Disclaimer- I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the characters.

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"Earth to Serena! Hello shopping to be done here. Serena are you ok?"

Serena blinked at Mina a few times and then remembered where she was. She was shopping, with the gang, in a VERY crowded mall. She turned back to the now annoyed blonde.

"Yea sorry Mina, I was just thinking."

"Well then now you can answer my question," Mina replied.

"Um what was the question?"

"How was your date meatball head. Mina told us all about you calling her before your hot date for fashion advice, but you haven't said anything about the date yet. Jeez!" Rei was already back into the swing of things. Pretending Serena had never gone through her thing and teasing her mercilessly.

"It was um.. He wasn't who I originally though he was." Serena was a bit disappointed with her answer, but she hope it kept the girls happy. Even if she knew it wouldn't.

"No second date then?" Lita just had to get the details on the hot guy that she had never met that gone to they're school without her notice.

"Nope. No second date."

"You guys I really don't think we should pester Serena about this." Amy was being her normal way to polite self, but Serena felt like she needed that more right now and she suck close to Amy.

"Hey you guys, if we're done shopping do you think we could head over to the arcade for a while? I haven't seen Andrew in forever, I feel kinda bad for never calling him back and stuff."

"I think that'd be a great I idea, lets go. Right Rei, Amy, Mina?" They all nodded to Lita in agreement.

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Conversation between all the girls (except Serena later at the shrine.

Rei: Guys do you think something was different about Serena? I mean I know she must have changed because of losing her parents and all but, well I don't know, I just thought that even for Serena she seemed a little off.

Mina: Yea I noticed it too. She wasn't like that when I went to her house the other night. You think maybe something happened with her date that she's not telling us about? Maybe he was a boyfriend and they broke up or something?

Amy: That could explain her wanting to leave early, and getting so uncomfortable when we asked her about her date.

Lita: You thought she seemed uncomfortable?

Amy: Well yea, didn't all of you notice it?

Rei: That would explain a lot

Mina: Poor Serena, she's just starting to get back into the swing of things, and something else horrible happens. Do you think we should set her up with someone else?

Lita: I think we should just try to keep her busy until she's back to normal. Maybe now's not a good time for her to have a boyfriend.

Amy: Did Lita just say that, or did aliens steal her body?

Lita: Amy! ::throws pillow at her::

Rei, Mina, and Lita then attack Amy in a pillow fight and the conversation ends.

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Serena was on patrol in the park. Lately she's been going on patrol for hours, and just walking the park and some of the worse parts of the city for hours. It helped her to clear her head, but it also gave her time to think about him.

She still couldn't figure out what had happened. How was it that she missed the fact that he was a vampire? Why didn't she stake him after she'd found out? So many questions filled her head while she was walking the park, and tonight she was particularly deep in thought.

Then out of nowhere Serena felt someone grab her shoulders and pull her to the ground. She was so surprised that someone had managed to sneak up on her that she didn't even scream. She tried to fight back, kicking wildly at the person who she couldn't quiet see in the darkness, but then another pair of hands grabbed her feet pinning her completely to the ground.

She then got a glimpse of red eyes on her too attackers and realized they were vampires. She was being pinned to the ground totally defenseless by two vampires, and no one was around to even hear her scream. Serena then understood that she might, and would most likely not live through this night.

All of a sudden the vampire that held her arms down screamed in pain and then disappeared into a cloud of dust. Serena's arms now free reached into her coat and pulled out a stake and she quickly dusted the other vampire. Then turned to see whom her savior was.

It was Darien!

Serena just stared at him and didn't know what to do. He was a vampire, so she thought she was suppose to kill him, that he was suppose to be a bad guy, but he'd just saved her life. Somehow it didn't seem right to kill someone who could have just watched you be killed.

"Why'd you help me?" She had to know.

He just looked at her sadly. Then he walked up to her and pulled her into his arms and kissed her. Serena was in shock. She was kissing a vampire, AGAIN, but this time she knew she was doing it. And she didn't care. She kissed him back until he pulled away.

"Because for some reason kissing you makes me feel differently, and until I know why I have to keep you alive."

Then he turned and left.

Serena stood there numb. She blinked back tears that were about to spill out over her face, he left her again. What was so wrong with her that even a vampire had to leave her? Was there anybody in the world that could love her?

Serena turned and ran for her apartment.

Darien watched as Serena turned and fled in the direction of her apartment. He heard her crying from the tree he had hid behind and it was all he could do not to run after her. He didn't know why exactly he'd chosen to hurt her, maybe so that he wouldn't get hurt when she couldn't love him back because of what he was. He saw her stake the other vampire and felt no remorse, how long would it be until one day while he slept she staked him? Or worse, what would he do if he fell in love with her and he had to watch her age and then die? He couldn't turn her if she didn't want him to, and he would never ask her if he could. It just couldn't work.

He decided that he should follow her home. Who knew if more vampires would try to attack her? She'd managed to be caught totally off guard the first time, no one could honestly tell if it would happen again.

Suddenly a thought struck Darien, why hadn't see been afraid of them? Why hadn't she cringed when she saw them? How much did this girl really know about vampires anyway?

Darien was torn from his thoughts when suddenly he heard a young girl scream. Immediately he knew it was Serena and ran in the direction of her scream. He didn't know why he was so concerned about her, but he didn't care, all he had time to think about was Serena.

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Look look another chapter! Hoorah! Yes I kno it needs more editing. Sry ppl noone but me edits it so its crap. Ne1 want the job???