CHAPTER 18
Seatlle lived up to its reputation for rain. Serena and Amy shared an umbrella as they hopped out of the cab into their apartment building in the early evening. Luna had picked Seattle as the best place for Serena to hide out. She knew the big American cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles would be the first place their enemies would look. But living in a small town wouldn’t be conducive to staying anonymous either. Seattle was a good mix: a big city that wasn’t so obvious. The plane ride was long. Serena slept the entire time, but Amy didn’t even shut her eyes. So much was on her mind: the enemy took up most of her thoughts. But what was really on her mind is if she could continue where she left off with Serena in the comic-con. Amy would have her princess all to herself.
As they entered the apartment, Amy shook out the umbrella. It was a nice cozy apartment, small kitchen, sensible bedroom, but the living room was of medium size, fully furnished. Both of them put their bags down.
“Looks good,” Amy said as she inspected everything.
“How did Luna get this place?” Serena took off her gloves, “What does she have a kitty credit card?”
Amy laughed. She knew Luna had her ways. She took out her cellphone only to notice it had no reception. It probably didn’t work in the apartment. This might be a problem. She’d have to go outside and check her phone frequently. Meanwhile, Serena took off her raincoat placing it on the doorknob. She picked up her two pink suitcases and walked into the bedroom. “Couldn’t she have sent us somewhere warm, like Hawaii?”
“The weather’s supposed to be nice tomorrow,” Amy picked up her bags as well and followed her princess into the bedroom, “You want to go out and see the city?”
“Maybe,” Amy heard her princess say just as she entered the bedroom.
Serena had carelessly placed her rain-drenched bags on the bed, but the genius was not about to scold her. Rather she stood in silence wondering what the sleeping arrangements would be. It was a queen sized bed, completely with white sheets, blue pillowcases and a cozy brown comforter. It matched the brown curtains by the window. Serena stopped and turned to see her friend. The look on the water scout’s face posed a question. The princess knew what it was. After a minute of silence, Amy spoke up:
“I can take the couch.” She began to move out of the bedroom until…
“Amy,” the bluenette entered the bedroom again hearing her friend’s call. Serena moved towards Amy and patted her arms for drop the bags. Amy did so and Serena held her gloved hands. “You can share the bed with me. But I don’t want anything to happen between us, okay? I’m just not in the mood for it right now.” Amy nodded her head with her eyes to the ground. “We’re a million miles from home hiding, our friends have to fight these monsters and I just can’t take it right now. I’m sorry.”
Well there went all of Amy’s plans to pick up where they left off. Here was the perfect opportunity for Serena and her to make love on a nice cozy bed, and her partner wasn’t in the mood. She couldn’t blame her. They had just gone through a terrifying experience.
“I understand,” but Amy didn’t look too happy about it.
Serena felt somewhat guilty about her demands, so she smiled, “You can still hold my hand anytime you want. You can hold me at night too.”
Amy looked into her princess’ eyes, “What about kissing?”
Serena’s eyes wandered off, but she nodded, “Just a little bit.”
Amy wrapped her arms around Serena and brought her lips to hers. Serena returned the affection. The kiss was soft, but Amy began to lose control feeling her love’s lips. The kiss soon turned exotic as Amy used her tongue. Her hands began to move down towards Serena’s breasts. Serena stopped Amy and held her wrists. “Amy,” Serena scolded her.
Amy looked guilty as she stared into Serena’s eyes, “I’m sorry.”
Serena rolled her eyes upon seeing the pathetic look on Amy’s face. She let go of her wrists and gave her one more kiss on the lips. Amy’s frown went away, but she didn’t push her princess into doing more.
“Can we order a pizza?” Serena smiled.
Amy smiled back, “Of course!”
A box of pizza and hours later, Amy and Serena were lying in bed. They had their backs against one another. Neither of them could really sleep. Serena had already gotten enough shut-eye on the plane and Amy just couldn’t bring herself down with all that was happening. It probably didn’t help that she was sharing the bed with her lover and using every bit of will power not to make her uncomfortable. The blue-haired genius shut her eyes trying every trick in the book to lull herself to sleep… including continuing a fan-fiction story she was writing in her own mind.
“Amy,” Serena’s voice interrupted.
Well so much for sleeping. Amy’s eyes opened.
“Are you awake?” Serena asked again.
Amy sighed before answering in a tired voice, “Yeah.”
There was silence before Serena spoke up. Her back was still to Amy’s, “Can I ask you a personal question?”
