Ok, I'm trying to get myself back on track here with my stories now, but it's been a little hard with all this summer stuff going on and stuff like that. Well, I hope to get at least one or two of my older stories done before I post some new ones maybe this coming month or the months to come. I just want to bang my head right now on the computer desk here because I have so many new stories filling my head along with the ideas for my current stories. UGH....it's CRAZY!!! Uh....hehe anyway, as always, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own sailor moon.
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It was early on Christmas morning when Serena woke from a surprisingly restful and refreshing sleep. She smiled when her vision focused on the first thing she would see that morning and wished she could see every morning when she woke up.
Darien sleeping peacefully with his arm wrapped around her tightly, pressing her to him. She enjoyed feeling his nice, warm body against her own. Serena looked over his shoulder to see the window. It was still snowing outside.
'I can already tell today is going to be a very special Christmas.' She thought gleefully to herself. Although she knew there wouldn't be any presents to be exchanged or received between Darien and herself, she was quite content to know that she was with someone who truly loved and cared about her.
With that thought in mind, Serena snuggled deeper into Darien. She was about to fall back asleep when his voice spoke up.
"Are you really going to go back to sleep on Christmas day when you have a gift yet to receive?" At this, Serena sat up quickly. "A gift? For me? Really?" She asked with lots of excitement and happiness flashing in her eyes. Darien smiled at how innocent she looked. She almost looked like a child to him. He gently pulled her over to him and kissed her forehead.
"Of course it's for you. Who else do you think I would buy a gift for this Christmas, myself?" At that, Serena frowned. "You should have, since I didn't think to get you anything. You must think I'm a horrible, thoughtless girlfriend." She said as she looked down to the bed. She didn't even see the uncontrollable smile that graced Darien's lips. He reached out and took her chin in his hand and gently made her look up at him.
"I know you don't think that you gave me anything for Christmas, but you already gave me something before Christmas ever came." He said with the same smile. She involuntarily smiled back.
'How come he has these mysterious ways of making me smile even when I don't want to?' She thought to herself as she looked up into his eyes. "Really? And what did I give you." She asked as she hugged the sheet to her chest when Darien smiled more. His smiles always made her feel her heart flutter within her chest.
"You gave me almost everything I have ever wanted out of life. You gave me your laugh, your short, but sweet glances, your caring nature, the chance to be with you, someone who truly does love me." After he said that, his hand slowly moved from her chin to her jaw line, to her cheek and gently cupped it. Serena blushed and put her hand on his.
"I...." She started, but he stopped her before she could say anything else. "I'm not finished saying what I need to say yet, Serena." He said with seriousness but still with a gentle voice. Serena smiled and nodded for him to finish.
"Not only did you give me those things, but you gave me yourself, your body, mind, heart, and soul to me. Those things alone are worth much more than a million and one presents that you could buy me, Serena." By the time he had finished, tears were already streaming down her face.
"I love you, Serena." He said as he began to lean down to kiss her. She slowly closed her eyes as she felt his face come closer towards hers. "I love you too, Darien." She said as her tears of joy still flowed.
Not even a second after those words were said, Darien's lips were passionately kissing her own. Serena soon found herself lying back down on the bed, still kissing Darien. After a few more minutes of passionate kissing, Darien lifted himself off her and smiled. "If you get dressed now, I'll give you your gift." He said as Serena squealed. He chuckled as he sat up on the side of the bed and grabbed his boxers and put them on under the sheets. Serena started giggling when she took actual notice to his boxers.
On the front of them he had Rudolph and on the back was Santa and his sleigh of reindeer. Darien turned to ask what was making her giggle like that. But, before he could even ask, she had pointed to his boxers.
"What? I thought I could get into the Christmas sprit a little!" He said as he got up and walked to his dresser to get some pants. Serena raised a questionable eyebrow. "By wearing those?" She asked as she crossed her arms over her sheet-covered chest. Darien stopped looking for pants for a moment and smirked at her.
