Ever After

by jade21

After breaking up with his girlfriend Serena because he wrongly believed she cheated on him, Darien returns home from school in America to win her back. He discovers that she is pregnant with his child and marries her against her parents' wishes. Years later when secrets of the past and present threatened their marriage, can their love survive or will everything fall apart?

32. Chapter 32: My Sibling's Keeper

Chapter Thirty-Two

My Sibling's Keeper

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Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.

"You will not leave me, Serenity. Not even the devil himself can stop me from being with you."

"You are crazy, Endyimon. I hate you! I despise you!"

"I don't give a damn. Your heart and your body belong to me. I will eradicate every man who ever touches you like the way I touch you. Do you understand me, princess?"

Darien's deep blue eyes popped opened as he lied in bed one night. His head swarmed with the voices of Serenity and Endyimon. He started to remember his life as Endyimon.

One a cool starry night with the Earth revolving in the distant, they were walking along a hallway outside the courtyard within the palace walls of the Moon Palace. Well, she was storming away from him in a white gown while he chased after her disguised as Tuxedo Mask. The queen had banned him from the palace for deflowering her daughter. Everyone knew that the princess was intimate with the Earth King except the queen, who only found out when she learnt of a painting of the young king lying naked in her daughter's bed, highly vulgar and indecent. She slapped her daughter harshly on the cheek and threatened to punish anyone in her palace who leaked out that the princess was no longer pure.

Endyimon found the news amusing when an ambassador of the moon kingdom appeared in his court on Earth and informed the king that he was forbidden to see the princess anymore. If he broke this request, the Moon will declared war on the Earth. Endyimon laughed it off and evaded answering the ambassador right away. He eventually agreed to the Moon Queen's request even though he knew secretly that there was no way in heaven, hell, or earth that he was going to stop seeing the princess. Even sitting in his throne room where his subjects converse and mingled around him, his arousal grew hard just thinking of his precious princess and how he plan to spoil her once he saw her again.

He saw a pretty brunette dancing with one of the noblemen. Her eyes met his as she seduced him with her eyes. At the age of twenty-five, Endyimon was single and the most powerful being on Earth. He was loved and respected by his subjects and considered wise beyond his years. His generals travelled throughout the world spreading his rule as he watched over his subjects from the Kingdom of Elysian like the god he was. He drunk like a sailor after winning wars and conquering new lands and bedded young maidens with his insatiable appetite. Serenity heard rumors of his hunger for women and he admitted to her that this was true, and when she was his wife, she would have to accept that her husband will bed other women like every queen does. She spat at him and told him angrily that she never married him. He loved Serenity with all his heart and being with her satisfied him for a short time before he bedded other young maidens calling them her name as he shouted in pleasure as he reached ecstasy. Some woman accepted this. Others hated it. Everyone in the kingdom knew that Endyimon was in love with the Moon Princess. He found it amusing when Serena became angry as he stared at her adorable mouth and cute little button nose. He grew extremely jealous when she smiled too long at another man. She forbade her from seeing the dark Prince Malcolm, whom she was very friendly with. She claimed that they were only friends and he was dating Sailor Venus, but he still hated seeing them together. He was unaware that Serenity kept her friendship with Prince Malcolm until the day she died.

It was because of that brunette that Serenity was upset with him. Serenity lashed out at her mother telling her that she was in love with the Earth King. Selenity yelled back at her daughter that she was a fool. The Earthlings were vulgar people and that Endyimon would never be faithful to her and that she would be miserable living as a mortal. Serenity's eyes were shocked when her mother said those words. Selenity informed her daughter that the only way that Serenity could be with the king is to become a mortal herself and die a mortal death. It was forbidden for Lunarians to marry outside of their race. If Serenity chose to be with the king as his wife, she could never return to the moon or see her friends again. Her cousin Princess Venus would become the Moon Princess and future queen. Serenity was devastated by her mother's words. She would never get a chance to see her mother or friends again who she loved like sisters. Venus would be devastated by becoming the moon princess. She was in a forbidden relationship herself with Prince Malcolm, who technically was Lunarian by his mother. She could not marry him because he was a son of darkness and their people feared his kind. Her mother and Venus' mother had already lashed out at her and demanded that she stopped seeing the prince. Venus secretly met him. She tried not to, but it was hard to stay away from the man you love even when it is in your best interest to do so. Serenity understood that because she was having the same dilemma with Endyimon. Her mother told her to make her decision wisely.

That night, a distraught Serenity teleported to the Earth to see her king only to remain frozen in pain to see her king making love to one of his noble subjects. She heard rumors that he had affairs. He told her himself that had other women. But this was the first time she ever saw him with another woman and it shook her to the core as she realized that her mother was right. He could not make her happy. She was dangerously in love with a man, who would always hurt her and constantly cheat on her like every Earth King did. He told her once that kings cheated on their wives, but her father was a king and he never cheated on her mother and the same was for Venus' parents. The girl gasped when she saw Serenity there. Endyimon grew still. He knew that she was there without looking. He slowly turned around to see her crying. Her innocent blue eyes glistened with tears. He hated seeing her like that and he tried to move to comfort her. She stepped back and disappeared. She cried heartbroken, shaking her head, "I never want to see you again, Endyimon." She disappeared as he called out to her.

Two weeks later, Serena spent her days and nights crying over her young king. Her body ached for him like she was put under a spell to love only him. She grew pale and did not want to eat or leave her room. Her friends comforted her and tried to cheer her up but nothing they did helped. Endyimon was miserable and frustrated without his princess. He refused to listen to his counsel as they tried to tell him about the impending attack. He lashed out at them threatening their lives with death. His top general and best friend Kunzite told him that he was a fool and he was going to damned them all for a woman. Endyimon ordered the guards to imprison the general. The general frowned at the king as he pushed off the guards trying to arrest him. Kunzite walked in front of the guards he had trained as they escorted him to the dungeons. Endyimon did not touch any alcohol or another woman for two weeks as his body cried out to her at night and he found himself restless and a nervous wreck looking at the moon and calling out her name.

