A Second Chance For Happiness

Chapter 2

DC: I do not own sailor moon




Serena cautiously stepped out of the room and glanced down the hallway. She scurried to the nearest corner and then looked left and right. She did this until she approached the stairs but a voice frightened her.

Maid: Madame Serena
Serena: Madame?
Maid: Pardon, well your breakfast waits for Madame Serena and Sir Darien. Do you by any chance know where he is? Well what a silly question, of course you are his wife. Well I'll leave you to fetch him and you can come down together.
Serena: Yes I'll get him, thank-you


Serena walks off in a daze. She is close to tears and she really doesn't want to confront Darien but she has no choice. She tries to remember where everything is at in this house. Breakfast is not on her mind as she hunts for Darien.


Darien sits in his study or at least he thought it was his study. His mind is in rambles right now and he really can't think. Did his heart really flutter this morning? He had woken up beside his worst enemy in the business department but he found himself thinking romantic things about her. Like he thought she was so beautiful in the morning light and how angelic she looked. "no" he thought. "He had to leave the past in the past". All they had was a little fling and she didn't even remember it because they were both intoxicated at the time. But he remembered. His memory may be a little fuzzy but he could never forget how their bodies melded together so perfectly or how sweet she smelled. Oh she hated him, he didn't stand a chance with her but why did he have to feel this way now when he had to sleep in the same room with her. He could survive, just put on his cold mask until all this blows over and then go recoil in his loneliness until the next pretty face catches his eye. Suddenly he sensed another presence in the room. He glanced at a piece of glass in a picture frame out of the corner of his eye. He saw what looked like the shadow of a woman.

Darien: [roughly] Who's there?

The girl gasped and turned on her heel and ran out of the room. Darien, afraid of who it was followed her only to find it was Serena. He watched her stumble against the wall and then sink to top of the stairs. She had her head in her lap and he could hear a faint sobbing.


Darien: [a bit softer now] Serena?
Serena: Go away

She lifted her head up slightly and he could see the gleam of tears in her eyes. He sat down beside her but at a safe distance.

Darien: Serena, you're upset. What's wrong?
Serena: What's wrong? Do you not see where we are? This is the year 1587 not 2001. Women wore corsets in 1587. Do you realize how uncomfortable these things are? Women had to wear dresses all the time. Big heavy dresses with thick material and long sleeves, even in the summer. We have to watch our language here. We have to speak politely and watch our grammar. Do you know how freely we speak in 2001. Only please and thank-you are allowed here.
Darien: I realize all that but the way you say it, you act like it's my fault.
Serena: It's not your fault I'm sorry. I just want to be back home in my apartment. I have to blame it on someone and you are the only one who would believe or understand me.
Darien: We are just going to have to grit our teeth and try to survive each other. Let's make a truce that we will only bicker with each other in our own privacy.
Serena: Truce. Now lets get down to breakfast before they start getting the wrong ideas.

Darien grabs her arm and pulls her to him. He wipes the tears from her eyes.

Darien: Those corsets may be uncomfortable but they look good on you.
Serena: Whoa no, you aren't going to trap me in you clutches. Now come on before breakfast gets cold.


After breakfast there is a ring at the door while Serena and Darien are sitting in the library sipping tea. The guest is Miss Jaclyn Thomas, the two's old nanny.
Jaclyn knocks on the library door.

Serena: Yes?
Jaclyn: Serena? Darien?
Darien: Yes?
Jaclyn: My how you two have grown.
Serena: You look very familiar?
Jaclyn: Well I'd hope so, Don't tell me you don't remember your old nanny. I raised you two till you were 20 and then you left to see the world. Then I get a letter telling me that you two had eloped. I was so happy. Serena you're 24 and Darien you are 27 right. Why Serena the whole town thought you would marry that Andrew Edwards fellow. It was quite a surprise that you married Darien...
[Jaclyn keeps chattering on while Serena whispers "Andrew?" to herself]
And Darien you have grown into a very handsome young man. Why you and Andrew used to be good friends Darien, to tell you the truth, Andrew doesn't know that you have married his old sweetheart. There is a big party celebrating your return and I heard that Andrew is going to ask Serena for her hand in marriage but you already have it. Oh how I am going to enjoy the look on his face when she tells him he's too late. I never liked him anyway, he was always so arrogant, I don't know what Serena ever saw in him. Well I need to take a breath.
Serena: A party?
Jaclyn: Oh yes that reminds me of my visit.
Serena: Your visit?
Jaclyn: Yes, I know you don't have anything special enough to wear tomorrow night so we are going to go shopping and we are going to get you a dress made that will make Andrew wish he had never let you go, not that I wish he didn't Darien. Come on dear, we need to go before all the good stuff is gone.

