Hello! this is specifically a Rei/Jadeite fic. more comments at the
bottom!!! sorry, i can't spoil the reading.
Chapter 1: Thrown In
"He is the key to it all," she said. "Now open that goddamn case!"
"Yes, mistress," a slinky servant of mistress 9 replied.
She paced and fidgeted, "he knows, he knows them. He knows their identities and," she paused with a drawl in her voice. "He's still brain washed to the Negaverse! This is perfect!"
"Mistress," the servant called to her again. "The case is almost open."
"Good," she said. "Very, very good," she said, advancing on the crystal enclosure. She stood in front of the structure now on its bottom.
A blonde man stood inside with a serene look of peace on his face. His general's uniform was somewhat tattered from his last battle and his chest moved ever so slightly with his incredibly slow breathing. As the servants hacked and chiseled away at the crack along the seal, mistress 9's patience was beginning to wear thin.
"Hurry up you fools!" she screamed.
"A breach!" one yelled as they continued working harder and harder at breaking the general out of his jail.
A red light filled the crack along the seal of the crystal and the front of it dissolved into thin air. Mistress 9 stood only a few feet from the encasement when the man's crystal blue eyes shot open. He gasped for air and nearly passed out from the amount he taking in. He looked over toward mistress 9 and began to stumble forward.
"Rei," he called as he passed out and fell into the surprised arms of a very confused mistress 9.
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He woke on a soft bed in a dark room. The walls were a deep red, almost black. The bed was a lighter shade of the same color and the only light in the room was candlelight coming from every corner in mass amounts.
"He's awake," a guard called and mistress 9 came through the doorway.
The general's eyes lit up and he tried to sit.
"No general," she said. "You need your rest."
"Rei," he said again. "You've come back to me."
She gave him a confused look.
"I'm sorry I left you. I never should have made that deal with Beryl," he said, reaching for her hand. "I'm so sorry for all the pain I've caused. I never meant you any harm. Please forgive me."
Mistress 9 gave him a strange look. 'He must think I am someone from his past. Rei, why does that name sound familiar?' "I'll be back," she said as she turned to leave. "Tomoe!" she yelled upon exiting the room.
"Yes mistress?"
"Who is Rei?"
"Rei," he repeated, typing on his computer. "Hino Rei, priestess at Hikawa Jinja temple."
"Get her, bring her to me. Unharmed!" she ordered a guard and a few of her henchmen. Then, turning back to herself she said, "if Rei is what he wants, Rei is what he'll get."
"Rei," the general called as mistress 9 again stepped into the room.
"No, I'm not Rei," she said.
"Then who are you?" he asked, growing uneasy.
"I am mistress 9. But we are bringing Rei into our possession as I speak. She will be here with you very soon," she assured him, the sweetness and kindness in her voice beginning to sicken her. "Oh, general. Have you a name?"
"Jadeite," he said. "General Jadeite."
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"Let me go you asshole!" Rei screamed to the top of her lungs as two big thug-looking henchmen of the Negaverse took a hold of her.
"Rei, Rei, Rei" mistress 9 called as she materialized in front of the angry woman. "There is no use fighting."
"What do you want now?" she fumed.
"You."
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"LET_ME_GO!!!!!" she yelled and punched at the youmas as they dropped her in a room and quickly shut the door. "Let me out of here!!!" she screamed, banging on the door of the room.
She sank to the floor, realizing that she was not escaping when she felt a warm, strong hand on her shoulder. She jumped, but no one was there when she looked. She strained to use her priestess powers but to no avail. 'fine,' she thought to herself. 'I'll just use my scout powers.' She reached for her pen but it wasn't there.
'Oh gods, they took it! Now they know who I am,' she kicked herself inwardly.
Stripped of her powers and helpless to escape, she scanned the room with her eyes.
'I feel someone, but I can't see them,' she thought as she stood up and walked forward a few steps.
She stopped immediately when she felt someone's presence behind her. "If you're going to kill me, just go ahead and do it."
Then came a deep, familiar chuckle.
"I'm not going to kill you."
'Oh gods no. please not him,' she begged. She refused to turn around.
"Rei," he said softly as he put both of his strong hands on her upper arms. "I'm so sorry."
"What do you have to be sorry about?" she asked venomously.
"I was wrong. All those years ago. In the silver millennium. You remember," he said. "When I, along with the other three, was forced into a deal with that witch and was taken from you."
