Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Last Request ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )
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By: thefairyempress 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.02.2001 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 335 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.02.2001 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 335 | Status: Completed
Last Request
Chapter 2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A ding of the elevator on the seventeenth hospital floor had all the anxious people of the Kou family and friends looking at the door. When it opened all of them saw the saddened face of the person this tragedy would effect the most, Skylar Kou. Serena and Seiya's only child.
In the elevator with her were Mina Kou and her daughter, Melanie. Her husband Yaten walked towards the elevator as the three came out and hugged his wife and daughter. Amy and Raye went to Skylar and hugged her. She was red eyed from crying and looked like she hadn't slept in a week. The complete opposite of the outgoing girl they all knew.
Amy looked at Skylar as they pulled out of the hug and saw Sky look at her with Serena's crystal clear blue eyes.
"Where is my mother?" Skylar asked with an withdrawn and saddened voice.
"In a room down the hall, she just fell asleep." Amy said.
"I want to see her."
Raye looked at Mina, who bit her lip at Skylar's emotionless voice. Lita stepped in and nodded to the doctor, who stood just outside the group of people.
"Right this way, Miss Kou."
Skylar followed the doctor, Lita's hand on her shoulder. As the adults watched Skylar walk down the hall, they looked at Mina.
"God, I knew she would take this hard but Mina…" Raye said and her husband, Chad put his arm around her.
"I know, I know. When I told her it seemed like I had just ripped her heart out, I felt like a murderer. She barely talked since I told her." Mina said looking at the retreating figure of her niece.
"Mom, Sky isn't going to just get over this right now. She is going to need time." Melanie said, her pale green eyes looking up at her mother.
"I know, sweetheart."
"That's what we are all going to need." Taiki said as he saw Amy, watching down the hall.
"Has anyone got a hold of him yet?" Mina asked, moving to sit on one of the small plastic chairs.
"I called. He said he'll be here by tomorrow morning." Amy said, without looking away.
"Tomorrow?" Mina said, "She could be dead by tomorrow."
"Mina!" Yaten said.
"I don't know why she needs him now anyway, he left." Mina said coldly.
"That's in the past. She needs him here now and he's coming." Amy told her, turning around and looking at Mina.
"Okay, ladies. Why don't we just calm down? Mina, I'm going to take Mel home. I suggest you all just calm down. This isn't going to help Serena or Skylar."
Melanie looked down the hall, to where her best friend and cousin was in the room where her mother was dying. She knew she would be miserable if anything happened to her own mom and dad and couldn't imagine what it was like for Skylar. She needed her.
"Dad, if it's alright I'd like to stay. Sky is going to need me."
Yaten and Mina looked at their child, Yaten nodded. Amy saw the doctor heading back towards them.
"If you all are going to be staying, there is a room further down the hall with couches and chairs for you to wait on." He announced.
"How is she?" Amy asked.
"She is talking to her daughter at the moment. I think you ladies should go in there."
Raye nodded and kissed her husband on the cheek, following an already retreating Amy and Mina. The men and Melanie followed the doctor into the sitting room to wait.
As the three women entered the room, they saw Lita standing next to the bed and Skylar on the left side of the bed holding her mom's hand. The three of them made a circle around the bed to look at Serena.
"I am so glad you brought her back, Mina." Serena's voice said weakened by her condition.
"Hey, no problem. She's a great kid, Rena."
"Got that from her dad." Serena said, touching Skylar's chin.
"Mom…."
"Honey, I know. I know."
Skylar laid her head on the bed, tears running down her face.
"Sky, look why don't you come with me, okay? Mel is going to stay here tonight so why don't we go get something to eat, alright?"
Serena nodded at Mina's suggestion to take Sky with her. She hated that her daughter had to see her like this, all bruised and broken, like some porcelain doll that had been dropped. Skylar kissed her mother's cheek and reluctantly followed Mina out the door.
With her daughter gone, Serena looked at the remaining three.
"Have you gotten a hold of Darien?"
"He'll be here in the morning, Serena." Amy said.
"Good. I want you to promise to bring him to me as soon as he gets here, alright?"
"Sure."
"You know, I never thought I'd die like this…"
"Serena, you aren't going to die…" Raye said.
"Yes, I am. Even stubborn people like you have to admit when the game is up. I had a full life, I have no regrets."
"Except maybe for not eating that last ice cream in the frig." Raye said, smiling at her friend.
Serena smiled, as did the other two. They all knew each other so well. They were family and deeper than that. It would be the toughest thing they would ever have to do to have one of them leave. It had always been the five of them against the world.
"Alright ladies, let's let her get some sleep." A nurse said, coming in the room.
"Goodnight, Serena."
"Goodnight."
