2 Mystery of future and present
The little girl is playing pretend, Usagi knows it just as she knows her own hair is blonde. Getting down her knees so that she is eye to eye with the child, Usagi catches the crimson eyes with her own and smiles, and gently pushes the fake gun away.
"Why do you need the Silver Crystal?" she asks gently.
"I just do!" the child says and tries to sound angry, but Usagi hear the quiver in the little voice, sees the tearing in the eyes and knows the girl is holding back far too much for one so little.
"See, I can't help you if you don't tell me what you need help with. Only I can wield the Crystal, so without me, you can't get any use from it," she says and then, in the blink of a heartbeat, the Silver Crystal is hovering above her right palm shining brightly and the voice that's not a voice but more of a feeling that somehow seems to whisper to her, tells Usagi she is on the right track.
"I need to help mummy," the girl whispers, and as a single tears slides down one cheek, she reaches out a finger and touches the Silver Crystal. Usagi is drowning in memories that aren't her but are of her. She's older and holding a baby with pink tufts of hair, standing in a window of a palace made of crystal, made out from the Silver Crystal and there is light everywhere. And then darkness, and the little girl is the age she is now, and running to a Senshi with long green hair, grabs a key, jumps through a door and falls, falls, falls.
Usagi blinks, sees Mamoru and the little girl in her own world once more.
"What's your name, sweetheart?" she asks softly, wanting to confirm the growing suspicion in her heart.
"Usagi Serenity," the girl mumbles and look at Usagi through pink bangs.
"Oh, dear," Usagi mutters and thanks the Silver Crystal for the calm it gives her, without it she'd freak out a lot more.
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"She is who?" Mamoru huffs, while Rei makes strangled cough-laughing sound, Ami merely stares, Makoto drops the cookie she has taken and Minako looks between Usagi and Mamoru.
"She is, from what I can tell, our daughter," Usagi repeats and gestures between herself and Mamoru. On the couch, huddled inside a blanked with a cup of hot chocolate, the newly nick named Chibiusa nods.
"Yup. I figured out that mama used to be Sailor Moon, but no one thought I did, which is so weird, but it's true!" she says and smiles happily and drink her chocolate, then adds.
"But I didn't know you were so young, mama!"
And Usagi can do nothing but laugh, slightly hysterical but no less true, because the child is a gem. A gem that she will protect and help at whatever cost.