Life after Sailor Moon

Well you see…

By Cindra

Disclaimer: I don’t own Sailor Moon, but I do own this story and all of its original characters.

Notes: I put colons between conversations denoting silent thought between two characters

' and in bold denotes a Heart link between a couple…

italics denotes a character’s thoughts

"Put me down right this minute or else!" She hissed at him, her moon symbol blazing as bright as a beacon on her forehead.

"You and I are gonna get something straight about how your other alter ego's battles affected those around you." Sam slapped her once in warning on the rear after she reached up to grab his ear lobe.

"I'm not hurting you so be nice."

"You are squishing the babies! So, yes, Samuel you are causing me to hurt!" She hissed in pent up fury.

He set her down on her feet pointing to the chaise beside the mosaic fountain in the private tower rose garden. "Sit down there and shut up until I've had my turn at defending my actions."

"Guilty is guilty, Samuel Kenji." She sat down on the lounge in a huff.

"Back at ya, Serena Angela. You are just as guilty as I am, so shut up!" Sam snarled, his fury had darkened his eyes to a deep lapis blue.

"If I ever took anything then it was for good reason and to save your pain in the ass hide!"

"Let's get something straight, Rena. I borrowed your Senshi journals and steered clear of your other more romance novel class writings. Though I did read one..." He held his hands up in defense when she started to rise, but then a look from him had her sitting back down.

"Clearly by accident mind you and said not one word to our parents about your week at Darien's place. Not at Lita's or Ami's where you told our parents you were keeping her company while her mom was away at a medical conference in the States. Not to mention that for the first two days you were a preadolescent child. Do to my little nieces wish, or that final day after the spell had been broken you were taking full advantage of Darien's temporary lapse of sanity." Sam's eyes narrowed to slits.

"You are damned lucky that I did keep track of you long before that or Tuxedo Mask or not...I would have gone to dad and you know what would have happened to your prince."

Her eyes had widened as big as saucers and she was worrying her bottom lip with her teeth another sure sign that she was guilty. "Sam..."

"Not one word until I'm finished." He growled at her.

She wisely listened to his warning.

"The reason why you never clued in to my reading your Senshi memoirs was because I snuck into Dad's home office and copied them before you ever knew they were missing." He raked his fingers through his hair, grinning wickedly at her.

"After the first two I took it on myself to see for my own eyes what you were up to when you snuck out in the middle of the night. That spy gear that Gramps sent me for Christmas and my birthday worked wonders at tracking you down."

She gasped in surprise.

"Oh yes, big sister, you were bugged and it came in handy when Dad and I tracked you down..."

"But how..."

"Sorry...not telling." He shrugged. "I didn't study up on spy gadgets and electronics for nothing. Yeah, sis, you had a shadow all that time and didn't even know it. I had a birds-eye view long before Dad clued in and never once tried to use it to my advantage. It wasn't until I saw you sacrificing yourself in battle that it really hit me. You were obviously a fraud and your ditziness was nothing more than an act so no one would ever think that you were Sailor Moon."

"Well, some of it was like my being bad in school..."

"Uh-huh..." He arched a brow at her. "Anyway it was beyond clear in my eyes that you had to be adopted or that mom had been abducted by aliens..."

Sere burst out in laughter. "Really, Sam. Aliens..."

"Well, it didn't make any sense that and you didn't look like anyone on either side of the family tree. I decided to do some investigating of my own and that was when I found some very interesting reading in a locked box inside Dad's safe."

"Daddy has a safe?!"

"Yeah, sis, even our Dad keeps secrets. Its hidden behind our family portrait in the den. That's not the important part, but the file in it is. It deals with a high-end clinic specializing in frozen embryos. Our parents entered the program and seven months later you made the scene. It wasn't adoption in the classic sense, but it was close enough in my eyes."

"Go on..."

"It also listed the other participants, all of whom were parents to one of your exclusive circle of friends. Not to mention the parents of Darien Fortune, Andrew Hunter, Kevin Knight, Jared Kennedy, Nathan Stanton, and Zach Powers. They all turned out to be key players and future soul mates of you and your best friends, but at the time all I was interested in was anything on you. It all makes perfect sense since Selena, aka Sailor Pluto, oversaw the whole project. She struck gold with most of her choices, but then again even Selena can’t be perfect on everything.”

“I dare you to tell her that…”

“I’m not an idiot, sis.” Sam grinned. “Anyway…Mom was incapable of having kids or that’s what her file said…the thing is that three years later she and Dad go the surprise of a lifetime by conceiving me.”

