Halloween Love
By: Moon Baby
Rating: PG
Finally Chapter 9 is up. I am so sorry it took this long. I wanted to get it up about a month ago but life doesn't always got the way you plan. But it's up now so please enjoy
This starts right when Serena and Darien fall asleep and have the dream…. P.S. I don't own Sailor Moon.
****Dream****
A beautiful girl was sitting in a rose garden all by herself silently crying. 'Why does my mother have to do this to me? Why can't she understand?' She took her mask off to wipe the tears from her eyes.
Out of no where a masked man stepped out of the rose bushes.
"Why are you crying?" A deep male voice whispered.
The girl's head shot up. "Who's there? This is a private garden. No ones suppose to be here."
"I mean no harm. I just stumbled upon this beautiful garden and wanted to see it in all it's glory when I heard you crying." The man slowly walked towards the girl.
She shot off the bench and dropped her mask on the ground then turned her back to him to wipe away the evidence of what she had been doing.
"Well, you're still not suppose to be here. This garden belongs to the royal family and only they are allowed here. So I suggest you leave at once." She squared her shoulders still not facing the man and started to try and find her mask.
"You still didn't answer my question, princess." he whispered right in her ear.
Shocked at how close he was and that he called her princess she spun around only to collide with his chest and stumbled at bit. "Why did you call me that?"
The girl's eyes widen when she felt one arm curl around her waist. She stared up at his eyes and heard his small gasp. His eyes were deep blue but hard to see behind his mask. He was wearing a tailored tuxedo that fit in all the right places. His midnight black hair was not styled; it looked like the wind or his hand has been through is a couple of times. His free hand came up and cupped her cheek.
When she spun around his wasn't expecting to see such beauty. Her azure eyes were clear but still brimming with unshed tears. There were some streak marks on her cheeks where the tears have already fallen. Her cheeks were flushed either the result of her crying or finding herself in the arms of a masked man, or both. Her full pink lips were slightly open from a small gasped that escaped when their eyes met. Her perk little nose was so red that it almost looked like a cherry. Her long golden hair was in an unusual style yet suited her just fine. With two 'meatballs' on either side and the rest cascading down her back. She was wearing a empire waist gown that was ivory, and fit her in all the right places but was still innocent, almost virginal. It was floor length and swayed around her feet. They stood like this with their eyes locked together neither moving or blinking. The music from the ball lightly drifting to the garden adding a sense that it was coming from their minds. The masked man smiled slightly, "May I have this dance?"
The princess blinked, then blinked again, "What?"
"Well since you won't tell me why you are crying have a little mercy on me and dance with me." He didn't wait for her to respond, he just started moving in time with the music. His left are was around her waist pulling her as close to him as he could possible get while the other took her left hand and held it
"I have to go….." The princess made no attempt to move away from him after making that statement. She couldn't take her eyes away from his.
"My lady, please don't go. I saw you earlier at the ball and have been trying to get to you so we could dance and now that I finally have you I don't want to let you go." He slowly spun them around the bench she had been sitting on and moved deeper in the garden and further away from the ball and anyone who might stumble upon them.
"I'm sorry I really have to go. I know they are going to start looking for me and this will be the first place they look." Now she started to pull away and finally broke the eye contact.
"Ok I'll let you go but I have one request before I do." He moved his hand back to her cheek so she'll look into his eyes once more.
"Yes?" She stared in his eyes but he never said another word slowly she watched his face move the few centimeters separating them and lightly pressed his lips to hers. When she didn't react he repeated his action again adding a little more pressure when she still made no attempt to move or really even react to took full advantage and made full lip contact.
****End of Dream****
In two separate houses on two opposite sides of the city two people jumped up waking from the very same dream.
**** Darien's Apartment****
"What the hell was that?" He asked no one. 'I've never had a dream that vivid or that real. It was almost like another memory. But again whose memory is it. It felt like me.' Slowly he put his hand on his head and sat more fully up in bed. The sheet he used only covered him from the waist down and sweat covered him from the waist up. "Wait that was like the flash I had when I kissed Moon. What the hell is going on here?" He glanced at his cell phone for the time. "Five in the morning…. Guess I'll go for a run then. Cause there is no chance of me falling asleep again not that I really want to and chance dreaming of the garden or the mysterious princess." Slowly he climbed out of his bed and walked to his dresser, grabbed a shirt and his cell phone and went to his living room. He grabbed his keys, wallet, a water bottle and his IPod and left his apartment and ran to the park.
