sex, violence
Chapter 13: Forbidden Love
*on the moon* Jadeite slowly opened his eyes and looked around at a greyish colored room. "Am I in hell?" he asked and heard the light sound of Selene's laugh. "No. And as a matter of fact, you aren't dead either." He stared blankly, "I felt myself give. I died." "Almost. If Darien hadn't argued until he nearly passed out, you would be," she said as the faces of her and Darien appeared to Jadeite. "What happened?" Jadeite asked. "Rei and Endymion killed my parents and I was forced to the moon, here, by my men," he said. "Battle-wise, what happened?" "Darien and I went down to pick you up and Endymion tried to interfere. I destroyed him. Rei is on her own now and I believe she hitched a ride back here with us," Selene stated. "I felt her presence." Jadeite sighed in relief. "I hurt all over. I feel like I have been cut in two." Selene laughed a little bit. "You almost were. She created a very deep wound across your stomach. I don't know how you survived like you did." "I heal fast," Jadeite said, sitting up and removing the bandage. The wound had almost healed up completely. "What are you?" Darien asked.
****FLASH*** "The seventh guardian," an angelic voice said. "I'm a what?"Jadeite asked the voice in his delirious state. "In you is the power. The absolute power to save her. You must or all is lost." "How? why?" Jadeite asked. "You will know when the time comes," the voice echoed. "In you is the power to find her and to cure her. Now go! You cannot wait any longer." ***FLASH***
"Jadeite?" Darien called out to him. "Oh, what?" he said snapping back to reality. "What is it?" Selene asked. "I just.....remembered something," he said. "I have to go." "I know," Selene said. "How long?" "Three days," Jadeite stated and got up and left the room.
*following Darien* he was walking down a hallway, open on one side, and lined with white rose bushes. Completely reveling in the warmth of the sunset, he noticed a ruffle in one of the bushes followed by a flash of white and blonde. He carefully walked closer to a wide pillar that the blur had hid behind. He began to hear girlish giggling and a tassel of blonde hair flowed in the breeze. He slowly and silently reached around the pillar and his hand met something soft. He closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. His hand wrapped around a slender wrist. He gently moved along until he could see what he had caught. She was stunning. About a foot shorter than himself, stood a beautiful girl not any older than 17. Clad in a silken white dress of the moon, she looked up at him with smiling crystal blue eyes. He looked intensely into her eyes, the stormy blue fire raging in them. The soft breeze blew his raven hair across his forehead but his eyes didn't falter. He lifted a hand up to brush her hair from her face and she lifted her chin up. This was too much for him. Perfectly innocent, she had no idea of what she was doing to him. He smiled softly and she smiled back. He couldn't hold it back. His hand cupped her faced ever so gently and tilted her head up at just the right angle before he descended and kissed her enchantingly on the lips. Her eyes closed and she slid her arms up around his neck and one hand through his hair. He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist. He pushed her against the pillar and began kissing her more demandingly. He broke away from her lips and started pursuing her neck. Her mouth opened as if in some silent cry of delight and he let one of his hands wander over her leg and halfway up her thigh. She caught him on the wrist and he looked into her eyes. A silent "no" in the look she gave him was all he needed. He slowly dropped her back down to her feet and she straightened out her dress. He ran his hand through his hair and it fell back into place. He looked at her, still in awe. "Who are you?" he asked. She looked at him funny as if he should have known. "Serenity," she answered. His jaw dropped. 'I've been treading a fine and dangerous line here,' he thought. 'But, wow.' He continued eyeing her and she giggled. "And who might you be?" "Darien, rightfully assumed title Endymion," he paused. "Who was my brother but now I have taken his identity. So is the ways of my home." "Endymion," she repeated. 'The prince of earth. How wonderful. My mother would have his head for this.' she licked her lips. 'But just look at him. Whoa.' 'This is almost too much,' he thought. 'Way....way....too much,' he felt the heat rising in him. 'I may not be able to control myself if she keeps up.' "How old are you?" he asked cautiously. "Sixteen," she said. "Turning seventeen in three days." 'Damn,' he thought. 