Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Escaping Fate ❯ Book 1 Part I - V ( Chapter 4 )

Escaping Fate

Book I

Part I

V

 

 

“Alright, I'll be right down,” came the voice of Dr. Mizuno as she hung up the receiver of her telephone. Ami couldn't help but raise her eyes in curiosity to the tone in her mother's voice.

 

“Mom,” the blue haired genius spoke up suddenly, after her mother was through with the conversation. “What's wrong?”

 

“Oh, nothing dear,” she assured her daughter, as she stood up from her current seat upon the couch, placing a marking in her book. “I just got called into work, that's all.”

 

“Mom,” came the curious voice again, stopping the doctor from leaving the room. Ami placed her own book down upon the table next to her, turning to face her mother as she stood. “Nothing's wrong with Rei, is there?”

 

The doctor fixed herself before turning to face her daughter. She placed her hands firmly upon Ami's shoulders, her voice calm and comforting.

 

“I assure you that nothing is wrong,” Ami's mother confirmed. “Rei just tried going for a walk after her sleeping medication was administered. She's fine, but they just want someone to make sure she's alright.”

 

The doctor hugged her daughter, and placed a kiss on her forehead. With that, she pulled away and got ready for work. Ami stood there a moment in the room, her eyes trailing out to the dark night sky. She hoped Rei was alright.

 

 

 

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“Come on, Usako,” came the voice ahead of the blonde haired future princess, just a few steps ahead of her. A walk in the park had been her idea, the cold itched at her skin, but the fresh air she breathed was more than welcomed. She smiled innocently, as she skipped herself forward, easily catching up with her knight in shinning armor.

 

“I'm right here, Mamo-chan!” she sprang forward, smiling brightly. Mamoru smirked, placing a hand over the girl's shoulder.

 

“I swear, Usako,” Mamoru started with slight sarcasm. “One day, I'm going to loose you to this park.”

 

“Oh Mamo-chan,” Usagi teased, as she poked his side playfully. Mamoru laughed, as the pathway took them toward the river bank, the slight wind picking up current, sending waves crashing against the sides. Usagi shivered, as she moved herself toward the river, placing her hands upon the chain linked fence. With a hand about her waist now, Mamoru followed, looking outward toward the horizon.

 

“You chose a cold night for a walk in the park,” Mamoru spoke softly, as Usagi curled against his body for warmth.

 

“I know,” Usagi replied, as she leaned her head against the man's chest. “I just really like it here.”

 

“I know,” Mamoru nodded his head as he held the girl he loved. He felt her tense suddenly, then shiver. “Usagi? Are you cold?”

 

Usagi's eyes widened, as every muscle in her body tensed. Her mouth parted, as she held her breath, unable to shake the feeling that suddenly emerged from seemingly nowhere. A sharp pain within her chest developed, as her hand reached for it, letting out a low grunt. Her legs felt like rubber, and were it not for Mamoru's reflexes, she would have fallen on the ground.

 

“Usako?” Mamoru's voice asked, filled with worry, as he turned the girl to face him, leaning her weight upon him. “What's wrong?”

 

“My chest,” she replied, as tears started to form from the pain, slowly sliding down her cheeks. “It hurts.”

 

Mamoru looked the girl over, unable to find the source of the problem. Quickly taking his jacket off, he wrapped it around the girl's shoulders, walking her to a bench to sit. In the amount of time it took him to do this, Usagi's breathing had become quick and short, her forehead slowly moistening even though the temperature was well enough to keep her cool. She let out a few whimpers, as she clenched tightly to Mamoru, who hadn't the slightest idea what was wrong with her.

 

“Usagi,” he whispered, as he rubbed the back of her head, worry written all over his face. The girl sobbed a moment longer, until he felt the girl completely freeze all over within his grasp. “Usako? What is it?”

 

“Its…” she started out, her voice barely a whisper, her throat dry, making her voice crack slightly. “Rei.”

 

“Rei?” Mamoru was barely able to catch the name, with Usagi's voice so quiet. “What's wrong with Rei?”

 

“She's dead!”

 

 

 

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Usagi lifted the heavy blankets from her, her voice carrying what her mind pleaded to not be true. Her breathing was quick, as a hand reached up to her forehead, wiping the beads of sweat that had formed. The black feline that had been upon her lap, attempting to wake the girl from her nightmare jumped from her lap, setting herself up into a sitting position on the mattress next to the moon princess. Before the feline could speak, however, Ikuko Tsukino opened the door swiftly, rushing to her daughter's side.

