Summary: When Minako saves Usagi instead of Chibiusa, history threatens to repeat itself in Crystal Tokyo. Tensions run high as the senshi grieve and threaten to destroy the kingdom they want to save.
Written for the June 2015 Tumblr HaruMichi Circle Same Prompt Fic Party, “Senshi Civil War.” 10500 words.
ALRIGHT. Here it is, 3500 words of pure sap. Originally I started this for Doc’s giveaway, but it quickly became something I wrote so entirely for myself that now it’s not.
Anyway, yes, Harumichi wedding, Haruka/Mina/Mako brot3, some Reinako leanings. Many butch tears. AO3 Link
Oh man I ruined my own morning thinking about how if Mako ended up with someone outside the senshi, she’d have to watch them grow old and pass on while she stayed the same, IF they could even make it work in the circumstances, and how devastating that would be to her.
She looked so lucky to them, the first ten years or so. His parents told her she hasn’t aged a day every time they saw her; sisters commented how easily she “got her body back” after having their child. No wrinkles, no gray hair, she was what all the women in his life wished they could be.
When she told him, he joked it was a man’s dream, too. A wife that stayed as young and beautiful as the moment you met her. What wasn’t to love?
But he grew old, bald, paunchy, his eyes began to follow the grace of older women when they went out. He touched her less and less, shrinking away from even holding her smooth unwrinkled hands.
“I don’t think you should see my family anymore,” he said one day. “They’ll start asking questions.”
“We can answer them.”
“I don’t think we can.”
She stayed home while he made excuses for her and begged the mirror to show even one wrinkle, crows feet at her eyes or lines to the side of her mouth, anything to make her worthy again. But she looked just the same as she had at twenty two, no matter the decades that had passed.
He went alone even to their child’s graduation, too afraid that people would see how close in age his wife and daughter appeared. She watched the video he took later and didn’t let him see her cry. The end was coming, she knew. She had a thousand years left before her, and her family could not be with her.
He delivered the news the day their daughter moved out for college. “I think— well, I know. I know I can’t do this. I thought… but I feel like I should be driving you to school, too.”
Her friends would say he didn’t deserve her, but the opposite was true. He was noble, and good. She’d finally found a good man, and that was the problem. A lesser person would revel in her youth. Her husband could only abhor it.
“We should stay friends,” he said. “I really do love you.”
She loved him too. The distance between the grew, and she had the forbearance not to close it. She watched as he met another woman, understood as their daughter gravitated more and more to her stepmother. It was natural, for the both of them. Her daughter looked older than she did now.
They always said if you loved something, you had to let it go, so that is what she did. She watched them grow old from afar and planted flowers on their graves, holding her memories close for her thousand years.
WAY MORE SUAVE THAN TUXEDO MASK’S FIRST EXIT JUST LOOK AT HER
MAKO IS THE TRUE MYSTERIOUS SOLDIER OF JUSTICE
SWOOPS IN, SAVES YOUR GIRL, MOVES ON
I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ALL THE GIRLS WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THEIR ROSE-EARRINGED SAVIOUR THEY NEVER SAW AGAIN
BECAUSE LET’S BE REAL MAKO DOES THIS ALL THE TIME SHE’S NOT CAPABLE OF TURNING AWAY FROM ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP
AND I”M PRETTY SURE USAGI’S REACTION IS THE ONLY REACTION TO HAVE
WHEN SAILOR JUPITER STARTS APPEARING EVERYONE ASSUMES SHE’S BEEN AROUND MUCH LONGER THAN SHE HAS
BECAUSE OH YEAH I WAS SAVED BY HER ONCE. I WAS OUT TOO LATE AND SHE HELPED ME HOME. I WAS CORNED BY A SCARY DUDE. I WAS BEING PICKED ON AFTER SCHOOL. IT’S A VERY LONG LIST. THERE’S A MASS OF QUIET GOOD WILL TOWARDS SAILOR JUPITER.
LATER WHEN MINAKO’S ON THE SCENE SHE INSISTS THEY HAVE P.O. BOXES FOR FAN MAIL (of course we’ll get fanmail, especially me) AND MAKO STARTS GETTING LETTERS FROM GIRLS EVERYWHERE, THOSE SHE HELPED AND THOSE WHO’VE JUST HEARD ABOUT HER AND FEEL A LITTLE SAFER KNOWING SHE’S AROUND AND IT’S A VERY EMOTIONAL TIME
I went to my parents’ grave. I didn’t know if I’d get a second chance to do so. Makoto has something she wants her parents to know. Word Count: 559 This scene has been at the back of my mind for ages, and I finally got it out. I hope you enjoy.
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