“What is it?”
Serena sighed and pondered how to approach the subject. Amy turned her head to gaze in her Princess’ direction. “Have you ever,” Serena finally began to ask. A long pause was broken up with, “Had sex before? I mean even before you got together with Lita?”
Well that came out of nowhere, Amy thought. But she wasn’t against answering the question, “Yes.” Before Serena had time to answer, Amy asked, “What about you? Did you ever have sex with Darien?”
The blonde was silent for a minute, “Twice.”
Amy wasn’t completely surprised but it was still difficult to hear the woman she loved admit to sleeping with someone else. She wished she had been the one to take her virginity.
“We made love the first time before he left for America. You know, after Galaxia.”
“Right,” Amy expected to hear this.
“And again,” Serena said, “When he was visiting here, the last time I saw him.”
That was the last time any of them saw Darien. But Amy was curious about this, “How was it?”
Serena sighed. The bluenette could hear the sheets rustling and feel her princess sitting up in bed. She reached across Amy’s body to turn the light on. Amy’s eyes squinted upon feeling the bright light enter the room. She sat up and the two girls looked at each other.
“Honestly,” Serena admitted, “I didn’t like it that much.”
Amy nodded her head and understood perfectly, “It always hurts the first time.”
“No,” Serena shook her head, “It wasn’t that,” This grabbed Amy’s attention, “It just felt so…” Serena couldn’t find the right adjective.
“Unsatisfying?”
“I’ll take your word for it.” Serena said.
This was the most hopeful answer Amy could hear from her secret lover. The genius girl had never had sex with a man before and knew nothing about it, but she was hoping Serena’s unsatisfying experiences with Darien meant that she would prefer the feminine touch, more so her feminine touch.
“Anyway, what about you?” Serena finally asked, “Who was your first?” She smiled, “Was it Gregg?”
Amy laughed, “No. I’ve actually never been with a guy before.”
“Oh,” Serena wasn’t completely surprised, “Well who was it?”
A sigh escaped. Amy was not sure how Serena would react to this answer. She finally looked her in the eye and responded:r32;
“Raye.”
Serena immediately jumped out of the covers and stood on the bed staring down at Amy: “RAYE? You mean our Raye?”
Amy’s eyes closed in annoyance, “Yes Raye Hino.”
The ditsy blonde allowed herself to drop back down to the bed. She looked at Amy like she didn’t even know her anymore, “You and Raye had sex and you never told me?” She looked really shocked, “I thought you were in love with me?”
“I was,” Amy tried to explain but was cut off.
“Oh my God, does Mina know? Does Lita know?”
There were many questions in Serena’s mind, Amy wanted to answer them all, “Do you want me to explain?”
“Yes!” Serena gave her friend her full attention.
“Well remember when the news about Sailor V’s death in England came about?”
Serena nodded her head.
“Raye came to my place when the news broke. She and Sailor V had been going out before then.”
“Right, I know,” Serena spoke up.
“Well,” Amy continued, “She came to my place balling her eyes out. She was absolutely destroyed. She didn’t say a word, just showed me the newspaper. Of course I consoled her, tried to make her feel better and,” She hesitated, “One thing just led to another.”
It was still very strange for Serena to hear about her closest soldier secretly sleeping with another one of her soldiers. The Sailor Scouts were becoming more and more of a lesbian team. When they started, all the five of them ever talked about were boys, as Luna suggested a week earlier. Amy didn’t speak about them too much, although Serena mistook this as the genius girl being obsessed with schoolwork. Had she been in love with her this entire time? And what about Lita? The tomboyish girl’s sexual orientation had always been in question by the blonde, but she seemed to be just as boy-crazy as the others. Was she in love with Amy this whole time? Mina had a reputation for being with a lot of men, although she was the only one open about having been with women as well. Raye had dated Darien shortly before Serena did. Of course, she thought this was just one of the priestess’ many ways of annoying her blonde companion. Serena remembered the day Sailor V’s death broke the news. She didn’t remember Sailor Mars being affected by it too much. Raye was always moody. Even when Sailor Venus appeared, Mars never really showed much affection towards her, or was Serena just blind to the whole affair. It was shortly after Uranus and Neptune joined the team, not hiding their love for each other at all, that Raye and Mina finally came out of the closet and told the others that they had been together before the team was formed. Pluto later admitted that she was in a three-way relationship with the other outer-senshi. And recently, Jupiter declared her love to Mercury and Mercury declared her love to Sailor Moon. It seemed like Hotaru was the last non-lesbian member of the team, but even she was showing signs of lesbianism. So the last question to be unanswered: Was Sailor Moon a lesbian as well?
