Hey Minna! How is everyone?  I'm feeling fine and dandy thanks.  
Well this is a fic that I got an Idea for watching the episode 
Treed.  It is kind of similar to Kali's 'Mamoru's story.' So give 
her some credit too.  I also borrowed some of her lines so I'm 
really sorry.  Anyway it's set about 5 years after the R season so 
that would make Serena about 20 and Darien I don't know how old he 
would be so just guess.  Also just pretend that the outers never 
arrived ok.  Anyway Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me though I wish 
it did.  So please don't sue cause all I've got is my computer 
with about 400 sailor moon documents ranging from pictures to 
profiles to sounds to? ok I'll shut up now anyway on with the 
story.

Darien's confession
By: Cher
Email: Usachi_10@hotmail.com
Rated: G ? PG
  
Darien and Serena were strolling through the park at a leisurely 
pace on a sunny afternoon.  Serena had a blindfold covering her 
eyes.  "Darien please don't tease me.  I don't want to fall over." 
Serena reached up to pull down the blindfold but Darien pulled her 
hands into his.  "Serena don't you trust me?  We're almost there 
just hold my hand I promise I won't let you fall."  Serena smiled 
and placed her hands into his.  "I trust you Darien."  Darien led 
Serena to a secluded area of the park.  It was a small semi-circular 
garden with rose hedges surrounding it.  There were roses of every 
different colour surrounding a marble bench.  The bench had several 
different vines crawling over it.  Darien led Serena to the bench 
and positioned himself behind her.  "Ready?" "Ready!" Darien 
steadily pulled the blindfold from Serena's eyes and waited for her 
reaction.  "Oh Darien it's beautiful.  How did you find this place?"  
Serena turned to Darien with tears of joy in her eyes. Darien bent 
over and sealed Serena's lips with a loving kiss. Letting all of his 
love for her flow through him and into her.  "Serena please take a 
seat." Darien led Serena to the marble bench and she eased herself 
onto the small bench.  Humbly folding her hands in her laps she 
looked up to her true love with adoring eyes.  "I want to tell you 
something Serena and I don't want you to say anything.  Just to 
listen."  Serena's eyes clouded over in confusion and she nodded 
cautiously.  Darien bent down and sat next to Serena he placed 
Serena's hands into his.  " It's nothing bad Serena you can relax." 
Serena let out a sigh of relief and looked at Darien quizzically.  
"Serena you may need to get comfortable cause this could take a 
while.  You see last night I couldn't sleep there was something 
troubling me and I couldn't figure out why.  I had that feeling of 
uneasiness in my stomach.  You know the one when you just can't 
shake away that awful feeling that you've forgotten something or 
that really guilty feeling.  Well I had that feeling last night in 
bed and I couldn't shake it off like I normally do.  Then I started 
thinking of you.  I tend to do that when I'm troubled, just thinking 
of your name seems to ease my troubles.  You do that to me Serena 
you just ease my sorrows.  Kind of like that song.  'Have I told you 
lately that I love you.'  Well have I?  I don't think I tell you 
enough.  Sometimes I think you deserve someone better than me I tend 
to take you for granted.  You don't deserve that by no means.  
Anyway I was lying in bed and I thought of the very first day that I 
met you.  I was such a jerk to you and I'm sorry. I know I was a 
jerk the next few times I met you too. It's not because I hated you, 
or wanted to hurt you, it was just... easier. Sometimes it's easier 
to be cold, distant. To hurt someone else rather than be hurt 
yourself. I know better now, you taught me better.  You stood by me 
Serena.  You've been so strong Serena through all the times I've 
been with you you've been strong.  I admire you for that.  I admire 
you for many things.  I don't think anything could repay you for the 
things you've done for me.  Not even a million thanks could do it.  
