Darkness (what I call my pn when I'm lazy), type faster…only one more chapter to go….blah, you've seen every other disclaimer, and already know I own squat…
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Not So Friendly Memos
The next day, the entire decorating was done, and that left until 5 pm the next day before anything had to be done partying wise. (A/N, yeah, there has been a little mix up with the days, and you are probably wondering why people do what, so just ask me those questions, and ignore the date errors. Thanks, now not as guilty)
Andrew, Ann, and those other two men went off to do some skiing, considering the snow was thick from yesterday's blizzard. Darien went into the lodge, to do some 'light' reading, carrying an extremely thick book with him. Serena didn't say what she was doing, but Darien assumed that the various attacks in the workout gym, and the bursts of magic meant that she was straight fighting. He didn't know where she had gotten the energy from, for she had tossed and turned until four, and everybody woke up at 10, to be done by 4. She had not napped, like he did while he was reading.
Darien had gotten bored, and went to the gym, to do a little spying. Maybe he could get answers that way, if she didn't kill him first. She was in basic exercise clothes, and standing in the center of the open mat, focusing. Motions were made of throwing a frisbee, or something like that, and complicated moves that ended up with her hand straight out were called with different names. As she did that, she stopped and looked around, as if guilty.
Shrugging she went back to what she had been doing, but didn't even mouth any words. Watching her martial arts moves, Darien didn't know how he had missed those muscles, or how athletic she was. For a moment, he went careless, and a strand of magic became loose, and caused her to stop doing what she was doing. She looked around for a second, but then went back to her workout. Darien, deciding that he had been brave enough for one day, went back to his book, wondering why she had those abilities to begin with.
Serena had needed to unleash a little energy today, before she had to look like she wanted to be around people. For several hours, she rehearsed her sailor attacks, for reasons know why, but when she began to call out the name, and then felt several strands of magic near her, she stopped, and just did the physical movements. Even then, she felt a strand of magic, but she was not focused enough to find whom it was, even after the source left her radius of senses.
Hours later, she stopped, tired, would be sore, and hungry, and went up to the room she had to share with him. It wasn't like she actually hated the guy, for they had made some sort of odd friendship out of those arguments. She wanted nothing to do with people until they were sure that they didn't know of her past, or were trying to find out what it was. She knew that Andrew and Darien were up to something, even as she was Sailor Moon. It was like Andrew had vision that could see through her disguise.
In the room, she took a shower, and put on the cami pjs, robe, and slippers that she had brought, by pure accident of course, for usually all the girls did something like that. Unfortunately, she wasn't with the girls, but it was the only pjs she had brought with her, and her t-shirts covered less than the cami set did.
The room was hot, she noted, and took off her robe, walking around in only her tank and pj pants. The window would not let her leave the room, to go to bed, or do whatever, even though it was around 10 pm, and she was exhausted thinking about the next day's plans. Heeding the call, she opened the window near the window seat enough for a comfortable temperature to come into the room (she had brought a warmth sphere around her body, just in case) and sat against the right wall side.
She must have dozed off, for she didn't know how long later, it had gotten colder, and the warmth sphere was down. Along with that, her wings had released from her control, and one wing was outside and another was in the room. She pulled them back again, visibly concentrating as she answered the knock on the door. On the outside, she felt it was Darien, and just turned it with her mind, still looking outdoors to the snow that was beginning to fall.
"I am surprised you are still awake." She shook her head. "No, I just woke up from a-"-she looked at the clock-"'four hour nap as you knocked." Serena wasn't looking at him. "Well, I am going to change for bed, I guess." She nodded as the bathroom door closed. When he came out, he started to unfold the covers and to climb into the other bed, the one with out the bunny pillow. "You are aware it is around 2 am right?"
Serena got off of the window seat. "Yeah, I am. I am going to be up for awhile still." Darien was impressed at how she could live on so few hours asleep. Serena wasn't surprised that between a total of two days that she had gotten around 10 hours of sleep, for trances really didn't do much besides heal. "Night, Sere." "Night, Darien."
In her suitcase, she fetched out her brush and a hair tie. Her hair had not dried completely, even though she was by an open window, which she closed a little as Darien started to shake from underneath the blanket, for her hair could still be brushed and used in something. Moving from the semi open window to her own bed, back away from Darien, she began to work the tangles out and to braid it into one long braid. With her arms tired, it took longer than usual, and decided when she was out of Tokyo, she would cut it, even if it was only to her knees after wards. Finally, sleep came to her, and the sun rose as her rest finally came.
