Chapter 11
Trunks noticed a change in Usagi. "What's wrong?"
Usagi was startled out of her thoughts by him. "What?" she asked confused.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing."
"Don't give me that. I know something is wrong. Now if there's anything I can do to help I will but don't tell me that nothing is wrong. I know you better than that."
"Can we go now? I'll tell you about it when we leave."
"Why not tell me now?"
"Because there is someone here I don't want to see or have see me so lets just go." she said picking up her bag. Trunks accepted that and paid the bill. They got up to leave and as they were walking out a guy with black hair and blue eyes take hold of her arm.
"Hello Usagi."
Usagi's heart stopped for a moment. She felt nauseated at his touch. She turned around sharply. "Mamoru," she said coldly.
He let go of her arm. "It's been a long time since I've seen you."
"Not long enough." she responded.
"I need to talk to you." he said patiently.
"No." Trunks said firmly.
"Who do you think you are?" Mamoru asked resentfully.
"That's none of you business. Now if you will excuse me, we were in the middle of a date and we could like to get back to it." Trunks said with finality. He slipped his arm around her waist and gently led her out the door leaving an irritated Mamoru to his... woman.
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Usagi was quiet as they drove. Her head was turned away from him making it impossible for him to tell what kind of mood she was in. Trunks didn't know what to tell her. He didn't know what was going on and he felt he needed to know if he was ever going to help her. Trunks decided to take her to a beach so she could relax and maybe open up.
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Usagi got out of the car in silence and sat down on the sand, staring at the ocean but not actually seeing it. She felt Trunks sit down besides her as she closed her eyes, and, breathing in deeply, replayed the events in her mind. She felt so very tired and her heart was heavy. Seeing Mamoru sent her into emotional turmoil. All of the emotions she had bottled up inside threatened to come out and overwhelm her. So she did the one thing most women would like to do privately, but are not afraid to do publicly.
She cried.
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Trunks was very surprised when she buried her head in her knees and even more so when her shoulders started to shake and he heard her cry softly. He didn't know exactly what to do. He gathered her into his arms and held her as she cried on his shirt, getting it very wet in the process. She did that for about half an hour. When she had quieted down, she felt a little embarrassed.
She lifted her head off of him and looked at his shirt. She couldn't bring herself to look at his face. "I'm sorry about your shirt," she said
blushing.
"Forget it, it will dry quickly." He assured her. They sat in silence for a while and then she broke it.
"I guess you want to know what that was about," she started.
"I would but if you feel too uncomfortable to talk about it I will understand." He said.
"I promised I would and I will. But first I need to say something, something that I have been afraid to say. When I first moved here I was a busy woman. I only had time for my family and my job. If anyone other than my really good friends, especially a man tried to get close to me I would brush them aside or ignore them. I kind of had a reputation of being frigid, cold. But since I met you, my wall that I put up, to keep others from getting too close, started to crumble. It was very gradual and I hardly noticed it until a few days ago. I tried to push you away too but I couldn't. For instance on our first date, I had every intention of telling you that that was a one time deal, but I never did. You just have the ability to breakdown my defenses and tear down my walls. I realized something. When I'm with you I feel things I never did with Mamoru. You make me feel safe and secure and wanted. You also make me feel beautiful and intelligent, things I would never call myself.
And I realized something else. Something that I've been denying for a while now. I've fallen in love with you and you actions today in the restaurant only confirmed it." She said. All during her revelation she kept her head down and looked at the sand, anything to keep from looking at him.
He took his hand and lifted her face until she looked at him. He looked into her eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. Now that he knew that she loved him there was nothing stopping him from having her. Trunks said something that he had waited to say for a long time. "Usagi, for a long time I've known that I had feelings for you, and you telling me how you feel is like a weight is being lifted from me. I love you, Usagi Tsukino." He answered her in the most effective way possible leaving no room for doubt. He kissed her very passionately and she returned it with equal passion.
When they parted, they were both very out of breath. Trunks pulled her into his lap and she rested her head on his shoulder. Usagi felt very secure and comforted in his arms. She started to relax for the first time in weeks.
