Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Chapter 9

Author: Thanks so much for the reviews you guys! I also re-edited 6. Chapter 5, had an error a reviewer brought to my attention and I have finally fixed, so feel free to re-read that chapter. Well here's part 2 ^_^ hope you enjoy!

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Amara sighed deeply, looking upon her escort from the corner of her eyes. The short haired blonde could feel the woman's eyes on her and knew the woman was wondering why she was wearing the boys' school uniform. Rolling her eyes at the thought, she gave the smallest hint of a smile as she began to look about the hallway lazily. Her brows furrowed as she her eyes settled on a young girl with shoulder length sea-green wavy hair walking in her direction. She held what appeared to be a violin case in her hands and as they crossed paths, emerald green met turquoise and for some unknown reason, Amara's heart began thump wildly in her chest.

The young girl smiled before breaking eye contact with the blonde and continued her way down the hallway. Amara swallowed deeply, turning from the girl's retreating back, her heart finally slowing its rapid pace. She quickly shifted her eyes to her escort, noticing that the woman was looking straight ahead and seemed oblivious to the whole transaction that happened just a few seconds ago. Furrowing her brows, she shifted her eyes to the floor.

`'What was that?' thought Amara; although, she didn't have time to dwell on the question as the woman, who had yet to introduce herself, had stopped before a door, proceeding to knock on it and wait patiently for the teacher to come and greet them. Soon enough, a tall, young and slender woman came to the door way, with a rather bright smile upon her face. She had long curly raven hair and she shifted her dark red eyes with specks of gold upon Amara.

“Ms. Caudell, this is your new student Amara Tenoh.” replied the woman. Ms. Caudell arched a brow upon Amara's attire, knowing that she had been told her student would be female.

Replacing her look of confusion with a smile, Ms. Caudell spoke. “It's nice to meet you Amara.” The short haired blonde gave a curt nod before settling her gaze to the floor, causing her teacher to arch her brow once more.

“Well thank you for bringing Amara to me, Ms. Kelly.”

Ms. Kelly nodded, turning and began to head down the hall. “No problem.”

Ms. Caudell turned to Amara and began to lead the blonde into the classroom. “Alright, let's get you settled in with the others.” Amara didn't respond and silently followed after her teacher, hands buried in the pockets of her slacks.

“Students, listen up! We have a new student today. Her name is Amara Tenoh.” The class quickly quieted down and their full attentions were drawn to the indifferent 9 year old standing before them. Amara's persona hardened as she heard her classmates whispering about her and she turned from them, drawing her attention towards the teacher. The woman was scanning the desks, than finally pointed to a seat.

“Amara, please take a seat over there.” The young blonde nodded, making her way silently to her seat as her teacher mumbled something about getting her school books. Amara ignored all the eyes that she could feel boring in to her and quickly found her seat. She scanned her surrounding hastily, ignoring her classmates' gazes. She realized that there was an empty seat beside hers and she began to wonder if anyone occupied it.

Deciding not to let her mind wander on it, she looked to the front of the classroom as the door opened. Amara narrowed her eyes as the girl she had seen in the hallway entered the room and smiled upon the teacher. Ms. Caudell returned the smile, standing straight from her hunched position over her desk.

“Sorry I'm late; I had to talk to the music teacher.” Replied the girl as she handed her teacher a slip.

Ms. Caudell took the small piece of paper with a nod of her head. “That's alright Michelle, please find your seat.”

The girl now known as Michelle nodded and Amara watched as the girl walked down the aisle and take the seat that was next to hers. Swallowing deeply, she straightened in her seat, not understanding why she felt so nervous around this girl. Amara suddenly froze as Michelle shifted her gaze upon the blonde, a brow arched slightly.

“I just seen you in the hallway, didn't I?” Amara's only response was a nod of the head, causing a smile to touch at the corners of Michelle's mouth.

“I thought so. I'm Michelle by the way.”

“Amara.” replied the blonde, raising her hand out to the girl. Michelle arched a brow at the gesture, before slowly slipping her hand in the blonde's and gave a light shake.

“Nice to meet you.” whispered Michelle, eyes scanning the blonde's attire, arching her brow once more.

“Why are you wearing the boys' uniform?”

Amara blinked, completely taken aback by the blunt question. “What?”

Michelle locked her eyes upon Amara's. “You're a girl, why are you wearing the boys' uniform?”

Amara narrowed her eyes a little startled. No one has ever automatically assumed she was a girl…no one!

