Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Chapter 1

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Serena closed the door quietly behind her and Amara and than clung onto her sister tightly. They both silently walked down the steps and began heading down the sidewalk towards town. The young blonde furrowed her brows as she snuck a peek at her sister’s emotionless face in wonderment. How could she be so cold and nonchalant right now? They’ve been beaten severely, their father was more than likely dead, they were homeless… what the hell were they suppose to do?

She suddenly shivered as an aching throb began to pulse in her head. She swallowed deeply to pass off the wave of nausea that began to settle in the pit of her stomach and looked about her surroundings, noticing that they had already reached town. Serena nervously looked back towards her sister as she spotted people staring and whispering about them.

“People are starting to stare.”

Amara growled lowly in her throat. “Let them.”

Serena furrowed her brows with a small frown. “I’m hungry and tired…I really wouldn’t mind cleaning up a bit.”

Amara glared at the ground as she realized she was feeling the same, but she really didn’t want to stop. She didn’t want to risk being found by their father, if he was alive that is. She shifted her eyes to her younger sister’s weary face and decided that they did need to rest…if only for a minute. Chewing on her bottom lip she scanned her surroundings and spotted a small café up ahead.

“We can stop at that café up there.” replied Amara, pointing the place out. Serena shifted her eyes towards the direction with a smile of relief forming upon her face. She rubbed her belly when it grumbled and felt the beginning stages of a blush tinting her cheeks.

“I‘m so hungry.”

“Me too.” admitted Amara as she grasped the door handle to the entrance of the café and pulled it open. They both stepped inside and the pair gave a small nervous smile as they watched the greeter’s smiling face morph into surprise, then settle into deep concern. The short brunette made her way towards the children and kneeled down before them.

“Oh my God, are you alright?” questioned the young woman. Serena shrunk away from her and hid behind Amara, clutching upon the girl‘s shirt tightly. The short haired blonde sighed and took the leadership roll with a nod of her head.

“Yes, we need to use the bathroom.” Amara flashed her a grin revealing her two missing front teeth, the rest of her pearly whites painted in rich crimson.

The brunette grimaced and slowly nodded her head, pointing behind her. “Straight back, first door on the left.”

“Thank you.” whispered Serena shyly, before hiding her self behind her sister’s larger form once more. The greeter watched as the two began heading off towards their destination with a deep frown upon her face. She quickly stood from her kneeling position and made her way towards the kitchen to prepare the two girls something to eat.

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The Tenoh sisters dragged their way tiredly into the bathroom and over to the sink. Serena tucked her picture frame she had a tight grasp on in the back waist band of her skirt and covered it up with her shirt before resting her elbows heavily onto the countertop with her eyes squeezed tightly shut and her hands massaging her temples. Amara leaned against the counter top and stared upon her battered face with a frown. Her left eyes was nearly swollen shut from her father landing a few good punches in the eye in his futile effort to stop her screams. Her lips were severely swollen, both bottom and upper lip busted open and bleeding. She suddenly flashed her teeth and nearly gasped at the damage that was done; blood flowing down the side of her chin and dripping to the collar of her shirt. She clenched her hands into a tight fists as heated eyes settled onto her sister whom was still massaging her temples.

“Are you okay?” Amara asked worriedly.

Serena swallowed deeply “Yeah…headache.”

She slowly opened her eyes and felt tears well up as she scanned over her appearance in the mirror. Half of her face was covered in blood from the 2” gash on the side of her head, her nose swollen and blood trickling from it as well. She traced trembling fingertips along the gash and flinched in pain.

“Come on….we can at least clean our faces.” muttered Amara, turning on the water in the sink and began to splash it upon her face. Serena stared upon her reflection for a few more moments and than slowly nodded her head at the statement before she too began to clean her face that was caked in red.

Amara raised her head after spitting out a mouth full of water and than looked down at her disheveled clothing. She tried to straighten them up as best as she could, then looked towards her sister, eyeing the blood stains decorating her white blouse. She frowned knowing full well they couldn’t clean those stains out and had to make do with what they had.

“Lets hurry up and get something to eat. We need to find some place to go before the sun sets.”