"It was either these or you could have had your boyfriend walking around town with you while his boxers went off every ten seconds singing 'Jingle Bells'. Now, which would you rather have?" He asked, watching her reaction as she imagined it. He chuckled when he saw her shudder.
"You better not own a pair of those because if you do, I'm starting a fire and burning them. Besides, I think those look so....cute on you." She said the last part, feeling a slight blush across her face. Darien smirked a little when he saw her blush. "You didn't mind seeing me with just my boxers on a few hours ago, Serena. Come to think of it...." He said as he made a cocky little "I'm thinking." gesture movement.
"You didn't mind seeing me without any clothes on at all." At this, Serena blushed an even deeper shade of red. She quickly picked up his pillow and threw it at him, but he easily caught it and threw it back at her. She was still blushing, but not as bad. "Darien, you're just so horrible to me!" She said as she pouted.
While she wasn't looking, Darien picked up all of her clothes on the floor and made a pile in his arms. She looked at him questionably as he walked over to her and stood in front of her while she still sat on the bed.
While he positioned the pile over her head, she got the idea of what he was about to do. She gasped as she raised her arms up to stop him, but he was quicker and dumped the pile on her. She gave a little squeak as her clothes landed on her.
Most of her clothes fell off of her and onto the bed, but what was left on her head made Darien burst out laughing. "Nice substitute for 'Meatballs', Serena." He said as he continued to laugh while she pulled her bra off of her head. She glared at him as she reached for the pillow behind her while he still laughed, oblivious to what she was planning. He turned back to his dresser, still chuckling a little while he searched for a shirt and some pants.
Serena still sat on the bed, clutching the pillow behind her, waiting for the perfect opportunity. Finding nothing in his dresser, Darien walked over to his closet, which was very close to his bed. Serena gave him an "I'm going to hit you when you don't expect it." look on his way past her to his closet.
He gave her a funny look when he past her, but shrugged it off as Serena listened to the sound of him dressing. While he was dressing in the closet, Serena quickly dressed herself, hoping that she'd be dressed before Darien walked out. She quickly stood up and grabbed the pillow on the bed and raised it above her head as she waited for the attack.
As soon as she saw him emerge from the closet, she brought the pillow down to hit him in the back of the head. She had hit him so hard she was surprised his head didn't bust the pillow! Darien rubbed the back of his head as he looked over at her, pillow still in hand.
"Ow, what did I do to deserve that?" He asked with a smile he couldn't help. He knew perfectly well why he deserved that. Serena smirked at him. "I don't have to have a reason and besides, you had it coming anyway, you egotistical jerk!" She said playfully. Darien smirked back and raised an eyebrow questioningly towards her.
"Oh, so a few moments ago, I was your sweet and loveable boyfriend that you couldn't keep your hands off of, and now I'm an egotistical jerk whom you just pounded on with a pillow? Jeez, you women and your mood swings." After he said that, Serena couldn't help but laugh.
"Yes, but you're MY egotistical jerk and sweet, loveable boyfriend." She said, expecting him to come and hug her or something, but instead he turned towards his bedroom door. When he got to it, he opened it and walked out without even saying a word to Serena or even giving her a second glance. After a few moments Serena's happy expression turned to one of worry and concern. 'I wonder....did I do something, or say something wrong?' She thought to herself as she walked out of his bedroom and down the hallway.
"Darien, please come back here and tell what I did wrong...." She trailed off as Darien came to the end of the hall where she was standing. She saw a flash of something behind his back, obviously his gift to her. She tried to get a look at it from behind his back, but his movements were, of course, quicker. Serena stopped trying to look at it and waited for him to give it to her.
"Serena, even though you said you didn't get me a gift for Christmas, it's okay. You can buy me a gift my next birthday, and besides, Valentine's Day will be here before we know it, so there will be lots of opportunities to give me gifts. But for now, I'm just happy to know that I have my own gift to give to." He smiled as he pulled out the long gold box from behind his back and gave it to her. His smile grew wider when she opened the box and gasped and looked up at him with amazement.
