Blood Bond With Love
"You're right mate, I don't. That's what hurts"
Right then after the fifth time an annoyed voice was heard from the other side.
"Faith here talk frigging fast!"
Serena sat on her bed, an album in her hands. Her back hurted like hell and she tried to stand up as little as possible. She'd told her parents she'd fallen down the stairs and hit her back explaining the large bruise on her back; they seemed to buy it. She flipped over the thick pages, but this photo album was not like the others in the house. This was a special book for it was the only one she had with her 'other' family in it. She flipped page by page slowly, almost painfully. She hadn't taken the book out in three years… three long years in which she had promised herself to try and be the daughter of the Tsukinos without the cloud of her foster parents over them. But they always hunted her thoughts.
Back then the book had meant pain, pain for the people she couldn't see anymore. Things had changed so since then. She was so different, her actions and thoughts had changed so. Her head felt like it was going to explode from thinking so much.
'What are you going to do Serena? Your stuck in the same place as you were 3 years ago. And strangely enough it's almost the same situation, I mean I have my future decided for me… I know I can't leave Tokyo no matter what.
Why not? All your friends have left Said the annoying little voice in Serena's head.
'No they have NOT'
Yes they have, Amy will leave to go to Germany in a few years. Darien has left you so many times you've lost count, and the other girls will leave eventually. They will all leave and you will be left alone
'Maybe… but I can't leave. I just can't, I belong here. , Oh great, now I'm having a mental breakdown because I think my friends hate me. I kept complaining because I wanted them to stop seeing me as a clutz and here I am wishing they still saw me as one.
Aghhhhh tell me moon mama what am I to do? You sent us into this world to save us, save me, and here I am messing everything up…again. At least when we were fighting I didn't have time to think!'
"Ok I can't stay here all day, I'm just putting myself down" The blonde spoke out loud. She needed to move, distract herself. A soft knock on the door brought her thoughts back to earth.
"Come in" She called. To her surprise she saw Darien opening the door. Serena's eyes widened in surprise, how had he gotten in here? "Darien?" She half chocked.
"Hey, I came to see how you're doing"
"I'm ok" She answered sweetly. Watching as the tall man made his way closer to her. She uncounsiously scooped over, expecting him to sit on the bed. But to her surprise he just stood looking at her.
"Sit" She patted the spot beside her, motioning for him to sit. He seemed to consider the offer briefly before following it. Serena smiled, trying to show she was ok.
"So how is my hunky boyfriend doing?" Comments like this usually lighted up the mood between them. But for some reason she was feeling nervous, it felt…different.
"Worried"
"Why?"
"Because the love of his life almost died"
'That's exaggerating, wait love of his life? What's gotten into him?' Darien was the type of man who didn't just come out and say things like that without a good enough reason. He preferred to be somewhat reserved.
"Darien I hardly consider 'blood without wound' a death cause"
"You scared us all"
"I'm sorry" His eyes met hers. The worry and desperation in them caused a knot to form in Serena's stomach.
"I heard you scream and I thought… I thought something terrible had happened to you, and then I saw the blood, so much blood. Gods Serena never scare me like that again!"
"I'm sorry"
"Why did you run off like that? WHY?" Now Serena was in the verse of tears.
"Because…."
"WHY?"
"Because you had missed it again" She sobbed. She brought her knees to her chest, so she was hugging them. Ignoring the sharp killing pain that formed in the middle of her back.
"Serena missed what?"
"You had missed another special ocation… Oh Darien, don't you get it? I needed you there, I wanted you there but… but you weren't"
"Serena I couldn't… I was working"
"But you always leave… me and it always hurts. And I love you so much…" By now she was mumbling the words to her legs. Tears wetting the pant's cloth.
"Oh Sere, I'm so sorry" Darien grapped his strong arms around her, trying to comfort her. Trying to make everything better for her. "I've failed you again, I'm so sorry" Serena locked her arms behind his neck holding him as closely as she could.
"Just promise me, promise me you won't do it again, please" She begged.
"I'll promise if you promise never to scare me like that again" The blonde removed her arms from behind his neck and held her pinky finger up.
"Promise?"
"Promise" As their fingers joined Darien trapped her sweet lips in kiss. He relunctantly pulled away, knowing they were in dangerous grounds. Anyone could enter the room at any moment and if they found them making out a huge rifle would most likely be pulled out of the basement.
"Serena now will you tell me what has really been bugging you? You haven't been yourself at all love. I haven't asked because I thought it was just because your cousins and brother was here but it isn't is it?"
The blonde shook her head. "Will he, he has been asking me why I changed so much. Why my grades are so bad, why I'm been so clumsy. So many questions, and the worst part is that I can't answer them. I just don't know… I changed when I moved back, I don't know how or why… I just did. I'm trying to be the same person I used to be but it's getting pretty hard"
"How about you try been Serena"
"What?"
"Just be yourself don't try to be what you used to be. Sere we all change over time, just be yourself. I'm sure they'll understand" Serena chuckled.
