Title: Could This Be Love? (2/?)
Author: Jaya
Distribution: ask and I will let you...maybe
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Sailor Mercury belongs to her very lovely creators and so does
General Zoicite, ditto for the mention of the other Generals/scouts. And
anyone who I've missed.
Feedback: is the foundation of my universe.
At: jacey111@yahoo.com
Summary: Now stuck in the Negaverse, what is a girl to do?
Note: This is the second chapter of a new series, which is an effort to get
around the great big bloody writers WALL (not block) I am suffering from.
Hopefully, this will give me idea's for Memory fades, but until then that
series is on hold. Oh, and I prefer Ami spelt like this, and I never like the
last name Anderson, so Ami has her Japanese name, but everyone else has their
other name with Japanese last name. Oh, and Zoicite is a man, and hasn't had
a relationship (of the sexual kind) with Kunzite for a while. None of the
Generals are dead.
Dedication: To my first three reviewers on this fic; Kaze no beru, Melete and
Pupetta. You are all brilliant!
*********************
Could this be love?
*********************
Chapter 2
***********
Zoicite waited a few minutes before striding over and into the kitchen.
Mercury was sprawled on the floor, there was the crystal, and there lying
beside her was...was that a transformation wand? Zoicite shrugged, pocketed
the wand and crystal, and hoisted the unconcious girl into his arms. He
dissapeared, and the apartment was as if no one had been in the apartment for
a long time.
He reappeared floating in his bedroom. He unceremoniously dumped her on the
bed.
Zoicite looked with distaste at her current clothing, and changed it with a
flick of his fingers to a long dress. Long dresses were harder to run in.
Then with another flick of his fingers, and some magic, she was all tied up,
so it didn't matter if she woke up while he was gone. Anyway, he had her
transformation wand, what could she do to him?
Changing to a new uniform, he left to go get some food.
*
She was lying on something soft, but for some reason she was still really
uncomfortable. Okay Ami, what is the squareroot of four hundred and thirty
six multiplied by three? Sixty-two point six four one. Okay, brain works at
least. Can't hear or smell anything, but that means nothing, there may be
nothing to hear or smell. Now, open those beautiful blue eyes of ours.
Ami's eyes opened, and her vision hesitantly swam into focus. Eyes work,
pretty much. Pity there's not much to see.
The room was cream, and everything else was either blue or green. Fair
enough, someone obviously liked those colours.
Ami tilted her head so she could look down the length of her body. Oh, reason
why she was uncomfortable: She was in a body binding wrap of ropes, and under
the ropes was a pretty blue dress.
Great. A dress.
That was really going to help her escape from here.
And not only was it a dress, it was a _long_ dress. As in, one that would
touch the floor if she stood up. This was fun.
Now, where was she?
Last thing she remembered was blacking out in her kitchen, Zoicite by the
door. He'd probably taken her....to the Negaverse. Brilliant.
So, why was she in a room, and not in shackles before the 'Mighty and
Powerful' (note sarcasm) Queen Beryl. Or alternatively in a dungeon or being
attacked by a large group of youma.
Not that she _wanted_ to do any of the above activities, and wearing a
comfortable dress whilst at the same time tied up on a bed was preferrable,
but really. What could she do in this position?
It was a hard question.
"I can become Mercury." She said softly a few minutes later. She gestured
with a hand, expecting her wand to fall into it. Nothing. Frowning at her
lack of success, she called it again, with her mind. Still nothing.
But hadn't she been playing with something, as she tried to figure out how to
get away in the kitchen?
Oh, God, she'd been playing with her transformation wand! She must have
dropped it, and Zoicite must have picked it up. Damn, even Serena was yet to
do something this stupid. Even though her Prince had been taken from her, she
still had yet to be captured by the enemy. Mercury was the brains of the
Sailor Senshi, and yet she was the one who managed to be caught off guard,
and captured.
This was so embarrasing.