With one last look the three of them left.
Skylar Kou looked at her Aunt Mina and cousin Melanie. They were talking like nothing was going on, like the fact that Serena Tsukino Kou wasn't in another room slowly dying. That this was just another day. So sick of it, Sky stood up and left the hospital kitchen without a word. She just wanted to be alone. She folded her arms over her chest and walked down the white painted hallways with cheap colorful paintings hanging on them. She didn't know where she was going she just knew that she wanted out. Out of this hospital, out of her life, out of this nightmare.
When Mina had told her that the accident had happened she had been at camp, the summer camp that was tradition for Mel, herself, and Amanda since they were five. They went to the same camp, a conservation forest camp. This year they became camp counselors and were having a great time. It was in Washington where Mina did her summer jobs for a trendy fashion designer during the busy season. She had been taking care of her group, five eight year olds with a talent of finding anything with four or more legs and locking them in the cabin with the girls. They had been on a nature walk when DeeDee, the youngest of the girls had fallen on a big rock and cut her knees. She had to take DeeDee to the camp's nurse when she saw Mina with Melanie. Amanda had left camp the day before to start her computer school the following Monday.
"Hey, Aunt Mina," she had said coming into the main room of the camp office, "You aren't due to pick us up for another three hours."
When she looked into her Aunt's pale blue eyes filled with tears, she knew something was wrong. Melanie was silently crying.
"Oh, god, Sky, I am so sorry," Mina said, looking at Skylar, "I am afraid there was an accident with the plane your parents were on."
At that moment, she wanted to believe that they were fine, a couple bruises but would laugh it off years from now. Her parents were nothing if not survivors. By her aunt's emotional expressions that they weren't all right and her life was not as simple as it once was.
"Yaten called and he needs us to go home now."
Sky nodded. Melanie hugged her.
When they got on the plane (ironically, when it had just caused such tragedy in their lives) and left for Tokyo. When Mina had finally gotten the courage to tell her that her dad was dead and her mom was dying, she had cried. Sobbed so hard that they gave her medication to sleep to keep herself from getting sick.
Skylar took a look around the hospital, noticing she had somehow made it to the common room where everyone was. Her Aunt Amy with her short bluish hair sitting next to her husband, Taiki. Her mom's close friends and family to them all was Raye and Chad Yuuichirou then Lita and Ken Montgomery. Raye and Lita's family lived in New York and were visiting for a week. All six of them were asleep. She didn't see her Uncle Yaten anywhere, but suspected he was talking to doctors.
As she came in the room, the chair nearest to the door had been empty. She sat down. She glanced down at herself noticing for the first time that she hadn't changed out of her counselor uniform. Still in tan shorts, a green buttoned up short-sleeved shirt with the camp logo of a bear in a tree on it. Her long golden hair was in the loose French braid from this morning. How simple this morning was to turn into this. She closed her eyes and willed it all away.
The ding of the elevator made Skylar wake up with a start. She had fallen asleep in the armchair. Remembering everything she stood up and headed to her mom's room. As she went by the group of adults, she barely took note of the newest member to the group. She walked into the room, noticing her mom was awake and smiled at her.
"Morning, sunshine." Serena said, her voice still weak.
"Hi, mom."
Serena took note of her daughter's appearance. The slept in uniform and heavy bags under her eyes.
"You didn't go home? Why?"
"And leave you to the mercy of hospital food?" Skylar said jokingly.
"Are you okay?"
"Shouldn't that be my line?"
"Skylar."
"I guess. I don't know," Skylar looked away blinking back the tears, "How am I supposed to feel? You're dying. I wish I could tell you I'm fine, that I'll be alright don't worry but I can't. I don't want you to die. I didn't want Dad to die. Why? Why are you? It's not fair." Skylar was crying fully now, she brushed away her tears and the anger at the world Serena knew she was feeling was in her eyes.
"Listen to me, Skylar. I love you, I will always love you. That will never change just because I'm not here. Being mad at the world or mad at me for dying isn't going to change that. I want you to be strong. I know you don't understand any of this, why it happened and neither do I but understand that this happening was for a reason. Nothing can change it."
"Mom, I love you too." Skylar said.
As Skylar hugged her mom as best she could, Serena saw over her shoulders the man she had been looking for.
"Darien." Serena said as her daughter moved away.
"Hello, Serena."
Skylar turned to see the man her mother was talking to. He stood in the doorway, in a gray business suit with an over coat hanging over his left arm. He had short blue-black hair and cobalt blue eyes. Skylar had never seen him before.
"Mom, who?"
"Skylar, let me introduce you to Darien Shields. Darien, meet your daughter, Skylar."
