Quick AN: Suggested read!!!: I understand some of you may be confused, but I changed the AN to the last chapter...read it again if you want. It'll be explained more at the end of this chapter so i don't ruin anything :D

Reality


Serena woke up the next morning with a stretch and a smile. She looked to the left contently as her husband had a protective arm draped over the baby between them with his hand resting on her waist. She lifted her hand to brush some stray hairs from his closed eyes. They then fluttered open.

"Morning." He breathed lightly.

"Morning."

"Did you get some sleep?" He asked as he carefully sat up.

She nodded. "Definitely."

He stretched as the baby between them moved a little. "What are the plans for the day?"

She shrugged. "Meet up with the others." She suggested. "I'll meet with the girls and you can meet up with the guys. It's been a week since we've hung out." She noted.

"I can take Rini."

"Doesn't matter. I'll see what the other girls are doing with my lovely nieces and nephews." She stood up. "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Whatever you want to make."

"I'm so glad you had this idea, Rena." Lita said as she stretched her arms.

"Well it's really because I wanted to tell you this story."

"Story?" Raye asked.

"About this crazy dream I had last night. I mean, it was really weird."

"Well?" Mina asked, always up for the next gossip.

"Okay, so remember what happened between Darien and me when we first met?"

"If this is going to be your story, I don't want to know." Raye said covering her ears.

Serena moved Raye's hands. "No. But so in this dream, after that, we didn't talk. Like I was afraid he'd hate me and he thought I hated him or something so we just didn't talk and he moved back. Well then a few years later, like a month ago in this time period. I had been dating this guy Rubeus-"

"That guy from the liquor store?" Lita asked. She nodded with a laugh.

"Yeah, him. Well we were dating for like three months I believe. We were taking a midnight stroll when these guys surprised us. They screamed get him and stuff like that. Rubeus told me to run, so I did, but one said to not let me get away. I was chased then shot. After that, I was put into the witness protection program. After a week in there, Trista helped me get a job at the hospital Darien ran. He of course hadn't seen me in years so he didn't recognize me, but Raye called because you all thought I was dead. You called and he said your name trying to get you to calm down. That's when I recognized him. Well we got to be friends, and he was telling his other friends how he 'fell in love' with me after that night. We started dating and he took me to a charity dinner for the witness protection, but he surprised me with bringing Raye in town because she was so upset. He told me a moment before she showed up. She recognized me so I ran. Well one of the guys that was after me started running after me. Apparently he was there. So after a chase, he was caught and taken to the station. Trista, the lady on my case, was going to take Darien, Raye, and me to a safe house until they got the necessary information out of the guy. After that was done, Trista, Darien, and Raye went to get some stuff for the safe house and I was left with the boss. His name was Matt, and apparently a leader of the gang. He took me to some room until Darien got back. I had text him about my suspicions. We ll when Darien got back, Matt, he – uh – shot Darien." Her voice got quieter. "He was dying in my arms. So close to leaving me, but that's when I woke up."

"Whoa." Mina said. "That's one crazed dream."

"Dare woke up to my screaming his name. Telling him not to leave me." She said tiredly.

"One eventful dream." Raye smirked. She then reached over the table and smacked Serena's cheek.

"What the hell!" Serena screamed. Her eyes closed in pain as she went to move her hands to rub the spot she'd just been slapped, but her arms were bound. What's going on? She asked herself. She opened her eyes again to see a darkened room and a familiar man standing in front of her.

"You're awake. It's about time." The man smirked.

"W-what?" She asked lazily.

"I want to know where he kept everything."

"What are you talking about? Everything was just a dream!"

"Welcome back to reality, bitch." He slapped her again. "Now where the hell is the money, whore?"

"Look." She breathed heavily. "I never knew that he was mixed in with that stuff." She sighed. "I didn't know he did anything other than drink until that night. He never told me." She said, eyes growing teary. What the hell did you get me into?

/\\//\\//\

"W-where's Serena?" His voice asked the moment his eyes opened. He then noted a throbbing pain in his chest.

