Title: A REALLY big house
Part: 18
Series: Family Ties
by
Terra DeeEarth
Typed:October 22,1999
{well that's when I started it any way}
Rated PG
For Tembo's dirty mouth.
Disclaimer: {I have a secret to tell y'all..... but this has to
stay between y'all and me kay? I don't own Sailor Moon....shhhh don't
read so loud, DIC and 1/2 the world population are still under the
impression that I created this great series!}[Ha ha ha!]
{By now everyone knows Tembo, who holds the other half of my
brain, is the editor.... I mean if you don't.... Is this your first
time reading? 'Cause if it is you'll be mighty confusselded... I mean
I wrote it and I get confusseled sometimes}[Tee hee! Confusseled! Ha ha!]
{Note to Tembo: let's pass these ones back and forth 'til they
get sent out.... we can even bet on how many fights we'll get into!
Our audience seems to have a thing for listening to us bicker.... I know
we can oblige them!}[O.Tay! If I get them edited on time.]
This part of my fic is for Jennica V!
Special Thanks:
~Kipper
~Stephanie
~Sailor Destiny
~Jennica V
[Once again: All you guys who write Terra are great!]
'......' 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
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"Darien? Is that you?" Greg asked in wonder, backing away.
"Yes, I'm Darien, but I'm afraid I don't regognize you."
"Oh-boy," Katherine sighed. "Greg, I'll handle him for now. You
go collect yourself. You two can deal with each other later." {Can you
feel the testorerone levels?}[...guys...*sweatdrops*]
Greg leaves.
"What ARE you just standing there for, Dare? Come here and
give me a hug," Katherine ordered. *They hug*
"You work here?" he asked.
"I'll own it when I turn 21."
"Gods, I still find it hard to belive you're a year older
than me. *They laugh*
"Well, I guess it's time to tell you about the present situation.
Ask all the questions you need."
"Wait, first tell me who that Greg guy was and how he knew me."
"Well... ummm... see... *the next part is said really fast*Sets
forgive me! Well once you were being used by some really evil people and
he had a crystal they needed, and well you nearly killed him. *She slows*
But that's all I can tell you or I could get into A LOT of trouble! And
it's probly better for you and Greg if you work it out alone."
"Breathe while you talk Rhea. I'll discuss that with him later.
How-how did you know all that?"
"Greg told me, but don't tell Serena or the others 'cause he said
it's painfull for them to hear about, I supose they were there or
somethin'."
"Chill, I won't even be seeing Serena for the next two months."
"You really think that?!"
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'Oh, if those two in front of me don't be quiet, I'll never get any
reading done. It's too bad Luna will be with Serena all summer, we could
have gotten a lot of work done concerning ~Sailor business~. Ahh well at
least ther haven't been any attacks lately.'
*Amiee hears loud laughing*
'I can't take this anymore!'
"Excuse me, you two, but I'm trying to read. Could you please
continue your conversation in a lower decibel?"{Am I scaring you with the
big words?}[Wahh!]
"A lower what?" the blonde asked the brunette.
"Decibel, she means be quiet," the brunette said turning around.
"Thank you," Amiee said politely.
"Sure," the blonde began, "but you could've just said, ~could you
two shut up please~." She was struggling to turn around.
The brunette having finally gotten turned around, said, "Mina not
everyone has a manners disability like you...Ames?"{Minako the Ladylike one
hehe }
"Lita? Mina?" Amiee questioned.
"Mina the Magnificent at your service!" Mina anounced, loudly
enough for the rest of the people in their train car to hear.
"Mina!" they gasped.
"What?" Mina asked innocently.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we close?"
"Closer than we were 5 minites ago, when you asked," Raye said,
her patience very thin. It had been along bus ride, even longer because
she was sitting beside Serena.
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"Rhea where will I be staying?" Darien questioned.
"Ummm, I don't exactly know yet."
"What?"
