Title: A Question Answered, A Question Asked.
Part: 15
Series: Family Ties
by
Terra DeeEarth
Typed:August 9,1999
{well that's when I started it any way}
Rated PG
For Tembo's dirty mouth.

Disclaimer: {I own Sailor Moon!} [Terra! It's not good to lie. Lying is a sin! And if you owned Sailor Moon I would be the Queen of England!] {NOOO Bob is the Queen of England!} [I told you it's not good to lie!] {But she is and Minako is the king of stupid questions!} [I TOLD YOU NOT TO LIE!] {But she is and Cari is the Queen!} [*Tembo pulls her hair back and screams in frustration!*] {Well you can have France!} [*Screams again*] {And since when do I know what's a sin and what's not.} [*Tembo sweatdrops*] {Oh just tell them not to sue us.} [Please please don't anyone sue us. Tay?] {O.k!}

PLEASE HELP US PUT OUR DISCLAIMER OUT OF ITS MISSERY. We really need a new disclaimer, we'll give you all the credit for it. Please send to: [email protected]

{Hey minna! Tembo gets to be the editor, but you already knew that didn't you}

This part of my fic is for Becka, for all her help in getting mine and Tembo's website off the ground. {YaY me and Tembo have a site I'll give ya the address as soon as we get a bit more work done.}

{I got's nothin' 'portant to say dis week, it be late I be off.}


'......' is thinking
"......" is talking {duh}
{......} these are my comments
[......] are Tembo's comments
*......* this is somthing happening
~......~ this is somthing emphasized (caps will be used for volume)
~*~...~*~ time or scene change

{This continues right after the last part.}

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Darien was walking home from Serena's that night after nearly being attacked by the scouts.

He was daydreaming, about being normal and attending regular college classes with Andrew and Rhea, not having to worry about the sudden dizzy feeling that came with Serena's tranformation. He envisioned himself and Rhea walking Andrew to the arcade Before they headed down a few more blocks and would split up to go to their separate homes... 'We shouldn't have separate homes yet... Wait a minite, Darien what are you thinking? Of course we should have separte homes!' He was unsure of himself, but still returned to his daydream. Rhea was standing at the corner where she ususally left to go in the direction opposite to his. She looked around, gave a whistle and 'Clipse came bounding up to her... Suddenly his world went black and then a most light white and then...

A giant old English sheep dog came bounding up to him. No it wasn't a giant he was a small child, in a most peculiar uniform. The dog sunk its teeth into the back of his pants and knocked him off balance, the dog had picked him up and then he heard a crash.

Then there were older children's voices calling his name... Endymion.

He turned to look behind him, a giant tree had fallen, right where he had been standing. If the dog hadn't picked him up and carried him to safty he would have been severly hurt maybe even killed.

The dog was very close to him and panting, he walked over and said, "Thank you." The dog reared up its head revealing a cresent moon shaped spot where no fur grew. The dog proceded to yell at him.

"Your Highness musen't run off like that, you could have been killed! Where are your generals they were supposed to be watching you! Asked to be guardian to one princess and end up babysitting her little brother and his protectors as well. What is this world coming to..." the dog muttered on.

Young Endymion just smiled, threw his arms around the dog's neck and said, "I love you."

Everything faded into black.

"Darien are you alright?" he heard a familliar voice question.

"Mmm...Luna?"

"Yes, are you alright?"

"Yeah, just another one of those weird flashbacks. What are you doing out here so late?" he asked, pushing himself out of the position he was in, leaning against a wall with all his weight on it.

"Artimis and I had to talk to central control." Seeing his puzzled look, "Lunars, like Artimis and I are all over the world, don't tell the scouts, they don't know exactly who or what central control is yet." *he nods* "We've gathered information about heroes from around the world. Most of us don't let our charges know of our even existance anymore, these meetings are thus kept ~scout free~.

Darien smiled, then the thought came to him, 'Luna might know the answer to my questions.'

"Luna, did I ever have a guardian like you and Artimis?" he asked quietly.

Luna gave him and odd look and then replied, "Yes and no."

He gave her a questioning look.

