Hey there! So, this is turning more and more into a senshi-shitennou fic. Hope you like it! Oh, and one more thing: don't own sailor moon... unfortunately...
Safety
„Mornin' everyone!" a male voice filled the tight atmosphere inside the infirmery. Nick and Amy turned around in the same time, to see a tall blonde man, with malicious blue eyes, carrying a raven-haired young woman. Indeed, she had many cuts and bruises, not to metnion that she was in a desperate need of some new clothes. Jade approached the hospital bed, deposited the cargo he had been carrying and looked up at the other two, standing on the other side of the table. Well, actually he only looked up at Nick, for Amy was much shorter and she had already started checking the girl laying in front of her.
"So, I see once again you've come back in the weirdest way possbile!" Nick frowned, still angry at what he had said previously about Lita.
"What's the matter, Nick? You miss your bachelor life? Forgot what's it like?" the blonde teased the man in front of him, though aware that he could get himself killed at any moment. Nick's blue eyes held nothing innocent inside. On the contrary, being one of the eldest in the team, along with Kane, made him one of the strongest of their kind. He had done many unpleasant things in his life and Jade was sure that he wouldn't even want to find out about some. Nick had been for many years pretty much of a fighter for his life, considering the gift he had tried desperately to hide. Unfortunately for him, the moment people found out about his abilities, they ended up forcing him to protect his own life by taking the ones of others. And that was just a part of the whole story. Anyway, ever since he had joined, or, better said, teamed up with Kane and created this group together, he allowed his wavy brown hair to grow, now reaching way below his shoulders, and his eyes became a more calm and human than before. Now he was starting to turn into a human being again… and all thanks to the best cook in the county… their own Lita… soon to be Nick's own Lita.
"Don't make me shut you up with your own boot!" he warned, still sleepy.
"Do you think you could take your little hassle outside and allow me to do my job?" Ames spoke up, stopping the two from going further, for she knew all too well where the discussion was leading.
"Hehe, sorry Ames!" Jade spoke dumbly and almost pulled Nick out with him. "Oh and, by the way, nice pj's!" he teased and she looked down to see her normal pijama filled with pictures of little and funny mice. She smiled, stuck out her tongue at him and returned to her patient. He laughed as he was being pulled out, this time, by his taller and older friend.
"Leave her alone! Ok, so, what did you do?"
"Dude, you're really paranoid! I just found her!" Jade defended himself.
"You sure?" Nick rose an eyebrow.
"YEAH! Now let's get ourselves out of the hallways, or we're going to have to face your angry girlfriend for having her sleep interrupted at this time!" Jade teased some more and started running for his life.
"Hey! She's not my girlfriend!" Nick almost yelled back and followed him quickly.
It was barely the following hours, when Rei woke up from her state of inconstience. Step by step, she gained controll over her sense and at first, felt the surface she was laid on: something large, yet comfortable, considering the beds within the facility she had barely escaped. One thought passed her mind: 'If I am right now inside that place, or some palce else, picked by my brother, I will commit suicide!' When she managed to open her eyes, her sight was invaded by a strong white light. For a moment she dared hoping that she was already dieing, but she soon discovered that she was far from that wish, when a girl's head enetred her visual range and stared down at her with a shy and hopeful smile on her face and wide blue eyes. At that time, Rei thought the girl was an angel.
"Where am I?" was the first thing she asked when she could speak.
"Some place you would have never imagined!" she said, happy that she managed to save the girl and filled with the excitement of making a new friend.
"Where exactly?" she asked while trying to get up, in spite of her weakness. Gently, the short and dark-haired girl pushed her back on the bed and assured her with a soft and charming tone.
"Don't worry! Whatever it was the thing you were running from, you're safe now! No one can find you here!"
"But…"
"Now you must sleep! You need every moment of rest you can get until you are fully recovered! I'll talk to the others and we'll all get together and decide stuff! But only after you get well!" she interrupted her on a determined tone and Rei obeyed the obviously younger girl, not understanding er wish for helping her nor the persons and reunions she was speaking of. Managing to flash a sad and weak smile at the first person who had actually been nice to her in years, Rei found herself standing on the bed once again and falling into a deep sleep. This time, a more calm and normal sleep.
