Always Watching You	Act 1: With One Look/Serenity
                         by: Sailor Jes
Hi, minna-san!  While this is not the first fanfic I've written, it's the
first I've posted.  This is my interpretation on how Princess Serenity and
Prince Endymion met and it's based on the manga, (which, IMHO, does a lot
more justice to Serenity and Endymion's relationship) so some things are
going to be a tad different.  If you're looking for action and adventure,
sorry you're not gonna find it here, but if you're looking for a nice, lil'
romantic fic, you've come to the right place.
Anyways, Sailor Moon and all her chararcters belong to Naoko Takeuchi(go,
girl!)and a whole lotta other people, so don't sue me or whatever.
Please ask my permission to use this fanfic anywhere.
The places where you see this symbol: * are places where I interject little
comments that can be found at the end of the story.
I would adore questions, comments, feedback, ANYTHING execpt flames.  Send
them to SailorJes @aol.comHope you like it.-jes
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I enter the Communications Room.  People dash to and fro with computer
printouts shouting intructions, dozens of monitors project strange images,
and sounds of radar, printers, and other gadgets fill the air with
pandemonium.* I hate this Room and attempt to avoid it at all costs but I
need to find Luna and she is in here...somewhere.  Cleching my jaw, I call
Luna's name.
A futile thing to have done.  It's so chaotic I can barely hear myself
think, how would a small cat recognize my cries?
"Have you seen Luna?" I ask a man rushing by, reading some sort ofdocument.
He takes no notice.  I become annoyed.  I'm the Princess of the Moon, for
Heaven's sake, I demand acknowledgement!!  The next person I ask is a
little more courteous and offers to get my feline friend for me.  So Iwait.
I notice the screens around the room projecting the images of a distant
planet.  Your planet.  You see, the Moon exists as a silent guardian to
your people.  We watch over you, protect you, direct you in the correct
path, but you must never know.  On one screen, is a arid plain with few
trees and a foreign animal roaming about.  On another, a bustling port with
many large ships preparing to sail off into the horizon.  And a different
one, revealing a range of massive snowy mountains.  All incredibly
different, all breathtakingly beautiful.  My gaze lingers on the other
monitors and I become a tad impatient.  Where is Luna?  I just need to ask
her one insignificant question, I didn't want this mess.  Crossing my arms
and sighing, I roll my eyes and catch a glimpse of an image on a much
larger screen.
It is a garden, magnificently green, with exquisite trees and flowers, and
behind it a colossal stone castle.  However beautiful these things are,
though, I don't focus on them.  I only see you.  It is for the first time.
You, kneeling next to a bush with red blooms, drinking in their fragrance.
Your onyx hair, your sapphire eyes.  Just you.  Words fail me to descibe
how I feel.   A feeling of joy mixed with dread rises in me.  Millions of
images flash through my head and none of them make any sense.  I can't hear
the commotion anymore, just my heart pounding in my ears.  I don't know why
I feel this way, I mean, I have only seen you once, and yet..."Princess?"
I listen to someone call my name but I do not hear.  I remain hypnotized.
"Princess?"Nothing."Princess Serenity!!!"
I snap out of my trance when I hear my name shouted.  I look down at my
feet, towards the source of the noise, at a black cat with a cross look on
her face."Luna," I say absentmindedly, "What do you want?"
"I was about to ask the same of you.  Remember, you wanted to talk to me."
she replies
My eyes avert back to the screen that projects your image.  I can't resist
getting another glance of you."Serenity!"  Luna yells.
I ignore the irritation in her voice.  "Luna, who is that?"  I ask
dreamily, pointing to the screen.
"Who, him?"  She seems a bit amazed that I asked.  "I'm surprised you don't
know; we keep him under constant surveillance, his being the highest
ranking Royal Prince of Earth and all.  His name is Endymion."
My gaze is transfixed on you, Endymion. Without knowing, a smile forms on
my lips.  Luna must see this because she frowns.
"No, Princess.  Stop whatever it is you are thinking," she says gravely.
Shocked, I stare at her.  How could she possibly know what's going on
inside my mind?"Wh-what are you talking about?" I stutter.
