Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon and am making no profit off of this
work. I also do not own any of the mythological characters mentioned or
anything else that may strike you as familiar. Any characters, ideas that
you do not recognize do belong to me.
Rated: PG-13.
To my reviewers: You guys are fabulous. Sorry this chapter got so delayed.
And did anyone notice I've been totally misspelling Rei's name? It's going to stay Raye because I am too lazy to go back and fix all those previous chapters - unless this really bothers you in which case let me know.
Hot Cuttie: *Beams* I couldn't leave my room for a couple of days after reading your review because my head was too big to fit through the door. lol. As for the cliffhanger, what can I say it just seemed the perfect place to stop.
Lara1786 : *Grins* No one deserves a beating more than Cupid and I will totally support you if you decide to go through with it.
Anonymous: I'm happy you're being bossy. It means you like the story, or at least I hope it does. Sorry I didn't comply with the update soon. Next time, really.
Kail Ceannai : I know. It was evil :-)
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Cupid's Stay: Chapter 7
Serena paced around her room. She couldn't believe she'd been sent to her room like a child. Grounded! And just because she'd fallen in love. Like it was her fault or something.
What exactly was she supposed to do in here? She hadn't brought any magazines or movies or videogames. After all, it wasn't like she'd come on this vacation expecting to spend it in a hotel room. No she'd come expecting to . . .Expecting to what? To get Darien to fall in love with her all over again. But Darien was obviously in love with her if the way he'd attacked Kunzite was any indication and. . Why was she thinking about Darien? Kunzite was her soulmate. Darien was nothing.
So then why was there was this tiny voice in the back of her head insisting that Darien was everything? She shook her head. It was all too confusing and she didn't feel like thinking about it.
So, she turned on the TV. News. Boring. She flipped the channel. More news. Woo-hoo. She flipped the channel again. Static. Just great. She started to turn it off but really, what else was there? And at least the anchorman was cute. ~Bad Serena, you're in love with Darien. WHAT?? Kunzite. I meant Kunzite. What is the matter with me?~
She turned up the volume in an attempt to drown out her own thoughts. It worked. As she realized what the reporter was saying her eyes widened and she threw down the remote, running out of the room. ~I thought youmas were only in Tokyo.~
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Kunzite didn't know what to do with himself. He needed to talk to Mina, to explain. And he wasn't sure how. At first, it hadn't seemed like it would be so difficult. After all *he'd* been the wronged party. She hadn't given him a chance to talk, hadn't trusted him to not betray her. It had only been a matter of getting her to listen to the fact that Serena had been possessed or something and had thrown herself at him and he'd been too surprised to stop her before Darien had seen them.
That's how it started. But now. Well, he'd almost kissed Serena. Sure he hadn't, but that was only because her cat had stopped him. And it wasn't that he loved her or anything because he was in love with Mina. It was just that when she'd said all those things about them he'd been so stunned, so gratified. People just didn't think of him that way. They just didn't. He was only one of Darien's guards and to be singled out that way, well it had been incredible. And for that one brief moment he had wanted her because then maybe he'd be what she said he was.
But by reacting the way he did he'd shown himself to be the complete opposite. He had betrayed his best friend, his prince, his love, his girlfriend, and even his princess who would not have said what she did if she was her true self. OK, so with all those betrayals it was really just three people, but those three people were everything to him.
He had some serious grovelling to do. And so he popped into the nearest store – people are more inclined to forgive when showered with presents – and forgot all his woes at the awesome sight in front of him. "AMY?!?"
"Kunzite, thank God." He tore his eyes from the couple on the counter at the sound of Leeta's voice. Raye was standing next to her.
"I told Zoicite he should come with us," Kunzite said faintly. "But no, he just wouldn't feel right backing out of his summer classes so late. If he had been here . . ."
Raye was horrified. She hadn't even thought about Zoicite. "I'm not going to be the one who tells him," she announced.
Leeta wasn't too worried. "I'm sure we can fix this before then. It's probably the same thing that bit Serena."
