AN: more notes at the bottom.... as usual! oh....and sorry for no chapter
title on chapter 3. i don't know what i was thinking. maybe i
wasn't....hmmm, that's a thought.
Chapter 4: Home
"All things have been arranged," he stated to her. "I will escort you back."
She huffed out an irritated breath.
"Alright," she said. "And my pen?"
"Yours when we get there," he said.
"Let's go then," she said, almost regretting going home.
"This way," he said as they came to the teleportation chambers.
"Hikawa Jinja temple," he commanded and they dematerialized and rematerialized in the confines of her temple.
"Home," she sighed with relief.
"Here's your-" he was cut off as she wrapped a hand around his neck and pulled his lips to hers.
her other hand went through his hair as he wrapped one hand behind her neck to support her and the other arm around her back, arching her body to his.
The next thing she realized, he had backed her into a wall and was almost putting his full body weight in pressure against hers. She let out a small stifled cry as she came into contact with the cold stone but they continued their kiss.
He undauntedly brushed his tongue against her lips and teeth and she granted his request, letting him deepen it into something more powerful than she imagined. There was completely unchecked, uncontrolled passion erupting in mass quantities between them and neither had any intentions of stopping. Finally, he reluctantly broke it off, completely breathless and stunned.
"Here's," his voice cracked. "Here's your pen," he said handing the transformation pen to her, his voice a shade deeper than usual.
"Your secret is safe with me," he said and smiled weakly.
"I know," she said. "Thank you," she smiled faintly.
His mind reflected back when he saw her smile and he remembered a clear blue night on the moon.
A gentle breeze whispered through the trees as he held her hand gently as they walked through the beautiful gardens.
*"Rei," his voice sang out in the silent midnight air.
"Yes Jed?" she answered back, looking up at him with glowing beautiful violet eyes.
He smiled at her weakly. He was one of the strongest men in the entire army of the Earth, yet he felt his weakest and strongest with her.
"I love you," he said with conviction.
"I know," came her soft reply with a small smile that meant the world to him.
And then came the moment he'd been holding his breath for forever.
"I love you too."*
He came back to the present time.
She'd never utter those words. She'd rather die. And he knew it. Somehow he had to gain her trust and her love back. He had to.
"I'll be seeing you around," he said to her as he disappeared through a portal back to the Negaverse.
'I've got to get back to that temple,' he thought to himself as he rematerialized and was confronted by mistress 9 upon his arrival.
"So?" she asked, her pink lips curled in an evil snarl.
"I'm not going to help you," he stated with hate and vengeance in his voice as he shot looks of ice at her.
"Have it your way," she said with an evil smile on her face as he brushed past her. She snapped her fingers and two great big youmas appeared and snatched him, one on each arm.
"What are you doing?" he asked trying to sound surprised.
"As if you didn't know," she sneered. "Have your way with him boys," she said as they drug him out. "Just don't kill him."
**************************************************************************** * "Oh my gods," Rei breathed out as she dropped what she was doing and ran for the opening of the temple and down half of the stairs.
"Jed," she said to him as he staggered up the steps to his best ability, beaten and bloody.
He fell into her arms as she sat half way down and held him to her.
"What happened?" she asked and he tried to cough out a response.
She helped him up to his feet as best she could.
"Come on Jed. Cooperate with me please," she begged.
"I'm not strong enough," she breathed out and he immediately shifted all of his energy use to aiding her purpose.
Luckily, it was enough to get him into her room and onto her bed. He dropped rather fast and Rei cringed as she tried to slow his descent to the bed, even though it was soft.
"Hang on Jed," she said, rolling him onto his side. "I'll be right back."
She returned quickly with a bowl of warm water and a rag. Placing the rag and bowl on her night stand, she turned her attention back to him, pulling him up to a sitting position as best as he'd let her.
She made her best efforts to strip him of his shirt and look over his strong but slashed up back, gently running her hand over it.
He flinched at her touch. It hurt when she touched him. It hurt because of the physical wounds and the emotional ones of not being able to feel her touch for a thousand years.
"Sorry," she apologized, realizing that it hurt when she touched.
"It's quite alright," he said softly and tiredly.
"Oh my god," she breathed.
"I need you to lay on your stomach," she commanded and he obeyed, slowly and carefully laying himself down.
"These were deliberate," she said to him.
"Yeah," he said and winced as she began to clean the wounds. "Tell me about it."
He clenched his teeth every time the warm water came down onto one of the various wounds that had been inflicted on him earlier that day.
"What happened?" she asked and then added: "Not that I care."
He chuckled.
