A/N - So they woke up! Lots of fluff in this chapter.

Enjoy!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 24 – Part 2 - Her

Awake

I took the rose in my hand as he held my waist. I held it close as the crystal formed around my neck as it had billions of years ago only this time it was a flower. I melted into him and ran my finger tips across his lips. I waited for him to back away but he didn't. He watched me and waited. He waited for what I would do next. The young girl he knew billions of years ago was older. The Prince I knew billions of years ago was older. I closed the door with my foot as he followed me. We held onto each other as he kissed me one kiss after another. We were making up for lost time. With a shake of my head my clothes were gone as were his. He laid me back on the bed and entered me swiftly. He needed no invitation. I arched with him as I felt him move with in me. He pulled me as close as I could get with out hurting me. Every nerve ending felt on fire as he moved with me. We rose like we did the first night we were together. Suspended in time and space. He ran his hands over my thigh and pulled me closer. I felt him tighten and then cry out with me.

We re entered time and space as we floated back down to the bed. He took my head in his hands and kissed me again starting a trail of kisses over my face as I lay with him. We didn't speak. We just watched each other and held each other.

It could have been days we had been laying there naked in bed but in reality it had only been a few hours. He got up out of the bed and headed out to the living room only to come back with the roses. He placed some around me and others he took apart and covered me in the petals. I smiled and let out a giggle at him as he pulled me close again.

"Right here with you feels like the best feeling I have ever had. No more evil. No more separation. No more hiding."

"The past is the past. It is where we began yet our future will correct the past."

"You kept the name." He said to me kissing my shoulder.

"I didn't know how I got my name. I don't remember much of my childhood, brothers or sisters. I remember having friends I went to school with."

"My father was reborn. I adopted the name Darien. I had no brothers, no sisters in this life. In the past Diamond was never really a brother. Diamond is a child in this world. Does that mean he is from this century, this world and had gone back in time to stop what would have been in his original time?"

"They are just children. He was coming after me and he moon kingdom. Something in the future changed. Maybe it is now that it has changed."

I didn't want to leave this room. I didn't want to be apart from him. We had already spent so much time apart. I didn't want get up at all.

"I will always call you Serenity. You are my princess."

"As you are my Prince. " I took a rose and trailed it down the side of his cheek. "I don't want to get up. I could stop time right now and just be with you. But that is taboo number 1. Time and space should never be stopped and or altered for personal gain. I remember my mother telling me that. Besides I think Pluto still holds time. Maybe it is Chronos that holds it now. I don't know."

"So time will still continue if I continue to lay with you, have sex with you as we float in the air between the sheets?" He asked grinning trailing his fingers over my arms.

"I am not really stopping time. I am creating a piece of time."

"Well you will need to create more pieces of time. I have a lot of them to make up for."

He kissed me again and pulled me close. He trailed kiss upon kiss to every inch of my body. I pulled him up to my face so I could kiss him. As he did, he re entered me. Still as gentle as the day we first were together. He had my hands as he lay atop me. Moving with in me as my leg held him in place. Again we rose as he entered me. I pulled my hands over his back causing him to arch and release all that he had within me. I was not far behind as I released over him.

We again came down back to the bed. It was late in the day and we had been there all day. I didn't want to leave this place. I didn't want to leave him. Nor did he. We had slept some but reality had hit and we had to continue our everyday lives.

"Stay." I asked him.

"I will be back my love. I have to be in the ER at the hospital."

"Promise to come back."

"I will. You know I will."

I watched as he rose from the bed naked and I smiled remembering that I had done the same billions of years ago.

"Like what you see Princess?" He said mirroring exactly what he had said the first time around.

"Yes." I blushed. I had only just remembered it but I recall sitting in the bed at the brothel starring at him as he dressed. He had come back over without his shirt on and kissed me. I ran my hand over the rose tattoo and stopped at the moon. "For me?"

"At the time I had no idea. I was drawn to it. I had just finished university. I loved starring at the moon, learning about the moon and the rose well my father had them all over the house so it fit. Little did I know it was all related to my love for you." He smiled and kissed me trailing his fingers over my lips.

"You're not the only one who has a tattoo. I was drawn to this one too." I turned in the bed and in the small of my back was a small rose tattoo. He ran his fingers over it and I could tell he was smiling. "I admit I had seen yours when I was at the hospital with you after the X-ray. That was why I was flushed."

"I had seen yours that night too. I didn't want to say anything then. I wish I had." He paused. "I will be back. Your car I had it delivered down stairs. It started in the morning. I will be back at 2 am. We have to prepare for the generals arrival and your court."

"Will they come here?"

"Some are here already. Others will come from far. We can meet them at my place if you wish." He stood and put on his shirt hiding the tattoo from me and buttoned it. His tie lying loosely untied around his neck.

