Yeah, I know, I'm cruel, leaving you with a cliffy. But hey, I had to. That
shiver of Serena's should have been enough warning that the clincher is
coming up. Please don't hate me, it will make everything just peachy keen
in the end... or will it???. Lol. I found all the reviews entertaining in
the fact that you all are incredibly smart in knowing that something is
coming up. You do pay attention to all the little clues I leave here and
there. So, bear with me on this. It will hopefully be for the best. If you
do recall I did not label this story as angst that just ain't my style.
Enjoy the best you can.
S.M. characters are not mine, but this is my story. I hope you enjoy. All right, I hope you don't want to kill me. But review please; I must know how you feel and what you think about the newest addition to the story. Later.
Serena picked up the phone, "hello?"
"Is this Serena Tsukino?" the other voice asked.
"Yes," she answered.
"Hey Serena, I thought it was you but I thought you might have hired a housekeeper, so I couldn't be sure," a familiar voice said.
"Ah, Jamie," Serena said with a small laugh. "No, no housekeeper. I much prefer to keep my own house. But I'm going to say this now before you try to sell me a new business negotiation that it's my daughter's birthday and we're in the middle of a birthday party."
"I see, well, I'll catch you later then," he said.
"Excellent, talk to you later Jamie," Serena said, and then they hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" Lita asked.
"My corporate advisor and assistant," she informed the women. Lita nodded.
Outside the rain got heavier, and Darien hadn't returned yet. They figured that the traffic must have built up with the rainstorm.
Serena decided to let Rini open her presents, and then let her have cake after they finished up with Lita's gourmet pizza.
The kids were laughing and talking over their pizza when the phone rang again.
Serena snapped her attention to the phone with instant dread. She felt something tear at her insides and suddenly she was terrified to pick up the phone.
"Serena, what's wrong?" Mina asked her sister.
"I'll get it," Andrew said, getting up from the island counter.
Serena shrugged in response to her sister. "I don't know. It was just like suddenly I felt cold and well, I just don't know."
"Hello?" Andrew said answering the phone after its sixth ring.
"Who wants another piece of pizza?" Lita asked.
Lita was swarmed with all the kids pleading for another.
"Me!"
"Me! Me!"
"I want another!"
Lita gave them all another piece, while Andrew hung up the phone after a quiet conversation.
Serena knowing that the presents was next went and got them all ready in the living room with help from Mina.
Andrew looked over to Lita, his eyes shrouded with a deep misery. She came over to him. "What? Who was that?" she asked.
"Chad from the hospital," he said quietly.
"What was that?" Rei asked.
"Darien was in an accident," he whispered.
Rei's face filled with worry over her brother. "Is he okay?" she asked in a choked voice.
"It was a real bad accident. His car wrapped around a pole after being rear ended by a truck," Andrew said. "They had to use the Jaws of Life to get him out, and right now he's in a coma in intensive care. They're going to operate on him."
"Why's Chad there?" Rei asked.
"Well, they called your house since you're his next in kin, and he answered and decided to go right on down and call you from there."
"What are we going to tell Serena? Rini?" Lita asked, her eyes with tears.
"Tell me what?" Serena said from behind them.
"Um, after the kids are settled in the presents opening, we'll tell you," Andrew stuttered.
Serena nodded. "Sure," she said, giving them all a peculiar look. She wasn't sure that she was going to like this, but she'd have to wait until all the kids had moved from the kitchen to the living room.
Rei looked at Andrew after Serena had gone over to her daughter. "I'll take her to the hospital after we tell her. Darien's going to need both of us. Can you guys handle the kids for a while?" Rei asked Lita and Andrew.
They nodded. "Yeah, sure," Andrew said, his voice a little choked.
It was a little while before the kids were settled in the living room. Lita voted to be the one handing out the presents. Andrew and Rei took Serena up to her room, with mina following close behind.
"So, what's up?" Serena asked cautiously.
Andrew's mouth twitched, and it looked as though he were fighting back a tear or two. Rei looked like she was ready to break apart. Serena was beginning to think her feeling of dread was not unfounded.
"What is it? What is it that you're not telling me?"
"Yeah, you two look horrible," Mina added.
"Serena, you might want to sit down," Andrew suggested lightly.
Serena frowned then. "Just tell me."
"Um... Darien was in an accident," Andrew said quietly.
Serena just stared at him. She went as pale as a ghost. "Is he alright? Wait, of course he's not okay, why would you look like death was at our door. Oh, god..."
