AN: more notes at the bottom. sorry if this is still like a big paragraph. it's not on my computer so i don't understand why it ends up like that online.



Chapter 2: Denial

He was awoken abruptly by an angry hand across his face followed by an incredibly painful stinging sensation.

"What in the HELL did you think you were doing?!?" she screamed at him as he brought a hand up to his face and squinched it in pain.

"I was doing what you asked me," he yelled back. "God damn it that hurt!"

"Good!" she screamed. "And I'd never, and mark my words, NEVER ask for that, much less anything else from you!" she yelled, pointing a finger in his face and glaring dangerously.

She stomped away and his expression turned from one of shock to one of provocation.

"Now you listen to me," he glowered as he grabbed one of her arms. "You will never, and I mean NEVER, lay an angry hand on me again. Now is that clear!?!" he yelled back softly at her.

She was completely stunned. She had never been challenged back. Ever. She glared back at him mercilessly.

"Take you hand off of me," she said in an angry but controlled manner.

His look changed very quickly from his agitated state to one of regret.

"I'm sorry Rei," he said to no avail. "Please forgive me. I meant no harm."

She softened a little.

"Then why'd I end up like that with you?" she demanded.

"You asked for it in your sleep," he paused. "I can't deny you anything you ask. Even in sleep."

"Don't you dare do it again," she warned, the hatred seeping from the words.

"I can't promise anything," he said.

"You are so insufferable!" she yelled.

Then it came again.

That awful laugh.

It hit her right to her core.

His rich voice filled the room with his laughter. "Like I haven't heard that before."

"I'm sure you have," she gritted her teeth.

"I want to go home," she said.

"I can arrange that, but," he hesitated. "It'll come with a price princess."

"Oh gods what now?" she asked more to herself than him.

"One kiss," he stated. "And not just a little one," he paused, looking at her in way that made her uneasy. "One like the ones you used to give me right before we'd..." he stopped, knowing he'd gone far enough.

"Hell no!" she yelled. "I'd never- ugh!"

"You used to," he said smoothly. "Never even had to ask."

"Like I said before: no matter how much of a defective state I was in, I think I'd remember kissing Nega-trash!" she fumed. "I'd rather kiss Melvin," she grumbled under her breath loud enough for him to hear it.

'Melvin?' she asked herself. Could Jadeite actually be that bad that she'd rather kiss Melvin? of all people, that was just nasty.

She shook her head, trying to shake visions of Melvin out of her head but received pictures of Jadeite in his place.

"Arg! Get out of my head!" she screamed at him.

He laughed.

'Telepathy,' Rei thought. 'Always his strong point.'

He knew what she had been seeing in her mind and she was sure he was planting those images there. Images of them kissing and dancing and, ugh. Let's just not go there. Rei shivered, still trying to shake the image from her mind as she glared relentlessly at him while he sat there with an almost taunting smile on his face.

'Read this, asshole,' she thought to herself and put up a mental block. She turned to him and smiled mockingly back at him, then returned to her spot on the huge bed.

"Rei," he asked from across the room. "How long are you going to drag this on?"

"Drag what on?" she asked cooly.

"How long are you going to keep denying what I feel for you and that you feel the same way?"

"Forever, I suppose," she said. "Because I don't feel the same way."

"You do."

"I don't."

"Yes, you do."

"No, I don't. I think I should know what I feel and don't feel by now."

"Come on Rei," he pleaded.

"Begging suits you," she said looking at him blankly. "You seem to have had a lot of practice. Well, actually, I guess you did. Being Beryl's bitch and all..." She trailed off.

If he was anything other than pleased, the damn man didn't show it. Didn't even flinch.

"So you are agreeing that I'm not evil anymore?" he asked.

"No, never said anything about that."

"But you do agree that I love you," he suggested.

"I'm not the judge of your feelings," she said. "You may or may not. Only you know."

"And you."

"I still believe you are evil to the core."

"I'm not."

"You are to me."

"But I'm not."

"I don't care."

"Well, I do," he finished and sat down on the bed in front of her.

"Get off," she commanded.

"No," he stated.

"Get off now," she said through gritted teeth.

Sometimes she felt a little bad about treating this man, who had only shown her kindness since she had walked through that door, so badly. But then again, it was times when he'd infuriate her to the point of insanity that she instantly felt no regret for her treatment of him.

He met her angry glare with a cold blue gaze.

"I said no."

"Fine," she said and broke the stare.

"Fine?" he asked a little stunned. "Nothing else? no argument? Just fine?" he nearly began yelling.

