ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE
By SailorJane & Anonymous
CHAPTER 12
“Looks like we have another enemy to contend with.”
Luna sat in the middle of a table with Artemis next to her surrounded by eight of the sailor scouts. They were back at Raye’s temple, all in civilian garb, having discussed everything that happened up to that point (without mentioning Amy’s confession to Serena). Raye stood up leaning against the wall, almost trying to look like a bad girl. Trista stood next to her studiously listening to everything Luna had to say. Amara sat in the armchair with Michelle on her lap. The couch had a strange dynamic to it: Serena sat on the right side of the couch. Amy was next to her, Lita next to Amy, and Hotaru next to Lita. Serena seemed unusually distant towards Amy today. Usually at these meetings, Serena and Amy would lean their heads against one another, hold hands, cross legs, etc. Now, Serena had her arms folded and her legs crossed away from Amy. The bluenette looked like she was trying really hard not to touch her princess, but someone else was trying to get a hold of her. Lita’s hand was on Amy’s lap. Everyone now knew Lita’s feelings towards Amy. Lastly, Hotaru seemed to be holding onto Lita’s other arm playfully.
“You sure,” Luna continued, in her queen’s English accent, now looking at Amara, “You didn’t see anything suspicious last night?”
“Well I mean,” Amara raised her hands, “C’mon it’s Tokyo. There’s suspicious looking people all over the city.”
“No we didn’t find anything,” Michelle interrupted her girlfriend.
Artemis looked puzzled, “That’s strange. The enemy tries to assassinate Sailor Moon, with bullets no less, and then just disappears within seconds.”
“Amy,” Luna turned towards the bluenette, “How long after the assassination attempt did you scan the area?”
“Within a millisecond,” Amy said, “Serena and I were on the floor, the shooting stopped and-“
Amy was interrupted as a door opened to reveal Mina. She was in her pajamas, her hair messy as they had ever seen. The blonde could hardly keep her eyes open; hell she could hardly stand. Raye immediately walked towards her and held onto her.
“Oh man!” Mina said, her voice sounded like that of an old blues singer, “What the hell happened last night?”
Serena began to laugh, “You were smashed last night Mina!”
Luna did not like seeing her once model soldier waking up with a hang-over. Mina’s behavior had slowly been getting worse and worse every year. While Sailor Venus may have been dependable in the heat of battle, Mina’s obsession with media attention and now drugs and alcohol were starting to get on the cat’s nerves.
“Come on baby,” Raye led her towards a nearby chair, “We’re having a meeting. Something very serious happened last night.”
“The Jonas Brothers broke up?” Mina’s eyes finally shot open towards Raye.
Some of the scouts laughed at Mina’s stupidity, but not Luna. The cat simply shut her eyes in disappointment. Artemis could feel her pain.
“No,” Raye said, “We would be celebrating again if that happened. No, there was assassination attempt last night at Serena’s house.”
By now Mina was seated on the chair looking at Serena. Just then, she stumbled towards Serena and latched onto her:
“Oh my God! Serena! Are you okay? Did they hurt you?”
Serena looked even more uncomfortable with Mina latching onto her. It was the exact same thing her mother had done last night. By now, Serena was looking to Amy for help, “I’m okay Mina, nothing happened.”
“Mina,” Amy said at the same time, “C’mon.” Amy tried to pry the blonde’s apart, almost like she wanted to hold onto one of them.
“Get off of her!” Raye snarled as she ran towards her crazy girlfriend.
“No! I won’t let anything happen to you Serena. Nobody will harm you.” Mina began to squeeze the princess harder and harder.
“I can’t breathe!” Serena shouted.
“MINA!” Luna shouted. All of the inner scouts let go of each other and stopped dead in their tracks. All of them focused on the cat. “Stop behaving like a little girl and start acting like a soldier! This is disgraceful!”
“Sorry,” Mina said moving back towards the chair Raye sat her on. The raven-hair followed her, “Excuse me for caring.”