"Serena," Mina said in her sisterly concerned voice, "it'll be okay. Right?" she said, looking over at their brother.
Andrew looked down at the ground. "Right now he's in a coma. Chad says he's in a real bad way," Andrew said, barely saying it with his dry, choked throat.
Serena felt like she couldn't breathe. "What?" she asked after forcing the words out.
Mina gave her a hug, squeezing her tight.
"He's being rushed into the operating room, and..."
Serena felt like the breath was completely taken from her body. She fell to her knees. "Oh god," she said. "I knew that phone call was not anything good."
"Well, I'm going to the hospital. We'll go together," Rei said, helping Serena to her feet to pull her into a hug.
Serena nodded, wiping away tears from her eyes. "But what about Rini?"
"Lita and I are going to watch the little ones while you go to the hospital. It would probably be best to wait to see what's happening before we tell her," Andrew said.
Serena nodded. "Okay, then lets go," she said to Rei.
"You two are good to drive," Mina said then. "I'll drive you two there."
Serena nodded, now feeling lost and numb. She felt like she was having an outer body experience, and that she wasn't herself. She stared out the window the whole ride to the hospital, with Rei and Mina casting worried glances at her and at each other.
Once in the hospital, Serena began to feel the weight of herself, while she still felt out of her body. A kind looking nurse by the name of Molly took the girls to the waiting room.
"He's still in surgery," Molly informed them. "Once it's completed, I'm sure the doctor will catch you up."
"Rei!" Chad said, hurrying into the room just as Molly left them.
Rei threw herself into her fiancé's arms, and cried. "Oh, tell me he'll be alright."
But Chad didn't say anything. He just held the woman he loved while she cried her worried misery.
Serena sat there, staring at the wall. She didn't want to think about how Darien could be fighting for his life. She didn't know all that much. When she could finally think a little, Serena looked at Chad, who had just seated Rei beside him.
"How bad is it?" she asked him.
"I... I uh, don't know how to say it really. It's bad. The car was pushed for blocks then slammed into a pole. The car is a complete write off. He was lucky to still be alive after that crash. I think it would have killed anyone else," Chad said, holding Rei close as she made a few sobs.
Serena threw her head in her hands. She remained like a curled ball, not wanting any form of contact until she knew how he was. She wanted to know if he was all right, no, she know she needed to know that he was going to be alright.
Minutes passed like they were hours, and hours passed like they were days. Finally, three hours after sitting there, wondering at Darien's fate, the doctor entered the waiting room where they sat.
Serena looked up at the man. He summed up almost all her fears in one look.
"Is he, is he..." she said, not able to even say the words.
The doctor took a deep breath. "The operation was a success, but now we have to wait. He had severe internal bleeding. We've managed to stop it, but he's running a major fever. He's going to be on watch. His right leg was broken, as were his lower ribs. His left lung was punctured by a shard of glass, luckily it was just below his heart..."
Serena paled to the point that she was whiter than paper. Rei cried onto Chad's shoulder.
"Tonight is going to be one hell of a couple days," the doctor said. "This is where he has the chance to pull through it, or fail."
"Then I'm not leaving his side," Serena said boldly. "I want to be by his side."
"I don't think..." the doctor started.
"No, I'm not going to leave his side. I can't go home to tell his... I'm not going to face my... no, I'm not going to leave here to leave him to fight this by himself," Serena said, fighting through her tears.
"But there's nothing you can do," the doctor said.
"I'm going to be there, and that's that. I haven't been through hell enough to suddenly lose him now, so I'm going to be by his side the entire time."
Rei nodded. "You won't be able to stop her. Just like you won't be able to send me home either."
The doctor looked at the sister, and the woman that obviously loved the man with all her being. He knew it was a losing battle. "All right, I'll have nurse Molly take you up. But I warn you, it's not a pretty sight."
"I don't care, I just want to see that he's alive," Serena said, weakly standing.
The doctor sighed. "Alright," he said. He then called for Molly to take the three people to the I.C.U.
Serena felt like the whole walk to Darien's room like she was dreaming. It felt like she wasn't even there. Rei held her hand, and together they entered Darien's room.
When Serena saw Darien lying on the bed, his eyes closed, and his beautifully handsome body was marked from the horrible accident, she no longer was watching the world from the outside. The pain hit her like a ton of bricks.
With tears blinding her, she walked over to the bed. His eyes were closed, and he looked like he was on deaths door.
"Oh," she said, sinking down beside him clutching his hand. "Darien," she said, burying her head in her arm right at his side. "You have to make it, you just have to," she said, sobbing.
