The Wheel of Fortune
Chapter Two: I Guess You See
Author: Awen WindRider
The following fan fiction is a different type of alternative reality story. I don't think any
summery that I write myself would give it justice, perhaps those of you in the review
world may offer forth some sort of summery after you have read a few of the chapters.
This story has been in the works for a long time. While you may find yourselves reading
several chapters a week, it may take time for new chapters to come out, simply because
I'm getting ready to move to Okinawa with my husband.
I hope you all enjoy. Please review and let me know if you like what you see. It's been a
long time since the days I wrote under the name 'Zorina Skye' and hopefully those of you
who remember those stories will see a vast improvement since then.
Disclaimers: All rights reserved to those who hold them, but the story is mine. And
frankly, I think I can say hands off.
If you want to archive this story, you are welcome to do so, but you must first let me
know that you are doing so at the following e-mail address: druiddessawen@yahoo.com
Rating: PG to start
Content: Sailor Moon/Sailor Mars and Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask romance with a happy
ending, eventually.
Raye shook her head and tried to brush off the unsettling feeling that had washed over her
in her lovers wake. She slipped her black suede jacket back on in silence and took her
time wandering the halls toward the other end of campus. Unlike Serena, she could
remain inside the buildings on her trek back to the dorms. Luck though, was on her side;
the halls were nearly empty and there wasn't a single distraction keeping her from her
thoughts.
She was lost, simply lost. Serena's sketches, her dreams all put to poetry with a conviction
that Raye only hoped she could have in real life, much less on paper.
She shrugged, staring off into space as she made her way down a stairwell in Vicker Hall,
the seat of Biology, Chemistry and Ecology on campus. Her once aspiring medical
doctors found themselves completing cellular research in hopes of being chosen to be in
a hospital or practice based on their research.
Her mind drifted back in time, to a park where monsters attacked, and an arcade and
school where people were sucked dry of their energy.
She could remember those attacks, she could remember the sailor soldiers who fought
those battles, but there was something just wrong with the whole situation. There were
periods of days and sometimes even weeks that she couldn't account for.
Her feet stopped outside the computer lab she worked in every day.
There were events that she knew were more than important that were suddenly just gone.
They were there, but she just couldn't understand what they were exactly. She saw
events, but couldn't put important names and dates and faces to them, or even the places
they happened in.
Echoing through the halls and moving toward her was the sound of evenly paced
footsteps. She was surprised to find someone traveling through the basement she
frequented on her way to the tunnel that connected Vicker and Banks Halls.
She looked up, in the dim, windowless light; she saw a frame that was familiar to her
coming closer. The same walk. Raye's feet refused to move and she felt herself flush with
anticipation, her breath caught in her throat and he looked up.
"Raye," he said in surprised. "First Meatball..."
Protectiveness welled within her and she cut him off. "Don't you dare call her that!"
Darien stopped in his tracks taken aback. "So you do know she's here."
Raye flushed, "Of course I know she's here."
Darien laughed. "So, how have you been, Raye?"
"Fine, since you disappeared from my life and ran away to the states." Her voice was
sharp and confident, something that he hadn't been expecting, and even more so, he
hadn't expected Raye to display much emotion concerning the girl that had annoyed them
so greatly while they had dated what felt like an entire lifetime ago.
"Raye, you know I had to go. I couldn't just turn Harvard down, besides, look at you.
You've grown into a beautiful women and I don't think you would have been happy
waiting for me. I'm sure there's a wonderful man in your life."
"A man?" Raye's hands went to her hips. "Why would I want a man in my life?"
"Raye, that's really flattering, but I never really saw you as anything more than a little
sister..."
"Darien, you are full of yourself." The Shinto Priestess stated, enunciating each and every
word. "If it wasn't for you leaving, Serena and I would have never gotten together."
Darien paled. Raye and Serena? His sweet little bunny that had always managed to
inadvertently cheer him up through childhood and her middle school and early high
school years after the accident that robbed him of his family, was with the wicked bitch
of the west? It wasn't possible!
