"That's All We Need to Know" by AvalonInc@smwsailormoon.zzn.com This fanfic is the sequel to JHorizon77's "That's What it Took". JHorizon77 gave me the honor of writing this. I am a girl of few words and so I'll just keep it brief, thank you JHorizon77 for letting me write this, you inspired me. Angel le Demonis Avalonia * * * * -Born to Make You Happy- Oh my Love, I'm sitting here alone up in my room, I think about the time's we've been through, Oh my Love, I'm looking at a picture in my hand, Trying my best to understand, I really want to know want we did wrong, With a love that felt so strong, If only you were here tonight, I know that we could make it right. I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy, 'Cause you're the only one within my heart I was born to make you happy, Always and Forever, You and me, That's the way our life should be, I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy. I know I've been a fool since you've been gone, I better give it up and carry on, Oh my Love, 'Cause living in a dream of you and me, Is that the way my life should be?, I don't want to cry a tear for you, So forgive me if I do, If only you were here tonight, I know that we could make it right. I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy, 'Cause you're the only one within my heart I was born to make you happy, Always and Forever, You and me, That's the way our life should be, I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy. I'll do anything, I'd give you my world, I'd wait forever to be your girl, Just call on my name, And I will be there, Just to show you how much I care. I was born to make you happy. I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy, 'Cause you're the only one within my heart I was born to make you happy, Always and Forever, You and me, That's the way our life should be, I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy. I was born to make you happy. Always and Forever, You and me, That's the way our life should be, I don't know how to live without your Love, I was born to make you happy. -Brittney Spears- Dear Journal, I'm sitting here in my apartment thinking about all that's happened since Usa-ko's accident. I hear this song on the radio and I realize, I was born to make her happy and I didn't. I let them take me away from her in the hospital, and I let her slip away. But, that's not every thing. Her funeral was? I don't know how to describe what happened, so I'll just tell you and maybe then I'll be able to make sense of it all? - - - - "That's what it took?" I sobbed. The senshi had gathered around me, but I didn't notice, I was too wrapped up in my grief. "Endymion?" a small voice whispered, as this beautiful, glowing apparition appeared before all of the people gathered in the Tsukino backyard. "By the gods", I collapsed sobbing even harder than before. "Usa-ko?" She turned and smiled at me. Why should she, after all that I've done to her. She turned towards her parents with an accusing look on her lovely face. "Why?" she asks them, even her tone is accusing. "Why did you keep him away?" I don't believe it, she actually wanted me there. "He is my life and my very existence." I gasped, I never even realized that that was how much I meant to her. She is my life too. I can't believe what I had been thinking a few minutes ago. I can't take my life too, not now that I know that she's forgiven me. Mrs. Tsukino looked up at Usa-ko, and she started to cry even harder than me, if that's possible. She cried out from the depths of her soul, "Please Usagi, I never blamed him. I? we never wanted this." How could she say that she was one of the one's who kept me from Usa-ko. "Well is this what it took for you to realize, what I wanted and what you all felt was true." I'm guessing that the last part was directed at the senshi. She, I don't know if she floated or walked, over to stand next to me. "I am the Princess of all the Silver Millennium, and I will not allow this to go on." She knelt in front of me, her blue eyes shining with the most wonderful thing, love. "Mamo-chan, I cried for days when you left me, and after all that, I had to think of my friends and Chibi-Usa. I almost died, I hurt so much. Selene only knows how much." I wish I could go back and take that pain from her, but I know that I can't and that hurts me more than I can say. "But I have heard all that you have just said to all these people and I can say from the bottom of my heart that I love you and I forgive you." She forgives me. "This may not get me my life back, but I know that life without you, is no life at all." Did she know. No, I don't think she could. "Mommy?" a little girls' voice broke into my thoughts. Everyone started looking around trying to find where and from whom the voice had come from. "Mommy?" the tiny, sweet voice cried out again. I looked at Usa-ko's spirit, asking for some assurance that the voice I thought I had heard belonged to the one I thought I belonged to. Finding my answer in her eyes I called out softly, "Chibi-Usa." The little pink haired girl, who looks at