Disclaimer standards aply, I don't own Sailor Moon or Early Edition.

A/n: yeah long time no see, but I thought I had better update since I hadn't in a while.

Warnings: this fanfiction isn't for the faint of heart, or people that don't like sexual content. This DOES NOT mean theach chapter will contain such content, but to be advised because it will exist throughout the fanfiction.

Chapter 7

Several hours passed since Usagi had arrived with some of the other senshi. Kayla had been trying to make since of what had happened. Gary had gone into the back kitchen to get some ice, and to the back to fetch the first aid kit in order to give the girls some time to talk alone.

"I don't know what got into her… it seems like she and Minako-chan are determined to make sure that you live a pre-planned life." Kayla stated after speaking for quite some time. She had allowed her sister to cry out her fears and emotional concerns.

Makoto nodded still in senshi fuku. "I don't know, I'm starting to think that something will happen if Usagi lives this life pre-set for her, and somehow I'm starting to get a bad feeling." She had commented. She had felt this way for quite some time now, and with Kayla taking on another path, things only had gotten worse.

Ami pondered this thinking for a while now. She had been indifferent this entire time, but now she wasn't so sure. "Maybe it's a lack of having a love life that is making them act this way." She voiced her thoughts a gloved hand resting on the side of her temple. "I mean, both Usagi-chan, and Kayla-chan both hold a part of the silver crystal, it could be possible that Luna, is being guided by this force that we have recently been fighting to make them destroy it."

"What exactly will happen if one, or both of them shatter their portion of this crystal?" Gary asked entering the room again.

"instant death, leaving the earth a desart-like wasteland. It is possible, that if one or both halves shatter, the power serge could level the planet." Usagi explained lifting her tear-stained face to look up.

"That seems like nearly everyone's goal. The earth will eventuly die, but someone or something wants to speed up the process. So they turn friend against friend, guardian against charge. The classic divide and conquer." Sailor Mercury, a.k.a Ami commented finishing the story.

"Then, that means they could reshape and mold the earth to their will, causing it to become a useless dead planet. With no life, it will become like mars. All known life would cease to exist." Gary stated as realization dawned on him. He now understood why she fought, what their goal had been… and why they lived such lonely lives…. For like Kayla had told him before, they could not die and stay that way, they must live on in order to keep the planet alive. Now someone or something wanted it dead, recreating life in its own image.

He handed Usagi a bag of ice and advised her to detransform. He meant her no harm and he would see to it she remained well cared for until he could reach Chuck. Kayla had told him of this as soon as she had found out from Usagi. Maybe there could be a way in order for them all to be happy and still live to protect the planet. He just had to figure out how to help them.

Usagi placed the ice on her hand wincing as the cool ice felt soothing on her sore hand. The events of what happened kept replaying in her mind, but she would not, no could not, cry again.

"Hobson-san…. Do you think that perhaps, we all could move here. I mean not here, in the bar, but…" ami ventured.

Gary nodded, "maybe I can convince chuck to come down and stay for a while as well, for Usagi's sake." He promised as he went into the side office to see exactly where he placed the phone number his best friend had given him.

Minutes later he picked up the phone and called his friend. "Hello chuck its Gary, call me back…. Please…" he stated leaving a message on his friend's voicemail. Within a matter of minutes, the phone rang. Praying it would be Chuck Gary picked it up. MCGinties…"

"Now isn't a good time pal, I'm searching for my lover, I'm worried she isn't answering her phone." Chuck said fear reflecting through the phone.

"She is here…" Gary explained. "She had come down in order to help aher sister settle in, but that's not why I called. She needs you, something happened before she left home. " He didn't mention the senshi, thinking it best that Chuck find this information out from her himself.

"I'll be down right away, I'm taking the next flight…" Chuck stated ending the connection.

