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Rei stood in front of the Great Fire and watched the once clear image switch to shifting shadows and then morph into amorphous shapes in the flames. Never before had she had such a transparent reading from the source of her powers.

Something was changing.

She exited and stood out front of the place housing the fire staring across the temple grounds as the gentle breeze blew, bringing with it the sound of her grandfather sweeping the main pathway.

She sighed and made her way over to him, "Grandpa, I'll get that. You're supposed to be taking your medicine right now."

He handed her the broom and said, "You do too much around here."

"I'm a Priestess. It's literally my job."

He shook his head kindly, "No, not everything is your job."

"I'm also your granddaughter, and it's my pleasure. You cleaned up my toys when I was little; now it's my turn."

"The medicine makes me a little dizzy."

She sighed and kissed his forehead. "I know. The side effects are better than your heart disease."

He screwed up his mouth in thought. "It's the only reason I take it. I want to stick around for you as long as I can."

She gave him a tender smile, "And the doctor says it's helping, so stick with it. I want you around for a long time." He nodded and headed off to take his medication and a short break from his duties.

Rei continued sweeping when he had left and was again lost in her thoughts of the Great Fire. The new worker at the shrine had made an appearance in her vision. At first, she thought it was her attraction to him making him appear. As the image shifted, two things were clear, he was incredibly dangerous, and he wasn't a threat to her in the least.

She frowned down at the stone-paved path. What in the world did her vision mean? Was her grandfather safe? Were the people who came to the shrine safe? Even more so, even if she was safe with him, did she want to be around someone who was dangerous. What would that mean about her character if she subjected herself to his lifestyle?

It would piss off her father. That thought got her to smile broadly. It wasn't enough, though. She wouldn't risk her grandfather just to make her dad mad.

She finished sweeping and looked across the perfectly manicured grass toward the worker's cottage –he was there staring at her. It felt to her like her heart flipped in her chest, and butterflies took flight in her stomach. There was no denying the powerful attraction she felt to him. But, she was capable of denying herself. She could fight the attraction if she needed to. What was imperative to her was discovering the darkness surrounding him.

She gave him a tight smile and turned to put the broom away. As she headed to do just that, she decided to look into Jadeite's background some more and to spend more time with the Great Fire.

Usagi hugged Artemis instantly when he opened the door to his apartment to welcome her in. He smiled fondly. She was really, when she wasn't being all kinds of scary, like a doting grandmother to him. She even sent him money on his birthdays growing up.

She practically danced into the living room, took one look at Luna, and ran over and hugged her too. Luna had not been expecting that, and to her credit, she only flinched a little bit.

"I'm so incredibly excited you are both together!"

Luna gave her a wry smile, "You aren't going to chase me off? I've heard stories," she teased.

"If I were capable of blushing, I would right now!" Usagi exclaimed emphatically. "That said, no. I'm not going to chase you off. Not when you're who I wanted for him all along. It's fated."

"You're cryptic just like that Priestess. She said I had a lover linked to me through rebirth. She couldn't explain, though."

"Now that is someone I have to meet! She's right, though. Can you take more supernatural right now?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Of course you do."

Luna shook her head. "Not really. I'm too curious to put the pieces together. Occupational hazard."

"In your last lifetime, I saved you from being killed by your father, Luna. I save one of you every simultaneous reincarnation. And they are always simultaneous. I got in the way of Artemis's dating because he was always heading towards you. It's been six lifetimes I've known you both now."

Artemis sucked in a harsh breath. "You never told me this before!"

"No. I've tried in past lives, and really, you both thought I was absolutely bat-guano crazy. Part of you both thinks I'm crazy now."

Luna smiled, "Yes, but the closet romantic in me wants to believe you."

It was Artemis who shocked them both and melted Luna's heart. "I don't think you're crazy. There's no other explanation for the deep love I have for her already and the sense of completeness I feel when she smiles in my direction."

