A/N- Thank you for reading and reviewing, feedback is appreciated.

A day had passed since Serena had last talked to Darien on the telephone, since then the house was full of nervousness. The next morning everyone had put together their ideas as to what they were going to do about finding and getting rid of the enemies, all of the plans included Darien helping them, so basically they were stuck at Serena's house until he arrived back home.

After the friends spent the first few days getting reacquainted with each other they started running out of things to do, everything seemed to be getting quite boring around the house and it had only been about three days since Darien had left. It was surprising that they were running out of things to do because when they were younger it was so easy to find something to occupy themselves with.

The night before Serena had told her friends about what Darien thought he saw outside of his guest bedroom window, so now everyone was on alert and constantly looking out the window like they were paranoid, when before they were relaxed, now as expected everyone was a little bit jumpy. After talking with each other they all decided that there was definitely something out there, maybe whatever was watching them was out there somewhere right now, they did not know.

What no one knew was that Serena was keeping something hidden from them, again, she just did not feel like talking about it because she felt it was just easier to keep it to herself and she also felt that it wouldn't pertain to the current situation.

The morning after she had talked to Darien on the phone the whole day turned out perfect and nothing of interest happened, but Serena figured something had to happen sooner or later and it did in the form of the same nightmare that she had been getting for a while, it just hadn't happened for a week or so. It was a surprise to Serena when it did happen and she was so unprepared for it that her nightmare had started to ruin her day already. Serena also decided that she wouldn't tell Darien about it either because she didn't want him to worry, he had enough on his mind and she was doing fine right now without even telling anyone, she was just a little more on guard now than before.

Thinking back to last night Serena had woke up in her bedroom right after her nightmare was over and had instantly reached for Darien, but he wasn't there, when she realized that he wasn't with her she had panicked and she had forgotten the past few days in her fear. After she had sat in bed and stared at the shadows in her bedroom, thinking someone might be there. After a little while later she collected herself and then she remembered that Darien was away from home and that she was in her house with her friends.

Deciding to not go back to bed since it was about time for her to get up she thought about what had happened in her nightmare. Serena also wondered if she had screamed during her nightmare and possibly woken up her friends, she decided that she didn't wake them up or they would have been in her room as fast as they could. She thought that the only thing different about her reoccurring nightmare was that this time she remembered that she was dreaming while she was going through the familiar sequence of her nightmare. And when she tried to get a good look at her pursuer she just saw a shadowed face and the only parts of the face that she could see was the outline of a very masculine nose and jaw, but what Serena had also remembered was that the face had an eerily familiar look to it.

Taking her nightmare in stride for once, Serena tried her hardest to hold the image of the shadowed face in her mind as she was flipping through her pink dust covered photo album. She hadn't picked the thing up since she developed her wedding pictures. As she was flipping through the picture packed pages, not one picture caught her eye as to who might be the mysterious pursuer in her nightmares, but they obviously wanted to harm her and she was positive that it was a guy. Flipping carefully through the photo album one last time Serena again didn't see any faces that caught her eye, she just saw pictures of her and Darien and a whole bunch of her and her friends.

Giving up on trying to find a face that resembled the shadowy one in her nightmare, she slide the album back under her bed. Standing up and stretching Serena yawned and started across the hall so she could start opening her guest bedroom doors and start waking up her friends. With a devious smile on her face, Serena knocked on the bedroom door as loud as she could and yelled, "Time for everyone to get up!"

Then she quickly opened the door and entered the guest bedroom, she was then greeted with a pillow being thrown into her face. Almost instantly, a voice answered the question Serena was going to ask.

" Serena, why did you have to wake us up so early?" Mina said in the most pitiful and whiny voice she could make. Serena could also hear some sleepy responses to what Mina had said. Looking at the sleeping figures on the bed and floor Serena realized that everyone was in the one medium sized room. Feigning hurt, Serena said, "I'm hurt, everyone came in here last night and didn't invite me." Hiding another smile Serena looked sadly at her friends.

"Don't make us throw more pillows at you Serena, we know your faking. Though you were already asleep when we came to get you." Lita said.

Not knowing what else to say Serena looked over at the alarm clock and it read 8:00 a.m. Serena was a little surprised that she woke up at this time and by herself because usually Darien would have to drag her out of bed on occasion.