"Yep, fine. Do what you want as long as it doesn't involve me," she replied in much the same indifferent tone she had talked to him with the entire time.

"But everything I want to do involves you," he said velvetly.

"Pervert," she growled and crossed her arms.

"I'm not a pervert," he laughed.

"Yes you are," she stated. "And if you weren't then why are you always thinking such nasty thoughts about me and you and some alleged past life together?!" she said growing quite irate.

"If it's alleged like you say then how come I know everything about you. How do I know just how to push your buttons?" he asked.

"You don't," she said. "You're just bluffing."

"Try me."

She met his intense gaze with an icy glare.

"You don't know a thing."

"Oh I don't?" he asked and leaned back a little. "Your favorite color is red. You hate how immature Serena acts a times and the just the sight of her hanging all over Darien makes you sick. You and Amy are the closest but Serena and Mina are your true blue best friends. And above all, you don't believe in love, contrary to what Mina tells you everyday."

"That's the basics," she said. "Everyone knows that. Even the mistress." "

I know other things," he said, slinking closer to her on the bed. He stopped, only inches from her face, and locked his eyes on hers. "You'd be surprised," he finished off with a smirk.

She glared.

"Try me," she reiterated his words.

"Well," he began, shifting his weight onto one hand. "I know you like to be touched here," he said, running his hand slowly along her side. "And kissed here," he continued, touching her neck with the same hand. "And," he paused, looking at her reaction.

"That's enough," she spat out through her teeth. "Now get your hands off of me."

"And if I said no?" he asked, pinning her down in such a fashion that she had no hopes of escape.

He smiled at her current discomfort. She was so cute when she was angry.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked and she glared at him further.

He released her and stood up. She sighed heavily as he took his post again at the side of the bed that she wasn't on.

'Why does my body want him so bad?' she asked herself. 'I know that all he is, is pure evil. This is just one of his dirty tricks to get to the princess. Maybe I still have some mind reading powers left. If I could just concentrate and hone them in, maybe.....'

*FLASH*

"Rei," he whispered huskily into her ear as he began spreading butterfly kisses along her neck.

"Yes?" she asked, barely able to stand the amount of pleasure he was giving her with those simple kisses.

"I love you," he said in the same tone as he firmly placed one of his strong hands on her shoulder and pushed her back on the bed.

He moved over her and wrapped one arm around her waist, soundly arching her body to his, and placed his other hand on her cheek as he pressed his lips tight against hers. He deepened the kiss and let it, as well as himself, get out of control and overcome with passion and desire. She gasped as he moved his arm from around her waist and slid his hand up under the fabric of her silky dress against her skin. She mimicked his actions and almost tore his shirt open in the front. He pushed himself up on his hands and watched her eyes as she blindly ran her hands up his smooth muscled chest and pulled his mouth down onto hers. He kneeled backward and brought her up to a sitting position as he shed his shirt.

"You're alright with this?" he asked.

She studied his face for what seemed like an eternity to him. He wanted her so bad it almost hurt. If she said no now, he thought he would have died. He knew it. He had to have her right then. But he wasn't going to force her into anything she'd regret. She looked at him thoughtfully as if trying to decipher his thoughts and smirked right before she flipped him onto his back and straddled him as she lowered her face inches away from his surprised one. Shocked a little and amazed by her, he quickly caught on and quickly planted a kiss on her lips before she sat back up and pulled her dress off over her head.

'I guess so,' he thought hungrily to himself as he began drowning in her presence.

She reached for his pants and quickly had them off. Both in the nude, he grabbed her around the waist and flipped her onto her back, under him.

"Didn't think I'd let you have all the fun now did you?" he asked playfully smiling at her.

"But I am having all the fun," she said with a sly grin on her face.

He groaned immediately knowing what she was about to do. He quickly snatched both of her hands away from himself.

"You're not playing fair," he said silkily with a seductive smirk.

"I never have," she said smiling as he pushed her hands into the soft pillow by her head with his hands and pressed another fiery kiss deep into her.

He broke the kiss and she tilted her head back slightly as he lowered his and let out a long, deep groan, that sounded more like a raspy breath, as he....

*FLASH*

Rei sat straight up as she heard Jadeite fall completely out of the chair he was sitting in. Both breathing heavily, she turned her head to face him.

"What... in the name of all that is good.....was that?!?"

"That.... was," he swallowed. "A memory."

"A what?" she said, her breathing beginning to become under control again.