"I refused to help mistress 9 in any of her plans and so she punished me."
"She, herself, did this?"
"No, no." he said. "I'd be, what's that you call us 'Nega-trash' when you kill us?"
"Moondust?" she offered.
"Yeah, that's what I'd be if she'd done this to me," he winced again, the stinging of the water causing pain to ripple throughout his body.
"Two of her big henchmen did this."
"I'm so sorry Jed," she said. "This has got to be all my fault."
"No," he said, turning to her and grabbing her hand. "It's not your fault."
She snatched her hand from him and semi-glared at him. He smiled and turned back around to let her continue to play doctor to him for the sake of being near her.
**************************************************************************** ** "Thank you," he said to her when she had finished cleaning every wound she could find on his body.
She simply nodded. he sighed heavily before he said something that he was sure would have given her the right to bite his head off again.
"Did that mean anything to you?"
"Did what mean anything?" she asked incredulously.
"When you kissed me," he said. "Did you feel anything?"
She paused.
"No," she said dryly and continued on with her work.
"Nothing?"
"Nope."
"Not a thing?"
"No."
"Not one little thing?'
"Well," she said thoughtfully. "No."
"Thank you again Rei," he paused. "For everything."
"It's my duty," she replied distantly and gave him a smile for the sake of everything. "I'll be back later to check on you."
He watched her leave and sunk deeper into the soft pillow with a slight smirk on his face before he drifted into sleep. **************************************************************************** **
"Yeah, I'm trying to get a hold of Amy Anderson, please," Rei said into the telephone. She held on impatiently.
"Amy Anderson, how may I help you?" the shy voice on the other end of the line answered.
"Amy? it's Rei," she said to her best friend and confidant.
"Rei, hi. What's wrong?"
"Nothing really. Well, nothing that will cause any danger, but I need your help," she said.
"I'll be there in a few minutes," the girl on the other end of the line said.
Soon the cheerful blue haired girl came up the stairs and meekly advanced toward Rei in the fire room.
"Rei?" her meek voice called.
"A minute Ames," Rei said back in meditation.
She breathed out heavily, not being able to clear her mind of the blonde man sleeping in her bed or get anything out of it.
"Alright," she said. "I want you to see something."
She got up and Amy followed her to her room.
"Look," she said to the scout of Mercury.
"Oh my," she gasped.
"Is that? that? Jadeite?" she asked his name at something way softer than a whisper.
The raven haired girl nodded.
"Scan him."
"What?" She asked bewildered.
"Scan him," Rei repeated slower. "For evil energy," she suggested.
"Oh, yes," Amy answered quickly and whipped out her mini computer.
It made several beeping noises. Amy contorted her face a bit.
"That's odd," she said.
"What?" Rei demanded.
"There's nothing from the negaverse in him left but," she paused.
"But what?" Rei almost wanted to scream.
"But his energy pattern doesn't appear to be that of what he age is," she said.
"Meaning?"
"Meaning he's a lot older than he looks."
"I think he said something about that," Rei said, looking in at him. "About not being reborn."
Amy sighed. "That's it then."
"Can you calculate his age?" Rei asked, still looking at him.
"Yes, just hold on for a few seconds," she paused. "Got it. He's approximately 1023 years old."
They blankly stared at each other.
"He couldn't have been awake the whole time. I mean, the Negaverse had a dormant thousand years right?" Rei asked.
"From what Luna and Artemis tell us, yes," Amy stated.
"Then he's really just about 23 or 24, right?"
"In his state of mind and body, yes. Energy wise, no," she informed the slightly confused scout of Mars.
"he's still in the silver millennium."
"So he's safe, Nega-energy wise and all?" Rei asked.
"Yes," Amy said.
"He hasn't got any powers either. They were stripped of him by..." she trailed off, typing into her computer.
"Mistress 9," Rei said.
"Yes," Amy agreed. "How did you know that?"
"Amy, I've been gone for the last couple of days or so, I don't know how long, but I know some things that a lot of people don't."
"Tell me," Amy pleaded.
"Alright, but not here," Rei said. "Let's go to the tea room."
Amy sat down quickly on the sofa and Rei sat in the chair across from it.
"I've been in the negaverse," she began and Amy's eyes widened. "With him."
"How?" she asked.
"Mistress 9, she, he thought she was me," she began. "I guess she thought he'd figure out she wasn't me sooner or later so she kidnaped me and threw me in a room with him," she paused.
"She knows who I am, scout wise. He knows who all of us are. Every one of us. And he even knows who Serena and Darien are."
"Oh my," Amy gasped.