Serenity felt a presence in a room. She jumped up when she felt it was Endyimon. Her eyes were wet with tears and her face was puffy like she had been crying for a while. His eyes were watery and apologetic. He said softly, "Serenity, please forgive. I need you." Serenity weakly nodded her head as he rushed over to her kissing her and making love to her as if he would die without being inside of her. She held onto her as he promised to be faithful to her.

He lied naked in her arms in the aftermath of their love making. His head lied gently on her bosom. He sighed in content as she slowly ran her hands through his soft dark hair. He caressed her flat stomach and for the first time since his wife died three and half years ago, he wanted to make another child with Serenity. His powers prevented him from fathering any unwanted children. He bedded hundreds of women that he was ashamed to admit and not one of them beside Christina ever became pregnant. Many women suspected that he was sterile, but he could choose the mother of his children. He glanced up at Serenity and saw that he wanted it to be her.

"Marry me."

Serenity looked down at him surprised at what he said. She then laughed to his disappointment. "I hate you, Endyimon."

"I know."

"I don't want to love you."

"I know."

"You're an ass, a whore, unfaithful, and short tempered."

He growled becoming upset with her list of his bad traits.

"But I love you even though I know you're completely wrong for me."

"So is that a yes?" Serenity laughed as she nodded. He lifted his head happily pressing his lips against hers as he made love to her again.

They secretly wed in a church on Earth and kept their marriage a secret from everyone. Serenity remained on the moon, while Endyimon was on Earth. They teleported every night to one another and spent their days with his small children, Derrick and Katie exploring different parts of Endyimon's world. He did not act like the king he was and he neglected his subject. He never touched another woman again and he gave up drinking.

Their marriage was forbidden and Endyimon knew the Moon Queen's threat about war was serious including the wars that were erupting all over the Earth. He came up with a plan to win over the Moon Queen. He heard rumors about an impending attack on the Moon and decided to inform the queen of this attack. His plan worked and the more he worked with the Moon Queen, the more he grew on her.

Her mother approval of their relationship delighted Serenity. She was still unaware that they were married now. He lied in Serenity's bed that night for the first time with her mother's knowledge. She spent the night thanking Endyimon for winning her mother over. Then, she informed him that she thought she was pregnant which made him laugh since he had not impregnated her yet. It was too soon, but he was eager too. Three months later, Serenity and Endyimon were dead.

Darien walked barefooted through the halls of his home in Barcelona cladded an old t-shirt and jogging pants. He suffered from insomnia and had not slept in weeks. Mina and Jason held a small private wedding on Darien's estate. Mina's wedding went off without a hitch as Patricia listened to the entire ceremony from the basement.

On a beautiful sunny afternoon in Barcelona, Jason smiled happily. He stood in front of a large white gazebo on the beautiful, endless green lawn of Darien's estate. The crystal clear blue lake was quiet and calm in the backdrop. The small ceremony was surrounded by a beautiful rose garden with the flowers in full bloom. The birds chirped in the air. A small orchestra was set up next to the gazebo. The caterers and servers in white tuxedo uniforms set up a large buffet table ready to serve the guests after the ceremony. Round tables set for ten with white linen tablecloths and flowers vases with red roses in the center were set up behind the buffet table. All the flowers for the wedding had been picked from Darien's garden and Lita handled the wedding decorations and putting together the rose bouquets together. She even made their five-layered white wedding cake that sat at the center of the buffet table. It was adorned with red roses shaped icing all over and a miniature figurine of a kissing bride and groom on top of the cake. A long white carpet separated the white folding chairs with twenty-five chairs on either side filled to capacity with fifty of their closest friends and family.

Jason stood at the altar handsomely dressed in a white tuxedo, black slacks, and black bow tie with his little brother as his best man and his best friends as his groomsmen. The preacher stood on the gazebo dressed in a black robe holding a worn-out black Bible in his hands. He chatted with a bubbly Jason as they waited for the ceremony to begin. The orchestra played a lovely melody while the guests chatted amongst themselves.

Jason smiled at his mother, who was already crying and dabbing her eyes with Kleenex. Everyone became silent when the preacher signaled to the crowd that the ceremony had begun and the orchestra played a beautiful melody. The crowd awed as Zayden slowly marched in as the ring bearer dressed adorably in a white tuxedo and bow tie. He was terrified at all the people smiling and snapping photos of him. He spotted his father and kept his eyes fixated on him. Andrew smiled proudly at his son as he turned in his aisle seat watching his son march down the aisle. Andrew and Darien smiled amusingly at Zayden. The crowd laughed when Zayden ran into his father's arms. Andrew lifted his little boy into his arms and sat him down on his lap for a quick moment. He whispered something in his son's ear and kissed his cheek before setting Zayden back on his feet. Zayden walked to the altar and stood next to Jason who knelt down for a quick second and gave him a high-five for a good job. Zayden beamed happily.

Lita, Ami, and Jason's sisters marched in one after the other looking beautiful in alternating white and red floor length halter top gowns holding bouquets of white and red roses. Ariel then marched in wearing a red strapless gown and red bouquet of roses in her hands. She smiled beautifully at the crowd as the guests and professional photographer snapped her photograph. Her eyes locked with Jason's for a moment. He quickly diverted his eyes and focused his attention on his crying mother as Ariel marched down the aisle. Ariel smiled faltered for a quick second before she smiled beautifully again for the guests. Darien and Andrew stifled back a laugh with a knowing glance at one another, catching on to Ariel and Jason's quick and awkward interaction. The wedding march began. Everyone rose to their feet. Everyone looked in awe as Mina stood at the entrance. She wore a beautiful strapless white gown and held a bouquet of white roses in her hands. Her makeup was flawless. Her golden blonde hair was styled in a flawless chignon with a strand of curls dangling from either side of her face. She wore sparkling dangling diamond earrings and a cool diamond necklace around her neck which looked like it costs millions. Mina began to march down the aisle never taking her eyes off of Jason, who beamed happily at her. She smiled happily at him feeling completely at ease. When she arrived at the altar, he held out his hand for her which she happily accepted. After the exchanging of the vows, rings, and a sweet kiss, the reverend announced them as man and wife. Patricia smiled in happiness for her daughter.