“You were momma’s gift to our parents for being the best mother and father to me. I would imagine that Daddy’s safe combination is your day of birth. After all you were a miracle baby.” She pillowed her head in her hands and smiled thoughtfully up at him. “Your birth is also quite special to me too because that’s when I met my prince…”

“Huh?” Sam sat down at the foot of the lounge, staring at her in confusion. “I don’t follow, Rena. You were three and he was eight…”

“My parents and baby sister had died in a car accident. I was the only survivor. I had no memory of who I was because I had suffered a blow to my head. I was angry and scared out of my mind. I was alone; no one would ever make me feel loved or safe again.” Endy made his presence known.

“So you two met…”

“Let him tell it…it will put the twins back to sleep again…” She soothingly rubbed her swollen middle.

He reached down to scoop her up into his arms, and then settled the two of them on the chaise, so he could hold her while he told the story of how they first met.

“Then an adorable little girl bravely entered my hospital room carrying a bouquet of roses in her arms. She solemnly asked me why I was crying. I had never felt such a connection with anyone like I did when she walked over to me and touched my hand. Here was this little angel looking up at me with her big blue eyes filled with such loving concern and trying desperately to will away my pain…” He kissed the top of her head.

“I remember feeling safe and warm inside and after hearing all of my woes she trustingly laid her head in my lap and said that I wasn’t alone anymore. She would always be my family. She gave me a rose and was off to see her new baby brother.”

“Well, not before I chattered your ear off telling you about why I was there and everything.” She snuggled deeper in his arms. “You were so patient with me…”

“You were mine even then and part of me knew it.” He smiled settling his chin on top of her head. “It took a decade or so to find each other again, but then we weren’t exactly civil towards each other. The point is that in the end Sere and I found each other and above all she kept her promise…”

“Civil…you two had more of a love hate relationship.” Sam rolled his eyes at the couple beside him. “I remember all to well Rena’s plotting to dismember you or Raye when she dared date her arch foe. Darien was the devil incarnate, but Tuxedo Mask…”

Endy grinned knowingly. “It’s okay, Sam. I know…”

“Gods, the way Rena used to swoon over your alter ego was disgusting…” He snorted in disgust. “Or over Andrew, but after you up and vanished on her…well, she moped for days…as if the world was over.”

“Yes, well, I was a highly emotional teenager with the weight of the world on my shoulders and I didn’t want any of it. I hated every minute of it…the endless baddies that just wouldn’t give me a break.” She sniffled blinking back tears. “But because of it I got my Muffin, Luna, and my kin-sisters back…”

“Easy, Rena…We get that loud and clear in the anime and all of us who never thanked you are beyond proud of all that you did and risked by saving us over and over again. Mom clued in to it all after hearing Renny call you momma, after you had a run in with…” Sam frowned. “I think you called them Death busters. Renny was worried about you…all of them were…”

“All of it was taking its toll on you and even Sailor Moon had her limit. Well, a day or so later Mom caught me sneaking out of your room with your Senshi Journal in my hands. I’d been off on a class trip for a week and was curious about what I’d missed…Long story short, mom grounded me for a month, ordered me to show her where I’d gotten your diary from. I didn’t wish to incur the wrath of Sailor Moon, so I confessed all and gave her my copies of your other journals instead. She copied the one in her hands herself and then made me return it to your room…”

“All that time and never once…”

“And risk your life by revealing to you that she knew your secret? She didn’t dare. I clued dad in because he was gonna have you sent to a sleep clinic that specialized on sleepwalking, since you faked that anytime he caught you sneaking back home. He got to witness your dream mirror shatter…”

Endy cuddled her even closer. “I was late…”

“I was fine, Muffin…”

“It took ten years at least off his life. It was all I could do to keep him from bursting onto the scene…” Sam said quietly. “He was a wreck for days after that. His baby girl was Sailor Moon. He got it into his head that if he got you out of Japan that you would be safe and was setting it up with our Grandparents there. Mom and I showed him your Senshi journals and he calmed down enough to see reason.”

“You missed your calling, baby brother. Spying was your forte not medicine.” Sere arched a silver brow at him.

“Nah, I burned all that out of me before I turned fourteen. Skulking after all of you was adventure to last a thousand lifetimes.” Sam grinned.

“Sammy, you could have been killed…”

“Right back at ya, big sister.”

“Yes, but I can’t really die and you, little brother, can.”

“I had a protector of sorts when it got really dicey…Oh and I put Dad’s video camera to good use too…”

“Sam put a tracking device on me and apparently took home movies too.” She sat up enough in her husband’s arms so that could box her brother’s ears.

“Sel had to have seen you…” He pinned him with a stern start talking or I hurt you look.

Sam rubbed his head where she had cuffed him, but still managed a wicked grin. “I was very sneaky, so she only caught me maybe a handful of times. It was King Cronos or Queen Serenity who took turns keeping me out of harms way. You see, when things got really dicey or the main event was at hand I got to watch from the safety of a portal. Watching helplessly as you sacrificed it all over and over again.”

“Where did you stash all of those videotapes?” She asked a little too serenely.