Usagi gave Luna a big smile. "Well, it's amazing to meet you. Do you have any questions for me?"

"Would you meet Makoto? She's a brand new vampire and a woman I have been helping. She needs guidance on how to live in the afterlife. She's… impetuous. She was orphaned at three and lived a hard life. She got into fights a lot in school. Then she was turned by someone who… he was a vampire and thought he could… have her gratitude for giving her eternal life. Which equated to-"

"Eternal sex slave. I know the type –I was turned by that type too. Did she kill him?"

"Yes," she admitted nervously.

"Good. Then I'll help her. She's been attacked, but she's not a victim. I can't help victims."

Luna looked at her sharply, "That's horrible to say!" She scolded before she thought better of yelling at a vampire.

"I've had over four hundred and fifty plus years to sort of come up with my own convictions. I was victimized by a man, well, a vampire, but I refused to be a victim. I fought back. Now, I have abilities others don't. But I fought, and fighting can look very different in different people. Tell me what you think of the woman who gets help, counseling to deal with her attack."

"She's strong."

"I see it as fighting back. To refuse to stay where a vile man left her. To take back her life. I'm not going to say there's one way to fight. I've known a girl, and really she was a girl by every definition, that sat in the courtroom as her rapist was sentenced. I couldn't have done what she was brave enough to do. There are times I think killing my attacker was the easiest way to fight back. But don't get me wrong. I danced on the grave I dug for him."

Luna looked at her and nodded, "There is an unmarked grave for the rapist who attacked our Chief Medical Examiner's sister when she was twelve. Makoto put him there."

"What?!" Artemis said in shock.

"Once the heat dies down for Usagi's kills, an anonymous tip will come in about his death. By then, the blood won't be missed; it's not like he was buried respectfully."

"Damn, do you know how hot you are and how disturbing I find it that it affects me like that?"

Usagi burst out laughing, she sounded like a girl, and that fact stuck both of them. She said, "You find every bad-ass thing she does sexy. It's been true over the centuries."

Luna played coy. "I can't help but be awesome."

Yamato sat at home reading the autopsy results for the five victims drained of blood. He took a sip of his water and sighed in frustration. How the actual hell did they die?

He wasn't even mad they were dead; the method puzzled him and drove him to find a cause.

He idly flipped through each file and crossed his legs. What in the world was the cause?

He opened his work laptop and uploaded the five cases to a worldwide medical examiner website. One he'd contributed to many times. He knew his odd request would have credibility based on his name. Otherwise, it might be dismissed as being ridiculous or reactionary.

He watched the bar that showed the progress of the files loading slowly tick up. The internet seemed particularly slow –it was that, or he was impatient.

Finally, it loaded completely, and he typed his request, "Please review the following files. Contact me if you've come across a similar matter of a kill. All victims were alleged rapists."

He frowned and hit send. He wasn't against their deaths; he was against the mystery. He never had a murder he couldn't determine the cause of before. Sure, plenty went unsolved, but the method of the killings was always concrete. He never failed to determine a reason before.

Ami picked up her books as her professor ended class. It was over, and now she had to move on to her lab work.

This work wasn't for a class. She was doing her own experimentation since the TA trusted her and us the lab on her own.

The progress she was making excited her.

Long after Usagi left, Artemis held Luna in his arms as she prepared to go home for the evening. "We believe her, right?"

Luna rolled her eyes, "I do. Why wouldn't you?"

"Too good to be true?" He supplied easily.

"For you? Absolutely," she teased. She grew serious and said, "I love you –that I know for sure."

He breathed in her scent, "Every bit of me knows I belong to you. I love you, Luna. Marry me? Marry me because we don't want to waste another second, because we believe Usagi is right, and we were formed for each other centuries ago and find love again and again."

"Yes. Any time, any place."

"Tomorrow on our lunch break. It isn't romantic, but it binds us together."

"Tomorrow on our lunch break. The romance is in our true love."