“Okay.” Serena turned off the water and cleaned off her face with a paper towel. She straightened her blouse and gave her sister a lop sided grin, wrapping her arms around her sister‘s waist and allowing Amara to wrap an arm around her shoulder. Amara suddenly leaned heavily against her sister as her knees buckled and Serena tightened her hold, nearly falling over herself.

“Geeze Amara!”

Amara blushed. “Sorry…my knees just went out on me.”

Serena straightened herself and her sister out and rested her eyes upon the older blonde with a look of worry. Amara’s faced was contorted in pain as her jaws were locked together and her breathing was labored. Serena tightened her hold upon her when Amara doubled over in pain and let off a strangled grunt.

“What’s the matter? Are you okay?”

Amara clenched her eyes tight and nodded her head as the pain in her pelvic area slowly diminished. “I’m okay…”

Blue eyes stared upon the tomboy doubtfully. “Are you sure?”

“Really…I just need …to sit down.” Serena bit on her bottom lip for a fraction of a second before she helped straighten her sister once again and they both headed out of the bathroom together.

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Serena and Amara were meet with the greeter whom they had spoken to earlier waiting for them and the brunette smiled down at them warmly, showing them towards the table that had two plates decorated with a burger, fries and a soft drink sitting beside each plate.

“I figured you may be hungry and made you both something to eat.”

Serena grinned up at the lady, all the shyness from earlier fading. “Wow! Thanks!”

Amara eyed the food and than the woman. “You didn’t have to do that.”

“I know, but I wanted to.” the brunette smiled and bowed before them. “Now, if you need anything I will be over there.” with that the greeter left.

Serena looked at the hot meal, grin appearing on her face as she took a seat at the table; Amara taking a seat across from her. Without uttering a word, Serena dug into her food, tearing into the burger and wolfing down fries as if she has never eaten before. Amara shook her head at her sister’s eating habits and looked down at her own plate of food. She really wanted to tear into the food like her sister, but her mouth was hurting so bad…but she needed to eat! With a quick lick of the lips the sandy blond took a hold of her burger and tore a small chunk of it off and placed it in her mouth. She slowly chewed, trying to ignore the pain in her mouth and concentrate on how good the food was.

The short haired blonde rested her eyes on her younger sister and started to tell her to slow down before she choked on her food, but she spotted the greeter on the telephone eyeing them from the corner of her eye. When they both made eye contact, the woman turned from blonde as if to shield herself from her. Amara frowned and began to slowly slide herself off of her seat, getting a really bad vibe all of a sudden. She then shifted her eyes back onto her sister with a slight look of worry.

“We need to go.”

Serena frowned, not at all happy with the demand. “I just started eating!” she whined.

“I know but we have to go Sere…”

The 2nd grader glared at her sister, “Why?”

“I think that lady just called someone.”

“She can’t make a phone call?”

Amara rolled her eyes with a deep sigh, wanting to yank the girl from her seat. “No…I think she called someone about us!”

Serena stiffened and looked upon the lady who was still on the phone conversing rather animatedly. The young blonde gripped the handle on her fork as she felt her heart thumping rapidly in her chest in panic; frantic thoughts taunting her mind and vivid images flashing before her very eyes.

“I don’t want to go back.” she whispered brokenly, her voice seemingly far away.

“We’re not!” Amara took a hold of her sister’s hand and pulled her out of her seat, trying the shrug off the eerie feeling she felt when she stared her sister in the eyes.

“Come on, we can slip out the door while her back is turned.” Serena nodded and started to follow after her sister but turned, quickly making her way back to the table, snatching the two burgers off the plates and following after her oblivious sister. The duo quietly crept passed the greeter unnoticed and slipped out the door like stealth assassins.

Serena grinned once she was out of the restaurant and pulled out the two burgers, taking a few bites out of her half eaten sandwich. She handed her sister her own barely eaten one as Amara stared at her stunned, which quickly turned into a smirk as she took a hold of her burger with a soft giggle.

“I cant believe you snagged those!”

“Well…I couldn’t bare for them to go to waste. ”

“You can be so weird sometimes!”

Serena stuck out her tongue and then took a humongous bite from her hamburger, humming happily. Amara lead them both towards an alley way near the café where she leaned up against a building and ate her burger in small portions. She then gave Serena the rest of it when she couldn’t bare the pain in her mouth any longer and resided to licking her fingers clean.

