Serena, My Love, Remember Me

By: SilverCrystalArtemis

Summary: I'm sorry, but if ya don't know by now, you're STUPID! Just kidding, just kidding! But seriously, if you don't know yet, please do us all a favor and get off the drugs....please. Sorry, I couldn't help myself....the summary is in the other chapters, because I don't feel like writing it out again. And please, stay clean, stay dry, stay happy.

Author's Note: I'm really sorry that the last chapter took so long; school is beyond evil. Just so you guys know though, my story has taken priority over the...five or six different projects due this week (four of which I haven't even started...better do that.....AFTER THIS!!!). So, I will have these chapters out as soon as possible. Also, I'm not sure how long this story's gonna be, but I'm aiming for about....twenty or so chapters, give or take a few. Finally, in addition to this story, I'm gonna be posting some of my other stuff (one-shots, alt-realities, etc.), and I would love you all forever if you would read them, and (quite possibly, if I'm not asking too much) just leave a little note on what you think of them. Thanks!!!

To my faithful reviewers:

Nedz: sorry I forgot to put this in the last chapter, but thanks for your ideas. I really appreciate them. (honestly, that's how I had it all planned out, but.....things just kinda changed as I wrote....)

Animeprincess11: I love you (for reviewing) with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns! LOL, and thanks, the projects are.... Well....not doing good but, I'm trying!!!

Krystelo: lmao! Good point, but I think that Serena (as shown in the series) could sleep through just about anything...maybe not a bake sale, but almost anything else. I mean, I changed her a bit, but not that much! Thanks!

Moonmoore: thanks so much for all the reviews! And the reason I didn't have Endymion save Sammy and Beryl was because, I'm afraid, they have a more important role in my plot. After all, all the world's a stage, and we are merely the....anyways...I didn't want to kill them off, it just simply had to be done. Sorry if that hurt anyone in any way. And the whole "Beryl being good" thing is kinda hard to explain, but....she is, but she isn't....aw heck, just read the other story (To Be With You), and I think you'll understand. Thanks again.

Usagi Usako Chiba: thanks for all your reviews!

Crystalmiko: Sammy and Beryl are dead, I'm afraid. But they do come back....oh, shoot, now I go giving the story away.....uhhh....I never said a thing....Thanks for the review!

Hannya no Koibito: can I borrow the angst banner? A wanna pin it up in my room for a while....scare my friends....tee hee hee. Thanks for the review!

Chapter Seven

Reuniting, but not Remembering

Endymion awoke, rather uncomfortably, before the dawn. He yawned, and, looking down at the girl in his arms, remembered exactly why he was so "uncomfortable". I wonder if she ever knew just how crazy she drove me, he thought. He leaned over her face and kissed her lovingly on the cheek. He fell back onto his pillow, pulling her closer as he did so. The last thought in his head before once more falling into a blissful slumber was how right it felt to have her back.

Cold

Fog

Darkness

Pain

All around her. Surrounding her. She couldn't leave, no matter how hard she tried. She was trapped by them, engulfed by them. Slowly being devoured by them. She ran as far and as fast as she could but, no matter what, they followed her. She felt a more tangible presence behind her, and sensed it was the cause of this onslaught of evil. She turned around and prepared to fight it. Just as she positioned herself in a fighting stance, she saw the enemy, and screamed. It was one of her own.

The Enemy laughed maniacally, and kicked her hard in the stomach. She doubled over in pain, but before she had time to react, she was kicked again, sent flying backwards into a pillar that hadn't been there before. She slid down, and fell to a hard cold ground that before was nothingness. Her enemy stepped back a bit, and smiled cruelly as she let the girl take in the scene before her. As she looked around, she felt chills coursing over her entire body. She had somehow ended up in what appeared to be a throne room of some sort. It seemed strangely familiar, but she just couldn't place it. It seemed to be from a memory locked far away; something she could almost reach, but was just beyond her grasp.

The walls were a smoky colored marble, ornately decorated with velvets and satins of the most expensive kind. However, as beautiful as the room had once been, it was now a complete mess. The drapes were torn, and hanging at odd angles, and there were scorch marks covering the floor and walls. And loathe as she was to admit it to herself, there was....blood, everywhere she turned.

She looked ahead of her, into the surrounding darkness, and caught a glimmer of something. She ran to it, hoping for some sort of help, some sort of escape from whatever hell this was. She heard the Enemy behind her, heels clicking on the floor in a pace to match her own. She ran even faster, but so did the Enemy. Finally, she reached the object, and froze. Everything she had hoped for instantly disappeared into the nothingness that surrounded her again with one look at the item. It was a mirror. A full length, finely carved platinum mirror with rubies set throughout its entirety. She reached out to touch it, and felt the familiar warmth of it. Unlike other mirrors, it did not feel cold to the touch; instead, it felt as if it were on fire. A small smile graced her lips as she stood on her toes to reach the top of the mirror, where the all-to-familiar engraving would be. She traced it with her fingers, following the flowing pattern of the words, one by one.

