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Chapter Twenty Eight: The Return of…

"Oh My God!" Raye exclaimed as she looked at the test. She closed her eyes and sighed…there was a knock at the door.

"Raye!" Amy called out. Raye jumped at Amy's voice and knocked the test into the trash can. She mumbled an obscenity.

"Yeah?!" Raye shouted out.

"Time to come down! Maestro's here." Amy told her.

"Coming!" Raye tossed the packaging of the pregnancy test into the trash can. Raye went down stairs to see everyone sitting there, Darien, Luke, Lita, Amy, Mina, Maestro, everyone except for Serena, big surprise. Raye went and sat down next to Darien in Serena's TV room.

"Where's Serena?" Amy asked.

"Who cares." Raye mumbled.

"Be nice." Amy warned her.

"After what she did to me? Hell no. Look what she said to poor Lita." Raye said to her. Then they heard some sort of laughter in the kitchen. Serena came in the TV room eating an apple and talking on the phone.

"Oh shit." she mumbled with apple in her mouth. "I'll call you later." Serena said and hung up the phone. She went back into the kitchen. Scott was sitting at the island counter.

"You know they saw you, right?"

"Shut up, maybe they forgot." Serena told him.

"Serena?" Maestro came in the kitchen.

"Damn!" she snapped her fingers, Scott laughed at her. She walked into the TV room. She went and sat down by herself in front of the fireplace. She was wearing a pair of white velour pants that said JUICY in black on her ass and a black tight zip up hoodie, it came up to her elbows. Her hair was left naturally curly. Her makeup was done, her eyeliner always added to her eyes, it made her look mysterious, as if she was up to something.

"I've been doing some research with Amy." Maestro said to the group. "We've been able to track Strobe's last few attacks and battles with us, and we have noticed a pattern."

"What's that?" Darien asked him.

"He switches off to different powers, and each one is used differently one is for the White Rose Diamond and one is for the Silver Crystal. So…" Maestro trailed off.

"We have to find out which one is of more value to him and cut that one off first." Lita responded.

"Exactly!" Maestro said to her. "So we have to think of a way to get Strobe here…in other words…bait."

"I thought you communicate with him." Serena looked at him.

"In a way, I did for a while."

"Well, because apparently you guys sent messages to each other for awhile…" Serena said to him.

"Well…yes, that's ended though." Maestro said.

"Yes, that has ended." she said with a slight attitude which implied something.

"Well this hasn't ended." Maestro looked at her. "What happened to the communication between you all?"

"It died." Serena shot at him.

"Well, revive it."

"Too late." Serena examined her nails.

"Serena…" Maestro went over to her, he bent down and looked her in the eye. "Don't challenge me."

"I would dare!" Serena made a fake shocked face. "Me! I'd never think of it." She gave him a smug look. Luke began to laugh at her.

"You're not helping." Maestro shot at him. Luke continued to laugh.

"Excuse me for a moment." Serena said as she walked into the kitchen. Maestro fell onto a sofa and put his hand on his head.

"This is impossible." he sighed. "There has to be something we can do to get her to understand…"

"I'm trying, but she's just so stubborn, she doesn't want to hear anything." Luke told her. Then everyone in the room shot their eyes towards Mina.

"Don't look at me, I've tried." Mina told them.

"Mina, how come Serena forgave you?" Amy asked her.

"Yeah, what did you do that made you her special friend?" Raye sarcastically asked.

"I told her." Mina told them simply.

"Told her?" Lita asked.

"Yes." Mina told them straight out. "I told her about you and Darien, which is why she forgave me."

"You told her about us?!" Darien shouted out at her.

"Of course I told her about you two! How would you feel if the same thing happened to you and you had to sit there like a fool and take it?!" Mina's voice raised.

"And she forgave you. Just like that." Raye said in disbelief.

"Are you crazy? She was so angry with me. She threw her drink out the window and screamed." Mina told her.

"What did she say to you?" Amy asked her. Mina sighed.

"Well…" she began. "She screamed at me, she said 'What do you think I am stupid?! How dare you of all people tell me about my boyfriend?! I can take care of myself you know!' She kept repeating things like that, till finally she kicked me out."

"Then what happened?" Raye asked her.

"She came over to my house one night, she apologized and told me she was leaving." Mina told them.

"Leaving?" Amy asked her.

"Yes, leaving."

"Where did she go?" Lita asked.

"She didn't leave the country or anything, she told me she was leaving…" Mina stopped.

"Us." Darien said.

"Well…yeah, can you blame her?" Mina told them. "We all knew about it, but we kept quiet. Well you did, I stood up for her, and I told her."

"I guess…we should have done something." Raye told Darien.

