DISCLAIMER!! Sigh I don't own Sailor Moon, or any of the Sailor Scouts for that matter, I just added in me and my friend Megan. Oh, and James and Guillermo. Its pronounced Gee-air-moe. Heh. R&R PLEASE!!
"Darling, you know our feelings for each other, and I know that you have been waiting a long time for this. I just couldn't stand it any longer, the wait I mean. Please, honor me with the hand of the Princess of Venus in marriage." He said only loud enough to be heard. Trish beamed a lovely smile at him before replying.
"Well, I doubt that will happen, since the true Princess is already engaged and to be wed in a few days, but I'm sure that I would be quite willing to marry you." James burst out laughing, as did the rest of them, then he kissed her and pulled out a small blue velvet box and handed it to her.
She opened it slowly, and when she looked in her breath caught in her throat. Inside the box was a delicate silver band with a dark blue, almost black, sapphire in the center of the setting flanked by two very tiny diamonds.
"Oh James, this is lovely." She whispered. He took it from her and slid the ring on her third finger of her left hand. Everyone cheered and took a long drink of their wine before finishing the course.
There wasn't much normal conversations after that, only the girls' incessant chatter of when the wedding should be, what the dresses should look like, and the normal new bride things. And that is how the dinner went, until all of the girls dismissed themselves to go freshen up while the gentlemen went into the study for an after dinner brandy. That is how Trish's mom brought her up; she had lived in England for about 5 years of her life when she was younger. She even dressed for dinner!
After all of the girls were finished they headed back to the music room where Trish decided she wanted to practice singing with Megan, only not the song for the wedding, a different song. She took the harp while Rei took the piano with Megan. The others just sat down on the large overstuffed chairs that were there and listened.
"I don't like to, be alone in the night." Started Trish.
"And I don't like to, hear I'm wrong when I'm right." Rei sung in her turn.
"And I don't like to, have the rain on my shoes. But I do, love you." Sang Megan.
"But I do love you." They all sang.
"I don't like to, see the sky painted gray." Started Trish again.
"And I don't like when, nothings going my way." Sang Rei.
"And I don't like to, be the one with the blues." Megan sang perfectly.
"But I do love you, but I do love you." They sang the chorus together.
"Love everything about the way you're loving me. The way you lay your head upon my shoulder when you sleep." Megan sang the notes in perfect tone and pitch.
"And I love to kiss you in the rain, I love everything you do. Oh I do." Trish took over and sang the next verse after Rei finished hers.
"I don't like to, turn the radio on. Just to find I, missed my favorite song."
"And I don't like to, be the last one to lose." Sang Megan.
"But I do love you. But I do love you."
"Love everything about the way you're loving me. The way you lay your head upon my shoulder when you sleep." Trish took this verse as Megan and Rei played on.
"And I love to kiss you in the rain, I love everything you do. Oh I do." Sang Megan, finishing the last line with Rei's lovely voice joining her.
"And I don't like to, be alone in the night."
"And I don't like to, hear I'm wrong when I'm right."
"And I don't like to, have the rain on my shoes."
"But I do love you. But I do love you. But I do love you. But I do, love you." They finished.
They hadn't realized that the guys had joined them in the music room until they applauded and whistled. Some even calling "Encore!"
"Oh no you don't, you will hear enough from us at the wedding." Said Trish. The guys sighed in exaggeration then sat down in the brightly lit room.
"Well, that was a lovely dinner. I don't think that I have ever eaten a better meal." Said Mina. Everyone else agreed and Trish blushed knowing that she hadn't cooked it. She sighed and idly strummed the harp lightly.
"Too bad we didn't bring our bathing suits. We could have gone swimming in a little while if we had." Said Chad. Trish just grinned and continued to play the harp softly.
"Well we could always go walking in my gardens. They are extensive and very... secluded... so I have been told. I had a lovely new fountain put into the center of the maze. And I hear that the ducks have been nesting again on the pond. Oh, did you see my new trellis I have in the rose garden? The gardener made it for my birthday and put it up to grow a hybrid rose he made. The blooms are dark blue laced with lavender." Trish smiled softly to herself at the ideas she put into the other's heads. She had started to strum Megan's favorite song, "Green Sleeves" while talking, and Megan had started to play it on the piano in soft muted notes.
"I think that is a splendid idea. I do so love to see the ducks nesting." Said Rei. Chad agreed wholeheartedly and they took their leave silently. Trish wondered how long until the next person would leave. Obviously not long.
"I would love to see the new trellis the gardener made. Are the hybrids blooming yet? Perhaps I could pick one to keep." Said Lita in a rush. She knew what Trish was doing, and it reminded her of another time that they had all done it, only now Megan didn't have anyone to go with. She grabbed Ken's hand and drug him out of the room to see the trellis.
"Actually, I think that I might want to go see the poinsettia in the northern greenhouse. They do so intrigue me. Shall we go Greg? It would be a most terrific topic for your research paper due." Amy said in a sweet, yet manipulative way. She too remembered doing this before at a time long forgotten by most. Greg smiled softly at his newlywed wife and indulged her, leading the way to the northern greenhouse that was one of two on Trish's property.
"Are the lily's still blooming on the frog pond, Trish?" asked Serena. At Trish's nod she stood and pulled Darien with her.
"Then perhaps it is time to reacquaint myself with them. It has been far too long since I last saw my favorite pond." Trish chuckled softly and went into another verse of Green Sleeves as they left.
