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Thanks to Anrui Shino and Silvermane1 for reviewing. You two are what's keeping me updating this story. I hope you like this next chapter.

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The Hidden Life

Chapter 8 - The Visit

A couple of hours after Aurora was treated properly, she and Wufei finally went home. She was still unconscious. Wufei was worried, and what he had saw on her back still played in his mind.

Once they got home, he carried her to her room and watched over her. The other pilots came in to see how they were doing, but quickly left afterwards. Everyone was in a depression. Especially Heero and Wufei because they had saw the extent of the wounds on her body before they left the OZ base.

She was floating in a black void. She looked around her.

'Where am I?' she thought to herself. 'Am I dead?'

[You are not, little one] she heard a voice in her head. Aurora looked for where the voice had come from.

"Who's there?" she demanded.

[It is I] said the voice. Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of Aurora. A small fairy figure appears from the light. She had lavender eyes and long, silver hair done up in odangoes. She was wearing a form fitting white gown with an upturned crescent moon on her bust, and a glowing upturned crescent moon on her forehead.

Aurora looked at her oddly.

"Who are you?"

"I am Queen Selenity of the White Moon Kingdom, but that kingdom had long been gone."

"Why am I here?" Aurora asked coldly.

"You are here to regain your memories of your past lives. I am here to help you with that. Now, close your eyes and relax. Nothing will harm you." Aurora closed her eyes and slowly relaxed. Suddenly, pictures flashed through her head at a fast pace, a small story quickly describing each one. Then all of those pictures fell into place as she recovered her memories. She slowly opened her eyes.

"Mother." she whispered as she looked at Queen Selenity.

"My daughter." Serenity smiled gently, pulling Aurora into her embrace as they both wept. "I'm glad you remember now, Atalanta. It has been so long since I have last seen and held you." They cried for a little while longer. Then Aurora slowly stepped away from her mother.

"It has mother." Aurora whispered as she wiped away her tears. "How is my half-sister, Serena, doing?"

"She is in another dimension. Somehow when I sent all of you to the future, you two were placed into different dimensions and different times."

"How far into the future was she sent to?" Aurora asked curiously.

"She was sent 1,000 years into the future, while you were sent 4,000 years." her mother sighed. Aurora nodded.

Aurora closed her eyes and concentrated on her powers. Soon, she saw pictures of another time and place. She saw a blonde odangoed Queen and a purple haired King. Knowledge of this place entered her head, and she instantly knew what her sister has been doing ever since she was reborn. She smiled.

A couple of minutes later, she reopened her eyes and looked at her mother.

"She's now Neo-Queen Serenity?" she asked. The Queen nodded.

"My time is nearly up." Serenity said regretfully. "I will see you later, my child." she started to slowly fade away. "Remember... I'll always... love you..."

"I love you too." Aurora answered. Soon, she too, faded away.

Aurora woke up to a dark room. She blinked her eyes to get the sleep out of them and to clear the fuzziness. She slowly moved to sit up and groaned softly. She completely sat up and looked around. She noticed that she was in her room at the mansion. Then she saw the sleeping figure of Wufei. She softly smiled.

Slowly, she got up and out of bed. She stepped over to the sleeping person and slowly knelt in front of him. She studied his features. He looked so relaxed and peaceful, much different than he is when he is awake.

She raised a hand and softly traced the contours of his face. His skin was smooth and flawless.

'I don't want to hurt you if I suddenly had to leave.' she thought to him knowing that he wouldn't be able to hear it anyways. 'Perhaps I should tell him... all of them... of my past lives and who I am.' she nodded her head to herself making up her mind. She went into deep thought as to how she was going to tell him and the others, unaware that she was being watched.

Wufei had woken up when he felt fingers lightly trace his face. He smiled at what he saw sitting in front of him. He noticed the faraway look in her eyes.

'She must be thinking about something.' He then smirked, knowing of a way to bring her out of her thoughts. He leaned down and softly pressed his lips to hers. He felt her unconsciously respond. He slowly deepened the kiss, fully bringing her back to her senses. She realized who was kissing her.