"Well the permanent staff, hates even the idea out a summer staff,
of ~outsiders~. As Old Jake puts it, ~It's much too dangerous for you,
young lady, one of them could hurt you!~. He's me and my brother's
godfather, the only two of the six Rhea kids he liked or thought was
useful. The two of us used to get into sooo much trouble! We'd always
help Jake around with the horses, until he, my brother was trampled *Darien
imagined what that would be like be like and his fear of horses deepened*
Hey! I've got it. You can stay in his room 'till I can get a spare room
cleaned up!"
"Old Jake's?"
"No silly! Darien's, my brother's."
"This same name thing is confusing."
"Come on I'll show you where to put your stuff."
With that she grabbed two of his bags, a suitcase and duffle and
motioned him towards the house.
"How come I can't just stay in the boys' bunk house?" Darien asked
as they passed the girls' bunkhouse. {that's written on the door}
"'Cause the permanent guys figured I'd fire the newbies if I
couldn't put them in the bunk houses. They sorta trashed it. There's
the horse execize area and arena. Behind it are the stables and vegtable
garden, behind those are the woods, try to stay out of them. They're
dangerous. South of those are the riding trails. {Write me and I'll
send you a picture attached to an email, just tell me what you need.
I'll be making ones of the different floors in the house also.} North
is the Guys' bunkhouse. There's walking trails past the girls' bunkhouse.
These are the flower gardens." *points*
They walk to the main entrance of the house.
"What's behind those stone walls?"
"The rose garden. Well, this is it. My house," she said.
"It's huge."
"This whole complex used to be a castle."
"Really?"
"Yep. The house is the only remaining of the four towers that
were built. Some of the outer walls are still partially standing. The
walls surrounding the rose garden were part of of the orriginal castle."
"The house sure is tall," Darien commented.
"Goes up 'bout seven floors."
"You're kidding."
"Nope. There's a rumour that there is a secret way out of each
room."
"Is it true?" Darien laughed.
"Nope, me and my brother spent an entire summer once checking
over all the rooms. Our mother was furious. Our daddy laughed, before
he... well he'd spent a summer or two doing the same thing when he was
young."
"Sounds like you had a great family."
"Mmm, kinda. Momma and Daddy were busy a lot so us kids sorta
paired off. Lucie and Zan, me and Darien and well the twins were even
born as a set. Zan, the ever mature looked after Lucie, me and Darien
were always in the company of a ranchhand. The twins had a nanny. The
only sibling I knew well was my brother," she said sadly as they put
their jackets in a closet in the main entry.
He put his hand on her shoulder and said, "you really miss him
don't you."
"Yeah, but I'll find him, eventually."
"This may sound cruel, but what if he doesn't want to be found?"
"He can't escape the past forever, it's part of the future, but
if he's not ready I'll give him the address and phone number of the
ranch and leave him be. I just beleive that he deserves to know that
he has a family here and he can always count on me, if not the rest of
our flakey sibs. That he has a home. Wouldn't you want to know if you
had family out there?"
"Yeah, I would. You have one lucky brother."
"I've been told he has more lives than an alley cat."
They enter the main hall laughing.
"Ok," Katherine began. "Crash course on the house. This your
key *handing a small silver key to him*, it'll let you into any room
you're allowed in. Most of the doors on this floor are never locked.
There's a washroom *points*, the exit to the flower garden, *points*.
The dining room. *points* Past the stairs is the kitchen, the laundry
room and a fountain, my mother's idea. This is the staircase."
They walk into a large column-like place with a column inside
it and begin climbing stairs.
They pass another door, it has a ~2~ on it.
"This a floor of guest rooms. Most haven't been used in years.
Greg's room is the far southwest one. I'll put you here when we get time
to clean out a room and once you and Greg have worked things out."
More stairs were climbed, they come to a floor with a ~3~ on it.
"There are usually only 5 people on this level, there are currently
none. Serena and her friend Raye will both be staying on this level."
"Serena and Raye?" Darien questioned.
"Yar, didn't you tell each other WHERE you were working. Kami
you two are worse than my parents!"
Yet more stairs. On the next door there was a symbol, not a
number.
The symbol was a circle, quartered from the center out.
{Like this... Well sorta... I tried} Here the stairs stopped. And
*** Katherine began again.
* * *
* * * "This is the family floor."