She shuddered. "I don't remember anything about a silver millennium," she said spitefully. "I only know you for the evil that you are. Nothing else."
"I wasn't always evil, Rei," he said still softly, not losing his temper with this incredible woman that refused to lay her eyes on him. "I'm sorry, Rei. Please find it in your heart to forgive me. Please."
He sounded genuine to her. So real that it terrified her. She wanted to remember a time when he was not evil. She wanted to remember what he was talking about. She wanted to run to him and wrap her arms around him and tell him she was the one who was sorry for turning her back on him when he needed her the most. She wanted to forgive him most of all and wanted him to forgive her. But for the life of her, she could not remember anything.
"Jadeite," she spoke his name and his heart leapt. 'What am I doing?' she asked herself. 'This is disgusting.'
"Yes Rei? anything."
"What happened? I can't remember," she turned her head in his direction over her shoulder as the feeling to throw up almost overwhelmed her.
To him, she looked like a goddess, standing there with her jet black hair cascading down her back and her exotic purple eyes looking to him for consolation and reassurance, even if that wasn't what she was looking for. He stepped toward her and turned her around to face himself. Instead of what he had expected to be a sad expression, he was met with an angry glare.
"Don't touch me!" she cried. "You may have not been evil a thousand years ago but you are still evil now! You joined beryl a thousand years ago and recently almost killed me and nearly died yourself! How am I supposed to trust you? how do I know you won't go running to the death busters or mistress 9 this time?" she accused. He reeled. Not knowing what to say.
"I..."he stammered. "I don't know how you can trust me after all the things you said I did."
Her eyes narrowed and her voiced softened.
"You don't remember do you?"
"The last thing I remember is making a deal with Beryl to keep you out of harm's way," he said honestly.
"Great lot of good that did," she said virulently.
"I," he said, starting to yelled. He closed his eyes momentarily as he continued softly, "I never meant any harm to you. For god's sake Rei. I was in love with you."
"No," she said turning from him. "No, no, no, no, no!" she said turning back to him, getting louder with every no. "It's not possible," she said on the verge of laughter.
"That's exactly what you said when I asked you to come with me," he said seriously.
"Was this before or after you switched sides?" she snorted.
"Before," he paused, closing his eyes to bite back his annoyance at her remark. "I would have never wanted you to join me in that hell. I tried to get back to you. I did. Honest. But she had me trapped. I was beaten and tortured until I broke."
"Surprising," she remarked.
"Rei," he sighed. "Please. Please believe me."
She turned her back again and walked to the door of the room. "We may be enemies mistress 9, but this is one dirty trick."
The door dematerialized and mistress 9 was standing there.
"Yes?"
"I want to talk," she demanded.
"Powerless?" the mistress offered.
"Preferably. Just talk," Rei glared.
"Fair enough," the mistress agreed.
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"Why'd you bring me here?"
"To tell you the truth, and I have no advantage lying here so I will be honest, he mistook me for you," the taller, meaner looking woman confessed.
"How?" Rei asked.
"I'm as confused as you are," she said. "But there is a way to get your freedom."
"What's the trick?"
"Get all the information about the sailor scouts that you can out of him. He won't talk to anyone else," she offered.
"No," Rei said. "I think I'll just stay here in hell with him."
"Suit yourself," she said as Rei was back in the room with Jadeite and the mistress had disappeared.
"you thought she was me?" Rei demanded fiercely.
"In my delirious state, yes," he defended himself. "When she doesn't look like a frigid bitch, she kind of resembles you. She just lacks your fire," he said smiling.
"You're disgusting," she spat at him.
'Slowly making progress,' he thought to himself. "I can help you remember," he offered.
"I don't think I want to. Thank you very much," she said, sitting down in a corner and pulling her knees up to her chest.
"Suit yourself," he said as he lay back down on the bed.
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That night Rei dreamt of the past. Long ago in the silver millennium.
Her raven hair played gracefully along her back as she closed her eyes and melted into the music at the ball. It was a beautiful slow song that very few people could really enjoy it like it was meant to be enjoyed. She gently hummed the melody line by heart as the small string quartet played the enchanting music. She hated the Earth and everything to do with it with the exception of its many fine musicians and the music they had and created. The best, in her mind, came from the Earth.
"Incredible, isn't it?" someone asked from behind her.
She simply nodded.