 

“Usagi!” she exclaimed, placing her hands upon the girl's shaken shoulders, tilting her head to the side as to look her daughter in the eyes. “Are you okay? What's wrong?”

 

A mother's worry seemed to shake Usagi from her dazed state, as her breathing calmed slightly, leaning into her mother. Ikuko took a seat upon the bed, allowing the blonde to place her head upon her shoulders, rubbing her head and back. As Usagi sobbed into her mother's embrace, Ikuko hummed a tune she used to sing to her when she was a child, hoping it would work. Usagi calmed down some more, sniffling the final tears from her eyes, as she wiped them away with her sleeve. Pulling her head from her mother's shoulder, she gazed up into her eyes.

 

“Another nightmare, hun?” Usagi nodded her head, as she rested her head back, lying back down on the bed. The dark blue haired woman tucked her daughter in, placing a kiss upon the girl's forehead. “I'm going to make an appointment for you tomorrow, Usagi. You've been through a lot in your life, and I think that you should talk to someone about it. I know you have your friends, but I'd feel better if you'd talk to a professional.”

 

Usagi nodded, as she took in a deep breath. Ikuko kissed the girl's forehead one more time, before rising from the bed.

 

“Mom,” came Usagi's voice again, her mother quickly turning to face her with a questioning gaze. “I love you.”

 

“I love you too, honey,” she replied with a warm smile, then turned to leave. As the door shut, Usagi's cat Luna moved up to the head board of the bed, leaning against one of the girl's pillows as she lied herself down.

 

“Usagi,” the cat spoke quietly, barely a whisper, as she kept her eyes toward the door. “Are you alright?”

 

“Yea Luna,” Usagi nodded, resting her wrist upon her forehead, letting another sigh escape her lips, bringing her bright blue orbs toward the window. “It was just a dream.”

 

“Was it the same dream?” Luna's curiosity got the better of her, as she rested her head on her paws.

 

“Yea,” Usagi replied. “It felt so real.”

 

“It's only a memory, Usagi,” Luna stated. “In time, dreams pass.”

 

“I don't know, Luna,” Usagi's voice broke after a moment of silence. “I mean, I felt her die.”

 

“Usagi,” Luna spoke. “You are attached to your friends. What they feel, you feel and visa versa. Rei went through a traumatic experience. What went through her mind during the accident may have relayed into your own mind.”

 

Usagi lay in her bed, her mind replaying the events that had occurred. The feeling, it was not simply a thought of Rei's. She had felt her die. She felt her friend die.

 

 

 

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Rei's eyes were wide open, staring at the ceiling above her. The ceiling fan had been turned off, making the light in the room flicker with every spin. If Rei had put an exact point upon it, it would seem the darkness would fill the room whenever the chipped part of the fan hit six o'clock. Her entire body tensed, gripping the edge of the bed, with murmurs and whispers from the hallway slowly leaked through the crack in the door to her ears. Her heart was racing, her breathing quick and short. Sweat dripped off her forehead onto the pillow she was forced down upon. She had awakened right around the time she was brought back to her room, but a sudden bad feeling in the pit of her stomach within the walls of the room forced her to fight against the nurses, wanting to simply get the heck out of the room. After nearly drowning the girl with drugs to keep her calm, Rei never moved from her position, her eyes staring into the four corners of the ceiling, the very darkest parts of the room, waiting… simply waiting…

 

 

 

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“She's been like this since how long?” Dr. Mizuno asked, adjusting her glasses through the glass part of the door, focusing upon the tense figure upon the hospital bed, afraid to even move.

 

“Since she woke up, which was…” a nurse started, as she flipped through the paper work to find out the exact time when the girl awoke from fainting. “Just around three in the morning. A janitor found her in Special Care Nursery, lying on the floor.”

 

“What was she doing down there?” the blue haired doctor asked, turning to the head nurse. The blonde haired nurse placed her hand to her forehead, her index finger slowly patting her forehead.

 

“I have no idea,” she replied with a shake of her head. “She says she's been having trouble sleeping, so I upped the dosage on her sleeping medication. I knew the girl was known for going for random walks, but nothing at night. Especially when her sleeping meds could have kicked in at any moment. I'm surprised she made it as far as she did without simply passing out.”