Two days after the wedding, Patricia was found dead in the basement by Jason. Jason freaked out and Darien looked at him with a bored expression on his face. Darien told a worried Jason that he would handle it and to act normal. Darien untied Patricia's body. Her wrists and ankles etched with the signs of being tied up. He scooped up her limp body into his arms and vanished. He reappeared in her bedroom in London. He carried her limp body over to her bed. With the flick of his hand, the covers pulled back. He gently rested her on the bed. He then waved his hand over her body. The etched marks disappeared and he dressed her into a nightgown. He pulled the covers over her body. He vanished and appeared in his study back in Barcelona with Patricia's clothes bundled in his hands. He started a fire in the fireplace. He then tossed the Patricia's clothes in the fireplace until they no longer existed.

The following day, her husband Charles came home to find that his wife was dead. He assumed that it was a heart attack and she died peacefully in her sleep. The world was rocked when news spread like wildfire that Patricia Brandon was dead at the age of fifty. Images of her life flashed throughout the holograms in the sky. She was a former fashion model, wife to billionaire Deacon Brandon, mother of actresses Mina Aino and Ariel Brandon. She accomplished a lot in her life from singing to modeling to her philanthropy work with unprivileged children. They showed clips of her having interviews with Ariel at a young age, and clips of her playing with her daughters when they were younger. The final clip was a picture of her and her first husband Deacon as teenagers looking in love and happy with one another.

Mina wept at her mother's funeral that was filled with over three thousand people. All her friends were in attendance along with her mother's friends and associates. Darien smirked as he sat a few pews behind Mina and her husband Jason. It was the perfect opportunity to kill the remaining leaders of the New World Regime. He knew he could not do that to Mina though. Mina really loved Patricia. He paid attention to Ariel, studying her throughout the funeral and burial. She appeared stricken with grief and cried on cue. Then for one moment, he noticed a glint of mischief and contempt in her face as she watched her sister and her sister's new husband that never left her sister's side. She met Darien's eyes through the crowd. Her azure eyes were cold as ice. She was pretending just like he was. She fixed her eyes on Sammy and approached him slipping her arms through the crook of his elbow as he spoke with some of his friends.

Darien had not informed his friends that he knew the truth. For six months, they lied to him and her children about the death of Serena. For six months, they watched him grieved and cried for her, and said nothing. He was aware that she probably asked them to keep her secret, and he despised her too as much as he still loved her.

In respect to Mina, he waited to kill the remaining members of the New World Regime the week after the funeral. He invited Cain into his home and Cain read Patricia's thoughts before she died. They knew all of their hideouts now.

He restored the world back to normal. The laws that Rick created from his sick imagination were abolished. The New World Regime was no longer in power since he assassinated them all with the help of Cain as they took control and Darien declared himself King of the Earth as a joke. Humans rejoiced. He freed all the prisoners that had not been reborn and put out an order to kill everyone who was a reborn. The annihilation of the reborn had begun. Reborns were shot to death and slaughtered on sight.

Everyone feared that Darien had gone mad. The humans were terrified of him as he appeared like a god from the heavens to save them. He brutally murdered the humanoids like it was for sport. He frightened the humans since most of the reborn were clones of someone they knew like a spouse, sibling, child, cousin, or friend.

His children feared him and stayed out of his way. He would not allow anyone to see him and spent his days locked in his room getting drunk and fornicating with women, but he felt nothing. None of them excited him and if it was a reborn, he slaughtered them afterwards.

The children remained locked up in the home only with Marissa and Tony. None of Darien's friends or family was allowed to see them. He only allowed Sammy to visit. When Sammy once asked why, he told him drunk because he was the only one that was not a liar.

Since Darien had no desire to rule, he left the humans of the Earth without a ruler. Cain took over as a representative of Darien. Women were now allowed to return to position of power and their businesses, which delighted Lita and Ami. They also had their rights again. Humans were free to believe in whatever they believed in again and dragoons as a form of currency was abolished.

Cain was worried. It's been over a month and Dragon had not made a move as he verbally confessed his worries to his brother. He allowed Darien to eradicate the New World Regime and take control of the earth without a fight. They were his followers and he did nothing to save them. What did he have up his sleeve?

Darien sat in his recliner in his study. He relaxed his head back on the recliner and he gulped down a bottle of vodka. Cain appeared before him.

Darien groaned in agony. He asked, "So who the hell are you people?" Darien thought they were going to kill him so he tried to kill them off by destroying the building with them in it or at least that was the voice in his head told him when he was drunk. It's been months since he heard from Endyimon. Now, he was receiving memories of his past life with Serenity. They were about as miserable and in love as Darien and Serena were.

Cain said, "You already know who I am." Cain walked over to Darien and snatched the bottle of vodka out of Darien's hand. Cain hurled it against the wall shattering it. Darien watched angrily as the bottle shattered against the wall.

Darien lashed out, "Hey, I was drinking that!"

Cain frowned at him. "You're as bad as father. He was a drunk too."

Darien moved too quickly and sat back as his head started pounding.

Cain said, "Alcohol is your problem, Darien. You can't handle it just like father."

