Chapter 2

The Wedding

The three days left before their wedding seemed to fly by with both girls mostly ignoring or avoiding each other, and soon Minako was standing at the alter with the dark haired princess next to her saying "I do" Minako immediately said the same, and leaned forward for her first kiss. It was quick and sweet, sending the venusian into a deep blush.

The newly married couple were standing at the back of the hall shaking hands with important people when three gigging girls ran up to Rei hugging her and giving their congratulations. Minako felt a little left out until the blond girl in the group turned to her.

"Minako its great to see you again! I'm Usagi do you remember me?" Minako looked at the girl closely and shook her head in the negative.

"you don't?"

"No I'm sorry." Usagi smiled and said.

"That's ok we only met once when we were very young I can hardly remember it either but of what I can remember you seem to have changed a lot! What happened to that loud crazy girl who would constantly get me into trouble?" Minako blushed.

"I'm sorry when I was young I suffered a severe head injury, I guess I lost my memory or something, my mother said I was never really the same. The doctors couldn't tell if it was memory lose or trauma induced personality change."

"Interesting." came from a blue haired girl with short hair. Then she smiled and offered her hand in a earth like greeting.

"Hello I'm Ami Mizuno, Princess of Mercury. Its nice to finally meet you." Minako shook her hand and blushed slightly. The blond remembered this girls name, 'this is the girl Rei would have rather married then me. She's pretty' Minako thought. Then a tall girl with dark brown hair and bright green eyes stepped forward and Minako began to get frightened when the girl raised her hand for a greeting Minako grabbed Rei's arm tight hiding behind her slightly. Everyone looked confused. Rei was a little mad at Minako for being so rude to one of her close friends.

"Minako what the hell are you doing." Rei turned and asked in a hushed tone.

"I'm scared." Minako whispered back and gripped Rei even closer to her.

"Of Makoto? Why? She would never hurt you Minako she's the Princess of Jupiter." Minako took a deep breath and looked up into Makoto's eyes. 'Confusion and worry' Minako thought 'that's what she's feeling.'

"I don't sense any hostility in her, are you sure she wont hurt me Rei?" Rei sighed.

"She wont hurt you, and stop using your powers on people its creepy." Minako got a sad expression and nodded her head, immediately looking at the ground since her powers were mostly activated by eye contact. Makoto stepped forward.

"Hi, I'm Makoto sorry if I scared you, I guess I can be pretty intimidating I am kinda tall and stuff." Makoto said jokingly but the blond just kept her head lowered and nodded slightly.

"Its nice to meet you too. If you all will excuse me I need to speak to my mother for a moment. It was nice to meet all of you." The blond left Rei's side walking a large circle around Makoto being sure to stay away from her, Minako walked towards the Queen of Venus.

"Interesting." Ami said. Rei scoffed.

"Interesting my ass, she's a freak! She's always doing weird sensing things, she's a complete weakling, knows nothing about weapons. She's almost like an annoying little dog, except my dog is actually useful." Rei ranted to her friends. Makoto frowned.

"Rei that's a little harsh, I mean she is your wife now, don't you think you should be defending her?" Rei frowned back.

"Martians don't defend weaklings."

"I wonder what happened to her? She is very different from when we were kids. If I'm even remembering the same girl" Usagi said with a confused frown on her face.

As if out of nowhere Queen Serenity was suddenly standing behind the group.

"Your Memory is just fine Usagi, Minako has changed greatly from when you were young. Its partially from the incident and partially from her isolation, Venusians are very social people and being raised like Minako was has made her almost socially inept but she still has the urge to be around people just not the knowledge on how to interact with them." Ami quirked an eyebrow in question as she asked.

"What incident?" The queen sighed.