She continued, "It seems to me, there was a Lunar like myself sent down to the Earth's royal family, but not expressly for you, he was supposed to be the guardian of someone else, I don't remember exactly who. But he took you under his wing so to speak also. Although I beleive he was canine not feline. Artimis and he were very good friends. The rotten guy liked to chase me around, but that was when he was young. Artimis was so upset when he died, was killed trying to save the Earth."

"Thank you Luna. I'm sorry I should let you be getting home," Darien appologized.

"No problem, I wasn't planning on getting any sleep tonight anyway."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about the scouts."

"Lucky you, those girls are a full time job and then some {not to mention Artimis}," she laughed. "If you have any more questions like that don't hesitate to ask me."

"Thank you"

They walked off into the night.

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The next morning

"No, I don't know where any of them are," Katherine said into the phone.

There was a pause while someone on the other end of the line spoke.

"Why do you expect me to know where they all are?"

Another pause.

"You are the oldest maybe you should have thought of something instead of depending on a six-year-old!"

The other person spoke. The other girls walked into the kitchen.

"Who exactly are you looking for?" Katherine asked.

*pause*

"All of them, eveyone that was there at the time of the accident?"

*pause*

"Okay who do you want to start with?"

*pause*

"Lucie, well you knew her better than me. Um rain forests, maybe a young tree planters group. Check anything that has to with groups that stay outdoors and help nature. She'll be 16 next April 22, Earthday!"

*pause*

"Destiny-Rae? Well Destiny-Rae and Fate-Rose won't be far apart, they'll be 15 next December 11th. Try art schools then military academies that are close to veterany institutions." {Hmmmmmm...Rae and Rose...Where'd ya get those Terra? *tembo giggles*] {Where do you think I got Fate-Rose's blondeness from? *points and laughs*}

*pause*

"Darien, well I don't have a clue as to where to find him. He'll be 20 in August. The police would be no help, they weren't for me, and don't bother with any hospital in Japan, I've looked."

*pause*

"Well don't say I didn't warn you."

*dong dong dong*

"Well fine then be a bitch and hang up!" [Sure she has no problems getting off the phone!] {Well she was talking to her siter! Do you have problems getting off the phone with yours? Come to think about it they hang up on you! and Me! Well not Minako.}

Katherine turned around to see all the scouts looking at her. "Um hi, you're all up early."

"Who was on the phone?" Serena asked.

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{ohhhhh that's it! nah double chapter!}

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"Zan."

"Your older sister? What did she want? You two haven't spoken since you were 6!"

"Yar, she wanted to know wher everyone else is. She acctually thinks it's my fault neither of us knows where out sisters and brother are!"

Amiee, Raye, Mina and Lita all give Katherine puzzled looks.

"Oh, I guess I should explain. My parents, my brother and I were in car accident when I was six, my parents died. Me and my siblings were split up. Zan, the one that just called was ten at the time and went to live with my father's sister in Britain. Lucie went to my grandmother's in Canada, the twins were adopted and I went into foster care."

"What about your brother?" Raye asked.

"Missing, we haven't seen or heard from or of him since the accident. Eventually we all drifted apart. The only reason Zan found me was that I always return to the ranch."

Serena frowned, and asked, "how soon?"

"As soon as your parents get home."

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'Irene and Ken will be home tomorrow,' Katherine thought as she lugged her suitcase across town where the summer staff's foreman was supposed to meet her in the park, with the ranch's truck to take her suitcase and Eclipse back to the ranch.

'I should probably say good-bye to Andrew and Darien on my way back to Serena's. Poor thing... maybe I can get her a job at the ranch, she can ride...'

"Hey, Rhea, what's with the suitcase?" Darien asked. Katherine looked odd to him, for one she was wearing a school uniform, a chain with an ordinary house key on it {we all know he's wrong here} , he'd never seen her dressed like that before. [He calls that odd?] {I call you odd} The same pigtails. 'Her eyes that's what's wrong the outer ring is grey she looks so sad...' He heard the ever familliar cocky voice in his head say, ~that's not all!~

"I go home tomorrow on the afternoon train, they sent someone in for supplies for the ranch a new boy, they tricked him into taking my suitcase and 'Clipse with him."

'Noooooooooooooo!' his mind screamed. Just then it hit him, that's what else was is wrong. "Hey, that's a college uniform."

"Yar." {oopsies}[Old habits die hard.]{They die at all?}

"But aren't you a bit young for college?"

