Another Life

By Angel

Chapter 5

Here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. I also apologize for this chapter taking so long it was only half my fault. Really

I don't own Sailor Moon. So don't sue me.

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Darien stood anxiously at the foot of the stairs. He was trying to be patient but he was so excited about finally going on a date with Serena that he could not stop fidgeting. He had taken great pains to plan the whole date out it was going to be very romantic, now all he had to do was wait for his date to make an appearance.

A squeaky step at the top of the stairs had Darien turning to face upward. "Wow!" was all he could say as Serena descended the stairs. She looked more beautiful then he could ever have pictured. Serena smiled noticing his attention, a blush heating her cheeks. It was a look that had Darien catching his breath. "Y.. you look... umm...wow!" Darien stammered mentally reminding himself to breath.

Serena gave him a once over. "Thanks. You do not look so bad yourself." And he did look fantastic! In a pair of khakis and a Polo shirt that was almost the same shade of blue as his eyes. Serena wondered if there was a guy in the world as handsome as Darien.

"Well are you ready to go?" Darien asked after clearing his throat.

"Alright." she answered sweetly taking the hand he held out to her. They both headed out the door and down the sidewalk. Darien let his eyes run over her one last time, then stopped suddenly in his tracks jarring Serena into turning around to look at him in confusion. "I am so dumb!" He muttered. "Serena, I am so sorry. I had no idea you would be wearing a dress." he apologized.

Serena gave her dress a puzzled glance before turning back to him. "Well of course you could not have known, your not physic. So what is the problem? You do not like it?" she asked self-consciously.

"What?" Darien asked in shock. "How could I not? You look absolutely beautiful." he reassured her smiling. But his smile became sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck and shook his head. "It is just that I rode my motorcycle today instead of bringing my car." he explained. But if he had to be truthful with himself, he knew the reason he brought the motorcycle instead of his car, was because she would have to wrap her arms around him.

And he whole-heartedly loved that idea.

Serena just shrugged. "Is that all? Well it would not be the first time I have ridden one in a skirt." She stated. "In fact you could say that I am a pro." she said and winked at him. And for the strangest moment he thought she knew exactly why he brought the motorcycle.

But he just brushed that thought aside, to pick up the tail end of her words. "A pro? Do you know many people with motorcycles?" he asked as they headed toward the street again.

"Not really, but when I was in America my friend Alex had one, and we used to go for rides all the time." she stated smiling at the memory. Darien began to feel jealous at the way she was talking about this Alex guy, and that he had taken Serena out for joy rides made him even more jealous. He kept imagining her arms around him and... His thoughts were interrupted by her next words. "Alex is a speed demon and it often drives Michelle, she is Alex's girlfriend, crazy." that sufficiently dissolved all traces of his jealousy, as he listened to Serena, continue, "She is always worried something will happen. But Alex is a great driver. She just worries for nothing and she knows it, but she just can not stop. They make such a cute couple." she said smiling.

"You sound like you really miss them." He said as he handed her a helmet and put his on. He climbed on the motorcycle and held it steady while Serena competently climbed on in a sidesaddle position behind him, and wrapping her arms around his waist tightly pleasing the both of them; she started to answer his question.

"I do. I miss them all. You would have liked the guys, there one of a kind. And Michelle is so nice. But they promised to come see me soon, and I can not wait to see them again." she said as Darien stared the bike and rode down the street.

Sometime during the ride Serena had laid her head down against Darien's back and he was just enjoying the feel of her touch. She was right she was a pro at riding a motorcycle, in a dress. Trying to keep his attention on the road and not his beautiful companion, he drove to the park and parked in the lot.

Regretting that the ride was over she sighed and reluctantly raised her head to look around. "What are we doing here?" she asked confused.

"I thought we might take a moonlight walk before we get something to eat." Darien said smiling as he got off the motorcycle and held his hand out for hers. Serena gave him her hand and hoped off the motorcycle. Hand in hand they walked down a path toward the rose garden. "Tell me more about your friends in America." Darien asked.

Serena looked up at him and smiled. "What would you like to know?" she asked.

"Everything." He stated clearly. "I would like to know more about them, and your life for the past two years." He answered not really asking what he really wanted to know.

But Serena sensed his hesitation and knew what he was really asking. Smiling she leaned a little closer to him. "No I do not have a boyfriend in America. And no I never romantically dated any of the guys." she said smiling up at his shocked face. "So you have no reason to be jealous when they come to visit. Mike, Jase, Zack, and Nat are like my over protective brothers." she chuckled reflecting. "I remember a date I had with this guy David, and he was such a jerk. But I did not know that at the time and the guys not wanting to hurt my feelings followed us on our date. They hated David from the very first moment they met him, anyway they sat in the back of the theatre we went to and sat a few booths away from us at the coffee Shoppe. Their always looking out for me." she sighed as if silently reliving bad memories.

Darien tried not to pry but his curiosity got the better of him and he asked a few moments later. "So what happened? With David?" he specified.