"Do you think I don't see that look on your face, Princess?  That is the
look of someone that has-" she pauses hesitantly, "Anyways, it is an
impossible fantasy.  You know it is a taboo for the Moon people to ever
associate with the Earthlings.  We are their unseen Guardians, nothing
more.  And besides, how would they react to discovering mythological beings
living on the Moon?  No, it would not do for them to identify ourpresense."
I don't really know what she is talking about, I mean, I was just looking
at him, but an unexplainable crushing feeling enters into my chest.  It
seems like every emotion I had ever felt was churning and ripping inside
me.  I look away from the pair of bright orange eyes staring at me.  From
across the room someone calls Luna's name.  I recognize it as Artemis, the
white cat.
"Serenity, I have to go.  Remember, I told you what I did before it was too
late.  Before you fell in-""Luna!!!" Artemis shouts.
"Coming!  Keep what I told you in mind, Princess."
And with that, she walks away leaving me stranded in the crowded, but
empty, room.  I look up to your screen again.  My heart is pounding in my
ribs, my stomach is doing flips, and my head is spinning.  Was Luna
suggesting that I was in-? That I had fallen in-?  I look down.  But, that
couldn't be possible.  Mother had always said love doesn't happen by an
appearance, but by a feeling.  And I don't know what I feel.
I look up again and see you.  And suddenly, I can't even remember what I
had been thinking.  A dreamy smile forms on my lips and, trancelike, I am
whisked away to a dreamworld that includes only you and me.  I don't know
it yet, but I haven't fallen in love.  I've plunged into it, like a diver
into cloudy waters, not knowing what lies in its depths.
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I return that very night.  I don't really know why I came here; it's very
late.  Something called me here, woke me from a deep sleep and lured me to
come.  The Room is still buzzing with activity as it eternally is, but the
atmosphere is more realxed.  No one takes any notice of me because I am
disguising myself with a long black cloak.  I don't expect you to be awake,
but I look to your screen anyways and...surprise, you are!!
My heart does a little flip-flop when I see you.  There you are, in your
garden again, with your flowers. And I notice someone else there with you.
It is a tall redhead with a purple dress and she is very beautiful.**  You
are showing her some kind of marvelous tree, but she doesn't seem
interested.  I don't know why.  If it were me...I smile bittersweetly.
Stop, Serenity, I tell myself.  It will never be me.  I will never be
anything to you and you will always be just an image to me.  Not a touch, a
smile, a feeling, just an image.  My throat feels funny and I clear it a
few times hoping for relief.
I don't move, though.  I just stare, desperatly clinging to a spark of hope
that maybe, someday, somewhere, I will just get to see you.  After, what
seems like an eternity, I look away from you, and the girl, and turn to
leave, my spirit a little trampled on, but not completely defeated.
                               ********
I sigh dreamily and stare out the window.  It has been almost a month since
I first saw you and I believe every day I become more and more infatuated
with you.  Now, I'm thinking of the way you looked last night in the Garden
and how the moonlight bounced off of your hair and skin and made you look
ethereal.  I know that every night at the exact same time you go out to the
Garden and it seems at that exact same time I awake and go to see you in
the Communications Room; I like to think we're cosmically connected.  
By now, I know so much about you.  The way you walk, the way you smile, the
way you run your hand through your hair whenever you're uncomfortable
(which happens a lot when you're with the redhead, which is not necessarily
a bad thing!)  I feel like we share a common bond, as if you were waiting
for something, anything, to happen that would bring a change into the dull
rut of royalty, that's why you go to the garden every night, to get away
from it all.  You think no one is with you, but that's not true, I am with
you!  Even though you have no knowledge of my existense, I truly believe
you know when I am watching you.  I can depend upon you to always be there
for me, the one thing I look forward to.
"Princess, is something the matter?" my friend and guardian, Mercury, asks,
drawing me back into this world."Hmm?" I reply
"Are you alright?  You seem...spacy lately," she says.
"Spacy?" I repeat "No, I'm fine."