"A memory of mine," he said, sitting up and leaning against the wall with one knee drawn up and his arm resting on it. "A memory of you and me in the Silver Millennium," he smiled tiredly. "Heh, damn good one too. Pulled me right out of my sleep."

"You saw it too?"

"Of course I saw it. You drug it out of my mind. How in hell am I not going to see it?" he said bluntly to her.

"Don't snap at me," she growled.

"A little hypocritical of you to say that don't you think?"

"Pervert."

"Hypocrite."

"Hentai."

"Control freak," he commented back. "Just like the old days," he laughed. "You always liked being on top."

"WHAT?!?!!" she screeched at his last comment and he burst out laughing.

"You heard me damn good and well," he said. "And I'm not going to withhold anything else anymore for the sake of making you hate me."

"I already do!"

"That's the whole fucking point!" he yelled back.

"I hate you so why try?"

"Because I still love you."

"No you don't."

"Here we go again. Alright fine," he gave up. "I don't."

"Good," she said. "Then we are on even ground."

"I still love you," he said smiling. "You can't keep me from loving you. No matter how mean you are. And I love it even more when you are angry. It's kind of a turn on," he cocked an eyebrow at her as his smile turned into a smirk.

"Oh! You nasty hentai!!!"

"No I'm not!" he yelled back. "And if I am, it's your fault."

She screamed as loud and as hard as she could into a pillow.

"You damned insufferable man!!!!!"

"I've heard that one before," he laughed and stretched out his legs. "Though it was under different circumstances."

"I NEVER SLEPT WITH YOU!!!!!"

"Yes you did and that memory you pulled up proved it," he said calmly. "Several times," he paused, reflecting. "As a matter of fact, I think we 'slept' together more often than not."

"Argh!!" she screamed and threw a pillow at him.

He put his arms and a leg up to defend himself against her bombardment of fluffy weapons. He started laughing and she jumped off the bed and knocked him down to his back swiftly. She sat on his chest and beat him with a small pillow until he caught both of her arms and pushed her up to her feet. She stumbled back into a wall and he was quickly in front of her, blocking all hopes of escape.

"This is in vain princess," he said, smiling, almost on the verge of laughing hysterically again. "You aren't going to escape."

She huffed and quit struggling.

"What do you want?" she spat cruelly, looking up at his overpowering presence.

"Only you," he said sweetly, his demeanor changing quickly.

She cringed at the tone in his voice and glared. He looked off for a fleeting moment and then back at her.

"You know, I could have you anytime I want."

"No you couldn't," she growled.

"Yes I could," he said pinning her arms to her sides. "You forget princess, I still have my powers," he stated and her wrists began to grow warm under his firm grip.

She cried out as the heat began to become unbearable and it quickly subsided.

"I know why your body wants me," he said, lowering his head millimeters from her neck.

She tilted her head to the side, granting him more access, against her mind's will. Drawing him further to her. Driving his senses overboard and making him want her more. "The same reason mine wants you," he finished the words on her neck to a shocked Rei. "We are meant for each other Rei, bound to each other. For eternity," she felt his hot breath on her exposed neck again. Making her want him against her own will.

"No," she protested quietly.

"As much as you don't want to admit it, you like it when I'm near you. When you are afraid that I might.... do something to you," he finished, lightly placing a kiss on her neck.

"Oh gods," she breathed out, almost falling down.

This man, this horribly evil man she was sure, set her blood on fire with that simple action. No, not a man, a monster. But her body still cried out for more, pleaded, begged, but her head screamed in protest.

"Stop," she said very unconvincingly.

"Stop?" he asked before repeating his action and sliding one strong hand to her waist to draw her closer.

"Yes?" she asked, bringing one arm to his shoulder and the other hand through his short blonde hair.

"Yes stop?" he asked, kissing her neck more ferociously.

"Oh gods don't stop now," she breathed out.

"I can make it happen," he suggested.

"What?" she asked, confused.

"That dream, vision, memory," he said kissing the other side of her neck.

That snapped her back.

"No!" she screamed. "Get off of me!" he started pushing on his chest, trying to pry herself out of his strong hold. "I said let go," she commanded through gritted teeth.

He met her angry stare with misty, yet determined eyes and then felt the strong sensation of absolute pain in his groin followed by a debilitating wave of nausea. He collapsed to his knees and his breathing became labored.

"I told you to let go," she spat as she walked over, sat back down in her spot on the bed and began meditating.

He rolled over onto his side and the pain subdued. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard. After a few seconds, the pain had subsided.

"You greatly underestimate me princess," he said irately as he climbed to his feet again.

"Why do you call me princess?" she demanded. "I'm not the princess."