"Good morning, Serena and Darien. If you are alive, call my room now." Andrew's voice woke both Serena and Darien, both of them giving a practiced reaction of hitting it with a mental hand, and ignoring it. It came again, a few minutes later, but a threat was attached to it. "You will pick up the phone, or we will bring in water buckets again."
Serena groaned, and Darien picked up the receiver, never leaving his bed, leaving Serena to dial and push 'speaker phone' so they wouldn't have to think about it. "You are going to have to get up to be ready for the party in about two hours." The receivers would have twitched, if they were awake enough. "Is that all?" Serena thought about blowing up the phone, but didn't because she would have to pay for it. She felt Darien send her the mental imaging similar to her idea as well.
"That and you have a message downstairs, Serena." Darien answered, because he felt the phone began to radiate heat. "We repeat, is that all?" There was bad silence at the other end. "Mina was leaving a message for you." Serena woke up then, startling Darien enough to wake up and drop the phone receiver. Darien took a minute to really remember why that was bad. His eyes became wide at the reasoning. Serena licked her lips before continuing. "Fine. I will be right down."
On automatic pilot, she hung up the phone and got a shirt from her suitcase. She grabbed her robe, and opened the door, leaving Darien to wonder what was going on. The phone rang again, and Darien picked it up. "What happened?" Andrew was concerned. "She just got up and went down stairs, significantly paler." "What do you think it means?" "I don't know Andrew. I don't know."
Down in the lobby, Serena asked for her message, and took it back up into the room's bathroom before reading it. I found this lovely little communicator besides the dead body of Venus. I have also, her watch, which I will call you, will in about, oh, now. The watch went off just as Serena bolted into the room, dropping the note who knows where, and then going back into the bathroom as she got it from her bag, along with the her crystal. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Moon here." Damn, that response wasn't meant for the bad guys. The face of that old man appeared in the screen, laughing evilly. "You are so predictable, Serena, your closest alive friends won't know about your secret, and then you give away the truth directly to my face." Serena was now wondering how he got these items, and was seriously hating this guy now.
"What do you want? Who are you?" A strand of silver hair fell on her watch, and she moved it out of the way. "You know what I want Serenity, I want you gone, and I am a relative that you should know, but your idiot of a mother didn't tell you about me. Now, with the business at hand, I don't know where you took your other senshi stuff, nor do I care, but tonight, at midnight, I am going to meet you on top of the lodge in roof, and there, we will decide if you die now, or die later. If you don't, your little secret will be told to the entire watching world. See you then, highness." How would she explain this to when the roof is destroyed?
Walking out of the bathroom, not bothering to really look where she was going, she walked into Darien for the first time in about a week, but pushed passed him. Darien stopped her by the shoulders and turned her to face him. "What's up?" Serena looked past him. "Nothing, I just forgot something at home, and my parents called me to see if I wanted it, that is all."
If Darien hadn't had heard the call of her aunt he again would have believed her. "No, it isn't. What was that beep noise?" Serena thought up an excuse quickly. "My parents gave me and Sammy a beeper in the shape of watches. They also tried to catch me then, since I didn't get there call." The look she gave him told him to go no further, and he released her.
Quickly, she grabbed her exercise clothing, this time a tank top and loose pants, changed in the bathroom, and was back out of the room within five minutes of coming back. This time, however, she had her crystal with her.
Darien got out of her way, and called Andrew back. "She came back, but didn't tell me about anything." Looking over the room, he saw a piece of memo paper lying on the floor. "Well, I might have found something." He put the receiver down and went to go get it. "'I found this lovely little communicator next to the dead body of Venus. I will be using her watch to call you in, oh, about now.' It fits some of the chart, I guess."
"Yeah, it does, so, do you know where Serena went?" Darien shook his head and Andrew felt it. "No, but I have a hunch. Just do me a favor and don't try to pry anything out of her? She needs to try to fix this herself if she has to, then if she is in much danger, and then interfere." Andrew gave his consent. "I will see you at the party later."
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Now not really having anything useful to Say, Saturns Darkness