Title: Only 16
Part: 2A (Gomen, this is REALLY LONG :-))
Rating: PG ~ PG-13 
A tad more romance than I usually do, but nothing
explicit... YUCK! 
By: Azurite
Email: sailor_andromida@yahoo.com
Site: www.geocities.com/sailor_andromida/
Season/Version: Sailormoon R (as usual), American
Disclaimer: Sailormoon isn't mine. 'Nuff said. 
Greetz: To all you lovely people you mailed me about
chapter one... and if, while writing this, I wasn't
cut off from net access, I'd check my mail and list
you all. But all you sweethearts know who you are, and
this chapter is dedicated to you.
Other: Teen Parenting is not impossible nor rare. If you
or someone you know is or will be a teen parent, tell them 
to tell someone else, be it friend, family, doctor or
prenatal care specialist. I'm only adding this note for two
reasons: 1)my health ed class just learned about this and
from what I've heard, it's not fun, easy or worth the... pleasure. 
2)I like stories with some kind of moral, Sailormoon or not. 
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A Look Back: 
		"And?" Raye heard as she approached the door. It was Serena's voice 
all right, so she was awake. Raye wanted to make sure she
was all right. There was a pause, and Raye realized that Amy and
Serena must be talking. 
	'It isn't right to eavesdrop...' Raye wandered into the kitchen 
nearby, and still managed to hear Amy's response.
	"And you are three months pregnant with a heathy baby." 
Raye immediately dropped the glass she was holding, and fainted.
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	"Raye?!" Lita on the couch was the first to wake up and hear
the noise, followed by Mina, Darien, and lastly, Amy. 
	"Umnngh..." 
	"Raye, are you okay?" Mina asked, concerned. Raye sat up, and
managed a weak smile. 
	"Yeah... um, butterfingers?" 
	"You-You fainted!" Lita persisted. Raye paled significantly, 
especially when she saw Amy looking at her suspiciously. 
	"Yeah um... I was feeling dizzy, and wanted a drink of water, 
but I fainted before I could get it. Butterfingers." Raye managed
yet again. Amy only nodded and went back into the bedroom, while the 
others seemed harder to fool. 
	Darien, however, sensed that whatever REALLY happened, he
was not part of, and so let it be. He went back to his room. 
	"Guys, I need to talk to you." 
	"You're all right, right?" 
	"Yeah..." 
	"So it can wait, right? I'm SO tired!" Mina yawned. Raye
rolled her eyes, and found herself yawning. 
	"Yeah..." Lita agreed sleepily. 
	"Fine. But I'll be up early. This cannot wait until after
that." Raye agreed. Lita and Raye padded off back to their 
sleeping accomodations in the living room, while Mina retired
to her own room.
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	//Next Morning//

	As she promised, Raye was up early, and so woke Mina and Lita
up early as well. 
	"MMngh? Hey, Raye, it's only 6:00!"
	"Good. That means Amy and Serena won't be up yet!" Raye said. 
	"Huh, what does that mean? Why do you care if--" Mina protested, 
following Raye out of the room. 
	"Wake up, long fellow!" Raye hissed at Lita. 
	"Guh?" 
	"WAKE UP!" Raye hissed again, venom seething in her voice. 
She herself had only gotten a few hours of sleep, for the news she
had heard the night before had kept her awake, contemplating. 
	Lita's stomach reminded her it was breakfast time, no matter
how early, and she rose. 
	Raye pulled her into Mina's room before anyone could do 
anything, and started. 
	"You remember when Serena came to the temple, and was acting
really nervous?" Raye asked, in a tone much too serious for everyone's
own good. Lita thought her voice was so pensive for Raye that something
must be REALLY wrong... but she did KIND of remember what Raye was 
talking about. 
	"Yeah..." Mina nodded slowly, along with Lita. 
	"That was what, two months or so back?" Lita asked. Raye nodded. 
	"And since the Grim Man, there haven't been any attacks... weird,
that was almost around the same time." Mina added. 
	"That's not what I'm worried about, though." Raye whispered. 
	"Huh?" Lita and Mina said almost unanimously. 
	"What's wrong, Raye?" Mina asked. 
	"Serena. It's... ever since then, she's been acting really weird. 
Until now, I never thought much of it, or why. But..."
	"But now, you are thinking about it." 
	"Yeah, why? Is something wrong with her?" Lita queried. 
	"I'm not sure... but I overheard something last night." 
	"Well?" Lita asked eagerly, settling on the far end of the bed. 