He tossed the phone down, failing to pay much attention to the speed limit as he raced to the air port. Within a matter of moments, he flashed a credit card demanding a ticket for the next flight. Holding the slip of paper like it were a lifeline, chuck raced for the departing gate. He wondered how Usagi got from Japan to Chicago so quickly, and more importantly what had happened to need him so badly. Why didn't she call, how come she had gone to Gary? Questions like those and more raced through his mind as he waited for bording instructions. He had nothing on him except for the cloths on his back, and the few items he had on his person. He had been driving to his home, when Gary had reached him. Thousands of thoughts ran through his mind, and he knew that Gary wouldn't do anything. In a way he was glad Usagi had found Gary, and hadn't tried to come so far on her own.

Several hours later, Gary took Kayla to the air port to wait for chuck. Usagi wanted to go, but Kayla had advised against it. She was so emotionally drained from what happened back in Japan, that Kayla suggested she rest. Makoto and Ami had both detransformed and joined her in Gary's loft apartment. Kayla on the other hand, joined Gary on the trip to give him some company. She also knew she'd have to tell Chuck what happened to Usagi so that when he did see it, chuck would be a bit more prepared.

Chuck beamed when he saw Gary, but frowned when he saw the woman beside him. This woman sat in a black and silver manual wheelchair, her hands folded over her lap. Her hand was hidden, but if it were visable, it would most likely look very limp and week. Other then that, Kayla looked almost exactly like Usagi.

Usagi-chan?" he questioned slowly not wanting to belive his eyes.

"No…." Kayla replied in pefrfect English. "I'm her twin sister Kayla. Usagi is back at the bar resting.

"Something happened didn't it?" Chuck asked, but he didn't have to wait for her reply to know. He fallowed them to the van, and he watched wordlessly while Gary loaded Kayla's wheelchair in the back. After they had been in the van and on the road, Chuck forced himself to ask the question that had been eating a way at him ever since Gary's phone call. "What happened?"

Kayla gazed down at her hands, a habit she had started when she couldn't face up to the truth. "Well, Luna, her cat, kinda broke it I think…. Her hand…. But, there is more…." Kayla started, "But the rest is not up to me to reviel…. It will be Usagi's desion to make.

Chuck nodded in understanding not aware that Kayla could not see. Instead he turned his attention to Gary asking him the other question on his mind. "Are you and Kayla here an item?"

Gary's gaze never strayed from the road in front of him. His grip flexed on the wheel as he spoke. "Yes…" he said. Unlike Chuck, Gary couldn't get the events of what had happened out of his mind. On the way there, Kayla had explained what happened in Crown, and then he began to peace that together with the rest of what he had talked about with the other senshi. He pulled in behind the bar and unloaded Kayla's wheelchair wordlessly.

Rei heard someone come in from downstairs and chose to be the one who would go to see who it might have been. She smiled slightly, but kept her real emotions hidden well. "Welcome back guys…" she stated. "Usagi is sleeping, but I'm sure she can't wait to see you Chuck-san."

"And, I can't wait to see her." Chuck stated allowing Rei to lead him up to Gary's loft and to where Usagi lie sound asleep face down on the couch. Gently Chuck shook Usagi who at first resisted, but jumped suddenly awake when Chuck encouraged her to wake up. When she awoke, she launched herself into Chuck's arms weeping softly.

The other four girls took this as their cue and left the room heading back down to the bar to join Marissa, Kayla, and Gary. They ordered some drinks and chatted amongst themselves, about apartment hunting, and where they would stay the night. Also what to do about seeing if getting Minako a girlfriend, or boyfriend would help solve part of her problems. In fact most of the conversation resolved around that, or how Gary truly felt about Kayla. Things like, how far did they plan to take it, had they slept together, and would he marry her…? Gary blushed at the last question, and Kayla had started laughing. After all that had been a dream, but she had high doubt it would come true.

Gary also had his own concerns, things he had been considering for quite some time. For one thing, the paper. How would he go about telling her? He guessed, or rather prayed, that unlike the other people he has brought this subject up with, well ran away or quite frankly didn't belive him even after seeing it for themselves.. The fear of rejection scared him even more.

