Title: The Love Remains Series 1: At Your Own Risk
Author: Princess Destiny
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Couple: Usagi And Mamoru
Rating: PG 13+
Summary: 'One Hour Challenge' #47: Response Fanfic. A seemingly harmless game of 'Never Have I' turns into a nightmare as Reika and Motoki discover that Mamoru and the girls are all hiding a big secret. And then Mamoru's apartment building catches on fire and there's no longer any way to hide their secret identities...
Chapters: 2/3
Status: Completed
Year Completed: 2002

Comments: Hi everyone! Chapter Two of Three. Wow, you guys really liked this Fanfic, as well as the other one I sent out last night. To answer a question by a reviewer as to why the girls don't just lie to the questions...well, they're young and tipsy and no one has really asked them straight out if they were the Senshi before. There's also the surprise element. The 'oh crap I didn't expect that question and I can't think up a lie quickly' thing. LOL. And you don't lie to your friends. Period.

Besides, if they didn't admit to these questions, the Fanfic would have ended really quick!

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The Love Remains Series 1:

AT YOUR OWN RISK

By Princess Destiny

Chapter Two

"Good!" Reika gasped out, clapping. 'The perfect question!'

"Fuck!" The girls and Mamoru all shouted, stunned and horrified by such a revealing question.

"Is that a yes or a no?" Reika asked suspiciously.

'Oh god! What do I do now?' Mamoru and the girls all held their breaths, horrified.

'Oh god,' Usagi thought fervently. 'Let something happen! Quickly.'

As if someone had heard her prayer, an alarm suddenly sounded through the building.

Usagi's eyes widened; first in delight, then in horror. 'A fire!'

"My building is on fire?!" Mamoru yelled, jumping to his feet. 'My whole life is in this apartment!'

"Lets just get out and let the fire department handle it." Reika said calmly.

"Problem." Motoki said weakly, pointing down the hall to the front door. Smoke was curling under it from the other side.

"Do you have fire-stairs outside?" Ami asked urgently, afraid she knew the answer.

"No," Mamoru shook his head. "Just balconies."

"Maybe we can climb down from one to the other?" Makoto suggested, heart sinking.

Mamoru shook his head, looking grim. "No. It's too far. And it's too dangerous. We're eight stories up."

"What are we going to do?!" Usagi wailed, panicking. The place was a death trap! 'What if we have to transform!? Motoki and Reika and Mamoru will find out we're the Senshi!'

"Let's go onto the balcony and wait for the fire department to put the fire out." Ami suggested in a stronger voice. If worse came to worse, she could transform and put out the flames with her bubbles.

"Sounds like a plan," Mamoru nodded approvingly and led the way to the balcony. He slid it open and motioned everyone out. "Come on." he said to Usagi, who was last. He pressed a hand to the base of her back and followed her out, close behind.

It was crowded out on the small balcony and he found himself pressed against the back of Usagi, breathing in the scent of her warm hair. 'Mmm, she smells nice.' And he didn't feel as awkward as he had expected, being pressed against his enemy.

"Hey, maybe the Senshi will come?" Motoki said brightly.

"Yeah!" The girls all chorused a little too quickly. 'Whew!' That meant that Motoki and Reika weren't completely sure.

"Then, you'd know they weren't us." Ami said, nodding.

"Oh, we never thought you were. We were just having fun." Motoki waved a hand about and grinned.

The girls and Mamoru stared at him, bewildered and angry. Those two had been joking the whole time?! 'I'm going to kill them...'

"Although there are a lot of coincidences," Reika said thoughtfully. "But he's right; we never really believed it!" she giggled like a teenager. "Usagi is too klutzy. Ami is just too shy. Mamoru just isn't the 'saving damsels' type. Rei argues with Usagi way too much for them to get along long enough to fight a battle and Makoto only just moved here" Reika went through the List, ticking off her fingers.

Though annoyed to have their faults pointed out, the girls and Mamoru all breathed silently with relief.

"Yeah! I'm so klutzy." Usagi agreed, laughing.

"Me? The book-worm; a Senshi?" Ami grinned.

"Yeah-I just moved here. When would I have time to be recruited as a Senshi?" Makoto said, laughing.

"Yeah! I can't stand that Odango Atama and we're always fighting." Rei admitted, giggling.

"Boy, did you pick that right," Mamoru said, grinning. "Me? Rescuing damsels in distress? Ha!" he turned a mocking look on Usagi. "And could you honestly see Odango fighting?"