	"Well um... Serena is... she's sort of... oh, how do I put this?"
Raye fumbled with the words that, in her head, seemed so easy to say. 
Why was it so hard now?
	"She's pregnant, isn't she?" Mina breathed. 
Slowly, Raye nodded. 
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	"What if they know?" Serena whispered, trying to stay quiet. 
Amy averted her eyes from Serena and spoke quietly. 
	"Then there is nothing we can do. Serena, you're at the end
of your first trimester. You're lucky no one noticed when they
saw you, at school, or at the attack. You're obviously pregnant,
and you're only going to... to get... well, no offense, but fatter. 
And if the others DO know, you'll have to give them a more decent
explanation than you gave me." 
	"How can I be more 'decent'? Amy, I don't even know whose child
I am carrying!" Serena hissed. 
	"Whose do you think?" Amy asked in response. Serena turned her
eyes away. 
	"That's what I thought. He IS the only logical possibility, but
from what you told me last night, you and Darien never..." 
	"We never made love to each other. I don't know... Amy, what
if I was raped or something?" 
	"Serena, you don't think..." 
	"No, I'm not saying HE did it... I'm saying..." 
	"There's only one way to find out, you know. Take a test at 
the doctor's." 
	"Fine. THEN, and only then, will I tell the girls. Otherwise, 
we have to cover it up from them as best we can. Promise, Amy." 
	"I promise." 
	"Thank you. You know, this means HIM, too. ESPECIALLY HIM." 
	"I understand. But if something happens, and they FIND OUT, 
on their own, you're going to have to explain it." 
	"I want to explain it before then." Saying so, Serena picked
up the phone off the cradle and dialed a number. A receptionist
at Dr. Cunningham's office picked up. 
	"I'd like to make an appointment, please." 
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	Later that day, Serena went to her appointment. Amy had distracted
everyone when Serena left, and carefully avoided all their questions. 
	Thankfully, NONE of the girls thought Serena wanted DARIEN to 
know, so when he entered the room, they all silenced. Amy used his 
presence to the fullest, making sure that if he was in the room, 
no questions were to be asked. 
	'And don't HINT at anything!' Amy remembered Serena saying before
she left. If she so much as dropped a line, then the girls would know
for sure. And Amy never lied...
	Around 11:00, all the girls left, and Darien too, although he
seemed much more reluctant. 
	"Give my regards to Sere-Serena, would you, Amy?" He asked
quietly as he left. The girls were already out of earshot, down 
the hall and waiting at the elevator, discussing something amongst
themselves. 
	"I'll do that." Amy smiled truthfully. Just as she closed the 
door, she breathed a silent 'Congratulations'. 
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	"We should have the results back by around 5:00 this afternoon. 
Can we call you, or do you want to come back?" 
	"I'd like the call, please." Serena answered. Dr. Cunningham 
nodded and then shuffled a few papers on her clipboard. 
	"I know this is a tough time, Serena, but that's what this 
clinic is here for. No teenager -no one at all- should ever have
to go through something like this alone." 
	"I'm glad my physician recommended you." 
	"We're not called thr best in the city for nothing." Dr. 
Cunningham smiled as Serena got up from the hospital bed and
put her baggy sweatshirt on again. 
	"Thanks again." Serena said truthfully before taking her
mini backpack and walking out. 
	"Any time Serena. Good luck." Dr. Cunningham whispered 
as Serena left. She had been like that once...
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	As soon as Serena got home, she found Amy was the only one
left in the house. It was only 1:30, two and a half hours since she
had left, and one and a half hours since her appointment. She had walked all the 
way home, and the appoinment was a half-hour wait, and one hour 
long... well, she was downright tired, and the first thing
she did was murmur a 'hello' to Amy before collapsing
on her bed.
	She managed to drowsily set her alarm for 4:40 before she fell 
into a deep sleep. 
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	*DREAM*

	Serenity was extremely tired of being confined to her chambers
all the time. She WAS the Crown Princess of the Silver Millenium, after 
all. And Goddess Selene help her, she was curious, adventurous, and
extremly risk-taking. Anything for what she wanted, when she wanted it. 
	So one night, she used her powers to sneak past the guards
surrounding her room, and ran to the teleporters. 
