You've Got Mail
By Hidden Firecracker
Chapter Two: Interference
A Dedication: This story has hereby been dedicated to all of you who are apart of any list serve and know how crazy the chain of e-mails can become. If you do not check your e-mail one day, then you have 20+ new e-mails waiting for you. If you answer one before reading them all, then you look stupid because it has probably already been addressed. The e-mails come at you from all directions and it is organized chaos. Enjoy this chapter!
A Note of Frustration and Apology: I am sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up! My document manager has been down and it finally came back up. We all know how crazy and complicated large websites can get, so I still have nothing but love for this website. I promise that the next chapter will not have such a long delay.
To: Party Planners
From: Pluto
Re: The Party
I apologize for my absence in the past two days. It appears as if I have missed quite a lot. I will be in attendance for Serenity's surprise party. I can assist Ami with the logistics committee if necessary. Why don't we let our Queen plan the fancy ballroom party for her daughter and then take Serenity out right afterwards. We can do a sort of planned kidnapping to the Asteroid Belt or wherever this adventurous and mysterious party with men ends up being.
Regards,
Setsuna
To: Party Planners
From: Nephrite
Re: re: The Party
Let's do that! Let's do a planned kidnapping. Oh, and Setsuna, before you go jumping into the logistics committee, you should know who is on it. Ami and Zoisite comprise the current membership and they like to fight on purpose so that they can play games making up later. Just a FYI for your own sanity. They can be awfully juvenile about the whole thing.
Nephrite
To: Makoto
From: Nephrite
Re: Our committee?
Adventure is my middle name. If Endy wants a trip to the Asteroid belt, we'll plan him a trip to the Asteroid belt. I'm sure the natives of said Belt would love to be privy to some of your wild inventions. I heard the Moon Palace personnel are still scrubbing some strange green and orange goo off of the walls. Is mischief the same thing as adventure?
Oh! If you want to have men at the party, then it is ok by me. In fact, the more the merrier!
Endy told me about the Jupiter dance. Why don't I know about the dance? I'm 18. You're 18. Is it because I'm only second in command? I'll make Kunzite disappear if I have to.
Neph
Willing to do what it takes to be First in Command
To: Earth Entourage
CC: Prince Endy
From: Kunzite
Re: Owned!
Gentlemen, our very own Zoisite just got Owned. If you have any questions, refer to Nephrite's last SM-mail.
Yet, in case you might have deleted it, let me run the highlights by you: Zoi and Ami have a lame way of courting. They pretend to fight over innocuous details just so they can have an excuse to make out. Neph was good enough to point that out to everyone on all list serves in existence.
How did Hotaru put it. Oh yes. LOL.
Kunzite
FIRST in command (Nephrite, you need to stop snickering and repeating what you write when you type love notes to Makoto!)
To: Minako
From: Makoto
Re: My man has it out for your man
So, it seems that Nephrite wants to learn the Jupiter Dance so badly that he is willing to do what it takes to become first in command of the generals. I guess Kunzite has some competition. I also heard that Kunzite found out about this and was not amused. I believe he had Nephrite doing drills from sunup to sundown. He missed our latest committee meeting. I blame him, of course, and not you nor Kunzite. However, Neph blames Kunz. Yet another reason for his demise. Heads up, this may be fun to watch.
Actually, my man is acting weird. He actually told me that he wanted men at the party. He said "the more the merrier". What do you think about that?
Heard from Rei yet? I'm just teasing!
Who is going to be in charge of paper goods and party favors?
Mako
Jovian expert of lightning and mischief
To: Rei
From: Minako
Re: Don't make me come to Mars…
I heard Mars is nice this time of year. I wouldn't know because you are not there to tell me if it is or not! I will crescent beam your ass if you don't reply soon.
-Minako
Your worried friend and Goddess of looooooooooove
To: Makoto
From: Minako
CC: Rei
Re: Party favors and paper goods?
Party favors, what are we 6? But you have a good point about the paper goods. Particularly if we go on an adventure to the Asteroid belt. Someone will have to pack us survival kits and backpacks. Rei, I just delegated this to you, for not answering us. Besides, I have my hands full with the "man" committee. Speaking of the man committee, Kunz actually SM-mailed me and told me he wanted men to come, too. What are they up to?
-Your Pal Minako
Expert of loooooooooooooooove
To: Ami; Rei; Minako; Makoto
From: Serenity
Re: Hi
Its ben four days since you have leaven for you're annual three week vacation home, and I miss the gossip and fun. Just so you knowe, they are still cleaning of the orange and green goo from the walls. Ami whatever you put in that stuff is unnatural. Well, I havn't herd from you all in a while so I wanted to see whut was up. Sent me some good stories, I need something to get me throu the next three weeks It is so quiet around hear and mom expects me to keep going with lessons and training. You guys get vacation and I get stuck with the normal routine. Go figure.
