Day 11: February 11

Rei went to work early the next day. She left her little pup in the apartment. After hearing about an hour of Jadeite's insistence of trying to talk with her through the door and Rei ignoring him and trying to keep her pup silent, she finally was able to lock herself in her room. She put her pajamas on, placed her pup in a designated area, and curled under the down blankets. It took four hours before sleep came to her.

And when sleep finally came to her, she was woken up by nightmares of the Silver Millenium's downfall.

What sucked the worst was that Jadeite looked exactly like he did two millenia ago. He was tall in stature, had a strong stance, and was authoritative in manner of speech. But she smiled at the kindness that was shown in his eyes. He looked good...

Rei shook her head, as she burried herself in her work. Time seemed to tick so slowly as she got form after form completed before there was nothing left for her to complete.

Did this mean she could leave early?

No. Stupid Rei. She slapped her forehead before running her hand through her hair. She still needed to make her rounds to make sure all the security systems and guards were in place around the palace.

She half expected to "run into" Jadeite again. If that were the case, she knew what she could do to silence him as quickly as possible.

She investigated and searched the West wing of the palace first finding no errors of faults. As she migrated to the Southern wing, the wing where the new recruits trained, she made sure to skim through that area, not exactly wanting to run into that said Military General... or any General for that matter. Her mind began to race. What if... what if the other Shittenou were present as well? What if she can into Nephrite or-

"OOPH" Mars hissed as she rolled her ankle and fell HARD on the tiled floor. The recruits stopped their training to see the woman ungraciously tumble to the floor. She hissed when touching her ankle. It was going to swell.

Dang it.

"What where you are going," hissed Rei as she was helped up by a strong gloved hand. Her amethyst eyes looked up and stopped on ice-grey orbs. She just ran into Kunzite.

She glared at him before snatching away her hand.

He bowed respectfully to her. "Lady Mars."

"Kunzite."

She turned away from him and began walking out of the southern training grounds and to the East Wing of the Palace.

By the time she reached this area, she felt her ankle almost give out on her again. She sat down on an empty staircase and began rubbing out her swollen foot. She winced. Thankfully no one was around. Dang it... this really, really hurt!

"You shouldn't walk on that foot."

Rei's eyes darted up meeting pools of blue oceans. Her hands hurled fire at his face as she stood up and continued her rounds. She ignored the man who began walking up behind her. She became annoyed as he began to fall in step with her strides.

"You really should let that foot rest, Lady Mars."

Rei glared at the man beside her. "Since when have you ever cared about what's best for me?" she hissed feeling the fire form in her fingers.

"I don't want you to get hurt further-"

He hissed when she threw fire at his face. He expertly dodged it, but her ankle did not keep balance. Her foot rolled once again. Before she face-planted, the blond General expertly caught her in his arms. She almost wanted to have that impact instead of those gentle hands supporting and holding her up.

"Let me go."

"Lady Mars-"

"I don't want you to TOUCH me!" hissed the Fire Senshi.

He sighed deeply before he adjusted her in his arms and hoisted her over his shoulder. She began hissing and spewing curses at him, "Jadeite! Let me down! Let me go!"

He winced when he felt her pounding his back with her fists, "If you hit your fists a little lower, it'll loosen up a knot I've had in my back for days!"

He heard her scream and try kicking him. His strong, muscular arms, instead, held them securly in place as he walked towards the infirmary.

It had been a while since he touched her, to be so close to her. And quite frankly, he hope it wouldn't be his last.

Later that evening, Rei sat on her bed sulking. When Jadeite carried her back to her room after visiting the medic, she was not given the chance to lock up the door. The blond man gave a sigh as he gently sat her in the bed. He even picked up the small pup and presented it to her.

The fuzzball never seemed to happy to see it's mommy.

She kept her steely glare on Jadeite as he tried making her as comfortable as possible before bowing and leaving the room.

As Rei sat in her bed bored, she looked at the pup as it tried to make itself comfortable under the blankets. She snorted.

What a day.

She heard a knock. It's not like she could get up and open the door. "Come in!" she shouted. The pup looked up watching as two women entered the condo.

Ami gave a sigh, "What happened to your foot?"

Rei glared, "Kunzite happened to it."

"Kunzite?" questioned Makoto raising an eyebrow.

"I saw him for the first time in a millenia! A Millenia! I thought he was dead! I run into him and roll my ankle in the process."

The two Senshi Sisters winced. "Rough," spoke Makoto with empathy in her face. "Well, we brought something that might change this crappy day for you. Ya ta!"

Rei raised an eyebrow seeing a bottle presented too her. "Is that what I think it is?"

Ami smiled, "Plum Wine. Your personal favorite."

Rei gave a small smile. "I could take a glass."

One Hour and One Empty Bottle Later...

The three girls laughed loudly, Rei wiping tears from her eyes after laughing so hard. "You, my friends, are something else! Seriously?! All the Shittenou came back just recently? Why wasn't I informed?"

"Pfffftttt." Makoto waved her hand, "The Queen was afraid you would kill Jadeite on sight! She wasn't sure how to break the news to you! All of us just recently found out ourselves... though I must say, Ami seems to have the better end of the deal with her man back in town."

"Oh stop!" blushed the quite woman.

"Let me share a secret with you Rei!" winked the Senshi of Lightning. "Ami-chan got hitched!"

"NO!" gasped Rei with a dropped jaw. "No way you're married!"

Her face burned brighter. "It's true," she confessed with the look of love in her eyes, "When Zoisite came back, we immediately hit it off. And he asked for my hand in marriage less than a month later! Oh, he's so romantic... and muscular."

Rei felt her face burning at the details but laughed nonetheless. "Whoa! Getting a little descriptive on us are we?" questioned the Fire Senshi with a smirk.

"I can't help it! I can't help it!" confessed Ami covering her face with her hands, "Wait till you get married! This whole romance thing will change for you in an instant!"

"I hope Nephrite proposes to me this year," dreamed Makoto outloud. Her green eyes sparkled at the thought of becoming a misses.

Rei scoffed, "Not me. Nuh uh. Nooooo way." She looked at her empty glass then at the empty bottle. "No more wine, huh? Where did you get this stuff? It was really, really good."

Ami paused looking up at the ceiling in thought. "Hmmm. I didn't buy it."

"Oh?"

"No, someone gave this to me to share with you," answered back the genius.

"And who would that be?"

"Your admirer, Jadeite."

If Rei had liquid in her mouth, she would have spit it out. "Don't tell me this was his gift for me today!"

"Yep."

"And did he write and leave behind some really, really sappy letter?"

"Yep."

"Where is it?" questioned Rei.

"I..." Ami paused looking around before glancing to Makoto. "You wouldn't happen to have Jadeite's note would you?"

"Nope!"

"Hmm. That's strange. I thought I had it here-"

"You lost it," deadpanned the Fire Senshi.

"Looks like I did," uttered Ami absent mindedly.

The woman with raven-locks slapped her forehad. "Great..."