“So you just did it?” Serena finally responded.
“It was very spontaneous, yes.”
Serena scratched her head, “I thought you were in love with me?”
“I was,” Amy admitted, “But I knew Raye needed someone, and it just kind of felt right with her. I mean I couldn’t very well tell the woman who lost the love of her life that I was in love with someone who might not have loved me back.” She hesitated for a minute to breathe. “We may have become a couple had Sailor Venus not returned shortly after. Raye was so emotional when she saw her alive. I don’t know if you noticed.”
“Nope,” Serena admitted.
“I was glad Venus was alive, but I felt terrible not being able to be with the girl I lost my virginity to. So I decided right then and there to get the courage to tell you, my original love, my feelings. But before I could do so, it turned out you and Darien were meant to be together.” Amy closed her eyes and felt a terrible memory coming back. “That was the hardest pill I had to swallow. You and Darien were meant to be together from before we met and there was nothing I could do.”
Serena began to feel somewhat guilty hearing this story.
“I was depressed for God knows how long. But Raye was good to me. She and I continued a secret sparse relationship for years.”
“You did?” Serena was curious, “What about Mina?”
“Believe it or not,” Amy continued, “She didn’t mind. We even had a threesome once or twice.”
Serena’s eyes popped out of their sockets. Her best friend had been in a three-some with two other friends of hers? “Oh I gotta hear about this.”
“Maybe another time,” Amy laughed.
“Aw come on!” Serena chuckled. “Okay, you owe me that story!”
“I gotcha,” Amy acknowledged. “Serena,” Amy inched closer to her and ran her gloved hands across the blonde’s naked cheek, “I still dream about being with you. No threesome could ever make up for the night I long to spend with you.” There was a long pause as Serena allowed her friend’s hands to stroke her face. “We’re alone now, just you and me. I know it’s under horrific circumstances, but if I could just have one night with you,” She hesitated, “Just one night. If you don’t like it, we don’t have to do it again.”
Serena slowly brought Amy’s hands down to their laps, “I can’t Amy. I’m sorry.” She hesitated, “I mean you’re right the circumstances are not good and,” Serena was trying to find the right words to describe her feelings, “I just don’t know, I don’t feel it.” Amy looked depressed again dropping her head, “At least not right now.” She lifted the girl’s face, “And you can still kiss me whenever you want. I’m fine with it.”
Amy was disappointed, but also surprised. Serena had been all over her back at the comic-con. She admitted that she loved her. Yes, this was a strange situation being separated from their friends, but Amy still hoped some alone time might give them time to let their love grow. Of course, they were gonna be couped up together for a while, maybe in time, Serena would warm up to the idea.
“Okay Serena,” Amy smiled and kissed her on the lips, “When you’re ready.”
The two kissed only a little while longer before they went back to sleep. Amy turned the light off. She heard her princess, now with her back to her, say, “Can we visit that Space place tomorrow?”
“Space Needle?” Amy asked.
“I guess,” Serena began to drift off.
“Whatever you want my love,” Amy might have made a faux pas, “Sorry… Serena.”
She heard the blonde chuckle, “That’s cute.”
Amy smiled and finally drifted off to sleep.
The view from the Seattle Space Needle was impressive. The rain had stopped, the clouds had dissipated, the early afternoon sun was shining, and Serena and Amy enjoyed staring at the Seattle skyline at the top of the structure. It wasn’t terrible cold, but the two sailor scouts were bundled up to remain unrecognizable. The two of them were more affectionate with each other than before. Amy’s arm hugged Serena’s with their fingers interlacing. Serena didn’t even protest when Amy leaned her head on the blonde’s shoulder. There weren’t a lot of people atop the skyscraper, but the touristy crowd didn’t pay any attention to the two seemingly lesbian girls.
“I don’t get it,” Serena was looking around, “I can’t see space from up here.”
Amy laughed at her friend’s naiveté. She was about to explain the history of the landmark, but she was interrupted by her phone’s ringtone. Amy pulled out the phone to see it was Raye. She pushed the talk button and placed the phone to her ear: “Hello?”
Serena heard silence.
