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What Dreams May Come
Chapter: 2
By: Bethany
Editor: Meara
Rated: PG
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	The voices echoed in her mind, blotting out the 
world for a moment. Over and over, the smiles, the 
laughter... the sense that they were not laughing with 
her, but at her. 

	Quickly she grabbed her head, forcing the voices 
to stop and the memories to fade back into the darkness 
for which they had came from. "No!" she insisted, her 
eyes wide with terror. "Don't!"

	The door to her room swung open, revealing the 
guard posted outside. "Are you alright, Your Majesty?"

	Instead of answering, she swung her hand up and 
blasted the guard back into a wall, smiling at the sound 
of his neck breaking on impact. "I am now sir, that will 
be all," she laughed and walked past his body. 

	Her skirts made light swooshing noises as she moved 
through the hall. It wasn't long until she found the room 
she was looking for and went in. Inside was, as she had 
hoped, her husband looking over the shoulder of a man at 
the computers. 

	"We have entered, then?" she asked.

	Quickly Teno stood to attention, his eyes narrowing 
slightly before turning around and plastering a smile on 
his face. "How did you get down here?" he asked through 
gritted teeth.

	"I walked, of course," she answered nonchalantly, 
tossing a strand of hair to the side. 

	A flash of annoyance passed through Teno's eyes 
before his wife turned around again. "I thought I heard 
someone say that they would be the ruler of Earth soon. 
Could I dare to imagine that someone was you and you 
forgot about little ole' me?"

	"Of course not dear," Teno supplied, wrapping his 
arms around his wife. "It was a slip of the tongue and 
nothing more, I assure you."

	Slowly she wrapped her arms around his neck and 
brought her lips close to his. "And I assure you," she 
whispered. "It had better been a slip of the tongue or 
you won't have to worry about reproducing," she smiled,
her nails then slightly digging into him. "Understood?" 

	"H..Hai Nephelenia, my dear. Hai." 

~~~~~~~~~~

	It had been a very long night, day and following 
night before finally the Queen and King told the Senshi 
to rest. Ceres held the hand of the small girl, Calley, 
as she walked towards her room. Frightened, Calley had 
pleaded to stay with the Asteroid Senshi and Ceres had 
finally agreed she could. 

	"I must check in on the Princess," Ceres explained. 
"You sit here until I'm back, ne?"

	"Hai!" the small child exclaimed, her head bobbing. 
	
	Ceres patted her head and knocked softly on the door 
to Chibi-Usa's room. 

	"I'm fine! You can go on to bed Ceres!" Chibi-Usa 
called.

	Ceres looked oddly at the door for a moment, if not 
quite believing what her ears were hearing before shrugging
her shoulders. "O..okay Chibi-Usa-chan. Good night!"

	The Princess never responded, but instead of dwelling 
on it, Ceres grabbed Calley's hand and continued down the 
hall toward her room.

	Slowly the door to the Princess' suite creaked open 
and a pink odango poked out, followed by the hesitant eyes 
of Chibi-Usa. When she found the hall clear, she let out a 
breath of relief and closed the door. "Whew, I was for sure 
I was going to have to hide you."

	When she received no answer, her head swung around, 
expecting to see an empty room. However, instead she seen 
Helios lying on her bed, his eyes closed in an exhausted 
sleep. 

	Chibi-Usa tiptoed across the room, turning lights off 
as she went. Finally she approached the bed and gently laid 
a light kiss on Helios' cheek before crawling in the bed 
next to him and turning the last lamp off. Her lips curved 
into a smile in the darkness when he turned towards her, 
his hand landing on her waist. 

	"I'm not sure why you are here, but I'm glad. So glad." 

~~~~~~~~~~

	The morning light streamed through the windows, casting 
a yellow glow over the room and waking the small child. With 
wide eyes she sat up quickly, for a second forgetting where 
she was, until she heard some mumbling.

	"Ewwie, it smells like fried squid in here," Vesta 
mumbled in her sleep, her head slightly moving from side 
to side.

	"I don't like fried squid," Juno continued, a look of 
disgust on her sleeping features. 

	"You smell like fried squid!" Pallas practically 
screamed in her sleep.