"No," he paused as he walked over to her. "You aren't the princess but you are a princess."

"No I'm not. Luna and Artemis would have told me if I was," she said skeptically.

"You are high princess of Mars," he said, leaning against one of the bedposts at the end of the great canopied bed.

"Since when?" she scoffed.

"Since forever ago," he said sarcastically, running a hand through his golden blonde hair and looking off to the side.

Rei stopped dead in whatever response she had planned as she took in the sight of him.

She began assessing him from the bottom up. The first thing she saw was a pair of general's boots on his feet, menacing to the look, followed by midnight blue pants that, undoubtedly, were also of a general's public attire. His shirt was long sleeved and just as midnight blue as his pants. The collar was open, unbuttoned down two or three buttons, for comfort, and it exposed the very top of his broad, strong chest. Her eyes wandered up even further to the handsome features of his face and she snapped her gaze from him just as quickly as she realized that he caught her staring over him.

"A little curious?" he asked.

"No," came her short reply.

"Then why stare so much?"

'Oh gods,' she thought to herself. 'What am I going to do?' she bit back any emotion that could show outside her mind. 'I never really realized how damned good looking he was,' she thought.

"'Damned good looking'?" he quoted.

"You can read my thoughts?!?" she squeaked.

"Yes," he said. "I can read your thoughts. But just what you are thinking. Nothing more."

"Oh shit," she breathed out heavily. "Everything's against me."

"No, Rei," he said comfortingly as he sat down beside her and faced her. He put a caressing hand on her bowed head and lifted it up to bring her gaze even with his. "Not everything is against you," he said kindly. "I'm not," his eyes began to sparkle with unspent emotion toward her.

She looked off and shook her head out of his gentle hold.

"Damn it Rei," he cursed. "I hate it when you do this."

"Do what?" she asked, rather irritated.

"I hate it when you shut yourself down from everyone, from me," he sighed heavily. "I know this is new to you. I know it's happening fast, almost too fast. I know you don't trust me and you don't have any reasons to, but gods Rei. Why do you do this to yourself? Why do you hurt yourself so much?"

She turned back to him, still glaring.

"I ... I can't," she said, turning her head back away from him, knowing he was right but refusing to give into him.

"Rei," he said a little above a whisper.

He placed a hand gently on her cheek again and turned her head toward his and as soon as he turned her head far enough, he lowered his head and his lips touched hers. He moved the hand off of her cheek and around the back of her neck, tangling his hands in her thick ebony hair and bringing her closer to himself. He opened his mouth and she followed his lead, unable to do anything to stop herself from doing what he willed. He gently deepened the kiss and she complied with him, giving in to him almost completely. After a few moments, she put her hand on his chest and broke the kiss. His arms immediately pulled away from her body but kept form as to where they had been.

"Stop," she said softly.

"What is it Rei?" he asked, looking down at her.

"This is all wrong," she muttered.

"What's so wrong?" he asked, smiling confusedly as he put his forehead to hers.

She shook her head and bit her lip.

"Jed?" He tensed up with a rush of passion at the mere sound of the way she said that.

"Yes Rei?"

"I need you," she said.

"Are you sure?" he asked.

"Yes," she breathed out, wrapping her arms around his neck and fully accepting his kiss upon her lips as she fell back onto the soft pillows of the bed.

He deepened the kiss gain, but this time it was less controlled, more ardent than before. He let one of his hands find the bottom of the short summer dress she was wearing and he slipped it up her thigh inside of the dress. She let out a small moan into his mouth that pressed him on. She moved her hands to the bottom of his shirt and roughly pulled it out of his pants. She deftly unbuttoned the shirt and ran a hand from his stomach to his chest. He propped himself up on both hands and then removed the shirt for her. He kissed her again and restarted his mission of getting her dress off. He stopped trying with the dress and just gave in to kissing her. She quickly broke the kiss off and pushed him off of herself, onto the floor.

"What was that for?" he asked, sitting up.

She quickly punched him hard in the side of his face.

"What the hell did I do?!" he demanded, bringing a hand up to where her fist had met his face and then feeling the side of his mouth for the slightest traces of blood.

"Mind control always was your strong point, wasn't it?" she accused venomously, crossing her arms and glaring. "Bastard," she growled through gritted teeth, trying to wipe his touch from her skin and his kiss from her lips.

"I wasn't controlling your mind," he glared heatedly upward at her, bringing one leg up at a bend to rest his arm on, still feeling the side of his face.

"Bullshit," she spat. "If you weren't, then why was I completely out of my own control?"

