Desperately Alone
Part 3
By Tisha

	
	Usagi woke up and immediately felt that her head was throbbing. She found herself lying on 
the floor in a tiny, unfurnished room. All she remembered was that she went to meet Mamoru and he 
hadn't shown up. Now she was suddenly is some strange place. She went to the door and started 
banging. She couldn't even believe this was happening but her only hope was that just maybe this was 
where Mamoru was as well. At least she'd be able to see him. Like magic, the door was opened and 
Mamoru stood just outside. "Mamo-chan!"

	He laughed and Usagi stopped herself from hugging him when he suddenly started to glow. 
She watched as he became another person altogether. A man who was shorter than Mamoru, but 
much more muscular. He grabbed her arm and easily dragged her out of that room and into another 
one where he dropped her on the floor. "Who are you and how did you look like Mamo-chan?"

	"My name is Koeda. I know you want to know why you're here so I'll cut to the chase. Since 
the time I was a little boy all sorts of magical powers interested me. Everyone told me they didn't exist 
but I was always convinced, and I've proved myself right. Over the years I've managed to perform 
many experiments and have adapted many powers of my own. One of them happens to be the 
power to change myself into another appearance. All I need is the specimen I want to become."

	Usagi gritted her teeth. "You have Mamo-chan."

	He nodded simply. "Yes I do. How else would I look like him?"

	Usagi shook her head. "I don't understand. Why do you want to look like Mamo-chan, and 
what am I doing here?"

	He laughed again, a very loud laugh that annoyed Usagi very much. "You are very dense. Or 
maybe you're just very naive." He shrugged and walked over to a wall, opened a panel that Usagi 
hadn't noticed, and pressed a button. The whole wall slowly rolled into itself to expose another room. 
In that room sat Mamoru in a strange looking cage. Usagi ran to him. "Mamo-chan!"

	Mamoru looked a bit disoriented but when he saw Usagi many different emotions flashed 
over his features. "Usako."

	Usagi reached through the cage to hold his hand and turned back to Koeda. "Are you going to 
answer me or not?"

	He rolled his eyes. "All right. Well, I've been studying the moon kingdom for years. Now I knew 
that I wanted power as great as yours but I couldn't figure out exactly how to get it until it just came to 
me like one of those little light bulbs in cartoons. Each generation your power grows greater and 
greater, so therefore your child will be much more powerful than you. You see, the procedure would 
have been rather impossible to do on an adult like you because you'd be sure to die at the first 
injection."

	"Injection?" Usagi interrupted him, starting to feel very nervous about what he was explaining, 
but still very confused.

	"Yes, I have to make several injections so that eventually I'll be able to completely suck all of 
your- or in this case your baby's- power. Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupted, a baby is 
the perfect way to go about it because it's already protected by its mother, and as soon as it's born it'll 
still be weak enough to easily drain it's power."

	"You're doing no such thing to my baby!" In her anger and fear Usagi released Mamoru's hand 
to move closer to Koeda.

	"Baby?" 

	Usagi turned around to look at Mamoru and she suddenly realized that he had disappeared 
before she'd been able to tell him. She returned to him and slowly nodded. "I'm pregnant." Mamoru 
looked utterly shocked as he stared at her before realization slowly set in. "You bastard" he yelled at 
Koeda as he started wrestling with the bars of the cage violently. Usagi just stood watching him, 
confused. Koeda laughed at the whole scene and Usagi looked at him.

	He smiled at her. "Still don't get it? I took Mamoru over two months ago dear. Sure the child 
may have been more powerful if it was truly both of yours but that wasn't going to happen for a while 
so I had to do it my way."

	Usagi shook her head in disbelief and tears sprang to her eyes. She turned back to Mamoru. 
"Mamo-chan, I didn't know. Honestly." She whipped back around to look at Koeda. "And I don't care 
anyway. You are *not* going to do anything to my baby." With that statement she collapsed to her 
knees, her body racking with her sobs. It was all too much for her. She had lost her virginity to some 
creep who wanted to kill her baby just to become powerful. She had so much she wanted to ask and 
say but she couldn't control herself anymore, she was just crying too hard. She could hear Mamoru 
trying to comfort her as well as Koeda's laughter every once in a while, but she just continued to cry. 
Eventually Koeda lifted her off of the floor and dragged her back to a room, although not the same 
room as before, and left her alone. 

