Chapter Twenty-Five

An Explanation

Date: February 19th, 2008

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"Care to explain munchkin?" Tuxedo Mask asked before detransforming.

"How come you haven't mentioned this before?" Raye asked.

"Well, I actually forgot about it completely. Luna and Artamis sent me to the bathroom so I was safe, and I asked momma to tell me how to help. Then I remembered that she gave me her very first broach." She said holding up the object in question. "She never wanted me to use it, but I had to do something to help. I'm sorry I disobeyed momma, but I had to do something…" She said close to tears.

"It's okay sweetie. It's okay to disobey once in a while. But only if it's absolutely necessary. Like today. Your momma will forgive you." Trista said.

"Now what? Diamond knows where she is…he'll just keep attacking until he gets what he wants." Zac said.

"Maybe. After the beating Darien laid on him today, it wouldn't surprise me if you scared him away." Lita said.

"Unfortunately, I think he'll just wait until I'm off to work to attack…which means I'm quitting my job until she wakes…maybe it was a bad idea bringing her here…she was safer at the hospital." Darien sighed.

"We can just up the forces…when I stay, Josh can stay with me, when Raye stays, Kevin can stay with her, etc." Mina suggested.

"I really don't want to cause anymore trouble then necessary." Darien started.

"Nonsense. This is Serena we're talking about. She's our best friend. We're happy to help…and it's no trouble." Stephen said.

"Thanks…again." Darien said.

"Yup. Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm beat. I'll catch you guys later." Amara said.

"Yah, we'll see you later." Zac said.

Soon, everyone left, leaving Darien to clean up a very trashed apartment.

"Just my luck, right?" He asked to no one in particular.

"I'll help." Rini said.

"I don't want you to get hurt on the glass. Why don't you go watch Serena for me?"

"Okay." She said skipping to the bedroom.

"It's going to be a long night." Darien sighed as he started picking up the glass shards.

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Date: March 27th, 2008

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"Two months, and all I've been able to do is sit here and look at you. Sere, please wake up." Darien sighed.

…KNOCK…KNOCK…

"Daddy, are you up?" A voice called from the door.

"Yes, come on in." He said sitting up in the bed. "Good morning munchkin."
"Morning daddy." She said giving him a hug. She then kissed her mother's cheek. "Daddy, why is momma getting fat?"

Darien chuckled at this question. "Because you're growing inside of her. Her belly needs to grow so there's room for you to grow."

"That makes since." She said.

"What do you want for breakfast? Amy and Stephen will be here in a little bit."

"Pancakes?"

"Sure. I'll go make them."
"I'll keep an eye on mommy."

"You do that." He said walking out of his room.

He walked into the kitchen and made some pancakes.

"Rini, come and get 'em." He called.

Rini hopped into the kitchen and took a seat. "Thanks daddy. They look great!"

"Enjoy. I'm going to get ready for work." He said walking to his room.

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"I'll see you guys later." Darien said as he approached the door to his apartment.

"Bye daddy!"
"See ya Darien." Amy and Stephen said.

Darien walked out the door, leaving the three to sit around the apartment and hope for some sort of sign from Serena…but none came.

It's been a little over a month, and Darien was right. Diamond often came and attacked while Darien was at work. The scouts were able to keep him from causing too much damage to the apartment and from getting to Serena, but when Darien was at the apartment, Diamond launched no attacks.

"It's almost as if he's afraid of you." Michelle said.

The group had gathered for a meeting to discuss the attacks.

"He should be. If I get my hands on him, he'll be sorry. He's lucky I didn't get to pound him into the ground that first day." Darien said.

"Yah, but is there anything we can do? I mean, how do we get him off our backs?" Kevin asked.

"Well, I don't think there is anything we can do. Serena's probably the only one who can destroy him for good. Then we can all have a peaceful future." Michelle said.

"Anything will be better then what it's like now." Rini said with sorrow filling her voice.

"We'll fix the future, Rini. I promise you that." Trista said.

"Trista, I've been wondering something though…" Lita started.

"Yah?"

"Well, if you're the guardian of time, why don't you know all of this? Why didn't you know that Serena was Serenity?"

