"Hey Ami! Did Mina-chan come back yet?" Usagi swung the door open and skipped into the apartment, she was evidently in high spirits. Ami held up a finger to pause Usagi for a moment as she finished typeing some information into her little computer and wrote some figures down onto a pad of yellow paper next to her.
"What did you say Usagi?" asked Ami as she pulled her reading glasses furthur down on her nose so she could see over them.
"Is Minako back yet?" repeated Usagi as she looked for a bowl to ladel some soop into.
"No. The control room isn't very far away either. The hospital is furthur. Rei went out to see what was takeing so long. She left just a few minutes ago. Makoto decide to take a shower. Could you bring be some stew as long as you're in there?" Ami had slid her glasses back up onto her nose and was looking at various charts, graphs and topographical maps on her screen.
Usagi brought a little green ceramic bowl of stew and a wooden spoon to Ami before she plopped down to flip through one of Makoto's many romance novels.
Rei walked through the automatic doors to the Crown Game Center and looked around. It was obviously not a very busy day, Motiki was passed out on some chairs pushed together. Makoto would laugh at that!, thought Rei. Well this was perfect. She could check the control room with out Motiki annoying her. Motiki knew the Senshi's identites, but Rei didn't feel like talking to anyone right now.
It was dark in the control room. Rei couldn't see anything for a moment untill her purple eyes adjusted to the light. Minako was sitting in the shadows with her face hidden by her heavy bangs. She was craddeling Luna in her arms, Luna whose face was burried in Minako's shirt and had her arms wrapped protectivly around her head.
Minako didn't see Rei entering the control room. So it was Rei who spoke first. "Minako. Is everything okay?"
The blond lifted her head and blinked a few times before she realized who was speaking to her. "Luna... Luna isn't doing so well." whispered Minako over Luna's sleeping head.
"Why not then?" hissed Rei.
"Apparently Artemis-" Minako was interupted by a cry from Luna.
"Don't. Don't tell. I don't want to have to go through it five diffrent times. Just once for everyone if they all want to know. Is Artemis at Mako's, Rei?" Rei shook her head.
"Lets go home you two." sighed Rei as she jammed her hands into the pockets of the gray sweat pants. Minako helped Luna up and they followed the flip-flop sound of the so named sandals on Rei's feet.
"Here Luna, put these on. You really can't keep on going around in that outfit..." murmured Makoto kindly as she handed Luna a white denim miniskirt and a pale orange tshirt.
"Now tell everyone like you said you would." engouraged Minako coaxingly.
Luna collapsed into a comfortable armchair and let her head fall into her hand after looking wistfully out the window. "Artemis... I don't know if your four: Ami, Minako, Rei, Makoto, I don't know if you knew. But Artemis and I woke up to the fact that we lo..love each other. But then...we- we had a bit of a fight and now. Now I don't know if we are going to-to stay together..." Luna had begun rocking back and forth and at the end of her story she burst into tears again. Usagi knelt and rocked Luna in a hug untill she quieted and Makoto brought her a little cocoa in the pretty yellow mug that Makoto's mother had loved so much.
When Luna has quieted down, Rei asked her where Artemis could have gone. Luna sniffed and didn't know. But Ami, as usual, had the answer. Artemis had left his communicator on the kitchen table, so he couldn't be contacted that way. But Ami could do a area wide scan of Tokyo, seraching for Artemis's exact DNA and aura. It would be difficult and take a good deal of time, but they had to find Artemis, especially since he had most likely not purchased new clothing. His white suit was not exactly camoflage, even in a cosmopolitan city like Tokyo. Artemis was a valuble comodity to Jadeite, and the general wouldn't hesitate in recaptureing bait like him.
"Please find Artemis, Ami. The fight was about the fact that maybe with lives like ours... that liveing one big battle isn't the best place for falling in love. But I was the one- the one who was being a coward. I didn't want the risk. But I'd give anything for the risk now. Anything." Luna's voice was shakeing again and she took another sip of cocoa to sooth herself. Ami started up her computer and fixed up the search program.