****At the Temple****
Serena sat up and looked around her wondering if any of the other girls were awake. Non were, so she got up and went to the bathroom to splash water on her face. She looked in the mirror and for a split second she saw the princess from her dream then she blinked and it was Serena once again looking back. 'What was that?' She blinked a couple more times but the images didn't come back. 'Ok, Serena you are losing it. First you kiss Tux boy who everyone thinks in an enemy while having a quick flashback, then you have a dream that was just like the flashback. Girl, you are really losing your mind.' Serena ran the water and splashed it on her face. 'Get a grip girl, you can't be losing it. Maybe I have a fever that's why I'm going crazy.' She turned that water off and put her hand to her forehead. 'Nope, no fever. Well there goes that theory.' She looked at the clock and saw that it was after five in the morning. She walked back to her pallet and tried to go back to sleep. After tossing and turning for fifteen she decided to get up and take a run. She checked her stitches on her side and decided to take it easy and just jog. (Yes she runs that's how she can run so fast to school and why she is always tired. Plus it's my story.) She tied her hair back in a ponytail and got a pair of shorts, and a shirt from Raye's draw, changed and climbed over the sleeping girls and out the door. She grabbed her IPod from her purse and clipped it to the shorts. Serena grabbed some paper from Amy's notebook that she fell asleep with and wrote a note to the girls explaining that she went for a run and she will call them later. She took one last look and the girls and took off.
****At the Park****
His shoes made little noise as they hit the pavement in time with his heart beat. The music in his ears barely penetrated his thoughts. 'Who was that girl in my dream? Why did I call her princess? Is she the same princess I'm suppose to save? Why can't I remember her face? Was that really me kissing her or just a dream?' He kept running not even seeing where he was going just moving to where his body was being pulled. The sun started to glow over the horizon. He never noticed; finally his body felt it was where it needed to be and he notice where it had taken him. 'The rose gardens? How did I end up here? I never run near the rose garden. It's off the runners path. Wow, this is so weird. I dream about a rose garden and end up at the rose garden.' His heart started to slow down as he walked to the bench and looked out over the different colored roses.
Serena ran going to the destination she knew would always calm her down. The Rose Garden. That was the one place in the whole city that could just make her feel that all was right with the world even when everything was falling apart around her. 'That's what I need right now. Just my special place to get my mind right.' She reached the center of the garden and closed her eyes and took a deep breath and inhaled the sweet scent of roses and sighed as she felt all her problems disappear. 'Yeah, this is just what I needed.' The sun started to chase the darkness away and Serena noticed that she wasn't the only one enjoying the sweet scent of the roses. "Darien?"
Darien's heard shot up when he heard her voice. "Serena?"
"Hey, you didn't call me Meatball Head for once." She walked to the bench and sat next to him smiling.
"Yeah, I just don't feel like it right now. What you doing up this early anyway. I didn't think you got up before noon?" He turned and looked at her as her smile dropped.
"Well, and here I thought you were actually going to be a human being for once." One of his eyebrows went up.
"Ok I'm sorry it's just habit. But seriously what you doing out this early and by yourself?" He turned his head to look back at the roses.
"Well, I couldn't sleep and I needed to clear my head and running usually helps me." She stared out over the horizon watching the sun come up.
"How often do you run? I mean I run every morning and I've never seen you." He turned to look at her and his jaw dropped. 'Wow! I've known for a long time that she was beautiful and that I've loved her just as long but damn she has just taken my breath away.' The sun was just starting to break above the tree line and the colors were just starting to paint it's beautiful picture of the new morning.
"I run like three of four times a week. It really depends on what happens to me and how stressed I am. I also don't use the running path because there are to many people and I can't think so I usually take the path that no one really uses so I'm able to think without the distraction of having to make sure I don't run into someone." She chuckled slightly to herself knowing how true that statement really was.