I kneeled in the bed the sheet falling away. My body was different. Not the naïve 18 year old girl who had not yet really been and done anything of importance but be a princess. This life I was older. A little more mature. The only difference I had not saved the entire universe. I pulled the ends of his tie towards me as I pressed myself to him. I kissed him as he ran his fingers over my back resting on the rose tattoo in the small of my back. My hair being silver changed to red then back to blonde as he broke the kiss.

"Serenity I have to go. Not that I want to leave you here on your own. My mind is going to wander."

"I will be here waiting so let your mind wander and bring you back here." I smiled and kissed him one last time. I stood from the bed with out the sheet wrapped around me and left him standing there. As I reached the door I turned back and glanced at him as he was watching me mouth open with a grin. "Like what you see my Prince?" I said mirroring his statement for me. I smiled at him again as my eyes twinkled. He nodded without saying anything. He was contemplating on staying put but I disappeared into the bathroom and entered the shower.

I stood under the water as I played all my memories through my head. When I finally turned the water off I was humming to myself. I opened the shower curtain and when I did I found a trail of rose petals leading me out the bathroom door. I wrapped the towel around me and followed them to the bed. I was half expecting him to still be here but in his place was a note and the last intact rose sitting beside it.

You are my Destiny

Forever,

Endymion

I dried off and put my robe on. Took the rose and found my one and only flower vase I had from a long time ago. I went back to the bedroom and cleaned up the petals and put them all in a bowl. The crystal had remained around my neck as it was a part of me and him. Only instead of a flower it was now just a simple crystal on a golden strand. I returned to my bedroom again and this time dressed. I threw on a tank top with a sweater over it and a pair of leggings. Simple and not fantastic. I wasn't not planning on going anywhere today but wait for my love to come back.

I picked up my phone by my laptop and realized that I had more than 3 dozen missed calls. A knock on the door pulled me away from it. Phone in my hand ready to hit dial but I opened the door first. There stood Mina holding a yellow Venus crystal with tears running down her cheeks. She was a mess and therefore turned me into a crying mess.

"Princess Serenity." She didn't wait for a response from me and just hugged me. "We were reborn weren't we?"

"Yes Mina. We will always be reborn." I cried with her.

"How? How did….." She said through the sobs.

"It's a long story. Come in and sit. I'll make coffee." I wiped away the tears and pulled her inside.

After the coffee had run dry I had told her what had triggered the waking up. Then we went over some memories that I had recalled in the brothel. Ones I had not told her of before the earth was reborn. Then I started to tell her how I had seen him at the hospital, the pains in my chest which turned out to be the crystal trying to tell me to wake up and really see who it was. The two little boys in the hospital who had the same names, my car and how he had driven me home from the hospital last night.

It was getting late in the evening and we were both hungry. I ordered a pizza and we continued to chat like we always had. Another knock on the door which made me get up from the floor. I straightened myself a little and answered the door. There stood Ami. She was dressed like she had just come from the hospital but in her hand was the Mercury water crystal that my mother had given to her before we had left the moon. She looked at me with tears falling just as Mina had. "Princess."

"Come in Ami. No doctor stuff tonight. Just memories." I hugged her and she came in and joined us on the floor as I retold what I had just told Mina.

"Does anyone know where Rei and Lita ended up?" Ami said taking a sip of coffee after I made a fresh pot.

"No I have not seen their names but that doesn't mean that they were not reborn."

"Mina could they have returned to Mars and Jupiter?" I asked

"I don't know."

"According to NASA there is no life on Mars or Jupiter. So I don't think they could have." Ami stated.

"I wonder if they will know where to come?"

"I hope they do."

It was getting extremely late and as the girls were leaving as Darien was coming home. He smiled at them and said hello but he had only eyes for me at this moment.

"I told you Endymion I would look out for her." Mina clapped her hand over her mouth at the memory. "I just remembered that."

"I knew you would Mina." He smiled as they both left and closed the door behind them. He turned to face me and kissed me. "And here I thought you would be on your own."

"I did have a shower and pizza and lots of coffee. I am good to go." I giggled.

"Well I couldn't stop thinking of you while I was at the hospital. So I was doing some research in between patients. I think I found Jaedite and Kunzite. They are here in the city. The others however I haven't been able to find."

"The girls have no idea where Lita and Rei are either. I think because I was so close with them they stayed within my circle."

"Kunzite was my top general. Jaedite was my second. I think I may know where your Lita is. She runs the flower shop I got the roses from. It's a rare name and not well known."

"Really you think it could be her? Ami says they will come but I don't know where they will come to."

"Well not tonight they won't. It is very late and all I want is to hold you and trace you." He said grinning and kissing me again. I just melted into him as I always did. I was a perfect fit against him. I removed his tie putting it around my neck instead. He shed his coat and took the rose from the vase on the counter and we headed off to the bedroom.