"Nope, 21 this August."

"You're 20, no way! You're only a few centimetres taller than Serena {uh in standard I think a centimetre is about a half inch... maybe?} and she's 16 at the end of the month."

"Lita's only 16 and she's only a few shorter that you and you're what 20?"

"19. Okay, you win. So you leave tomorrow?"

"Mhmmm."

"So I guess, I won't be seeing you again," he said sadly.

She looked at him, he was worried about her, he was trying to hide it from her, but she could tell. She thought back: the book, she smiled and said, "don't count on it!" then left.

Darien thought, 'I wonder what that was all about? Maybe she plans to come back to the city more often, now that she knows she'll have a place to stay...'

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A boy, maybe 17-years-old, with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes walked through the park, 'Okay the guy said to meet her around here somewhere, and she'd have a dog, a big dog with her. Why couldn't they send a ranch-hand she knew, what was it Old Jake said, ~when that girl looks at you she sees into your soul, if she don't like ya she'll fire you on da spot.~'

Old Jake was head of the ranch, the only person who outranked him was the owner's daughter, since the owner passed on a while back. Everyone listened to her orders and took her advice since she was little though. She was the type who always had known the ranching business. She'd even learned to ride before she could walk.

Almost everyone on the ranch nowdays had worked there for years often being born right there at the ranch and bearing their children there too. It was romoured Old Jake's family had lived there since before most of the castle had been destroyed, and the one remaining spire turned into the entire house.

The only workers of the Millenium Ranch that didn't have a history there were the summer workers. The summer staff were hired to help out during the busiest season and they were usually teenagers. Old Jake would have nothing to do with them most of the time, so the group of usually 5 to 10 was run by the heir and a foreman or two, depending on the size of the group.

This time the brown-haired boy was the head foreman.

"Excuse me, are you Greg?" an almost tiny girl asked him.

"Yes," he replied shyly.

"Good. I'm Rhea and this is 'Clipse *jesturing to BIG sheepdog* [Gak! Big dogs!] {I beleive any dog shorter than my knees, is a funny lookin' cat} you're the summer foreman right? *he barely nods* Good, well did you bring the applications?"

"No we didn't receive any yet."

"Did you post the ads in the Tokyo paper?"

"I was not told to do that," he said quietly.

She smiled, "I see you're gettin' what's called ~the treatment~ don't worry about it the guys do it to the summer help all the time when I'm not around to look after y'all, you can run the ads in the paper today, have them run for a week."

"What ads do you want me to run?" Greg asked.

"Oh sorry, for some reason I just expected you to know even though the positons change each year. Well lets see, we'll a co-foreman to help you out, say female so our few female workers don't get upset. Assistant cook, this one must be filled by a girl so Gretta'll work with her. Gretta believes men spoil a kitchen. We need a lifeguard, sex dosen't matter. I think I've already got a riding instuctor, and get another ranch-hand, male, so you've got some outsider company."

"What about the lifegaurd?" he questioned, even though he knew the position would be filled by a female this year, but he couldn't be too sure of the future.

Katherine looked at him oddly, "Cut the crap, you know as well as I do the lifegaurd will be female this year."

"How?" he was surprized, only the scouts knew about his being able to see the future.

"You see it, I live it. I'll be back tomorrow or the next day," and with that she walked off.

'Who does that kid think he is? I'm surprized Old Jake didn't give him that business 'bout me bein' able to see into his soul.' She giggled, 'well, best off to the arcade, Darien will probably be there and Andrew will be there for sure.'

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{This is really the end of the chapter. I'm serious this time! See y'all next time. I can be reached at:[email protected]}

[HI! Wow she only said like two sentences! *tembo starts to worry* Terra are you o.k? He he. *Terra sticks out her tongue* Damn school tomorrow! Well e-mail me cause I'm bored, or if you have any questions. REMEMBER! Tembo will always listen. [email protected] Byeeeee!]

{Yeah she'll listen as long as there aren't any cute guys in the room}

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QUOTE OF THE FIC!

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great."

Mark Twain

{That one's for Tembo, Minako and BoB, who always make me feel that I am great. And for g-woman who said "yes, the world would implode if Terra didn't get out of bed in the morning." I luv you guys! oxoxoxo}