'Wufei' she thought and inwardly smiled. The kiss was soon deepened. She put all of her love into the kiss as it became passionate. Soon they both pulled away, breathing heavily.

"Mmmm." she purred once they broke for air. "What a great way to start the day." Wufei nodded and smiled.

"How are you feeling?" he asked after remembering what had happened to her.

"Fine, now that you're here." she replied.

"Good." she yawned, and a resonating growl came from somewhere in the room. She blushed.

"And hungry." she said. Wufei chuckled.

"Alright. Let's go get something to eat." he stood up and helped her to her feet. Slowly, they made their way to the kitchen and got some food from the fridge. They sat at the table in the dining room, enjoying their meal and the peace and quiet.

They were sitting in a comfortable silence when a voce interrupted them.

"It's good to see you up and about." Quatre said as he was coming down the stairs.

"Eh... what can I say." Aurora said. "I heal fast. Plus, I was extremely hungry. Treize never fed me or gave me anything to drink."

"Well, it's a good thing we rescued you when we did." came another voice. Everyone turned and there was Trowa and Steven, standing in one of the doorways.

"Yeah. Any longer, and I would've succumbed to the darkness." she chuckled.

"DON'T SAY THAT!" Wufei burst out angrily. "Never give up! You're too strong for that!" Aurora was going to retort, but stopped when she saw the silent pleading in his eyes, along with some unshed tears. She relented.

"I'm sorry, Wufei." she said, lowering her head in shame. Tears formed in the corners of her eyes. She felt so ashamed of herself for putting Wufei through pain and suffering while she was captured by OZ. She felt someone lift her chin. She was met with coal black eyes filled with love.

"It's alright, as long as you don't think or talk like that again." she nodded, agreeing with his terms.

"If you don't mind my asking," began Steven. "What exactly happened to you?" Aurora sighed.

"I'll tell you as long as the others are here. I'm not in the mood to repeat what I'm about to say."

"I'll go get the others." Trowa said as he left to get everybody else. 10 minutes later, everyone was situated in the living room.

"I'll start where Quatre, Hal and I were getting ready to go home." she said. "We were heading to wards the car, when we were attacked all of a sudden..."

Over an hour later, Aurora finished her story. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably. Wufei, who was sitting next to her, covered her hands with his. She looked at him and smiled gratefully. He smiled back.

The others watched in amazement as emotions flickered across Wufei's face. They've never seen this many emotions coming from him. 'It was probably something that he only shows around Aurora.' they all thought. Aurora turned back to the others.

"For hours on end, he would torture me. Knives, whips, injections that would normally loosen a persons tongue, and other stuff. He would stop after I would pass out from too much pain, which was only once. He tried everything to get me to give him any useful information. I never did say anything except "I can take anything you dish out", "Asshole", and "Bastard" which kind of pissed him off."

"He did... Everything?" Steven asked, stressing the last word. Aurora nodded.

"Well, except rape me. He didn't do that, thankfully." Wufei let out his breath that he hadn't realize he was holding, in relief

"Treize kept beating me until you guys came to the rescue. And for that, I am eternally grateful." she got up and hugged each pilot. The hugs were returned with a lot of care.

Aurora yawned as she snuggled deeper into Wufei's arms after giving everybody hugs. Within minutes, she was completely asleep. Wufei noticed and motioned everyone to be quiet.

"I'm going to put her to bed. Then I'm going to bed as well. Goodnight." he got up and walked out of the room. Everybody said their goodnights as well.

The next morning, Aurora woke up and found herself wrapped up in strong arms. She turned and saw Wufei. Then she remembered what happened yesterday. She felt sorry for worrying him like that. She sighed.

'I'll just have to make it up to him later.' she mused to herself.

"Morning." she heard Wufei's voice near her ear.

"Morning." she replied back. She sat up, as did Wufei. "Wufei...?" He looked at her.

"Yes? What is it?" he asked concerned.

"There's something I need to tell you..."

End chapter 8! I hope you all liked it! I'm sorry it took me so long, but college is in full swing and midterms are coming up. Please review and tell me how it is.

Jewelclaw