.~.

I woke in the morning and found the bed empty with only me in it. I was almost in a panic that it was only a dream but I was greeted with a note when I put my hand down on the other side of the bed.

Gone to get coffee. Be back with breakfast.

Don't go anywhere my love.

Darien (Endymion)

I lay back down and just day dreamed about everything. Yesterday, the earth I kind of destroyed to be reborn, Endymion and the Moon.

When he came back I could smell the coffee. I put my robe on and headed out to meet him. He was on the phone having a conversation that looked like he was not enjoying. He had a scowl on his face something I had never seen. In this life or the past. His eyes were dark and he was in a mood. I went to the sink and pulled the drying plates from it.

"No it was discussed the other day in the meeting. It is not being moved. I will discuss the remainder with my father… You do that he will tell you the same thing….."

I smiled at him hoping to change his mood some and he couldn't help but smile back but it didn't quite reach his eyes. Something must be really going on. He always had a smile for me. He ended the call abruptly and put his phone down on the counter top.

"Hi sorry. My father's CFO wants to move things that should not be moved." I looked at him and questioned him. "My lab at my father's company."

"Oh. Its okay I figured it must have been bad. You were scowling. I don't think I have ever seen you scowl."

"No I recall I did a lot of smirking though."

"Yes, yes you did." I looked at him and smiled again. "The CFO is working on a Sunday?"

"Apparently." He handed me my coffee as I popped the top open.

"You remembered." I said as I sipped it. He had got the same one I had ordered just a day or so ago.

"Yes I may have been behind you in line but I did hear you."

"Thanks. I could have made coffee. I have lots. I tend to drink a lot of it when I stay up late."

"That is quite alright. I wanted to get the rare special occasion breakfast for us. The only meal we actually ate together outside of the brothel was at the palace in the presence of Diamond and everyone else."

"I remember."

I opened the bag and inside was freshly made donut holes. He picked back up his phone as it buzzed on the counter.

"Sorry my love I have to take this."

"Don't be sorry. You can use the bedroom if you like."

"Thanks." He kissed the top of my head as he answered the phone and disappeared inside closing the door slightly.

I could hear him as he was getting louder. It wasn't the CFO he was talking to though. It sounded like his father. I waited for him to return which was only a few moments later.

"My father if you couldn't tell."

"Work related call?"

"Sort of." He paused. "He has fired his CFO."

I looked at him. "That was quick."

"He was moving things around he shouldn't have been. I may be only involved with one piece of my father's company but I still know a lot about the comings and goings of all the projects."

"You will take over won't you when he retires?" It was his turn to look at me funny. "I admit before we woke up yesterday I was looking you up. I was curious."

"What did you find?" He asked.

I pulled the lap top over and opened it up. The page was still up with the article I had read so I turned it to him and he read it. He closed it back once he had read it and looked at me.

"I was drawn to you and when I saw your tattoo on your arm with the moon it…."

"I was drawn to you too." He paused. "The article is right at least. I have a love hate relationship with the press." He sipped his coffee and removed his coat finally. "I want to take you somewhere today."

I looked at him as he took my hand. "Not a brothel I hope. Do they still have those in this day and age?"

"No it is not a brothel but it is a surprise." He kissed my hand and laced his fingers through mine. "I will never live that one down will I?"

"No but it is where we became one. So I wouldn't change it for the world."

I finished my coffee and ate some but I was quiet. I remembered everything that had happened but I never understood it.

"You're quiet today." He asked.

"I guess so. Lots of memories. Lots of questions I guess."

"What is it?"

"I am just wondering if Diamond had not interfered if we would be married and the earth never destroyed." I paused looking at the crystal around my neck. "If we would go between living on the moon and earth."

"I don't know Serenity."

"Would the core have been really stable? Nemesis would have been destroyed for sure. Their core was not stable. They did not have the core energy crystals to heal it."

"Well Earth's core was not stable till I put the last golden crystal piece in it."

"I know. I am just wondering what ifs that is all."

"Don't let it eat you up inside. We are in the here and now. The past is the past." He paused. "I would never have let Diamond marry you." He said quietly.

"I know."

"You were supposed to marry me."

"I know. We should have been."

I got up from the seat at the counter and he wrapped his arms around me. I kissed him and he trailed his fingers around my collar bone where the crystal used to lie. He then lifted the crystal that lay between my breasts and let it rest in his hand.

"Serenity my princess." He paused. "My love for you will not falter. I will protect you in this life and the next. I will always find you and love only you."

"My Endymion."

He stood and kissed me. One after another. Each more urgent than the last. I melted into him as I always did. My hair turning silver and then back to blonde.

"Marry me Princess."

I kissed him my heart swelling.