Chapter 3: Work and Play
Serena woke up thinking that her recent experience was just a dream. She was proven wrong when she saw Darien sleeping next to her with rays of sunlight dancing on his face. {Oh great. Now I may still have to make love to him, which wouldn't be that bad if I was really his wife, but his wife is in my universe right now.}
Darien woke up and wrapped his arm around Serena. "Good morning my princess." He then gave her a kiss.
"Good morning my prince."
"I better get started on breakfast before we have to go to work."
"Work?"
"The bills aren't going to pay themselves."
"Of course not." Serena laughed half heartedly.
"You get dressed while I make breakfast."
Serena looked at an alarm clock. "This early?"
"It's Saturday, if I don't start cooking soon Karen will just pour her a bowl of that marshmallow cereal she likes, we can't let her eat sweets all the time."
"Ok, you convinced me."
###
After a few minutes Karen went into Serenity's room and started jumping on her bed while Serenity was still in it. "Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
Serenity pushed her off after she stopped jumping. "It's Saturday, one of the only two days of the week I can sleep in without fear of being late to school, so why are you waking me up fungus?"
"Daddy made breakfast and he said to get it while it was hot."
Serenity got up. "Next time just shake my shoulder."
###
Amy woke up looking at Greg's sleeping face, she shook him gently and he began to stir. "Time to wake up dear."
"Alright." said Greg. "I remember we have to take a few appointments today. But it will be worth it for tonight."
"What do you mean?"
"Tonight's our weekly examination, on each other." He said with a suggestive voice.
Amy leapt out of bed. "I better check on Alice." {Why didn't I see this coming; what will I do?!}
She quickly got dressed and saw Alice was still in her pajamas watching cartoons. "Any plans for today?" Amy asked trying to get her mind off of what Greg said.
"After cartoons are over I'm going to meet my friends at the clubhouse."
{At least she isn't as isolated as I was when I was her age.} "The clubhouse, where is it?"
"I can't tell you, it's a secret."
Greg came down. "Alice we're going to work and we're going to have breakfast on the way. Don't answer the door without checking if it's someone we know and if you leave be sure to lock up. If you need to reach us we'll both be at the clinic."
"Ok Daddy." Alice said readjusting her glasses.
"Be good sweetheart." said Amy.
###
Raye woke up finding that Chad was already out of bed. She had walked into the kitchen to see Chad having bacon and eggs while Rachel was eating a bowl of cereal in her pajamas. "Good morning Mommy." said Rachel.
"So anything special today?" Raye asked.
"Just the usual." said Chad. "Grounds keeping like every Saturday."
"I'm going to meet with my friends this afternoon." said Rachel.
"That's good." {I'm glad she has friends.}
"Well I'm done. I'll go get dressed now." She then left.
"Now that's she gone." said Chad. "About tonight do you want to be on top or should I?"
"I don't follow, why it should matter if Rachel should hear..." Raye then realized what Chad was talking about. "Oh, tonight?"
"I don't see why not."
"I'm going to get some air." Raye got out of there as quickly as manners would have allowed.
###
Lita woke up and found Ken sleeping next to her. She decided to dress and start cooking. When she was nearly finished Ken came in. "Smells good, I'll have to work hard to top this at dinner."
"I'm glad you like it. So I guess I'm working at the shop today."
"So am I, we're partners remember?"
"Of course." {Not.}
Lisa came into the kitchen. "I smell scrambled eggs, my favorite!"
"I thought macaroni and cheese was your favorite."
"For dinner, not for breakfast."
"Go wait in the dinning room." said Ken. "Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes."
After Lisa went into the dinning room Ken came next to Lita. "She is one of the two best things to happen to me."
"What is the other?" Lita asked.
"You of course, I wouldn't have her if it weren't for you." he leaned in next to her. "I want thank you, tonight in bed."
Lita turned back to the eggs. "Lisa would get mad if we burned her eggs." {Sex, with Ken?! Now what should I do?}
###
Mina felt a shaking on her shoulder. "Mina, Mina wake up." said Jamie.
Mina opened her eyes and saw Jamie shaking her awake. "Good morning dear."
"You have to get up and open your store."
"Ok." She got dressed and went down stairs to the kitchen where she got a piece of toast.
She then saw Marie getting ready to go out the door as well. "Mommy Daddy I'm going to the arcade and then over to the clubhouse."
"Call us if you get into trouble." said Jamie. "Strange things have been happening lately."
"Sure Daddy, have fun at the TV station!"
