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::::Master Roshi tries to walk up to the podium, but falls and cracks a hip instead::::

M. Roshi: Where's that porno you promised me?

F.F: :::sighs::: I said I'll give you that after you read the disclaimer.

M. Roshi: {insert standard disclaimer here}

F.F: ^_^;;; Why didn't I think of that?!

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On most Christmas Eves, nights are filled full of singing and joy and mirth, this one wasn't. The group moped around the cabin, the air filled with depression. Usagi refused to talk to anyone about the night before, at the club. She sat up in bed, the place where she had been all day, and watched the snow fall. Almost everyone had taken a shot at trying to talk to her, but all had gotten the turn of her head. Trunks came out of the bedroom with a disappointed look on his face.

"She wouldn't say anything to me either, it's ridiculous. Goten, did you get anything out of Marron?"

"Kind of, all she would say is that a man in a suit told her to be a good girl and he wouldn't hurt her. Then he gave her something to drink, and then she passed out. When she woke back up she was tied up in ropes."

Bulma buried her face in her hands, this wasn't the way she pictured the holidays. She was really beginning to like Usagi, to love Usagi. She would have given anything to be her mother, she had always wanted a little girl.

"Gohan, tell us what you saw again, don't leave out any details."

"I already told you! When I walked in, I saw her making out with some guy, and then he just disappeared! Then she wouldn't stop crying, and here we are today!"

Goku laid a hand on his son's shoulder. He too was worried, but he knew who was the most of all. He glanced behind at Vegeta, who as sitting on the couch grumbling to himself. Although it looked like he didn't care, he knew Vegeta was going insane with questions just like the rest of them.

"Son, why don't you try to go talk to her, you're the only one who hasn't tried yet."

Gohan nodded and opened the door to the bedroom. He walked over to the bed only to see that she was asleep. He stroked the side of her cheek.

"Usa, what's wrong with you? I'm so worried about you..."

He gave her a light kiss on the forehead, and turned around to leave when he saw something out of the corner of his eye.

"What's this?" He picked up a small leather bound book and looked over.

"It's her diary..."

Suddenly, a good and evil replica of Gohan stood over his shoulders.

"So, are you going to read it or not?" asked the demon Gohan.

"No! That would betray her trust!" spoke the angel Gohan. (A/N: Him in a white robe....that's just too funny in itself....)

"Aw, buzz off you little pussy!"

"You! Go to Hell!!!"

"Been there....done that..."

"Um, can I say something?" asked the real Gohan.

Both of them glared at him. "No! Can't you see we're having an argument?!"

"Well, both of you can go to Hell then!" he said, and flicked them off his shoulders.

"I'm going to have to side with my demon side this time, I want to see what she wrote about me," he said, and opened her diary.

Gohan thought that the was just going to read a little fluff about past crushes, and little doodles of rabbits, but what he got was much more deeper...darker....disturbing....

He read the date, nine years ago.

She must have been eight or nine when she started writing this.

~Something's wrong with my daddy. He's acting weird. Today in particular. It was so strange, he kissed me like he does mommy. I don't like it...I hope he doesn't do that anymore. I've never kissed a guy before...but I can always dream...about Helios...

--Serenity--

Gohan remembered that Hotaru had told him that, until now, she had thought a man named Endymion was her father. He arched an eyebrow, but kept reading.

~I'm sorry I haven't been writing for awhile diary, but I've been busy. I got to go to the past! It was so much fun! I got to train with Sailor Moon, I hope I could be like her someday. I've been gone for two years, things around here haven't changed much....except for Papa. He's gotten more possessive of me and Mama. He doesn't let us out of the palace anymore, at least not without his permission. His hugs fell more like gropes now. I'm getting scarred....I'm starting to wish I stayed in the past.

--Serenity--

Gohan was beginning to get a picture of what was happening, but kept reading anyway.