Gary became lost in his own thoughts that he almost failed to remember that Kayla and her friends had been hanging around the bar, or that Merissa had gone home for the night. "Are you alright honey?" Kayla asked when he hadn't noticed Merissa leave with Ami and Rei.

"I'm just fine, I just was well doing a lot of thinking." Gary pressed. He then realized the time. Makoto had fallen asleep on the bar, and Usagi and chuck hadn't come down from talking, or at least not that Kayla, nor Gary knew of.

In fact they hadn't, Usagi, after getting over being happy to see him, had gone on to tell him the whole story From her life on the moon, to that day when Luna had burned off the Ring that Chuck had given her. Chuck had become angary at this news, but let it go for the time being. There really wasn't anything he could do about, except replace it, so he let it go. At first he had planned on killing Luna, or trying, but Usagi being who she is, had quickly put a stop to that train of thought. By the time they had finished talking, Usagi had fallen back asleep against him. Chuck didn't have the heart to move her, and after a while failed to remember where they where.

When he heard Gary approaching the door, he shook Usagi awake. "Wha.." Usagi asked still half asleep.

"Come on love, lets go get a room…" he reminded her. "I think Gary and Kayla want their apartment back.

"oh yeah…." Usagi yawned stretching She stood and smiled when Kayla entered the room. "Good night onei-chan…. And Makoto-chan…" she yawned before fallowing Chuck out of the loft. Gary smiled.

"I'm glad you were able to make it so quickly." He said.

Chuck nodded and smiled while Gary placed some blankets on the couch for Makoto. He would have invited Usagi to stay, seeing as how there was another couch in the office downstairs, but Usagi would much rather stay with chuck. In fact Gary didn't even know how she got him in the first place.

Makoto quickly thanked them before Kayla took her place beside Gary in bed. At first her mind screamed for her to go use that couch downstairs, but something inside told her otherwise. Despite what she told herself, she loved Gary and even though the concept of sleeping with her lover seemed new, and wrong in the back of her mind, her heart won the battle telling her this was exactly the thing to do.

The next morning came all to soon for everyone, and Kayla didn't want it too. Last night's events had taken a lot out of her, and she could feel her heart racing. Her mind did a quick flashback as life returned to her body. The sound of the shower running entered her ears and she sat up quickly. Instinctively she reached over to see if she could feel Gary, but he had left already. Slipping out of bed she approached the bathroom door her legs still shaking from the night before. "Gary is that you in the shower?" she called.

"no, its me Makoto…" Makoto replied for her friend. "Hobson-san had to run an errand for the bar, and said he should return soon."

Kayla nodded in understanding and sat back down. She had to stop and think where Gary had put her clothes. When Makoto emerged from the bathroom, she assisted her friend into finding something to where. With Gary in and out, the girls thought this would be the perfect time to plan out battle stragities. The only person aside from Chuck that knew they were up there would be Marissa, but they had no problem with her. She would end up finding out sooner or later, being so close with Kayla and Gary. Before Usagi left with Chuck, the girls made sure she had her phone, and had it on. Once Kayla was dressed, Makoto ran downstairs to tell Ami and Rei that they were ready.

"Ready for what?" Marissa asked when Makoto came down.

"We need to talk and what not, you know, try to find out why our friend had been wrongfully attacked." Makoto explained. She didn't know how long she could keep up lying to Marissa, but saw she had no other choice at the current moment.

"ok…" Marissa left it that, but in the back her mind said:I'll get to the bottem of it when either Kayla or Gary come back:

"Now what do we do?" Rei wondered as she gazed about the loft. Today had been the first time she had a chance to really look at it, and she wanted to be sure and take in any details for Kayla's sake. Even though Kayla could easily fend for herself, She felt that as a close friend, this would be the best cores of action.

