The sun set slowly as the day dragged on to an end. Mel sighed heavily and sat down on her sofa and looked at Makoto standing out on the balcony looking off into space. Finally Mel stood up and walked out onto the balcony. She wrapped her arms around Makoto's toned slender waist, and kissed her neck softly. "Its ok angel I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."
Makoto leaned into Mel slightly and sighed. "I know that Mel. That's not what I'm spacing about."
Mel frowned. "You're confused about your mother aren't you?"
"No not really confused I just don't know what to make of all this that's all. Everything is just moving so fast it's all just a blur right now." Makoto turned around and wrapped her arms around Mel and buried her face in Mel's shoulder and cried softly.
Mel held Makoto tightly as she cried. As Mel stood there and held Makoto the scars on her abs started to bleed. Mel felt the sting and winced slightly. Damn it he's fuckin around somewhere. Mel looked down at her young lover and smiled softly.
Makoto stood up straight and wiped the tears from her eyes. When she opened her eyes she saw the front of Mel's white muscle shirt was red. Makoto's eyes got wide. "Ai what the hell are you bleeding for!"
Mel looked at her lover and put a hand on the back of her neck and spoke with her accent. "Tha scars from my stepfather are bleeding."
Makoto raised her right eyebrow. "Do you know why?"
Mel nodded. "Because 'e's around 'ere somewhere. It's one of my curses. Tha one's on my back will probably start ta bleed when 'e gets closer."
Makoto frowned. "Gomen nasai ai."
"Ya 'ave nuttin ta be sorry for angel so please don't be." Mel wrapped her arms loosely around Makoto. "Ya know if my stepfather is 'ere so is yours. And I swear ta ya 'e won't 'urt ya ever again. I'll see ta that."
Makoto nodded slightly. "Arigotu ai. I know what you're trying to do but my stepfather is mine. After what he did to you. I vowed he would pay for it and trust me he will. You worry about your stepfather and leave mine to me."
Mel nodded and was just about to kiss Makoto when there was a knock on the balcony door. Mel looked over and saw Ivory holding the phone and pointing at it. Mel opened the door and smiled softly at Ivory. "Who is it?"
Ivory smiled. "It's Trinity I think. Please you two behave everyone is still here." Ivory looked at Makoto and raised an eyebrow. "Mako-chan what's wrong?" Ivory handed the phone to Mel and walked over by the tall girl.
Makoto smiled at the younger girl and spoke softly. "After your friends leave I'll tell you its Senshi business."
Ivory nodded and turned around to see Hotaru standing in the door way. "Ivory-chan what's the matter with Mako-chan?"
Ivory shrugged. "Stick around after study group she says its Senshi related."
Hotaru nodded and the two girls went back to the kitchen to finish up. Mel growled and angrily tossed the phone into the house. "Damn it!"
"What's the matter ai?"
"We gotta go now. They showed up at Rei's temple tha other's are there now." Mel walked into the kitchen. "Ivory me and Mako-chan 'ave ta go. We'll be back ok." At that Mel and Makoto ran off.
Ivory called Mel on her cell phone. "Mel where are you two going."
"Yoma attack at Rei's temple just stay there we'll be back as soon as we can."
The girls pulled up and quickly transformed. When they got there they saw the other's scattered around hurt and tied up. Super Nova removed the sword from its sheath on her back and handed it to Jupiter. "'ere you'll need this."
Jupiter took the sword and looked at Super Nova. "What about you ai?"
Super Nova winked and transformed into Reyu. "I don't need it princess. Please be careful." she spread her wings and took flight.
Jupiter smiled softly and hugged Reyu. "You too ok. I want my fiancé back in one piece."
Reyu smirked. "Very well princess." At that black demon wings sprung from Reyu's back and she flew up and searched the grounds. She landed back by Jupiter and shrugged. "No sign of them. Let's untie the other before they show back up."
Reyu untied Mars first. "You guys it's a trap they used us as bait and you fell for it. Jupiter behind you. DUCK NOW!" Mars readied her flame sniper attack and stunned the king of Jupiter.
Jupiter spun around and faced him. "You'll pay for that." At that her and the king began to fight. While Mars untied the other's Reyu went searching for the king of Descillian.
