Serena's mother ran up to her and pulled her into a death grip. Serena tried to get free but without any strength it was useless.
"Hey meatball head, what happened to you, I bet you bounced around on your bum." Shingo, her brother shouted at her, he wasn't bothered that she had mild concussion and had lost a lot of blood, all he was bothered about was that she was getting all of the attention.
"Leave me alone Sammy, I can't be doing with this now!!" Serena shouted at him, which made Shingo stop laughing. She sounded so drained; she looked like she would fall over at any minute.
"Come on honey, let's get you upstairs!!" Her mother said, taking hold of her arm and pulling her towards the stairs.
"Mother, do you think that Andrew could take me up?" Serena asked her mum, wanting to spend a bit more time with Andrew. Serena's mum nodded happily and she let go of Serena's arm.
"Come on Andrew, help me up the stairs?" She asked, Andrew instantly took hold of her arm and assisted her up the stairs.
In Serena's room the curtains were closed and clothes were sprawled everywhere."Sorry about the mess!!" She apologized to him. He wasn't particularly bothered about the mess on the floor; bra's just flung on the cabinet, or the shoes lying on the bed.
"Come on, let's get you on your bed!" Andrew moved Serena over to her bed, which contained 4 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of trainers, 3 pairs of sandals and a pair of knickers.
He shoved all of the items off of the bed and onto the floor, and placed Serena gently on the bed. He sat down next to her and looked at her sad face. She looked up at him and smiled.
"How are you feeling now?" He asked her, making her laugh at the worriedness in his tone.
"I'm feeling a little sleepy and my head hurts, but apart from that I'm fine. What bout you?" She asked him. This made him smile back.
"Worried, about you!" He told her. "Why aren't you eating?"
Shit, he knows!! Serena thought instantly. She didn't think that he knew about her not eating.
"I... I am!!" She replied.
"NO you're not Serena!!"
She sighed and turned over on the bed so her back faced him.
"Serena look at me!!" He shouted at her.
She turned her head slightly to see his big brown eyes.
"Serena, I love you like a sister, so I will worry about you like a big brother. Please tell me what's wrong!!" He asked her, she looked like she was about to cry and spill everything.
"Goodbye Andrew." She said quietly, turning back again. Andrew was about to get up from the bed. When he instantly felt arms around his middle and heard Serena sobbing hard in his chest.
"I... I...I love... him.... so much!!!" She cried to him, trying to take in oxygen between sobs. Serena's blubbering made tears come to his eyes. He hated to see her hurt. What guy could have done this to her?
"Who Bunny, who do you love?" He asked her, using the meaning of her name. He placed his hand on her head and began to stroke it.
"Darien!!" She shouted, making Andrew intake breath quickly.
She loves him? How can she love him? I knew it was going to come to this, why couldn't he have left her alone? I am going to have to have a word with him!! Andrew thought, his mind getting angrier and angrier with his best friend. (That is why I like Andrew; he is so nice and kind!!!)
"Shhhhh, shhhhh, its ok, we will sort this out!!" He tried to soothe her she was so upset. With all of the times that he had seen her cry, this was the worst. Before all he had to do was give her a milkshake or smile at her kindly and she was all right. But now he couldn't think of anything.
Darien walked silently down the road, his mind still on the bloody figure on the floor.
She was hurt and I didn't do anything about it, I just... left. She doesn't deserve someone like me, she deserves better. Someone who will protect her from human emotions. But no one will ever love her the way I love her!! NO one will ever deserve her, come to think about it I don't deserve her!!!
"Darien, are you all right?" Michiru asked, turning to look at him for the first time in 10 minutes.
"Yeah..." He replied sadly. He looked up at the sky, Oh Bunny what am I going to do?
"Are you sure? Its better if you talk about problems, maybe I can help?" She asked.
"I'm coping thank you." He replied and that showed the end of the conversation.
"Were here, do you want to come in?" She asked, motioning for him to walk through.
