Wow, the reviews are split. I've got some going they can't believe I've
done that, and others are praying along aside of the characters, hoping all
will turn out well. Well, I'm the only one that knows what is going to
happen, or at least it's my imagination part of my brain that does, and I'm
just letting my fingers on the keyboard channel its energy. So, I guess
each upcoming chapter is all you have to go on. I told you all the clincher
was coming and now its here. So, I hope you can survive through what
happens.
Now, I don't own any of the characters from S.M. As much as I would like to, it is not possible... well, unless bill gates gives me a lot of money and then I could buy it all... hmm... never'll happen. Well, enjoy the best you can. I know it's going to be difficult to live through, but it's what is happening. And to those who don't know, you can find out that I have updated the story if you put the story under author alert when you review. Then in your email, you get a message saying that I've updated, and then you don't have to check on the site. But I am trying to move along the best I can, but the writer is allowed to be emotional over the story too. Plus I had a huge fight with my boyfriend, and we almost broke up. It took a few days for me to heal from that, and so, sorry that my own emotional distress caused a delay. But I'll try to get through this part soon. Anyways, laterz.
The night seemed to pass like they were stuck outside time. It just crawled by, letting time tick loudly through the night like a heartbeat.
Serena didn't leave Darien's side, fearing if she lost sight of him for a second he might pass from the night into death's den. Rei sat in the chair beside Darien's bed, while Serena did not move from her clutching position by the bed.
The resident surgeon came and checked up on Darien, and left quietly.
Later on, Amy arrived. When she entered Serena looked up and gave a sob of great gratitude. "Oh Amy, what are you doing here?"
"Rei called me. I just got home today, but when she told me what happened I came as soon as I could," she said, taking Darien's charts.
Serena and Rei sat in silence while Amy checked Darien over. "I'm going to have to see the surgeon specialist," she stated. "I shall be back and tell you all that I can."
Serena took the wall as support. "I hate this. Why on earth did this have to happen?"
Rei sighed. "There's nothing to say why it had to happen. All we know is that it happened. We can't question god on this when we're praying to him to save him."
Serena looked down. "How am I going to tell Rini? She only just received the great gift of having her father in her life. It would be such a horrible thing for him to be taken from her just like that."
"Serena, you can't think like that. You have to be strong. He needs us to be strong so he can build off of our strength and love."
Serena held her face in her hands. "I don't like seeing him like this. I know what it's like on his side. I've been there before. I've already nearly died. I won't be able to continue on knowing that Darien died, and before my eyes."
Amy entered the room then with the Surgeon specialist. Together they looked over Darien. Amy felt his head, and then checked his temperature. She looked over at the specialist. "We need to x-ray him to be sure that everything is right, and..."
The specialist nodded and had the nurses call some orderlies so that Darien could be wheeled down to Radiology.
Amy gave a slight nod to Rei and Serena. "We'll be back soon."
They nodded in response and watched as Darien was taken from the room. Chad came in, looking back at the retreating Darien and then at Rei and Serena.
Together they all waited. Another hour passed, and only Amy returned.
They looked at her, worry in their eyes.
"We're going to take him into surgery. The one lung is pooling blood, and we need to stop all internal bleeding. It's going to be a while. Maybe you should go home for a little bit Serena. I can only imagine that Rini is going to want her mother on her birthday."
Serena's mouth twitched.
"You can do it. Once she's asleep, you can come back. But you might as well stay home. It's going to be one hell of a night. And watching him fight for his life..."
"Amy you should know better than anyone that I'm not going to leave it like that."
Amy sighed. Her poor best friend had been through hell one week, five years ago. Seeing Serena alive now, well, but grieving heavily in agony over the man she loved was tearing her up. "Alright. But do go home for a little bit."
Serena nodded. "I should check and see that Rini is alright and that Lita and Andrew have it all under control."
Serena took a taxi to get home, and found Andrew waiting in the doorway.
Serena couldn't say anything, so instead she threw herself into her brother's arms, needing anything to remove all the numbness.
"Come on," he said, taking her inside. "Chad called to let me know that you were making a small stop at home."
She nodded as she wiped away her tears. "Amy thought it might do to take a small break before I try to stake out the hospital."
"Rini and the kids are dressed in their pajamas and all their sleeping bags are set up in the living room."
"Where are they now?" she asked.
Lita entered the room. "All of them are on the ground watching a movie."
"Mommy!" Rini said, rushing into the room after Lita. "Where have you been?" she asked.
Serena fought to remain strong in front of her daughter.
"Rini I told you that an emergency came up at your mom's work," Andrew stated.
