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Chapter 7: Was there really anything?
Rei awoke in the morning, hearing a soft familiar voice calling her name, bringing her closer to consciousness with every sound.
"Rei," she recognized the husky tone and gentleness in the voice.
"What now?" she asked.
"It's morning princess," he paused. "You know, daylight?"
"Daylight?" she asked groggily. "What is this 'daylight'? I do not believe I know of this thing you speak of."
He chuckled and turned her over onto her back so he could see her face.
"ahr," she made a funny sound and sluggishly covered her eyes. "The sun! No! It is too bright! I must take cover before I burst into flames!" she said tiredly with a comical sense.
She pulled the covers over her head.
"Now, none of that," he said, fighting with her to get the covers off of her. "And when did you develop such a sense of humor?"
"Sense of humor?" she asked from under the covers. "I do not know what it is you speak of."
He laughed again.
"You're funny," he said, finally getting the covers off of her face.
"Me? funny? Well," she paused. "I try."
He smiled at her.
"Your mood sure has changed," he caressed her hand with his own.
"Well," she paused and smiled up at him. "I had good reason to-"
*bang*
the door flopped open and Rei cringed, trying to disappear under the covers or blend in with the bed.
'I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here,' she repeated over and over in her mind, hoping it wasn't the bubbling blonde with pigtails standing in her doorway.
"Oh__My___Gods," the slow, lower pitched voice of Lita came.
Rei sighed in relief.
"I'm not seeing this," she said.
"Princess Lita," Jadeite said. "Please forgive this....uh, situation."
"Yeah, I'm sure you didn't mean to end up like that."
"Oh, can it Lita," Rei said, exasperated. "you don't even know who he is."
"Uh, yeah-huh," Lita retorted. "Lord Jadeite," she beamed. "Pleased to meet you."
"Lord?" Rei asked as she hinted in her voice that she knew something. "Amy," she grumbled.
"I'm sorry Rei," a meek voice came from behind Lita. "I had to tell someone."
"Amy! How nice to see you again."
"Saved by him,"Rei muttered. "Lucky."
"Yes, though I wish it were under better circumstances given you don't have a shirt on and she seems to have accumulated one of your size."
"Put it technically why don't ya?" Lita said to Amy. "It's just that you've got his shirt on and he doesn't have one on....and that kind of suggests some..."
"I can fix that easily," he said, standing up out of the bed.
Amy and Lita shielded their eyes sheepishly. Rei growled.
"Ok ladies, it's not as if I was completely naked," he stated at the sight of their actions.
Both girls uncovered their eyes carefully and stood amazed at the sight of his shirtless body.
"Oh stop drooling," Rei said as she rolled her eyes and walked by them to make her way to the bathroom.
She walked through the door and the last thing she heard before she shut it was the sound of Jadeite's light voice saying: "no, nothing of that sort went on."
"Finally," she said, shedding the overly large shirt easily.
She turned the faucet on and felt the hot water run over her hand and then added cold until it was just right for her- which happened to still be scalding hot. She turned the middle knob until the water came spraying from the shower head.
Stripping herself of any remaining clothing, she stepped into the hot stream of water and let her head drop back as the cleansing water came rushing over her neck and chest.
'I finally get to relax,' she thought to herself, closing her eyes momentarily.
The timid light from the sun peeked in from a high window near the ceiling of the room.
She continued closing her eyes as a thought came upon her.
"Was there really anything between us?" the words of another rolled off of her tongue and out of her mouth. "Or was it just..."
Her eyes shot open in time for her to grab a hold of the shower curtain as she lost control over her legs. She felt incredibly weak as she tried in vain to slow her descent to the tub.
She landed on her side and her head hit the side of the tub with a loud thud as her eyes rolled back into her head and she blacked out.
"Rei," a calm voice called out to her. "Rei, are you alright?" the voice asked.
Her violet eyes slowly opened.
"Yes," she replied. "I'm quite alright."
She took a good look at her surroundings noting that she was no longer where she thought she was and the blue haired girl beside her.
"How did I get from the bath chambers to here?" she asked.
"You seem to have slipped and fell and hit your head quite hard."
"Me? slip and fall?" Rei asked.
"I'm as puzzled as you are Rei-chan," Amy replied to her look of confusion.
"That wasn't supposed to happen," she glared.
"Rei, what do you mean?" Amy asked, beginning to become frightened.
"I don't know," she replied, trying to stand. "I just know it wasn't supposed to happen."
