Title: I Dreamed of Avalon
Author: La Lune
E-mail: la_lune86@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Alternate Reality
June 2001
::Standard Disclaimers Apply::
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Last time on 'I Dreamed of Avalon'
Prologue:
The only thing Darien could do was smirk as he watched
Serena walk into the trailer that been deposited a little ways away of the
large tent that covered a good portion of their tools, Ernie trailed behind
her. Oh boy, he thought amusedly, this should be interesting.
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'What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'
-Aristotle
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Chapter 1
Darien arched an eyebrow as he watched a very uncomfortable Serena walk towards him with a cell phone, more precisely his cell phone, in her hand. He had just gotten back from a little shopping trip in the nearest town, merely out of boredom of course, and had left
Serena to hold down the fort.
"What's wrong woman? You look like you just found out you
have the plague or something."
"Nice hat, reminds me of Crocodile Dundee." She smirked
over at him, referring to the hat which adorned his head, attempting to hide her previously bothered appearance. It didn't work though, she had completely ignored his question and was attempting to change the subject, not to mention didn't say anything about him addressing her as 'woman'.
"I was thinking more along the lines of Indiana Jones, by the way, why do you have my phone?" Serena didn't have her own cell phone, she was convinced that using one caused brain cancer, and wouldn't come within a twenty foot radius of one. And now she was holding one in her hand.
"Oh this?" She held up her right hand that held the offending object.
"No the other phone in your right hand." He rolled his eyes irritatedly, this conversation was getting old fast as far as he was concerned.
"Well you just got a phone call a few minutes ago, while you were still gone, and I answered it." Serena was acting out of character for probably the first time in her life, who had called?
"Oh really? Who was it?"
"My dad."
Darien was taken slightly aback, her dad had called, yikes. Boy, was he glad he wasn't there when he called. He couldn't fathom what he wanted to talk to him about though. "What did he want?"
And this my friends is where it got interesting, Serena burst out in hysterics. This is when Darien definitely knew something bad had happened concerning this particular phone call. Whenever something bad happened Serena would start to laugh before she told him about it.
"It's pretty funny when you think about it, as a matter of fact it's hilarious." She attempted to keep her outburst in check, attempted is a key word, it only lasted for a few seconds.
"Get to the point Serena what did he want?"
Suddenly Serena became silent and the uncomfortable look appeared on her face once more. "First of all I just want to say it's not my fault....."
"I'm sure it is."
"Anyway my dad called while you were gone...."
"We've already established that."
"And you know how I hate cell phones, but it just wouldn't stop ringing and I was about to throw it into a wall, but I answered it anyway despite the risk of brain cancer....."
"Serena stop dawdling, get to the point."
"Mydadthinkswe'resleepingtogether."
It all came out as one word but Darien's ears picked up every
rushed word. He stopped breathing and he felt for sure that his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
"You're kidding."
Serena swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat
uneasily, and nervously began to study the ground. "Actually, no."
"Well you denied it of course, right? You told him the truth,
that that would never happen and never has?" Darien searched Serena's face for an answer, and the way she wouldn't look him in the eye worried him.
"I tried but, you know me, the second he made such an
outlandish accusation, I mean me and you, no way. But I mean at the moment the idea caught me as funny so I...uh...started laughing." Serena noticed the strange look on Darien's face, and didn't like it one bit. "And of course he took it the wrong way, don't get me wrong I
tried to tell him the truth, but he wouldn't believe me, well at least not after that."
Darien stared unbelievingly at her, why was this happening to
him? If her father thought they were sleeping together then that meant his parents were going to find out within the hour as well. "So now he
thinks..."
"Yeah he does."
"Can it get any worse?" Darien turned his face up towards the
sky like he was expecting to be struck down by lightning or something.
"Actually it does." Serena smiled sheepishly at Darien's
puzzled face, "Remember we're both flying up to New York next week to meet up with our parents for a little vacation."
Darien's eyes widened even more as he absorbed the most
resent bit of information that had been thrown in his face. "Oh no...oh no, I completely forgot about that. What are we going to do?"
"I've been thinking about that for awhile now and the best I
can do is to act like nothing happened for now, go to New York like we planned, and once we're there we will both calmly and rationally explain to our parents that a terrible misconception has been made and we'll clear everything up."
"You know what? That actually makes sense. But you forgot
to mention the simple fact that your father, not to mention the rest of your family, doesn't really trust/believe anything you say thanks to some of your previous antics."
