Chapter 12
A.N.: I re-edited this chapter and also changed it so it wasn't one huge paragraph. Thanks again to everyone that has been reviewing this story along with my others.
"Mina, I'll come and pick up at seven." Quatre said walking her home from school. Shaking his head as he saw Duo and Hotaru a few feet a head of them.
Mina smiled up at him and wrapped her arm through his, "Seven it is then." Stopping a few inches from her doorstep, she unwrapped her arm from his and looked up into his eyes, "See you then." She gave him a kiss on his cheek, turned, and walked into the mansion the girls and her lived in.
Quatre sighed as he watched her leave him and frowned as he saw his twin. Why wasn't she excited to see him? Being the empethist that he is, he could feel her soul was shattered and barely hanging on to something. What, he didn't know. Turning back around, he slipped his right hand in his right pants pocket and pulled out the locket. "Aphrodite, where are you?" He said quietly into the wind and began to walk back to his house.
Serena saw Mina walk in on cloud nine and shook her head. She should be happy for her friend, yet her dreams were still affecting her and how she looked at Mina and Lita. Smiling at her friend, "You're in a good mood."
Mina quickly slipped off her shoes and walked into the kitchen, and saw Serena sitting at the table with Amara both of them drinking tea. "That's because I have a date with the hottest guy in the Sanq Kingdom in FOUR hours." Her eyes widening, "I have to go shopping!" She blurted out, turned back to the door and slipped her shoes back on.
"Why?" Amara asked. Looking out the window to see Duo and Hotaru both sitting on the porch swing.
"I have nothing to wear." Mina answered as and left.
Serena just shook her head and looked at Amara, "I'm going to lay down." She said while putting her tea cup in the sink.
"Everything okay," Amara asked?
"Yeah. Just tired, that's all." She gave her friend a smile and left the kitchen to think on her own. Amara watched her princess with a heavy heart and prayed silently that she should be okay.
"Rei?" Darien asked as the three of them huddled around a small fire that Rei built to keep warm from the damp and cold cellar they were in. He noticed Mars and Mercury transformed back into their civilian clothes jeans and a t-shirt to keep their legs warm.
"Yeah, Darien?" Rei asked him while rubbing her arms to get circulation running through her veins, as she silently wondered if Serena and everyone else had forgotten about them.
Darien taking off his cape and draped it over Rei's shoulders as he stared into the fire, "I think I did something terrible." He said, as he saw visions of him and Serena. Visions he hoped were just illusions.
"What's that?" Rei and Amy asked wondering what he could have done that would make the room drop another ten degrees. "I think I raped her."
"Who?" Rei ask, sliding away from him and staring at his face.
"Serena."
"What?" Rei said standing up with a fist clenched as she stared at him. Taking off the cape, she threw it back at him, "What do you mean, you think you raped her, Darien?"
"I see images . . ." his voice trailing off and he looked back to the fire, "As if I had no control over my actions, Rei. You know I would never do such a thing."
"You raped our princess, Darien!"
Amy just bowed her head and took out a broach from long ago. Studying the golden object with a green lightening bolt in the center, she sighed as she traced the design, "Zeus . . ." brushing back a tear that escaped her right eye as she heard Darien and Rei yell about what happened with Serena. Feeling as if her heart was crashing, she clutched onto the broach, "Please find us, where ever you are."
Trowa stopped walking as he thought he heard someone call out to him. Looking up at the sunset he shook his head. Zeus . . . Why does that name sound so familiar? Like I should know it, it's just not a Gods' name. Shaking his head, he placed his left hand into his pant pocket and began to walk back to the house to get ready for the circus.
Lita opening her eyes as she felt a cold breeze brush back her hair. Feeling a nude body against her, her eyes began to widen as she wondered what happened. Her emerald eyes looking around the plain room and looked down at the arm that was draped around her stomach. Turning her head to the left, she saw raven hair falling into the face and as she looked at the form, she relaxed. Home. She thought as she drifted back asleep in the arms of her lover.
Heero walked into his room and closed the door. Numbly walking over to his desk, he sat down and stared at the beige carpet. Helios appeared in his room and knelt down next to his prince and knew it had to be something to cause this man to act like a zombie.
"Aires?" Helios asked concerned about Heero and his behavior lately.
"I'm going to kill him, Helios." Heero said looking up into Helios' light blue eyes and ignored the scared look on his face. Heero's eyes showed nothing but death and hatred.
"Who?" He couldn't understand who Heero wanted to kill so badly and hoped it wasn't someone he knew.
"Darien."
Helios looked at him and wondered if Heero knew Darien was Enydmion's reincarnated form. By looking at the savage look in Heero's eyes, he found his answer. Perhaps, it is better if I don't tell him who Darien is. He thought and stood up from the floor, "Why?"
Heero looking out at the window and sighed, "You don't want to know." He said voice dripping with vengeance. Sighing again, he laid back into his pillows and fell asleep.
Heero's and Serena's dream
"Rena?" Aires asked as he wrapped his arms around her and fell to his knees from the impact he wasn't ready for. Heartbroken sobs tore at his heart as he looked down at her and wondered what could cause his queen so much heartache.
"They took her!" She blurted out, holding a fist full of his shirt as she continued to cry.
"Who?"
"Our baby girl, Aires. They took her." She said again with more anguish in her voice.
Aires just looked at her crown of golden hair as he heard her answer. Closing his eyes and tightened his grip around her waist; he felt his heart towards his friends harden even more. How could they? "Oh Rena . . ." and looked up to see the pain and heartache in Mars' eyes. Mouthing, "Thank- you," to her and Endymion, he picked up his wife and carried her over to the trees, "I should have been there."
"It's not your fault, Aires." She said a bit calmer and looked up at him. Smiling at him through her tears, she gave him a hug, "I've missed you."
"Same here." He said while kissing her forehead and leaning against a tree. "Perhaps, we should have told them about the secret marriage." He said wondering if that would have changed the situation they were both facing, but shook his head as he silently thought, I doubt it.
Serenity leaned her head against his chest as they looked up at the blue marble in the sky. "I miss Earth, Aries."
"To think, you hated my country when you first showed up." He said with laughter as he looked at his home planet.
"It was nothing but dust and your people were starving, Aires."
"Wouldn't think so now. We were able to get the harvest in and enough to feed everyone."
Serenity pouted as she looked at her second home and sighed, "I wish I were there to see some of their faces, Aires."
Aires leaning up and wrapping a silver locket around her neck, "Someone else has been thinking of you to." He said with a smirk and kissed the tip of her nose.
Serenity holding the necklace in her right hand, she opened the locket to see Aires on the left side of the heart and a little boy with carrot-red hair and green eyes. "Patrick . . ." she said as she stared at the second man, she came to love, "how is he, Aires?"
"A handful," was all he said.
End of Dream