To our Firebird, with our Love. Happy Birthday, Princess.

A tear escaped her eye as she remembered the day she had gotten it. It was her fifteenth birthday, and she had just come home from her Senshi duties for the celebrations. Happy as she was to see her mother and father again, she missed her friends terribly. As she stood in the ballroom, greeting and thanking the guests who wished her a very happy birthday, and remarked on what a beautiful young lady she had become, she wished her friends were there with her. She tried not to laugh in the face of Lord Kent as she thought of what her friends would say about him.

Why, he's as old as, well, as the moon! Serenity would giggle, jabbing the raven-haired princess in the ribs.

That mustache is absolutely horrible! She could almost hear Mina say it looks as if it could eat him at any given moment!

Amy would try to get them to calm down, and not say such "rude things about high-standing people, however true they may be"....

Someone suddenly came up behind her and put their hands over her face. She turned around, and looked into the eyes of her cousin, Endymion. Although he was more than three years her senior, she had never been closer to anyone else, save Serenity.

"Endymion!" she screeched, ignoring everyone else and jumping into his arms. He laughed and hugged her close, in a very brotherly way.

"Hey, Pyro," he said as he put her down, ruffling her hair. "Long time, no see, eh?"

"Endymion, you know I hate that nickname!" she exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest and "huff"-ing indignantly.

"Aww, I love you too, Raye," he taunted, laughing at the more than annoyed expression on her face. "Pyro, if you're just gonna growl at me all night, I won't give you your present," he teased again, noticing how a low, angry growl was beginning to rise in her throat.

"Endy, that's not fair!" she cried, stomping her foot on the ground. "You can't do that!"

Endymion laughed, and grabbed her hand, dragging her over to where her mother and father stood. "You're right, Pyro," he replied, laughing again at the angry glare his favorite cousin gave him. "Now, be a good girl and follow me, or you really won't get your present."

Raye grumbled, but allowed her cousin to drag her, quite humiliatingly, across the ballroom, earning her amused stares from everyone else. How she was going to kill him for this!......After she got her present, of course.

They reached her parents, who were laughing quite amusedly at they way their nephew could manipulate their daughter's will so easily. Raye glared at her parents, but they only laughed more, causing the Fire Princess's temper to rise. She didn't even notice that had Endymion had left her; only when he came back to her side did she see the massive object being carried between him and....Jadeite?! Jadeite was here?!? But how did Endymion know...? She looked over to Jadeite, who looked back at her and gave her a knowing wink before looking back to the large object in his arms. He and the Earth prince set it down on the floor before Raye, who was staring, quite shocked, at the present.

Endymion laughed and poked her in the ribs. "Pyro, are you just gonna stare at it all night, or are you gonna open it?" Raye glared at him again, but to no avail. It seemed that no matter what she did, all her cousin would do was laugh at her. She stole a glance at Jadeite, who looked back at her through the corner of his eye, a smile shining in his eyes. He winked again to her, this time encouragingly, and reluctantly ended the moment.

Raye kept from sighing, and walked up to her present. Just as she was about to rip off the cloth, she felt four familiar, but clouded, auras enter the room. She was about to focus in and figure out who they were, when she realized that by now the entire ballroom was watching her. She began to pull the cloth off of the object, becoming more and more excited as it revealed itself. As the last of the protective cloth fell off, she gasped in shock. In front of her was the most beautiful mirror she had ever seen; quite possibly one of the most expensive, too. Encrusted with her birthstone, the silvery-colored mirror was huge; bigger than her mother, even. She looked along the top of it, and read the engraving at the top. "To our Firebird..." she breathed. She suddenly gasped as the realization hit her. The only people who called her Firebird were Jadeite and-

"Happy birthday Raye!" she heard an always-bubbly voice behind her scream excitedly. She turned around, already knowing who it was, tears in her eyes. The four auras she had sensed before now stood roughly fifteen feet away from her, in the form of her best friends in the whole world. At seeing them, she immediately forgot all protocol, and ran into the arms of her "sister", Serenity. Serenity hugged her back with as much force as was in the small body, while the other three girls, dressed in the garments befitting their royalties, clasped onto the two and hugged the Princess of Mars themselves. Raye looked at each of them excitedly, tears in her violet eyes, although she would never admit to that later.

