Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, Naoko Takeuchi does.
A/N- So here is the next chapter, I hope the conclusion to the cliffhanger isn't too stupid. I think this chapter is okay though. Thanks for reading and reviewing.
Darien felt his heart beating faster than normal and his adrenaline working on over drive as he started to slowly push the door open.
While slowly pushing open the door, Darien was aware that Serena was right behind him. He heard Serena hold her breath and he knew she was nervously twisting her hands together in anticipation as to who was really outside of the door.
Darien wished that he knew what Serena's thoughts were right now, so he could have another opinion on this.
What if we are just over reacting and the person at the door is really just a regular person. I think that we may be just getting ourselves overly nervous thinking that a enemy is going to just show up at our door in broad daylight where everyone could see him. thought Serena.
Hearing Serena become calm, Darien stopped his foolishness and just pushed the door open the rest of the way and instantly he was greeted with a man about 40 years old, he was very short and dressed in some sort of a uniform. He was also carrying a medium sized package under his left arm.
What? I thought that this was going to be an enemy. But why is he holding a package or why isn't he attacking, he is Probably not an enemy. I didn't order anything and neither did Serena, at least to the best of my knowledge she didn't. I'm just overreacting now because all of the murders and all of the problems at the police station. They have filled my head with the worst case scenario. Thought Darien.
Feeling ridiculous for getting all worked up and nervous over opening the door, Darien visibly relaxed.
After waiting just a few seconds Darien felt like it had taken forever when the man finally spoke.
Darien was still interested as to why this man was here and why he was carrying some sort of package with him.
" Hello, I'm the local delivery man and I need you to sign a few papers for me so you can receive your package, it will only take a few minutes and then everything will be finished."
Darien and Serena were puzzled, looking over at each other they silently agreed that both of them haven't ordered anything in a while.
When Darien turned back around to look at the delivery man he was faced with a clipboard in his face. Hastily grabbing the clipboard and pen from the man Darien looked at the paper work that he had to fill out.
I can't fill this out, I didn't order anything, this isn't my package. Darien felt very frustrated with himself and the delivery man because he must have the wrong house and address.
" Excuse me sir, but I don't think this belongs to me, my wife and I never ordered anything that needed to come by delivery."
Darien watched the delivery man become confused. The man grabbed the package back from Darien and looked at the address on the box and then looked at the address on the mailbox. The delivery man then nodded and handed the box back to Darien with confidence.
" Sir, this is you package, it's address matches the one on you mailbox and the delivery system that I work with rarely has a mess up."
Darien sighed and thought, I can tell this is going to take awhile.
" Okay I will take the package, but who is it from? I see no other address other than mine on the package."
The delivery man didn't look surprised and said to Darien, " That just means that they either sent it from... say a vacation spot or they had a lot of money and didn't want the address put on the package. Well please sign this quickly, I'm running late now"
Signing the paper work quickly Darien handed it back to the delivery man.
" Have a nice day, sir."
But before Darien could speak again to the small man he was already jogging down the driveway to his delivery truck, but Darien couldn't see the truck parked anywhere.
Just as the man was out of site and Darien and Serena were about to close the door and walk into the house another car pulled into the driveway.
I can't believe this, hardly anyone ever visits and now today we get more people coming over than ever. At least I know the car this time and I don't have to act all nervous and scared like I did before.
" Darien, you should know who this is, right? Even I do, it's one of you colleagues, the one who always gives you the latest information about your work and occasionally visits. I'll take this package inside and we will look at it when your done talking."
Darien agreed with Serena and as Serena was walking away Darien stood at the door waiting for his colleague and friend to walk up to the front door and greet him.
" Hey Darien, long time no see." Said Dan with a friendly smile on his face.
" Hey Dan. Yeah, long time no see."
Darien knew Dan was joking with him because he had just seen him barely a day ago. They had to both stay at work until the early hours in the morning.