Reyu's left wing began to sting and she turned around and saw Descillian's king standing there. Reyu growled and pulled her sword from the sheath. Descillian's king wasted no time and attacked the demon burying his sword deep into Reyu's ribcage. Reyu fluttered back and glared at the king. Before she could attack he used magick and tossed the demon threw the shrine wall. Bricks fell around the injured demon falling on her hard. The king turned his back to leave when he heard a growl come from the pile of rubble. He turned around and saw Enyo standing there. Before he could react the demon took Reyu's sword and drove it deep into the king's chest. When he fell over the sword came back through him.
Enyo growled again and hovered slowly towards Jupiter and her stepfather. Jupiter and her stepfather clashed swords and the king from Jupiter out muscled the thunder Senshi and she fell to the ground hard. The king raised his sword. Jupiter's eyes got wide when she saw Enyo walk up behind the king. Jupiter opened her mouth to yell but found she had no voice. When she saw Enyo bring her arm back she closed her eyes and turned her head. Just as the king was about to bring his sword down and burry it deep in Jupiter's chest, Enyo's arm came through the kings chest from his back. His still beating heart in the demons hand. Blood now covered Jupiter's fuku. Jupiter scrambled to her feet and watched in horror as the kings lifeless body fell to the ground. Enyo growled and squeezed the heart in her hand letting the blood drip from her hand as she dropped what was left of the heart.
Venus called upon her love chain. "Venus love me chain entrap."
Enyo's eyes flashed red and she caught the chain of hearts and pulled the love Senshi to the ground and drug Venus over to her. The demon grabbed Venus by the front of her fuku. Lifting her off the ground the demon growled again.
Venus screamed and pleaded with the demon. "Mel-chan I know you can hear me please! Please let me go. Mel-chan please!"
Enyo's eyes shown a deep emerald green for a moment and the demon set Venus down.
Ahriman stepped forward and spoke to Venus first. "You and the other's leave now." The panther then turned her attention to the demon and spoke to it in the same unknown language as before. "You're out of control they are the good guys. Let's get you somewhere where you can calm down."
The demon growled again. "Keep Makoto safe till I return old friend." Ahriman nodded and Enyo was gone.
A week passed and Mel still hadn't shown up. Makoto was still having nightmares of the battle at Rei's temple. The girls all sat in Mel's front room discussing who would look where for her. Their meeting was cut short by the sound of the elevator. The group of Senshi turned and looked to see who it was. Makoto stood from the sofa and ran to the elevator. She got there just in time to catch Mel as she fell. She had a deep gash on her left leg that started an inch above her knee and ran along side it half way down her calf. She had a 5 inch gash in the middle of her right side and her entire rib area was bruised. And she had a wound on her shoulder that went all the way through. Mel winked at Makoto before blacking out.
A few hours later Mel opened her eyes and saw she was in a hospital room. Mel groaned and looked around and saw Makoto sleeping in the chair next to her. Mel smiled softly and sat up. She removed the i.v. tube from her hand and picked the blanket up off the bed and limped over to where Makoto was and wrapped the blanket around her shoulders. Makoto moaned slightly and opened her eyes. "Hey angel sorry I woke you."
Makoto smiled and stood up and pulled Mel close to her. "God I love you so much. Promise me you won't leave me any time soon."
Mel smiled. "Till death do us part angel. If I'm not dead I'll always, always find my way back to you."
Makoto looked up at Mel with wet eyes. "Promise me you won't change into Enyo anymore. I know you don't remember what happened at Rei's temple but I'm still having nightmares about it. It was horrible. I've never been so afraid in my life. If the others weren't scared of you before, they are now. After what you did to Minako."
Mel cut Makoto off. "What did I do to poor Minako? Is she ok?"
"Yea Mel-chan I'm fine. You didn't hurt me just scared the hell out of me that's all."
Mel looked over at the younger blonde and frowned. "Gomen nasai Minako-chan." Mel slowly backed away from Makoto and sat down on the bed and a small tear rolled down her cheek. "I'm sorry all of you. Maybe its better if you all just stay away from me."
"Stop talking like that girl. No way are we staying away."
"That wasn't a suggestion Rei-chan."
Makoto narrowed her eyes and looked at Mel. "Look Mel this thing you have with pushing people away all the time is getting pretty old. Face it you're not alone anymore you have friends who care about you and who love you. Stop embracing the pain and the hurt you feel and embrace the love and friendship for a change."
Mel quietly got dressed while Makoto spoke. Finally Mel looked at Makoto and spoke to her in Italian. "I'm sorry I never meant to hurt any of them or you. I've been nothing but trouble since I walked back into your life. Nothing good has come from me being here. Because of me your friends fear you. Because of me you cry right now. Now you tell me I changed into Enyo and attacked you guys. So now because of that you all fear me." Mel lifter Makoto's chin with her hand. "Vera me amore, la mia anima gemella, ti amo."
