around before the war is so uncomfortable about explaining this stuff?"

Darien shrugged and smirked "its called modesty. Sex is normally a taboo thing; you don't talk about it out loud really. Well…the later generations told jokes, but they didn't explain positions and other things like that. Tapes, which were considered bad, showed people engaging in the act of sex. Really Serena…it all to much to explain."

"Fine." She said pouting. "What's a tape?"

"There used to be electronic equipment that would display moving pictures of people. They were called TV programs. These were eventually put onto tapes and could be shown on these electronics. The tapes held the data for these programs." Darien said trying to explain.

"I see," she said nodding. "Way too much for me to understand, sorry."

"Its ok Serena." Darien said as he lay back, resting his head on his arms and closing his eyes.

Serena smiled up at him and looked down at his penis. She chewed her bottom lip thinking. She finally got onto her knees and began gently stroking him gently.

Darien shot up looking down at the fascinated Serena. "Serena…" he panted out as she continued to stroke him hard. "What are you doing?"

"You said girls used to mimic sex by taking the man's penis into her mouth." She said innocently "I want to try."

Darien just nodded "Ok?" he groaned as he felt Serena's hot mouth begin tasting and moving around down there experimenting. "God, give me strength and stamina."

Darien kissed Serena deeply as they reached her daytime habitat. "God, I don't want to let you go." He murmured against her neck as he held her tightly around the waist.

"Darien, I'm tired. I don't want to either, but we both need sleep." Serena sighed out as she gently tugged at his hair trying to get his head away from her neck.

He growled and kissed her again before backing off "Until tonight my little blonde doll."

"Until then Darien." Serena said smiling.

Serena stumbled into her little home and sat on the bed of cloth and smiled as she saw Momo finishing eating and Fritz laying down sleeping soundly already.

"I see you two got closer last night." Momo said grinning.

Serena blushed and nodded as she pulled her boots off. She sat back and hugged her knees to her chest smiling; she laid her chin on her knees and looked at Momo. "Momo. Tell me about the war…"

Momo sighed deeply and nodded "I did promise to tell you today…well…sixty years before the war the US president, Bush, had been a real jackass. He wasn't popular with his own country and definitely not popular with the rest of the world with his suspicions against Iraq or whatever. The best thing the US did for that little country was finding their dictator leader and hand him over to the new government to punish. But this illiterate jerk's ego caused a title wave that would react sixty years or so later. You see after a new president had been elected he tried to clean up the mess Bush had made both in his own country and with the other countries. It took three US presidents and a few different prime ministers of other countries but soon there was basically world peace. Everyone helped one another, we tried to help clean the planet, all the major automobile companies got together to help make a cleaner running car that ran like the pollution making cars of the nineteen nineties. It was as perfect a peace that this planet had ever seen." Momo said wistfully.

She sighed and shook her head "But peace can't last I guess. They called it the blast heard around the world. During a meeting on the UN, the UN building was attacked; almost all the leaders of every country were killed. They all became paranoid and started pointing fingers. Because of the universal ban against nuclear weapons and pure common sense about nukes every country began invading each other bombing each other, it was a real world war. Bloody, messy, we weren't sure when it was going to end." She sighed and shook her head. "When it came down to the final days of the war, the soldiers began to realize just what was going on, looking at the mess they had created. Every country looking the same, they all looked like this city does now. So the soldiers put down their weapons and tried to put some sanity back in the world. The survivors of that war were the remaining soldiers and those of us who were able to hide well enough from being killed. Ten years after the war, the vampires came out of the woodwork and forty years later here we are. We had a good sixty years of peace…now we have fifty years of turmoil to make up for it."

Serena sat there for a second thinking. "So those large green things are what helped kill everyone?"

Momo nodded. "They're called tanks. And yes, that's exactly what they did. The governments poured billions of dollars into making them indestructible. Not even a vampire could rip one of those things open."

"That's so sad." She whispered as she lay down on the bed. "Do we know who caused it?"

Momo shook her head. "Nope. Never will either."

Serena looked over at Darien after she finished telling him what Momo had told her.

"Senseless violence." He said shaking his head.

"Can violence ever truly help though?"

"Around one hundred and seventy some odd years ago it was the only way to take down a psycho named Hitler. He wanted to kill everyone who didn't believe in the God he believed in and wasn't blonde haired and blue eyed. Everyone else was inferior." He said shrugging his shoulders pulling Serena against him as the sat under the trees by the river.

"Really?" Serena said, the wheels of her brain turning.

"Yup, but that's only because he started it though by killing millions of innocent people." Darien said sighing.

Serena looked up at Darien smiling. "Darien…I…I've had Momo explain a lot to me. I asked her why whenever I'm around you I feel so happy as if people aren't being killed, as if my own family had been killed…and I feel safe, plus I get this nervous twittery feeling in my stomach whenever I think about seeing you, but its not a bad feeling because I smile…and well…I just don't care that you're a vampire…Momo said that its what mom's and dad's feel for each other and I agree. I love you Darien."

Darien smiled gently down at the flustered blonde and kissed her. "I love you too Serena, with all my undead heart."

Serena grinned and kissed him back deeply. "Make love to me Darien, please."

He chuckled as he laid her down beneath him "Gladly."

"I truly love you Darien." Serena said smiling.

Darien chuckled "I truly love you as well Serena and I will never tire of telling you and showing you just how much."