Kidnapped By: Moon Baby Rating: PG E-mail: MoonBabyGirl16@yahoo.com

Authors Note: Okay! This takes place a week later and Darien is picking up Serena to go away with Andrew.

Disclaimer: Yada yada yada.... I don't own Sailor Moon....blah blah blah.... please don't sue me..... I was inspaired to write this by a book I read........

Chapter 1

Darien Cross walks up to the apartment to pick up Serena Pennington. The apartmaent is on the third floor. 'I can't believe Andrew has me babysitting his new girlfriend. I have work I have to do.' He walks to the door and knocks.

A woman answered. Darien has never met Serena but saw a picture of her from Andrew. He knew it was Serena by her long blonde hair and crystal blue eyes and her fair skin."Hi, I'm Darien Cross. I'm Andrew's associate and your esscort to his vacation home."

"Associate?" Raising her eyebrow, "Don't you mean flunky or thug?"

Darien hid his surprise by this woman's bluntness. 'This is the woman Andrew wants to marry? The one he said was sweet, kind, caring and loves kids. Oh boy was he nuts.' If Darien hadn't seen her picture he wouldn't think it was her.

"You are Ms. Pennington, aren't you?"

"Ya I'm Ms. Pennington. Can I call you Dary?" She said with a little smile.

"Not if you want me to answer. Where are your bags so I can take them to my car."

"No, I'm not going. I have better things to do than go away with that rich snob. If it were up to me no one would get into a car with you."

Darien's mouth almost dropped. He can't believe Serena would say something like that when she was suppose to marry Andrew. 'I bet she is just a gold digger. Acts all sweet and kind in front of Andrew and is a real jerk when he is not around.'

"Look if you really don't want to go fine with me. I have better things to do then play babysitter with a smart ass pain in the butt girl. Fine Andrew doesn't really have time for a vacation any way. Lets forget and I'll just lea-"

"Mina, I just saw Mrs. Johnson in the laundry, she wanted me to tell you..." A woman entered with a basket full of clean folded cloths. She looked just like the woman standing in front of him. "Oh. Hi you must be Darien Cross. Your early." She smiled and set the laundry down.

He looked at his watch. "No, I'm right on time."

"My watch must have stopped again. I'll have to get it fixed." She walked over to the door and held out her hand. He took it with a weird look on his face. He looked back and forth between the two woman. They looked so much alike. Now that he really looked the woman who opened the door's hair was a little shorter than the woman who just entered.

"Mina, aren't you going to ask Mr. Cross in?"

"Actually I almost covinsed him to leave without you." She said frowning as she stepped back to let him in.

Sighing Serena frowned at her sister. "I'm sorry. You'll have to excuse my sister she isn't to happy with the idea of my spending the week with Andrew. Let me introduce myself. I'm Serena Pennington, Andrew has spoken very often of you Mr. Cross, and you already met my twin sister Mina."

"Yes, I had the pleasure." Mina flashed a challenging smile at him.(AN: Sorry Mina sounds so cold hearted. She really isn't but she is very protective of Serena so she acts mean) Darien remembered Andrew saying something about Serena having a sister that co owns her shop. 'I wish he told me that she was a twin. I'll have to have a talk with him later about the importance of details.' Darien thought with a frown. "If your ready I think we should get on the road its a long drive and we are wasting time and day light, Ms. Pennington."

"Please call me Serena. Now I know I have to apologise for my sister's behavior." She said with a smile. 'She has a nice smile.' Darien thought. 'He is handsome in a rough outdoorsy type of way.' Serena thought as she turned.

"Are you ready to go?"

"Can I have five minutes? Make yourself at home. Mina why don't you come and help me finish packing. I'm sure Mr. Cross won't mind being alone for a little bit." Serena said trying to make her sister follow her.

"You can finish by yourself. I'll stay here and keep an eye on Mr. Cross." Mina said keeping an eye on Darien.

"I'll be fine on my own."

"I'm sure you won't mind if I stay and make sure Mr. Falcon's chauffeur doesn't get into trouble." Looking at Serena.

Angerly Serena fires back, "Mr. Cross isn't a chauffeur. He is an executive in Andrew's compony. He is here because Andrew got held up in New York."

Mina smiled, "Is that what they are calling flukies these days."

"Mina!!!!" Serena said shockingly.

Darien held up his hand and said, "Mina has an oppinion about this and it's okay that she gets it off her chest now." To his surprise she blushed.

"I suppose I should apologize for that. It's not your fault you are just doing your job. It's my sister who needs the sense knocked in to her." To her surprise Darien chuckled a little.

"You don't approve of the engagement?"