“How'd you know I'm a girl?”

Michelle's mouth fell slightly agape, now taken aback herself. “Well..eh…because.”

Now it was Amara's turn to arch a brow. “Because?”

“Because you're too pretty to be a boy.” Amara's brows shot up at the statement and Michelle's face became a startling red.

“I-I-I mean y-you have girly features…” stuttered Michelle, eyes glaring down at her desk. Amara suddenly began to giggle and Michelle shifted her eyes towards to blonde, looking upon the girl as if she had lost her mind.

“What's so funny?” snapped Michelle, her ears now turning deep red as well.

Amara stifled her giggles, grinning upon the embarrassed girl beside her. “Nothing…it's just…I've never been told I have girly features. It sounds funny hearing it.”

“Oh.” Michelle let a smile lighten her features and shifted her eyes upon Amara, feeling shy all of a sudden. “I see.”

Before Amara could say anything else, her teacher came before her, a pile of text books in her hands. Sighing deeply, Amara frowned as the teacher placed the books on her desk and began to ramble on about what they were currently learning in class.

Hopefully today would be interesting…

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Elaine walked through the cafeteria, tray clutched in her hands as she was maneuvering through other doctors and nurses getting food. Finding an empty table, she quickly took a seat and placed her tray down on the table. Sliding the straps of her purse off her shoulder, she placed the bag upon her lap and scooted her seat in closer to the table. Unraveling her roast beef sub sandwich, Elaine looked up, spotting her friend Amelia Mizuno heading in her direction.

The blue haired woman smiled, making her way to the table and taking a seat across from her friend. “I haven't seen you in a few days, where have you been?”

Elaine grinned. “You remember me telling you about how Ken and I were going to go into foster care right?”

Amelia nodded, unraveling her own turkey sub sandwich. “I remember.”

“Well we got two girls last week and I took some vacation days to get the girls settled in.”

Amelia's eyes widened with excitement. “Oh my God! That's so great Elaine! What are their names? How old are they? What are they like?”

Elaine giggled, reaching into her purse and pulling out her camera. Turning it on, she turned to the image of Ken and the girls sleeping on the bed and handed the camera to her friend so she could see. Amelia giggled at the picture, though her smile slowly turned into a frown as she inspected the picture more closely.

 

“What are their names?”

Elaine furrowed her brows upon seeing her friend frown. “Amara and Serena Tenoh.”

Marley knitted her brows, shifting her dark blue eyes upon the lavender haired woman. “I know them…I'm the one that did surgery on Amara's eye.”

“What…you did?”

The surgeon nodded. “Yeah…” she shook her head. “My heart broke when I seen her face…I couldn't believe someone would do something like that.”

Elaine shook her head, “I was mortified after hearing all that they have been through from their social worker…they seem like really good kids. I don't understand why someone would do something like that.” Taking a sip of her sweet tea, Elaine shifted her eyes upon her friend once again, deciding to change the subject.

“So how are your girls?”

Amelia smiled, handing the digital camera back to Elaine. “Michelle is doing great in school and she sounds amazing on the violin…she's so much like her father.” Sadness suddenly filled the woman's eyes, but only for a split second as her thoughts quickly turned onto her youngest child.

“Amy is doing exceptional in school!” a frown soon appeared on her face. “But she's still rather shy. She hardly talks anymore and she keeps herself locked up in her room whenever she's home and reads and studies all the time. It's starting to worry me.”

“Maybe your girls can come over and play with mine. I'm pretty sure Serena can get Amy to open up a bit more.” Elaine smiled warmly, thinking of the very talkative and bubbly child. “The girls started school today, I wonder if any of your girls share a class with mine.

Amelia smiled. “We'll have to do that then…that would be nice if they both shared a class with my girls.”

“Great, I call you sometime this week and get that set up.” The two women were interrupted as a nurse came to the table, a bit flustered.

“Dr. Mizuno. I've been looking for you everywhere.”

“Why, what's wrong?” questioned Amelia, brows furrowed in worry.

“I need you to come with me, it's any emergency.” She then shifted her eyes upon Elaine. “You have an urgent phone call yourself.”

“From who?”

“Juuban Elementary.” Elaine stood abruptly to her feet followed by Amelia.

“I'll take to you later.” called Elaine as she quickly exited the cafeteria to head to the phone in her department. Amelia turned towards the nurse and followed after the woman to her own department within the hospital.

