Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy - A Sailor Moon Fanfiction

The Five Stages of Grief - A Sailor Moon Fanfiction

Hey Everyone.  I wrote this a couple of weeks after my father died.  I didn't consider it at the time, but I think it was my way of coping and dealing with everything.  It was during Stage 4 in this process, I think.

Enjoy!

1. Denial

Her laugh broke the silence.  The scouts all turned to look at her, their faces showing their astonishment and admonishment.

  “You can’t be serious,” Serena said simply. “No this is just a really bad and cruel joke.”

  “Serena, we-“ Luna started.

  “No!” Serena interrupted. “No.  It isn’t true. Please, don’t lie to me.  I want to see him.  Take me to see Darien.”

                Mina let out a sob, Amy hid her face in her hands, Lita took a heavy breath and Raye shook her head sadly.

  “You know we can’t Serena,” she answered. “You know it.  You felt it.”

  “No, that was only a bad dream.”

  “It wasn’t.”

  “It was!  There is no way that this can happen.  We are supposed to grow up, get married, have Rini and rule Crystal Tokyo together.  Then, once we are so old we can barely walk we are going to die in each other’s arms while we sleep.  After all that has happened and all that we have been through he can’t just die in a car crash!  That isn’t how it works.”

                Tears began streaming down her face despite her effort to control them.  There was no reason for her to cry – everything that they were telling her were just horrible, horrible lies.

  “Oh, Serena,” Mina cried and pulled Serena into her arms, hugging her tightly as the both wept.

  “I can’t live without him,” Serena sobbed into Mina’s arms. “It just isn’t possible for me to do.”

                Mina shook her head, her golden hair brushing with Serena’s own.  She recalled the Moon Kingdom where, after the kingdom and the scouts were destroyed and Endymion was murdered, Serenity took her own life with her lover’s sword.  The sight of Serenity piercing her own chest still haunted Mina to this day.

  “You can’t leave us this time, Princess,” Mina whispered softly to her. “He wouldn’t want that.  We need you.  The world needs you.”

                Serena began to take quick, shallow breaths which worried Mina that she may have begun hyperventilating. Serenity pulled away from Mina gently and wiped the tears from her face.

  “I-I-“ she stammered, looking wildly around Raye’s room in the temple where they had gathered.  She was trying to think of something, some quick fix that would rectify the situation so that they could get back on with their lives. “I am the wielder of the Silver Crystal.  I have brought him and everyone else back before and more than once at that.  I can just bring him back.”

                She ripped the embroidered broach from its place on her chest, heedless of it leaving a tear where it had once settled. 

  “You can’t,” Amy spoke up in little more than a whisper.

  “Of course I can,” Serena snapped desperately back at her meek friend.

  “You know that you can’t,” Raye said, standing to look her friend and princess in the face. “This wasn’t some dark, negative force looking to wipe out the planet or the galaxy, Serena.  It was a stupid drunk driver who caused a car accident.  It is a horrendous tragedy, but it was natural.  The Silver Crystal won’t bring him back to you this time.”