	"There's no where I can go without being seen by Guards of the
Silver Millenium... or my own Personal Guards..." Serenity remembered
how her mother had dismissed the Inner Scouts to their kingdom for
pre-training purification, or something like that. The only scouts
who wouldn't be able to chase after her if they saw her were the 
Outers, because Neptune and Uranus had their hands full
protecting the rim of the Silver Millenium Solar System, now that
Princess Pluto was old enough to watch over the Time Gate and 
Sailor Saturn, after all her training, had been put into 
The Sleep, from which she would only be awakened by Queen Serenity
or Pluto when needed. She was, after all, the Scout of Death and 
Rebirth, the Melancholic Sacrificial Soldier. 
	Serenity wandered the Teleportation Chambers for a bit until 
she reached the Control Room. It greatly resembled a planetarium, 
with an entire wall covered in a map of the stars. A great screen
hung at an agle above this wall, and a small panel of controls 
lay across from this wall, where the screen could be controlled. 
	Serenity couldn't read the labels in the dark, so she felt
around and pressed one. 
	Immediately, the screen faded from black to a light gray, dark
gray, and then color. The image of... somewhere... fading yet again
into another place, what looked like a grand city, and then...
a person?
	The image cleared, and Serenity found herself staring at the
most handsome man she had ever seen in her seventeen years. He had the
deepest blue eyes, shiny black hair, and well-cut features that made
him look... simply perfect. 
	But... Serenity could sense something in him. She had that 
ability, as had her mother before her, and her mother before her. 
It was the ability to sense souls, and heal them. Endymion's was
hardened, and hard to read, even Serenity, with her few months
of experience knew that. But what she could sense was a great loss,
and at the same time, a great need. 
	That pull that drew her to people, the one that made her so
kind and caring. She was a very magnetic person, with lots of 
friends and loyal subjects. She was the exact opposite of what
people expected such a royal, powerful princess to be like. 
	She was kind, gentle, never stuck-up, and very generous. 
She was funny, faulty, clutzy and lovable. She was everything 
that everyone wanted in a friend, comrade, and wife. So Serenity
was sought after by many suitors. But unless she felt that PULL, 
she didn't accept their generous offers. She gave them all a chance, 
it was true, and by the end of the trials, both knew whether they 
were meant to be or not. More often than not, the suitor realized
Serenity was not the one for him. And Serenity always arranged for
them to keep in touch, and in doing so, was always invited to
the weddings of the ones her former suitors were REALLY meant to be
with, pairings made by herself and Venus, most of the time. 
	That pull Serenity felt... she felt it in him, and so 
she found herself rushing to the Forbidden Teleporter, and going
to Earth. 
	When she arrived there, it was almost daylight. The sun was
rising over a mass of water, and the air... it smelled! It smelled
foriegn, of course, but unlike the artificial air on the Moon, 
this smelled...
	The breeze caught her hair and blew it behind her in a mass
of gold and silver, shining like the rays of the sun itself. Serenity
closed her eyes and simply inhaled, enjoying the smell of Earth...
	'Why is it forbidden to visit this tranquillic (real 
word?)planet?' Serenity thought. Her senses tickled again, and Serenity
opened her eyes. As the sun cut across the horizon, tinting the sky 
shades of pink and gold, Serenity felt something brush her cheek. 
	It was small, heart-shaped, and pink...
	"What is this?" Serenity asked aloud, holding the thing in her 
hands. 
	"Endymion!" Serenity heard in the distance. From being on the 
silent moon for seventeen years, Serenity had a good sense of hearing
as well. It was a male voice, anywhere from twenty to thirty yards away. 
	"I'll be back by breakfast!" Serenity, on instinct, hid. What if 
there was someone who would report her... or what if Earth was Forbidden
because the people were hostile? 
	'Oh dear...' 
	She hid behind a pillar holding up a mass of marble, most likely a 
balcony. A foriegn, dark green plant wove around it and up, around the
fence at the top of the marble. On either side, the two large trees
with the pink blooms on them grew. The grass under this marble 
balcony spread out several yards before expansing into a vast beach, 
where one could see the best of the sunrise, sunset, or any of the
Earth Kingdom. 
	She heard light footsteps, and something made the hairs at the 
back of her neck stand on end again. 
	Serenity tried to hide herself behind the pillar...
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	Endymion was out early again for his normal walk around the beach. 
His guards were the only ones who knew he did this, and yet, every 
morning, they complained about his habit. So he had suggested they stay
behind. 
	"It's not like I need protection this early. And besides, it's 
peaceful times, what could possibly happen?" 
	"You could meet someone!" Malachite laughed. Endymion had only
rolled his eyes at that and walked off. 
