AN: Wow, it's been awhile since I last posted. Sorry about that. I haven't been able to get on this computer that much and this is the one that has this story on it. I do have all but one chapter of this typed up and I'll be sending them all in one go, so the others won't have any author's notes, this is it. Review please so I know people are still reading this. An don't bug me about grammar and how well the story is written. I wrote it awhile ago and even I think this is awful. The story line is great though and I would re-write it, but I don't have the time. Enjoy it anyways!!!
Death Can Not Stop True Love
By: Moonlight Snitch
Edited By: Melanie B
Chapter three:
What Should I do?
Serena opened her eyes. Her head still throbbed and her lower back was still sore and stiff. She felt dried blood on her fingertips, but none anywhere else.
She glanced around the room to get her bearings. She was in her bedroom, lying on her bed. The door was almost closed and her lights were off. The zephyr blew in through the open window. The air was cool and refreshing. The moon shined through her window and made her feel safe and truly at home.
Suddenly, her mother walked into the room carrying a tray with a bowl of water and bandages.
"Mom." She crocked. Her voice was no more than a coarse whisper. Probably from all that yelling she had done at the battle. Her throat was sore and dry.
"So, your finally awake." Her mother put the tray down on Serena's bedside table and sat down next to her.
Serena rubbed her eyes. "What happened? How are the Sailor Scouts?" Serena asked curiously.
"They were all sent to the hospital. You weren't that bad so they bandaged you up and sent you home." Serena's mother now looked concerned, but was terribly glad that her daughter was all right.
"How badly was I hurt?" Serena asked, not at all sure if she wanted to know.
"All you had was a cut on your fore head and a huge mark on your lower back, but they assured me that it wasn't serious." Her mother put Serena's hand in hers.
"Don't do that again, okay. You really scared me and your father." Her mother choked on her words. Serena could see tears in her eyes.
"It's okay, mom. I'll do my best not to worry you and dad again." Serena said, trying to reassure her mother and herself.
She pulled her mother in and embraced her. She tried her hardest to fight back the tears, trying to show her mother how brave she was even thought she just wanted to disappear from the planet.
I wish Darien was here, Serena thought, but she couldn't even talk to him until Sunday because he was studying for his up coming exam and writing essay's all this week.
Finally, Serena gave up fighting the tears and just let them all come out. She started to cry on her mother's shoulder.
"It's okay, Serena. Just let it all out." Her mother started to gently rub Serena's back.
Serena stared out the window again. The moon was still high in the sky. Stars twinkled like little fireflies caught in the darkness of the mysterious night. She then wondered if Darien was staring at the moon right now, missing her terribly; like she was to him.
Serena fell asleep in her mother's arms thinking of times with Darien when they had lived on the moon, and even though he was all the way in Canada, she fell asleep dreaming that she was dancing in his arms and listening to the sound of his sweet voice.
"Few, what a day." Serena said, wiping her forehead as she walk down the street towards the hospital. She had promised her mother that she would go check on the Scouts. Besides, she needed to see them anyways.
Her day had been a long and tiring one. She had gotten 30% on her Math test and wanted to avoid her mother for as long as possible. Ms. Haruna was surprised that she had finished her homework for once, but that sill didn't change the fact that she had failed, again.
Serena turned the corner and headed up the stairs towards the hospital. She went up two steps when a sharp went up her spine. She froze on the step and glanced around. Since her pervious attack with that man a week ago, she was much more aware of her surroundings. She saw nothing unusually, just some trees blowing in the wind, pretty pink and red flowers in flowerpots, and the door to the hospital.
She walked on. Her mind started to race with the same fear as the night she got attacked. She started to run for the doors. She panicked.
"Stop!" a voice from behind her yelled.
Serena froze. She knew she shouldn't have, but something in her mind told her too. She slowly turned towards the object where the voice had come from. She came face to face with a man that resembled her attacker. Her heart pounded so hard her chest hurt. She was so frightened.
"You can't get away from me that easily, Princess!!!" The man's voice echoed off the buildings around them.
Oh no. Not good. He knows who I am. Not good. Serena's mind filled with frightening thoughts and of how the hell this guy, that she's never seen before, could possibly know who she was.
"You don't seem to remember me, do you?" The man gave a slight chuckle. "No matter. That will just make my job much easier." Serena took a few steps back. For some reason, becoming Sailor Moon didn't even occur to her. She was so wound up in the thought of trying not to get killed that she forgot the one thing that could save her life, then she got herself together.
"What do you want?" Serena asked with the sound of command in her voice.
"Only you, but here is not the time for that. Come to the downtown Tokyo mall at 10 o'clock tonight. If you don't show, I will hunt down your pathetic Prince Endymion. Surely you don't want any harm to come to him." The man gave a short cackle of evil happiness then disappeared just as Serena blinked.