	Turning over, Ceres covered her mouth. "She's right 
Juno," she mumbled.

	Calley giggled and slipped off the bed, the shirt that 
Pallas gave her to wear to bed falling off her left shoulder. 
Her small feet slapped slightly against the marble floors as 
she made her way down the palace halls. Guards stood here and 
there, but they only nodded as she passed, never stopped or 
questioned what she was doing or where she was going. 

	As she turned the bend, her eyes spotted the double 
doors that lead to the Princess' room. Curiosity filling her, 
the small child reached up and twisted the doorknob. 

	With a small creak of annoyance, the door slid open, 
revealing a large bedroom with off-white walls and pink flower 
border. A large canopy bed was in the center of the room.  It 
was adorned with pink bedclothes and contained two figures. 
One, the shape of a young lady, her pink hair flowing off the 
side of the bed and into the floor below. Next to her, however,
was a man. Calley watched uncertainly for a moment as the man 
turned on his side and pulled the Princess closer before she 
moved swiftly towards the door once more. 

	Who was that man? she wondered as she sped down the palace 
halls. Was he suppose to be there? Her mind came up with images 
of the man jabbing a knife in the Princess and leaving her there 
for her parents to find the next morning. After seeing such death 
and grief the day before; the small child worked herself up into 
a panic as she turned down halls; making wrong turn after wrong 
turn. 

	When finally she realized she wasn't at the Asteroid Senshi's 
room, she let out a strangled cry and shoved open the first door 
she came to.

	Rei's eyes shot open by the sound of the door opening and 
sat up quickly, wrapping her blanket around her as she done so. 
"Who is there?" she demanded, her left arm absently reaching for 
her henshin stick. In response to the door opening and Rei's 
movement, Yuuichirou also sat up right, his eyes searching the 
room for the intruder.

	For a moment no one answered, Rei looked over at her husband 
and shrugged. "Did you hear the same thing I did?"

	"Hai," he answered, sliding off the side of the bed. "Wait 
here."

	Quietly as a mouse Yuuichirou tiptoed around the corner of 
the bedroom to see if, indeed, someone was in the room. Before he 
peeked around the corner, however, a young girl came running 
through the room. Yuuichirou grabbed her in mid-flight and lifted 
her up off the floor.

	"Let me go!" she wailed, kicking and screaming.

	Rei jumped from the bed, wrapping a robe around herself 
before scampering off towards her husband. "Matte. It's Calley." 
Slowly Rei took the child from Yuuichirou and hugged her tightly. 
"What's the matter sweetie? Where is Sailor Ceres?"

	"There's.. a man in the Princess' room!" she wailed. "He'll 
kill her like they did my mommy!" Calley screamed, her tears running 
salty trails down her face and fear causing her eyes to bulge. "Help 
her!"

	Rei didn't even blink in the second she walked over and 
grabbed her communicator. "Small Lady is under attack!" she 
yelled, throwing the small watch like object down and grabbing 
her henshin stick. "Mars Crystal Power!"