"Oh by the way I forgot to give this to you yesterday." He handed Mina a piece of paper. "Something else to add to your collection."
Mina looked at the paper and saw it had a celebrity's autograph. "Where did you get this?!"
"Well when you're the assistant director of a successful comedy like 'Family Tree' you can get the guest stars autographs easily."
"How can I ever thank you?"
"Well..." He started whispering something into her ear. "Tonight is Saturday night, and for us that means we are going to have some very, very good sex."
Mina glanced at her watch. "I better get going, but I'll think about tonight." {Mostly how to avoid it!}
###
Serena was about to walk out the door when she heard the doorbell ring. She opened it and saw a woman her current age with blue eyes and black wavy hair that had two heart shaped buns on top. Serena only saw her once back in her dimension, when Luna took a human form for a short time. Behind her was a man with blue eyes and long white hair going halfway down his back. "Luna, Artemis?"
"Sorry we haven't visited in a while." said Luna. "Neither of our children does play dates anymore."
"What are you doing here?" {They must have been reborn as humans in this dimension. I wonder if my parallel self knew them as teenagers.}
"We came to pick up Serenity." said Artemis.
Serenity came to the door. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Neko, did you bring Diana?"
"They sure did!" said a girl Serenity's age with gray eyes and short gray hair with the same heart shaped buns as Luna. "Hotaru and Melissa are waiting for us."
"Then let's go!" Serenity rushed out the door.
Serena also stepped out. "I have to get to work and make a few calls; I hope I can see you later."
"So do we." said Luna.
###
Serena came to the address on her business card. She went into the offices of Hyde's real estate and was greeted by several coworkers. {I hope this is a slow business day.} She saw a plate of cookies sitting under a bell. {Well a least I can have a little something to snack on.}
A man walked up to the plate and rang the bell. "Guess who sold Paterson place?" everyone else clapped. "I'm going to enjoy this sales cookie."
{I have to sell a house to get one of those cookies?} Serena thought to herself.
"Hey Serena." The guy said. "If I keep this up I may over take you as the company's top seller."
"This isn't about sales." Serena said. "We aren't selling houses; we're selling homes; places for families to make memories. Things like baby's first step to an important anniversary we're giving people memories that will are worth more than money could buy." {Where did that come from?!}
"I know, the boss gave us all the same speech our first day."
Serena went to a cubicle marked with her name; she got ready to call the others when the phone on the desk rang. "Hyde's real estate, this is Serena Tuskino how may I help you?"
"Serena its Darien."
"Oh hi honey!"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?"
"That one of those...things attacked where you had that meeting with your friends yesterday?"
"I didn't want to worry you."
"Well I'm sorry to say this but tonight is off, you've been under enough stress as it is and I don't want to add to it."
{Yes!} "I guess I'll have to go without for the time being." Serena said sounding disappointed.
"I'll go tell your friends husbands, convince them to make the same choice."
"I'm sure that my friends will appreciate it in the long run."
"I'll see you when I get home. (kiss over the phone) bye."
"(Kiss over the phone) bye."
Serena waited for a while and then called her friends. "Guys I can trust that your 'husbands' have called off any sex plans they had."
"Thankfully yes." said Raye.
"Hopefully another monster will have the same kind of dark energy that helped get us here in the first place." said Amy. "Then all we need is to barrow the silver crystal from Rini."
"We have problem there." said Serena. "This world's Rini was born in this time and is currently fifteen."
"But Parallel Sailor Moon could only have been eight or nine." said Mina.
"So we have no idea who these Parallel scouts are." said Lita.
"And that means we lost our only possible link to the silver crystal." said Raye.
"And that means we're stuck here." said Serena.
"It looks that way." said Amy. "We may have to stay here if we don't find a way out in a week or so."
"Why a week?"
"I think we're starting to acclimate to this dimension."
"Acclimate?" asked Raye.
"I'm able to do things I shouldn't be able to do without going to medical school. I think our minds are becoming more like those of our counterparts. I'm beginning to think that we actually merged with our counterparts and we're slowly gaining their knowledge and experience."
"Now that you mention it." said Serena. "I quoted a speech I never heard before from memory and I did a good job cooking last night. Also I scolded Rini and Karen last night in a way I never did at home, almost like I've done it a thousand times."
"Karen?"
"My second daughter she's about the same age Rini was when she came here."
"I'm also a mother of a little girl, her name's Alice. She's about the same age as Karen."
"I have a girl named Rachel also the same age." said Raye.
"My girl is named Lisa, same age." said Lita.