'Way too young.' "How about you?" she asked. "Twenty-one. twenty-two in seven days," he answered and her eyes grew large. "How old would Endymion be?" she asked leaning against the pillar in the setting sun. "Same. We were twins." "Oh," she said. "Come with me." She led him to a softly lit circular section of a open hallway and to a moonstone bench. "Why did you kiss me?" she asked. "I have no idea," he answered. "I just couldn't stop myself." "Why'd you kiss me like that?" she asked next. "The way I feel. It's the way I feel," he said. "You feel all that? It was completely intense. I felt like I was under a spell," she said as if reminiscing. "Heh, yeah. It was pretty powerful," he paused, " Do you think I am too old for you?" he asked looking at her. "Why?" "I was just curious," he said looking forward at a mosaic on the wall. "A dark stranger will arrive and bring change to the Moon. Her people will become one with the earth and their princess will become one with the Dark One," she said. He looked at her and then back at the picture. She looked directly at him. "An ancient prophecy. It has yet to happen." "Really," he said half asking. "Actually, there's more to it." "Oh really?" he asked genuinely interested. "Mm hmm," she said. "I'll tell you. The story says that, specifically, a dark one will come from another world. Neither knowing who they are, the moon princess and this Dark One will meet. Instantly attracted, they fall passionately in love. He sweeps her off her feet completely and she blinds him with love and lust. It's a game of forbidden seduction. They continue their illicit affair and see each other secretly in the gardens of the moon. Not all is peachy though. Both completely ignorant to anything but each other, he brings the downfall of the moon kingdom and all of the kingdoms in this system except for the one of earth. Before the completely destruction of the moon kingdom, he brings about her death. Killed right in front of him, he mourns over her death and then takes his own life. The earth and moon are shattered as a people and as the walls come crumbling down, the moon queen takes her own life to save the people of the two planets." "Well," the prince said. "That's, uh, interesting to say the least." "Yes," she said looking at him." He still stared forward. "I believe it's you." "Who? what?" he said confusedly. "You, Dark One. You have come to fulfil the prophecy." "It's nonsense," he said walking away. "Say that to my mother,"she said and he stopped dead in his tracks. "What do you mean?" "Oh come on. You can't tell me that that's not in the least bit even a tiny ounce true." "Say it is. What then?" "We bring about the end of the Silver Millennium and life as we know it." "And say it isn't. Say I'm some earthen prince that preys on young girls like yourself." "Then I would fall into you trap," she shrugged her shoulders. "Anyway you look at it. But you aren't." "How do you know?" She smiled. "Well, you are noble and valiant and courteous. No criminal or predator acts like that and besides, I have the feeling if you were a bad man you'd have had me already." "You assume much young princess, and you assume well." "Will I see you again?" she asked running up to him as he was exiting the hallway. He turned and looked down at the frail form holding onto his arm. He couldn't help but smile. "Of course." "When?" "On your birthday." She lit up. "Oh! Thank you!" "I promise I shall," he said and turned to go.
*following Jadeite(three days later)* he closed his eyes in the Hall of the Past. He could sense her. Right around the corner. He turned it to be faced with a pair of fiery red eyes. He grabbed for her but she was too fast. She was off before he could do anything. "Dammit," he cursed and began running after her. She stopped and hissed at him. "You should be dead," she cursed at him. "Alive and kicking," he said drawing his sword. "I despise you," she spat at him in the middle of a circular section of the hallway. "Get out," he said twirling his sword. He shot looks of clear conviction at her and she hissed and growled. "You'll fight me in her will you?" she said running a hand down the middle of her chest. "again?" "I'll do what I have to do," he said. "If you must," she said and threw her body around seductively. 'Disgusting,' he thought to himself. She laughed and lunged at him. Their swords collided with a loud clang. He fought her easily and began winning the fight after a short period of time. He kicked her sword out of her hand and closed his eyes for a moment. "Sword!" she commanded and it did not appear. "Sword!!" she commanded a second time, crawling on her back away from him as he advanced on her slowly. She looked up at him, defeated. She smiled and threw her head back. She tried her best to look vulnerable and alluring. The tip of his sword pressed against her throat and she threw her head back and laughed temptingly and then looked into his eyes as she licked her lips. "You wouldn't kill me," she said. "No?" he asked bluffing. She looked scared for a moment and then his spell broke and she kicked his sword from his hands. She stood up and laughed at him. "Do you honestly think I'd let you have her back?" "I didn't ask you did I?" he said menacingly. She punched him right in the face and he fell to his side. She stood over him, taunting him. He stood up swiftly and with one angry blow to the side of her head, he knocked her out cold and she lay sprawled out on the floor. He went over to her and put a hand to the place where she had hit him. He was shocked that he was not bleeding. He