“Hey Raye,” Amy said, “Yes, we’re in a crowded area. We’re at the top of the Space Needle. Can we speak in,” Amy looked at the phone to view the time, “In half-an-hour?” Silence on the other end. “Thanks Raye,” It sounded like the conversation was over but Amy spoke up again, “It’s nice. Beautiful day.” More silence and finally, “Okay talk in a minute.” Amy hung up the phone.
“Is everything all right,” Serena asked.
Amy put the phone away in the pocket of her jacket, “I think so, I’ll call her when we get down. It’s a huge inconvenience that we can’t use our phones in the apartment.”
“Should we get going?” Serena suggested without taking her eyes off the view.
“Momentarily,” Amy said grabbing her princess’ hand again. “I want to enjoy this moment a little longer.”
“Okay,” Serena smiled without protest.
The blue-haired girl looked to the blonde and ran her gloved hand across her cheek. “I’m having a lot of fun sight-seeing with you today Serena.”
Serena couldn’t help but smile and look back at her friend, “Me too, Amy. I’m glad you’re with me.”
A long silence between the two before Amy playfully said, “Kiss?”
Amy had always been affectionate towards Serena. It surprised the blonde how she never noticed it after all these years, but now the genius girl was being overly flirty with her. She seemed less like the studious Amy Mizuno and more like a love-struck school-girl. In actually, Serena liked seeing this, but they couldn’t kiss here in front of everyone.
“Amy,” Serena chuckled, “There’s people here.” The princess seemed like she was actually wanted to kiss in public.
“Quick one?” Amy smiled and pucked up her lips.
Serena looked around quickly and then gave Amy a millisecond-long kiss. Her attention immediately turned back to the skyline. Her girlfriend laughed a little.
Amy stood outside a Starbucks, the very first Starbucks, 1912 Pike Place Market. Honestly, it really wasn’t much to look at. Serena went inside, but the other scout was returning the phone call.
Back in Japan, Raye picked up the phone. She was still in her pajamas, and it was quite early. Mina was still asleep, but Lita was also awake in her pajamas. The taller girl looked ecstatic as the black-haired girl answered the phone.
“Amy?” Raye spoke up.
There was a slight delay on Amy’s end, “Hey Raye, calling you back.”
Lita leaned in hoping to hear Raye’s conversation. “So how are you two, everything okay?” Raye’s voice had some concern in it.
“We’re fine,” Amy answered, “Doing a little sight-seeing. Serena and I are actually having a good time.”
Raye was wondering what ‘A good time’ meant as far as Serena and Amy was concerned. “Where’s Serena now?”
“She’s getting coffee, or something,” Amy wasn’t really sure. “Anything to report?”
“Nothing so far,” Raye answered back. “We haven’t heard anything from the enemy.”
“Is Trista okay?” Amy asked.
“She’s doing all right,” Raye sounded optimistic about Pluto’s condition, “She’s back at home actually.”
“That’s good,” Amy said.
Lita held her hand out for the phone, “Can I talk to Amy?”
Raye looked to her tall friend for a second and reluctantly handed the phone to her. The brunette smiled ecstatically, grabbed the phone and dropped onto Raye’s bed, “Hey Sweety!”
“Ow!” Mina’s voice came through as she struggled her way through the blanket to see Lita’s head on top of her stomach. Lita gave an apologetic look to the blonde. “Who are you calling sweety?” Mina quiety scolded the tall girl.
“Oh hey Lita,” Amy couldn’t see what was happening in Raye’s room, but she didn’t sound overly excited to hear Lita’s voice.
“How are you,” Lita ignored Mina hearing Amy’s voice, “I miss you so much.”
“I miss you too,” Amy wasn’t lying. She did miss her friend.
“You having fun with your… girlfriend!” Lita teased.
The blue-haired girl hesitated hearing the brunette say ‘girlfriend.’ Had Raye or Mina spilled the beans about her and Serena? Nevertheless, Amy didn’t say too many words, “What?”
Laughter came off the other end of the line, “I’m just kidding with you silly. What, are you actually cheating on me with Serena?” More laughter escaped the tall girl.
“You’re crushing me Lita!” Mina gargled.
“Sorry,” Lita sat up on the bed, off of Mina’s leg.
Well, Amy wished the answer to Lita’s question was yes. However, Amy figured the best way to keep Lita from being suspicious was to play along with the prank. She laughed in a fake manner, “Oh yeah, we totally had sex.”
