Hmm ok just some stuff as a reminder: I don't own Sailor Moon (No Duh XP) and I don't own the song, "Caught in the Rain" by Revis (??) I actually wrote the story and came up with the title before I realized it was a song. Well anyways it fits so yeah, decided 2 use it 4 this chapter. And on that note please enjoy (PS this is NOT QUITE the end ^_~)

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.::denotes lyrics::.

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.::It was you

Who could get me high

With whatever you say

You're telling me something real

What we do

It doesn't matter now

Whatever it takes

For you to stay with me::.

It was raining harder now. So much harder than Kino Makoto could ever remember it raining before. Heavy droplets pelted her as she half ran, half walked. Strong winds pushed against her, as if to drive her away from her destination, as if telling her to just go back home where it was safe and warm, where the demons of her past couldn't hurt her. She wanted to turn back, god how she wanted to turn back. But she couldn't. She had to go on.

'It's like the weather reacts to how I'm feeling right now,' She thought as she began to run faster now. As if to confirm her thoughts, a flash of lightening illuminated the park, making it brighter than day and making the gazebo visible for a fraction of a second.

She had avoided this place for so long now. Afraid of the memories it would bring back, the memories she had tried to suppress. 'Why Freddie? Why do you have to leave me? I love you!' Hadn't she yelled that out that day? As she chased the boy she thought she loved through the pouring rain. The heavy rain that weighed her down, like it was just then. The heartbreak returned, as she got closer to the gazebo. Makoto's tears mixed in with the rain running down her face.

There he stood, dark curly hair falling over expressive dark eyes. He was waiting for her. Just like that day. Waiting to break her heart? To leave her there in the rain to cry? She wouldn't let it happen this time. 'No. . .not this time.'

He called to her as she walked up the steps, smiling a smile that had her heart beating even faster in her chest. Could she do it? Not with those eyes burning in to her soul, burning in to her green eyes and demanding truth and loyalty. She was melting under the gaze. But she had to. . .

"Did you bring it?" Freddie asked in a soft gentle voice that left Makoto speechless. She could only answer with a nod.

"Mmm good. I knew you would Mako-chan." He kissed her forehead gently like she were a child. "Let me see it?"

Makoto almost in a daze, pulled the crystal out of her pocket. Even though it was dark it glinted marvelously. She handed it to him.

Freddie held up the jewel to gaze at it, fascinated and beyond ecstatic to have the Silver Imperium Crystal, finally, the item of his greatest desire. With it no one could stop him. "Gorgeous." He whispered to it, possessively.

Makoto watched, feeling anger and jealousy that he was taking so much interest in the crystal and not even glancing at her. So she *was* just a pawn to him. Used and betrayed just so he could get at the Crystal. He didn't love her, Makoto came to realize, fighting the urge to tackle him, his only love was power.

"Makoto. . ." His voice sounding untrusting cut through her angry thoughts.

"What?" She all but yelled.

"This isn't the Imperium Crystal, is it?" Freddie's voice was dangerously calm, holding an edge of suppressed anger. His dark eyes seemed to become even darker as they narrowed. Lightning lit up the sky making him seem all the more sinister. "Is it!?" He barked when she didn't answer.

The roll of thunder seemed to come at exactly the moment when he hit her. She hadn't expected it and she fell backwards being saved only by his grabbing at the front of her shirt. "Bitch!" He cursed, bringing back his fist to hit her again.

"Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury's voice rang out as she called her attack.

Freddie let go, moving away in time to dodge the attack. Makoto fell then splashing down right in to a puddle. The rain beat down on her hard as she watched her fellow senshi come out of hiding.

"Mars Flame Sniper!" That attack hit Freddie, hard and he fell back smashing in the other side of the gazebo at the same time throwing an energy bolt at his attackers.

Rain fell over Makoto as she remembered. Remembered leaving the gazebo, leaving her old school, leaving everything. 'And I came here.' She thought to herself. 'I was lost before. . .the rain was my enemy. . .but now.' She stood from the puddle holding up her henshin pen. 'Now the rain isn't, the lightening, the thunder. . .it isn't my enemy. . .it's my power.'

"Jupiter Power!" She called out with more strength and force behind those words than she had ever used.

Freddie was weaving away from the senshi, throwing energy blasts back at them as he dodged their attacks. He stopped when he heard her call out, "Jupiter Thunder Dragon!"

Perhaps powered by the storm raging on around them or just by Sailor Jupiter herself, the dragon was more powerful than any of them could ever recall. It blazed through the sky a blue light of electricity forming the dragon as it slammed fully into Freddie. He crashed down hard dazed by the blow. He cradled a bleeding arm to his chest screaming up at Makoto his dark brown eyes angry. "I never loved you, Makoto!" He yelled. "Never!"

Sailor Jupiter stood in the pouring rain her sailor fuku drenched and her green eyes glowing with strength and self-belief. She said calmly as she turned away from him, "Finish him off Sailor Moon."

.::Wasting my time on the ground

I was caught in the rain

Caught in the rain::.