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These Chapters just keep getting longer.

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Chapter 15

It was now midday and Serena and Darien stood in front of the now empty home that Serena had grown up in. Darien was sipping his coffee with one hand; the other was gripped by Serena's vice like grip. Trying to flex is fingers to get reclaim the blood her had lost while Serena had steadily squeezed it out of his hand.

Feeling his hand move Serena looked down at their hands and then realized how tight she was holding his hand, she quickly released it from her captivity and saw him flex it thankfully. She looked up at Darien, when he looked down at Serena's concerned face; he just smiled sympathetically, "Serena, we can't just stand out here all day, we are going to need to go inside, at the very least to for you to get some clothes and then we can go back to my apartment and make the plans that we need to make."

Serena whimpered and then sighed, "I just don't know how I am going to cope with them not being in there,"

"Well, it is just one step at a time, How about we just open the door, then we can stand in the doorway and then we will figure it out from there, you can cry, yell and scream. Just do what you need to do and I will be here." Darien declared knowing that this is what helped him.

Serena just stared at Darien, his idea was ridiculous, and she tentatively took some steps forward when she heard a voice behind her.

"Serenity." Serena turned grudgingly, not wanting to be disturbed by anyone that called her Serenity.

"My name is Serena, Trista, and you better do well enough to remember that." Serena harshly realizing that it was the Sailor Scout of the Planet Pluto behind her. Darien ran a careful eye over the newcomer and saw that she had three followers behind her.

Trista slightly bowed her head, "Sorry, Serena, old habits die hard. I see you have found the Prince."

Darien stared at Trista, and when he was just about to find his voice Serena spoke to him, "Darien, this is my Outer court, the lady in front of us, is Trista – Sailor Pluto. The lady with the short blonde hair is Amara – Sailor Uranus, her girl friend with the aqua hair is Michelle – Sailor Neptune, and the young girl is Hotaru – Sailor Saturn. Ladies this Darien, not Prince Darien, I do not want reference to what we were in the past."

Darien smiled politely at the newcomers, Serena and he will need to have a chat about her not accepting what her past really was, he had hadn't fully understood what it all meant, but she couldn't just keep dismissing it all the time. "So what brings you out this way?" He asked with a smile but confused as to why they suddenly appeared here at Serena's house.

Hotaru smiled up at him, "We came to help and to talk to Serena, and there is so much we need to know,"

Serena just stared at them she was concerned about what they wanted to talk to her about but touched that they had come to help; she then turned and looked at Darien with concern in her eyes, he then captured her hand and gave her a reassuring squeeze.

Serena then dragged Darien to the front door, social niceties winning out over her concern of opening the empty home. She stood there with shaky hands fumbling over the keys, after dropping them, Darien picked them up, and as she reached for them, he leaned forward and kissed her forehead he whispered, "I can be the strong one today, you just do what you need to do" and started finding the right key. Grateful for his strength Serena leant on him.

Darien opened the door, and Serena took a few hesitant steps inside, looking around, almost hoping that her mother was about to walk through the hall, tell her that her Lemon pie was ready to be devoured. But it didn't happen, with a defeated sniff, she slowly slipped her shoes off and slowly walked up the stairs. Darien walked a few steps forward about to follow the girl, but he then remembered that the 4 from the outer court were standing behind him waiting to be invited in. Before he could beckon them in Hotaru bounced up the stairs and followed Serena to where she went. Darien smiled a little, not too sure how to take this young girl he barely knew just racing around like she owned the place, but he went with it. He invited the others inside and showed them to the family room and went to the kitchen to prepare some tea for them.

Upstairs, Serena was sitting on her bed. She held a family photo in her hands, tears silently running down her face. She didn't even look up when Hotaru slowly pushed the door forward and sat down in front of her.

Hotaru leaned forward and gently pulled the photo from Serena's grasp, and quietly said, "They were a very beautiful family Serena, but they wouldn't want you to be sad."

"Hotaru, why must everybody leave me?" Serena said grabbing the photo back from the young girl.

"Everybody hasn't left you, silly, I am still here, the prince has found you, and the outer court is here to help." Hotaru said with a smile.

"What about my family? They aren't here." Serena sighed.

"Yes they are Serena," She said cryptically.

"No, Hotaru, they aren't here, I have to organise a funeral, I have to organise the house, I am only 17, I don't want all of this pressure, I just want to finish high school, and go to college." Serena said staring at the young girl.

"Do you still love them princess?"

"Yes, of course I do. Doesn't bring them back though," ignoring the princess comment.

"No it doesn't bring them back, it just means they have never left. As long as you don't stop loving them, it means they haven't left. Of course, them being physically here is impossible now, but their memories live on, and yes you will have to have the funeral, to mourn the physical loss, but it doesn't stop them from existing in you." Hotaru said with a nod.

Serena just stared at the young girl, for a twelve year old she was pretty smart, but that said the girl was always smart. Changing the Subject she said, "So what do you and the others want to talk about?"

"You, and you being the princess, and we need to know what is going on with your court and relationship with them. We also came to help here." She said with a smile and getting up, grabbing Serena's hand and started pulling her downstairs in a playful manner.

"You know, kid, you have your moments of being the wisest person I know, but then you go and act like a child," Hotaru just beamed back up at Serena.