Rei held onto her fiancé, while watching Serena at Darien's side. "Come on," she said quietly, "we'll come back in a little bit. She needs to be alone."
Chad nodded. "I'll get you some coffee. I don't need you not strong either. Darien's going to need everyone's love, and Serena is going to need some support."
"We need to call Amy," Rei said then when they were in the hallway.
Chad frowned at her. "What?"
"Amy is the best doctor I know. I trust her with my life. I want her to be here. She was there to help Serena, and now we need her for Darien," Rei said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"Alright, let's go call her," Chad said.
"I'll have to call her father to get a hold of her," Rei said, starting towards the phone. She took a few minutes on the phone talking to Amy's father to learn that she was on way to her house across town with her husband Greg.
Next Rei tried Amy's cell, hoping that she would answer.
"Hello?" a sweet familiar voice said, "Dr. Milson."
"Amy, oh thank god," Rei breathed with a sigh of relief.
"Rei?" Amy said in a bewildered voice. "What's wrong?"
Rei spilled out what had happened, while tears rolled down her face. "Amy I want you to come and be his doctor. I don't trust anyone better than you. I know that without you Serena and Rini would have been lost. You have to come. If not for Darien, but for Serena. I know she'll want you to be checking over him."
Amy sighed. "I won't be able to make it there for another hour or two. But I will be there."
"Oh thank you Amy, you have no idea what this means to us," Rei sobbed.
Amy sighed sadly. "I know, I just hope that my word will be par to your hopes."
"I just want to know that the best doctor in Japan is helping my brother and Serena's true love to live."
"I'll see you soon."
With that, the two women hung up. Rei turned to Chad and threw her arms around her in pleased relief. "I think that Amy will be Darien's best bet."
"That and then you and Serena. The best thing for that guy is being surrounded by love while he struggles through the dark of that pain," Chad said as he rubbed her back as they made their way to the doorway of Darien's room.
Inside Darien lay as still as death, while Serena clutched his hand and still wept, begging god to let him live.
"please God," Serena sobbed. "Oh please god, I can't let Rini's father disappear again. I need him for Rini, and I need him. We all need him. Please god!" Serena prayed amidst her sobbing tears.
Rei held Chad tightly, feeling her best friend's pain at her brother's poor misfortune. She hoped that god answered Serena's prayers, hers as well. Darien had to live, that was all there was to it, she thought determinedly. He had to live. Serena wouldn't make it without him. She needed him.
"Please god," Rei said silently. "Hear our pleas."
S.M. characters are not mine, but this is my story. I hope you enjoy. All right, I hope you don't want to kill me. But review please; I must know how you feel and what you think about the newest addition to the story. Later.
Serena picked up the phone, "hello?"
"Is this Serena Tsukino?" the other voice asked.
"Yes," she answered.
"Hey Serena, I thought it was you but I thought you might have hired a housekeeper, so I couldn't be sure," a familiar voice said.
"Ah, Jamie," Serena said with a small laugh. "No, no housekeeper. I much prefer to keep my own house. But I'm going to say this now before you try to sell me a new business negotiation that it's my daughter's birthday and we're in the middle of a birthday party."
"I see, well, I'll catch you later then," he said.
"Excellent, talk to you later Jamie," Serena said, and then they hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" Lita asked.
"My corporate advisor and assistant," she informed the women. Lita nodded.
Outside the rain got heavier, and Darien hadn't returned yet. They figured that the traffic must have built up with the rainstorm.
Serena decided to let Rini open her presents, and then let her have cake after they finished up with Lita's gourmet pizza.
The kids were laughing and talking over their pizza when the phone rang again.
Serena snapped her attention to the phone with instant dread. She felt something tear at her insides and suddenly she was terrified to pick up the phone.
"Serena, what's wrong?" Mina asked her sister.
"I'll get it," Andrew said, getting up from the island counter.
Serena shrugged in response to her sister. "I don't know. It was just like suddenly I felt cold and well, I just don't know."
"Hello?" Andrew said answering the phone after its sixth ring.
"Who wants another piece of pizza?" Lita asked.
Lita was swarmed with all the kids pleading for another.
"Me!"
"Me! Me!"
"I want another!"
Lita gave them all another piece, while Andrew hung up the phone after a quiet conversation.
Serena knowing that the presents was next went and got them all ready in the living room with help from Mina.
Andrew looked over to Lita, his eyes shrouded with a deep misery. She came over to him. "What? Who was that?" she asked.
