Title: Torn Apart
Author: Raya
Theme: OTP / Ashes by Embrace
Genre: Angst
Version: Sera Myu (post SuperS: Yume Senshi * Ai * Eien ni... (SuperS: Dream Soldiers * Love * To Eternity...)
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~289

Disclaimer: All characters used below belong to Takeuchi Naoko and Bandai Entertainment as does the universe in which this story takes place. All rights belong to them. Mamoru's words are as translated by Ken Yuen. The yummy chocolate simulacrums, however, belong to me. *hoards protectively to chest*

A/N: Background Information from the Myu – In the first Sailor Moon SuperS Musical, Yume Senshi * Ai * Eien ni, Mamoru recognizes that Nehelenia is Serenity in the future. When she uses Hotaru to channel her pain and sadness to the senshi in the past, he bravely steps in front of Sailor Moon and absorbs it. He also saves Hotaru, drawing all of Nehelenia's power and sorrow out of the young girl's body. And then, mortally wounded, he makes his way back to Sailor Moon and dies in her arms. The Ginzuishou does not bring him back to life. Instead, he fulfills his wish to become a "Hot Wind" (atsui kaze) blowing across the face of the earth. He speaks to Moon and her friends, saying that he is going forward to the future to be with Serenity so that she will not be lonely any more. Thus, the Myu ends with Usagi alone with her friends, sad, but hopeful that she will be reunited with her love one day. The story I have written below takes place after the events in the Myu.

Torn Apart

Usagi leaned her arms on the windowsill and raised her face up to the moon letting its silver light glint off of the tears that trickled down her face. It had been almost a year since that fateful day. A year of pain and longing and sorrow. And yet, every detail of that fight was burned into her memory as if it had happened just the day before.

'Usa...' he had gasped as his fingers gently caressed her upper arm. Those beautiful blue eyes stared deeply into hers for a long moment, and then he looked towards the senshi gathered around them. 'Everyone... Next time, I want to be... just a normal Mamoru loving Usagi,... and have a normal happiness together... That is... my... dream.' In her mind, she held him in her arms again as he gasped out those painful words. His beautiful blue eyes had looked up into hers as he smiled.

And then, those beloved eyes had closed forever. No, not forever. She held firmly to that thought. They were eternal. He had promised that, just as he had promised to always be there for her even when she could not see him. She just had to be strong, had to remember that he was waiting for her in the future so that they could start again. She had to remember that shadowed figure of King Endymion as he stood by her future self in that crystal forest deep in Elysian.

It would come. It had to come. He had promised.

"We are forever," she whispered as a fiery wind caressed her cheeks and dried her tears. And closing her eyes, she let its gentle murmur, so like his voice, soothe the pain in her soul.