"And mine is called Marie, also same age." said Mina.
Serena looked at her desk and saw a photo. "Well it looks like they were born in the same month because I have a photo here of the five of us and we're holding babies. Looks like we were moms together."
"What if our 'husbands' what to get frisky with us again?" said Mina.
"Will we want to say no?" said Lita.
"I doubt we would." said Amy.
"So how long do we have?" asked Raye.
"In about a week's time we'll be more like our counterparts then ourselves and I'm guessing by then we may not want to go back home."
"And with no way to find out who the Parallel Scouts are, it doesn't seem like we can." said Serena.
###
Later that day five girls left five different homes towards the same destination, a clubhouse on a riverbank under a bridge. At first glance it seemed like it was just an old wooden hut built by some boys who later abandoned it when they grew older, but secret things were discussed in there. First Alice and then Rachel came in then Lisa and Marie. "We're here." said Lisa. "Now we can talk about how we good we were taking care of the weirdo's overgrown fly."
"First that isn't all we're doing." said Rachel. "Second we can't start a scout meeting until everyone is here; including that dummy Karen."
Alice looked out of the window. "Here she comes now, stuffing her face as usual."
Karen came in licking a strawberry ice cream cone. "Hey guys!"
"Do you always have to be eating?" said Marie.
"I like sweets."
"One day you're gonna blow up as big as an elephant!" said Rachel.
"Am not!"
"Yup and all of teeth will fall out too!"
"You meanie!"
"Ok, I call this scout meeting to order!" said Alice.
"Where did you get that?" asked Marie.
"Saw it on TV."
"So what are we gonna do?" asked Karen.
They looked around having no real idea and then Lisa said. "We got rid of that bug fast yesterday; the weirdo is losing his touch."
"Ok, anyone what to say anything important?" said Rachel.
"Well now that you mention it..." said Karen.
"Rachel said something important." said Marie.
"It is!"
"From you; right." said Lisa.
"Why are you guys always mean to me?!"
"Because you're an idiot who always hangs around where she isn't wanted!" said Alice.
"Well I case you forgot, the white lady said I was supposed to be the leader, so you have to listen to what I tell you!"
"Ok what's on your puny head?" said Rachel.
"I saw our Mommies at the fight yesterday. We got to them before that mosquito hurt them, but ever since then Mommy just didn't seem right."
"What do you mean?" said Marie.
"Sure she looked the same and acted the same for the most part, but something in me tells me that Mommy changed somehow."
"Now that you mention it I felt the same way about my Mommy." said Alice.
"Me too!" the other three said at the same time.
"This is very weird." said Lisa. "What should we do?"
"I think we should keep an eye them." said Marie. "See if they do anything weird."
"And what if they have been changed by the bad guys?" asked Karen.
"I think you can heal them Karen." said Alice.
"In that case we should go home." said Rachel.
"Wait until I adjourn the meeting!"
"Wait does that mean?" said Lisa.
"I saw it on the same show; it's what you have to say to end a meeting."
"Let me!" said Karen.
"Ok." said Marie winking to the other girls.
Karen pointed to the ceiling. "Then this meeting is..." She heard the others rushing out of the club house leaving her behind. "Adjourned."
###
Meanwhile in what looked like the inside of a theater. Spectro was reporting to his superiors, Titania and Oberon. "So what happened?" asked Oberon, he wore a large blue outfit with white angel wings on the back.
"I sent a monster, the Sailor Scouts blew him up, same thing as always." said Spectro.
"So in other words you failed again." said Titania, wore a large red outfit with pink fairy wings on the back.
"We must find Queen Serenity's heir before Lord Malice gets angry with us!" said Oberon.
"I'll order another monster from the 'Monsters of Mayhem Catalog.'" said Spectro. He got out a catalog and flipped through the pages until he found something. "This one should do." He went over to a keypad and touched out some numbers. After a light and a strange noise a small ball came out of a slot. "Now all we need is an opportune moment."
"Remember." said Titania. "Our big plan is less than a week away, be prepared for it."
"I will be."
###
Mina came home and sat down on the couch. {Amy was right, I was able to bookkeeping for my shop that required math I never would have been able to do back home.}
Marie snuggled up next to her. "How are you Mommy?"
"Fine, so what did you do with your friends?"
"Same old stuff."
"I'll have to fix dinner soon." She gave Marie a kiss. "You be good."
"Ok Mommy."