"By the way, it didn't help that you were mocking her day in and day out Raye." Mina bitched.

"Sorry! I thought she was having fun with it…" Raye looked down.

"Would you have fun if someone told you that you were a failure everyday?" Mina looked at her. Raye continued to look down. "If you do anything to her, don't push her, try little by little. Ask her things around the house and stuff, don't approach her and say 'take us back'" Mina advised them.

"Mina's right. You need to watch yourselves, be a little more sensitive." Luke chimed in.

"What ever you do, hurry it up. Strobe needs to die." Maestro told them. He stood up and walked out of the TV room. "I'll see you next week." He told them and left.

Later that night, Raye fell asleep on the sofa in the TV room. Darien came back to Serena's house, he went straight up to his room and didn't notice Raye sleeping on the sofa. He went straight to bed. Then there was a knock at the door. Darien pulled himself out of bed and opened the door and who else but Serena stood there. She wore her white Ralph Lauren robe, she pushed Darien back in the room and locked the door.

"What do you want?" He asked as he sat on his bed, he was exhausted, he buried his hands in his face.

"Look at me." she told him.

"What?" he looked up. Serena took off her robe, she stood there with black lace panties and a black and red lace bra.

"Still tired?" she asked him and narrowed her eyes at him, she grinned.

"No." he said as she went into his arms. He kissed her passionately as his arms went around her, he moved down to her neck as he tried to unhook her bra.

"Wait!" she said, gasping for breath.

"What?" he barley got out. She got out of the bed and went out the door.

Darien jumped out of bed. It was a dream…he hoped. He looked at the clock, two hours had gone by and Raye had come to bed. He went downstairs to get some water, he closed the bedroom door slowly behind him to not wake Raye and made his way downstairs. The house was completely dark except for one light downstairs. He walked into the kitchen closing his bathrobe. He looked up and saw Serena.

"Oh, sorry." he said nervously. Serena looked at him and sighed. "Can't sleep?" he tried to make conversation.

"Eh…" was her reply. Darien went into the fridge and got a bottle of water out, he opened it quickly and downed the whole thing as fast as he could. Serena watched him in amazement, she raised an eyebrow at him, she then shrugged her shoulders and walked out of the kitchen, and back into the TV room. He heard a small noise come from there, it was probably the TV. Serena was sitting on the sofa with a blanket, she wore midnight blue velour pants and a long white shirt that went past her hips, and of course, clung to her body. Darien walked into the TV room to see her sitting there with a cup of hot tea. She pushed her long curly hair away as she sipped it quietly.

"Mind if I join you?" he asked. Serena said nothing and continued to watch TV. Darien went to the other sofa thinking it was safer to sit there. He pulled out a blanket and got comfortable. Serena watched him.

"Well don't mind me…I just live here." she shot him a look.

"Yeah too bad." was his reply. Usually Darien would do something like say "Fine I'll go upstairs" but this time he didn't care, he was going to end this feud and try to make things right. QVC was on, Serena flipped through the channels as she tried to find something to watch. They sat there in silence, the TV being the only light in the room, watching nothing. Soon, Serena finished her tea and turned off the TV and walked back into the kitchen leaving Darien in the dark. Darien got up and went into the kitchen, the lights were out and he saw Serena's shadow go upstairs to her room. He went back into his own room and back into bed, he looked at the alarm clock. Two am. He closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Darien walked into a small apartment, he came in through the window, he walked into a small bedroom, it had a bed and a vanity table, all decorated in white, bronze, and gold colors. Serena came in, she was wearing a black strapless ballroom dress, it came above her ankles in an Audrey Hepburn fashion. Her hair was pulled up and she wore a gothic ring on her ringer with a white gold ring with diamonds all around it on her other hand, she had white pearls on. Her make up was her usual eyeliner with a gloss on her lips, but she looked different, she looked as if he knew her better.

"Oh!" she said to him.

"What's wrong?" he asked her, he was wearing black pants with a black button down collar shirt, tucked in.

"Nothing. What are you doing here?" she smiled at him.

"I came because I thought something was wrong." he replied. She smiled and looked down.

"Nothing is wrong. I'm just surprised to see you." she told him. Darien went over to her. He put his arms around her waste and held her closely, this caught Serena by surprise and she gasped.

"Kiss me." he told her, they kissed passionately. Then she pulled away.

"I can't do this! We could end up dead!" she told him.

"Who would kill us?" he asked her.

"Everyone." she told him.

"I don't care. As long as you don't tell and I don't tell, we're okay." he told her. Serena un-did the back of her dress, and it fell off of her. Darien looked at her body, and pulled her closer, they fell into bed as they held onto each other.