"Rei, be careful," Amy warned caringly. "I'm going for help."
"Be quick," Rei called as Amy disappeared from the room.
Rei dropped her head down and watched her hair fall into her face. She was a bit surprised that it still did that, even though it was as long as it was.
she laughed to herself and brushed a chunk back behind her ear. She jumped a little at the sudden realization that there was a hand extended toward her.
She looked up and semi-glared.
"What now?" she demanded.
His eyes narrowed at her.
"I'm helping you," he paused. "Or are you so stubborn that you can't tell when you need it?"
"I didn't ask you, if I recall correctly," she said through gritted teeth.
"Well, I know you hate to hear this but I'm helping you anyway, princess," she cringed at the way he said the last part.
Such coldness.
"You can go now," she said to him as she steadied herself on her feet.
"I'm not leaving."
"There's nothing for you here," she said just as coldly as he had before.
"There isn't?" he asked.
He took a small step toward her.
"There's nothing."
"Nothing?"
"No," she replied.
"So," he began slowly, backing away from her. "Was there really anything between us?" he asked. "Or was it just one incredible night after another?"
*FLASH* "Oh Rei!"Amy cried as she found her friend out cold in the bathtub, the water still running.
*FLASH* He caught her off-guard at that question.
She gave him no reply.
"Is it someone else?"
his blood began to boil at the thought of someone else with her. She was his, dammit. And he would rather die than hear about or see or know that another had touched her. Touched her body which, in his mind, belonged to him and him alone.
"I swear, if I ever see any other man so much as look at you in a way that does not please me, so help me god, I'll kill him," he threatened, his eyes flashing dangerously.
*FLASH* "Rei!" Amy called out to her friend as she laid her down on her bed, now clothed and dried off.
"Oh, come on Rei," Amy said, gently shaking her shoulders.
Rei coughed a bit and then her eyes shot open.
"How the hell did I get here?" she asked. "where's Jed?"
"I- we think something happened, a relapse or something, but you seemed to have passed out and hit your head quite hard in the shower," Amy replied in her usual manner.
"Thanks Ames," Rei said. "But where's-?"
"I'm right here," came the sweet, husky-toned reply of her secret lover.
Rei immediately calmed down and her eyes brightened as he approached the side of the bed a knelt down beside it, taking her hand in his.
To his surprise, she no longer resisted him.
"Why the change, princess?" he asked.
She leaned in closely to his ear and whispered into it.
"Was there really anything between us? or was it just you?" she asked.
His features became solemn as he moved back to look her in the eye.
"Was there?" he asked her.
*a week later*
"Infuriating pile of shit," Jadeite muttered to the little pile of dirt and dust he had swept up from the cold stone floor, his feet reminded him of the temperature and texture of it every five seconds.
Then she'd walk by. Every fiber of his being reminded him, just as well as one specific part of him reminded him of how much he wanted her each time she'd pass him. He felt her presence as she moved about the temple. It, no doubtedly, pissed her off. he knew it. A small smirk graced his face at the thought of her charging in there at any moment and either beating the hell out of him or kissing the hell out of him.
he began sweeping the completely clean kitchen floor as she walked by once more.
"That floor is very much done," she said.
"I know," he replied nonchalantly.
"Well?"
"Well what?" he asked, returning her arrogance.
"I don't have time for this," she said, rolling her eyes and brushing past him to the door.
Her shoulder made contact with the middle of his upper arm and an opportunity presented itself fully to him. His hand swiftly caught her arm and he threw her against the closest wall. She gasped in shock at the realization of his power and him realizing it as well. He approached her rapidly, closing off all hopes of escape from him. She fidgeted underneath his intense gaze, trying not to look into his eyes but to mesmerized to look too far away. He placed his hands beside her shoulders and leaned down close to her face.
her heart sped up until she thought it would explode. She was completely terrified of what he might do to her and trying not to be scared only made it worse, which she knew, on some remote level, that he got off on scaring her. It intoxicated him. So did pleasuring her, but she'd never give him that much.
the million thoughts of what his true intentions were that were running through her mind ceased the exact second that he closed the gap between them and pressed his lips gently to the curve of her soft neck. She let out a tiny moan and he moved his hand opposite the side he was on to her cheek and neck, caressing them carefully when the intermingled sound of soft and heavy footsteps approached the room.
"Sere, Amy," Rei gasped out.