"Merry Christmas, Serena." He said as she took out the gold bracelet from the box. The bracelet had two gold hearts that were connected by a golden arrow shooting through them.
Engraved on the hearts were the words Serena and Darien in diamonds. "Look on the back, Serena." He instructed as she only nodded and turned the bracelet over to reveal more writing. She could help the tears that welled up in her eyes when she read the word 'Forever' on the back.
'Darien and I. Together....forever....sounds like a sweet dream I never want to wake up from.' She thought to herself as he took the bracelet from her and began clasping the bracelet. Serena shivered a little at his touch. After he got it securely on he slowly let it go and let it dangle from her wrist. He took both of her hands in his and leaned down to her eyelevel and pressed his forehead against hers; looking into her tearful, blue eyes.
"I hope we live up to that meaning on your bracelet, Serena. I've never gone through the things I have for other women other than you. You mean so much to me Serena. I love you, so much." He said with a smile as he leaned down and whispered in her ear.
"Even if I am a jerk. Hell, I'm your jerk." He said with a little laugh. Serena couldn't help but smile as she hugged him tightly while her tears fell silently. "No, no you're not a jerk." She said, sniffling a little. She said as he pulled away from her ear and looked into her eyes.
"What am I then?" He asked, holding her close by her small waist. She smiled.
"My dreams come true." She said as she slowly leaned up and kissed him. He smiled and gladly leaned down to kiss her.
It started out as just a simple kiss but then changed into a passionate one, and of course, one kiss turned to two, then three, then a few more before they decided to come up for air.
After the kisses, they were both panting heavily. Serena smiled as she laid her head against his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist and sighed. "Thank you Darien....for everything." She said as she sighed once again.
And for the rest of the day, it went on like that. Kissing, snuggling, talking, joking drinking hot chocolate, and watching T.V. Just enjoying each other's company basically. 'And I can't think of a better way to spend Christmas.' Serena and Darien both thought to themselves as they both snuggled on the couch in a big, warm blanket in front of the T.V. watching a Christmas special.
Later that night, they fell asleep like that in front of the T.V. nice and warm under the blanket, asleep in each other's arms.
The day after Christmas, Darien had dropped Serena off at the front of the hospital. Unfortunately, they both had to come back to work that day which was very hard to do because of the nice relaxing day they shared yesterday.
When Serena entered the hospital, Molly was already all over her about what happened at the lake and what did her and Darien do on the Christmas holiday. "Come on Serena, you have to tell me sometime. I already told you what Melvin and I did!" Molly whined as she stood beside Serena as she sorted her papers.
"Yeah, you and Melvin had dinner with your mom and dad and stayed the night with them, but your parents made Melvin sleep downstairs while you had to sleep upstairs. Believe me Molly, my Christmas wasn't as near as exciting." Serena said as she continued to short and file the paperwork. Molly got a sly look.
"Speaking of matters of where people slept, where in Darien's home did you sleep, and most importantly, in what bed?" After Molly had said that, Serena couldn't hold it back any longer and sighed deeply. She put down the file and leaned back against the desk.
"Oh Molly, you don't know how amazing it was." She said with a dreamy look in her eyes. "What the day, or the sex?" She asked with a smirk. Serena was too happy to yell at Molly for the moment.
"Both." Serena said as she suddenly blushed a little. Molly smiled. "Getting a few memories there, eh Serena?" Molly asked as Serena blushed an even brighter red. "And you know what? I've pretty much forgotten about those times me and...." Serena was cut off by a scream from nearby and a gunshot.
Molly and Serena both turned quick to see who was terrorizing the hospital. Serena's eyes widened when she realized who it was. "Allen?!" She nearly yelled as he gave her an evil smirk.
