In the morning, Mina woke up with the worst headache. Other girls, hearing her small grunts, came closer to the bed she was resting in for the whole night. The blonde sat up, clutching her head with her right hand while supporting herself with the other. "How are you feeling?" came Rei's voice accompanied by a glass of water that was taken by Mina with a big thank you.
Mina turned towards her friends and, for a moment, a set of images was overlapping what she was actually seeing. The girls dressed in luscious dresses – embroidered corsets, layered skirt and beautiful colours. She quickly blinked the images away. "I think I have the memories from my past – like the guys have. It's a somewhat unpleasant sensation." She tried to sit up but a wave of dizziness got in her way and she gave up on the action.
"Before you start ask questions, I have to say that I really cannot give you much. It seems that I still keep organizing everything in my head. I can't stop long enough to focus on anything. I have these scenes and images, but it's as if I am not allowed to explore them at the moment. I hope that's just a passing thing. And my head feels like it's splitting in two." By the end of her talk, Mina was feeling weary and after the last sentence the girls saw her drifting asleep, Lita managed to catch her slumping body just in time before her head hit the wall behind the bed.
"Well, it's a good thing it's not happening to all of us at once." Lita remarked.
"But this means we may be getting closer to finding the Princess. It seems Mina is in no danger, just extremely exhausted. And since you both have the day free, I will go to my first courses for the day at the Uni, and if you don't mind I would like to examine more closely Sailor Moon's brooch, so we see later in the evening?" Ami asked and with the consent of Lita and Rei left the Temple.
"Do you think her new weapon is because of Mina gaining her memories or the other way around?" Lita asked Rei, curious as to how it would happen for the rest of them.
"I think it's neither, there was something else at hand yesterday. I tried to read the situation with fire at midnight, but I didn't get anything. Only a headache, though, I have a reason believe that Mina's is much worse." Rei massaged her temples with gentle circular movements.
Lita decided that she could try to press Rei for some gossip, "speaking of headaches, how's your assistant-one doing?" At Rei's sharp glance at the question, Lita knew that something was going on. "I think he shouldn't be worried for the headache he is, but for the headache he will get if he doesn't stop." Rei complained. "He's just so persistent. And you should know that sometimes he doesn't grasp the definition of personal space." Lita noticed a slight blush on Rei's cheeks. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Rei, with a look that told Rei that maybe she might have said more than she wanted.
"I don't want anyone knowing this. Tell this to anyone and I will burn down your little balcony herb beds." Well now Lita was even more interested in Rei's headaches. She smirked. "Come on Rei, I'm sure that whatever is going on between you and your 'headache' I am the last one to know." Rei turned her head slightly at Lita's air quotes. "Mina knows everything and if anything has been happening at the Temple, Ami has most probably picked up at her surveillance gadgets she set up around to avoid strangers accidently finding our training grounds. Now spill it."
Rei groaned in embarrassment, "I forgot about the cameras. No wonder Ami is always nudging me when Jack is near. I just thought she is teasing me."
"Well, now you are teasing me. Rei-i-i-i, you HAVE to tell me."
"Jack and I… We have sort of have been having this arrangement – that by the way was his idea – where I may be giving him kisses in exchange for some help with things that I am not able to do by my own here in the temple… and I might have sometimes enjoyed it for a moment too long… and sometimes we might have been ending up in a heated exchange of favours…" Rei finished feebly.
Lita snorted, and once again used her fingers to make quotes "Ohh, Rei, 'heated exchange'?"
Rei wanted to laugh at the absurd explanation, but her hurt lip prevented her mouth to make a huge grin. "Don't start, I want to laugh but it hurts a bit, so pleeaaasse don't make any remarks other than that? Please?!" Rei pleaded fighting the grin that desperately wanted to emerge. "Besides it all started out with him asking a simple kiss on the cheek. So don't get carried away in those fantasies of yours."
"I will wait until tomorrow, by then your lip should be fully healed with the help of Senshi powers." Lita laughed quietly, not wanting to wake up their resting friend. Rei just rolled her eyes, knowing there was no escape from Lita's remarks either way.
"And what about your chestnut haired hunk?" Rei decided to do a little teasing back.
Lita was now regretting the teasing she put Rei through, at least a bit. "We may have an arrangement later today. He asked me if I wanted to spar with him, and I offered to do it in our fake training room." With Lita's explanation continuing, Rei raised her eyebrows "Of course, I didn't tell him it's a bogus. There's no harm in using that place." Lita hastened to explain further. "It has all the installations and stuff we could use in sparring."
"Stuff… Lita, just be careful. I wouldn't want him to drop through a hole in the floor and discover our secrets."
"There's no hole to fall through in the first place." Lita defended.
"Knowing how seriously you take training, I am worried there might be one today afternoon." At this Lita laughed quietly and promised her friend to be careful.
Lying on her stomach half-awake, Serena felt the sheet sliding off her naked back. The motion stopped short of exposing her bum, and she shivered when Darien's small kisses followed the line of her spine. "Morning, beautiful," she heard him whisper. While he continued to tease her with kisses on her back, his hand slowly travelled up her leg until his fingers lightly dimpled her ass and Serena once again felt aroused by his actions. She made a mental note to fall asleep naked more often when with Darien.
She turned on her back, her vision still a bit blurry from sleep, and her hand dragged his head and his lips down to hers. The same hand that had caressed her leg continued its way up her hip, her stomach and rested on her breast, lightly squeezing it, the thumb making circular motions on her peaked nipple. Serena arched into Darien's form and, embracing him with both arms, brought him closer to her.
"You are simply insatiable," she whispered in-between kisses. "I will never get enough of you!" He whispered back and let his one hand travel down to her folds, and the moment he started to caress there and feeling her wetness, she could feel the smirk on his lips. "Looks like I am not the only one hungry for more," and his lips found the arch of her neck, making their way down to her collarbone until they finally found their destination in the form of two nicely round and firm breasts. "Darien… Please…" He sucked at first one of the nipples, letting it go with a pop and then went to repeat the action on the other.
Darien's fingers still exploring her nether lips, fingers lightly grazing her entrance. He let one finger slip in, feeling her satisfactory wet, he added one more finger. Pumping in and out of her in leisurely movements.
He wanted her to be high on pleasure before he entered her, allowing him to watch her changing expressions, hearing her mewls and small gasps of passion. He wanted to worship her when he fucked her, made love to her, and to do that he first needed to tease her to the brink when he almost came just by looking at her.
At least, that was Darien's plan until one of her small hands found his erection, gently starting to move up and down his hard member, and he decided that he will have to oblige her this time. He moved between her legs, kissed her hard. His tongue dipped in her mouth, he entered her in one smooth motion, feeling her inner muscles welcome the intrusion. Her hands roaming his back with nails slightly sinking in and leaving red marks, then moving upwards to grab a fistful of his dark hair. And he never wanted to leave this moment, never ever.
Ami was halfway to the laboratory, to examine the shards that Serena gave her, when the youma alert went off and with one longing look at the building, she changed her direction and contacted Rei and Lita to meet at the youma's emergence point.