Write me!
Serenity
To: Party Planners
From: Minako
Re: She is bored!
We just got a SM-mail from Serenity and she is bored! You know what that means-she is going to start snooping around and asking questions and ruining our surprise! Endymion, you are now on a new committee: Prevention of Serenity Awareness of Party. Recruit everyone you must, but distract her!
Her grammar and spelling are still horrible. Ami, it looks like you have yet another thing to do when we get back.
Ami, I also just realized that "Inner Senshi" and "Inners" are too alike for our list serves. I just know one of us will mix them up sooner than later and spoil the surprise. Can we fix that?
Minako
To: Serenity
From: Makoto
CC: Ami; Rei; Minako
Re: What's up?
Hey Sere, we got your plea for some sanity. I am doing well. I am trying to think of something adventurous to do. The other day, I heard from Ami and she is doing something logical and detailed as always. Minako is off running around thinking of men, but don't worry, Kunzite is in the know. I haven't heard from Rei lately, but don't mention that to Minako-it will drive her up the wall.
I'm sorry that you have to keep on the normal routine, but we will be back soon to distract you. I know that I have to do a lot of the same things down here. I have the routine of meeting and greeting people and going different places. It's enjoyable and its what we were meant to do.
So, I have some work to do now and I think Nephrite is stopping by later. I'll talk to you later.
Love ya,
Makoto
To: Serenity
From: Endymion
Re: This Weekend
Hi sweetie. I heard from the girls that you are getting restless up there on the Moon all alone. Why don't you come down to Earth for the weekend and I can send the Generals away. It can be just the two of us.
Yours,
Endymion
To: Party Planners
From: Rei
Re: I CAN'T HAVE TWO MINUTES OF PEACE!
For the love of Apollo, Ares, or whatever deity you hold dear. I HAVE BEEN TOURING MY PLANET AND DOING MY JOB AS THE PRINCESS OF MARS. I did not think to stop by the nearest available internet café to check on my gal pals, when I just left them four days ago! Have any of you thought to go do your duty as future rulers of your planets or perhaps going to check on the people you guard? You return to you homes twice a year for only a couple of weeks at a time. Remember that? Go enjoy your families. Go see your people.
I came back from my nice leisurely tour of Mars to find my in-box flooded with SM-mails. I couldn't even get through the first batch before I found more with you yelling at me for not returning the first ones. Well I am returning them now. All of them.
Minako, if you set one toe on my planet you will face the full force of fire so hot that Ami's ice won't be able to cool you off. I can take care of myself and am perfectly fine. Thank you for your concern, but if it were Senshi business, I would have contacted you all. If it were any other kind of trouble, I still would have contacted you all. If you knew something was wrong, then you would have already found your way to Mars. You know that if I get a SM-mail asking where I am, that I will answer it. I don't need SM-mail after SM-mail telling me the same thing!
But as annoyed as I am with all of the SM-mail to catch up on (yours as well as everyone else's not related to surprise parties), YES! Serenity deserves the best party that we can give her. I know if anyone can pull together a grand event, that it is all of us. This includes my dearest friends who make a big deal out of nothing. I know that your big hearts will go into overdrive planning something that really matters.
I will do the mystery committee or whatever that means. Why do we need adventure and men and all of this? Can't we just throw out ideas and then from committees around whatever idea we choose? We are going to end up going in a million different directions and then sending more SM-mail to straighten it all out, if we divide ourselves up like this. However, Ami has logistics so I suppose this is her department.
Minako, the men of Mars are just as hot as the men of Venus. Jadeite, this is not a reason for you to cringe. You Generals always get a good laugh talking about some of your Terran women. I don't cringe or get tense.
Ami, don't listen to Zoisite, but don't listen to Jed either. Zoisite was not being a man suck-up, he was just being a man. Go ahead and do things your way and ignore Makoto and Minako. Fighting and making up are a healthy basis of any relationship. If it adds excitement for you two, then that is what you need.
Jupe, no dirty dancing, but I think that goes without saying.
Endy and everyone else: If we do the Asteroid Belt thing, think of all of the bureaucracy and red tape. We have to disguise everyone on the trip, not just Serenity. That will take a miracle effort on Ami and possibly Zoi's part to invent some sort of disguise mechanism in three weeks. Wigs and make-up won't cut it. The Silver Crystal doesn't have enough power for this extravagant of a trip. Well, it does, but we wouldn't be able to hide that amount of energy and we WOULD get caught. Not even the disaster prevention committee can come up with anything in three weeks for that problem. Besides, the energy we would use for this escapade has better use in other places, say, oh, protecting our Alliance?
So the "kidnapping" won't work, but we could ask the Queen for a little help. Yet, that means that we would have to take guards and guardians and a whole group for a simple surprise party. Doesn't that defeat the idea of having something different, adventurous, mysterious and with men? We might as well have a royal ball for all the trouble that this is worth.