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I know it was pretty mushy, but hey, some of us really go for that sentimental stuff. So, yeah, I decided to bring Allen back now. What plans could he have to hurt Serena and Darien? Only I know, but if you want to know, please review!
Mackenzie
DISCLAIMER: I don't own sailor moon.
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It was early on Christmas morning when Serena woke from a surprisingly restful and refreshing sleep. She smiled when her vision focused on the first thing she would see that morning and wished she could see every morning when she woke up.
Darien sleeping peacefully with his arm wrapped around her tightly, pressing her to him. She enjoyed feeling his nice, warm body against her own. Serena looked over his shoulder to see the window. It was still snowing outside.
'I can already tell today is going to be a very special Christmas.' She thought gleefully to herself. Although she knew there wouldn't be any presents to be exchanged or received between Darien and herself, she was quite content to know that she was with someone who truly loved and cared about her.
With that thought in mind, Serena snuggled deeper into Darien. She was about to fall back asleep when his voice spoke up.
"Are you really going to go back to sleep on Christmas day when you have a gift yet to receive?" At this, Serena sat up quickly. "A gift? For me? Really?" She asked with lots of excitement and happiness flashing in her eyes. Darien smiled at how innocent she looked. She almost looked like a child to him. He gently pulled her over to him and kissed her forehead.
"Of course it's for you. Who else do you think I would buy a gift for this Christmas, myself?" At that, Serena frowned. "You should have, since I didn't think to get you anything. You must think I'm a horrible, thoughtless girlfriend." She said as she looked down to the bed. She didn't even see the uncontrollable smile that graced Darien's lips. He reached out and took her chin in his hand and gently made her look up at him.
"I know you don't think that you gave me anything for Christmas, but you already gave me something before Christmas ever came." He said with the same smile. She involuntarily smiled back.
'How come he has these mysterious ways of making me smile even when I don't want to?' She thought to herself as she looked up into his eyes. "Really? And what did I give you." She asked as she hugged the sheet to her chest when Darien smiled more. His smiles always made her feel her heart flutter within her chest.
"You gave me almost everything I have ever wanted out of life. You gave me your laugh, your short, but sweet glances, your caring nature, the chance to be with you, someone who truly does love me." After he said that, his hand slowly moved from her chin to her jaw line, to her cheek and gently cupped it. Serena blushed and put her hand on his.
"I...." She started, but he stopped her before she could say anything else. "I'm not finished saying what I need to say yet, Serena." He said with seriousness but still with a gentle voice. Serena smiled and nodded for him to finish.
"Not only did you give me those things, but you gave me yourself, your body, mind, heart, and soul to me. Those things alone are worth much more than a million and one presents that you could buy me, Serena." By the time he had finished, tears were already streaming down her face.
"I love you, Serena." He said as he began to lean down to kiss her. She slowly closed her eyes as she felt his face come closer towards hers. "I love you too, Darien." She said as her tears of joy still flowed.
Not even a second after those words were said, Darien's lips were passionately kissing her own. Serena soon found herself lying back down on the bed, still kissing Darien. After a few more minutes of passionate kissing, Darien lifted himself off her and smiled. "If you get dressed now, I'll give you your gift." He said as Serena squealed. He chuckled as he sat up on the side of the bed and grabbed his boxers and put them on under the sheets. Serena started giggling when she took actual notice to his boxers.
On the front of them he had Rudolph and on the back was Santa and his sleigh of reindeer. Darien turned to ask what was making her giggle like that. But, before he could even ask, she had pointed to his boxers.
"What? I thought I could get into the Christmas sprit a little!" He said as he got up and walked to his dresser to get some pants. Serena raised a questionable eyebrow. "By wearing those?" She asked as she crossed her arms over her sheet-covered chest. Darien stopped looking for pants for a moment and smirked at her.
"It was either these or you could have had your boyfriend walking around town with you while his boxers went off every ten seconds singing 'Jingle Bells'. Now, which would you rather have?" He asked, watching her reaction as she imagined it. He chuckled when he saw her shudder.