"Don't let go." she whispered in his ear.

"Never." he said to her. Under the covers they went, next thing Darien knew, he turned over in the bed to see Serena putting her dress back on. "What's going on?" he asked her.

"I have to go!" she said worriedly.

"What happened?"

"Darien, I have to tell them." she told him.

"What?! No, Serena they'll take me away, do you want that?!" he shouted to her.

"I can't risk it!" she told him. The door opened up and a handsome young man about Darien's age walked in.

"Are you done now? You've had your fun Serena, we have to go." he told her. She rushed out of the room with him Darien jumped out of bed and put his clothes on he walked out of the room buttoning his shirt. Raye was standing there.

"Darien, have you seen the cheesecake?" she asked him. "I need that cheesecake, it's really important." Then the room lit up with red alarms. "Oh, time to go to school." she said.

Darien woke up to hear his alarm clock, he slammed his hand on it to shut it off and turned over the other way and went back to sleep. After a few moments Darien opened his eyes and tiredly thought about his dream.

"What the fuck?" he mumbled to himself and fell back into a dreamless sleep.

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"Hey kids." Scott came into the kitchen with a package. Serena sat at the island in the kitchen with a cup of tea. Raye and Amy sat in the kitchen, Serena still refused to acknowledge them.

"What do you have there?" Serena asked her cousin as she pointed to the package in this hands with her eyes.

"Oh just a little something." he told her. Darien walked into the kitchen, he had went out earlier and done some errands after he woke up.

"Open up." Serena told him. Scott put the package out on the table and got a few plates out. He came back to the island table and opened the package.

"Oh baby!" Serena said excitedly.

"What is that?" Lita asked him.

"Cheesecake." Serena replied.

"What?!" Darien shouted, they had already begun to eat.

"Cheesecake." Scott told him. Serena looked at him and raised an eyebrow. He sure was weird. Serena ate her cheesecake with joy, Raye grabbed another slice.

"I'm so hungry." she told them. Serena kept on eating.

"Grasso." she said to Scott indicating Raye.

"EH!" he told her with an Italian accent and took her cheesecake away. He made a face of disgust at her.

"Hey!" Serena complained. "Bitch, give it back." Giano walked in the room.

"Yo." he told them.

"Giano, Scott took away my cheesecake." Serena told on him.

"Scott give Rio her cheesecake." Giano told him as he took a slice for himself.

"No she's mean." Scott said told him as he sat down at the island table and ate Serena's cheesecake.

"What a bitch, look he's eating my cheesecake!" Serena made hand gestures towards Scott.

"Here." Giano took another piece of cheesecake and put it in his plate, he got a fork and handed it to Serena.

"Thank you." Serena grinned and ate her cheesecake.

"Ask her what she said!" Scott told them.

"What did you say?" Giano gave her a look as if he was suppose to be serious, but he was faking it.

"Grasso." she said again gesturing towards Raye, who was finishing her second slice of cheesecake. Giano started laughing.

"Shut the fuck up." Scott told them. "Hey you guys want to watch some TV?" he lead Amy, Raye, and Darien in the TV room. Once they were in there, Giano looked over at Serena.

"I'm proud of you." he told her, they clinked their spoons and continued eating. (Translation, Grasso in Italian means Fat)

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Darien went up stairs into the bathroom, he splashed some cold water on his face. If he saw Serena with a black strapless dress on, he'd seriously go mad. There was a knock at the door.

"Darien? Are you finished? I have to go to the bathroom." Raye shouted through the door. Darien came out of the bathroom and let her in. Raye slammed the door shut and locked it, Darien walked out of the bedroom.

"Okay, last time." Raye took out the new pregnancy test. She closed her eyes. "Mom…please…be there for me." she opened up the package and began.

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"This is bullshit." he told her.

"Look who has a mouth on him." she replied.

"Oh shut up, didn't I just hear you say 'Shut the fuck up' yesterday?"

"Okay, so I've been watching Serena too long. Do you think she remembers us?"

"She'll probably scream and run out the door."

"What do you think she thinks?"

"She probably thinks we're at Minas…Lita's…someone's house. Or that we ran off into the future, past, whatever."

"Remember, we have to get this together."

"Right!"

"Right!"

"We're ready!"

"Hey…" she told him. "Do you think this will work?"

"Well, Serena hasn't forgiven the rest of them…except Mina, but if you tell her your side of the story, she might."

"Gee thanks. I feel so much better."

"Well then, what do you want to do?" he asked her. She thought for a few moments and then looked at him.

"Fuck it…let's go." she told him. And off they went.

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Serena was sleeping in her bed. She felt something on her leg and kicked it off.

