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Title: Oops
Genre: Crystal Tokyo
Rating: PG13
Prompt: 184) Happily Ever After @ sm_challenge; 071) Broken @ fanfic100
Jared’s eyes flew up from the heavy amount of paperwork he had been dumped with that morning to see a worried and dishevelled looking King slam through the doors of his office. Their leader was always composed, always tidy; but the slightly red cheeks, heavy breathing, the messy lavender hair (Jared hadn’t even realised that could be possible) and the sheer panic in those normally solid blue eyes had the blond Shitennou worried.
“Endy?” Jared raised an eyebrow at the loud entrance and relaxed back from his desk deeper into his swivel chair, turning to face the door. Endymion took in two gulps of air, bending down slightly and leaning his hands on his thighs to catch his breath, avoiding meeting Jared’s eyes completely. Jared’s heart started beating faster, this was not normal behaviour, something was very wrong.
“What’s happened? Are you alright?”
Endymion waved it off shakily, he looked up to face Jared, who by that time had stood and moved towards the King, “I’m the one who did it!” He suddenly bust out, before speeding onwards at a mile a minute, “It was an accident I’m sorry I didn’t mean to I didn’t realise how delicate it must have been! It just broke one swing and it just snapped!” Endymion’s hands moved in exaggerated motions that had Jared perplexed, the only times he’d seen the King this fretful was when Usagi had been in labour, and the time he had forgotten his wedding anniversary. “I should have known better but I couldn’t resist! It was right there when I walked by staring me in the face and I swung it and I’m sorry! She told me before not to but I didn’t realise-”
“Endy calm down! Take a deep breath. You need to breathe.” Jared put a supporting hand on his liege’s shoulder, “come on, inhale and exhale.”
Endymion placed his own hand on his Shitennou’s shoulder, leaning heavily on the blue eyed blond as he concentrated on trying to calm down to a coherent level. Eventually he started to breathe normally again…until he heard the quick clapping of heels against the white marble floor. Then his heart rate sped up and the panic returned.
“Are we feeling better? Would you like to start from the beginning now?” Jared asked with a patronizingly wry smile, figuring that if it was end-of-the-world stuff they’d be having an emergency meeting (or at the very least Endy would be in some grim mood, not a panicked floundering that could rival the Queen’s). But Endymion didn’t berate him, nor did he even seem to be listening to his guardian, instead, he seemed fixed to the approaching sound of clicking shoes, fast coming closer. Jared raised an eyebrow, recognising the quick snap of the high heels, “Endy…”
Endymion looked Jared in the eyes, dark blue clashing against cornflower sky, “I did it, I’m sorry. Just remember Jadeite, I am your King, you swore an oath. And don’t forget I released you from those damn rocks. You owe me big time!”
Before Jared could even think up of an answer to what his liege had just said, the Senshi of Mars stormed in and slapped him so hard he was sent reeling, slamming into his desk. Endymion backed away. Jared was flabbergasted, “Rei! What the hell was that for?”
“How could you?!” Tears spilled through her dark amethyst eyes.
“What?” He asked, rubbing his cheek, “what did I d-” before he could finish she had slapped his other cheek and nearly given him severe whiplash.
“Don’t.” She whispered, “Don’t you dare pretend like you don’t know what you did!” Rage shone through her eyes, her voice was cracked with furious emotion. Jared glanced at Endymion who was sneaking out of the room, mouthing ‘sorry’ as he went. Rei followed his gaze, and looked accusingly at Endymion, “Come to warn him did you? Rei’s on the rampage again!”
Endymion looked like a deer frozen in headlights.
Rei barraged on, content to vent on anything and anyone “Well I don’t care what you people think, it wasn’t yours! I have every right to be this angry,” she turned to face Jared, “you went too far!”
Jared looked back at his wife, on his guard in case she decided to slap him again, “Rei, I-”
“That katana was in my family for fifteen generations!” She was fully crying now, not even willing to listen to him, “Fifteen! But you couldn’t keep your hands off it, even though you knew how delicate it was.”
Jared’s eyes flew wide as he realised what had happened, he searched for his King, but he was long gone, “Rei I swear, it wasn’t me!” He blurted out, immediately on the defensive.
Rei gave out a small incredulous laugh, “oh it wasn’t? Who else would have done it then? There were only three people who’ve ever asked me to touch it, Mina, Neph and you. Last time I checked, Mina’s in France and Nephrite’s in Scotland. Did you not think I’d notice?! There were still bits of steel on the floor!”
