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Chapter 11: Answers

Serena opened her eyes to the beautiful morning showering into her bedroom. She could hear the lovely breathing from her husband behind her who had his arm wrapped around her stomach. Throughout the night, he had gotten back into the habit of rubbing her tummy again like he did when she was pregnant with Rini. This move either kept her asleep or put her into that deep slumber when she was feeling bloated, cramped up, and couldn't possibly shut her eyes.

"Good morning," a whisper drifted into her ear.

The queen turned around to face Darien and studied his features as he ran his hands along her waist and hips. She tied her ankles through his as he started to run his hands through her long silver hair. He was glad to be back in the arms of his wife; she kept him sane.

"Feel," she ordered, grabbing his hand and placing it onto her lower abdomen, making him rub her stomach from side to side. "Am I getting bigger already?"

"A little bit," he answered honestly. "Have you been experiencing morning sickness yet?"

"It's afternoon sickness … again," she moaned as she rolled over onto her back. "I have to be careful when I choose what to eat for lunch. I hate having to be picky with food."

He ran his thumb along her soft cheek and smiled at her pouting. Their intimate moment was disturbed by a knock at the door – of course – and a sleepy pink head stuck out. Rini pushed her way gently into the room before running and sliding quickly toward the bed. Tears were falling from her eyes as she climbed into bed to be in between her parents. They chuckled at the feisty, pushy child.

"Are you okay?" she asked her mother desperately.

"Yes, darling," she replied. "I am doing fine and the baby is fine. Are you alright after this whole ordeal?"

The teenager shook her head no and buried her face in her mother's chest. Serena coaxed her daughter and wrapped her arms around her, petting her head gently. Darien rubbed Rini's back, in between her shoulder blades as she cried into her mother's chest. It had been a rather distressing time for them all as a family and now both parents needed to be there for their daughter; she was their everything and they forgot that.

"The scouts shouldn't have let you in here while I was in that state," Serena said, her brow knitted.

Rini pushed away from her mother, crossed her arms over her chest and said, "I was scared, but I'm glad no one kept me in the dark."

"I'm sorry about that your majesty," Mina said from the open doorway.

She was dressed in her Sailor Scout outfit and even looked like she had been sleeping in all night just in case. She had to be on her guard considering that the queen been poisoned earlier that night. She and Sailor Jupiter had sat outside their bedroom door throughout the long hours and Ami had kept awake in the security room watching multiple screens along with a few other civilian guards. Sailor Neptune stayed up keeping her eye on the royal couple through her mirror and making sure nothing strange happened. Sailor Uranus kept guard of the prisoner downstairs while Sailor Saturn slept in Rini's room, protecting her directly. Sailor Mars stayed up responding to e-mails, questions, and concerns, from a bunch of news branches all over the universe. Luna and Artemis helped her respond to them with a political and formal voice. Everyone was exhausted.

"Mina, don't worry about it," she said quietly. "Rini would have found a way into my room one way or another; you know how stubborn she is."

"She takes after her mother," Darien smiled.

"I don't mean to interrupt this beautiful family moment, but we do need to go to the hospital immediately," the scout announced.

Neo-Queen Serenity nodded and patted Rini's butt, "Come on. Out of bed. Go get dressed." As her daughter crawled out of bed, she called out after her, "When we get home from the hospital I expect you to go to your tutoring session today and get back into training."

She spun around and slouched over, "But Mooooooom!"

"Don't you dare, young lady," she warned. "Just because we had a chaotic night, does not mean you need to put your life on hold."

The young woman stomped out of the room, her hands clenched into fists. Mina leaned against the door, her face riddled with a mix of confusion and amazement, "How do you do it?"

"Do what?" Serena exhaled as she sat up at the edge of her bed and started to stretch.

"How do you get back to life so easily?" she asked.

"Being a Sailor Scout taught me," she smiled over her shoulder. "You remember how it was; we'd battle, we'd fight, and then the next morning, we had to return to real life with school, home, and pesky chores."

She had a point; often after defeating what they assumed to be the greatest evil of all, they would have to return to true worst malevolence also known as school. Before shutting the door, Mina asked, "Darien would you like your things moved in here?"

He shook his head, "No, not yet. I'll stay in my own separate quarters for now." He looked over at his wife, "Hope that's alright."

"Of course it is. We can't go from zero to sixty in one night," she replied.

Darien was about to leave room when Serena ran around the bed and grabbed his hand. She pulled him down to her face, completely forgetting that he had a huge wound on his back and kissed him deeply. For a split second, he even forgot about the gash that was still fresh from the night before, but the pain soon stabbed him all over again and he groaned in agony behind her lips. Serena pulled away threw him an apologetic expression.

"We'll get you looked at today as well when we're at the hospital," she smiled.

"What? The Queen of the Moon can't heal her husband?" he teased.