As Serena said this, the two people she loved most in the world looked at her in complete shock.
"My dad?"
To be continued….
Chapter 2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A ding of the elevator on the seventeenth hospital floor had all the anxious people of the Kou family and friends looking at the door. When it opened all of them saw the saddened face of the person this tragedy would effect the most, Skylar Kou. Serena and Seiya's only child.
In the elevator with her were Mina Kou and her daughter, Melanie. Her husband Yaten walked towards the elevator as the three came out and hugged his wife and daughter. Amy and Raye went to Skylar and hugged her. She was red eyed from crying and looked like she hadn't slept in a week. The complete opposite of the outgoing girl they all knew.
Amy looked at Skylar as they pulled out of the hug and saw Sky look at her with Serena's crystal clear blue eyes.
"Where is my mother?" Skylar asked with an withdrawn and saddened voice.
"In a room down the hall, she just fell asleep." Amy said.
"I want to see her."
Raye looked at Mina, who bit her lip at Skylar's emotionless voice. Lita stepped in and nodded to the doctor, who stood just outside the group of people.
"Right this way, Miss Kou."
Skylar followed the doctor, Lita's hand on her shoulder. As the adults watched Skylar walk down the hall, they looked at Mina.
"God, I knew she would take this hard but Mina…" Raye said and her husband, Chad put his arm around her.
"I know, I know. When I told her it seemed like I had just ripped her heart out, I felt like a murderer. She barely talked since I told her." Mina said looking at the retreating figure of her niece.
"Mom, Sky isn't going to just get over this right now. She is going to need time." Melanie said, her pale green eyes looking up at her mother.
"I know, sweetheart."
"That's what we are all going to need." Taiki said as he saw Amy, watching down the hall.
"Has anyone got a hold of him yet?" Mina asked, moving to sit on one of the small plastic chairs.
"I called. He said he'll be here by tomorrow morning." Amy said, without looking away.
"Tomorrow?" Mina said, "She could be dead by tomorrow."
"Mina!" Yaten said.
"I don't know why she needs him now anyway, he left." Mina said coldly.
"That's in the past. She needs him here now and he's coming." Amy told her, turning around and looking at Mina.
"Okay, ladies. Why don't we just calm down? Mina, I'm going to take Mel home. I suggest you all just calm down. This isn't going to help Serena or Skylar."
Melanie looked down the hall, to where her best friend and cousin was in the room where her mother was dying. She knew she would be miserable if anything happened to her own mom and dad and couldn't imagine what it was like for Skylar. She needed her.
"Dad, if it's alright I'd like to stay. Sky is going to need me."
Yaten and Mina looked at their child, Yaten nodded. Amy saw the doctor heading back towards them.
"If you all are going to be staying, there is a room further down the hall with couches and chairs for you to wait on." He announced.
"How is she?" Amy asked.
"She is talking to her daughter at the moment. I think you ladies should go in there."
Raye nodded and kissed her husband on the cheek, following an already retreating Amy and Mina. The men and Melanie followed the doctor into the sitting room to wait.
As the three women entered the room, they saw Lita standing next to the bed and Skylar on the left side of the bed holding her mom's hand. The three of them made a circle around the bed to look at Serena.
"I am so glad you brought her back, Mina." Serena's voice said weakened by her condition.
"Hey, no problem. She's a great kid, Rena."
"Got that from her dad." Serena said, touching Skylar's chin.
"Mom…."
"Honey, I know. I know."
Skylar laid her head on the bed, tears running down her face.
"Sky, look why don't you come with me, okay? Mel is going to stay here tonight so why don't we go get something to eat, alright?"
Serena nodded at Mina's suggestion to take Sky with her. She hated that her daughter had to see her like this, all bruised and broken, like some porcelain doll that had been dropped. Skylar kissed her mother's cheek and reluctantly followed Mina out the door.
With her daughter gone, Serena looked at the remaining three.
"Have you gotten a hold of Darien?"
"He'll be here in the morning, Serena." Amy said.
"Good. I want you to promise to bring him to me as soon as he gets here, alright?"
"Sure."
"You know, I never thought I'd die like this…"
"Serena, you aren't going to die…" Raye said.
"Yes, I am. Even stubborn people like you have to admit when the game is up. I had a full life, I have no regrets."
"Except maybe for not eating that last ice cream in the frig." Raye said, smiling at her friend.
Serena smiled, as did the other two. They all knew each other so well. They were family and deeper than that. It would be the toughest thing they would ever have to do to have one of them leave. It had always been the five of them against the world.
"Alright ladies, let's let her get some sleep." A nurse said, coming in the room.
"Goodnight, Serena."
"Goodnight."
With one last look the three of them left.
