Yeah, this is what I have of hold me…Kami give me a muse…please….enjoy your reading. Please review.

Precursors to murder

The large pot slammed down on the old wooden table. Blue eyes and a radiating moon symbol lit up the room with anger. Lita sighed, her own symbol glowing. If anger could taint the moon, the Wiseman would have been a little angel at this point. Rei, leaning against a wall was restraining hunting down the bastard and burning his flesh off millimeter by millimeter. Ami could not be there, but would be there later for dinner. Mina was contemplating how to break up with the bastard and go to her rather secret fling with her manager.

Lita lifted her head, and met Serena's furious yet tear-filled eyes. "First he hurt your motherly pride by commenting on not being able to cook, and then ignored the fact that he was the father of Hotaru?" Serena nodded, the anger beginning to seep out her body. Tears wanted to escape.

Ami walked in at that moment. Tentatively, she took in the furious Rei, exhausted Lita, and tearful Serena. Mina was even contemplating. It was never a good sign. What she had heard was insulting Serena's cooking and not recognizing his own daughter. That meant one thing. "Darien's back and ever his asshole self?" All nodded furiously. Ami sighed. Usually, things didn't go past her anger mark. With a nod, it was affirmed well beyond that. All eyes were taking in Ami, and her sudden stillness. Slowly, her gaze rose and met Serena's first, then everyone else's. "So how are we going to make his life hell?" Serena was suddenly full of emotion, and then was depleted. Before, when it was a first, seeing Serena become thoughtful was an accomplishment. That was also 18 years ago.

Fully exhausted now, Serena sat down, pot clean, and used subconscious power of the crystal to distribute the plates. No one wanted to move, and the state of the future Japan was at stake. Surly, Pluto would understand. "He said that he wanted to know whether or not you could make your own destiny since before you needed help for every little thing."

Rei came and sat down next to Mina. "Why did we used to fight over him again?" Serena just shook her head. "I don't know. All I know is that Crystal Tokyo is now a matriarchal society." Ami raised an eyebrow. "'is now?'" Lita spoke before Serena could. "Yes. Before a political marriage would have been contemplated. Now I think it would be Armageddon to impose that." More looks were exchanged.

"What about your heir though?" Serena's head hit the table with a graceful thud. Her words were spoken into the table. "In the future, a visitor comes. If it would have gone as planned, then she would already be here. But Seiya came before his princess would have gone missing, and before the little visitor came. She is close enough in resemblance to me to have the possibilities of being a planet-less princess."

Ami's glasses fell down her nose as Serena peered up at Ami's inquisitive sound. "What, mercury?" A question popped into Lita's, Rei's and Mina's head at the same time. It had already been lingering in the back of Serena's mind for far too long. "Who's the father?" Serena let a meaningless half smile cross her face. "I-I don't know. The closest ones to be her father are Seiya's brother, which has boundaries in a world beyond, and Demando." Mina Shuddered at the thought of Demando.

All were exhausted then. They looked at the clock. It was near 3 am. They really didn't know where the time had gone. Serena pushed herself up. "You guys can go get blankets and pillows if you want. I'm heading to bed." Rei stuck around for the night, and told Mina to go do the secret things she had been doing lately. Lita felt guilty leaving, yet had to leave. She asked Rei to express her condolences, and told warned Serena to have poison resists up. Arsenic would run plentiful the next day.