	In less than two minutes Sailor Mars was running down the 
halls, Calley following behind her. 

~~~~~~~~~~

	At the same moment, in the Princess' room, Chibi-Usa sat 
up slowly, rubbing the remains of sleep from her eyes. After a 
yawn and stretch, she blinked rapidly upon seeing the man laying 
beside her.  After the initial shock that someone was in her bed, 
the memories flooded her mind once more and she smiled.

"Helios?" she whispered, taking her index finger and gently
pushing back a strain of hair that had fallen in his face. 

"Helios, wake up."

	A small smile formed on his lips. That sweet voice was the 
same one he had dreamed of waking up to since he had first seen 
Chibi-Usa when the Dead Moon attacked. And he knew upon opening 
his eyes he would see her face, her lips, her hair.. everything 
he had dreamed of for so long was sitting so very close to him. 

	Taking as much time to enjoy the moment as possible, Helios 
opened his eyes, gently grabbing her hand from moving his hair 
and pressing his lips to it. His eyes found Chibi-Usa looking 
down at him, blushing feverishly. "Good morning, my pretty girl."

	Chibi-Usa bit her bottom lip, her mind running laps as to 
why he was here; was there trouble and so forth. But it was too 
perfect to dwell on bad thoughts at the moment. This moment she 
had dreamed of for years, finally within her grasp.

"Good morning, my handsome prince," she giggled.

	With strained (?) movements Helios sat up and brought his 
hand to Chibi-Usa's neck to move her closer. After offering a 
small smile, he pressed his eager lips to hers gently first, 
and then harder when she didn't protest.

	Outside the locked door the to Princess' room, Venus 
waited for Mars and Jupiter to join her before they decided 
on how to approach the situation. Venus put her ear up to 
the door, listening for any sound within. When she heard 
nothing, she motioned for Jupiter.  

	"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" 

	The doors didn't resist as the attack hit, smashing 
backwards and flying off their hinges. All the Senshi rushed 
in, now followed by Mercury, the Asteroid Senshi and the 
Queen and King. 

	It took barely a second for them to loose their fighting 
stance.

	Chibi-Usa looked up at the Senshi, down at Helios who 
was laying beside her--his face red--and back to her parents.

	"Eh, morning minna," she finally spoke, her eyes darting 
around as if looking for an escape. "Is there something wrong?"

~~~~~~~~~~

	The room seemed to spin from one person to the next, 
causing her to become dizzy. Her ears filled with the same 
expressions over and over. "Our beautiful Nephelenia-sama. 
We are at your service, Nephelenia-sama."

	Then it changed. Suddenly a black mirror rose up from 
beyond the shadows and told her the truth. An old woman 
showed Nephelenia her past, how Sailor Moon had healed her; 
only to put her back to the beginning of the hell that had 
started before. Living the same life, the exact way.  But 
this time the ending would be different. No, the Dead Moon 
would not rise again. They would do it right this time. When 
the old woman's image faded, a hallway replaced it in the 
mirror and Nephelenia had followed it. 

	At the end of the hall were two passageways. A sign 
above her instructed her to go left to return to her original 
purpose - be Queen of the Universe. The second instructed her 
to return to the palace and to live the past over again, become
the Dead Moon Queen once more, only to be beaten by Sailor Moon 
over again. 

	Nephelenia looked down both passages, straining to see 
what lay beyond them - but there was nothing but darkness. 

	"History will not repeat," she whispered and stepped 
through the tunnel that inevitably brought her to where she 
stood today. 

	A light ringing brought the Evil Queen back from her 
thoughts and into the here and now. She looked around, puzzled 
for a moment, before gathering herself and pressed the button 
to allow the door to her room to open. "Who is it?"

	"I bring your food, Your Majesty."  

	Nephelenia slowly moved her head to the side, enough to 
see a young girl standing in the doorway. Her fear was evident, 
her small frame shaking as she pushed the cart forward. 

	"Why, what's the matter, my child?" Nephelenia said, her 
eyes sympathetic. 

	"N..nothing, Your Majesty," the girl responded. Her red 
hair seemed to fall all around her, and her eyes were wide and 
full of fear.

	Nephelenia motioned for her to sit, and the young girl 
quickly obeyed. "You're a very pretty girl," Nephelenia 
commented, her eyes never leaving the youth.

	"T..than..k y..ou."

	A plan started to take shape as Nephelenia studied the 
young girl sitting across from her. And the more she thought 
on it, the better the idea sounded. 

	In her mind's eyes, she imaged the young girl in the 
outfit that had once belonged to another red headed girl she 
once knew. 

~~~~~~~~~~

	Her eyes blinked, hard; going back and forth from her 
daughter to the man that her daughter was in bed with. 

	Usagi looked again, determined she had to be mistaken. 
But there was no mistake, her daughter was in bed with a man. 
And not just any man, no. Chibi-Usa was in bed with Helios. 
The urge to faint over came her, but she pushed it back - 
determined to get to the bottom of this.

	"S..Small Lady, I think you and I need to talk. Come 
with me," Usagi instructed, her tone leaving no room for argument. 

	The Princess of the Earth and Moon stood slowly, wrapped 
a robe around her and looked at the floor as she left her room 
and followed her mother.

	As Usagi passed Mamoru, she gently lifted her finger and 
shut his jaw. "Mamo-chan?" she asked, gesturing towards the bed 
where Helios sat. "Do you think...?"

	"Huh? Oh! Hai.. hai..." Mamoru responded, scratching the 
back of his neck. 

	"Arigato, Senshi. Demo, I think this will be all," Usagi 
kept her head high as she left the Princess' suite. But inside 
she wanted to cry. She prayed all they had done was kiss, but 
the evidence didn't look as if it was in her favor.

	Outside in the hall, Calley bit the tips of her small 
nails and looked at Ceres with watery eyes. Ceres sighed, 
grabbed the child's hand, and started towards her room. It 
would be a long day indeed.