Jadeite glared angrily at the door and threw his hand toward it, using all of the powers he had regained from recuperation to slam the door shut with an awful bang, shutting out the intruders.
He turned back to her and kissed her hard on the lips, still concentrating on keeping the door shut, despite the progressively loud knocks. Rei leaned forward into the kiss, deepening it and making it as distracting as possible, stunning him and knocking his concentration off for a few seconds. And that's all she needed. She kneed him hard in the groin and then dropped him to the floor.
"You behave yourself," she warned him as she pushed him under a table and covered him up with a long table cloth on the top of the table. "I'm actually saving your sorry ass."
He wanted to die. She had put him in a lot of pain with that knee of hers. He had heard, loud and clear, the last thing she had said to him.
"Save my sorry ass?" he asked himself. "We'll see about that," he smirked as he crawled out from under the low table and listened to the conversation.
"Why'd ya slam the door Rei?" Serena asked.
"I didn't," she said. "There was just this..."
"Gust of wind," Amy said. "You know how this temple gets... the pure physics of it is that it creates a wind tunnel-"
"Yeah ok, thanks Ames, I get the point," Serena said.
Rei gave Amy a grateful look and Amy smiled back, just happy that her ingenious plan to thwart Serena's prying mind had worked.
"Anyway," Serena began. "Got any good food?"
"Do I ever?"
"Good point," Serena replied to her friend. "Rei, you're acting a bit nervous... is anything wrong?"
"No," Rei stated quickly. "There's nothing wrong."
"Are you sure?" Serena said, narrowing her eyes at Rei.
"Yes, I'm positive. There's nothing the matter," Rei said and turned Serena around in an effort to get her as far from the temple as possible.
"Why don't you just tell her the truth?" Jadeite suggested, getting up to his feet and speaking much in the only manner that Serena would recognize him with.
Sere's jaw dropped.
"No," she said.
"Come on Sere," Amy said. "Let's go to the arcade... now."
"What's the rush?" he asked.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no," Serena said. "He's dead."
"Who's dead?" Amy asked.
"Who's dead?" Serena reiterated very sarcastically. "Who the hell do you think?"
"You can't keep me a secret forever, Rei," he said. "You never could."
"Never could?" Serena nearly squeaked. "Am I missing something?"
"Yeah," Amy grumbled. "A whole lot of something."
"Rei," Serena begged. "Please don't tell me he's who I think he is."
"Why don't you let her go and have her see for herself, Amy," Jadeite said with stress on her name.
Amy growled and looked at Rei. She was angry, anyone could tell, but also defeated. Not by mind control though. By something else.
Amy released Serena reluctantly. She slowly turned around to come face to face with Jadeite.
"No," she said in denial as a few tears from shear fear treaded down each of her cheeks. "You're not supposed to be here."
"I'm sorry," he said to her, realizing the rising anger in her.
"Sorry doesn't cut it," she said through gritted teeth.
Her glare became a look of surprise as she watched her best friend step between her and one of her worst enemies.
"Rei, what are you doing?" Serena asked, shocked at her actions.
Amy's jaw dropped and she fought to collect herself.
Rei glanced back at Jadeite telling him that she wasn't backing down with the look in her eyes. He nodded and smiled subtly, pulling her back to him with one arm wrapped around her waist and the other around her shoulders. She placed her corresponding hands to his, matching perfectly.
"I'm not going to let you try to hurt him," she said firmly.
"Who said I was going to try?" Serena demanded. "And besides, it's not your fight."
"Yes it is."
"I can't believe you'd betray the scouts like that," Serena said. "'Fraternizing with the enemy'," she quoted Amy.
Amy groaned. "Serena, let her be. He's not hurting anyone."
"Oh, so you're in on this too?" Serena asked.
"Ye- no! Sere, you're being unreal," Amy argued.
"How? this poor excuse of existence nearly killed us five years ago, Amy. He almost succeeded. Who's to say he's not back for his revenge?" Serena argued back.
"He just isn't. Dammit," Amy spat back.
Serena crossed her arms and looked at the ground, refusing to look at anything or anyone else.
"Sere, just give him the benefit of a doubt," Amy begged. "Trust me."
"I just can't believe this," she said. "How many others know?"
"Only Lita," Amy said.
Serena turned back around to face Jadeite and Rei and walked over to where she stood merely three feet from the two and glared.
"Please don't hate me Sere," Rei pleaded softly.
"Don't hate you?" she asked softly but angrily. "Don't hate you?!"
