Note from previous chapter – If you, or someone you know has been raped, sexually or indecently assaulted please, and I cannot stress this enough, please tell an adult that you trust, or go to the police and tell them, if not it could happen to someone else, and that thought is as bad as being assaulted, so please tell someone.

AN = Hi, as this is an alternate reality, please bear with the name changes, I will try to explain about the name changes in the story itself so that I do not bore you with long notes at the beginning or end. Also, there may be long breaks between chapters as I am pregnant and so far it is not so healthy, but baby is good, so bear with me on that please. Thanks   Shindi.

Disclaimer = Sailor Moon unfortunately does not belong to me that right belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and the rest so please don't sue, I'm a poor young mom with three kids and one coming at sometime ^_^, but Agent Steinberg, Cousin Lewis, Aunt Sylvia, Uncle Ted, Michael and the alter egos that I use are mine, please ask if you wish to use anything, at shindi_moon@talk21.com  

                                             Chapter 2 – Death Times Three

A week after Serena broke down and told her brother everything about the rape she began acting more lady-like, refined. She got out of bed earlier, ate slower and studied harder, it both shocked and surprised her brother and parents

It was on one of these days, two weeks later that Serena read the newspaper and got a shock and surprise of her own, on the front page of that morning paper was a picture of the man that raped her. Today was one of the days that Serena and Michael's parents were away on a trip, so she didn't care for the rules of the house. She looked towards the ceiling and yelled telepathically and verbally to her brother,

"Michael Taichi Tsukino get your butt down here right now or else"

"Or else what?" he sent back telepathically.

Serena just ignored him and went back to reading the article in the paper that interested her while waiting for Michael to come down.

"What?" Michael asked while yawning.

"That was HIM," she told Michael while pointing at the paper.

"Who was who?" he asked her, confusion clear across his face.

"The jerk that raped me" she yelled telepathically

"O…ohhh, what happened?"

"He left a long letter saying about all the girls he raped, where they lived to the best of his knowledge, what they looked like, dates etc, and left a stack of underwear next to the letter and then hung himself."

"Good, the bastard deserved it."

"But, Mike…I…I dreamt that I hung him. What if I controlled him, like I did to daddy when I was younger?"

"Sere, you only made Dad walk down the garden path in his robe. And Sere, it was that mans guilt that hung him, not you. Find your peace now, he won't and can't do it ever again."

"I know"

"Come on, let's go do something special."

"Like what?"

"How 'bout the beach? Be ready in an hour."

In an hour Serena had finished her breakfast, rinsed her dishes and placed them in the dishwasher. She had a shower and got dressed in a short pale blue summer dress that showed off her curves, packed any necessities in a shoulder bag and ran out her room to wait for her brother. Once downstairs she grabbed a couple of bottles of water and threw them in her bag, also grabbing her wallet and the car keys at the same time (isn't it great how girls can multi task), sitting on the sofa waiting for Michael she thought over what she would be doing after graduation next year.

Meanwhile, while Serena finished her breakfast Michael had been having a shower, and while in there he cried openly for his sister, while blocking her from hearing.

"Why you Sere? Why you?" he cried over and over until Serena had banged on the door shouting that it was her turn. He quickly washed his hair and body, jumped out the stall, wrapped a towel around his lower and body and left the bathroom. As he walked past he kissed Serena's forehead and went into his own room where he dried himself and put on a pale blue baggy shorts, a baggy white t-shirt with a blue basketball top on over the tee, he added a white bandana to cover his already light golden blonde hair and looked at the clock. After a close inspection he realised that he would have some time left to wait for his sister. He picked up hi English Lit book and started to read, but soon got lost into Pip being turned into a gentleman and forgot the time.

(You see Michael is totally different to his twin, Serena loves to eat, she would eat a lot, very quickly, while Michael ate when he was hungry and eat it slowly and properly. Serena hated to get out of bed in the morning, while Michael was an early riser. Serena didn't dislike school, but she hated to study out of it, while Michael loved school in and out of the classroom, it doesn't mean that Serena is stupid or lacked brain cells, it was the complete opposite, she was very intelligent, when she wanted to be, but she didn't like people to know, Michael was the only one that knew. Michael on the other hand, was also very intelligent and wasn't ashamed to prove it, he held perfect scores on all subjects, except languages, he only got C+ in languages tops.)

"Get your lazy butt down here, you said an hour, but you had an extra ten minutes"

"Sorry Sere, I was reading our English Lit book," he said as he left his room.

He enjoyed being able to talk telepathically, he and Serena had helped each other out of many problems thanks to that wonderful gift, he felt triple blessed, once for his twin, twice for their gift and thrice for their parents.

"Let's go." He called from the doorway as Serena picked up her bag.

"I'm driving. By the way, you look good Mike"

"You look great yourself Sere, you even look happy again."

"I feel better knowing that scum is gone. Anyway, lets go have that fun"

So they left to have some time to forget the pain of Serena's rape and jumped into their father's Porsche and headed towards the beach for some fun, and sunbathing.

Nine hours later the brother and sister arrived home, after a day of sweets, beach rides, food, plenty of fun and sunbathing, they were both returning home, happy and tired, but both were fully wide awake when they saw cars that had government plates outside their home.

"Hey Sere, why are the gov' men here?"

"Dunno, lucky daddy showed us how to tell government plates so that you weren't speeding."

"Yeah, weird how he knew though. Well let's get this over with"

They pulled up outside the house, unable to use the garage as the government men were parked in front of it.

Stepping out the car Serena spoke to the man leaning on the closest car. "What do government men want with this house?"

"Sorry ma'am, but I suggest we talk about this inside."

Michael nodded and took Serena's hand and led the way to the front door, all the while trying to calm Serena telepathically.

"Relax Sere, it's ok, be your normal self"

"I'm trying, what if it's about him?"

"It isn't relax"

Michael opened the door and let the five men into the house before closing it behind him and Serena.

"Can we…" Michael began

"…offer you some…"Serena continued.

"…tea, or coffee?" Michael finished.

"No, thank you, can we go sit somewhere?"

"Sure, right…" Serena said calmly

"…in there" Michael said pointing to the other room.

"Can you please stop with the twin talk, we know all about your telepathy."
 "Why are you here?" Michael demanded, annoyed that this man knew someone private within his family.

"Your parents worked for the American government, even though our father was Japanese he was always loyal to the US, in return we asked him to do no jobs concerning a break in loyalty to Japan. When they went away on trips it was for us."

"So they lie to us when they go away? There not really business trips for the clothing company they work for?" Serena asked a little stunned that her parents lied to them.

"No, they were gaining information for us from various countries besides Japan. Unfortunately something went wrong this time, the Russians discovered who they were earlier this evening."

"Wha…what's going to happen to them? To us? Our home, friends, school, belongings?"

"That's why we are here, I'm afraid that a little under two hours ago the plane your parents were on blew up, there was no survivors, I'm really sorry, they were two of my friends."
 "There was…"
 "…no one…left, our parents?"

"Their gone?"

"I'm afraid son, they did their jobs well and sent the information shortly before the plane exploded. We think they knew, their last words were 'tell the twins the truth, and tell them we love them and to look after each other'…now we have told you the truth, their last wishes were fulfilled."
At the end of those words Serena fell into her brothers arms and both cried and held onto each other for comfort.