times so like Usa-ko, came out from under a table and ran into my arms. "Mommy, why are you in a coffin?" she choked out, in tears as she looked up at my beloved princess. Usa-ko turned to the sobbing little girl in my arms and asked her a question whose answer would change my life. "Why? Why do you call me Mommy?" Chibi-Usa stared at the glowing figure of Usa-ko. Her answer nearly gave me a heart attack, let me tell you. "You're supposed to be my Mommy." A shining tear slid down her cheek. "Please Mommy, wake up." I started to sob again, as I hugged Chibi-Usa even tighter. "We don't know how," my voice cracked, "We don't know to get her to wake up." I took a deep breath and let it out shakily. "Usa-ko was the only one who could use the Silver Crystal." She looked up at me, "But what about yours Daddy? Can't you use your crystal to wake Mommy up." Oh gods, she called me Daddy. - - - - Which actually explains a lot about a lot. But where was I, oh yeah the Crystal thing. - - - - Everyone, and I do mean everyone gasped in shock at what she had said. Me her, dad, and then there was the 'use yours' thing. "Chibi-Usa what do you mean?" I asked cautiously, not knowing if I'd like the answer or not. "What Crystal?" "Use your Golden Crystal to wake Mommy up. You always told me it could do stuff like that." I looked at Usa-ko, with I can only guess, a hope-filled expression. All the senshi gathered around us. "What do you think Usa-ko? Do you think we could do it? Do you think that this will be what it takes?" She smiled at me, "I love you and you love me, and that's all we need to know." She moved back from me, beckoning that I should follow her. She turned to her mother and said as gently as only my Usa-ko could, "Mom, please lift the lid and take me out of there." Mrs. Tsukino did as Usa-ko asked. She slowly lifted the lid over Usa- ko's legs and with the gentlest care lifted her out of the coffin. Chibi-Usa slid out of my arms as Mrs. Tsukino placed Usa-ko on my lap. She was so careful to not let any of the roses fall out of Usa-ko's hair it made my heart ache. The red one was still held so very delicately in her hand. I placed one hand over my heart and prayed. "Please Golden Crystal reveal yourself. We need you. Please help me to save the woman I love. Please. Please, give her the life we were meant to have. Please? please? by the gods, please?" Behind me I heard the senshi praying to their Guardian deities. "Juno, goddess of Jupiter, please let the Golden Crystal come forth." "By Aries, with all my heart I pray, Mars, give them strength." "Venus, by your love for all, please help revive the love in Usagi- chan's heart." "Mercury, keeper of all medical miracles, if this be true let it come to pass, please, let her live." "Please, Silver Crystal let my Mommy wake up." "Please Selene, goddess of the Moon, let my Mamo-chan wake me. Please Mother Serenity." Slowly a tear slid down my cheek. It landed on my beloveds' swollen cheek, still bruised from the accident which had taken her life. "Please?" I asked one last time and was rewarded with a soft golden glow. I pulled my hand from my heart and was surprised to see within my palm a small heart shaped crystal made of the purest gold. I placed my hand with the crystal in it over Usa-ko's heart. "Please give my love life." There was a blinding flash of light, and when it cleared, the crystal was gone from my hand and Usa-ko's spirit from my side. I fell at the brink of unconsciousness, slumping over Usa-ko. - - - - What happened for the next couple of minutes was told to me by the senshi and Mrs. Tsukino so it might not make total sense. - - - - I had fallen unconscious and was slumped over Usa-ko's body. Minako said that she had touched my arm to try to wake me. Makoto said that she had taken Chibi- Usa into her arms to comfort her. And Rei was apparently the one who yelled in my ear, which was what finally brought me around. - - - - This part I do remember because after Rei yelled in my ear I woke up. - - - - I heard a small moan follow Rei's almost deafening yell. "Mamo-chan?" my girl, my beautiful Usa-ko, whispered, as she reached up and brushed a lock of hair away from my forehead with one of her delicate hands. I sat up and turning my eyes to her loving ones, asked for her forgiveness, forgiveness I don't really feel that I deserved. "Usa-ko, please forgive me." She touched my cheek and looked deeply into my eyes. Looking almost to the very bottom of my soul. What she said I guess shouldn't have surprised me, but the fact that I finished her sentence some how did. "I love you and you love me?" "?and that's all we need to know." - - - - And you know what, she hugged me and loved me and even today the day before our wedding almost three years later, I still am amazed at what happened that day. It opened my eyes. I know that I can never make up for what I did to her, but she doesn't want me to. All she wants is for me to love her and for her to be able to love me. And you know what, that really is all we need to know. Chiba, Mamoru * * * * Fin ?2/29/2000 Avalon Inc.