Chapter Six:
Loneliness
Darien stared at her lifeless body in shock. The love of his life was now gone from his life forever. His heart shattered. Darien's life seemed to fall apart around him. He cried. He hadn't been fast enough. If only he had got there sooner.
Men jumped out of the ambulance and ran towards him.
"Is she breathing sir?" They asked.
"No. She's doesn't have a pulse either. Darien wasn't really there. He was too shocked to realize what was happening.
"Stand aside. We may still be able to save her." Darien stood and walked unsurely three steps back.
He watched them do CPR and they tried to breath life back into her. They worked and Darien was too much out of it to be able to answer any of the cops' questions.
Five minutes had passed and nothing happened.
"Okay, she dead. Take the body to the hospital to be examined." The man stood and started walking back to the ambulance.
"Wait. I've got a faint pulse. She's alive, barely." Darien's eyes opened wider. He watched intensively. He saw Serena's chest slowly rise then fall. She was breathing.
"Oh my God." Darien walked and fell down beside her. He stroked her head.
"Come on. We better get her to the hospital." They loaded Serena onto the ambulance and left for the hospital. Darien went with her.
He had never felt so happy and relieved at the same time in his life. He just hoped Serena was fighting as hard as she could.
Darien and Serena's parents waited five hours in the hospital before they heard anything. Her parents wouldn't leave Darien alone for one second. They kept asking him questions about what had happened, how he found her, telling him that he shouldn't be dating a girl that was four years younger then him, and so on. Darien answered their questions and simply said that they shouldn't try to chouse dates for their daughter. She should be aloud to date whomever she wants.
I hope she's all right.
Finally, a doctor came out of the room Serena was put in. He explained that Serena's condition was bad but she should recover in about a week. They found though that Serena had been well enough to beg her heart out to see Darien. Her parents didn't like the idea, but their daughter was old enough now to know who and who not to date, so they didn't make a fuss.
Darien walked into Serena's room and shut the door behind him. She was watching him with concerned eyes as he took a sit beside her. She knew that he was probably still a little shocked at what had happened tonight.
"I thought I had lost you." He whispered. His eyes were still red from crying and he wasn't quite sure of himself and she knew this by just watching him. He shook with every movement.
"You did lose me, for a few minutes anyways." Serena's eyes shined with concern. She was tired and worn out, but being dead can do that to a person.
Darien got up and sat on the bed beside her. He pulled her close. She embraced him. She felt how unsure he was and how worried - he was trembling with fear.
Serena kissed him. Slowly and passionately. Her presence overwhelmed him. He held her gently, but close and firmly.
Serena then rested her head on his shoulders. She knew Darien was still worried about her, like he felt it was only a dream and he was about to wake up from it at any moment. Darien started to cry again. He was so frightened: like a little child.
"Ssh. Darien. It's okay. I'm right here, I'm right here." She stroked the back of his neck and held him close.
"You really scared me, Serena." Tears had gathered in his throat making it hard for him speak.
" I know. I'm sorry." She pulled away from him and looked deep into his ocean blue eyes. They were sweet little child eyes, frightened after a storm.
"You convinced me, that I didn't really want to die. I really wanted just to be with you, but I didn't realize that that's what my heart was trying to tell me. So, when I realized that I was dead, I fought to try and live, just so I could be with you." Serena touched Darien's face and held it. Her eyes filled with passion and love.
"So don't you say that you weren't able to save me tonight, because it's because of you that I'm here right now. You saved me in the way that no doctor could." Darien then reached up and grabbed her hand. He kissed it and held it in both his hands.
Serena turned and fell into his arms. He cradled her. She leaned into him and nestled her head into his chest. She held onto him and he rested his head on hers.
Serena fell asleep, there in his arms, hearing nothing but the sound of his heartbeat beating in time with her own.
"Endymion is going to pay for this!" Zentraff flipped over a table that was cover in nothing but glass bottles. The glass shattered as it crashed on the floor. Liquid spilled everywhere making the floor look like a little pond.
"She wanted to die! Why dose he always have to interfere?" Zentraff's rage consumed him. All he wanted was for Endymion to burn in the pit of Hell.
"I have to get rid of him. Oh, well. I killed him once. I can do it again. But this time, I'll do it slowly and painfully right in front of the Princess's eyes. Ha, ha, ha!!"
Serena opened her eyes. The sunlight was bright in her eyes as it shinned through her window. She at up and stared around the room. No one was there. Darien must have left last night after I fell asleep.
Something glowed in the corner of her eye. She looked at it. It was a beautiful red rose left on top of an envelope. The envelope said 'Serena' on it in nice, neat handwriting.