•••••••••••••••••••

	Mamoru's emotions were raging through him after watching Usagi be dragged from the room. 
He couldn't believe that they were in such a terrible situation and he couldn't figure out a single thing 
he could do about it. For two months he had sat alone in his cage and wondered what might be 
happening to Usagi because of his disappearance. He had known it every single time Koeda had used 
his appearance because it hurt him severely. The longer Koeda would "be" him the more painful it 
would become. But he hadn't had any idea what Koeda had been doing during that time. Koeda came 
back into the room and Mamoru scowled at him.

	"You're ruining your own plan you know." Mamoru told him, trying to keep his voice even.

	"What are you talking about?" Koeda sent him a dangerously annoyed look.

	"I'm studying to be a doctor. I know that stressing her out in any way is bad for the baby."

	Koeda shrugged and started writing something down. "What do I care? The baby's not going to 
live anyway."

	"But if you continue this it'll probably cause her to have a miscarriage. Then you won't even 
have your little test subject anymore."

	He had seemed to get Koeda's attention. "Why are you telling me this? How can I keep her 
from getting stressed? I *did* kidnap her after all."

	"Let me see her. And not through this stupid cage either. I can comfort her. It won't hurt you 
any to let us have a little bit of time together every day." He waited impatiently while Koeda seemed 
to think it over.

	Finally, he grunted. "Oh, very well." He grabbed a key from his pocket and opened the cage 
and then reached into his pocket and pulled out another key. He handed it to Mamoru and pointed to 
the room's exit. "Turn left, first door on the right. You have ten minutes. Don't you dare try to escape 
or I'll kill her."

•••••••••••••••••••

	There was a knock on the door but Usagi ignored it, continuing to cry onto the bed. She heard 
the sound of a key unlocking the door but she still paid no attention to it, instead she just focused on 
her dilemma. Finally, after she heard the door open, she looked up and wiped at her eyes. It was 
Mamoru, but she wasn't sure whether it was really Mamoru or just Koeda pretending to be him again. 
She just curled herself up and looked at him, still sniffling. 

	"Usako."

	Usagi frowned and bit her lip. "Is it really you?"

	Mamoru smiled sadly and sat next to her. "Yeah, but I only have ten minutes with you." He 
could tell she was still skeptical so he carefully hugged her as gently as he could. Usagi slowly relaxed in 
his arms and hugged him back. "How are we going to get out of here Mamo-chan?"

	Mamoru pulled back to look at her, leaving his hands loosely at her sides. "I don't know, but 
we'll have to find a way."

	Usagi nodded and looked down at her hands. "I'm so stupid Mamo-chan."	

	Mamoru used two of his fingers to lift her chin so that she'd look at him. "You're not stupid. I 
love you Usako."

	Usagi shook her head. "I didn't even know the difference between the man that I love and 
some stranger."

	"He had my appearance Usako, it's not your fault. Now, tell me about the last two months. 
How did your parents take the news of your pregnancy?"

	Usagi took a deep breath. "Well, I was actually most scared of telling you, but then I couldn't 
find you. You were never home and you never answered your phone. I knew something happened 
but no one believed me. I finally went to your apartment and broke the door down. It was obvious 
you hadn't been there for a while. Your messages were piled up including one about your not being in 
school, which I knew wasn't like you. I was so happy that night to have proof for my friends. But then 
you, or really he, left this message on my machine about the baby not being yours. My parents heard 
it and that's actually how they found out."

	"Oh my God, Usako, I'm so sorry. Did your dad freak out?"

	"I don't know. I just wasn't even concerned about them. My mind was always on you. I told my 
mom the truth about Sailor Moon and everything but she thought I was just making up a story. I guess 
my dad was avoiding me." Usagi studied her fingers, which were intertwined with his. "Mamo-chan, 
you'll love the baby won't you? Even if it's not really yours?" He wasn't answering too quickly so she 
looked up at him and realized that he'd been waiting for her to look at him.

	"Of course I will Usako. It'll still be *our* baby, okay?"

	Usagi nodded and kissed him, but they were interrupted when Koeda came to the door. 
"Time's up. Give me the key and come on." Mamoru sighed and stood up, handing the key to Koeda 
and then leaving. Koeda turned back to Usagi before he left. "Your dinner is coming soon." With that 
he shut the door, leaving Usagi with such a mixture of fear, anger and confusion that she felt like she'd 
be crying for the rest of her life. She tried the very hardest she could to resist breaking down again, 
but it did no good. She started sobbing again within minutes.

To be continued...