"Wh-what are you doing here?!" she asked, laughing and crying at the same time. "I thought you weren't able to make it on your power, with the transporters being down...?"

"Well," Mina laughed, taking Raye out of Serenity's arms to squeeze her to death herself. "It turns out, all we needed for a teleport was someone with even the smallest bit of Martian blood in them..."

"You mean Endymion?" Raye asked, touched that her cousin would do such a kind thing for her on her birthday.

"Well, Serenity talked him into it!" Lita laughed, noticing the look on Raye's face. It was nothing short of confusion. "Oh Raye! I completely forgot!" she gasped, realizing what exciting news her friend had missed. "In the two weeks you've been gone, we have discovered some very exciting news...." Lita then turned to Serenity and smirked evilly.

Serenity blushed as Amy and Mina did the same, while Raye looked at her confused. Mina nudged Serenity in the ribs, hinting for her to give in and admit her secret relationship. "Ummm.... Well, you see, Raye....uhhh...I uhhh......" The three scouts tried to hide laughter at their princess's obvious discomfort. Finally, Lita gave up, and laughed so hard tears sprouted in her eyes.

"Wh-what...she's t-trying.....to s-say is that.....that..." she gasped in her laughter.

"Oh, spit it out, Lita!" Raye cried, frustrated and curious beyond belief.

"She and.....Endymion...a-are...." Lita gasped out, rubbing the tears from her eyes.

"What about us?" A deep voice questioned, causing four heads to turn to him, while the smaller blonde looked away shyly.

"They found out our secret, Endymion," Serenity uttered, barely above a whisper. However, it was just loud enough for Endymion to hear. He raised his eyebrows at her, and she turned away form him again, blushing a red deeper than her friend's birthday gown. Endymion smiled, and came up behind her. He wrapped his arms around her, and whispered mischievously in her ear, "And what's wrong with that, my love?" She blushed even deeper at his comment, and turned back to Raye, Endymion's arms still wrapped possessively around her shoulders.

"What I was trying to say was...." She began, looking to her friend. She looked up into the eyes of Endymion, and smiled, before turning back to her friend and saying, "Endymion and I are courting."

Raye stood there for a moment, shocked before laughing at her friend, as well. Noticing the puzzled look on her friend's face she teased, "It's about time! I thought you two would never admit that you had feelings for each other."

Serenity stuck her tongue out in a quite immature way, but receiving a mirror of it from the fiery girl. Amy attempted, rather miserably, to end the tongue fight, but it was to no avail. The war raged on, and all onlookers were powerless to stop it. However, Princess Raye's tongue instantly dove for cover inside her mouth when she felt two familiar hands rest on her shoulders. She looked upwards into the face of her somewhat-secret lover, and blushed furiously when he kissed her-in public, no less! Did the man have any shame? Not that she minded that, but she preferred it be away from her friends and countrymen, in a more private place....such as her bedroom. Her cheeks blushed more at her thoughts went continuously more "inappropriate".

Jadeite pulled away from the kiss, chuckling. He bent his head down to her level and whispered seductively in her ear, "Firebird, love, do I really arouse you that much with a simple kiss?" Raye covered her face in her hands, too ashamed to look anyone in the eye, but already planning this man's demise.

Raye was pulled out of her thoughts by the painful feeling of having her back being burned. She turned around to face her enemy, but found no one. She could feel its presence; hear her terrifying shrieks everywhere, but she couldn't see her. Mars found the woman when she landed a hard kick in the Princess's gut, causing her to double over in pain. The figure stopped in front of her, and lifted her roughly by the collar of her sailor suit. Sailor Mars looked through tear-stained eyes into the face of the woman who was once a friend, but now loathed her as much as the dark queen herself. Despite the physical changes, Mars could still recognize the girl who once admired her, who once worshipped the very ground the princess walked on, the girl who was now ready to kill her.

The red-skinned girl grasped her hand around the Fire Princess's neck, and lifted her up in the air, slowly strangling her. Mars gasped, and choked out the only thing she could. "Reas!" she attempted to scream, only to have it come out as a mangled whisper. "Reas, please don't do this! It doesn't have to be this way!"

Reas chuckled insanely, and tightened her grip on her Princess's neck. "Oh, but it does," she hissed, in a voice that was only reminiscent of her once beautiful angel's song of a voice. "You stole my life, and now you will pay..."

The last thing Raye noticed before it all went black was the feeling of the Flames turning against her, and seeing the glint of the Flames in her mirror, then nothing...