leaned down and picked her up and held her limp body up in an almost standing position. "Rei," he sighed as he held her limp body in his arms and sighed. He began to glow a red color and closed his eyes. She was leaning spiritlessly backward and he placed a hand on her chest and began to concentrate. The glow slowly spread across her body too and their eyes bolted open. Fiery red met cold blue. "Ahh!!!!" she screamed agonizingly as she writhed in his hold. "No," he whispered and she shrieked again. "Jadeite," she said in a sudden sweet voice. "Jadeite, it hurts. Make it stop. Please. Let go. Stop." "No demon," he commanded softly and she screeched again. "Free," he said authoritatively and a bright red light erupted from her chest where his hand lay. "No!!" the demon screamed as it was ripped from her body by the blinding light. The light subsided and she, once again, went limp. "Rei," he called to her lovingly, half expecting the demon to reply. None came though. Her eyes opened and the red was gone. A deep violet was all that remained. Empty. Dead. She lifelessly looked out into the air. "No," he protested falling to his knees and holding her closely to himself. "No, not again," he said beginning to cry. He held her head to his chest and stroked her hair as a single crystal blue tear fell from him to her forehead. Slowly her heart began to beat again and the life returned to her. She blinked but he remained ignorant to what was going on. She blinked a couple of times and realized where she was, what had happened, and who was holding her. She lifted her free hand up to touch his face. His eyes were closed and tears were coming more and more. She sighed softly and closed her own eyes before her hand met the soft skin of his face. He gasped when they contacted. His saddened blue eyes shot open and he looked down at her through tears. "Rei," he breathed out. "Yes?" she tried to speak but her voice cracked. She coughed a little bit and then said "it's me." "Oh my god," he said closing his eyes and securing her hand to his face with his own. "Oh god Rei," he said kissing her hand and her arm. "Oh god." She smiled a concerned smile at him and lifted her other hand up to touch the other side of his face. "Jadeite?" she asked. "Yes, love, what? anything," he said quickly, looking down at her innocent features. "Can I got to a bed?" she asked and he began to laugh. "Of course. Let me carry you," he said getting up and picking her up in his arms. She drew her arms around his neck and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I love you Rei," he said when he laid her down on he bed. She smiled. She couldn't. Couldn't say it. "I know," he said, knowing that he'd never hear the words that his heart longed to hear and broke every time she couldn't bring herself to say.
*later* "I'm breaking Selene," he said to the queen. "Inside. I'm dying." "I know," the fair queen said to him from her throne. "Jadeite, you know she does." "But I can't- it's just that...." he trailed off afraid to say what he felt. "It's not enough," she finished and he looked up at her sadly. "Yeah, not enough," he repeated softly. "I can't leave her though. She's all that I am. My life. My soul." Selene's eyes began to tear up and she floated down from her throne to him. "Love her. Loving her has kept you alive. Never stop. Not even for a second. You have to keep going for every time there is a bend in the road, she'll be waiting for you on the other side." He nodded and sighed, recalling the past events. "She almost killed you Jadeite, and you forgave her-" "It wasn't her." "Well, it was all the same. You nearly died and have still hung on. Don't let go. Don't ever let go," she said as he turned and left the room.
*later* "Selene," Darien called out into the throne room. "Yes, Endy?" she asked. "You called me Endy," he said smiling. "So I did. And it is your rightful name, is it not? taken by your brother?" "Yes, I didn't think you knew that." "I know lots of things, but come. Tell me what I need to know," she said leading him to a bench. "You'll want to kill me," he said nervously. "So I may, but I will do no such thing. Continue." "Well, last night I met your daughter," he started. "Oh dear," she said looking off. "She told you of the prophecy then?" "Yes, but that's not all," he said. "I know," she said looking at him with shining eyes. "I knew this would happen." "Yeah," he said twidling his thumbs. "I kissed her." "Oh Endy," she said placing a hand on his shoulder. "She didn't fight you, did she?" "No,"he said softly. "Not one bit." "So I thought." "She's so......so..... enchanting. Tempting," he said softly to himself more than to Selene. "You have her under your spell as well, prince," Selene said. "You know what I must say." "Yes," he said sadly. "I must and so I shall," she said regaining herself. "Endymion, prince of earth, I forbid you to ever see the princess Serenity of the moon ever again. So I have spoken and so it shall be. Do not go against my words. Please. Or nothing will be as it should." "Yes your majesty," he said as he gravely stood up and left the room and a crying queen.