She was expecting Lita to laugh at her joke, but there was silence on the other end of the line. ‘Uh oh’ Amy said, was she onto her? Luckily, Lita broke the silence with a chuckle, “Oh really?” The tall girl’s voice was still very playful, “Well then I guess I’m gonna have to have sex with Mina to get back at you?”
Raye started to pay more attention to Lita. What were they talking about?
“Who said sex?” Mina’s voice was much more clear on Amy’s end.
Lita smiled looking over at the blonde and leant down with the phone still to her mouth, “Oh Mina, make come here!” Lita actually kissed Mina on the lips letting out the loudest smooch she could make.
“I need an adult!” Mina inexplicably yelled out.
It caused both Lita and Amy to laugh. Raye also let out a fake chuckle, although she was nervous about this whole conversation. The priestess brought severity back to the conversation as she commanded Lita, “Can you put it on speakerphone?” The taller girl sighed realizing the party was over and did as her fellow scout asked. Raye interjected, “Amy, it’s Raye.”
“What’s up?” Amy responded.
“We’re gonna be a lot of scouting today. Hopefully-“
“Scouting!” Mina interrupted her, “Because we’re Sailor SCOUTS!”
“Mina shut up!” Raye was being bossy again.
“Don’t tell me to shut up!” Mina snapped back.
Lita finally took the phone off speaker and spoke to her girlfriend as the two lovebirds had a battle of words. “Yeah we’ll be doing some detective work, probably not gonna be available until you guys are in bed. But Raye will have her phone if you wanna give us a call.”
“Okay,” Amy looked back into the coffee shop to see her blonde girlfriend ordering something. Serena was looking towards Amy gesturing to ask if she wanted a coffee. The bluenette shook her head negative. “This phone,” Amy now talked to her brunette girlfriend, “Doesn’t work so well in the apartment. I’ll keep checking it every so often, so just leave a message if I don’t pick up.”
“Understood.” Lita’s voice was much deeper when talking business, in comparison to the cutesy way she usually talked to Amy.
The scout of wisdom turned to see her princess still inside the coffee shop smiling beautifully. It was a strange feeling being alone with the girl she loved and talking to her official girlfriend on the phone. Amy had always been an honest person and felt the need to come clean with her lover back home. Well, not completely clean, but she needed to relieve this guilt she was feeling. “Lita,” Amy’s voice was serious, “I have to confess, no joke this time, Serena and I are sharing a bed, and,” She hesitated, “We’ve been a little friendly with each other.”
There was a slight pause on the other end of the line, even though Raye and Mina’s argument could still be heard. “What do you mean?” Lita finally asked.
“Well,” Amy continued, it sounded like she need to do some damage control, “You know, I’m trying to keep her mind of all this turmoil. You know how overly-sensitive Serena is. I’ve been holding her in bed, hugging… even… kissing.”
There was another pause on the other end of the phoneline. This time, even Raye and Mina seemed to cease their banter. Amy could practically see the two of them watching the expression on Lita’s face. They must have wondered what Amy had been saying to the Goddess of Thunder. Finally a stern sounding Lita spoke, “You didn’t really have sex with her did you?”
Amy was almost positive Raye and Mina were looking to Lita like a bad truth was about to be revealed. Luckily, she didn’t need to lie. “No, of course not.”
A sigh of relief came from Lita. Her voice was much friendlier now, “Well she is your princess, I guess do what you can to keep her happy.” There was an awkward pause, “Don’t worry Amy, I trust you.”
Mixed signals coming from her girlfriend. Lita was practically giving Amy permission to be intimate with Serena so long as it made her happy, but she was trusting her not to go too far with it. Based on what Serena said the night before, maybe she wouldn’t need to worry about taking it too far.
“All right,” Amy could hear Raye now speaking on the receiving end, “Amy we gotta get moving. Tell Serena we’ll talk to her later.”
“Affirmative.”
“And,” Raye hesitated, “Just… take it easy okay?”
Amy wondered what she meant by that.
“I love you Amy,” Lita’s voice came through.
“I love you too,” Amy couldn’t help herself. “Raye and Mina, you as well.”
“Amy,” Mina’s voice came through, “I’m gonna have sex with your girlfriend!”
“Would you stop it!” Lita’s voice interrupted. Laughter ensused.
“Bye guys,” Amy said, “Stay safe. Love you!”
The phone conversation was now over. Amy turned around hoping to join her princess in the coffee shop, but a group of college kids blocked her way. They were dressed like wannabe 90s gangsta-rappers. They were definitely not someone Amy wanted to deal with at the moment.