***********
* * * "This is only the fourth floor, I
* * * thought you
*** said there were seven." Darien questioned.
"There are a fifth, sixth and seventh floors, but
they are hardly used any more."
"But the stairs stop here."
"This is where these stairs end. We'll discuss the stairs after
if you HAVE to. Come on," she said, opening the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She pointed in front of them, "that's the twins room." Two
plates graced the door.
The two moved on.
"This is my parents' room," Katherine said.
Darien noticed that there were two newsclippings taped to the door.
"Lucie and Zan's room," she said.
Again he noticed the two plates.
"That's the nursery," she says and points.
They enter a small hallway. "That's where you'll be staying for
now. I'm right accross the hall," she says and points to the door
ajacent to his. "I've got work to do, so meet me in the dining room
for lunch we have more stuff to go over." She then left.
'Well I'll only be here a few days, no point unpacking,' he doubts
his thoughts, but decides to wander the halls for an hour or so anyway.
'I think I'll go see what those plates were all about.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Darien stopped to read the plates on the door of the room Katherine
had said belonged to the twins. {It's the year 1999, in this fic}
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}
{}{}{} {}{}{}
{}{}{} Destiny-Rae {}{}{}
{}{}{} Lee {}{}{}
{}{}{} Rhea {}{}{}
{}{}{} Born: December 11, 1984, {}{}{}
{}{}{}Three minites after her twin {}{}{}
{}{}{} ********* {}{}{}
{}{}{} ***** {}{}{}
{}{}{} *** {}{}{}
{}{}{} {}{}{}
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}
'Interesting,' he thought after reading the first few lines of
the plate skipping the parts about weight, length and other stuff you
record at a baby's birth. He then moved on to the second one.
{Tembo's babysitting and Bob's out-of-town and Minako is surfing
the net so I have nothing better to do.}
[][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][]
[][][] [][][]
[][][] Fate-Rose [][][]
[][][] Marie [][][]
[][][] Rhea [][][]
[][][] Born: December 11, 1984, [][][]
[][][]Three minites before her twin[][][]
[][][] ********* [][][]
[][][] ***** [][][]
[][][] *** [][][]
[][][] [][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
'Ever cute they have porcellain plates on their doors, probably
done when they were born.' {people do do this, my siblings all have them}
He decided to move on in the circle or square as it was and stopped
at Katherine's parents door. He read...
_______________________________________________________________
| ******************* Chronus Darien Rhea marries Gaia |
| ******************* Celeste Sol, August 4th, 1972. ##### |
| *******picture***** ##################################### |
| *********here****** #######this is other stuff########### |
| ******************* #######that is written in a wedding## |
| ******************* ##########anouncement################ |
|_______________________________________________________________|
Darien then moves to the next clipping.
_________________________________________________________________
| |
| The Out of Towner August 6th 1985 |
| |
| Chronus and Gaia Rhea died in a car accident two days ago, |
| August fourth. Two of their six children were in the car with |
|them. Katherine, aged six survived the crash with many injuries,|
|is still in the county hospital. Endymion age five is missing, |
|it is assumed that he is also dead after possibly being taken by |
|one of the many wild animals living in our woodlands while trying|
|to go for help. They are survived by four other children, Zan |
|age nine, Lucie age one, Destiny-Rae and Fate-Rose of eight |
|months each. |
|_________________________________________________________________|
'Endymion? I thought her brother was named Darien. This is too
close to be a cooincidense... I wish Luna were here.' He moved on.
++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++
+++ +++
+++ Zan +++
+++ Sere +++
+++ Rhea +++
+++ Born: September 11,1974 +++
+++ {I was in no mood +++
+++ to make other paticlulars +++
+++ at quarter to midnight} +++
+++ +++
+++ +++
+++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++
Darien wasn't really paying attention to the rest, he had this odd
feeling of deja vu.
??????????????
?????????????????
??? ???
??? Lucie ???
??? Celeste ???
??? Rhea ???
??? Born: April 22, 1984 ???
??? {I was in no mood ???
??? to make other paticlulars ???
??? at quarter to midnight} ???
??? ???
??? ???
?????????????????????
???????????????