"I'll do minor things for you. I won't mend you at every cut or break you have," she sneered back.

He chuckled at her and then walked out of the room with Venus following him at his side, "She seems better."

"She is better," he corrected.

"We need to find out who tried to do this to her," she replied. "Thomas couldn't have been working on his own. Ami did a background check."

"What did she find?" he asked, stopping at the door of his room.

"He was born to the parents of Janette and Bartholomew Hayward in Liverpool, England. He went to a private all boys school, was entered into a special pre-university school before being accepted to Oxford. He has degrees in pre-law and political science as well as English literature," she explained. "We have records all about him up until this point. There is a strange thing though; he has been known to work with that weird political group Descendants of the Great."

"What the hell is that group?" he asked.

"Some secret organization that really keeps a tight lid on most things they do, although they are highly influential with politicians on both the liberal and conservative spectrum."

"I don't like the sound of it."

"Neither do we."

"Well keeping Hayward jailed up isn't going to get him to answer any of our questions."

"And torturing him isn't the peaceful Moon Kingdom thing to go about things."

"Ah and there's the loop hole!" Darien smiled, winking at Mina. She just stared at him with her mouth gaping open and closed like a fish. "I'm still part of the Earth. I'm technically not the king of the moon, I'm king of the Earth. Serena even said so herself."

"Oooh, I don't know if I like the sound of that, Darien," she replied. "It could get very messy and it could be considered an abuse of power."

"Sometimes you gotta do that to protect those you love," he said before ending the conversation by slipping away into his bedroom to get changed.

"Ready?" the doctor asked as he placed the ear buds of the stethoscope in his ears.

She nodded and opened up the hospital dress she had on, exposing her skin to the doctor. He placed a stethoscope on her stomach and the cold metal made her shiver with both excitement and fear. A smile grew over his lips and he nodded slowly.

"The heartbeat of the fetus is developing nicely," he announced. Everyone in the room relaxed and sighed which consisted of Mina, Rini, and Darien. "Now you're at twelve weeks, correct?"

"Thirteen technically," she responded.

"It sounds like things are forming beautiful within you," he said. "I received word from the doctor that came to you last night that you were drugged?"

"Yes. He gave me an antidote and I was told that the baby was fine, but I needed to get it checked out just in case."

"Well, as you well know your majesty, you have powers that we scientists and doctors can't begin to understand. We've tried for many years and we still can't comprehend how you do some of the things you can, so this will just be added onto the long, long list of things."

Serena grinned before pointing to her husband, "Well, the king isn't much of a mystery; he was struck in the back last night and I think he needs tending to."

The doctor stood up from the edge of the bed and wrapped his stethoscope around his neck as he walked over to the king. Darien started to unbutton his shirt, trying not to roll his eyes. He didn't see what the big deal was; it was just a scratch.

"Now you were struck on or in the back?" the doctor asked.

He was answered when Darien removed his shirt off of his body and started to remove the bandages with the doctor's help. He only had to the see the tip of the wound to see that Serena was using incorrect grammar. There was a shard of wood still stuck in his back that Haruka either couldn't get out or didn't want to touch; she only had delicate hands for Michiru after all.

"Alright, let's take you down the hall and get this taken care of," the doctor instructed.

Darien walked out of the room with him and left the three women alone. Mina started to chew on her lip as she shifted her weight from one foot to the other. Serena passed her a quizzical expression.

"What's the matter?" she asked her Sailor Scout.

"Are you two … back together?" she replied cautiously.

"Not officially and not definitely," Serenity replied, exhaling loudly through her nostrils as she thought about the proper way to handle this since her daughter was in the room. "I am willing to take things slow and step by step let him back into my life. I don't know what will happen necessarily, but we're going at a pace that works for us."

There was a ringing noise that pierced the air and Sailor Venus brought out her orange colored blue-tooth headpiece. She slipped it in her ear, pressed a button on the side and started to speak into it as King Endymion entered the room again, "Hello? Hey Ams. What's … what? Yeah. Yeah, all right. We'll leave immediately. Are you sure she wants to—okay, but … You feel that too? Yeah I didn't like the idea either. Right. Okay. We'll see you soon." She hung up and turned her attention to the king immediately, "Sailor Uranus has an idea that resembles your own that you were discussing with me this morning. Now, in your condition, I don't think it's wise to—"

"What condition?" Darien grinned as he turned around to expose his bare back. It was completely healed. Doctors these days were making leaps and bounds to heal the sick and needy; it was quite remarkable.

"What idea? What were you two talking about?" Serena asked, sitting up straighter in her bed.

"It's nothing, dear," he answered.

"Don't patronize me!" she snapped. "Stop keeping me in the dark!"

Before she could throw the covers off of her body and leap out at Darien, he exited swiftly and yelled over his shoulder, "Mina you tell her! I'll meet you guys at the palace!"