Darien slurred over his words. "Y-You're not my brother. I don't have a family." Darien's eyes glowed golden as he called upon the powers of the bottom drawer of his desk to open. A bottle of whiskey flew out and into Darien's hand. His eyes returned to normal. He shook the bottle in front of Cain smiling triumphantly for outsmarting him. "Always have backup." He popped the cap off and started gulp down the whiskey like it was water.

Cain knelt before Darien. "That's how mother and father died."

Darien's eyes narrowed. He stopped drinking and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

"What do you mean?"

Cain said, "Father was an alcoholic. He couldn't control his liquor. He was drinking when he was died thinking he was invincible like you. His blood alcohol level was way over the limit. He lost control of the car and drove mother, you, and himself off of a cliff to our parents' death." Cain took the bottle from Darien.

"He was miserable. His life was falling apart. They were on the verge of getting a divorce, and he was not happy with his life so he drank to forget his misery. He neglected his children, lashed out at mother, and one time when he tried to raise a hand to mother, you tried to fight him. He tossed you across the room and broke three of your ribs and both of your arms. If you were any other child, you would have died. If you were any other child, you would have died in that car crash, but somehow you lived."

Cain said, "And you are going to live again. Don't let your children have the childhood that we had where they are afraid of their own father. They love you. Allow them to."

Darien looked down at his brother. His arms rested on the armrest. "I want Serena back. That's all I give a damn about."

Cain said, "That's not going to happen. Serena is probably dead. Whatever Dragon has done to her, she isn't human now."

Darien snarled. "I don't give a damn. I want her back."

Cain rose. "You don't care that you have a family, friends, or a career. You don't care that humans chant your name like a god. They want you to lead them, yet you cower away in the darkness drinking alcohol and sulking about a woman who chose to marry the devil."

Darien yelled, "Take that back!"

Cain said, "He couldn't force her to come to him. She chose to. She chose to marry him. You know why." Cain leaned over and whispered in Darien's ear, "Because you are pathetic. You were pathetic back then and you are pathetic now." Cain stood up and walked passed him to the large window. "Your first wife didn't want you so you drink and screw other women. Your second wife has not been cold in the ground for a good two weeks before you stuck your cock into another woman."

Cain pulled the strings to the large curtains blinding Darien's eyes as the light from the sun shone through the room and illuminated the room as dust bunnies glistening in the air since the room had not been cleaned for weeks and smelled stale. "Continue on fucking and drinking your way out of your problems. But there is a whole world out there, your kingdom needs you. A thousand years ago you failed them because of a woman. Now, history is repeating itself. Are you going to let your kingdom fall again for a woman or are you going to save us this time?"

Darien laughed as his eyes readjusted to the light. "I have no kingdom."

Cain said, "The Earth is your kingdom not just Elysian. Elysians watched over this world from the heavens but the Earthlings are your subjects also. You are a king. You are the king so start acting like it."

Darien exhaled. The alcohol no longer helped him and he no longer received any pleasure from sleeping with women. He only wanted one and now she was the devil's wife thanks to him. It's been a month since he killed Rick and met the trio. Cain was correct. He knew who they were. He did not remember his past. There was no magic moment where he embraced them and remembered his childhood. But he knew who they were. They were his family. A family that he never thought existed. He did try to find out about his past once…

When he was twenty-one and weeks before he started medical school again, he researched his parents for four days. It was strange how it happened. He never told anyone what happened and slipped it to the back of his mind like it never happened. He almost forgot it happened until he encountered Cain and his siblings. The brothers and sister he did not remember.

It started on a Thursday night, thanks indirectly to Serena. He never really cared about learning about his past because he was happy with his current life. Yet, one Thursday night Serena and Darien were having a movie night at his apartment. They were cuddled up on the couch watching the animated movie Anastasia. He did not want to watch a cartoon movie, but she melted his resolve with her big blue eyes and sad pouting lips. He gave in and found himself captivated by this movie about an orphaned young woman on a journey to find out about her past. It was one of the songs in the movie called, "Journey to the Past" that really pulled at his emotions. While Serena slept horribly with the covers tangled around her and snored loudly in his bed dressed in one of his t-shirt and a pair of his boxers, Darien sat at his computer desk on his laptop researching car accidents that happened thirteen or fourteen years ago.

Darien remembered nothing about the first seven or eight years of his life. He did not remember his parents' face. He did not remember if he had siblings or not. He did not remember his favorite color, his age, or his birthday. He declared himself eight because it made him older and because the doctors said that the boy looked around seven or eight. He declared his birthday August third because that was the day he woke up in the hospital with no memories of his past and decided to call himself Darien Shields. It was the day he became Darien Shields. The only thing he remembered was that it was night time and he was sitting in the back of a car. His parents were faceless, but his gut told him that it was his parents that he was riding with that night. His father lost control of the wheel and ended up driving off a cliff. The next thing he remembered was waking up in a hospital days later on August third.

Midnight turned into two o'clock in the morning and Darien hardly found anything as he continued searching. He did find an article about a car accident that happened thirteen years ago that grabbed his attention and matched his memory. The only thing that puzzled him was that the accident occurred around nine thirty at night on July thirty-first in Sendai, Japan. It was on record that he appeared in the hospital in Tokyo at nine thirty-two that same night. How is it possible that he travelled almost four hours in two minutes? He did not know. His eyes began to hurt and dry out from sitting at the computer screen too long and tiredness came over him. He stopped his search for the night and went to bed cuddling next to his girlfriend as he drifted off to sleep.

On Friday morning after dropping Serena off at school on his motorcycle, he travelled across town to the hospital where he first became Darien. Most of the nurses and doctors who worked that night were retired, changed jobs, or were laid off due to budget cuts since the economy was still in a recession. He did find out about a retired nurse, now grey, wrinkled, and senile. She resided an assisted living residential community for the elderly. He went to visit her and he listened to her talk as they played a game of chess.

