Warm.

That was the first thing he'd felt upon awakening.

The second was the hardness of the concrete roof beneath his body.

He stumbled to his feet, barely able to see his own arms in front of his face. However, his vision soon cleared and he gazed upwards. The first thing he saw was a large crescent moon hanging in the sky.

The second was his opponent. Her head was down slightly and her arms and left foot were resting flat against the wall she was leaning on. Slowly, she lifted her head and locked eyes with him.

She smirked.

"What…What have you done to me?"

"I healed you. You no longer have any power to hurt them ever again."

Jadeite stared down at his hands in disbelief. He tried to summon even the faintest trace of energy, but nothing happened. It was like reaching out with an arm that no longer existed.

"You had no right to do that to me." He was taken aback by the calmness in his own voice. Shouldn't he feel angry?

"Maybe you're right. But you had no right to try and kill them," she inclined her head in the vague direction of the church. "And besides, I figured healing you without your consent was the lesser evil compared to just killing you. I think that's what Sailor Moon, the other Sailor Moon, would've done. She'd have given you a second chance."

"Sailor Moon already gave me a second chance. It might've taken awhile, but I woke up because she destroyed the Dark Kingdom."

"And look how you wasted that chance. You spent all this time consumed by hate. You wanted revenge so badly that you didn't even care that the other Senshi would've probably found and killed you. You were prepared to pay the ultimate price to satisfy your spite."

It was odd.

Jadeite knew she was right. And intellectually he remembered exactly how, when and why he'd felt that way. He remembered everything. But it was as though a link had been severed. The memories existed, but the feelings connected to them were gone.

"How'd you know I won't 'waste' this third chance," he asked. "I don't need my old powers to avenge myself on them you know. You humans have come up with no end of ways to hurt each other."

She scowled and moved off the wall. "They'd stop you from doing that. And even if they didn't, you could never beat her, not even with an army."

He raised an eyebrow as she approached him. Her gaze was unwavering as she stared him dead in the eye. "Sailor Moon is invincible."

With that she broke eye contact and turned away, obviously preparing to leave.

"Wait!" he cried out. "What…what am I supposed to do now?"

She didn't bother to face him as she replied.

"From what I hear you're a pretty resourceful guy, I'm sure you'll be able to make a living for yourself. Just make sure you don't hurt anyone, or else I'll be back."

"That's not what I meant! All I know, all I am, it was wrapped up with the Dark Kingdom and the Sailor Senshi. Without them…if I'm not trying to hurt…What am I supposed to do?"

She came to a halt. This time she looked back at him over her shoulder.

"Make friends. Fall in love. Find a beautiful dream and pursue it. Live. And this time, live for yourself. Not for your masters or for vengeance."

"…I don't know if I can do that." An almost childlike look crossed Jadeite's face, "What if…What if my third chance winds up like my first two?"

Her eyes narrowed.

"Then someone will stop you again. Then you'll be even more pathetic than you were the first time the Sailor Senshi beat you, or this time when I beat you."

They stared each other down for a moment before she turned back and continued walk away, not bothering to look at him anymore.

"But it doesn't have to be that way Jadeite. Not if you wise up."

With that she departed, leaving him alone on the roof.