*Rei* I felt so wrong. The hatred and evil was still in my mind. Everything I did. I could barely live with myself. Jadeite would never understand. I was in hell. Absolute hell. All the people I killed were nothing, nothing compared to when I slid the sword into the man I loved. My soul mate. My world shattered when I saw the blood coming out and the look on his face. It was unbearable. I wished I was still dead at that point in time. I wanted to die. He looked up at me with this unbelievably sad expression on his face which portrayed exactly what I had just done. I had killed him, or so I had thought. When he looked down and saw the blood I begged the demon to kill me. He looked back up and blood began to come out of his mouth too. He opened it and nothing came out. I broke. I let go. He fell to his knees and my will to live died. He fell back and his eyes rolled back into his head and the demon controlling my body walked over to his limp figure and smirked at him in satisfaction. That memory kept flashing in my mind every time I saw him. He was deathly worried about me. I knew it. Every time I looked into his eyes I saw worry and pain. I wasn't the same. I'd never be the same again. I was scared now. In the hall on earth, the demon backed away and let me out. I was so terrified. I thought Endymion would kill me. Then when the situation got back under control, the demon took control again. I was so disgusted by the actions and all of the things the demon did with my body. It was sickening. I lay in bed now every day. I couldn't bring myself to get out and face the world. I just couldn't. I had let go of it all. I had no reason to live. Not even for Jadeite. I had tried to kill my other half and in my mind, it was unforgivable. He walked into the room slowly and gently. He made his way over to the side of the bed that I was not on. I made no movement. I didn't even acknowledge that he had entered. "Rei," he called sweetly. My heart broke. "Don't," I protested. "I don't deserve you and I don't deserve to hear you say my name like that." My hands went up to my eyes to wipe away the tears. "No, you do," he paused and leaned over close to me. "You deserve all that and more. You've been through hell Rei. And dammit, I'm not letting you go." "Please," I pleaded. "I don't want to live." He wiped the tears from my eyes. "But I do. Please don't leave me." "I almost killed you. Jadeite, it killed me inside to see you dying. The blood, the look on your face, in your eyes, the hurt, I see it all the time. It's all I see." "Rei," he said in the same sweet, calm voice. "You didn't kill me. The demon did. You did all that you could. I know it. In my heart I know it. I'm alive Rei, alive. I stayed alive for you. I had let go too. The thought of you was the only thing that kept me alive. Rei, I love you. You are the only thing in the entire universe that I love with every single bit of my being. I can't let you go. I can't let you stay in here and deteriorate each day and die. Rei, it's hell living without you but it's hell living with you in here dying." "I can't. I just. I am so evil. All the evil. The killing. I did it. I'm a horrible-" I began and broke down in the middle when Jadeite put his arms around me and pulled me into his lap. I sobbed heavily into his shoulder and firmly gripped his arm. "Shh... Rei, it's alright. Just let it all out," he said and repeated several times. Soon, my eyes were puffy and dry from crying until there were no tears left to be shed. I looked at the side of his head and he put a hand on my cheek and tilted my head until I was forced to look at him. He slowly inched his face closer to mine and put my hand up. "No," I said softly. "Rei, what's wrong?" "I can't," I protested. "Why not?" "I don't deserve it." "Yes, yes you do." "No. I don't. Just let me be," I said and turned over and curled up into a ball. I heard him sigh heavily and lay down flat on the bed to go to sleep. I cried. I cried until I could cry no more.
*Endy and Serenity* "Endy," she said leading him through the moon gardens the afternoon of her birthday. "I want to show you something." "What is it princess?" he asked as she dragged him along. "A surprise," she said temptingly. He cocked an eyebrow at her. "Oh really?" She just smiled. She brought him to a beautiful fully bloomed tree and they sat down on a red and white checkered blanket. "This tree was planted when I was born." she paused. "It's matured and grown...... so have I." He looked directly in her eyes. "We didn't come here for a picnic did we?" he asked, leaning back on his elbows. She shook her head and crawled over him on her hands and knees. "Is there a problem?" she asked inches away from his face. "Not one," he said smiling. She moved forward and kissed him. He opened his mouth and she mimicked his actions. He slowly wrapped his arms around her and laid down flat on the blanket. She straddled him and he brought one knee up. his hands roamed her body and he managed to roll her over and was now on top of her. She moaned every other time he kissed her neck and her hands ravaged his dark hair. Her hands moved to his shirt which she unbuttoned with ease and slid her hands in. He looked down at her as she felt all over his firm chest. He grabbed one of her arms by the wrist and she let her other hand fall on her stomach. He looked intensely into her eyes, "Sere," he started, "I'm in love with you." She smiled. "I'm in love with you too." He smiled and released her hand. She put it back up to touch him again. "Wait," he said. "If you want to do this go ahead, but if you are unsure, then stop. I won't be able to and we both know that you won't be able to stop me." She thought for a moment and then her hand made contact with his chest and her other hand pulled him down to her and she kissed him like he had kissed her the night they met. She pressed her hips to his and he moaned into her mouth. She gracefully let her hand drift down to his pants and opened them up. He lifted his lower body up a little and as he looked into her eyes she guided one of his hands to the end of her dress. He got a good grip on it and slowly slid it up to her waist and then to her chest. She reached backward with her arms and sat up a little, allowing him to take it off completely. His jaw dropped. She was completely exposed. Not a bit of clothing on her. She smiled. This was what she wanted. He shed his shirt and pants and joined her in her nakedness. "I love you Serenity," he whispered in her ear as they became one. She screamed his name and threw her head back.
Afterward, they lay there wrapped up in the blanket under the tree. "Endy?" Sere asked. "Yes?" he answered, stroking her hair as she lay with her head on his chest. "Thank you," she said. "Oh, for what?" "For everything," she sighed. "Anything for you Sere," he said. "Anything for you."
