Raye, Lita and Mina were waiting at the Cherry Hill temple. The Sailor Scouts had a meeting, but two of them were late. It was no surprise that Serena was late though.

"Aggrrrrrr, that girl is always late!" growled Raye in total frustration, "When will she ever get a watch!"

"Serena, I understand that, but my question is, where is Amy, she's never late, this is strange."Lita looked up at the sky trying to figure out what time might it be.

"Relax, she's probably just waiting for the meatball-head." said Mina cheerfully dismissing Litas' worried comment.

Half an hour later Serena came storming into the normally peaceful temple

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so, so, so very sorry!!!" she was blabbering, panting and blabbering more as she tried desperately to catch her breath.

"What held you up this t.Where's Amy?" Ray was about to yell at her, but then she noticed that the senshi of ice was not with Serena.

"Amy, I don't know, she wasn't in class today, I thought that one of you knew something about it." inside Serena sighed relieved that she was not going to get yelled at.

"She wasn't in class?!" Serena flinched as all the present bodies capable of speech yelled at the same time, "What's such a big deal, it's not like you yell when I'm not at school!" it was true though, Amy not being at school was a very big deal, the young mercurian valued studying above many things and she would never miss school without a very serious reason.

"Hummm, come to think about it, I haven't seen her all day, maybe she's sick, anyone wants to come with me and see?" Serena finally caught her breath and was able to speak normally.

"Where are we going?" asked Mina who only now seemed to wake up from her daydreaming.

"To Amy's place, I'm worried, not a word from her since last night, this is not normal" Lita broke in again. She has been worried for a while now, but now that Serena showed up saying that Amy is nowhere around, she was even more worried.

"Oh, Amy, that's right" Mina sweat-dropped.

(In front of Amys' house)

"Why won't she open the door!" exclaimed Raye after five minutes of unsuccessful banging on the poor door.

"Maybe she's not home?" suggested Mina

"Where could she have gone?" Lita whispered as she leaned against the wall and looked up at the sky again, it was a habit of hers when she was worried. "She was not at the school, she hasn't called anyone and no one has seen her, this is not like Amy, if she had to go somewhere she would most definitely call, any ideas?"

"Maybe the negaverse got her, those freaks have been awfully quiet lately, who knows what they were planning." Minas' good mood has diminished by now and like the rest of the girls she was getting pretty worried.

"Lets not draw conclusions just yet, how about we split up and look for her" Raye who was silent for a while gave up on banging the door and was now facing the rest of the scouts.

"Ok, everyone, how about this, Raye, you take the schools and libraries, Serena, you take restaurants, arcades and any unlikely places for Amy to go to but that you visit a lot, Lita, go as a scout and take the streets, I'm sure you can handle that, Luna, Artemis, you look anywhere that we can not get into, all the most unlikely places, I'll take the malls and the gyms, who knows, maybe she is somewhere out there" Mina stood up and was about to leave before she turned around again "We'll meet back at Cherry Hill temple in three hours, good luck everywhere and be careful" with that all the senshi went into different directions to look for Amy in all the possible different places.

They would use their communicators if any of the got in trouble or found Amy, but for some reason Lita didn't think that they would find her. The reason was that Amy would not be in one of those places having fun when she knew that they had a meeting, it was just not how Amy operated. But even though, Lita shook of the thought and went along with the search, who knows, maybe they'll find something.

In three hours the scouts were exhausted and clueless. There was not a single sighting of their blue haired friend, Amy was not at an of her usual places, she was not at any of her unusual places, she was nowhere to be found, as if she just disappeared into thin air. She wouldn't even answer her communicator and none of them had a computer like she did so they couldn't find her that way either.

And to make things worse Lita has not returned yet. Raye contacted her on the communicator half an hour ago, but she was not answering.

"Not Lita too, what's the matter with us all of a sudden, is this some kind of scout disappearance day?" Mina was not too happy with this situation, not happy at all for that matter.

Fortunately at that moment Lita decided to show up.

"Where in hell were you, we were worried!" yelled Raye waking up the sleeping Serena.

Sorry, but I think I found something." Lita jumped down from the roof she was currently on and continued "there is some guy selling newspapers by Amys' house, he said that he saw a girl with blue hair and dressed in slutty clothes go into a club yesterday, I didn't believe that it was Amy at first, but I showed him her picture, he was confident it was her."

"Amy, dressed in slutty clothes, go into a club, that couldn't be." Even Serena was skeptical.

"I thought so too, but we have no other lead I presume by your concerned faces, we have to take this one. I was not able to go into the club right away, it was still closed, but it opens in about one hour, we can go there and ask the people working there, they tend to take note of new faces, I really do think that Amy was new at a club, if it was even her." Lita sat down to rest, they would go later on, and for now, they could just talk and plan what they would do if there was no lead at the club.

(In the negaverse)

Amy was sitting on a chair by the window looking over the place she has come to hate over time so much. She had a lot of time on her hands not, Nephrite and Jaedite were out on another raid and she was left alone to think. Amy had a lot to think about too.