"Besides, if Serena and I hadn't gotten together, I don't know what would have happened
to me after Grandpa died and I lost the temple."
Darien stood, mouth wide open in shock.
"Might want to close your mouth there, Darien, you may catch a fly." Raye smirked as
she pushed past Darien and darted down the hallway that lead to the tunnels. She felt
uncomfortable…something…a pain she didn't recognize, was twisting and stabbing at
her heart.
She couldn't put her finger on it, but running into Darien marked changes in their lives,
she didn't know how or why, but it did.
And she didn't like it.
It wasn't until nearly four hours later that Raye looked up to see Serena kicking open the
door to their three-woman suite. The blonde was covered head to toe in red clay dust, her
hands looked chapped and Raye could tell by the look on her roommate's face that her
hands had clay ground into them from the potters wheel. She scowled in worry.
Serena was allergic to the red iron oxide in the clay and was already itching the heels of
her palms absentmindedly as she shed her clay-covered clothes shamelessly. She
wrapped a red towel around her and gathered up her shower bucket, robe, a clean towel
and bunny slippers and wordlessly slipped from the room, misery written all over her
face and dripping down her cheeks in the form of muddy red tears.
Raye sighed and closed her chemistry book and picked up Serena's dirty clothes and
dropped them into a hamper set aside specifically for her studio clothes and then
followed the shorter blonde down the hall to the bathroom.
Once inside, she checked her appearance in the mirror and fluffed her hair. "Serena, are
you okay?" She called as she heard the spray of the shower turn on.
"Peachy. I get there and O'Brien is standing there tapping his foot waiting for me. 'Your
pots are leather hard; you better be planning to put feet on them all before you head home
for the weekend. Closure or no closure, there is no excuse to ruin good work!'" Serena
her obnoxious professor with an equally obnoxious imitated and overly nasal voice.
Raye scowled. "He didn't! I could barely see on my way in from the lab and it got worse
after I got in!"
"He did!" She stated coldly, "He did and proceeded to lean over me and watch every
move I made to the point that I got so nervous I ruined two of my pieces!"
Raye could feel Serena was upset and turned red with indignant anger. "That asshole!"
She seethed.
"By the time I was done, I not only cracked two pieces, but the feet on two others were
off center! I only managed six decent and one up to par. And even worse," Serena
hiccupped in frustration, "He had the gall to lecture me about the quality of my work
when I was done and how disappointed he was that he'd stayed to supervise my work and
that I'd done such a horrible job, especially because I'm a studio assistant and a
scholarship holder!"
Raye listened patiently, or at least tried to.
"I don't think I've ever had any professor or teacher for that matter dress me down and
insult me like that since middle school, and not even Miss Haruna was that bad!" Serena
said bitterly as she turned the water off.
Raye could hear her moving around in the shower stall and waited for her blonde haired
companion to emerge and sighed and smiled softly. "Serena, maybe he was just having a
bad day..." But that was all she got out when she saw her little bunny standing there,
wrapped in her pink bunny robe and bunny slippers, her hair plastered in long wet
tangles to her face and the back of her robe and sighed. "Oh, Serena." She sighed,
forcing back a laugh.
She looked like a drowned rabbit, but her normally bright eyes were red, swollen, and so
dark that they reminded Raye of the storm clouds that were dumping several feet of snow
on their back woods campus.
Serena sniffed and chewed her lower lip and found herself wrapped in Raye's arms and
started sobbing.
Raye closed her eyes and pulled her closer and just held her for a few moments. "Come
on, let's get you tucked into bed with your bunnies and I'll go fix you some hot
chocolate."
Serena nodded absentmindedly and let Raye lead her back down the hall toward their
room, half holding her, half leading her. Raye had never seen Serena look so miserable in
her entire life, not even when they found out Ann and Alan weren't siblings but actually a
couple that had lived together throughout most of their youth.