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Trunks held the small woman in his arms, enjoying the feel of her actually being here in his arms. He had long imagined this moment and for it to be here so unexpectedly was like a dream come true. It felt like a piece of the puzzle that was missing in their lives fall into place to make them complete.
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When she pulled away from at last, he was a bit disappointed but knew the second half of her story was coming up so he didn't say anything.
"This is very hard for me to do so please don't say anything until I am finished," she pleaded. "And if you don't want to see me after I'm
finished then I understand."
"Usagi, there is nothing you can say that will make me stop loving you, except if you say that you're really a man," he joked. She smiled at his attempt to make her feel at ease. "I promise that I won't," he said sincerely. She nodded in appreciation.
"You know that I have a daughter for my ex-boyfriend, you just don't know the circumstances under which I had her. I was 15 years old and Mamoru and I were having some................. problems. You see he was going out with a lot of different women while I was still his girlfriend. I found out by accident one day when I went to his house for a surprise visit. I wasn't supposed to come that day but the following one.
Anyway I found him and this girl on the floor in his living room, having sex. In a way seeing him doing that surprised and yet it didn't. I kind of expected him to but the actual shock of seeing it first hand is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. So I interrupt them and say what I felt and left rather quickly.
I went to the one place where I thought I could get comfort from my friends, only to find out that each of them was sleeping with him behind my back too. I also tell them off and I isolate myself from all of them. A few weeks later, Mamoru calls me up and begs me to come back to him. After this had gone on for a while, I got so tired of it that I decide to go out with him, at his request, to make him understand that I never wanted anything to do with him again. So we go out and he takes me to this expensive restaurant and orders drinks for us. I get impatient and say what I have to say and go to the bathroom, demanding that I be brought back home when I come back. Meanwhile Mamoru had other plans for the evening and none of them included me going straight home."
Trunks wasn't sure he wanted to hear the rest of the story but decided to let her finish. He knew that she needed to get all this off her chest and her would be there to comfort her.
"He drugged me sometime during our time at the restaurant and before the ride home was even halfway over I was very sick. He took me back to his apartment in the pretense that he would make me something to feel better. And it did make me feel better but it also made me feel very drowsy and lightheaded. I was out cold before 15mins had passed. I can't remember what exactly happened but I do remember waking up the next morning having a bad headache and my lower body hurting badly. I realized that during the night he had raped me," she said.
She was crying by now and it was all Trunks could do to comfort her. He held her against him and rubbed her back with his hand in a comforting gesture. What he really wanted to do was find that guy named Mamoru and send him an one-way trip to the next dimension. When she had quieted she continued.
"My friends, Haruka and Michiru had to come and help get me out of there. They took me to a clinic where it was confirmed that I had been raped multiple times. They took some samples and told them to take me home to recover. I didn't want to go home because I felt so dirty and used and guilty and embarrassed by the whole ordeal. I also didn't want him to find me and have a repeat of what happened that night.
We left after I found out I was pregnant and haven't set foot back here until Chibi Usa turned 6 and started the first grade. Before we left we started a company and we came back to takeover the running of It." she ended. She looked up at him expecting to see some form of disdain or disgust but all she saw was sympathy and compassion and a lot of anger that she knew wasn't directed at her.
"Usagi I am really sorry that happened to you. If I ever find that guy I will make sure he won't be able to do anything remotely sexual ever again," he said vehemently. Trunks couldn't believe that any self respecting and honorable man would sink to that level. "But there is more isn't there," he stated. She nodded in confirmation.
"Well just before we left, Haruka and Michiru were supposed to take care of the problem of him having any rights to my child without he knowing anything. When we came back he found us and somehow found out that Chibi Usa was his child. He always wanted a child with me and him seeing Chibi Usa was like wish come true. He wants Chibi Usa and is willing to fight me in court to get her. He has three other children, Darien, Benjamin and Salina with my former friends so, I don't know what to do. I can't lose Chibi Usa to him, I just can't. I love her more than anything and he wants to take her away from me."
"He won't," Trunks said determinedly.