Serena nodded. "Yeah, I had to make sure that the bad guy that wanted to steal from mommy's store didn't take anything."
Rini brightened. "Did you get to chase the bad guy away like Sailor V?"
Serena laughed despite all the pain that she was suffering. Rini was brilliant in helping make a day brighter. Except this time it was just a little light in a whole lot of darkness.
"No kitten paws, I didn't get to pull my super powers on the bad guy."
"Too bad," she frowned.
Serena looked at the clock. "It's getting late, go on and finish the movie. Then it's bedtime sweetie."
"Is daddy coming back tonight?" Rini asked.
Serena struggled to keep from bursting into tears. Shakily she smiled. "He wasn't feeling too good after he left kitten paws. He had to go to work to take care of something."
"Oh okay. But I'll see him tomorrow, right?" Rini asked.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow," Serena said in a barely audible voice.
"Come on Rini, let's go watch the rest of the movie," Andrew said guiding her back to the living room.
Lita gave Serena one searching look then took her into a tight hug. "It'll be okay. I know it's rough," Lita said, trying to soothe her.
Serena shrugged. "How can anyone know what it's like?"
Lita gave her a pained look. "I lost my parents in a plane crash, and you went through one hell of a delivery and nearly died."
Serena broke and she sobbed in Lita's arms. She told her about the injuries that Darien had and how he was undergoing another surgery under Amy's care.
"Then I think all we can do is pray that all will be well," Lita said. "It's all we can do. Darien is in good hands and the rest of it is up to him."
"I'm going to have to tell Rini what happened to him. She's going to want to see him tomorrow. It's going to crush her."
Lita rubbed her back gently. "But we'll all be there for her and you. You two won't be alone in all of this."
Serena nodded. "I know, it's just scary to think that I could lose him in a blink of an eye." She blinked back some tears. "I have to get back," she said. "I have to get back to the hospital. I can't not be there."
"Just wait a little longer till the kids are asleep. Otherwise Rini is going to worry," Mina stated, now entering the room.
Mina hugged her then. "The kids aren't too far from falling asleep. Once the movie's done you can tuck her in, and then I'll take you back to the hospital."
Serena squeezed her tightly. Then the three women went into the living room to watch the end of the movie, and then they all tucked the remaining awake kids into their sleeping bags.
Once sure that they were asleep, Mina drove Serena to the hospital. They went over to Darien's room. Rei and Chad were sitting in the room, waiting anxiously. Darien still was not back.
"oh, all this waiting is killing me," Serena muttered as she paced the room, feeling as though she were tearing a track up beneath her feet.
Mina sighed. "Yes, I know how horrible the waiting is. I can still remember the hours and the day I sat through while Amy tried all she could to make sure you made it."
Serena stopped and looked at her sister. "Then why does Darien have to go through this when I've already gone to the brink of death? Haven't we suffered enough?"
Mina rose to her feet and pulled her into a hug. "There's nothing to do but pray that God's on our side, sweetie."
Serena sobbed in her sister's arms, and finally let Mina coax her into a chair, where they all sat waiting.
They sat there for another hour when Amy returned to the room. "Darien's being brought up, but I had to come let you know what's going on," she said in an exhausted voice.
They looked at her, feeling worried and anxious.
"I can't make any promises. All I can say is that we shall see how he comes out of this over the next forty-eight hours. It's going to be rough, but the fever has him still fighting through the coma. We can only keep trying to bring it down, otherwise his symptoms will get worse."
Serena swallowed. "Dear god."
Amy looked down. "Well I have to finish up some paperwork, then I'm going to check on Darien once he's brought up to the room."
Together Serena and Rei waited for Darien to be brought up to the room, while Chad and Mina felt for the two women. He was still unconscious. This time it was due to the heavy sedatives from the surgery. He was still running a fever, and he was lost in the dark world of a coma.
Amy returned shortly after, and checked him over. Once she was done, she looked up at her two best friends. "I've done all I can for him tonight. We just have to wait and see if he can fight through this."
Serena had moved to Darien's side. "Well, I'm not leaving his side then," she stated, taking a seat in the chair she had been in before Darien had been taken down for surgery.
"I'm not leaving either," Rei said, moving to sit in the chair beside Serena.
Amy nodded her understanding. "I'll be back to check him over in a couple of hours. I need to get some sleep. The nurses will call me immediately if anything occurs."
Serena nodded. "Yes, you need lots of rest when you're pregnant."
