Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of its affiliates.

Summary: As darkness falls so do precautions when fun and frolicking are involved. Enter a world that shows the in depths of war, love, pain, betrayals and things you never wanted to know about.

Author - Shadow

Rating - Not to sure but there are one or two (billion), bad words and some violence, maybe even some adult situations.

Title - Till the Shadows of Night Come

Swimbunny, Dark Hime, and Sailorstars16! I love you guys! You are what keep me writing this story! This chapter is kinda dark. You get to see what Serenity is feeling in the shadowed part of her heart.

Chapter 10 – Suicide of a Star

Serenity sat watching the night sky as she leaned against the gargoyle that adorned the roof of the local church. She sighed and placed her wrists on her knees, "What most people don't realize is that most ancients commit suicide because they are tired of living forever. Tired of maybe never finding true love, tired of the emptiness and loneliness that most feel because of the death of their clan…weakness…will I ever succumb to their weakness? I am already tiring of this life…moving around…trying not to be found out. What will happen to me? I have no other purpose in life…Ashler's last descendant is dead…in a sense…the only thing keeping me living is that damned hunter…but even now…my lust for seeing him dead is starting to dissipate."

She stood and looked over at the masses walking below her. "You're all to busy with your pitiful existents…not even noticing me up here above your heads. You act as though you'll live forever when I could easily squash you like a bug. Living forever may sound appealing. Never having to greet the Grim Reaper, being able to watch the change of times…but sometimes…in the cold hours of the night you wish you could reach out your hand and caress the Grim Reaper's face and have him take you into his arms to take you over into the world of the dead and the changing of time starts to become redundant for history repeats itself over and over again…living forever is not what it is cracked up to be…"

She climbed up high onto the roof to stand next to the cross at the highest point of the church. "You all fear death…when I sometimes wish with all my heart to embrace it and I was born this way…Serenity my dear heart if you keep thinking this way, you'll go insane…but dearest conscious of mine…insanity might be a welcome thing…it will at least be something new that I have never experienced before…"

Endymion had seen Serenity on top of the church and had gone to check to see what she was doing. He wanted to approach her, but her ranting had ceased his movements. She had wanted to die…and yet she fought for her life every time she had gone into battle with him. He smiled sadly, she was like a star falling to earth, and it was so beautiful to see and yet, if you never think of it as having any emotions what so ever, because none ever took the time to see if it did. He never thought that this woman had any emotions and yet, standing here listening to her he realized that eternity was just as lonely for her as it had been for him even though they both had people with them to keep them company.

But then he heard her say her own name…Serenity? He walked up to where she was to here better. She was talking to herself…and answering? She was correct, and if he didn't know any better if someone didn't get to her soon, she would go insane. And he knew from experience, an insane vampire was something to fear. They usually knew nothing of what they were doing and killed with the wide eyed innocence of a child with a chain saw, never meaning to do it, but they did it anyways.

"Serenity…do not be weak" she told herself never noticing Endymion below her "do not do something the others would be sad about. You have friends…you have love and comfort in them…" She shook her head and began pacing. "But it's not the same. I lost my love when I lost my sister and my mother. My dearest love of the heavens above, Angel. And what of my mother? She was the one who grew me in her womb…she was the heart of my heart; she gave up part of her own being to birth me and my sister. I have no one…I am alone…damn…damn…Buddy Christ! What am I to do?" she started to revert back to her heavy British accent as her ranting increased. "Bloody hell…just die!" She fell to her knees and started rocking back and forth. "I am no one, just a minion of the beasts of hell! The hunter should kill me! Oh my dear Serenity do not be weak! Bloody hell conscious do not dare preach to me of being weak! I will die…I refuse to live!" With that Serenity with every intention of dying crawled on top of the cross and closed her eyes.

She was actually going to kill herself. Endymion stared at the scene before him. He had to stop her, why he wasn't sure but every fiber of his being screamed for him to save this star from falling without letting it know that someone thought of its emotions!

Serenity let herself fall and impaled herself upon the cross, but before darkness took over she felt her blood ooze from her body and two strong arms grasp her up from the metal and comfort her in their warm embrace. "My dearest Grim Reaper take me into your arms and never let me go."

(SO? January 6, 2006)