Desperately Alone
Part 2
By Tisha

	Usagi came into the house, took off her shoes and went into the kitchen to check if dinner was 
ready. Her mom was just setting the table so she decided to help her. "Usagi, there you are. You've 
been gone all day. Where've you been?"

	"I was just shopping with the girls." She decided not to look up to make sure her mom 
believed her, so she continued laying out the silverware. 

	"Well do you have homework?" 

	"I finished it" She lied. She didn't feel like doing something as trivial as homework at a time like 
this.

	The table was now set and her mom called everyone in. Usagi found it incredibly hard to sit at 
the table and act normal when there was so much going on. She avoided looking at anyone and made 
it a point to say a comment or two when they were discussing something. The phone rang, which 
startled her. They didn't usually get many calls, especially during dinnertime. No one paid attention to 
it. The answering machine clicked on and Usagi was startled for a second time when she heard 
Mamoru's voice. She dropped her fork and listened carefully, but she also noticed that everyone else 
was listening carefully as well.

	"Hi this is Mamoru. Usagi, I want you to stop bothering me. We both know that I'm not the 
father of your baby. And why'd you have to go and break my door down?"

	Usagi's family was all staring at her with amazed expressions but she didn't even notice. Tears 
sprang to her eyes and she quickly stood up and ran to her room. His words played over and over in 
her head. She knew his voice, and that was it. But he'd never say such a thing. Not in a million years. 
He had tons of backed up messages on his machine. He obviously hadn't been there in a couple of 
months. She was still sure that something had happened to him. In fact she was now even more 
convinced. 

	There was a knock at the door and all at once she realized that her parents knew she was 
pregnant. They'd even heard Mamoru deny that he was the father. What on earth would she say? 
How could she explain this? She couldn't even think straight at all right now. Taking a deep breath, she 
went to the door. It was her mom. "Usagi-chan, what was that all about? You're not pregnant are 
you?"

	Usagi tried to think up some story or something but she quickly realized it wasn't even worth 
it. She was too busy worrying about Mamoru to have to worry about her parents as well. She sighed 
deeply. "Yes I am."

	"How did you let this happen Usagi? And what was that all about? How many people have you 
slept with?"

	"Only one mom. Mamoru's the father."

	"Well you sure chose a bad boyfriend if he's going to deny that. What are you planning to do 
with your life Usagi? How do you plan to pay for a baby?"

	Usagi couldn't help but break into tears again. This was all so frustrating. "I plan to marry 
Mamoru and he'll easily support both the baby and me. You don't understand and you wouldn't 
believe anything I can tell you so just please leave me alone."

	Usagi's mom rolled her eyes. "You need to stop living in denial Usagi. This is serious." With that 
she did as she had been asked and left. Usagi shut the door and looked at a picture of Mamoru. 
"Where are you Mamo-chan? What's happened to you?" She suddenly noticed Luna in the room. 
"Luna, why doesn't anybody believe me? Don't you believe me?"

	"Well, I really, really, wanted to believe you until I heard that message. I'm afraid it's turned 
out that Mamoru is not so great."

	Usagi shook her head. "No, I went to his apartment. He hadn't checked his messages in two 
weeks. He's been kicked out of school. He hasn't even kept his plans with Motoki recently. I've known 
him for over two years Luna. I know that he loves me. I know that he's serious about school. I know 
he'd never do anything like this. I just wish all of you knew me well enough to believe me in this."

	Luna was speechless. How could she argue? All these years she had thought Mamoru was a 
nice guy. It didn't make sense to her either than his behavior would change this way. But there was 
just too much proof saying that Mamoru was just a jerk. Usagi was obviously just blinded by her love. 
She'd have to get over it eventually. So Luna decided not to say anything else and she just stayed out 
of Usagi's way instead.

•••••••••••••••••••

	Usagi woke up like normal and then the strange sense of dread set in as she realized how 
screwed up her life was. She glanced at her clock. School started in fifteen minutes. "Luna, why didn't 
you wake me up?" She waited for an answer but heard none. She looked around and realized that 
Luna was gone. Figuring that she wouldn't make it to school anyway, she decided not to go. So she 
headed downstairs for breakfast, hoping that her dad had already left.

