Affair - Chapter 5
by Sereko
sereko13@yahoo.com


Wahoo! Another chapter finished! I'm very sorry for the delay, but
I was in a car accident last week and that put a delay on my
writing (There is so much legal stuff that must be done! The 
accident wasn't even my fault and yet I feel like I'm going through
worse repercussions than the other lady..;_;). I also have a lot
of relatives visiting and what-not...I fear it may be a while
before the next chapter is out as well. Sorry!! But hopefully
you will enjoy Chapter 5 and that will keep you content until I 
can write Chapter 6. 


Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters
associated with the story. I merely use Naoko Takeuchi's genius as a 
starting point for my own storytelling.




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Chapter 5
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	‘Why? Why now?’ For two whole weeks Serenity had managed to shove 
thoughts of Endymion to the recesses of her mind. Except for the bauble 
earlier, that had led her to the garden for some distraction, she had been 
good about trying to forget the charming Terran. She could not understand 
why his image was hitting her so hard now or why the emotions that came 
with the image were so much more powerful than they ever had been before. 
Why, it was as if she had fallen in love with the man instead of merely 
holding a crush on hi-
	Serenity shut off her brain before that last thought could fully 
process. ‘No! No, no, no, no, no! This is not happening!’ She pulled her 
flapping robe up higher as she raced through the palace halls to her room. 
	As if possessed, she tore open her bedroom doors, slammed them shut 
behind her and flung herself upon the bed. ‘How can…I don’t…Why is this…
ARGH!’ Both of her hands came up and covered her face. 
	She had to calm down. That was all. The encounter with Venus had 
nudged some things loose, but once she got control again everything would 
be okay. 

	Breathe in.

	Breathe out.

	Breathe in.

	Breathe out. 

	Breathe in.

	SCREAM!
	
	No, no. Screaming is bad. 

	Breathe in.

	Breathe out.

	Breathe in.
	
	Breathe out.
	
	Think desperately about how you can find a way back to him.
	
	Argh.

	Breathe in.

	Breathe out.

	You can’t teleport; you don’t even know how you did that in the 
first place.

	Breathe in.

	What about the transporters?

	Breathe out.

	The ones guarded by four big men?

	Breathe in.

	Oh, yeah. 

	Breathe out.

	Isn’t there a backdoor somewhere?

	Breathe in.

	No.

	Breathe out.

	‘Oh, this is hopeless! I manage to make it through three weeks just 
fine…well, okay, the first week I was a bit moody…but I managed to make it 
through the other two weeks *just fine* and NOW! NOW I start to have a 
nervous breakdown?!’ Serenity practically wept with defeat. 
	She was supposed to be thinking about how pretty the silver melodies 
were this time of year and how the citrus tree framed Venus and Kunzite 
fabulously as they kissed. 
	She wasn’t supposed to be fretting over a man she barely knew. 
	But who cares about dos and don’ts when it comes to matters of the 
heart? 
	‘No! Not heart! How many times must I explain that I do *not* have 
strong feelings for this man?!’ Frustrated, Serenity leapt up from her bed 
and stomped over to her armoire. She quickly changed into a plain, cotton 
dress. Its white color brightened her features, no matter how dark they 
were with troubles. 
	In an instant she exited her room and slipped through the halls. 
She calmed herself enough so that her footfalls could not be heard. After 
a few minutes of hurried walking, Serenity found herself at the end of a 
main hall of the East Wing of Palace. Peering down it, she noted the four 
men standing at attention about half way down. 
	With the last of her resolve, she lowered her arm and powerfully 
thrust an object forward so that it slid past the guards and to the other 
end of the hall about 50 yards away. The object let out a loud pop when it 
hit the wall at the other end. All of the guards immediately turned at the 
disturbance and ran to meet it. While they were occupied with the small 
firecracker that Mars had sneaked to her on her last birthday, she swiftly 
crept up to the doors to the transport room and slipped through them.
	Serenity squared her shoulders as she stared at the old, decrepit 
teleporter for Earth. All of the other teleporters were shiny and modern 
and instilled confidence in their users. The Moon had no reason to update 
or care for the one designated for Earth ever since their falling out. 
Serenity always wondered why they even bothered to keep it. She wasn’t 
going to push her luck now, though. With one last look at the closed doors 
behind her, Princess Serenity walked through the liquid, mirror-like surface 
of the teleporter. 
	Before long she found herself standing with her back facing an 
equally decrepit teleporter designated for the Moon. She was in the corner 
of a room formed very much like her own. There was a half-moon shaped ring 
of transporters pressed up against a wall with their destinations inscribed 
upon their tops. The difference here, however, was that the designs on the 
walls and the banners and tapestries that draped from the ceiling sported 
the colors blue and gold instead of silver and white.
	Using the same firecracker trick once again, Serenity managed to 
slip past another set of large men. She quickly set off through the palace 
to find an exit, tip-toeing around corners and pressing up against walls 
to keep out of sight of the trained guards. It was definitely hard, despite 
her talents, because the palace had a very thorough security system…then 
again, it did help when one could telepathically transport oneself anywhere. 
	After a grueling test of stamina and spy techniques, the princess 
somehow managed to make it out of the royal abode and into fresh air. The 
ground below her feet was covered in the soft, wet grasses of the palace’s 
surrounding fields and she smiled because of it. She was back on Earth, 
finally. 
	It took her no time to begin a search for the clearing where she 
met Mamoru. She was vaguely aware that it was somewhere nearby because she 
remembered seeing a Terran flag wafting in the breeze not far from it the 
last time she was here.
	After a while of wondering, she caught sight of a familiar-looking 
forest with a familiar-looking river cutting through it. She sparked into a 
run towards it once she was a good many yards away from the front gates of 
the palace. Serenity’s heart began to race. It had taken her less than an 
hour and already she had found her destination. And now she was going to 
prove that she, indeed, had no intense feelings for the man that she had 
met the last time she was here. Nope, no siree. She was not incredibly happy 
to see her home in the sky and to feel the moss on the trees. Her heart was 
not beating frantically at the mere thought of being able to see Endymion 
again. Nope, that wasn’t her at all. 
	
