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Drip Drip Drop Little April Showers

Who: Usagi Tsukino and OPEN
Where: All over Vista
What: It's a rainy week and Usagi is missing home
When: All week
Warnings: None I can think of

A: Drip Drip Drop Little April Showers

It was raining. It was a surprise shower and the clouds looked like they would be there all week. But surprise or not, it was April, so Usagi always carried her umbrella on her during the month. She let out a sigh as she was walking home, her umbrella over her head. It was a brand new umbrella and it was covered in little rabbits and cats. It was so adorable how could she not purchase it? Besides, it allowed her to have more than one person under it too.

Which seemed to be a good thing, at the moment. As she walking back to her newer home, she saw someone under an awning, clearly stuck and without their own umbrella. She checked her watch. Well, she still had time before anyone else would be home. She headed over to them and offered a smile.

"If you need, I don't mind walking you to the bus stop or to get a cab or something?" She'd even walk them home if they really needed.

B: What Can Compare With Your Beautiful Sound?

Maybe this was a bad idea.

Usagi frowned as she flipped through the song-requests book. It was karaoke night at Brad's Diner and she had come to support the new idea but she had absolutely no confidence in singing. She also had absolutely no idea what half these songs were.

"Uuuugh there's so maaaany," she sighed as she kept glancing. "And half of these are duets," she mumbled. "At this rate I'm not going to be singing until it's over."

C: Drip Drip Drop When the Sky is Cloudy

Why? Why did this ALWAYS happen to her? She groaned and her shoulders visibly slumped forward as she held the umbrella over her head. She knew this was the address, she had the flowers to deliver in her arms, but the security guard was staunchly blocking her path.

"Oh come ooooon," she groaned, showing him the invoice. "It says right here, that I have a delivery for the band from the building manager! I just need to get in, drop it off, and then I'll be on my way!" she whined, growing more frustrated as this was now the third time she showed him the paper work and he had "called to the building manager" to see if they were actually going to let her in.

"I could have been gone by now! I'm not even staying to watch the band I just need to deliver these bouquets!" she stomped her foot, trying to leave before the band even arrived. "Don't you have anything better to do than stop me from delivering bought and paid for flowers!"

D: Your Pretty Music Can Brighten the Day

"EEEEEE!" the sun had made an appearance, finally! She loved rain, certainly, but she was like a sunflower, drawn to the light. Usagi was practically glowing as she spread out her arms and just spun around, letting all the warmth touch her skin as she walked through the park.

"Aaaah," she took a deep breath. The sun was warm but the grass and pavement was wet, the air still heavy but a rainbow bright in the sky. Her eyes were closed in content.

Which was perhaps her mistake as she took another slight spin... and her hand promptly smacked someone.

Her eyes snapped open.

"AAAAAH ARE YOU OKAY!?!" Goodbye good mood, hello panic.

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And almost as suddenly as the rain started, there was a cessation and from overhead the pattering of rain against an umbrella. An umbrella that was casting everything in a red light.

A frigid voice addressed the guard, completely and utterly annoyed.

"Guard, allow her to drop off her flowers or I'll make sure you end up on probation."

"REI!" she exclaimed happily at the sight of the other girl, but then pressed her lips together as she saw the senshi of fire direct her anger at the guard.

Okay well... even Usagi was a bit cowed, always unable to handle it. Rei was always terrifying when angry. Even the guard seemed to really consider it.

"This is for your own safety, I'm not doing this because I want to," Usagi scowled as she knew that was only half-true. But as she was likely the reason for the heightened security because of the death of Angel and An.

She could only imagine what the labels were telling music venues.

Rei glowered up at the man, her eyes utterly devoid of patience, while a hand reached up to take Usagi by the arm and hold up the noodle-y appendage.

"Does this girl look like she's any threat at all? I'd asked her to deliver these flowers to Mother's dressing room as a surprise and you're impeding her progress. Do I need to call management and ask them why you guards can't do something as simple as vet possible intruders. She's not armed, and that's obvious, and she's a friend at that."

She blinked and blushed as Rei shook her arm. Alright, so she was one of the physically weaker senshi, sure, but ouch, Rei.

Still, she was internally elated that Rei said she was her friend out in the open to someone other than her.

The guard frowned and looked at the two of them.

"Fine, if you want to escort her in, I'm not going to stop you." He opened the door for them, but clearly was unimpressed by the both of them but Usagi gave a begrudging "thanks" to him anyways. He couldn't stop friends and family from going backstage,unfortunately, building policy.

