Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Hearts in time ❯ Revelations in the Moonlight ( Chapter 11 )

Just a reminder, I don't own the sailor Scouts...if I had Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn would have had more screen time. ^_^ I DO own Lance Jayd, Necros and Wraith please ask me before borrowing them...Matt Blackheart belongs to Matt Blackheart you'll have to find him and ask permission before using him.

Hearts In Time part 11: Revelations in the moonlight
By
Lance the Flamesniper

The evening was cool and the tide was coming in, making soft lapping sounds as it did so. It made Lance almost forget the injuries to his side. Of course the Beautiful woman beside him helped greatly too. Still there was something odd going on here. There was something on her mind, he could tell and it was only a matter of time before he found out what. He just hoped that he strong enough to face whatever she was about to tell him.

For Setsuna this was going to be very difficult. For six millennia she'd never told a soul who she was. Many people knew Setsuna Meioh: the distant woman whose eye told of some great sadness. All that had changed though. In just a little more than a week Lance Jayd had seemingly appeared from nowhere, turned her world on it's ear then gave it a hearty spin. Strangely though she loved him for it. Her mind was racing. How could she tell him? How would he react? Finally the silence needed to be broken.

"Lance, do you...love me?" Setsuna asked tentatively.

Lance smiled and didn't even need to think twice. "Of course I love you Setsuna. How could I not?"

Setsuna sighed. " If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. Do not say 'I love her for her smile- her look- her way of speaking gently-for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, certes brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day.' - for these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love, so wrought, may be unwrought so. Neither love me for thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry- a creature might forget to weep, who bore thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore thou mayst love on, through Love's eternity."

"Elisabeth Barret Browning. Sonnets from the Portugees sonnet fourteen," Lance replied recallingly. " The most romantic way of warning a person to not love for the wrong reasons. So allow me to try to be equally poetic. I love you Setsuna Meioh from the depth of my soul. Upon my heart is carved thy name. I would face death a hundred times over a hundred years to be with you. There is nothing you can tell me that will ever change that," Lance answered, the words coming from the deep parts of his soul.

"We'll see about that," Setsuna sighed.

"What do you mean? Lance asked his eyebrow rising slightly. "There's nothing you can do that can change how I feel."

"Oh really? How about this?" she countered as she pulled her transformation wand. "PLUTO PLANET POWER!"

Lance could only watch slack jawed as her body was surrounded by a wall of what seemed like water and when that depleted....

"S-sailor Pluto!?" He gasped.

The Timeless Senshi smiled uncertainly. "Yes, that is me...Can you still love me even though I have deceived you?"

"Sailor Pluto...Setsuna. For all this time I felt I was torn between two...caught between two people who I felt drawn to..," Lance said then paused to compose his thoughts.

"Knowing now what you know, do you still love me?" She questioned when his pause became unbearable. If there are divine beings let him say yes, her heart screamed.

"The best answer is yet another E.B. Browning poem, or at least part of one. 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when fading out of sight for the ends of being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and my childhood's faith.' " Lance intoned then took a breath. "Setsuna Meioh, Sailor Pluto, I love you with all the passion I have to offer."

Setsuna's heart soared as she flung herself into his arms. Her lips found his as passion's fire suddenly flared within them. Unknown to them they were being watched...

******

Amara's eyes narrowed; as the two would be lovers began to kiss. She couldn't believe that Setsuna would betray them like this. She'd followed along at a discreet distance in case something like this happened. Now their cover was blown. She couldn't doubt Lance was smart enough to put the pieces together. That made him a threat and she would deal with it. Permanently. Without a second thought she transformed then stepped into sight.

"WORLD SHAKING!" the sky senshi shouted as she let fly her attack.

With speed borne seemingly of years training together, Setsuna and Lance jumped apart missing death by mere seconds. "What the Hell!?" Lance yelled as he landed with his katana drawn.

"Sailor Uranus what are you doing!?" Sailor Pluto reiterated.

"You betrayed us Pluto. You told him who you are. That threatens the rest of us. Now he must be dealt with," The blonde hissed as she summoned her Space Sword. "Lance Jayd...PREPARE TO DIE!"

TBC
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