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	‘He means nothing to me! He means nothing to me! He means nothing 
to me!’ Serenity continued this mantra in her head as she fervently rushed, 
rather unladylike, towards the clearing that had pervaded her thoughts for 
so long. 	
	Dodging trees left and right, Serenity frantically jumped through 
the forest. The glade edged ever nearer and she couldn’t hold her heart 
back from beating a hundred miles a minute. With one last burst of energy, 
she erupted through the last line of trees while spouting, “He means nothing 
to me!” 
	Her breath was heavy and her body heaving as she collapsed on the 
ground in a heap. Her fists clenched below her as she tried to control all 
of the strong emotions that were streaming through her at a rather alarming 
rate.
	Before long, her haywire mind was distracted by the presence of two 
booted feet poised directly in front of her. She cautiously looked up while 
berating herself for acting so crazily without checking to see if other 
people were in the area first. 
	Blue eyes trailed up a lean, well toned body covered in black pants 
and a loose white shirt. 
	“U-Usagi?”
	Serenity’s eyes abruptly found the face of the owner of the boots. 
His eyes held much more than curiosity at finding her. However, they still 
blazed an alarming shade of deep azure and they were still partially hidden 
behind an errant lock of black hair. 
	“Mamoru?”

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	Venus paced frantically around her room. She could not get the 
night’s previous events out of her head. Though the high princess and her 
senshi were not the best of friends, excepting Mercury, there were still 
warm feelings between them. That was why she was so worried about Serenity. 
	Being the senshi of Venus allotted her gifted powers used for 
insight into the human mind and heart. If she so wished she could read one’s 
mind, though not nearly as well or as acutely as Mars could. Venus had more 
reign on the emotions and flittered through one’s consciousness. She could 
pick up on what people were feeling and if she concentrated, she could read 
the mind enough to learn what had caused those emotions. 
	Unfortunately, it took more than a few seconds for her to be able to 
process this and that was all the time that Serenity had given her before 
the girl had fled the gardens. 
	She sighed. 
	Kunzite had left her very early that morning and now she was alone to 
ponder her princess’ behavior. Or, maybe not…Venus halted her pacing in order 
to exit her room. Walking briskly down the palace halls, she found her way 
to a door decorated similarly to her own except for an accent of blue.

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	“Everything seems to be in order, your majesty. I have looked through 
the contract and there is nothing that disagrees with your wishes.” Luna 
glanced at her husband as he spoke. They were about to solidify that her 
almost-daughter was to be married to the girl’s best friend. She knew the 
princess would be shocked by this turn of events for she understood what Mars 
did not. She knew that Arian and Serenity teased and flirted to an extent, 
but that was in jest and meant only for play. Luna was quite aware of the 
fact that the two did not love each other as anything more than friends.
	“Would your highness like to sign the documents now?”
	Queen Serenity nodded to her advisor and was handed the engagement 
contract. With a brief once-over she flipped to the second page and swiftly 
scrawled her signature. Artemis picked the contract back up. 
	“With me as your witness, this contract is now final. I will vault 
this copy and send a replication to King Arian. Your will be done.” A nod 
signaled her approval and her wish that Artemis leave to fill those duties. 