Rei cringed, almost on the verge of crying. Jadeite felt her distress radiating from her and it made him angry and protective. He wanted to protect Rei from anything that made her upset or hurt and that infuriating immature little blonde was hurting his Rei.
"Sere," Rei started.
"Don't Sere me!" she yelled and Rei cringed.
she wanted to crawl off into a corner and die.
'Don't worry baby,' Jadeite spoke to her in her mind. 'I won't let her hurt you.'
'You can't,' she said back to him. 'This isn't your fight.'
'It is when it involves my girl,' he said, tightening his protective hold on her.
"Do you even realize or remember what he did to us? To you?"
"Yes," Rei replied softly. "I remember."
"Then why in all of hell are you shielding him? Why are you even letting him touch you? I thought-"
"You thought what?" Rei growled back. "You thought that he was good and dead and evil to the core? Is that it?"
Serena didn't answer.
Jadeite loosened his tight grip on her and she stepped forward out of it, still holding one of his hands for support.
"Maybe if you didn't have your head so far up your ass you would have known that I was gone for a long time," Rei yelled. "And just guess where I was."
No reply.
"I was in the negaverse with-- you guessed it-- him," Rei said. "Now after being locked up in a small room with him for, oh, I don't know how long, a week maybe, I think I ought to know by now whether he's a threat or not."
"You were in there with him?" Serena questioned.
"You bet," Rei answered. "And I've spent every night since I got back in bed with him."
"I don't want to hear that!!" Sere yelled and covered her ears.
"Oh, the things we did... All....Night....Long....oh it was soooooo great," Rei said right up next to Serena's ear as she made gibberish noises to drown Rei out.
Jadeite chuckled deeply.
"And just what did we do, Rei?" he asked.
She threw him a sideways glance.
"Nothing," she paused. "Yet," she winked at him and he released her hand to let her and Amy drag the still blubbering Serena out of the temple and down to the arcade.
AN: eh...that sucked all kinds of ass. but that doesn't matter to me!!! i had fun writting it!!! you know the drill by now!! the last chapter is coming out soon!!!! two-three weeks tops...depending on my english teacher...*growls* stupid analysis essays. anywho, be kind to me and review!!!!
Chapter 7: Was there really anything?
Rei awoke in the morning, hearing a soft familiar voice calling her name, bringing her closer to consciousness with every sound.
"Rei," she recognized the husky tone and gentleness in the voice.
"What now?" she asked.
"It's morning princess," he paused. "You know, daylight?"
"Daylight?" she asked groggily. "What is this 'daylight'? I do not believe I know of this thing you speak of."
He chuckled and turned her over onto her back so he could see her face.
"ahr," she made a funny sound and sluggishly covered her eyes. "The sun! No! It is too bright! I must take cover before I burst into flames!" she said tiredly with a comical sense.
She pulled the covers over her head.
"Now, none of that," he said, fighting with her to get the covers off of her. "And when did you develop such a sense of humor?"
"Sense of humor?" she asked from under the covers. "I do not know what it is you speak of."
He laughed again.
"You're funny," he said, finally getting the covers off of her face.
"Me? funny? Well," she paused. "I try."
He smiled at her.
"Your mood sure has changed," he caressed her hand with his own.
"Well," she paused and smiled up at him. "I had good reason to-"
*bang*
the door flopped open and Rei cringed, trying to disappear under the covers or blend in with the bed.
'I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here,' she repeated over and over in her mind, hoping it wasn't the bubbling blonde with pigtails standing in her doorway.
"Oh__My___Gods," the slow, lower pitched voice of Lita came.
Rei sighed in relief.
"I'm not seeing this," she said.
"Princess Lita," Jadeite said. "Please forgive this....uh, situation."
"Yeah, I'm sure you didn't mean to end up like that."
"Oh, can it Lita," Rei said, exasperated. "you don't even know who he is."
"Uh, yeah-huh," Lita retorted. "Lord Jadeite," she beamed. "Pleased to meet you."
"Lord?" Rei asked as she hinted in her voice that she knew something. "Amy," she grumbled.
"I'm sorry Rei," a meek voice came from behind Lita. "I had to tell someone."
"Amy! How nice to see you again."
"Saved by him,"Rei muttered. "Lucky."
"Yes, though I wish it were under better circumstances given you don't have a shirt on and she seems to have accumulated one of your size."