"It always amazes me at how little music is appreciated," the man said.
"Hmm, yes," she said. "Is there something you want?"
"Actually, yes there is," came his richly voiced reply.
"Well, what is it?" she demanded, beginning to become quite cross with the insufferable man.
"I'd like to dance with you," he said nonchalantly.
She breathed out heavily, realizing who she was speaking to. Had this god of a man just ask her to dance?
"uh," she stammered.
She looked over his body. He had shed the general's uniform she was accustomed to and sported, instead, black from neck to toe. He wore a uniform-style-collared plain black dress shirt with a pair of hand tailored black slacks to match over his almost shined up black dress boots. She looked back up into his cobalt blue eyes and his golden hair and placed her hand in his without a second thought.
"I'd be honored, Lord Jadeite," she said as he whisked her off of her feet and onto the dance floor.
From the moment he had first lain eyes on her he had wanted to talk to her. Get to know her. This was the best way he knew how. Rumor had it that she had an amazingly fast and explosive temper. He didn't want to set her off by his usual slightly offensive ways so he had gotten help from Endymion and Nephrite on being a bit more romantic. He watched her as they danced, totally amazed at her beauty. Her oriental-style black dress with red embroidery set her off perfectly to match him. It came down to her ankles but had two slits up the sides to her mid-thigh which drove him crazy. He wondered why she did not wear the attire such as that of the other princesses. Rather, why she wore such exotic things. The song came to an end and so ended the night's ball.
"Princess Rei," Jadeite called as the guests at the ball began making their ways to their quarters.
"Yes?"
"Would you mind terribly if I walked you to your room?"
"You may," she replied. "But you're not getting anything out of me," she added sternly.
He laughed deeply.
"I had none of those intentions," he confessed laughingly.
"Good," she said. "Then I may consider seeing you again."
His breath caught. Hah, she just said that she might see him again?
"I'd be honored to be graced by your presence yet another time, princess."
"Please," she said. "Call me Rei," she smiled up at him and slipped her slender arm into his strong one and he smiled back as they began to walk slower and slower back to her room.
The vision quickly turned from the serene scenery of the moon palace to a barren battlefield, stained with the blood of lunarians and earthen people. In the mist a dark figure approached her slowly. A strange, evil feeling crept up her spine, making her hair stand on end. She looked up. The shadow of a man she once knew stood before her, a sinister snarl on his face. he raised his arm up to strike at her--
"Jed!" she cried as she sat up from her laying position on what she thought was the floor of the room in the Negaverse.
Jadeite's eyes shot open and he jumped from his sleeping position on the chair beside the bed.
"What? Rei? what? I'm right here," he said rushing to her side.
"What the hell are you doing?!" she cried, pulling away from him once more.
"You screamed my name, or actually, what you used to call me," he said holding other information about that name to himself.
"I had a dream. No," she paused. "I think it was a memory about my, our past life together."
"Really," he said skeptically.
"Yeah, there was a ball and we danced," she said with a still confused look on her face, not telling him the rest. He smiled warmly enough to make her forget all the evil he'd done.
"I remember that," he said. "One of the best nights of my life," he said craftily hinting something more.
She growled. "I never slept with you."
"Ah, now, on the contrary, you slept with me many nights but we didn't make love on every one of them if that's what you are implying."
"Shut up!!!" she screamed. "No matter what kind of defective state I was in, no matter how long ago it was, I think I'd recall having sex with a slime ball like you!!!"
"That hurt Rei," he said playfully.
"Good!" she yelled. "You deserve it!" she crossed her arms and glared.
He laughed. "I still love you," he said with a smile that almost made her cold heart melt.
"No you don't," she said. "That's the negaverse talking."
"No it isn't," he said. "When I was in that encasement all of the evil drained from me and so went my memories of my evil past. Remember?" long silence fell as she pouted in her own stupor. "And I never stopped loving you one minute of my life."
"I don't believe you and I don't love you," she said with a malignant tone.
"Hmm," he said, pulling away from her for a moment. She fidgeted under the heavy covers and he swiftly pinned her hands down by her sides and leaned closely to her. She could feel his hot breath only less than an inch away from her face as she strained to pull away from him. Chills ran up and down her spine when he breathed, almost as if her body was calling to him, betraying what her mind was telling it. She thought he would kiss her. In some remote part of her mind she wanted him to and was absolutely terrified he would. Instead he just smiled tauntingly as his blue eyes pierced into her purple ones.