“We love you too,” the one in the middle teased.
His two friends laughed. “What’s up with that hair?” The one on the left asked.
Amy was used to dealing with morons like this.
“Yeah,” the one in the middle continued, “What are you, some kind of anime character?”
Once again, his two friends laughed with him, slapping him on the back.
Amy looked to the ground and began to make her way around the bullies. Unfortunately, the one in the middle got in her way and grabbed her shoulder.
“Where you going blue?” He looked down at her and smiled.
The blue-haired scout looked up at the obnoxious boy like she wanted to hit him in the face. She wished she was Sailor Mercury so she could make an ice-sculpture of this creep. Unfortunately, she and Sailor Moon were trying to lay low, and attacking a civilian in the middle of Seattle probably wouldn’t help their cause. Amy also wasn’t one to use her powers lightly. Still, she hesitated to act.
“Don’t you wanna hang out with us?” The rapper-wannabe was smiling.
“Ah come on G-Dog,” One of his friends said, “That blue-haired girl’s probably got herpes or something! That’s why her hair is blue.”
“Hey shut up Walter!” G-Dog said as he took his eyes off Amy.
The blue-haired scout seized her opportunity. She brushed G-Dog’s hand off her shoulder and made her way around him. She didn’t get far as the bully got back in her way and taunted her.
“Hey hey hey,” this time he had his hands on her chest, very close to her breasts. Amy wanted nothing better than to grab this man by the arms and toss him to the ground. But once again, her desire to keep Serena safe discouraged this act. G-Dog didn’t say anything for a couple seconds except stare at the girl’s breasts. “I should see what these tits are like-“
Just before he could invade Amy’s personal space, another pair of hands shoved the bully away. He would have fallen down had his friends not been there to break his fall. Amy was now being held by Serena, who had a mean look on her face, and a coffee in her other hand.
“Keep your hands off my girlfriend!” The blonde shouted.
The word girlfriend immediately put a smile on Amy’s face. She looked at Serena, who still had her eyes on the enemy.
“Ow!” The guy was getting his head together.
One of his friends looked to the couple in a confused manner. The meat-ball headed blonde and the blue-haired girl were holding each other like they were lovers. “Girlfriend?” He finally blurted out.
Serena finally looked to her blue-haired girlfriend. She had a playful smile on her face. “C’mon Amy,” Serena still looked angry as she led her away from the morons.
“Hey wait,” G-Dog got up watching the two lesbians walk away, “Let me make it up to you girls! You can come over to my place and make out on my couch!”
His two friends laughed at him, “You are so dumb!”
The rapper-wannabe certainly felt annoyed.
“What a bunch of creeps!” Serena finally said to her fellow scout once they were further down the street. Her arm was still around Amy’s waste. They both stopped and looked each other in the eyes. “You okay?”
“Nothing I couldn’t handle,” Amy said with a smile on her face, “But thanks for coming to my rescue.” Amy held Serena’s hands.
“Of course Amy,” Serena smiled back, “I’m not gonna let anything bad happen to my-“ She hesitated and let her eyes vacillate.
“Girlfriend?” Amy finished her thought.
Serena’s eyes turned to Amy like she didn’t know how to respond. The blue-haired girl simply planted a kiss on the blonde’s lips. A smile cracked on Serena’s face. She couldn’t help it. Amy chuckled. She was afraid the girl she loved would backtrack and say ‘I didn’t really mean that.’ But the princess’ overprotective nature back in front of the coffee-shop was genuine. Maybe Serena really meant what she said back at the comic-con.
“So,” Amy raised Serena’s hands, still holding onto them, “If I’m your girlfriend, aren’t you going to take me out on a date?”
A look of puzzlement lasted a couple seconds. Then Serena started to smile and said, “What did you have in mind?”
The Greek restaurant was spotted by Amy the evening they flew in. She only got a quick look at it in the cab, but it looked like there were a lot of people there. This night was no different. The restaurant was very busy, but Amy and Serena lucked out and got a table. The night went on like a normal date for the couple. Occasionally a hand hold or quick kiss enveloped the table, but Serena was busy enjoying the meal as Amy reported about the phone conversation with the other scouts. The food was good, not the best they had ever had, but the bill wasn’t ridiculously expensive. Thankfully Amy and Serena had been given a large amount of money for their trip. This didn’t even put a dent in their expenses.