"Put it technically why don't ya?" Lita said to Amy. "It's just that you've got his shirt on and he doesn't have one on....and that kind of suggests some..."
"I can fix that easily," he said, standing up out of the bed.
Amy and Lita shielded their eyes sheepishly. Rei growled.
"Ok ladies, it's not as if I was completely naked," he stated at the sight of their actions.
Both girls uncovered their eyes carefully and stood amazed at the sight of his shirtless body.
"Oh stop drooling," Rei said as she rolled her eyes and walked by them to make her way to the bathroom.
She walked through the door and the last thing she heard before she shut it was the sound of Jadeite's light voice saying: "no, nothing of that sort went on."
"Finally," she said, shedding the overly large shirt easily.
She turned the faucet on and felt the hot water run over her hand and then added cold until it was just right for her- which happened to still be scalding hot. She turned the middle knob until the water came spraying from the shower head.
Stripping herself of any remaining clothing, she stepped into the hot stream of water and let her head drop back as the cleansing water came rushing over her neck and chest.
'I finally get to relax,' she thought to herself, closing her eyes momentarily.
The timid light from the sun peeked in from a high window near the ceiling of the room.
She continued closing her eyes as a thought came upon her.
"Was there really anything between us?" the words of another rolled off of her tongue and out of her mouth. "Or was it just..."
Her eyes shot open in time for her to grab a hold of the shower curtain as she lost control over her legs. She felt incredibly weak as she tried in vain to slow her descent to the tub.
She landed on her side and her head hit the side of the tub with a loud thud as her eyes rolled back into her head and she blacked out.
"Rei," a calm voice called out to her. "Rei, are you alright?" the voice asked.
Her violet eyes slowly opened.
"Yes," she replied. "I'm quite alright."
She took a good look at her surroundings noting that she was no longer where she thought she was and the blue haired girl beside her.
"How did I get from the bath chambers to here?" she asked.
"You seem to have slipped and fell and hit your head quite hard."
"Me? slip and fall?" Rei asked.
"I'm as puzzled as you are Rei-chan," Amy replied to her look of confusion.
"That wasn't supposed to happen," she glared.
"Rei, what do you mean?" Amy asked, beginning to become frightened.
"I don't know," she replied, trying to stand. "I just know it wasn't supposed to happen."
"Rei, be careful," Amy warned caringly. "I'm going for help."
"Be quick," Rei called as Amy disappeared from the room.
Rei dropped her head down and watched her hair fall into her face. She was a bit surprised that it still did that, even though it was as long as it was.
she laughed to herself and brushed a chunk back behind her ear. She jumped a little at the sudden realization that there was a hand extended toward her.
She looked up and semi-glared.
"What now?" she demanded.
His eyes narrowed at her.
"I'm helping you," he paused. "Or are you so stubborn that you can't tell when you need it?"
"I didn't ask you, if I recall correctly," she said through gritted teeth.
"Well, I know you hate to hear this but I'm helping you anyway, princess," she cringed at the way he said the last part.
Such coldness.
"You can go now," she said to him as she steadied herself on her feet.
"I'm not leaving."
"There's nothing for you here," she said just as coldly as he had before.
"There isn't?" he asked.
He took a small step toward her.
"There's nothing."
"Nothing?"
"No," she replied.
"So," he began slowly, backing away from her. "Was there really anything between us?" he asked. "Or was it just one incredible night after another?"
*FLASH* "Oh Rei!"Amy cried as she found her friend out cold in the bathtub, the water still running.
*FLASH* He caught her off-guard at that question.
She gave him no reply.
"Is it someone else?"
his blood began to boil at the thought of someone else with her. She was his, dammit. And he would rather die than hear about or see or know that another had touched her. Touched her body which, in his mind, belonged to him and him alone.
"I swear, if I ever see any other man so much as look at you in a way that does not please me, so help me god, I'll kill him," he threatened, his eyes flashing dangerously.
*FLASH* "Rei!" Amy called out to her friend as she laid her down on her bed, now clothed and dried off.
"Oh, come on Rei," Amy said, gently shaking her shoulders.
Rei coughed a bit and then her eyes shot open.
"How the hell did I get here?" she asked. "where's Jed?"
"I- we think something happened, a relapse or something, but you seemed to have passed out and hit your head quite hard in the shower," Amy replied in her usual manner.
"Thanks Ames," Rei said. "But where's-?"
"I'm right here," came the sweet, husky-toned reply of her secret lover.