"He also remembers the silver millennium," Rei stated. "All of it. He freed me from mistress 9 and restored my powers almost at the cost of his life. She wanted him to cooperate in some plan to kill us and he refused. So, she had him beaten and tortured to god knows what degree and then she expelled him right to the front steps of this temple."
"So that's how he ended up here?" Amy asked, still shocked beyond belief.
"Yes," she said. "But that's not all."
"It isn't?"
"He said he loves me,"she said. "And I'm beginning to have dreams that seem more like memories from my past life. I don't know if he's causing it or if I'm just remembering things from the silver millennium."
"I don't know what to say," Amy confessed for the first time in her life. "telepathy and illusions were his strong point weren't they?"
"Yeah but I'm not looking for answers anymore. You already gave me the ones I needed," she said.
"Thanks for listening," Rei said.
"Anytime," Amy replied.
"Don't tell the others he's here. Especially Serena," Rei said smiling.
Amy laughed.
"I won't. I promise," she paused thoughtfully. "Do you mind if I take a look at him?"
"Sure, I was just about to go check on him anyway," Rei said.
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"Jadeite," the blue haired girl said to the man sleeping in her friend's bed as she knelt down beside him.
He slowly opened his eyes and found someone familiar, yet not who he was hoping for.
"Amy," he paused. "How have you been?"
"I've been better," she said somewhat friendly.
"I'm sorry about Zoicite," he said taking her hand warmly.
"Zoicite?" she asked. "But he's evil. We destroyed him in a battle a few weeks before we destroyed Malachite."
"No, I know," he said. "I'm sorry about him leaving you a thousand years ago."
Mercury was puzzled. "Leaving me?"
"Mmhmm," he said. "He loved you very much."
"Amy's allergic to love," Rei said sarcastically, joining her friend on the floor.
Amy blushed.
"You don't remember either do you?" Jadeite asked.
She shook her head. "The only ones who remember are Luna and Artemis but they won't tell us anything. They say we know enough."
"Luna, always protecting everyone from the truth and Art," Jadeite paused and laughed to himself. "Art never did do anything unless Luna let him."
"Jadeite," Amy said seriously. "I want you to tell me everything you can about the Silver Millennium."
AN: so how was it? good, bad, horrible, smelly? you tell me! review!!!! please. *begs* anyway, to explain rei's excessive bitchiness in the first few chapters, she was in denial, just to clarify things. anywho, until the next chapter!!! have fun!!!
Chapter 4: Home
"All things have been arranged," he stated to her. "I will escort you back."
She huffed out an irritated breath.
"Alright," she said. "And my pen?"
"Yours when we get there," he said.
"Let's go then," she said, almost regretting going home.
"This way," he said as they came to the teleportation chambers.
"Hikawa Jinja temple," he commanded and they dematerialized and rematerialized in the confines of her temple.
"Home," she sighed with relief.
"Here's your-" he was cut off as she wrapped a hand around his neck and pulled his lips to hers.
her other hand went through his hair as he wrapped one hand behind her neck to support her and the other arm around her back, arching her body to his.
The next thing she realized, he had backed her into a wall and was almost putting his full body weight in pressure against hers. She let out a small stifled cry as she came into contact with the cold stone but they continued their kiss.
He undauntedly brushed his tongue against her lips and teeth and she granted his request, letting him deepen it into something more powerful than she imagined. There was completely unchecked, uncontrolled passion erupting in mass quantities between them and neither had any intentions of stopping. Finally, he reluctantly broke it off, completely breathless and stunned.
"Here's," his voice cracked. "Here's your pen," he said handing the transformation pen to her, his voice a shade deeper than usual.
"Your secret is safe with me," he said and smiled weakly.
"I know," she said. "Thank you," she smiled faintly.
His mind reflected back when he saw her smile and he remembered a clear blue night on the moon.
A gentle breeze whispered through the trees as he held her hand gently as they walked through the beautiful gardens.
*"Rei," his voice sang out in the silent midnight air.
"Yes Jed?" she answered back, looking up at him with glowing beautiful violet eyes.
He smiled at her weakly. He was one of the strongest men in the entire army of the Earth, yet he felt his weakest and strongest with her.
"I love you," he said with conviction.
"I know," came her soft reply with a small smile that meant the world to him.
And then came the moment he'd been holding his breath for forever.
"I love you too."*
He came back to the present time.
She'd never utter those words. She'd rather die. And he knew it. Somehow he had to gain her trust and her love back. He had to.
"I'll be seeing you around," he said to her as he disappeared through a portal back to the Negaverse.
'I've got to get back to that temple,' he thought to himself as he rematerialized and was confronted by mistress 9 upon his arrival.