~I hate coming up with new excuses for Hotaru to heal my bruises. If only Papa wouldn't get so angry.....The thing is, he's always so cool and calm, you'd never know. I can take the beatings, but the other things....it's just degrading. I wish some people would believe me, but they never do. They see me as a ten year old, not a cry for help.

--Serenity--

Over time, the entries in her diary had become more graphic, and lacked that innocent touch it once had. By the time she was thirteen, she was down right pessimistic.

~I often wonder that if I died if anyone would care. Oh, I know who would, Endymion, he'd have no one to fuck with. No one to torture, no one to humiliate. He just got through with one of our "sessions". By now, he's probably moved over to Mom. Yep, those screams prove it. I should probably go see what I can go do to help her.

--Serenity--

~I feel so sick. I got two treatments in one day. First the cane treatment. I accidentally spilled some orange juice on one of his new robes, I think I've paid off my debts. The second was the ammonia treatment. I honestly don't know what I did this time. He just walked into my room screaming things about how I ruined his life, or I was a curse brought upon the world. This time he locked me in the closet for three hours with that Clorox. The fumes nearly suffocated me, but I guess that was the point. I feel so dizzy I don't think I can write anymore.

--Serenity--

Gohan skipped ages fourteen and fifteen, and went straight to sixteen.

~Life's a bitch. I've completely given up on getting anyone to believe me about the king, because they don't. They all think I'm this spoiled little bitch that lives up in the palace, who is so desperate for attention that she goes around telling people that her daddy, the brave and noble king, goes around fucking and beating her. First off, he's not brave and noble, he's a coward. A coward that goes around abusing women and gets pleasure and power from it. But it's not like all those talk shows that have jealous husbands yelling and screaming at their wives. He always does this witha smile, always so calm and collective. Without a care in the world. Like raping his own daughter is as normal as asking for the weather. There's nothing I can do about it now, but there is power within me, and it's not that of a Sailor Soldier. Mark my words, he will pay for his crimes.

--Serenity--

~ I hope someone finds this diary someday and reads it. My knight on his white horse. So they will know.

My name is Tsukino Serenity Usagi.

I am 16 years old.

My life is Hell.

I've lost my virginity 52 times (if that's possible) by my own father.

My mother is beaten, and I am made to watch.

I am weak.

I've tried to commit suicide 18 times.

I've been slitting my wrists since I was 12.

I've given head to my own dad 44 times.

And above all, I am a warrior. A warrior who wants nothing more than to be loved for myself, and not anything else.

I want to spread my wings and fly.

--Serenity--

~ Remember when I said my life was Hell? Well that Hell just got bigger. My. Mom. Is. A . Bitch. Guess who ain't my daddy? Aww, come on guess! Outta guesses? How about someone named ....oh...lets see....ENDYMION. My "mother" said I was old enough to hear the truth. She said that during the whole Galexia war, she met something called a Sayian

And fucked it.

So some bum with a tail, who's out in space, is supposedly my Daddio. All of this is suppose to explain why I have all of this special power shit, and why I had a tail when I was born. So now that Mamoru really isn't my father, I guess that it's okay that we've had sex more times than I can count because it wasn't incest. I guess that makes it okay for me to hate his fucking guts since he isn't my dad. They say that there are seven sins that if you commit, you go directly to Hell. Mine right now is anger.

What about the others? Let's see:

Pride-p.w.p. (Pride ? what pride?)

Envy-I was jealous of Sailor Moon.....until I found out that later she has a daughter that hates her.

Greed-yeah, yeah, whatever.

Gluttony- I've been called anorexic more times than I can count....so...no.

Lust- yeah, until Mamoru found out I was fucking Helios and had him killed.

Sloth- so I'm lazy, so sue me.

Yep, so that's me, Usagi the sinning bastard child.