	Her mom was sitting at the table but her dad and brother weren't around. She poured herself 
some cereal and sat down. She glanced at her mom and realized that she was staring at her. "Aren't 
you late for school?"

	Usagi looked down at her cereal and took a bite. "I'm not gonna go. I need to find my 
boyfriend." Usagi waited and didn't get a reply so she looked up. Her mom was still carefully studying 
her.

	"Usagi, please tell me what this is all about. You aren't acting normal. I just can't figure you out. 
Your father is outraged, and I don't know how to explain it to him because I don't understand myself."

	Usagi thought for a second and then came to a conclusion about what she'd say. Somehow she 
no longer cared for keeping her secret. It seemed so trivial. "Do you want me to tell you the truth, 
which is a very long complicated story you probably wouldn't believe, or do you want a nice little lie 
that'll make more sense and be more normal?"

	Ikuko stared at her. "I want the truth, Usagi."

	Usagi sighed and took another breath, preparing herself for telling her the whole truth. "All 
right, I'll tell you. I swear this is the truth even if you don't believe me. Remember all the times in the 
last two years that I've been out late and there were just things that didn't make sense all the time?"

	"Yeah, I guess so."

	"Well two years ago was when I met Luna, my cat- who talks by the way. She told me that I 
was Sailor Moon. And I soon met Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus- who are 
Ami, Rei, Makoto, and Minako. And then there's Mamo-chan. He's Tuxedo Kamen. We were meant to 
be together ever since our last lives on the moon kingdom. We've even been to our future. We know 
we'll be married and I'll be the queen and he'll be the king and we'll have a daughter. You've even met 
her. She stayed with us a while, but you don't remember that because her spell wore off when she 
left.

 	"I've even only slept with Mamoru once and now I guess I'm pregnant with Chibi-Usa but 
Mamoru is gone. That wasn't him on the machine, I just know it. He's been gone for two months. 
Something has happened to him but no one believes me." She looked at her mom, who had 
continually had a blank look on her face the whole time.

	Ikuko stood up. "Usagi, cut the crap. You're going to be a mother. You need to grow up and 
face reality. Making up this little dream world isn't going to help anything." With that she left the room.

	"I guess no one believes me anymore." She said out loud into the empty room.

•••••••••••••••••••

	"You mean it was Mamoru on the machine and Usagi still won't accept it?" Makoto asked Luna 
at their meeting after school that day.

	Luna nodded. "She's way out of it. She's not even bothering to deny anything to her parents. 
I'm getting very worried about her. She shouldn't be living in this dream world, especially while she's 
pregnant."

	"Well what do we do? I do feel like an enemy for not at least trying to believe her, but why 
would someone even want Mamoru?" Minako asked.

	"Right. We haven't had any trouble since Galaxia. If there was an enemy they'd do more than 
take Mamoru, right?" Rei added. She looked over at Ami who was just typing on her computer. "Ami, 
what are you doing?"

	"I'm just running the scenarios. I really do want to believe her."

	They all fell silent and then a sound came over their communicators. It was Usagi. "Hey guys! 
Just wanted to tell you that Mamoru called me! He's going to straighten everything out. I'm going to 
meet him right now. See, I knew you were wrong!" And then she cut out. They were all quiet again.

	Makoto shrugged. "Maybe he realized how rude he's been."

	Rei nodded. "I guess it's a good thing so Usagi could stop seeing us as enemies."

	The small group fell silent once again until Ami's computer made a beeping sound and they all 
turned to her. She suddenly turned ghostly white. "What is it Ami?"

	"I, the computer, it found a possibility. I wasn't finding anything, but then I added Usagi's 
pregnancy into the scenario. An enemy might not attack us and simply kidnap both Usagi and Mamoru 
so that it can have access to their child, who'll have great powers in the future. Like when Chibi-Usa 
was turned into Black Lady."

	They all looked at each other before Ami calmly beeped into her communicator and called for 
Usagi. There was no answer. She hadn't even told them where she was going. Everyone was suddenly 
very somber. Rei stood up and stomped her foot. "Damn it, she was probably right the whole time. 
She's running right into a trap."