Chapter 13: Forbidden Love
*on the moon* Jadeite slowly opened his eyes and looked around at a greyish colored room. "Am I in hell?" he asked and heard the light sound of Selene's laugh. "No. And as a matter of fact, you aren't dead either." He stared blankly, "I felt myself give. I died." "Almost. If Darien hadn't argued until he nearly passed out, you would be," she said as the faces of her and Darien appeared to Jadeite. "What happened?" Jadeite asked. "Rei and Endymion killed my parents and I was forced to the moon, here, by my men," he said. "Battle-wise, what happened?" "Darien and I went down to pick you up and Endymion tried to interfere. I destroyed him. Rei is on her own now and I believe she hitched a ride back here with us," Selene stated. "I felt her presence." Jadeite sighed in relief. "I hurt all over. I feel like I have been cut in two." Selene laughed a little bit. "You almost were. She created a very deep wound across your stomach. I don't know how you survived like you did." "I heal fast," Jadeite said, sitting up and removing the bandage. The wound had almost healed up completely. "What are you?" Darien asked.
****FLASH*** "The seventh guardian," an angelic voice said. "I'm a what?"Jadeite asked the voice in his delirious state. "In you is the power. The absolute power to save her. You must or all is lost." "How? why?" Jadeite asked. "You will know when the time comes," the voice echoed. "In you is the power to find her and to cure her. Now go! You cannot wait any longer." ***FLASH***
"Jadeite?" Darien called out to him. "Oh, what?" he said snapping back to reality. "What is it?" Selene asked. "I just.....remembered something," he said. "I have to go." "I know," Selene said. "How long?" "Three days," Jadeite stated and got up and left the room.
*following Darien* he was walking down a hallway, open on one side, and lined with white rose bushes. Completely reveling in the warmth of the sunset, he noticed a ruffle in one of the bushes followed by a flash of white and blonde. He carefully walked closer to a wide pillar that the blur had hid behind. He began to hear girlish giggling and a tassel of blonde hair flowed in the breeze. He slowly and silently reached around the pillar and his hand met something soft. He closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. His hand wrapped around a slender wrist. He gently moved along until he could see what he had caught. She was stunning. About a foot shorter than himself, stood a beautiful girl not any older than 17. Clad in a silken white dress of the moon, she looked up at him with smiling crystal blue eyes. He looked intensely into her eyes, the stormy blue fire raging in them. The soft breeze blew his raven hair across his forehead but his eyes didn't falter. He lifted a hand up to brush her hair from her face and she lifted her chin up. This was too much for him. Perfectly innocent, she had no idea of what she was doing to him. He smiled softly and she smiled back. He couldn't hold it back. His hand cupped her faced ever so gently and tilted her head up at just the right angle before he descended and kissed her enchantingly on the lips. Her eyes closed and she slid her arms up around his neck and one hand through his hair. He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist. He pushed her against the pillar and began kissing her more demandingly. He broke away from her lips and started pursuing her neck. Her mouth opened as if in some silent cry of delight and he let one of his hands wander over her leg and halfway up her thigh. She caught him on the wrist and he looked into her eyes. A silent "no" in the look she gave him was all he needed. He slowly dropped her back down to her feet and she straightened out her dress. He ran his hand through his hair and it fell back into place. He looked at her, still in awe. "Who are you?" he asked. She looked at him funny as if he should have known. "Serenity," she answered. His jaw dropped. 'I've been treading a fine and dangerous line here,' he thought. 'But, wow.' He continued eyeing her and she giggled. "And who might you be?" "Darien, rightfully assumed title Endymion," he paused. "Who was my brother but now I have taken his identity. So is the ways of my home." "Endymion," she repeated. 'The prince of earth. How wonderful. My mother would have his head for this.' she licked her lips. 'But just look at him. Whoa.' 'This is almost too much,' he thought. 'Way....way....too much,' he felt the heat rising in him. 'I may not be able to control myself if she keeps up.' "How old are you?" he asked cautiously. "Sixteen," she said. "Turning seventeen in three days." 'Damn,' he thought. 