"So?" she asked, her pink lips curled in an evil snarl.
"I'm not going to help you," he stated with hate and vengeance in his voice as he shot looks of ice at her.
"Have it your way," she said with an evil smile on her face as he brushed past her. She snapped her fingers and two great big youmas appeared and snatched him, one on each arm.
"What are you doing?" he asked trying to sound surprised.
"As if you didn't know," she sneered. "Have your way with him boys," she said as they drug him out. "Just don't kill him."
**************************************************************************** * "Oh my gods," Rei breathed out as she dropped what she was doing and ran for the opening of the temple and down half of the stairs.
"Jed," she said to him as he staggered up the steps to his best ability, beaten and bloody.
He fell into her arms as she sat half way down and held him to her.
"What happened?" she asked and he tried to cough out a response.
She helped him up to his feet as best she could.
"Come on Jed. Cooperate with me please," she begged.
"I'm not strong enough," she breathed out and he immediately shifted all of his energy use to aiding her purpose.
Luckily, it was enough to get him into her room and onto her bed. He dropped rather fast and Rei cringed as she tried to slow his descent to the bed, even though it was soft.
"Hang on Jed," she said, rolling him onto his side. "I'll be right back."
She returned quickly with a bowl of warm water and a rag. Placing the rag and bowl on her night stand, she turned her attention back to him, pulling him up to a sitting position as best as he'd let her.
She made her best efforts to strip him of his shirt and look over his strong but slashed up back, gently running her hand over it.
He flinched at her touch. It hurt when she touched him. It hurt because of the physical wounds and the emotional ones of not being able to feel her touch for a thousand years.
"Sorry," she apologized, realizing that it hurt when she touched.
"It's quite alright," he said softly and tiredly.
"Oh my god," she breathed.
"I need you to lay on your stomach," she commanded and he obeyed, slowly and carefully laying himself down.
"These were deliberate," she said to him.
"Yeah," he said and winced as she began to clean the wounds. "Tell me about it."
He clenched his teeth every time the warm water came down onto one of the various wounds that had been inflicted on him earlier that day.
"What happened?" she asked and then added: "Not that I care."
He chuckled.
"I refused to help mistress 9 in any of her plans and so she punished me."
"She, herself, did this?"
"No, no." he said. "I'd be, what's that you call us 'Nega-trash' when you kill us?"
"Moondust?" she offered.
"Yeah, that's what I'd be if she'd done this to me," he winced again, the stinging of the water causing pain to ripple throughout his body.
"Two of her big henchmen did this."
"I'm so sorry Jed," she said. "This has got to be all my fault."
"No," he said, turning to her and grabbing her hand. "It's not your fault."
She snatched her hand from him and semi-glared at him. He smiled and turned back around to let her continue to play doctor to him for the sake of being near her.
**************************************************************************** ** "Thank you," he said to her when she had finished cleaning every wound she could find on his body.
She simply nodded. he sighed heavily before he said something that he was sure would have given her the right to bite his head off again.
"Did that mean anything to you?"
"Did what mean anything?" she asked incredulously.
"When you kissed me," he said. "Did you feel anything?"
She paused.
"No," she said dryly and continued on with her work.
"Nothing?"
"Nope."
"Not a thing?"
"No."
"Not one little thing?'
"Well," she said thoughtfully. "No."
"Thank you again Rei," he paused. "For everything."
"It's my duty," she replied distantly and gave him a smile for the sake of everything. "I'll be back later to check on you."
He watched her leave and sunk deeper into the soft pillow with a slight smirk on his face before he drifted into sleep. **************************************************************************** **
"Yeah, I'm trying to get a hold of Amy Anderson, please," Rei said into the telephone. She held on impatiently.
"Amy Anderson, how may I help you?" the shy voice on the other end of the line answered.
"Amy? it's Rei," she said to her best friend and confidant.
"Rei, hi. What's wrong?"
"Nothing really. Well, nothing that will cause any danger, but I need your help," she said.
"I'll be there in a few minutes," the girl on the other end of the line said.
Soon the cheerful blue haired girl came up the stairs and meekly advanced toward Rei in the fire room.
"Rei?" her meek voice called.
"A minute Ames," Rei said back in meditation.
She breathed out heavily, not being able to clear her mind of the blonde man sleeping in her bed or get anything out of it.
"Alright," she said. "I want you to see something."
She got up and Amy followed her to her room.
"Look," she said to the scout of Mercury.
"Oh my," she gasped.
"Is that? that? Jadeite?" she asked his name at something way softer than a whisper.