"Darien!" Raye said jumping up to his side. "You're okay!"

He nodded. "Where is she?"

She let out a chocked sob. "H-he took her. We don't know where she is right now." She said quietly.

He reached out with his left hand to grasp one of hers. "She's strong. She'll get out of there safely." He reassured.

"Trista's tracking her down now."

"WAIT! That cell I gave her, she's bound to still have it on her. Where's my cell phone?"

"You gave her one of those tracker phones?" Raye asked as she pilfered through her brother's pants pockets. She found the device and handed it to him. He pressed some buttons and the phone began beeping. He sat up and ripped the different things off him. He carefully slipped the IV out as a nurse walked in.

"Mr. Chiba, we need to finish assessing you."

"I'm fine." He said standing. "Raye, turn around." She turned, knowing her brother was about to change. He pulled off the gown and pulled on his clothes.

"I have to insist-"

He just turned and glared at her. "I'll be back later and you can check up on me then. Don't you think I'm plenty capable to keep track of my health status?"

"I'm just trying to do my job."

"And that will be recognized. Thank you, but I'm going to leave and you can't change my mind."

She just nodded as the brother and sister clan rushed out of the room. "Raye, call Trista."

"On it!" She said punching some numbers. She waited for the ringing before handing the phone to her brother. "Your car is in your space."

"You brought it?"

She nodded. "Had to get here somehow."

"Hello?"

"Trista, there's a tracker in her phone I gave her."

"Good, we're getting nowhere. Where is she?"

"This says on the Louise between Tom and Jerry." (Don't ask, couldn't come up with anything else XD)

"I'm on it. There are a few warehouses there."

"We're on our way."

"No, you need to relax Darien. That bullet was centimeters from killing you."

"Trista, there's no use in trying to talk me out of it. I'll check back in when Serena's safe and sound." He heard her sigh as he got in and started the car.

"They're not too far; I have a swat team on their way."

/\\//\\//\

His belt met her skin harshly again. "Tell me where it is you lying whore." He said, obviously losing his temper.

Serena's head was drooped. She had large red streaks over her body from where the belt had repeatedly hit her skin, various open cuts, and tear streaks on her cheeks. She just shook her head. "I don't know." She breathed. "What happened to Darien?"

"He's dead. The bullet killed him. If you would have just told me in the first place," He whipped her again. "He'd still be alive."

"No." She whispered. "He's not dead."

"Sure is deary. He died when I knocked you out."

"No."

He got closer, his face nearly against hers. "Are you going to talk or do I have to force it out of you?" He asked as he placed the blade of a knife he was holding flush against her cheek.

"I don't know anything!" She screamed back at him.

He slapped her over the cheek he just cut before walking to the door. "I'll be back, bitch, and I suggest you watch your mouth when I do return."

She dropped her head again as the door slammed shut. She tried moving her arms again, but her wrists were burning. Her toes barely touched the ground as she hung and her legs were tied to the wall somehow as well. "Darien, I'm so sorry." She whispered. "I love you." Her head shot to her left as she heard some noise. A window was there and it was currently being cut. What the hell? She thought. She struggled to get free again, but her wrists and ankles just ached more.

"Stop moving, we're going to get you out of here." A man – who Serena guessed came through the window – whispered to her. "And keep quiet."

"W-who are you?" She whispered. "I'm with the swat team. We're going to get you out of here." He said cutting the ropes that bound her arms and legs. He then picked her up seeing as she was about to fall to the ground from her legs being so weak. He carefully walked over to the window and handed her to the other man on the outside. Her eyes drooped shut.

The man now holding her shook her gently. "Come on. Stay with us."

Her eyes slowly opened. "T-there's no will to live. Not-not with Darien dead." She said weakly, tears brimming.

"Everything will be okay." He said taking her to an ambulance nearby.

"Darien, here." Raye said pointing to a warehouse where many cop cars and a few ambulance stay.

