A/N - Surprise one last chapter for today. He is all over the place today.

Enjoy!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 19 – Part 2 – Him

The Rose and the Moon

1 year earlier…

"Your sure dude?"

"Yes. I want that one. Something about it speaks to me. I am drawn to it."

"Okay. Sit tight you are going to be here a while."

"No worries. I have all night."

The tattoo artist loaded the ink into the gun as he started the outline of the rose. He changed ink to place the moon and I settled back in the chair as he took over my arm. The graduating class of doctors had piled into the tattoo studio all deciding what to get. Something to symbolize the end of school. Their likes and loves now etched on their arms, backs and legs. I chose my arm as it fit better there. I wouldn't have my arm visible working in the hospitals any how. It was a personal tattoo something I had been drawn to my whole life. I didn't know why but roses where my favorite. To see them against the moon light I was just drawn to them.

I must have dozed off as I was having a dream. I didn't usually dream or so I had thought. School had taught me that everyone dreams but how it comes forward and presents itself is different in everyone.

She had silver hair like the Queen and King. I was not much older than her yet she sat by herself outside. I walked up to her and handed her the rose.

I woke when the tattoo artist was just finishing up. I had never had that dream before. It was so vivid and felt so real. It was me giving a rose to a silver haired princess. I must have been subconsciously thinking about the tattoo. Well that is what I was going to tell myself anyhow.

I was already working for my father's company. I had a team of lab assistants helping to find a cure for blood illnesses. He wanted me to work there full time but I had specialized in brain activity and memory loss. I also did common surgery and ER work. I was not settling in jus one field. I had many fields I wanted to go into. I also took astrology as it had interested me.

"There you go. Keep gauze on it for a few days and put this on it three times a day to keep moisture in it."

"Thanks. I hope I was not out for most of it."

"No worries man. You must have been dreaming because you were talking about a silver haired princess."

"Sorry."

"We see a lot worse. Enjoy."

"Thanks."

I slipped the jacket I had over the gauze and headed into the night air. I was the only one left in the shop and he closed it up after I left.

"Darien, son you can't not be present for the board presentations."

"You always invite the press father. I don't get along well with the press. They pry. I have patients that need to be confidential."

"So don't speak to the press."

"Doesn't work that way father. If I don't show up they don't pry."

"Bring someone then."

"The last time I did that the poor girl had the press on her door step for months after we broke it off. So no." I paused. "I will come but it will be on my own and coming in through the back door. And I won't talk to the press."

"Okay. But the benefit you have to be there."

"Same deal then father. No talking to the press."

"They want to know about you son. You are a top doctor in the country. They want to know about your projects."

"I'll let you know."

I left the room as I was done talking. He meant well but I just didn't have a relationship with the press. They have pried one too many times. I would always come to support the board and the benefits as they did good things for so many people but I refused to speak to the press now. I would only speak to the press on if a break through happened with a project I was working on.

I headed for the kitchen. Mrs. Mako was preparing lunch as I poured a glass of water. I took the glass and left for the study. I sometimes worked out of my father's home when I couldn't get back to the city. Instead of working I sat down on the couch and pulled out a book on the moon. Tonight was the full moon. It supposedly changed people when it was full. I had done studies on it and it didn't match up. Scientifically it was not confirmed but on verbal accounts it was.

NASA was doing more research on the moon debris and rocks they had found years ago. The astronauts claimed they had seen a kingdom in ruin but had no pictures to back up their story. There was a fairy tale of a princess on the moon but that is all it was. A fairytale.

It may have been a fairy tale but something about it I kept returning to. I was drawn to it. It was like I lived it but I was here.

I must have spent an hour or more reading about the Moon when I got a call. "Dr. Michaels speaking… Yes… Of course I will be there shortly."

I put the book down and rose from the couch. Rolling my sleeve down and buttoning up the cuff. The tattoo long healed I made sure it remained covered when I went to the hospital. I put the glass back in the kitchen and apologized to Mrs. Mako for I would be missing lunch. I left a note for my father and left out the door jacket in hand.

My little silver Audi was an excellent little car and I sped off to the hospital in it. I passed a few speed limit signs but I ignored them as I always did. I always sped back to the city. I had two new patients to see. It was my day off but I didn't have a day off ever. I worked at two hospitals and my father's company. I had no social life but I chose to be that way.

I arrived an hour later and parked in my spot at the hospital. I left my jacket in my office and put on my doctor coat. It made it feel more official instead of me just being on the floor in my street clothes. I reached the 3 floor in the children's wing and Dr. Ami Alexander was just coming out of the room.

"Ahh Dr. Michaels. Welcome to Memorial Hospital. Sorry it was not more of a welcome but we needed your help on this one. This is my floor and our two patients have lost their parents in a crash. They don't remember much."

"How long have they been here?"

"About a day. We thought the shock would have worn off but I think they may have some memory loss or may be shelving it and putting it away till their bodies say it is okay to remember. They are not talking much."