“Gonna avoid that first part, huh, sis.”

She narrowed her eyes at him as did Endy.

“Just kidding, you two…” Sam gave in and spilled all. “Mika and I were a team, so she kept the…”

His sister had sat up, fury was blazing in her eyes, so he did the smart thing by springing to his feet and getting out of harms way. His brother-in-law’s expression telegraphed without a shadow of a doubt that he was walking on thin ice. “Now, Rena…Dare…you can’t kill me I’m family…”

“Samuel Kenji, you had no right to involve Mika in your nightly spy ! I didn’t do all of that by choice! I was doing it to protect all of you!! I saved both of you and for what! All it did was make you want to not leave it be!!” She focused on Sam’s foot giving him an instant hotfoot.

“Ouch!! That hurts, Serena!! Ya didn’t have to torch my bloody foot!” He hopped up and down on one foot.

“You are lucky that it was all that I did!! I thought that you were smarter than that, Sam.”

“It was Mika’s idea to tape you guys not mine! She was the one that got me thinking Sailor Moon was you! I swear that our capers were mutual decisions! I can’t say no to her, never could…!” He was sitting on the edge of the fountain; his wounded foot was stuck in the soothing cool water.

“Yeah, it’s hell isn’t it, little brother. But we worship their every whim.” Endy chuckled, his temper had vanished now that he knew that facts. “Are the two of you finished? Sam had a story to read to the kids. You need to calm down before the babies make you sick and you’re stuck in bed for the evening.”

Sam’s phone rang. “Hi there, Doll Face…Yeah, you did feel me panic, but it’s all good now. Why? Uh, our Dad spilled all at dinner. Yeah and Rena went mental over it…You had them what? All of them… No…that’s fine; uh…Sure I’ll ask.” Sam risked a look in his sister’s direction, wincing when she glowered back.

“She, uh…” He gulped. “Wishes to know if either of you wish to have our exclusive video documentary of your career as Sailor Moon?”

“Unauthorized is more like it, but yes…Samuel. I want them.” She growled.

“Yeah, Doll Face, she wants them…What? Uh, that’s not a good idea, Babe. She’s really unhappy right now…Fine. Don’t get all huffy…You can talk to her…” He reluctantly handed the mobile to his sister.

“Mika…” Sere listened intensely all the while shooting scathing looks at her brother. “I know the two of you meant well, but you both could have been killed!! Yes, that’s true, but I was the one with the omni-powerful abilities and the two of you were not. It wasn’t fun and for any of us! It was life-and-death!! We sacrificed everything to protect all of you and for what!? The two of you to get a rush out of watching us, like we were an action series on the television!? It was bad enough that you were following me, but then you went as far as taping the battles too! Enough! No! This is not okay with me! I’m beyond disappointed in both of you and I don’t care if it was well over ten years ago! I can’t forgive either of you for this, not for a long, long, time…” She tossed her brother back his phone. Closed her eyes to focus on her crystal and in a brilliant flash of light vanished from the lounge and Endy’s arms.

“Yeah, doll face, she’s beyond steamed at both of us…I know it really stings when she disowns you…even if it is a little while…I hope… Yeah, I’ll talk to you later…love you too. Bye…” Sam raked his fingers through his hair in frustration, locking gazes with Endy.

“Fifteen years is a longtime to keep a secret from her…especially after everything she went through with Galaxia and Chaos…This is not going to be an easy fix between the two of you.” He growled softly.

“Yeah, I know. It’s just that, well, after that last battle she really changed so much and she was done with being a Senshi. She shot down any conversation when any of us tried to talk about her days as Sailor Moon, so I just left it be.” Sam paced in front of him. “I mean, it’s not like I really wanted to incur her wrath on my ass, ya know!”

“Sam, when you go through everything that my angel went through. You don’t wish to go down that road again with anyone. She died not just once, but many times in order to keep everyone on this planet…everyone that she loved safe.” He got to his feet, walked over, and placed his hands on his shoulders. “Give her time…she’s still smarting over what Cindy pulled and now she finds out this…just give her time.”

“Cindy?” Sam frowned in confusion. “What harm can a little toddler do and when did she come for a visit again? I mean, I’m stuck over in the states with my nose to the grindstone studying and no one here tells me anything!”

“She’s eight and more trouble than Renny ever was.” He filled Sam in on what had gone on while he was away.

“No wonder she’s so stressed out like this! She’s probably thinking how much of a bad mother she must be to have raised such a devious little brat ten times more of a pain than Serena Raye…”

“Her main problem is not understanding that she can’t always have everything her own way, but other than that she’s not nearly the brat that Renny was at her age. I’m going to go see to, Serenity. While you go do as you promised and read to the kids.”

“Yeah, and while I’m at it I’ll think of a way to make this up to her…” They both left the private gardens.

Next Chapter 19

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