No one knew how he arrived outside the entrance of the emergency room. One minute nothing was there. The next minute she saw a small boy around seven or eight magically appeared with a golden aura surrounding his body. His eyes were golden irises. He had a hand held out in a halt gesture like he was trying to stop something and he was breathing heavily and trembling all over. She thought he was an angel from the heavens that no one saw but her. Suddenly, his eyes returned to normal. He lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground and bashed his head hard on the pavement that his skull cracked. Blood oozed out of his head. He had a slight concussion and his legs and arms were covered with small cuts and bruises. He woke up days later in the hospital with no memory of his past. Then a few days later with no relatives coming to claim him, he was placed in an orphanage. That was all she knew. Darien thanked the nurse as he allowed her to easily beat him in their game of chess. He smiled at the joy on her face when she realized she won.

When he arrived back at his apartment, he took out his cell phone and called up Serena. It was noon and Serena should be at lunch by now. She answered after a few rings and listened as he asked her if she wanted to go out of town with him for the weekend. He promised her a romantic getaway to seal the deal. She apologetically informed him that she already promised Ami to travel with her to Osaka tomorrow morning for a scholastic conference. He then tried Andrew who was busy with customers at the arcade. He promised a boys' night out to seal the deal. Andrew said apologetically, "Sorry man, no can do. Rita is coming home for the weekend and on Sunday my parents want us to go sailing on their yacht with my sister and her latest boyfriend."

Darien already knew what that meant. "Come on Andrew, bros before girls."

Andrew chuckled then said, "Yeah, like you didn't call Serena before you called me."

On Saturday morning the next day, he placed on his dark shades and took a nice long drive to Sendai. With the top down in his convertible, Darien cruised along the highway with the cool wind blowing through his hair on a pretty, sunny day. Serena called him. He answered the phone holding it up with one hand while steering the wheel with the other. He could hear in the background that they were at a train station surrounded by tons of people and noise. They were boarding the bullet train to Osaka. She was being pushed towards the train along with Ami next to her. Ami greeted him loudly in the background. Darien laughed at the sound of her voice. He congratulated her since she was receiving another award for being one of the brightest young minds in Japan. She shyly thanked him in her modest tone. Serena cried out outraged when she was shoved onto the train. Serena held the phone to her ear as she listened to the sound of Darien breathing as he held the phone to his ear with a smile on his handsome face.
He said, "I love you too. Now, have fun." Serena smiled brightly as she blushed as the train's doors closed. She told him that she loved him before she ended the call. Darien clicked off the phone and placed it back in the cup holder.

Darien arrived in Sendai late that afternoon. He visited the scene of the accident as he passed a sign indicating that he was entering Sendai. He pulled his car off to the side and stepped out of it. He walked along the cliff. He could hear the sound of the tides of the sea splashing violently along the rocky shore hundreds of feet below. Darien looked over the metal ramp coming to the conclusion that no one could have survived that accident. In the news article, the car was heading out of Sendai towards Tokyo when the car skidded off the road and down the cliff exploding on impact when it crashed into the rocks down below. In his mind, he thought being at the scene of the accident would trigger his memories but nothing happened. He was already becoming disappointed with the trip as he strode back to his car.

He soon arrived in the city and went to the police station that responded to the car accident. They hardly knew anything besides what he told Serena on the plane years later. Everything was burnt to a crisp and their remains were blown into the pieces including their identification cards. One of the detectives was able to make out the name Katherine on a charred license but that was it. The name sounded familiar and calming to Darien. His gut told him that Katherine was his mother's name. He tried to ask them about a little boy being in the accident. They said that only the remains of a man and his wife were found. No trace of a child's corpse was found at the scene of the accident. No one reported finding a dead child floating along the sea. A suspicious part of him told him that there was more to the story than the cops led on like they were covering something up.

He booked a cheap hotel room for the night. Serena asked him via text message to pick them up from the train station tomorrow evening at six and to bring food. The food at the conference tasted horrible. He replied back that he would. He spent the weekend in Sendai delving deeper but constantly running into dead ends, black out documents and sealed records denying him access. Someone did not want him to know about his past or family for a reason. As he returned home that Sunday to pick up Ami and Serena from the train station, he decided to stop digging into the past and focus his complete attention on his life with Serena.

Eleven years later, he now understood things better. Somehow he was teleported out of the car. If what the nurse told him was correct, he had developed his Elysians powers at the age of eight. He stopped looking for his past and now his past had found him. He remembered the moment he stood in the room surrounded by his siblings, Cain, Evelyn, and Adam.

For nearly twenty-four years, he walked this earth thinking he was alone. He tried to kill his siblings since his mind was telling him that they wanted to kill him. He was completely wasted and psychotic with power. He's been gradually going mad since Karen died. He could not believe he lashed out of at his own son and attacked him. All the boy had was his mother and he accused a ten-year-old of being responsible for his mother's death. He remembered telling Serena at the gravesite since he thought she was dead that he hated his son. He winced in pain from the alcohol. The women he bedded were faceless and unimportant since they meant nothing to him. Cain was right. He couldn't screw his problems away.

Cain looked at his brother. Cain saw the look of anguish and regret in his brother. He smiled. He was starting to wake up from his self-pity. Cain yelled out, "You need a day."

Darien groaned and nodded. Cain smiled. "Good, but tomorrow, you're Endyimon again."

Darien thought about something. His siblings were named Adam, Evelyn, and Cain. "Cain, what's my name?"

Cain became amused. "We called you, Abel." Darien threw his head back against the chair as his laughter echoed throughout the room as his headache pounded against his skull. He touched his throbbing temple and groaned as he laughed again despite his pain.

Darien turned to Cain. His eyes were bright with amusement. "Are you my keeper?"

Cain's face was aloof but Darien saw a glint of amusement in his eyes. Cain bowed his head. "Good-bye Darien." Cain disappeared.