It was like being caught in a towel by someone who you really did not want to
see you without clothing.
Although lucky for Ami, she'd finished dressing a few minutes before Zoicite
arrived in her apartment. THAT would have been something of nighmare
proportions. Being caught by _Zoicite_, and having to do all of the things,
like hiding, in nothing but a towel. Ugh.
At least however, she hadn't been caught by one of the other Generals, like
Jadeite or something. The man was too damned creepy for her tastes. One look,
was all it took to be all to glad when the youma is gone, you can leave and
not see him again for a while.
Geez, she hoped she didn't run into Jadeite before she escaped.
Damn it. Where was Zoicite?! She needed to go to the bathroom.
*
Zoicite walked back to his rooms whistling jauntily. This was so out of
character for him that all of the youma on cleaning detail quickly finished
what they were doing and left. He was being unpredictable again.
He adjusted the wards on his residence so he could enter, before walking
through as if through a regular doorway.
He'd been getting weird looks from some of his fellow Generals all night.
After all, they couldn't quite remember the last time he had been in such a
good mood.
The things that had made his day so great was that he had:
A) Captured Sailor Mercury AKA Ami Mizuno
B) Had her transformation wand
C) Hadn't had to see Beryl for more than twenty-four hours.
Oh and D) Not been approached by any of the other Generals or Youma.
He walked into his bedroom, and stared. Mercury was still on his bed, but now
she was not only awake, but furious. Her eyes were like lazers burning into
him.
"And did you have a nice time?" She asked with deceptive sweetness. Had her
friends seen her now they would not have known her.
Zoicite was not fooled. "Adequate." he said with a shrug. "Are you okay?" He
asked, feigning concern. "You look quite uncomfortable there."
Ami rolled her eyes. "Well what do you expect? I'm tied up, and I wish you
would untie me."
Zoicite's eyes narrowed. "And just why would I want to do that when I have
you at my mercy?" he stated, walking around to the other side of the bed.
"Well, I need to use the bathroom." Ami said, effectively hiding all traces
of embarrasment at having to say such a thing to her captor.
"Oh." Zoicite thought about it for a few minutes, before releasing her bonds,
and quickly snapping a bracelet on her. "Well, this is a piece of technology
I just designed recently. During daylight hours you cannot do a thing to harm
me, the bracelet wont let you." He said brightly, smiling slightly. "And at
night...well pretty much the same thing happens." Zoicite gave a little
smile, and his eyes turned warm and wicked. He had avoided saying all the
other things that the bracelet could do. If she overstepped her bounds, he
could just show her.
"Can I please go now?" Ami asked impatiently. At his nod, and direction
towards an ajoining door, Ami walked as quickly as she could towards it,
holding up the hem of her dress so she didn't trip up and go sprawling. That
would probably be even more embarrassing than her present situation.
Closing the door behind her, and locking it, Ami sat down on the toilet,
wishing that the others would come and rescue her.
Oh wait, the others! Ami cursed herself mentally, she hadn't even thought of
contacting them on her communicator. She finished with the toilet, and
quietly washed her hands. Sitting herself down on the benchtop, she pulled
out her communicator, and pressed the all-call button.
Strangely enough only Mina answered. "Hey girl, what's up?" Mina asked,
smiling at her friend.
"Mina, I've been captured by Zoicite! I'm in the Negaverse, and I don't have
my transformation wand." Ami whispered into the communicator.
Mina's face immediately became concerned. "Do you know where you are?" She
asked, trying to keep her voice down as well, when she noticed Ami was
whispering.
"No, I could find out if I had the Mercury computer, but it's in my senshi
fuku."
Ami looked up in worry as Zoicite began to bang on the door, and call out for
her. "I've got to go, he's trying to....aaaahh." Ami cried out as the door
swung open, and she shoved her communicator back into her interdimensional
pocket. She cried out because her ankle suddenly and inexplicably gave way,
and she pitched forward onto the floor as Zoicite entered.
