AN: Okay so this update is late in coming. What can I say after pestering Kiss to do her chapter I was stumped. I knew what I wanted to so with it but was unsure on how to get it on to the computer screen and make it believable. Because ultimately I do care what people think of my writing. I want to keep up the level people have come to expect from me. Spelling mistakes and all.
Disclaimer: Nope not ours yet. If it were do you honestly think we would take such long breaks between updates?
Usagi flopped with into a chair next to the bathroom door – marking her place as next in line. Then she jumped when her cell phone started to ring, "Hello? Mom, hi. You go t my note. Yes you remember the Three Lights my old friends who moved away? Yes very suddenly left the country. NO! They were doing anything illegal they just had a family emergency in their homeland VERY far away. Yes we are at the Hilton. You WOULD?? You are so sweet! I could kiss you if we were in the same room. Thank you!" Usagi looked up at everyone with twinkling blue eyes.
"What? Tell me your mother said what I think she said." Makoto said with a sly smile.
"Take your time Minako. My mother is calling us all in tomorrow. And since it is Friday we have the weekend off. So they are SO stuck with us."
Taiki grinned, "You mean you guys don't have class tomorrow?"
"Theoretically we do, but since Usagi's mother is being so sweet we don't LITERALLY." Ami teased, her blue eyes dancing.
Haruka smirked, "Well I didn't have classes anyway. So there."
"Rub it in you graduated already. Usagi your girlfriend is being a meanie." Usagi looked up from her post of glaring at the door to see if it would make it open faster to smile apologetically at Makoto.
"I just date her sorry."
Minako meandered out of the bathroom in baby blue flannel pj pants and a tank with Sailor Moon on it, the saying 'In the name of Love and Justice...' imprinted under the picture. Usagi looked at the shirt with a raised eyebrow and darted into the bathroom.
Minako grinned, "Did I hear that Usagi's mother was calling us in tomorrow? If I did I think I owe that woman a hug."
Ami smiled and sat next to Taiki on the couch, her dark blue head fell onto her shoulder and she nestled in to wait for her turn in the bathroom. Her clear blue eyes danced as she flipped through the room service menu, "I need food everyone. I have had two MAJOR shocks today."
"You had a major shock Miss Mizuno? Your girlfriend did not act like she was having a heart attack on the cusp of the overlook right before I-280."
"T-The one that is basically a straight drop off?" Makoto said sitting up on the carpet, her emerald eyes widened in shock, "With Usagi's track record with cusps..."
"Cusps? Pardon me when I say huh?" Seiya said looking slightly confused.
"Usagi's history with saving the world tends to deal with her leaping or falling off of high areas and dying – and then being reborn. It is all very messy." Ami said with a smile and a wink at the other Inner Senshi.
"And for the record, I do not LIKE diving to my doom. I do it to save the world, only to die and hurt and STUFF. So there! Plus, I don't see a line of people waiting to take my place." Came Usagi's teasing tone from the doorway of the bathroom. For once her hair was down in twin braids, and her usual pj's forsaken in favor of flannel boxers and a sage green tank top, with a zip up sweatshirt jacket thrown over it. Seiya, Haruka and Minako all looked at her in appreciation.
Haruka slipped into the bathroom before Makoto could and Makoto did the mature adult thing and stuck her tongue out at the door. Rei just shrugged and slipped into the closet to change. Makoto looked at the door in a state of mild shock, "Where did that door come from?"
Usagi put on a very serious face, "When they were building the hotel Makoto, these very brilliant people call architects thought it would be easier to access the closet if they put a door there instead of a wall."
With a roll of her eyes and a flip of her hair Makoto turned and announced to the room, "Whichever space is open first is MINE!"
Everyone nodded and smiled, backed away slowly. With a deep sigh she sat and patiently waited for an open area. Rei popped out a minute later and her top made Usagi laugh softly. Rei was wearing her black low-rider shorts again but this time it was paired with a t-shirt that looked very familiar. It had been a rare present from Yaten. It was a Three Lights shirt. A long sleeved t-shirt with Yaten's name and her fan club number on the back. Yaten looked up and grinned.
"Loved me even then did you?" she teased her raven-haired girlfriend with twinkling jade colored eyes.
"Yes, I was dying to have you even then. Especailly when you hated us and our planet and drove me crazy wanting to kick you." Rei teased back.
"She has a point Yaten, even for us stalkers you could be a hard pill to swallow." Minako joked hopping over the couch and leaning her golden head against Usagi's shoulder.