"Mornin'!" a chipper voice surrounded the huge kitchen, as a tall young woman, dressed into a green pair of baggy trousers and a thight white top entered the room. A group of groans emerged from a group of sleepy people, except for Nicholas, who was peeling down an orange and Amy who still hadn't returned from the infirmery. The tall woman stretched out her arms and legs, making herself even taller than she was. Then she shook her neck and her long and brown ponytail hit Jade's face as she walked to her place, around the round large table.
"Lita! Do you think you can keep you hair out of my mouth?" Jade said, grumpy for not being able to sleep more than three hours that night.
"Blondie, maybe I should keep my cooking out of your mouth aswell!"
"Litaaaaaaa!" the blonde man whined worse than a five year-old, making everyone laugh, or at least smile.
"Yeah… that should teach you a lesson!"
"But…"
"Forget it!"
"Hey guys!" another voice, this one smaller and even happier interrupted the quarrel. Amy practicly burst inside the room, still wearing her pj's and forcing six pairs of eyes to stare at her dumbly. Noticing their reaction, she glanced at her and realised the reason for their quiet stares. "Sorry, I didn't have time to get changed…" she apologized on her small, sweet tone and blushed. The guys simply stared away, while the girls nodded their heads. "Anyway, I wanted to give the big news! Our patient is out of any danger and she managed to wake up for a minute or so!" she smiled widely, showing off perfect white teeth. Suddenly, the atmosphere turned around dramamtically and everyone woke up in a heartbeat. Nick turned around from facing the table completely, pealing on his orange with far more determination than before, Jade growled loudly and the rest stared at the youngest member of the group. Understanding that she had done something wrong, Amy bit down her lip.
"Patient?" a tall man, probably the oldest of them, with silvery blonde hair, reaching his shoulders asked deadly while turning to the blonde on the other side of the table, having seen his reaction.
"What patient?" a blonde girl with long hair and blue eyes asked aswell.
"Well…" Jade started without needing to look up in order to see Kane glaring at him. "LastnightIkindoffoundthisgirlinthewoods. ShellokedprettyhurtsoIbroughthertoAmy!" he spoke in a flash. Kane looked up at Amy, who rose her hands in defeat.
"What girl?" another blonde girl, with blue eyes, stading on the other side of Kane asked.
"I don't know who she is…" Jade confessed and waited for the following burst.
"What!" the first blonde girl got up and shouted, waking all of those who were still asleep. "You actually brought someone who you don't even know in here?"
"Yeah, are you nuts?" the other blonde continued, but remained in her seat.
"I know!" Amy's voice managed for the first time to outwin the ones of Sere and Mina. All the kitchen's inhabitants suddenly turned to the blue-eyed teenager and just stared dumbly once again.
"What do you know, Ames?" Kane asked, getting up and looking at her with lavender eyes. Usually, in such situations, his eyes would be stormy and angry, but, in her case, he refused to carry such stares and scare her. He treated her pretty much like a child and so, didn't glare or yell at her. It was enough that she knew when to stop and what to do in pretty much all possible situations. Usually, after doing something wrong, Amy would come forward and punish herself for her actions, before anyone could decide anything. That was enough for Kane.
"Who she is… I know her name…" she confessed and stared right into their leader's eyes.
"Come on, sis! Where are you?" Darien asked himself after not finding her in the third spot he ahd already searched. This time she managed to disappeare without a trace. Not even a single one. For a moment, Darien actually thought that she might have done something good for him, for once, and killed herself. But no! That was something her thoughts would never accept. She was too proud to do such a thing. Only cowards commited suicide and God knew she wasn't one. But neither was Darien… and that meant that he would search every inch of that palce until he found her… he would back away for nothing! A familiar ring disturbed his thoughts. "Shields!" he answered, a bit angry.