"I know this isn't just a social call Dan, or you would have called ahead of time. So is something wrong?" Darien had a very grim look on his face when he said that, he expected that something bad had happened again.
" Wow Darien your uptight, it's not like you. Just because I stopped by doesn't mean something is wrong, relax. I just decided to stop by because I was just simply passing by your house on the way to the grocery store. I do have something to tell you though."
" Well I guess that's a relief, and I have been uptight. Anyway I'm hoping that what you have to tell me isn't too serious."
Dan looked at Darien with a very annoyed expression.
" You never listen to me at all Darien, I told you nothing was wrong. Or at least I think I did. I will end your misery now with saying that the only reason I came here was to tell you that we have a meeting tonight at some sort of city hall around this city. Actually I think the city hall is approximately five minute away from you."
" Okay, that's good it's so close, I know where is it. What time do I have to be there?"
Darien wished that the meeting would be later at night so he could spend some time with Serena during the day and not at night.
"The meeting will start promptly at 8:00pm, about nine hours from now."
"Okay that's good, thanks for stopping by Dan. I will see you tonight, bye."
Darien watched as Dan waved to him and walked back into his car and pulled out of the driveway.
About to turn around and walk back into the house Darien bumped into Serena who he hadn't noticed before, she was tugging on his shirt sleeve frantically.
"You have to see this, I opened the box that we just got and you have to see what is inside it. I have been waiting for you to finish talking for what seemed like forever."
" Serena I told you we would look at the package together, what if something like a bomb or an explosive was inside it?"
" Come on Darien do you actually hear what your saying, a bomb? Your becoming very paranoid in your old age. Besides you knew anyway that I would open the package, I was too curious."
" Okay I will try and loosen up, but come on, my old age? I'm not that old."
"Yeah whatever. Wait! Darien your distracting me, you have to look at what I found inside the package. I think you will find it interesting."
This is going to be a extremely long day. Thought Darien as he was being hurriedly tugged along by his shirt sleeve that the excited Serena was holding.
Serena led Darien into the kitchen where the package sat, it was open and some of its contents were in disarray on the kitchen table where Serena sat them. The box looked like it held mostly papers.
Gently pulling his now wrinkled shirt sleeve from Serena's death grip, Darien walked over to the box and looked down into it, he was greeted with various written documents and plenty of photographs of people and buildings that he had never seen.
Interested in the package now, Darien picked up some pictures of buildings that he didn't recognize at all.
He looked to the back of the photograph for a description or date and found one. It said, U.S warehouse. Darien then looked at the date which was messily scrawled right under the description. He was surprised to find that it was taken barely one month ago.
" Darien what is this stuff, do you have any clue as to who sent it to you? Also why would they send it to you"
" I don't have a clue Serena, we don't even know if it was sent to me, but there is plenty of hand written documents all dated and they all have pictures attacked to them. I'm sure we can find out what they all mean though.
Shuffling through the contents of the package again Darien and Serena found handwritten documents that would equal to about a 150 page notebook.
The photographs were all places Serena and Darien have never been to or seen. It was obviously taken out of the country, the U.S more like it.
Searching some more through the package Darien found a small package still wrapped up, the shape was about the size of a postcard, just thicker and weighed a lot more.
Carefully tearing the small package open Darien was met with a couple pages of notes rubber banded together with some photographs.
When Darien took the note off of the photographs he was greeted with a horrible sight, right behind him Serena let out a gasp as she looked at what Darien was holding. And Darien almost dropped the photographs because the site had startled him so much.
Looking down again at the horrid site even Darien wanted to throw up. Then in a small voice that Darien had to strain to hear Serena said, " Darien, really. Who would send us this horrible stuff?"
A/N- This is the end of the chapter, I know I stopped at another cliffhanger. But this is one of the last cliffhangers for a while, I promise. So what did they find…… If I continued I think the chapter would be doubled in size. I will update soon, so you won't have to wait long. Please review and tell me how the chapter was. Thanks.