Serena looked over at her lead scout with an expression of utter disbelief, "What in the moon's name is wrong with him?!"

"He … he uh …. He wants to use his own personal powers of persuasion to find out who Thomas Hayward is working with," Mina mumbled sheepishly.

"What does that mean?"

"Force."

"Excuse me?"

"He wants to use elaborate force and possible torture techniques to get Thomas to talk and even Sailor Uranus is on board," she explained.

Serena leaped out of her bed and started to dress right there, making Rini blush and bolt out of the room. As she clipped her bra on, slipped into her underwear quickly and then practically jumped into her jeans and sweater, she started to fume, "Who does he think he is? Why does he think he can just get away from his position as king and not have any repercussions?"

Before she could breeze out of the room, Mina placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, "You're starting to sound like his partner again."

Serenity laced her fingers through Mina's and smiled, "Like I said, it's a step by step process."

With that, the two exited the hospital with Rini trailing them back to the palace.

Darien entered the darkly lit room with the two way mirror. Michiru and Haruka were standing, both cross-armed in their Sailor Scout outfits. Michiru looked irritated and for once, she couldn't keep herself contained within her body. Her energy was taking over the whole room while Haruka was casually leaning up against the wall of the room next to the two way mirror.

"I don't like it," the turquoise-haired goddess stated. "This is an awful idea."

"Seriously darling, calm down," Haruka cooed.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" she snapped.

The king's eyebrows shot up in surprise. He had never heard her burst like that. She usually was so cool, calm and collected. However, there were times – especially after the Mars/Neptune war – where she would burst out in anger. Haruka hadn't seen the old Michiru in years, but she still kept around for those glimpses. It was worth it at the end of the night when the two held each other, spoke about the day's events, and wound up on the same page some how. But for some reason, at this specific moment, Michiru was overwhelmingly pissed off. She had approached Haruka with a bad attitude and her vibes hadn't waned all day. Sailor Uranus wondered if it had to do with lack of sleep or something deeper.

"I don't think we should do this," Michiru repeated as she started to bite her nail.

"Okay, how about first we talk to him? Interrogate him like any officer of the law would?" Darien suggested.

"And what? If you don't get your way in the first thirty minutes, you'll slowly break every bone in his body?" she scoffed.

"Let's just see what happens first with asking questions and then if we keep hitting a wall, we can go from there."

The door burst open and interrupted their deliberation. Serena walked inside with her arms crossed over her chest and her face looking like a kettle ready to burst. Her eyes were glued to the man in the other room. She was doing her best to hold back her violent tendencies, but her boiling rage was getting the better of her. Before anyone knew what she was up to, she practically exploded into the interrogation room and slammed her fists on the metal desk that Thomas was sitting at. He flinched at the noise and crouched away from the queen as much as he possibly could. He never expected her to survive that drug he gave her let alone be this lively right afterwards. Serenity was stronger than he had expected.

"Who are you working for?" she asked quietly, her eyes turned into slits. When he didn't answer, she asked again, "Who are you working for?"

His mouth stayed shut and his eyes were wide open as she climbed over the metal table and sat on the edge of it right in front of him. She reached out and grabbed him by the collar, her head cocked to the side.

"One more time before I cause some internal bleeding," she threatened. "Who do you work for?"

"You already know," he whispered. "She's not one to quit, just like yourself."

"Stella?"

He only had to raise an eyebrow at her in order for the answer to be well-known. That heinous bitch was behind all of this, of course. Serena felt her hand shake and promptly dropped Thomas back into his seat which he gladly took. He swallowed hard and watched as she walked out of room back to the place behind the two way mirror. He stared at his reflection, wondering what they were going to do, if they were planning on trying to get Stella. He almost wanted to call out to them and ask them to not hurt her in any way, but then they would begin to question him more and his feelings toward her. Thomas had fallen for the great beauty back when he was a freshman to the whole political world. When he met her, she was just newly elected Prime Minister and was more than a treat to get to know. Some how the two started to build something more than a friendship and he knew he was madly in love with her. So much so that when he found out she was having an affair with the king, he didn't stop her or protest. On the contrary, he actually supported her decision, but only because she would then confide in him all the time; their bond grew stronger and stronger because of the secret.

So why did he just confess that she was the actual perpetrator who put him up to this whole plot? After a while, the shine wears off, the glitter fades away and he could suddenly see that she wasn't what he expected. She was hungry for attention at any way she could possibly get it and he was just a pawn in that craving. Thomas wasn't ever going to get her back, especially not after this whole debacle. He would be locked away for sure, so why not have her join the party? He would try to get her back to him any way possible and if that meant jail time, then so be it. He smiled maliciously at his reflection and thought about how great their reunion would be.

Stella was in for quite the surprise…

Up Next: The scouts go on a hunt for Stella. What will ensue?

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