As Mina went off to fix dinner a thought came to her. {The first thing we gained here from our other selves was their deep love for their children. I'm not sure I want to leave her.}
Serena woke up thinking that her recent experience was just a dream. She was proven wrong when she saw Darien sleeping next to her with rays of sunlight dancing on his face. {Oh great. Now I may still have to make love to him, which wouldn't be that bad if I was really his wife, but his wife is in my universe right now.}
Darien woke up and wrapped his arm around Serena. "Good morning my princess." He then gave her a kiss.
"Good morning my prince."
"I better get started on breakfast before we have to go to work."
"Work?"
"The bills aren't going to pay themselves."
"Of course not." Serena laughed half heartedly.
"You get dressed while I make breakfast."
Serena looked at an alarm clock. "This early?"
"It's Saturday, if I don't start cooking soon Karen will just pour her a bowl of that marshmallow cereal she likes, we can't let her eat sweets all the time."
"Ok, you convinced me."
###
After a few minutes Karen went into Serenity's room and started jumping on her bed while Serenity was still in it. "Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
Serenity pushed her off after she stopped jumping. "It's Saturday, one of the only two days of the week I can sleep in without fear of being late to school, so why are you waking me up fungus?"
"Daddy made breakfast and he said to get it while it was hot."
Serenity got up. "Next time just shake my shoulder."
###
Amy woke up looking at Greg's sleeping face, she shook him gently and he began to stir. "Time to wake up dear."
"Alright." said Greg. "I remember we have to take a few appointments today. But it will be worth it for tonight."
"What do you mean?"
"Tonight's our weekly examination, on each other." He said with a suggestive voice.
Amy leapt out of bed. "I better check on Alice." {Why didn't I see this coming; what will I do?!}
She quickly got dressed and saw Alice was still in her pajamas watching cartoons. "Any plans for today?" Amy asked trying to get her mind off of what Greg said.
"After cartoons are over I'm going to meet my friends at the clubhouse."
{At least she isn't as isolated as I was when I was her age.} "The clubhouse, where is it?"
"I can't tell you, it's a secret."
Greg came down. "Alice we're going to work and we're going to have breakfast on the way. Don't answer the door without checking if it's someone we know and if you leave be sure to lock up. If you need to reach us we'll both be at the clinic."
"Ok Daddy." Alice said readjusting her glasses.
"Be good sweetheart." said Amy.
###
Raye woke up finding that Chad was already out of bed. She had walked into the kitchen to see Chad having bacon and eggs while Rachel was eating a bowl of cereal in her pajamas. "Good morning Mommy." said Rachel.
"So anything special today?" Raye asked.
"Just the usual." said Chad. "Grounds keeping like every Saturday."
"I'm going to meet with my friends this afternoon." said Rachel.
"That's good." {I'm glad she has friends.}
"Well I'm done. I'll go get dressed now." She then left.
"Now that's she gone." said Chad. "About tonight do you want to be on top or should I?"
"I don't follow, why it should matter if Rachel should hear..." Raye then realized what Chad was talking about. "Oh, tonight?"
"I don't see why not."
"I'm going to get some air." Raye got out of there as quickly as manners would have allowed.
###
Lita woke up and found Ken sleeping next to her. She decided to dress and start cooking. When she was nearly finished Ken came in. "Smells good, I'll have to work hard to top this at dinner."
"I'm glad you like it. So I guess I'm working at the shop today."
"So am I, we're partners remember?"
"Of course." {Not.}
Lisa came into the kitchen. "I smell scrambled eggs, my favorite!"
"I thought macaroni and cheese was your favorite."
"For dinner, not for breakfast."
"Go wait in the dinning room." said Ken. "Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes."
After Lisa went into the dinning room Ken came next to Lita. "She is one of the two best things to happen to me."
"What is the other?" Lita asked.
"You of course, I wouldn't have her if it weren't for you." he leaned in next to her. "I want thank you, tonight in bed."
Lita turned back to the eggs. "Lisa would get mad if we burned her eggs." {Sex, with Ken?! Now what should I do?}
###
Mina felt a shaking on her shoulder. "Mina, Mina wake up." said Jamie.
Mina opened her eyes and saw Jamie shaking her awake. "Good morning dear."
"You have to get up and open your store."
"Ok." She got dressed and went down stairs to the kitchen where she got a piece of toast.
She then saw Marie getting ready to go out the door as well. "Mommy Daddy I'm going to the arcade and then over to the clubhouse."
"Call us if you get into trouble." said Jamie. "Strange things have been happening lately."
"Sure Daddy, have fun at the TV station!"