"One day," he said huskily before backing off and retreating to his chair.
She breathed a sigh of relief and somewhat disappointment. She battled herself inwardly. Something about him being so close to her and having his hot breath on her skin made her want him, made her desire for him so great that her mind went blank. Her hand went up to the place on her cheek where he almost touched her and she scolded herself.
'He's nothing but Nega-trash and an evil enemy who would have been more than happy to kill you three years ago, regardless of how he felt in the silver millennium,' she reasoned. 'Now for some rest,' she said as she turned her back to him and drifted off into sleep.
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As soon as she was deep in slumber, Jadeite stood from his post and walked stealthily to the side of the bed she was facing.
"Oh Rei," he said lovingly as he stroked her hair from her face. "I need you," he said, caressing her bare cheek as she leaned into the warmth of his hand in her calmed, sleeping state. "How can I make it right?" he asked himself, continuing to stroke her soft cheek with his hand.
She made a small noise of contentment as she nestled into the bed, closer to him. He smiled.
"Someday soon Rei," he said watching her. "Someday soon."
"Jed?" she asked in her sleep.
"Yes Rei? What do you need?"
"Why did you leave me?" she mumbled innocently.
"Oh Rei," he sighed. "I never left you. I've always been right here with you."
"Jed?" she asked again.
"Yes love?"
"Don't leave me," she pleaded.
"I won't. I swear to you." A small smile crept its way across her stunningly beautiful face.
"Jed?"
"Yes princess?" he said almost on the verge of laughter.
"Hold me?" she asked and his heart couldn't deny her.
"Anytime," he said as he climbed onto the bed and pulled her into his lap.
He sat Indian-style and she wrapped her arms around one of his legs as she slept. Once he had made sure she was comfortable, he leaned his head back and fell asleep with one hand buried deep within the confines of her silky black hair.
AN: what will rei do when she wakes up with him so close to her.....holding her? how do you think she'll react? will sparks fly or just her fist? -- yes, mistress 9 has a purpose. she broke jed out. that's pretty much her purpose right now. i think i'm smelling a battle in the future though, and maybe some betrayl? but on whose end? --please review me! the more reviews, the faster the next one comes out. thankie thankie!!
Chapter 1: Thrown In
"He is the key to it all," she said. "Now open that goddamn case!"
"Yes, mistress," a slinky servant of mistress 9 replied.
She paced and fidgeted, "he knows, he knows them. He knows their identities and," she paused with a drawl in her voice. "He's still brain washed to the Negaverse! This is perfect!"
"Mistress," the servant called to her again. "The case is almost open."
"Good," she said. "Very, very good," she said, advancing on the crystal enclosure. She stood in front of the structure now on its bottom.
A blonde man stood inside with a serene look of peace on his face. His general's uniform was somewhat tattered from his last battle and his chest moved ever so slightly with his incredibly slow breathing. As the servants hacked and chiseled away at the crack along the seal, mistress 9's patience was beginning to wear thin.
"Hurry up you fools!" she screamed.
"A breach!" one yelled as they continued working harder and harder at breaking the general out of his jail.
A red light filled the crack along the seal of the crystal and the front of it dissolved into thin air. Mistress 9 stood only a few feet from the encasement when the man's crystal blue eyes shot open. He gasped for air and nearly passed out from the amount he taking in. He looked over toward mistress 9 and began to stumble forward.
"Rei," he called as he passed out and fell into the surprised arms of a very confused mistress 9.
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He woke on a soft bed in a dark room. The walls were a deep red, almost black. The bed was a lighter shade of the same color and the only light in the room was candlelight coming from every corner in mass amounts.
"He's awake," a guard called and mistress 9 came through the doorway.
The general's eyes lit up and he tried to sit.
"No general," she said. "You need your rest."
"Rei," he said again. "You've come back to me."
She gave him a confused look.
"I'm sorry I left you. I never should have made that deal with Beryl," he said, reaching for her hand. "I'm so sorry for all the pain I've caused. I never meant you any harm. Please forgive me."
Mistress 9 gave him a strange look. 'He must think I am someone from his past. Rei, why does that name sound familiar?' "I'll be back," she said as she turned to leave. "Tomoe!" she yelled upon exiting the room.
"Yes mistress?"
"Who is Rei?"
