Afterwards:  The First Time
by Chris Davies


	"Well?"

	"Well ..."

	"Yes?"

	"That was pretty ... incredible, thank you."

	"Thank *you*.  Are you sure you've never done it before?"

	"With another woman?"  A pause.  "I don't remember having done
so."

	"... uh-huh.  I'm not entirely sure what you meant by that, so I'm
gonna pretend you just said that you hadn't."

	"Thank you."

	"Very enthusiastic, though ..."

	"Don't ask.  Please, please don't ask."

	"Okay.  I won't ask."

	"Thank you."

	"If you want to trust me with it, though ..."

	A deep sigh.  "There was ... someone that I really, really wanted
to be with, once.  But she ... she was with someone else, and it was
really obvious that she loved him ... and I loved him a lot, too.  I ...
they were so much in love."

	"But you couldn't have --"

	"Not an option."

	"Why --"

	"*Not* an option."

	"Oookay."

	"I'm sorry.  I ... it wasn't *love*, for him, like that ...
exactly."

	"Oh."

	"I mean ... I could see that happening.  Uh --"

	"It's okay.  I've been with guys ... well, one or two guys,
anyway.  They're ... sometimes, it feels really, *really* good.  Other
times it's ..."

	"Right.  Gotcha.  But that wasn't really the problem."

	"So what was the problem?  I mean, I can definitely understand not
wanting to come between --

	"Your brother and your sister-in-law?"

	"Oh.  OH, boy."

	"Yeah.  Oh.  Oh, geez, I forgot that you know them!"

	"Right."

	"Her older sister introduced you to them --"

	"More or less, yeah."

	"... are you okay?"

	"Um ... yeah, I'm fine, Megumi-chan.  Just a little ... discon-
certed, is all."

	"Startled to discover such seething erotic tensions beneath such a
seemingly happy home?"

	"Ha ha ha."  Another pause.  "A little."

	"It's okay.  I'm pretty sure that Bell-chan didn't love me back
... although ..."

	"Hm?"

	"It must have been a dream.  I remember telling her how I felt,
once, and she told me she loved me back ... but she went on to talk about
how she loved everyone in the world, and oniisan most of all ...
Rei-chan?"

	"Yes?"

	"Why are you crying?"

	"Never mind, Megumi-chan.  Never mind ..."








	"Sailor Moon" was created by Naoko Takeuchi and brought to North
America by DiC and Mixx Publications.  "Oh My Goddess" was created by
Kosuke Fujishima and brought to North America by AnimEigo and Dark Horse
Comics.  This story, containing elements of motion pictures and magazines
held under copyright by others, is copyright 1998 of Chris Davies.

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