"Oh by the way I forgot to give this to you yesterday." He handed Mina a piece of paper. "Something else to add to your collection."
Mina looked at the paper and saw it had a celebrity's autograph. "Where did you get this?!"
"Well when you're the assistant director of a successful comedy like 'Family Tree' you can get the guest stars autographs easily."
"How can I ever thank you?"
"Well..." He started whispering something into her ear. "Tonight is Saturday night, and for us that means we are going to have some very, very good sex."
Mina glanced at her watch. "I better get going, but I'll think about tonight." {Mostly how to avoid it!}
###
Serena was about to walk out the door when she heard the doorbell ring. She opened it and saw a woman her current age with blue eyes and black wavy hair that had two heart shaped buns on top. Serena only saw her once back in her dimension, when Luna took a human form for a short time. Behind her was a man with blue eyes and long white hair going halfway down his back. "Luna, Artemis?"
"Sorry we haven't visited in a while." said Luna. "Neither of our children does play dates anymore."
"What are you doing here?" {They must have been reborn as humans in this dimension. I wonder if my parallel self knew them as teenagers.}
"We came to pick up Serenity." said Artemis.
Serenity came to the door. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Neko, did you bring Diana?"
"They sure did!" said a girl Serenity's age with gray eyes and short gray hair with the same heart shaped buns as Luna. "Hotaru and Melissa are waiting for us."
"Then let's go!" Serenity rushed out the door.
Serena also stepped out. "I have to get to work and make a few calls; I hope I can see you later."
"So do we." said Luna.
###
Serena came to the address on her business card. She went into the offices of Hyde's real estate and was greeted by several coworkers. {I hope this is a slow business day.} She saw a plate of cookies sitting under a bell. {Well a least I can have a little something to snack on.}
A man walked up to the plate and rang the bell. "Guess who sold Paterson place?" everyone else clapped. "I'm going to enjoy this sales cookie."
{I have to sell a house to get one of those cookies?} Serena thought to herself.
"Hey Serena." The guy said. "If I keep this up I may over take you as the company's top seller."
"This isn't about sales." Serena said. "We aren't selling houses; we're selling homes; places for families to make memories. Things like baby's first step to an important anniversary we're giving people memories that will are worth more than money could buy." {Where did that come from?!}
"I know, the boss gave us all the same speech our first day."
Serena went to a cubicle marked with her name; she got ready to call the others when the phone on the desk rang. "Hyde's real estate, this is Serena Tuskino how may I help you?"
"Serena its Darien."
"Oh hi honey!"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?"
"That one of those...things attacked where you had that meeting with your friends yesterday?"
"I didn't want to worry you."
"Well I'm sorry to say this but tonight is off, you've been under enough stress as it is and I don't want to add to it."
{Yes!} "I guess I'll have to go without for the time being." Serena said sounding disappointed.
"I'll go tell your friends husbands, convince them to make the same choice."
"I'm sure that my friends will appreciate it in the long run."
"I'll see you when I get home. (kiss over the phone) bye."
"(Kiss over the phone) bye."
Serena waited for a while and then called her friends. "Guys I can trust that your 'husbands' have called off any sex plans they had."
"Thankfully yes." said Raye.
"Hopefully another monster will have the same kind of dark energy that helped get us here in the first place." said Amy. "Then all we need is to barrow the silver crystal from Rini."
"We have problem there." said Serena. "This world's Rini was born in this time and is currently fifteen."
"But Parallel Sailor Moon could only have been eight or nine." said Mina.
"So we have no idea who these Parallel scouts are." said Lita.
"And that means we lost our only possible link to the silver crystal." said Raye.
"And that means we're stuck here." said Serena.
"It looks that way." said Amy. "We may have to stay here if we don't find a way out in a week or so."
"Why a week?"
"I think we're starting to acclimate to this dimension."
"Acclimate?" asked Raye.
"I'm able to do things I shouldn't be able to do without going to medical school. I think our minds are becoming more like those of our counterparts. I'm beginning to think that we actually merged with our counterparts and we're slowly gaining their knowledge and experience."
"Now that you mention it." said Serena. "I quoted a speech I never heard before from memory and I did a good job cooking last night. Also I scolded Rini and Karen last night in a way I never did at home, almost like I've done it a thousand times."
"Karen?"
"My second daughter she's about the same age Rini was when she came here."
"I'm also a mother of a little girl, her name's Alice. She's about the same age as Karen."
"I have a girl named Rachel also the same age." said Raye.
"My girl is named Lisa, same age." said Lita.