"We really have to stop meeting like this." She murmurred weakly. "People
will start to talk."
"Hand it over." Zoicite demanded, hand out.
"What?" Ami asked, feigning confusion.
"The communicator. You were talking to someone, give it to me."
"I was talking to myself." Ami lied, the look on the Generals face made her
realize he knew she was lying.
He smiled cruelly, leant down, and put pressure on her bad foot. "I don't
think so Miss Mercury." He said. "You called the other person Mina, and I
distinctly heard two very different female voices. He paused for a second,
thinking. "That and my computer picked up your conversation." He finished
with a nasty grin. "Well? I'm waiting." He said, innocently exerting more
pressure on he bad foot.
Ami could have fainted at the pain. "No." she ground out.
"Oh sorry." Zoicite said, not looking sorry at all. He leaned around behind
her. "You know," He whispered silkily. "I could heal that for you, and you
might even be able to leave my rooms whilst you're here. If..."
"If?" Ami asked, the pain beginning to abate a bit as Zoicite eased his
weight.
"You give me your communicator. After all, it's well nigh useless now, isn't
it Ami. I know about it, I can block your transmissions from getting
through." He shrugged suddenly, sliding around in front of her again.
"You're choice though; keep your communicator, be confined to bed, and in
pain, and not even be rescued for your troubles." With another shrug of his
shoulders, he looked at her again, really looked at her. "Oh, and don't
imagine I'll be able to keep your presence a secret for long, at some stage
you're going to have to see Queen Beryl or one of the other Generals or
heaven forbid." He rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Prince Darien. And unless
you can stand on your own two feet, you wont stand a chance."
Ami shivered, not from the cold, but from the bleak picture presented for her
perusal. She was in the enemy camp with no friends, and no back-up coming.
She had no illusions that she was anything but the weakest Senshi, but
without her wand or computer she was helpless. Shakily she extended a hand,
"fine." she said, calling the communicator back to it. Closing her eyes to
the sight, and turning her head away, Zoicite took it.
Ami's eyes jolted open in surprise at the swooping motion as Zoicite scooped
her up in his arms, and taking her back into the bedroom. Putting her on the
bed more carefully this time, he lifted up the hem of her skirt to examine
the injury. Her ankle was swollen. He probed it dispassionately with delicate
fingers. "Just a sprain." He said by way of diagniosis. He used her strength
as well as some of his own to bring down the swelling, and take the pain
away. "There." He said. "Try flexing it now."
Ami pointed her toes experimentally, then brought it back towards her.
Nothing.
"It's better." She said in surprise. More that he had lived up to his promise
than anything else. It didn't really fit in with her perception of Beryl's
evil Generals, actually living up to promises. And promises made to Senshi,
their enemies to boot.
Zoicite was suddenly very distant looking. "There is a small kitchen through
the left door, at the end of the hall. You know where the bathroom is. You
will not enter any locked doors, and I reccomend you stay in my quarters
until I say so. After all." He said with a smirk. "The other generals
quarters are near mine, and there are youma around, and you wouldn't want to
run into any of them untransformed now would you?" He stretched a bit, his
muscles feeling tight after the healing. "I reccomend you not try to hurt me
or even think about hurting me. After all, next time I do not think I will
heal your minor injuries, and then you would be in trouble."
He stood. "I've things to do, I'll show you to your room when I get back.
Feel free to help yourself to some dinner." Zoicite, didn't wait for her to
answer, and dissappeared in a scattering of rose petals.
*Damn I need to do something about my entrance.* Was his last thought before
he was gone.
"What do I do now?" Ami sighed, before going to find out if the 'meal' would
be as bad as she expected.
*****************************************************************************
Another chapter finished! Hurrah! Thoughts anyone? I know where this is
going, but I would like a Beta, anyone willing to do this for me, please
contact me.
