"Hai..." Serena looked like she would just break and start bawling at the top of her lungs. She wouldn't break down like that now. Now she was back with her brother. Yes, she remembered those same blue eyes that watched over her when she became sick. The eyes were the same, but his body and face wasn't quite the same. No, the brother she remembered had enough muscles to pass of for any typical 15 year old, but now there was more of them, and now he started to look more like father.
"What?" He shook his head breaking away from the silent gaze he had on her crystal blue eyes.. yet now there was something there that hadn't been there before: Anguish, pain, suffering along with wisdom, personal strength, as well as the same pure heart he had once known.
"hmm??" She asked snapping out of her stupor.
"Uhmm come in.." He ignored his previous question and pushed Duo out of the way literally and let her come in. She stared at the door for a couple more seconds before picking up her duffel bag and walking inside.
"Wow... Things really changed around here..." She said unable to hide her child like imagination that caused her to get overly excited at times. She grinned happily and went into the living room only to be met by a very rude welcoming.
"A Onna??"
"Hnn..."
"..."
"Who are you??" She asked.
"I should introduce everyone.." Quatre entered the room being followed by Duo. "Serenity, Meet Heero Yui..."
"Hnn" Heero glanced up from his laptop momentarily to inspect the girl then went back to his work.
".. He doesn't talk much.." Quatre filled in. " That one is Wufei Chang." He pointed to the boy who was currently mumbling something about Weak Onnas. ".. He has this thing against women." Quatre said. "That's Trowa Barton."
"Hello.." He said in a tone that said 'that's all you're getting from me until i decide to give more.'
"Konn- erm- Hello.." She said picking up the tone with her own nod.
"And Finally... Duo Maxwell and don't you dare try to hit on my sister.." Quatre said to the boy who just snapped his mouth shut. Serenity began giggling.
"Watashi wa Serenity Moonbeam Rebarba Winner!!!" She said.
"Hajimemashite.." sounded from the corner of the room where Heero was typing away at his computer, well he was now bowing to greet this girl.
"Hajimemashite.." She said feeling real stupid when she bowed. "I forget that i'm not on earth anymore.." She said slapping her forehead.
"It's ok.." Heero said grabbing his laptop and left the room.
"Nice to meet you all." She said.
"Nice to meet you too, babe.." Duo said disappearing off in the same direction Heero went, Trowa simply nodded and Wufei just left.
"Interesting friends... are they too ex-Gundam pilots??"
"Yes..." Quatre said leading his younger sister to the couch.
"I take you want a history of my life away from here, right??"
"That would be nice..." Quatre said finally shaking off the initial shock
"Well after EVERYONE left after daddy's death I was taken to earth promised to be returned to my family after the war. Then i was taken to the Tsukinos, a nice family who took care of me and helped me while i was there. After the war ended I was waiting for the people to take me back but they never came, days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months, months to years. I eventually became 16 and finally decided to stop closing the world off and made friends, lots of them." She smiled slightly at the thought of how she met all of her friends.
"Everything was perfect... well besides the fact that i kept failing most of my tests in school, and that i was clumsy, and ate a lot." She said smiling. "Of course with a brainy friend like Ami i straightened, and a poised friend like Mina i became less clumsy, a head strong friend like Rei i became less of a cry baby and a strong friend like Lita i stood up for myself more often. Then there was Hotaru a girl who proved that with out light there was darkness, Michelle taught me more of what Ami left unfinished, Amara taught me that appearance makes a whole world of difference, and Triste taught me to always look forward to the future because time is always unpredictable." She said.
"Anyway I eventually met Darien in probably one of the worse ways possible. I knocked him over during one of my clumsy moments and apologized to a telephone pole not realizing it was a pole at the time. He constantly made fun of me.. until one day we both got stunk in an elevator and was forced to become friends in order to survive the time in there. We eventually fell in love and stayed together even if we had our on and off moments." She said. "We got married when i turned 18 and we had a daughter who i decided to name Serenity as well.." She said. "But none of them could come.. because a few weeks ago.. There was an attack.."
"The one in Tokyo??" Quatre asked.
"Yeah... I lost everyone... i surprisingly survived long enough to see Sailor Moon kill the beast but was unconscious for weeks after, and Here I am!!" She said seeing the pain stricken look on his face.
"Are you ok??" He asked.
"Fine i guess.." She said quietly. "I'll survive.." She smirked. "I guess you'll want to have a big family Reunion to let all 29 of our sisters know i'm back hmm??"
"Yeah, but it can wait until you feel up to It.."
"It's fine... I think it'll better to be with family." She said Yawning.
"Lucky you, your room still stands and dust free." Quatre grinned.
"Let's see if i can find It.." She kissed his cheek and went upstairs in search of her old room.
"Only if you weren't hiding something from me Serenity, I'd find it much easier to re-establish the close Sibling relationship we once had." He opened a locket he kept around his neck and inside there was a picture of Serena and Quatre as kids just before the war began.
"It won't be easy since she's trying not to close herself off to the world.." Trowa sat next to Quatre who only leaned into his embrace.
"I know.. and she's trying hard. Something tells me she knew where i was but something was holding her back... What is what i want to know..." Quatre sighed.
"Give the Onna time.." Wufei said from the corner of the room. "If she's lost her husband, daughter and big group of friends as she says she'll need to gather her mind."
"Seems like Wu-man's getting soft.'
"Duo no Baka." Heero Muttered.
"We should've stopped you from dating Releana sooner than you two broke-up." Duo said.
"No, I'm not Soft Maxwell. If you remembered baka.. My wife was killed."
"Yeah, and as for friends.. I lose every friend i made.." Duo volunteered some information. "It really sucks.." He said.
"And I wouldn't know how it feels to lose somebody close.." Heero said leaving the room. He walked upstairs and passed the room that had been locked off by a keypad with a personal number code.
None of the guys dared to open it because Quatre would always look like he would kill anyone who broke into there and appeared sad when he stopped and looked at it during the day. They figured it was something deep, but now the door was slightly ajar. Inside he saw that Serenity girl balled up on the floor sitting on her old trunk that was near the window watching the thunder storm that was slowly starting. She was quietly whimpering to herself. Heero just watched her tears roll down her face just like the raindrops rolled down her windows.
Sure he did get in touch with his emotions on some level from when he first started dating Releana, but before that he knew nothing else except suffering, pain, disappointment and on rare occasions loneliness. Releana changed that. Somehow right about now he felt attracted to this Serenity girl.. not in a romantic way, but in a way that made his heart ache for her, only because he knew loneliness so well.
"It's funny..." She chuckled to herself now facing the doorway. "They were all there one moment all of them trying to keep me from getting hurt, the next moment i lose them all. My friends, my foster family, my daughter, Everyone. It seems that i keep loosing people" She said and it was then he realized that she can no longer cry. Her voice didn't even hold any tone of it breaking into tears, almost as if she had cried all of her tears before she arrived, she sounded bitter as if she hated herself for letting them all die like that. Heero just closed the bedroom door letting her wallow in self pity alone.
"Sounds like me.." Duo said leaning against the wall. To say Heero was shocked would be an understatement, Duo Maxwell had just snuck up on him throwing off his heightened assassin senses. "It really does, Most people i get close to end up getting killed. The people at Maxwell Church.. and Hilde.." He said stalking off to be on his own. Heero just watched Duo walk away then at the once ajar bedroom door. They both shared a similar pain... could they possibly help each other, despite the fact that she lost more and more recent than he had...
