"Serena Dwyer" <serena_dwyer@hotmail.com>

Okay, This is Chapter 2 of Painful Memories. Not much to say about
it....just, I hope you like it. It starts back up at the first
scene where it broke for the flashback. Enjoy!
   ~Serena
(E.N.=Editor's Note....k?)

Oops! Almost forgot.....(I hate having to say this every time!) I
DON'T OWN SAILOR MOON IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!!!!!!! *sigh*


                    Painful Memories-Chapter 2

---Wednesday night---

     "I'm sorry Darien...I didn't mean..." Lita trailed off not
knowing what to say.
     "Hey, it's okay. Don't worry about it." he said a tear forming
in the corner of his right eye. He turned and was about to leave
when a voice called him back.
     "Darien!" Mina called.
     He stopped. It was coming now. The question that he had
postponed for so long. "Yeah?" he answered.
     "Why'd you do it? Why did you say all those things to her?"
     He sighed. "Why don't you guys come to my place. That's where
it all started so I might as well tell it to you there as well."
     The scouts exchanged puzzeled glances and quietly complied
with their friend. On the way to the apartment, they were all lost
in their own thoughts about what would force Darien to do such a
thing, so uch lost that they didn't see the pink-haired child
following them to their destination.
     Rini hadn't told *anyone* about what was on the note that was
left for her from Serena. Serena had told her things on that note
that even Serena didn't know. It told her that Serena and Darien
were her parents from the future. Back in her time, her parents
used to tell her stories of their past lives to try to get her to
sleep at bed time. It never worked of course, Rini being far too
inquisitive and staying up late asking her parents quetions about
everything. The names and events on Serena's letter showed her
everything that her parents had told her in attempts to get her to
sleep.
     Ever since Serena had left, Rini had felt the time stream
changing. The longer she stayed away, the more it changed. She
wondered if Serena stayed away any longer would she even be born?
     When the group had reached the apartment, Darien began his
story. Rini hid in the next room, listening carefully to the
conversation. Having a key to the apartment had it's advantages!
     "Well, it all started with a dream I had. In the dream, Serena
was taken from me and killed. Then a voice kept saying to me that
if I continued to see "Serenity" as he called her, she would die.
And I could never let Serena be hurt. Especially not by my
actions!" he exclaimed.
     "You mean you hurt Serena and made her run away because of a
STUPID dream?!?!?" Rei exclaimed.
     "Forgive me Darien, but that wasn't like you not to think!"
Luna told him.
     "Listen, this dream kept repeating for a month. There had to
be *something* to it!" Darien protested. "Whenever I was around her
I would get flashes of the dream and him saying that "Serenity"
would die!"
     "Who's *he*?" Ami asked.
     "I don't know....."
     "Then why did you listen to him?!? How do you know you can
trust him?" Lita asked, ever blunt.
     "I don't know, he just seems so familiar.....I had no other
choice but to trust him....Serena could have been in danger!" he
smiled grimly. "In a way, I guess it's better this way. Now I'm not
near her so she can't be hurt. She's the only one I ever loved. Or
ever *could* love."
     "Yeah, but what about me?" A voice asked. Rini came out from
hiding, as all eyes turned towards her.
     "Oh Rini, we know you miss Serena-" Mina started.
     "Yeah, I do, but if she doesn't come back, I won't be around
to miss her."
     "What do you mean Rini?" Lita asked.
     "I mean I'll never be born if she and Darien don't get back
together!" she sighed inwardly as she saw it went WAY over their
heads. 'I'm not going to try to get them to understand' she thought
and continued with the rest of what she had to say. "Look, I've
been doing some research on my own and with a little info about you
the scouts, yes I do know about you guys, and with putting a few
things together, I finally know what's going on!" Rini crossed the
room and sat down on the couch between Darien and Rei. With all
eyes and her, satisfied, she began to tell them of what she found.
     "Well, first of all Darien, I know who sent you those dreams."
     "Who?!?"
     "You did."
     This was met by a quizzical scilence that filled the room
until it was about to burst.
     "Wha-how-who?" Darien sputtered in disbelief.
     "That is, your future self did." she corrected herself.
     "Why would I do that to myself?" he asked.
     "Well, as you know, the time stream can change every time
around.....Well, he, or you, wanted to test your feelings towards
eachother. He had to be sure that you guys could survive the test
because of what you have to face together in the future." Rini told
him.
     "Why? Why does that matter?" Darien asked Rini.
     "Because, in the future, you and Serena are married and are
the rulers of Crystal Tokyo. You guys were supposed to go through
hellish obstacles and enemies together. To do that and triumph, you
had to be strong." Rini filled him in. She wasn't sure if she
should be telling him this or not, but at this moment, she had no
other choice.
     "Well, I hope he's happy 'cause I failed miserably." Darien
moaned pitifully.
     "But anything could happen yet....right?" asked Lita.
     "The time stream has an unusual way of repairing itself." Ami
thought out loud. "Who knows....it could all work out!"
     "Myself and Serena...."Darien murmured. "How come you never
told us before?"
     "Because I never knew until Serena ran away and left me a note
telling me about her life on the moon. The names and events were
way to alike from what I knew to be false." Rini answered.
     "She left you a note too? How come she ever told us?!?" Rei
exclaimed.
     "It's a note....get over it!" Rini said impatiently. "Now we
have to find some way to find Serena!"


