A/N - Another long chapter. Lots of fluff and some language.

This one took a while to write. Plus life happened to get in the way yesterday. Hope you like it.

David Eman has a piece of music called breathe and the first part of the chapter is what I was listening to. It reminded me a lot of Arrow when Oliver and Felicity were together on the TV show.

I am finding that I have a few more chapters than I thought in this story but not much more. I am sad that it will be coming to a close. It has been a long time since I had a story for upload.

Enjoy and please read and review. It is much appreciated!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 25 – Part 2 – Him

Time, Space and the Moon

I had given her the rose that triggered us waking up. I held her not wanting to let her go. I was not letting her go this time. I watched her as she watched the crystal form back around her neck where it had been all those billions of years ago. Where it was ripped from her chest in the battle that had caused this. I could feel her breathing as she just melted into my chest. She looked up at me holding her fingers just above my lips. Making sure I was real and not a dream. That we were both here in each others arms. I felt her shift slightly as she closed the door. In all the commotion of us 'waking up' the door never closed. Thankfully she was the only one on this floor.

She started to move and I followed my body gravitating to hers at all movement. I kissed her and once I started I realized it became more urgent. She pulled me down her hallway towards her bedroom without stopping and I knew where this was going. I felt her clothes and mine disappear before my eyes like they always did in the past. It was the skin to skin contact I had with her that made me want her even closer than she already was. I didn't want to hurt so I picked her up and laid her back on the bed as I entered her. The throbbing of wanting her more evident now than moments before. She arched with me as she pulled at me to be closer. I could feel her tighten and I knew she was close. I wasn't going to be far behind as I thrust into her pulling her closer. She was on fire and she knew it as she cried out. I spilled everything that I had into her quelling her fire for the moment and cried out with her.

It was when we came back down to the bed that I realized we had been floating. We always seem to stop time and space when we were together. I took her head in my hands and gently kissed her. I kissed every spot I remembered there being a scratch or wound from the golden crystal. It may have been billions of years ago but it felt like it was yesterday to me. I didn't speak and either did she. We just watched each other and held each other close, listening and taking it all in.

She slept some but I didn't. I just watched her. Her movements however small they were at this time were perfectly in tune to me being right there with her. It was like we were never apart. I could watch her sleep forever and just lay here with her and be content. Her hair was changing from blonde to silver and then to red and back to blonde. Her body was trying to remember what she should be before it settled back to the blonde.

She woke sometime later and we just spent the day in the bed lying with each other. Watching each other, kissing each other. I could feel her close her eyes again and that gave me the chance to go get the flowers. Each petal should be hers and she should know that. I rose from the bed knowing we were the only ones in the apartment and her eyes opened as I left the bed. I had all the roses and I broke some and watched as her eyes lit up. She let out a giggle as she curled up in my side just covered in the petals that were meant for her. "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." I kissed her shoulder as I spoke. I watched her face as she tried to remember how she got it. In our past life I gave it to her but in this life….

"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 the moon kingdom. Something in the future changed. Maybe it is now that it has changed."

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

"As you are my Prince. " She picked up a rose and trailed it down the side of my face as I had done to her. "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?" I felt like a giddy school boy just laying here with her knowing that. I grinned at the thought of just staying here with her for all of time. I could definitely get used to just laying here with her.

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

Fuck she just said the magic words. I will definitely get used to this. My body didn't have to wait for a piece of time to be created. "Well you will need to create more pieces of time. I have a lot of them to make up for."

I kissed her again and pulled her as close as she could get. Each kiss was more urgent than the last. I wanted to feel her skin, I wanted to caress her, and I wanted to worship her as she should be. She brought me back up from kissing down her chest to kiss me and I took that as an invitation to re entered her swiftly. I thrust into her over and over as I took her hands in mine. The electricity between the two of us set us on fire again. She ran her hand up my arms and sent shocks through them as she pulled her fingers across my back next. Just having her touch sent a thrill through me. I knew I would not last long and I tightened and released again. She was not far behind as the sensation of her tightening around me sent her over the edge.