 

“Well, she did pass out,” the doctor stated firmly, as she extended her hand for the report, which the nurse happily handed over. Flipping through some of the pages, she checked through her medication. “She's not allergic to any of the medication?”

 

“No allergies,” the nurse stated.

 

“And not a damn thing to do with the side effects,” the doctor shook her head, removing her glasses, as she turned to the glass again to her daughter's friend.

 

“She should have been asleep hours ago, but I don't think she's even blinked,” the nurse stated hesitantly, looking past the nurse through the window as well. The doctor shook her head, turning to her head nurse.

 

“There's not much we can do now until morning,” she said, as she passed her the clip board. “Run an MRI tomorrow. She's been through a traumatic experience, and the medication may have something to do with it.”

 

“She was prescribed a heavy amount,” the nurse then brought up. The doctor turned from nurse back to Rei.

 

“Who prescribed her the medication?” Mizuno asked the girl.

 

“Um…” she started to go through the paper work. “Doctor Watashi.”

 

 

 

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Meioh Setsuna calmly walked along the side walk through the busy streets of Tokyo, brushing the dark green strands of hair that fell over her eyes. As she tucked the strands behind her ear, she paused at the current intersection, placing her hand upon the light post as she lifted her right leg up, rubbing the ankle.

 

`I don't think I'll ever understand how Mars is able to battle in heels,' the woman thought with a sigh, ignoring the throbbing pain in her heel, forcing it back to the ground as the walking sign lit up. As the cross walk filled with people, she kept herself lost in the crowd, continuing at her normal pace.

 

Rather disturbed over the current wall of clouds within the gates of time, she felt a walk was in order to calm her nerves. She never understood just why or how the idea came into her mind, for she hated walking in heels, and especially hated to waste her break simply walking around two city blocks for a half an hour. Though the trouble she had within her `second' and `primary' job, she simply couldn't shake the thought all throughout her normal every day job. Thus the reasoning for her current stroll upon the board walk, taking a turn around the third corner, heading back to her work.

 

The Guardian of Time froze suddenly in mid step, just before she stepped onto the street as the DO NOT WALK sign lit up. A feeling of deja vou wiped over her suddenly, something she rarely felt unless she had trouble seeing through the portals of time. The exact trouble she had currently been having. Like a movie, the scene played through her mind numerous times. The scene would start off different, as if the girl would take a new action with the new information she had available, but the outcome was always the same. Her heart raced, her breathing increasing. She threw her arm out to her side, with her hair tossed about.

 

“NO!” she screamed just before the truck hit.

 

 

 

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Kanji Watashi adjusted his suit, as he walked through the double doors of the hospital, the warm sunlight soon leaving his white coat as it was replaced by artificial heat, and artificial sunlight. Within a step into the automatic doors, it seemed the drama of the ER hit him. Voices yelled back and forth, as medical terms were corrected, and people were pushed and pulled through the hallways, the doctor making his way toward the locker room. With a hand upon the knob, a small hand pressed it closed, apparently preventing him from changing fully into uniform. As the rusty brown haired doctor turned, adjusting his glasses, he noticed his blue haired apprentice with a stern look upon her face, one which he had rarely seen.

 

“Watashi,” the doctor spoke softly, though her tone was much less friendly.

 

“Mizuno,” he replied equally, removing his hand from the knob with a raised eyebrow. “Since when were we moved to last name basis?”

 

“Since you filled this out,” she said, as she pulled a paper from the Hino folder she had in her arms.

 

“Hm…” he said, as he looked it over briefly. “Hino? What's the problem?”

 

“She was found unconscious last night, wondering the halls after hours,” the well known doctor replied, reading off the man's changing expressions. Watashi's eyebrow raised only momentarily, as he continued to read over his own hand writing, then focusing upon the doctor.

 

“What does this have to do with me?” the doctor asked curiously. “Obviously the girl's been known to sneak out of her room when she isn't well enough to be out of bed. Typical teenagers.”

 

“It has everything to do with you,” Ami's mother countered with a frown, placing her finger toward the bottom of the report. “What were you doing checking up on my patients in the first place?”

 

“A little defensive, Mizuno,” the man said as he raised an eyebrow. “I was told the girl was having trouble sleeping, so I prescribed some sleeping medication to help with the situation. I see no problem with that.”

 

“That's exactly the problem!” Mizuno nearly yelled, not understanding the fact that the doctor still refused to see his own mistake. “Your sleeping medication interfered with her pain medication!”