He figured that he'd go to Rhea's room next.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@ @@@
@@@ Katherine @@@
@@@ Gaia @@@
@@@ Rhea @@@
@@@ Born: August 3, 1978 @@@
@@@ {I was in no mood @@@
@@@ to make other paticlulars @@@
@@@ at quarter to midnight} @@@
@@@ @@@
@@@ @@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
'That's the day I celebrate my birthday.....' he thought.
~*~flashback~*~
"I don't know, the poor kid can't even remember his own name," he
heard a doctor tell a nurse.
"I'd guess he's about five or six-years-old. It's like he was
born a new yesterday," the nurse replied.
"Then we'll use yesterday as his birthday, and his name will be
Darien something."
"Darien???"
"The name he thought of earlier."
"Age sir?"
They didn't know he'd been listening until he said sleepily, "I
am one hand old."
"What?" they asked him.
"One hand old," he insisted, trying not to fall asleep.
"You mean you're five years old?" the nurse questioned.
He nodded as he drifted off to sleep.
~*~end of flashback~*~
'Strange I never remembered even saying that until now, I was half asleep
at the time. One moment, half asleep, I had my age and birthday determined,
hell I slept through my last name. Since I was five, I've been Darien
Chiba, 08/03/79 and I was asleep through most of it. Well let's see
what Rhea's brother was acctually named.'
He crossed the hall as slowly as possible, not really wanting
to know, but dying to. He reached the door and read:
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
&&& &&&
&&& Endymion &&&
&&& Darien &&&
&&& Rhea &&&
&&& Born: August 3, 1979 &&&
&&& ************* &&&
&&& ******************* &&&
&&& ******************* &&&
&&& &&&
&&& &&&
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
He counted on his fingers, just to be sure, 'January, February,
March, April, May, June, July, August!' He held up his fingers, "eight,"
he whispered. "Oh eight, oh three of 79", and in his mind he saw,
~08/03/79~
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{Hi all s'up? correct the sea! and the grass is purple and
the sky is a pretty shade of pink and well I'm tired from trying to
get the Leprachons to stop telling Tembo to set fire to things.....
or I'll be crying JULIET! he he he! Well no one has wrote me yet soooo
I assumed you'd all want semi-longer chapters 'cause I luv loooooong
involving chapters.... so if anyone knows Alicia Blade, Jlala, Bubbles,
Klutz, Nicole Cherre, Moondreams16, Stephanie (who I've already
mentioned this to.) or any of the other greats (I have almost as
many fav authors as I do eps of SM...)'cause I know none of them
could ever be reading this..... *hint hint* tell them the longer
the better! I have to make up for the fact I said almost nothing
in the last few chapters..... ummmmm.... Can a Grade 12 fail Grade
10 Sewing? Just wait and I'll show you!!!!!!!!!}
{PS: my email is [email protected] *hint hint* and
both me and Tembo are at [email protected]...... the e-mail for
our webpage YaY!!!!!!! Well 'afor ah talk your ears off or should it
be eyes out.... or maybe brains out.... hmmmmm well we just won't
take this any farther!}
QUOTE OF THE FIC!!!!!
"A person with a watch knows what time it is. Someone with two
watches is never sure."
SEGAL'S LAW
{this is a special one that just had to coincide with Minako's
b-day!!!!!! You go V-babe.... he he he she hates it when I do her
blow kisses thing!!!!!}
[Aww! Pooies! Tembo doesn't have much to say...I know I'll talk about
guys! Tee hee hee! One in particular who doesn't like me in that way
and I'm going to shut up now cause Terra's gonna yell at me. Byee!
E-mail Me at [email protected] No I'm not full of myself that's
the name of my tank.....Visit our site at:
www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/angels/665
Warning it may or may not be working our htm was wiped out! Gak!
Talk to ya's l8er!
Tembo]
{he doesn't like her....he LUVS her snd her sister the goddess of luv
said so! And isn't it tankS!?!?!?!? Tembo's brother just gave me a
candy cane longer than my forearm so I'll be berry hyper for a while....
Me, Tembo and BoB oh and Minako too, just watched Cybersix!}
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