Forbidden Creation
Chapter 3

Rated:  G
Disclaimer:  Do I own Sailormoon?  In the immortal words of Destiny's Child "No no no no no.."
Genre:  Romance/Alt. Reality

AN's:  Hope you're enjoying?  ;p
 p.s.  See "The Thirteenth Floor"

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Saturday, 3000 AD.

Serena froze.  How was it possible?  Darien should be unconscious!  She dropped everything
on the floor and stared at the screen disbelieving.  Then she laid a hand on the pad,
"User Serena override for entrance..." She commanded and threw herself into the pod again.

This was dangerous, entering the system when it was dormant, the contact would probably confirm
to the authorities that he existed, but so would leaving him that way....

"Let me walk out of the sea..."  She said softly as the silver water started to shoot down.

Darien, standing on the shore, stopped short as Serena walked easily from the water, like some
kind of sea goddess.

She hurried to him, "Darien!"

"Serena!  Everything's gone silent and dim and everyone's collapsed, what's happened?"

"The authorities are suspicious!  They're threatening to shut down the system!  I put the
computer into dormancy!  You should be unconscious too!  I don't know how you're still awake!"

His eyes were wide, "What happens if they shut down the system?"

She didn't answer but the sudden horrific terror in her eyes confessed the truth,
"I won't let it happen, I swear to you."  She said hoarsely.

"What are you going to do?"

"My Grandfather's disappeared, but he left me a note....I think it's about what I should do.
It has instructions and an address.  I'm going to follow them."

"What about me?  What should I do?"  He asked.

"I'll put you to sleep."  She said softly.

He started....knowing he may never wake up....they both realized this could be it.

He pulled her close, catching her about the waist, "I want you to know...."

"I know, I know."  She said brokenly, "I love you too.  Always.  I swear, if they're going to
shut it down I'll get in and die with you.  I swear!"

"No, no you musn't.  Promise me you'll live."

"I can't live without you!"

The clutched one another tightly and he kissed her, slipping down to the sand as he held her,
and then she pulled away and touched his face, "Sleep."  She said softly and he watched her
beautiful face fade away again.

She left him laying in the sand, touched his face gently and then ran back into the sea without
looking back.  Time was running out.

She pulled out of the system and grabbed her things.  Her wrist band beeped.  The authorities
knew and they would try and shut everything down now.  The encryption would take a long time
to break....but the race had begun.  She ran out the door and headed for the hospital.

She ran through the sunny streets, passing couples everywhere who stared oddly at her.

~I'll save you....I'll save you...~  She thought desperately, ~I can't live without you.~
But where was Grandfather?  She could use their telepathic link....something no one really
knew about....but they would if she used it.  It was a lunar power and she was forbidden to use
it.  It worked on Grandfather because they shared the same blood.  She decided to hold off
till the last minute before doing that.  No need having authorities chasing her AND trying
to hack into the system too!

She found the hospital and ran in.  Her wrist light had dropped by half.  There was no time!
When the lights went out competely, all was lost!

She raced through the halls and hurriedly talked to the desk before finding the room number.
~899b.~

The front desk nurse meanwhile, called the floor Doctor.  The patient the young girl had arranged
to see had never had a visitor since he'd arrived....at birth.

Serena pushed the door open and walked in to see the bottom half of a bed and a window.
Coming around to see who lay in it she stopped short and clapped a hand over her mouth to
keep from screaming.  She dropped to her knees.  

It was Darien.

At least it looked just like him.  What did it all mean?
She dropped her equipment on the chair nearby and walked over, taking his hand gently, 
disbelieving that it was real.

The Doctor walked in at this moment and scared the life out of her,
"May I ask why you're here?"  His voice cut in from behind.

She jumped out of her skin.

He smiled, "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you.  It's just, this patient has never had any 
visitors."

"How long has he been here?"  She asked softly.

"Since his birth."  The Doctor replied, "He was born this way, comatose.  He has absolutely
no neurological activity in his brain whatsoever.  He is a body...without a mind..."

"Without a soul..."  She said softly.

He put a hand on her shoulder, "Who told you about him?"

"My Grandfather."  She replied, then asked, "Why did you keep him...alive?"

The Doctor shrugged, "Because we could."

She stared dumbly at him at this.  Destiny was doing a crazy dance in her head.  

He watched her a moment before saying, "Is there anything you need or can I leave you?"

She nodded, "No no I'm fine.  Thank you for...answering my questions..."