Well please just be satisfied with one.  Thank you Serena for 
standing by me through thick and thin.  I remember when we got our 
memories back about the moon kingdom and Beryl took me to the 
negaverse.  Not once did you ever give up on me.  I was so horrible 
to you but you just stood defiant.  You're so stubborn Serena and 
that's just one of the thousands of qualities you have.  I know if I 
was in your position than I would have lost hope the moment you had 
been taken by Beryl.  But not you even when you did heal me and I 
was stolen from you again did you give in.  You just kept battling 
on.  You are a true warrior of love Serena.  I don't think I could 
chose another girl to be Sailor Moon.  You have so many traits and 
they all add up and outweigh your bad points.  Even if you are 
klutzy and you were a wimp at first, no one held the strength you 
did.  The inner strength that makes you unique.  Even though 
everyone doubted you in the beginning you defied them and became the 
person that you are today.  I remember that night in Beryl's kingdom 
when you came to destroy her.  All of your friends had died and you 
soldiered on.  I remember the bleak room that we were in and the 
look in your eyes when you saw me.  It wasn't anger or disgust, 
which any normal human would show when the love of their lives is 
obeying another woman, but it was love, hope and strength.  Your 
whole face lit up at the sight of me and then Beryl ordered me to 
kill you.  To destroy the girl that I was destined to be with.  And 
I obeyed her I tried to destroy you and almost succeeded at that but 
you still looked at me with hope and love and strength.  Then you 
bought out that locket.  That symbol of our love that has lasted 
over a millennia.  And I remembered the feeling of pureness as I 
touched it.  I could feel your love filling every crevice of my body 
and wiping away all that evil energy.  I can still feel it now.  I 
can feel your strength inside me Serena.  Then Beryl threw that 
crystal at us and all I could think of was saving you.  I couldn't 
think of life without you.  I would die a hundred deaths just to 
have you live Serena.  The rose saved you but my fate was decided. I 
can still remember the feeling of the crystal shard piercing my back 
but the pain was blinded by my love for you and being in your arms.  
You looked at me with those eyes full of love and hope and strength 
and pureness and you smiled and told me I could call you Meatball 
head.  Strength possesses you Serena.  Any weak person would cry and 
curse and be pessimistic, but you don't see the bad side of things.  
I was dying in your arms and you told me that I could call you that 
dreadful nickname.  You were smiling and being strong for me.  And 
you were strong you defeated Beryl and saved the earth.  Strength 
lives in you.  You Serena are the definition of strength.  You have 
overcome so many bumps in the road.  Hell you've overcome mountains.  
I was thinking of all this last night in my bed I couldn't stop my 
mind just kept replaying scenes of the past with you.  Our love has 
been through ups and downs yet you never stop loving me.  When we 
were sent down to earth from the negaverse without our memories I 
turned back into a robot.  The same robot that used to call you 
Meatball Head and tease you non stop.  I put up my walls again and 
forced you out.  That must have been hard for you.  Harder than I 
can imagine.  You knew of our past and you loved me with all your 
heart but I didn't remember a thing about us.  Your strength 
remained though and you didn't give up even though I didn't 
remember.  I just knew that you scared me?" "I? I scared you 
Darien?" " You don't know it Serena but you just have this innocent 
aura about you.  You seem to radiate happiness and innocence.  And 
you were creeping through my wall of ice.  That's why you scared me 
I didn't want to let you in.  I was scared of the rejection that I 
had been used to over so many years.  Nothing in my life was 
constant everything I grew close to either died or left to another 
place far away from me.  Then there was the battle with Ann and 
Allen.  When that tree had you in its clutches all I could think of 
was getting to you.  I didn't know why but I knew I had to save you.  
We fell to the ground and I passed out but the next thing I knew was 
the beautiful warrior staring at me so sadly.  The beautiful warrior 
I had seen a few times in the last couple of months who seemed so 
familiar to me but I couldn't quite figure out why.  And you were 
apologizing to me you told me you were sorry because of what Ann and 
Allen had done.  That's you and your big heart again.  You took my 
hand and held it with this loving look in your eyes, I can still 
feel your hand holding mine now, you told me everything would be ok.  
And I believed you cause I knew I could trust you.  Then the blast 
hit us and you held my hand as we flew across the room.  You never 
let go.  You held onto me even though you were in pain.  That's your 
strength again Serena.
I remember how you stood up and pointed your scepter at them and you 
got blasted back again that's when the memories flooded my mind.  I 
couldn't believe I had let you go for that long.  All I wanted to do 
was to hold you close to me.  To know that you were next to me was 
enough though.  Another blast was heading towards us and you stood 
in front of me and took it all full on.  Ann told you to renounce 
your love for me but you refused.  I remember your words so well and 
your voice was so strong it didn't once falter.  I remember how the 
realization dawned on me that you loved me with all your heart, just 
from those eight words I felt whole again.  'True love can't be 
taken away by anyone.' You told Ann that, your life was on the line 
and you admitted your love for me knowing that you could die by 
doing so.  That's when I took the blast for you.  That familiar 
feeling that you were in trouble just filled my body and I couldn't 
think of anything else except saving you.  So I did and we were 
blasted back into the tree and I collapsed in your arms.  The look 
in your eyes melted my heart and I felt loved.  Truly loved by the 
woman of my dreams.  And your love for everything saved the day.  I 
can remember the way you hugged me with tears streaming down your 
face saying that everything was ok now but it was far from it.  We 
were together for a while and I remember the pure bliss of it all.  
