I liked your ficlet that much Gator-chan, the muse made me do this...

Title - Apologies

Author - - PG-13

Series - Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon

- Sequel to 'Incoming!'

Pairing - Minako/Hotaru

Disclaimer - I do not own the Sailor Moon series nor its characters and this is not for

profit. Additionally, I didn't even come up with the original premise (sp?) for it. That's

Gator-chan's.

Author Notes - All reviews should be sent to Ayrki at the above e-addy or her page on While one should not piss of their wife, they should also apologise.

Minako knew she should issue some sort of apology to Hotaru. To be fair, she hadn't

been. It wasn't her wife's fault that being pregnant made her irritable. It was the hormones...

at least that's what Minako was always having insisted to her.

/'Oh, don't mind her. She's pregnant./

/'TSK. It's the hormones, you know what she gets like./

/"She's pregnant. Why don't we infuriate the living hell out of her by being as condescending

as we possibly can in faux tones/'

Blue eyes narrowed for a long moment as the blonde envisioned all she could still do despite

her current status. Just because she looked like she'd swallowed a volleyball she was so often

seen with in her youth, didn't mean she was any less capable or not possessing a lethal temper. ...

As her poor mate had found out...again.

Minako sighed. Hotaru never deserved the seemingly random outburst -though they oddly

always managed to coincide with the unavoidable 'lunches' with that infuriating women's group

who insisted on Minako's presence.

No. Instead, Hotaru quickly left the blonde to work through the last of the residual frustration

and indignation through whatever task elected that day -this time dishes. To make matters worse

guilt-wise for Minako, Hotaru made some hopelessly romantic gesture that served as a gallant

apology for the blonde's behaviour. If it wasn't a backwards way of relinquishing her very firm

claim on Hotaru, Minako would say she didn't deserve the younger woman. Unfortunately for

the legions of would be suitors for her beloved, that was an event never likely to happen.

Smiling in response to her much happier and preferred thoughts, Minako attacked her task

with renewed vigour. Her attention though, was firmly planted on her plans for expressing her...

apologies to her mate.