Raye looked up from her rabbit to see Mina coming down the hall toward them, her
chipper and lively disposition giving way to concern. She'd seen Serena and Raye
together a lot over the past three months, but she'd never seen Serena looking so
miserable. Being a resident assistant meant that she was obligated to see if the pair was
okay, and the look that Raye gave her was one of pure rage and startled her.
She watched as Raye tucked Serena into the bed that had been made up of two single
beds pushed together, tuck her in lovingly, grab a hot pot and slipped out the door and
closed it with a soft click.
"Raye, is she okay?"
Raye sighed. "Mina, I don't get it. She's been having these nightmares, and she didn't say
anything about them to me."
Mina blinked. "But Raye, I've known you forever, and from what you told me, Serena
hasn't ever been one to keep anything from you."
Raye nodded as they walked down to the bathroom and filled the pot before plugging it
in.
"She hasn't before…this," Raye stumbled over her words. "Mina this is the first time that
she's ever kept anything from me. And it scares me."
"Why does it scare you?"
"Are you asking as a friend or as my Resident Ass?" Raye hissed through her teeth.
"When it comes to Serena, you know it's as your friend." Mina said softly. "It'll be a few
minutes before that water boils, and I know you're hoping Serena will fall asleep. Why
don't you come sit down in my room while that water heats up so we have some
privacy?"
Raye nodded, and followed the blonde to her room, sat down in a desk chair while Mina
slipped off her shoes and jumped up onto her bed. "Now, what's going on Raye?"
Raye took a deep breath. "You know how I told you that she's been staying up later and
later and getting up earlier and earlier?"
Mina nodded. "Yeah, I do, most definitely very un-Serena-like. That girl loves to sleep."
It was Raye's turn to nod. "She's been having this nightmare about a kingdom on the
Moon and it's haunting her. She writes about it, draws it, and now that I know what it is,
I know she's sculpting and painting it too. It's an obsession."
Mina paled. "Kingdom…on the Moon?"
Raye nodded. "She whimpers in her sleep. And even once this past summer, she woke up
screaming and was so panicked that her mother called me and I ran halfway across town
to make sure she was okay. That morning I rocked her until she fell asleep, she made me
promise I'd never die on her."
Mina was silent, and even Raye noted that she was fidgeting uncomfortably.
"It's not like her Mina. I miss my Rabbit! She's fading away like a candle burning out and
today she finally started opening up about it and the only reason she opened up about it is
because she tried writing about it for her composition class."
Mina swallowed hard, her mouth going dry.
"What kind of details do you remember?" Mina asked.
"Details, about her dreams?" Raye asked.
Mina nodded but it was Raye's answer that took her off guard. "Not much, but I
remember mine."
"Yours?" Mina asked, her eyes growing wide.
Raye nodded. "A few years ago I had a dream about being like Sailor V, but we were
looking for a Princess from a kingdom on the Moon, and I think that this Princess that
Serena is writing about is the same Princess we were looking for."
Mina paled and looked as though she were about to pass out. "Raye, I don't know how to
tell you this, but..."
The whistle of Raye's pot interrupted Mina, screaming shrilly.
"We'll talk about it later, I want to get Serena her hot chocolate. It should help her sleep,"
Raye said with a smile.
The blonde sat in shock as the raven-haired princess from the Shrine on top of Cherry
Hill excused herself and slipped out of her room. As Raye came out of the bathroom and
marched down the hall she could have sworn that she heard Mina say clearly as she shut
her room door, "Central, we have a situation."
Raye smiled as she pushed the door opened with her toes and her smile broadened when
she realized that not only was Serena asleep, but she was sleeping peacefully.
A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she locked the door behind her and moved to the
window and pulled down the blinds. Humming softly, a song that she could remember,
but couldn't recall ever hearing, she plugged in Serena's nightlight because her Rabbit
was afraid of the dark. She turned off the lights and then climbed up into bed beside her
and pulled the sleeping blonde into her arms.
To her dismay, the blonde settled with a soft sigh, not rousing at the disturbance beside
her and whispered a single name. "Endymion..."
Tears welled up in Raye's eyes.
She didn't know how much longer they had together, but she couldn't help but selfishly
hope that it would be forever.