Skylar Kou looked at her Aunt Mina and cousin Melanie. They were talking like nothing was going on, like the fact that Serena Tsukino Kou wasn't in another room slowly dying. That this was just another day. So sick of it, Sky stood up and left the hospital kitchen without a word. She just wanted to be alone. She folded her arms over her chest and walked down the white painted hallways with cheap colorful paintings hanging on them. She didn't know where she was going she just knew that she wanted out. Out of this hospital, out of her life, out of this nightmare.
When Mina had told her that the accident had happened she had been at camp, the summer camp that was tradition for Mel, herself, and Amanda since they were five. They went to the same camp, a conservation forest camp. This year they became camp counselors and were having a great time. It was in Washington where Mina did her summer jobs for a trendy fashion designer during the busy season. She had been taking care of her group, five eight year olds with a talent of finding anything with four or more legs and locking them in the cabin with the girls. They had been on a nature walk when DeeDee, the youngest of the girls had fallen on a big rock and cut her knees. She had to take DeeDee to the camp's nurse when she saw Mina with Melanie. Amanda had left camp the day before to start her computer school the following Monday.
"Hey, Aunt Mina," she had said coming into the main room of the camp office, "You aren't due to pick us up for another three hours."
When she looked into her Aunt's pale blue eyes filled with tears, she knew something was wrong. Melanie was silently crying.
"Oh, god, Sky, I am so sorry," Mina said, looking at Skylar, "I am afraid there was an accident with the plane your parents were on."
At that moment, she wanted to believe that they were fine, a couple bruises but would laugh it off years from now. Her parents were nothing if not survivors. By her aunt's emotional expressions that they weren't all right and her life was not as simple as it once was.
"Yaten called and he needs us to go home now."
Sky nodded. Melanie hugged her.
When they got on the plane (ironically, when it had just caused such tragedy in their lives) and left for Tokyo. When Mina had finally gotten the courage to tell her that her dad was dead and her mom was dying, she had cried. Sobbed so hard that they gave her medication to sleep to keep herself from getting sick.
Skylar took a look around the hospital, noticing she had somehow made it to the common room where everyone was. Her Aunt Amy with her short bluish hair sitting next to her husband, Taiki. Her mom's close friends and family to them all was Raye and Chad Yuuichirou then Lita and Ken Montgomery. Raye and Lita's family lived in New York and were visiting for a week. All six of them were asleep. She didn't see her Uncle Yaten anywhere, but suspected he was talking to doctors.
As she came in the room, the chair nearest to the door had been empty. She sat down. She glanced down at herself noticing for the first time that she hadn't changed out of her counselor uniform. Still in tan shorts, a green buttoned up short-sleeved shirt with the camp logo of a bear in a tree on it. Her long golden hair was in the loose French braid from this morning. How simple this morning was to turn into this. She closed her eyes and willed it all away.
The ding of the elevator made Skylar wake up with a start. She had fallen asleep in the armchair. Remembering everything she stood up and headed to her mom's room. As she went by the group of adults, she barely took note of the newest member to the group. She walked into the room, noticing her mom was awake and smiled at her.
"Morning, sunshine." Serena said, her voice still weak.
"Hi, mom."
Serena took note of her daughter's appearance. The slept in uniform and heavy bags under her eyes.
"You didn't go home? Why?"
"And leave you to the mercy of hospital food?" Skylar said jokingly.
"Are you okay?"
"Shouldn't that be my line?"
"Skylar."
"I guess. I don't know," Skylar looked away blinking back the tears, "How am I supposed to feel? You're dying. I wish I could tell you I'm fine, that I'll be alright don't worry but I can't. I don't want you to die. I didn't want Dad to die. Why? Why are you? It's not fair." Skylar was crying fully now, she brushed away her tears and the anger at the world Serena knew she was feeling was in her eyes.
"Listen to me, Skylar. I love you, I will always love you. That will never change just because I'm not here. Being mad at the world or mad at me for dying isn't going to change that. I want you to be strong. I know you don't understand any of this, why it happened and neither do I but understand that this happening was for a reason. Nothing can change it."
"Mom, I love you too." Skylar said.
As Skylar hugged her mom as best she could, Serena saw over her shoulders the man she had been looking for.
"Darien." Serena said as her daughter moved away.
"Hello, Serena."
Skylar turned to see the man her mother was talking to. He stood in the doorway, in a gray business suit with an over coat hanging over his left arm. He had short blue-black hair and cobalt blue eyes. Skylar had never seen him before.
"Mom, who?"
"Skylar, let me introduce you to Darien Shields. Darien, meet your daughter, Skylar."
As Serena said this, the two people she loved most in the world looked at her in complete shock.
"My dad?"
To be continued….