"Hey boss! Any luck with the hunt?" Zack's voice filled the speaker.
"Unfortunately, my sister has found a way to escape me… for now!"
"Sorry to hear that! Don't worry, we'll find her… wherever she hid herself, she'll come out eventually… and we'll be there to nail her!"
"For everyone's sake, you should be right! If word gets out of her powers and her last whereabouts… let's just say things won't come out very good. I hate knowing my future in her hands… that's one of the reasons for which I hid her in the first palce…"
"I though that was your father's order…" Zack dared.
"That too…" Darien growled, signaling the other that he had already passed in a very flamable territory.
"Ok, I'll give you a call as soon as I find something…" Zack spoke, ending the conversation.
"You do so!" Darien ordered and shut his phone.
"Come on, boss! I have a good hunch about her!" Jade whined all the way down to the infirmery. The whole group was walking pretty fast and Kane was trying really hard and actually managing not to kill the guy. The "managing" part was due to his sister clinging on his left arm and his wife pulling him by the other one. Indeed, he had no idea what he were to do without his two favourite blondes: Serena and Mina.
"One: don't call me boss! And two: we all know about you and your hunches!"
"I have good instincts!"
"Good enough to almost allow our enemies to find us last month!" Nick observed and Lita chuckled from next to him. Her laughter made him smile… apparently that deadly smile of hers was the only thing that could make him smile nowadays. He glanced at her in the same moment that she did at him. The result was them both turning away, one still glancing from time to time and the other blushing madly. In spite of all her crushes, Lita always came back to her first and only true love, in the person of the misterious and dangerous astronomer.
"Anyway, we're going to get at the bottom of this!" Serena glared at Jade as she walked further, still clung on her brother's strong arms. Behind everyone, in the same line with the two brown heads walked silently the blue-eyed young doctor, still feeling guilty over her earlier burst.
"I'm telling you…" Jade was ready to explode, when, having enough, Kane broke away from both Rena and Mina, turned around, and said strongly:
"Okay! Now shut up! All of you!" he shouted and made everyone freeze silently. "I'll enter first… and alone!"
"But…"
"No buts!" he warned and walked into the infirmery room, shutting the automatic doors securely behind him. Slwoly, he turned around and walked determined to the bed where the raven-haired girl was still laying calmly and awake. Approaching her, Kane could almost hear her heart beating madly and almost exiting her chest, in spite of her calm extrerior.
"Hello Rei." His deep voice filled the room and she looked up, directly into his eyes.
"Kane?" she asked nervously, not believing her eyes. He frowned and she suddenly jumped off the bed and on the other side of the room, staring at him with wide-opened eyes. "As in my brother's best friend?" she asked again.
"Former!"
"How do I know you're not lieing? How do I know this is just some scheme that will lead me back to Darien?" she asked terrified as she backed away some more.
"Last time I checked, you were his twin sister! You should at least know that I haven't met Darien for years now… ever since he betrayed me…" he spoke.
"I haven't exactly been around lately…"
"What's happened to you, Rei?" Kane asked.
"He locked me away… from everything, from everybody… and if I let him find me… this time he'll kill me! So you have to understand that I'll either break out of this place, just like I've been doing in the past years… or I'll kill myself." She warned.
"What can you do?"
"Excuse me?"
"You said your brother's been keeping you in hidden places… If my theory is right, than you have some kind of unusual powers or habits." He tried to calm her down.
"I think you should get inside there!" Serena spoke outside the door, adressing to Jade. The blonde looked at her curiously and she nodded. Within a moment he deactivated the codes, opened the doors and jumped intside the room, just in time to see Kane trying to talk normally to the black-haired woman on the edge of madness. In less than a second, he was behing Rei, imobilizing her hands and keeping a safe arm in front of her neck.
"Jade, don't!" Kane ordered, but the man holding Rei refused to let go.
"Serena felt a strange power coming from her!" he snarled into her ear, making her shiver.
"If I were in any danger, don't you think I would have sensed it first?"