"And you were such a good stalker. Your stalker did have a certain panache to it that most did not have. You had a flair with your stalking." Taiki said as she pulled Ami closer, "I would like to thank you for being a classy stalker."
Minako stood up and curtsied before returning to her position at Usagi's side, "I do like to have something special to let people remember as the stalker that cared. And honestly if you guys had ever acted like it TRULY bothered you I might have backed off a bit. But you all made it SO much more fun. Especailly you Yaten. You just were so cute when you got mad."
"I got adorable when my privacy was invaded so you kept doing it? Is that all I would have had to do was be less cute?" Yaten teased with twinkling jade eyes. Rei rolled her violet ones.
"So she is just so cute anyways." Rei deadpanned just to get a reaction out of her girlfriend.
Yaten gasped in mock horror, clasping at her chest in horror, "Is that all I am to you a decoration for your arm? Does my inner cuteness mean nothing to you?"
Ami turned at looked at Yaten with raised eyebrows and a smile teasing the corners of her lips, "Is 'inner cuteness' really a phrase? I think you are pulling things out of your hat."
"Shows what you know Ami, Yaten won't wear hats because of the hat hair she will get." Rei teased back.
"Hat hair? I really think that I missed an important part of this conversation." Haruka teased as she walked back into the room and sat on the other side of Usagi. Putting her arm around her waist and kissing her softly.
"Usa, can I borrow your make up remover? I can't find mine." Ami said after digging through her bag in preparation for going to change.
"Yup go ahead and grab it out of my make up bag. I switched to Oil of Olay though."
Ami made a face but still reached in to grab at it with one hand while the other held her nighttime apparel. Quick as lightening she darted into the bathroom as Makoto finally came out of the closet ready to party, "WE need food."
Usagi giggled, "Isn't that my line?"
The next morning Minako awoke first. Yawning and stretching she looked around the hotel room with sleepy half opened eyes. Her fingers attempted to straighten her hair but how well that went for her was anyone's guess. She was not brave enough to look in a mirror as of yet. Her eyes first came to land on Yaten and Rei's pile of blankets and whatnot. Silver hair mixed with raven. The two girls were loosely wrapped in each other's arms and sound asleep. However there was a recent development on their faces. For the first time in recent memory their faces showed the signs of being at peace with each other.
Over on the couch Makoto lay snuggled up in a down comforter. Her chestnut waves spilling over the side of the couch and her faces relaxed in sleep. Minako herself lay not too far from her on the floor in a cocoon of pillows and a comforter. Seiya lay surprisingly between her and the bed where Usagi and Haruka were. Her face however had no sign of peace on it. In fact her brow was furrowed in deep thought and in emotional turmoil. Minako knew what was bothering Seiya, it was bothering her as well. They were still in love with Usagi. Deeply in love. It was going to drive them crazy one day.
Then her loving eyes rested on her princess – her love. In the arms of another woman. Her golden hair mixed on a pillow with strands of sandy blonde. Pale skin stood out against the lightly tanned of her counter part. Then she saw something that shook her to her core. Haruka tightened her arm around Usagi and murmured her name in a soft smile. Usagi opened her eyes and kissed her cheek. Then her eyes met Minako's. She smiled at her and then her eyes turned sad. The love was still there. She hid it quickly – Minako could never know she knew... Never.
Then they both looked over at the other bed and giggled softly. There was as sight no one had ever thought to see. Taiki and Ami asleep in the same bed. Neither of them blushing or stuttering. Taiki's mahogany colored hair seemed to cover both of them since she unbound it at night. They seemed to be lost in a mutual dream. Usagi and Minako shared a look and then slipped out to the patio area outside of the bedroom.
Haruka awoke and reached for Usagi. Who theoretically should have been where she was last – right next to Haruka. But she was not there...causing Haruka to lazily open one navy eye to search for her missing girlfriend. Not seeing in ANYWHERE in the bed or hearing anyone in the bathroom she got up to expand her search. That is when she heard it...giggles from the patio. She slipped over to the door silently.
"... I am not kidding Minako! She and I are remembering things from the Silver Millennium. I think we repressed these memories because we thought they were wrong. I mean she found Michi I was told Mamoru was my soul mate. I guess we both wrote what little we did remember off as fantasies." Usagi said with a somewhat sad laugh.
"WE all have memories that resurface occasionally. And not always happy ones. The other night I dreamed of the final night on the moon – I got to watch you all die all over again. Not exactly my idea of fun."