The Right to Die 
				   Chapter 15

	Hi! I have decided that I will write a chapter every day 
this week to make up for missing so much. Thanks again to everyone 
who has e-mailed me! It really means a lot. I am finally going to 
write about what is going on, on Earth. I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: (To the tune of "Who stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?")
	You stole Sailor Moon from the idea jar.
	Who me?
	Yes you.
	Couldn't be.
	Then who?
	Naoko Takeuchi did.	

				Mamoru's Point of View

	It has been one month since Usako has left us. One month 
without her smile, her laugh, her beautiful blue eyes. I still 
visit her every day. I would never let her think that I am 
abandoning her. Every day I bring her roses.

	I can't sleep at night. If I do, I am plagued with nightmares 
of her. I can close my eyes and see her frail body being hit, and 
the sickening thud that her lifeless body makes on the ground. Her 
last thoughts echo in my mind. Pain, guilt, fear. Fear of me, fear 
of the Senshi. I haven't been able to tell them that I knew what 
she was thinking. It would hurt them too badly.

	I enter the Crown Arcade, Usako's favorite after school 
hangout. The Sailor V game that she spent endless time on has 
barely been used. I can almost see her there when I walk in. Her 
tongue sticking out of her mouth in concentration, her groan of 
frustration at the Game Over flashing on the screen?

	I come out of my reverie to see Mokoti waving his hand in 
front of my face. Mokoti, he is such a good friend. Without him, I 
probably wouldn't have made it through this month. His ribs are 
still sore, but he no longer needs to wear a brace. 

	"Mamoru-kun, Mamoru-kun. I have been trying to talk to 
you for five minutes. You totally zoned out on me. Are you ok?"

	"I'm as good as can be expected, under the circumstances. 
Could you get me some coffee?" I ask.

	"Geeze, how can you drink the stuff at 6:00 at night and 
still sleep?" Mokoti asks exasperatedly.

	"I don't."

	That shut him up. Ever since Usako has been in the 
hospital, I have been less and less tolerable of people. We 
rubbed off on each other. When I was around her, I would become 
more friendly and laid back, and when she was around me, she 
seemed more mature.

	"How is Usagi-chan doing? Have the doctors said anything new?"

	"Nope." I say sipping my coffee. "The damn doctors say 
nothing. She just lies there. Unmoving, it is so unlike her. I see 
her everywhere Mokoti. Earlier, when you said I was spacing out, I 
was watching her on the Sailor V game. I miss her so much my mind is 
playing tricks on me. Oh, how I wish they were true." I say with 
despair.

	Mokoti nods, and takes me back to the back room. "You need 
sleep Mamoru. You look horrible, as if you haven't slept for days. 
You are so tired you are hallucinating." He says practically forcing 
me down on the couch.

	"Mokoti, I can't sleep, that's the problem. Every time I 
close my eyes I see her getting hit, I? I hear her hit the ground. 
It is all my fault. If I had defended her and stood by her, she 
would not be? be?"

	"Mamoru, you are going to sleep whether you like it or 
not." He says sternly. Then softening, "You are my best friend 
in the world and I will be there for you. I will help you get 
through this. I wish I could do more, but you have to let me try." 
He puffs up jokingly, "After all, I am your superior in ways of the 
heart." 

	Mokoti walks turns out the lights and walks out of the room. 
I fall asleep thinking how lucky I am to have him as a friend.



				Rei's Point of View

	I kneel on the mat in front of The Great Fire. It has been 
one month since Usagi-chan's accident. I miss her so much sometimes 
I see her in her favorite hangouts. Sometimes, after working all 
day, I walk in my room and swear that I can see her on my bed 
laughing over my manga.

	The Senshi still meet every day at 4:00 here. Mako-chan 
thinks that there is going to be another attack very soon, but I 
doubt that. I think that she is using that as an excuse to do 
something instead of moping. Ami-chan has thrown herself into 
her studies and Minako has? well I don't know what Minako does.

	The Great Fire cracks and I am brought out of my reverie. 
"Oh Great Fire" I say. "How can we get Usagi-chan to come out of 
her coma?" I wait unmoving for and answer. The fire is under 
great stress, as if it isn't or can't reveal the answer. 

