Note from chapter 1 - 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.
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 four young kids , 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 artemismoon1hotmail.com
(…) = telepathic talk
---…--- = memory
Chapter Three - What Now ?
The main man that talked on behalf of all the government told the pair to go to bed, not wanting to be alone they laid in each other's arms and cried themselves to sleep on their parents bed.
The man in charge ordered two of the men out front to watch for anything suspicious and the other two out back while he stayed downstairs in case either of the kids needed him, he settled himself down for a long night and fell asleep.
"Momma come back, I need you…MOMMA" Serena woke to see an unfamiliar face looking gently at her.
"Are you ok?" the man asked softly,
"Sere, not another one was it?" Michael asked.
"Another what?"
"Nothing, I dreamt of the crash, it was an explosion, but it wasn't a bomb, it just exploded, no one cou…could have s…sur…survived." Serena cried out.
"How did…? Never mind, try to sleep; we have a lot to talk about in the morning. You know, I have a daughter your age, hasn't turned out as good though, your parents were special. Good night kids."
Serena turned over and felt her brother do the same,
"Serena?"
"Yeah?"
"Your power is increasing."
"I know, where is it coming from?"
"I dunno Sere, we will find out though, one day, I promise. Good night Sere,"
"Night Mike"
The following morning saw Serena back to her old habits, getting up late, rushing her food and klutzing out at every possible moment.
"Morning sleepy"
"Morning"
"Sere this is Agent Steinburg remember? From last night."
"How could I forget" Then telepathically she told her brother "Watch this"
"Mr Steinburg hop like a bunny, then forget what you did"
He did as she said, sat down and promptly forgot what he did and what she said.
Michael shook his head and handed her a full English breakfast, black pudding included, which was all her comfort foods, and which all very quickly disappeared.
"Where's the others?" she asked as soon as she finished eating.
"Outside watching for trouble."
"Oh, so what do we do now? I mean our parents are dead, and we are not old enough to live on our own."
"First you have to move to your aunt and uncles house, that solves the living alone part."
"But they live in Tokyo, Japan, your joking right?" Michael put in, hoping that he was.
"No, I'm not, you will write letters to your friends explaining what happened, leave out the spies part…"
"Well, duh." Serena cut in.
"…telling them that you have to leave and move to your aunts, this will be done when you are in the air. You can take two suitcases and a holdall each; some agents will come and pack everything else within the next couple of days. Furniture and family heirlooms that you wish to keep will be held in storage until you turn twenty-one, while you are in the air you will need to write a list of things that you wish to keep and what you want sold or given to charity. Accounts will be set up for you, there will be two each, one will hold the total amount of your money and you will each get a monthly allowance of two hundred dollars, the other accounts will be released when you are twenty-one. Finally, the Porsche that you both seem to love will be shipped over to you within the month along with the other possessions that you wish to have in Japan."
"How much were our parents worth, exactly?"
"Counting this last payment, around two and a half million dollars, maybe a little more, we have the exact details at the office, your parents had several different accounts in different names, so our first job on your behalf is to gather that money together into a safe account in an alias and then slowly divide the money between your accounts. Also the house will have to be sold so that the Russians will not be able to find you so easily, if you came back to America…"
"What do you mean if?"
"We, the agency, would prefer you to stay out of the country forever, it may keep you alive longer. If you did come back, I promise that I would try to look out for you as best as I can. Now, I believe you will want to know when and how you will get to Japan?"
Both Serena and Michael nodded their heads, not quite fully caught up in everything.
"Well firstly you will go by helicopter to an air force base, from there you will go to a small airfield, then onto JFK, then to England and Japan. I will come all the way to Japan with you so that you're not alone. I trust that you can recognize your aunt and uncle?"
"Of course we can recognize them, is this all necessary? I mean they killed our parents, why come after us?"
"They will try to kill you in case you know anything, it's that simple. Do you understand all you have to do and what I have told you?"
"You haven't said when we are leaving, or what about our school, our records, and we don't know much Japanese, how will we communicate?"
"I am so bad at languages," Serena wailed at her brother's questions.
"We will retrieve your school records and I will pose as your head teacher while I am in Japan, it's my cover for escorting you. The only ones that know the truth are the local authorities and your Aunt and Uncle will know when we get there. As for Japanese, you know the basics don't you?"
"Um, no! We never got chance, Mom and Dad were gonna teach us after graduation next year so that we could all go there for a few months vacation." Michael whispered.
"Oh dear, I will try to teach you some on the way, but I never learnt either, I will ring and get some tapes and books onto the flights." Steinburg told them.
"You still haven't told us when we leave."
"You have…"Steinburg checked his watch carefully "just a few hours before we go. So go get packing"
Serena sat on her bed, pondering what to take,
(Mike I don't know what to take)
(Me neither, lets go through our parents stuff, take something special)
(Sure meet you there in 10 seconds)
(Deal Sere)
Serena ran down the hall to her parent's room, when she got there Michael was sitting on the bed.
"You cheated"
"No, I just neglected to say that I was here already"
"Same thing" Serena told him as she crossed her arms and pouted, Michael ignored her and started to go through his parents stuff.
An hour later Serena walked out of her parent's room with her mother's diamond and sapphire choker with matching earrings and ring, the engagement, eternity and wedding ring set that was at the back of the safe. She also left the room with her mothers pale blue spaghetti strapped dress, matching shawl, bag and shoes and a photo of her parents with the twins at the beach taken a few short months ago.
Michael walked out with his father's cufflinks that had DAD engraved on each, his father tuxedo, a dark blue suit, a St. Christopher's pendant and his dad's prized baseball glove, he planned on taking the matching photo to the one Serena had from the lounge when they went back downstairs.
They walked back to their own rooms and silently began to fill their cases, taking extra special care of the 'treasures'.
Two hours later they were sitting on an airplane heading towards a new life, a new beginning and new names. Serena was told that she should go by Usagi so that she fit in and Michael to go by Taichi for the same reason, neither minded the name change, what really bothered them the most was leaving everything and everyone that they had ever known, trusted and loved and not being able to tell them in the letters that they had just finished where in the world that they were going to. Their question of 'what now?' had been answered, but what other shocks and surprises were to come!