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[Hello! J My name is R. Cybelle Gil and this is my fan fiction on the Sailor Scouts and on the love life of Serena and Darien.  Just for some background my story takes place two years after the series ends.  Serena has just graduated from high school, amazingly, and so have the others.  Serena is eighteen years old and my story spans from the moment she moves out till her marriage to Darien at the age of twenty.  Sailor Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto make an appearance towards the end of my story and I have a mix of N. American and Japanese names for the characters.  Just so you know and don't get confused, the names I'll be using are: Serena=Usagi; Amy=Ami; Rei is Rei; Minako=Mina; Makoto (Mako)=Lita; Hotaru; Haruka; Michiru; Setsuna.  I kept all the outer Sailors with their Japanese names because when I wrote this I had no idea what their American names would be.  Oh, by the way, there are special appearances by Diamond, Sapphire, Prisma and Nephlite (hopefully the Americans will know whom I'm talking about.)  And I made up another character just for Mina.  You'll see.  Oh!  And since I don't really know what the Eternal Moon Compact looks like, I stuck with the old moon crystal brooch, but she still says "Eternal Moon Crystal Power!"  Well enjoy my story and have fun! J]

Serena and Darien…

And the Scouts

A New Beginning

            They had all finally all graduated from high school.  Even Serena had somehow managed to pull through high school and make the grade.  Ami made Valedictorian, and Rei made it in the top twenty- percent.  Lita, Mina, and Serena all dragged behind, but at least they had passed!

            But now Serena stared at her room with silent sadness as memories passed through her mind.  She had been through so much with her friends and her love.  Now it all seemed as if a new life was starting.  And it was.  She was moving out of her home.  She had already spoken to her mother and they had agreed that her family needed to save money for Sammy's college fund and if Serena stayed they would only loose money.  Serena smiled.  Plus she needed to get out on her own.  If she didn't, how was she supposed to become a good queen some day?  Serena held her purse close as she stared into the bedroom she had lived in for the beginning of her life.  How things had changed.

            She remembered starting junior high and becoming Sailor Moon for the first time.  She remembered the discovery of who she really was and when she first met Luna.  She remembered being the biggest wimp and the fight against the Nega Verse, the Doom Tree family, and the Nega Moon.  She grinned.  She remembered Reeny, Sailor Pluto and becoming Super Sailor Moon.  She remembered Sailor Saturn, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.  She recalled Galaxia and Chaos and Mistress 9.  She remembered training in the martial arts behind the scouts' backs and becoming Eternal Sailor Moon.  She remembered when the new Sailor Starlights had gone out on their own.  Only the originals stayed in this area.  Serena smiled.  After all, they had grown up together.  And now they were grown up.

            Serena could remember the last terrible threat that had happened around four years ago.  Since then they had had no major terrors to deal with.  Serena remembered when Artemis and Luna tried to erase their memories again.  No thank you.  Whether they had any real danger to deal with or not, they were not going to have their memories erased again.

            And she was glad that they hadn't as the memories rushed through.  Time to start a new life.  Serena smiled as she closed the door to her room and her childhood.  I wonder what Luna will do once she finds out I moved out?

*          *          *

            Darien opened the door and stared into beautiful blue eyes.  He smiled.  "Hey, Meatball-head.  What are you doing here?  I'm about to head out for work."

            Serena smiled at the nickname.  He had been calling her that for as long as she could remember.  "I came to ask you something."

            Darien smiled at the beautiful woman before him.  It was almost unreal at how long he'd been in love and dating Serena.  Since she was in junior high.  But he could never say that in all the years they had been together that he hadn't had the time of his life.  He loved her like he loved no one else in the universe.  "What is it?"

            Serena lightly blushed and set her eyes on the floor.  "I was just wondering if you knew if there was anyone selling their apartment here in this building."

            Darien blinked in confusion.  "Why would you want to know?"

            "Because I moved out the house and I'm looking for a new place to live."

            He shook his head in bafflement.  "Why would you move out?"

            "Because Mom needs to save money for Sammy to graduate and get into college.  She said she's going to help me put the down payment on an apartment, but I am to go out on my own and raise enough money to go to college myself, if I want to go that is."  Serena smiled at Darien's startled expression.  "That's the basic explanation.  But the basic thing is that I want to learn how to be on my own for if I become Neo-Queen Serenity.  But, of course, I couldn't tell Mom that."