"Chad from the hospital," he said quietly.
"What was that?" Rei asked.
"Darien was in an accident," he whispered.
Rei's face filled with worry over her brother. "Is he okay?" she asked in a choked voice.
"It was a real bad accident. His car wrapped around a pole after being rear ended by a truck," Andrew said. "They had to use the Jaws of Life to get him out, and right now he's in a coma in intensive care. They're going to operate on him."
"Why's Chad there?" Rei asked.
"Well, they called your house since you're his next in kin, and he answered and decided to go right on down and call you from there."
"What are we going to tell Serena? Rini?" Lita asked, her eyes with tears.
"Tell me what?" Serena said from behind them.
"Um, after the kids are settled in the presents opening, we'll tell you," Andrew stuttered.
Serena nodded. "Sure," she said, giving them all a peculiar look. She wasn't sure that she was going to like this, but she'd have to wait until all the kids had moved from the kitchen to the living room.
Rei looked at Andrew after Serena had gone over to her daughter. "I'll take her to the hospital after we tell her. Darien's going to need both of us. Can you guys handle the kids for a while?" Rei asked Lita and Andrew.
They nodded. "Yeah, sure," Andrew said, his voice a little choked.
It was a little while before the kids were settled in the living room. Lita voted to be the one handing out the presents. Andrew and Rei took Serena up to her room, with mina following close behind.
"So, what's up?" Serena asked cautiously.
Andrew's mouth twitched, and it looked as though he were fighting back a tear or two. Rei looked like she was ready to break apart. Serena was beginning to think her feeling of dread was not unfounded.
"What is it? What is it that you're not telling me?"
"Yeah, you two look horrible," Mina added.
"Serena, you might want to sit down," Andrew suggested lightly.
Serena frowned then. "Just tell me."
"Um... Darien was in an accident," Andrew said quietly.
Serena just stared at him. She went as pale as a ghost. "Is he alright? Wait, of course he's not okay, why would you look like death was at our door. Oh, god..."
"Serena," Mina said in her sisterly concerned voice, "it'll be okay. Right?" she said, looking over at their brother.
Andrew looked down at the ground. "Right now he's in a coma. Chad says he's in a real bad way," Andrew said, barely saying it with his dry, choked throat.
Serena felt like she couldn't breathe. "What?" she asked after forcing the words out.
Mina gave her a hug, squeezing her tight.
"He's being rushed into the operating room, and..."
Serena felt like the breath was completely taken from her body. She fell to her knees. "Oh god," she said. "I knew that phone call was not anything good."
"Well, I'm going to the hospital. We'll go together," Rei said, helping Serena to her feet to pull her into a hug.
Serena nodded, wiping away tears from her eyes. "But what about Rini?"
"Lita and I are going to watch the little ones while you go to the hospital. It would probably be best to wait to see what's happening before we tell her," Andrew said.
Serena nodded. "Okay, then lets go," she said to Rei.
"You two are good to drive," Mina said then. "I'll drive you two there."
Serena nodded, now feeling lost and numb. She felt like she was having an outer body experience, and that she wasn't herself. She stared out the window the whole ride to the hospital, with Rei and Mina casting worried glances at her and at each other.
Once in the hospital, Serena began to feel the weight of herself, while she still felt out of her body. A kind looking nurse by the name of Molly took the girls to the waiting room.
"He's still in surgery," Molly informed them. "Once it's completed, I'm sure the doctor will catch you up."
"Rei!" Chad said, hurrying into the room just as Molly left them.
Rei threw herself into her fiancé's arms, and cried. "Oh, tell me he'll be alright."
But Chad didn't say anything. He just held the woman he loved while she cried her worried misery.
Serena sat there, staring at the wall. She didn't want to think about how Darien could be fighting for his life. She didn't know all that much. When she could finally think a little, Serena looked at Chad, who had just seated Rei beside him.
"How bad is it?" she asked him.
"I... I uh, don't know how to say it really. It's bad. The car was pushed for blocks then slammed into a pole. The car is a complete write off. He was lucky to still be alive after that crash. I think it would have killed anyone else," Chad said, holding Rei close as she made a few sobs.
Serena threw her head in her hands. She remained like a curled ball, not wanting any form of contact until she knew how he was. She wanted to know if he was all right, no, she know she needed to know that he was going to be alright.
Minutes passed like they were hours, and hours passed like they were days. Finally, three hours after sitting there, wondering at Darien's fate, the doctor entered the waiting room where they sat.
Serena looked up at the man. He summed up almost all her fears in one look.