She smiled. Darien must have left it for her. She gently lifted the rose along with the envelope. She brought the rose up to her face and inhaled its lovely scent, her smile growing.
She then slowly opened the envelope and pulled out the neatly folded piece of paper.
Something didn't fell right. An awful scent filled the air. Serena's smile vanished. She quickly unfolded the note.
It was all in Darien's handwriting, but she was too afraid to realize what was at the bottom of the letter. Serena read it slowly:
Dear Serena,
I don't want you to start panicking, okay. I'm
all right, for now anyways. If you want to see me
again, unharmed, come to the abandon mansion on
the outskirts of town tonight at 12 o'clock. Come aloneand unarmed.
Bye.
From:
Endymion
P.s. If you don't show up on time, Zentraff will kill
me, for the entire world to see.
The bottom of the letter was stained in blood. Darien's blood, Serena thought. The letter dropped from her hands. She trembled with more fear then she could have ever imagined. She new Zentraff made Darien write the letter.
"Oh my God. Darien!" She cried so hard and for so long. She couldn't bear to lose him. Not again. She had killed herself the last time he was killed. She couldn't bear to watch him die again, but this time, her mother wouldn't be there to bring him back.
She had to get out of the hospital and find some place to hide for the day. She held the rose close. If Darien died again, she knew that there would be no second chances at a life with him. Never ever again.
Darien landed hard. Pain filled every inch of him. His arms and chest burned. His flesh scratched and burned.
"You've become weak, Endymion. You used to put up a good fight, but this is pathetic. I guess you haven't fought enough people lately, or maybe, making love with your pathetic Princess has turned you soft and loving. I always warned you that loving her was probably the biggest mistake you could have ever made." Zentraff marched in circles around Darien.
"Then you went and turned on me, just to protect her all those years ago. I was your best friend. You taught me everything I know." Zentraff kicked Darien. He screamed in pain.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Darien choked, coughing up blood.
"Ha. Well of course you don't. Queen Serenity whipped your memory of me. You probably don't even remember the real way you died on the Moon." Zentraff stared down pathetically at Darien.
"I was killed by Queen Beryl." Darien chocked.
"Wrong!!! I killed you in that war. Ha. You should have seen the look on your love's face when she found you. She killed herself with your sword, you know. She looked so sad and lonely. Oh well. I guess she's going to be lonely again." Zentraff started out of the room.
"She's going to kick your ass; or didn't you know that." Darien choked.
"She can certainly try. By the way, how good was she? I think I might enjoy watching her scrum before I kill her. Ha, ha, ha!" Darien got up and charged at him. Zentraff kicked him back. Darien fell to the ground.
"Poor, old, Endymion. Felling a little out of date, are we? Oh well. Your Bitch will die screaming your name after I'm done will her. To bad you won't be able to do anything about it. Ha, ha, ha!!!" Zentraff slammed the big iron door and left Darien to weep.
"Oh, Serena. What have you I done to do this to you?" Darien stared out his cell window. It was still day, but the sun was already starting to get low. He could only hope that Serena could beat the bastard, or the whole Universe would fall to Zentraff's mercy.
The door slowly creaked open. Serena walked in and shut it slowly feeling as though she would never be at Peace. She was tried and hungry and just wanted to curl up in Darien's arms.
She walked farther into Darien's apartment, dumping her keys on the table as she walked by. His apartment was the same it was yesterday morning when they left it. The bed was unmade; Darien's book was still wide open on the table with a cup of gone cold coffee beside it.
Serena started to cry again. All she wanted was for Darien to be right here with her. She wasted it more then anything.
She glanced over at the clock on the wall. It read 4:30. She had tons of time before she had to start her way over, which was good because she wasn't feeling all that well, but then again, she shouldn't have left the hospital.
She walked over towards Darien's bed and sat down. Memories came fluttering back to her. His hair, his shoulders, his body, his mouth…
She glanced over to his bedside table. The picture of them at the park sat there. She picked it up and stared at Darien. She remembered looking at this picture the day he left for Canada. She had cried then and she was crying now.
The picture fell from Serena's hands and crashed on the floor. The glass shattered, but the picture itself was unharmed. Serena was too busy thinking of Darien to notice.
Serena grabbed the pillow next to her. Darien's head had been there. She could still see the imprint of his head in it.
Serena lay down on the bed, clutching the pillow close to her. She breathed it in. She almost felt as if Darien was holding onto her and she was breathing him in. She cried even harder.
Without realizing it, she fell asleep, felling lost and lonely, like the way she had felt last night and the way she had felt when she had killed herself on the Moon.