"Wow… Chuck is simply amazing." Usagi gushed the moment he dropped her off in Gary's loft. He completely understands about me being a senshi, and he wants to help the best he can. He even replaced the ring that Luna destroyed." She let out a content sigh as she continued talking. "And, have any of you ever stayed in a five star hotel?" she asked.

The girls just shook their heads at one another but smiled knowingly at their friend. They couldn't help but laugh at her comments, yet at the same time they had doubt she would feel much like smiling after what happened. "you know Usagi-chan, You are right, Fishman-kun is perfect for you." Rei smiled before landing on the bed due to Usagi's bone crunching hugs.

Gary chose this moment to walk in, and he shook his head at Usagi and Rei. Kayla had warned him that when she got super happy she would glomp anyone in her path. "I see she recovers quickly." He stated walking over to Kayla and taking her in his arms. He planted a kiss on her lips, one that lasted until they both needed air badly. When the two love birds looked up, the girls began to slowly back out of the room. "looks like you two could use some time alone, we will go for a walk and let you two go at it." Ami managed to say, but felt really strange for saying such a thing. Truth be told she didn't see a need to use such words up until this point, but then again people and things change.

Any thoughts of protesting had vanished when Gary planted another long-lasting Kiss on his lover. When they broke for air, he pulled back and asked. "What do you think… about…" he started to say as he started to shower her with more kissing. "Becoming Mrs. Gary Hobson?"

Kayla looked at him wide-eyed….. don't we need to think about this?" she asked. "I mean…. We have only known each other….what… a few days, a week at best?"

"What if this your only chance though?" Gary wondered as his kisses left her lips and started to tease a spot right under her ear. She shuttered at the touch a low moan creeping its way out of closed lips. Her voice had started to lose clarity as she talked. "I'll have to think about it."

This did not stop Gary however, due to the fact he continued his work placing Kayla on her back and working his way under her shirt. She made no move to stop him, as her body reacted in favor of his soft loving touches. The more he continued this treatment, the more convinced she became that not only would she consider his offer, but she both wanted him and needed him. She shrugged her way out of her shirt, leaving her topless.

Gary made quick work of her bra sending into a steady heap of clothing on the floor. With hands pinned over her head, she could do nothing more but lie there waiting for what Gary planned next. Using one hand to restrain Kayla's hands, he made slow work down her body with the other. His fingers located one of her nipples, causing her to cry out in pleasure. She gasped in pleasure arching her chest higher the second his tongue joined into the mix.

Wave after wave of pleasure sent her body spiraling out of control, and it took all she had not to send her pleasure –filled screams five blocks away. Never once did she ever consider such an option. Gary driven by Kayla's reactions continued to toy with her chest, taking turns with each until the pink nubs had turned brown. He then started to go lower.

Before he could get her lower half unclothed, he could feel the heat coming from her, and knew that she needed him right then and there. Quickly he tore at her clothing removing it, then removing his pants. With her hands free, Kayla had already made quick work of his shirt, and now both sets of cloths lie on a heap on the floor forgotten. Her hips twitched and her legs begun to spread of their own accord. This time Kayla didn't have to beg for what she wanted and needed.

Gary got on his knees, and lowered his head down between her parted legs. He used one hand to part her lower lips just enough before sending his tongue into her core. With Kayla's free hand, she reached out and started to work and stroke his member while his tongue made quick work of her pussy. Short of breath, she continued until she could feel a little bit of pre-cum dripping from the head, and she was about ready to go over the edge once again. "please…" she panted out.

Without a second thought, Gary moved over her lying on top of her. His rock hard shaft slid into her with forced ease, and she moved to help it slide down deeper. Soon enough they had gotten into a steady rhythm. A few moments later, they both reached their natural high, her walls contracting around him only sped this up more. With a quick cry of his name, Kayla felt herself fill with his hot wet seed.

Gary pulled from her lying beside her watching her as she regained her breath. In truth he had become a little warn out by this, but this prospect didn't bother him in the slightest. Kayla had dozed off into the land of sleep and Gary watched over her. They lie like that until "cat" got his master's attention.