Moon Song
Black Diamond:
I don't won Sailormoon. But it would be cool if I did:
Summery: The Earth and Moon kingdoms have been at war with one another for a long time. But htings are about to change, for the moon princess nad the earth prince agree to get married in order to end the war. But will a cold hearted princess learn to love a man who is in love with another woman. And will that man learn to love a woman who never shows any signs of emotions: Read Revie and Find out.
I'm writting this in honor of Hawksong. Read it it's an awsome book. I read it five times. Also Midnight predatore. and Shattered Mirrow:
Chapter 8: Married Life
In their room he seated her on the coach and watched as she slowly breathed in and out, keeping her body and her emotions in check.
The thought of her diverting back into that state of emotionlessness had him sighing in exasperation again.
"Perhaps we can discuss your...situation now." He said sitting down besides her on the couch. Serena did not respond until he she calm down long enough to stare at him.
"Do not do that ever again. I cannot loose my control like that. I have agreed to this union in the name of peace and if you want to preserve that peace then you must not do that again. I will kill you if you attempt to do that." Serena looked at him with eyes still clouded with anger.
"It is good to allow your emotions some release once in a while. Keeping them inside will only cause a cataclysm when they do come forth." Darien said leaning back on the sofa and loosening the tie on his shirt.
"They will not. I have kept them in control for centuries and I shall continue to do so."
"Yes you have kept them in control for centuries. But for centuries you have been with your own people, people who know how to control their emotions. You are no longer with your people. You are with mine, and as you can see we tend to portray raw emotions. And I do not want you loosing that tight leash you have on your control around my people. It will be a disaster I do not want to experience." Serena turned around to stare at him bewildered.
She had assumed that his raw display of emotions was natural to him. But now it seemed as if he was protecting his people. He did not want her to loose her control and hurt his people. He did not care much for her tight control, nor was he interested in making her one of his own, he just wanted to make sure that she was safe to be around with.
It hurt.
"I am no danger to your kind. I can control myself." He straightened on the couch and looked at her.
"But we cannot. And you will eventually loose control. The overflowing emotions around here will overwhelm you. Everything will overwhelm you. And from what I can tell you have not been exposed to pregnancies, all your physical control will shatter. You will be in pain, and your emotions will not be functioning. I can already imagine the changes you will undergo once the pregnancy begins to take its toll. I need you to slowly but surely dispense those emotions, let them leak out slowly." He ran a hand down her back, Serena became rigged. She did not want to be near him now, when her emotions were so loose.
"I will keep that in mind. Now if you do not mind, I must rest, the day was...long." She stood up and he followed suite. Serena made a move to remove the veil still stuck on her head, but Darien took hold of her hand making her release the veil.
"Allow me." He took the veil off, wrapped it gently and placed it on the couch.
"Thank you."
"Need help taking anything else off." His voice was serious but his eyes were laughing. Serena shook her head and headed for the bathroom. She would take her dress off in there, take a bath and change into something more comfortable.
When she came back out a while later, Darien was not in the room. She was grateful. The thought of climbing into that bed with him was not pleasant. She had contemplated several scenarios to prevent their sleeping together, but none seemed to be such a good idea.
She nearly had the covers on her when he came in through the door that led into the sitting room. Serena froze with the covers half way up her body, she had worn a nightgown from her homeland, and it was not much of body wear.
The gown was made of white lace, sheer lace that was far more transparent than her veil. The gown was loose around her curves, but it did not take much straining to see beneath the cloth.
Serena quickly dragged the covers over her body when she noticed him staring at her clearly visible breasts.
"I...Its lunarian and I feel far more comfortable in loose clothing. The gowns Molly have for me are tight and with my stomach growing I cannot sleep well. It is not an invite for you to advance." She blurred out before she could even stop herself.
Darien chuckled and came up to the bed, dispensing his shirt. He had changed into simple white cotton trousers. When he climbed in the bed besides her, edging closer to her, Serena moved further away. He laughed and edged closer to her, only to have her move further away from him in agitation. When Serena got to the edge of the bed, Darien moved closer behind her. With no where to go, she did not move.
He chuckled and wrapped his arms around her waist, and pulled her closer to him and moved back into the middle of the bed.
"Do not worry I have no intention of taking advantage of a pregnant woman, especially when that woman is carrying my child and is my beloved wife." Serena seemed to relax for a bit, she let her head rest fully on the pillow, and she did not try to remove his hand from her stomach area.
Darien waited until Serena fell asleep, she was less likely to be dithered about him exploring her stomach if she was asleep.
He wanted to feel it.
To feel the child inside of her move, to feel it living in the womb of his dearest nemesis. He wanted to be reassured. What he was asking of Serena, of his and her people was far greater than they have come to realize.
He was a man of little desires outside of intercourse.
He was not in love, nor had he ever been in love, and he had very little doubt that he would ever fall in love again, but Serena, Serena had so much more; she had never been with any man before. She had not explored the human heart and the possibility of love. She was sacrificing her chance at love for an alliance that neither of them were certain would survive.
If she failed to deliver the baby the alliance would shatter and she would be trapped with enemies all around her.
He did not love her, but he was not willing to let her die either. She was going to be the mother of his child for all intent and purposes, the least he could do was make sure that she was if nothing at all satisfied with her life as his wife.
He did not feel the child kick, but sometime in her sleep Serena's hand did wonder to her stomach and lightly brushed against his resting hands.