Usagi struggled to get the umbrella closed as she entered the building, accidentally splashing the guard as she shook all the excess water off it. She turned to Rei and smiled bright, about to hug her only to stop dead in her tracks and pull back, smiling a bit more restrained instead and just hugging the bouquets tighter. She tried her best to pull back her excitement so she wouldn't hurt Rei.

"Thank you, I was out there for 20 minutes before you came."

"Good. Expect to see a note from management for your attitude, too."

And with that, Rei brushed past him and inside, leading Usagi in and shaking off her own umbrella. Irritated with the man, she's already making a mental note to have Myra deal with that. They were celebrities, and guards shouldn't be talking back to them. Period.

Serena's hesitation is noted, and appreciated. Enough so that Rei steps in close to tug her into an awkward hug. It's not half-hearted by any measure, it's just not a glomp.

"I'm glad I could help. Asshole ruined the surprise, but he'll learn proper manners after a writeup."

The hug made her freeze up, not because she wasn't really used to it. She had hugged Rei plenty back home, but because this Rei... The hug was... She swallowed and knew she couldn't cling to Rei, and not just because of the flowers in her arm.

She hugged back, her fingers curling in Rei's clothes for only a moment before she pulled away. She took a deep breath and smiled.

"I'm sorry the surprise was ruined," she offered gently. "Why don't you ah... show me where to go with these, and then I'll go."

Rei was grateful for the understanding, and she nodded when she stepped back. Baby steps were appreciated, seriously. It meant the world to her to have those boundaries accepted.

Something about that statement didn't quite sit right with her though. This was a concert by her bandmom, after all.

"You can stay, if you want. I can get you a special seat."

It was hard, nothing was harder on her than being forgotten by her loved ones, it's why her enemies kept doing it to her, it's what brought her to her knees. The difference with this, though was that as Rei remembered, she couldn't force herself on Rei, she couldn't force her time around Rei, because that wasn't going to make her remember her any faster, it wasn't going to make Rei remember herself any better.

She looked up at the mention of staying, and swallowed.

"I'd love to, really," and she was being honest. "But are you sure?" would Mrs. Ophelia be okay with it? "What time is the concert?"

Rei half smiled, sensing the unease and discomfort. It hurt, seeing that, and she turned away quickly before starting towards the dressing room. She has some things she needs to say, and they're pretty important. She's glad she caught the girl at the entrance after all.

"It's in two hours. I got here early, to take care of some backstage business. I'm absolutely sure you can stay, it is Mother putting on the show after all."

"Oh, ah, just lead the way, then. I'll put these in Luce's dressing room. I can definitely attend, if it's in two hours. I'll be off work by then," she smiled as she followed after Rei, trying to keep a tight lid on her emotions and probably failing anyways.

"What did you need to take care of?"

Rei slipped into one of the dressing rooms and gestured for Serena to follow, pointing to one of the tables that was clearly set up for a star.

"I wanted to make sure of a few things, sound-checks and the like and also to check over the sheet music and arrange to be in the room when she found the song I wrote for her."

Matter of factly, Rei stated all that, like an old hand in the performing arts. Her focus though, is on Serena, an odd look coming over her face when she entered the room. There was something...familiar...about this. she can't say what exactly but...familiar.

Usagi set down all the bouquets, arranging them so they would be the most appealing and noticeable. As Rei spoke, she listened.

"Oh a song, that's nice. What inspired it? Is it for a special occasion?" Usagi remained silent in mentioning how Rei's birthday was just around the corner. She didn't say anything regarding the look, not sure what to make of it.

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Rei stepped back all of a sudden, dropping into one of the many, many chairs that littered the room, something coming to her like a hammer to the head. She reached up and rubbed a temple, wincing as she did. Another...

"Fuck...not...again. Not now..."

It was a good thing the bouquets were already on the table, as Usagi would have had no issue dropping them where she stood to rush to Rei's side.

"Rei! What's wrong?" she asked concerned, sitting down next to her as she gently pushed away some of Rei's hair from her face. Her hands were cool from standing outside in the rain, she hoped that would help her feel better. Was she the one hurting Rei? She swallowed, eyes darting back and forth to try and figure out what happened.