Chapter Two: I Guess You See
Author: Awen WindRider
The following fan fiction is a different type of alternative reality story. I don't think any
summery that I write myself would give it justice, perhaps those of you in the review
world may offer forth some sort of summery after you have read a few of the chapters.
This story has been in the works for a long time. While you may find yourselves reading
several chapters a week, it may take time for new chapters to come out, simply because
I'm getting ready to move to Okinawa with my husband.
I hope you all enjoy. Please review and let me know if you like what you see. It's been a
long time since the days I wrote under the name 'Zorina Skye' and hopefully those of you
who remember those stories will see a vast improvement since then.
Disclaimers: All rights reserved to those who hold them, but the story is mine. And
frankly, I think I can say hands off.
If you want to archive this story, you are welcome to do so, but you must first let me
know that you are doing so at the following e-mail address: druiddessawen@yahoo.com
Rating: PG to start
Content: Sailor Moon/Sailor Mars and Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask romance with a happy
ending, eventually.
Raye shook her head and tried to brush off the unsettling feeling that had washed over her
in her lovers wake. She slipped her black suede jacket back on in silence and took her
time wandering the halls toward the other end of campus. Unlike Serena, she could
remain inside the buildings on her trek back to the dorms. Luck though, was on her side;
the halls were nearly empty and there wasn't a single distraction keeping her from her
thoughts.
She was lost, simply lost. Serena's sketches, her dreams all put to poetry with a conviction
that Raye only hoped she could have in real life, much less on paper.
She shrugged, staring off into space as she made her way down a stairwell in Vicker Hall,
the seat of Biology, Chemistry and Ecology on campus. Her once aspiring medical
doctors found themselves completing cellular research in hopes of being chosen to be in
a hospital or practice based on their research.
Her mind drifted back in time, to a park where monsters attacked, and an arcade and
school where people were sucked dry of their energy.
She could remember those attacks, she could remember the sailor soldiers who fought
those battles, but there was something just wrong with the whole situation. There were
periods of days and sometimes even weeks that she couldn't account for.
Her feet stopped outside the computer lab she worked in every day.
There were events that she knew were more than important that were suddenly just gone.
They were there, but she just couldn't understand what they were exactly. She saw
events, but couldn't put important names and dates and faces to them, or even the places
they happened in.
Echoing through the halls and moving toward her was the sound of evenly paced
footsteps. She was surprised to find someone traveling through the basement she
frequented on her way to the tunnel that connected Vicker and Banks Halls.
She looked up, in the dim, windowless light; she saw a frame that was familiar to her
coming closer. The same walk. Raye's feet refused to move and she felt herself flush with
anticipation, her breath caught in her throat and he looked up.
"Raye," he said in surprised. "First Meatball..."
Protectiveness welled within her and she cut him off. "Don't you dare call her that!"
Darien stopped in his tracks taken aback. "So you do know she's here."
Raye flushed, "Of course I know she's here."
Darien laughed. "So, how have you been, Raye?"
"Fine, since you disappeared from my life and ran away to the states." Her voice was
sharp and confident, something that he hadn't been expecting, and even more so, he
hadn't expected Raye to display much emotion concerning the girl that had annoyed them
so greatly while they had dated what felt like an entire lifetime ago.
"Raye, you know I had to go. I couldn't just turn Harvard down, besides, look at you.
You've grown into a beautiful women and I don't think you would have been happy
waiting for me. I'm sure there's a wonderful man in your life."
"A man?" Raye's hands went to her hips. "Why would I want a man in my life?"
"Raye, that's really flattering, but I never really saw you as anything more than a little
sister..."
"Darien, you are full of yourself." The Shinto Priestess stated, enunciating each and every
word. "If it wasn't for you leaving, Serena and I would have never gotten together."
Darien paled. Raye and Serena? His sweet little bunny that had always managed to
inadvertently cheer him up through childhood and her middle school and early high
school years after the accident that robbed him of his family, was with the wicked bitch
of the west? It wasn't possible!