"Rei," he repeated, typing on his computer. "Hino Rei, priestess at Hikawa Jinja temple."
"Get her, bring her to me. Unharmed!" she ordered a guard and a few of her henchmen. Then, turning back to herself she said, "if Rei is what he wants, Rei is what he'll get."
"Rei," the general called as mistress 9 again stepped into the room.
"No, I'm not Rei," she said.
"Then who are you?" he asked, growing uneasy.
"I am mistress 9. But we are bringing Rei into our possession as I speak. She will be here with you very soon," she assured him, the sweetness and kindness in her voice beginning to sicken her. "Oh, general. Have you a name?"
"Jadeite," he said. "General Jadeite."
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"Let me go you asshole!" Rei screamed to the top of her lungs as two big thug-looking henchmen of the Negaverse took a hold of her.
"Rei, Rei, Rei" mistress 9 called as she materialized in front of the angry woman. "There is no use fighting."
"What do you want now?" she fumed.
"You."
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"LET_ME_GO!!!!!" she yelled and punched at the youmas as they dropped her in a room and quickly shut the door. "Let me out of here!!!" she screamed, banging on the door of the room.
She sank to the floor, realizing that she was not escaping when she felt a warm, strong hand on her shoulder. She jumped, but no one was there when she looked. She strained to use her priestess powers but to no avail. 'fine,' she thought to herself. 'I'll just use my scout powers.' She reached for her pen but it wasn't there.
'Oh gods, they took it! Now they know who I am,' she kicked herself inwardly.
Stripped of her powers and helpless to escape, she scanned the room with her eyes.
'I feel someone, but I can't see them,' she thought as she stood up and walked forward a few steps.
She stopped immediately when she felt someone's presence behind her. "If you're going to kill me, just go ahead and do it."
Then came a deep, familiar chuckle.
"I'm not going to kill you."
'Oh gods no. please not him,' she begged. She refused to turn around.
"Rei," he said softly as he put both of his strong hands on her upper arms. "I'm so sorry."
"What do you have to be sorry about?" she asked venomously.
"I was wrong. All those years ago. In the silver millennium. You remember," he said. "When I, along with the other three, was forced into a deal with that witch and was taken from you."
She shuddered. "I don't remember anything about a silver millennium," she said spitefully. "I only know you for the evil that you are. Nothing else."
"I wasn't always evil, Rei," he said still softly, not losing his temper with this incredible woman that refused to lay her eyes on him. "I'm sorry, Rei. Please find it in your heart to forgive me. Please."
He sounded genuine to her. So real that it terrified her. She wanted to remember a time when he was not evil. She wanted to remember what he was talking about. She wanted to run to him and wrap her arms around him and tell him she was the one who was sorry for turning her back on him when he needed her the most. She wanted to forgive him most of all and wanted him to forgive her. But for the life of her, she could not remember anything.
"Jadeite," she spoke his name and his heart leapt. 'What am I doing?' she asked herself. 'This is disgusting.'
"Yes Rei? anything."
"What happened? I can't remember," she turned her head in his direction over her shoulder as the feeling to throw up almost overwhelmed her.
To him, she looked like a goddess, standing there with her jet black hair cascading down her back and her exotic purple eyes looking to him for consolation and reassurance, even if that wasn't what she was looking for. He stepped toward her and turned her around to face himself. Instead of what he had expected to be a sad expression, he was met with an angry glare.
"Don't touch me!" she cried. "You may have not been evil a thousand years ago but you are still evil now! You joined beryl a thousand years ago and recently almost killed me and nearly died yourself! How am I supposed to trust you? how do I know you won't go running to the death busters or mistress 9 this time?" she accused. He reeled. Not knowing what to say.
"I..."he stammered. "I don't know how you can trust me after all the things you said I did."
Her eyes narrowed and her voiced softened.
"You don't remember do you?"
"The last thing I remember is making a deal with Beryl to keep you out of harm's way," he said honestly.
"Great lot of good that did," she said virulently.
"I," he said, starting to yelled. He closed his eyes momentarily as he continued softly, "I never meant any harm to you. For god's sake Rei. I was in love with you."
"No," she said turning from him. "No, no, no, no, no!" she said turning back to him, getting louder with every no. "It's not possible," she said on the verge of laughter.
"That's exactly what you said when I asked you to come with me," he said seriously.
"Was this before or after you switched sides?" she snorted.
