I'm glad to know that everyone liked my last chapter. I do wish I had recieved more reviews but i suppose you take what you can get. As you noticed from the last chapter I broke it up into sections amongst each "couple" so that they will have their own chapter. The first one is Raye and Jason to be followed by Lita and Nathan and so forth. Secondly, I recieved a message from another reader asking me some serious questions about this story that are important to it. Some of them I thought were self explanatory if you read the story however others were not. Which made me realize that I had done an injustice to my readers by not giving you ground rules or a foundation to this story. So if you would like to read the q&a please go back to the prologue where they are listed. I do hope that no confusion was brought about for any of you all nor any confusion occurs due to this. Other than that enjoy it and please continue to send reviews! Bless it be
Oh and I do not own Sailor Moon
From Betrayal to Redemption CH. 12
Through the night, the guard that Jason had put up to block his mind from Raye's dropped and thoughts between them flowed freely. Images were transferred from one to the other unconsciously of what the other was dreaming. Jason's mind was racing with images of a future with Raye: marriage, raising children, and growing old together. Raye's mind was replaying what had occurred earlier that day, trying to decipher what had happened. While in their sleep-induced slumber the link they shared weaved itself tighter around them causing their dreams to meld into one. Due to this their dreams shifted to one of the past and they were no longer apart of the dream, but standing by as observers.
"Where the hell am I? " Raye asked herself as she looked around. The place held a familiar feeling of remembrance but she herself could not place it.
"How in the world did I get here? Damn Serena and her temper! Look at what she's done to me- I could be in any time period or zone or god know what the fu-" his ranting was stopped when he saw men wearing the Moon insignia walking the grounds. "I'm in the Silver Millennium. I can't…hey might as well look at this as a trip down memory lane," he said with a smirk and followed the guards at a distance. "Wow what an opportunity."
"There's someone over there. Maybe they can help me," Raye said. When she walked over to the women she tried to get their attention but to no avail.
"Can you even see me?" When she realized that she couldn't be seen, she starred closer at them and noticed Lunarian and Venusian symbols on their foreheads. "This is not possible," she stammered and walked backwards.
"Why are you even here? Shouldn't you be with your Prince making sure he's safe?" a woman shouted.
"My prince is with your princess in the safety of the palace. Plus you're my guide for the duration of my stay remember?" a man replied.
"Not my choice. Believe me."
Raye turned around and saw herself. 'That's me…I mean I think it's me. But not me cause I'm here but she's me too. How can I be watching my past self in the past and I'm here too? And why?' She continued to look at Princess Raechel walking the grounds with a man trailing behind her and trying to keep her attention it seemed. 'That's the man from my vision. It's Jason.'
"Rae if you please-"
"Raechel thank you," she said and moved around the palace. "If you'd care for me to show you around then I will do so, but I will set some boundaries."
"Boundaries?" Jadeite asked.
"I was pretty good looking back then," Jason said as he watched the interaction between his past self and Raye's from the balcony of the palace. "Give yourself a few years buddy you'll get there," he said as he looked in a mirror. When he looked back down he saw Princess Raechel leading Jadeite back to the palace with not a happy look on her face.
"This is not going to be a pretty sight," Jason said remembering what had happened.
Princess Raechel stormed back into the palace and marched into the Queen's conference room. "Your Majesty I will not stand for being partnered with this imbecile!"
Queen Serenity stood up at this intrusion and excused herself from the table. She had been discussing diplomatic matters with the Earth royals and her two advisors. Having to play mediator between a princess and a general did not suit her well. "Rae outside now."
"Why do you look at me as if I'm the one in the wrong? He's obnoxious and insulting to all women. He thinks that we're put here just to serve his sexual desires and rub his feet while walking barefoot and pregnant around a palace. He even said that he wouldn't mind having me next to him doing so!"
"Jadeite you didn't," Gaia said with a frown. "I thought that we discussed this before we came here."
"General outside now," King Endymion replied and moved towards Jadeite.
"King Endymion, please," Serenity cautioned. "Let me handle them."
"If you see it best. But be warned, he is a cunning character that one."
Ushering the two outside she lined them up next to each other and looked down at them as if they were small children needing scolding. Raechel's face turned to disgust having to be place next to him and moved to put distance between them.
"Don't you dare move Raechel," Serenity warned. "I expected so much better from you than this. Bursting into my meeting with the Earth royals to tell me such nonsense!"
"It isn't nonsense your Majesty! He said those things to me and he actually thinks he can get away with it!" Raechel said
"It was clearly a joke Princess. If I offended you in any way-" Jadeite began.
"Oh shut up! I'm not going to fall for that crap you pull. You think that you can just waltz in here and take any lady in waiting you want for the picking. Well guess what? I'm not one of them!"
"You assumed that I wanted you to be one. I think that that's your own mind revealing it's true desires."
"What! Mars Fla-"
"Raechel! You know better than to…General, I highly advise you to watch what you say to Raechel. She is a princess of the alliance and deserves your utmost respect. Not to seem rude or inconsiderate of your standing, but you are only a general and not one of this alliance. If you wish to stay on my planet and alive at that rate, you will first apologize to Princess Raechel as well as refrain from your insulting comments. And yes I too find them quite insulting."