            Darien just shook his head.  Who would have thought Serena would be this bold?  But maybe now… "I'm sorry, Serena.  But no one is selling their apartment in my building."

            "Oh."

            Darien smiled at her answer.  "But you could always move in with me."

            Serena's head shot up from examining her toe.  "Really, Darien?"  At his nod, Serena squealed and jumped into his arms.  "This is wonderful!  I'll unpack while you're working!"

            He started and looked down at the beaming young woman in his arms.  "You're already packed and everything is in your car downstairs?" he asked incredulously.

            Serena nodded.  "See, I was planning to get an apartment today for sure.  I mean, even Luna doesn't even know that I moved out."

            He lifted an eyebrow and shook his head.  "Oh, well, she'll find out eventually.  I'll help you get your bags up, but then I have to get to work, all right?"  Serena nodded and released him.  Darien gave her kiss and they both headed downstairs to get her bags.

            After Darien had left to work, Serena began her work.  She unpacked everything in her bags and set them up neatly in his closet and bathroom.  She made sure not to interfere with any of his things.  And after she was through with the unpacking, she began to clean up the apartment.

            Little did Serena know that Luna was at the door of the apartment peering in curiously.  When she had returned home and saw of Serena's things gone, Luna had gone into a panic.  So she had gone to Darien's to see if he knew were Serena had gone.  She hadn't needed to look further.  Serena had moved in with Darien? Luna thought curiously.  She immediately felt sorry for Darien until she saw Serena painstakingly put everything away in order and then begin to clean. She had never seen Serena willingly begin to clean her room let alone an entire apartment.  And now she was doing it so carefully, almost as if she was afraid to break anything.  The klutz trying not to break any thing?  Luna almost burst out laughing.  But as she watched Serena cleaned the entire apartment without breaking a thing, Luna began to wonder what was wrong with her.  Because one thing is when Serena starts to ice skate like the Moon Princess again, but it is another thing entirely when she doing something completely against her nature.

            When Serena began to cook, then Luna thought it was all over.  But she actually did quite well until she added more salt.  The top fell into the stew along with a truckload of salt.  Serena tried to fix it, but only made it worse.  Her eyes watered painfully and her lips pressed together tightly as she tasted her destroyed concoction.  Finally, she gave up and left the apartment.  Luna quickly hid.  When Serena returned she carried an entire tray of tiny bottles.  She then reached into the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink and poured some rat killer into the stew.  Luna began to panic.  What was Serena doing?  In each one of the little bottles she poured some of the foul concoction and when she was through passed them around to her neighbors and said it was rat poison.  They all accepted a bottle eagerly.  Luna couldn't help but be amazed at how she got rid of the dreaded stew.

            Serena then cleaned the kitchen and ordered take-out.  Luna watched her as she set the table romantically and set up the food when it arrived.  Serena put on some romantic music and dimmed the lights and lit candles.  Luna waited to see what she would do now.  Serena did nothing but wait for Darien.

            And wait and wait and wait.

            Serena fell asleep on the couch waiting for him and the candles burned low.

            When Darien finally entered into his apartment, he bumped into Luna.  Darien looked down and saw the disgruntled cat.  "Luna?"

            Luna rubbed her rear and looked up at him.  "Of course."

            Darien lifted an eyebrow.  "How did you get in here?"

            "Serena left the door open while she did your spring cleaning for you."

            He looked perplexed for a moment.  Then he blinked.  "She cleaned?"

            Luna nodded and said, "And that's not the half of it, Darien," and she related the entire day to him.  She told him about the adventure with the soup, and the caution she used when cleaning.  She even told him about how Serena had organized all her clothing and trinkets to his.  Curious, Darien checked his closet and stared in amazement.  All of Serena's clothes and shoes were neatly placed across from his.  He checked the bathroom and saw of her things mingling with his as if they had always been there.  He stared in amazement at how clean the place looked and then he spotted the dead candles, the cold food, the music on repeat, and the sleeping woman on his couch.  Darien stared at her in awe and in shock.  It was amazing how Serena could have done all this.  She probably wore herself out.  But what confused him was why.  She had never acted this way before.  Why start now?  But as Darien stared at the woman sleeping on his couch and the beautifully set table, his heart filled with love at what she had done for him.  He had never seen Serena work so hard on housework.