"Besides, if Serena and I hadn't gotten together, I don't know what would have happened
to me after Grandpa died and I lost the temple."
Darien stood, mouth wide open in shock.
"Might want to close your mouth there, Darien, you may catch a fly." Raye smirked as
she pushed past Darien and darted down the hallway that lead to the tunnels. She felt
uncomfortable…something…a pain she didn't recognize, was twisting and stabbing at
her heart.
She couldn't put her finger on it, but running into Darien marked changes in their lives,
she didn't know how or why, but it did.
And she didn't like it.
It wasn't until nearly four hours later that Raye looked up to see Serena kicking open the
door to their three-woman suite. The blonde was covered head to toe in red clay dust, her
hands looked chapped and Raye could tell by the look on her roommate's face that her
hands had clay ground into them from the potters wheel. She scowled in worry.
Serena was allergic to the red iron oxide in the clay and was already itching the heels of
her palms absentmindedly as she shed her clay-covered clothes shamelessly. She
wrapped a red towel around her and gathered up her shower bucket, robe, a clean towel
and bunny slippers and wordlessly slipped from the room, misery written all over her
face and dripping down her cheeks in the form of muddy red tears.
Raye sighed and closed her chemistry book and picked up Serena's dirty clothes and
dropped them into a hamper set aside specifically for her studio clothes and then
followed the shorter blonde down the hall to the bathroom.
Once inside, she checked her appearance in the mirror and fluffed her hair. "Serena, are
you okay?" She called as she heard the spray of the shower turn on.
"Peachy. I get there and O'Brien is standing there tapping his foot waiting for me. 'Your
pots are leather hard; you better be planning to put feet on them all before you head home
for the weekend. Closure or no closure, there is no excuse to ruin good work!'" Serena
her obnoxious professor with an equally obnoxious imitated and overly nasal voice.
Raye scowled. "He didn't! I could barely see on my way in from the lab and it got worse
after I got in!"
"He did!" She stated coldly, "He did and proceeded to lean over me and watch every
move I made to the point that I got so nervous I ruined two of my pieces!"
Raye could feel Serena was upset and turned red with indignant anger. "That asshole!"
She seethed.
"By the time I was done, I not only cracked two pieces, but the feet on two others were
off center! I only managed six decent and one up to par. And even worse," Serena
hiccupped in frustration, "He had the gall to lecture me about the quality of my work
when I was done and how disappointed he was that he'd stayed to supervise my work and
that I'd done such a horrible job, especially because I'm a studio assistant and a
scholarship holder!"
Raye listened patiently, or at least tried to.
"I don't think I've ever had any professor or teacher for that matter dress me down and
insult me like that since middle school, and not even Miss Haruna was that bad!" Serena
said bitterly as she turned the water off.
Raye could hear her moving around in the shower stall and waited for her blonde haired
companion to emerge and sighed and smiled softly. "Serena, maybe he was just having a
bad day..." But that was all she got out when she saw her little bunny standing there,
wrapped in her pink bunny robe and bunny slippers, her hair plastered in long wet
tangles to her face and the back of her robe and sighed. "Oh, Serena." She sighed,
forcing back a laugh.
She looked like a drowned rabbit, but her normally bright eyes were red, swollen, and so
dark that they reminded Raye of the storm clouds that were dumping several feet of snow
on their back woods campus.
Serena sniffed and chewed her lower lip and found herself wrapped in Raye's arms and
started sobbing.
Raye closed her eyes and pulled her closer and just held her for a few moments. "Come
on, let's get you tucked into bed with your bunnies and I'll go fix you some hot
chocolate."
Serena nodded absentmindedly and let Raye lead her back down the hall toward their
room, half holding her, half leading her. Raye had never seen Serena look so miserable in
her entire life, not even when they found out Ann and Alan weren't siblings but actually a
couple that had lived together throughout most of their youth.
Raye looked up from her rabbit to see Mina coming down the hall toward them, her
chipper and lively disposition giving way to concern. She'd seen Serena and Raye
together a lot over the past three months, but she'd never seen Serena looking so
miserable. Being a resident assistant meant that she was obligated to see if the pair was
okay, and the look that Raye gave her was one of pure rage and startled her.