She was so innocent, so locked up and weighted down with responsibilities. Her life since the moment she was born had been one of control, she needed to let that go. It is impossible to live with such emotional restraints.
Next Day:
Serena was sleeping when Darien woke up. He did not want to get up, but he had to, the day was awaiting them. He had a lot of minor details of the kingdom to take care of, and Serena needed to be given a post and she needed to gain the trust of the people.
That of course means mingling with the common people, and she needed some practice with the palace nobility before she could be trusted with commoners.
"Wake up. Serena wake up." He lightly patted her on the shoulders, but she did not budge.
"Serena. We have a long day and you need to be up now." When she did not do anything more than shrug his hand away, Darien decided to go bath and get ready first before coming back to her.
He came back and tried to wake her up but to no avail. Serena did not wake up at all. She remained sleeping despite his best efforts. He did everything but dump a cold bucket of water on her, and with the way things were going he had every intention of doing so.
"Fine. You wake up whenever you want to, but I have to go." With that he left her sleeping on the bed. Darien was not certain of what to expect now. He had expected that being so in control and cool minded Serena would be the type of person who...well did not sleep in, but she was in deep sleep and he could not wake her up no matter what.
He arrived in his office with his entire council present. They were already prepared and ready to go. Serena's shenshi's were also present.
Darien seated himself at the head of the council table and prepared to commense with business.
"Where is your bride?" Malachite asked staring at him with a brow raised. Darien placed the files in his hands aside having noticed that Serena's guards had not asked weather or bothered to question her presence.
"My wife has decided that the previous nights events were too...tiring. She is resting for a bit longer." Malachite's brows rose further up and several of his generals looked up to stare at him.
"This is an important day, could she not understand that today would be her introduction to the kingdom as its queen?" Berly asked.
"I did not get the chance to explain." Darien replied trying to avert the course of the conversation. He did not know why Serena refused to wake up, but he was no in the mood to explain anything to any of the members of his council present at the moment.
"Why did you not explain the importance of the day to her?" Nephrite added, he was beginning to get suspicious, none of Serena's people seemed to be questioning the King so certainly they must know something, something that none of them wanted revealed.
"Serena is difficult to wake in the mornings. She is a very strong sleeper." Mina interjected having had enough of their inquiring. Besides it was Serena's own fault for being such a deep sleeper.
"She cannot neglect her duties like this. How do you expect your queen to rule a world if she cannot rise from her own bed in the morning?" Berly reprimanded clearly not pleased by Mina and the very presence of the Lunarians in their Royal Meeting Hall.
"Serena is very...resourceful...She is an excellent ruler." Lita added.
"Excellent with protecting those who are under her wing, and fair, and she delivers justice with no prejudice...but that is what she is, a leader of action and example, she is not one with talent for court matters. Mina serves as her proxy in those matters. You may take her ruling and examples as you would Serena's." Amy finalized the conversation knowing full well that if Raye interfered there would be trouble.
"So basically she is a witless Queen all brute and no brains. Great!" Berly rose to her feet and stared down at Darien.
"You cannot be serious about this can you. She is clearly unfit to rule. How can you trust her with the faith of our people?"
"You have every right to be concerned with my lack of responsibility Berly, but I assure you I do not fail those who place their trust in me." Serena's voice caught them off guard.
She was standing in the doorway, having entered without their knowledge. Berly glared her way, taking note of how the simple ash brown dress she wore made her golden locks shine with a corn cold glean, and her baby blue eyes seemed warmer with the fatigue clearly present on her face.
"I apologize for the disrespect and the seeming lack of care my actions have cause. I do care for the Earth people for they are now my people." With that said, she bowed. When she looked back up, Berly had returned to her seat on Darien's left. Malachite was on his right, the only seat available for Serena was the seat across from him, the seat often reserved for the queen. The seat further away from him.
Darien rose to his feet and made a move to come and escort her to her seat but Serena raised her hand to stop him.
"Please. I can seat myself." she took her seat and he returned to his seat.
The first thing they addressed were the grievances of their people.
Several merchants complained about the import of Lunarian goods and how its taking away their business. Then there were complaints from guards about how having Lunarians in their midst was an insult to them and the war.
"This issue must be better handled. A serious conflict might break out." Zoicite said.
"It will not, our people will not allow such a thing to happen. Petty fighting only occurs when one party becomes overpowered by emotions of anger, our people will not allow that to happen." Lita interjected.
"I believe that is the issue here. The humans take our neutrality as a sort of...inhuman characteristic and it makes them uncomfortable in our presence. They need to feel as if we feel. Humans pride themselves in their emotional state of being. We however understand that it is illogical to allow emotions to cloud ones judgement. They believe emotions make up their general judgmental capabilities." Amy concluded, she was the logical one, she understood more about human nature than all of them. She had done a study on anthropology and on the human psyche, she was very versed in human behavior.
"That is an insult. We do pride ourselves in being able to sympathize, to be angered by wrong doings, to care for those in need...and to love." With that last statement she turned to stare at Serena.
"So do we." Mina stated.
"We feel everything that you humans do. We feel more than you do because we are more aware of the world and the senses. But we do not allow it to effect us." Lita interrupted finally.
"And there in lies our difference. We allow others to know that we are human." Nephrite gently stated.
"And that's the problem isn't it. You are not human." Berly's statement was a fact, but her tone was accusatory. She was just stating the simple facts.
And that realization was what was so troubling.
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