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Hino Rei still hates karaoke (fireandpassion) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2012-01-05 18:09:00

Entry tags:

aino minako/sailor venus, hino rei/sailor mars, tsukino usagi/sailor moon

Who: Rei and open to Minako and Serenity
What: Rei is a target for bullies. So her first day of school she has to get cornered.
When: This afternoon after school let out
Where: Just outside the main entrance of Lawrence High School
Warnings: Bullying as only teenage girls can do. Everything else TBA

After classes were done for the day, Rei gathered her things from her locker and slipped them into her bag. Slinging it over her shoulder, she headed off to wait for Minako and Serenity outside. Or at the very least she'd wait for Minako so they could walk together. The first day had gone better than she'd thought it would. At least she had that out of the way so her reservations about school here could dissipate. She liked her classes, even had a few with Minako and Serenity. Though it was going to be difficult to keep up with having to translate constantly between Japanese and English, but Rei was smart, and if nothing else, she had an incredible work ethic. She had been a good student, no where near the genius that Ami was, but she worked hard and got the grades to pay off the hard work. It would just be extra challenging to do the same here, but she'd do it. Even if she had to get a Japanese-English dictionary for herself.

Stepping outside, Rei walked down the stairs to wait there for the other two to catch up. She stumbled forward slightly as someone ran into her shoulder, causing her bookbag to slide off her shoulder and fall to the ground. Rei spun around to spout a retort only to see three girls standing there. It took her a moment, but she remembered they were the ones that had stared at her and whispered amongst themselves as she'd passed by their table at lunch. Wonderful, her bully magnet had all ready attracted some. Well she could handle this.

"Oh look, she dropped her bag. How clumsy!" The first said. Rei wasn't going to bother with a response, so she bent down to pick up her bag when one of the other girls kicked at it, moving it out of Rei's reach. Glaring up at the girl, Rei was now going to give them a reaction.

"Stop that! What did I ever do to you?" She was more than ready to fight this fight out. Though she just hoped it didn't get physical because that wouldn't look good for her first day here. And she'd promised Connor she'd blend in. Getting in fights didn't exactly go with blending in.

"Oh, she does speak!" One of the other girls said.

"And here I thought she was just creepy and incapable of speaking English." The first said, tilting her head a bit.

"I can speak English perfectly well." Which Rei could, though her accent didn't really help that. And the three girls started laughing as her l's came out more as r's. Which only drew attention from the other people coming and going around them. Rei glanced around her, seeing all the eyes on her. Oh this was not good. She now had a bully target set squarely on her back.

"Oh really? Well Little Miss Perfect, why don't you show us your remarkable skills in English?"

"Leave me alone." Again, Rei tried to pick up her bag only to have it grabbed away from her reach and emptied of its contents. "Hey!" Rei exclaimed, now ready to just punch the girl for that.

"Oh look, I think she's mad!" The first girl said with a laugh.

"Now that's cute." The girl who'd emptied Rei's bag said. She then tossed the empty bag at Rei. Grumbling slightly, Rei caught it, glaring at the girls before bending down to start gathering her things before the wind started to blow them away. At least until one of the girls pushed her over, causing the three to laugh all over again. Rei glared up at them spitefully, ready to just get up and punch them flat.

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fireandpassion
2012-01-07 08:10 am UTC (link)

When Serenity froze in place, Rei knew it worked. Usagi could hear her. Now she knew she wasn't just grasping at straws. They could get through to Usagi, help her come back. And more than that, she now knew Usagi could hear them if they spoke to her. Perhaps she might only hear if she was close to the surface as she was now, but it was worth it to continue addressing her as long as Rei could sense her. Of course, she also knew continuously calling the Princess by Usagi's name would only anger Serenity, but the fire senshi would pick and choose those battles depending on how things developed.

While she originally intended to stand infront of Serenity and look her in the eye while talking to Usagi, the light of the Ginzuishou made her slow down. And then the ghost image of Usagi made her stop dead in her tracks, her eyes going wide. "Usagi..." she breathed, then heard the apology. "I know it's hard, Usagi, believe me. I know the pain of losing someone. But you have me, you have Minako, and we aren't abandoning you!" But the the ghost image was gone before she'd even finished saying that. But she hoped that Usagi heard her. She wasn't going to let Usagi stay in there forever. If it was the last thing she ever did, she would get the bubbly teen to come back because she missed her. Rei wouldn't readily admit it, but she missed Usagi. The priestess needed her just as much as she needed Minako and the rest of the senshi.

Then Serenity was back to herself and Rei narrowed her eyes a bit. She cast a glance at Minako, wondering if Minako picked up on just how Serenity had chosen those words. Turning back to Serenity and walking after her, Rei wasn't going to relent. Not now. This could very well end disastrously, but at least Minako was there for this. "Are you so sure about that? Usagi is far stronger than you may think." Rei did think Serenity under-estimated Usagi, if only because she currently had no feelings of kinship towards the Princess while she did care about Usagi. She cast another glance at Minako, wondering how to press the Beryl awakening her issue. Minako usually was a little more tactful in her word choice.

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ibecamemyself
2012-01-07 07:38 pm UTC (link)

Minako nodded at Rei when she mentioned having sensed Usagi. So it wasn't just a wild theory the Senshi leader had to try and make sense of what had just happened. Usagi really had been there. The ice was there, but Minako knew better than to be this way when they were trying to reach the girl who was trapped inside Serenity. So she followed after Rei who had gone after Serenity, listening to the words spoken, seeing the ghost of Usagi apologize to them about being unable to. While she had vanished and Serenity had spoken, Minako had something to say to Usagi, though it did tie into what Rei had said to Serenity.

"Usagi, I know you can hear me. You may think you can't, but you're stronger than you let yourself believe, stronger than all of us. You need faith in yourself because we have it for you and we're waiting for you."

And then there was Serenity to contend with. Her word choice certainly was interesting. Beryl had awakened her this way? And just how did she mean that? Endymion had been hurt and Usagi had awoken as the princess only without her memories. It was when he was being taken that Serenity truly came to the surface. But Beryl hadn't done anything to awaken the princess. Not on purpose at least. So unless she meant in taking Mamoru, this was all Beryl's fault....

Disgusting. Rei thought Minako more tactful in her words, and she was, but she also thought this entire thing disgusting. And of course she'd place blame elsewhere.

"As Rei said, Usagi is stronger than you think, stronger than you. Do you want to know why that is? It's because she wasn't afraid to do what she had to in order to protect this planet. She allowed herself to break her own heart to do what she needed to do to save everyone. You, though? You wish to destroy everything she fought so hard to protect and even though she's hurting, she still cares about her friends. It's that caring that makes her stronger than you. You can claim this is Beryl's fault but you could still fight it if you really wanted to."

Was that the thing to say? Maybe, maybe not. Dealing with Serenity was always a gamble. But the fact remained that it was true. And Usagi needed to hear it as well. She needed to know that she was strong and the reasons for why that was. Yes, her words were directed to Serenity, but it was clear that Usagi was beneath the surface. She needed to know she wasn't alone.

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