[Scene: The Midoris' dining room. Kunzite waits until he hears Chief Midori's car drive away, then he scoots his chair closer to Zoi.]
[He puts his arms around Zoi and gives him a suggestive smile.]
Zoi: [eyes narrowed with suspicion] What?
Kunzite: I hadn't even realized we haven't done it in this house yet. Now there is an oversight we need to correct.
Zoi: [squirms away from him] No! Didn't you just hear me promise my father we wouldn't do that sort of thing under his roof?
Kunzite: That's ok. I'll take you outside.
Zoi: [blinks] In the rain?
Kunzite: [grins] In the mud.
[Zoi gasps in outrage. He gets up and grabs the DVD]
Zoi: On that note, I'll start the movie.
[Kunzite sprawls on the couch as Zoi loads it into the player.]
[Zoi perches on the edge of the sofa, and Kunzite wraps his arms around his waist and pulls him against his chest. Zoi blushes and lets out a gasp at feel of Kunzite's body pressed against his.]
Zoi: Do you think I'll ever get better at this? That my heart might stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?
Kunzite: I really hope not.
[Zoi grabs an afghan and tucks it around the both of them before he picks up the remote]
Zoi: Let start the Montague/Capulet slaughter-fest, shall we?
Kunzite: As you command. [He waves his hand the movie starts without previews or a menu screen]
Zoi: I really need to learn some of those tricks.
[They watch the movie in silence for a while.]
Kunzite: You know, I've never had much patience with Romeo.
[Mildly offended since Romeo is one of his literary crushes.]
Zoi: What's wrong with Romeo?
Kunzite: Well, first of all, he starts the play in love with this Rosaline-don't you think it makes him a bit fickle?
Zoi: [shrugs] Not all couples bond for life the way we do.
Kunzite: Then a few minutes after their wedding, he kills Juliet's cousin. Mistake after mistake. Could he have destroyed his own happiness any more thoroughly?
Zoi: Do you want me to watch this alone?
Kunzite: I'll mostly be watching you anyway. [Brushes Zoi's hair back so he can kiss his jaw]…Will you cry?
Zoi: Probably…If I'm paying attention.
Kunzite: I won't distract you then.
[Kunzite nuzzles Zoi, and Zoi finds it very distracting. But he still manages to watch the movie, and cries during Juliet's funeral. And cries even harder when Romeo pulls back her burial shroud to give Juliet one last kiss before taking his own life.]
Kunzite: I'll admit, I do sort of envy him here.
Zoi: [bats his eyes at him] She is very pretty.
Kunzite: I don't envy him the girl-just the ease of the suicide. Shitennou can't kill themselves.
Zoi: What?
Kunzite: That's one thing Mother absolutely will not allow us to do. We can't take our own lives. The best we can do is threaten and anger someone else enough to do it for us. Though, if I look a little harder, I suppose can find a way.
[Zoi twists around so he's facing him]
Zoi: A little harder? What are you talking about? You've actually thought about killing yourself?
Kunzite: More than once. Not seriously, of course, but occasionally the thought of finding a way out brings me comfort. But last spring, when you were…nearly lost…
[Kunzite stops and takes a deep breath]
Kunzite: Of course, I put all my energy into trying to bring you back, but part of my mind was making contingency plans.
Zoi: …Contingency plans?
Kunzite: Well, I wasn't going to live without you. [grins] Jadeite botched his attempt, and Nephrite wouldn't even try, but I figured if I kept provoking Mother-
[Zoi picks up a throw pillow and socks him with it]
Kunzite: What did you do that for?
Zoi: You must never, never, never think of anything like that again! No matter what happens to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself! How dare you even think like that!
Kunzite: What would you do, if the situation were reversed?
Zoi: That's…not the same thing.
Kunzite: How is it not the same thing?
Zoi: …
[Kunzite chuckles]
Zoi: Ok! What if something did happen to you? Would you want me to go off and kill myself?
[Kunzite's face is filled with pain]
Kunzite: I guess I see your point…a little. But what would I do without you?
Zoi: Whatever you were doing before I came along and complicated your existence.
[Kunzite chuckles and shakes his head before pulling Zoi closer]
Kunzite: You really don't want to know what I was doing before you came along and complicated my existence.
[Meanwhile, at Blackmoon Cove.]
[Chief Midori pulls up his squad car next to a fire truck and joins the fire crew in standing in the pouring rain and staring up at the sky that is glowing like the Aurora Borealis over a pillar of ghostly green flames.]
Chief Midori: What is that?
[The fire crew just shake their heads]
[Then in an instant the fire and the lights just vanish plunging the area into darkness.]
Chief Midori: I suppose we should check it out.
[He gets his flashlight.]
[They search the area and find nothing. No smoke, no charring, no ashes. No signs that these ghostly flames ever existed.]
[Baffled, they make their back to their vehicles and drive away.]
[They do not notice the large figure, cloaked all in black, that is watching them leave.]