Darien also chuckled to himself when he thought about all the times she ran into him by not paying attention. "I understand what you mean by that. I usually don't run over this way but I think I might just start." Darien winked at Serena and she blushed slightly because of his flirting. Darien glanced at his cell phone hating to end their time together. "It's close to seven in the morning want to get some breakfast?" He looked back at Serena and she smiled at him.
"Yeah but lets not go to the Crown. I don't want to give Andrew a heart attack by seeing me before twelve o'clock." She giggled to herself at the image that just popped in her head.
"Ok, how about the café down the road from the park? They have a nice breakfast menu and they open early on Sundays." Darien stood up and put his hand out for Serena to take.
She looked at the hand for a second then put hers in it. He pulled her to her feet and since he was standing in front of her she collided with his chest. Another flash went through their minds.
****Flashback****
A young couple running around an open field. The handsome young man chasing a beautiful young woman around a tree where their picnic basket and blanket were discarded after the peaceful early morning breakfast. The beautiful woman suddenly fell. "Are you ok love? Did you hurt yourself?" The handsome man stood over his love as she looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"Yes I'm fine I guess," she sniffled slightly.
He reached his hand down to help the young woman up. "Let's contiue our picnic, love."
She smiled at him and put her hand in his and he pulled her up and she collided with his chest.
****End of Flashback****
The young couple in the rose garden suddenly jumped apart as if the other was on fire.
'What the hell was up with that?' He blinked looking into her eyes.
'That was so weird. It was like when I was with Tux.' She looked into Darien's eyes trying to see if he had any reaction to what just happened.
'I can't let her see that something happened. She properly didn't even notice something happened.' "So are you ready to go to breakfast? I've worked up quite an appetite running." He smiled as he reached his hand out for her again.
'He doesn't even realize something happened. Well, if he didn't notice then I won't say anything.' She smiled as she put her hand in his, "Let's go. I'm starving," and they walked out of the garden.
"So, I know you are going to Andrew's party cause all the girls are going with my friends." He chuckled to himself. "Who you going to go with?"
"Well, a boy I go to school with asked me. Though word is getting out fast about this party and I don't know if there is going to be enough room at the Crown for everyone.""That's ok. You know the big building next to the arcade?" She nodded. "Well, not many people know this, but that is part of the arcade. It's mainly used as a storage space for old games and broken equipment. I'm going to suggest to Andrew that we clean it out and open it up to use for more room." They were still holding hands as they left the park. Serena pulled her hand away and Darien let his hand drop.
"Wow, I always wondered what that building was for. I think I'll get the girls together and help decorate both the arcade and the warehouse." She clapped her hands together thinking of all the different things they will need.
Darien smiled when he saw the excitement in her eyes. "Ok," he chuckled "I'm sure Andrew would love the help. Are you going to the party with the guy from your school?" She stopped smiling and turned to look at Darien. He suddenly reached out and pulled her close to his side. When she looked at him questionly he pointed to the light post she almost ran into. He moved his arm from her shoulder to her waist and left it there while he escorted her to the café.
They walked in the café and up to the materdee's podium. She smiled at the couple. "Hello, how are you doing this morning?"Darien smiled at the woman. "Fine thank you. Can we get a table for two on the patio, please?"
"Sure, no problem, follow me please." The young couple followed the woman through the small crowd and out on the patio. "How's this?" She jestured to a table by the railing with the umbrella open. She turned over the two water glasses on the table and filled them with the pitcher that was placed near by.
Darien smiled, "This is great, thank you." Darien stood behind Serena's chair and held it out for her as the other woman sighed and walked back to her post.
'His is gonna pull it out from under me when I start to sit down?' She looked at him questionly as she started to slowly sit down to make sure she could catch herself if she needed to.
Darien laughed to himself as he watched her and when she finally was fully seated he pushed her under the table then went to the other side and sat himself. "Did you think I was gonna do something to your seat when you sat down?" he chuckled
"As a matter of fact, I did." Serena stuck her tounge out at him.
Darien started laughing hard at the sight she made, with her tounge out, her eyes closed and her face lit up with humor. "No, I would never pull a chair out from under a lady when she sat. That is just to embarrassing for both of us to even try." He finally started to wind down for his humor.
