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[lightthedarkness]

"Er... well you know... how all our memories about the past came back when Mamoru was killed by Kunzite?" she pressed her lips together because she had a feeling she knew what Minako was going to say.

"I was thinking... if worse comes to worse..."

[hearted]

Minako couldn't believe her ears. She pulled back and gaped at her princess, still not quite comprehending. She sucked in a quick breath, voice rising with each word.

"Of what, falling on the sword yourself? No, she'd never accept that! No...the other way is going to work. We didn't come this far to lose you, Usagi."

She almost felt herself tearing up again.

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She physically cringed and practically wilted under that gaze. Alright, so admittedly, it was a really bad idea. She bowed her head, properly ashamed.

She swallowed and pressed her lips together. Okay, very very bad idea.

When Minako nearly started crying? She was quick to wrap her arms around her and began to apologize profusely.

"No no no, please don't cry, Minako I'm so sorry! I won't... I would never- I'm sorry, please forgive me for even mentioning it!"

[hearted]

"You'd better be sorry," Minako uttered, but the conviction wasn't quite there. She clung desperately to Usagi, willing her to never have to make such a big sacrifice. When she'd calmed, she finally spoke again.

"But...but in a way, I guess I understand," she whispered. "Tragedy follows us. I could see her transforming into Mars and burning down the enemy in an instant," she grumbled, an odd look of pride in her eyes before she turned her stern look to Usagi. "But that's not going to have to happen, got it?"

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"I am... I shouldn't have mentioned such a thing, I shouldn't even have thought it." She kept holding onto Minako, glad that it was Minako she had told because if Haruka had heard this plan?

Well, Usagi suspected she'd put in a room with mattresses on all four walls and all sharp objects removed if she had told Haruka this.

"I'm sorry... I was just... we always seem to excel in the face of threats... when the Dead Moon Circus came and you all were able to transform into your stronger forms... when the grail made us all stronger together... I just... I know that we can handle things even in true dangerous situations. Haaa... and trouble seems to follow me regardless," drawn to her, in a sense.

She tilted her head so she could look up at Minako, offering a gentle smile.

"But with all the tragedy, I get the best friends in the whole universe." And the greatest love of her life and a daughter awaiting her.

[hearted]

"Yeah, and soon? You're gonna have us all again," Minako vowed, closing her eyes tight to blink it all back. "Because we're in this together, you hear me?"

[lightthedarkness]

She was scared, though she couldn't say that. She was scared to have Rei so far from her, far from them. It was like the Black Moon clan all over again only she was even weaker than before. She was just as in the dark and without much information. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she knew she was putting so much on Minako.

She needed to be stronger too.

"It's okay," she whispered, taking another deep breath and squared her shoulders. She would be their princess, their future queen. She couldn't keep doubting herself.

"We'll be alright, and we'll save them all. I'm sorry I scared you."

[hearted]

Minako shudders in relief and clings to Usagi, desperate to protect her now more than ever. Her sweet, loving, far too selfless best friend. "You're right. It's okay. We're okay."

Gotta say it 'til she believes it.

[lightthedarkness]

"We'll make everything okay, that's what we do."