Chapter One
Rei woke up knowing it had been a dream, unbelievably great, but a dream none the less. She also knows that the instant she moves anything from a body part to even her eyelid will cause severe pain, Rei had been hit with dark energy before and it leaves you in pain for a long time. 'Why the hell would I set my alarm?' Rei sighs.
"Rei-Chan do you have any intention of waking up this morning or were you going to let your alarm go off for a couple hours?"
Rei sits straight up and has to grab her head with all the blood rushing to it. But suddenly it's more than blood rushing to her head, it's memories of a completely different life.
"Rei-Chan are you OK?" Mamoru sits down on the edge of the bed.
Rei finally opens her eyes and looks at Mamoru a big smile spread across her face, "Of course I'm fine, just don't want to get up this morning." Rei reaches across the bed and shuts off the beeping alarm clock.
Mamoru wraps his arms around Rei, planting on kiss on her bare shoulders. "I wish I could have gotten today off."
"It's all right." Rei responds.
"You're going to your mother's right?" Mamoru asks.
"My mother's?" Rei asked startled until the memory of her mother, in this, her new life, surfaces. "Right. It's Laurel and Katie's first day of summer vacation so we are going to go shopping and have lunch."
"You still up for the party tonight?" Mamoru asks moving off the bed and pulling Rei to her feet with him.
"What party?" Rei asks adjusting her blue silk spaghetti strap pajama top.
"The Christmas party the chief of staff at the hospital is throwing." Mamoru responds.
Rei smiles, "Right. Of course I'll be there."
Mamoru smiles and kisses Rei before he says, "I have to get to work. I'll see you tonight."
When Rei hears the front door to the apartment close she tries to sort out everything in her mind, all of the memories that hadn't ever happened. Starting off with her mother, her mother had been killed in a car accident resulting her being shipped to live with her grandfather, three months before becoming a senshi. It made sense though, her parents had divorced when she was young and the only way to get her to Tokyo would be to have her mother die and move in with her grandfather. Laurel and Katie were Rei's half-sisters, her mother had married an American when she was 15 and the same year they had their twin daughters.
The phone ringing shakes Rei out of her thoughts and reaching across the bed Rei answers it, "Hello?"
"Rei-Chan, it's Risa."
Rei smiles, a mental picture of her friend arriving in her head of Risa Eda. Blond hair and green eyed Risa loved to have fun and they both loved to party together. "Hey Risa what's going on?"
"Razan proposed last night!" Risa exclaims letting out a high pitched squeal.
"Risa you're kidding!" Rei exclaimed flopping on the bed. "That's great!"
"It was so romantic Rei-Chan." Risa exclaims launching into a step by step account of everything that was said and every gesture from the night before. "It was just amazing, you wouldn't believe it!"
Rei listens intently as Risa goes on about her boyfriends romantic proposal, "that's great Risa-Chan, I am so happy for you."
"Thanks Rei-Chan, I guess Razan and I will be joining the ranks of you married folk." Risa states, taking Rei back.
Rei's eyes go wide as her gaze flies to her left hand, "listen Risa-Chan I have to get ready to meet my mother. I'll talk to Mamoru and we'll make plans to take you and Razan out for a celebratory dinner soon."
"All right, bye Rei-Chan."
"Married?" Rei asks pacing the bedroom. That was one memory that had not immediately popped into her head, but sure enough sitting on their dresser was a picture of Mamoru and Rei smiling at the camera, their hands wrapped around each other, in wedding attire.
'Think brain, think.' Rei urges, 'is there anything else you have to remember?' Rei a fuzziness still hangs over her head, and Rei knows she isn't remembering everything. Hoping walking around the apartment will jog her memory Rei moves out of bed, and out of the bedroom. The apartment is a pretty good size, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a full size kitchen slash dining room and a living room. And the more Rei walks the more things come into her memory, pictures are all over the apartment, of friends and family.
Moving toward a bookcase in the spare bedroom Rei finds several photo albums, but the one to catch her eyes is a blue one, that looks like a baby book. Pulling it off the shelf Rei is faced with a picture of a smiling newborn baby boy. Opening the book a bright smile crosses Rei's face as she sees a red headed woman with a round stomach smiling at the camera with her husband, who looked looked very similar to Mamoru, with his arms around her waist. Flipping through the rest of the pictures Rei discovers that the album is FULL of pictures of Mamoru, from birth to his high school graduation.
"Mamoru's parents didn't die either." Rei whispers to the silent apartment. The silence is suddenly broken by the ringing of the phone.