"You make it sound so easy"
"Why can't it be?"
"Darien I think you're gonna love my mom Trinity" Darien's eyebrow rose to the ceiling. But Serena just chuckled and held him in a bear hug. She hid her face on his neck, trying her best to defy physics and fuse with him. He always made things seem so easy, so passable and much better he always said he learned it from her bur right now when she needed him the most he was there. He would always be there.
A pretty long haired blonde tapped her fingers over her lap for the hundreth time. William grinned as he watched his sister.
"Did you know, doing that could improve your hand coordination or drive people around you crazy" Serena gave him a curious look before she realized what she was doing.
"Sorry" She mumbled.
"Buns, relax will ya. They'll be here any minute"
"I HATE planes"
William chuckled. She'd never been too fond of planes but suddenly she had grown a very peculiar hate for the things.
"You're that nervous eh?"
"(sigh) no kidding Will. I haven't seen them since…forever. I wont know what to do, I feel like I have an entire monarch butterfly pack in my stomach"
"(chuckle) and I thought I was nervous"
"Don't joke about this"
"Serena look at me" He lifted her chin up with his fingers, making sure their eyes met.
"They're your family, they love you, you love them. And everything's going to be all right"
"Hell is going to break loose you know"
"Oh I know and I can't wait to see your ol' man's face when they go to your house for dinner… oh I can't wait"
Serena felt the butterflies multiply. "Oh NO! no, no, no dinner! What am I going to do?" She brought her hands to her eyes trying not to have a mental breakdown. She felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Relax hun, nothing will happen" She looked up at Pacey who had a coke in his hand.
"That's easy for you to say, you're not in the line of fire and you're certainly not the reason for the war"
"Good point" He responded before he took a long sip from his drink. In the corner of his eye Tank was able to see a group of seven people walking closer to the gate. He smiled as he recognized the long dark haired woman walking ahead of the group. "Hey goldilocks, you might wanna take a look at gate 3"
Serena looked up from her hands to gate three. There she recognized the people walking closer. She felt her heart skip a beat, tears began to form in her eyes but she ignored them. Standing up she waited until all seven individuals entered the waiting area, she watched as he mother's eyes lighted up when they saw her. She watched as the small 10 year old girl let go of her father's hand and ran full speed toward her.
She opened her arms to greet the child, holding her into a bone crushing hug. A huge smile on her face,
William moved forward to greet his foster parents. His mom smiled widely at her son and crushed him to her as if he was still nine.
"Nice to see you too mom" He laughed.
As soon as Luz let go of the blonde Serena found herself in Trinity's arms she held hugged the woman back whispering an non audible 'mommy' in her ear. Neo hugged her next followed by Faith who babbled gibberish in her ear. Several hugs later the group exited the airport, all had huge smiled on their faces.
"So here's the house" Pacey flipped the house keys in his fingers.
"Wow, it's been so long since we were here" Said Neo as he looked around the large house. It wasn't a mansion, but it was pretty big. The Anderson's had bought the place years ago from an old friend who was moving away. Morpheus had known they would need it eventually and the fact that the house was so close to everything was a huge plus.
"Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living room and (imaginary drum roll) hot running water! Provided to you by your beloved nephews, Tank and me"
Morpheus looked around the living room smiling.
"Thank you Pacey, I just hope you didn't flow the basement" Pacey's eyes widened but he laughed.
"Good one uncle, good one. But no, we didn't flow the basement"
"But you came pretty close to, Tank had to call the pluMhhh" Pacey laughed nervously as he covered Serena's mouth.
"What's that dear? Oh yes, no, yes I know" He said as he held her mouth shut, the blonde rolled her eyes as she mumbled and everyone laughed.
"So Pacey how's the gym going?"
"Great, we're getting a lot of costumers. It was a great idea to move here"
"I'm glad you think so" Trinity's voice had some disbelief in it. Serena took one long look around. This was sight she never thought she would see again, everyone together laughing about unimportant things. She felt her eyes water.
"It's so good to have you all here, I've really missed you" Choke Serena. Faith stood beside the blonde and threw her arm around the shoulders.
"Yes it is. Say Sere you think we get to meet the boyfriend now?" One sentense was all it took for Serena to dream on killing the girl. Her face turned five different shades of red.
"Boyfriend? Why was I NOT informed of this?" Niobe placed a shushing hand to her husband's arm.
"Faith has a good point when DO we get to meet him?"
"He hasn't tried to do anything funny has he?"
"What? Serena you have a boyfriend?" Luz innocently asked. Serena took one deep breath before continuing.
"How about I invite all my friends AND Darien over to dinner some day so you can all meet them. But I'll need to set some ground rules" Now Faith was on the verse of maniatic laughter.
"Oh hell Buns, and I always thought I was the wild one, but now your setting 'ground rules!" Teased the dark head.
"Oh shush Faith"
"That sounds like a great idea honey. Lets do it for Saturday ok?"
"What do you mean by ground rules young lady?"