 

“What?!” the doctor pulled the paper fully into his grasp, as the blue haired girl pulled out another file.

 

“This is my report after she was taken in,” and with that said, she handed the paper over.

 

“Impossible! I checked the files myself!” The doctor looked back and forth between the two pieces of paper, as heat started to build suddenly. Mizuno frowned, pulling the pieces of paper from his grasp.

 

“You'll have to take this up with the board,” she said, eyeing the man who merely could not even look her in the eyes. “I'm sorry, but mistakes like this cost people their lives.”

 

“I didn't…” the man placed a hand onto his head as he started to shake it slightly, leaning against the wall for support.

 

“I'm sorry, Watashi,” she said softly, turning to head back toward her patient. Watashi leaned against the door, his eyes finally looking up to the back of the doctor.

 

“No, Mizuno,” he said softly, as his gaze lowered. “I'm sorry.”

 

 

 

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Doctor Mizuno tapped her knuckle lightly upon the open door, peeking her head toward the raven haired girl upon the bed, her back toward the door, facing the window. She lay motionless, even when she called out to the girl. The doctor's face feel slightly, worry filling her as she moved herself toward the bed.

 

“Rei?” she asked quietly, moving herself toward the girl, whose eyes were wide open still, staring out the open window. Her gaze broke when the doctor waved a hand in front of her, her shaking violet eyes moist with fought back tears. “Are you alright?”

 

“I can't stay here,” the girl said softly, with her hands tucked under her head as it moved upward to view the doctor. “I can't.”

 

“Why?” the doctor was curious to just why the girl was so anxious to leave.

 

“I have to protect the princess,” Rei confessed, as her eyes trailed toward the window. The blue haired doctor turned to the same window, looking out to the blue lit sky. Being so many stories up, the only thing she could see from the window at her angle was Tokyo Tower. The doctor sighed, as she looked back to the girl, placing a hand upon the girl's shoulder.

 

“Don't worry Rei, everything's going to be fine. You just have to rest a few days for the medication to flood through your system,” the doctor said in her motherly voice with a warm smile. Rei shook her head, as she finally made movement, turning from the doctor's touch, forcing herself to sit up.

 

“No, there's no time,” Rei said suddenly, as she sat up, wobbling slightly to the side as she sat up fully. “The princess is in danger. I can't be here!”

 

“Rei, calm down,” she said, as she stood, walking over to the other side of the bed to prevent the girl from another run. Rei's hands pushed the doctor to the side, but in her weakened state, the doctor caught her balance. “Rei!”

 

“Back off!” she yelled, shocking the doctor. “Don't you get it?”

 

“Get what?” Mizuno couldn't believe she was actually listening to the half hysterical girl. She could only imagine what the girl's mind was going through under the heavy medication she had been given.

 

“If she isn't saved, we'll all die!” Rei removed the sheets from her lap, as she forced her bare feet to the cold floor. A shiver instantly ran up her body, her eyes slightly twitching to the sensation her body felt in a minor temperature drop.

 

“Rei, you can't leave like this,” Ami's mother said, placing her hands firmly upon the girl's shoulders. “I'm sorry Rei, but you can't.”

 

“Get back!” Rei's foot forced the doctor against the wall, sending a rolling cart along with her to the floor. Her muscles tingled, as she forced herself to stand. The walls danced around her, as if attempting to hypnotize her. Shadows bounced from wall to wall, as the miko's eyes bounced along with them, attempting to keep up with the fast changing forms of darkness. “Their already here!”

 

The fire priestess didn't give time for the doctor to question from her current position on the floor, as Rei pushed forward, one shaky step after another. Her vision was blurry, and her mind was heavy. The atmosphere around her seemed fantasy, as figures changed before her eyes, the shadows along the hall way forming into creatures of darkness.

 

“No!” she screamed, bumping into a doctor who fell to the ground from the girl's rush. Rei broke into a run down the hall. Her mind simply wouldn't work right, as it continued to process the images before her incorrectly. Doctor Mizuno popped her head from the room, her glasses clear off her head, looking left then right.

 

“REI!”

 

 

 

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“Usagi,” Minako sighed, as she walked along side her friend toward the hospital in their traditional school uniform. “We're going to be in a lot of trouble for not showing up. And you know Ami's going to have plenty to say at our study session later on.”

 

“I know,” Usagi replied with a worried sigh, as the hospital came into sight. “I just had a really bad dream last night, and I just want to make sure everything's alright with Rei.”