"You better not own a pair of those because if you do, I'm starting a fire and burning them. Besides, I think those look so....cute on you." She said the last part, feeling a slight blush across her face. Darien smirked a little when he saw her blush. "You didn't mind seeing me with just my boxers on a few hours ago, Serena. Come to think of it...." He said as he made a cocky little "I'm thinking." gesture movement.
"You didn't mind seeing me without any clothes on at all." At this, Serena blushed an even deeper shade of red. She quickly picked up his pillow and threw it at him, but he easily caught it and threw it back at her. She was still blushing, but not as bad. "Darien, you're just so horrible to me!" She said as she pouted.
While she wasn't looking, Darien picked up all of her clothes on the floor and made a pile in his arms. She looked at him questionably as he walked over to her and stood in front of her while she still sat on the bed.
While he positioned the pile over her head, she got the idea of what he was about to do. She gasped as she raised her arms up to stop him, but he was quicker and dumped the pile on her. She gave a little squeak as her clothes landed on her.
Most of her clothes fell off of her and onto the bed, but what was left on her head made Darien burst out laughing. "Nice substitute for 'Meatballs', Serena." He said as he continued to laugh while she pulled her bra off of her head. She glared at him as she reached for the pillow behind her while he still laughed, oblivious to what she was planning. He turned back to his dresser, still chuckling a little while he searched for a shirt and some pants.
Serena still sat on the bed, clutching the pillow behind her, waiting for the perfect opportunity. Finding nothing in his dresser, Darien walked over to his closet, which was very close to his bed. Serena gave him an "I'm going to hit you when you don't expect it." look on his way past her to his closet.
He gave her a funny look when he past her, but shrugged it off as Serena listened to the sound of him dressing. While he was dressing in the closet, Serena quickly dressed herself, hoping that she'd be dressed before Darien walked out. She quickly stood up and grabbed the pillow on the bed and raised it above her head as she waited for the attack.
As soon as she saw him emerge from the closet, she brought the pillow down to hit him in the back of the head. She had hit him so hard she was surprised his head didn't bust the pillow! Darien rubbed the back of his head as he looked over at her, pillow still in hand.
"Ow, what did I do to deserve that?" He asked with a smile he couldn't help. He knew perfectly well why he deserved that. Serena smirked at him. "I don't have to have a reason and besides, you had it coming anyway, you egotistical jerk!" She said playfully. Darien smirked back and raised an eyebrow questioningly towards her.
"Oh, so a few moments ago, I was your sweet and loveable boyfriend that you couldn't keep your hands off of, and now I'm an egotistical jerk whom you just pounded on with a pillow? Jeez, you women and your mood swings." After he said that, Serena couldn't help but laugh.
"Yes, but you're MY egotistical jerk and sweet, loveable boyfriend." She said, expecting him to come and hug her or something, but instead he turned towards his bedroom door. When he got to it, he opened it and walked out without even saying a word to Serena or even giving her a second glance. After a few moments Serena's happy expression turned to one of worry and concern. 'I wonder....did I do something, or say something wrong?' She thought to herself as she walked out of his bedroom and down the hallway.
"Darien, please come back here and tell what I did wrong...." She trailed off as Darien came to the end of the hall where she was standing. She saw a flash of something behind his back, obviously his gift to her. She tried to get a look at it from behind his back, but his movements were, of course, quicker. Serena stopped trying to look at it and waited for him to give it to her.
"Serena, even though you said you didn't get me a gift for Christmas, it's okay. You can buy me a gift my next birthday, and besides, Valentine's Day will be here before we know it, so there will be lots of opportunities to give me gifts. But for now, I'm just happy to know that I have my own gift to give to." He smiled as he pulled out the long gold box from behind his back and gave it to her. His smile grew wider when she opened the box and gasped and looked up at him with amazement.