            Darien turned to Luna and asked, "Are you going to stay?"

            Luna blinked up at him, then thought.  She shook her head.  "Not yet.  I'll come back at the end of the week to check on her, and I'll tell the other Sailor Starlights about this new development.  Serena has moved in with you, Darien."  Luna smiled.  "And it looks like she made herself perfectly at home."  And with that the black cat strode out of the apartment.

            Darien only shook his head and bent down to wake Serena.  Serena's eyes fluttered open as Darien's lips brushed hers.  She smiled and kissed him back passionately.  He quickly pulled away knowing this wasn't a good position to be in to kiss passionately.  He'll end up forgetting were he was and have his way with her.  And she probably wouldn't mind a bit.

            Darien smiled down at her and she smiled back and yawned.  Serena then lifted an eyebrow at him.  "What took you so long?  The candles are completely out."

            He shrugged his shoulders.  "I had a mess of stuff I had to finish.  And from the looks of this place you had about as much of a tiring day as me."

            Serena nodded vigorously and sat up.  She stared at the cold food and the melted candles.  She then looked up at him.  "Well, I guess I'll heat up the food while you supply new candles.  All right?"  Darien grinned and nodded and got up to do just that.  Serena heated the food and Darien set up the candlelight moment as they enjoyed a romantic dinner talking about his day and hers.  Darien noted that Serena didn't mention a word about the failed cooking experiment.  He grinned.

            After dinner, they both picked up the table and Serena flopped down immediately on the couch.  Darien lifted an eyebrow and asked, "What are you doing?"

            She arched and snuggled into the couch.  "Trying to get accustomed to my new bed."

            Darien was already shaking his head.  "Oh, no, you don't.  You are not going to sleep on the couch while I sleep on the bed.  It just isn't right."

            Serena sat up.  "But it's your apartment.  You get the bed.  It's your bed."

            He nodded.  "Yeah, my apartment.  My rules.  You get the bed; I'll get the couch."

            She bolted up.  "Oh, no, you don't, Darien.  I'm not going to sleep on that huge bed while you sleep on this hard lumpy couch!  I'd feel terrible and like I'm intruding.  You'll get your bed and I'll get the couch."

            Darien shook his head. "No.  Because of that hard lumpy couch you'll get the bed and I'll get the couch.  And that's final."

            "No, it's not!"

            And so began a huge argument, which only led, to Darien's torture, that they both sleep in the bed.  Serena began to argue with that as well, but he silenced her and she conceded.  They would sleep together.  In the same big bed.

            Darien had no idea how he'd live through the night.

            Serena was used to sleeping in a bed alone, so after she had been asleep for a few minutes she had immediately snuggled up to his heat making him groan with the suffering he was just beginning to go through.  It was going to be a very, very long night.

            Darien awoke to the sensual movement of a thigh moving over his hips.  His eyes shot open and Serena was practically sprawled on top of him, her leg over his thighs and hips, her breasts tightly pressed against his side and chest, her nightgown up around her hips, her hand on his chest and her face in his neck.  Darien closed his eyes against the exquisite agony and took in a deep ragged breath.  He didn't know for how long he could keep this up without taking her.  He tried to get his mind off such thoughts, but that was as useless as trying not to breathe.

            He finally got some sleep, but he didn't wake up that morning the least bit refreshed.  Maybe having Serena move in hadn't been such a good idea.

*          *          *

            Serena emerged from the bathroom at about the same time Darien walked into the bedroom.  He had come home from work for lunch and had seen Serena nowhere.  Assuming she was still sleeping, for she had been when he had left, he had unbuttoned his shirt completely.  But when he had entered the bedroom he did not face a sleeping woman.

            He found a woman in only a towel with a mountain on her head.

