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Author's Notes: The story takes place in Crystal Tokyo time period in
the anime.
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Rei walked into the nursery room. It was dark outside and the
same with nursery room. By the windowsill sat Neo-Queen Serenity
cradling her baby, Chibi-usa, in her arms. Queen Serenity hummed
sweetly to her child. Rei stood there and leaned against the
doorframe and took in the sight of her queen. Serenity looked up and
smiled at Rei acknowledging her presence while continuing to hum to
Chibi-usa. Chibi-usa was bundled in a soft blanket, breathing calmly
and clenching her mother's long finger in her chubby little hand. It
was truly such a sweet picture of a mother and her baby. When
Serenity was satisfied with putting her baby to sleep, she carefully
got up to put her baby in the cradle a few feet away from her.
Rei walked over to Queen Serenity who was standing by the
cradle. Serenity leaned over and whispered into Rei's ear, "Let’s go
out to the balcony we can talk there. And it's a warm night."
Rei nodded and Serenity took her hand and led her out to the
balcony. It was a nice, warm night Rei thought in her mind. She
silently sighed as the moonlight naturally surrounded and played
around Serenity's form. Her long pigtails flowed all the way down to
the floor and her crown sparkled in night. Her bangs slightly blew
across her forehead. Serenity's eyes slow swept over her kingdom.
Serenity drank in her city below. The city lights looked like
scattered jewels from Rei's and Serenity's point of view from the
balcony way up high.
Rei's quiet sigh was not missed by Serenity, "So, was there
anything you wanted to tell me, Rei?," Serenity watched as Rei's
elegant ebony hair, shining with highlights of silver from the
starlight, blow gently around her.
"No, I just wanted to be in your accompany that's all," responding
directly, she smiled at Serenity and laid her head on her folded arms
resting on the railing.
"We haven't much time just to relax and spend some solitude with
our friends and family in awhile."
"Yes and no, I suppose," Rei answered paradoxically.
Serenity taken aback, "What do you mean, Rei?"
"Hmmm..nothing important," not really saying that she had not
spent time alone with Serenity, just the 2 of them together. Changing
the subject quickly, "Everything turned out just as it should, right
Usagi?" Rei used Serenity’s name from the late 1900s.
"Not everything Rei, not everything," it was Serenity's turn to be
mysterious.
Rei surprised, jerked her head up and looked directly at
Serenity, "But I don't understand, Usagi. How could it not? You have
fulfilled your destiny as Setsuna for told. All of the Senshi are
here with you. You married your one true love and both you and King
Endymoin rein over Crystal Tokyo. Your daughter was recently born a
few months ago," Rei turned to the railing and put her arms on the
railing, placing her cheek against her hand, "It turned out just as
it should, Usagi. All the way you wanted to be," Rei replied though
slightly sadly.
"You are almost right Rei but our chance to be together was
realized too late," Serenity turned towards Rei and touched the side
of Rei's face with her cool hand.
Rei's cheeks blushed and warmed at Serenity's caress and
statement as her eyes widened in shock, "How did you know? How did
you find that I..," she quickly looked away from Serenity and looked
downward, "Are you telling me that you have had similar feelings for
me all this time?"
"Yes, my dear Rei, but I didn't know you felt the same way till I
fully became a queen. The ginzuishou helped me find the answer why
your love for me was so different from the rest of the Senshi," she
then dropped her hand from Rei's face, "If only we had known sooner.
Rei, I wished you had told all those hundreds of years ago instead of
denying them to me and yourself."
"I..I.thought it was immoral of me to think of you that way or
worse to act upon them. I did not want to scare you away. I always
treasured our friendship. So in the beginning, I just chased Mamoru as
an excuse to hide my feelings and besides you were destined to be with
Mamoru," Rei paused for a brief second, "Don't you love him?"
"Yes, I do love him in my own way but my destiny with Mamoru was
more for a political necessity. You are the first one I fell in love
with Rei, in the present and even when we were together for a short
time back in the Silver Millennium."
"What? How could that be?"
Both Serenity's crescent moon on her forehead and the Mars
symbol on Rei's forehead appeared and started to glow, "I am queen
now. The seal has served my mother's purpose. The fate of our souls is
free in our hands now," Serenity royally decreed.
Rei felt a strange block like sensation in her forehead. The
moment it was there and then slowly faded out of existence, "Usagi..I
remember....your mother..Queen Serenity had called for me at in her
private quarters at the Moon Palace. She had learned of our being
together from Venus. Queen Serenity was happy that her child had
found love but she asked me to end it. It would have brought slander
if people found out that the High Moon Princess was being courted by
her Sailor Senshi. She was glad that I loved and cared for you deeply
because I would look after your well being like no other. I did my
duty as your Sailor Senshi. Even further, Queen Serenity placed a
magic binding on me to keep my feelings for you in check that I never
cross over the line. I still remember your tear-stained face and
pleadings when I broke off our relations."
Serenity continued on, "Then much later after a broken heart,
I met Prince Endymion. At first, my mother was worried about the
affair but eventually realized it to be actually advantageous for the
Moon's royal house and Earth's to form a royal alliances through me
and Prince Endymion being married. It has been far too long to learn
the truth, Rei," Serenity sadly looked at Rei with a smile.
"Forgive me, I never wanted to hurt you," Rei's eyes filled with
tears.
"Don't be my dear. We both had duties and honors to keep," she
embraced Rei and wiped the tears from Rei's eyes with her thumb.
"Thank you, Usagi," she wrapped her arms around Serenity's waist,
"I would never ask of you anything to break your marriage vows to
King Endymion but you will always have my love."
"I know and you always had mine," Serenity nestled her head on
Rei's chest and pulled her closer against herself, "Perhaps not fully
in this small moment but we will be free to live and love as we wish
in the next lives I am sure."
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