The senshi of ice was beginning to understand how one who lived in this place for so long could turn out so evil, this place was hideous. Corruption was everywhere, even the ground itself seemed to breathe and radiate that corruption.

Loneliness was all around Amy, she has never felt so alone in her life even though a lot of times she was alone, she has realized now that the reason must be because she never had time to actually think about it, always studying, always working, never really thinking about her life that much.

Only now that Amy had time to think about it she realized that she never really belonged among her friends. They were fire, lightning, love and light, all warm, all together, she was ice, the cold element foreign among them.

Sometimes Amy even thought that they only used her for her knowledge, to tell them how to solve a problem or to scan through enemy forces with her computer and visors, sometimes she wondered if they were really her friends.

Mercury was not blaming them though, why would any of them ever want to have her around, the cold and composed Amy, the one who only knows how to study and never have any fun. Amy thought that even though she is such a worthless person, they are still probably looking for her now, they shouldn't, she is not worth the trouble, but she knew they still would.

Amy felt like she was disgrace, a disgrace to herself and the rest of the scouts. At the moment she was actually thankful to Jaedite and Nephrite for taking her here, for not making her face her friends in her pitiful state. Even the negaverse generals have shown her mercy, they have not destroyed her, they kept her here away from shame, she was even thankful to Nephrite for taking away her transformation stick, she was not worthy to own such a precious object.

Amy has never felt so depressed and worthless in her life. She had no idea what she was going to do with herself, even less of an idea as to how she was going to survive this life, the whole thing was so strange. Silent crystalline tears have made their way back on her face, she thought that she had no more tears left to cry, she was wrong.

Mercury thought that perhaps it was right that she has ended up here, a low and disgusting creature like herself. A creature that betrays her friends and puts them in danger because of a moments worth of dirty pleasure, she was lower then even the lowest creature in this forsaken place.

As Mercury fell deeper into her depression she was starting to feel so low and corrupted that she was beginning to think that even this place was too good for her. Guilt was present strong in her heart and her self esteem was dropping like a rock, there was just nothing there to make her feel better.

Amys' thoughts have been interrupted as a pair of strong hands grabbed her and threw her to the floor. Her first instinct was to fight back, but as she glanced at her attacker all desire for a battle has drained from her at once. Her face paled enormously as she looked at the person before her. Zoicite. Amy has dreaded this meeting the most, especially after what Nephrite told her.

The girl had yet another guilt attack, she could not look into the green, angry eyes of the youngest of the four generals. She looked down not wanting to meet those eyes, it hurt, it hurt so much.

"Look who we have here, if it isn't Princess Mercury herself, what do I owe you for gracing us with your royal presence?" Zoicite bowed mockingly before the girl.

Amy felt horrible, it seemed that anywhere she went she caused someone pain.

"I'm not a princess Zoicite, I'm not Sailor Mercury, I'm not sailor anything, if you must call me anything then call me Amy." Her voice was surprisingly calm and at the same time cold, not rude cold, more like empty, void cold.

"I will call you anything I like to call you, you Sailor Brat!" Zoicite was just as annoyed by her telling him what to call her as he was confused by what she meant, but he didn't show the later.

"Call me a brat, fine, but don't call me a sailor brat, a traitor brat would be a more appropriate name for me now." Mercurys' head sank even lower, she had no strength left in her voice, only complete misery.

Ziocite laughed.

"Traitor, how appropriate, you're a traitor in more ways then you know, all you mercurians are!"

"Aren't you a mercurian Zoicite?" Amy dared to look up into his eyes that just for a moment widened in shock before narrowing dangerously at her comment.

Before Amy could react Zoicite has sent a weak wave of energy in her direction, as weak as it was it was strong enough to slam the girl into a wall very painfully.

"That should teach you, you little bitch, never, never call me a mercurian again!"

Amy was scared, but she couldn't just leave it at that, she had to make him realize that she hasn't meant for it to happen as it did.

"I'm sorry Zoicite." she whispered her strength failing her.

She didn't have to speak loud though, he heard her just fine.

"What?!" In an instance Zoicite was beside Amy and was grabbing her throat pining her to the wall. "What did you say you little spoiled royal bitch?!"

"I said I'm sorry,. I'm sorry for what happened to you,. I'm sorry that you were left here, .but it wasn't my fault,. I didn't even know!" Amy was choking in his strong grip, she could barely talk.

Zoicite growled and only squeezed tighter

"You are sorry, look at that, she is fucking sorry!" he laughed "who do you think you are, who do you think I am, do you really think that you can just come here and say that you are sorry for destroying my life and I'm supposed to forgive you?!"

Zoicite shook his head slowly in disbelief before shoving Amy back on the ground. He backed away from the crying and coughing girl still shaking his head his eyes wide in shock.

"Never.never." whispered Zoicite before disappearing out of the room.

The girl managed to crawl over to the window and force it open. For once, the cold and merciless air of the negaverse was welcomed by her as she struggled for every breath of oxygen. When she was finally able to breathe she felt very weak all of a sudden and with nothing to support her she slid back down on the floor leaning against the wall.