A small tear ran down Makoto's cheek. She spoke to Mel in perfect Italian. "Don't talk like this Mel. You have not been trouble for us, especially not me. Since you walked back into my life I've been happy. If nothing good has come from you being here then why the hell do I still wear this ring? Don't you dare say you love me after everything you just said."
Mel wiped the tear from Makoto''s cheek and hung her head. "If that's how you truly feel angel. You know where to find me if those feelings change." At that Mel walked out of the hospital room.
Ami looked at Makoto standing there watching Mel walk away and trying not to cry. Makoto balled up her left hand into a fist. "You fucking coward! Is this how you deal with everything? Just fucking run away? When are you gonna stop running Melanie? When are you gonna finally face your problems?"
Mel stopped and shifted her weight to her right leg. Tears ran down her cheeks. Leaving her back turned to the group of Inner Senshi she spoke softly. "Your 100 percent right Makoto I am a fuckin coward. If I don't face the situation and run I don't get hurt. You have no idea what I've been through. You only see the results of what I've been through. I've been to hell and I don't want to go back. I know it sounds selfish of me, but I refuse to go back there, to all that suffering. You've all seen what I'm capable of. I know I scare the hell out of all of you. I scare the hell out of myself. Tell them Makoto tell them how you're scared of me. Tell them how you've never been so scared of me in your life." Mel looked over her shoulder at the group of girls. "When you can tell them that then and only then are you being completely honest with yourself." Mel looked at her young lover and frowned again and spoke once more in Italian to Makoto. "If you no longer want to wear my ring I'll understand. If I don't see you back at home tonight I'll take that as a sign that you want nothing more to do with me and I'll leave you alone from then on." Mel slowly started to limp away.
Makoto's eyes got wide as she watched Mel limp away. "Mel please stop." Makoto took off after Mel. When Makoto caught up to her she carefully spun Mel around and held her close. "Please ai don't talk like this I'm sorry. I love you and want to stay with you. What happened to the till death do us part talk?"
Mel looked at Makoto and sighed softly. "I meant what I said angel. As long as I'm alive I'll find you. I'm not forcing you to wear my ring. If you want to stay with me fine." Mel slowly raised her right arm up and wrapped it around Makoto's waist.
Makoto looked deep into Mel's cold eyes and kissed her softly before stepping away from her. Makoto saw the coldness in Mel's face and hung her head and started to walk away slowly.
Mel waited till Makoto was almost past her before grabbing the younger girl's arm. "Please don't walk away from me angel." Makoto looked at Mel and smiled slightly before throwing herself into her lover's arms and cried softly. After a few minutes Makoto looked up at Mel and smiled again before kissing her deeply. At first Mel left her arms at her sides and her eyes open in shock. Finally ever so slowly she brought her arms up and wrapped them around Makoto's waist and closed her eyes and kissed her lover back with as much raw emotion as Makoto kissed her with. Makoto put her hand on Mel's right cheek and slightly tilted her head to the right and kissed Mel deeper.
After a while Mel broke the kiss and just looked at Makoto. Makoto in turn hung her head. Mel slowly lifted Makoto's chin and looked deep into her pleading emerald eyes and her cold hard stare soon softened and Mel smiled slightly at her angel. Wincing slightly Mel shifted her weight to her right leg. "Ti amo angel, let's go home huh."
Makoto embraced Mel in a tight hug. Makoto spoke softly to Mel in Italian. "La mia anima gemella, vera me amore, ti amo."
Ami walked over and placed a warm hand on Mel's shoulder. "I'm sorry Mel-chan but this time I can't let you just walk out of the hospital."
Mel raised an eyebrow and looked at the young blue haired girl. "Why not Ami-chan I'm fine."
Ami shook her head no. "No Mel you're not. You took a hell of a beating and honestly you're very lucky to be alive. You have a few serious internal injuries. Humor me and stay here tonight. I'll let you go in the morning."
"What kind of injuries Ami-chan?" Makoto looked at her friend with worry in her eyes.
"You guys know I would let her leave if all that was wrong was a gash on her leg and one on her side and in her shoulder. But I can't let her go with all that plus 10 broken ribs and a possible punctured lung. So after the MRI results come back I'll know if it is indeed punctured or not. So please stay here till I get the MRI in please Mel. If it come back and your lung is fine you can go ok."
