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'......' 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)
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"Hello Andrew," Katherine said.
"Hey there, Darien told me about your leaving. I believe you've acctually upset him." *she gives Andrew a questioning look* "He usually doesn't get upset about anything other than Serena."
"Really?"
"Yes, but here he comes," Andrew goes off to serve customers.
"Rhea, I didn't expect to see you again," Darien said glumly.
"What's wrong, Dare?"
"Nothing," he said giving her his icy stare. He'd put up the walls around his heart again, feeling that he's lost too much he wasn't going to lose another person, she was the closest thing to family he'd had in a long time.
"Don't you even try to pull that ~made of ice~ thing with me, Darien Chiba." Katherine said in an ~I ain't gonna take no shit~ voice. [Woah!]
He snaped out of his mild depression, looked at her and said, "what?"
"I've pulled that trick too many times to be fooled by it. Please tell me what's wrong." she pleded.
He knew he might as well tell her, she'd probably just find out from someone else any way. "The only person I've cared about who hasn't left me is Andrew. I have a real problem with losing people."
She just looked at him a moment, smiled and replied, "Dare, we've got our whole futures to look forward to, I'm positive we'll meet again. 'Sides people who really care never truely leave." The outer rings of her eyes turning brown with hope and happiness.
Andrew returned to their table, surprized to find a happy Darien laughing at funny face Rhea made when she put the entire contents of a lemon pixy sick in her mouth, swallowing. [He he! Pixy sticks! That brings a "Real Lives" fic idea to the top of my head!]{you are my witnesses, she has to do it now!!! Send harrassing e-mails to [email protected]}
"Well, I guess I better go, I just stopped in to say good-bye," Katherine said.
She gave both Andrew and Darien a hug and began her walk to Serena's to face the music.
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"I thought you'd be depressed for weeks, when you told me she'd be leaving," Andrew stated.
"That tiny girl just taught me the lesson of my life. And she did it with one sentence. ~When people really care they never truely go away.~"
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To Katherine's surprize, Serena wasn't wailing when she got back, she was sitting calmly on the couch with her eyes closed.
"Serena," Katherine said.
"Why? Why are you leaving me again? You've always said that you'd always be there when I need you." Serena said as a single tear slipped down her cheak.
"Because, I have to. I've got to run the summer help and my neice is coming and I have to be there for her, she'll be far away from where she grew up. I won't let us lose touch again, Princess."
"Your neice?"
"Yeah, my friend Sets is gonna bring her by the ranch to spend the summer, so I can teach her the family history her parents can't."
"I wish I had her luck, every one of my friends are going to be working this summer, most of them hope to working away from Tokyo."
"You'll have Darien," Katherine suggested.
"Nope, the place he works, is being remodled, so they're laying everyone off for the summer. He says the only jobs that are available are out of town by this time of the season."
"Well if you're gonna be that alone, why don't we try to talk your parents into letting you get a job out of town too."
"Yeah, name a place that would hire me for anything."
"Well, I know this ranch just out of town, that's lookin' to hire a riding instructor."
"You mean it, I could work for you?" Serena cried, jumping up and down.
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The next day it was settled, Serena would work at Katherine's ranch, the Millenium. She would be leaving in a few weeks when school was out.
That was the day Katherine left.
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"That damn Sailor Earth shows up every time, we try to kill Serenity," Kalindra screached.
After the first attack she had attacked several times and after Ariono's attack they had taken turns, everyday for the past week. Even Melenda had showed up for a few skirmishes.
{I can't write battle scenes so I'm only gonna write the really important fights, until I can think of something to do. Gomen}
"Well, I guess we just won't kill her then," Ariono suggested.
"Never!" Kalindra yelled.
"Why don't we compromize," Melenda said, she hated this almost as much as Ariono did, even if he did take duty more serously than she.
"What?" the two older siblings asked, both worried, when Melenda took intrest in their fights, it ment something was wrong.
"Let's take a break for a few weeks and then come back, remove Sailor Earth from the scene and then get your revenge on Serenity."
