Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in getting the next chapter out. Life happens. Anyways, thank you for your patience, and I really hope you enjoy this chapter. As always, this fic is rated M for a reason so if that isn't your cup of tea, please hit the back button now. For everyone else, enjoy!

Serena gazed out the window of her third floor walk up apartment, and watched the rain trickling down the window. It had been four months since she'd hopped a plane to New York and left behind everything that she knew and loved. She'd quickly found herself a small, two bedroom apartment, and a job as a waitress at a restaurant down town. She'd been lucky to find a place to live, and a job so quickly, and she had quickly adapted to the city's rhythms. Even if it was a bit lonely. She ran her hands over the gently arched curve of her stomach. This wasn't the way she'd imagined her first experience with pregnancy to be. She wanted Luna, her family, her friends. She wanted...

"Darien..."

Serena ran her hands over the curve of her stomach, tears stinging at her eyes. Why did things have to turn out this way? This wasn't the way it was supposed to be. She and Darien were supposed to be happy. They were supposed to be having this experience together. As she thought of her former love, her cell phone went off. She looked down at the screen and found Darien's name flashing across the ID. Every day since she'd been gone, he had sent her text message after text message, telling her he loved her, that he was sorry, that he needed to talk to her. Text after text went unanswered, and he still continued to message her. She flipped to her messages to see what his message was for this day.

"Serena, please, we need to work this out. It isn't what you think. I would never betray your love or your trust. I love you."

Serena tossed her phone down onto the couch, trying not to concentrate on that message. So many emotions ran through her mind. Why couldn't she just let it go and move on? Why did Darien and his messages have so much hold over her emotions? Just then, her cell phone sounded again. She had an incoming call. Picking up the discarded phone, she saw the name that flashed across the screen. Darien was calling her. With trembling hands, Serena accepted the call.

"Hello?"

"S-Serena? Oh thank God. Serena please, we need to talk. I-"

"Let me make one thing clear. I'm only answering this call to tell you to leave me alone."

"Serena, please, let me explain. It isn't what you think. I didn't cheat on you and I can prove it."

Shock raced through Serena's veins. What the hell was Darien talking about? She was there that morning. She had seen them together, both Rei and Darien, naked in bed, the sheet barely covering them. It had been very obvious what they had been doing.

"What are you talking about?"

"I know it sounds crazy, but I swear, I can prove that I didn't cheat on you."

"How?"

"Tell me where you are."

"I'm not falling for it Darien, nice try," Serena said.

"I'm not trying to pull anything. I can prove it. But I need to do it in person. There's something you need to see. A couple things you need to see. And I can't show you over the phone. Please, just tell me where you are. Let me come to see you and I will give you all the proof you need to see that I didn't cheat on you. I love you Serena. I would never betray you like that. Please."

Serena was silent for a long time. She could hear the pain and pleading in Darien's voice as he spoke. She'd never heard him sounding more desperate. Maybe he wasn't lying. Maybe there was some truth to his words, and that's why he had been so insistent over the last four months. There really was only one way for her to find out for sure.

"Alright," Serena said, her voice sounding tired and strained.

"What...what did you say?"

"I said alright. Do you have a pen and paper?"

She gave Darien her address and instructions on how to get to her. This one time she was going to have to put her faith in him, and hope that this one leap of faith wouldn't send her hurtling to the ground. Sighing softly to herself, Serena shifted her gaze back out the window. The rain had finally stopped, and there was a rainbow forming in the sky.

Darien moved quickly around his apartment, gathering his clothes and the shopping bag with its evil contents into his suitcase. As soon as he had hung up the phone, he'd called the airport and scheduled his flight. He would be leaving in just a few hours to see his beloved Serena. He would prove to her that he hadn't cheated on her, and hopefully try to patch things up with her. He'd been miserable these past four months without her, worrying constantly that something had happened to her or their child. And Rei's constant pestering hadn't helped things either. She'd left him messages, sent e-mails, and even had the guts to make a copy of his apartment key. He'd come home from work late one night to find Rei naked in his bed, waiting for him. He'd bodily dragged her out and put her out in the hallway. Followed quickly by her clothes. He'd had to change to locks after that. The last thing he wanted was to come home to find that traitorous bitch in his apartment again. He'd even let the manager know that she was harassing and stalking him. He was going to do whatever it took to keep her from ruining his life a second time.

Darien looked at the photograph on his bedside table. It was taken just a few days before that awful incident. He and Serena had gone to an amusement park together, and had their picture taken in front of the carousel. They were both so happy, and smiling so brightly. He'd missed her so much these last few months. She had finally agreed to let him see her, so why was he suddenly so nervous? What if she didn't believe him? No, she had to believe him. She had to see the reality of what had happened that night. Serena might be naïve at times, but beneath that innocence and naivete was an intelligent young woman. And she would know he was telling the truth.

Double checking that he had everything needed, Darien headed for the airport. He was finally going to fix this horrible mess that Rei had created. Now if he could just keep his nerves at bay for the long flight ahead of him.