"When Minako was young, just after she spent the week here on the moon with her mother, Minako tended to wander but it wasn't that big of a deal were they lived everybody knew who she was and she was safe, but they were traveling and Queen Venus had a urge to visit a friend on Jupiter, thinking it would be a good visit plus a great experience for Minako to see even more cultures they headed to one of the large trading cities on Jupiter. Minako wandered off like she always did. It was a few hours until the guards found her. Apparently a group of children cornered her calling her a witch because she could sense their emotions." The group was silent hanging on the queens every word. The queen sighed. "Children can be cruel, she was in a coma for almost a month, the doctors originally told the Queen it wasn't likely that she would survive and the longer she stayed in the coma the less likely it was she would live. When she awoke she wasn't the same, I mean mentally she was fine no brain damage or anything but she was much more frightened and quiet almost like being herself would get her hurt again, plus having an intense fear of people with brown hair, mainly Jovian's since its only them an earthlings who have the hair color. The Queen of Venus then placed her in the country with a nanny and teachers, I think mostly she planned to keep her there until she was stronger, but Minako just reverted further into herself. If she hadn't been a Senshi she would probably have died. I imagine she is a very lonely and insecure girl." The queen finished and walked away.

"How sad." Usagi said.

"No wonder she was scared of me, she probably figures I'm gonna try to beat her up." Makoto said. Rei felt terrible.

"I yelled at her." Rei whispered.

"What?" Ami asked.

"When we first met and she read my emotions, I yelled at her and called her a witch. She cried looking very scared, I thought it was just because she is weak but I think I might have tapped into her fear of that happening to her again. She's probably going to be afraid of me forever now." Rei grumbled.

"I don't think so Rei, when Makoto walked up to her she grabbed onto you, I think she see's you as her protector." Ami said. Makoto nodded.

"She's right if she were still afraid of you then she wouldn't have grabbed onto you."

Just then the serious talk was pushed aside as Makoto's father came up to the girls with a tray of drinks.

"Now now girls this is a celebration! Drinks for everybody." The girls all smiled at the King of Jupiter's jovial attitude.

"Thanks dad." Makoto said as she handed everybody a drink.

A few drinks later the group was beginning to get a little tipsy. Ami giggled and said.

"Rei where's your wife, we haven't seen her in a while." Rei looked confused for a second then answered.

"Oh her, she's still over talking to the queens." Makoto giggled then said.

"Come on Pyro lets dance!" The brunette said as she grabbed Rei's hand. Once the two girls were gone Usagi smiled and told Ami.

"I'm gonna go grab Minako I think she has spent way to much time with the adults and we should all party together." Ami smiled and watched Usagi drag a now slightly frightened Minako back towards her.

"Usagi please I would like to talk to your mother." Usagi smiled and stated.

"Nonsense, you don't have to worry Mina, Makoto wont hurt you she's very gentle plus Rei would never let you get hurt, remember you're her wife now." Minako looked down and said.

"I think she might be happier if I wasn't here then she could marry whoever she wants." Minako said looking in Ami's direction for a moment then back down.

"Well I think you guys will be great together now stop being gloomy and start drinking." Usagi said as she handed Minako a drink. Minako went wide eyed.

"Usagi, I've never drank in my life." Ami giggled and said.

"Well lets fix that right now." and pushed Minako's drink to her lips. A few drinks later Rei and Makoto returned to the group.

"Hi" Makoto said grinning with a big wave. "You still scared of me blondie." The brunette said drunkenly as she grabbed Minako around the waist. Minako's eyes went wide again and she panicked for a second. "wana dance cuz Rei sucks at dancing and I think your body could move way better then hers." Makoto flirted with a wink. Rei frowned and pulled Minako from Makoto's grasp by way of wrapping her arms around the blonds waist and pulling her against her front.

"Hey, she's my wife why don't you go and find your own." Rei said just as drunkenly. Makoto grinned and turned saying at the same time.

"Fine, Ami's a much better dancer then you anyways Rei." Ami blushed greatly as Makoto pulled her into her grasp.

"Mako, honey I don't think either of us should be dancing, according to my calculations, with the exception of Minako, we have all consumed to much alcohol to be able to function enough to move like…"

"Come on Ames, or maybe we could retire to do..other things." Makoto said with a sly grin. Ami once again blushed. Usagi giggled and said.

"Speaking of other things shouldn't you guys be disappearing soon to umm retire as well, isn't it tradition for the married couple to go to bed first?" Usagi grinned. Rei joined her.

"Very wise Usagi, bed it is." Rei grabbed Minako's hand and pulled the blond from the hall.