Loud sirens wrung out and both Amara and Serena ducked their heads around the building, watching as two police cars pulled up in front of the café they were just in. The greeter from earlier stepped out of the restaurant and began talking to the two policemen.

Serena scowled at the woman, “She did tell on us.” Amara nodded, a scowl upon her face as well. She sighed deeply and turned away from the scene, sliding down the wall till she sat on the concrete ground below her. She drew her knees up to her chest and folded her arms upon them, then laid her head upon her folded arms.

Serena finished off the last bite of her burger and began to lick her fingers clean as she watched the police officers return to their vehicles and the greeter went back inside the restaurant. Once the police officers drove off, Serena finally turned away and much like her sister, slid down the wall and took a seat on the ground.

Serena leaned into her sister and wrapped her arms around her waist to gain some warmth. “Are we going to sleep out here?” Amara shifted and looked up at the sky and seen that sun was setting and the moon was beginning to take its place. She soon nodded and rested her head upon her sister’s shoulder.

“I’m tired.”

Serena rested her head upon her sister’s and closed her eyes. “Me too.”

Amara wrapped her arms around Serena and pulled her closer. “We can sleep for a little bit and then we can start moving again.”

“Mm…hmm.” drawled off the young blonde as her breathing steadied and was fast asleep in a matter of seconds. Amara ran her fingers through her hair as her eyelids began to feel heavy and drowsiness began to overtake her senses.

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A middle aged woman was standing in the window of a clothing store with her brows knitted together. She had long royal purple hair pulled back in a high bun and silver gray eyes that were staring upon the two children dozing off in the alley way. She began to nibble on her bottom lip and then suddenly placed the bundle of clothing she had in her hands down on a shelf, making a quick retreat out of the door.

She looked both ways before darting across the street and quietly made her way towards the alley she had been staring at before. She spotted the two blonde headed children huddled together and sleeping peacefully amongst themselves. She kneeled down before them and placed a hand on the short haired blonde’s shoulder and gave a light shake.

The woman gasped as the child slowly raised her head and she was able to see the damage done to the child’s face. Amara drowsily opened her eyes and looked up and stiffened seeing someone standing over her. She tightened her grip upon her sister as she her eyes focused on the woman before her. She quickly shifter her eyes to the side and spotted a rod like object not to far from her…if she had to she would bash that woman upside the head with the rod with out a second thought.

The woman seen the object as well and gave a long sigh, watching the child before her plotting a devious plan. “I’m not going to hurt you.”

Amara scowled, making eye contact with the woman. “What do you want?”

The woman looked surprised for a moment as she realized this child‘s voice was too high pitched to be a boy‘s. “Well…it looks you may need somewhere to sleep tonight.”

“We’re fine.”

The woman knitted her brows. “It’s not safe to stay out here.”

“Why do you care…look lady…we can handle ourselves.” snapped Amara, as she let a hand lay upon her swollen eye as it began to throb painfully. Tears of frustration formed in the corner of her eyes as she violently shivered, a gust of wind blowing past them.

“I know you wouldn’t mind a warm bath and a nice bed to sleep in.”

Amara sniffled and shifted her eyes to her sister who was trembling against her side, clutching onto her as tightly as she could. She licked her swollen lips with a cringe before shifting her eyes upon the woman whom was waiting on her answer. She stared the woman hard in the face not sensing any malice from her and decided that she may be trustworthy.

“Only for tonight.”

The woman smiled and gave a curt nod. “Okay.” Amara leaned over and began to shake her sister’s shoulder only to receive a grunt in reply. The woman shifted over towards the smaller blonde and scooped her up in her arms.

“It’s alright, I’ll take her.” She stood up, holding the sleeping Serena close to her before shifting her eyes to Amara.

“Can you walk?” Amara slowly nodded, rising slowly to her feet and leaning heavily against the woman with a slight blush. The woman smiled not understanding why she was embarrassed, but shrugged it off anyways.

“My car isn’t far.”

Amara nodded, not really hearing what was said, for her head was pounding and her ears were wringing. All she cared about was lying down and letting sleep take her away from this agonizing pain.




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