Darien dosed off and went to sleep. He woke up four hours later feeling refreshed. He had a lot of people to apologize to. The first ones on his list were his children. He rushed down the hallway to see his children. They sat on the floor in Derrick's room coloring in their coloring books. He knelt down before them and began to apologize to them. Rini and Derrick stopped coloring and walked out of the room not believing him. He constantly told them that he was going to change his ways and then started drinking again. They could hear the women in their father's room, who he paraded in and out of the house like he was conducting job interviews without callbacks. It was always someone different like he could not find the right candidate. It started to freak them out when some of the women looked like Karen and others looked like Serena. All of them had blue eyes. They stayed out of his way knowing that he was crazy. Katie still believed in him and she embraced her father.

Jason and Mina spent their morning walking along the white sandy beaches of Jamaica as the waves rose in the ocean and a strong, cool breeze blew around them blowing through their hair. The bird swarmed around them. They spent their afternoon mingling with the locals, sightseeing, and eating the local food. Jason drank some of the local drinks, but Mina did not. She found out the other day that she was six weeks pregnant to Jason's excitement. She laughed when she found out that he tweeted to the world that he was going to be a dad even though no one knew where they were in the world except Darien since he teleported them there. Mina watched as Jason and Darien became like brothers constantly hanging out with one another like they were in some secret club that only they were members of. She was happy with Ariel also. She was coping to things just fine. It was Ariel who called to tell her that their mother was dead. Mina cried as Ariel teleported them to her apartment in London. When Jason arrived, Ariel politely disappeared to Mina's protest. Ariel was now dating Serena's brother, Sammy which surprised everyone including Sammy. Mina had a slight problem with that since Sammy was twenty-four and Ariel was only eighteen, but Ariel seemed happy with him.

Mina liked that Ariel had someone. They could now double date. They actually did as they all went to dinner together at a cozy, little restaurant. Jason dressed in a nice burgundy shirt and dark slacks while Mina wore a tight black little halter dress turning Jason on. Sammy looked like a preppy boy from the nineteen fifties with his chic gel haircut and black framed nerd glasses. He was casually dressed in a Ralph Lauren polo shirt tucked neatly into khaki pants while Ariel wore a spaghetti strap red dress with a sweetheart neckline showing off her ample cleavage. Sammy joked about now having a rich girlfriend who could pay off his student loans as they laughed. Sammy noticed the quiet look on Jason's face as he paid attention a little too closely to Ariel. Ariel watched Jason seductively with a glint of wickedness in her eyes. She made a discreet gesture where she accidently caressed her chest drawing his attention to her supple breasts as she played with the golden apple shaped locket that Jason had brought for her eighteenth birthday while they were promoting their movie Eve. One of her red pumps was kicked off underneath the table as her pretty pedicured little foot caressed his Jason's leg.

Jason blinked his eyes trying to calm his body down. He leaned over to Mina and kissed her cheek. He excused himself from the table and went to men's room. He tossed cold water on his face to cool himself down as he looked at himself in the mirror. He exhaled feeling emotions for Ariel that he never felt before. He walked out the bathroom and jumped when he saw her standing next to women's bathroom in the busy restaurant. Jason looked to see if anyone was looking. He could see Mina in the distance joking with Sammy about something they were talking about. Jason stepped towards Ariel until they were standing inches apart. She looked at him with a wry smile and her back against the wall. Her back slightly arch, her full soft breasts underneath his gaze. He pressed his hand flat against the wall next to her head. She looked innocent but she was anything but that. He leaned down towards her so close that her breath stilled. Their faces were inches apart. He said forcefully staring her directly in the eyes with a pissed off expression on his face, "I know Mina had the power to make people fall in love so stop it. I don't love you, and I never will see you like that. So back off."

Ariel laughed as she stroked his muscular chest. He slapped her hand away as she cackled. She turned her head sideways to look at her sister across the room completely oblivious to them. "How do you think Mina would feel if she found out that you had our mother tied up in a basement for weeks? You abused her and tortured her. You allowed her only mother to miss her wedding." She turned back to Jason. "How much do you think she will love you when I tell her that?"

"Stop it."

"And how you tried to rape me?"

Jason lashed out sharply, "I never touched you. You tried to seduce me."

Ariel looked innocently like she did not know what he was talking about. "I don't remember that."

Jason leaned forward towards her and whispered in her ear. "Do not play with me, little girl. You're a child, and I am not into little girls."

Ariel frowned. "That's a lie. I remembered how you kissed me in the shower scene on set."

Jason leaned back. "That's why it's called acting, and I was imagining it was your sister not you."
He pushed himself away from her and walked off. Ariel seethed. He was going to pay.

Around seven that evening, Mina and Jason walked hand in hand along the beach that was lit with Christmas lights and booths and tents for two miles. It was packed with tourist and locals for its annual Reggae Festival. Reggae music played in the background as local reggae artists performed their songs on a stage at the center of the festival. Some of the tourist and locals were on their surf boards riding the waves and crashing in the water. The moon dipped into the sea in the horizon in the midnight blue sky.

Mina wore a long hot pink beach dress and cute matching wedge slippers that she brought from the market earlier that day. Jason was dressed comfortably in a white buttoned shirt and khaki shorts and flip flops. Jason brought her a flower from the one of the boots and tucked it neatly in her hair. They looked in amazement as they walked around the tents. Mina stood in front of the stage and moved her hips to the beat of the music as Jason wrapped his arms tightly around her as moved in sync with her.

After a while, Jason started to yawn. They had been in Jamaica for two weeks and Mina could tell Jason was getting bored. He hated being idle and his agents were blowing up his cell phones trying to get him to do this movie and that movie offering him millions. He really wanted to get back to doing movies. But now Mina was pregnant and they were married and he told millions of people in a press conference that all he wanted to focus on was marrying Mina and having a baby. Now, that was happening, and he really missed working.