Jaya
Author: Jaya
Distribution: ask and I will let you...maybe
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Sailor Mercury belongs to her very lovely creators and so does
General Zoicite, ditto for the mention of the other Generals/scouts. And
anyone who I've missed.
Feedback: is the foundation of my universe.
At: jacey111@yahoo.com
Summary: Now stuck in the Negaverse, what is a girl to do?
Note: This is the second chapter of a new series, which is an effort to get
around the great big bloody writers WALL (not block) I am suffering from.
Hopefully, this will give me idea's for Memory fades, but until then that
series is on hold. Oh, and I prefer Ami spelt like this, and I never like the
last name Anderson, so Ami has her Japanese name, but everyone else has their
other name with Japanese last name. Oh, and Zoicite is a man, and hasn't had
a relationship (of the sexual kind) with Kunzite for a while. None of the
Generals are dead.
Dedication: To my first three reviewers on this fic; Kaze no beru, Melete and
Pupetta. You are all brilliant!
*********************
Could this be love?
*********************
Chapter 2
***********
Zoicite waited a few minutes before striding over and into the kitchen.
Mercury was sprawled on the floor, there was the crystal, and there lying
beside her was...was that a transformation wand? Zoicite shrugged, pocketed
the wand and crystal, and hoisted the unconcious girl into his arms. He
dissapeared, and the apartment was as if no one had been in the apartment for
a long time.
He reappeared floating in his bedroom. He unceremoniously dumped her on the
bed.
Zoicite looked with distaste at her current clothing, and changed it with a
flick of his fingers to a long dress. Long dresses were harder to run in.
Then with another flick of his fingers, and some magic, she was all tied up,
so it didn't matter if she woke up while he was gone. Anyway, he had her
transformation wand, what could she do to him?
Changing to a new uniform, he left to go get some food.
*
She was lying on something soft, but for some reason she was still really
uncomfortable. Okay Ami, what is the squareroot of four hundred and thirty
six multiplied by three? Sixty-two point six four one. Okay, brain works at
least. Can't hear or smell anything, but that means nothing, there may be
nothing to hear or smell. Now, open those beautiful blue eyes of ours.
Ami's eyes opened, and her vision hesitantly swam into focus. Eyes work,
pretty much. Pity there's not much to see.
The room was cream, and everything else was either blue or green. Fair
enough, someone obviously liked those colours.
Ami tilted her head so she could look down the length of her body. Oh, reason
why she was uncomfortable: She was in a body binding wrap of ropes, and under
the ropes was a pretty blue dress.
Great. A dress.
That was really going to help her escape from here.
And not only was it a dress, it was a _long_ dress. As in, one that would
touch the floor if she stood up. This was fun.
Now, where was she?
Last thing she remembered was blacking out in her kitchen, Zoicite by the
door. He'd probably taken her....to the Negaverse. Brilliant.
So, why was she in a room, and not in shackles before the 'Mighty and
Powerful' (note sarcasm) Queen Beryl. Or alternatively in a dungeon or being
attacked by a large group of youma.
Not that she _wanted_ to do any of the above activities, and wearing a
comfortable dress whilst at the same time tied up on a bed was preferrable,
but really. What could she do in this position?
It was a hard question.
"I can become Mercury." She said softly a few minutes later. She gestured
with a hand, expecting her wand to fall into it. Nothing. Frowning at her
lack of success, she called it again, with her mind. Still nothing.
But hadn't she been playing with something, as she tried to figure out how to
get away in the kitchen?
Oh, God, she'd been playing with her transformation wand! She must have
dropped it, and Zoicite must have picked it up. Damn, even Serena was yet to
do something this stupid. Even though her Prince had been taken from her, she
still had yet to be captured by the enemy. Mercury was the brains of the
Sailor Senshi, and yet she was the one who managed to be caught off guard,
and captured.
This was so embarrasing.
