Recap: the girls and the boys are having a fun day at the amusement park when a youma attacks and they all get separated, on purpose. Darien leaves with Serena while the Senshi and Generals are fighting the youma; when the pair gets a good look of the fight, Serena sees that the girls all have new outfits. That leaves her feeling conflicted.
A/N: I re-uploaded all chapters, the contain only small grammar and typo errors, so sorry for all the alerts (if) you're getting... I DID, however, make one change - I dropped the whole general name change, as honestly that was way too confusing. The change takes place at the end of chapter 9.
I think you have waited too long for this NEW chapter... Sorry!
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When the girls returned to the apartment, they found Serena in her room and Darien asleep on the living room couch in what looked like uncomfortable position. They Senshi won the fight with the youma with the help of Generals, but they were still considerably tired. Since it was well after midnight they decided to discuss their new transformations later, particularly how much easier they could now move. Each of the four girls were silently pondering on their new looks.
Darien awoke when Amy was slowly covering him with a blanket. She smiled warmly at him. "Serena told me you got separated but that you were safe," he said rubbing his eyes with the heels of this palms and slowly sitting up. "Yes, we helped the injured a bit before leaving," Amy replied softly, the fatigue evident in her voice "with all that was going on there, it was hard to quickly go home. It was good that you left so soon as you did." She added the small lie.
"Do you want to stay the night? You look too tired to drive home and I think I can find you an extra set for bed linen and all that," Mina asked quietly. Darien nodded in affirmative and got up to pull out the couch. Mina helped to make his bed for the night and left with a soft chuckle and "good night". The rest of the girls were already in their beds.
Despite feeling tired, Darien was lying in a restless sleep, waking after every 20 or so minutes. When the night was close to morning and the night sky was taking lighter tones of the morning's sun, he heard screams coming from Serena's room. He scrambled to get up but Lita was the first one to go into Serena's room. He followed her and saw Serena crying in her sleep and shouting "Blood! Get it off of me! Please, no!" her tank top riding up her stomach, and short shorts not hiding the movement of her legs.
"Darien, can you please help me to keep her still?" He quickly sat in the bed next to Serena and hugged her, bringing her into his lap and away from Lita, who did not protest. She maybe felt a bit dismayed by his lack of clothing as he was only clad in his boxer briefs, but since Serena calmed almost instantly, Lita did not protest. It wasn't as if Lita was a purist, it's just she knew Serena was not so much experienced with men. She sighed internally, Serena's experience with man was not a problem at the present, it was the nightmares. She lightly patted the girl's head, her fingers smoothing the knots in Serena's hair.
The girls breathing was back close to normal and Lita looked at how Darien was holding her. "Look, you know that Rei is the most honest from us all, however, I don't think you will wither like a flower if I speak my mind." Darien looked questioningly at her.
"I know, hell, we all know that you have feelings for Serena. But she does not know and honestly, I do not know what is going on between you two as your relationship has been somewhat strange since... well since forever... Serena does not really talk about you with us, and she does not talk about her dreams as well. Number one we can live without, but number two is freaking us out." Darien nodded, not knowing really what to say but not avoiding to look into Lita's eyes, telling by themselves how serious she was.
"We trust you, but if you ever break her heart, I am sure you know what kind of shit storm awaits you." Lita deadpanned. "Thank you?!" Darien replied, unsure what would be the correct response to such a declaration.
"Can I leave you to take care of her? Your presence seems to calm her," Lita asked with a small smile. Darien just nodded, looking after Lita as she left the room and closed the door.
He looked down at Serena in his arms and wished she wouldn't be having nightmares. And why would they involve blood and anything similar!?
Few minutes later, the sitting position was becoming less comfortable and Darien moved to lie down on the bed. He tried to push the blanket away with one hand and hold Serena with the other. When he had settled them both under Serena's cover, he leaned in and kissed her forehead, then he heard a faint and unclear whisper and found Serena looking up at him, her eyes slightly scrunched from sleep.
"Darien, what are you doing here?" she murmured and let out a small yawn.
"You were having a nightmare and I wanted to help you."
Serena snuggled closer to him, "you're so warm, let's sleep", finishing with an another silent yawn. She moved closer, turning on her side and pushing one of her legs between Darien's, her one arm sneaking to hug Darien.
At first, Darien felt confused, but then he decided just to enjoy this little moment and snuggled Serena closer to him, letting her small breaths wash over his torso. He would think about consequences when she woke up.
Darien was drawing small circles with his fingers on Serena's back with flowing, smoothing motions. And Serena started to giggle, her back arching into him.
"Darien, that tickles, don't you want to sleep?" she asked with laughter in her voice. At this moment Darien could only concentrate on her body being pressed into his, her thin tank top allowing him to feel her breasts pushed against him.
"Are you sure you are awake?" he asked in return, without even stopping his ministrations.
"If I am not awake, then this is a truly wonderful dream…" she whispered and looked into Darien's eyes, her hand sliding over his side. "Kiss me Darien, please?!" she leaned in closer and for a second Darien thought this was a very bad idea. But only for a second, as in the next moment his lips were on hers, and he pulled her body even closer.
Serena replied very eagerly and soon their positions were changed. She was under Darien, their bodies rocking together. Serena's hands were on Darien's shoulder blades, from time to time moving up to his hair, grabbing a fistful, and down to his middle, teasing touches with her fingertips or light scratches with her nails. Darien felt this as an encouragement and leaned more into Serena, enticing from her the most pleasant sounds for Darien's ears. His growing erection now pressed against her hot core and their lips still locked in a passionately hungry kisses. He was caressing her sides with one hand, while other was acting as a small pillar taking part of his weight from Serena. Feeling Serena's body so close to him and her eager body language made him feel like in the seventh heaven.
She, the girl that he wanted and needed, was in in his arms and kissing him back eagerly. Her nipples erect and pushing through her top, her skin smooth and slowly covering in light perspiration from their hips rocking.
Only one short moment was needed for Darien to stop his actions. His mind wishing for this not to be a dream made him think back on the one sentence she said before asking him to kiss her – did Serena really think this was a dream? If so, how could he proceed if she was not fully aware of what was happening.
"Serena," he whispered and moved a bit further away from her, but still close enough to feel her body heat and her small hands still caressing his sides. He looked into her slightly glazed eyes and with a grunt hid his face in the pillow next to Serena's neck. He turned his head as his chin rested on her shoulder. "Serena, I think we should stop," her let a throaty whisper.
"Only if you promise to continue another time," Serena whispered back and lightly kissed his cheek. "I know this is not a dream…" She whispered with a chuckle and moved to allow Darien to lay next to her, sleep slowly taking over the pair.