"Before," he paused, closing his eyes to bite back his annoyance at her remark. "I would have never wanted you to join me in that hell. I tried to get back to you. I did. Honest. But she had me trapped. I was beaten and tortured until I broke."
"Surprising," she remarked.
"Rei," he sighed. "Please. Please believe me."
She turned her back again and walked to the door of the room. "We may be enemies mistress 9, but this is one dirty trick."
The door dematerialized and mistress 9 was standing there.
"Yes?"
"I want to talk," she demanded.
"Powerless?" the mistress offered.
"Preferably. Just talk," Rei glared.
"Fair enough," the mistress agreed.
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"Why'd you bring me here?"
"To tell you the truth, and I have no advantage lying here so I will be honest, he mistook me for you," the taller, meaner looking woman confessed.
"How?" Rei asked.
"I'm as confused as you are," she said. "But there is a way to get your freedom."
"What's the trick?"
"Get all the information about the sailor scouts that you can out of him. He won't talk to anyone else," she offered.
"No," Rei said. "I think I'll just stay here in hell with him."
"Suit yourself," she said as Rei was back in the room with Jadeite and the mistress had disappeared.
"you thought she was me?" Rei demanded fiercely.
"In my delirious state, yes," he defended himself. "When she doesn't look like a frigid bitch, she kind of resembles you. She just lacks your fire," he said smiling.
"You're disgusting," she spat at him.
'Slowly making progress,' he thought to himself. "I can help you remember," he offered.
"I don't think I want to. Thank you very much," she said, sitting down in a corner and pulling her knees up to her chest.
"Suit yourself," he said as he lay back down on the bed.
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That night Rei dreamt of the past. Long ago in the silver millennium.
Her raven hair played gracefully along her back as she closed her eyes and melted into the music at the ball. It was a beautiful slow song that very few people could really enjoy it like it was meant to be enjoyed. She gently hummed the melody line by heart as the small string quartet played the enchanting music. She hated the Earth and everything to do with it with the exception of its many fine musicians and the music they had and created. The best, in her mind, came from the Earth.
"Incredible, isn't it?" someone asked from behind her.
She simply nodded.
"It always amazes me at how little music is appreciated," the man said.
"Hmm, yes," she said. "Is there something you want?"
"Actually, yes there is," came his richly voiced reply.
"Well, what is it?" she demanded, beginning to become quite cross with the insufferable man.
"I'd like to dance with you," he said nonchalantly.
She breathed out heavily, realizing who she was speaking to. Had this god of a man just ask her to dance?
"uh," she stammered.
She looked over his body. He had shed the general's uniform she was accustomed to and sported, instead, black from neck to toe. He wore a uniform-style-collared plain black dress shirt with a pair of hand tailored black slacks to match over his almost shined up black dress boots. She looked back up into his cobalt blue eyes and his golden hair and placed her hand in his without a second thought.
"I'd be honored, Lord Jadeite," she said as he whisked her off of her feet and onto the dance floor.
From the moment he had first lain eyes on her he had wanted to talk to her. Get to know her. This was the best way he knew how. Rumor had it that she had an amazingly fast and explosive temper. He didn't want to set her off by his usual slightly offensive ways so he had gotten help from Endymion and Nephrite on being a bit more romantic. He watched her as they danced, totally amazed at her beauty. Her oriental-style black dress with red embroidery set her off perfectly to match him. It came down to her ankles but had two slits up the sides to her mid-thigh which drove him crazy. He wondered why she did not wear the attire such as that of the other princesses. Rather, why she wore such exotic things. The song came to an end and so ended the night's ball.
"Princess Rei," Jadeite called as the guests at the ball began making their ways to their quarters.
"Yes?"
"Would you mind terribly if I walked you to your room?"
"You may," she replied. "But you're not getting anything out of me," she added sternly.
He laughed deeply.
"I had none of those intentions," he confessed laughingly.
"Good," she said. "Then I may consider seeing you again."
His breath caught. Hah, she just said that she might see him again?
"I'd be honored to be graced by your presence yet another time, princess."
"Please," she said. "Call me Rei," she smiled up at him and slipped her slender arm into his strong one and he smiled back as they began to walk slower and slower back to her room.