	Suddenly I hear a voice, "Rei, you are not to interfere. Do not 
ask such questions, as you are unworthy of the answers. All I can 
tell you at this time is what you already know. You and the 
others are not permitted to know anything of the Supreme Princess."

	The fire dies out suddenly, as if someone had poured water 
over it. 'What does it mean that we are unworthy? Why are we not 
permitted to know how she fares? We are her guardians.'

	"Not anymore?" The voice says faintly.

	I hit the all call on the communicator and call Mamoru-kun, 
this is definitely something to report.
 

				Ami's Point of View

	Work, school, study, train. It is all that I do. I need 
to keep my mind off Usagi-chan. I have looked up everything that 
I could find to see if there is anything more that, I can do to 
help Usagi-chan. I visit her daily sometimes with the scouts, 
sometimes alone. I am now totally alone, excepting the Senshi, 
I have no friends. I stay in on Saturday nights and practically 
live at the library.

	She is now ingrained into my schedule. Get up at 6:00 look 
for more research on comas. Go to school; think about Usagi-chan. 
Go to the library during lunch. Go back to school. Leave school. 
Go to a Senshi meeting. Visit Usagi-chan. Go back to the library 
for more information. Visit Usagi-chan on the way home from the 
library. Go to bed at midnight after pouring over Mom's medical 
books. Repeat. My life feels like instructions on the back of a 
shampoo bottle, "Wet, lather, rinse, repeat."

	As I am searching for more information on the internet, 
I get a call on my communicator. It has been awhile since I have 
been paged. It feels good to be needed. I look around my room to 
find the discarded communicator.

	After finding it, I open the lid and ask, "What's up? Is 
it a youma attack?"

	Rei's image appears on the screen and she says, "No, this 
is about Usagi-chan."

	"I'll be right there." I say closing the communicator, 
packing my laptop, and throwing on a jacket before running out 
the door.

	When I finally get to Rei-chan's temple I am the first one 
there, excepting Rei-chan, who lives there. I franticly ask, "Is 
there any change in Usagi-chan's condition?" 
	
	"No, Ami-chan, but it is still very serious. I have to 
ask you to wait till everyone gets here so I don't have to 
repeat it."

	I sit down on my usual bench and bring out my laptop. I 
didn't have long to wait because Mako-chan, Minako-chan, Luna, 
and Artemis came running around the corner. Once we are all 
seated the new arrivals start hounding Rei-chan for answers. I 
clear my throat and ask, "We are all here Rei-chan, would you 
please begin?"

	"I am waiting for Mamoru-kun." Came the reply. All of 
us sigh in unison. Five minutes later Mamoru-kun shows up and 
he begins hounding Rei-chan for answers.

	Rei-chan quietly says, "Guys I will explain it all, but 
I can't answer all of your questions at once." That shut them up. 
We had never seen Rei-chan not loose her temper in a situation 
like this.

	"I was doing a fire reading?" Rei-chan told us what 
happened. We sat there in silence for a while letting it register 
and as soon as we regained our wit, all of us started speaking at 
once.

	"What do you mean we aren't worthy?"

	"Who is the voice?"

	"How does it know about Usagi-chan?"

	"Was it male of female?"

	"Did you recognize the voice?"

	"Did it say anything else?"

	Finally, after getting tired of the pandemonium I scream, 
"SHUT UP!" That was the second time that silence had taken over the 
group. They all sat there staring at me with their mouths hanging 
open. "Rei-chan, do you think that you could replay the voice or 
speak to it again?" I ask sweetly in my that-couldn't-have-been-me 
voice.

	"Uh, yeah. I think that I could get the fire to replay the 
voice. It might be a few minutes." We wait impatiently for her to 
set up the fire again. The rest of the group proceeds to talk 
except for Mamoru-kun and I. 

	Rei-chan comes back outside and looks very pale. "Rei-chan," 
Minako-chan says taken aback.

	"Are you okay? You don't look well." I ask worriedly.

	"Um, you guys," Rei-chan says shakily. "You really need to 
see this?"


	That is it for this week I hope to have more chapters out 
soon, but it all depends on my Mom. I hope you enjoyed it!
					@~~~{~~~ Aurora Serenity