"But Darien I didn't say anything this time, he just 'inferred'
that I was sleeping with you, not to mention he caught me completely off guard, I was expecting a telemarketer or a vengeful girlfriend or ... something."
"Serena from this moment on I completely ban you from ever
touching my cell phone again, for the rest of eternity." With that Darien snatched his cell phone out of Serena's grasp and chucked it off into the distance. "Do you know how many messes you've gotten me into, and all of them have been caused by you're big mouth."
"Hey stop acting like it's all my fault, and besides my big
mouth has gotten me into plenty of predicaments too...did I ever tell you about when my boyfriend in college proposed to me?"
"You had a boyfriend in college, and he proposed to you!?"
"I'll take that as a no...well anyway when I was still in college,
I think I was like twenty-three or twenty-four at the time, I had a boyfriend. After awhile I generally got bored with him, he was an eighteen year old frat boy at heart and never seemed to grow up, so naturally I planned to dump him, nicely of course. Well apparently he was thinking the complete opposite, and it ruined all of my carefully thought out plans for how to dump him. I had it all planned we would go for a walk and I would explain to him how I felt and how I saw our 'relationship', sadly it didn't work. We went on a walk through one of the rose gardens in the park and of course right off the bat I knew
something was up, the whole time we were there my mind was just screaming 'TOO ROMANTIC!! TOO ROMANTIC!!', and of course knowing me in my extremely nervous state tripped over everything humanly possible. I was about to go into my planned speech when all of a sudden he wasn't standing next to me, he was kneeling on one knee in front of me. Then he went into some obviously pre-planned speech about how much he loved me, etc., etc., etc., I swear if he hadn't been holding my hand I would have walked away and left him there, but sadly I was stuck there listening to him. It only got worse though, I tried to stop him before he made a fool of himself but it didn't work, and before I knew it I had a ring shoved into my face. That's when the worst thing of all happened - I started laughing, but not just a normal laugh of happiness, if there is one, I mean I went into full blown
hysterics. It was funny though, you see we had only been dating for a
month and he was proposing to me! I wasn't really paying attention to
what I was doing and accidentally blurted out what I was supposed to
tell him, only I forgot my perfectly planned speech. So not only did I
laugh at him when he proposed, but I dumped him very
unceremoniously."
"What did you do after you 'broke the news'?"
"Oh I turned around in the opposite direction and high-tailed it
the hell out of there."
"Ok, and after that you two never spoke again, the end. Am I
correct?"
"Actually no, he became furious, thought I had been cheating
on him or something, and slept with the nearest female, who may I add happened to be a stripper. And no that's not where it ends, it gets even better. It turns out that his retaliation backfired," Serena couldn't help but snicker at this part, "he got the girl pregnant."
"Geez woman, where the hell do you meet these people?"
"It's more like, how do these people find me?"
Darien smiled and wrapped an arm around Serena's shoulders,
"So tell me do you know what's happening with lover boy now?"
"As a matter of fact yes, shortly after he found out about the
stripper being pregnant he dropped out of college and hastily married her. Currently I believe he's an auto mechanic in West Virginia, and if I may add recently divorced from his now ex-wife. He is also fighting for custody of his four year old son, who has to be the ugliest kid I've ever seen."
"And how exactly do you know all of this stuff? And don't
you think you're being a little cruel concerning the kid?"
"Let's just say I know this stuff and leave it at that, and believe
me Darien, his kid looks like a monkey."
"I could say something really mean right now, referring to you,
but out of the kindness of my heart I won't."
"You know Darien, with you being my 'secret' lover and all, I
don't appreciate such hurtful comments." Serena smirked up at him, and added a little wink for effect.
"Serena, just shut up."
To be continued.........
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Author's Notes: I must say I am quite proud of how quickly I got this chapter out, even though it isn't as long as the prologue. Also I must admit this chapter isn't too good...but it does serve the purpose it was meant for. This one was supposed to be anyway, it really is just supposed to introduce a situation which will effect Darien and Serena in the next couple of chapters, believe me it will get interesting. Oh yeah, in probably every chapter you'll see Serena tell some sort of story about
something that happened in her past, she has a lot of them. Just wait to
see what kind of job she had as a teenager (he he!). As always feedback
would be wonderful, please REVIEW!!!!
Until next time...