Mel looked at the younger blue haired girl and smiled slightly. "Ok Ami-chan I'll stay here till you get the MRI results back."
Makoto helped Mel back into the room and sat her down on the bed.
Minako smiled softly and sat down on the bed on the other side of Mel. "You know what Mel-chan." Mel looked over at Minako and raised an eyebrow. "I'm not scared of you; I'm scared of what you can do and what you're capable of doing. What happened at Rei's only proves that even in demon form. By that I mean even as Enyo you're still in some kind of control. Has Mako-chan told you what happened yet?"
"No Mina-chan she didn't so please fill me in."
Minako looked at Mel and smiled softly before speaking. "We don't know what happened between you and your stepfather, all I can tell you is what happened between Mako-chan and her stepfather." Mel nodded. "Well Mako-chan put up a great fight we never knew she knew how to use a sword till we saw her fight. Long story short her stepfather out muscled her and was about to I dunno kill her I guess and Enyo appeared behind him and literally ripped his heart out. Her arm came through his back. His heart was still beating in her hand. After she dropped the heart I tried to tie her up with my chain. Only she caught it and pulled me down and dragged me about 3 feet to her and picked me up by the bow on my fuku. I don't know why but pleading with you worked. Enyo's eyes went from black to your dark green and she set me down and disappeared."
Mel hung her head and spoke softly. "I'm sorry Rei-chan I disgraced your home and spilled blood on its holy ground. I'm sorry you all had to see that."
Rei walked over to Mel and placed a gentle hand on Mel's injured shoulder. "You didn't dishonor or disgrace my home in way shape or form. You saved mine and the other's lives by your actions. You did what you had to do. Don't worry about it."
Mel smiled softly at the young raven haired girl. "Your words are noble Rei-chan but I'm very sorry for what happened."
Minako looked at the girl sitting next to her and frowned. "What happened to you in that week you were gone Mel? This isn't the Mel we all know. This humble weak person sitting here isn't the tough hard ass that we've all come to know and love."
Mel looked at Minako and frowned. "I'm not being weak or humble Mina-chan I'm just taking responsibility for my actions."
Makoto put a comforting hand on Mel's shoulder and looked at Minako. "That's enough about what happened huh it was a week ago."
Ami smiled and looked at everyone. "Mako-chan is right you guys lets let Mel-chan get some rest huh. I'll call you guys with any news."
Everyone except Makoto left the hospital. Makoto sat next to Mel on the bed and cuddled up close to her. "Ti amo. I'm sorry about earlier it just pisses me off to hear you talk like that. We really do care about you and love you. I wish you could see that." Makoto trailed off and fell asleep quietly in Mel's arms.
Mel looked down at Makoto and smiled softly. "I do see it angel its jus 'ard to accept after the 'ell I've been through." Mel kissed the top of Makoto's head and held the younger girl as she slept.
Ami walked into Mel's hospital room and saw her sitting up holding a sleeping Makoto. "Mel-chan did you get any sleep last night?"
Mel looked at the young blue haired girl and smiled slightly. "No Ami-chan I didn't. I wouldn't of even if Makoto wasn't using me as a pillow. Got too much stuff running through my mind to sleep."
Ami looked at her friend and smiled. "Well I got the results back on your MRI and I'm happy to say you may go home. But before you do I'd like to change the bandage on gash on your chest. And make sure you keep the stitches clean and dry for a few days."
Mel carefully picked Makoto up and laid her down on the bed. She then carefully removed her blood stained shirt. Ami blushed slightly. "Yeesh Ami-chan why you gotta go and blush. I have a bra on." Mel chuckled slightly. "Some doc you are girl. Can't even look at a girl with her shirt off. Now before you get mad and hurt me I meant that all in fun I wasn't being mean. So why are you blushing anyways? It's not like you haven't seen me with out a shirt before. Shit girl you've seen me transform so stop blushing"
Ami smiled slightly at the older girl. "I know you weren't being mean Mel-chan. I know I've seen you transform and all but it was before I started seeing Rei."
Mel smiled at the blue haired girl. "I see you're still adjusting to the whole girls are hot thing huh. So I should consider the fact you blushed lookin at me as a complement then."
Ami shook her head and slowly removed the bandage on Mel's side. "Well the wound isn't infected and it's healing nicely actually." Ami looked up at Mel. "Yea I guess you can stay I'm still adjusting to the whole 'women are hot thing' as you put it." The two girls chuckled as Ami put a fresh bandage on Mel's wound.