Thoughts hammered at her mental landscape's door, aided not only by the resurgence of memory but by the touch against her skin. A pair of crows, a silver crown, a girl walking up unannounced, a dark looking man driving a bus...and a name. Not much more than the image and a name. Blearily, she reached forward and grabbed Serena, pressing her face into the other girl and letting out a harsh, wracking cough.

"...U-sagi...?"

Hearing her name, her real name come from Rei's mouth, she felt like she had been slapped and hugged and had drunk from the holy chalice all at once. She wrapped her arms around Rei and hugged as tight as she could without hurting her, rubbing her back. Her eyes were wide and perhaps she was in shock.

At the coughing, she gently pulled away and pushed more of Rei's hair back.

"Stay here, I'm going to get you s-some water," she hurried over to the bottles in the room that were in the mini-fridge of the dressing room. She came back to her, crouching in front of her as she gazed up, placing the bottle in her hand.

Was this a dream? Was this... was this real? What did Rei remember? She tried to play it cool, taking Rei's hands to hide her shaking ones from sight.

"Deep breaths, drink this," she whispered.

Rei reached up and took the water, tearing away the cap and gulping down several long swallows to drown out the frog in her throat. It was beginning to come a little more clearly. Just a little bit. She took several long breathes, meditating and trying to still her heart a bit before speaking. It was several long moments before she said anything at all, but when she did, she was looking right into Usagi's eyes.

"You followed me home. A small shrine, like you said. You never said why."

"Ah, well," she blushed. She had followed Rei because of how beautiful she was, how drawn to her she was. "I was drawn to you, to everything about you," she offered with a smile.

"You were- are, absolutely beautiful and so elegant and graceful," she also wasn't dating Mamoru at the time. "So ah-" she blushed a bit deeper. "I uh- followed you home. I was attacked by your pet crows, though, if that makes you feel a bit better," and she got ofuda'd in the face.

Rei laughed. She actually laughed, both perplexed and amused by the response. She knew how people reacted to her looks. It was just a part of life, so she's hardly surprised that was the reason.

"Why didn't you ever tell me why?"

"You never asked, I never thought about telling you. We... we got caught up in more things and it just- slipped my mind, I guess," it was so nice to hear Rei laugh. It was a balm on a wound that had been opened since knowing Rei had been kidnapped.

"It... how much more do you remember?" she asked, wondering if it was only their first meeting. She swallowed, grasping Rei's hand. "It's okay, if that's all, I'm just... it's been so long since I've heard you say that name."

"I remember...well, what I told you before. Two crows...you...and. And I...vaguely...remember fighting someone. A blonde man. I think...I'm pretty sure I killed him. But that's all."

She doesn't seem bothered by this. The memory had felt so justified...

"Jedite," she offered gently, though not how. And she kept a tight lid on her disappointment that Rei only remembered that. She was elated simultaneously, though, as Rei had begun to remember her.

"He had been forced to kidnap people near your shrine. At one point he kidnapped you. He was going to kill a whole bunch of people, including myself and another one of our friends," though she knew that had been because of Beryl's doing. She didn't mention anything about the senshi, if only because Rei hadn't mentioned it. "And... you did, you killed him, to stop him from killing me and Ami-chan, to stop him from hurting anymore people."

"Jadeite, yes. That...rings a bell."

Rei scowled at the thought of being kidnapped, even though it was what'd happened right now too. She just...didn't like the sound of this person, and while the thought of taking a life wasn't fun, it was something that'd clearly been necessary.

"He used magic. Ice. And you...you were someone else."

Did she tell her?

Should she tell her? The Doctor already knew her, but should she tell her about Sailor Moon? Wouldn't Rei then ask if she was Sailor Mars?

She swallowed.

"I was, yes," she whispered, not sure how to really avoid this. "I... couldn't stop him, though, I wasn't strong enough," she offered instead. Everything had been so new and it had seemed like a lifetime ago.

"But it was years ago," she offered instead. She wanted to cry, unsure of what she could and couldn't tell Rei, unsure if she should be saying any of this but unable to deny her senshi a part of herself, of her past like this.

Would it matter? Rei would have to learn one way or another, reawaken somehow. She has suspicions, and she has power, she just doesn’t know the name of it. And that’s just as scary, if not more, than just waking up and accidentally setting a cup on fire or cracking a doorknob.

“You were like…Neptune and Uranus, and Venus and Saturn then. Which planet are you…?”

The discomfort isn’t missed, but Rei knew this was important, knew that she needed to press a little and get some of this information. It just wasn’t something she was willing to be left in the dark about anymore.

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