-La Lune
Author: La Lune
E-mail: la_lune86@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Alternate Reality
June 2001
::Standard Disclaimers Apply::
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Last time on 'I Dreamed of Avalon'
Prologue:
The only thing Darien could do was smirk as he watched
Serena walk into the trailer that been deposited a little ways away of the
large tent that covered a good portion of their tools, Ernie trailed behind
her. Oh boy, he thought amusedly, this should be interesting.
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'What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'
-Aristotle
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Chapter 1
Darien arched an eyebrow as he watched a very uncomfortable Serena walk towards him with a cell phone, more precisely his cell phone, in her hand. He had just gotten back from a little shopping trip in the nearest town, merely out of boredom of course, and had left
Serena to hold down the fort.
"What's wrong woman? You look like you just found out you
have the plague or something."
"Nice hat, reminds me of Crocodile Dundee." She smirked
over at him, referring to the hat which adorned his head, attempting to hide her previously bothered appearance. It didn't work though, she had completely ignored his question and was attempting to change the subject, not to mention didn't say anything about him addressing her as 'woman'.
"I was thinking more along the lines of Indiana Jones, by the way, why do you have my phone?" Serena didn't have her own cell phone, she was convinced that using one caused brain cancer, and wouldn't come within a twenty foot radius of one. And now she was holding one in her hand.
"Oh this?" She held up her right hand that held the offending object.
"No the other phone in your right hand." He rolled his eyes irritatedly, this conversation was getting old fast as far as he was concerned.
"Well you just got a phone call a few minutes ago, while you were still gone, and I answered it." Serena was acting out of character for probably the first time in her life, who had called?
"Oh really? Who was it?"
"My dad."
Darien was taken slightly aback, her dad had called, yikes. Boy, was he glad he wasn't there when he called. He couldn't fathom what he wanted to talk to him about though. "What did he want?"
And this my friends is where it got interesting, Serena burst out in hysterics. This is when Darien definitely knew something bad had happened concerning this particular phone call. Whenever something bad happened Serena would start to laugh before she told him about it.
"It's pretty funny when you think about it, as a matter of fact it's hilarious." She attempted to keep her outburst in check, attempted is a key word, it only lasted for a few seconds.
"Get to the point Serena what did he want?"
Suddenly Serena became silent and the uncomfortable look appeared on her face once more. "First of all I just want to say it's not my fault....."
"I'm sure it is."
"Anyway my dad called while you were gone...."
"We've already established that."
"And you know how I hate cell phones, but it just wouldn't stop ringing and I was about to throw it into a wall, but I answered it anyway despite the risk of brain cancer....."
"Serena stop dawdling, get to the point."
"Mydadthinkswe'resleepingtogether."
It all came out as one word but Darien's ears picked up every
rushed word. He stopped breathing and he felt for sure that his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
"You're kidding."
Serena swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat
uneasily, and nervously began to study the ground. "Actually, no."
"Well you denied it of course, right? You told him the truth,
that that would never happen and never has?" Darien searched Serena's face for an answer, and the way she wouldn't look him in the eye worried him.
"I tried but, you know me, the second he made such an
outlandish accusation, I mean me and you, no way. But I mean at the moment the idea caught me as funny so I...uh...started laughing." Serena noticed the strange look on Darien's face, and didn't like it one bit. "And of course he took it the wrong way, don't get me wrong I
tried to tell him the truth, but he wouldn't believe me, well at least not after that."
Darien stared unbelievingly at her, why was this happening to
him? If her father thought they were sleeping together then that meant his parents were going to find out within the hour as well. "So now he
thinks..."
"Yeah he does."
"Can it get any worse?" Darien turned his face up towards the
sky like he was expecting to be struck down by lightning or something.
"Actually it does." Serena smiled sheepishly at Darien's
puzzled face, "Remember we're both flying up to New York next week to meet up with our parents for a little vacation."
Darien's eyes widened even more as he absorbed the most
resent bit of information that had been thrown in his face. "Oh no...oh no, I completely forgot about that. What are we going to do?"
"I've been thinking about that for awhile now and the best I
can do is to act like nothing happened for now, go to New York like we planned, and once we're there we will both calmly and rationally explain to our parents that a terrible misconception has been made and we'll clear everything up."
"You know what? That actually makes sense. But you forgot
to mention the simple fact that your father, not to mention the rest of your family, doesn't really trust/believe anything you say thanks to some of your previous antics."