'Way too young.' "How about you?" she asked. "Twenty-one. twenty-two in seven days," he answered and her eyes grew large. "How old would Endymion be?" she asked leaning against the pillar in the setting sun. "Same. We were twins." "Oh," she said. "Come with me." She led him to a softly lit circular section of a open hallway and to a moonstone bench. "Why did you kiss me?" she asked. "I have no idea," he answered. "I just couldn't stop myself." "Why'd you kiss me like that?" she asked next. "The way I feel. It's the way I feel," he said. "You feel all that? It was completely intense. I felt like I was under a spell," she said as if reminiscing. "Heh, yeah. It was pretty powerful," he paused, " Do you think I am too old for you?" he asked looking at her. "Why?" "I was just curious," he said looking forward at a mosaic on the wall. "A dark stranger will arrive and bring change to the Moon. Her people will become one with the earth and their princess will become one with the Dark One," she said. He looked at her and then back at the picture. She looked directly at him. "An ancient prophecy. It has yet to happen." "Really," he said half asking. "Actually, there's more to it." "Oh really?" he asked genuinely interested. "Mm hmm," she said. "I'll tell you. The story says that, specifically, a dark one will come from another world. Neither knowing who they are, the moon princess and this Dark One will meet. Instantly attracted, they fall passionately in love. He sweeps her off her feet completely and she blinds him with love and lust. It's a game of forbidden seduction. They continue their illicit affair and see each other secretly in the gardens of the moon. Not all is peachy though. Both completely ignorant to anything but each other, he brings the downfall of the moon kingdom and all of the kingdoms in this system except for the one of earth. Before the completely destruction of the moon kingdom, he brings about her death. Killed right in front of him, he mourns over her death and then takes his own life. The earth and moon are shattered as a people and as the walls come crumbling down, the moon queen takes her own life to save the people of the two planets." "Well," the prince said. "That's, uh, interesting to say the least." "Yes," she said looking at him." He still stared forward. "I believe it's you." "Who? what?" he said confusedly. "You, Dark One. You have come to fulfil the prophecy." "It's nonsense," he said walking away. "Say that to my mother,"she said and he stopped dead in his tracks. "What do you mean?" "Oh come on. You can't tell me that that's not in the least bit even a tiny ounce true." "Say it is. What then?" "We bring about the end of the Silver Millennium and life as we know it." "And say it isn't. Say I'm some earthen prince that preys on young girls like yourself." "Then I would fall into you trap," she shrugged her shoulders. "Anyway you look at it. But you aren't." "How do you know?" She smiled. "Well, you are noble and valiant and courteous. No criminal or predator acts like that and besides, I have the feeling if you were a bad man you'd have had me already." "You assume much young princess, and you assume well." "Will I see you again?" she asked running up to him as he was exiting the hallway. He turned and looked down at the frail form holding onto his arm. He couldn't help but smile. "Of course." "When?" "On your birthday." She lit up. "Oh! Thank you!" "I promise I shall," he said and turned to go.
*following Jadeite(three days later)* he closed his eyes in the Hall of the Past. He could sense her. Right around the corner. He turned it to be faced with a pair of fiery red eyes. He grabbed for her but she was too fast. She was off before he could do anything. "Dammit," he cursed and began running after her. She stopped and hissed at him. "You should be dead," she cursed at him. "Alive and kicking," he said drawing his sword. "I despise you," she spat at him in the middle of a circular section of the hallway. "Get out," he said twirling his sword. He shot looks of clear conviction at her and she hissed and growled. "You'll fight me in her will you?" she said running a hand down the middle of her chest. "again?" "I'll do what I have to do," he said. "If you must," she said and threw her body around seductively. 'Disgusting,' he thought to himself. She laughed and lunged at him. Their swords collided with a loud clang. He fought her easily and began winning the fight after a short period of time. He kicked her sword out of her hand and closed his eyes for a moment. "Sword!" she commanded and it did not appear. "Sword!!" she commanded a second time, crawling on her back away from him as he advanced on her slowly. She looked up at him, defeated. She smiled and threw her head back. She tried her best to look vulnerable and alluring. The tip of his sword pressed against her throat and she threw her head back and laughed temptingly and then looked into his eyes as she licked her lips. "You wouldn't kill me," she said. "No?" he asked bluffing. She looked scared for a moment and then his spell broke and she kicked his sword from his hands. She stood up and laughed at him. "Do you honestly think I'd let you have her back?" "I didn't ask you did I?" he said menacingly. She punched him right in the face and he fell to his side. She stood over him, taunting him. He stood up swiftly and with one angry blow to the side of her head, he knocked her out cold and she lay sprawled out on the floor. He went over to her and put a hand to the place where she had hit him. He was shocked that he was not bleeding. He leaned