--Serenity--

~ I don't think there's a God anymore, because if there were, he'd put me out of my misery. Now. She's gone, and it's my fault. He knew about her telling me about my real father. He went Hell-bent insane and killed her. He killed her right in front of me, with that cane. With that Goddamned spiked cane. He smashed her face in so she didn't even look human. Even as her blood sprayed on the walls, all he could do is laugh that fucked up laugh and say "You see Renity? This is what happens when you tell secrets that shouldn't be told!" First I threw up, then cried, then ran. I've become an even bigger coward than he is. Hotaru and Diana and I ran. Ran to find my alleged father. Right now, we're in the middle of nowhere, but I will find him because he is my only hope. The other soldiers have all disappeared, become slaves of Mamoru. He's brainwashed them as blackmail. They follow him, he doesn't kill me and Hotaru, even though I know he'll go back on his word and will. I know that because he still has the Ginzushou and can do anything at any time. I've lost all faith in humanity. I don't see the point in living anymore.

A quote from Anne Frank:

"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart..."

Bullshit.

Gohan put down the book feeling a little bit sick. That was the last entry she had written, and he could tell there were droplets of dried tears and possible blood. He had been so absorbed in his reading, he hadn't noticed the sleeping girl next to him had woken up, not until he felt the bed shift and looked over to his right.

And saw her face.

He had expected her expression to be one of fury, one of hatred, whose wouldn't be when you caught someone reading your secrets? But it wasn't. There wasn't even a hint of anger. Instead it was a mixture, a mixture of shame and guilt. And in her eyes, he could see it all. All of the nights when that tyrant came to her room. Every scream she heard on the nights when her mother was beaten. Every time she had slit her wrists when she was sick of life.

"That man...last night...that was your step-father wasn't it?"

She nodded her head slowly.

"And what do you think of me now, after you've read that?" she asked, her eyes searching for a hopeful answer. He took her hands in his, and made her sit upright.

"I think.....I think that you are a braver person than I ever imagined."

"She gave a faint smile, and a small tear trickled down her cheek. He pulled her into an all-consuming bear hug, and let her cry on his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Usa, you don't deserve that, no one deserves that..."

She cried until tears ran dry, and began to tell him of how Mamoru was looking for her. Even though Gohan had seen mass destruction, had seen people killed in front of his own eyes,many by his own hands, these acts of barbaric control, senseless violence whose only purpose is too see a person suffer until it wasn't a person anymore, he didn't understand it. But just because he didn't understand, didn't mean he didn't care about it's victims, especially the ones he loved. So he sat there and held her, and rocked her gently, and gave her comforting touches and kisses, and told her everything would be alright, even if it wouldn't.

And soon they fell asleep in each other's arms.

By now the sun had long past set, and everyone was waiting patiently outside the bedroom door, waiting for come back with the same news they all had: that she wouldn't talk. It took awhile for the realization to settle on everyone that two teenagers had been in a locked bedroom for over an hour and a half .......the possibilities were endless.....

Chichi flung open the door and almost passed out in shock from seeing her baby in bed with a girl, but breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that they were both fully clothed.

"Aww man, they took my bed!" Trunks whined.

"You'll just have to share a bed with Goten," said Hotaru.

"I don't want to! He has a hang over from all of that peppermint schnapps! He might throw up on me!"

".......What did you guys do at that night club?"

"It's a long story...."

All and all it did end up as an okay night. Vegeta and Goku did their rendition of the night before Christmas, but got in a fight over how many reindeer there were. Bulma and Chichi almost made some gingerbread men, until Bulma decided the oven should be hotter and (A/N: Once again....) destroyed the kitchen. Hotaru, Trunks, Marron, and a *very* sick Goten tried to make a snow man until they mistook Diana for a snowball and....well...you can take it from there... And Gohan and Usagi? Well, ya'll know that for yourselves.

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"Well, well, well, little rabbit, did we have a scare? Don't worry, Daddy has something that can make it all better. Tomorrow I'm coming Serenity, and I'm not leaving without you...."

A figure cackled in a vast palace, his sinister eyes illuminating the darkness.....

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To Be Continued..............