I lay beside her as she curled into my side again. She held one of the roses that was still intact and held it in her hands on my chest as I pulled the sheet up over her. I slept some now but was awake an hour later. I didn't feel exhausted I felt alive. I had found my princess again. She woke moments after I had and just ran her hands over my chest with the rose. I had to sit up to look at the time. I had to be at the hospital in an hour. Reality quickly set in. I didn't want to leave her. I shouldn't have to leave her but I had a duty to up hold at the hospital.

"Stay." She asked holding on to my arm to pull me back.

"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 could feel her eyes on me as I rose from the bed. I recalled how she had done the same thing the first morning after we had first been together alone.

"Like what you see Princess?"

"Yes." She actually spoke this time. I turned after putting my pants on and came back to her shirtless and kissed her. I felt her fingers run over my flexed arms and her one finger was tracing the tattoo I had on my arm sending a shock through it like I had felt in the last few days. "For me?"

"At the time I had no idea. I was drawn to it. I had just finished med school. 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." I smiled at her as I kissed her again. I reached up and just brushed her lips with my finger tips. The softness and tenderness of her lips red from all the blood rushing to them.

"You're not the only one who has a tattoo. I was drawn to this one too." I watched her turn in the bed as I saw the rose tattoo I had seen when I was listening to her back at the hospital. I found myself reaching out this time to touch it. I, like her traced it with my finger tips the image sending a jolt through my finger tips but it did not shock her. "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." I paused. I don't want to leave you princess but I must. The others will come now. Oh how I don't want to leave you sitting in the bed by yourself. I left you that one night that lead us to this. I don't want to do it again. "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." I still don't understand your car. It was like it knew. Maybe it was the crystal. Maybe I was just crazy.

"Will they come here?" She asked watching me.

"Some are here already. Others will come from far. We can meet them at my place if you wish." I stood from the bed and put my shirt on covering the tattoo she had just so intricately traced. I buttoned the last button and put my tie around my neck but did not tie it. I would do that later.

I watched her kneel up in the bed the sheet falling away. She was different. Before she would have covered up but now she was more mature. Granted she was older than 18 and has seen more than her 18 princess self had seen. She surprised me by pulling at the loose tie around my neck and pulling me to her. Her movements were trying to get me to stay. It was working my resolve of leaving her was waning. She kissed me after watching me for a moment. I found the small of her back with my finger tips and kept her close as her hair color changed. Oh Princess I don't want to go but I must. I don't ever want to leave you again." Serenity I have to go. Not that I want to leave you here on your own. My mind is going to wander." Wandering was already happening. I felt the tightness in my pants spring to attention.

"I will be here waiting so let your mind wander and bring you back here." She smiled and kissed me one last time as she stood from the bed without the sheet around her. She knew I was watching her. I saw her curves on her slight frame, the outline of her breasts as she walked forward and the pure white skin glow as the afternoon sun peeked in the window at her. Her breasts did not like the temperature change in the air and had gone hard just as I had. The strain in my pants even more evident now. "Like what you see my Prince?" She had done what I had to her. The smile she had for me almost made me say Fuck it and stay put but she disappeared through the bathroom door.

I heard the shower start and that gave me a chance to quickly fix a note for her and the rose petals. If I could not be here to greet her after the shower then this would do. I would have to have a cold shower at the hospital it would stop the mind wandering for a little bit I had a plan and I was not going to be deterred. I was not going to loose her again. I had once planned to take her away and live off planet if things had not worked out the way it was supposed to. I would have married her. That was still the plan. Now I would just do it for real and not plan for it.

I was crazy and I had a little time before I started at the hospital. I got into my car and sped off down the road to where the flower shop was. In the same plaza was the jewelry store. I ran in and they advised me they were closing in 10 minutes.

"I only need a few minutes." I said to the girl. I explained what I was looking for and she gathered up all the rings that had similar looks to what I was looking for. I glanced over them at first and then I saw it. It was perfect. Round like the moon and earth and surrounded by 4 smaller stones. It looked like the silver moon crystal around her neck. "I will take that one." I handed her my credit card. In less than 10 minutes I had chosen the ring and left the shop with my purchase in hand. I slipped it into my pocket and got back into my car. I had just enough time to shower after my day's activities and start my ER rounds.