For some reason, she felt very cold and nauseated, managing to get up she ran to the bathroom and was instantly sick. It was surprising that she could be sick since she barely ate anything last night.

Amy stumbled out of the bathroom, her legs felt like cotton, so wobbly and unstable. She managed to get to the bed and fell right on top of it exploding in tears. Everyone hated her, every single soul here seemed to hate her. Amy was shivering, it was cold and she did not shut the window, she couldn't be bothered to get up and shut it. It will shut itself eventually, even the walls here seemed to be alive and have a mind of their own, they shrunk away from her when she leaned on them.

The thought for some reason seemed funny to Amy, even the walls, even the fucking walls hated her! The girl curled into a tight ball and started to laugh, quiet psychotic kind of laughter only sometimes interrupted by fits of crying.

The always calm and composed Amy was breaking down. She was hysterical and completely psychotic. In that state she was found by Nephrite.

"What happened to you?" he sat down on the bed beside her and stroked her hair absentmindedly.

Nephrite had a very good idea as to what happened to her, Zoicite must've found out that the princess of Mercury was here. Jaedite, can't he ever keep what he knows to himself?! Nephrite wasn't sure why he was mad or why he cared about the girl that was not very long ago his enemy, but what did that matter?

Amy sobbed as she felt a hand brush against her face and hair. She knew who it was, Nephrite has returned, she just didn't know what she should do. Should she throw herself at him and cry on his shoulder like she did last time, or should she walk away. She knew that she couldn't do the later, not only because of her promise, she just couldn't.

She couldn't face being alone, she couldn't face her friends either, she had no where to go.

"Nephrite.?" the girl almost whined his name questioningly as she dared to look up.

Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. She was shaking because she was very cold, she now wished that she wore just a bit more cloth when she went to that stupid club. She looked so miserable, so alone, so lost.

Nephrite couldn't bare to look at her like that. He has seen heartbreak before, he has seen pain before, he has felt too much of it himself to be able to look at it and not care. Had she been his enemy still, he would not care, he would hurt her, destroy her, and not care. But could she still be considered his enemy, if not friend, she was still his, she belonged to him, only yesterday he held her in his arms as she cried on his shoulder and promised that she will never leave him. She was his, he couldn't look at someone that was his and not care.

Pulling the girl up he seated her in his lap and started looking over her. Her face was fine, but there was a huge bruise on her neck. Everything else seemed fine. Nephrite ran his fingers over the bruise, Amy flinched, it still hurt a lot.

Nephrite couldn't heal it completely, but he could help the pain go away.

"There, that should feel better." he drew the girl closer wrapping his cloak around her shivering body. There was a small light and warmth and the next thing Amy knew she was wearing the grey negaverse uniform.

The girl didn't care, at least she was warm.

"Thank you." she whispered as she leaned against his chest putting her head on his shoulder.

Tears were still running down her pale face, but the sobs stopped. So once again she was in Nephrites' arms crying away her pain.

"Thank me another way Amy." whispered Nephrite as he tilted her chin up and slowly pressed his lips against hers.

Amys' body stiffened in shock, waves of icy fire were running down her spine as she shivered, but not because of the cold. She was feeling hot all of a sudden, very hot. Her head felt light and had she not been sitting in Nephrites' lap she would have most definitely fall. Amys' eyes fell closed as she gripped onto Nephrites' arms with her hands.

This was crazy, Amy thought that she was crazy, she was kissing her one time worst enemy, but she couldn't help it. Amy gave in, she needed to be held, she needed someone to care, she needed someone by her side or she might not make it here on her own.

Their lips parted, it was not a passionate kiss, just a chaste and small kiss, but it brought up emotions that neither Amy nor Nephrite felt before. It wasn't love, they were long way from love. You can't love someone you barely know, someone who you hated just a day before, no, you can't love like that right away, only in fairy tales. But it was affection, affection that one day might grow into friendship, affection that sometimes may even grow into love, the affection that might just keep Amy alive long enough for that to happen.

Nephrite held Amy in his arms stroking her hair gently. He leaned back against the backboard of his bed that was also the wall the bed was attached to and pulled Amy to lie on top of his chest, he thought he might as well get comfortable, as he didn't thing he was going to go anywhere for a while. For the first time during her time in the negaverse Amy smiled, it was not a big smile, no, she was not happy, she was just content.

And elsewhere, somewhere on earth, a group of friends were at a nightclub showing a picture of their lost friend to a bartender.

"Yes, I've seen her yesterday, she was with a pair of strange guys in grey suits, one wore a cloak, believe me or not, he did, I remember she left with them, and then I blanked out, must've had a drink to many."

The girls paled at the realization.

"Amy." whispered Serena as she fell to her knees and cried for her friend."Will I ever see you again Sailor Mercury.?"

AN: Here you go guys, I decided to continue, thanks to all of your nice reviews and the requests of all lovers of strange pairings. I, being as evil as I am, made so that again I may stop right here and my fiction would still be complete, if you want me to continue, you will have to review and tell me that you do.