A/N.: Thank you for the reviews. I am sorry that it took me so long to update, but I am working this month in a company as a trainee, so I don't have as much time as I really want. Hope you like the chapter!
Chapter 6
Rei had watched the door now for whole fifteen minutes, she just couldn't build up the courage to go through and see her one love again. The decision was taken out of her hands when the door opened. A pale Usagi stormed out of the room and nearly knocked Rei over. The black haired girl recognized the tears on Usagis cheek instantly and her gaze filled with horror. "What is it?"
Usagi didn't answer her, nor did she really recognize her friend. She just ran by Rei and shouted "A doctor, please, doctor his heart is not beating anymore."
Rei stormed into the room and pressed the emergency button. What could she do? My god her last first-aid course was years ago and she surely couldn't remember a thing right now. "Come on Mamoru, don't die! She needs you!" She was pushed to the side when doctors and nurses came in to rescue Usagis fiancé.
"Do something." Usagi urged them. And they did. They really tried, nobody could deny that fact. But in the end it wasn't enough.
They had promised to give her some minutes alone with him. Not with him exactly, but with his soulless and lifeless body, clothed in nothing but a hospital gown. She caressed his face with shaking fingers, praying that she wouldn't break down. She couldn't now. She had to arrange the funeral and everything. She had to cancel the wedding. Her wedding. She would never be Mrs Chiba. She would just be Miss Tsukino. "Mamoru" she whispered and let the tears trickle down her cheeks. There was no reason to hold them back yet. Nobody was there to see her cry, but there was also nobody there to comfort her. The blonde buried her head on Mamorus shoulder and began to cry. ´
"Let me go to her. She needs someone right now." Rei tried to push Ami aside, but was held back by Minako and Makoto.
"She wanted to be alone for a few minutes. Rei, you have to understand that she needs to say goodbye to him. It's very important." Ami tried to reassure her friend.
Rei sighed and sat down on a chair. "I've been too late." she whispered and buried her face in her hands. She felt like it was her fault that Mamoru had died.
"You couldn't have changed anything. He would've died anyways, as cruel as it sounds, but that's the truth."
Rei lifted her head, with teary eyes she looked at her friends and said sadly "She's going to be shattered."
Minako twined her arm around Reis shoulder and said "She will be, but we are going to be there to help her up again, won't we?"
"Of course we will."
She was still sitting by his side when two nurses arrived. "Miss Tsukino?"
Usagi glanced at the two nurses. She knew why they were here, she had seen it a thousand times on TV. They were there to clean Mamoru up and to remove all the signs of mechanical help to live. "Can it not wait for a few more minutes?"
The compassionate glances of the nurses gave her nearly the rest. "We are really sorry, but we have to dress and wash him, before he is …" The younger nurse shot an angry look to the older one, who just shrugged.
"We can give you two more minutes, but then we really have to get him out of here." The younger nurse said and smiled softly at Usagi.
"Thank you." Both nurses left Usagi alone. But Usagi didn't want to say her final goodbye yet. She was not ready for that, maybe she would never be.
An hour later Usagi was still sitting beside Mamorus lifeless body. The nurses had come again, twice, but Usagi refused to let them clean Mamorus body and get him down to the pathology.
"She refuses to leave his side." One of the nurses told Ami. "She throws us out of the room as soon as we enter it. Maybe one of you could speak with her." The four friends were silent for a few moments, but then Rei spoke "I'll do it. I am going to bring her home and look after her." The nurse nodded and followed Rei into the room.
"Usagi?" The first time in hours Usagi finally looked up and really saw the person standing beside her.
"Rei? Aren't you in Europe?"
Rei shook her head and said "You need me, so I came. Best friends, remember?" She smiled gently as Usagi nodded her head. "Come with me Usagi, you have to go home and rest for a while. Let the nurses do their work."
"No. I have to stay here. What if he wakes up?" Rei was shocked, didn't Usagi realize that he was dead? Was she in a stage of denying that the man she loved had died?
"Usagi, look at me!" Usagi glanced up again. Rei knew that what she had to do know was cruel, but there was no other way. "He's dead Usagi. Mamoru's dead and he won't come back."
"He can't be dead. We wanted to marry, we wanted to have children, our own little family. He can't be dead."
"Look at him and tell me otherwise. I'm sorry Usagi, I am really sorry, but he won't come back to you." Rei laid one of her hands on Usagis shoulders and was glad that the blonde let it lay there. "Come, I'll bring you home." She helped Usagi up and nodded at the nurses. Finally they could finish their work.
"Are you sure you don't want to eat anything? I could cook you something." Rei had brought Usagi home and had helped her changing her clothes, because the young blonde was in a state of weariness. When Usagi didn't answer the dark haired beauty helped her friend into bed. "Okay then sleep and when you wake up I'll make you something." She wanted to go but Usagi held her hand.
"Don't go! Don't leave me!"
"I won't go. I'll be in the living room." Rei said and wondered why Usagi shook her head.
"No! Please stay with me."
Rei sighed. "Okay just pull over." The black haired girl slid into the bed and covered herself and Usagi with the blanket. "Sleep Usa! You need your rest."
Usagi nodded. "Could you … could you hold me?" Hopeful eyes searched Reis face. "Please?"
"Sure." The priestess slid her hands around the blonde girl and pulled her nearer. "Sleep Usagi, sleep!" The black haired girl whispered and tried to sooth the other girl when she recognized that she was crying. "Let it out, let everything out. You will feel better then." And then she was crying with her friend, crying till they both fell asleep.