Kunzite didn't think so. "This is nothing like Serena. Believe me I would know."
Leeta shrugged. "We can discuss that later. For now, help us figure out how to get them apart. We've been trying for over an hour."
"How would I know?"
Just then their communicators went off. Serena's face popped up. "Youma at the park."
Raye rolled her eyes and muttered, "The park. They can go to different countries but they still wind up at the park." Then she looked at Kunzite. "You can handle this until we get back right?"
Both girls were gone before he had the chance to answer.
He tried to untangle them, really he did. For about five minutes, and he thought he was making progress but then Amy slapped him. Sweet, bookish Amy actually slapped him. He so did not need this kind of abuse. His life was messed up enough as it was. And so he flipped the closed sign on the store door, grabbed a magazine and stalked to the corner furthest from the nauseating couple and waited for the girls to come back.
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~ How had it come to this?~ Mina shot a sideways glance at her soon-to-be husband. Darien was looking straight ahead, a grim set to his face as he listened intently to the priest. The wedding was taking place in a small chapel near their hotel. To say it wasn't the wedding of her dreams was the equivalent of saying that Beryl was a tad spiteful. In short a hugely massive understatement. Mina could deal with the fact that it was a small chapel, that none of her family or her friends were present (especially since she wasn't all that fond of them at the moment, particularly a certain blonde haired meatball head). She could even deal with the fact that she wasn't wearing a beautiful gown, and that the groom had stopped on the way over at a grocery store for Crackerjacks (not because he was hungry but for the prize ring – her WEDDING RING was coming from a CRACKERJACK BOX for God's sake - which was bad enough as it was but made WAY worse considering she happened to know that her fiancée was in possession of a gorgeous pink diamond ring.
Not that she *wanted* Serena's ring. Not that she wanted anything of Serena's. She snuck another peek at Darien. He was more Serena's than any mere thing could ever be and, she didn't really want him either. Not as a husband, not as anything more than a friend.
That was the one thing she couldn't handle - she was marrying neither a man she neither loved nor one who loved her. It was mindboggling. She was the scout of love, these things were not supposed to happen to her.
A shrill beeping interrupted Mina's rambling thoughts and gave her a brief flicker of hope. ~Is it my alarm clock? Please tell me this is all just a big nightmare~ Both Darien and the priest had turned to stare at her. A nightmare, yes, but she wasn't asleep. It was her communicator.
~As if this wedding wasn't bad enough, now there's a youma. Well, screw it. I was originally planning on leaving, the others can handle this without me.~ She gave the priest a tight smile. "Please continue."
He looked perplexed but did as she bade him. Only to stop again a couple of minutes later as the beeping got louder. Mina groaned as she remembered. Luna had programmed the communicator to keep getting louder until it was answered (a/n: I got this idea from someone else's story but can't remember whose) – just because she'd slept through one measly attack. ~Ugh.~ How could they get married with that annoying beeping going? She slipped the communicator out of her pocket and stomped on it a few times until the noise subsided. It also has the side benefit of providing some much needed stress relief. ~Except the priest probably thinks I'm certifiable.~
But when she looked up it was clear that he had missed the stomping action, being too busy trying to help Darien. Darien had gone pale and was doubled over holding his stomach. He couldn't control his transformations the way the scouts could - when Serena transformed, so did he. How could this marriage work when he was so obviously linked to Serena?
A moment later Darien stood up, face ashen but with a small smile playing at the corner of his lips. ~Guess he does have some control over those transformations~
"Are you alright?"
"Fine, please keep going."
The priest looked even more perplexed than before but continued. And this time Mina paid attention. By the time he got to the "if anyone here know of any reason why these two should not be bound in holy matrimony speak now or forever hold your peace" part of the ceremony she was a bundle of nerves. And she was going to make Darien a horrible wife because there was this big part of her that wanted Kunzite to come running in and proclaim his undying love for her.
But he didn't. And the priest continued.
A/N: And another chapter bites the dust. Puh-leaze review. I think the next chapter might be the last one because I want to wrap this up before I go all internet-less from around the 20th of March till May – Easter break, YAY! So if there's anything you want to see let me know and I'll try to work it in.
