Love's Requiem

Chapter Two

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Weiss Kreuz.

A/N- I have decided to continue this!! I'm not quite sure it will turn out any good, but I'm willing to try. :)

There were many gardens in the Moon Palace. All of the original floral arrangements and such had been re-created when the main castle had restored itself. All of the gardens had one trait that made it stand out; something that made it shine. In most it was something fairly simple, like the color of the plants there, but in a few the complex mazes were what made them complete.

One of the gardens was surrounded by a wall that had been made of the same material as the castle. No one was ever seen entering that garden but the angelic Neo-Queen. Not even Endymion himself had trespassed in her sanctuary. No one knew what resided there, and no one knew why the wall had been built; all of the other gardens were open to anyone.

It is in this garden that the Neo-Queen hides something that could destroy her happy life, the life that many would give anything to have. What more could the luckiest woman in the universe want?

The only thing in this small refuge was a well traveled grey stone path, a chair, and a mirror. That wouldn't have been odd, had the mirror not been floating in mid air and if an angel hadn't seated herself before it.

The angel, more commonly known as "Serenity", would retreat to her hide away whenever she could. There was nothing attractive about this barren waste of land, but she always returned. She always sat on the uncomfortable chair, and she always gazed at the mirror. From a distance, she could have been confused with a narcissist because she could stare into that piece of glass for hours on end.

Only if you were to stand directly behind her could you see the mirror's true purpose. She was watching him. Serenity couldn't help herself; even though so many years had passed, and she couldn't yet bare the pain of muttering his name even to herself, she still found herself captivated with those astounding violet eyes.

She couldn't hear anything that was spoken, but she could watch and guess at what was being said. Now she knew of his real occupation. An assassin. For some reason, that knowledge didn't affect her like it would if it was anyone else. She didn't really care. It was his choice, and she couldn't do a thing about it.

She had finally seen who the girl who had stood with him that fateful day was. Sakura, the replacement for his sister. She may have fallen hard for him, but he couldn't see her as any more that a younger sibling. Serenity had cried for that poor girl many, many times. The other-worldly Queen had always been sympathetic to anyone that she thought needed a shoulder to cry on, and Ran needed that more than anyone she had ever met. She knew that she was breaking all the rules that had been pounded into her brain for years, but she was going to do the unimaginable. She was going to turn back time, and she was going to give herself a second chance.

Of course she loved her daughter and her husband, but she needed something more than a universe full of people to take care of. She never got a chance to be with either of them anymore. She knew she was neglecting them, and they both deserved better than her. Serenity had only stayed because she felt obligated to them all. Well, it had been over a hundred years, and in her mind, her debt had long since been paid.

If anyone would have stopped to glance twice at the tall white walls, they would have noticed a pure, silver light spilling over the tops and disappearing just as soon as it have come.

It was already midnight, and Endymion was worried. Serenity was usually inside by this hour, and it seemed that no one else had seen her since about noon. He had been pacing in their bedroom ever since he had put Chibi-Usa to bed five hours ago. The dark haired king shoved the heavy wooden doors open and marched down the corridor. He was headed to her garden, and he intended to have a long talk with her about her resposibilities….

Even if she was Queen of everything, he still treated her like the Odango Atama he had met centuries before.

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Serenity felt as if she were being pulled apart. The silver glowing space that surrounded her forced her to shut her eyes. Even then, she could still see the light through her eyelids. When she had wished on the Silver Crystal to take her back to him, she didn't stop to realize that she wasn't at the Time Gates. She wasn't very familiar with unassisted time travel, and now she wished that she had taken more time to plan her escape. She likened the sharp pains to thousands of knifes slamming into every inch of her soft flesh. After a few moments, she couldn't handle it any more, and she fainted. In the resulting blackness, she didn't realise some changes had occurred…