Rei woke up knowing it had been a dream, unbelievably great, but a dream none the less. She also knows that the instant she moves anything from a body part to even her eyelid will cause severe pain, Rei had been hit with dark energy before and it leaves you in pain for a long time. 'Why the hell would I set my alarm?' Rei sighs.
"Rei-Chan do you have any intention of waking up this morning or were you going to let your alarm go off for a couple hours?"
Rei sits straight up and has to grab her head with all the blood rushing to it. But suddenly it's more than blood rushing to her head, it's memories of a completely different life.
"Rei-Chan are you OK?" Mamoru sits down on the edge of the bed.
Rei finally opens her eyes and looks at Mamoru a big smile spread across her face, "Of course I'm fine, just don't want to get up this morning." Rei reaches across the bed and shuts off the beeping alarm clock.
Mamoru wraps his arms around Rei, planting on kiss on her bare shoulders. "I wish I could have gotten today off."
"It's all right." Rei responds.
"You're going to your mother's right?" Mamoru asks.
"My mother's?" Rei asked startled until the memory of her mother, in this, her new life, surfaces. "Right. It's Laurel and Katie's first day of summer vacation so we are going to go shopping and have lunch."
"You still up for the party tonight?" Mamoru asks moving off the bed and pulling Rei to her feet with him.
"What party?" Rei asks adjusting her blue silk spaghetti strap pajama top.
"The Christmas party the chief of staff at the hospital is throwing." Mamoru responds.
Rei smiles, "Right. Of course I'll be there."
Mamoru smiles and kisses Rei before he says, "I have to get to work. I'll see you tonight."
When Rei hears the front door to the apartment close she tries to sort out everything in her mind, all of the memories that hadn't ever happened. Starting off with her mother, her mother had been killed in a car accident resulting her being shipped to live with her grandfather, three months before becoming a senshi. It made sense though, her parents had divorced when she was young and the only way to get her to Tokyo would be to have her mother die and move in with her grandfather. Laurel and Katie were Rei's half-sisters, her mother had married an American when she was 15 and the same year they had their twin daughters.
The phone ringing shakes Rei out of her thoughts and reaching across the bed Rei answers it, "Hello?"
"Rei-Chan, it's Risa."
Rei smiles, a mental picture of her friend arriving in her head of Risa Eda. Blond hair and green eyed Risa loved to have fun and they both loved to party together. "Hey Risa what's going on?"
"Razan proposed last night!" Risa exclaims letting out a high pitched squeal.
"Risa you're kidding!" Rei exclaimed flopping on the bed. "That's great!"
"It was so romantic Rei-Chan." Risa exclaims launching into a step by step account of everything that was said and every gesture from the night before. "It was just amazing, you wouldn't believe it!"
Rei listens intently as Risa goes on about her boyfriends romantic proposal, "that's great Risa-Chan, I am so happy for you."
"Thanks Rei-Chan, I guess Razan and I will be joining the ranks of you married folk." Risa states, taking Rei back.
Rei's eyes go wide as her gaze flies to her left hand, "listen Risa-Chan I have to get ready to meet my mother. I'll talk to Mamoru and we'll make plans to take you and Razan out for a celebratory dinner soon."
"All right, bye Rei-Chan."
"Married?" Rei asks pacing the bedroom. That was one memory that had not immediately popped into her head, but sure enough sitting on their dresser was a picture of Mamoru and Rei smiling at the camera, their hands wrapped around each other, in wedding attire.
'Think brain, think.' Rei urges, 'is there anything else you have to remember?' Rei a fuzziness still hangs over her head, and Rei knows she isn't remembering everything. Hoping walking around the apartment will jog her memory Rei moves out of bed, and out of the bedroom. The apartment is a pretty good size, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a full size kitchen slash dining room and a living room. And the more Rei walks the more things come into her memory, pictures are all over the apartment, of friends and family.
Moving toward a bookcase in the spare bedroom Rei finds several photo albums, but the one to catch her eyes is a blue one, that looks like a baby book. Pulling it off the shelf Rei is faced with a picture of a smiling newborn baby boy. Opening the book a bright smile crosses Rei's face as she sees a red headed woman with a round stomach smiling at the camera with her husband, who looked looked very similar to Mamoru, with his arms around her waist. Flipping through the rest of the pictures Rei discovers that the album is FULL of pictures of Mamoru, from birth to his high school graduation.
"Mamoru's parents didn't die either." Rei whispers to the silent apartment. The silence is suddenly broken by the ringing of the phone.
