A.N. Ok, I'm here with the 7th chapter to Look Out. In a few of the previous chapters, the first couple of words got cut off for some odd reason. I think most of you get the gist of what those words were supposed to be though. If not, and you want to know what they were, just email me and I'd be happy to let you know. Thanks everyone!

-Icess-

Quote: "A man is a bundle of reflections, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Sailor Moon or it's affiliates. Every single one of 'em belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and DiC. Those lucky bastards! LOL

Title: Look Out!

Chapter: Seven

Author: Icess

"Oh my god!" She moaned and sank down onto the darkly tiled floor. "Why me?" She asked the ceiling. She thought of Darien on the other side of the door and squeezed her eyes shut on the images that came to her mind. Darien laughing and smiling with her. Darien finally looking at her with love in his eyes. Darien holding a baby girl in his arms. 'Stop it already, Serena! It's never going to happen.' She moaned again at the pain that she felt in her heart. She hadn't felt pain like this in so long. Not even losing Jason had hurt her this much.

Suddenly, she gasped and saw in the mirror above the basin a shadow. She didn't even have a chance to scream before excruciating pain blasted through her body as a knife was slammed into her side. Just as quickly as it had happened, it was over. The shadow climbed out the window and left her in her own pool of blood next to the door. The last thing she knew was the darkness enveloping her.

"What the hell is she doing in there? Taking an extra long shower?" Darien asked himself as he paced the hallway between the bathroom door and the kitchen of the small but comfortable hotel room. Finally, after waiting for about five minutes and after realizing there was no water running, he gave up and stomped over to the door. Knocking on the door loudly, he yelled her name, "Serena! Let me in dammit! I'm not in the mood to play games." He put his ear to the door and heard her moan softly. "Serena? Answer me!" He screamed. Another moan. "Ok, watch out." He kicked the door open and very nearly passed out. "Serena, honey… come on, wake up." He said gravely, kneeling down beside her.

She opened her eyes a bit and she said the last thing he thought she would say at a time like this, "I love you too…" And then she was out completely.

"Wake up, damn you!" He patted his jacket pocket and found his cell phone. Dialing nine-one-one, he waited impatiently while the phone kept ringing.

"Nine-one-one, what is your emergency?"

"Get an ambulance over to the Holiday Inn pronto! We have a woman stabbed in the side, won't wake up. GET OVER HERE NOW!" Darien yelled, going crazy with worry over the amount of blood that Serena was losing. He dropped the phone on the floor, forgetting that Serena's blood was there and quickly grabbed a towel. "Sweetie, this is gonna hurt a bit." He pressed the towel to her side and she moaned painfully. 'At least she's breathing…' He said silently. He berated himself for not checking the whole suite over right when they got into the room.

He itched with the need to hold her, but knew that it would only cause her more pain. He heard ambulance siren's in the background and praised the Lord. "Oh shit!" He said, forgetting to call down to the front desk so that the paramedics knew where to go. He ran over to the phone in the adjoining bedroom and dialed the number. "Yeah, I'm the guy. Get them up here now, there's blood all over." He said, more calm now that he knew Serena would be in good hands soon enough.

He heard the paramedics yelling to one another in the hall and opened the door quickly. The men, hearing a door open focused their attention on that one door and made it to the bathroom in record time. Some gagging with sickness, others kneeling down and bandaging Serena up. After getting Serena onto the stretcher and loading her into the ambulance, they were on the way to Eastern Maine Medical Center, Darien blaming himself all the way.

Serena awoke with pain in her side, opening her eyes to a slit; she gazed at the room cautiously. All of the memories came flooding back to her and she inhaled deeply. 'Oh my God! I'm going to die!' She thought with panic. "Serena?" She heard a deep voice ask and she turned her head to the left where she thought the voice came from. She saw ocean blue eyes gazing at her with sorrow. Darien.

"Darien? What are you doing here? Where am I?" She asked, still panicking.

"You're in the hospital Serena. Remember? Last night, the killer finally got to you and I couldn't do anything about it because I didn't know. I didn't check everything over before I left you alone, Serena. I'm so sorry." He said, looking as if he were about to cry. His eyes were rimmed with red, with dark circles under them. He needed a shave badly.

"Darien, it's not your fault, you know. It isn't anyone's fault really. How were we supposed to know that the killer would follow us up here?" She said, trying to comfort him but not doing a very good job of it. "I'm serious Dare, no one is to blame except for the killer himself."

"I…" Darien began but never got to finished because he was interrupted by a commotion outside of Serena's hospital room.

"I demand to see her this instant! Do you hear me, you big oaf? I'm her best friend for Christ sakes! You want proof? Here, look at these pictures in my wallet!" Then the door burst open and the last person Serena expected to see was standing there before them… To be continued.

A.N. Some pretty serious stuff, huh? First, the psycho-killer guy stabs Serena, then her "best friend" finds out before everyone else does and rushes to the hospital. Who do you think it is? I'm not telling you, you're gonna have to find out for yourself in the next chapter. Until then… keep reading. I want some feedback! Thanks! Icess

Written On: September 23, 2002

Revamped On: August 13, 2005