“I have a huge bone to pick with you young lady,” Luna was now starting to sound like the blonde’s own mother, “But we have other matters to discuss.”
“Take it easy Luna,” Artemis said, “Let’s get back to-“
“And that goes for you as well,” Luna looked over towards Lita. The brunette seemed much more remorseful, “I didn’t expect you to get drunk and start fawning over one of your fellow soldiers.”
“I apologize Luna,” Lita said.
“Wait a minute,” Hotaru said sticking up for her friend, “Luna, she was telling Amy how much she loved her. That took a lot of courage if you ask me.”
Luna was now very annoyed to hear another pair of soldiers trying to hook up with each other, “All these years,” Luna continued to complain, “All I ever heard the five of you do is talk about boys, or complain about how you didn’t have boyfriends. Now all of a sudden, all of my sailor scouts are becoming lesbians!”
“And what’s wrong with that?” Amara commanded the feline’s attention.
Luna sighed, “There’s nothing wrong with it Amara.” She looked back towards Lita and Amy, “Look girls, if you two are in love with each other, that’s okay, but you need to remember that your allegiance in to your princess, not each other.”
“Luna,” Amy said, “Serena is and always will be my number-one priority.”
“Very good Amy.”
“Teacher’s pet!” Mina blurted out.
Raye nudged her and whispered, “Shut up.”
“Are you two really starting a relationship?” Artemis smiled, completely unaware of what had happened the previous night. The other scouts all stared at Amy with watchful eyes.
“Well,” Lita said, “Amy and I talked afterwards and I think she just needs a little time.”
“Uh guys,” Amy held her gloved hands up wanting this conversation to end, “Can we focus on Serena right now, she was almost killed.”
“Yes,” Luna said. Lita put her head down ashamed of what had happened last night. Hotaru grabbed the tall-girl’s hand and tried to cheer her up. Serena on the other hand looked at Amy with cold eyes. Serena had never looked at her this way. Amy also put her head down ashamed of what she had done.
It just occurred to the bluenette that perhaps that bullet blast was maybe a sign that she and the princess were not meant to be together. Telling the princess about her own feelings had destroyed their friendship. Amy should have considered herself lucky that she could do innocent things with Serena. The two of them practically were a couple, forgetting any kind of sexual chemistry between them. Even if she longed to be closer to Serena, Amy loved every minute of it. Now she couldn’t even hold her friend’s hand without getting an estranged look from the girl. This was the nightmare she had dreamt about so many times.
“Now we are supposed to go to this comic-con or whatever it is next week,” Amy wasn’t even listening to what Luna had to say, “I want the outers there as well.”
“Fuck that!” Amara said, “I ain’t going to no anime convention!”
“You don’t have to actually go to the convention,” Luna explained in a harsh tone a voice, “I just want the princess to have extra security. You can stand outside if you want to.”
Now Amy felt the soft touch of Lita’s finger on the back of her gloved hand. She turned to see the brunette trying her best to concentrate on Luna’s words. It was no use. Lita looked at Amy, surprised to see the girl staring back at her. By now the two were holding hands. The scout of water knew exactly what the scout of thunder was feeling. She wanted her love, but she couldn’t return it. She realized that Serena had a loving family that needed to be pried away from their daughter after the incident. Poor Lita didn’t have that. She could see Lita was leaning, very slowly and hesitantly, to kiss her blue-haired friend. Amy began to slowly turn her head away, causing Lita to sigh and look down to the ground. She felt so badly for the brunette.
Really, what was the point of trying to win over Serena’s heart? Amy could never have it. Even when he wasn’t around, Darien had possession of it. Wasn’t there anyway things could go back they were before? Amy’s brain was far too intelligent to allow her heart to get to her. Her heart screamed and begged her to see this through. Allow time to pass and maybe things would get better between Serena and Amy. But no, her brain argued. Besides, everyone wanted her to be with Lita, even Serena did.
And so
In a very rare case of acting on impulse.
Amy Mizuno grabbed hold of Lita Kino and kissed her on the lips.
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