     The dark figure crouching on Darien's balcony that was
watching and listening to the conversation that had just taken
place, took to the rooftops. There was no sign of the clumsiness
or klutziness that had once resided in the body. Now movements
were like poetry. Fluid and smooth. The slight frame now radiated
confidence and maturity.
     Although she had only caught snatches of the conversation,
she had heard one thing loud and clear. Rini was her daughter from
the future. Not only that but her's and *Darien's* daughter.
Fourteen months ago she'd have been estatic to hear this....but
since she had left and come back a month ago, she had tried to put
aside her feelings for Darien and deperately tried to forget him.
(E.N.--She didn't hear the part of him still loving her)
     Since coming back to Tokyo a month ago, she had witnessed
many fights between the scouts and their enemies. She had almost
stepped in these past few times, but they had always managed to
finish it off just in time.
     She had always wondered about the strange connection between
her, Rini and Darien....Now she knew what it was. They were a-a-a
*family* she forced herself to think it. But how could that be? He
hated her, she was trying to forget he even existed, and Rini.....
Rini might not even be born the way it looked now! Tears started
to spring to her eyes, but were fiercely blinked back.

     When she reached the park, she took a left and went down the
street to her apartment. Despite the fact that she had been a total
slob previous to her move away from home, she was surprisingly
clean now. Everything in her apartment was kept in order, and
looked like a teenager had never set foot in there. In fact, the
only indication that this was the former Serena's apartment were
the pictures in her bedroom. There were some of her family, others
of the scouts, many of Darien (some broken), and plenty of her,
Darien and Rini, plus a very cute one of Rini in her school
uniform. Also, on the wall above her bed was a hand drawn portrait
of her mother on the moon. She had many hidden talents and one
had turned out to be drawing, although she still couldn't paint.
     As she walked into her apartment, she looked back on the past
year. Before she had returned to Tokyo, she lived in Canada with a
kindly family who had taken her in, who had reminded her of her
own family which had made her not so homesick. She had continued
her studies and become marvelous in English, also picking up a bit
of French, also, she managed to bring up her grades drasticly.
While there, she wanted some money of her own, so she got a job in
an Arcade in a nearby mall. With all this on her plate, she was
forced to become responsible and mature without even knowing it.
But as she looked back on what she was before, she wondered where
the change had begun.
     After a year with the Dwyer's (A.N. Hey! I want to be
mentioned in the story too! An author has got to have *some*
rights!), she felt that she could cope with her emotions, and
decided to return to Tokyo. She got a job at the same arcade that
Andrew worked at and paid for her apartment, but seeing Darien
everyday as he came in and pass by each time was tearing her apart.
Even though she was disguised as someone else and he had no clue,
that she was Serena, she felt as if she was being punished by him
for running away. Now she was in turmoil and wondered if she
should have come back at all. The Dwyer's said that she would be
able to come back anytime and now she was seriously considering
the offer.
     But then, she would have to stage a dissaperance for "Selene
Dwyer". her alter ego. No one knew of Serena's reapperance, just
of "Selene's" move to Tokyo from Canada. Selene wasn't your typical
everyday sort of teenager....in fact, she looked very out of place
in Japan, having a Canadian flare about her, but covered that up
well, always seeing to know customs and traditions in the area.
She wasn't very social, in fact her social life consisted of
talking with Molly and working at the arcade. All extra time was
either shopping for groceries (occasionally with Molly for clothes
and cute gadgets), studying and homework, or drawing and writing
for leisure. She also attended all senshi fights, having a built
in instinct whenever Darien transformed. She declined all date
offers to the confusion of everyone, she being almost as beautiful
as the origional Serena was. Everyone had come to the conclusion
that she had a long distance relationship with some guy over in
Canada. Selene attended the same school as Lita and Amy, Juuban
high school, and had even been put in the same class as them, in
her old class, with the same teacher. Ms. Haruna. Selene smiled
when she thought of her. She hadn't changed a bit! She wondered
what kind of reaction she'd get in Ms. H. found out that her hard
working student, Selene was really her former flake student Serena.
Then with a giggle she remembered how she had always wondered why
Ami was so smart....only to discover that all it took was a little
work to get good grades and Ami a run for her money to be the
smartest in the class!
     As for her style, she now wore common clothes from North
America. She usually dressed in flared jeans, tank-tops and 3 inch
platformish shoes. Her brown hair fell around her face gently, and
came to just above her shoulders. She wore just a touch of eye
make-up to accent her soft grey eyes, and some tinted lip gloss
to enhance her usual smile. About 5'5", she was average height and
hoped not to grow anymore. She had matured very nicely and turned
heads everywhere she went, with curves in all the right places and
her delicate features, although looking knowledgeable, also
allowing her to appear very innocent.
     "Selene" changed back into Serena with a wave of her hand, and
realizing how tired she was, decided that she needed some sleep.
She had work right after school tomorrow and then she had to pay
Rini a visit. She had found out that the little munchkin was good
at keeping secrets!

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Kay! That's it for this one....sorry nothing really interesting is
happening yet, but next week I'll hopefully have number 3 up, and
that has a better stroyline or whatever to it!

But I have to explain something....I had a comment on this. Most of
my fanfic will be in Serena's point of view. Now I will tend to
flick back and forth sometimes from her to Darien's point of view,
so try not to be confused if you hear Darien thinking and all of a
sudden I switch and talk about Serena. I'll try to fix it up a
bit.....Sorry for the confusion! Otherwise.....how was it? I WANT
COMMENTS!!!! (and thanx to all those who took the time to e-mail
me!!!!! I really appreciate it!!!!) I'd also like some suggestions
for some good fanfics to read! So if you write....tell me in your
e-mail to me! Thanx!

~Serena

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