"Doesn't matter! Honestly, I prefer your sister's senses when it comes to these things… no offence. So, little witch, what can you do anyways?" he asked harshly and, before Rei could answer, a small and childish voice was heared from the doors.
"She's a fire priestess… just like her mother…" everyone turned around to see Amy, looking with a smile on her face at the girl captured by Jade's strong arms. Quickly, the young doctor came to her and released her from the man's grip, hugging her. "Don't worry, Reyanna Shields, you're safe now!" Taken by surprise, Rei stared at Kane. Sharing only one glance with her, the silver-haired man signaled Jade to follow him and let the girls alone, especially the new-arrived. Exiting the room, the two men met four gazes. Kane looked at everyone and saw Lita and Nick ready for action at any moment and Mina with Rena, carrying worried looks in their eyes.
"Why don't we let you girls introduce each other and make Rei feel welcomed… she's been through a lot…" Kane suggested as he motioned, with Jade right behind him, and signaled Nicholas to follow them as well. Mina looked back at the amazonian girl and, without further notice, she grabbed her sister-in-law's hand, pulling her inside with an unknown strenght.
"Hey there, stranger!" the eldest blonde spoke up in the most bubbly voice possible. Amy turned around and smiled at the three girls and took Rei's hand within her own, guiding her to the others. "I guess I should start introductions, since no one here is willing to…" she said, narrowed her eyes and stared back at Serena and Lita. "So, I'm Mina, the tipycal blue-eyed blonde in this "house". This is Serena, our fearless leader's sister, the Her Tallness over there is Lita, the best chef in the whole country and I guess you've already met our young and bright doctor, Amy!" she ended with the most beautiful smile anyone had ever seen. "Now come on! You must be starving and I'm sure that Lita here will accept prepairing you best scrambled eggs you've ever had!" she said, glanced at Lita, who immediately nodded, a bit nervous, and took off the first, followed by the others.
"Sorry, should have imagined that our energy blast would introduce you to the others… Should have warned you." Amy apologized, while the two were walking behind the others, allowing them to show Rei the way to the kitchen.
"Don't worry! She seemes nice, anyway!" Rei smiled apologetically.
"She's more than nice. You could say she's our brightest ray of sun in our darkest hours. I've never met a more optimistic person than her… or more determined."
"Wow!" Rei could only exclaim, hearing the younger woman pray the blonde.
"Yeah…and she's not the tipycal blue-eyed blonde at all. I mean, she used to be a supermodel and sometimes still does photo shootings, but she's not dumb. You have no idea how many times her crazy ideas saved us… and especially Kane…"
"Oh… I see! She's his girlfriend, right?" Rei smirked.
"Nope… she's his wife!" Amy announced her and watched with amusement how the reven-haired beauty's jaw dropped.
"Wow… years ago, when I met him, he seemed just like Darien… That's why I thought it was just a trapp!"
"Well, that was years ago… But, something happened when he and Darien turned into enemies. Since then he built this shelter and several more… for all the children "blessed" with gifts."
"You mean, everyone here has a hidden talent?"
"Hidden more or less. You've seen Jade… and that's not the best he can. I've actually seen him passing through laser barriers without setting off the alarms. That was impressive!" Amy confessed.
"Jade's the guy who held me earlier?"
"And the one who found you. You're really lucky, you know… I thought Kane was going to kill him for bringing you here. I guess things worked out anyway."
"I guess… so, what else can you guys do?"
"Well…let's see: Jade's the fast one, you can read fire and use it; Nicholas had an ability somewhat similar to yours… he can see the future or answers to some situations in stars… I understood that this came with the genes, for pretty much every man in his family had the same power. Up until his dad… who brought him so far. He was the reason for his flee and for his actions before Kane found him. Kane, our fearless leader, how Mina likes naming him, can induce emotional states and even play with one's mind. Before I joined up with them, he did it to me… and it was painful. Of course, he apologized later, but I can still remember what it felt like. Anyway, it's no use to hate him for his actions… so, the forgiveness kind of came on it's own. Next, Serena, his sister. She's almost like him, but she can also feel a person's emotions. She more like the receptive type, when Kane is the attacker. That's why they make such a good team. You'll see that Rena isn't that quiet at all. I think you two will become friends pretty fast. I believe there are many things that could connect you two." Amy smiled and made Rei lift her mouth's corners up.