She could be dead and I wouldn't know, but if she were wouldn't I know? What if she needs me, what if she needs my blood, or needs me to hold her and sing to her?
"Darien?"
"Hm?" He snapped back into reality and looked sorrowfully at Michiru standing in her doorstep.
"I asked if you wanted to come in and wait?" She repeated.
"I...um..." She could still be lying at the arcade, lying in the blood, needing for me to heal her. She could be home and be angry with me for leaving. But didn't she have her back to me? Andrew could have told her!!! Would he do that?
"DARIEN!!"
Darien quickly cracked out of the thinking to see a very disturbed Michiru standing right in his face.
"What?" He asked, trying to act innocent.
Michiru shook her head; she looked up at him again and smiled.
"It's the princess isn't it?" She asked, shocking Darien and making him move back.
"I... er don't know the princess!!" He tried to act all innocent.
"Prince Endymion. I have known you since we were born; I have played with you and hit you since we were babies. I am not surprised that you don't remember me." She told him, he was shocked, he didn't remember her that far back, but his child hood had never been clear.
"Michiru, how long have you known I was the prince?" He asked her, she smiled and leaned against her doorframe.
"Dear friend, I have known always. In the fight between us and the negaverse I too lost my memory, but deep down somewhere I always knew you were the prince and that I should protect you!!" She enlightened him.
He pondered this for a moment then replied.
"But if you are suppose to protect me then you must have some kind of power, right?" He asked.
Michiru reached into her pocket and produced a pen. It looked just like the kind of pen that the scouts used to transform, bar Serena.
"But if you have that it means you are a scout. There are already five." He announced.
Michiru smiled and put it back in her pocket. "Darien, I don't want to be horrible, but the scouts are just the shell to a beautiful chick. Us scouts are only to protect the princess, nothing more. Our mission is to make sure that the princess lives until you both marry and have your first child." She told him.
He shrugged, "I broke up with Serena."
"You have now, but in time you will see that you are both meant to be. Don't you see that when you are in danger you both protect each other?
Please just ignore your doubts, the future generations depend on it." She explained everything so clearly, he knew what to do, but would she take him back, would he be in time, is she still alive? Well he was about 90 certain she was alive, otherwise he would feel it.
Time seemed to go slowly by, the night closing quickly on the little town of Tokyo. The children were all getting ready for bed and the parents were getting ready to watch their films.
Andrew sat in the front of his blue Mercedes and stared at the road, filled with motorbikers and workers going home from work. Serena was in the back asleep and snoring. She had, had a very hard day and she had fallen asleep with exhaustion.
The only thing Andrew regretted was that she refused to eat. She told the nurses that she had had some food at the arcade, Andrew obviously knew different.
He managed to get Serena to sleep finally and decided that she would stay at his place, where he could monitor her properly. He had talked with her parents and they trusted him, well her mum did, her dad was quite particular about his baby girl going home with a grown man. But Irlene had managed to persuade him.
Andrew pulled into the car park outside his apartment and turned off the ignition. He glanced over at Serena and noticed that she was still asleep.
She looked so beautiful asleep and so peaceful, but awake she looked like she carried the weight of the whole world on her shoulders. He undid the door and stood up, he didn't want to wake her so he walked round to her side, opened the door, undid her seatbelt and gently lifted her out and into his arms. She just lay limp in his arms as he walked towards the apartment door. The door man looked at Andrew and cocked his eye brows,
"Been an exhausting day!!" Andrew said to the doorman looking down at the bundle in his arms. He knew it looked a bit suspicious but he couldn't help it.
He walked with her to the lift and was about to try and press the button when a neighbour walked up to them and smiled.
"Andy, nice to see you again mate!!" He said and looked down at the sleeping girl. "Now Andy, bit young for you isn't she?" He asked sarcastically and Andrew smiled and stuck his tongue out. (Who ever said Andrew hasn't got an immature side?)
"She's just a friend Dave, she was in a bit of a pickle today so I offered her folks that I would bring her home with me and look after her." Andrew explained smiling down at his little 'sister'.