Darien goes back to his reading and says to himself:

Darien: Quite the chatterbox.

In the marketplace


Jaclyn: Everyone is buzzing about your return. Everyone is so anxious to see you again. Ooh look at this!

Jaclyn finger a piece of sky blue silk and a darker shade ooh, this will accent your eyes, now for some blue beads. Ah dark ribbon and thread. I think we have all we need. Now we need to go to the dressmaker to get you fitted.

After some needle stickings and finger pinching Serena's dress is finally made. The outcome looks like a design from Louise of Savoy with a skirt flowing past her feet and sleeves that flare out at the ends.

Jaclyn: Now with the right jewelry and a ribbon foe your hair, you will look absolutely perfect. Every woman will envy you and every man will envy Darien. You are a vision. Now if you'll just send this to the Shields mansion by tomorrow night please.
Shopkeeper: Yes Madam.
Serena: Madam?
Jaclyn: You are a Madame because you are married but I am widowed so I am a Madam.
Serena: I'm sorry
Jaclyn: I'm over it, it's been 20 years, I thought you knew that, why you were only 4 and you knew Henry had passed away.
Serena: I...
Jaclyn: I guess 4 years of adventures can make you forgetful.
Serena: I guess
Jaclyn: Come we are having lunch with the ladies. It'll be just like old times.

Serena sighs

Serena: Just like old times.


Darien sits in his study trying to make sense of this predicament. So far he has no explanation. He gets a knock on his door.

Darien: Yes, come in
Maid: A Mister Andrew Edwards is here sir
Darien: Thank you, send him in.
Andrew: Darien, old buddy. How are you doing?
Darien: Just fine thank you, you?
Andrew: Just great. I've been really lonely but now that Serena is back, I'm ready to change that.
Darien: Really, How?
Andrew pulls out a diamond ring and shows it to Darien. Darien decides to let Serena break the news and bring his ego down a notch.
Andrew: Tomorrow night, in front of everyone, that way she can't say no.
Darien: Even if she doesn't love you?
Andrew: I know she loves me, besides, what marriages today can you think of that are built on love?
Darien shrugs his shoulders.
Andrew: Only one I remember is Jaclyn and Henry but as you can see that didn't last forever.
Darien: Death doesn't mean there is no love.
Andrew: Anyways, so where is Serena, I'm dying to sweep her off her feet and take her to dinner.
Darien: She is shopping with Jaclyn at the moment.


Jaclyn and Serena are heading back when their conversation takes an unexpected turn towards Serena's marriage.



Jaclyn: How is your marriage? Is it everything you always dreamed it would be?
Serena: I don't know about that one. I always dreamed of a fairytale marriage.
Jaclyn: Fairytale?
Serena: You know when a prince in disguise sweeps this girl off her feet only to find she is a princess. But that is just a fairytale.
Jaclyn: And your marriage isn't like that.
Serena: I don't know yet, we've only just been married.
Jaclyn: What is it now, 3 months?
Serena: Yes, 3 months.
Jaclyn: And you still haven't started a family? You are attempting to aren't you?
Serena: I...I...
Jaclyn: Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. I guess you'll start a family when you're ready too.
Serena: Yes, I don't think Darien is ready for children.
Jaclyn: Are you?

The question caught Serena off guard.

Serena: I...I don't know...Yes...
Jaclyn: Well why don't you talk to Darien, maybe he is ready for a family.
Serena: Well I don't know if our marriage is going to make it.
Jaclyn: Not going to make it? Why not? You do love him don't you?

Serena doesn't know how to reply until they near the town square where there is a festival going on a Darien is right in the middle of it dancing with a little girl with a bowleg.

Serena: Ask me again, later

Jaclyn just smiles and releases the breath she had been holding.

Jaclyn: [to herself] Maybe they will find love in each other after all.



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Author's Notes: If you remember in the story summary that a man's mother [Darien's Mother] from the past [Jaclyn Thomas] tampers with the future/present [Jaclyn Deveau] for her son's happiness [Darien is supposed to be with Serena but by some twist of fate she marries Andrew instead but she has enough sense to dump him in the present but would they have gotten back together in the end but in the past [1587] Serena marries Andrew and has his children but she lives a miserable life and so does Darien, Can Jaclyn change all that?]

"The two from the future must fall in love in the past for their love to blossom over the centuries until it is unbreakable"

This is what a wise old lady told Jaclyn and then in a dream Jaclyn told me what the result was and for me to tell you the story, so here I am!


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