Serena cut in there. "We are not engaged. That is what this trip is about we are going to see if marriage is the right thing. Nothing has been decided." She really didn't know why she had to make him understand that. Mina turned to Darien and asked, "You don't approve of this idea."

"It is non of my business." He said flatly.

"So you are just an employee not a friend of Andrews."

"Andrew is the best friend I ever had. But I don't tell him how to run his life."

Serena had enough of this and finally said, "I wish my sister would learn that. Mina come and help me finish packing so we can leave." Serena grapped Mina's arm and dragged her along.

In Serena's bed room

"Mina I can't believe you were so rude to Mr. Cross like that. I know you don't approve but still it is my life and I'll live it the way I want."

"Even if you are making a mistake? Remember my engagement to Ken. I thought it was all great then he dumped me. I just don't want you to get hurt. I love you ok."

"I love you, too and I know you are worried about me but I can take care of myself. I'm a big girl."

"So are you sure there is no way I can talk you out of this?"

"No, there isn't. Now tell me 'bye and see you later.'"

"Bye and see you later."

They walked out to the living room and found Darien sitting on the couch reading the paper. Mina wishpered in Serena's ear, "He made himself right at home."

"Mina stop that."

Darien looked up from the paper and asked, "Are you ready to go?"

"Yup." Serena walked to her bags by the door and Darien followed. He bent down and picked up the three bags. 'Nice butt.' Serena thought then shock her head in discuss. 'What am I thinking? I shouldn't be looking at his butt I'm with Andrew.' Serena turned and took her watch off and tossed it to her sister. "Have this fixed while I'm gone ok?" Then they left.

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Sitting in Darien's luxuriously sport car Serena looked out the window daydreaming and thinking about what she was doing. 'Am I doing the right thing by going on this week retreat. I mean Andrew and I don't really love each other. We are very fond of each other but enough to get married and have kids?' She was watching the wonderful senery. 'Andrew said Darien was the strong silent type, tough, blunt-spoken, ruthless when necessary but was the most honest, loyal, reliable, and the best friend a guy could have.' Serena looked over at Darien and studied his profile. He wasn't as handsome as Andrew. No his features were more rugged than Andrew's. She would bet that he had his nose broken when he was a kid, just enough to keep it from being combletly straight. His jaw was square, his cheekbones broad, and his unsmiling eyes were such a pale cool blue they looked almost like ice. He had a nice firm mouth, but she dought that those lips ever formed a smile. He had medium-length black hair. That fell over his forehead and gave him a " boyish" look. But there was nothing boyish about Darien Cross. Darien was Andrew's best friend so Serena thought she might as well get along with him cause if she and Andrew got married Darien would be around a lot. She thought it was up to her to break the ice. "Andrew told me that the two of you have been friend since you were in high school."

Darien replied without even taking his eyes of the road. "Yeah."

"Were you neighbors?"

"No."

Okay, no more questions that could be answered in monosyllables she decided. "How did you guys become friends?"

A half smile came over his facs, "Well, four guys were trying to beat me to a pulp. Andrew jumped in to help me."

Serena was shocked. 'Elegant, always incontrol Andrew Falcon in a fight. Who would have thought.'

"Did you two win?"

He chuckled, "No we were both beaten to a pulp."

"That's terrible"

He smiled at that and turned to look at her, "We healed."

"So you and Andrew have been frinds since then?"

He truned back to the road and said, "Yeah."

'Back to the monosyllable words,' she sighed. She turned back to the window and tried to enjoy the view.

It was hard for Darien to pay much attention on the road, he was more interested in the woman beside him. There was something about her that kept drawling him to her. 'What is it about her that makes me not be able to think about anything else.' He gave her a side glance again,'She is really pretty. With her long solf blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. What am I thinking, she is suppose to marry Andrew for crying out loud. I'm not suppose to like her. Damn what is wrong with me.' He tried small talk, but he isn't that real good at it. "Andrew told me you're in the retail bussiness."

She looked at him and smiled, "Yeah, Mina and I own a shop called Mirror Images. It's kind of a pun on the idenical twin thing. We mainly carry decorating accessories: unusual mirrors mostly, but there are also pottery and sculptures, candleholders, carved bowes, and blown-glass pieces. Many of them are one-of-a-kind."

Hearing the enthusiasum in her voice made him realize that her heart is really into her work. Andrew always said that no business is successful if the owner has no passion for it. 'Maybe Serena's passion for her work drew Andrew to her or maybe her smile. I know something is drawlying me to her.' Darien thought with a frown. He shock his head and said "How's business? Making a good profit?"

'Oh now I get this small talk. He is trying to see if I'm a gold digger. Men.'

