The Other Side
by Goz
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. If I did, I would've made them wear more clothes.
Warning: This is a Sailor Moon fanfic concerning various new Sailor Scouts of my own creation. It also contains liberal mixing of the Japanese version with the dub. Caveat emptor.
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Part 9
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Almost as soon as she climbed in bed, Ariane the voice returned again.
*Ariane.*
"Yes..." she murmured, then tried *thinking* the words, *Who are you?*
*My name's Ket. I'm - Andrea's friend, I guess you'd say.* The voice - old and female - sounded tired and bemused.
*But what are you?!* she thought frustratedly.
*I'm a guardian. You don't need to know anything else about me now. But I know a way you can help Andrea.*
*You do?* Ariane waited for a reply for what seemed to her a very long time. *Are you still there?* she asked timorously.
*Yes, I'm still here. I'd planned to tell Andrea this stuff first -* Ariane was a little disillusioned by the mysterious voice's use of the word "stuff". *But there's no help for it. You must go to visit Andrea in the hospital. You still have your wand, don't you?*
*Yes...* It was on her nightstand, hidden in a tissue box. She'd spent nearly half an hour fretting over the best place to keep it.
*You must take the wand and transform again. Then you must hold your hands over her and say "Cassiopeia Healing Slumber!"*
*It'll bring her out of the coma?!*
*Just do it. I'll tell you more later.*
The voice went silent, and Ariane closed her eyes and willed herself to sleep, knowing that she wouldn't.
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Ariane stood over Andrea's bed and stared at the vaguely surprised face of her twin. *I wonder if people dream in comas,* she thought irrelevantly. The sight of the young girl in a worn hospital gown, a bloody pad taped to her forehead, sickened her to the core. This sort of thing happened all the time, by accident. And *fighting* -
She reached into her pocket and removed her wand, glancing around surreptitiously. After runnning the wand through the scanner several times and finding nothing dangerous, the staff had reluctantly allowed Ariane to bring it in. Ariane had assured them that it was a good-luck charm she had made that she wanted to leave with Andrea. She couldn't think why hospital security had to be so stringent.
She held it over her head and said quietly "Cassiopeia Constellation Power!" When it was over, she glanced back at the door. It wouldn't close all the way, but the nurse had assured her that the rooms weren't monitored. It didn't seem in keeping with the hospital's other precautions, but there were no monitoring devices in this room that she could find, and really, she would have done it regardless. No one ever believed it when stuff like that was caught on tape, anyway.
She held the wand over her sister's prone body and said "Cassiopeia Healing Slumber!" as loudly as she dared. The space around her glowed deep aquamarine, and the air seemed to *thicken*. Ariane thought for a moment that she saw Andrea's eyes open in startlement.
Andrea was lying unconscious and completely unchanged. *Nothing's happened,* thought Ariane, panicked.
Then the monitors nearby bleeped in alarm, and Ariane, relieved that *something* had happened, quickly detransformed and walked out into the hallway. The nurse was standing at the monitoring station, nibbling a bagel and paying no attention to the screens.
"Hey," Ariane yelled, not needing to feign agitation, "The monitors over Andrea are acting weird! *Quick*, what's wrong?!"
The nurse blinked and poked at the screen of one of the monitors. She stepped backwards in surprise, then rushed into Andrea's room. Ariane heard a gasp from inside, and smiled to herself.
by Goz
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. If I did, I would've made them wear more clothes.
Warning: This is a Sailor Moon fanfic concerning various new Sailor Scouts of my own creation. It also contains liberal mixing of the Japanese version with the dub. Caveat emptor.
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Part 9
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Almost as soon as she climbed in bed, Ariane the voice returned again.
*Ariane.*
"Yes..." she murmured, then tried *thinking* the words, *Who are you?*
*My name's Ket. I'm - Andrea's friend, I guess you'd say.* The voice - old and female - sounded tired and bemused.
*But what are you?!* she thought frustratedly.
*I'm a guardian. You don't need to know anything else about me now. But I know a way you can help Andrea.*
*You do?* Ariane waited for a reply for what seemed to her a very long time. *Are you still there?* she asked timorously.
*Yes, I'm still here. I'd planned to tell Andrea this stuff first -* Ariane was a little disillusioned by the mysterious voice's use of the word "stuff". *But there's no help for it. You must go to visit Andrea in the hospital. You still have your wand, don't you?*
*Yes...* It was on her nightstand, hidden in a tissue box. She'd spent nearly half an hour fretting over the best place to keep it.
*You must take the wand and transform again. Then you must hold your hands over her and say "Cassiopeia Healing Slumber!"*
*It'll bring her out of the coma?!*
*Just do it. I'll tell you more later.*
The voice went silent, and Ariane closed her eyes and willed herself to sleep, knowing that she wouldn't.
-
Ariane stood over Andrea's bed and stared at the vaguely surprised face of her twin. *I wonder if people dream in comas,* she thought irrelevantly. The sight of the young girl in a worn hospital gown, a bloody pad taped to her forehead, sickened her to the core. This sort of thing happened all the time, by accident. And *fighting* -
She reached into her pocket and removed her wand, glancing around surreptitiously. After runnning the wand through the scanner several times and finding nothing dangerous, the staff had reluctantly allowed Ariane to bring it in. Ariane had assured them that it was a good-luck charm she had made that she wanted to leave with Andrea. She couldn't think why hospital security had to be so stringent.
She held it over her head and said quietly "Cassiopeia Constellation Power!" When it was over, she glanced back at the door. It wouldn't close all the way, but the nurse had assured her that the rooms weren't monitored. It didn't seem in keeping with the hospital's other precautions, but there were no monitoring devices in this room that she could find, and really, she would have done it regardless. No one ever believed it when stuff like that was caught on tape, anyway.
She held the wand over her sister's prone body and said "Cassiopeia Healing Slumber!" as loudly as she dared. The space around her glowed deep aquamarine, and the air seemed to *thicken*. Ariane thought for a moment that she saw Andrea's eyes open in startlement.
Andrea was lying unconscious and completely unchanged. *Nothing's happened,* thought Ariane, panicked.
Then the monitors nearby bleeped in alarm, and Ariane, relieved that *something* had happened, quickly detransformed and walked out into the hallway. The nurse was standing at the monitoring station, nibbling a bagel and paying no attention to the screens.
"Hey," Ariane yelled, not needing to feign agitation, "The monitors over Andrea are acting weird! *Quick*, what's wrong?!"
The nurse blinked and poked at the screen of one of the monitors. She stepped backwards in surprise, then rushed into Andrea's room. Ariane heard a gasp from inside, and smiled to herself.
