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The next installment. Please enjoy, and thank you for all your Reviews. Just a heads up I will try and update as much as I can, but I dropped my laptop, so we aren't on speaking terms, as it insists on only working sporadically, hopefully will have a new computer by the end of the week. But with the rate work is going may not happen.

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Chapter 20

Up at the temple the four scouts were sitting in Rei's room, they had their books out on her study table but they weren't studying, it was just encase Chad or Rei's Grandfather walked in and wondered what they were up to.

Ami reached to the container sitting in the middle of the table, and pulled out a cookie that Lita had brought to the temple. "So what you are saying, we need to fix the relationship with the outer court. And why the change of heart Rei, you were the one that made us separate from them because of your parent's demands." She then nibbled on the end of the cookie.

"And you were the one who fought against me on this, the people of Mercury always so scientific in their reasons for trusting people, even though trust as nothing to do with Science. But you were all rational, but you still let me win." Rei bit back, frustrated that the girls were fighting her on this. She was following orders, orders she couldn't tell them where they came from, but what happened to the intuition these girls were meant to have.

Mina slapped the table, "Rei can you please explain why you are pushing for this to happen. Ami is right, this is so far out of your ball park, I want to assume that you are taking orders, but orders from whom?"

"Why can't we give it a go, it isn't like life will get bad if we try to mend the bridge with Sailor Saturn, and the others will follow once we have mended that relationship. You can't deny that extra help will be well sought with us struggling with the battles, especially with Serena out of commission. What did Darien say anyways?" Rei asked turning the questions onto Mina.

"Darien said he would attempt to talk to her but she is pretty unresponsive to her duties to the Moon and Galaxy. We can't rely on her coming out of this anytime soon. You are right though, it would be beneficial to have their help, considering how the last battle came out." Mina said thoughtfully.

Lita sat forward from her side of the table, "Did you want me to try and talk to them? I did have a friendship with Uranus and Neptune on the moon, outside of our separation."

"What do you mean Lita? I ordered you to stay away from them." Mina asked, outraged that one of her Soldiers has disobeyed her.

"Serenity overruled your order." Lita said with a shrug.

"She did not have that kind of Authority." Mina argued.

"Turns out she does Mina, and I wouldn't be surprised that Rei is under her influence right now, with the whole pushing to be friends." Lita shrugged again and grabbed a cookie and took a bite.

Mina pulled at her hair and turned to Ami, "Did you know about her powers?"

Ami shook her head, "No, but it would make sense, where do you think they based your leadership powers from Mina, that is presumptuous of you not to expect that the powers you came from the powers of the Silver Crystal."

Mina pulled at her hair again and rested her elbows onto the table with a sigh, "Fine, seen as Serena seemed to have gone above my head, Lita, go talk to Amara and Michelle, we will rebuild this relationship. But go carefully please. They may be a little angry with us, especially after the actions of this team in the past couple of months."

Meanwhile hours later at Serena's family home, Serena walked downstairs she reached the door frame of the lounge room and leaned against it. She silently watched Darien with his nose stuck in the book he was reading from and furiously taking notes. Serena slowly let down her hair from the pony tail that she was sporting, and sighed. She was torn, unsure of where she needed to go now. She walked up to Darien and meekly tapped him on the shoulder, confusing herself as to why she suddenly felt so shy around him.

He looked up from his books and smiled at the girl, "So how did you go?" He asked.

"Their room is done now, and so is Sammy's, I just need to finish the rest of the house, and then from there, figure out my next step. Pretty sure I can't just live here by myself." She sadly rationalized.

"You can stay with me as long as you need to Serena; we were meant to be together." With this statement Darien pulled her into his lap, so that she was sitting sideways. Serena squeaked, and fell where he guided her to and he put his head on her shoulder playfully kissing her cheek as a sort of apology. "You don't need to make all the decisions now. What we do need to make a decision on is first off what are we doing for dinner, because you haven't eaten all day so you have to be hungry and after dinner we need to discuss Princess business."

Serena let out a sigh, and hid her head into his chest, "I don't want to be the Princess, and I don't want to deal with that." She mumbled, this being a topic she wanted to avoid with him, as she was sure he would figure out about that dream or vision, or whatever that was the day of her Parents burial, so every time he brought this up she found an excuse.

"You can't avoid this topic forever, and you need to learn to control your new powers and you need to talk to Mina, you promised them that you would discuss things with them, and it has been over a week."

"Can't they work out their own issues, and as for controlling my powers, suppressing them like I have been seems to be the solution." She shrugged

"No Serena, you cannot just suppress them, that is what got us into all this trouble, Raye suppressing the truth, and look what happened the once strong friendship that you had with the girls are in tatters, and you need them as much as you say you don't, I know you do." He tried to rationalize with her.

"Darien I said I don't want to deal with them." Serena said her eyes turning serious. "It wasn't just Raye it was all of them, they decided that was the right course of action, the excuse of "I thought you were an enemy because I didn't remember you on the moon" isn't good enough. What happened to the nice girls that I was friends with on the moon, and just after they got their powers, they accepted everyone and gave them the benefit of the doubt, I know except for Hotaru on the moon, but that was their parent prejudices and I was fixing it and other things were in play, until things got destroyed on the moon." Serena finished her rant with a huff.

Darien put his arms around her waist, and looked at the blonde girl, "At the end of the day you need to be the bigger person, you are the glue that holds them together, they just got misguided and now they want to fix it."

"Have you been speaking with them Darien?" Serena asked with wide eyes, turning up to look at him.

Darien nodded.

"Why would you do that, I thought I was in control and I was going to contact them in my own time."

"Serena, they were worried about you, Mina called me yesterday, they are having trouble with monsters and they need your help. And Trista called this morning; she was concerned about how your new powers were affecting you, as you don't have the same protections on the powers as you used to, if you aren't careful your emotions will control them. They called because they care, that is all."

"So what did you tell them?"

"That I would suggest to you that you give them a call, I didn't promise anything for you, I just said we would talk about it and get back to them. That is all." Darien said hurriedly, seeing the anger rising in her face.

"Good because I don't think I am ready yet." Serena said crossing her arms, anger still rising.

"You need to deal with this sooner rather than later Serena, the world is in trouble, and they need your help." Darien tried to reason, as Serena started shaking with anger.

"They only come looking for me when they need help, great friendship that I have with them, all they do is call when they need something, a friend of convenience, well maybe I will on call them when it is convenient for me, not them or the world. Yea, see how they -." And mid-sentence Serena disappeared from Darien's lap.

Darien's arms collapsed into his lap, and he whispered into the air, "Damn it Serena, Trista warned me that this would happen."