"If you think I am involved with Andrew just for his money you are dead wrong. If anything happen between Andrew and I, I would never use his money to help my business. My sister and I are perfectly capable of handling our buisness on our own." She was frownig at him and wondering what made him distrust people so much.

"I see."

"You think I'm only interested in Adrew because he is rich. You got it all wrong."

"I didn't say that."

"No. But that is what you were thinking, isn't it?"

He didn't answer. She turned and looked back out the window. From her posture he could tell she was mad. 'I guess I could apologies. But how would I do it I'm not really good at that. Man, this is a real long drive. But I really thought she was in it for the money. Most women are. Since Mina said that this was not a love match I guess I thought it was for the money. Guess I was wrong. I mean this isn't the frist time Andrew thought he was in love with a girl but once he pulled out the pre-nub she was out of there.'

They had been on the road for over an hour when Darien realized that Serena was still stiff in her seat. Her hands were still laced so tight that her nails were digging in to her skin.

"Are you okay?" he asked looking over at her. "My driving isn't making you nervous is it?" He said to try and cheer her up. She turned her head to look at him.

"No, your driving is fine. I'm not nervous at all."

"You seem a little tense so I was just wondering if you were okay."

She decided to try some small talk again. "Andrew told me you were out of the country for some months. In Italy I think he said."

"Venice. I was there for three months."

"It must have been nice there. I'd love to go there one day."

"I was there for business not pleasure."

"You must have done some sightseeing or something."

"Not really. I was only suppose to be there for a couple weeks but things came up and I had to stay longer."

She turned in her seat to look at him better. "You must have missed your family while you were there."

He glanced at her and said, "I don't have any family. I had a lot of work piling up and I wanted to get back A.S.A.P to attend to it."

The conversation ended there. Darien knew Andrew wanted him to keep Serena entertained so he tried to think of something to say about his trip. "The food there was good."

She smiled. "I'm sure it was."

"And the sunrises were nice," he added, "I had a balcony, and I would sit out there just to watch the sun rise."

"That must have been wonderful to see every morning." She said with a big smile on her face. 'God, she is so pretty when she smiles like that.' "You know when you and Andrew get married then you will be able to travel a lot."

"If we get married."

"The gossip columnsits seem to think you guys are already engaged and picking out china patterns and kids names." 'Why wouldn't anyone want to marry a multimillionair. He could give her everything she wanted. Why does it piss me off to think that they could marry.'

"Well we're not. That is what we are doing this for to figure out this week. To see if we can get married. That is one thing I'll never get used to, being in the gossip columns" 'Why am I trying so hard to convince him that there is no engagement between Andrew and I. I mean he doesn't even like me.'

"You better get used to it. That is what comes with being involed with a man like Andrew. He always seems to draw attention. Everything he does makes the papers." 'It's mainly his money that attracks the attention of the papers, and the women. It helps that he is good looking. I guess that is why she is so in to him. His money and his good looks. He did make the Most Eligible Bachelor list in North America.'

Andrew's intrest in Serena was one of the reasons he asked Darien to take her today. Some one told the tabloids that they were dating and that has really upset Andrew.

"One of those so-called reporters called me Selen and others have said that it was Mina dating Andrew and not me,"she smiled slightly, "Mina had a fit when she found that out."

Darien chuckled and thought about it, "She seems like one who would take it to heart. The way she was talking earlier I bet she wanted to make some heads roll."

Serena laughed at that. "You got that right! She didn't like having her named linked with Andrews."

Darien looked over at Serena, "Why doesn't she like Andrew. Is it 'cause she is jealous that she didn't nail the millionair?"

Serena looked shocked and pissed, "Hell no, it isn't Andrew. She is just worried that I'm making a mistake that's all," she says with a glare, "Mina has a little trouble trusting people, especially rich, powerful men. She thinks that if we get married that I'll windup bitter and unfeeling. Unlike some people my sister knows I want more from marriage then finacial sercurity and help with my business. She doesn't seem to think I can get that with Andrew."

"Why's that?" Darien looked back at the road.

"She thinks that I'm being played for a fool. That he is just using me and has no intention of marrying me."

Darien got mad and said," When Andrew says he'll do something he'll do it."

She looked at him from the courner of her eye, "You're very loyal to him."

'She doesn't understand how much I owe Andrew. And it is non of her damn business I won't answer.' They fell quite again. Darien had run out of things to say to her and she ran out of things to tell but she seemed to have relaxed a bit so it was good. 'I guess I can't blame her for keeping quite.'

Thats is the end of chapter 1. I hope you liked it. I worked a long time to get this done. At last it's done now I have like a lot more to write. (not). Well lets see where Serena's and Darien's adventure takes them. Later Moon Baby