"How is that possible? He has built up a strong case against me. We went to court for the first time last week and although they let me keep her until the trial is over my lawyer said that we both are on an equal plain. He is trying to say that I'm too young to be a good parent and that I am too inexperienced. He is also going to say that I maliciously and selfishly kept from his daughter. And if I try to bring up the fact about him raping me, his lawyer already warned that Mamoru will say it was consensual and that the stature of limitations has already expired on the case and so making it irrelevant. I am going to lose my daughter if I don't do something," she said hopelessly.
"No you're not. I'll help you."
"What can you do?"
"First, your lawyer, fire him."
"What?! How will I ever hope to win if I don't have a lawyer?"
"We can get someone else to represent you."
"Setsuna was telling me that she wanted to take over the case but I didn't think that was wise. Maybe she could do it."
"Does she have any experience?"
"There are a lot of things I don't know about Setsuna," she said.
"Ok, ask her. Second, what happened to the samples they took and the police report?"
"Haruka said it would be wise to store them with a private company incase we needed them," She said after a while.
"Good. Even if we can't get him for what he did to you we can still discredit him and damage his character."
"What if he knows about it?"
"I doubt that. Private companies are very strict about who they let review their files. And the police department can't give that information out. Usagi, exactly how old were you when you first started to date him?"
"14."
"And he was?"
"Umm… 22?" she said after a long while.
"22?! Your parents let you go out with a 22 year old?"
"They didn't exactly know how old he was. My mom thought he was 17 because I never took him to meet my parents. She only talked to him on the phone."
"And you had Chibi Usa at 15?"
"Yes."
"Does Chibi Usa know?"
"No and I don't want her to find out either. I don't want her to know what happened to me or she may feel like it was her fault. I don't want to put her through that. Please don't tell her, ok?"
"I won't," he promised. "You were so young to have that happen to you. Don't worry; I will not let him take Chibi Usa away from you."
Usagi was grateful to have Trunks to depend on when she needed it most.
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When Usagi came home later that day, Chibi Usa and Setsuna both noticed a definite lift in her spirits. While Chibi Usa was simply grateful for her mothers improved attitude, Setsuna smiled knowingly. She was happy that her Princess had finally let down her barrier and opened her heart at last.
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Trunks noticed a change in Usagi. "What's wrong?"
Usagi was startled out of her thoughts by him. "What?" she asked confused.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing."
"Don't give me that. I know something is wrong. Now if there's anything I can do to help I will but don't tell me that nothing is wrong. I know you better than that."
"Can we go now? I'll tell you about it when we leave."
"Why not tell me now?"
"Because there is someone here I don't want to see or have see me so lets just go." she said picking up her bag. Trunks accepted that and paid the bill. They got up to leave and as they were walking out a guy with black hair and blue eyes take hold of her arm.
"Hello Usagi."
Usagi's heart stopped for a moment. She felt nauseated at his touch. She turned around sharply. "Mamoru," she said coldly.
He let go of her arm. "It's been a long time since I've seen you."
"Not long enough." she responded.
"I need to talk to you." he said patiently.
"No." Trunks said firmly.
"Who do you think you are?" Mamoru asked resentfully.
"That's none of you business. Now if you will excuse me, we were in the middle of a date and we could like to get back to it." Trunks said with finality. He slipped his arm around her waist and gently led her out the door leaving an irritated Mamoru to his... woman.
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Usagi was quiet as they drove. Her head was turned away from him making it impossible for him to tell what kind of mood she was in. Trunks didn't know what to tell her. He didn't know what was going on and he felt he needed to know if he was ever going to help her. Trunks decided to take her to a beach so she could relax and maybe open up.
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Usagi got out of the car in silence and sat down on the sand, staring at the ocean but not actually seeing it. She felt Trunks sit down besides her as she closed her eyes, and, breathing in deeply, replayed the events in her mind. She felt so very tired and her heart was heavy. Seeing Mamoru sent her into emotional turmoil. All of the emotions she had bottled up inside threatened to come out and overwhelm her. So she did the one thing most women would like to do privately, but are not afraid to do publicly.
She cried.
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Trunks was very surprised when she buried her head in her knees and even more so when her shoulders started to shake and he heard her cry softly. He didn't know exactly what to do. He gathered her into his arms and held her as she cried on his shirt, getting it very wet in the process. She did that for about half an hour. When she had quieted down, she felt a little embarrassed.
