Michiru laid in her hospital bed. She was in too much pain to do anything else. After their battle with Chronos, Michiru was paralized and had herback broken in three different areas. "So much for graduation." she muttered to herself. Her mind went back to the battle and the events that happened on the moon. In her mind she brough up a picture of the man named Jeremy, who was so insitant that the moon wasn't in danger. She then pulled a picture from her mind of jeremy Satterlee..the one eyed bully of Jubban High. "They are the same. Why was he so against that man in armor?" she wondered.
"He had to know something I didn't know. But what?" she wondered. Her room was decorated with flowers from the fellow Senshi, though none of the tags said so. She smiled for a moment and then wondered about Haruka. "Is she here too?" she wondered for a moment. "I have to talk to Jeremy...I have to." she reached for the phone and dialed information. She got Jeremy's number, but nobody was home. "Jeremy, this is Michiru. I need to talk to you. Its about last week. I know...Jeremy...I remember. Please." she said and hung up. "If I have to...I'll pester the living hell out of him
till he talks." she said with determination.

"I presume that your phone has become your best friend with your injuries," came an even voice from Michiru's window from where he had entered at her window.

"Only when the people I want to talk to are actually home. I had to take off the communicator because I couldn't control my thoughts about pain while I
slept." she replied. "Have a seat, nobody will be coming in for a while." she offered.

"That," Guardian said calmly, "Is not necessary. I merely stopped by to assure that the Dark Kingdom was not taking advantage of your weakness."

Michiru crossed her arms. "Come on, Jeremy. I don't get many visitors. And I'd like to talk to you about what happened last week. It's not like I can go over to your place or anything."

*Impressive, didn't think she'd piece anything together on me but perhaps I was wrong.* His head turned towards Michiru, "I am the Guardian, simple and sure. I know not who this Jeremy individual you refer to is."

Michiru crossed her arms, which at the moment seemed to be one of the few body parts she could move. "Your NAME.." she stressed. "Is Jeremy Satterlee. You were the Imperium Knight during the Silver Millennium and now call yourself Guardian for some unknown reason. You can't find it from me, buster, I got you all figured out. The Imperium Knight's name was Jeremy Satterlee and used the exact same attacks that you do as Guardian."

Guardian paused and glanced at the young Senshi nodding slowly. He brought his foot down from the window ledge and glanced at the door to make
sure it was closed and they were alone. Finally he propped a foot against the wall and leaned against it. Then he spoke, not in the calm even tone that he normally used, but rather in a voice that actually held a tone of humor and a bit ofrespect. "I must say I'm impressed Michiru Kaioh of Neptune. I was sure my attack calls were kept in a low voice and that I avoided using my roses when we were in the past. Now the true question is what am I going to do now that you know what you do."

Michiru looked up at the Guardian. "Well, I never said anything about the attack calls, but the way you used your sword in the attack and the ball of energy seemed to be the same. And of course I was just going off really old memories. Besides, we were all taken to the past, you were the only one I could never account for, until I remembered you had the same name." she said and sat back a bit. "As for what to do with me...kill me. I'm in a fate
worst than death right now. If I knew dying would be this easy I would have called you sooner." she said seriously.

Guardian shook his head and pushed back the cloak covering his face and revealing the scarred mess beneath it and locked his single eye on Michiru's, "Your fate is not worse than death, you will recover and join the Senshi once again."

"I can't stand this jeremy! I can't stand to just lay here and do nothing all day. Everything I have worked for is gone! One blast was all it took and now I'm out! I won't graduate with my class now, the prom is history and now I'm target number one for the Dark Kingdom. And worst of all...I'll never see Haruka again." she said, tears forming in her eyes. "That really hurt, you know. What you said in the throne room. Had I known who you were at the time I would have kicked your ass right there and then. I'd still like to kick your ass for that remark, but I can't seem to lift my legs to do so."