Amy gave her a weak smile. "See you ladies later," she said. Then she was gone. Mina and Chad managed to convince Rei to go to the cafeteria with them since she hadn't eaten in a while. Serena wouldn't be budged.
She stayed there all night, joined again later by Rei. Rei slept on the cot, while Serena fell asleep with her head on Darien's bed, at his side holding his hand. The last thing she remembered were her prayers to god, begging him to let Darien be okay.
Through their sleep, they waited, hoping with all their heart's hope that Darien would be all right.
In Darien's coma induced mind, he was lost through the darkness, and he was coming up some white clouds, and was faced before a gate.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"The gates of heaven," a small voice informed him.
"Heaven! Does that mean I'm dead?" he exclaimed looking for the source of the voice. When he turned around, he found a small angel with pink hair that looked identical to Rini.
She gave him a sad smile. "We're not sure."
"What do you mean you're not sure? I can't be dead. I refuse to be dead. I just got my life back. Serena just came back and I got to have my daughter. I can't lose them now. Not when I went through hell having lost Serena once before." The little angel looked up at him. "I know. It's always a sad thing about accepting that you're not where you're supposed to be."
"Well, I'm telling you I'm not supposed to be dead! Right?"
She shrugged. "You were in an accident."
"What kind of accident?" he asked, but as soon as he said it, he remembered the car ploughing him from behind and he spun out of control and then seeing the pole ahead of him, and the white light consuming him just before the pain struck.
"Oh please don't tell me I'm dead. I can't be. Not when I just got the women I loved back and I just told my daughter today on her birthday that I'm her father. It would break her heart if I died."
The little pink haired angel blinked at him, tears filling her eyes. "You have found your peace, haven't you? You have suffered through pain for a few years now."
Darien nodded. "Yes, I have come through. I love Serena, I love my daughter and I want to have a whole family."
"Well, then I should tell you that right now you have some people waiting for you. There is a debate over whether this is your time or not. You're going to have to take your case to the head angel in the trial. You're going to have to make a good case as to why you shouldn't be here, and if you win, you'll go back. If you lose, you'll have to watch over your loved ones from up here."
Darien sucked in a deep breath. "I won't let them keep me here. I need to be alive. I have so much more I have to do in my life."
The little angel smiled. "That, I have no doubt. Shall we go then?"
Darien nodded, determination set in his heart. He needed to pull this off. He had to live, not only for himself, but also for Serena and his daughter. They not only needed him, but he desperately needed them. They were his life. Without them, he might as well tell the angels to send him to hell, because he was going to be absolutely miserable if he lost his trial.
Now, I don't own any of the characters from S.M. As much as I would like to, it is not possible... well, unless bill gates gives me a lot of money and then I could buy it all... hmm... never'll happen. Well, enjoy the best you can. I know it's going to be difficult to live through, but it's what is happening. And to those who don't know, you can find out that I have updated the story if you put the story under author alert when you review. Then in your email, you get a message saying that I've updated, and then you don't have to check on the site. But I am trying to move along the best I can, but the writer is allowed to be emotional over the story too. Plus I had a huge fight with my boyfriend, and we almost broke up. It took a few days for me to heal from that, and so, sorry that my own emotional distress caused a delay. But I'll try to get through this part soon. Anyways, laterz.
The night seemed to pass like they were stuck outside time. It just crawled by, letting time tick loudly through the night like a heartbeat.
Serena didn't leave Darien's side, fearing if she lost sight of him for a second he might pass from the night into death's den. Rei sat in the chair beside Darien's bed, while Serena did not move from her clutching position by the bed.
The resident surgeon came and checked up on Darien, and left quietly.
Later on, Amy arrived. When she entered Serena looked up and gave a sob of great gratitude. "Oh Amy, what are you doing here?"
"Rei called me. I just got home today, but when she told me what happened I came as soon as I could," she said, taking Darien's charts.
Serena and Rei sat in silence while Amy checked Darien over. "I'm going to have to see the surgeon specialist," she stated. "I shall be back and tell you all that I can."
Serena took the wall as support. "I hate this. Why on earth did this have to happen?"
Rei sighed. "There's nothing to say why it had to happen. All we know is that it happened. We can't question god on this when we're praying to him to save him."
Serena looked down. "How am I going to tell Rini? She only just received the great gift of having her father in her life. It would be such a horrible thing for him to be taken from her just like that."
"Serena, you can't think like that. You have to be strong. He needs us to be strong so he can build off of our strength and love."
Serena held her face in her hands. "I don't like seeing him like this. I know what it's like on his side. I've been there before. I've already nearly died. I won't be able to continue on knowing that Darien died, and before my eyes."