She lifted her head off of him and looked at his shirt. She couldn't bring herself to look at his face. "I'm sorry about your shirt," she said
blushing.
"Forget it, it will dry quickly." He assured her. They sat in silence for a while and then she broke it.
"I guess you want to know what that was about," she started.
"I would but if you feel too uncomfortable to talk about it I will understand." He said.
"I promised I would and I will. But first I need to say something, something that I have been afraid to say. When I first moved here I was a busy woman. I only had time for my family and my job. If anyone other than my really good friends, especially a man tried to get close to me I would brush them aside or ignore them. I kind of had a reputation of being frigid, cold. But since I met you, my wall that I put up, to keep others from getting too close, started to crumble. It was very gradual and I hardly noticed it until a few days ago. I tried to push you away too but I couldn't. For instance on our first date, I had every intention of telling you that that was a one time deal, but I never did. You just have the ability to breakdown my defenses and tear down my walls. I realized something. When I'm with you I feel things I never did with Mamoru. You make me feel safe and secure and wanted. You also make me feel beautiful and intelligent, things I would never call myself.
And I realized something else. Something that I've been denying for a while now. I've fallen in love with you and you actions today in the restaurant only confirmed it." She said. All during her revelation she kept her head down and looked at the sand, anything to keep from looking at him.
He took his hand and lifted her face until she looked at him. He looked into her eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. Now that he knew that she loved him there was nothing stopping him from having her. Trunks said something that he had waited to say for a long time. "Usagi, for a long time I've known that I had feelings for you, and you telling me how you feel is like a weight is being lifted from me. I love you, Usagi Tsukino." He answered her in the most effective way possible leaving no room for doubt. He kissed her very passionately and she returned it with equal passion.
When they parted, they were both very out of breath. Trunks pulled her into his lap and she rested her head on his shoulder. Usagi felt very secure and comforted in his arms. She started to relax for the first time in weeks.
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Trunks held the small woman in his arms, enjoying the feel of her actually being here in his arms. He had long imagined this moment and for it to be here so unexpectedly was like a dream come true. It felt like a piece of the puzzle that was missing in their lives fall into place to make them complete.
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When she pulled away from at last, he was a bit disappointed but knew the second half of her story was coming up so he didn't say anything.
"This is very hard for me to do so please don't say anything until I am finished," she pleaded. "And if you don't want to see me after I'm
finished then I understand."
"Usagi, there is nothing you can say that will make me stop loving you, except if you say that you're really a man," he joked. She smiled at his attempt to make her feel at ease. "I promise that I won't," he said sincerely. She nodded in appreciation.
"You know that I have a daughter for my ex-boyfriend, you just don't know the circumstances under which I had her. I was 15 years old and Mamoru and I were having some................. problems. You see he was going out with a lot of different women while I was still his girlfriend. I found out by accident one day when I went to his house for a surprise visit. I wasn't supposed to come that day but the following one.
Anyway I found him and this girl on the floor in his living room, having sex. In a way seeing him doing that surprised and yet it didn't. I kind of expected him to but the actual shock of seeing it first hand is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. So I interrupt them and say what I felt and left rather quickly.
I went to the one place where I thought I could get comfort from my friends, only to find out that each of them was sleeping with him behind my back too. I also tell them off and I isolate myself from all of them. A few weeks later, Mamoru calls me up and begs me to come back to him. After this had gone on for a while, I got so tired of it that I decide to go out with him, at his request, to make him understand that I never wanted anything to do with him again. So we go out and he takes me to this expensive restaurant and orders drinks for us. I get impatient and say what I have to say and go to the bathroom, demanding that I be brought back home when I come back. Meanwhile Mamoru had other plans for the evening and none of them included me going straight home."
Trunks wasn't sure he wanted to hear the rest of the story but decided to let her finish. He knew that she needed to get all this off her chest and her would be there to comfort her.