As if Mina read his thoughts, she said, "We'll leave for New York tomorrow."

"Thank God," Jason thought in relief. He was waiting for their honeymoon to be over, but since her mother died after the wedding, it was pushed back a couple of weeks. Jason acted concerned. "Are you sure?"

Mina laughed. "Yes, I'm sure. I don't need my powers to tell me that you are ready to get back to work."

Jason looked at her sheepishly. "I'm sorry."

Mina smiled. "No, I am happy." As the waves splashed around their feet wetting their toes, Jason pulled Mina closer to him as she encircled her arms tight around his neck. His hands encircled her small waist loosely. Their eyes locked for a moment as a feeling of peace passed over them like the calming sounds of the ocean and the wind blowing around them. She lifted her head as he bent his head. His lips softly touched hers in a passionate kiss. Mina broke away from him at the sound of the festival playing in the distance. She locked hands with him as they continued their relaxing walk along the beach. It was getting darker and Jason yawned again covering his mouth. Mina wanted to stay out a little bit longer and enjoy herself. He told her to be careful and strolled back to the hotel room.

Mina walked into the room an hour later. Jason could hear her slowly tiptoeing in the room trying not to disturb him. Mina slipped off her clothes. A large toothy grin appeared on Jason's face as Mina sipped underneath the covers. She slowly tucked herself in the bed. Jason no longer felt sleepy as her presence always excited him. He rolled over and pulled her into his arms with her back pressed tightly against his naked skin. He loved that she came to bed naked and ready for him. His body never grew tired of her and her mere presence excited him. She moaned lightly as his lips touched her soft tanned skin. His hands stroked her body, and placed his hands on her still flat stomach happy thanking her for carrying his seed. She moaned as they grind their lowered halves together as he held her tightly with one arm. She moaned his name on her lips. He breathed in the exotic scent of her fresh hair. He moved his hands upwards to her breasts and cupped them in his hands. Mina's eyes closed as she bit her lips enjoying her lover's embrace as she moved her hips in sync with his body like they were when she watched them danced together. In one slick movement, she was beneath him as their arousals grinded together. He was bigger than she imagined.

He looked down at her beautiful face. His eyes filled with lust, desire, and love as he stared down at his beautiful wife's face as she moaned underneath him. The desire in her eyes matched his own as he lowered his head telling her that he loved her as he kissed her lips once more like she was a desperately needed drug. Her hands gripped her hair as his head lowered to the valley of her breasts as he devoured them with his mouth, molding them, cupping them, shaping them with his hands. He played with her sweet, delectable nipples that were hard and erect as he licked and kissed them with his hot mouth. He groaned as her skin tasted sweet like mangos. He rubbed his head against her breasts that were soft as pillows.

He lowered her head as he licked her stomach to her belly button. She could feel her core getting wet as she leaked her creamy nectar onto the sheets. She cried out as she arched her back as her long golden locks moved wildly around her as he thrust into her belly button with his tongue. She cried in pleasure as his dark eyes looked upwards as her as she looked down at him. He pushed her legs apart and he found it amused that she was fighting to close him like a frightened little virgin. He was not used to Mina acting so innocent. He overpowered her as he pushed her legs opened with arms as his mouth kissed her bare mound. He was taken aback since normally she usually kept it trimmed down there. But he did not care. He hungrily wanted to taste her. He mouth devoured her as his lips, mouth, and tongue consumed her sweet tasting nectar as she whimpered underneath him and rode his tongue as he thrust inside of her. Mina screamed as she reached euphoria and came inside his mouth. He grinned satisfied as he sat up on his knees.

Mina laughed as she mingled with the locals. She strolled along the booths as they tried to sell her jewelry, bags, and artwork. She stood in front of the band again. A new group was performing. It was a trio with a young female lead singer. She started performing Rhianna's "Man Down" as a crowd formed around the stage. Mina moved her hips to the beat as she closed her eyes moving her hands above her head in a seductive movement. She saw flashes of gold and black. She saw Jason's green eyes. She saw her lips. She saw a silhouette of two shadowy figures making love. A chill came across her like she was dying. Her hair blew around her. She felt goose bumps on her skin. She huffed when she heard Jason's voice whispered in her ear like the wind, "I love you, Mina." She looked around searching through the crowd for him but could not find him.

"Jason…" She looked off into the distance. She saw her mother staring at her. She was dressed in black. Her face wrinkled and dark circles around her eyes. Her eyes were empty and emotionless. She then saw a quick flash and saw Death. Mina's eyes widen. This was the third time she saw him. The first time was as a child the night her father Deacon died. The second time was in her dreams the night her mother died. Now, he appeared again as he walked through the crowd. Mina became emotional. She cried, "No!" People started staring at her as she pushed her way through the thick crowd, but the crowd seemed to get bigger and bigger like she was swimming against a powerful current going the opposite direction.

Jason's arousal throbbed to full attention as he entered his lover's body. He awaited the sensation they always felt when they connected but it never came. Instead he thrust forward breaking a wall inside of her. He looked down and saw blood flowing out of her. "What the hell!" She looked like Mina, but something was wrong. He gulped as he feared to say the name on the tip of his tongue.

He said fearfully, "Ariel?"

Mina grinned and her face changed from Mina's to Ariel's. He panicked as he tried to pull out of her but his body would not let him. She touched his forearms as her eyes turned orange and his eyes became lifeless as he found himself no longer in control of his body thrusting inside of her as she moaned in bliss enjoying the pain and pleasure of him finally being inside of her. She flipped him over straddling him as she rode him bouncing up and down on him as he pumped inside of her holding his hands on her hips. She enjoyed being on top of him more as he constantly hit her spot as he milked himself in and her. She grabbed her hair tightly and squeezed her breasts. He groaned as her breasts bouncing up and down excited him. He hungrily sat up as he started to suck on them. He fell back on the bed with a loud thud as she continued to ride him.