	He was approaching the Twin Blossom Balcony, the Balcony 
attached to the room given to high ranking or respectful guests of
the Terran Earth Kingdom. Two cherry blossom trees grew on either side
of the marble balcony, hence the name. The most peaceful part of his
walk, however, was under that balcony, with cool grass, the fresh smell
of the ocean wind and the dew-misted ivy growing on the pillars. There, 
Endymion could sit and bask in the rising sun for hours, undisturbed. 
It had become his habit. 
	This day was no different, with the exception of the ever-changing
sunrise. How Eos' fingertips touched the horizon every morning without
fail amazed him. For some reason, everything BEYOND his reach was what 
interested him. The knowledge of other worlds, their inhabitants...
he wondered what the moon was like... the silver orb he could just make
out in the multi-hued sky. 
	He leaned back on the grass and closed his eyes. He opened them 
abruptly again, that feeling of being watched keeping him on the alert. 
He tried not to move too much, but leaned back on the grass. He caught 
sight of one of the pillars that held up the balcony of the currently, 
and usually unoccupied room. 
	'Sunlight?' No doubt, something glistening and golden was there, 
behind that pillar. But marble didn't reflect... and sunlight didn't 
move in the breeze! Whatever that mass of gold and silver was, it was
not a plant, not part of the pillar... 
	Endymion rose slowly, and went around the pillar from the 
other direction. Who -or what- ever was behind here would be caught
for trespassing on royal grounds. 
	Endymion approached the creature from behind, and grabbed it from 
the shadows. 
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	Serenity gasped when she felt something grab her. She let out
a small cry and was forcefully spun around. 
	She squinted her eyes shut, fearing the worst. 
	'Now I'm going to get it... one of the guards from home... or
maybe Mars followed me here. They'll be so mad at me for trespassing
on the Forbidden Planet's grounds... and if it's a Terran... what
if I am a criminal? This is what I get for daydreaming, and watching the
sun rise. And I'll never get to meet that handsome man...' Serenity's 
thoughts flew in her head at a million miles a second, and when 
no sound came from her captor, she opened her eyes, one at a time, 
slowly. 
	Endymion was astonished, to say the least. 
	'A girl?!' Not just a girl... a woman, and a beautiful... no, 
a gorgeous one. She had long flowing hair fashioned into two buns
on either side of her head. She wore a long, white dress, with a 
becoming bodice that accented her every curve in rows of pearls
or scallops of gold. Two sets of pearl barettes adorned her head, 
as did a shining... cresent moon sigil? Who was this girl? 
	'It's him!' Serenity's thoughts screamed in excitement. 
That tickling, nerve-wracking, heart-thumping feeling aggravated
her senses again, and Serenity blushed. 
	'Who is she and... she's blushing?' 
	Endymion's hands still rested on her shoulders, and he didn't 
think to remove them until the heavy silence became uncomfortable. 
	"Uh...Who are you?" 
	'I'm not in trouble? He's not mad that I'm here?' 
	"I'm... I'm..." 
	"You're shy." Endymion smiled. Serenity found the courage to 
look up, only to meet those deep blue eyes, the same as that ocean
expanse she had been staring at before. She blushed profusely again, 
and nodded slightly. 
	"It's all right. I don't think I've seen you around here before...
are you a guest of the Terran kingdom?" 
	"Um... well, no. I...I'm..." 
	"Ssh... It's fine. I take it you don't know who I am, do you, 
Little One?" 
	'Aww!' 
	"N-No..." 
	"My name is Endymion. I'm the Crown Prince of this Earth Terran Kingdom." 
	'A PRINCE?!' Serenity flushed, realizing that everything in the
haphazardly-forming-in-her-mind plan was absolutely perfect. 
	Endymion brought the goddess' small, ivory hand to his lips
and kissed it gently. Serenity looked up at him, eyes wide and 
sparkling with something hidden. 
	"I'm... I'm Serenity." 
	"A beautiful name... for a beautiful girl. You look just as
serene as your name implies." 
	"Th-Thank you..." Serenity stuttered yet again. Why was she
so knock-kneed around him? It couldn't be... him, could it? The
one she had been waiting for?!      
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	"So, what brings you to this kingdom?" Endymion asked, making
conversation with the etheral creature walking alongside him on 
the beach trail. 
	"I... I've always wanted to visit Earth." 
	"Earth? You're not from this world?" Endymion asked. Serenity
gulped, realizing her near mistake. But if he was THE ONE, shouldn't
he at least know where she was from. 
	"No...I'm... I'm from far away." 