"Serena." a voice said to her. Serena made a noise and rolled over. She lay on her stomach in the middle of the king size bed.

"Serena." The voice said again, it was female.

"Hmm." Serena put a pillow over her head.

"Well you always loved your sleep." the voice said. "Come on Serena, WAKE UP!" she yelled.

"Fuck…" Serena rolled over in her bed and opened her eyes, her room was dark, she saw something glowing very close to her, she closed her eyes and felt someone's presence. She opened one eye and saw two glowing eyes staring right back at her.

Serena shot out of bed screaming bloody murder, she was wearing only a pair of navy underwear that said "Juicy" on her ass in Pink and a very form fitting navy shirt that came right on her hips, barley showing her stomach, it elongated her body. Her hair was down and curly. Serena jumped out of bed in her "pajamas" and continued to scream, the whole house was probably awake by now. She ran out of her room and down the stairs almost falling over.

"HOLY SHIT!" Serena screamed at the top of her lungs, she ran into the TV room where the light was on. There stood Mina, Lita, Amy, Raye and Darien. She saw them and screamed and put her hand to her heart. They screamed back scared, then Serena screamed at them, till they were all yelling. They were all in their pajamas too. Except for Mina who was decked out in her beige velour outfit, Serena, being the only one whose pajamas looked like her underwear…which it was, collapsed on the sofa and took a deep breath.

"Why are you screaming?!" Mina shouted at her. Serena put her hand on her head and began rubbing her temples.

"I saw something in my room!" Serena cried.

"What?" Lita asked.

"I don't know!" Serena shouted to her.

"What do you think it was?" Amy asked.

"I don't know!" Serena shouted again, then she took a good look at them. "Why are you all in your pajamas down here?"

"I got a message from Raye telling me to come here." Lita told her.

"Me too." Amy said.

"I never sent a message." Raye told them.

"I got a message from Raye too." Mina told them.

"What the fuck is going on here?" Serena said as she sat up on the sofa.

"Hello Love." Luke said as he walked in.

"Luca, what the fuck is going on here?" Serena asked him. "Did you send messages to them?"

"Actually no, I didn't." he told her. "But they did." he said and pointed to the fireplace. They all looked towards the fireplace…they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

"Hello Serena." Luna said to her. Serena looked at the two cats sitting there, she didn't even blink.

"Long time no see." Artemis said to her. Serena was speechless.

"What, cat got your tongue?" Luke asked her.

"Luna! Artemis!" Amy shouted to them and ran over. "Where have you been?!"

"It's nice to know someone noticed we were gone." Luna said to her as Amy rubbed the top of Luna's head.

"We could have really used your help through out all of this." Darien told them.

"Yeah…considering…" Raye motioned with her eyes to Serena. Serena got up off the sofa and looked at the two cats up close.

"Luca." she said with an Italian accent. "Are you sure those weren't pot brownies we ate earlier?"

"I'm sure, nice ass by the way." Luke commented. Serena then realized what she was wearing.

"Where have you guys been all this time?!" Lita asked them.

"We've been doing research, and I'm happy to report that we have completed everything and we are ready to share it all with you, besides, you are the Sailor Scouts…what's going on with all of you?! How can this happen to you?!" Luna shouted at them.

"It's a long story." Mina said to them.

"Mina you knew about this?" Raye shouted at her.

"I am Mina, I know all and I have a wide collection of makeup…" Mina grinned.

"You guys have to get your acts together." Artemis told them. "Something big is coming up, and you have to be ready…"

"Yes." Luna leaped onto the sofa where Serena had sat back down. "Including you Serena." Serena blinked a few times and then looked around the room.

"Wait a minute…I never asked for any of this." Serena stretched out on the sofa.

"Serena." Luna looked at her. "End this now. Get yourself together and make peace."

"Luna, give her some time." Artemis told her.

"I don't know if you know this or not, but I'm not going to kiss and makeup with anyone. You should know that by now Luna." Serena told her.

"Yes, I'm very well aware of that." Luna replied.

"But that still doesn't answer our question, where have you been?" Darien asked her.

"We've been doing research on Strobe and his little friends." Artemis told them. "And boy do we have news for you."

"Well, can it wait?" Raye asked them as she yawned.

"Yeah, we were sleeping." Amy told them.

"Yes it can, since it's late already, you should stay here." Luna told them. Serena shot her a look.

"Excuse me, this is my house, and you will only stay here with my permission." Serena told them.

"Does that include me?" Mina asked. Serena shot Mina a look.

"Mina shut up." Serena told her, Mina giggled a bit at her stupidity.

"Hey Love." Luke told her.

"Yes?"

"I really did mean it, nice ass." he said as he looked her up and down.