Raye awoke, screaming. She shot up and searched frantically around her for any sign that Reas was still there, but soon recognized her own room. She also recognized the warm arm draped over her stomach, and the sleepy muttering that accompanied her husband's awaking. Noticing the lack of warmth by his chest, Jadeite sat up to look at the teary face of his wife. Immediately concerned, he pulled her close to him, and rubbed her back. Raye, not knowing what else to do, and under all the emotional strain of the past day, cried in her husband's arms.

As much as he wanted to know what was bothering his Firebird, Jadeite knew now wasn't the time to ask. It would be best to let her calm down, and ask her when she was better. Jadeite absently stroked his wife's back, until he noticed her breath slow down to a sleepy hum. He laid her back down on the pillow, and wrapped his arms around her before falling asleep himself, however uneasy it would be.

Warmth.

Sunlight.

Safety.

Love.

She could feel the emotions surrounding her, almost to the point of smothering her. Not overwhelming, but comfortably consuming. Almost as if she could be enveloped by the perfection of it all for eternity and never grow tired. Somewhere, deep inside her, something felt as if she never had. She sleepily cracked open one tired eye and observed her surroundings. The large four-poster canopy bed that held her had its curtains drawn for privacy, but she could make out the sun through the deep red velvet. She snuggled deeper into the warm silk sheets, and the gentle arms that held her, only to shoot back up a second later.

Wait a moment....Four-poster bed? Velvet? SUN?!

When had she ever slept on anything other than a cot? How on earth did she manage to get velvet anything, as she herself was poorer than dirt, and Lady Beryl would never indulge any of them with such luxuries, especially not when there were better uses for the money. And when, in ALL her life, had she ever, ever not gotten up before the sun?!?!

Something else suddenly clicked in her mind. She reached down to her stomach, where she felt a man's arm wrapped tightly around her nightdress. She followed the arm with her fingers up to a broad collar bone, and down a muscular back. She heard a soft moan, something that sounded like, "Ooh, Serenity, darling....". She immediately froze, wishing to wake up from whatever twisted dream she was in. She started to move out of the man's grasp, but he pulled her even tighter to him, and she felt something she thought she wouldn't until her wedding night. She blushed furiously, and tried to move again. This time, the man held her so tightly that she couldn't move away an inch. Slowly, she said an Ave Maria for whatever help in the situation she could get, and turned around in the arms of her captor.

She found herself looking into the gorgeous face of none other than his Royal Highness, Prince Endymion himself. It felt to her as if her entire world had been destroyed, and this was her penance for her sins....to be humiliated and scared lifeless (if she was even to still be considered alive) until she could enter the Pearly Gates. She was scared, and embarrassed, and frustrated, and tired, and oh-so-many things that she didn't know, she did the only thing a self-respecting sixteen year old girl would do, having found herself in the same situation. She screamed.

Endymion woke from his rather pleasant dream of himself and serenity doing....things to the sound of said woman screaming. He jolted up, and immediately began to worry that something had hurt or scared his precious angel. He looked down at her, and would have laughed had the situation not seemed so important. She was attempting to unravel herself from the mess of arms, clothing, satins, and golden hair. She waved her arms about wildly, and just when she thought she had herself free, she fell onto the floor. Endymion couldn't help it anymore, he just laughed.

Serena climbed up from the floor and was about to retort when she realized just who she in a room with, and possibly had been for the past god-only-knows-how-long. Wait, why was she here? Where were Sammy and Lady Beryl? Why weren't they with her? The last thing she remembered was the fire....the fire! She felt the tears gather in her eyes, but knew she had a slightly more important issue at hand, namely figuring out just how she had managed to get herself in bed with the next ruler of the country. Remembering her place and his, she fell back to the floor again, only this time on purpose.

Endymion curiously looked over the edge of the bed to see his serenity on the ground, bowing to him. He was shocked, and slightly hurt, that she would do such a thing. It took him a moment to remember that she had forgotten about their past, and that only hurt more. He fell off of the bed himself, and knelt down next to her, taking a deep relaxing breath before reaching down to touch her. His fingers brushed the back of her nightdress, and she flinched away from his touch. He winced himself, but more from the pain that was gathering in his heart. Weren't things supposed to get easier once she came back? However, he held back his more intense emotions, and lifted her to his height. She still kept her head bowed, no matter how hard he tried to get her to look at him. "Serenity, please....look at me" he urged, causing her to look into his eyes, frightened.

"Milord?" she whispered, scared. "Milord, with all due respect, my name is no longer Serenity; simply Serena, if it pleases Your Highness."

Okay, chapter seven done.....working on chapter eight as you read this, if it isn't already posted...I promise to not make you wait this long anymore....I love you all soo much... Sorry if this chapter and the next chapter (possibly) are weak, i'm having a bit of a writer's block, and i hate it! Also, a special thank you to the love of my life, for everything he's ever done; I love you.