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Amelia followed the nurse and suddenly arched a brow as she was lead to her own office. She turned to the nurse questioningly, but the brunette only pointed towards the door.

“They're in there.”

“Thank you.” Amelia whispered, mind pondering over what could possibly going on. With a deep sigh, she stepped towards the door and upon entry, spotted two police officers standing beside a woman dressed in a business suit as she sat in a seat before Amelia's desk. The woman stood, rising out a well manicured hand.

“I am Setsuna Meioh, I need a word with you.”

Amelia slowly nodded, walking around her desk to take a seat in her chair. She silently sat, wondering why she suddenly felt sick to her stomach. Trying to shake off the eerie feelings that began to cloud her mind, she turned her attention back onto Ms. Meioh.

“So what do you wish to speak about?”

Setsuna retook her seat, a solemn coming across her face. “I believe you are friends with the Kinos, am I correct?”

The blunette narrowed her eyes, confused by the sudden question. “Yes, Natalie and I are pretty close…what is this about?”

“The Kinos and two of their children were found dead in their home this morning.” replied Setsuna.

Amelia could have sworn her heart stopped in her chest as her eyes rapidly filled with tears. “What…?” She suddenly paused, resting a shaky hand upon her forehead. “What are you talking about?”

Setsuna swallowed deeply as she was disturbed by the information she had been informed about on the Kino family's deaths. Clearing her throat, she looked upon the surgeon's tear stained face, feeling a bit of remorse welling inside her as well.

“The mother, father, and the boy had suffered gunshot wounds. As for the infant …she had been drowned.”

Amelia swallowed deeply, apparently in shock. Her mind was racing a mile a minute, wanting to know who would possible to this to them…they were such good people.

“Who did this?”

“We're not sure; the case is under investigation as we speak. The eldest daughter had been wounded as well, but she is alright. She is unwilling to speak of what had happened, in which I can fully understand why. This experience must have been very traumatizing for her and will take some time to heal.”

Amelia shifted her eyes upon Setsuna, nodding in agreement with the woman's statement. “What's going to happen to Lita?”

Setsuna pulled out a large manila folder from her briefcase and set it down on the desk before her. “She is why I am here. Being that the girl has no other relatives; you were placed down as sole guardian if anything were to happen to the parents.” Setsuna sighed deeply, straightening herself in her seat.

“We need to know if you are willing to take custody of Lita. If not, she will be placed in the orphanage until a foster family will take her or is until she is adopted.”

Amelia shook her head, completely against Lita going to the orphanage. “No, I will take her.”

Setsuna sighed with relief and couldn't help the smile that came upon her face. “Alright! Great, I will need you to sign some documents and then I will discuss some procedures you need to follow.”

Amelia nodded slowly, wiping the tears from her eyes. “Where is Lita? You said she was injured.”

“Lita is here, she just got back from surgery about 20 minutes ago.” Setsuna pulled out some documents from her manila folder and settled them on down the table.

“Let's begin.”

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Elaine rounded a corner, seeing the entry way of her department. Hurriedly making her way through the glass double doors, she quickly came around the front desk, looking down at a startled receptionist.

“Something about an urgent phone call?” questioned Elaine.

The receptionist nodded. “Yes.” She picked up the phone pressing a button. “Here you go.”

Elaine quickly took a hold of the phone and brought it to her ear. “Hello?” The nurse watched silently as Elaine's eyes narrowed dangerously close.

“A fight in school?”

Elaine's eyes suddenly widened. “It involves Serena?!”

Elaine gripped the phone more tightly as she felt fear welling inside of her. “Is she alright…what's going…”

Elaine trailed off as her attention was suddenly drawn to the doors as they were thrown open when the paramedic staff burst through them. The phone slipped from her hands as she spotted a wailing Serena flailing wildly on the gurney that was heading towards the emergency room.

 

“Damn it man! How hard is it to fasten down a child!” exclaimed one of the paramedics as Serena's fist hit him cleanly across the jaw.

Another paramedic who was holding the child's legs down glared at the complaining man. “I don't see you trying anything!” he cried, dodging the blonde's foot as it had it escaped him and came hurling towards his face.

Elaine felt her blood run cold as she saw the complaining paramedic's hands were coated in blood. “Serena…”

 

Author: Well that's the end of part 2, hope you enjoyed! I see that I'm getting closer to 100 reviews please keep reviewing you guys!! I hope to have part 3 up soon!