Hurt Darien? I guess this scumbag isn't leaving me much of a choice. But how dose he know who Darien and me are? I've never seen him before in my life. He doesn't even look familiar. Serena's head began to hurt. She rubbed it and headed up towards the hospital doors. She decided that she would have to go to the mall tonight, even if this guy didn't know where Darien was, it would be pretty easy for him to get that information out of someone who did know, like her parents. They had given away information like that before. What would stop them from doing it again?
Serena pulled the hospital doors open. She just hoped that at least one of the Sailor Scouts were awake. She didn't really care which one. She just needed to talk to one of them. Maybe they could help her figure this out.
Luckily, one of the Scouts had woken up. It just happened to be Mars. That was probably because the others had been much more seriously hurt.
Serena sat by Raye and told her what had happened outside. Raye was quiet at first, and then spoke:
"He knew who you and Darien were?!" Rayed couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Ya. I don't understand how he could know, but he did seem surprised when I didn't remember him." Serena's words were full of fear from the thoughts of that second encounter as she said them.
"Well, you're not thinking of going tonight, are you?" Raye asked worriedly.
'Raye, I have to go. Because if I don't he will hunt down Darien and hurt him, or worse." She said, saying Raye's name at a whisper so no one around them would know who she really was.
"You never said that if you didn't show that Darien would get hurt." Raye felt hurt that Serena didn't tell her everything.
"Well, now I have," Serena said almost as if she had read Raye's thoughts, "I can't let Darien get hurt Raye, I just can't!" Serena stared at the floor. Darien doesn't even know that she got attacked. He would really be in shock to see this guy come out of nowhere and try to hurt him just because she didn't show up. She would rather die then see Darien get hurt, especially because of her.
"Haven't you told him yet?' Raye asked, given Serena a concerned look.
Serena gave a quick ashamed look. She wasn't quite sure how to tell Raye what she was about to say. "No, I haven't told him." Serena decided to get straight to the point. " I haven't talked to Darien for the past week. I haven't even returned his calls." Serena already knew what Raye was going to say and she didn't want to listen to it.
"Serena, how could you! Darien's probably worried sick about you, wonder why you haven't called. You've probably hurt him, Serena. And you told me you'd rather die then hurt him. This has got to be the worst thing you could have ever done to him. He probably thinks you don't love him and you never want to see or speak to him again! I can't believe you, Serena. I just can't!!"
Serena fell speechless. She knew this was probably hurting Darien by just neglecting him, but she never realized that he might think she didn't love him anymore.
"If I were you, Serena. I would find the nearest phone and call him. Just to say that you're sorry for neglecting him and tell him what's going on." Raye's face was flowing red.
"But I can't, Raye. Not now. If this guy is watching me, he might be able to trace the call and find him, even if I do show up tonight. Promise me Raye, that you won't call him. Promise me, please." Serena was begging. She couldn't bear doing this to Darien, but she had no choice.
Raye wasn't sure what to do. She knew she should call Darien and say what's going on with Serena, but she could see the logic in what Serena saying. I f she called, she might end up putting him in danger and Serena in even more danger then she already was in.
"I promise, Serena. I shouldn't promise, but I can understand why you're doing this." Raye took a deep breath. "Do you have a plan, or are you just going to show up and get yourself killed?"
"Mars!!!" Serena was anger now. 'So Raye sees this as a suicide mission,' Serena thought.
"Well it's true. You're going to play by this guys rules, aren't you, Meatball head? If I were leader, I would never embark on a mission like this alone. I would a least have a plan, which you don't have." Raye was just trying to piss Serena off more, and it was starting to work. Serena wished Mina, Lita, or Amy had been the one to wake up, not Raye.
"Raye, I'm doing the best I can, and I thought we had already decided that I'm the leader. Stop trying to change what my mother…"
" Ya, well. If you haven't noticed Serena, but your mother is dead!!!" Raye suddenly wanted to take that back. She had been too angry to think of what she was saying.
Serena's face went pail. Tears started trickling down the sides of her face. She couldn't believe what Raye had said.
"Oh my God, Serena. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to…"
"I doesn't matter, Mars. I should have never come to you with my problems." Serena grabbed her things and stormed out of the room feeling hurt that one of her friends could be capable of making her feel so bad with such a comment.
Raye was left alone in her room feeling terribly bad. She never meant to hurt Serena even if they fight all the time.
"I have to do something. It's bad enough that Serena might not make it though the night, then I had to go a make her day even worse with such a comment." Raye sat and thought for a while. Finally it hit her. She now knew the prefect way to help Serena, even if she wants it or not.