Amy entered the room then with the Surgeon specialist. Together they looked over Darien. Amy felt his head, and then checked his temperature. She looked over at the specialist. "We need to x-ray him to be sure that everything is right, and..."
The specialist nodded and had the nurses call some orderlies so that Darien could be wheeled down to Radiology.
Amy gave a slight nod to Rei and Serena. "We'll be back soon."
They nodded in response and watched as Darien was taken from the room. Chad came in, looking back at the retreating Darien and then at Rei and Serena.
Together they all waited. Another hour passed, and only Amy returned.
They looked at her, worry in their eyes.
"We're going to take him into surgery. The one lung is pooling blood, and we need to stop all internal bleeding. It's going to be a while. Maybe you should go home for a little bit Serena. I can only imagine that Rini is going to want her mother on her birthday."
Serena's mouth twitched.
"You can do it. Once she's asleep, you can come back. But you might as well stay home. It's going to be one hell of a night. And watching him fight for his life..."
"Amy you should know better than anyone that I'm not going to leave it like that."
Amy sighed. Her poor best friend had been through hell one week, five years ago. Seeing Serena alive now, well, but grieving heavily in agony over the man she loved was tearing her up. "Alright. But do go home for a little bit."
Serena nodded. "I should check and see that Rini is alright and that Lita and Andrew have it all under control."
Serena took a taxi to get home, and found Andrew waiting in the doorway.
Serena couldn't say anything, so instead she threw herself into her brother's arms, needing anything to remove all the numbness.
"Come on," he said, taking her inside. "Chad called to let me know that you were making a small stop at home."
She nodded as she wiped away her tears. "Amy thought it might do to take a small break before I try to stake out the hospital."
"Rini and the kids are dressed in their pajamas and all their sleeping bags are set up in the living room."
"Where are they now?" she asked.
Lita entered the room. "All of them are on the ground watching a movie."
"Mommy!" Rini said, rushing into the room after Lita. "Where have you been?" she asked.
Serena fought to remain strong in front of her daughter.
"Rini I told you that an emergency came up at your mom's work," Andrew stated.
Serena nodded. "Yeah, I had to make sure that the bad guy that wanted to steal from mommy's store didn't take anything."
Rini brightened. "Did you get to chase the bad guy away like Sailor V?"
Serena laughed despite all the pain that she was suffering. Rini was brilliant in helping make a day brighter. Except this time it was just a little light in a whole lot of darkness.
"No kitten paws, I didn't get to pull my super powers on the bad guy."
"Too bad," she frowned.
Serena looked at the clock. "It's getting late, go on and finish the movie. Then it's bedtime sweetie."
"Is daddy coming back tonight?" Rini asked.
Serena struggled to keep from bursting into tears. Shakily she smiled. "He wasn't feeling too good after he left kitten paws. He had to go to work to take care of something."
"Oh okay. But I'll see him tomorrow, right?" Rini asked.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow," Serena said in a barely audible voice.
"Come on Rini, let's go watch the rest of the movie," Andrew said guiding her back to the living room.
Lita gave Serena one searching look then took her into a tight hug. "It'll be okay. I know it's rough," Lita said, trying to soothe her.
Serena shrugged. "How can anyone know what it's like?"
Lita gave her a pained look. "I lost my parents in a plane crash, and you went through one hell of a delivery and nearly died."
Serena broke and she sobbed in Lita's arms. She told her about the injuries that Darien had and how he was undergoing another surgery under Amy's care.
"Then I think all we can do is pray that all will be well," Lita said. "It's all we can do. Darien is in good hands and the rest of it is up to him."
"I'm going to have to tell Rini what happened to him. She's going to want to see him tomorrow. It's going to crush her."
Lita rubbed her back gently. "But we'll all be there for her and you. You two won't be alone in all of this."
Serena nodded. "I know, it's just scary to think that I could lose him in a blink of an eye." She blinked back some tears. "I have to get back," she said. "I have to get back to the hospital. I can't not be there."
"Just wait a little longer till the kids are asleep. Otherwise Rini is going to worry," Mina stated, now entering the room.
Mina hugged her then. "The kids aren't too far from falling asleep. Once the movie's done you can tuck her in, and then I'll take you back to the hospital."
Serena squeezed her tightly. Then the three women went into the living room to watch the end of the movie, and then they all tucked the remaining awake kids into their sleeping bags.
Once sure that they were asleep, Mina drove Serena to the hospital. They went over to Darien's room. Rei and Chad were sitting in the room, waiting anxiously. Darien still was not back.
