Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.

(A.N: I know that most people don't like the dub names, but there is a reason that I'm using 'Trista' and 'Mina' instead of 'Setsuna' and 'Minako'. I prefer the original Japanese names myself, truth be told, so don't go sending angry comments to me because I've used the dub names, okay?)

Alone
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

I am alone. Always alone, always and forever until time ends… and that, I know, shall never happen. So I am damned to stay here, completely alone, for all eternity.

I almost wish that the Council had decided to let me die for breaking the third taboo of time. But of course they did not; it would have been merciful for them to let me die, to end my agony, and the Council are anything but merciful.

I suppose that it has always been my fate to remain alone forever; why, my very name means 'alone'. Yes, my name, Trista, comes from the Italian 'triste' for which means 'alone'. I am cursed to be alone; I always have been.

The others pretend that they understand my pain, that they understand what it is like to have to fight alone, and worse still, what it is like to have to stand back and watch your friends fight, knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop them. But they do not know; none of them do. None of them, that is, except her, Mina.

Yes, the seemingly naïve Mina, Sailor Venus. She knows very well what it means to be alone; she fought alone for over a year before she finally met up with any of the others. And there is more to it than that; she, like me, has been cursed never to love. Who would have thought that bubbly, bright, ditzy Mina Aino and brooding, dark, deep Trista Meioh had that much in common? None of the others, that much is certain.

And here is the irony and pain of it all, both she and I have been cursed never to love, and yet what emotion do I feel for her but love? Yes, I love her, no matter that I know that this love will forever be unrequited. It causes me pain to know that she will never be able to see how I feel for her, to see that I do have a heart, and that all of that heart's emotions are fixed on her and her alone.

But still I am cursed, just as she is. I know I will never have my love returned, no matter how much I show her my feelings, and yet I still love her.

Yes, I love her, but because I am cursed to remain at this post, she will never be able to love me back. All because of the fact that I am deemed to remain alone forevermore. After all, what hope of friendship or love is there for one whose very name means 'alone'?