"Well it is early, I didn't realize it, and it must be because Darien always insists that I get up so early with him and that I quit my lazy sleeping habits." Serena laughed. This time Raye had something to say.

" Well next time you decide to get up this early please refrain from waking us up until about 11:00 or 10:00 a.m. Amy might want up now though, you will have to ask her." Finished with talking Raye laid back down and closed her eyes, Serena assumed that she had gone back to sleep.

Sighing Serena turned around and walked out of the bedroom, making sure to shut the door on her grumpy friends. As Serena arrived downstairs, she quickly jumped on the couch and turned on the television. Flipping through random channels out of boredom Serena just stared blankly at the channels on the television screen. Closing her eyes, she thought she would go back to sleep and then go back upstairs to wake everyone else up after about two more hours.

As Serena was falling asleep her body suddenly jerked her awake, it felt like she had missed a step on the stairs. Confused and awake she glanced over at the television to possibly get the time, disappointed she wasn't asleep for more than five minutes. About to go to sleep again she absently heard the news castors talking, grabbing for the remote to shut the television off Serena had a feeling that she should look at the screen.

Sitting upright again, Serena strained to see the screen of the television because sunlight from the window was streaming onto the screen. Too lazy to get up and go across the room to shut the blinds Serena just stretched her tired muscles and grabbed the remote and as she was about to turn off the screen again when something that the newscaster said caught her attention. Eyes wide with curiosity Serena turned her full attention to the screen so she could listen to the somber newscaster that was talking in monotone.

"Currently the time is 8:15 in the morning. We have just received breaking news. Four men were found and proclaimed dead today, they were found outside their office building, which is located in the seedier part of the city at approximately 2:00 in the morning. Officials say the cause of death for the four men was all different, one had various knife wounds littered all over his body and the other man was shot a few times. The third and fourth men appear to be strangled and beat to death. At this point Officials are declaring the cause of death to be murder and they don't know if it is a connection to the previous murders in the U.S and the recent burning of the police headcounters, stay tuned for more details later in the day."

Leaning back against the couch Serena thought about what she had just heard on the news. She guessed that she shouldn't feel any shock that the murderers had finally come over to Japan, Serena absently wondered if Darien knew about this yet. Serena knew that this wasn't just some random killing and she knew that the police suspected that too. Thinking on the subject some more, the television started turning to background noise and then slowly started to fade until Serena wasn't thinking anymore, she just fell asleep.

A little while later Serena felt someone shaking her shoulder and someone calling her name, the voice sounded very familiar. Opening her eyes Serena was greeted with big clear blue eyes, Amy. Staring at Amy as if she was stupid Serena felt like asking what had happened, Serena didn't even know if anything did happen. Suddenly realizing that she had fallen asleep on the couch, she sleepily asked Amy a question. "Hey Amy, sorry I fell asleep, I forgot to wake you guys up didn't I?"

"Yeah, you forgot Serena." Said Amy in her light voice.

"So what's wrong, you wouldn't be looking at me like that if something wasn't wrong."

"Well, Darien wants to talk to you now and he told us just a few minutes ago that he was watching the news and he saw that there was more murders."

Sitting up quickly Serena pushed a startled Amy out of the way on accident. Feeling wide-awake Serena had just remembered what she had seen on the television.

Oh man, I cannot believe I forgot to tell everyone right away about the murders! I can't believe that something that important slipped my mind, they are going to be upset with me.

Cautiously gathering her courage to tell everyone the important news she had forgot to tell them, Serena made her voice sound extremely apologetic.

"Hey! Yes, I know about the new murders, I fell asleep before I could tell you guys, oh and tell Darien that I will talk to him tomorrow. I'm still feeling sleepy and I really don't feel that good right now."

Feeling a little guilty about not talking to Darien, Serena stood up and walked over to the kitchen table where the rest of her friends were sitting. In the background, Serena could hear Amy chatting with Darien about what he had seen on the television screen. Serena was also happy that her friends hadn't said anything yet about her not telling them the news. Turning towards her friends, Serena heard Raye Speak to her. "Serena!" Grimacing Serena recognized that tone of voice, it was the one that Raye used when she was angry.