Downstairs Darien had supplied each of the ladies their tea, leaving two spare cups for the girls that were making their way down stairs. He hadn't said anything to the three ladies, they were quite intimidating, and he wasn't ready to trust them, especially with his Princess.

Trista looked around the room, and studied Darien; he looked the same as he did on the moon. She was concerned that he didn't speak to them, back on the moon they had a wonderful friendship, but at this time he didn't seem to recall the memory, or if he did he wasn't letting it show through his protectiveness of Serena. Hearing the bouncing down the stairs, she saw that Hotaru had brought Serena down stairs, and in the afternoon light she saw that Serena looked drained, so much stress was affecting the Princess's ability to be cheerful and happy.

Once at the bottom of the stairs, Hotaru stopped and turned to talk to Serena, Serena caught off guard by the sudden stopped almost tripped, but caught herself on the railing and waited patiently for Hotaru to speak.

"Let us talk Princess talk Serena, then we will move onto something else, I know you don't want to embrace that side of you yet, but I think you will have to just for the next couple of hours today, then you can go back to being Serena for a little while."

Serena thought about it and nodded, she grabbed the girls hand, and walked her into the family room, and bowed apologetically to her guests. "I am sorry for my rudeness, it won't happen again." She smiled sadly to herself and thought that her mother would be upset with her treatment of them, but proud of her apology.

The others nodded, and then Serena sat down, she looked up at Darien, who hadn't moved from his post on the door frame to the kitchen. She gave him a look to ask for him to join them, he smiled and shook his head, and he was fine where he was, wanting to be ready for what was about to come out in this conversation. Serena then looked at the women on her couch and waited patiently for them to start the conversation.

Hotaru stared at them all thinking that they were being silly, so she asked the question that was on everyone's mind, "How did you find the crystal, Serena?"

Serena sighed, she would have to recant this story, not liking how it all happened, 'I accidently went into the Nega-verse, when I was left behind on a scouting mission and found 6 of the rainbows crystals, and then I stole one from Tuxedo when he was distracted. Then when I got knocked down by Darien the other day, I cried and they kind of just joined together, then when I tried to transform into Sailor Moon to protect the crystal, I because the Princess instead. All by accident I assure you." She finished off with a shrug.

Amara took the next question, "So, that is when you got all your memories back and the Prince as well?"

Serena looked at Darien, and he nodded at her, reassuring her that it was okay to talk about his memories as well as hers, "Yes." She put simply.

Amara looked at Darien, and saw him nodding as well. Michelle followed up, "Including your Princess Powers? Like the teleporting? And harnessing the power to defeat monsters?"

"I don't know anything about Princess powers, but I teleported, and last night I defeated a negaverse monster as Serena, does that help?"

Michelle looked the girl over, and asked, "Serena, you may not like this suggestion, but are you sure that Serena and Serenity is one and the same? On the moon, you did get called Serena behind closed doors, are you sure you weren't always the princess, you just didn't have your memories until now?"

Serena looked at Darien, a little terror in her eyes, she didn't want to be the Princess, she just wanted to be Serena, and she wasn't strong enough to be both Serenity and Sailor Moon. Darien stepped off the wall, and sat down next to her, happy that they seemed smart girls, and all they wanted to do was talk, but also wanting to offer some physical strength to Serena. He answered Michelle's question, "We discussed this this morning, I believe it is a very real possibility, as I am really just the Prince, so it very much could be the Case that Serena is the Princess only just having amnesia all these years until we found the crystal."

Serena looked up at Darien and said with a defeated sigh, "I may be the Moon Princess, but I am not going strong enough to be that person yet even as Sailor Moon I let the inner court down, I want to be Serena, and I want to finish school, and I just want to be me."

Trista looked at the girl now understanding why the girl looked so tired, so this is what is upsetting her; she didn't want to let people down, she wanted to worthy of the role, not just step into the role because she born to do it, but what she didn't realise she was strong enough for this role, "Serena, you are strong enough for this role, do you realise that you have surpassed the skills you had on the moon? On the moon, you could not teleport by yourself, either we had to help you, or your inner court had to help you. Now I am sure if you concentrate on wanting to be somewhere else you would be there, like that" With her last statement she snapped her fingers, and saw Serena stare at her with wide eyes things making sense about her powers. "We do need to discuss your training, and discuss how you are going to harness your full powers that you now have access to, but for now I think we should help you tidy you house, while you make arrangements for your family. Once the plans have been finalized and carried out we will start working on your training, but in the meantime I think it would be best for your mental health, and your powers if you started meditating, just to find some calm."

Serena nodded, and said getting up, "I remember how to do that, and I will. Thank you for your offer of help around the house, but I think I can do it myself for now."

The women knowing that they have been dismissed, stood up when their Princess stood, accepting that she had to think about things now.

Serena hugged each of them as they left, and she accepted a card from Amara with their contact number and promised to contact them soon.

As Trista, Amara, Michelle and Hotaru left, Lita saw them walk out of the house and to their car. They all looked familiar, but she couldn't place them until she saw Hotaru glare at her and she realized that they were the outer Court of the Moon. Unsure of what to do next she turned around and started running to the Shrine to announce at their meeting that the Outer Court was seen leaving Serena's house.