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Chapter Six
Travis went into the kitchen early the next morning and stopped in shock when he saw Serena sitting at the table. He noticed her dejected expression.
"You stopped believing didn't you?" he asked so gently, she didn't even jump at his prescence.
"I'm sorry," she said in a small voice, "but what if we're wrong?"
"Then we have hope for a few more days, and that's better than nothing. But we're not wrong." Travis thought for a few moments. "What happened six months ago?" he asked abruptly.
"Huh?"
"Six months ago, I was sitting in class. I'm told I suddenly fell out of my chair. When the teacher got to me, I wasn't breathing and my heart wasn't beating. They started CPR and three minutes later everything was all right. They took me to the hospital and the doctors could find nothing wrong. My heart was fine, my lungs were healthy, even my brain was okay. They kept me for two weeks trying to find out why my body had suddenly decided to die.
So what happened six months ago?" Travis said this as unemotionally as he could. He was still a little scared about it.
Serena started speaking. "Six months ago was the final battle with Queen Beryl. We teleported to the Arctic Circle and started traveling towards her base. She sent the Doom and Gloom girls after us and one by one the Scouts died. When I was the last one left, she teleported me to her throne room. Darien was there. He had been brainwashed by Beryl and thought I was the enemy. He attacked me." Here Serena stopped for a moment to try to get control of herself. Remembering was still hard for her. "I tried to heal him with the crystal and it didn't work. I tried knocking him unconscious with my tiara and it barely even hurt him. Finally I pulled out my locket, you know my star locket, that you gave me for my birthday, and I gave to him before the final battle as a symbol of our love.
I held it out and let it play. He touched it and remembered" although she had started speaking almost like an automaton she was smiling at the remembrance now. Then her voice dropped again. "Queen Beryl picked up this gigantic rock and threw it at us. Darien managed to shatter it with a rose, but slivers of rock hit him in the back as he tried to protect me. He died in my arms." Two tears
were falling unnoticed from her eyes. "I went out and used the crystal and my friends' love to defeat her, then I wished for everything to be normal again. Everyone came back to life with no memories of what had happened. We didn't even have memories of each other."
"So it does still work." Travis said quietly. "In effect I died when
Darien did the first time. Well, I haven't died yet so neither has he. Understand this Serena, I will believe him dead when I feel myself die. Not before." He stood up. "I will believe him dead only when I feel myself die."
"You're right! He's not dead." She looked up at him and grinned for the first time in almost a day. It was a small grin, and kind of sickly, but it was a grin. "He's not dead."
"Do you really believe that, Serena?" a voice spoke from in back of them as Reenie walked forward with hope shining from her face. "Do you really believe he's not dead?"
"I really believe it, Reenie. The same way Tuxedo Mask always knows when I am hurt, I would know if he was. He's alive, Reenie. I don't know why he's disappeared, and I am worried about that, but he's alive." she said as Reenie stood next to her, looking up.
"I didn't think about that," Travis said, worried again. "Do you think someone's captured him?"
"I don't know, and I don't want to think about it. How about if after school, we all go to the mall?" Serena's eyes had lit up and she started talking. "We could go to that new accessory shop, I hear they have some really cool earrings and the ice cream shop and the chocolate shop, and I need a new pair of shoes and..." she kept talking as Travis and Reenie walked out of the room to get ready for school.
"That Meatball head." Reenie said disgustedly, "Can't keep an idea in her head for more than a minute or two."
"Maybe," said Travis, "but it's nice to see her acting like herself again. This new serious Serena was kind of getting on my nerves. Serena is supposed to act like an airhead, nothing else seems right."
Reenie laughed and agreed. Serena had barely even had a klutz attack since Monday. It was kind of like waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for her to go back to normal.
However, over the rest of the day, Travis started to change his mind. Serena was taking her airheadedness to extremes. it seemed like she was getting tired of doing the right thing. Although she had her homework, not even Travis could keep her attention on class. If she answered questions, it was with answers that made no sense and showed she was daydreaming. She whispered with Molly and barely got out of getting detention. The rest of the class didn't know whether to be exasperated at her or glad she had gotten back to normal. Even Miss Haruna wasn't quite sure.
After school, Travis didn't even try to get her to do her homework, he just took her to the mall. After a very long afternoon of mall strolling he took her home and told her parents "She's making up for all the airheaded behaviour she's missed. Be warned."
Amy, Raye, Mina, and Lita had heard about Darien. They wanted to sympathize with Serena, but her behavior last night, and today, had convinced them that their dreams were probably right. She didn't care what happened to anyone else. The dreams had been getting worse each night, and although they didn't really believe them, sometimes they couldn't help wondering. They didn't tell anyone about their dreams, each of them too embarrased by the way they seemed to be doubting her. But the more they saw her, the more they started wondering.
It was starting to get obvious by the fight that night.
Sailor Moon showed up late and Mercury yelled at her for it. She tripped while running from a solid steel projectile and Jupiter yelled at her for being so clumsy. The more the girls yelled at her, the more distracted and clumsy she got. The more distracted and clumsy she got, the more the other Scouts yelled at her. The droid was almost ignored as the infighting between the Scouts got worse. Finally, Venus called them together. "That's enough everyone! The more you yell at her the worse it's going to get. Let's just take care of this droid and we can yell at her later. Mercury and Mars try to hit it from opposite sides."
It seemed for a moment as if both Mars and Sailor Moon were going to ask who gave her the right to give orders. But they didn't. "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND" and "MERCURY ICE STORM BLAST" hit the droid from two sides. It had been trying to decide which of them to dodge first and managed to get hit by both.
Everyone turned to stare at Sailor Moon. Under that unified scrutiny, she fumbled forth her scepter and called out "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION" and the droid turned into dust.
Sailor Moon looked around at the others. "I'm not going to stand around here and let you yell at me! I've been good, I've been doing better at school and trying to be on time. So I took one day off, that's no reason to yell at me. WHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Why are you being so mean to me today?" And she started wailing as she jumped out of the area.
"She's got to start taking things more seriously." Mars said, almost
snarling.
"She was," Mercury replied distractedly. "Today she was just acting like she used to, we shouldn't have been so hard on her." *But what if the dreams were right?*
Serena went home and collapsed on her bed. "What is going on with them, Luna? I know I've been more airheaded than usual today, but is that any reason for them to yell at me? Huh? Is it?"
Luna looked at her for a long moment. "Mars always yells at you, you never seemed to mind this much before. What happened?"
"It wasn't Raye, she didn't even talk to me. It was Amy and Lita who yelled at me. And they're still not talking to me at school. Do... do you think Rubeus could have gotten to them?"
"I doubt it's that. It's probably just that they're a little jealous of how much time you're spending with Travis."
"Well then I'll tell them about me and Travis and then they'll understand and we can be friends again. Good, now that that's settled, I can go to sleep." And Serena lay down on her bed. Luna drifted to sleep, only to be awoken fifteen minutes later, when Serena sighed deeply, got out of bed and started her homework.
*I've really got to find a way to thank Travis for getting her to do this.* Luna thought sleepily as she drifted back into a doze.
The next morning as Travis and Serena were getting ready to leave the Tsukino house. Travis asked, "Do you have your homework?" Not at all
expecting an affirmative answer.
"Yes, it's right here. I did it last night before I went to bed." Serena hid a grin at the expression on his face.
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