The vision quickly turned from the serene scenery of the moon palace to a barren battlefield, stained with the blood of lunarians and earthen people. In the mist a dark figure approached her slowly. A strange, evil feeling crept up her spine, making her hair stand on end. She looked up. The shadow of a man she once knew stood before her, a sinister snarl on his face. he raised his arm up to strike at her--
"Jed!" she cried as she sat up from her laying position on what she thought was the floor of the room in the Negaverse.
Jadeite's eyes shot open and he jumped from his sleeping position on the chair beside the bed.
"What? Rei? what? I'm right here," he said rushing to her side.
"What the hell are you doing?!" she cried, pulling away from him once more.
"You screamed my name, or actually, what you used to call me," he said holding other information about that name to himself.
"I had a dream. No," she paused. "I think it was a memory about my, our past life together."
"Really," he said skeptically.
"Yeah, there was a ball and we danced," she said with a still confused look on her face, not telling him the rest. He smiled warmly enough to make her forget all the evil he'd done.
"I remember that," he said. "One of the best nights of my life," he said craftily hinting something more.
She growled. "I never slept with you."
"Ah, now, on the contrary, you slept with me many nights but we didn't make love on every one of them if that's what you are implying."
"Shut up!!!" she screamed. "No matter what kind of defective state I was in, no matter how long ago it was, I think I'd recall having sex with a slime ball like you!!!"
"That hurt Rei," he said playfully.
"Good!" she yelled. "You deserve it!" she crossed her arms and glared.
He laughed. "I still love you," he said with a smile that almost made her cold heart melt.
"No you don't," she said. "That's the negaverse talking."
"No it isn't," he said. "When I was in that encasement all of the evil drained from me and so went my memories of my evil past. Remember?" long silence fell as she pouted in her own stupor. "And I never stopped loving you one minute of my life."
"I don't believe you and I don't love you," she said with a malignant tone.
"Hmm," he said, pulling away from her for a moment. She fidgeted under the heavy covers and he swiftly pinned her hands down by her sides and leaned closely to her. She could feel his hot breath only less than an inch away from her face as she strained to pull away from him. Chills ran up and down her spine when he breathed, almost as if her body was calling to him, betraying what her mind was telling it. She thought he would kiss her. In some remote part of her mind she wanted him to and was absolutely terrified he would. Instead he just smiled tauntingly as his blue eyes pierced into her purple ones.
"One day," he said huskily before backing off and retreating to his chair.
She breathed a sigh of relief and somewhat disappointment. She battled herself inwardly. Something about him being so close to her and having his hot breath on her skin made her want him, made her desire for him so great that her mind went blank. Her hand went up to the place on her cheek where he almost touched her and she scolded herself.
'He's nothing but Nega-trash and an evil enemy who would have been more than happy to kill you three years ago, regardless of how he felt in the silver millennium,' she reasoned. 'Now for some rest,' she said as she turned her back to him and drifted off into sleep.
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As soon as she was deep in slumber, Jadeite stood from his post and walked stealthily to the side of the bed she was facing.
"Oh Rei," he said lovingly as he stroked her hair from her face. "I need you," he said, caressing her bare cheek as she leaned into the warmth of his hand in her calmed, sleeping state. "How can I make it right?" he asked himself, continuing to stroke her soft cheek with his hand.
She made a small noise of contentment as she nestled into the bed, closer to him. He smiled.
"Someday soon Rei," he said watching her. "Someday soon."
"Jed?" she asked in her sleep.
"Yes Rei? What do you need?"
"Why did you leave me?" she mumbled innocently.
"Oh Rei," he sighed. "I never left you. I've always been right here with you."
"Jed?" she asked again.
"Yes love?"
"Don't leave me," she pleaded.
"I won't. I swear to you." A small smile crept its way across her stunningly beautiful face.
"Jed?"
"Yes princess?" he said almost on the verge of laughter.
"Hold me?" she asked and his heart couldn't deny her.
"Anytime," he said as he climbed onto the bed and pulled her into his lap.
He sat Indian-style and she wrapped her arms around one of his legs as she slept. Once he had made sure she was comfortable, he leaned his head back and fell asleep with one hand buried deep within the confines of her silky black hair.
AN: what will rei do when she wakes up with him so close to her.....holding her? how do you think she'll react? will sparks fly or just her fist? -- yes, mistress 9 has a purpose. she broke jed out. that's pretty much her purpose right now. i think i'm smelling a battle in the future though, and maybe some betrayl? but on whose end? --please review me! the more reviews, the faster the next one comes out. thankie thankie!!