A/N: As always sorry for the long wait….just classes have been a mite hectic plus like everyone else I know it seems I have caught a bit of the cold bug. Yes I have a cold when it's blistering hot outside…go figure. As always thanks so much to all who reviewed….you really are the only reasons I keep these things updated and force myself to find time between class to type up what's in my head.

One Year. It had been one year and he still hadn't moved on. Serena's heart broke as she looked at Mamoru…looked disheveled on the rooftop. It was his third attempt this week…his third attempt to convince her to let him end his life. For a moment she thought herself selfish, forcing him to live through his pain just because she couldn't live through hers without him. But then she thought of all he could accomplish and the life he still had a chance to have and she needed to save him.

He hadn't even pulled out a rose yet…he just stood there on the rooftop, waiting for her to show up. His eyes expressed his feelings perfectly…he was both hoping she would show up and hoping she wouldn't. He wanted to see her, and even her pleading with him was better than nothing…and yet he wished she would leave him alone so he could finally join her wherever she was.

As expected she once again entered his thoughts, but this time was different this time she wasn't crying or begging him not to kill himself this time she looked dull and lifeless. She looked as if nothing could affect her, and yet her eyes betrayed the one emotion she could still feel the one emotion she couldn't push away not matter how much she tried. The love she felt for him.

"Mamoru, please it is time for you to move on. Everyone else is getting back on track with their lives. Why can't you move on? Find someone else…as long as you are alive I can survive this, but if I couldn't see you everyday, if I couldn't listen to you voice…I don't know what I would do. Please Mamo-chan…" Her voice was cold and it wavered only slightly as she spoke. She had tried so hard this past year to become emotionless. She entered her friends' heads whenever they felt sad and urged them forward in their dreams…but Mamoru couldn't, wouldn't move on.

"Usako…you can't ask me to do that! I will never love anyone but you, in this life or any other yours will be the only heart I ever desire. Why must you force us to remain separated….please let me join you in death." Usagi tried to smile but found the past year had taken that skill from her.

"But Mamoru, if you died we would be further apart than ever. For my fate is one worse than death, and one I cannot be freed from. Mamo-chan please…do not dwell on what you cannot change. Please move on…" She wanted to stay but she felt Diamond's tug…she wanted to continue talking to him to do the little bit she could to calm him. But being unable to touch him, to feel him to have him look at her in any real form. Diamond had done much to ease her loneliness and she knew that once Mamoru moved on…she would too, she would start a new life with Diamond.

Mamoru wanted to answer the vision of Usagi but something made her look behind her and disappear. He wondered at her words…if they meant that his Usako wasn't dead, a glimmer of hope rang in heart before he dismissed it as just being a vision. "Just a part of me showing how much a coward I am for not wanting to die for Usagi." He muttered to the air. He wouldn't succumb to the hope that she was still alive for he knew that she was gone…and that it would be another lifetime before they met again. With a heavy heart he pulled out a red rose and lifted it to the moon. "I will love no other but you Usako, I promised my heart to you in two lifetimes and it will be given to no other. But now is not the time for us to be together, but one day we shall find our happiness my beloved. I promise you." He kissed the rose and threw it off the rooftop never noticing how it disappeared before it reached the bottom.

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Usagi held the rose that had appeared in her hands. She didn't know how it got there but she knew that it meant that Mamoru had finally come to terms with her death. And she knew that her heart would always belong to him and she would love no other…she also knew that if Diamond were ever to leave her…she could never stand to be without that single bit of contact she got with another being.

"What is your decision Serenity? Marry me or be banished from this moon and be forced to live out your existence as the ghost you are. Remember Serenity it is only on this planet and with people on this planet that you are tangible. Leave me and you will have no one that can see, touch or hear you, for the rest of you Lunarian lifespan." Serenity tried to talk herself out of it, tried to accept a millennium of being alone, a century of wandering the universe with no one to see or talk to her until she eventually died of old age. She wondered why it was that she could not die, it was certainly not for lack of trying. She almost toyed with the idea that Diamond had made her immortal, but the idea of being forever separated from Mamoru was something she could not dwell upon.

"Yes Diamond…I will marry you." The words swallowed the last bit of hope that resided in her heart for this lifetime and but some part of her still held hope out for the next. A wide smile crossed Diamond's face and she found herself returning the embrace he eagerly gave her. He was good comfort to her, but she could never love her. She loved only one and she would love only one for eternity.

Diamond knew he plan would succeed that the lonely nights and days would get to the social butterfly. She needed to be around people to have people to grace with her warmth and beauty to have someone to protect and love. Serenity was independent but she could also not live without others.

