Destiny Can Seem So Wrong

A/N: I'm so sorry I have taken so long updating. I've had numerous family problems and commitments, and also am getting ready to move overseas, so I'd like to apologise, and I hope I'll be able to update much more frequently than what I have been. Thanks for being so patient. - Eli K*

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6- Powers That Be

Darien rolled over and stared at the ceiling of his apartment. He was lying in bed, trying to sleep and getting nowhere fast. With a loud, sharp sigh he got out of his single bed and dragged himself over to the bench in the tiny kitchen to make some warm milk. He'd heard that it was good for trying to get to sleep. However, this was the first time he had tried such a remedy for lost sleep, and was hoping it would work, preferably fast.

Out the kitchen window he caught sight of a beautiful full moon, creamy and pure, hanging in the indigo-black night sky. What time was it, Darien wondered? Probably about two in the morning, and he had to be up at five. Well then, clearly he was getting no sleep tonight, and so would stay up until then. There was no point in going back to bed just for that puny amount of sleep. Darien decided to make a coffee instead. He'd need it if he were going to get through today running on no sleep at all.

That strange conversation with Serena replayed in his head yet again. Raye having sort-term memory loss did not seem very likely. Not at all, in fact, as he'd actually noticed that Raye had had quite a good memory when it came to seeing him hanging around other females. So that must have meant she had a good memory all around. What was this bullshit about memory problems, then? Darien shook his jet-black head. The entire situation was beginning to irritate him to the point of no sleep, for crying out loud! Couldn't he stop thinking about it for one second?

Now Darien heard a voice, a familiar one-outside his door. "Who is it?" he shouted.

"It's Raye," she confirmed.

Angry now, Darien stalked over to the door and threw it open so forcefully that Raye jumped back in shock. "What are you doing here, Raye? For God's sake, it is two in the morning. Go home!"

Raye stood there as if in shock for a second, then recovered herself. "Darien, how dare you! I'm just here to see you-" She broke off, wiping tears from her eyes, which Darien found extremely surprising. Raye was not one to cry during an argument. He knew this from experience.

"Well, it could have waited until a reasonable hour, could it not? Raye, what is the matter with you? This sort of shit has got to stop. Do you understand me?" Darien said bitterly. "You're like a different girl. I don't get it, I really don't."

Long raven hair swung from side to side as she shook her head in disbelief. "Now you're accusing me of being weird! Darien, you are a totally arrogant pig!"

"Take a good look at yourself. What kind of girl rocks up at a guy's apartment at two in the morning and demands to be let in, then cries when he asks what's going on, and then turns around and abuses him? Get over yourself, Raye." Darien laughed resentfully.

Raye's violet eyes filled up again. "You have no right to speak to me like that, Darien!"

"There you go again. You know what? I don't think you are the girl I originally believed you were. You know something else? I don't like the girl you are now. In fact, I really don't want to be with you anymore, so I am going to call this whole thing off and go and get some SLEEP!" Darien shouted. Suddenly the girl strengthened. "Fine. Darien, that is just fine. I was thinking that we should end things anyway. That's why I'm really here, and I'm just so disappointed I didn't get the chance to dump you first!" she screamed.

"Too bad, isn't it? Well, I am sure I will see you around, Raye. Only thing is, I certainly won't want to anymore." Darien appropriated a frosty stare and locked it on the girl before him. "Goodbye, Raye."

"Good riddance!" Raye bellowed, and turned to leave.

"Shut up down there!" roared the grumpy old man upstairs.

"Mind your own business!" Darien and Raye shouted together.

Raye shot Darien an evil look and ran away, down the hall, down the stairs. Darien felt stunned as he shut the door and walked in to make his coffee. What in hell had just happened there? Had he really just broken up with Raye Hino, striking, feisty, fiery Raye? It appeared so.

Looking out the window again, Darien was surprised to see a young girl walking down the street. A young girl with long, flowing blonde ponytails topped with two meatballs. What was Serena doing out so late at night on her own? Raye he knew could look after herself, what with her karate skills and feisty personality, but Serena? The girl cried if someone looked at her badly!

Strange night, Darien thought, and finally got his coffee made.

***

Serena floated down the street as if in a dream. Had she really just broken Raye and Darien up? She hadn't even meant to! If she'd known that Darien was so irritable at night she wouldn't have bothered going to his place. Now Serena's heart pounded a tune that would have made any professional drummer proud. She'd just broken them UP. She, Serena Tsukino, had the power to break up relationships!

Out of the blue Serena felt awful. She was supposed to be Sailor Moon, Sailor Soldier for love and justice, and here she was breaking up a relationship. Serena hung her head, even her blond ponytails drooping. Who was she to stand in the way of love? She was meant to be encouraging it, not ruining it.

Luna would kill her if she ever found out about Serena's dishonesty with the Luna Pen. Serena knew she had done very wrong, pretending to be Raye and such. But she couldn't tell anybody. She'd get kicked out of the Scouts, and they needed her. She was a crucial element in defending Planet Earth, and she wasn't about to let anybody else down.

Still, Serena thought, the powers that be will decide if Darien and Raye get back together. It's up to fate and destiny, to the universe. If it was meant to be they'll get together again.

But I don't want that.