Guess what? After almost half a year of waiting, I've finally made my comeback everyone. And to all the fans and readers, and new readers if any, I'm terribly, terribly sorry about not updating in such a long while. I guess my sophomore year in high school is going to be harder than I thought it would be. To add on top of that, I got a new boyfriend about 4 months ago and I'm trying to keep up with him, since he goes to a different school. But anyway, very truly sorry about the wait, and I'm also letting everyone know, I'm not down and out yet and I'm not going to give up on this talent I have!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own sailor moon.

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As soon as Serena had walked through the door of Darien's house, she automatically felt like she belonged here. She sighed a little. 'That's exactly how I felt when I first started going with Dimindo and I barely even knew his house.' She thought as she looked to Darien, who had just shut and locked the front door. She watched as she saw him turn from the door, looked at her, and then walked over to a small closet in the nearby hallway. She still watched him as he took out a big fluffy white towel and tossed it to her. She was so busy watching him, she barely noticed it coming at her, but still caught it.

'That's a bit strange. Usually I'm such a klutz when I try to catch things. They usually end up hitting my head!' Serena smiled to herself at that small thought. Darien now stood next to her with her holding the towel. "Well, are you going to stand there all day looking at me, or are you going to come in?" He asked as he started to head for the living room. She blushed as she followed him. 'I must have looked like some stupid brainless idiot.' She thought to herself as she took a seat on the couch in front of the T.V. She gently started un-doing her hair from it's meatball style as she watched the news.

"And now for the weather…" The T.V. anchorman said as Serena continued to watch and undo her hair. "Well, the storm that just blew in was originally thought to be a small shower, has now become a super-cell storm." Serena had just finished un-doing her hair when the weatherman had said that. She began trying to dry her hair with the towel as he continued. "These storms have the potential to dump buckets of rain at times, cause some flooding, and also drop pea sized hail. There have also been reports that tornados could be within these storms, but not likely. The following counties are under a severe thunderstorm warning…." Serena groaned as she fell back against the couch.

'Looks like I may be stuck here most of the night, again.' She thought to herself as she took the towel off her head and sighed. "Looks like you're spending the night here again, huh?" She heard a male voice from behind her say, which she knew was none other than Darien. Serena looked up at him and sighed again. "Yeah." She said simply as she sat there and sighed once more as she kept her gaze upon his eyes. Their eyes locked for a moment before Darien started to slowly lean down and Serena moved her face upwards towards his.

She closed her eyes and he closed his. Their lips were about to touch, but suddenly, thunder sounded and the lights started to flicker. They both quickly opened their eyes to see the lights going on and off. Darien pulled away and looked a little disappointed, and surprisingly, so did Serena. "I'd better go find some candles. It looks like we're in for a rough night." He said as he walked off into the kitchen to find some candles. Serena sighed once more.

'Maybe I should help him. I mean, he is allowing me to stay at his house.' She thought to herself as she got up and headed for the kitchen and left the towel on the couch. She entered the kitchen to see Darien crouched down in front of the open cabinet under the sink, searching for candles obviously. Serena stood behind him for a few minutes before he turned to find her there.

"What are you doing?" He asked as he turned back to the cabinet to continue his search. She stood with her hands behind her back, not really knowing how to put this. She really didn't want to seem like a total dufus by saying something childish or dumb.

"Could I possibly help you find some candles?" She asked, mentally hitting herself in the head. 'Now that was stupid. I sounded like one of those helper ladies in a candle store! How stupid!' She thought to herself as he turned around and smiled. "Sure, start looking in places you think they would be. For the life of me, I can't remember where I put those stupid things. Damn, where are they?" He had said the first part mostly to Serena and the last part mostly to himself. She laughed and walked off, still hearing him in the distance, basically cursing and mumbling to himself about candles.

To be honest, Serena didn't know where to start looking in this huge house. Truly, it was a beautiful house inside and out. She wondered how a police officer could get something like this. It was pretty much close to a mansion. She walked around the main entrance area of the house, looking for candles. She was looking for a while until Darien walked past her and saw her trying to look in just about every other place for candles.

"Well, I've checked in about every other place except my room. I think that's were I put most of them." He said as she watched him walk upstairs. He stopped about halfway up.

"Would you like to come with?" He asked as she nodded numbly and headed for the stairs, not really knowing what else to do. As they walked up the stairs, Serena could hear the storm outside. It was raining pretty hard when she had gotten there, but now it seemed to be raining much harder outside. 'Glad I came here.' She thought to herself as they reached the top of the stairs. She passed the room she had stayed in a few nights ago and saw a flash of lightning.

