ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Chapter 7
Disclaimer: Idon'townSailorMoonoranythingelseIthrowinhere!
Author's Notes: I will be updating at least one chapter every week. Some days, I will put up two or five! Hope you like it so far! R&R, flames are accepted, but not preferred. Love y'all!
I Don't Know How Many Days/Weeks Later!
Things pretty much slowed down after the day of the performance. Our seemed to turned back to normal. As the days wore on, you could tell by the look on Minako's face that she was about to explode if she didn't tell anyone what she knew.
"We've got to tell them, Rei." Jadeite started, but something in his voice caused me to turn my head.
"Why?"
"They need to know. It's not right that we keep this from them. They're starting to figure it out anyway."
"Very well. When?"
"I don't know. We don't have to tell them, just show them." He pointed out.
"Show them how? Hold hands around them, kiss, what?" I asked, setting the book that I was reading aside.
"Exactly. We don't want it to be too obvious at once. Just subtle. You know, don't be afraid to kiss at another ball or something. They can figure the rest out on their own." He said, taking my hand in his, and kissing my knuckles.
"Fine with me. As long as you go along with the plan as well. Not make it look like a one-way attraction."
He chuckled. "They've known how much I wanted to make you love me. The only way it'll be one-way is if you pull away and don't get the hint."
"Hey! I get every single hit you throw my way." He snorted. "I do. Even on the day I met you."
"Really? You never reacted to them."
"I didn't want to. I wanted to be able to ignore you as long as possible."
"Which wasn't long. A few hours, maybe. But that was it, no more, no less." He added.
"And how long could you ignore me?" I asked, my eyes boring into his.
"About a second after I met you." He whispered as he scooted closer. "Every move you made didn't go unnoticed."
I didn't know what to say. Had he really been watching me that close? Now I knew why he was in the parlor at the same time I was. That event had long passed. It had now been three months, and that happened in wee hours of the second morning. It all made sense now. He really was in love with me at first sight, as I secretly was with him.
He laid his hand on my cheek, then moved it up to push stray strands of my dark hair behind my ear, then back down to my cheek. Then, in one swift movement, he bent down and kissed me with all the passion and desire that he felt at that moment. And I returned that kiss with the same amount of feeling.
"Oh, my gosh!" came Ami's innocent shriek, causing us to abruptly break our kiss.
"Geez, will you two get a room or something and spare us the gruesome details. We don't want to know any more." Minako said, grabbing Ami's wrist and dragging her out of the room.
"Wait! You knew about that?!" came Ami's shrill cry as Minako dragged the poor girl off.
At the whole outburst, I could feel the heat rising to my cheeks, and knew that my face must have been a deep crimson. "Where were we?" he asked smoothly.
"Right about...here." I said, moving back towards him and placing my mouth on his.
Again we heard Ami yelling at Minako, heading our way. Jadeite thrust out his hand toward the door and it slammed shut, and then I heard the familiar 'click' of the lock.
"I can't get in, Minako-chan! It's locked! Help me, Minako! Who knows what they're doing in there!"
"They're just making out, calm down, Ames." Minako said calmly from what sounded like as her side.
"Kissing?!" came Ami's shrill reply.
At this last outburst, I broke out laughing. It was the laughter that forced me away from Jadeite. But when I looked at him, I saw that he was wiping the tears away. It was those tears that proved how hard he had truly laughed.
"What are they laughing at?" Ami asked, now more nervous than frantic.
"You." Minako laughed. "Listen, you are so lucky that everybody is outside. Because Rei and Jadeite don't want this to go public, so, to put it short, SHUT UP!"
Another burst of laughter came from us.
"So, you DID know about this! How come you didn't tell any of us?" Ami asked, now completely somber.
"For the exact same reason of how you are acting now, Ames. And they told me not to."
Their voices drifted off as they continued their walk through the halls. The laughter soon died away, but our smiles were evident.
"Well, that was different coming from Ami." He commented, and I could only nod my head in agreement.