"I want to know how old this 'boyfriend' is"
"He's 3 years older"
"WHAT! Neo you knew about this?"
"Yes"
"How could you let her? She's too young, not even Faith…"
"Try saying no to a 16 year old, brother then tell me" A familiar pain started on eth back of the blonde's head. Now she remembered why aunt Niobe always carried aspirins with her. This was getting too chaotic even for her.
"Ok SILENCE!" Yelled an annoyed Trinity. "Honey bring them for dinner on Saturday the rest of you just silence!"
"Well enough of that. Serena…"
The blonde's eyes darkened a little bit, she knew what they were asking. It was her explenation time.
"Yes Uncle Morpheus?" She asked sweetly, maybe just maybe she could get away with it.
"Well this is my cue to bounce, say Luz want me to buy you an ice cream cone?" The little girl looked at her father for approval, Neo nodded his head and Luz ran to Pacey. Trinity looked at Faith, the girl nodded in understanding and joined her cousin and sister but not before gripping on William's sleeve and pulling him out of the door.
"I shall accompany you children. Make sure you don't get in trouble" Said Ora, the old woman gave Serena a soft kiss on her forehead before walking out the door as well.
"We'll talk later Sere!" Yelled Faith as she pulled both men and 10 year old out the door leaving her alone with the adults.
The blonde fidgeted with her skirt as she heard the door close. 'Why am I so nervous, this is my family'
"Did you talk with your parents?" Asked Morpheus in his all controlled tone.
"Yes"
"What did they say?"
"Umm well they said they would leave it up to me"
"What do you want honey?" Asked Trinity in the softest tone she could manage.
" All I know is that I can't leave Tokyo, I can't leave my friends or Darien. I just can't, I'm… umm, too important to the future" The last part she whispered not sure if everyone in the room knew about her secret identity.
"You mean Sailor Moon is too important?"
Her eyes stared at Niobe.
"Relax hon, all four people in this room know"
"If I leave I don't know what kind of evil will arise. I don't want to risk it"
"Well I'll say you have a very big reason to stay, you have very important responsavilities here"
"I'm sorry" She hugged herself. Ashamed of how ungrateful she felt.
"Don't be, it isn't your fault" Trinity hugged the blonde to her. Hoping to lend her some strength. The child was radiating more stress and confusion than she should.
"Serena I know you are concerned about the meeting with your parents. But they will understand and I'm sure we'll reach a reasonable arrangement."
"I'm more concerned about their reaction… I heard if all goes well you will be staying here?"
"We don't know yet Serena. We told Faith not to tell you anything but she did anyways"
"You can't blame her I was going nuts thinking about it"
"I think it's been enough exitement for one day everyone. Lets just enjoy the rest of the day" Voiced Neo giving Serena a sympathetic look.
"Yeah, yeah"
"Say Mortheaus why don't we go find our room and leave these three alone for a while" It wasn't a request as much as an order and he knew he had to obey.
"Yes of course" The tall dark skinned man approached the blonde, delivering a soft kiss on her forehead. Serena smiled, not believing what as happening. As soon as he released her she found herself in the tight hug of her aunt. And before she knew it she was alone with both her foster parents.
"I saw a park a block from here when we were in the car. Why don't we go there?" Offered the black haired man. Both women nodded and soon they were out the door and in the street.
They passed a parade of strangers as they walked in silence. Serena couldn't remember the last time they walked together like this.
"Daddy you have more white hairs, has Faith really been that bad?" The tension breaker threw Neo into wholehearted laughter.
"Oh I do, do I?" He said as he ran a hand through his bangs.
"More like age has been that bad" Joked his wife.
"Not that you're that young yourself dear" Now she really did feel like she was home. This teasing, this wonderful everlasting teasing that went on between them could always make her feel that things were really ok. They finally reached the green park and the family searched for an empty bench to sit on.
"I've missed you both so much" She whispered.
"We've missed you honey" Trinity reached for the girl's hand which was grabbed like a lifeline as she continued talking.
"The last few years…for a while I thought you all hadn't existed. I thought that it'd all been my imagination. But you kept calling… and I kept remembering. I got so scared… it's like I've been living with strangers and aren't so much strangers anymore."
"Serena we wanted to tell you that we're sorry"
"Sorry for what?"
"For putting you in this position and we wanted to tell you that we've reached the decition that it isn't fair to make you choose between families so we will choose for you"
"What?"
"We will talk with your parents Serena and reach an arrangement."
"But…"
"It wasn't fair, and we won't put you through this. It wasn't your fault to begin with"
"But"
"No more buts, we're the adults, it's time we act like grown ups"
She smiled, a teary smile. And with her arms outstretched she embraced her foster parents… finally.
I'M SORRY. I WILL BE FINISHING THIS STORY. I want to dedicate this chapter to everyone who kept reviewing, and a special thanks to Ice queen who in a sentence gave me a huge slap in the head which told me to finish this story.
THANK YOU AND AGAIN I'M SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG.