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"He's going out with who?" Rini shrieked.

"Shhhh," Mina silenced her. "How would you know?" Ami cut in.

"Hey, why else would they be spending so much time together?" Lita asked Ami.

"Maybe they're talking about cars and motorcyles or whatnot," Raye hopped in.

"Hi Michelle, Hi Trista, Hi Hotaru," Rini bounced up to Trista for a hug.

"Who's talking about cars and motorcyles?" Michelle had apparently heard that last comment.

"Amara and Darian," Mina explained," have been spending a lot of time together and Serena got really worked up about it."

"Well, where is Serena now?" Trista had finished hugging Rini.

"She went to go talk to Darian about it," Raye explained.

"Hey Girls!" Serena came running up toting Darian on one arm, while Amara walked at a leisurely pace a couple steps behind them. The inner scouts except Ami did double takes.

"Hey I thought you said --" Rini went silent as Mina placed a hand over her mouth.

"The reason they've been spending so much time together is because..." Serena trailed off as the scene around the scouts froze and faded to black.

Queen Serenity, Luna, Artemis, and Diana appeared. "Go on," Luna prodded Serena.

"They're twins," Serena burst out. The rest of the group stood shocked. "How cool would it be to have a twin," Serena started rambling as the rest of the group recovered, "especially if it was the same sex as you, I mean a twin is cool but having a sister that I could share clothes and hair styles and dating tips would be sweet."

"I bet childhood would have been soooo much more fun if I had a twin," Mina recovered speech first.

"Yeah, always having someone to play with," Lita added. Amara's eyes clouded over, she turned, already starting to sprint in that direction, and she faded into the black background.

"Hey Amara where are you going?" most of the group started after her.

Queen Serenity stepped in the way," Let her go."

"Her life as a twin hasn't been the perfect fun filled paradise you speak of," Darian stepped up beside Queen Serenity.

"What?" Serena was completely confused.

"She had her first nervous breakdown at age 4, for a year and a half she never smiled," Darian continued.

"No, she smiled once when she and Darian had to stay at the Moon Palace while Serena was starting to learn how to walk," Queen Serenity corrected Darian, "Darian you were so careful around her, always looking after her and trying to make her smile and laugh again. When in all actuality you needed Serena's help to make her smile."

"Me," Serena looked shocked.

"Your first steps, Serena," Serenity started her explaination," Darian and Amara taught you how to walk. The first steps you took were with their help. Amara got you started and Darian was there to catch you. You fell halfway between them and the pause with the shocked look before you started wailing was to much for me and Darian, we started laughing so hard Amara couldn't help but smile." The group was floating unseen inside the memory immediately after the explaination was completed.





* * * past

"Come on Serena, you can do it," Darian tried to get Serena to come to him.

"Go ahead Serena, go to Darian," Serenity held a video camara on the scene from the sideline.

"Serena, I know you can do little princess," Amara held Serena's stomach with two hands," go to Darian." Amara let go and Serena immediately fell back toward Amara but didn't land on the ground before Amara caught her.

"Serena, come here," Darian held his hands out. Serena pointed to Darian.

"Yeah that's it Serena, go to Darian," Amara held very lightly to Serena's hands before pushing her slightly towards Darian. Serena got 3 steps before leaning forward and falling back on her butt because of her over correction of the weight placement. Darian and Serenity started laughing, Serena starting wailing, and Amara looked uncertain before smiling slightly at the scene.

** * present





The whole group stood smiling back in the black void.

"That was the only time she smiled the entire divorce process," Darian had a half smile on his face," it really wasn't her fault though. Most of it was our mother's and part was our father's."

"Why wouldn't she smile, I could understand divorcee children not laughing a whole lot but not exetreme enough to not smile," Ami asked.

"Both of our parents wanted custody of me," Darian explained," It wouldn't have been bad had the first child been a female and the second male. You understand every parent wants their legacy to be passed to the first male child. That's exactly what happened the first child was a male and both of our parents wanted their crown to pass to the first male child."

"We also have reason to belief that Amara was abused by her mother, Amara was terrified of her mother and, well, you know Amara," Serenity continued Darians explanation," There isn't much that scares her, and for good reason."

"After a year and a half, life was too much for Amara and she froze," Darian was lost in the memory," Our parents were told that something was seriously wrong with one of the twins. When our mother found out that it was Amara, she didn't care and just left, that's when our father realized that it was time to give up and he took custody of Amara."

"Oh, no their mother was an angel with Darian, she loved him more than life," Serenity said after seeing the expression on the girls face.

"Should we tell them?" Darian looked at Serenity. "Not without Amara here," Serenity replied as Raye's eyes went wide.

"I feel a dark presence," Raye exclaimed. Everyone except Queen Serenity reappeared where they had been before Serenity appeared, Amara was at one side of the group looking completely uncomfortable.



Right then came a flash and the group was in a dark chamber surrounded by people in gray uniforms.