~~~~~~~~~~

	Usagi paced back and forth, her hands tucked behind her 
back.  She stopped, turned to her daughter and sighed heavily. 
"Small Lady, you know I trust you. But if I find out you have 
lied to me--"

	"Mother! Geesh! Don't you get it? His home land is in 
trouble, he comes to me for help and you have Daddy in there 
talking to him?"

	Usagi sighed once more, weighing her thoughts and what 
her daughter told her on a scale. One side would see that boy 
banished from her home, the other side screamed for her to find 
out why Helios was here, before she made her decision.

	In her years as queen, one thing had became painfully 
obvious to Usagi; not everyone could be trusted. The good she 
had always sought out in people, was not always there. But this 
is my daughter, she scolded herself, I can believe her. Can't I? 

	Usagi moved towards the door and placed her fingers on 
the knob. "Are you coming?"

	Chibi-Usa blinked then stood. "Hai, Mother."

	The two women walked in complete silence down the corridor, 
Chibi-Usa casting her eyes to the ground. She hoped her mother 
would forgive her, but her mind also couldn't help going back to 
the sweet.... almost perfect - kiss.

	"Do you love him?"

	The question came so abruptly that Chibi-Usa stopped 
mid-step and looked up sharply, as if Usagi had just asked 
her to stop the world from spinning. Usagi turned expectantly, 
a tear trailing down her face. "Do you love him?" she repeated.

~~~~~~~~~~

	"...when I saw the ship landing, I knew that my only hope 
was to come to Earth. So I returned to my Pegasus form and 
rejoined with Chibi-Usa's beautiful dream until it was safe 
for me to come out," Helios finished explaining, then looked 
at the King of Earth expectantly.

	"Okay," Mamoru rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "So why not 
come to us? Why," here he paused slightly. "Sleep in my daughter's 
bedroom? My... sixteen year.. old.. daughter?" 

	"Prin--I mean, King Endymion. I swear to you that I done 
nothing wrong." Realizing his mistake, Helios waved his hands up. 
"Yes, I slept in her bed. I feel into an exhausted sleep from my 
journey to the surface. Sleep was all we done."

	"And kiss," Mamoru reminded, eyeing the boy carefully.

	"..and kiss," Helios repeated, forcing his lips not to curl 
into a smile at the thought.

	Mamoru started to speak again, stopping only when he heard 
footsteps drawing near. 

	Helios moved towards the door just in time to hear Queen 
Serenity turn to her daughter and ask the question he had been 
wondering about for years.

	"Do you love him?"

--End Chapter 2

Well, there it is - da-ta! This story isn't going to be much longer..
this coming from someone who just got through writing a 36 chapter
series ^^;; Makes you wonder on my definition of long, doesn't it? ;)
I want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who has emailed me
about the first couple of chapters, *HUGS* you all have been wonderful
in your support of a Chibi-Usa/Helios fic. Since Chibi-Usa don't
seem to be everyone's favorite, I was wondering how this would go
along ^^
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Meara, my wonderful editor. 
Also, go check out the other fic I'm writing with about 13 of my
friends :) It's called the "Senshi Suvivor Project" and is about
Pluto going berserk and throwing everyone (and some that are not
in the SM storyline) onto an island and making them 'survive'. Also
includes villians from every season ^_~
Email! Email is gooooood!

luv -n- hugs,
Bethany
Bethany212@aol.com
http://anime.at/bethsere