"And mine is called Marie, also same age." said Mina.
Serena looked at her desk and saw a photo. "Well it looks like they were born in the same month because I have a photo here of the five of us and we're holding babies. Looks like we were moms together."
"What if our 'husbands' what to get frisky with us again?" said Mina.
"Will we want to say no?" said Lita.
"I doubt we would." said Amy.
"So how long do we have?" asked Raye.
"In about a week's time we'll be more like our counterparts then ourselves and I'm guessing by then we may not want to go back home."
"And with no way to find out who the Parallel Scouts are, it doesn't seem like we can." said Serena.
###
Later that day five girls left five different homes towards the same destination, a clubhouse on a riverbank under a bridge. At first glance it seemed like it was just an old wooden hut built by some boys who later abandoned it when they grew older, but secret things were discussed in there. First Alice and then Rachel came in then Lisa and Marie. "We're here." said Lisa. "Now we can talk about how we good we were taking care of the weirdo's overgrown fly."
"First that isn't all we're doing." said Rachel. "Second we can't start a scout meeting until everyone is here; including that dummy Karen."
Alice looked out of the window. "Here she comes now, stuffing her face as usual."
Karen came in licking a strawberry ice cream cone. "Hey guys!"
"Do you always have to be eating?" said Marie.
"I like sweets."
"One day you're gonna blow up as big as an elephant!" said Rachel.
"Am not!"
"Yup and all of teeth will fall out too!"
"You meanie!"
"Ok, I call this scout meeting to order!" said Alice.
"Where did you get that?" asked Marie.
"Saw it on TV."
"So what are we gonna do?" asked Karen.
They looked around having no real idea and then Lisa said. "We got rid of that bug fast yesterday; the weirdo is losing his touch."
"Ok, anyone what to say anything important?" said Rachel.
"Well now that you mention it..." said Karen.
"Rachel said something important." said Marie.
"It is!"
"From you; right." said Lisa.
"Why are you guys always mean to me?!"
"Because you're an idiot who always hangs around where she isn't wanted!" said Alice.
"Well I case you forgot, the white lady said I was supposed to be the leader, so you have to listen to what I tell you!"
"Ok what's on your puny head?" said Rachel.
"I saw our Mommies at the fight yesterday. We got to them before that mosquito hurt them, but ever since then Mommy just didn't seem right."
"What do you mean?" said Marie.
"Sure she looked the same and acted the same for the most part, but something in me tells me that Mommy changed somehow."
"Now that you mention it I felt the same way about my Mommy." said Alice.
"Me too!" the other three said at the same time.
"This is very weird." said Lisa. "What should we do?"
"I think we should keep an eye them." said Marie. "See if they do anything weird."
"And what if they have been changed by the bad guys?" asked Karen.
"I think you can heal them Karen." said Alice.
"In that case we should go home." said Rachel.
"Wait until I adjourn the meeting!"
"Wait does that mean?" said Lisa.
"I saw it on the same show; it's what you have to say to end a meeting."
"Let me!" said Karen.
"Ok." said Marie winking to the other girls.
Karen pointed to the ceiling. "Then this meeting is..." She heard the others rushing out of the club house leaving her behind. "Adjourned."
###
Meanwhile in what looked like the inside of a theater. Spectro was reporting to his superiors, Titania and Oberon. "So what happened?" asked Oberon, he wore a large blue outfit with white angel wings on the back.
"I sent a monster, the Sailor Scouts blew him up, same thing as always." said Spectro.
"So in other words you failed again." said Titania, wore a large red outfit with pink fairy wings on the back.
"We must find Queen Serenity's heir before Lord Malice gets angry with us!" said Oberon.
"I'll order another monster from the 'Monsters of Mayhem Catalog.'" said Spectro. He got out a catalog and flipped through the pages until he found something. "This one should do." He went over to a keypad and touched out some numbers. After a light and a strange noise a small ball came out of a slot. "Now all we need is an opportune moment."
"Remember." said Titania. "Our big plan is less than a week away, be prepared for it."
"I will be."
###
Mina came home and sat down on the couch. {Amy was right, I was able to bookkeeping for my shop that required math I never would have been able to do back home.}
Marie snuggled up next to her. "How are you Mommy?"
"Fine, so what did you do with your friends?"
"Same old stuff."
"I'll have to fix dinner soon." She gave Marie a kiss. "You be good."
"Ok Mommy."
As Mina went off to fix dinner a thought came to her. {The first thing we gained here from our other selves was their deep love for their children. I'm not sure I want to leave her.}