Her eyes went wide as she heard a roll of thunder not too long after the flash. She had followed Darien into his room. She walked over to his bed and sat on it as Darien looked around his room to find any trace of a candle. She sighed as she sat there. Serena could almost feel herself sinking into his bed.

'This one's more comfortable than the one in his guest room!' She thought with another sigh. Darien looked over at her and smiled. "Enjoying the feel of my bed?" He asked as she shot him a dirty look. "Don't get any ideas." She said with a glare. Darien laughed. "Believe me Serena, I do have many ideas, and they all include you and that bed. I could come up with lots of other ideas. Care for me to share them with you?" He asked as she shook her head. "I would rather you get those candles and share them with me." She said as she looked around his room.

There wasn't much in it. His bed had black sheets. His walls were white and so were his curtains. There was also a small black dresser with a mirror. Across from the bed was a flat sliver screen T.V. He also had two black nightstands next to his bed. To her, Darien was kind of mysterious in a way, but she had to admit, he was also kind of sexy in her opinion. She looked to see him come out of his closet with a few candles in his hands. "Want to grab the last few candles in there?" He asked her as she smiled and sat back on his bed. "No, I think you pretty much have everything under control." She said with a laugh. Darien came over and sat a candle on the nightstand on the side of the bed she was sitting on.

"Care to tell me why you were here the previous night? We have nothing else to do, so why not tell me?" He asked as he finished setting up the candles and sat next to her on the bed. She sighed. "Do I really have to?" She asked. He nodded. "I'm your boyfriend, so I should be able to ask you questions like that and you be able to answer them." He said with a little smirk. She smiled. "I feel like I'm being interrogated already, and we're not even in a police station." She said with the little smile. She sighed again.

"If I…if I cry, promise you won't think of me as weak?" She asked. He gave her a funny look. "Alright, I promise then." He said as she took a deep breath and began her story. "You know how I used to be dating Dimindo, right?" She asked as he nodded. "And you know how crappy he treats girls, right?" She asked as he nodded again. "Well, that day I went out on that "Date" with you, I went out to the races that night and after the races I decided to go and get the remainder of my things from his house. I managed to get into his house unnoticed with the key he gave me. I went up to his room to grab my things and go. The little whore he had on the bed wasn't the last person I saw on the way out the door." She said as he watched her eyes and her facial expressions.

"I wanted to leave but he blocked me from leaving. I kept saying I wanted to leave and then…." She said as tears started to form in her eyes. "And then?" He inquired as she began to try and hold tears back. "He called me one of his little whores again and said that I….that I was crawling back to him. I had managed to escape and I pissed him off pretty bad. I knew it wasn't safe to go back to my apartment or to any of my friend's houses because he knew where all of them lived, so I came here, the one place he never knew about, could never find." The more she thought about him, the more the tears came.

"And today he came to the garage and said I had turned into one of his whores because he found out I'm with you." She said as tears started to stream down her face. Darien didn't know when he did it, but he had taken her into his arms let her cry into his chest.

'Dimindo's caused her so much pain. God, I wish I could fix this. I am her boyfriend for crying out loud and I said I'd make things better for her without Dimindo and I intend to do it.' With that thought in mind, he gently took her by the chin and made her look up at him. He looked down into her eyes, brimming with tears.

"Serena, you have me now. Forget about Dimindo. You have someone better now." He said as she swiped her tears away. "How do I know that?" She asked as he smiled. "Give me a chance and I'll show you." He said as he lifted her face closer to his and gently kissed her lips.

Back at the garage, the lights had already gone out. Amy, Mina, and Raye sat in Andrew's office while the storm persisted on outside. "How long are we going to be stuck here?" Raye moaned as Amy looked out the window. "I suppose all night perhaps. I heard this is a big storm." She said as Raye groaned and slightly banged her head against the wall.

"Stuck all night in a fucking hot ass garage with no lights and a passed out manager. Oh joy." She complained as she looked at Andrew, who was currently snoring. Mina sat in a corner with a romance novel, not really paying attention to any of the discussion. Amy looked out the window again. Thunder rolled as she sighed.

"I really hope Serena's in a safe place." She said to herself as she watched the storm continue to tear on the outside of the building.

Meanwhile, Darien held Serena by her waist next to the bed, staring into each other's eyes. The power was gone, and the only source of light was the candles lit all around the room. They were pressed closely together as they stood. "Are you sure you want to go through with this with me?" He asked as she took off the see-through shirt she had over her white tank top, which was pretty much see-through as well, thanks to the rain. She gently tossed it off to the side.

"Yes, and don't ask me again, just kiss me." She said as he smiled and pulled her tightly to him and kissed her passionately.

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Sorry, decided to stop there for now. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Next I think I'll either update the dream or steal my heart. I'm not sure yet which, but I will update soon! Glad to be back.

Mackenzie