"No, Serenity first, then Sailor Earth," Kalindra stated.
"But we still get the break?" Ariono asked.
"Fine," Kalindra said as she vanished.
Ariono and Melenda jumped and clapped hands, they were extremly happy about getting out of fighting for a few weeks.
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After a long train ride and a four hour walk,[Hmmmmm...Four hour walk eh?] {could not resist, girl}Katherine arived at the gates of her home. She looked lovingly at the large wooden sign with the word ~Millenium~ painted on it in silver lettering, posted high above her head. She smiled and walked up the long driveway.
The Millenium ranch had once been a great castle, and legend was that if it had an Earth Queen living on the property, it could hide itself from enemies. It had long ago been remodled into a ranch, taking in guests year-round. The house itself was once the north-west tower. The other towers had long since been destryed.
She walked past the girls bunk house where the female summer staff usually stayed, half the rooms in it housing regular staff and their families. She waved to Gretta, the head cook, and her 5 young children.
While walking up further she saw one of the main flower gardens, almost as big as the house itself.
'Odd,' she thought, 'it looks as though someone has been camping out there. Oh well. Hmmmm, the rose gardens or the house first?'
"Excuse me, Young Katherine?" an older man asked, without turning form the bush he'd been pruning infront of the house.
"Hi Jake, it's me!" she said brightly.
The ever-so-gloomy Jake, more commonly known as ~Old Jake~, turned and said, "The summer staff's foreman is waiting to speak with you in the Main Hall."
"Thank you, Jake," she chirped.
"You are welcome, Young Katherine," he said gloomily, bowing.
Katherine rolled her eyes and thought, 'the house it is then.'
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Katherine walked into the main entrance, flinging her jacket into the open closet and then went through the door to the main house. She looked west towards the garden door, he wasn't there. She then walked further until she could see the second bench lining the outer wall of the dining room, he wasn't there either. She emerged from the little hallway to see him sitting at the very far end of the bench lining the outer wall of the living room.
"Hi, Greg is that you?" she asked.
"Uh yeah, Miss Rhea?" he said quietly.
"Just Rhea, please."
"Uh... I wanted to go over what you wanted the new people to have skillwise."
"Oh."
"Yes, is there a problem?"
"No, I just thought that since you will be running this part of the staff, you'd just pick the people you wanted, and I'd just OK them."
"I screwed up didn't I?"
"No, it's my fault, I should have been here to tell you, not expected the others to tell you."
"Well what do you want?"
"I want you to pick people you think you'd get along with. Don't you have friends looking for a job?"
"No, not as far as I know."
"Well, 'think girl' this place has a really bad reputation, so why don't you hire the Sailor Scouts."
'Oh my god did she just say ~Sailor Scouts~? How could she know that I know them!'
"It was a joke," she said very seriously. *they laugh*
"By the way who's in charge of cleaning up around here, the guys bunks are horrid."
"They were clean when I left."
"So the display in there was for my benefit only?"
"Probly, we'll just have to clean out one of our extra rooms here for you."
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"I think I'll put you back in this corner room just in case some unexpected guests show, like they usually do," Katherine said.
"Thanks," he said quietly.
"You know, you don't have to be so nervous around me. I don't bite." [Yeah right!]{SHE doesn't bite, I never said anything about ME, don't worry folks I only bite certain friends of mine who like to put their fingers near my face, or take the cards I want. Yes to me and Tembo CARDS is a full body contact game!}
"Sorry."
"Look, I know all about your being able to see the future."
"What? How?" Greg asked amazed.
"We'll discuss it while we clean the dust out of your room."
It took them all day to finnally get the abanoned room livable, and they became good friends in the process... They even shared a few secrets.....
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[Hieeee! Tembo is here. Gotta get these edited by tomorrow. *Tembo sweatdrops*. Mail me at [email protected] Bye Luv always TEMBO. Remember! Tembo will always listen.]
QUOTE OF THE FIC!
"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely"
Kay Lyons
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