"Yeah. She gets pretty scary sometimes. She acted worse when she found out that Minako and Kunzite were an item. We were lucky that Minako was with her, otherwise she would've broken down the door if we gave her enough time." I said, wiping my own tears off my face with my dress sleeve.
"After that, I think I'd believe anything."
"Don't be too sure. They tell some wacky tales almost everyday. But, they're basically normal, teenage girls."
"Normal, huh?"
Who Knows Anymore?
Ami's old nature came back: she kept secrets. Ours was the biggest one so far. It felt kind of like "Romeo and Juliet", that it was just a secret love, only we didn't run off and get married, then had to kill ourselves. At least, not yet. If push came to shove, that might happen.
We soon became more and more fearless about showing how obsessed with each other we are. We started holding hands down the hallway, being seen with each other, and actually carrying out normal conversations. Nobody really noticed anything we did, until the one night they caught Jadeite giving me a goodnight kiss. We didn't see anyone in the hall, but just as he leaned in for a quick kiss, Serenity and Endymion had turned the corner.
"Oh, my gosh. Tell me I was seeing things." Serenity whispered to herself, but Endymion heard it.
"If you're seeing things, then I am as well."
"Rei, why didn't you tell us?" serenity asked
quietly once all the explaining was over.
"What? And have you guys act like a bunch of ninnies? Are you kidding? You'd never let me live it down." I defended.
The four of us were all seated on random pieces of furniture throughout my room. I was sitting on my desk, Serenity and Endymion were on the bed, and Jadeite was in a chair not much farther than arm's length away.
The silence was deafening. No one spoke for a few minutes. I guess that means that what I said would've been true. But as the silence wore on, I started doubting myself. Maybe I did say the wrong thing.
"We would've gotten past it, Rei." Endymion spoke at last.
"YOU, maybe; But not them. You don't know them like I do."
That Night (See, I do know what I'm doing.)
All around me I heard the painful blood gurgling cries coming from the wounded that I couldn't do anything for. I couldn't look to my right because I knew that my heart would stop. Ami had died a painful death, and I knew mine was coming soon. To my left, Minako was fighting determinedly with Kunzite. She was the first one to get over her shock and ordered us to fight with all we had. In my peripheral vision, I could see Makoto fighting her love.
Before me stood the one I had believed was the most handsome man ever. But he wasn't so handsome now, no, not now. His eyes were a blue so icy I literally froze when I looked into them. But behind them I saw a battle. A battle between good and evil and felt his feelings change. He didn't attack me, yet.
"Come on Sailor Mars. Give me some exercise at least!" he sneered at me, grasping his sword tighter.
"Beryl, what did you do to him?" I whispered to myself.
"What did you say, Little Girl? Did you ask me to just kill you in one swift and painless movement?" he asked, pointing his sword at my chest.
"No. I said: 'Beryl, what did you do to him?' . And I mean it. You are not the man I once knew." I said, raising my voice with each sentence.
"She freed me! She set the real me free! And I have never known you before. I'll do this for you though, I'll give you the option to join us instead of dying. Do you want to be set free as well." Jadeite said, advancing upon me.
"You said that I was the one that freed your soul." I muttered, taking a step back every time he took one forward.
"What was that? Are you going to or not?"
"No. never. I will never betray my princess." I said stubbornly.
"Then you will suffer the consequences! I hope that you and your princess don't have anything against each other. Say god-bye, Mars!"
I bolted upright in bed, my clothes and blankets soaked with sweat. What was that? That hasn't happened. Was this a vision?
I looked in the direction that the fire was in. there were still red-hot coals that just needed to be stoked. I got up and headed toward the fireplace. Shivering at the sudden change in temperature since I left my bed, I knelt down and poked gingerly at it. I have to figure this out. I need to meditate and think this whole thing out. I don't know what it means, though. Is Serenity going to die? Are the generals going to turn against us? Beryl? Where have I heard that name before?