It was like being caught in a towel by someone who you really did not want to
see you without clothing.
Although lucky for Ami, she'd finished dressing a few minutes before Zoicite
arrived in her apartment. THAT would have been something of nighmare
proportions. Being caught by _Zoicite_, and having to do all of the things,
like hiding, in nothing but a towel. Ugh.
At least however, she hadn't been caught by one of the other Generals, like
Jadeite or something. The man was too damned creepy for her tastes. One look,
was all it took to be all to glad when the youma is gone, you can leave and
not see him again for a while.
Geez, she hoped she didn't run into Jadeite before she escaped.
Damn it. Where was Zoicite?! She needed to go to the bathroom.
*
Zoicite walked back to his rooms whistling jauntily. This was so out of
character for him that all of the youma on cleaning detail quickly finished
what they were doing and left. He was being unpredictable again.
He adjusted the wards on his residence so he could enter, before walking
through as if through a regular doorway.
He'd been getting weird looks from some of his fellow Generals all night.
After all, they couldn't quite remember the last time he had been in such a
good mood.
The things that had made his day so great was that he had:
A) Captured Sailor Mercury AKA Ami Mizuno
B) Had her transformation wand
C) Hadn't had to see Beryl for more than twenty-four hours.
Oh and D) Not been approached by any of the other Generals or Youma.
He walked into his bedroom, and stared. Mercury was still on his bed, but now
she was not only awake, but furious. Her eyes were like lazers burning into
him.
"And did you have a nice time?" She asked with deceptive sweetness. Had her
friends seen her now they would not have known her.
Zoicite was not fooled. "Adequate." he said with a shrug. "Are you okay?" He
asked, feigning concern. "You look quite uncomfortable there."
Ami rolled her eyes. "Well what do you expect? I'm tied up, and I wish you
would untie me."
Zoicite's eyes narrowed. "And just why would I want to do that when I have
you at my mercy?" he stated, walking around to the other side of the bed.
"Well, I need to use the bathroom." Ami said, effectively hiding all traces
of embarrasment at having to say such a thing to her captor.
"Oh." Zoicite thought about it for a few minutes, before releasing her bonds,
and quickly snapping a bracelet on her. "Well, this is a piece of technology
I just designed recently. During daylight hours you cannot do a thing to harm
me, the bracelet wont let you." He said brightly, smiling slightly. "And at
night...well pretty much the same thing happens." Zoicite gave a little
smile, and his eyes turned warm and wicked. He had avoided saying all the
other things that the bracelet could do. If she overstepped her bounds, he
could just show her.
"Can I please go now?" Ami asked impatiently. At his nod, and direction
towards an ajoining door, Ami walked as quickly as she could towards it,
holding up the hem of her dress so she didn't trip up and go sprawling. That
would probably be even more embarrassing than her present situation.
Closing the door behind her, and locking it, Ami sat down on the toilet,
wishing that the others would come and rescue her.
Oh wait, the others! Ami cursed herself mentally, she hadn't even thought of
contacting them on her communicator. She finished with the toilet, and
quietly washed her hands. Sitting herself down on the benchtop, she pulled
out her communicator, and pressed the all-call button.
Strangely enough only Mina answered. "Hey girl, what's up?" Mina asked,
smiling at her friend.
"Mina, I've been captured by Zoicite! I'm in the Negaverse, and I don't have
my transformation wand." Ami whispered into the communicator.
Mina's face immediately became concerned. "Do you know where you are?" She
asked, trying to keep her voice down as well, when she noticed Ami was
whispering.
"No, I could find out if I had the Mercury computer, but it's in my senshi
fuku."
Ami looked up in worry as Zoicite began to bang on the door, and call out for
her. "I've got to go, he's trying to....aaaahh." Ami cried out as the door
swung open, and she shoved her communicator back into her interdimensional
pocket. She cried out because her ankle suddenly and inexplicably gave way,
and she pitched forward onto the floor as Zoicite entered.
