Well a new Scout! The Scouts are now 1-1 on the Rainbow Crystals. Molly is the buzz in the school grapevine. And Neflyte looks to be going nowhere with Beryl’s brood!

But now some hard questions have to be faced. Neflyte isn’t going to be safe any more.

Sailor Moon is copyright (c) 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation. English Language Adaptation (c) 1995 DiC Entertainment

After Zoicite vanished out of their sights, Neflyte teleported all of the Scouts to his office and ordered the youma to say he went into an emergency meeting while the girls changed back to their street clothes. “Zoicite can enter and leave the mansion without any problems, she’s done it before despite my best-laid defenses. Molly, it would be better for you to not spend time at our house until she’s no longer a threat.”

“So, we get punished because she’s a sneak. That doesn’t feel fair.” Molly walked over and stared out the same window her love had when the battle began with her back to everyone.

She was torn. Yes, Neflyte only wanted to keep her safe. But if she wasn’t safe in their home, would he be? Molly was terrified. Soon Beryl would know that Neflyte was still alive. What would that witch do about it?

Lita growled, not liking it when the bad guys one-upped them. “We have to find a way to keep her out.”

Neflyte tried his best to keep from exploding in front of them, but the anger was clear in his voice. “I’m only worried about Molly’s safety right now. Zoicite would do whatever it took to hurt me. Zoicite would most likely use Molly as a target, since that weakling knows how much I love Molly.”

Molly felt all of her fears and annoyance build up. She hated being talked about and no one focusing on her love. When would he see that he too was a target and would be until Beryl was removed from their lives forever? Finally she blew up at all of them, but mostly at Neflyte.

“But, that means she can get at you too! Don’t you see that if I’m not safe in our home then neither are you? I couldn’t stand it if she showed up one night and killed you when I could help you stand up to her!”

By now Molly was standing in front of him, looking defiantly in his eyes, and Neflyte didn’t like it - mostly because she had a valid concern. “I have dealt with Zoicite for a thousand years on my own. I don’t need any help when it comes to that heartless creature. But, if she were to hurt you … I’d rather have died from those thorns than lose you!”

Serena sat there lost in her own thoughts, seemingly oblivious to the tension in the room. “Maybe … Hey Amy, do you think that you could use your computer thingy to help Neflyte find a way to block out Zoicite?”

“I’m sure that I can at least find the weakest points.”

“So, that’s what we’ll do. We meet up at your guys’ mansion tonight and see what we can figure out.” Serena sat up with a smile on her face that showed how proud she was of herself for how she was handling the situation.

Neflyte raised an eyebrow. “And if there is nothing that can be done?”

That sent Serena back into her flake mode. She rested a hand behind her head in her usual pose when she was uncomfortable or uncertain of herself. “Well, I don’t know. But, we can’t say it won’t work. So, why not at least give it a try?”

They all agreed and it was set up to be an overnight. For the girls’ sakes their guardian youmas were to pick them up in front of their houses at seven. That way there was less chance of any unforeseen problems breaking up the fun Neflyte knew the girls already were planning in their minds.

Once that was settled the girls got ready to leave the same way they had arrived (via their guardian youmas this time however). They all decided that it would be a good idea to leave together … that is except for the Solaris. Molly told the girls how she’d be all right being in her and Neflyte’s own business with him and so many youmas nearby, which made him smile.

Once the girls had left, Neflyte walked over to Molly and started rubbing her tense shoulders. “Am I guessing right that you want to talk alone with me?”

“I don’t want to be your weakness, Neflyte. But that’s what I’ve become.” Molly tried with all her will power to keep the tears from her voice, but Neflyte could still feel them in his soul - the one place where they meshed into one forever.

“You are not my weakness, Molly. You are my reason for waking up every morning. You are my reason for hope when I would have given up if I were alone. You are my new life, Molly. I just don’t want to face one lonely moment without you. If Zoicite ever took you from me, I know that I would die.” Neflyte turned his young love to face him, only to draw her into his embrace.

Molly was shivering because of the tears she was holding back. “When you were arguing with us before, it almost sounded like you don’t need me.”

Neflyte let the tears flow. No, he didn’t like to show his more negative emotions (especially to Molly). But this time he felt a need to let his fear, worry, sadness, all of it show. “You’re all I’ll ever need, my love. I’m just scared, Molly. I lost you once, and you saw what it did to me. I doubt I could survive losing you again.”

“And I just would be able to go on if I were to lose you? … I know what we can do. Weekdays we are both at mom’s apartment, while weekends we stay at the mansion. And then neither of us need worry about losing the other.”

“Molly.” Inside Neflyte loved the idea of not suffering another week of sleeping alone, but to lay such risk on his wife and mother-in-law … no, he couldn’t. “What happens when Zoicite figures our plans out and comes after mom behind our backs?”

Molly’s expression showed that she wasn’t going to back down in this fight. “We will deal with her then. Besides, mom is using her gifts more now and will see it coming before we will. And she has Thuran watching her back.”

“You are not going to let me win this argument, are you? That is one of the reasons I love you so much, my Molly. When you feel it is just, you never give up on a fight. Is that why you refused to let me go after finding out my past?” Neflyte asked as he clutched her tight in his arms.

“I refuse to lose you ever again … period! I’ve always known that we are connected, and that even if you were bad once that you were changing for me.”

Neflyte laid claim on her lips as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

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Well, looks like there’s a plan in the works, but what does this mean for Zoicite? Stick around and find out!