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	Endymion could hardly contain his shock or joy or disbelief. He 
watched as Serenity picked herself up from the ground with care. She 
nervously brushed dirt from her flowing skirts. 
	“I…I…um…” Serenity fumbled with her words. What was she to say now 
that he was right there in front of her? She resorted to formalities. “It 
is nice to see you again.” Following her statement, she gave a curtsey.
	Endymion, in turn, politely bowed and returned, “It is nice to see 
you again, as well.” Once he stood up straight again, he followed with, “It 
has been a long time.”
	“That it has.” 
	The prince dumbfoundedly proceeded towards her while mumbling, 
“I…I come here everyday. I always hope and pray that I will find you 
beyond the hedges, but you are never there…never…until now.” He restrained 
himself from touching her cheek when he stopped walking a few feet away. 
He couldn’t stay focused and proper with her frazzling his every nerve.
	“Yes. I am here, now.” She silently added to herself, ‘and that 
is all that matters.’
	“W-Why?”
	Serenity looked up startled into his eyes. “Why?” she repeated. 
‘Because I miss you, I long for you, I need you near me,’ her heart 
passionately answered. Her mind frowned at her. “I would think it obvious.” 
She swallowed a large bump in her throat. “I adore the scenery here.” A 
quick, nervous look to the flowers near-by only solidified the fact that 
she was lying.   
	“As do I,” whispered Endymion while staring intently at the beauty 
before him. 
	He again had to hold himself back from reaching for the woman of 
his fantasies. 
	“Mamoru, I-” she hastily blurted. They were only a foot apart and 
it was hard for Serenity to remember the reason that she had initially 
come back to Earth. She shook her head and closed her eyes in an effort 
to gather her wits and her brains. Taking a deep breath, she said, “I 
came to tell you that I will never see you again.”

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	Mercury opened her door to be greeted by her leader. She 
immediately drew to attention and gave Venus an official head nod. 
“Captain.”
	The senshi of love ignored, for the first time in her life, 
proper protocol and barged into Mercury’s room. She was hurried and 
harried and the last thing on her mind was the fact that she should have 
acted normally. 
	“Captain? Is something wrong?”
	The pacing that had kept Venus so occupied in her own room took 
over her senses in this room as well. “I have worries. I need to talk to 
you about Serenity.”
	Her companion finally understood what was going on and so she 
nodded her head while shutting the bedroom door. She motioned for Venus to 
have a seat but the other woman declined. She offered a drink and poured 
a glass of water for her leader. Taking a seat, Mercury began, “What is 
it that worries you about the princess?”
	“I conversed with her last night and she was acting slightly 
strange.”
	“Strange? What did she do?”
	Venus sighed. “She was fine throughout most of the conversation, 
but at a very random point she lost her composure and ran away from me.”
	Mercury raised an eyebrow. She was unaware of this encounter. In 
fact, she hadn’t spoken to her dear friend much at all in the past few 
weeks. She was planning on talking to her more thoroughly right as Venus 
approached her door. “That is odd. What were you two talking about? Did 
you say something that could have upset her?”
	“I am not sure. If I remember correctly, we were both teasing and 
laughing when she was suddenly struck with fatigue. I am under the 
impression that it was something she thought of on her own that made her 
sad and scared, not something that was spoken. I came here to ask if you 
knew of anything that was bothering her.” 
	Thinking slowly, Mercury recalled Serenity’s moodiness over the 
past weeks. “She has not been herself for three or so weeks, actually. I 
have no idea what has happened to her. Nothing was confided to me.”
	“Hmm,” Venus hummed as she tapped her chin. “I wonder what it 
could be. If you do not know, I fear that no one may know.”