"Oh, fuck." Serena said as she pulled a blanket over herself. "I had a moment, I forgot what I was wearing."

"Didn't I see you wear that once in LA when you came down in the middle of the night to get some food?" Luke asked her. Serena thought about it, then blushed.

"No…" she looked at him. "Shut up!" She whispered.

"Let's just finish this night up, shall we?" Luna told them.

"Sounds good to me." Serena walked out of the room dropping the blanket on her way out, they watched her walk out with her perfect body.

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The next morning, everyone awoke and went into the TV room, except for Serena who was still asleep.

"Shouldn't Serena be here for this?" Amy asked them.

"No, it's better that she isn't." Luna told her.

"Yeah, we have some news for you." Artemis told them.

"Well quit stalling and tell us already!" Lita told him.

"Well, you all have met Strobe." Luna told them.

"Unfortunately." Raye mumbled.

"Right." Luna continued. "Well Artemis and I did some investigating on him and his little group."

"Well what is it?" Darien asked.

"It turns out that these guys are from the negaverse, not only that but their history is much longer than anyone we've ever battled." Artemis told them.

"This can't be." Amy said typing away on her mini computer. "I've done research with Maestro and he never mentioned that to me."

"Maestro doesn't say a lot." Luke surprised them. He walked into the TV room and sat down on the sofa behind them since they were all crowded around the coffee table. Darien turned around and looked at him.

"Well what do you know?" he asked Luke.

"I know that these two cats can help us more than Maestro can, he's not good with details." Luke told them. Just then the swinging door from the kitchen opened up, there stood Serena in one of her many expensive Prada silk robes, she was wearing her red and white one, and in her hands she had her morning coffee. Her curly hair was down, she took a sip of her drink and brushed her hair away with her hand. She walked in and looked at them, then she went back into the kitchen.

"Well good morning to her too." Artemis said.

"I'll be right back." Luke got up and went into the kitchen.

"Hello morning glory." he told her, he sat down at the kitchen island with her.

"Good morning." she replied and sipped her coffee.

"Serena please join us over there, come on." Luke said to her.

"No." she blew on her coffee and sipped some more.

"I know you're still upset, but Luna is in there…she helped you through some tough times." Luke reminded her. Serena stayed silent and then got up and out of her seat and walked into the TV room. Luke followed.

"Well then, let's get this meeting started." Luke said as they both sat down. The moment Darien opened his mouth to say something, the phone rang.

"I'll get it." Serena jumped up a little too eager and ran into the kitchen. They heard her answer and then laugh.

"I'll be back." Raye went out of the room.

"What's wrong with her?" Lita asked.

"She says she has stomach cramps." Darien rolled his eyes. He got up and went into the kitchen to get something, when really he just wanted to see what Serena was up to.

"Tonight?" Serena spoke into the phone. She set her coffee on the counter. "Sure, what time?" she listened to what the person on the other line had to say. "Okay honey, see you then, ciao." she hung up. She grabbed her coffee and went upstairs to her room to get ready for her day.

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"Where'd she go?" Amy asked.

"Up to her room." Darien replied. "Where's Raye?"

"Still dealing with her stomach cramps." Amy replied.

"Well I suppose we should get to business." Artemis told them. The two cats went off in their own directions and the scouts went off to do their daily routine, and to survive another day with Serena.

Luna went into Serena's room where her music was blasting. She heard the guitar and drums banging as Serena came out of her bathroom with a towel in her hair and her robe on.

"Serena turn that crap down." Luna told her. Serena threw her towel at her. Luna dodged it. "That was pleasant."

"Oh shut up, you abandoned me right when I left them." Serena told her.

"We had work to do, what did you want me to do? Stick around and watch you go party and run out every time you came home drunk?!" Luna told her, Serena turned down the music.

"Hey!" Serena shot at her as she got her electric toothbrush out. "I do not get that drunk, who do you think I am, Scott?"

"I didn't say that." Luna then grinned. "You're talking to me…"

"What?" Serena said with a mouth full of toothpaste.

"You're not talking to the rest of them, but you're talking to me." Luna told her.

"Of course I am, you didn't know about it." Serena told her as she spit out her toothpaste and rinsed her mouth.

"And if I did?" Luna heard her gargle and spit.

"You don't count…" Serena said as sat down on her bed. "You're a cat." Serena crossed her arms. Luna looked up at her.

"Of course I don't."

"But I'm still pissed at you." Serena got up and took the towel out of her hair.