"Nope!" Usagi grinned back over her shoulder, feeling strangely calm with her body pressed against her worst enemy's. 'It isn't as bad as I thought' "Me? Fighting monsters? I'd scream my head off!"

"Then fall flat on your face as you tried to run away." he added.

"Oh yeah, then the monster would go for me." Usagi added also, smile fading slightly.

"And you'd have to be rescued." Mamoru said, smile fading slightly also.

"And then I'd say 'my hero'!" she batted her lashes at a grinning Motoki, not noticing the panicked looks growing on Ami, Rei and Makoto's faces. They looked from Usagi, to Mamoru's face above her head and hoped that Usagi would shut up!

"And then..." Mamoru's smile faded completely and he stared blankly out over the city. 'If it'd been my usual rescue of Sailor Moon, I'd have told her to dust the monster with her tiara.'

Usagi's smile disappeared and she stared at nothing. 'If it'd been my usual rescue by Tuxedo Kamen, he would have told me to moon-dust the monster.'

They both sighed deeply at the same time.

"I get the point." Reika said, having completely missed the tension from all five.

"Think the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen will come to a fire?" Motoki said looking left and right just in case the Senshi came leaping in to save the day.

"Probably not." Usagi said, shaking her head.

"I doubt it." Mamoru agreed readily.

"That's the fire department's job," Rei said. "They're better equipped for fires."

"The Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen are better equipped for battles." Ami added.

"They'd leave it to the professionals." Makoto nodded, looking down as the sound of sirens could be heard. "Here come the cavalry!" she announced.

"About time! This is higher up than I like." Motoki said, shivering in the cool air. "How about you girls?"

"I'm fine with heights."

"Me too."

"Uh huh."

"No problem."

They all replied promptly to the question.

"And you're probably okay with heights too, Mamoru," Reika said wryly. "Or you wouldn't have picked an apartment so high up."

"It doesn't bother me at all." Mamoru admitted, nodding.

"Wow," Reika went on admiringly. "I would have expected Usagi to be petrified to be up this high."

"I would have been a few months ago." Usagi said absently.

"Oh?" Motoki said casually. He cocked his head. "But not any more?"

"Oh no! Not since-" Usagi began, smiling. But then she caught the angry stares of her friends and faltered.

'Oh. I can hardly say that I'm used to heights now because I'm was a Senshi and have to go high places sometimes. Or that Tuxedo Kamen always leaps up to great heights after rescuing me from a Youma.' She sighed. "I just got used to it." she finished lamely.

"They've gone inside," Makoto reported, peering down at the firemen below. "We should be off here soon."

"We've got trouble." Mamoru said, after turning automatically to check out his apartment. His arm went around Usagi's waist absently as he stiffened with shock and horror and needed to hold onto something secure. The room was so filled with smoke that he could barely see a thing. He spun around, taking Usagi with him because his arm was still about her waist.

Usagi's nose pressed against the glass, trying to see inside. "Your apartment is on fire!" she gasped out.

"Damn it!" Mamoru shouted, thumping a hand on the glass near her head in frustration.

Usagi flinched, then noticed that Mamoru's arm was about her waist. 'When did he grabbed me?'

Mamoru noticed at the same time and released her swiftly, frowning as he tried to recall when he'd grabbed her. He must have done it in shock when he'd noticed the apartment was on fire. 'Weird! It's been like she was a life-preserver and I'm a drowning man.' He'd done it without thinking! But then again, she'd been pressed against him and was the closest person at hand. He'd have done the same to any of the others.

"We're trapped." Reika gasped out, a hand going to her throat in horror.

"Keep calm." Makoto advised, voice strong.

"We aren't going to die here." Rei said with certainty, throwing Ami and Makoto significant looks.

Usagi and Mamoru turned away, his back again to the door and she leaning slightly against his shoulder.

"Definitely not." Mamoru growled, trying to make a decision. 'Should I transform? Is the risk worth it? Would the fire department get to us in time?'

"Never." Usagi said firmly, eyes firm. 'I won't let us all die here.'

Motoki and Reika stared at the five in admiration. Not one of them was freaking out!

The girls and Mamoru began to look about.

"I wish we had some rope." Makoto sighed, looking about her feet.

"Maybe we can jump to the next balcony?" Rei suggested, trying to gage how far from one to the other. A few meters at least.

"There's no way!" Motoki almost screamed at her, terror in his eyes. 'It's too high!'

"We couldn't make it" Reika said, trembling. "It's too far. Much too far."