"We really have to stop meeting like this." She murmurred weakly. "People
will start to talk."
"Hand it over." Zoicite demanded, hand out.
"What?" Ami asked, feigning confusion.
"The communicator. You were talking to someone, give it to me."
"I was talking to myself." Ami lied, the look on the Generals face made her
realize he knew she was lying.
He smiled cruelly, leant down, and put pressure on her bad foot. "I don't
think so Miss Mercury." He said. "You called the other person Mina, and I
distinctly heard two very different female voices. He paused for a second,
thinking. "That and my computer picked up your conversation." He finished
with a nasty grin. "Well? I'm waiting." He said, innocently exerting more
pressure on he bad foot.
Ami could have fainted at the pain. "No." she ground out.
"Oh sorry." Zoicite said, not looking sorry at all. He leaned around behind
her. "You know," He whispered silkily. "I could heal that for you, and you
might even be able to leave my rooms whilst you're here. If..."
"If?" Ami asked, the pain beginning to abate a bit as Zoicite eased his
weight.
"You give me your communicator. After all, it's well nigh useless now, isn't
it Ami. I know about it, I can block your transmissions from getting
through." He shrugged suddenly, sliding around in front of her again.
"You're choice though; keep your communicator, be confined to bed, and in
pain, and not even be rescued for your troubles." With another shrug of his
shoulders, he looked at her again, really looked at her. "Oh, and don't
imagine I'll be able to keep your presence a secret for long, at some stage
you're going to have to see Queen Beryl or one of the other Generals or
heaven forbid." He rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Prince Darien. And unless
you can stand on your own two feet, you wont stand a chance."
Ami shivered, not from the cold, but from the bleak picture presented for her
perusal. She was in the enemy camp with no friends, and no back-up coming.
She had no illusions that she was anything but the weakest Senshi, but
without her wand or computer she was helpless. Shakily she extended a hand,
"fine." she said, calling the communicator back to it. Closing her eyes to
the sight, and turning her head away, Zoicite took it.
Ami's eyes jolted open in surprise at the swooping motion as Zoicite scooped
her up in his arms, and taking her back into the bedroom. Putting her on the
bed more carefully this time, he lifted up the hem of her skirt to examine
the injury. Her ankle was swollen. He probed it dispassionately with delicate
fingers. "Just a sprain." He said by way of diagniosis. He used her strength
as well as some of his own to bring down the swelling, and take the pain
away. "There." He said. "Try flexing it now."
Ami pointed her toes experimentally, then brought it back towards her.
Nothing.
"It's better." She said in surprise. More that he had lived up to his promise
than anything else. It didn't really fit in with her perception of Beryl's
evil Generals, actually living up to promises. And promises made to Senshi,
their enemies to boot.
Zoicite was suddenly very distant looking. "There is a small kitchen through
the left door, at the end of the hall. You know where the bathroom is. You
will not enter any locked doors, and I reccomend you stay in my quarters
until I say so. After all." He said with a smirk. "The other generals
quarters are near mine, and there are youma around, and you wouldn't want to
run into any of them untransformed now would you?" He stretched a bit, his
muscles feeling tight after the healing. "I reccomend you not try to hurt me
or even think about hurting me. After all, next time I do not think I will
heal your minor injuries, and then you would be in trouble."
He stood. "I've things to do, I'll show you to your room when I get back.
Feel free to help yourself to some dinner." Zoicite, didn't wait for her to
answer, and dissappeared in a scattering of rose petals.
*Damn I need to do something about my entrance.* Was his last thought before
he was gone.
"What do I do now?" Ami sighed, before going to find out if the 'meal' would
be as bad as she expected.
*****************************************************************************
Another chapter finished! Hurrah! Thoughts anyone? I know where this is
going, but I would like a Beta, anyone willing to do this for me, please
contact me.
Jaya