A/N: Ok peoples. Here is the next chapter in the
story! Hopefully no one will kill me for killing off a
certain character. Thanks soooo much to myreviewers
AngelicMoonDJ,Alisa, Kit, Dao, and Stephiroth. I love
you guys!!!! ^_^ On with the story

Disclaimer: I don't own much....besides the idea.


Time After Time


	The hospital was such a sickeningly shade of
sterile white, which was accented by a horrid electric
lime green.  The floor amplified every noise,
including the steps of Serenity as she walked.  As she moved swiftly through the children's ward, they took
no notice of her.  She was simply a very beautiful mother, they assumed, visiting a child. 
	 The children knew. They watched her in awe as
she moved throughout the floor.  To them she was one
of the "shining people" who took kids to Heaven. They
were not afraid. They waved and smiled to her, and
were delighted when she did the same. She was not here
for them. Her prize lay just ahead of her.
	She stopped in front of the delivery room
doors and listened.  Waiting to hear that cry in her
ear that would ensure her charge's protection.  She
was waiting....and then she saw him.  She turned her
head in his direction watching him.  Looking at the
man with the sad, lonely face as he moved throughout
the delivery room.  It was a sad job for him.  
	She watched as he stopped in front of a small
young mother having her first child. It had been a
difficult birth and there were complications.  He
looked at her.....and she looked at him. She opened
her mouth to speak, but he waved his hand, as if to
say 'it's not necessary'.
	The mother looked towards her baby as he was
being cleaned and weighed.  She was waiting for that
one last moment.  Finally, a nurse brought her baby to
her and he was laid upon her chest.
 
	"Hi...I'm your mommy,"

	Her child looked at her with blue eyes and
held his arms out for her.  She brought her finger
close to him so he could touch her.  He clutched it in
his tiny hands and suckled on it.  She laughed
slightly and then let her head fall back on her
pillow. So tired...and then there was a white light.
And she was gone. 

	Serenity watched the doctors and nurses
scramble over the young mother, trying to revive her,
but it was too late.  The sad man looked towards
Serenity and made his way over towards her.
  
	"Hello, Serenity,"
	"Hello...how have you been?"

	He said nothing and continued to watch as the
doctor finally gave up and called the time of the
woman's death.  He looked back at her.

	"Has she arrived yet?"
	*sigh* "I'm not sure yet.  I'm waiting for the
woman,"

	He chuckled slightly and then patted her shoulder.

	"All in good time, Serenity. All in good time,"

	They noticed a man running into the hospital
screaming that his wife was in labor. His small son
trailing behind him.  This was the family Serenity was
waiting for.

	"Your charge is here Serenity,"
	"I know,"
	"Why weren't you with him?"
	"Because his little sister was,"

	Nobody saw a little girl with the family, but
nestled inside the mother's stomach there was a tiny
life. It was flickering, almost like a tiny candle.
 The child would not survive the birth...Serenity was
to take her place. 

	Serenity said nothing more and the sad man
left her once again. As Serenity stood there watching,
she noticed that she too was being watched. It was
Motoki.  He looked upset.

	"Is my sister going to be ok?"

	Serenity smiled softly and looked into his 
eyes as she knelt down. 
 
	"Your sister is going to be just like your guardian angel,"

	After saying this, she walked away from him
and into the delivery room heading towards the yet un-
born Furuhata Unazuki.