He sensed the life slowly leak out of his body as his life flashed before his eyes. He chuckled internally thinking it was funny to die like this and go out with a bang. He saw flashes of his childhood. The day he was born, the first time he learn how to ride a bike, his career as a kid movie star, his first kiss at the age of ten with another young starlet in a movie, leaving the industry, playing with his siblings, going hiking with his mates in the United Kingdom. He remembered his first day of high school and how he met his first girlfriend. He remembered her fiery red hair and how it always fell perfectly into place. He remembered graduating from high school and sitting next to his father's hospital bed as he watched his father slowly slipped away. He remembered acting school and how he loved his actor teacher Dr. Alan the most. He remembered performing Hamlet on Broadway and being Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire. He remembered the awe and rush he felt when the audience loved him and critics sung his praises. He remembered playing Detective Michael Kelly in the movies jumping off cars, the impractical high speed car chases on the highways, the beautiful women he costarred with, and the cool fighting scenes. He remembered climbing Mount Everest with his mates. He remembered sitting at home with his mum and younger siblings and watching Mina on Life with Julie and falling instantly in love with her. He told his mother that he was going to marry her someday. He remembered going to Jeff's office and asking him for a role on his new sitcom Society. Jeff thought he was nuts since he was a big time movie star at the time. He remembered seeing Mina on the set clad in her maid costume with her pretty face and sassy mouth rehearsing her lines. He remembered kissing her for the first time on Society when the script did not require it. He seriously wanted to kiss her after hanging out with her on the set and with her friends in London.

His last few seconds of his life ended with images of Mina. He remembered her birthmark on her bum that not too many people knew about. He remembered watching movies with her. She sat upright on the sofa as he lied sideways with his head resting on her lap as they stuffed their faces sharing a large bowl of popcorn. He remembered their pranks on the set of movies together and how he drunk Dr. Pepper for their love scenes while she ate beef jerky since she knew he hated the smell of it. The director had to stop filming when Jason sniffed a whiff of it on her breath and became instantly nauseous. He remembered the time they were on set filming in Mexico and she drank the water that he told her not to drink. He listened listlessly as she went into her "I'm an independent woman I don't need a man to tell what to do" rant before her stomach starting bubbling and her face turned green. She instantly became sick, bent over and vomited all over his brand new expensive shoes while they read lines together. Six years later and she still never repaid him for those shoes. He thought about their wedding. The way she looked at him as she walked down the aisle. He thought about how excited he was when she told him that she was pregnant. He thought about how happy they were together today. His final memory was of him winning the Oscar and meeting his idol as his peers recognized his performances and his fans cheered him on.

As his eyes rolled in the back of his head and he took his final breath, he smiled. In twenty-nine years of living, he lived a life without regret. He did not simply exist. He lived his life, and he was okay with that. He only wished he could have lived to be a father to his beautiful little unborn daughter or son. A white light appeared and he saw his father again dressed in white. His father proudly said of his son's life and accomplishments, "Well done, my son." He smiled as he reached out for his father. His head fell to the side and his hand dropped.

Mina burst into the room. She saw a blonde on top of Jason's body. The girl's back was facing Mina as she straddled her husband. The white sheets scantily covered her butt. She was instantly pissed off at him until the blonde turned her head with a cruel smile and revealed herself to be Ariel. Her eyes were cold and full of hate. She said spitefully, "Hello mother."

She slowly removed herself off of Jason not caring that she was undressed. Mina whimpered when she saw Jason's dead body lying on the bed. His eyes white and his tongue lied limp out of his mouth. She screamed in horror shaking her head, "No! No! No!" She raced passed Ariel and rushed over to Jason trying to awaken him as she gathered him in her arms. His body was cold. Ariel felt no remorse for Mina as she embraced her dead lover on the bed. Her heart had grown cold and hard to both her mother and grandmother. She relished when she killed Patricia with a kiss of her poison lips. No one detected her death was from poison and thanks to Darien healing her wounds, no one will ever know.

Mina cried as tears raced down her cheeks. "Why! Why! Why!" She kissed his lips that were stiff and cold. She turned out to Ariel with hot tears, "Why did you do this?"

Ariel dressed herself and scoffed. "You fucked up my life. I fucked up yours."

Mina's eyes narrowed. "All I ever did was loved you."

Ariel lashed out, "All you ever did was lie to me. You lied to me my entire life. My life was perfect and then you two fucked it up. So you have no mother and no husband." She was now dressed in a black mini dress and a mini leather jacket that came to her waist.

Mina said, "I didn't mean to hurt you, Ariel. I did not ask for what happened to me."

Ariel rolled her eyes. "You're as much as a whore as mother." Mina panted in shock. She had been called a whore many times but never by Ariel.

Ariel said, "Like mother like daughter. Three generations of whores."

Mina said angrily, "He did not deserve this."

Ariel laughed. "Do you know that he kept mother locked in Darien's basements for weeks torturing and asking her questions about the government? While you were getting married, she was locked in the basement. I appeared in the basement and gave mother the kiss of death two days later. She's burning in hell now."

Mina yelled out angrily, "I don't believe you. Jason would never do that."

Ariel laughed. "Yes, he would. You broke him like you broke me. Our lives were perfect without you in it. Your mother and you brought us into your web of lies and destroyed our lives. And now, it's time that you die." Ariel held her hands up.

Mina yelled spitefully, "Are you going to kill me with my own powers?"

Ariel said, "Precisely. You were a great teacher." Ariel's eyes turned orange as he held out her hands towards Mina. Mina's eyes were lifeless and cold as she embraced her dead husband as a powerful explosion erupted and everything faded orange.