"But Darien I didn't say anything this time, he just 'inferred'
that I was sleeping with you, not to mention he caught me completely off guard, I was expecting a telemarketer or a vengeful girlfriend or ... something."
"Serena from this moment on I completely ban you from ever
touching my cell phone again, for the rest of eternity." With that Darien snatched his cell phone out of Serena's grasp and chucked it off into the distance. "Do you know how many messes you've gotten me into, and all of them have been caused by you're big mouth."
"Hey stop acting like it's all my fault, and besides my big
mouth has gotten me into plenty of predicaments too...did I ever tell you about when my boyfriend in college proposed to me?"
"You had a boyfriend in college, and he proposed to you!?"
"I'll take that as a no...well anyway when I was still in college,
I think I was like twenty-three or twenty-four at the time, I had a boyfriend. After awhile I generally got bored with him, he was an eighteen year old frat boy at heart and never seemed to grow up, so naturally I planned to dump him, nicely of course. Well apparently he was thinking the complete opposite, and it ruined all of my carefully thought out plans for how to dump him. I had it all planned we would go for a walk and I would explain to him how I felt and how I saw our 'relationship', sadly it didn't work. We went on a walk through one of the rose gardens in the park and of course right off the bat I knew
something was up, the whole time we were there my mind was just screaming 'TOO ROMANTIC!! TOO ROMANTIC!!', and of course knowing me in my extremely nervous state tripped over everything humanly possible. I was about to go into my planned speech when all of a sudden he wasn't standing next to me, he was kneeling on one knee in front of me. Then he went into some obviously pre-planned speech about how much he loved me, etc., etc., etc., I swear if he hadn't been holding my hand I would have walked away and left him there, but sadly I was stuck there listening to him. It only got worse though, I tried to stop him before he made a fool of himself but it didn't work, and before I knew it I had a ring shoved into my face. That's when the worst thing of all happened - I started laughing, but not just a normal laugh of happiness, if there is one, I mean I went into full blown
hysterics. It was funny though, you see we had only been dating for a
month and he was proposing to me! I wasn't really paying attention to
what I was doing and accidentally blurted out what I was supposed to
tell him, only I forgot my perfectly planned speech. So not only did I
laugh at him when he proposed, but I dumped him very
unceremoniously."
"What did you do after you 'broke the news'?"
"Oh I turned around in the opposite direction and high-tailed it
the hell out of there."
"Ok, and after that you two never spoke again, the end. Am I
correct?"
"Actually no, he became furious, thought I had been cheating
on him or something, and slept with the nearest female, who may I add happened to be a stripper. And no that's not where it ends, it gets even better. It turns out that his retaliation backfired," Serena couldn't help but snicker at this part, "he got the girl pregnant."
"Geez woman, where the hell do you meet these people?"
"It's more like, how do these people find me?"
Darien smiled and wrapped an arm around Serena's shoulders,
"So tell me do you know what's happening with lover boy now?"
"As a matter of fact yes, shortly after he found out about the
stripper being pregnant he dropped out of college and hastily married her. Currently I believe he's an auto mechanic in West Virginia, and if I may add recently divorced from his now ex-wife. He is also fighting for custody of his four year old son, who has to be the ugliest kid I've ever seen."
"And how exactly do you know all of this stuff? And don't
you think you're being a little cruel concerning the kid?"
"Let's just say I know this stuff and leave it at that, and believe
me Darien, his kid looks like a monkey."
"I could say something really mean right now, referring to you,
but out of the kindness of my heart I won't."
"You know Darien, with you being my 'secret' lover and all, I
don't appreciate such hurtful comments." Serena smirked up at him, and added a little wink for effect.
"Serena, just shut up."
To be continued.........
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Author's Notes: I must say I am quite proud of how quickly I got this chapter out, even though it isn't as long as the prologue. Also I must admit this chapter isn't too good...but it does serve the purpose it was meant for. This one was supposed to be anyway, it really is just supposed to introduce a situation which will effect Darien and Serena in the next couple of chapters, believe me it will get interesting. Oh yeah, in probably every chapter you'll see Serena tell some sort of story about
something that happened in her past, she has a lot of them. Just wait to
see what kind of job she had as a teenager (he he!). As always feedback
would be wonderful, please REVIEW!!!!
Until next time...
-La Lune