Serena hadn't gotten a single bit of sleep last night. Darien had texted her the second he'd made his flight plans. From the moment she got the message, her heart had been pounding wildly in her chest. What was she going to say to him when he got here? What was she going to wear? And why did she care so damn much? Sighing softly to herself, Serena went to her closet and picked through the handful of clothes that she had brought with her and finally settled on a loose fitting tank top and ankle length skirt. It was one Darien had bought for her last year. It was a pale pink with a swirling pattern across the bottom that was coated in a thin layer of glitter and sparkled as she moved. After adding just a little make-up and a dab of her favorite perfume, she was ready for his arrival.

She was still looking at her reflection in the mirror when she heard the doorbell ring. She glanced at the clock on her cell phone. Darien's flight wasn't due for a couple more hours, so who was at her door? Readjusting her clothing, Serena went to her front door and pulled it open. And much to her surprise, standing there in the doorway soaked from the rain, was Darien.

"Darien..."

"My flight got in early."

Serena could only stare. It was like she was seeing him for the first time all over again. Water dripped from his dark hair, and his shirt clung to his muscular chest, showing the outline of every firm muscle. And even soaked as he was with the rain, he was still just as breathtaking.

"I'm sorry, please, come in," Serena said, feeling flustered. "I'll get you a towel."

"Thanks."

Darien stepped inside and watched as Serena moved through the apartment. She was still just as beautiful as she was the first day she met him. No, more so, because she was carrying their child. He'd clearly been able to see the gently arched curve of her stomach through her tank top.

"This is all I have," Serena said, handing him the towel.

"This is fine, thanks," Darien replied attempting to dry himself the best he could. "I'm just glad you agreed to see me."

"Speaking of which," Serena said, taking a seat on the far end of the sofa. "You said you could prove that you didn't cheat on me. So, let's see your proof."

Darien looked down at Serena, and was suddenly nervous. What if she didn't believe him? What if she thought he was making it all up? No. This was his Serena, his princess and future Queen. She had to believe him. She had to. Because the alternative was too unthinkable. Taking a seat on the opposite end of the sofa, Darien set his suitcase down.

"After you left that day I found something under my bed," Darien started slowly. "It was a silver shopping bag, but not one of yours."

"A shopping bag? That's your proof? Well consider me thoroughly convinced."

"No! It's what was in the bag that was the proof."

Darien opened his suitcase and pulled out the silver shopping bag in question. Serena eyed the bag curiously. There was something oddly familiar about that bag. She could swear she had seen it somewhere before. And then it hit her. She had seen that bag on the night of her party. Someone had brought it in. She'd just assumed that it had contained party supplies. But sometime during the night, the bag had disappeared. And she'd never thought twice about it.

"What was in the bag?"

"This," Darien said, reaching in the bag and pulling out the blonde wig.

"What...? I don't...I don't understand," Serena said, taking the wig from Darien's hand.

The wig was styled to look just like her own hair, and had probably started out in a much neater state than it was in now. But why would someone buy a wig styled like her hair?

"That's not all that was in the bag," Darien said, holding out a small medicine bottle. "These were in there too."

With shaking hands, Serena set the wig aside and took the medicine bottle from Darien. Inside the bottle were several small pills that she didn't recognize.

"I still don't get it," Serena said, looking up at Darien.

"Serena, those pills...they're what men will sometimes slip into a woman's drink when they're planning to..."

"Wait...these are...these daterape drugs?"

Darien could only nod as Serena looked back and forth between the items he'd shown her and Darien's too calm expression. She knew the look so well. It was the one he always got when he was shutting down, and shutting her out, when he didn't want her to know what he was thinking.

"Someone drugged you?"

"Yes," Darien said, quietly.

"But who would-"

But Serena knew the answer to her own question before she even finished saying it.

"Rei...Rei drugged you, and tricked you into sleeping with her."

As the realization dawned on her, a rage Serena had never felt before began to build inside her. How dare she do something so sickening, so despicable!

"I never cheated on you," Darien said quietly. "With the drugs and the alcohol in my system I...Serena that entire night is a blur to me. I can't remember what happened. But I do know one thing, I would neverbetray you like that. You are everything to me."

"Darien..."

Before Serena knew it, she was in Darien's arms, holding on to him like he was the last solid thing on the face of the Earth. How could she have been so blind? She should have known something was wrong the moment she'd seen the look of confusion on Darien's face, and the way Rei had seemed so much more clear headed than Darien had been that morning. To think that she had considered Rei her friend, only to have her do something like this!

"I'm so sorry Darien. I should have believed you."

"Shhh. It's okay. It doesn't matter now. I understand why you reacted the way you did. I can't say I wouldn't have done the same."

"It does matter! Darien, she raped you. And then she made you believe that you were okay with it! How can you sit there and say it doesn't matter?"

"Because I have you back in my arms and that is the only thing that matters."

The tears that Serena had been holding back slid down her cheeks. All this time she'd believed a painful lie over a simple truth, and Darien had suffered for it. How could she have been so selfish?

"Serena...will you come home with me? Back to Tokyo, to our life?"

Serena leaned back just enough to gaze into the depths of Dariens' eyes and couldn't believe that he actually still wanted her.

"You still want me?"

"You're my Queen Serena. For me, there is no one else but you. Only..."

"Only what?"

"When we go back...I want you to move in with me."

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