Sighing again Serena stared straight ahead as she continued. "After we had coffee that night I thought he was driving me home, but instead he pulled into this driveway off the side of the road. I thought maybe someone he knew lived back there or something, but when we where just out of sight of the road he turned off the car. I asked him what we where doing there and he said I should not tease guys like I do. I of course had no idea what he was talking about so I told him that I wanted to go home. The next thing I knew he had practically dragged me into the back seat and was kissing me and...and..." she hesitated.

Darien heard the emotions in her voice and knew if he ever met this David guy he would probably kill the bastard for what he had put her through.

Sighing again, Serena shuddered slightly. "But that does not matter, the guy's had still been following us and they rescued me and beat David up pretty bad. They were really mad. Every guy who tried to ask me out after that had to go through them first." She said chuckling. "And since then I have only been on one other date. With you." she finished with a smile.

Darien did not know whether he should be thankful Serena had such good friends to protect her or be angry that they did not kill the asshole, even though he knew that was unreasonable. He just did not like that the guy had put his hands on Serena. Sighing he stopped walking to look deep into her blue eyes. "I am glad that you are ok. And I am glad that you are here with me. I would probably go crazy if something had happened to you" he said as he brought his free hand up to caress her cheek tenderly.

"Why Darien if I did not know any better I would have to say you cared." she said trying to sound nonchalant, but her heart was pounding and there was a tiny glimmer of hope sparkling in her eyes. Not wanting to get her hopes up she smiled and turned away from him. "It does not matter. It was so long ago, almost like it happened to another person in another life."

It was all Darien could do to keep from taking her in his arms and confessing everything to her. He wanted her to know how he felt about her how he had always felt about her, but first he had to find out how she felt about him. He did not feel like making a fool of himself if he told her and she laughed in his face.

Turning down another path Darien lead the way to a small clearing, hidden away behind bushes and trees. Darien had accidentally found this spot when he was jogging one morning. The roses here grew wild and in many different colors. And there in the middle on the clearing with the full moon shining from a clear night sky, down through the trees was a picnic for two. It was all very romantic, and Serena gasped at the beauty of it all. Whirling around with a smile on her face she took in the enchanting atmosphere.

"Oh, wow! This is so beautiful. I would never have known this was even here." She said as she turned back to look at Darien with a bright smile.

"Not many people do." He replied enjoying her reaction. "I just happen to chance upon it one day." Walking up to her he took her hand and pulled her toward the picnic blanket spread out a few feet away. Gently pulling her down to sit on the blanket beside him he smiled his devilishly hansom smile and asked. "I hope your hungry, because I have brought a lot of food. I do not think we will be able to finish it all."

Serena grinned mischievously. "You really do not know me that well do you?" she asked, but when he just stared at her confused she laughed. "My friends call me a human vacuum. You would not believe the amount of food I can eat." She explained.

And of course she was right. As they ate and talked Darien marveled at how much she could eat. The next time he took her on a picnic he had to remind himself to pack more food. "How is it your not as big as a house?" he asked jokingly.

Serena smiled smugly and answered his question while reaching for another strawberry he had packed for dessert. "I have tried nothing sticks."

A while later with all of the empty food dishes put away, Darien laid back on the blanket one arm behind his head to act as a pillow, and the other wrapped around Serena, who had laid her head down on his shoulder to look up at the stars. Darien was pointing out each of the constellations, when a shooting star went streaking across the dark sky above them.

"Wow!" Serena gasped. "Did you see that Darien? A shooting star, it was so beautiful."

Darien had to smile at the look of pleasure on her face. "I saw it. Did you know if you make a wish on a shooting star it will someday come true?" he asked smiling.

"Is that true?" Serena asked curiously. "Well then what did you wish for?" Darien smiled as he rolled over putting her half under him. Supporting his wait by leaning on his elbows, one on each side of Serena, he looked down in to her eyes.

"The same thing I have always wished for. I wished for you." He whispered softly as his head lowered and his mouth claimed hers.

Hey guys sorry this took so long again Damn Spyware whoever created it should be shot. I MEAN SERIOUSLY what did I ever do to them. Sheesh. Anyway I hope you all liked this chapter it was by far my favorite to write. As usual I appreciate all comments constructive or not. I'll even take yall yelling at me for taking so long. I'll try not to let it happen again. Well till next time.

Love yall

Angel

Another Life

By Angel

Chapter 6 part 1

Okay since it took me so long to put out this last chapter and it ended at a really great spot (terrible but great) I'm going to spoil it and post half of chapter six here and add the rest on to chapter seven. Longer chapters more bang for your buck. Well anyway I hope yall like this half of chapter six the last half is complete and I will start seven soon but not now because it's like 3 am.

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She did not move a muscle at first making him worry that he had misconstrued the signals. But then her muscles relaxed and she sighed opening her mouth to him. He deepened the kiss and the world dropped away till only the two of them were left floating in each others arms. Darien felt the pounding of his heart against his ribs and drew back slightly to catch the breath he had lost. He watched her face as heavy blue eyes fluttered open and her lips trembled slightly with each breath.