            Darien and Serena just stared at each other for long moments, their eyes hungrily devouring each other.  He finally approached her, but she stayed still and unmoving.  Her heart pounded furiously in her chest as he came closer and Serena could feel the blood rushing through her veins.  Darien slowly began to undo the mountain of towels she had plied on top of her head.  A cascade of brilliant blond hair flowed downward and spread out about a foot on the floor.  He just stared in awe.  Her knees grew weak.  What would happen now?

            Darien could not resist.  His hands itched with the need to touch the beautiful mass of glorious hair.  His hands raised and framed the side of her face and his fingers delved into the lustrous mass, groaning with pleasure.  Serena sucked in breath and she closed her eyes against the feel of his hands moving through her free hair and massaging her scalp.  Her hands were gripped tightly to the edges of the towel that held it together over her body, and her mind's eye burned with the image of his naked chest and the glow of his eyes.

            He pulled her to him with his hands still buried in her splendid hair and took her mouth.  She opened her lips to his demanding tongue and melted against him.  Her hands released the towel and fell silently to the floor as she wrapped her arms around him and pressed close.  Feeling breasts pressing against his bare chest, Darien drew a deep gasp and devoured her mouth, drinking all of her.  God!  How he wanted her.  He pressed her more tightly against him and Serena instantly reacted, rubbing herself against him.  Darien groaned from deep within himself and it took all of his strength to pull away.  But when his eyes gazed into her dazed ones and he stared at the beautiful woman before him, he was lost.

            "Serena."

            He took her in his arms and carried her to the bed, where he quickly divested himself of his clothing.  He stared at her beautifully glazed eyes as she gazed at him the way he had her when she had been revealed to him.  Her big gorgeous eyes fastened once again on his and she smiled.  That was all he needed.  Darien moved over Serena and made sweet, hot love to her.  He devoured all of her with all the love in his heart.  She chanted his name like a prayer, urging him on with her movements, pleas, and touches.  She drove him insane.  Her hair billowed about her like a golden glow and Darien fell over the cliff of oblivion.  They took each other; driving over to the brink and shattering like a million crystals.  She didn't even feel the pain; she was overwhelmed with pleasure.  Serena screamed his name to the spirits who watched as he arched and shouted her name to the heavens.  They were finally one.

 

*          *          *

            Serena was making circles on his chest with her fingernail; her hair cascading over them both as Darien finished telling his boss he would not be back for the rest of the day.  She smiled contendedly at him as he placed the phone back.  A part of him couldn't believe what he had dreamed about had finally happened, and another part of him was urging him to take her again.  But he knew she was probably still tender from the last frenzied mating.

            After the first sweet bliss, he had made love to the woman of his dreams twice more.

            But Serena didn't look the least bit phased.  He wondered if she had known this was going to happen, just as he did when they agreed to sleep in the same bed.  From the mischievous look in her eye, he could assume that she had.  Darien smiled up at her.

            "What are you thinking?"

            Serena loved the sound of his voice.  It had grown huskier with their lovemaking and she only loved it more.  She smiled lovingly down at him and wondered again in amazement at how it had happened.  She had been in torture the night before, sleeping with him and not being able to touch him.  Now she could touch him all she pleased.  She grinned.  Since she moved into his apartment she had been wondering how long it would take them to get to this point.  After all they had been waiting for almost five years.  It had only taken a day and a half.  Serena grinned wider.

            "I was just remembering how I had wondered how long it would take us to get this far after I moved in."  Serena smiled playfully at him as she brushed a stray lock of hair away from his forehead.  "It took a day and a half.  Which I think was a little too much considering we've been waiting for almost five years."

            Darien grinned in return and ran a hand through her hair, pulling her down for a long lingering kiss.  "You're right," he said against her glazed, swollen lips.  "We waited to long.  I should have taken you the night of your prom."

            Serena let out a throaty laugh and kissed his neck.  "Yes, maybe you should have."

            But as their playfulness began to increase in intensity… Darien's doorbell rang.

            Both turned to intruding noise and were about to ignore it when they heard a bellow.

            "Serena!  We know you're in there!  Open up!"

            It was Rei.  And the 'we' was probably the other Sailor Starlights.  Serena and Darien glanced at each other for a moment and scrambled out of bed.  Darien quickly dressed himself and then helped Serena get dressed as she began to fix her hair.  He had to help her with that as well as Rei and Lita pounded on the door.