Jeremy shook his head and let his eye rest on Michiru. With a mere thought his form as the Guardian melted away to the simple black shirt and blue jeans he had put on in the morning. He let out a sigh, "You know something Michiru, you're right. Your life is screwed because you've already given up on yourself and seeing how you have given up there is nothing any of us can do." He propped up from the leaning post and walked over by the door,
"But you're wrong. You can graduate with our class and you can go to prom. The only thing is that it is going to require you to get off your ass and try."

He shook his head again and let his voice drop to a softer tone, "Michiru the human spirit and will is one of the greatest things ever and as long as you try your damndest and work at it you can over come any obstacle. You will walk again Michiru but only if you choose to believe you will and try for that goal. If you sit around and say you can't then you won't." "As for the Dark Kingdom, yes they may select you as a target, but if they want to target you they'll have to go through myself and every Senshi and Knight in the city of Tokyo and even the Dark Kingdom isn't ready for that yet. Just because you're injured doesn't mean any of them will abadon you, or that I will." "You have a communicator that will allow you to call to the other Senshi
if you need help and I will always be here. I know it seems hard right now Michiru but when you were offered a chance to use your power to help
others no one said it would be easy."

He glanced out the window, "As for Haruka all I can say is that she wouldn't want you to spend your life grieving over her. She would want yout to move on and keep fighting for what is right."

Michiru nodded slowly. "How do you do it? Live each day with the memories of what happened? everytime I think I shudder. It seems like a dream...a nightmare. I want it to go away, but Serenity's eyes haunt me at night when I sleep." she muttered. "The doctors say I was lucky to survive the attack. They say that I need to stay here until I can walk again. they don't know how long it will take. It just depends on the threopy. I have no clue how I'm going to keep up with classes from here." Michiru sighed and looked out the window. "You would think that a view like this would be very comforting.
Have you ever been in love..and lost. Lost hard?" she asked softly.

Jeremy shook his head, "How do I live with knowing what happened, I'll tell you how, because I had too. I survived the battle and I didn't get a
nice little jaunt forward in time either. I was the one that had to bury the bodies left behind, the one that had to leave the Moon Kingdom and go to the Earth and wait."

"At first it wasn't easy to live with it and I thought I had failed the Queen as well but in reality the truth is I hadn't failed her in that final battle. What I realized that moping around and not doing anything with my life to honor the memories I had of the Moon Kingdom was the way I failed her."

"Once that was apparent it was easy to start to get back to living again." He followed her gaze out the window, "It's hard at times though, I won't deny that and I still have the memories of the horror of that day and they pop up when I least expect them." He turned around and leaned against the wall
again, "Now have I ever been in love? Of course, everyone is at some point in their life, especially if you're a thousand years old. As for losing hard," his
voice dropped to a soft tone that was filled with regret he felt, "Yeah, I've lost harder than many I think. This about Darien?"

Michiru shook her head slowly. "It hurts that Darien is gone, but not as much as lossing Haruka. Just being with her for those few hours, made me realize what real love is. Not this lust I've been after all my life, but real, true love." she said.

He simply nodded, it was strange for him to be acting as a human being and not a warrior at times, "I understand what you're saying completely Michiru. All we can do though is look forward to the future and try to get over that which holds us back." He turned his attention out the window and
leaned against the window sill peering down in thought at the street below, "Our loved ones would never want us to live in misery or pain, they would want us to remember them and move on with our lives to find happiness once again."

"But what happened to Darien. Why did he leave us? And if I was re-born why wasn't Haruka? Or some of the other senshi that haven't shown up? Rei? and...well Rei?" she said not able to think clearly anymore.

Jeremy let a slight smile tug at his mouth, "No one said the others were not reborn, we have just yet to encounter them. I assure you they have
been, it's just a matter of time before we find them."

Michiru nodded slowly. "I've been thinking." she said softly. "Why don't you work with us? Why are you against us? Why can't we all work together as a team? It would save alot of hassle."