 

“Ami's mother is the doctor looking after her,” Minako responded with a bright smile. “Who better to look after Rei than the mother of the highest IQ in our class?”

 

“I'm still worried,” Usagi admitted with a defeated sigh. “I just can't shake this bad feeling I've had ever since that night.”

 

“Hey,” Minako said, as she hugged her friend tightly with her inner arm, slightly bumping foreheads with the girl. “Rei's alright. She survived the crash, along with her father and a few others.”

 

“They said they never found out how the plane went down,” Usagi interrupted the girl with a random thought. Usagi turned to the girl to fill her in. “It was all over the news since it had to do with Rei's dad.”

 

The two had talked the entire way to the hospital, as they passed through the double doors, being greeted with the normal sounds of a hysterical hospital.

 

“Wow, it's really busy,” Minako stated, as stretchers lined up with people made their way passed her, heading toward the elevators. As the blonde pair made their way to the receptionist desk, they were surprised to find Haruka pounding her hand upon the desk, demanding answers from the woman in charge.

 

“Fourth floor, third hallway down on the left, room three-forty-seven” the girl finally responded after typing out various keys on the computer screen.

 

“Haruka!” Usagi yelled with a waving hand, worry suddenly filling her face as she saw the expression upon the older woman. “What's wrong?”

 

“Setsuna-sama,” she said with a frown, as she paced toward the stairwell, with Usagi and Minako quickly closing the gap. “There was an accident.”

 

Usagi stopped immediately in her tracks to the mentioning of the word.

 

“What happened?” Minako asked, as they pushed through the door to the stair way, rushing up the flight up stairs.

 

“A car accident,” Haruka replied. “I don't know anything besides that.”

 

The three blondes made it up to the fourth floor, Usagi and Minako easily able to keep up with all the `training' they undergo every time they're late for school. As they made it to the room, they found the door closed with a doctor inside and a nurse waiting outside the door.

 

“Tenoh, Haruka?” the red-haired nurse asked. Haruka nodded, and the nurse continued. “Your roommate, Miss Meioh was involved in a car accident on the corner of-”

 

“Is she alright?” Haruka interrupted, as her head peered through the glass upon the door. The nurse looked over her shoulder, and continued to speak.

 

“Unbelievably, she walked away with minor cuts and bruises, though we are unable to determine just why she won't wake up,” the nurse's face fell, as she turned back toward Haruka. “She's in a coma.”

 

The three blondes stared in shock through the window, Haruka wanting to have a better idea of what exactly happened.

 

“What happened?” Haruka asked, wanting to hear exactly what happened during the accident. The nurse reached for a folder she had been holding, pulling out a card.

 

“I don't know,” she said, as she handed the card to the older woman. “But a man told me to give this to you. He said he had some questions for you, and the rest of your house hold.”

 

“Questions? What for?” Haruka asked suddenly.

 

“Well,” she said as her voice trailed. “They don't think it was an accident.”

 

 

 

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Ami let out a yawn, as she stretched out her limbs. Though very uncharacteristic like of her, she had asked her last class teacher to leave early to check on a friend in the hospital. Seeing as she was well ahead of the class already, the girl had been able to leave class at the beginning, an hour before her school got out. As Ami lined up for the city's bus, she was surprised when she felt a playful jab at her arm, turning to see none other than the Senshi of Lighting standing next to her with the widest grin.

 

“Ditching class, are we?” Makoto's sarcasm matched her expression, as she crossed her arms over her chest. Ami blushed, as she pulled the glasses she had been wearing from her face, placing them within the safeness of her knapsack.

 

“Actually, for your information, I asked the teacher if I could leave early,” Ami replied truthfully, though the girl only teased her more.

 

“Wow, first Usagi and Minako, and now you Ami,” Makoto stated, as she counted the names upon her fingers, finishing by looking to the blue haired genius. “You know, I knew those two were a bad influence on you.”

 

“And you're any better?” Ami countered with wisdom, referring to the girl's current situation. “And what's your excuse for not being in class?”

 

“Like I'm going to sit in class on a beautiful day like this while my friends are all off gallivanting throughout Tokyo? Ami, I thought you knew me better.”

 

 

 

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Author's Notes:

 

Yea, a short chapter, I'm aware… the next chapter though, will mark the end of Part I, and the start of Part II, so don't you worry… I'll work on it and get it out to you as fast as I can. Thanks for the reviews, and Ja ne! ^_^