A/N: I've realized something recently- it's how much I depend on you guys for support when writing this story. As you may've noticed this is a rather dark kind of fanfic and sometimes it's my attitude that impacts it when I'm writing. When I started writing this fanfic my world was getting torn apart like Serena (except I didn't turn emo). Now most of that stuff that influenced me writing this is over. Almost everything except for you guys- so reviewing and telling me how'd this story be better would really help a lot. I don't know whether to keep going with all the dark or add some fluff. I really don't know what you guys want so please review after this to let me know. Afterall, the only people I'm writing for are you guys, and myself. Thanks.

Disclaimer: Even with all my otaku- ness I still don't own Sailor Moon… actually I did in my dreams… ah well I guess that doesn't count.

Recap: A crash was heard as two coffee mugs were dropped to the floor and shattered.

Chapter 8: Just as things start to get better

"Please tell me you didn't just say that," Serena said getting pains in her heart again.

"Where could they be…?" Darien asked in deep thought.

Knock, Knock

"Rini? Sammy?" Serena asked as she opened the door.

Regrettably, the people she wanted most to see weren't there. In the doorway stood a woman in a navy blue business suit with a clipboard.

"Hello, Ms Tsukino I presume? I'm from Social Services. I'm here regarding your guardianship over two people living here. I'm sure you know that you are not of legal age to care for these children nor responsible enough. I am sorry, but you not being a legitimate guardian to a Ms Rini Tsukino and a Mr. Sammy Tsukino makes a problem come about with living residence. I need to take them into our care at Social Services. Where are these people?"

'I thought the Silver Crystal was supposed to take care of all this stuff. I mean- it made the house in my name afterall. Is something wrong with the Silver Crystal for it not to keep working as it has been for the last six months? What am I supposed to do though. What will I tell the Social Worker? I mean- I can't just say that I'm sure they've been kidnapped! Oh come on Serena… think of something. Some kind of excuse…' Serena thought.

"They can't go with you right now," Serena answered.

"This is not acceptable. And why not can they go with me?" the social worker said agitated and ready to call over her security friends that were back near her car incase of ill cooperation.

"Um… they're at a friends house and staying the night," Serena lied through her teeth.

"Fine, but you'll be seeing me again very soon I can assure you," she said and walked off to her car.

Serena closed the door and turned to Darien, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"They can't take them away from me. No one can- they're all I have left…" Serena whimpered into Darien's arms as he provided the little comfort he could give embracing the sobbing girl.

"Serena, we'll find Rini and Sammy," Darien soothed her, "but you need to calm down first, honey."

"Darien..." Serena whimpered again into his arms as he tightened his embrace.

Suddenly, Serena had a flash of an image of a man's face racing through her mind.

"Oh, Darien! I think I know who has them…" Serena in a state of semi-shock.

"…"

"It's… Diamond," Serena said holding onto Darien tight like if she loosened her hold on him, then the only thing left in her life would disappear forever.

"How do you know… Serena, don't you think you're just not thinking straight. Serena, sweetie, Diamond is dead. Remember-"

"I know what I just saw and it was him. I don't know when- I don't know how… but Diamond… he's alive…" Serena said shaking.

"I believe you Serena," Darien stated after an awkward silence befell them.

"How can we find them though if he has them? For all we know he could have brought them back to the future or something," Darien said concerned.

"I have an idea," Serena said and thought things out for a moment. "Diamond has been constantly invading my dreams- more like what are nightmares- for the past several weeks. Maybe if I talk to him and convince him, in my dream, that I am in love with him…" Darien visibly tensed. "Which I'm not- but if I pretend that I am and force him to give Rini and Sammy over, then we might have a chance."

"Serena, I don't like- no, I don't want you to be in harms way anymore. You've been through enough, there must be another way to get them back…." Darien said close to her ear hugging her.

"Please,… I have to. Darien, my brother and our future daughter's lives are at stake and you should know me by now. If there's even a slight chance that everything can go right again, then I'm taking it no matter what happens to me," Serena explained.

"We won't be able to have our future daughter anyways if something happens to you," Darien said looking into the deep blue depths of her eyes.

"I'll be fine Darien, and I'm doing this," Serena said stubbornly and went off into her bedroom holding Darien's hand and taking him with her.