"I know." Luna said. She grinned at Serena. Luna would always be there for her, even though she recently went out on an adventure with Artemis, she would always come back. Serena pulled her wet hair up into a clip and went into her large walk-in closet and got dressed. She came out of her closet wearing her dark no-name tight jeans with her off-white D&G v-neck shirt that kept her very warm. She put on her new black stiletto boots and went back into her bathroom. She blow-dried her hair and left it naturally curly, she examined her dark hair, and noticed that her highlights were still there but probably in a good two weeks or so they would fade. She went to her vanity and sat down.

"You take pride in how you look don't you?" Luna asked her. Serena began her makeup.

"Your point?" Serena asked as she applied her bare essentials face powder.

"Nothing, I just remember you never got ready like this when you went to school here in the suburbs." Luna told her.

"School in the suburbs is crap. It was a pointless and insipid way of learning." Serena told her as she put on a very light bronze/gold eye shadow. Then she put on her eyeliner, she lined the inside of her eyes and then the top of her eye lids, she always had that dark eyeliner look, not trashy like those punks that went around acting like they were "rebellious", but more fashionable, with a hint glamour. Serena finished up her makeup with a hint of blush and some lip gloss from Clinique. She put on her pearls that her grandmother had given her when she was younger, they were just one of the most valuable pieces of jewelry she owned. She put on some gothic ring she got at a street vendor from San Francisco, grabbed her black form fitting pea coat with her black Chanel purse and sunglasses. Serena grabbed the car keys and went out the door.

"When will you be back?" Luna asked her.

"Whenever." she replied. Serena's shoes clicked and clacked on the tile floor on her way to the garage. She got into the SUV and went out.

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Raye sat down in Serena's TV room, she watched TV, her mind was racing, then Darien walked in.

"Hey." he sat down next to her, he put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer.

"Hi." she tried to sound as normal as possible.

"Serena around?" he asked.

"No she left earlier."

"Good." he said as he kissed her cheek and made his way down to her neck.

"No, Darien, please stop." she told him as she pushed him away.

"Come on…" he said as he put his arms around her waist, his hand ran up her shirt.

"No, please." she told him, but Darien didn't stop. "I said STOP!" Raye pushed him away.

"What the fuck?" Darien looked at her. Raye got up and went over to the fireplace. "Raye, what the hell is wrong with you? You don't want to be near me, you go to bed before me or after me, you don't want to have sex, what the fuck is wrong with you?" Darien asked her. He narrowed his eyes at her, but Raye's back was turned towards him, she couldn't look at him.

"I'm just tired." was all she could say.

"Tired? What do you do all day that you're tired. I have to go to work, internship, and fucking finish up my med-school project. You're sitting around eating cheesecake with Serena's nasty cousin Jomo." Darien told her. Raye looked down at the fire, and then turned around and put Darien in his place.

"Hey, do you think it's easy sitting in this house all fucking day with Serena around?!" Raye pointed her index finger at him. "I have to watch her prance around in her expensive clothing and lifestyle! And who the hell are you telling me how to act? You're not here, you don't have to deal with this?! I'm trying to get everything together so we can finish this enemy so we can all be fucking happy, but NO, you're not here to help and when you do, it gets worse and Serena's not fucking helping either!" Raye screamed at him. "So if I don't feel like 'getting it on' with you, then too bad for you!" She stormed into the kitchen leaving Darien speechless.

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Serena sat at lunch with some of her relatives. They were telling jokes and stories, everyone was laughing. Giano was sitting a few seats down from Serena. He came over to her and handed a relative across the table to take a picture of the two of them.

"Bambiiiiiinnnnaaaaa!" he said loudly and put his arms around Serena. Serena laughed as they took the picture of the two of them. The relative handed the camera back as Giano squatted down on the floor to talk to Serena. "Okay bina, we're going out tonight, there's this club we're going to."

"What's it called?" She asked him.

"Notte." he told her.

"Notte?" She said as she raised an eyebrow. "That means night in Italian, who named it that?"

"The owner from a thousand years ago, anyway, we're going." he told her.

"Whose going to be there?"

"Everyone, well at least I think so, but I'll keep you posted." he told her, he sat up and kissed her on the cheek. "So you'll come?" he said as he walked back to his seat.

"Yeah." she smiled at him. Giano smiled back at her and sat down. A relative called to her attention and she engaged in the conversation that they had started up. She couldn't wait until tonight. Giano's parties or clubs that he went to were crazy, and that's what she needed right now, to go out and forget everything, drink and party…yes that was exactly what she needed.

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Raye lay on her stomach watching the small TV in her room, she hadn't seen Darien all day. Then the door opened and he walked in, she didn't move, she continued to watch whatever was on. Darien went into the bathroom without saying a word. Fifteen minutes later he came out, he had showed and he was in a towel, he went into the walk in closet and got dressed, he wore a pair of dark jeans with a black t-shirt.