…. I thought I had gotten off free this time. Sigh.

Before Serena could even think about saying anything else in her defense, Raye started a full out rant that was directed towards Serena.

"Why didn't you wake us up if you saw that there were more murders, you knew that we would have listened. This stuff is important if you didn't know already. I don't know what you think sometimes, almost everything seems to slip your mind now"

Deciding not to get into an argument with Raye because Serena just didn't feel like it, she thought that she would try and satisfy her friend with an apologetic response, thinking that maybe Raye would feel sorry for yelling at her.

"I know that I didn't tell you guys right away, but for some reason I just fell asleep and didn't wake up until now, I guess I was tired after all."

"Now look at who is tired, you hypocrite. You should have just stayed in bed longer and not bothered anyone until later."

"Yeah I know, but…" Amy had just gotten off the phone with Darien and probably unknowingly interrupted Serena, or maybe she just didn't want to hear Raye and Serena argue like little children.

"I just got off the phone with Darien a few second ago. To basically sum everything up that Darien said to me, the murderers are over by us right now and the city that the men were found in is approximately twenty minutes away from this house. In addition, the police over here are trying to hide the fact that they are very certain that the enemies or in their case murderers came over here from the U.S. But the reason is unknown still, even to us."

Everyone was silent, they had nothing to say. They all realized that the enemy had finally decided to come over by them. When Amy was finished talking to Darien she motioned for Serena to come over by her. As Serena approached, Amy turned around and walked further away from everyone else.

"Come on Amy, where are we going?"

"I just had to get away from the others for a few minutes; I need to talk to you Serena."

Many things crossed Serena's mind when Amy said that, Serena's main concern though was why did Amy want to talk to her? What was wrong?

"Okay go ahead Amy, I'm listening."

"Well this isn't about me; it's about Darien and you."

Again Serena was confused with what Amy was saying, did something bad happen with Darien? Or worse, did Darien say anything about her that was too awful to tell in front of everyone?

"Now you lost me, what did he say to you?"

"I'm sorry Serena, I made it sound like he was mad at you, and I didn't realize it. Anyway, Darien seemed pretty hurt that you didn't want to talk to him, but what I want to know is why wouldn't you talk to him?"

"Ah, I was just feeling tired and sleepy, plus I think I have a horrible headache on the way, my head is pounding."

"I guess that's a relief that you aren't upset with Darien, he thought you were angry at him for some reason. And I advise that you should maybe take some aspirin for you oncoming headache, it might quell it from becoming any worse than it already is. Oh, also make sure that you try and call Darien either tonight or maybe even tomorrow morning, Okay?"

"Okay, I will, just so you know that is an answer to both of your questions."

Smiling warmly at Serena, Amy walked away to join everyone else, when Amy was out of the room Serena then turned and headed for the kitchen. Serena picked up the container of aspirin and took two out, grabbing a glass and filling it with tap water Serena watched as the clear liquid swirled around in the glass before she took a sip of water and swallowed the two pills together.

With Darien

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Darien had just clicked of the phone and put it on the charging cradle, Darien was just thinking about Serena and the others. For one he was worried as to why Serena didn't want to talk to him on the phone. Yes, he heard that she wasn't feeling good, but any other day she would have talked to him anyway. Hoping that Serena wasn't irritated or angry with him Darien went back to watching over the house and its occupants.

The past three or maybe it was four days, Darien had lost count on how many days he had been in the house, Darien was very bored with doing the same activates everyday. Watching the family was as interesting as watching the same picture or painting repeatedly, the family did not have any variation to their schedule at all. Darien surmised that it would be very easy for a stalker or a bugler to figure out the day-to-day schedule of the family, he guessed it was a good thing that the family hired him to watch everything.

Leaning back in the white plastic chair Darien wished that he could fast-forward through the next week or so. What made everything worse was that it was really hot, he wondered why the whole family was outside when every sane person would be inside with the air-condition on.

As time passed Darien was starting to get bored, his whole entire day was spent watching the family, he would also notice that Laura always looked over to him frequently; she probably wanted to make sure that he was actually watching them and doing his job.

