Remember Princess 
Chapter 5

Rated:  G

Author:  Natia_99 (aka nat-chan peoples!)

Mail:  natia_99@yahoo.com

Disclaimer:  I've been digging through my old writing folders all 
weekend (trying to
put together a poetry book) and although I have written many many 
things, the original
Sailormoon is not one of them...sigh....I was hoping I had and just 
forgot about it....

AN's:  Upon digging through my old writing stuff I DID find a short 
little blurb I wrote 
about this old old old cartoon called "Botsmasters"  anyone remember 
THAT one? Yup, I 
actually wrote this little romantic fanfic about it....found it in my 
junior high essay
folder...right under my "world's biggest dork" award....siiiiigh....

Last chapter people's, hope ya like!  Thanks for the e-mails about this 
story!  I love
e-mail!  *sniff sniff* share the love!

I'm putting this out super quick JUST for Silver Bunny since she asked 
me to and she'd
just finished finals yaaaaay!  ^_~

This is short...more like an epilogue really....and suuuuuuuuuper 
sappy! 

You've been warned.

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Darien stumbled towards the image of his Princess on shaky legs.  She 
was breathtaking,
this couldn't be real.

But her warms arms slipping around him certainly *felt* real....her 
soft lips against
his own *seemed* real....and then she leaned up and whispered the words 
he longed to hear most
in the Universe, 

"I remember....."

His eyes met hers wide with shock and hope.

She was smiling, looking simulataneously like his powerful, 
awe-inspiring princess
and the girlish, joyful Meatballhead of this lifetime.  There was 
wisdom and genuine
sympathy in her voice,
 "This must've been hard on you...."

He nodded, "It was..."  He choked out, tears starting at the corners of 
his eyes.
"I've missed you..." His voice was barely a whisper.

Her eyes changed, turning beautiful with a mixture of empathy and love.  
She reached up
and caught the first tear that rolled down his cheek and it sparkled 
and glowed in her
hand....became the silver crystal....

"The crystal..."  He breathed, "I had it all along?"

She nodded smiling and in a flash was Serena once again, she tucked it 
into her brooch.
Then she wound her arms about his neck again, grinning,
"I remembered during that battle....the one where I was thrown in the 
lake...."

"You DID?!"  He blurted, "But why didn't you---how did you--how come I 
couldn't tell?"

She smiled, "Telepathy is a moon power, you only have it with me 
because we're soulmates.
I've had a lot more practice than you...."

He nodded, "But...why didn't you tell me?"

She giggled, "I was so proud of how you were willing to wait.....and it 
was fun to romance you
all over again....just like you did me!"

He smiled in return, "That *was* fun!"

He led her out to the kitchen and made them cocoa and then they settled 
onto his couch
and cuddled up for a bout of 'remember when's'.

"Remember at the skating rink?  And my tests and drawing?  That all 
makes so much more
sense now!"

He laughed, "Like my fencing."

She nodded then turned pointing at him, "And YOU, you remembered and 
took me rollar skating
and frisbee throwing and dancing...."  She trailed off dreamily, "It 
was all so romantic.."

He grinned, very pleased with himself indeed.

She looked over at him indulgently, "Well aren't YOU proud of 
yourself!"

"That I am."  He returned.

"Well *I* remembered specific moments and recreated them!"  She pointed 
out triumphantly.

He sighed, laying back on his arms contently, "Yes, yes....you had me 
guessing.  I was
suspicious but I couldn't tell you remembered by your thoughts."

She lay back against his chest and sighed happily, 
"Mmmmm.....remember...remember when we
first met?"

He smiled above her, "Yes....I'll never figure out how you mananged to 
sneak down to the
earth as often as you did....I can still see you stumbling through my 
garden...holding your
ears because you'd never heard the wind before...."

"The Moon was such a silent planet...."  She said softly, "I always 
longed for the earth..."

"And you wore your hair the same even then....I'm surprised I didn't 
make fun of it..."

"You DID don't you remember?  You called me..."  She searched her 
memory, "...dumpling head."
She finished bitterly.

He laughed lightly, "So I did.  So I did.   But you know I always 
thought you looked like 
a goddess...and rightly so..."

She smiled, "Yes...."

"What about me?"  He asked, feigning hurt, "Didn't I look dashing in my 
armor?"  He quipped.

She propped herself up to meet his eyes, "You were always the most 
handsome..."  She said
in a tone that implied he knew it already.  Which he did.

He smiled into her eyes, "Do you remember our first kiss?"

Her eyes clouded over dreamily to his satisfaction, "Yes....."

He grinned, leaning closer, "When..??"

"You snuck into the Moon's Masquerade Ball for the first time.....and 
we danced all
night--oh my mother was so mad!  But I didn't care....and then we went 
out onto the 
balcony and you kissed me...."

"Kind of like our first kiss this time....remember the D-Land Ball?"

She giggled, "Yup...I was a little punch-drunk..."  She said with 
embarrassment.

"You looked beautiful that night..."  He said dreamily, "Just like a 
princess...no wonder
I felt such deja-vu."

She smiled but then her face became serious, her eyes uncertain, "And 
now?"  She asked 
softly and he could read her anxiety in her thoughts...

~I'm not a Princess anymore...~

He smiled reassuringly, "Now I like you best of all...."  He leaned 
forward to kiss her.

"Why?"  She asked.

"Because...in this life, with this heart, I love *you* Meatballhead.  I 
always did."

Her eyes widened, "You...you really mean that...don't you?"

He answered with his kiss.....(awwww.....siiighhh, extra mush just for 
you minna!)

They stayed up all night talking, dreaming...

"Do you think we'll get married...and have kids?"

"Of course!"

"Hee hee, wonder what they'll be like...."  (siiigh, poor Serena...if 
only she knew....)

As the sun began to rise they stood and watched it from his balcony. 
Serena turned to look at him, "So what happens now?"

Darien grinned (much like nat-chan is doing from her chair at home)
"Now, we live happily ever after."

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The End.

Awwwwwww......phew!  Pretty sappy ne?  No, stop minna!  Don't try to 
blink yet, your eyes
will surely become sealed shut from the sap!  I'm still trying to rip 
the keys off my fingers!
(Actually, in truth, my apostraphie (wow I've never tried to spell that 
*sweatdrop*) and quotes
key is broken and flies off all the time while I'm using it.....you 
should see the late
night fits of rage I have....or maybe you shouldn't!)

Annnnyways, I just want to stick in a little note here that I totally 
do not mind sharing ideas.
That is to say, if you want to take a plot line of mine or a bit I used 
feel free--just e-mail
me so I can go read it and see what you did ^_^
							luvs, nat-chan