My other friend, Mars, raises an eyebrow suspiciously.  "Then what was that
little sigh?""Huh?  What sigh?"
"Oh, this one."  She lets out a breath dramatically and bats her eyelashes,
clearly making fun of me.
I turn a thousand shades of red.  "Oooh, Serenity, what could it be?"  coos
Jupiter, "Are you having princess problems?""No!" I shout defensively
"Thinking of a new dress?""That's not it!  It's nothing!" I say
"Hmmm, maybe she's in love."
Jupiter draws out the word "love" in a sing-song voice and I can't help
turning a darker shade of scarlet.  My color gives me away.
"Serenity?" asks Mercury inquisitively.
"Are you in love, Princess?" demands Mars.
"I was just kidding around..." Jupiter mumbles to herself.
"Isn't it obvious?" Venus states, hitting her forehead, "That's why she's
been acting so stange lately!"
They all squeal, as girls sometimes do, and clap their hands  
"So, who's the lucky man?" asks Mars.
I tug at a fold in my white dress.  I can't say anything, they wouldn't
understand.  I don't feel like hearing that "forbidden-love" speech again.
"It's nobody," I mumble.
"Oh, don't say that, Serenity!  We can see it!"  says Mercury, "Out withit!"
"Come on, tell us!" urges Jupiter.
This continues for a good while until I just ignore them.  How persistent,
I think, and obnoxious.  Sighing, I dig into my heart for some kind of
answer.  I can't stop thinking about you and feel I know you better than
anyone (although I'm probably fooling myself), but  if this isn't love,
then what is it?  I sigh again.
"Do you believe," I begin quietly and unexpectedly, halting the annoying
questions of my friends,"In love at first sight?""Huh?" they all exclaim.
"Do you believe that someone can love somebody else without ever speaking
to, or even touching, that person?  That souls, once connected, speak to
each other despite any obstacles?"
Silence.  Four questioning eyes burn holes into me.  And then Mars giggles
a little.   She is promtly followed by Mercury and Jupiter, who turn the
giggling into chuckling and then all-out laughter.
"What's so funny?" I ask haughtily.
Amidst their peals of joy, Mars manages to squeeze out a reply.  "You,
Serenity!  Since when did you start talking about cosmic love and destiny?
Your usual problems concern which dress to wear or which servant to annoy!
You sound so weird talking about serious things!"
They laugh some more and my heart feels like cracking in two.  I can be
serious just as well as the next person.  As the fun-fest dies down,
Jupiter wipes her teary eyes and says, "Ah, well, Princess we'll leave you
to think about your Prince Charming."
They burst out in laughter again as all four walk out of the room. 
"Some friends you are," I mumble.  Do they really think I am all lace andfrills?
"Pssst, Serenity," calls someone from the doorway.
I look to see who it is.  Venus' face pops into view, probably returning
for a last laugh.  "Princess, one last thing.  I do believe in love at
first sight but take it form me, as the Warrior of Love and Beauty.  Stop
dreaming and start doing.  Love has a mysterious way of always triumphing.
Don't feel bad!  Good luck!"
She raises her thumb and winks and is gone as quickly as she appeared.
Stop dreaming and start doing.  The thought had never really occured to me,
but it was a good idea.  What exactly was I expecting from silent
observation?  Was I going to spend the rest of my days cowering from my
emotions?  That isn't any way to live.  What would be the harm in going to
Earth and, maybe not actually talking to you just yet, but just seeing you
up close?  I smile and even laugh a little.  It's set.  Today would be the
beginning of forever.  I begin preparations for my incredible journey.
                       **********To be continued...
e-mail me at: Sailor Jes@aol.comAuthor's notes
* Yes, they did have technology on the Moon Kingdom and my proof is in vol.
3 act 10 when Queen Serenity is telling the Senshi that the Moon Castle's
Main Computer wasn't working and her image was being generated by anotherone.
** This girl is Beryl before she turns to the "dark side." (yes, I like
Star Wars too)s nothing!" I say"Hmmm, maybe she's in love."
Jupiter draws out the word "love" in a sing-song voice and I can't help €W22
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