END OF CHAPTER 7
Chapter 7
Disclaimer: Idon'townSailorMoonoranythingelseIthrowinhere!
Author's Notes: I will be updating at least one chapter every week. Some days, I will put up two or five! Hope you like it so far! R&R, flames are accepted, but not preferred. Love y'all!
I Don't Know How Many Days/Weeks Later!
Things pretty much slowed down after the day of the performance. Our seemed to turned back to normal. As the days wore on, you could tell by the look on Minako's face that she was about to explode if she didn't tell anyone what she knew.
"We've got to tell them, Rei." Jadeite started, but something in his voice caused me to turn my head.
"Why?"
"They need to know. It's not right that we keep this from them. They're starting to figure it out anyway."
"Very well. When?"
"I don't know. We don't have to tell them, just show them." He pointed out.
"Show them how? Hold hands around them, kiss, what?" I asked, setting the book that I was reading aside.
"Exactly. We don't want it to be too obvious at once. Just subtle. You know, don't be afraid to kiss at another ball or something. They can figure the rest out on their own." He said, taking my hand in his, and kissing my knuckles.
"Fine with me. As long as you go along with the plan as well. Not make it look like a one-way attraction."
He chuckled. "They've known how much I wanted to make you love me. The only way it'll be one-way is if you pull away and don't get the hint."
"Hey! I get every single hit you throw my way." He snorted. "I do. Even on the day I met you."
"Really? You never reacted to them."
"I didn't want to. I wanted to be able to ignore you as long as possible."
"Which wasn't long. A few hours, maybe. But that was it, no more, no less." He added.
"And how long could you ignore me?" I asked, my eyes boring into his.
"About a second after I met you." He whispered as he scooted closer. "Every move you made didn't go unnoticed."
I didn't know what to say. Had he really been watching me that close? Now I knew why he was in the parlor at the same time I was. That event had long passed. It had now been three months, and that happened in wee hours of the second morning. It all made sense now. He really was in love with me at first sight, as I secretly was with him.
He laid his hand on my cheek, then moved it up to push stray strands of my dark hair behind my ear, then back down to my cheek. Then, in one swift movement, he bent down and kissed me with all the passion and desire that he felt at that moment. And I returned that kiss with the same amount of feeling.
"Oh, my gosh!" came Ami's innocent shriek, causing us to abruptly break our kiss.
"Geez, will you two get a room or something and spare us the gruesome details. We don't want to know any more." Minako said, grabbing Ami's wrist and dragging her out of the room.
"Wait! You knew about that?!" came Ami's shrill cry as Minako dragged the poor girl off.
At the whole outburst, I could feel the heat rising to my cheeks, and knew that my face must have been a deep crimson. "Where were we?" he asked smoothly.
"Right about...here." I said, moving back towards him and placing my mouth on his.
Again we heard Ami yelling at Minako, heading our way. Jadeite thrust out his hand toward the door and it slammed shut, and then I heard the familiar 'click' of the lock.
"I can't get in, Minako-chan! It's locked! Help me, Minako! Who knows what they're doing in there!"
"They're just making out, calm down, Ames." Minako said calmly from what sounded like as her side.
"Kissing?!" came Ami's shrill reply.
At this last outburst, I broke out laughing. It was the laughter that forced me away from Jadeite. But when I looked at him, I saw that he was wiping the tears away. It was those tears that proved how hard he had truly laughed.
"What are they laughing at?" Ami asked, now more nervous than frantic.
"You." Minako laughed. "Listen, you are so lucky that everybody is outside. Because Rei and Jadeite don't want this to go public, so, to put it short, SHUT UP!"
Another burst of laughter came from us.
"So, you DID know about this! How come you didn't tell any of us?" Ami asked, now completely somber.
"For the exact same reason of how you are acting now, Ames. And they told me not to."
Their voices drifted off as they continued their walk through the halls. The laughter soon died away, but our smiles were evident.
"Well, that was different coming from Ami." He commented, and I could only nod my head in agreement.