We need to go back to the drawing board. We know what she likes and dislikes, so let's make a list and find something she would never think of. I guess that can be included under mystery? Perhaps we should have a joint committee meeting of mystery and adventure, that is, if we continue to use this current committee structure.
Hotaru, what is the deal with your writing style? Please tell me you do not communicate with anyone important that way.
Minako, I swear, you add more "o's" to "looooove" every time you sign your name. We get that you are the embodiment of all things "love".
Jed, why didn't you jump in and tell them where I was?
I think that covers EVERYTHING going on up to date. Let me know if I'm wrong. I'm sure Minako will be on top of that.
I love you all and I'm can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks. It feels like it has been forever. What green and orange goo? Where was I for that one?
Rei
Embodiment of fiiiiiiiiire
To: Rei
From Jed
Re: Anything for love
Hello my fire temptress. I thought the others would assume that you were touring you planet. I know they all had tours of their own and managed to keep up this e-mail frenzy. I should have thought to tell them. My complete and utter bad.
Well, my lovely, how about a pre-committee meeting before our joint committee meeting? You palace about dinner time? We can dine with whichever obligatory important people we must dine with. I will be the model of eloquence and gentlemanly behavior.
Tense? Cringing? Who is tense and cringing? Neither one of us? That's good, because we DO have some fine women on earth! Finer on Mars, of course.
If fact, I support wholeheartedly the idea of having men at our party. Invite as many man friends as you have. Encourage Minako and Makoto to bring all the fine men of their planets as well. Even better, wouldn't it be fun for Ami to bring some male guests. Clearly, I am fine with the man committee and I don't cringe.
With love,
Jed
Embodiment of paaaassion
To: Party Planners
From Zoi
Re: On top of things, yet again
Do not worry Party Planners, or Ami, for I have taken the liberty of creating a list serve for exclusively Ami, Rei, Minako and Makoto called "Inner Princesses". The list for Serenity, Ami, Rei, Minako and Makoto will be called "Gal Pals" in honor of Rei's last SM-mail.
Welcome to the party Rei! Glad you support the kiss and make up method. (Look Ames, we have one on our side!) (Love you, Sprite!)
Zoi
Embodiment of ME
To: Endy
From: Sere
Re: Our weekend retreat
Ooooohhhh, Endy! I am sooo glad that you sugested that! It just what I needed and I cant waite to sea you this weekend. I will be their. What are we going to do?
Oh yuh. Minako and Makoto our wondering if anything is wrong with you're Generals. They said something about them not being tense about the man comittee.
I think it is strange two that they are not tens about it.
Love,
Sere
To: Makoto; Ami
From: Minako
Re: Rei
Well ladies, she is back! Who is up for a visit to Mars?
Well, someone needs to keep that "joking-temper" of hers in working order with Serenity not around! We wouldn't want her to be out of practice. I could provoke her so easily by setting my toe on Mars.
Minako
All you need is looooooove
To: Zoi
From: Ames
Re: re: On top of things, yet again
Sprite is your nickname for me! Not the list!
On top of things, yet again? We'll see…
Oh, and yes I love you too.
-Ami
Your Goddess of LOOOOOVE. (I guess we will forever be making fun of Minako for that)
To: Party Planners
From: Ami
Re: list serves and committees
Thank you Zoisite for your thoughtful actions and restructuring the list serves. Rei does present an excellent proposition for our committee structure. Although it would make sense to do it Rei's way, we are already too far into our current committees to make changes now. Tomorrow, we will compile our committee reports and THEN reform our committees accordingly. I believe that Michiru may still take the music committee while there will still be a need for the destruction prevention committee and the keeping this a secret from Serenity committee.
Zoisite, my co-committee, of course agrees. Setsuna and Michiru, did you ever officially join our committee?
Thanks,
Ami
To: Earth Entourage
From: Endy
Re: Campaigning?
Well, it has been brought to my attention that the "whiners" are campaigning with their women to try and tip the scales in their favor. Well I have news for you. The girls are on to you! Serenity wrote me and said that Minako and Makoto wrote to her saying that something was weird with Neph and Kunz magically not being tense about the man committee. They suspect something.
I don't think it is appropriate for you three to be manipulating your girls, especially behind our backs. Are you that worried that you will lose?
-Endy
To: Party Planners
From Hotaru
Re: New Ideas
Kewl, we will keep r committees for now. Since the destruction prevention committee has nothing to do until there is a plan, I have n idea that would be gr8t. Lets do a retreat somewhere on Earth. It is close and we can say the Generals can protect us since that is their land. No guards, no disguises and no far distances. What do u all think?
G2g,
HoTaRu
To: Party Planners
From: Rei
Re: I GOT IT!