Endymion sensed she was more than shy around him, almost nervous 
when choosing her answers. But he did want to know more about her, 
get to know her better. 
	"Well, how does our planet look from yours?" 
From the bottom of her heart, Serenity responded, 
	"Like a beautiful blue crystal ball... full of hope and 
possibilities." 
	"No one's ever described Earth quite like that before." 
	"I guess it's because I've spent most of my time watching
it, wishing I could come here. I spend hours finding the right
words to describe it." 
	"You seem very dedicated. How is it that you've come here
alone... without an escort? You don't seem like the type who 
wouldn't have any..." By those words, Endymion implied that she
was royalty, and not a peasant. Serenity knew this, and didn't
retort, as she would have to anyone else to so blatantly assume
such a thing. 
	Blushing, Serenity looked down in embarassment. She muffled
her voice with her hand over her mouth when she spoke. 
	"Isnuckdownhere." Serenity whispered quickly. Endymion paused
and leaned closer to her. 
	"What?" Serenity looked up, feeling his warmth from how close
he was to her. His breath on her neck...
	"I... I snuck down here... without permission." Endymion
almost laughed, but that would be rude, so he merely chuckled. 
Serenity's crystalline eyes glistened as she indignatly asked
him, 	"What is so funny?" Endymion admired her features as they
played various emotions, and then responded. 
	"You're like a cat, in a way... mischievous. There aren't 
many girls like that." 
	"That's what my mother says!" Serenity laughed. Endymion
loved the sound of her voice... it was like wind chimes, light
bells, or perhaps the delicate strumming of a harp, or violin. 
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	It was well after when Endymion was supposed to have returned
to the palace, but he didn't care. He loved being with Serenity. 
	Suddenly, mid-way through their walk, she stopped, and her
face paled. 
	"Serenity?" 
	"M-M... I have to go now." Serenity nearly whispered hoarsely. 
	"Serenity?! But... But why?" 
	"I...I have to..." Serenity stumbled back to where she had first
been, the Twin Blossom Balcony, as Endymion had told her... in fact, 
he had told her everything she wanted to know, from what things
they ate, to the names of the flowers she saw growing in the vases on
the balcony. 
	But the Balcony was a good two miles away, and Serenity collapsed
after only a few yards. 
	"Sere?!" Endymion nearly yelled, fearing for her life. What
was happening to her?! 
	"I'll... I'll come back." 
	"When? I don't know anything about you, or where you're from!" 
	"Tonight... at the Balcony. I'll be there... when the moon rises." 
Serenity's hand was becoming lighter in his own, and he stared down at
her fading form. 
	"I forgot... it's a timed teleportation..." Serenity grinned 
lopsidedly before vanishing into the air. 
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	Later that day, Endymion returned to the palace. 
	"Where have you been?" Malachite asked furiously. True, he was
the First Guard, and a tad overprotective of his best friend... but 
still, he was the Crown Prince, ruler of the Terran Earth Kingdom...
and his best friend. 
	Endymion didn't seem to hear him, as his expression changed
without response. 
	He looked somewhat upset when all four Royal Guards caught sight
of him, and this looked prompted Nephrite to ask, 
	"What happened?" Then, Endymion's placid face broke into a smile, 
and he tinted a light shade of pink. Jadeite's eyes widened in surprise. 
	"Maybe you should ask, *Who* happened?" Jadeite said. 
	"Did you meet someone?" Malachite asked in anticipation. Then, 
Endymion's face crumbled into his usual stony, serious expression. 
He turned and faced the one guard who had not yet spoken. 
	"Zoisite, tell me everything you know about timed teleportations." 
Zoisite didn't even look up from his book while responding somewhat 
mechanically. 
	"A timed teleportation is the Terran theory that someone with 
a concentrated amount of energy can transport himself physically 
or spiritually from one place to another. It is believed that 
those planets of the Silver Millenium reign have royalty of this
ability, and perhaps even machines with the power." 
	"Royalty..." Endymion mused. 
	"Endymion?" Malachite asked. 
	"And what about the name 'Serenity'?" Zoisite dropped his book 
in surprise. 
	"W-What did you say?" Nephrite stuttered, shocked that the Prince 
would ask about such a person. 
	"I said Serenity. What's the big deal?" Endymion questioned
suspiciously. 
	"S-Serenity is..." Jadeite started. 
	"The Crown Princess of the Silver Millenium Kingdom on the Moon." 
Zoisite finished quietly. 
	Endymion's eyes were unnaturally wide and his face pale when 
Zoisite finished. 
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	End of Part 2A