down and picked her up and held her limp body up in an almost standing position. "Rei," he sighed as he held her limp body in his arms and sighed. He began to glow a red color and closed his eyes. She was leaning spiritlessly backward and he placed a hand on her chest and began to concentrate. The glow slowly spread across her body too and their eyes bolted open. Fiery red met cold blue. "Ahh!!!!" she screamed agonizingly as she writhed in his hold. "No," he whispered and she shrieked again. "Jadeite," she said in a sudden sweet voice. "Jadeite, it hurts. Make it stop. Please. Let go. Stop." "No demon," he commanded softly and she screeched again. "Free," he said authoritatively and a bright red light erupted from her chest where his hand lay. "No!!" the demon screamed as it was ripped from her body by the blinding light. The light subsided and she, once again, went limp. "Rei," he called to her lovingly, half expecting the demon to reply. None came though. Her eyes opened and the red was gone. A deep violet was all that remained. Empty. Dead. She lifelessly looked out into the air. "No," he protested falling to his knees and holding her closely to himself. "No, not again," he said beginning to cry. He held her head to his chest and stroked her hair as a single crystal blue tear fell from him to her forehead. Slowly her heart began to beat again and the life returned to her. She blinked but he remained ignorant to what was going on. She blinked a couple of times and realized where she was, what had happened, and who was holding her. She lifted her free hand up to touch his face. His eyes were closed and tears were coming more and more. She sighed softly and closed her own eyes before her hand met the soft skin of his face. He gasped when they contacted. His saddened blue eyes shot open and he looked down at her through tears. "Rei," he breathed out. "Yes?" she tried to speak but her voice cracked. She coughed a little bit and then said "it's me." "Oh my god," he said closing his eyes and securing her hand to his face with his own. "Oh god Rei," he said kissing her hand and her arm. "Oh god." She smiled a concerned smile at him and lifted her other hand up to touch the other side of his face. "Jadeite?" she asked. "Yes, love, what? anything," he said quickly, looking down at her innocent features. "Can I got to a bed?" she asked and he began to laugh. "Of course. Let me carry you," he said getting up and picking her up in his arms. She drew her arms around his neck and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I love you Rei," he said when he laid her down on he bed. She smiled. She couldn't. Couldn't say it. "I know," he said, knowing that he'd never hear the words that his heart longed to hear and broke every time she couldn't bring herself to say.
*later* "I'm breaking Selene," he said to the queen. "Inside. I'm dying." "I know," the fair queen said to him from her throne. "Jadeite, you know she does." "But I can't- it's just that...." he trailed off afraid to say what he felt. "It's not enough," she finished and he looked up at her sadly. "Yeah, not enough," he repeated softly. "I can't leave her though. She's all that I am. My life. My soul." Selene's eyes began to tear up and she floated down from her throne to him. "Love her. Loving her has kept you alive. Never stop. Not even for a second. You have to keep going for every time there is a bend in the road, she'll be waiting for you on the other side." He nodded and sighed, recalling the past events. "She almost killed you Jadeite, and you forgave her-" "It wasn't her." "Well, it was all the same. You nearly died and have still hung on. Don't let go. Don't ever let go," she said as he turned and left the room.
*later* "Selene," Darien called out into the throne room. "Yes, Endy?" she asked. "You called me Endy," he said smiling. "So I did. And it is your rightful name, is it not? taken by your brother?" "Yes, I didn't think you knew that." "I know lots of things, but come. Tell me what I need to know," she said leading him to a bench. "You'll want to kill me," he said nervously. "So I may, but I will do no such thing. Continue." "Well, last night I met your daughter," he started. "Oh dear," she said looking off. "She told you of the prophecy then?" "Yes, but that's not all," he said. "I know," she said looking at him with shining eyes. "I knew this would happen." "Yeah," he said twidling his thumbs. "I kissed her." "Oh Endy," she said placing a hand on his shoulder. "She didn't fight you, did she?" "No,"he said softly. "Not one bit." "So I thought." "She's so......so..... enchanting. Tempting," he said softly to himself more than to Selene. "You have her under your spell as well, prince," Selene said. "You know what I must say." "Yes," he said sadly. "I must and so I shall," she said regaining herself. "Endymion, prince of earth, I forbid you to ever see the princess Serenity of the moon ever again. So I have spoken and so it shall be. Do not go against my words. Please. Or nothing will be as it should." "Yes your majesty," he said as he gravely stood up and left the room and a crying queen.