Just the thought of giving this to her smiling face made me smile. Was I crazy? Yes. Was I nuts? Yes. But love does that to you. I had not seen it a day or so ago until Lita at the shop had said something but I see it now. I was not 'awake' then but I should have been. I was feeling everything I had when I first met her billions of years ago. I was not going to leave her like I did that night. I would always be there for her. Forever.

.~.

Once at the hospital I did go and take a shower in the locker room. Standing under the water my memories flooded in. The first night I looked at her while sleeping. Seeing her awake for the first time. Knowing who she may have been and stealing kisses. Taking her virginity in a brothel no less. Even though it was a cold shower I still managed to release everything she teased me with before I left.

I went from patient to patient in almost a daze. Even the nurses who usually are all dreamy like starring noticed. I really couldn't hide the way I was at that moment. I was different. Things were different. I was on cloud 9.

I was tempted to run on my lunch hour but I sat down in my office. I fell down a rabbit hole trying to search for the names I could remember my generals having. I would only assume that they would have adopted the names they had used at Beryl's when they had visited before as I had adopted mine. Kunzite was Kellan. So I started with him. I pulled up an article of a night club purchase by the youngest individual ever to purchase one. There he was exactly the same in the picture. He had gone by Kellan but his last name of Thorpe I had no idea where that name came from. Next I looked for Jaedite. He was a little harder to find. Jaedite went by Jayden when he was at Beryl's. However Jayden was a popular name now.

I had to finish my search later as my lunch hour was up but it did not stop me from looking in between patients. I finally found him he was a lawyer running his own practice here in the city. Jayden Daniels family law. I had both their emails from their websites for their businesses. Nephrite was Nate and Zoisite was Zachary. Those two I may have more trouble finding as they are common names. I had an emergency code blue to dash off to so I would continue my search later.

By time my night was done all I wanted to do was get back to Serenity. I had another quick shower in the locker room and re dressed only to head to my office. I checked my schedule and saw that I had some days off coming up. Then I noticed the benefit date for my father's benefit was fast approaching. I still wanted to decline it but I told him I would make an appearance. It was a benefit for the indoor rose garden that he had funded to be built and put together. I loved the garden and had been there before but I always felt like I had been missing something when I was there. Now I knew why. I still didn't want to deal with the press.

I grabbed my satchel and put my coat on. The ring still in my pocket where I put it earlier. I would wait till the right moment and ask her. I hope that my crazy actions would be best for both of us.

.~.

Arriving back at her apartment to the door open made me worry so I picked up my steps and ran smack into Dr. Alexander and Mina. I remembered Ami as being one of her court and very quiet. Mina was with us at the brothel. She and Kunzite had been together while Serenity and I had been together. I smiled at them both and said hello but I think it fell on deaf ears. They were chatting away but it made no matter as I only had eyes for Serenity.

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

"I knew you would Mina." I watched as both of them left and closed the door behind them. I turned to her and clutched her in my arms and kissed her. It felt good to have her in my arms. "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." She laughed as she melted into me like she always did.

"Well I couldn't stop thinking of you while I was at the hospital." I paused for a moment to watch her reaction. She smiled. I am sure she was thinking that her mission to make my mind wander was complete. "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." I had their other names but I would have to sit down and really start searching.

"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." I grinned at her. The thought of tracing her sounded perfect. She took off my tie and put it around her neck. I shed my coat off forgetting about the ring for the time being and grabbed the rose off of the counter as she pulled me towards the bedroom.

She had cleaned up the petals and the note sat on her dresser from what I had noticed. I had not noticed much because she was controlling the moment. Instead of vice versa. I let her and she took it upon herself to undress me out of my shirt and my pants. When I couldn't take it any more I took over which she was okay with. I traced her skin with the rose and my fingers making her arch for more of my touch. I kissed her all over and when it came time I entered her. The moonlight was shinning through the window which changed her hair to the silver and with her eyes she just drank it all in. She thrived in the moonlight. I thrust into her a few times before she tightened around me and that set us both off for release.