Amy Mizuno was dressed up for the occasion. She wore a light blue sleeveless dress complete with her gold-medalioned choker, white boots, and of course her long white gloves. She had not removed them. Her White leather coat was on the chair. Serena was also dressed for the ocassion with her purple patterned dress with short sleeves. She too wore semi-long white gloves, not even at Amy’s request. Serena just decided to wear them, but of course, Amy was very happy about that.
The busboy took their plates away. Serena was now sitting right next to Amy as they talked away:
“I wish we could like,” Serena dominated the conversation, “Go back to the 90s. The 90s were so awesome! This new millennium blows.”
“Well I don’t know about that,” Amy replied in an eloquent way, “Remember the early 90s were dominated by a economic recession. And in Japan especially, it was-“
“No no no!” Serena whined, “I’m not talking about the economy, I’m talking about TV! TV was so much better. Dragonball Z, The Power Rangers, Fresh Prince! I remember the entire theme song. You want me to sing it for you?”
Amy laughed. It might have been cute to hear Serena’s Will Smith impression but she decided to change the subject, “Honestly I didn’t watch a lot of TV back then.”
“Awww Amy!” Serena grabbed her hands and shook them, “You missed so much! You listened to music back then right? Boys II Men? TLC? Vanilla Ice?” She began to sing the opening to the song, “Ice Ice Baby.” Amy continued to laugh at Serena’s antics. “Oh and don’t listen to Raye! She’s got this whole beef about Vanilla Ice because she thinks he stole it from that Queen song, I forget the name. But it’s not the same thing.” Serena began to hum the opening bass line to the songs, “It’s not… Doo doo doo diga doo doo… It’s… Doo DOO doo doo diga doo doo!”
“Like I said,” Amy was laughing so much trying to get a word in, “I was so busy studying, I just didn’t pay much to that stuff.”
A loud sigh exploded from Serena as her eyes popped out of their sockets. Serena let go of Amy’s hands and began to make hand gestures like she was a rapper, “All right, Stop! Collaborate and listen!” She was obviously reciting the song’s lyrics.
“I think those bullies we saw earlier,” Amy interrupted playing with the salt-shaker, “Wanted to be rap stars.”
Reminding her of those bullies made Serena’s smile fade away. She grabbed Amy’s hands again, “Those guys were assholes! I didn’t like seeing that guy put his hands on you. It felt like he was violating me by touching you. I had to stop him.”
Amy uttered a cute hum and leaned in to kiss her girlfriend. Serena leaned in as well for a quick kiss. “My hero,” Amy smiled leaning back, with her hands still in Serena’s.
“That was another 90s song!” Serena smiled, “Foo Fighters!”
“That I know,” Amy was proud that she knew something, “We saw them together remember?”
“Yeah!” Serena’s eyes lighted up being reminded of The Foo Fighters concert they saw together. “You know,” She reminisced, “I remember Darien talking about that concert being advertised and how cool it would be for us to go see them. Did I tell you this story?”
Amy remembered the whole story, but she shook her head, “Tell me again.”
Serena let go of Amy’s hands and gestured with her own gloved hands continuing her story. “It wasn’t easy to get tickets to that show. I had to wait in line, spend some money, but I thought it would be great for Darien and I to go see the show together. Right?”
Amy nodded somewhat unenthusiastically.
“So I finally get the tickets, really good ones. I mean they were general admission, but still, it would be great. I wrap them in a box, I surprise Darien with them, and he’s like, ‘Oh I can’t go, I’m busy that night.’ I was sooooo disappointed, I wanted to cry. It would have been a lot of fun for us.”
Serena looked off and sighed just thinking about it. Amy leaned in and patted her girlfriend’s thy.
“So I asked Raye, because I knew she was a big Foo Fighters fan, but apparently she already HAD tickets to go with Mina. I was like ‘Wow Raye thanks for telling me! I was spending like a week trying to find tickets,’ anyway… I thought about asking you, but I wasn’t sure if you were a Foo Fighters fan or not. But sure enough, I say ‘Hey Amy, you wanna go?’ And you were like ‘Yeah!’ You were so excited, all this time I didn’t know you were a Foo Fighters fan.”
Amy interrupted, “Well,” She spoke much slower than Serena’s speed-metal soliloquy. “I have a confession to make… I wasn’t.” Serena didn’t look surprised, “I just took it as an excuse to go out with you.”