Darien hurriedly got out of the car and rushed over to where he saw a man carrying a female. "SERENA!" He screamed as he recognized her for sure.

"D-Dare?" She asked as she heard her name. She tried to look around but couldn't see anything. She felt herself being lowered to a gurney and put inside an ambulance

"Sere."

She heard him say lightly as he approached her. She looked towards her feet and saw Darien standing there, relief, pain, and love in his eyes. "I-I thought you were d-dead."

"I'm perfectly alive."

"And bleeding." A medic said as he unbuttoned Darien's shirt. The gauze covering his bullet wound had completely been soaked through with blood. "Get in. You need to be in the hospital." He said ushering Darien next to Serena.

"Darien!" Raye called.

"We're taking him to the hospital ma'am."

Darien tossed his keys to her. "Meet us there." He immediately regretted that decision as his chest throbbed with pain.

"Sir, don't make any sudden movements. It looks as if you've pulled your stitches. What happened to you?" The medic asked as the doors were shut.

"I was shot. I don't know what happened in the hospital." The medic moved to assess his wound. "No, treat her."

"Dare-"

"Sere, I'm fine." He looked down and adjusted the gauze. "I – uh – just pulled my stitches." He found some clean gauze pads and pressed it to his chest with a hiss.

"Sir, you should really let me look at you."

"I'm a doctor, owner of the hospital we're going. I'm perfectly capable of assessing my own wounds. Now help her." He ordered.

"I wish you weren't so suborned." Serena sighed as she lowered her head and the medic began assessing her wounds. "All he did was whip and cut me."

"Well we need to check them out. It looks like most the cuts have scabbed over." The medic said moving some of her clothes as Serena blushed. She heard Darien chuckle. "What?"

"You. I remember that night and all you did was blush."

"I'm not one to go flaunting my body."

"I know, I know." He said leaning his head back.

"Dr. Chiba, don't fall asleep."

"I know, I know." He repeated.

"I'm so glad you're okay. I-I thought you were dead. You were dying in my arms."

"Do you know what happened?"

"He said he knocked me out." She gave a small laugh. "You know when he knocked me out I had a dream. I dreamed that you woke me up out of a screaming frenzy. Apparently we were married, with a daughter, and you woke me up because everything that happened was a dream.. I was telling the girls about it and Raye leaned over the table and smacked me, but I guess it was Matt waking me up."

"Odd." He said weakly.

"Dr. Chiba, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." He said breathlessly.

The medic held a stethoscope to Darien's chest then hit the body of the ambulance towards the front. "Pick it up." He shouted.

"W-what's wrong?" Serena asked.

"Collapse lung." Darien breathed as the medic responded at the same time.

"Lay across here." The medic ordered as he pointed to the seat they were sitting on.

"Put him on here." Serena said moving to get up.

The medic helped Darien onto the gurney as he stopped breathing.


A/n: So more of an explination. I was replying to a review when I came up with the idea to make the her waking up after Darien being shot and thinking it all a dream be a dream in itself. lol...i told the review i thought of something evil for the story and i hope this isn't too evil. I did have only one review who seemed slightly disappointed wiht the story...but yah, it's not over yet!!!!! Hope you don't completely hate me for doing this! and ya, that's refering to Darien who stopped breathing. Just a warning, I'm no doctor, I only watch doctor shows...like right now I'm watching House, so I don't know all about it. I'm using my best knowledge (again, from tv hospital shows) so don't hate me if I get something wrong.

*So I just recieved a review from someone who was slightly confused as to what was the dream...the REAL dream started when she was woken up by Darien last chapter. She really is in witness protection. everything with the mob after her is real. the dream was her being married to darien and them having a daughter. I'll make it easier, I'll go back and bold the dream. It may confuse future readers, but it'll make more since for everyone...hopefully...sorry for any confusion...hope this clears it up! The part that says Raye slapped her was really in her dreams. Matt slapped her and she invisioned it as Raye...it's hard to explain, it made since in my head at the time...I'll have to fix it up...

Thanks for reading
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