"Is he, is he..." she said, not able to even say the words.
The doctor took a deep breath. "The operation was a success, but now we have to wait. He had severe internal bleeding. We've managed to stop it, but he's running a major fever. He's going to be on watch. His right leg was broken, as were his lower ribs. His left lung was punctured by a shard of glass, luckily it was just below his heart..."
Serena paled to the point that she was whiter than paper. Rei cried onto Chad's shoulder.
"Tonight is going to be one hell of a couple days," the doctor said. "This is where he has the chance to pull through it, or fail."
"Then I'm not leaving his side," Serena said boldly. "I want to be by his side."
"I don't think..." the doctor started.
"No, I'm not going to leave his side. I can't go home to tell his... I'm not going to face my... no, I'm not going to leave here to leave him to fight this by himself," Serena said, fighting through her tears.
"But there's nothing you can do," the doctor said.
"I'm going to be there, and that's that. I haven't been through hell enough to suddenly lose him now, so I'm going to be by his side the entire time."
Rei nodded. "You won't be able to stop her. Just like you won't be able to send me home either."
The doctor looked at the sister, and the woman that obviously loved the man with all her being. He knew it was a losing battle. "All right, I'll have nurse Molly take you up. But I warn you, it's not a pretty sight."
"I don't care, I just want to see that he's alive," Serena said, weakly standing.
The doctor sighed. "Alright," he said. He then called for Molly to take the three people to the I.C.U.
Serena felt like the whole walk to Darien's room like she was dreaming. It felt like she wasn't even there. Rei held her hand, and together they entered Darien's room.
When Serena saw Darien lying on the bed, his eyes closed, and his beautifully handsome body was marked from the horrible accident, she no longer was watching the world from the outside. The pain hit her like a ton of bricks.
With tears blinding her, she walked over to the bed. His eyes were closed, and he looked like he was on deaths door.
"Oh," she said, sinking down beside him clutching his hand. "Darien," she said, burying her head in her arm right at his side. "You have to make it, you just have to," she said, sobbing.
Rei held onto her fiancé, while watching Serena at Darien's side. "Come on," she said quietly, "we'll come back in a little bit. She needs to be alone."
Chad nodded. "I'll get you some coffee. I don't need you not strong either. Darien's going to need everyone's love, and Serena is going to need some support."
"We need to call Amy," Rei said then when they were in the hallway.
Chad frowned at her. "What?"
"Amy is the best doctor I know. I trust her with my life. I want her to be here. She was there to help Serena, and now we need her for Darien," Rei said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"Alright, let's go call her," Chad said.
"I'll have to call her father to get a hold of her," Rei said, starting towards the phone. She took a few minutes on the phone talking to Amy's father to learn that she was on way to her house across town with her husband Greg.
Next Rei tried Amy's cell, hoping that she would answer.
"Hello?" a sweet familiar voice said, "Dr. Milson."
"Amy, oh thank god," Rei breathed with a sigh of relief.
"Rei?" Amy said in a bewildered voice. "What's wrong?"
Rei spilled out what had happened, while tears rolled down her face. "Amy I want you to come and be his doctor. I don't trust anyone better than you. I know that without you Serena and Rini would have been lost. You have to come. If not for Darien, but for Serena. I know she'll want you to be checking over him."
Amy sighed. "I won't be able to make it there for another hour or two. But I will be there."
"Oh thank you Amy, you have no idea what this means to us," Rei sobbed.
Amy sighed sadly. "I know, I just hope that my word will be par to your hopes."
"I just want to know that the best doctor in Japan is helping my brother and Serena's true love to live."
"I'll see you soon."
With that, the two women hung up. Rei turned to Chad and threw her arms around her in pleased relief. "I think that Amy will be Darien's best bet."
"That and then you and Serena. The best thing for that guy is being surrounded by love while he struggles through the dark of that pain," Chad said as he rubbed her back as they made their way to the doorway of Darien's room.
Inside Darien lay as still as death, while Serena clutched his hand and still wept, begging god to let him live.
"please God," Serena sobbed. "Oh please god, I can't let Rini's father disappear again. I need him for Rini, and I need him. We all need him. Please god!" Serena prayed amidst her sobbing tears.
Rei held Chad tightly, feeling her best friend's pain at her brother's poor misfortune. She hoped that god answered Serena's prayers, hers as well. Darien had to live, that was all there was to it, she thought determinedly. He had to live. Serena wouldn't make it without him. She needed him.
"Please god," Rei said silently. "Hear our pleas."