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	There was a long silence. “I intone to you that I have been 
waiting for this moment for a month and you reply by telling me that you 
never want to see me again.” Despite his hurt, Endymion comically adopted 
a pondering expression. “Hmm, I seem to have missed something.”
	Serenity couldn’t help but smile weakly. “I never said that I did 
not want to. I said that I could not.” She continued as he gave her a 
questioning look, “It is complicated. There are things that you are 
unaware of that make these meetings dangerous.”
	“Dangerous?”
	She turned from him. “I cannot explain in any more detail.” She 
had no idea how she had gotten herself into this mess in the first place. 
One minute all she wanted to do was prove that she had not longed for the 
sight of this Terran and the next she was acting like a blubbering idiot. A 
hand rested on her shoulder causing her to jump. 
	“What is it?”
	Spinning, she fumed, “I told you I cannot explain!” Bad move. 
Turning had meant facing him and facing him meant having to look into his 
eyes. Those endless blues that swallowed her whole. Even her strong-willed 
mind could not overpower her heart as it leapt for him. Serenity’s knees 
melted when her prince reached out and cautiously touched her cheek. 
	“I cannot stay away from you, Usagi, so you will have to come up 
with a better excuse than that.” A gentle smile followed his words. 
	There was no hesitation as Serenity’s mind went into arrest and her 
heart blurted out, “I am Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom.” 
	Endymion’s hand froze on her skin. It took everything in him to 
keep his mouth from falling open. However, as Serenity studied his eyes she 
saw with alarm how they swirled not with fear but with wonder. The prince’s 
thoughts were running crazily calculating the danger of their situation and 
how he might surpass it. With one final thought he focused his attention 
back on the princess and whispered, “I do not care.”
	To say that Serenity was a little thrown off by this reaction would 
be an understatement. “Did you not hear me? I am the crown princess of your 
planet’s nemesis. You could kill me right now and your people would 
praise you for it.”
	“Never!” His eyes were wide and fiery. “How dare you even suggest 
that I would lay a hand on your aggressively!”
	Rolling her eyes, the princess continued, “The point is that we 
cannot meet each other ever again. I should not have come even once. Since 
it is my recklessness that has put us in jeopardy, I take it upon myself to 
prevent further encounters.” This is it, she thought. The last time she 
would ever see the man of her dreams. Her body started to turn away. “I…I 
am sorry that we could not have learned more of each other. I would have 
loved it.” 
	Her head bowed and spirits quickly dropping, Serenity proceeded to 
exit the clearing. She threw one more longing look over her shoulder with an 
emotional good-bye and then turned for the last time.
	Suffice to say, Endymion was not going to leave it at that. It 
took three long strides for him to catch Serenity. When he did, he gently 
cupped his fingers around her upper arm. 
	Using a bit of force, he spun her around so that she was almost so 
close as to touch his chest with her nose. There was no time for Serenity 
to react before he had captured her lips in a searing kiss. His mouth was 
tender but passionate against hers. 
	Both pulses racing and minds whirling, the two drifted apart. With 
drunken eyes Serenity tried to focus on the face hovering mere centimeters 
in front of her. 
	“You will have to forgive me, princess, but I cannot let you leave 
me.” He brushed a hair behind her ear. “I do not care whom you inherited 
your name from or where your loyalties lie. As long as I can stand with 
you, I will be happy.”
	Serenity was unable to dip her head because of Endymion’s hold on 
her chin, but she did drop her eyes. “I will not knowingly put you in grave 
danger, Mamoru. It was foolish of me to flee here a month ago. I will not 
do it again.”
	Again she found herself floating among the clouds of heaven. Soft, 
but demanding lips caressed hers in a tantalizing dance. This time, when 
the Terran pulled away, he pressed his cheek against hers. As he spoke, 
his breath swirled across her ear. “My name is Endymion, as in Prince 
Endymion of Earth.” He continued though he felt Serenity shiver. “You 
alone do not hold responsibility for our meetings. I am not allowed to 
have private conversations with what I thought was a peasant without 
proper supervision. Either way, however, we have found ourselves together.”
	Though Serenity was reeling with disbelief, she had enough sense 
in her to be able to form a few words. “You are the crown prince of this 
planet?” His gentle affirmative shot tingles down her spine. “And I am the 
crown princess of your moon.” Just saying it made her want to shake her 
head at the irony of it all. There were trillions upon trillions of people 
in the solar system and, out of pure chance, the two who were the worst 
match for each other met. “And we want to be together.” 
	It made Endymion smile to hear her say ‘we’. He let his thumb run 
up and down the small of her back. His attention focused from its daze when 
Serenity pulled away to stare at him, both of her hands framing his face. 
	“We could not have chosen a more difficult path to walk.”
	The corner of his mouth kicked up in a grin. “We would not have it 
any other way.”
	Her mood lifted and she let a small smile shine on her face. “No. 
No, we would not. Let us pray that the gods are on our side.”
	“A prince and princess from two rifting kingdoms trying to find an 
end to loneliness together? Come now, that is a classic love story. The gods 
adore that type of thing.” A more devilish grin replaced the other on his 
face. 	Serenity couldn’t help but feel as one. Everything was all right, 
at least for now. The rest of the world and its laws did not matter when 
she was alone in his arms. 
	It was her turn to initiate their kiss as Endymion chattered. She 
did so with vigor and desire. He returned it tenfold. 

 







End Chapter 5
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*Sigh* Isn't romance wonderful?
I hope you enjoyed it! I wasn't
too much in the mood to write
the other developments in the
story, hence the small amount
of non-UsaMamo stuff. More of
that will come in the next 
chapters. Serenity and 
Endymion's happy little
paradise will be thoroughly
shaken and shaken hard.

Please send ANY comments to me, Sereko. My e-mail is: 
sereko13@yahoo.com