"oh, all this waiting is killing me," Serena muttered as she paced the room, feeling as though she were tearing a track up beneath her feet.
Mina sighed. "Yes, I know how horrible the waiting is. I can still remember the hours and the day I sat through while Amy tried all she could to make sure you made it."
Serena stopped and looked at her sister. "Then why does Darien have to go through this when I've already gone to the brink of death? Haven't we suffered enough?"
Mina rose to her feet and pulled her into a hug. "There's nothing to do but pray that God's on our side, sweetie."
Serena sobbed in her sister's arms, and finally let Mina coax her into a chair, where they all sat waiting.
They sat there for another hour when Amy returned to the room. "Darien's being brought up, but I had to come let you know what's going on," she said in an exhausted voice.
They looked at her, feeling worried and anxious.
"I can't make any promises. All I can say is that we shall see how he comes out of this over the next forty-eight hours. It's going to be rough, but the fever has him still fighting through the coma. We can only keep trying to bring it down, otherwise his symptoms will get worse."
Serena swallowed. "Dear god."
Amy looked down. "Well I have to finish up some paperwork, then I'm going to check on Darien once he's brought up to the room."
Together Serena and Rei waited for Darien to be brought up to the room, while Chad and Mina felt for the two women. He was still unconscious. This time it was due to the heavy sedatives from the surgery. He was still running a fever, and he was lost in the dark world of a coma.
Amy returned shortly after, and checked him over. Once she was done, she looked up at her two best friends. "I've done all I can for him tonight. We just have to wait and see if he can fight through this."
Serena had moved to Darien's side. "Well, I'm not leaving his side then," she stated, taking a seat in the chair she had been in before Darien had been taken down for surgery.
"I'm not leaving either," Rei said, moving to sit in the chair beside Serena.
Amy nodded her understanding. "I'll be back to check him over in a couple of hours. I need to get some sleep. The nurses will call me immediately if anything occurs."
Serena nodded. "Yes, you need lots of rest when you're pregnant."
Amy gave her a weak smile. "See you ladies later," she said. Then she was gone. Mina and Chad managed to convince Rei to go to the cafeteria with them since she hadn't eaten in a while. Serena wouldn't be budged.
She stayed there all night, joined again later by Rei. Rei slept on the cot, while Serena fell asleep with her head on Darien's bed, at his side holding his hand. The last thing she remembered were her prayers to god, begging him to let Darien be okay.
Through their sleep, they waited, hoping with all their heart's hope that Darien would be all right.
In Darien's coma induced mind, he was lost through the darkness, and he was coming up some white clouds, and was faced before a gate.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"The gates of heaven," a small voice informed him.
"Heaven! Does that mean I'm dead?" he exclaimed looking for the source of the voice. When he turned around, he found a small angel with pink hair that looked identical to Rini.
She gave him a sad smile. "We're not sure."
"What do you mean you're not sure? I can't be dead. I refuse to be dead. I just got my life back. Serena just came back and I got to have my daughter. I can't lose them now. Not when I went through hell having lost Serena once before." The little angel looked up at him. "I know. It's always a sad thing about accepting that you're not where you're supposed to be."
"Well, I'm telling you I'm not supposed to be dead! Right?"
She shrugged. "You were in an accident."
"What kind of accident?" he asked, but as soon as he said it, he remembered the car ploughing him from behind and he spun out of control and then seeing the pole ahead of him, and the white light consuming him just before the pain struck.
"Oh please don't tell me I'm dead. I can't be. Not when I just got the women I loved back and I just told my daughter today on her birthday that I'm her father. It would break her heart if I died."
The little pink haired angel blinked at him, tears filling her eyes. "You have found your peace, haven't you? You have suffered through pain for a few years now."
Darien nodded. "Yes, I have come through. I love Serena, I love my daughter and I want to have a whole family."
"Well, then I should tell you that right now you have some people waiting for you. There is a debate over whether this is your time or not. You're going to have to take your case to the head angel in the trial. You're going to have to make a good case as to why you shouldn't be here, and if you win, you'll go back. If you lose, you'll have to watch over your loved ones from up here."
Darien sucked in a deep breath. "I won't let them keep me here. I need to be alive. I have so much more I have to do in my life."
The little angel smiled. "That, I have no doubt. Shall we go then?"
Darien nodded, determination set in his heart. He needed to pull this off. He had to live, not only for himself, but also for Serena and his daughter. They not only needed him, but he desperately needed them. They were his life. Without them, he might as well tell the angels to send him to hell, because he was going to be absolutely miserable if he lost his trial.