She looked at him then smiled. "Ok, just making sure." Serena picked up her menu and tried to figure out what she wanted. 'Everything sounds so good. I can't chose.' Then she looked at the left side of the menu and noticed the prices. 'Yikes, I hope I have enough.' Descretely Serena reached to her side only to notice she doesn't have any pockets so, 'NO MONEY!' Her eyes got real big as she realized there is no way she can get anything to eat.
Darien glanced up from his menu just in time to see Serena's eyes get big before she hid behind her menu again. Shaking his head he reached over and pulled her menu down enough so he could see her eyes. "Order whatever you want. And don't worry about the prices I never let a lady pay when I take her out." He smiled as he let her menu go.
"Oh, no Darien I can't let you do that. I can pay for my own meal. Don't even worry." 'Though how I'm going to pay for it I have no idea.' Serena closed her menu and set it on the table.
Darien raised his eyebrow and said, "And where are you hiding your money? You don't have a purse and those shorts don't look like they have any pockets.""Ok, fine your right I don't have any money. I forgot to grab my wallet when I left Raye's house. I wasn't thinking about being gone this long or even getting anything to eat before the girls got up." Serena smirked
"See, I brought my wallet so I'm gonna pay." Darien grinned at her triumphantly. "So order whatever you want. I know you must be hungry."
"Ok, fine," she pouted a little but went back to looking at her menu.
The waitress walked up, "Good morning, my name is Kimber and I'll be you server this morning. What can I get you to drink?" her eyes never left Darien as she spoke.
Serena looked up from her menu when she heard the waitress start talking then glared at her when she notice the waitress staring at Darien.
Darien didn't notice the attention Kimber was giving him and didn't notice the daggers Serena was shooting. "I'd like a coffee black."
Kimber wrote that down and started to leave when Serena said, "And I'd like a large chocolate milk if you don't mind."
Kimber blinked then wrote the milk and walked off. Darien looked at Serena. And she just shrugged her shoulders at him. "Do you know what you want yet, Serena?"
"Yes, I do." She smiled sweetly at him.
Kimber walked back with their drinks and asked if they were ready.
Darien smiled, "Yes, we're ready. I'd like three pancakes, two eggs sunny side up, and sarsage please." He closed his menu and handed it to her.
Kimber turned and glared at Serena. "And for you hon?"
"I'd like French toast with extra powdered sugar and hash browns please." Serena smiled sweetly at her as she walked off.
Darien wasn't fooled for a minute. "What are you up to?""Why Darien whatever do you mean?" She batted her eyelashes at him and smiled again.
"You know what I mean. I've seen that look in your eye before. It always appears before you pull some kind of prank on me."
"I really have no idea what you are talking about. So who are you taking to Andrew's party?" she asked trying to change the subject so he wouldn't catch on to her plan.
Darien knew what she was doing and went along with it for now till he figured out what she was up to. "I haven't asked anyone yet. There is this one girl I want to take but I haven't gotten a chance to ask her yet."
"Hhhmm…. Maybe I can help you get the girl of your dreams?" Serena smiled at Darien.
He laughed again at the sight she made. 'I have never laughed so much as I have this morning with this girl. And to think she wants to help me get the girl of my dreams. If only the princess, Sailor Moon, and Serena were all the same person I'd be in heaven.' "What makes you think I need help asking this girl out? Just because I haven't asked her yet doesn't mean I need help. I just haven't gotten her alone to ask her." He smiled at her and reached across the table and grabbed her hand.
Serena was shocked by this and didn't even notice the waitress return with their breakfast till she smelled her French toast. Serena's head shot up and looked for the waitress only to see her walking away. "You did that on purpose so I wouldn't do anything to her," she accused.
Darien smiled and pulled his hand away and began eating his pancakes. 'That's interesting that I affect her. She never noticed that waitress walk up till after she left.'
They ate in silence for a little bit then Serena looked at Darien and asked, "So, who do you want to take to the party?"