"He drugged me sometime during our time at the restaurant and before the ride home was even halfway over I was very sick. He took me back to his apartment in the pretense that he would make me something to feel better. And it did make me feel better but it also made me feel very drowsy and lightheaded. I was out cold before 15mins had passed. I can't remember what exactly happened but I do remember waking up the next morning having a bad headache and my lower body hurting badly. I realized that during the night he had raped me," she said.
She was crying by now and it was all Trunks could do to comfort her. He held her against him and rubbed her back with his hand in a comforting gesture. What he really wanted to do was find that guy named Mamoru and send him an one-way trip to the next dimension. When she had quieted she continued.
"My friends, Haruka and Michiru had to come and help get me out of there. They took me to a clinic where it was confirmed that I had been raped multiple times. They took some samples and told them to take me home to recover. I didn't want to go home because I felt so dirty and used and guilty and embarrassed by the whole ordeal. I also didn't want him to find me and have a repeat of what happened that night.
We left after I found out I was pregnant and haven't set foot back here until Chibi Usa turned 6 and started the first grade. Before we left we started a company and we came back to takeover the running of It." she ended. She looked up at him expecting to see some form of disdain or disgust but all she saw was sympathy and compassion and a lot of anger that she knew wasn't directed at her.
"Usagi I am really sorry that happened to you. If I ever find that guy I will make sure he won't be able to do anything remotely sexual ever again," he said vehemently. Trunks couldn't believe that any self respecting and honorable man would sink to that level. "But there is more isn't there," he stated. She nodded in confirmation.
"Well just before we left, Haruka and Michiru were supposed to take care of the problem of him having any rights to my child without he knowing anything. When we came back he found us and somehow found out that Chibi Usa was his child. He always wanted a child with me and him seeing Chibi Usa was like wish come true. He wants Chibi Usa and is willing to fight me in court to get her. He has three other children, Darien, Benjamin and Salina with my former friends so, I don't know what to do. I can't lose Chibi Usa to him, I just can't. I love her more than anything and he wants to take her away from me."
"He won't," Trunks said determinedly.
"How is that possible? He has built up a strong case against me. We went to court for the first time last week and although they let me keep her until the trial is over my lawyer said that we both are on an equal plain. He is trying to say that I'm too young to be a good parent and that I am too inexperienced. He is also going to say that I maliciously and selfishly kept from his daughter. And if I try to bring up the fact about him raping me, his lawyer already warned that Mamoru will say it was consensual and that the stature of limitations has already expired on the case and so making it irrelevant. I am going to lose my daughter if I don't do something," she said hopelessly.
"No you're not. I'll help you."
"What can you do?"
"First, your lawyer, fire him."
"What?! How will I ever hope to win if I don't have a lawyer?"
"We can get someone else to represent you."
"Setsuna was telling me that she wanted to take over the case but I didn't think that was wise. Maybe she could do it."
"Does she have any experience?"
"There are a lot of things I don't know about Setsuna," she said.
"Ok, ask her. Second, what happened to the samples they took and the police report?"
"Haruka said it would be wise to store them with a private company incase we needed them," She said after a while.
"Good. Even if we can't get him for what he did to you we can still discredit him and damage his character."
"What if he knows about it?"
"I doubt that. Private companies are very strict about who they let review their files. And the police department can't give that information out. Usagi, exactly how old were you when you first started to date him?"
"14."
"And he was?"
"Umm… 22?" she said after a long while.
"22?! Your parents let you go out with a 22 year old?"
"They didn't exactly know how old he was. My mom thought he was 17 because I never took him to meet my parents. She only talked to him on the phone."
"And you had Chibi Usa at 15?"
"Yes."
"Does Chibi Usa know?"
"No and I don't want her to find out either. I don't want her to know what happened to me or she may feel like it was her fault. I don't want to put her through that. Please don't tell her, ok?"
"I won't," he promised. "You were so young to have that happen to you. Don't worry; I will not let him take Chibi Usa away from you."
Usagi was grateful to have Trunks to depend on when she needed it most.
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When Usagi came home later that day, Chibi Usa and Setsuna both noticed a definite lift in her spirits. While Chibi Usa was simply grateful for her mothers improved attitude, Setsuna smiled knowingly. She was happy that her Princess had finally let down her barrier and opened her heart at last.
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