She curled into my side and ran her finger tips over my chest. I could tell she was happy as I am sure she could tell I was happy just being here with her.

.~.

I must have fallen asleep and I woke with a start. I had just relived the day we had both died. Trying to find her, the time changing and her being the key to restart the universe. It was light out and I could see the sun peeking through the blinds. Her hair had gone blonde again and she was sleeping soundly still curled in my side. I gently put her on the pillow and kissed the top of her head as I rose. I dressed and went looking for coffee.

I opened the cupboard and saw some but decided against it. I would just run to the coffee shop. It wasn't far and I wouldn't be long. I wrote a note to her and left it beside her. The rose was already on the side table so I didn't move it for now. I found my shoes and coat and headed quickly out the door.

It was still pretty early and the coffee shop was quiet for a Sunday morning. I ordered what she had had the other day and my coffee together and decided to bring home some of the warm donuts as well.

I was almost in the door before my cell rang. I answered it not recognizing the number since it could be the hospital. I was wrong. "Mr. Anders what can I do for you on a Sunday?" What was he doing working on a Sunday?

"I have been up for hours Darien. I'd like to discuss the moving of your lab and the progress to Europe like it was discussed. I think it will be beneficial there. Plus you can focus your work at the hospital which you have chosen over the company."

"It is not moving to Europe Mr. Anders." I scowled as if he was standing in front of me. I was not going to move my project just because he wanted his way.

"I believe it is. The next meeting has it being moved. The progress is not being made." I am sure you put it as being moved. That is not happening until I release it. Which will never happen.

"No it was discussed the other day in the meeting. It is not being moved." I could tell my mood was shifting. I didn't want to do this now. "I will discuss the remainder with my father" I watched Serenity come out of the bedroom dressed in her robe. She could see I was on the phone and proceeded to get out some plates. She could smell the donuts I was sure and she was trying to get me to smile. Of course when she smiles I can't help but smile. I was still in a very dark place at the moment and I didn't want to bring that on her.

"There is no further progress that I can see. Our European division will excel at this. Your father will see reason. He has to move it for the good of his company. If he keeps it here it will tank his company. I will make him see reason. He can't keep it here."

"You do that he will tell you the same thing." I disconnected the call I was now in a very dark mood. Things were progressing just fine with the project and now he wants to move it to get his way. I just wanted to throw things but I didn't.

I put the phone down before I threw it across the room. I sat for a moment not moving and got my mood under control before I spoke. I couldn't believe what he was doing. It had to be something else that was going on as well. He has been trying to push moving it to Europe for weeks now. I turned to look at her a weak smile on my face.

"Hi sorry. My father's CFO wants to move things that should not be moved." She looked at me. She was questioning what I was talking about. "My lab at my father's company." I told her.

"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 guess I never did scowl. But I remember you telling me that I smirked a lot when we first met. I had a reason for that. I was trying to hide my feelings for you. "No I recall I did a lot of smirking though." I said finally replying to her. I smiled then at the errant memory.

"Yes, yes you did." She smiled again trying to break me of my current mood. "The CFO is working on a Sunday?"

"Apparently." I handed her the coffee that was marked as hers and watched her pop the top open and sip the dark liquid.

"You remembered."

"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 watched her open the bag of donuts and pull one out. I felt my phone buzz again before it actually rang. I flipped it over and saw the name. Fuck I had to take this. Father was not going to be happy that I hung up on Mr. Anders.

"Sorry my love I have to take this."

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

"Thanks." I kissed her head and walked down the hallway answering the call.

"Father."

"Darien my boy did you get a call from Mr. Anders a short while ago?"

"Yes did he call you? I hung up on him as he wanted to move the blood illness clinical project again."

"Yes I know. He was trying to move that and a few other pieces of my company projects to his family's company in Europe. I fired him once I put two and two together."

"Really father I don't know how or why you hired him in the first place. He has been out to change things since the first day. Did you go over the finances and his department he ran?"

"I have. I have also been running the whole finance division through an audit for the last few weeks. I found a few discrepancies but nothing major."

"And what about the blood illness trials set up for a few weeks from now?"

