They were both silent. The sound of their breathing wasn't even loud enough to fill the vacancy between them. She stared at him, and he looked around the room, searching for the answers to the questions that bound them. Setsuna knew he could look nowhere for the answers but deep in his own heart. He didn't speak for long moments, and finally she said, "I can't let this continue, no matter what."

Darien turned his tear-filled eyes to her. His lips were slightly parted, as though he couldn't think of what to say.

"I've been wanting to tell you the truth. Now I have told you, and now you want me to change things. You want me to wave my magic wand and make it all go away. This isn't our decision to make."

"There's something else, isn't there?"

Setsuna nodded. "Michiru is part of it. She must be going crazy right now. Since she also holds power, with her mirror, she's suffering the effects because she knows about this. She knows the secrets, and she's suffering. Her own power is slowly destroying her."

Darien shook his head. "Can we stop it?"

"We have to right things," Setsuna began to speak rapidly, her voice a whisper. "We have to stop all of this. Pretend it never happened. Michiru may go insane with it if we do not stop it."

"Stop us." He said, looking right at her. He stared at her as though she were the only person in the world. Time had frozen outside of them. Everything around them was made of ice, and if either of them looked away from each other, the whole world would shatter to pieces, and Setsuna was sure that the noise would be very, very loud.

"Yes," she whispered, almost expecting to see her breath come swirling from her lips. Ice. "Stop us."

Darien's grey eyes were very, very cold. They matched the ice world in which the two were trapped. The whole world, encased in ice. If only such things could be done, that was the way Setsuna would have it. Everyone else would freeze, and only Setsuna and Darien would remain.

Suddenly, the door was thrust open and Setsuna's ice-world shattered with the sound of Serena's accusatory voice.

"I knew it! You—and her!" Serena's blue eyes were wild and blazing. Her hair was falling out of its traditional meatball-style. She pointed a trembling finger at each of them. Serena's mouth was open in an angry snarl. Darien stood, but said nothing. Setsuna did not move. She could almost see broken shards of ice flying past her head, glinting and glittering in the light of Serena's fiery rage. "Darien you cheater! You liar!" Serena's high-pitched voice continued to scream, her finger continued to point, and the world continued to explode.

"No!" Darien shouted. He didn't even sound like he was trying to defend himself. He was more angry than anything else. Setsuna still could not move. "It's not what you think, Serena! Are you insane?"

"You lie!" Serena insisted. She sounded to Setsuna like some kind of fire alarm. Screeching and screeching. "You lie! Why should I ever believe you?!" Serena's ferocious gaze met Setsuna's and the finger was aimed directly at Setsuna's heart. "In her pajamas!" Serena screamed. "In her pajamas!"

"I came here to see her! I trust her! Setsuna is my friend!" Darien sounded so unbearably reasonable in the madness. Everything still happened too quickly. Setsuna no longer felt like she was a part of the things going on. She felt like a bystander. She felt innocent.

"Trust!" Serena hollered. She might have been trying to scoff, but her voice had no different tones. Just one single pitch. She'll kill me, Setsuna thought, and on the heels of that: Good.

"Yes. I have friends just like you have them. Friends to talk to." Darien spoke calmly now, and he took a few steps toward her, one arm reaching out to her. Serena did not look away from Setsuna, but she lowered her finger slightly.

Setsuna's mouthed moved, and what came out was, "He was crying. He was upset. We were talking." A little stupid-sounding, but not bad.

The heat left Serena's eyes, then, and she seemed to crumple a little. "You're… you're not…" She didn't even complete the sentence.

"Of course not," Darien answered immediately. "Not in a thousand years."

At least a thousand, Setsuna thought, and almost burst into wild, hysterical laughter. She managed to contain herself. Setsuna watched as Darien put an arm around Serena.

"Let's go home," he said to her. Serena nodded, looking as though she were confused and unable to speak.

"I'm sorry," she muttered to Setsuna. Darien looked over his shoulder at Setsuna, he gave her a look to prove that he was coming back. Setsuna knew that was one of the last knowing looks he'd ever give her. One of their last loving moments before she called Michiru and they set things straight.