"What did you say Usagi?" asked Ami as she pulled her reading glasses furthur down on her nose so she could see over them.
"Is Minako back yet?" repeated Usagi as she looked for a bowl to ladel some soop into.
"No. The control room isn't very far away either. The hospital is furthur. Rei went out to see what was takeing so long. She left just a few minutes ago. Makoto decide to take a shower. Could you bring be some stew as long as you're in there?" Ami had slid her glasses back up onto her nose and was looking at various charts, graphs and topographical maps on her screen.
Usagi brought a little green ceramic bowl of stew and a wooden spoon to Ami before she plopped down to flip through one of Makoto's many romance novels.
Rei walked through the automatic doors to the Crown Game Center and looked around. It was obviously not a very busy day, Motiki was passed out on some chairs pushed together. Makoto would laugh at that!, thought Rei. Well this was perfect. She could check the control room with out Motiki annoying her. Motiki knew the Senshi's identites, but Rei didn't feel like talking to anyone right now.
It was dark in the control room. Rei couldn't see anything for a moment untill her purple eyes adjusted to the light. Minako was sitting in the shadows with her face hidden by her heavy bangs. She was craddeling Luna in her arms, Luna whose face was burried in Minako's shirt and had her arms wrapped protectivly around her head.
Minako didn't see Rei entering the control room. So it was Rei who spoke first. "Minako. Is everything okay?"
The blond lifted her head and blinked a few times before she realized who was speaking to her. "Luna... Luna isn't doing so well." whispered Minako over Luna's sleeping head.
"Why not then?" hissed Rei.
"Apparently Artemis-" Minako was interupted by a cry from Luna.
"Don't. Don't tell. I don't want to have to go through it five diffrent times. Just once for everyone if they all want to know. Is Artemis at Mako's, Rei?" Rei shook her head.
"Lets go home you two." sighed Rei as she jammed her hands into the pockets of the gray sweat pants. Minako helped Luna up and they followed the flip-flop sound of the so named sandals on Rei's feet.
"Here Luna, put these on. You really can't keep on going around in that outfit..." murmured Makoto kindly as she handed Luna a white denim miniskirt and a pale orange tshirt.
"Now tell everyone like you said you would." engouraged Minako coaxingly.
Luna collapsed into a comfortable armchair and let her head fall into her hand after looking wistfully out the window. "Artemis... I don't know if your four: Ami, Minako, Rei, Makoto, I don't know if you knew. But Artemis and I woke up to the fact that we lo..love each other. But then...we- we had a bit of a fight and now. Now I don't know if we are going to-to stay together..." Luna had begun rocking back and forth and at the end of her story she burst into tears again. Usagi knelt and rocked Luna in a hug untill she quieted and Makoto brought her a little cocoa in the pretty yellow mug that Makoto's mother had loved so much.
When Luna has quieted down, Rei asked her where Artemis could have gone. Luna sniffed and didn't know. But Ami, as usual, had the answer. Artemis had left his communicator on the kitchen table, so he couldn't be contacted that way. But Ami could do a area wide scan of Tokyo, seraching for Artemis's exact DNA and aura. It would be difficult and take a good deal of time, but they had to find Artemis, especially since he had most likely not purchased new clothing. His white suit was not exactly camoflage, even in a cosmopolitan city like Tokyo. Artemis was a valuble comodity to Jadeite, and the general wouldn't hesitate in recaptureing bait like him.
"Please find Artemis, Ami. The fight was about the fact that maybe with lives like ours... that liveing one big battle isn't the best place for falling in love. But I was the one- the one who was being a coward. I didn't want the risk. But I'd give anything for the risk now. Anything." Luna's voice was shakeing again and she took another sip of cocoa to sooth herself. Ami started up her computer and fixed up the search program.