"Merry Christmas, Serena." He said as she took out the gold bracelet from the box. The bracelet had two gold hearts that were connected by a golden arrow shooting through them.
Engraved on the hearts were the words Serena and Darien in diamonds. "Look on the back, Serena." He instructed as she only nodded and turned the bracelet over to reveal more writing. She could help the tears that welled up in her eyes when she read the word 'Forever' on the back.
'Darien and I. Together....forever....sounds like a sweet dream I never want to wake up from.' She thought to herself as he took the bracelet from her and began clasping the bracelet. Serena shivered a little at his touch. After he got it securely on he slowly let it go and let it dangle from her wrist. He took both of her hands in his and leaned down to her eyelevel and pressed his forehead against hers; looking into her tearful, blue eyes.
"I hope we live up to that meaning on your bracelet, Serena. I've never gone through the things I have for other women other than you. You mean so much to me Serena. I love you, so much." He said with a smile as he leaned down and whispered in her ear.
"Even if I am a jerk. Hell, I'm your jerk." He said with a little laugh. Serena couldn't help but smile as she hugged him tightly while her tears fell silently. "No, no you're not a jerk." She said, sniffling a little. She said as he pulled away from her ear and looked into her eyes.
"What am I then?" He asked, holding her close by her small waist. She smiled.
"My dreams come true." She said as she slowly leaned up and kissed him. He smiled and gladly leaned down to kiss her.
It started out as just a simple kiss but then changed into a passionate one, and of course, one kiss turned to two, then three, then a few more before they decided to come up for air.
After the kisses, they were both panting heavily. Serena smiled as she laid her head against his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist and sighed. "Thank you Darien....for everything." She said as she sighed once again.
And for the rest of the day, it went on like that. Kissing, snuggling, talking, joking drinking hot chocolate, and watching T.V. Just enjoying each other's company basically. 'And I can't think of a better way to spend Christmas.' Serena and Darien both thought to themselves as they both snuggled on the couch in a big, warm blanket in front of the T.V. watching a Christmas special.
Later that night, they fell asleep like that in front of the T.V. nice and warm under the blanket, asleep in each other's arms.
The day after Christmas, Darien had dropped Serena off at the front of the hospital. Unfortunately, they both had to come back to work that day which was very hard to do because of the nice relaxing day they shared yesterday.
When Serena entered the hospital, Molly was already all over her about what happened at the lake and what did her and Darien do on the Christmas holiday. "Come on Serena, you have to tell me sometime. I already told you what Melvin and I did!" Molly whined as she stood beside Serena as she sorted her papers.
"Yeah, you and Melvin had dinner with your mom and dad and stayed the night with them, but your parents made Melvin sleep downstairs while you had to sleep upstairs. Believe me Molly, my Christmas wasn't as near as exciting." Serena said as she continued to short and file the paperwork. Molly got a sly look.
"Speaking of matters of where people slept, where in Darien's home did you sleep, and most importantly, in what bed?" After Molly had said that, Serena couldn't hold it back any longer and sighed deeply. She put down the file and leaned back against the desk.
"Oh Molly, you don't know how amazing it was." She said with a dreamy look in her eyes. "What the day, or the sex?" She asked with a smirk. Serena was too happy to yell at Molly for the moment.
"Both." Serena said as she suddenly blushed a little. Molly smiled. "Getting a few memories there, eh Serena?" Molly asked as Serena blushed an even brighter red. "And you know what? I've pretty much forgotten about those times me and...." Serena was cut off by a scream from nearby and a gunshot.
Molly and Serena both turned quick to see who was terrorizing the hospital. Serena's eyes widened when she realized who it was. "Allen?!" She nearly yelled as he gave her an evil smirk.
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I know it was pretty mushy, but hey, some of us really go for that sentimental stuff. So, yeah, I decided to bring Allen back now. What plans could he have to hurt Serena and Darien? Only I know, but if you want to know, please review!
Mackenzie