It was only then that he felt the first drops. One tear shaped orb landed on Serena's cheek and he gently soothed it away with his thumb before grinning down at her. "I think we are about to be caught in a summer shower." He commented as he moved quickly to stand up pulling her up with him. Bending to grab up the blanket and picnic basket, Darien took Serena's hand and together they ran toward the gazebo in the middle of the rose garden. Running back through the trees and bushes over wet grass and through mud puddles laughing all the way. The rain was pelting down at them when they finally made it up the steps and under shelter.

Taking in a few panting breaths Darien slowly began to calm down enough to speak, the kiss and the exertion of running threw the rain had made them both giddy.

. "Where in the world did the rain come from?" Darien mused. "I could have sworn a few minutes ago there was not a cloud in the sky."

Serena giggled a little. "That is because there had not been any. This must be one of those freak showers they talk about on the news all the time." She said.

Darien pretended to be stunned. "You watch the news Ordango? Who would have thought?" He said chuckling when Serena elbowed him softly in the ribs.

"Hey I have a brain you know!" She snarled as she glared at him. 'Oh no! He is just like the rest. He just thinks I am another dumb blonde. Oh why Darien? I hoped you would be different.' She thought sadly as she remembered the kiss they had just shared.

Noticing Serena's distress over his comment Darien did not hesitate to apologize. Wrapping his arms around her shoulders he spoke softly to her while pulling her against him for warmth as much as to comfort.

"Hey I am sorry, it was a joke. I know you have a brain Serena. I did not mean anything by it I swear." He said pleadingly, there was no way he was going to let a friendly joke be misinterpreted into something to hurt her. Silently he wondered why what he had said upset her so much when she usually laughed off everything else.

Looking over her shoulder Serena looked into his eyes, she wanted to believe him so much. Sighing she turned and smiled slightly. "I know. And I am sorry I over reacted." She said softly, wrapping her arms around his waist she gave in and laid her head against his chest.

It was that easy, she forgave him that easy. Sighing happily Darien held her tight for a moment and thanked every star above that his Serena had a big heart and did not hold grudges unlike most girls.

"No it was my fault." He said dismissing her apology. "I never meant to say I thought you were dumb. I know your not. Serena nobody as wonderful as you are could ever be thought of as dumb." He said as he placed a hand on her cheek. There was a light in his eyes, an emotion Serena could not quite guess, but it gave her hope.

Smiling tearfully up at him she said. "You really think that I am wonderful?" she sniffed her eyes welling up with unshed tears. She could not believe it Darien her Darien, whom she had worked so hard to change for, thought she was smart and wonderful.

Darien smiled "Of course I do Meatball Head. I also think you are as cute as a button." He said laughing and playfully tapping her nose with the tip of his finger. Serena giggled and reached her hands up to wrap around his neck, pulling his head down to meet her lips. It was a soft kiss, but it made Serena feel like she would melt into a puddle at his feet, if Darien had not wrapped his strong hands firmly around her waist, pulling her gently against him. Serena buried her hands in his hair and parted her lips to allow the kiss to deepen. Her sigh was one of pure happiness, only Darien could make her feel like she was on fire with just one kiss.

Darien could not believe he was finally holding his Serena in his arms, kissing her the way he had been longing to kiss her for the last two years. Ever since he had seen that adorable blush staining her cheeks that first day as she muttered her apology. He had always known kissing Serena would be like magic. How could it not, she was perfect. And she was his.

They stood there in the middle of the gazebo holding each other, kissing each other, just happy to finally be together, in till the rain had stopped and it was time for Serena to head home. Holding hands they silently walked back to the park entrance.

Beryl glared at the scene before her. She had been on her way home from a date with one of her many boyfriends, none of them really mattered to her, it was only Darien she wanted. So when Darien rode passed on his motorcycle, and who was sitting behind him, with her arms wrapped lovingly around his waist but her hated rival Serena Carson, she saw red. So she followed them, down one block and around the corner, ducking in a neighboring yard when they stopped. She watched as Serena hopped off the back and Darien followed suit. He reached for her and held her against him, they spoke for a few moments, but Beryl was to far away to make out what it was they were saying. She watched as they shared a clearly passionate kiss, before hand in hand Darien walked her to the door and quickly pecked her on the lips again before slowly turning to walk back to his motorcycle. Once there he got on and turned to watch Serena enter the house safely before starting the bike and roaring off down the nearly deserted street.

Beryl was livid at the idea that Darien had just spent the evening with Serena when he was supposed to be hers. Well she was not going to stand for it. She would just treat this little crush of his as a temporary set back. Guys needed variety a chance to sew their wild oats, she would allow him his harmless flirtation, and it had better be harmless. She thought scowling.

She would have Darien, even if he was not willing. But first she would have to make an example of Serena Carson. And she knew how. She turned and walked back down the way she had come a malicious grin marring her features.

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Love yall

Angel