"Are you still mad?" Raye asked him.

"Nope." was his reply as he sat on the bed and put his shoes on.

"Are you going to talk to me?" she asked him.

"Nope."

"Darien come on."

"No Raye, you come on, what the hell was that earlier today?" Darien stood up and looked at her. "I know you're upset, but you don't take out your anger on Serena and the rest of them on me." he told her. Raye lay back down on the bed, her long black hair spread out on the bed. Darien looked at her and sighed, he sat down on the bed and stroked her hair. "Are you okay?" he asked her.

"Yes." she lied.

"Are you sure?" he asked her. Raye got up from the bed and looked at him, she smiled sweetly.

"I'm fine Darien…where are you going?" she asked him

"A few guys from work wanted to grab a few drinks, I'll be home later okay?" he kissed her forehead, grabbed his coat and went out the door. Raye lay back on the bed, she watched TV as tears filled her eyes.

"I'm not okay." she whispered to herself.

Darien made his way downstairs "Darien!" he heard someone shout out to him. Darien turned around to see Artemis there.

"Hey, how can I help you?" he asked him.

"If anything goes on, you'll be there to help right?" Artemis asked him.

"Of course." Darien replied.

"Good."

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Serena got ready in her room, she was going out tonight with Giano, meeting some of his friends, dancing, and drinking…a little, she had to drive home. Her cell phone rang as she put her shoes on.

"Alo?" she answered.

"Riola, take a cab there, I'll give you a ride home." Giano told her over the phone.

"Are you sure?" she asked him.

"Yeah, are you leaving now?" he asked her.

"Yeah I'm almost out the door."

"Bambina, call me when you get there." he told her and hung up. Serena hung up her cell phone and put it in her purse. She grabbed her black coat from earlier and called a cab. She looked at herself in the mirror as she waited for the cab. She wore her dark jeans, low rise as usual, with her black tank top which had one side thicker than the other, along with her dangly white gold earrings. She put on her new boots and her black coat, she heard a honk outside. Serena grabbed her coat and purse and went out the door. She got into the cab.

"Where to?" he asked.

"Corner of 34th and 2nd." she told him. The cab driver reset the meter and drove her to her destination. Fifteen minutes later Serena arrived. She went into the club and looked around for a familiar face, but no one was there. She called Giano on his cell phone but no answer. "Please don't flake out on me." she said to herself. She waited at the bar with a drink.

An hour later Serena was still there. No Giano, no call, no nothing. She was beyond pissed, if looks could kill, everyone would have died twice that night. Serena angrily walked out of the bar shoving people out of the way.

"Fucking move!" she shouted over the noise and music. Some loser was blocking her way. "Fuck off." she told him as she pushed him aside, his drink fell on the floor.

"Hey! Watch it!" he shouted out to her.

"Go jack off!" she shouted back giving him the finger.

"Serena?" the guy shouted out to her.

"What?" Serena turned around with her purse in her hand. The guy she had shoved and told off was Darien. Serena gave him a nasty look and walked away.

"Wait, Serena!" he called out to her.

"Go away." Serena told him as she took out her cell phone and called her cousin Giano for the millionth time.

"Serena, what are you doing here?" he asked her.

"Creating art." she told him with sarcasm.

"Were you waiting for someone?" Darien said to her as he crossed the street following her.

"Why?" she turned around and looked at him. "Did you see someone?"

"No…" it looked like he had gotten her hopes up. "Were you waiting for someone?"

"No…" she lied. She continued to walk away. Darien followed her. "Why are you following me?" she kept walking.

"I just want to make sure you get home safely." he told her. He put his hands in his coat pocket.

"Um, I don't know if you know this, but we broke up." Serena reminded him.

"Serena, do you always have to hate me?" Darien told her, she kept walking away from him, Darien pulled her arm towards him. She looked at him, she was kind of tipsy.

"Yes." was her reply.

"Come on, we can work this out." he told her.

"Darien, if you're upset that Raye isn't giving you some, that sucks, but I'm not going to be your backup." Serena told him, she smiled at him and kept on walking. Darien grinned and followed her home. Serena noticed this. "Stop following me!" she yelled at him. Okay so she wasn't kind of tipsy, she was kind of drunk.

"Serena, we live in the same house!" Darien laughed at her. "How else am I going to get home?"

"Well find another way!" Serena yelled at him as she walked away faster, she turned around as she continued to walk. "I don't want to see you behind me." she told him as she went off. Darien stood there with a grin on his lips. He loved this, annoying her to no end. He continued to make his way back to her house, walking slower, but still keeping her in sight. It was cute to see her get mad, even though she was drunk. She had her fun annoying him to no end with her antics, now it was Darien's turn.

