Setsuna's lower lip trembled, tears stood out in her eyes, but she refused to cry. She was determined to be finished crying. Setsuna was determined to just let all of it go. Those things had happened so long ago. Destiny had taken its course; Setsuna and Darien were not meant to be. She wanted to just forget it. He didn't even remember, anyway.

King Endymion will remember.

Setsuna shut her eyes tightly, trying to bid the thoughts away.

Oh, stop it, Setsuna, a voice, her own voice, perhaps from the future, whispered in her mind. Don't try to push it away. You're the only one who can't hide from these things. No one else can know but you, so why bother trying to forget? King Endymion? He will remember, he does remember. Darien dreams about it. He sees the silhouettes. He has dreams about a woman he can not see and does not think he knows. Eventually, those dreams form into secretive memories. And you will know, too. You will know by the way he looks at you. And remember that fateful day, too, don't you? It took that star seed a long time to form, but form it did. And then—

"No!" Setsuna shouted, pulling her hands up to her ears. "I won't hear anymore!"

The sudden ringing of the phone startled her out of her thoughts. She turned her head and stared at the old fashioned black phone for a moment. It sat, silent, on the end table by the couch, and she thought she must have imagined it. As if to convince her, it rang again. Setsuna hurried over to the phone and picked it up. She hesitated to answer a moment, fearing that the voice in her mind that she knew was her would start in about all those terrible things again.

"Setsuna." The voice belonged to Darien.

"What? What is it?" She asked quickly, sensing that something was amiss. "What's the matter?"

"Are you decent?"

"N-No, but I can be in a minute or—"

"Good," he cut her off. "I'm going to be at your apartment in two minutes. Something terrible has happened, and I'm taking you to Serena's. I'll explain on the way." He hung up before she got a chance to reply.

Setsuna ran to the bedroom and pulled on a pair of flare jeans that had been lying on the bed, ready to be put away. She pinned her hair all up with a large clip and then grabbed her coat off the chair in the dining room on her way out. Thoughts flew through her head at a blinding speed, but she didn't even give herself a second to really consider any of them. Setsuna jogged down the stairs, taking them two at a time, the long tail of her coat flying behind her. She burst through the doors at the bottom of the apartment building to see Darien pulling up. Setsuna jumped into the passenger seat and he tore away from the curb, already pushing seventy.

"Okay," she began, struggling to catch her breath after jogging the first six flights and running the rest, "What the hell is going on here?"

"First off, I came to pick you up because there is absolutely no more traveling alone for the Scouts. Chiharu got one of the Imperium Silver Crystals."

"What?!" Setsuna gasped, a hand touching her chest. Her deep, dark red eyes grew wide with shock.

Darien nodded grimly, his eyes on the road. "Apparently, it was either Chibiusa were to be killed or Serena would hand over the crystal. I guess Serena was too afraid to call for help or make any other move because she didn't know what Chiharu would do." He finished, approaching Serena's neighborhood.

"I can't believe this," Setsuna murmured, her shock still overcoming her. She found herself muttering a string of words that she almost didn't know had come out of her mouth, "She did what she had to in order to protect Chibiusa."

"This is still a major loss." Darien pulled up behind Haruka's yellow sports car. There were two police cars, and Serena's parents were standing at the end of the driveway, speaking to policemen. A few more cops were investigating broken glass all over the front lawn.

Darien and Setsuna got out of the car, waved to Serena's parents, and went on inside the house. Darien led Setsuna to the living room, where the others were all crowded in. Serena sat, sobbing, on the couch. Raye had an arm around her and Amy sat on the other side. She appeared to be offering Serena some tea. Michiru was telling Mina that Hotaru couldn't come because her father didn't let her out past nine.

All eyes went up to Setsuna and Darien except Serena's, and Chibiusa scrambled out of Haruka's lap and ran toward them, tears already flowing. "Luna P!!" Chibiusa wailed. Setsuna scooped Chibiusa up into her arms and held her, trying to shush her. Darien went over to the couch and Raye stood, giving him a seat. Darien pulled Serena to him in a hug, and he began to whisper softly into her ear, stroking her back, trying to get her to calm down a little.

Setsuna sat on the opposite couch with Haruka, while Chibiusa cried against her shoulder.

Haruka was the one who finally broke the silence. "Obviously, Sailor Moon is out of action, now. We no longer have the option of waiting around for Chiharu. That didn't get us very far."

"Haruka and I discussed it in the car," Michiru said firmly. Her voice was commanding, a true rarity, but it was time now to take charge. "We decided that we're going to have to lure Chiharu to us and hope she doesn't know how to use the power of the crystal she already has."

"Everybody knows that Darien has the other one," Haruka went on. "Chiharu will expect it to be well-guarded, just like Sailor Moon is always well-guarded by us." Something in Haruka's voice changed, then, and Setsuna saw it on Michiru's face, too. They looked like they had failed miserably, and they were prepared to go to all lengths to fix it. "We're going to give someone a fake crystal that we can buy at a novelty store. We're going to heavily guard that person, and then, when Chiharu strikes, we'll be ready."

"We can't give her another chance to underestimate us." Michiru said, her expression stern. Her dark blue gaze fell on Amy. "Amy, we've opted for you to carry the crystal."

Amy said nothing; she only nodded dutifully.

"No more funny business. We're always going to be alert from now on. This Chiharu means serious business, and we have to trap her in order to get the other crystal back. We're banking that she doesn't have any idea of its power and that she's just trying to satisfy some kind of greed." Haruka looked around the room at all of them. "We've had a lot of time to study her. I came up with nothing. Did anyone else find anything?"

Chibiusa slowly sat up in Setsuna's lap, wiped her eyes and then looked at Haruka. "She's a Sailor Scout."

"How do you know, Chibiusa?"

"I know because I dreamed about her thoughts. It was only at the end of my dream," Chibiusa told them all quietly, "but they were so loud and angry. I think she works for someone she is trying to impress."

"Do you remember anything, Rini?" Questioned Darien in a soft voice. "Anything at all?"

Chibiusa's face wrinkled in concentration. "She was thinking about us all being Sailor Scouts. She was thinking that she was doing wrong…" Chibiusa frowned to show that she couldn't remember anything else.

"It's true, then." Amy told them. "She could hear Chiharu's thoughts because Chiharu is also a Sailor Scouts. When a Sailor Scout near you is in pain, you can hear their pain and in some cases feel it."

Michiru, Haruka, and Setsuna exchanged glances. They were familiar with this.

"A Sailor Scout from another galaxy!" Luna piped up, "Why didn't I ever think of it? It makes perfect sense! She must have heard about this crystals and wanted them for her own."

"She probably has malevolent purposes," Haruka said forcefully, "And if she doesn't, we're pretending she does. We have to get the crystal back."

The group heard Serena's parents thanking the policemen and coming back into the house.

"Meeting adjourned," Haruka said.