Shocked by the way he had just been spoken to General Jadeite looked at Princess Raechel and apologized.
"Now can I assume that the rest of the day between you two will be one of peace and resolution?"
"I'm not staying with him," Raechel replied. "I have to get back home."
"Take him with you."
Before Raechel could protest Serenity said, "Look at it this way: you'd be safer with him there than here. Your own planet with your own guards."
"Fine," she said and walked towards the teleportation room.
General," Serenity said. "A word of advise: You are going to Mars where the men don't take well to others insulting their women. Whether it is in joking matter or not is of no concern to them. Ares does not take things lightly where his daughter is concerned."
"Thank you your Majesty," Jadeite and ran to catch up with Raechel.
Raye watched her past self storm off and wondered how could she have fallen for a man like Jadeite. He was ruggedly handsome and dashing and had this thing about him that made women want to drop at his feet but he was twice as boorish and detestable for any one human being to handle. And yet she fell for him. She followed behind Jadeite and walked in as he was saying, "I truly am sorry Princess if I offended you. I tend to have that joking nature that sometimes goes to far."
"Are you only saying this because I'm taking you to my home planet. Afraid I'll sic my guards on you the minute you open your mouth?"
"That may be part of it."
"Don't worry I wouldn't do that. I prefer to let Sailor Mars handle my problems than my father's army."
"Sailor Mars? You speak of her as if she's real."
"She is. Didn't you see her when you first arrived?"
"I saw a lot of things when I first arrived that I can't believe. Plus she didn't exactly say anything nor were they introduced."
"Well she is something to believe in. Sailor Mars is everything that Mars stands for and more."
"So is she like your own personal guard as well as part of the guard for Princess Serenity?"
"You could say that."
"Does that go for all the other princesses and sailors?"
"You could say that too," she said. "Welcome to Mars General."
Jason who had decided to take other exploring adventures since he knew what happened the rest of the day was roaming the palace when he felt a pull inside of him. "What the hell," he muttered and when he opened his eyes again he was standing in front of his past self on planet Mars. "Damn, I can't even leave myself. This sucks."
"Princess wait. Do you feel that?" Jadeite asked.
"Is this some Earthling joke I'm supposed to understand?" Raechel asked.
"No seriously. There's something here that's very familiar."
"Something like what?"
"Some type of…that's so odd. I must have just been imagining it."
"Follow me General."
Jason looked over at himself and realized what had happened. 'He felt my presence. I mean I felt my own presence. Talk about odd," he thought and followed them inside the palace.
"I do hope that is not a suitor you are bringing to me Rae," a deep male voice said.
"I would do no such thing father. You know that I have more duties to take care of than finding a suitable husband," Raechel replied and kissed her father on the cheek. "I'd like you to meet General Jadeite of the Earth Kingdom."
"Your Majesty, it is an honor to be welcomed into your home," Jadeite said and he knelt before King Ares.
"Treat it as such. Better than you would your own home General."
"Aye your Majesty sir," he said and saluted.
"A military man. A funny one at that. You sure you want to be working for the Earth and not for me?"
"Earth is my home your Majesty and I would serve no other planet proudly than my own."
"A man of honor too. Well I am sorry I cannot stay to speak with you more General but I do have meetings to attend. Rae I expect to see you at dinner not with the others at the Moon palace."
"Yes Father," she said and watched him walk out. "It amazes me that he actually tries to make me believe he's going to show."
"He's not around much?"
"What gave you that notion?"
"Your attitude towards him. The way your spirit didn't light up at seeing your father like most girls do. Instead it darken over but you still maintained protocol in front of guests."
"My spirit?"
"I have domain over all spirits: alive, limbo and dead. I can read them like one would read a book."
"I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't read mine," she said and walked to another room.
"It seems I'm doing a lot of apologizing today Princess."
"Look at it like a change of scenery," she said as she opened the doors to reveal the Great Fire.
'I had a sacred fire back then too? History repeats itself more than I thought,' Raye whispered as she watched herself. 'Ares truly is my father. I'm the daughter of a murderer…no wonder.'
"You meditate before this?" Jadeite asked. "You don't find it quite hot?"
"When one's mind is melded to the fire as my own is, heat doesn't truly affect it. It's all psychological if you think on it," she said and knelt before the fire.
Watching her focus her mind Jadeite leaned against the wall and concentrated on her. Sensing a relaxing change in her he knelt behind her placed his hands atop his and sent his energy through her. Gasping for breath Raechel opened her eyes and turned to look into his eyes.
Watching the connection form between her and Jadeite a smile formed on Raye's lips. As she continued to watch she felt her body being pulled back to something else and she gasped out one name when she took a breath within her own room at the Cherry Hill Temple. "Jason."
Just as Raye was pulled out of the dream so was Jason with the same results in his own room at the house only the name that came from his lips was Raechel.