Then the dreams started.  I curse my future self for sending those 
dreams they caused me so much pain.  Not as much pain, as you would 
have felt.  I told you I didn't want to see you anymore.  I was 
horrible to you I ignored your face but in my mind and heart I was 
screaming out for you.  To hold you and feel you near.  I just wish 
I could go back in time and erase that stupid nightmare.  It came 
and I felt despair the last thing I wanted was for you to be dead.  
But I couldn't live without you.  My walls rose again and I went 
into this awful depression.  No one knew but I hid it from the world 
I would go home and stare at photos of you and I together for hours.  
Just stare.  I would scribble your name down a hundred times and I 
turned into this robot.  I was scared to sleep because of the dream.  
Memories of you kept me awake long into the night and I finally gave 
in to sleep and the nightmare reminded me again.  But that's nothing 
to what you would have felt.  I can't imagine what you would have 
been going through.  I was so cold to you and I'm sorry once again.  
I've done so many things to hurt you yet you love me so much.  When 
you had the same dream I didn't know what to think so I shut you 
out.  I remember hearing you crying at my doorstep as my heart 
ripped into pieces.  Then that kiss on the lookout point it was 
bliss.  After so long we were together again and I didn't care if it 
was wrong.  I let my heart do the talking instead of my mind and was 
glad.  So many things Serena so many rough patches of our lives yet 
you still stand by me and you're still strong.  I think strength 
resides in you.  I've said it so many times but it amazes me the 
feats you been through.  That time when Prince Diamond took you to 
his palace and tried to brainwash you I remember that so well.  You 
didn't let that brainwash overcome you.  You didn't give in you were 
strong.  I admire you Serena even though you don't know it I look up 
to you.  I long to be as strong as you and I know I will be in time.  
I will learn to be because you will teach me.  You will love me 
forever and that will be enough because just having you beside me 
makes me the richest man in the world. I don't even have to ask you 
if you love me because I know that from all these all these triumphs 
your love for me is stronger than life itself and I'm so thankful 
for that because without you Serena I would put up my walls and hide 
my emotions.  I would be miserable for the rest of my life.  These 
are all the reasons why I'm telling you I'm sorry and that I love 
you."  Darien looked at Serena with a new peacefulness residing 
within him.  Serena's eyes were red and puffy for she had been 
crying from the moment Darien said he couldn't sleep.  She wiped the 
tears away and sniffled quietly.  "I love you too Darien and you 
don't have to apologize to me.  I understand." Darien lent down and 
kissed Serena's lips softly.  "I did have to tell you Serena I love 
you.  More and more each day my love grows for you.  Just from 
little things like when you told me you trusted me to lead you 
through the park.  My heart burst with love when you started to cry 
after all I had said was I couldn't sleep.  I also had to tell you 
because there was a reason to my confession.  I need to ask you 
something important and you needed to know all that before I asked 
you."  Serena's eyes were still filling with tears and Darien wiped 
them away carefully.  Pulling out a medium sized velvet box Darien 
kneeled down on one knee and stared at his beloved Serena.  He 
carefully undid the clasp and lifted the box open.  Sitting in the 
center of the box was the small moon locket.  Darien opened it and 
the familiar music flowed from it.  Serena gasped in amazement as 
she saw the locket.  "But Darien I thought that it disappeared.  How 
did you?? Oh Darien thank you so much."  Serena flung her arms 
around Darien and hugged him tightly.  "It just appeared in my 
apartment when I had the nightmare I was going to give it to you 
straight away but decided to save it for a special moment in our 
lives one that we wouldn't forget.  I haven't finished yet though 
Serena." Darien lifted her onto the seat and placed the locket into 
her lap.  It's romantic melody drifted into the small clearing and 
filled the night sky.  Darien pulled out a smaller box and opened it 
to reveal a sparkling diamond ring.  "Serena, my strong, beautiful, 
kind, loving, perfect, wondrous, strong Serena.  Would you do me the 
honor of being my wife?" Serena stared at Darien in shock before 
leaping into his arms.  "YES!  Oh Darien YES! YES! YES!" Serena 
kissed him a million times before blushing as she noticed the 
audience that had gathered around them.  Darien slipped the ring 
onto her fingers and helped her to her feet.  The loving couple 
strolled happily out of the park feeling alive and ecstatic.

The end!  So what'd you all think?  Email me with your comments k.  
See you soon! =) Cher!