The raven haired girl nodded.
"Scan him."
"What?" She asked bewildered.
"Scan him," Rei repeated slower. "For evil energy," she suggested.
"Oh, yes," Amy answered quickly and whipped out her mini computer.
It made several beeping noises. Amy contorted her face a bit.
"That's odd," she said.
"What?" Rei demanded.
"There's nothing from the negaverse in him left but," she paused.
"But what?" Rei almost wanted to scream.
"But his energy pattern doesn't appear to be that of what he age is," she said.
"Meaning?"
"Meaning he's a lot older than he looks."
"I think he said something about that," Rei said, looking in at him. "About not being reborn."
Amy sighed. "That's it then."
"Can you calculate his age?" Rei asked, still looking at him.
"Yes, just hold on for a few seconds," she paused. "Got it. He's approximately 1023 years old."
They blankly stared at each other.
"He couldn't have been awake the whole time. I mean, the Negaverse had a dormant thousand years right?" Rei asked.
"From what Luna and Artemis tell us, yes," Amy stated.
"Then he's really just about 23 or 24, right?"
"In his state of mind and body, yes. Energy wise, no," she informed the slightly confused scout of Mars.
"he's still in the silver millennium."
"So he's safe, Nega-energy wise and all?" Rei asked.
"Yes," Amy said.
"He hasn't got any powers either. They were stripped of him by..." she trailed off, typing into her computer.
"Mistress 9," Rei said.
"Yes," Amy agreed. "How did you know that?"
"Amy, I've been gone for the last couple of days or so, I don't know how long, but I know some things that a lot of people don't."
"Tell me," Amy pleaded.
"Alright, but not here," Rei said. "Let's go to the tea room."
Amy sat down quickly on the sofa and Rei sat in the chair across from it.
"I've been in the negaverse," she began and Amy's eyes widened. "With him."
"How?" she asked.
"Mistress 9, she, he thought she was me," she began. "I guess she thought he'd figure out she wasn't me sooner or later so she kidnaped me and threw me in a room with him," she paused.
"She knows who I am, scout wise. He knows who all of us are. Every one of us. And he even knows who Serena and Darien are."
"Oh my," Amy gasped.
"He also remembers the silver millennium," Rei stated. "All of it. He freed me from mistress 9 and restored my powers almost at the cost of his life. She wanted him to cooperate in some plan to kill us and he refused. So, she had him beaten and tortured to god knows what degree and then she expelled him right to the front steps of this temple."
"So that's how he ended up here?" Amy asked, still shocked beyond belief.
"Yes," she said. "But that's not all."
"It isn't?"
"He said he loves me,"she said. "And I'm beginning to have dreams that seem more like memories from my past life. I don't know if he's causing it or if I'm just remembering things from the silver millennium."
"I don't know what to say," Amy confessed for the first time in her life. "telepathy and illusions were his strong point weren't they?"
"Yeah but I'm not looking for answers anymore. You already gave me the ones I needed," she said.
"Thanks for listening," Rei said.
"Anytime," Amy replied.
"Don't tell the others he's here. Especially Serena," Rei said smiling.
Amy laughed.
"I won't. I promise," she paused thoughtfully. "Do you mind if I take a look at him?"
"Sure, I was just about to go check on him anyway," Rei said.
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"Jadeite," the blue haired girl said to the man sleeping in her friend's bed as she knelt down beside him.
He slowly opened his eyes and found someone familiar, yet not who he was hoping for.
"Amy," he paused. "How have you been?"
"I've been better," she said somewhat friendly.
"I'm sorry about Zoicite," he said taking her hand warmly.
"Zoicite?" she asked. "But he's evil. We destroyed him in a battle a few weeks before we destroyed Malachite."
"No, I know," he said. "I'm sorry about him leaving you a thousand years ago."
Mercury was puzzled. "Leaving me?"
"Mmhmm," he said. "He loved you very much."
"Amy's allergic to love," Rei said sarcastically, joining her friend on the floor.
Amy blushed.
"You don't remember either do you?" Jadeite asked.
She shook her head. "The only ones who remember are Luna and Artemis but they won't tell us anything. They say we know enough."
"Luna, always protecting everyone from the truth and Art," Jadeite paused and laughed to himself. "Art never did do anything unless Luna let him."
"Jadeite," Amy said seriously. "I want you to tell me everything you can about the Silver Millennium."
AN: so how was it? good, bad, horrible, smelly? you tell me! review!!!! please. *begs* anyway, to explain rei's excessive bitchiness in the first few chapters, she was in denial, just to clarify things. anywho, until the next chapter!!! have fun!!!