Later in the day when the sun started going down everyone went back inside, Darien breathed a sigh of relief, he was sure that he was a few shades darker now from being in the sun for so long.

As the family went inside Darien made sure to lock all of the doors and windows, he also pulled the blinds; he had been doing this since he saw something outside of his window. Waiting for everyone to get in bed before he went to sleep Darien sat downstairs and listened to everyone, once everyone was quiet he shut the lights off and was about to walk into his bedroom when he noticed that Laura still had her bedroom lights on.

Feeling as if he should check if everything was all right, he walked across the hall to her bedroom and looked in. Laura was awake, which was quit unusual because she usually was in bed very early, she was sitting on her bed and just staring out the window. Darien was confused because when the light was on in the bedroom it was virtually impossible to see anything outside unless you had the light off, in the end Darien figured that she was just thinking and not staring out the window.

Walking back to his bedroom Darien put his sleeping clothes on and settled in to bed. Staring at the ceiling in the dark room which was lightly illuminated by the moonlight Darien wondered what was going to come of everything that was happening now. Rolling over in bed Darien copied was Laura was doing only moments earlier, he started staring out the window. The difference was that he could actually see everything outside, well he could see as much as his limited night vision could offer. After a few boring minutes of staring out of the window, he started getting tired and he decided that nothing was outside of the house at that moment.

Three hours later

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Later that night Darien woke up, he sensed nothing was wrong, but he desperately needed to go to the bathroom and also get a drink of water.

Cautiously getting out of bed Daren decided not to turn on any lights because he didn't want to wake or alarm any of the occupants in the house. Dodging where he knew his clothing and packed bag was he silently walked towards the bathroom.

Once he was done with the bathroom, he took a flimsy disposable cup with flowers on it from the countertop that housed about one hundred more of the cups and filled it with tap water from one of the his and her sinks. Drinking the liquid Darien remembered that this tap water tasted nothing like his water at home and threw out the remaining chlorine tasting water and then threw out the cup.

Feeling very grumpy and tired, Darien headed as quietly as he could downstairs, thankful for the moonlight because that illuminated the way to the kitchen. Once he was in the kitchen he grabbed a tall glass from the shelf, Darien then opened the refrigerator door and grabbed the pitcher of purified water and poured himself a glass. Sitting down at the table with his water he still had all of the lights off, he heard absolutely nothing moving inside of the house.

Quickly finishing off his water because he wanted to go back to bed, he placed the cup into the sink for it to be washed later and then he started to slowly walk back upstairs, but something caught his eye.

Turning back around Darien noticed that the blinds had been obscured since that last time he was downstairs which was only three hour ago.

Know one should be up yet, it is still very early and everyone just went to bed. I remember sliding the blinds in place before I went to bed and I should have heard if someone got up, especially if they went outside.

Darien felt some fear gather in his mind and he thought of all the reasons as to why the blinds are in the wrong order. Either someone broke inside of the house, which would be the worst-case scenario or someone went outside, which would also be very bad.

Fixing the cream-colored blinds, Darien pulled the string and they all went neatly back into place. Darien then proceeded to unlock the door, but it was already unlocked.

No, I swear that I locked it before I went to bed, I made sure to, and someone is definitely outside, though it has to be one of the family members.

Feeling thankful that he hadn't put any lights on he peered out the sliding glass door and looked around outside. Not surprisingly, he could see Robert, the little boy that is Laura's son. Robert was sitting on the cold grass with his knees up to his chest. Darien was about to walk outside and pick up the boy and bring him inside when he saw another figure, looking closely to that figure he could see that it was most definitely a female. About to push open the door Darien noticed that she looked familiar, it was Laura. As he was watching the two figures closely he noticed yet another figure came out of the darkness from the opposite direction of the house. This time it was a male figure and he wasn't able to distinguish who it was.

I feel really bad now, I should have heard them moving around the house. I'm getting paid to protect them, but it is not my fault if they intentionally put themselves in danger though.

Now concerned for the safety of the family Darien started opening the door, intent to go over to the two family members that might be in harms way. At the moment Darien wasn't concerned as to why the two family members were outside, all he knew was that he needed to get them inside quickly before something bad happens.

A/N- Okay, the next chapter will be out soon. I finally have less work to do now and that gives me more time to write.