Serena sat on the edge of her bed and got ready to go to sleep. "Be careful," Darien said as they shared a heartfelt kiss; Serena laying down and going into dreamland.

(In Serena's Dream)

The same image of Darien came into her view. Diamond appeared across from her in the dreamland plane.

"He doesn't care about you," Diamond said.

"Fine."

"You'll never be together," Diamond said.

"I know."

"Your heart is mine," Diamond said evilly.

"You win," Serena said sighing in defeat and playing her part in the plan.

"What?" Diamond asked unsure of what she just said.

"You win, I'm yours," Serena said as Diamond started to laugh manically. "But," she said interrupting his echoing laughter, "I need Rini and Sammy back."

"What makes you think I have them, huh, my princess?" Diamond asked.

"Stop acting Diamond, I know you have them. Tell me where they are!" Serena yelled and added to sweeten the mood, "Or else- you'll never have me."

"You conniving thing. Fine! I'll tell you! Go a few blocks down from your house. By the bridge that is over the small river…" Diamond said, "Either way, you're mine."

He appeared close to her with his third eye on his head radiating off a psychic pulse like energy that put Serena into a trance. She tried to sleep talk and tell Darien everything of where they were, but was lost in a trance-like state. Sweating profusely, she struggled to get back out of this dream world and back to rescue Rini and Sammy- but couldn't. Somehow, though, she was able with all the will power she had, to control her physical body while being inside her dream. In other words, she was sleepwalking.

'I have to get to the bridge…' Serena thought, 'The bridge… where Darien and I shared our first kiss…'

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The trees were swaying in the light breeze, Serena's long skirt flowing in the wind. She wrapped her sweater around her as she got a chill. Darien noticed this and went to warm her up with a hug, but then their souls connected. Their souls connected as their eyes met and the mood of the moment humming through the air. Darien bent down and as lips touched in their first kiss, the feeling of déjà vu happened. The certain feeling or memory of their first kiss in the Silver Millenium from 2,000 years ago arised leaving the two lovers breathless.

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'I have to get Rini and Sammy back,' Serena thought as she unwillingly was forced to kiss the man of her nightmares.

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Darien watched as the sweating and struggling girl got out of her bed in her still dream like state and started walking somehow through the house to get to the bridge.

'Where is she going? Oh no, why couldn't she wake up?' Darien asked himself and followed her.

Serena took a back road path away from people once she got out of her house, and walked by a place that was very familiar to him.

'This is the bridge, where Serena and I first kissed…' Darien thought recalling one of the best moments of his life.

He walked with his beloved toward the bridge and stopped upon getting on it.

"Diamond! You scoundrel, I thought you were dead! We all thought you were dead. Serena's crystal-" Darien said and got interrupted.

"Yes," Diamond sighed, "I know the story she probably told you- the one where I got destroyed into oblivion with her precious Silver Imperium Crystal. Well, she didn't count on Wiseman bringing me back to life with the dark crystal did she now?" Diamond smirked.

"Wiseman- oh yes I briefly remember him. In the future, the King told me about him… But how could the dark crystal bring you bac-"

"Oh you think that the Silver Imperium Crystal is the only crystal that can revive people or bring them back from the dead to be rebirth?" Diamond snickered, "Pathetic."

"You'll pay Diamond," Darien said pulling out his transformation rose yelling his incantation phrase to transform himself.

Nothing happened.

"Oooh it sees that our dear prince has lost his power," Diamond said laughing manically.

'What is wrong with this? Why can't I transform? I received all my memories I lost before- so why can't I still transform into Tuxedo Mask? Come on! Why?!' Darien struggled internally.

"Darien!" someone yelled from below the bridge. Darien looked under the bridge only to see Wiseman hovering over the deep river water with Rini and Sammy very close to it. They were encircled in dark energy.

"Don't even bother trying anything. If you do I'll have to make their deaths quick. Come on- where's the fun in that?" Diamond said looking at Rini who had a horrible look on her face. "Plus," he continued, "Serena's all mine anyways."