*Rei* I felt so wrong. The hatred and evil was still in my mind. Everything I did. I could barely live with myself. Jadeite would never understand. I was in hell. Absolute hell. All the people I killed were nothing, nothing compared to when I slid the sword into the man I loved. My soul mate. My world shattered when I saw the blood coming out and the look on his face. It was unbearable. I wished I was still dead at that point in time. I wanted to die. He looked up at me with this unbelievably sad expression on his face which portrayed exactly what I had just done. I had killed him, or so I had thought. When he looked down and saw the blood I begged the demon to kill me. He looked back up and blood began to come out of his mouth too. He opened it and nothing came out. I broke. I let go. He fell to his knees and my will to live died. He fell back and his eyes rolled back into his head and the demon controlling my body walked over to his limp figure and smirked at him in satisfaction. That memory kept flashing in my mind every time I saw him. He was deathly worried about me. I knew it. Every time I looked into his eyes I saw worry and pain. I wasn't the same. I'd never be the same again. I was scared now. In the hall on earth, the demon backed away and let me out. I was so terrified. I thought Endymion would kill me. Then when the situation got back under control, the demon took control again. I was so disgusted by the actions and all of the things the demon did with my body. It was sickening. I lay in bed now every day. I couldn't bring myself to get out and face the world. I just couldn't. I had let go of it all. I had no reason to live. Not even for Jadeite. I had tried to kill my other half and in my mind, it was unforgivable. He walked into the room slowly and gently. He made his way over to the side of the bed that I was not on. I made no movement. I didn't even acknowledge that he had entered. "Rei," he called sweetly. My heart broke. "Don't," I protested. "I don't deserve you and I don't deserve to hear you say my name like that." My hands went up to my eyes to wipe away the tears. "No, you do," he paused and leaned over close to me. "You deserve all that and more. You've been through hell Rei. And dammit, I'm not letting you go." "Please," I pleaded. "I don't want to live." He wiped the tears from my eyes. "But I do. Please don't leave me." "I almost killed you. Jadeite, it killed me inside to see you dying. The blood, the look on your face, in your eyes, the hurt, I see it all the time. It's all I see." "Rei," he said in the same sweet, calm voice. "You didn't kill me. The demon did. You did all that you could. I know it. In my heart I know it. I'm alive Rei, alive. I stayed alive for you. I had let go too. The thought of you was the only thing that kept me alive. Rei, I love you. You are the only thing in the entire universe that I love with every single bit of my being. I can't let you go. I can't let you stay in here and deteriorate each day and die. Rei, it's hell living without you but it's hell living with you in here dying." "I can't. I just. I am so evil. All the evil. The killing. I did it. I'm a horrible-" I began and broke down in the middle when Jadeite put his arms around me and pulled me into his lap. I sobbed heavily into his shoulder and firmly gripped his arm. "Shh... Rei, it's alright. Just let it all out," he said and repeated several times. Soon, my eyes were puffy and dry from crying until there were no tears left to be shed. I looked at the side of his head and he put a hand on my cheek and tilted my head until I was forced to look at him. He slowly inched his face closer to mine and put my hand up. "No," I said softly. "Rei, what's wrong?" "I can't," I protested. "Why not?" "I don't deserve it." "Yes, yes you do." "No. I don't. Just let me be," I said and turned over and curled up into a ball. I heard him sigh heavily and lay down flat on the bed to go to sleep. I cried. I cried until I could cry no more.
*Endy and Serenity* "Endy," she said leading him through the moon gardens the afternoon of her birthday. "I want to show you something." "What is it princess?" he asked as she dragged him along. "A surprise," she said temptingly. He cocked an eyebrow at her. "Oh really?" She just smiled. She brought him to a beautiful fully bloomed tree and they sat down on a red and white checkered blanket. "This tree was planted when I was born." she paused. "It's matured and grown...... so have I." He looked directly in her eyes. "We didn't come here for a picnic did we?" he asked, leaning back on his elbows. She shook her head and crawled over him on her hands and knees. "Is there a problem?" she asked inches away from his face. "Not one," he said smiling. She moved forward and kissed him. He opened his mouth and she mimicked his actions. He slowly wrapped his arms around her and laid down flat on the blanket. She straddled him and he brought one knee up. his hands roamed her body and he managed to roll her over and was now on top of her. She moaned every other time he kissed her neck and her hands ravaged his dark hair. Her hands moved to his shirt which she unbuttoned with ease and slid her hands in. He looked down at her as she felt all over his firm chest. He grabbed one of her arms by the wrist and she let her other hand fall on her stomach. He looked intensely into her eyes, "Sere," he started, "I'm in love with you." She smiled. "I'm in love with you too." He smiled and released her hand. She put it back up to touch him again. "Wait," he said. "If you want to do this go ahead, but if you are unsure, then stop. I won't be able to and we both know that you won't be able to stop me." She thought for a moment and then her hand made contact with his chest and her other hand pulled him down to her and she kissed him like he had kissed her the night they met. She pressed her hips to his and he moaned into her mouth. She gracefully let her hand drift down to his pants and opened them up. He lifted his lower body up a little and as he looked into her eyes she guided one of his hands to the end of her dress. He got a good grip on it and slowly slid it up to her waist and then to her chest. She reached backward with her arms and sat up a little, allowing him to take it off completely. His jaw dropped. She was completely exposed. Not a bit of clothing on her. She smiled. This was what she wanted. He shed his shirt and pants and joined her in her nakedness. "I love you Serenity," he whispered in her ear as they became one. She screamed his name and threw her head back.
Afterward, they lay there wrapped up in the blanket under the tree. "Endy?" Sere asked. "Yes?" he answered, stroking her hair as she lay with her head on his chest. "Thank you," she said. "Oh, for what?" "For everything," she sighed. "Anything for you Sere," he said. "Anything for you."