Rei immediately calmed down and her eyes brightened as he approached the side of the bed a knelt down beside it, taking her hand in his.
To his surprise, she no longer resisted him.
"Why the change, princess?" he asked.
She leaned in closely to his ear and whispered into it.
"Was there really anything between us? or was it just you?" she asked.
His features became solemn as he moved back to look her in the eye.
"Was there?" he asked her.
*a week later*
"Infuriating pile of shit," Jadeite muttered to the little pile of dirt and dust he had swept up from the cold stone floor, his feet reminded him of the temperature and texture of it every five seconds.
Then she'd walk by. Every fiber of his being reminded him, just as well as one specific part of him reminded him of how much he wanted her each time she'd pass him. He felt her presence as she moved about the temple. It, no doubtedly, pissed her off. he knew it. A small smirk graced his face at the thought of her charging in there at any moment and either beating the hell out of him or kissing the hell out of him.
he began sweeping the completely clean kitchen floor as she walked by once more.
"That floor is very much done," she said.
"I know," he replied nonchalantly.
"Well?"
"Well what?" he asked, returning her arrogance.
"I don't have time for this," she said, rolling her eyes and brushing past him to the door.
Her shoulder made contact with the middle of his upper arm and an opportunity presented itself fully to him. His hand swiftly caught her arm and he threw her against the closest wall. She gasped in shock at the realization of his power and him realizing it as well. He approached her rapidly, closing off all hopes of escape from him. She fidgeted underneath his intense gaze, trying not to look into his eyes but to mesmerized to look too far away. He placed his hands beside her shoulders and leaned down close to her face.
her heart sped up until she thought it would explode. She was completely terrified of what he might do to her and trying not to be scared only made it worse, which she knew, on some remote level, that he got off on scaring her. It intoxicated him. So did pleasuring her, but she'd never give him that much.
the million thoughts of what his true intentions were that were running through her mind ceased the exact second that he closed the gap between them and pressed his lips gently to the curve of her soft neck. She let out a tiny moan and he moved his hand opposite the side he was on to her cheek and neck, caressing them carefully when the intermingled sound of soft and heavy footsteps approached the room.
"Sere, Amy," Rei gasped out.
Jadeite glared angrily at the door and threw his hand toward it, using all of the powers he had regained from recuperation to slam the door shut with an awful bang, shutting out the intruders.
He turned back to her and kissed her hard on the lips, still concentrating on keeping the door shut, despite the progressively loud knocks. Rei leaned forward into the kiss, deepening it and making it as distracting as possible, stunning him and knocking his concentration off for a few seconds. And that's all she needed. She kneed him hard in the groin and then dropped him to the floor.
"You behave yourself," she warned him as she pushed him under a table and covered him up with a long table cloth on the top of the table. "I'm actually saving your sorry ass."
He wanted to die. She had put him in a lot of pain with that knee of hers. He had heard, loud and clear, the last thing she had said to him.
"Save my sorry ass?" he asked himself. "We'll see about that," he smirked as he crawled out from under the low table and listened to the conversation.
"Why'd ya slam the door Rei?" Serena asked.
"I didn't," she said. "There was just this..."
"Gust of wind," Amy said. "You know how this temple gets... the pure physics of it is that it creates a wind tunnel-"
"Yeah ok, thanks Ames, I get the point," Serena said.
Rei gave Amy a grateful look and Amy smiled back, just happy that her ingenious plan to thwart Serena's prying mind had worked.
"Anyway," Serena began. "Got any good food?"
"Do I ever?"
"Good point," Serena replied to her friend. "Rei, you're acting a bit nervous... is anything wrong?"
"No," Rei stated quickly. "There's nothing wrong."
"Are you sure?" Serena said, narrowing her eyes at Rei.
"Yes, I'm positive. There's nothing the matter," Rei said and turned Serena around in an effort to get her as far from the temple as possible.
"Why don't you just tell her the truth?" Jadeite suggested, getting up to his feet and speaking much in the only manner that Serena would recognize him with.
Sere's jaw dropped.
"No," she said.
"Come on Sere," Amy said. "Let's go to the arcade... now."
"What's the rush?" he asked.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no," Serena said. "He's dead."
"Who's dead?" Amy asked.
"Who's dead?" Serena reiterated very sarcastically. "Who the hell do you think?"
"You can't keep me a secret forever, Rei," he said. "You never could."
"Never could?" Serena nearly squeaked. "Am I missing something?"