"I'm not really sure. I think that I take the official post until later, so I don't remember all the past, and I won't foresee anything until I do. I've thought about this too, and that's all I can come up with." Trista said. "And remember, the future is always changing. So even if I did know the current future, it could all change if Serena doesn't wake up."

"That would be a dull future." Amara sighed.

"But it won't be our future. Sere will wake up. She's strong. She woke up from the other coma when the doctors said she wouldn't, didn't she?" Darien said.

"Yes, but Darien, it's been over two months." Lita said.

"So you all think she won't wake up?" He asked voice low.

"We want her to. We just have to look at the possibility of it not happening." Zac said.

"As much as we want her back to her jolly self, we do have to think of the 'what ifs.'" Amy said.

"You guys can look at the 'what ifs' all you want, just leave me out of the conversation." Darien said walking to his bedroom. "I'll see you guys later." He said before closing the door behind him.

"I knew he was going to take it hard." Mina sighed.

"Well what do you expect? She's his fiancée. He's going to be upset." Josh pointed out.

"Well there's no point in hanging around here anymore." Raye said.

"Good point. We should leave him be." Amara said.

"Okay. Let's get going." Michelle said.

"I'll be a minute. I'm gonna put Rini in her room." Trista said noting the sleeping girl in her lap.

"Okay."

"Bye."

Everyone walked out the door leaving Trista, Rini, and the cats.

"Trista, do you believe she won't wake up?" A voice asked from her arms.

"Rini, how long have you been up?"

"Just the last part of the conversation. Do you all really think my momma won't wake up?"

"Don't worry yourself about it. I'm sure she'll wake, we just don't know when."

"I know my momma will wake up. I just know it." She said as Trista placed her in the bed.

"Good night sweetie. Try not to give your daddy too much of a hard time. Amara, Michelle, and Hotaru are coming with me tomorrow. We'll see you then." She said placing a kiss on Rini's forehead.

"Okay. Night Trista." The girl said giving into sleep.

"Night."

Trista walked out of Rini's room and was greeted by Darien.

"What do you think…you being guardian of time and all…do you have any guess?"

"No…I wish I could offer you some idea, but I can't. I don't believe the others; I personally think she'll wake. I think the stress is just getting to us all." Trista said.

"Yah, probably."

"Go get some sleep Darien. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay. Thanks. Bye." He said as she walked towards the door.

"Goodbye."

Darien then walked back to his room, and changed into his boxers. He then climbed into bed and wrapped an arm around Serena's waist like he's done every night for the past month. He gently kissed her lips and gave into sleep.

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Slowly, an eyelid crept open, slightly afraid of what would be seen…but the surrounding area was familiar, but hadn't been seen in some time. Where am I? Suddenly warmth was felt at the back of the neck. The kind of warmth from a breath. Then an arm was felt around the waist. Who's behind me…and what's that beeping noise? It's really getting annoying. Slowly, she shifted, turning her body around to face the figure behind her. Darien? How'd I get back here, and why do I have all these tubes and wires connected to me? "Dare." Serena whispered. He groaned in response. "Darien." She said a little bit louder.

"Sere, give me five more minutes." He grumbled into her hair. Then his eyes shot open. "SERE! You're awake! Oh my god! I'm so glad you're okay!" He said tightening his arms around her.

"I'm fine. What's going on? What is all this stuff?" She asked pointing to the monitor and tubes. She then looked to her stomach, noting it's slightly larger form. "What happened? Last thing I remember was being with Diamond…he said something about hurting you guys beyond physical pain…then a droid…then everything started getting blurry. What happened?"

Darien sat up in the bed and pulled her onto his lap. "It's a long story. I'm just glad you're okay." He said hugging her again. "How about I get all these thing unhooked?"
"Sure…as long as you promise to explain everything to me."
"I will, I promise."

A/N:Okay, there was going to be more, like the actual explanation. But i thought you guy might want an update. I'm going upnorth, where's there no internet, so I can't update...I'll be there till the 30 or so. I'll just put the expanation in the next chapter. It'll be the begenning of the next chapter.

Thanks for reading,

-SailorMoonforever