            Serena called from the bedroom; "I'll be right there!  I just got out of the shower!"

            But that did not cease the insistent pounding.  By the time Serena finished with her hair, it sounded as if they were breaking down the door.  She rolled her eyes.  The neighbors would be complaining forever.

            Serena swung open the door, as Rei was about to jam it with her shoulder.  Rei fell on her startled friend and they both hit the floor with a painful thud.  Rei just stared down at the friend she had fallen on.  "Serena!  You broke my fall perfectly!"

            Serena growled and shoved Rei off.  The other three friends were howling with laughter.  Rei stood up and helped Serena get up off the floor as well.  Once Serena had recovered her composure, she gazed at her friends and asked, "How did you guys find out I was here?"

            Lita grinned.  "Luna told us when we went by your place.  I still can't believe you actually moved in with Darien!"

            Ami and Mina nodded with their astonishment.  Serena just smiled.  But Darien couldn't let that one pass.  "What's so hard to believe about it?"

            All the Sailor Starlights turned to the man stepping out of the kitchen.  They all blinked in surprise.  Mina turned to Serena.  "Hey, Serena.  I thought you were alone here."

            Ami nodded.  "Yeah.  Darien, why aren't you working?"

            Darien grinned.  "I took the rest of the day off."

            Rei lifted an eyebrow and turned to Serena.  The blonde's face was flushed and her lips swollen.  Realization dawned on Rei.  She grinned wickedly.  The rest of the Sailors had drifted into the kitchen to see and smell what it was Darien was cooking.  Lita eagerly began to assist.  When Rei and Serena were alone, she began to ply Serena with questions.

            "What were you really doing before we came?"

            Serena only blushed.  She said nothing and began to march toward the kitchen.  Rei grabbed her arm and grinned.  "Were you and Darien going at it?"

            Serena refused to answer.  Rei squealed.  "You were, weren't you?  You and Darien were both in that bed before we rudely interrupted!"

            Three heads appeared out the doorway of the kitchen.  Darien could be heard groaning from the kitchen.  Lita, Mina and Ami had questions on their face.  "Did we here what we thought we heard?" Lita asked curiously.

            Mina grinned and turned to the tall brunette.  "Can't you see Serena's face and hear Darien groaning?  They finally got around to it."

            Ami giggled and winked at Serena.  "I'll have you know that these three had placed bets on when you and Darien would finally go through with it."

            Rei lifted an eyebrow at Ami as the Lita and Mina stared at her in annoyance.  "You're only accusing us because you know you won!" Rei said in annoyance.

Ami nodded and gave a crooked smile.  "Yes, and don't you be a sourpuss, Rei.  You owe me twenty dollars, Lita owes me fifteen, and Mina owes me ten."

Serena looked horrified.  "You all placed bets on when Darien and me would finally make love?" she asked incredulously.  The other four Sailors grinned and nodded.  Darien burst out laughing from the kitchen.  Serena just shook her head in amazement.  "I wonder how long this has been going on?"

"Since you turned eighteen," they all said in unison.

"I betted that you and Darien would do the deed on your anniversary," Rei stated.

"I betted that you both would do it on your birthday," Mina said with a shrug.

"I betted that you and Darien would do it on prom night," Lita said with a grin.

"I said the day you moved in with Darien would be the day it would happen," Ami said and then winked at Serena.  "I was only off by half a day."

By the time they were through Serena had turned so many different shades of red, she could feel her face burning.  All those days, she and Darien had come so close to the climax they had finally reached.  And by the look he was throwing at her from the kitchen doorway, she could see that he had noticed that too.  He grinned.  Serena couldn't help it.  She grinned back.

Lita saw where this was headed.  "Oh, no, you don't."  She turned to Darien and hustled him back inside the kitchen.  "You are going to finish that delicious lunch you're making, while Ami, Mina, Rei and I squeeze all the details out of your girlfriend."

Serena squealed and shook her head, her face growing warm again.  But Rei had no mercy.  She grinned evilly at Serena.  "You will tell us every little detail even if we have to wring it out of you."  Lita, Mina and Ami nodded.

Serena gulped.  "Darien!"