"I don't know," he stated loudly. "Maybe, just maybe my will to have you controlled your actions to a point, but..."

"But what?" she demanded.

"But I couldn't have gotten that far without your cooperation to some degree."

"Bullshit," she repeated again.

"I feel filthy."

"What do you expect me to do about it?" he asked truculently.

"Well, do you monsters bathe or shower here in hell?"

"Yes, from what I comprehend. We 'monsters' bathe," he said back to her in the same manner she was speaking to him.

"Well?"

"Well what? do you expect me to know everything?"

"You should."

"Well, I don't," he said to her roughly. "If you don't remember, I don't have any more of a fucking clue about anything in this place than you do." He stood up and waved his hand along a wall. "I think I feel some kind of energy right here," he said as he closed his eyes and concentrated. The wall shifted and a door emerged. "I'm sensing water. If you want a bath, it should be down that way."

"Thank you," she said methodically as she walked past him.

He smirked and followed her. She stopped suddenly, halfway down the hall.

"Why are you following me?"

"Making sure no one hurts you."

"Oh, you mean other than you?"

"No," he said darkly. "I mean no one."

"Ah," she said as she turned the corner to find a sort of bath in the middle of a poorly lit room. "Here we go." She paused. "You can go now."

"I don't think so," he said, looking at her intensely.

"Well, I want you to go."

"I'm not going anywhere," he stated firmly and stood his ground, tall and authoritatively.

"Fine," she gave up.

"I'll be right here," he said.

"That's reassurance," she said sarcastically. "Don't look. I'll know it if you do."

"Didn't plan on it," he said as he turned his back to her and stood with his feet apart and his hands behind his back.

She stripped down to nothing and slowly stepped into the warm cleansing water of the bath. The faint scent of cherry blossoms filled her every time she moved the water. She went under as far as she could to wet her long hair and then pulled it over her shoulder upon standing back up. She shampooed it and conditioned it as best she could and then commenced to wash herself off.

'For being in such a place for so long, I fell so clean for some reason,' she thought as she cleansed her body. 'except when he touches me. I don't get it.'

'No one gets it princess,' he spoke to her in her mind.

'Get out,' she commanded.

'I can't as long as you think,' he said. 'Sorry.'

'Yeah, whatever,' she thought back to him. "Look, I'm about to get out. I'd like it if you'd leave for just a few moments."

"Alright, but only for a few moments," he agreed and walked swiftly around the corner.

"Finally gone," she said. "Now I can relax." She sank down into the large bathing pool and started to relax.

Just as soon as she closed her eyes, she felt something grab her shoulder. She opened her eyes unhumanly fast and turned around to find herself face to face with one of the most disgusting demons she'd seen in her entire career as a scout.

"Get the hell away from me," she growled at the thing.

"I've been waiting," it snarled. "Never thought he'd leave."

It placed itself into an attack stance that looked as if it was a predator hunting its prey.

"Jed!" she screamed out loud, not even thinking about it.

Jadeite turned and ran to where the demon was with lightening fast speed. He twisted its arm and a sickening crack could be heard in the room. A break. No doubt. And a bad one at that. Jadeite had twisted the monster's arm until it broke. That thought seemed like it should have been disgusting to Rei but she only seemed somewhat impressed and attracted to him by his mere strength and protectiveness. whatever she felt in that moment, she quickly shook it off before he could pick up on it.

"Now leave before I break something else," Jadeite warned and the cursed thing hobbled off, holding its broken arm with the other and cursing about him ruining its meal.

He turned to Rei and his demeanor quickly softened.

"Rei, are you alright?"

"Yeah," she cleared her throat and backed away from him. "Yes, I'm fine."

"Would you like some help?" he asked as he crouched down near the water's edge.

She crossed her arms over her chest as though not to expose anything, even though the water was dark.

"No, I can handle myself," she stated proudly.

"Alright. But I'm not leaving again," he said with a weak smile.

"Then turn around."

"Yes ma'am," he said as he turned his back to her again.

"Ok," she said after drying herself off, with the exception of her hair. "I'm ready to go back to wherever it is we came from."

He smiled at that remark.

"This way."

AN: sorry it took so freaking long to get this chapter out. about three weeks ago i was trying to get online to post it and my computer told me that there was no dial tone but i can still call people and there is a dial tone. i just don't get it. my computer is just too stupid. anyway, sorry for the delay again. it'll be probably a month before the next one comes out. i have so many things going on. hope you enjoyed and hope to see you again! oh yeah!! please review me!