The princess rolled her eyes slightly and chuckled, “Of course. Well you know, I have to confess, I kind of wished you were my girlfriend that night. When we got to there, Raye and Mina were all over eachother, kissing, holding eachother, I don’t think Raye and Mina ever let go of eachother’s hands the entire night. I guess that’s why I was a little affectionate with you that night. Holding your hand, holding your side.”
“I remember that night like it was yesterday,” Amy suggested. She still spoke slowly reminiscing. Her eyes vacillated as she leaned her cheek on her gloved hand. “I almost told you that night how I felt about you. You kept talking about how you wished Darien was there and how annoyed you were at him.” She paused and looked at Serena with disappointed eyes, “It honestly kind of annoyed me.”
“I’m sorry Amy,” Serena took Amy’s hand in her own.
The bluenette’s tone changed, “But it still felt so nice being there with you Serena. You holding me tight so we wouldn’t get lost in the crowd, you leaning your head on my shoulder.” She closed her eyes feeling ecstasy, “Oh I wanted you so badly that night. I just wanted to make love to you in the middle of the dancefloor.”
Serena was beginning to realize just how tormented Amy had been for so many years wishing the two of them could be together. It must have been torture for Amy to see her put up with Darien’s indifferent attitude towards her. Serena was now wishing she had been with Amy since the beginning. She wasn’t quite sure how that would affect the future and Rini. But surely life would find a way, another 90s reference, to make the future happen. Serena was now only concerned with her own happiness… and Amy’s for that matter. The blonde placed her gloved hand on the bluenette’s cheek.
“Amy,” she said softly and slowly, “You’ve been with me since the beginning. You’ve saved my life I don’t know how many times. You’ve always been there when I needed you and-“ She hesitated closing her eyes, “Even though I wish, in my heart, me and Darien’s love could prevail, I just don’t know. He’s been so distant over the years, especially since he left.” She looked into her friend’s eyes, “But you’re still with me. And everytime I’m with you, even back at the concert when I didn’t even think about you and me being girlfriends… Just being with you, holding you… I feel complete. I always thought it was just a special friendship kind of thing, but…”
Serena kissed Amy. But it wasn’t just a peck, it was a long kiss. Amy felt a chill down her spine kissing the woman she loved in a public place like this. As the kiss slowly broke apart and their heads moved slowly away, but not too far away, Serena continued:
“It is love. I do love you Amy.” She sighed, “But with all that’s happened, and you and Lita, I… I just don’t know.”
“Serena,” Amy spoke up, “I came here not just to be your protector, but to be your companion. Even Lita said to me today ‘Do what you can to keep her happy.’”
“Lita said that?”
“Yes,” Amy nodded her head, “I mean she didn’t go into the specifics of it, but,” Amy sighed and let her head collapse slightly, “Look I know this situation is weird with Lita, but let me handle it. If you’re serious about this Serena, and you want me to be your girlfriend, I’ll explain the situation to Lita and we’ll work it out.”
Serena almost felt like crying, “She’s gonna be heartbroken!”
“Better,” Amy explained, “I tell her now than she finds out some other way, or we live a lie together for years to come.”
This was so complicated. Serena wasn’t sure how to respond, “I don’t know Amy.” She didn’t say anything else.
“Look Serena,” Amy placed her hand on the blonde’s cheek, “We’re alone here in Seattle for who knows how long. Raye said there have been no new developments with this enemy. We might not hear from them for weeks. You know Luna’s not going to let us come back until it’s 100% safe for you.” She paused for a minute gazing into her princess’ blue eyes, “Let’s just be a couple while we’re here. Let’s do everything together.”
She stopped knowing Serena’s eyes posed a question, “Everything?”
“Maybe we’re not right for each other,” Amy dared bring up. She closed her eyes like she was in pain, “Although I can’t imagine a life without you.” She returned to her composed self, “But let’s just enjoy our time together here, and we’ll decide our future when we reconnect with the team… For now Serena, I just want you.”
The blonde smiled, “I want you too.”
The two of them kissed more passionately this time. They were of course still incognito and people were beginning to stare at the lesbian couple making out in the middle of the restaurant. Amy noticed this first and broke contact. “I think,” She said, “We should go back to the apartment.”
“Yeah,” Serena said.
Amy noticed the bill was already on their table. “I’ll take care of it.” She took her wallet out of her purse and left some cash on the table.
“You’re still gonna listen to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ when we get back!”
Amy laughed at Serena’s request, “Okay!”
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