"I get the idea, sheesh. We're going... we're going. Where do you want us? Perhaps the gazebo would do nicely. I haven't been kissed in one since we first started coming here. Come on Tony, I feel we need to go." Mina winked at her sister and drug an unwilling fiancé out of the room with her, that only made Trish laugh softly to herself.
"Well, do you still have those carnations that I like in the south greenhouse? They are the most fragrant ones I have ever found and I wanted a bouquet to send to my mother." Megan said. She too winked at Trish and started for the door.
"Might I join you Megan?" asked Guillermo. Trish winked back at Megan and nodded her head as if to say, "Go on." Megan smiled slightly and nodded, and Trish watched as they left the room together laughing.
"I take it you done that on purpose?" said James from behind her as she finally stopped playing the harp.
"Whatever makes you think that?" Trish asked innocently. James chuckled deeply and hugged her to him.
"You smell heavenly tonight. Would you perhaps like to take a walk through the maze? I hear that it is most exotic at night, and more fun to get lost in with a pretty girl."
"I could be persuaded, but I wanted to tell you something, that is the main reason everyone left. Would you like to hear it?" said Trish a bit carefully. James looked at her serious expression and nodded, kneeling down next to her chair.
"Well, remember that night that we, well... you know what I'm saying..." Trish trailed. James nodded and smiled at her encouragingly. Trish went on slowly. "Well, I know that it is hard to believe, but, well, oh hell with it. I'm pregnant James." He blinked slowly, and then sat back on his heels. And gaped, not saying a word.
"Well? Aren't you going to say anything? Are you mad? Happy? What? I need to know!" exclaimed Trish. She finally got mad enough to shove him over and he literally fell over also. Then he jumped up so quickly that it scared Trish enough to make her screech.
"Yahoo! I'm going to have a child! I'm going to be a father! Yes! I love you I love you I love you!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Then he picked her up out of her chair, kissed her, and then hugged her to him as he spun her around while laughing the whole time.
"Then I take it you aren't mad at me?" she asked skeptically. He chuckled against the top of her head and kissed her again.
"Never mad at you my sweet. But I think that we need to tell everyone else. This is splendid news!" he rushed from the room, but didn't have to go far since everyone was waiting out in the main hall for them.
"I take it she told you?" asked Serena. James' reply was the biggest smile any of them had ever seen on his face.
"Well, look at the time. We have to be up tomorrow early so we can get to the palace for the coronation. Come on James, Serena and I can take you home. I think that Trish needs to get some sleep tonight and rest. You will see her early enough tomorrow." Said Darien. He waited patiently for James to go back into the room and say bye to Trish, and then he led them all out to his car and drove off.
"What does he mean coronation?" asked Guillermo. Megan chuckled and tried to explain.
"Well, have you seen the news about the new royalty of Tokyo and the planets?" she asked. At his nod she continued. "Since they are rebuilding the kingdom's they decided to locate the royal families of them. Darien is the Prince of Earth, and since Serena is the Queen of the Moon and they are married they have basically combined. Serena is the most powerful woman on the planet; she even has more power behind her name than Darien. Well we have always known that we were princesses of the planets; see we lived on those planets two thousand years ago in the Silver Millennium. They need rulers and that is where we come in. The main court will be held here on Earth in the Crystal Palace, but everyone else will live on their own planet. That means that since Lita is the Queen she will live on her planet Jupiter. Amy is from Mercury, Rei is from Mars, Mina is from Venus, and since I'm Lita's sister I will be living on Jupiter. Same with Trish, she will live on Venus, but we will both frequent the Earth more than the others since we will be acting as royal emissaries. Does that explain the most part?" Guillermo sat there digesting the information before answering.
"So that means that James is royalty too? Wow, that is interesting. What about all of the others?"
"Actually, James isn't a prince. He is only a knight, but in the Silver Millennium he fell in love with Trish and her mother granted her the permission of marrying him then. Everyone else here is a knight also, except Darien, Greg, and Ken. Darien is a king since he was the prince, and Greg and Ken had to marry into their positions." Megan explained.
"But we do have to be up early tomorrow to be at the palace since we have to be ritually cleansed and prepared. So if you will excuse me, I'm going to go up to my room and spend the night here." She inclined her head slightly and walked up the large set of stairs to her room that she used whenever she spent the night, which was a lot.
"Yes, I think I'm going to head home also. Tell Trish I will see her in the morning." Said Amy. She waved to everyone and went up to get her things while Greg said his good byes, and then they both left.
"I guess that means I'm off too. Perhaps I will see you all again before I head back to the States." Said Guillermo. He waved, but before he could leave Lita caught him.
"If you want, you could come to the coronation tomorrow. I'm curious as to why James didn't invite you, but you will be a royal guest of Jupiter. I will have someone sent to get you at the appointed time." She said. Guillermo smiled and nodded then bid them all good night.
"That was very polite of you, but I'm off. Tell my sis bye for me." Mina hugged Lita and waved to Ken, and then they too left. Lita went into the music room where Trish had remained to play the harp a bit more.
"Hey, James told everyone, just wanted to say good night before we left also. Everyone else had to go, Megan's up in her room. They too say good night. You go on up and get some rest and we will see you bright and early tomorrow morning, and if you aren't up by 8 I will be over with Mina to drag you out of bed." Lita smiled, hugged her, then pulled her to her feet and pushed her out of the room and toward the stairs.
"Good night you two. See you in the morning." Then she waved and slowly went up the stairs to her room. After getting out of her dress and into her pajamas she removed the pins and net from her hair and climbed into bed. She was asleep in mere moments.