"Yeah," Amy grumbled. "A whole lot of something."
"Rei," Serena begged. "Please don't tell me he's who I think he is."
"Why don't you let her go and have her see for herself, Amy," Jadeite said with stress on her name.
Amy growled and looked at Rei. She was angry, anyone could tell, but also defeated. Not by mind control though. By something else.
Amy released Serena reluctantly. She slowly turned around to come face to face with Jadeite.
"No," she said in denial as a few tears from shear fear treaded down each of her cheeks. "You're not supposed to be here."
"I'm sorry," he said to her, realizing the rising anger in her.
"Sorry doesn't cut it," she said through gritted teeth.
Her glare became a look of surprise as she watched her best friend step between her and one of her worst enemies.
"Rei, what are you doing?" Serena asked, shocked at her actions.
Amy's jaw dropped and she fought to collect herself.
Rei glanced back at Jadeite telling him that she wasn't backing down with the look in her eyes. He nodded and smiled subtly, pulling her back to him with one arm wrapped around her waist and the other around her shoulders. She placed her corresponding hands to his, matching perfectly.
"I'm not going to let you try to hurt him," she said firmly.
"Who said I was going to try?" Serena demanded. "And besides, it's not your fight."
"Yes it is."
"I can't believe you'd betray the scouts like that," Serena said. "'Fraternizing with the enemy'," she quoted Amy.
Amy groaned. "Serena, let her be. He's not hurting anyone."
"Oh, so you're in on this too?" Serena asked.
"Ye- no! Sere, you're being unreal," Amy argued.
"How? this poor excuse of existence nearly killed us five years ago, Amy. He almost succeeded. Who's to say he's not back for his revenge?" Serena argued back.
"He just isn't. Dammit," Amy spat back.
Serena crossed her arms and looked at the ground, refusing to look at anything or anyone else.
"Sere, just give him the benefit of a doubt," Amy begged. "Trust me."
"I just can't believe this," she said. "How many others know?"
"Only Lita," Amy said.
Serena turned back around to face Jadeite and Rei and walked over to where she stood merely three feet from the two and glared.
"Please don't hate me Sere," Rei pleaded softly.
"Don't hate you?" she asked softly but angrily. "Don't hate you?!"
Rei cringed, almost on the verge of crying. Jadeite felt her distress radiating from her and it made him angry and protective. He wanted to protect Rei from anything that made her upset or hurt and that infuriating immature little blonde was hurting his Rei.
"Sere," Rei started.
"Don't Sere me!" she yelled and Rei cringed.
she wanted to crawl off into a corner and die.
'Don't worry baby,' Jadeite spoke to her in her mind. 'I won't let her hurt you.'
'You can't,' she said back to him. 'This isn't your fight.'
'It is when it involves my girl,' he said, tightening his protective hold on her.
"Do you even realize or remember what he did to us? To you?"
"Yes," Rei replied softly. "I remember."
"Then why in all of hell are you shielding him? Why are you even letting him touch you? I thought-"
"You thought what?" Rei growled back. "You thought that he was good and dead and evil to the core? Is that it?"
Serena didn't answer.
Jadeite loosened his tight grip on her and she stepped forward out of it, still holding one of his hands for support.
"Maybe if you didn't have your head so far up your ass you would have known that I was gone for a long time," Rei yelled. "And just guess where I was."
No reply.
"I was in the negaverse with-- you guessed it-- him," Rei said. "Now after being locked up in a small room with him for, oh, I don't know how long, a week maybe, I think I ought to know by now whether he's a threat or not."
"You were in there with him?" Serena questioned.
"You bet," Rei answered. "And I've spent every night since I got back in bed with him."
"I don't want to hear that!!" Sere yelled and covered her ears.
"Oh, the things we did... All....Night....Long....oh it was soooooo great," Rei said right up next to Serena's ear as she made gibberish noises to drown Rei out.
Jadeite chuckled deeply.
"And just what did we do, Rei?" he asked.
She threw him a sideways glance.
"Nothing," she paused. "Yet," she winked at him and he released her hand to let her and Amy drag the still blubbering Serena out of the temple and down to the arcade.
AN: eh...that sucked all kinds of ass. but that doesn't matter to me!!! i had fun writting it!!! you know the drill by now!! the last chapter is coming out soon!!!! two-three weeks tops...depending on my english teacher...*growls* stupid analysis essays. anywho, be kind to me and review!!!!