Mamoru moved out from behind Usagi, then squeezed past Reika to look across to the next apartment's balcony. Then he looked down. It was long drop and he knew that Reika and Motoki had problems with heights. "It's too far." he informed them, heart sinking. 'I could make it as Tuxedo Kamen, but the other's couldn't jump that far.' It wasn't humanly possible!

"We have to try!" Usagi burst out, looking at the back of Mamoru's head with frustration. He turned around to look at her with a concerned expression. He didn't think they could make it, she knew. 'The Senshi all could, but Mamoru, Motoki and Reika would never be able to jump that far.' She bit her lip.

Mamoru looked over Usagi's head and saw that the smoke inside his apartment was now so thick that it seemed a solid object. The room temperature would rise too high soon and the glass would explode outwards. "We're going to have to do it." he decided.

"No way!" Motoki shouted, gripping Reika till his hands went white. "We'll kill ourselves, Mamoru!"

"The glass is about to explode," Ami said anxiously, seeing that the glass was beginning to crack under the heat from inside. "We're in danger."

In danger. That decided it.

Usagi nodded and gave the girls an affirmative look. 'We have to transform now. Even if Motoki and Reika and Mamoru learns our secret.'

Mamoru nodded. 'I have to save them. Even if it means them all finding out my secret.' He reached into his jacket and pulled out a rose, transforming swiftly right in front of them.

Usagi's eyes widened in disbelief as Mamoru's form disappeared into golden power and he became Tuxedo Kamen. "Tuxedo Kamen!" she shouted, gasping in shock and disbelief. "Mamoru-you're Tuxedo Kamen?!"

"I knew it," Motoki yelled. "You were keeping a secret from me!"

"Mamoru, you're Tuxedo Kamen? You were telling the truth then." Reika gasped out.

Ami, Rei and Makoto gaped at him.

"We don't have much time." Tuxedo Kamen said, voice deepened and filled with urgency and command. He looked over them all assessingly. "Ami and Usagi, I'll take you two first. You're the lightest and I can get you over there quicker."

"No!" Usagi cried out, shaking her head. "Take the others first."

"Don't be a fool, Usagi!" he shouted at her, eyes flashing with rage. "This is not time to be stubborn."

"I'm not being stubborn," she shouted back, eyes darkening. "Everyone is closer to you. I'm at the back, so I go last."

"She's right," Rei said, biting her lip. "It will go faster if you take Motoki and Reika, then come back for the rest of us."

"I don't have time for this!" Tuxedo Kamen roared at them.

A loud cracking filled the air and their eyes widened in horror.

"Go now!" Usagi shouted in command, eyes firming. She was so afraid, but everyone near to her heart was here and she didn't care if she was hurt, if they got away. She looked at Makoto, Ami and Rei, eyes clear. "Ami, Makoto, Rei. Do as I say." she ordered them in a strong voice.

To Tuxedo Kamen's astonishment, the girls all nodded firmly and did as she said.

"No time to argue, Tuxedo Kamen!" Makoto yelled, thrusting Motoki at Mamoru. "Go Mamoru, take Motoki now."

Makoto grabbed Reika about the waist and leapt up nimbly on the railing, then leapt over to the next balcony. Reika screamed bloody murder, even after they landed safely.

Tuxedo Kamen gaped in stunned amazement at what Makoto had done, then he swiftly grabbed Motoki under the arm pits and leapt over to Makoto. He turned to get the other girls, but then Rei landed next to him easily. "What?" he gaped. Makoto was really fit and so he'd accepted that she was strong enough to jump with Reika that distance-but Rei? She wasn't even out of breath.

"Ami!" Rei yelled, turning swiftly and moving out of the way.

Ami turned to look at Usagi. "Lets go together." she gasped.

"No, it's not wide enough," Usagi said, coughing as smoke started to creep through the cracks of the door. "Go!" she urged, shoving Ami forward.

Ami nodded and ran swiftly along the balcony, then threw herself off the edge.

Motoki, Reika and Tuxedo Kamen gaped as small Ami sailed easily over the meters between the balcony's with no effort. She landed easily and straightened, not winded at all.

"Usagi! Jump Usagi!" Rei cried out in horror.

"Usagi!" Makoto and Ami screamed.

The blonde girl started to run, but then the glass doors exploded and everything turned to agony.

Tuxedo Kamen gasped in horror as the doors exploded, the smoke and glass and heat slamming into Usagi's body and hurling her far out over the balcony. She flew an amazing distance, then started to scream as she plummeted like a stone towards the ground.

To Be Continued...

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