"Okay, and the tall one? The chef?" she rose an black eyebrow.
"Lita, yes! In her case, it's more about phisycal appearance and strenght. You see, ever since she was a child, Lita's always been different from the other girls. She's always been the tall one with no one to dance at the balls and parties. And, in time, she's developed a certain force by practicing many sports like swimming, basketball and judo… yes, especially judo. She learned to defend herself and became one of the most feared girls in the high society."
"So, where's the problem? I know we're all coming from rich families and we were all supposed to have a normal life, instead of this… But what was her problem?" Rei asked francly.
"He parents and the people she knew started considering her a freak. She was soon outcast by her own family. So, one day, she couldn't bare the insults anymore and ran away. I don't blame her… after all those years, I would have probably done that many years before her. Anyway, I have no idea how she entered the group. I just know that she's one of the first to join. I am barely the last and still called "new-girl". Anyway, she grew up what you see her, but she still a heart even weaker than mine. She can fall head-over-heels instantly. She gets by it, in the end, without too many problems, and I noticed that lately she's been keeping herself away from clubs and bars." Amy said with a hidden meaning. "I suspect it has something to do with Nick." She leaned to Rei and whispered in her ear. The two chuckled like two school-girls and entered the large room called "kitchen", settling themselves in two seats, next to each other.
"Ok, so what can you do?"
"You mean, besides learning and reading all the time?" Rena teased from across the table.
"I'm the doctor!"
"I noticed…" Rei answered puzzled and glanced from the blonde to the brunette.
"I'm the doctor because my blood contains a very rare gene that makes me able to heal myself and persons that come in contact with my blood very fast." Amy confessed and offered Rei a knife. "Here, try cutting yourself." Rei looked up at her, straight into her eyes. "Come on, trust me!" Amy pleaded. Nodding, the black-haired woman pressed the blade into he hand and watched the blood falling down her skin, until, several short moments later, the wound started healing on it's own. Rei's mouth dropped open and Rena laughed at her sight. "That's because my blood is still in your system. Don't worry, it will wash off after eating."
"Wow!"
"You have no idea how much good Ames has done to us since she came here… or how many times she saved our lives." Rena praised her and Rei nodded.
"So… what do you guys do in here after all?"
"Meaning?"
"Why do you live in this hide-out, what's with all the advanced technology and why did you want to kill the guy who found me for bringing me here?" Suddenly, everyone around stoped and stared at one another. A certain tension filled the air. Sitting down next to Rei, Mina stared into her dark blue eyes and said on a very normal tone.
"We help other people like us… "gifted", "with special abilities" or whatever you want to call it… we help them surviving the popular mentality…"
"Are you some sort of X-men?" Rei interrupted her.
"No… we don't have imaginary powers and we definitely cannot shoot out lasers with our eyes!" Mina spoke, slightly annoyed of the new-arrived's assumption. The resemblance was more than dumb. "But we are famous children who have been thrown away by some reasons… weather we have weird habits we cannot shake off, paranormal "talents" or looks that don't correspond with our ranks… We just try to make these doomed kids understand that they're definitely not alone… that they have each other… and so, keep them sane." Mina ended and wanted to get up from her seat. Suddenly, Rei stopped her mid-way, attaching her hand to her arm.
"Mina, what can you do?" The blonde turned around and stared at the brunette, carrying a strange smile on her features. Sunddely, the whole forks, knifes, spones and plates started moving inside the room. Rei watched the show scared, while it seemed incredibly normal for Amy and Lita. One minute later, all the objects were settled back intot heir original spots. Staring down at her, Mina said calmly.
"I am a telekinetic… I guess I'm the freak in this gang…"
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