"I shall arrange the ceremony immediately it shall be a small wedding, and it shall take place tomorrow! I shall send someone over to fit you for a beautiful dress, we shall find you something white and beautiful, something suitable for a Princess Bride such as yourself." Serenity tried to force a weak smile upon her face but again she found the skill beyond her and wondered if the possibility of never being able to smile again, and then she realized she would never have a reason to truly smile until she was reunited with Mamoru anyway.

Diamond didn't know her thoughts as he walked away to find servants to order about for the next day, but he knew she would never love him, and he found as long as he had her he didn't care. Besides the look on Endymion's and the Senshi's faces when he revealed her as his bride would be priceless.

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Serenity crouched in a nearby tree. A youma was attacking Tuxedo Mask and the Senshi and she wanted to watch and make sure they were alright. She shouted warnings in their minds whenever one was about to bit hit and felt great remorse that she wasn't able to do more to help. Though she wondered who it was that had sent this youma…

She was glad she could float and merely sunk through objects in this world, for otherwise her flowing dress would have been quite uncomfortable as she "sat" among the trees. Though she was merely floating she had yet to get used to the fact that she didn't need to be resting upon something in order to keep from falling. So force of habit made her hover near the trees in case she should suddenly fall.

She eyes focused on all of them, but the constantly wanted to drift back to Tuxedo Mask, his skills had greatly improved. She noticed he had pushed forth all of his time and effort into work and training. Like herself though he never smiled. Perhaps he also lacked a reason to. He may have accepted my death, but he has gone back to the Mamoru that existed before we met. She had wished he would have moved forward from the sadness and continued to smile, for it seemed to be the only thing that could get any emotion out of her.

The Senshi defeated the youma though they looked tired and haggard. Serenity looked around waiting for the youma's master to show as they usually did once the youma was defeated.

"Bravo Senshi! I wasn't expecting you to defeat that one without help…but then again perhaps you did have help…" Serenity knew the voice of her husband all too well and she turned toward him seething.

"You! Why are you attacking my Senshi! You have no quarrel with them! Leave them be! You promised on our wedding night that you would leave them alone!" Serenity's words burned with hatred for the man she had lain with in order to extract such a promise.

"No Serenity I only promised I wouldn't hurt them…physically anyway. If you noticed the youma only wore them out it didn't kill them." Serenity was so used to speaking to him without the rest of the world being able to hear them that she didn't notice the Senshi could hear him until she looked over at the shocked Senshi's faces.

"How dare you call another by the name of Serenity. There is none under you that shall ever compare to the woman she was!" The voice of Tuxedo Mask tore at a heart Serenity had almost forgotten she still possessed.

"But Tuxedo Mask you foolish boy, I would never presume to call anyone else the name reserved solely for the descendants of the Moon Kingdom. But as you see my wife Serenity is such a descendant." Serenity looked at him curiously wondering what he meant by "as you see" but it became stiffly aware when she felt the tree branches poking her through the thin material of her dress.

"Serenity…" The word came out as a forbidden whisper, the hope that she was live combated with the hope that she wasn't. How could she marry Diamond…how could she pretend to be dead…how could she hurt him so just to be with Diamond?

"Tuxedo Mask….I…." She felt bolts of electricity run through her and she tried not to give Diamond the satisfaction of screaming, but he still relished in the pained expression on her face.

"Now now darling, let me deal with your ex-lover I shall spare you the trouble." Serenity became quiet, she knew it was only Diamond's power making her visible and she had something to do before she made her a spirit once again. She reached deep within herself for the silver crystal…the crystal Diamond had thought she had hidden somewhere on Earth when he did not find it upon her. She felt the crystal materialize in her palm, and while Diamond was distracted she teleported the crystal into the clenched fist of Tuxedo Mask.

Shock crossed his face momentarily, it quickly disappeared when she entered his mind to advise him against it. The hurt and sadness she felt when she opened their connection. So much so that she sent him an image of Mamoru throwing a rose off a rooftop. He looked toward her and saw that she held the rose tightly in her hands. In his mind she repeated his words back to him.

"I will love no other but you Mamo-chan, I promised my heart to you in two lifetimes and it will be given to no other. But now is not the time for us to be together, but one day we shall find our happiness my beloved. I promise you."

A/N: Yay a semi-long chapter to make up for my long absence. I shall try and keep this up as much as possible. At least as much as I can with school and everything. This will be updated again after I get updates for Defying Destiny and Juilliard up though I have no idea when that will be. I am sorry! Please Review anyway (and I might update this one before I finish the others)!