"A 'ight mate, you going up?" He asked as he pressed the button. S
"No, I am standing next to the elevator with a girl in my arms just to admire the paintwork." Andrew replied sarcastically and rolled his eyes.
That man really does ask stupid questions!! Andrew thought as he looked back up at the elevator as he heard the bell ding signaling the elevator was there. Andrew stepped into the elevator sideways as to not hit Serena's legs and sighed as Dave got in.Dave pressed the number for their floor and they both stood in silence while they made the long journey up to their floor.
Andrew stepped briskly out of the elevator as the doors stopped and waved goodbye to Dave as they headed in opposite directions. But before Dave could get away.
"Hey mate?" Andrew shouted.
"Wassup?" Dave replied.
"Could you please help me, I can't get my keys and open the door." Andrew asked.
Dave smiled and walked up to his friend's door.
"Which pocket?" Dave asked getting a little nervous at having to put his hand in another mans trouser leg, so to speak."Left." Andrew replied and moved Serena into a more comfortable position.
Dave moved his hand over to Andrew's pocket but as he touched his leg an old lady walked past, Dave quickly pulled his hand away and smiled at the lady. The lady just gave them a disgusted look and carried on walking to her room.
"Whoops!!" Dave said and smiled, he leaned out and put his hand in Andrews pocket, but before he was able to pull it out, Serena's hand came thumping down on him and hit him hard over the head.
Dave cursed and fell down ripping Andrew's pocket and bringing it with him. Andrew looked down at Dave who had the keys in his hand and Andrew's pocket by his side."You didn't have to punish my pocket!!" Andrew replied looking sorrowfully down at the dead pocket on the floor.
"I'm sorry mate, but when the time comes it is fate!!! The pocket had, had a nice life!! Hai?" Dave replied and looked down at the unmoved piece of fabric that used to be attached onto Andrew's jeans.
"Just open my door and you can be on your way, Murderer!!" Andrew shouted dramatically and sighed sarcastically.
Dave stood up, stuck his nose in the sir, walked over to the door, stuck out his bum whilst bending down to look at the keyhole, stuck the key in and turned. Andrew heard the ever-reassuring click of the lock opening and smiled.
Dave stood up looked back at Andrew, stuck his nose in the air melodramatically and began to walk... but what Dave had forgotten was that walking with your nose in the sir isn't a very good idea, as you cant see where you are going. He walked straight towards the stairs and went nose first down all 11 flights of stairs to the bottom. Andrew rushed over to the top as fast as he could- still with meatball head in his arms- and looked down.
"Dave? Dave talk to me!!" He shouted, panic apparent in his voice.
"I'm alright mummy, but I think that I need to go sweepy now nighty, nighty!!" Dave shouted up the stairs and passed out. Andrew smiled, well he was all right, he had done that the last time he had gotten drunk.
Andrew, satisfied Dave was all right, walked back to his door and into his apartment. He walked over to his bedroom and plonked Serena down in there, remembering to close the door so the snoring wasn't as loud.Darien walked over to Serena's house and stood outside for a while, he looked up at the well-known building and noticed that none of the lights were on. It was very unusual for the Tsukino's to have their lights off this late. He looked up at Sammy's bedroom window and noticed that he had left it open, but didn't know if it was a good idea scaring the little boy to death just to apologize to Serena when he could easily do it tomorrow, when he was braver.
He turned and walked away from the house in the direction of Andrew's flat.
He was walking down the street when his mobile rang. He took it out of his jeans pocket and looked at the name on the screen.
It was Lita!!! "Darien Chiba."
"Darien, I have got a bone to pick with you!!" She shouted down the phone.
Darien stopped walking and leant against the nearest wall.
"What is it now Lita?" He asked her waiting for the proper shouting to begin.
So sorry for the wait, had a little trouble at home, but managed to put it up now!! Thank you to all who reviewed so far!! Please review and my next chapter will be up soon. Luv to all Bobs xxxxxxx