"Serena!" Darien yelled to Serena and grabbed both of her shoulders bending down to her eyelength. "Please, you gotta snap out of this Serena! You can defeat Diamond- WE can defeat Diamond. Please, you said you wouldn't let anything happen to you for Rini's sake so come on! Keep up with your promise," Darien yelled frustrated. Tears formed in his piercing midnight blue eyes, "Serena I love you, I want to be with you… You were always there for me- please Serena why can't you be here for me now?! I need you, Rini and Sammy need you!!!"

Serena's eyes lost their glazed over look as she was brought conscious again.

"Darien?" she asked weakly and embraced him, Darien's tears falling onto the top of her head.

"I love you Serena," Darien said softly.

"Oh you two make me gag! Should I just give Wiseman the signal to just kill your dear family already or are you done with your lovey dovey words," Diamond spat.

The sound that was music to Darien's ears came out, "Moon Crystal Power!!!" as Serena transformed. She went down to jump to the orbs that Rini and Sammy were on, but Wiseman moved them. As she was falling down to the deep river, Darien thought with a confidence that it'd work his transformation phrase. Suddenly, he transformed quicker than any other time he'd tried to transform, and sent down the other end of his cane to Serena's reach.

'Oh Serena,' Tuxedo Mask thought, 'Please grab onto it!'

Mid fall, Sailor Moon reached for the end of Tuxedo Mask's cane that'd been sent down to her and just grabbed it tight enough to not slip off into the deep river.

'Thank god,' Tuxedo Mask thought and retracted his cane pulling her up and away from harm's reach.

"Diamond, Wiseman! You two will now be destroyed forever. NO more dreams! NO more kidnapping! And NO more hurting the ones I love!!! SILVER MOON CRYSTAL Power!!!!! PLEASE GIVE ME THE STRENGTH I NEED TO DEFEAT THEM! THEY KEEP HURTING ME AND THE ONES I LOVE! PLEASE SILVER CRYSTAL!!! GRANT ME YOUR TRUE POWER!!!!!! Serena said as the bright pink light that had encompassed Diamond before grew and swallowed Wiseman and Diamond. Wiseman used his dark crystal globe and resisted against Sailor Moon's good energy, but it was no use with Tuxedo Kamen's power and Sailor Moon's and the power of the Silver Crystal. They were no more.

Sailor Moon mid-faint de-transformed back to her normal self just before her knight in shining armor could catch her.

"Thank you for helping me and getting me out of that horrible nightmare. I love you so much Darien, I want you to know that…" Serena said before she lost consciousness.

Darien carried Serena back to her house and brought her straight up to bed, Rini and Sammy following.

"You two can relax now. Go take a nap. I'll tell you when she wakes up," Darien told Rini and Sammy before they went off to bed to take a most needed nap.

Darien watched as Serena had her first peaceful dream in a while. She kept smiling and sleep-talking saying his name a lot. As soon as she awakened from her sleep, Darien hugged her.

"So what do we do now?" Serena asked thoughtfully after a moment of silence.

"We do this," Darien said and abruptly kissed her with all the energy he had in him and love that had grew in his heart since they had been apart. Their tongues danced swiftly as they shared a romantic kiss, Darien's hand grabbing onto the back of her neck. Tears of happiness formed in her eyes. Finally she could be with the ones she loved. It seemed like they'd been apart a life time, and she never wanted to go through that again. "I love you Serena. You make the puzzle of my heart complete." Serena said, "Darien, I've missed you so much, but if you EVER lose your memory again, I will personally see to it that you have your brain dismantled and will be forced to remember me. Got it?" Serena said jokingly.

"Of course, and if we have to talk about being apart anymore, then I will just have to make you forget."

"Oh, and how will you do that my kind sir?" Serena asked.

"Milady, I'd just have to kiss you senseless," Darien said as they shared another very passionate kiss.

Knock, Knock

There was someone knocking on the door.

Rini and Sammy went to go get it, but Serena stopped them.

"Hold on one second!" She yelled, and went down the stairs quickly to answer the door. "I'll be right ther-" she said and opened the door.

A woman and two security men were standing outside her front door.

"Remember us?" the social worker asked smiling, "And you two are Rini and Sammy I presume…?"

A/N: Okay well don't forget to review. You can tell me where you think this story is going. Predict something, I don't know. Although, if you leave a review with critiques and help with what you want more in the story (dark or fluff, stuff like that) it'd be great too. Well, Sayonara and don't forget to review! Ja!

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