She watched as Raye tucked Serena into the bed that had been made up of two single
beds pushed together, tuck her in lovingly, grab a hot pot and slipped out the door and
closed it with a soft click.
"Raye, is she okay?"
Raye sighed. "Mina, I don't get it. She's been having these nightmares, and she didn't say
anything about them to me."
Mina blinked. "But Raye, I've known you forever, and from what you told me, Serena
hasn't ever been one to keep anything from you."
Raye nodded as they walked down to the bathroom and filled the pot before plugging it
in.
"She hasn't before…this," Raye stumbled over her words. "Mina this is the first time that
she's ever kept anything from me. And it scares me."
"Why does it scare you?"
"Are you asking as a friend or as my Resident Ass?" Raye hissed through her teeth.
"When it comes to Serena, you know it's as your friend." Mina said softly. "It'll be a few
minutes before that water boils, and I know you're hoping Serena will fall asleep. Why
don't you come sit down in my room while that water heats up so we have some
privacy?"
Raye nodded, and followed the blonde to her room, sat down in a desk chair while Mina
slipped off her shoes and jumped up onto her bed. "Now, what's going on Raye?"
Raye took a deep breath. "You know how I told you that she's been staying up later and
later and getting up earlier and earlier?"
Mina nodded. "Yeah, I do, most definitely very un-Serena-like. That girl loves to sleep."
It was Raye's turn to nod. "She's been having this nightmare about a kingdom on the
Moon and it's haunting her. She writes about it, draws it, and now that I know what it is,
I know she's sculpting and painting it too. It's an obsession."
Mina paled. "Kingdom…on the Moon?"
Raye nodded. "She whimpers in her sleep. And even once this past summer, she woke up
screaming and was so panicked that her mother called me and I ran halfway across town
to make sure she was okay. That morning I rocked her until she fell asleep, she made me
promise I'd never die on her."
Mina was silent, and even Raye noted that she was fidgeting uncomfortably.
"It's not like her Mina. I miss my Rabbit! She's fading away like a candle burning out and
today she finally started opening up about it and the only reason she opened up about it is
because she tried writing about it for her composition class."
Mina swallowed hard, her mouth going dry.
"What kind of details do you remember?" Mina asked.
"Details, about her dreams?" Raye asked.
Mina nodded but it was Raye's answer that took her off guard. "Not much, but I
remember mine."
"Yours?" Mina asked, her eyes growing wide.
Raye nodded. "A few years ago I had a dream about being like Sailor V, but we were
looking for a Princess from a kingdom on the Moon, and I think that this Princess that
Serena is writing about is the same Princess we were looking for."
Mina paled and looked as though she were about to pass out. "Raye, I don't know how to
tell you this, but..."
The whistle of Raye's pot interrupted Mina, screaming shrilly.
"We'll talk about it later, I want to get Serena her hot chocolate. It should help her sleep,"
Raye said with a smile.
The blonde sat in shock as the raven-haired princess from the Shrine on top of Cherry
Hill excused herself and slipped out of her room. As Raye came out of the bathroom and
marched down the hall she could have sworn that she heard Mina say clearly as she shut
her room door, "Central, we have a situation."
Raye smiled as she pushed the door opened with her toes and her smile broadened when
she realized that not only was Serena asleep, but she was sleeping peacefully.
A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she locked the door behind her and moved to the
window and pulled down the blinds. Humming softly, a song that she could remember,
but couldn't recall ever hearing, she plugged in Serena's nightlight because her Rabbit
was afraid of the dark. She turned off the lights and then climbed up into bed beside her
and pulled the sleeping blonde into her arms.
To her dismay, the blonde settled with a soft sigh, not rousing at the disturbance beside
her and whispered a single name. "Endymion..."
Tears welled up in Raye's eyes.
She didn't know how much longer they had together, but she couldn't help but selfishly
hope that it would be forever.