"Chart?" Dr. Alexander gave me the chart she had in her hands.

"All the vitals are good. They came out of the crash pretty clean. No real cuts but some bruising."

"Good I will talk with them." I paused. "Dr. Alexander I have been here a week already I don't need more of a welcome. I am here to do my job."

"Good to hear it."

I entered the room and the two boys stopped talking immediately upon seeing me. One looked a lot like me. The other had such striking blue eyes. Diamond and Sapphire were their names.

"Hello boys. I am Dr. Darien Michaels. But that is too formal you can call me Darien. How are we doing today?"

"Okay I guess." The blond one said. "Why are we here Darien?"

"You were both in a really bad accident." I paused and looked at them. "Do you remember where you were?"

"In a car and then I woke up with Diamond here in the hospital."

"Do you remember what color car you were in?"

"No. Black maybe."

"Well you both need to get some rest. I will be around to check on you later on okay."

They just looked at me as I smiled at them. I turned to go and started writing things in their chart. I looked at the parent's information and I couldn't believe it. All of them had gemstone names. It was odd but it worked for them apparently. I finished writing and looked up to see Dr. Alexander talking with a striking blonde haired girl. Beautiful big blue eyes and a smile that would melt the world. They had not realized I had been looking at them so I looked back at the chart to pretend I hadn't seen them. Dr. Alexander was coming over with her. I looked up then as they came up.

"Doctor Darien Michaels I would like you to meet Serena. She helps out with the kids when they need cheering up every so often. She is usually here 2 to 3 times a week."

Serena was her name. I looked right at her. Trying not to change my facial features to give myself away that I had caught a glance earlier. I smiled to put her at ease and took her out stretched hand to shake it.

Touching her hand a spark formed. It was not just a shock but it felt like it was more. Like we had touched before in a past life. I looked at her as again another shock went straight through each of us. In that final moment I saw it again. The same vision I had when I had the tattoo done.

She had silver hair like the Queen and King. I was not much older than her yet she sat by herself outside. I walked up to her and handed her the rose.

"Sorry Serena I guess it is a little dry in here. I hope I didn't shock you too bad." I said with smile. I was trying to hide the fact that something was happening to me when she touched me. "They don't remember much. They are the only survivors. I haven't been able to get them to speak much."

"No the shock didn't hurt. I had been getting a lot of that today. I teach Kindergarten you see and I get shocked all the time on purpose. I will be soft with them I promise. I think I will have a lot in common with them. I lost my own parents when I was young."

"I'm sorry to hear that. It will be good for you to sit with them then. I would like to sit down with you after you visit with them to see what information you can get from them. They don't say much to us unfortunately and they need to talk it out." I wanted to be near her again. But I wanted to know everything she had found out about them too.

"Of course I can come find you after." She smiled. It was good she hadn't seen through my awful attempt at getting her to come see me.

She left us standing there and Dr. Alexander had said something which I had missed because I realized in that moment that Serena was starring back at me. She must have felt something too besides the shock. I looked down at the chart almost immediately only to glance back up and she had gone.

I closed the chart and excused myself. I asked the nurse at the station to send me a copy down to my office of the vitals for the gemstone kids. I swear all she did was nod yes and stare after me. It seemed all the nurses did that. Of course they all knew my situation because of the press. I checked in on Serena and stood just in the door way. She was reading to them and they were listening.

I would wait till Serena was available to later to talk with her. In the meantime I would look up their vitals and cross reference the patterns I was seeing in them both.

I wasn't sure how long I had been sitting there going though cases when I realized A. I had not eaten a thing and B. Serena must be done with them by now. I headed back up to the 3rd floor and found Dr. Alexander talking to the nurse that was going gaga over me earlier.

"Dr. Alexander do you have a moment?"

"Of course what can I do for you?"

"Is Serena still here with the boys?"

"No she is not. I'm afraid you just missed her. She has class to teach tomorrow so she left for the evening. I thought you had gone for the evening."

"No I headed to my office. Today was my day off."

"I told her to come by tomorrow."

"That will be fine. I was hopping to get a jump start on some of the things I was seeing in the chart."

"I can call her if you like?"

"No that is okay. Let the boys get their rest. I am sure this whole process is scaring them to some degree."

"Yes I am sure it is."

"I am heading home too. I have ER shift tomorrow but I will check on them before hand."

"Good night Dr. Michaels."

"You too."

I left them standing there without a glance backwards. I would get to see her tomorrow. I was not like this. I didn't date. I always worked. When I did date it always ended badly. She was striking and something was drawing me to her. I didn't know what but I had a sudden urge just to be in close contact with her and shower her with roses.

Getting into my car I felt my arm start to throb. I flexed my hand a few times and it went away. I shook my head and pulled out of the parking spot and headed home.

She had silver hair like the Queen and King. I was not much older than her yet she sat by herself outside. I walked up to her and handed her the rose.