Hotaru is right! Why don't we find a nice secluded beach and camp out for the weekend? She loves the peaceful atmosphere, but rarely gets to go to a beach since suntans are not fitting for a royal Moon Princess. It will be much easier for Ami to come up with a way to prevent or hide any sun tanning that may happen.
I know that this just went over the heads of all of the committees and committee reports, but at least this is something to work with. What do you all think?
-Rei
To: Party Planners
From: Zoi
Re: re: I GOT IT!
Hey Rei! That is a great idea! In fact, a nice secluded beach with us Generals as protection is just the ticket. Let me take the liberty of suggesting that we keep this an exclusive group. The secluded spot will be small and us Generals should only concentrate on protecting what is most important to us. This can be a sort of get away for us as well as a surprise party. I think we would all enjoy a romantic weekend in paradise with no distractions or interruptions. This way, we don't have to behave ourselves in front of guests. We can relax, be ourselves and get into "extracurricular activities".
-Zoi
To: Earth Entourage
From: Zoi
Re: HA
Beat that! You campaign behind our backs that the girls are suspicious. I do it right in front of your faces, make it sound convincing, AND succeed.
Humbly Yours,
Zoisite
To: Inner Princesses
From: Minako
Re: Romantic Get away
I sure could use a romantic get away. Your Zoi is the man, Ami! I'm glad that he hasn't gone bonkers on us like Neph, Kunz and Jed have.
-Minako
All You Need is LOOOVE
To: Earth Entourage
From: Nephrite
Re: re: HA
You haven't succeeded yet.
-Neph
To: Party Planners
From: Hotaru
Re: Secluded Trip
If we only invite us, can I bring a friend? I'll need company, cuz you will all b off with your boyfriends or girlfriends. Setsuna is gr8t, but I still want someone my own age. Setsuna should bring a friend too.
-HoTaRu
To: Earth Entourage
From: Jadeite
Re: re: re: HA
Hotaru's pathetic plea for companionship just might put our team back in the game. If only the men committee can arrange for her to have a male friend, we win.
Jed
To: Serenity
From: Inner Princesses
Re: Your Weekend
Hi Hon, its all of us! We heard about your upcoming weekend with Endymion and wanted you to know that we expect him to behave like a perfect gentleman. If he tries anything, you tell us and we'll put him in his place!
Minako says: Have fun! But not too much fun…
Ami adds: be a lady
Rei says: We got your back! Nothing would displease me more than him going too far. And when are you going to learn how to spell?
Minako: Ok, so we know that you are not completely innocent, but at least let us pretend that you are our perfect angel that we are sworn to protect from any invading evil.
Makoto: By any invading evil, I think she means your innocence
Ami: But she also means to protect you against unhappiness. So be happy and do what you want. But only if you give him permission.
Rei: If he doesn't get permission, he gets fried.
Mako: And sizzeled!
Minako: Right. Oh, and thank Ami for finding a way for us to all send you this group e-mail, while we are all so far away from each other.
WE LOVE YOU!
To: Generals
From: Endy
Re: Go away this weekend
Hey, I'm going to need you all to vacate the immediate area within a 50 mile radius. My committee for keeping Serenity distracted and unawares will be convening this weekend.
In fact, I order you to personally check on the inner planets. I'm sure you will all work out a fair way to decide who goes to which planet.
A Warning to ALL: You may not in any way mention or subtly mention the man committee or the bet. You are ordered to have a normal weekend free from any campaigning/influencing/meddling/manipulating. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?
Regards,
Endy
To: Earth Entourage
From: Kunzite
Re: re: Go away this weekend
Clear as crystal.
Boys, just because you have a vacation with your women is no excuse to show up for training on Monday out of shape. That is my own personal warning.
To: Party Planners
From: Endy
Re: Serenity, this weekend, ideas
Ok troops. This weekend I will have Serenity distracted so that you are all free to make plans. You might want to SM-mail her soon because she is feeling bored, and we all know what happens when she starts to feel bored. Also, just so you know, I ordered the Generals to visit the inner planets this weekend on my behalf. I believe Zoisite will go to Mercury, Jadeite will go to Mars, Kunzite will go to Venus and Nephrite will go to Jupiter. If you ladies of these planets could graciously make arrangements for their arrivals, I would be most appreciative. Behave, kids!
I think Rei and Hotaru have excellent ideas. Why don't we hear from the committees and then discuss all of the ideas on the table. This would include Rei's idea and anything that comes out of the committees. This sounds fair.
Until later,
Endymion
Continued in Chapter Three
A/N: Again, thank you all for reading and please feel free to leave any constructive advice.
In my first chapter, I attributed the inspiration to write this story in e-mail format to Anya and her story "Naked Quidditch Match". If you are interested in getting the link, go ahead and send me a message. I'd be glad to give that to you!