Jeremy stared out at the city landscape, "It's simple in reality, you need to learn to fend for yourselves without me which is why in interfere only when you need it. Eventually I will not be here to help you all."

"And what exactly do you plan on doing once we no longer need you?" she asked. "Retire? Grow old? Jeremy, this attitude is what might cost one of the senshi their lives. There might be a day when you think we can handle it on our own and then someone gets seriously hurt." she said.

Jeremy's eyes narrowed, "I will meet my end someday in battle, of that I am certain. Michiru, I have lived for a thousand years and in that time I
have watched as friends were killed, have fought in literally hundreds, if not thousands of battles. Many times the battles have been against the odds
and my luck is running low, I can only survive constant battles so long."

"One day my time will come and the Senshi must be prepared for that."

"Are you waiting to die?" she asked. "Are you that scared of death that you are finally just opening your arms to it and saying come take me away from all this? Jeremy, I understand that you feel your time is running out, but if you hold back when its not necessary then we might get into more trouble than we started out with. Someone other than yourself will die in your place. someone else might wind up in my situation. In my absence you have to fight harder for me. Unfortunately there is a large hole in the senshi forces right now...a hole I left and cannot fill. Someone has to fill it. Would you rather it go to one of the other senshi? Maybe Sailor Creation, who just recently got her powers, Or what about Sailor Jurei-Jurei, who was just turned back from being Pandora of the Dark Kingdom. Or maybe Sailor Amazonia, who is so emotionally unstable if she even
thinks of a battle she believes she grows 10 inches." she said seriously.

Jeremy let his eyes glare at Michiru, "Are you asking me to step into the leadership role you have left vacent? Are you asking me to lead the Senshi in your absence?"

"Do you have a better suggestion? Someone else in mind?" she asked lightly.

Jeremy shook his head, "I'm not a leader. Never will be either. The Senshi don't have the trust that is required in a leader and I don't have the trust in your Benefactor."

"I'm not saying to tell them how to win their fights or lead them against the Dark Kingdom in their own lair. I'm saying to get them out of situations in battle. Be there for them when I cannot. Jeremy, of all the senshi I have the weakest powers. I know that. But for some unknown reason I've been appointed, against my will, to be their leader. I still don't understand it. With me out of the picture now, their moral will drop. There has to be something
you can do to help them." she asked.

Jeremy shook his head, "I'll do as I always have done, protect them. As for why you were appointed their leader, it is simple. You were amongthe
first of the Senshi and you stepped into the role. When others would have faltered despite the weakness of your powers you stood strong. In your
weakness came your greatest strength, your spirit."

Michiru shook her head. "Haruka was always the strong one. I really wish she was here to help. I'm just worried now that I'm out, what will happen to the rest of the senshi." she said.

Jeremy nodded, "They will survive until you can fight again, Michiru."

Michiru nodded. "That's a question I've asked myself for a while. Once I'm able to walk, WILL I beable to fight?" she asked softly.

Jeremy let a smile play across his face, "I'm willing to be my life that you will, and in some ways I already have."

Michiru nodded knowingly. "Thank you. For everything." she said with a smile.

"You're welcome, but if you even think of letting anyone know that I can behave like a human being I might have to come back," he replied lightly.

"Is that a threat or a promise?" she asked with a small laugh. "I might just tell someone so you will come back, not that they would believe me or anything. They might think its the medication talking. But I would enjoy it if you popped in from time to time. It gets lonely in here." she said.

Jeremy simply shook his head and whispered softly, the light blue energy transforming him to the Guardian and he perched on the window, "I don't
think that's an unreasonable request."

Michiru nodded slowly and watched the mysterious Guradian leave her side. She turned off the light and watched the moon slowly rise out her window. "Its good to know who the firends and foes are. At least I won't have to wonder anymore." she muttered as she fell into a deep sleep.