Dreams & Memories
Part 2
By: Tisha


	The next day at school Usagi simply pretended the dreams didn't exist. They had never 
happened; she tried the hardest she could to forget them. It worked pretty well, too. She talked 
normally to her friends as lunch, as well as to Luna after school. She acted normal, and she didn't dare 
to let anyone see that she was scared inside. Every minute she was scared of going to sleep that night.

	She feared the dreams would return, maybe even be worse. She couldn't figure out where 
they came from. Her biggest guesses were either an enemy or...some sort of prophesy. She tried her 
hardest to not think of the second possibility. She couldn't believe that.

	The night came way too fast and Usagi prepared herself for sleep. She wished she could just 
never sleep again but she felt really tired. Probably from the lack of sleep the night before. As she laid 
in the dark she bit her lip as she hoped and prayed that she could sleep peacefully.

	Sleep finally darkened out her senses. She slept for a full hour peacefully before the first 
dream came. This one was more real and more horrible than the others had been. She was Sailor 
Moon this time, standing in front of a huge monster. She called into her communicator for help and 
Ami's voice came out.

	"We don't feel like helping you, beat it yourself."

	Sailor Moon stared at the communicator not believing what she heard. "Come on, I really don't 
think I can beat this myself." She was so busy yelling into her communicator and being confused over 
the way they were acting that she didn't notice the monster shoot at her. A ball of energy took her by 
surprise and slammed her into a tree. She cried out in pain.

	"PLEASE!"

	"Serves you right for not paying attention." It was Makoto's voice.

	Sailor Moon struggled to stand on her wobbly legs while she tried to keep her tears away. A 
rose came very near her feet and she looked up, breathing a sigh of relief as she saw Tuxedo Kamen. 

	"Don't get all giddy, Sailor Moon. I'm just here to tell you that it's time you took care of 
yourself. I'm not going to babysit you anymore." With that he swung his cape and was gone. Sailor 
Moon was overcome with grief at his words and she fell to her knees sobbing, the youma saw this as 
its opportunity and shot an even bigger energy ball toward her...

	Usagi woke up abruptly and sat up, breathing very heavily and she suddenly realized her 
nightshirt was drenched with sweat. She glanced at Luna, who was asleep, and got up as carefully as 
possible. She quickly changed her shirt and splashed her face with water before climbing back under 
the covers.

	Luna opened her eye a crack and saw that Usagi was again in bed, but not asleep. She had 
been awakened by Usagi's restlessness and  had seen Usagi wake up. She was starting to get very 
concerned about these dreams, and the fact that Usagi was hiding them.


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	Usagi chewed on the eraser of her pencil as she tried to think really hard about her dreams. 
They had started off with her friends not helping her when she needed the help but now it had been 
three nights. Last night's had been the worst. In her most recent dream she had been hanging from a 
cliff, holding on with her hands alone. Rei and Makoto had come up and stepped on her fingers 
causing her to lose her grip.

	She just couldn't understand why they came every night when they started out of nowhere. 
She tried to think through every detail of the first dream when she remembered that she had been 
suffocating for a reason. It had been really hot...and the air was filled with smoke. Rei had been the 
one standing there...or had it been Sailor Mars?

	When she really thought about the first dreams they were just as violent as her new ones. In 
all of them her friends were trying to kill her. And in the three she had had the night before, Mamoru 
had always abandoned her too. Usagi looked over at Ami and all she could picture were her dreams. 
She bit the eraser harder, mad at the dreams and the fact that they made her doubt her friendships.

	At lunch she sat with Ami and Makoto, she couldn't avoid that. She would constantly catch 
little things they said that her mind somehow distorted to mean something worse. Something about 
hating her. She tried to convince herself it wasn't real, to fight whatever was happening to her, but she 
soon started hearing whatever her mind wanted her to. She finally couldn't take it and she stood up 
and ran toward the school building. She hid in a classroom the rest of lunch.

	When she went back to class Ami and Makoto kept glancing at her.  Usagi tried to stare 
forward, trying to convince herself that they hadn't said those things. Her mind was playing tricks on 
her, she could feel it. It was like part of her brain wanted her to believe her friends hated her and the 
other half was trying to make it stop. But she had a feeling the first side was winning.

	After school was out Makoto immediately grabbed her arm and forced her to look her in the 
face. "Usagi, are you okay?"

	Usagi looked at her. At first she saw worry and concern in her eyes but then she could have 
sworn she saw hatred. She pulled her arm free. "I'm fine."

	Ami looked at Makoto with concern before addressing Usagi. "Well, why'd you run away?"

	Usagi looked between them, suddenly feeling like she was surrounded. "I didn't feel like 
talking to you. And I don't know either." She squeezed between them and walked away quickly. She 
suddenly realized what she had just said to her *friends*. She felt like she was going crazy. There 
were two parts of her, each fighting with the other. She heard a beep on the communicator and 
closed her eyes as she brought it up.

	"Yes?"

	"Usagi, please go to the Hikawa Shrine, we're having a meeting." It was Luna, and she sounded 
*very* determined.

	"I'll be there."

	She started walking in that direction, trying to clear her mind. She couldn't let this thing get 
her, she *had* to fight it. She arrived and saw that everyone else was already there. She went inside 
and sat down. "Why the sudden meeting?"

	They all looked at each other and she got the feeling that she was being conspired against. 
They were all looking at *her*. Usagi's heart started beating faster as she desperately tried to stop 
being afraid. Her mind felt fuzzy as she looked at her friends.

	"Usagi, you are such a ditz."

	Usagi shook her head as she stood up; she looked to Luna for help.

	"Don't look at me, I agree with them."

	"You're always in the way."

	"We could do better without you!"

	Usagi started crying. "Please! That's not true! Why do you hate me?"

	The others looked at each other. Makoto came forward and put a hand on her shoulder. 
"Usagi, what's wrong with you?"

	"We *don't* hate you! We love you!"

	They became more concerned when she looked at them with fear in her eyes, like she 
thought they would actually hurt her.
	
	"Get away from us, bitch!"

	"And never come back!"

	Usagi bit her lip as she stumbled toward the door. She couldn't believe they would be saying 
this to her. A tiny part of her head screamed that it wasn't real but that part didn't have any power to 
control her anymore. She reached the door and just started running. She needed to get away from 
them.

	"Usagi!!! Where is she going?"

	"Something is wrong here."

	"Do we go after her?"

	Luna watched after Usagi. "No... I think we need to let her have time to think."


	She just ran and cried. Tears dripping down her face, she just ran faster than she thought she 
could. She crashed into someone, someone who held onto her arm. She snapped around to look right 
at Mamoru.

	"Usako, what's wrong?"

	Usagi just shook her head and looked at him.

	"Go ahead. Do what you always do, run and cry. You never take responsibility seriously. It's 
time you grew up."

	Usagi screamed as she wiggled away and started to back away from him.
	
	"Usako? What is it? Are you listening to me?"
	
	"Stay away! PLEASE! If you ever loved me just let me be alone!" She turned and ran. He wasn't 
running after her and she sighed in relief. She just ran and ran. It felt like she had been running for 
ages, and the things she saw go by in a blur didn't even look familiar anymore. She ran until she felt her 
foot jab a rough spot on the cement. She was running so fast that it threw her to the ground with 
great momentum. She tried to stop the fall with her hands but her eyes were clouded with tears and 
she couldn't see. Her head slammed into the cement with a sickening crack as Usagi's senses slowly 
went black.


To be continued