	Everyone fell silent once again as they were all consumed with their own thoughts and fears. 
Minako bit her lip and suddenly had an idea. "Ami, can't you use fingerprints to find enemies? If the 
enemy was in Mamoru's apartment to call Usagi and if he knew she broke the door down maybe 
there's some evidence that we could get to find out who he was."

	Ami thought about it and slowly nodded. "I think that might work. But we may be jumping to 
conclusions. We're not even sure anything's happened to Usagi. She might just be meeting Mamoru."

	"Then wouldn't she answer her communicator?"

	Luna nodded. "Yes, I think she would. You girls go to Mamoru's apartment and look for the 
evidence. I'm going home to see if Usagi shows up. If she's not home by eleven I'll call you." Everyone 
agreed and separated, all feeling bad for not giving Usagi or Mamoru a chance.

•••••••••••••••••••
	
	Luna stayed in Usagi's room from four to eleven, and there was no sign of her. At eleven her 
mom came in and looked around. "Where is that girl?" She asked herself. She then stared strangely at 
Luna before saying "Luna?" They both looked at each other for a minute before Ikuko shook her head 
and laughed. "Now I'm talking to cats. I can't believe I almost bought that story." She sighed and left 
the room. Luna went to the communicator and called all the senshi. "Usagi hasn't come home or 
called. Did you get any evidence?"

	"I did find three different sets of fingerprints. Two of them being Usagi and Mamoru. I need to 
work on the others, but I should find it eventually." Ami's voice came over the line.

	Rei clicked on after her. "Hopefully 'eventually' won't be too late. Why'd we let her go 
anywhere alone in her condition?"

	"Usagi's parents are probably going to call the police soon. I think we might need to tell them."

	"Luna, are you sure?" Minako asked.

	Luna sighed. "From what I just heard I think Usagi must've already told her mother everything, 
but she didn't quite believe it. I'm sure it'll be different if all four of you back her story up though. It's 
probably best if the police don't get involved because there'd be no explanation to give them when 
we do get her back."

	"Sounds logical to me."

	"Good. Can all of you get out of the house and make it over here now?"

	"Right now?"

	"Soon it'll be too late. It's now or never."

	"All right, I'm on my way."

	"Okay, I'll be there."

	"Ten minutes."

	"I hope this doesn't take too long. I really need to work on these fingerprints."

	"See you girls soon." Luna cut off her transmission, got the door open, and headed downstairs. 
Her parents were in the living room, talking about Usagi as if she were a rebel. It wasn't long before 
there was a knock on the door and all four remaining inner senshi stood outside. Ikuko and Kenji 
seemed rather surprised but Rei told them they knew where Usagi was so they let them all in.

	"This'll probably sound crazy," Minako started "but Usagi is Sailor Moon."

	Ikuko covered her mouth with both of her hands. "It's true? Oh my gosh, what happened to 
her?"

	"We think that someone's been impersonating Mamoru to kidnap the both of them. He wants 
her baby."	

	"But why?"

	"Because she'll be very powerful." Ami stated simply.

	Kenji, who had remained silent so far, finally spoke up. "Ikuko, are you telling me you believe 
that our daughter is Sailor Moon?"

	Ikuko nodded and looked at the girls. "She told me all of this earlier. She said it was the truth 
and I probably wouldn't believe her and I didn't. But it's true." She looked at Luna. "Do you talk?"

	Luna had never spoken to anyone outside of the senshi before so she stayed quiet for a 
moment before finally saying. "Yes I do."
	Kenji's eyes went wide in amazement. "Well what are we supposed to do to get her back?"

	"We're working on some fingerprints we found in Mamoru's apartment. Hopefully it'll lead us 
to them."

	"Well how long will that take?" Ikuko sounded very worried.

	Everyone looked at Ami who sighed in disappointment. "It could be a week or it could be 
months."

	The room became silent and after a while Luna said. "It's late. I think I'll go home with Ami. I 
can help her out and it would be strange here without Usagi."

	Everyone agreed and went on their ways. Usagi's parents just had to put all of their faith in 
Usagi's four best friends, who they'd just learned were also the sailor senshi. 

To be continued...

In the next part: Usagi finds out the truth about Mamoru, but she also finds out a much more horrible 
truth that she would never have wanted to know.