"No trouble at all Miss." He smiled and then left her.

She quickly shut the door and propped a chair against the handle.  Then she sat down beside him
and focused her mind.

~Grandfather...~

~Yes?~  The reply came so fast and so steadily that she jumped.

~What's going on?  How is Darien here?  What does this mean?~

She could feel him chuckle.
~My dear girl.  I've made it my life's work to find your soulmate.  I found this poor chap
in my searching, a body without a soul.  When you scanned yourself in *I* modelled the body
not you, and I modelled it after him.  I've been working on that biotic conductor for some time
now, hoping to find a way to transfer him to this body....I didn't mean for it all to come up
so suddenly....but the Authorities know now and they're trying to shut it down.~

~So you sent me in to see if a soul bond would really form?  To see if he had a soul?~

~Yes.~

~Why didn't you tell me?!~  She asked angrily.

~I couldn't interfere.  You had to do it on your own.~

A beeping from her wrist interupted her.

~Hurry girl.  We haven't much time.  Hook up the conductor...~

She did and he spoke again, ~We'll have to unlock the system together but we'll only have
a matter of seconds for you to awaken him and pull him through.  He has to pass through the 
conductor and your body before entering his own for it to work.~

~I understand.~  She replied tensely.

~Good, then let's do it.~

They used their combined minds to unlock the system and Serena hurried to the beach to wake
Darien...only to encounter a strange sight.  He was already awake and fighting off the 
collapsing system by himself, flinging energy and whatever else he could conjure.  It was
amazing.  He'd learned to master his environment.  But the system was collapsing anyway
and he was rapidly running out of time.

"Darien!"  She cried, hovering over him in a vague outline.

"Serena?!"  He cried over the din and roar of the computer being attacked.

"Take my hand!  I'll tell you what you must do!"

He reached for her hand but she was high.  He jumped and missed, jumped again.  The ground
was dissolving beneath him.  

"You can do it!"  She cried desperately.

He focused and jumped then, just as the ground vanished beneath him, jumping higher and 
higher till her caught her hand.

"I'm going to pull you out, you have to pass through the conductor, then me into--"

She was cut off as the system died with a last deafening roar.  Without hesitating she
forced him out and into the conductor.

Back in the hospital room, she looked to see his familiar blue energy struggling in the 
conductor.  She reached one hand and took the limp one that lay on the hospital bed and with 
the other touched the conductor, letting the inhuman voltage shock her.  Her head flew back
and she let out a cry of anguish.

There was a rattling at the hospital door as Nurses and Doctors tried to get in.

Then the blue energy suddenly flew up her arm and into her body and for one long, strange
moment they were both there....sharing that same space....complete....feeling the one thing
soulmates struggle their whole lives to be through touch and talk.....one.

Then, with reluctance she realized smiling, he was traveling down her other arm and into the 
limp body that looked identical to his simulated one.  And everything fell deadly silent.
Serena fell to her knees, semi-conscious.  The body on the bed remained unchanged.  

Finally she pulled herself up, blind to the hollaring of the people outside the door, she sat
quietly on the bed and leaned over the still dormant body.

"Darien?"

She leaned down till her lips brushed his, "Darien can you hear me?"

The moniter still beeped steadily, unchanging.  Her heart grabbed.
She kissed him tenderly, "My love..."

And then he opened his eyes, groggily at first but gradually wider.  She watched his muscles
form and tighten for the first time, he winced painfully as his simulated body transferred 
itself to this one that had never moved.

Then he sat up slowly, arms tangling with hers, eyes never leaving her beautiful face.

"Where am I?"

"In a hospital...in the future....in your own body...alive....with me."  She finished in a 
whisper.

He stared incredulously at her and then down at his body, touching his face and hair and
chest.  Everything *felt* the same.

"I'm....real?" He asked, afraid....

She nodded, tears springing to her joyful eyes.

He tilted her chin up till their noses touched, "You'll never be alone again love."

She smiled and let him kiss her then.  The Doctors burst in and stopped, staring dumbly
at them.  In the chair sat a fizzled, smoking, burnt up machine of some kind.  The girl
sitting on the bed had singed clothes and hair, as though she'd been shocked terribly, 
and the man who'd spent his life in a coma was sitting up holding her with what looked like
strong, tanned arms!

The authorities burst in behind them, having followed the traces of telepathy.

Serena broke the kiss and turned to face them.  Then she threw back her head and laughed,
the joyful free laugh of someone completed.

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