Darien looked up and smiled again. 'This girl makes me smile and we're not even fighting. There seems to be more light in my life this morning then there has been in almost fifteen years.' "Why do you want to know so bad? By the way you never told me who asked you and if your going with him? And who this guy is that you wanted to ask you? So why should I answer your questions when you haven't answered mine?" (Darien isn't trying to be mean to her, he's just being the smart ass that he is.)
Serena was about to answer when she noticed the waitress walking over to their table again. 'I got you now honey.' Smiling Serena looked at Darien again and opened her mouth to answer his questions when they were interrupted.
"Is there anything else I can get for you hon? A refill on your coffee?" Kimber reached down to grab his mug when she 'accidentally' dropped her pen. "Oh, I'm sorry. I got that." She bent at the waist to give Darien a clear view down her shirt if he could tear his eyes away from Serena's bright smile.
'Now's my chance.' Serena's hand moved before Darien even notice. She pushed her water glass over and drenched to waitress.
"OH MY GOD!" Kimber screeched as she shot up.
Serena's eyes got real big with her mocked surprise. "Oh my ma'ma I am soooo sorry. I didn't realize the glass was there when I moved my hand. Here let me help you." Serena pulled her napkin off her lap and offered it to the waitress. Darien was to shocked by what happened to even think about moving.
'She just dumped water on this girl's head! This is a side of Serena that I've never seen before. I've never seen her play tricks on anyone but me and they were never this extreme. Or unprovoked.'
"It's ok ma'ma. If you'll excuse me I'll go clean up and send someone over here to take care of anything you might need." Kimber glared at Serena the whole time as she tried to dry her top. 'That little bitch.'
Serena smiled sweetly and watched while the other woman walked away. 'Victory is mine.' When Kimber walked back into the café Serena busted out laughing.
Serena started to calm down till she looked at Darien. When she noticed the shocked look on his face she started laughing harder. "Oh my God, the look on your face is priceless. Your mouth is dropped and everything." She couldn't gain any control of herself.
Darien was finally able to come out of his stupper. "I can't believe you just did that. What did she do to you to make you dump water on her head?" he scolded.
The sharp tone got her attention. "Excuse me? In case you didn't notice cause you were blinded by her, she completely ignored me and fell all over herself for your attention. So, I just let her know that I was here. In my own way," she smirked at him.
"I notice, but you still had no right to do that. She was just being friendly that's all." He smiled at her."Friendly to you, not me." Serena waved her hand at him and went back to eating her breakfast.
Darien realized that in her mind the discussion is over. 'Well, that was interesting.' He smiled to himself as he continued eating his breakfast. 'She still has yet to tell me about that guy that asked her to the party.' "So are you going to the party with that guy from your school?" he asked while taking a sip of his coffee.
"I'm not sure, like I said there is a guy I want to go with but I'm waiting for him to ask me. But if he doesn't then yes I'm going to go with him." She smiled at him.
"Okay, fine keep your secrets then. I just won't tell you who I want to take to the party." he smiled back taking a sip of his now cool coffee.
They sat in silence as they finished their breakfast. The new waitress came with their check and they paid and left the café.
****At the Temple****
The sun's rays started filtering through the blinds of the window falling on the faces of the four sleeping girls. Raye opened her eyes and stretched her limbs. 'Well, another day. Now time to get Serena up and get some answers.' Raye slowly leaned over her bed with her pillow ready strike the sleeping blonde. As she reared back to hit she realized there was no one on the pallet. "Everyone wake up Serena's gone again!" Raye screamed.
Five heads shot up. "What?" "How?" "When?" "Are you sure?" We have to find her." All was said at the same time.
"I don't know when I went to wake her up and she was gone." Raye said getting more upset.
"Do you think Tux came and took her?" Mina asked.
"If he did I'll kill him." Lita pounded her fists together.
"She left a note everyone." Amy said.
Five heads snapped towards her. "What note?" Luna demanded.
"The one she left on the desk that says she went for a run and will call us later." Amy stated a bit sarcastically.
"Oh…..Wait she runs?" Mina asked…. (Blonde moment)
Ok that's the end of chapter 9. I am sooooo sorry it took so long to write. Writers block is a bitch and so is life in general. I hope everyone likes it and please review and I'll start chapter 10.….
Moon Baby