Rated: PG-13.
To my reviewers: You guys are fabulous. Sorry this chapter got so delayed.
And did anyone notice I've been totally misspelling Rei's name? It's going to stay Raye because I am too lazy to go back and fix all those previous chapters - unless this really bothers you in which case let me know.
Hot Cuttie: *Beams* I couldn't leave my room for a couple of days after reading your review because my head was too big to fit through the door. lol. As for the cliffhanger, what can I say it just seemed the perfect place to stop.
Lara1786 : *Grins* No one deserves a beating more than Cupid and I will totally support you if you decide to go through with it.
Anonymous: I'm happy you're being bossy. It means you like the story, or at least I hope it does. Sorry I didn't comply with the update soon. Next time, really.
Kail Ceannai : I know. It was evil :-)
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Cupid's Stay: Chapter 7
Serena paced around her room. She couldn't believe she'd been sent to her room like a child. Grounded! And just because she'd fallen in love. Like it was her fault or something.
What exactly was she supposed to do in here? She hadn't brought any magazines or movies or videogames. After all, it wasn't like she'd come on this vacation expecting to spend it in a hotel room. No she'd come expecting to . . .Expecting to what? To get Darien to fall in love with her all over again. But Darien was obviously in love with her if the way he'd attacked Kunzite was any indication and. . Why was she thinking about Darien? Kunzite was her soulmate. Darien was nothing.
So then why was there was this tiny voice in the back of her head insisting that Darien was everything? She shook her head. It was all too confusing and she didn't feel like thinking about it.
So, she turned on the TV. News. Boring. She flipped the channel. More news. Woo-hoo. She flipped the channel again. Static. Just great. She started to turn it off but really, what else was there? And at least the anchorman was cute. ~Bad Serena, you're in love with Darien. WHAT?? Kunzite. I meant Kunzite. What is the matter with me?~
She turned up the volume in an attempt to drown out her own thoughts. It worked. As she realized what the reporter was saying her eyes widened and she threw down the remote, running out of the room. ~I thought youmas were only in Tokyo.~
***
Kunzite didn't know what to do with himself. He needed to talk to Mina, to explain. And he wasn't sure how. At first, it hadn't seemed like it would be so difficult. After all *he'd* been the wronged party. She hadn't given him a chance to talk, hadn't trusted him to not betray her. It had only been a matter of getting her to listen to the fact that Serena had been possessed or something and had thrown herself at him and he'd been too surprised to stop her before Darien had seen them.
That's how it started. But now. Well, he'd almost kissed Serena. Sure he hadn't, but that was only because her cat had stopped him. And it wasn't that he loved her or anything because he was in love with Mina. It was just that when she'd said all those things about them he'd been so stunned, so gratified. People just didn't think of him that way. They just didn't. He was only one of Darien's guards and to be singled out that way, well it had been incredible. And for that one brief moment he had wanted her because then maybe he'd be what she said he was.
But by reacting the way he did he'd shown himself to be the complete opposite. He had betrayed his best friend, his prince, his love, his girlfriend, and even his princess who would not have said what she did if she was her true self. OK, so with all those betrayals it was really just three people, but those three people were everything to him.
He had some serious grovelling to do. And so he popped into the nearest store – people are more inclined to forgive when showered with presents – and forgot all his woes at the awesome sight in front of him. "AMY?!?"
"Kunzite, thank God." He tore his eyes from the couple on the counter at the sound of Leeta's voice. Raye was standing next to her.
"I told Zoicite he should come with us," Kunzite said faintly. "But no, he just wouldn't feel right backing out of his summer classes so late. If he had been here . . ."
Raye was horrified. She hadn't even thought about Zoicite. "I'm not going to be the one who tells him," she announced.
Leeta wasn't too worried. "I'm sure we can fix this before then. It's probably the same thing that bit Serena."
Kunzite didn't think so. "This is nothing like Serena. Believe me I would know."
Leeta shrugged. "We can discuss that later. For now, help us figure out how to get them apart. We've been trying for over an hour."
"How would I know?"
Just then their communicators went off. Serena's face popped up. "Youma at the park."
Raye rolled her eyes and muttered, "The park. They can go to different countries but they still wind up at the park." Then she looked at Kunzite. "You can handle this until we get back right?"
Both girls were gone before he had the chance to answer.
He tried to untangle them, really he did. For about five minutes, and he thought he was making progress but then Amy slapped him. Sweet, bookish Amy actually slapped him. He so did not need this kind of abuse. His life was messed up enough as it was. And so he flipped the closed sign on the store door, grabbed a magazine and stalked to the corner furthest from the nauseating couple and waited for the girls to come back.
***
~ How had it come to this?~ Mina shot a sideways glance at her soon-to-be husband. Darien was looking straight ahead, a grim set to his face as he listened intently to the priest. The wedding was taking place in a small chapel near their hotel. To say it wasn't the wedding of her dreams was the equivalent of saying that Beryl was a tad spiteful. In short a hugely massive understatement. Mina could deal with the fact that it was a small chapel, that none of her family or her friends were present (especially since she wasn't all that fond of them at the moment, particularly a certain blonde haired meatball head). She could even deal with the fact that she wasn't wearing a beautiful gown, and that the groom had stopped on the way over at a grocery store for Crackerjacks (not because he was hungry but for the prize ring – her WEDDING RING was coming from a CRACKERJACK BOX for God's sake - which was bad enough as it was but made WAY worse considering she happened to know that her fiancée was in possession of a gorgeous pink diamond ring.
Not that she *wanted* Serena's ring. Not that she wanted anything of Serena's. She snuck another peek at Darien. He was more Serena's than any mere thing could ever be and, she didn't really want him either. Not as a husband, not as anything more than a friend.
That was the one thing she couldn't handle - she was marrying neither a man she neither loved nor one who loved her. It was mindboggling. She was the scout of love, these things were not supposed to happen to her.
A shrill beeping interrupted Mina's rambling thoughts and gave her a brief flicker of hope. ~Is it my alarm clock? Please tell me this is all just a big nightmare~ Both Darien and the priest had turned to stare at her. A nightmare, yes, but she wasn't asleep. It was her communicator.
~As if this wedding wasn't bad enough, now there's a youma. Well, screw it. I was originally planning on leaving, the others can handle this without me.~ She gave the priest a tight smile. "Please continue."
He looked perplexed but did as she bade him. Only to stop again a couple of minutes later as the beeping got louder. Mina groaned as she remembered. Luna had programmed the communicator to keep getting louder until it was answered (a/n: I got this idea from someone else's story but can't remember whose) – just because she'd slept through one measly attack. ~Ugh.~ How could they get married with that annoying beeping going? She slipped the communicator out of her pocket and stomped on it a few times until the noise subsided. It also has the side benefit of providing some much needed stress relief. ~Except the priest probably thinks I'm certifiable.~
But when she looked up it was clear that he had missed the stomping action, being too busy trying to help Darien. Darien had gone pale and was doubled over holding his stomach. He couldn't control his transformations the way the scouts could - when Serena transformed, so did he. How could this marriage work when he was so obviously linked to Serena?
A moment later Darien stood up, face ashen but with a small smile playing at the corner of his lips. ~Guess he does have some control over those transformations~
"Are you alright?"
"Fine, please keep going."
The priest looked even more perplexed than before but continued. And this time Mina paid attention. By the time he got to the "if anyone here know of any reason why these two should not be bound in holy matrimony speak now or forever hold your peace" part of the ceremony she was a bundle of nerves. And she was going to make Darien a horrible wife because there was this big part of her that wanted Kunzite to come running in and proclaim his undying love for her.
But he didn't. And the priest continued.
A/N: And another chapter bites the dust. Puh-leaze review. I think the next chapter might be the last one because I want to wrap this up before I go all internet-less from around the 20th of March till May – Easter break, YAY! So if there's anything you want to see let me know and I'll try to work it in.