"Yeah. She gets pretty scary sometimes. She acted worse when she found out that Minako and Kunzite were an item. We were lucky that Minako was with her, otherwise she would've broken down the door if we gave her enough time." I said, wiping my own tears off my face with my dress sleeve.
"After that, I think I'd believe anything."
"Don't be too sure. They tell some wacky tales almost everyday. But, they're basically normal, teenage girls."
"Normal, huh?"
Who Knows Anymore?
Ami's old nature came back: she kept secrets. Ours was the biggest one so far. It felt kind of like "Romeo and Juliet", that it was just a secret love, only we didn't run off and get married, then had to kill ourselves. At least, not yet. If push came to shove, that might happen.
We soon became more and more fearless about showing how obsessed with each other we are. We started holding hands down the hallway, being seen with each other, and actually carrying out normal conversations. Nobody really noticed anything we did, until the one night they caught Jadeite giving me a goodnight kiss. We didn't see anyone in the hall, but just as he leaned in for a quick kiss, Serenity and Endymion had turned the corner.
"Oh, my gosh. Tell me I was seeing things." Serenity whispered to herself, but Endymion heard it.
"If you're seeing things, then I am as well."
"Rei, why didn't you tell us?" serenity asked
quietly once all the explaining was over.
"What? And have you guys act like a bunch of ninnies? Are you kidding? You'd never let me live it down." I defended.
The four of us were all seated on random pieces of furniture throughout my room. I was sitting on my desk, Serenity and Endymion were on the bed, and Jadeite was in a chair not much farther than arm's length away.
The silence was deafening. No one spoke for a few minutes. I guess that means that what I said would've been true. But as the silence wore on, I started doubting myself. Maybe I did say the wrong thing.
"We would've gotten past it, Rei." Endymion spoke at last.
"YOU, maybe; But not them. You don't know them like I do."
That Night (See, I do know what I'm doing.)
All around me I heard the painful blood gurgling cries coming from the wounded that I couldn't do anything for. I couldn't look to my right because I knew that my heart would stop. Ami had died a painful death, and I knew mine was coming soon. To my left, Minako was fighting determinedly with Kunzite. She was the first one to get over her shock and ordered us to fight with all we had. In my peripheral vision, I could see Makoto fighting her love.
Before me stood the one I had believed was the most handsome man ever. But he wasn't so handsome now, no, not now. His eyes were a blue so icy I literally froze when I looked into them. But behind them I saw a battle. A battle between good and evil and felt his feelings change. He didn't attack me, yet.
"Come on Sailor Mars. Give me some exercise at least!" he sneered at me, grasping his sword tighter.
"Beryl, what did you do to him?" I whispered to myself.
"What did you say, Little Girl? Did you ask me to just kill you in one swift and painless movement?" he asked, pointing his sword at my chest.
"No. I said: 'Beryl, what did you do to him?' . And I mean it. You are not the man I once knew." I said, raising my voice with each sentence.
"She freed me! She set the real me free! And I have never known you before. I'll do this for you though, I'll give you the option to join us instead of dying. Do you want to be set free as well." Jadeite said, advancing upon me.
"You said that I was the one that freed your soul." I muttered, taking a step back every time he took one forward.
"What was that? Are you going to or not?"
"No. never. I will never betray my princess." I said stubbornly.
"Then you will suffer the consequences! I hope that you and your princess don't have anything against each other. Say god-bye, Mars!"
I bolted upright in bed, my clothes and blankets soaked with sweat. What was that? That hasn't happened. Was this a vision?
I looked in the direction that the fire was in. there were still red-hot coals that just needed to be stoked. I got up and headed toward the fireplace. Shivering at the sudden change in temperature since I left my bed, I knelt down and poked gingerly at it. I have to figure this out. I need to meditate and think this whole thing out. I don't know what it means, though. Is Serenity going to die? Are the generals going to turn against us? Beryl? Where have I heard that name before?
END OF CHAPTER 7