"They are still on track my boy. I will not move that from here. It is your baby."

"Thank you father." Thank god he was on my side for that project. "Father do you remember when I was little…"

"I don't remember a lot but what did you want to know?"

"Did I ever have a sibling?"

"Your mother was carrying your sister when she died. You were very young and you had a brother…" He was 'awake'. Diamond was never my brother but I remember mother carrying my sister. When I was young reborn I never had a brother. I never had a mother that was carrying my sister.

"Did we go to the Moon?"

"Yes…." He stopped. "Diamond was controlling us to take over the Earth. I remember everything. The moon princess…. How are we alive?"

"We were reborn father. The moon kingdom was reborn on earth as was some of the Earth kingdom. I am with the moon princess now."

"You are. You were to marry her. It was set from a long time ago. King Oberon had set arranged it with myself before the war had started again."

"I know father. You had slipped a few times when you and I spoke but when you were with Diamond it was him that you said she was marrying. I plan on marrying her still. I love her and have for a long time."

"You must come to the house. I wish to see you both."

"We will come in time father. I will talk to you later. I have to get back to her."

"Darien my boy she was always yours."

"I know father." I hung up the phone and returned to sit down with Serenity at the bar in her kitchen.

She was smiling at me. She knew I was still in a mood. I didn't want to tell her yet that my father was 'awake'. I wanted to ask her first before we went to see him. I put my phone down again face down on the counter top and realized I had a plan for today. I needed to get out of this mood or I would not get to the indoor garden today. I slipped the ring out of my jacket pocket and put it in my pants pocket with out her seeing.

"My father if you couldn't tell."

"Work related call?"

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

"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." And then some. It will be mine one day eventually.

"You will take over won't you when he retires?" I looked at her. It was like she was reading my mind. "I admit before we woke up yesterday I was looking you up. I was curious."

"What did you find?" I asked. I was curious myself. I had never looked myself up before.

I watched as she pulled her lap top over and open it. The page she had pulled up about me was still up so she turned it over to me and I read it. It explained how I would inherit the company from my father when he retired and that I was one of the top bachelors that was never seen. It really was not a good article but it was right. I guess even then I had a love hate relationship with the press. I closed it back for her and looked at her.

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

"I was drawn to you too. The article is right at least. I have a love hate relationship with the press." I sipped my lukewarm coffee now. With both phone calls I had not even had a chance to drink any of it. I would still drink it even though it was lukewarm. I removed my jacket and hung it over the other chair beside me. "I want to take you somewhere today." I want to take her to the indoor rose garden. My father had donated a lot of the money to bring the roses in. He was the main benefactor. She would love it. It would remind her of home and of our Earth from long ago. There is where I will ask her.

I took her hand as she smiled "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." I took her hand and kissed her knuckles before lacing my fingers with hers. I kissed the very finger that the ring would sit on. "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."

"You're quiet today."

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

"What is it?" I asked her watching her.

"I am just wondering if Diamond had not interfered if we would be married and the earth never destroyed. 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 said.

"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." I paused. I want to remember the good parts of the past not the bad parts. "I would never have let Diamond marry you." I said quietly. I don't think my plan is going to go the way I planned it today. Fuck it. I would still take her there and ask her again.

"I know."

"You were supposed to marry me."

"I know. We should have been."

I watched her get up from her seat beside me and I turned and she was between my legs as I wrapped my arm around her. She kissed me trying to get my mood to shift still from my phone calls. I trailed my fingers along her collar bone where the crystal had formed billions of years ago. I then picked up the crystal that lay between her breasts and let it rest in my hand. This little crystal birthed a new universe and us along with it. She was to marry me and so she shall.

"Serenity my princess." I 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."

I stood from the seat I was in and kissed her. One after another. The next one more urgent than the last. I was going to loose my resolve if I didn't do this now. I couldn't wait till I had her at the rose gardens. I needed to know her answer. I knew it but I needed to hear it. I think she needed to hear it as well. I watched her hair turn silver and then back to blonde. It was like the crystal knew before she did what was happening. Which it should part of the crystal had been in me.

"Marry me Princess."