Serena turned around to see a small figure of him out on the street. "Fuck, go away." she told him as she got out her cell phone, it was two in the morning. She called Giano, still no answer.

"Hey leave a message." was his voicemail.

"Fuck you Giano, I waited for you there for over an hour, you should have at least fucking called me to let me know you were going to flake. But then again that would ruin your 'asshole' image you have huh? I hope your balls get chopped off." and with that Serena hung up. She tossed the phone back in her purse and began to dig through her purse, she bumped into something hard.

"Oh shit. Sorry." she said as she put her hand to her head…it was a bad night and it could only go down hill from here.

"No problem…princess." the guy said. Serena looked up and saw a young man.

"Huh?" she said to him, then she took a better look at him. Who else but Strobe.

"Hello Serena…" he told her. He grabbed her hands.

"Oh fuck you!" Serena said as she tried to kick him in the balls but he had pinned her against a wall.

"With pleasure." he told her, as all the negative power he had surrounded them. Serena screamed and tried to break loose, but being sort of drunk didn't help her much.

Darien heard screaming and shouting, he ran over to see what was going on…call it the superhero in him. He ran over and hid against the tree. He looked over to see Strobe attacking Serena, part of him wanted to run out and save her, part of him told him to let her suffer, and part of him told him to think of a quick plan before it was too late.

"Go save her! Why are you just standing there!" a voice said inside him.

"Well don't just jump out there, what are you going to do? Stab him with a flower? What a pussy, you're smarter than that!" the other voice told him.

"You're actually thinking of saving that bitch?! She's treated you like shit for the past five hundred years, and you want to let her live? Have some balls man, let the whore die." the third voice said.

"Fuck you, that's a princess over there!" the first voice told the third one.

"So, she cheated on him as much as he cheated on her, let her rot, fuck her, go back to Raye, she's hot." the third voice said.

"Yeah? Well you're the one that started with Raye in the first place!" The third voice shouted at the first one. "Go save her! She's your princess!"

"Fuck her, let the bitch die."

"Save her!"

"DIE"!

"SAVE!"

"FUCK YOU!" the second voice shouted out. Darien shouted in anger and ran over to strobe. The second voice seemed to have some common sense, he went with that one.

Strobe's power died down a little to see Darien standing there ready for battle…as himself.

"Yeah, oh and when was the last time you transformed?" the second voice said to him. Darien didn't let his weakness show…he was a prince for goodness sake! He could battle this out…he hoped.

"Come to save your princess?" Strobe shouted out to him with an evil grin on his face.

"Let her go Strobe, let's battle this out between the two of us." Darien told him. Strobe had a look on his face that said otherwise.

"If you must…" he said, as he tossed Serena's half-conscious body onto the ground, she yelled in pain. Strobe and Darien stood there looking at each other. Strobe kept his nasty grin on his face, "If you want her, come and get her." he told her. Darien cautiously moved forward, Strobe stepped aside and gestured towards Serena. Strobe then backed away into the shadows, he was nowhere to be seen. Darien ran over to Serena who was struggling to stay awake, the moment he ran over he hit and invisible force field which sent him flying across the street. Strobe's laugher was echoing around the city, "So foolish! What do you think, that I was born yesterday?!" He shouted and laughed. Darien got up and ran over to Serena to see her body was sinking deep into the ground.

"NO! Serena wake up!" he shouted at her Serena could barley move an inch, she lay there and the corner of her eye she saw Darien standing there. "Don't you dare touch her Strobe! I'll fucking kill you!" he shouted out. Strobe appeared in person and stood by while Serena sank into the ground, then he himself went down and waved goodbye, all that was left was her coat and purse.

Darien stood around scared, confused, and worried. How was he going to explain this one? He needed Amy, she could be trusted, he could get her to find Serena on his computer and then he'd do something like blow his life savings on something materialistic that Serena would like so she would never tell Raye…and then-

The wind blew and a few rain drops fell on the floor. Darien felt someone behind him, he turned around to see Maestro standing there.

"Maestro?" Darien said in a low voice, cautiously because it could have been Strobe messing with him. Maestro stepped aside and there opened a black hole.

"Go save her, if you can." Maestro told him. Darien looked at him, then looked at the black hole.

HI KIDS! I know you love me…er hate me for leaving you with cliffhangers! I know you're thinking "wtf, dude, no this is getting good, and now he's gonna save her and then they're in love?! FUCK YOU!" NOOOO, it's not going to be like that!! It's gonna get good, but since shit has flown back and fourth between all of them, and I brought back characters…yeah I know it was kind of anti-climatic when Luna and Artemis came back…but all in good time my buddies! Remember review equals love and I love you too!!