For a second, Jared had no answer, when the shrine room had been built and she had finally placed the sword in the special stand, he had bugged her for days to let him try it out, after all, the sword was part of a famous legend. But just because he’d been more vocal about his want to play with it, didn’t mean the others hadn’t had the desire too, hell, he’d even caught Kunzite staring at it once.
“It was Endy, he said so himself!” Jared pointed towards the door where the King had just left. Lifetime oath be damned, Endymion had pretty much just barred Jared from having sex, ever again. And when your average lifespan was a thousand years, ‘ever again’ could be a long bloody time.
“You have the audacity to try and blame Endymion?” She asked, fury emanating from her entire body, “You damn coward!”
“It’s true!” he spluttered, too shocked that she didn’t believe him to be angry about being insulted.
Rei’s eyes narrowed, “Are you trying to tell me that the King of Crystal Tokyo, the responsible, level-headed Mamoru-san, snuck into the shrine, picked up a katana that was over eight hundred years old, swung it around, breaking it into pieces and then tried to haphazardly shove its remains back into its saya and chipping the decoration?”
For the first time, Jared wondered whether they had really made the best decision naming Endymion as King of the world. He also questioned his own sanity at giving his answer, “that’s exactly what I’m saying.”
Rei went to slap him again but he caught her wrist, so she shoved him, sending them both tumbling to the floor. He ended up on top of her, unable to hide a wry grin from escaping. But Rei was having none of it.
“Get off of me!” she shouted as she rained her fists onto his chest, he obliged as quickly as possible before she ended up hitting something vital. When he was standing again he offered a hand down to help her up. She smacked it away, standing up on her own.
“You’re an asshole you know that?” She said, on the verge of tears again.
Jared was getting frustrated, “Since you don’t bloody well believe me then get a finger print test!”
Rei looked pointedly at his white gloved hands. Jared rolled his eyes, “It wasn’t me! Do you really think I’d be that sloppy? Would I leave all that evidence behind?”
“If you were rushing to find yourself an alibi, and Endy had promised to clean it up for you, then yes you would!” Rei started crying again.
It took a moment to register before the shock hit. That sneaky little…that’s what must have happened, Endymion must have been trying to hide what he had done when Rei had caught him, so he put the blame on Jared, saying that he was cleaning the mess while Jared went to make sure people saw him in the office, far away from the shrine. It was long shot for Endymion, but it seemed to have worked. Jared’s doubts about their King’s abilities vanished; Endy’s manipulative skills were phenomenal.
“If he was really trying to cover for me, then why would he tell you I did it?” He replied rather smugly, thinking he’d beaten her with logic.
Rei didn’t even miss a beat, “Because he wouldn’t be stupid enough to take the blame for something as bad as that!”
“It wasn’t me!” He cried out, frustrated that there seemed nothing he could do to convince her. She simply shook her head through her tears and stormed out.
“Rei, I-” he called, but she turned around menacingly to glare at him.
“That was the last thing Ojii-san passed down to me before he died; it was the pride of my mother’s family. Now what am I going to do? Dammit Jared, you immature, heartless, selfish asshole!” With that she ran off and if he hadn’t been so pissed off he would have found it rather heart-wrenching to see his wife in such anguish.
He stood leaning on his desk, fuming at Rei and Endymion and the entire situation, for once, nothing had been his fault, and he still ended up in trouble. A few minutes later Zach sauntered in, a few papers in his hand and a pencil tucked behind his ear, “Hey there Jeddy bo-” He stopped in his tracks at the silent glare that sent a chill down his spine.
“Not. Now.” Jared stated, his voice flat and hard, his eyes flashing like he had done murder. Zach’s eyebrows flew into his bangs, acting like a man who had just spotted a cobra in the bushes, he took steady steps back the way he came and out of sight.
Jared stormed out of the office and down to the gym, he needed to offload some of his anger.
~*~
He deliberately waited until it was late before going into his rooms. Even though he knew she’d be asleep he still didn’t want to push his luck, at the very least he’d hoped she’d been kind enough to not lock the other guest rooms and thereby forcing him to sleep on the living room couch. She would do that sort of thing, just to make his life that much more hellish.
He’d spent most of the evening pummelling a punching bag and imagining it was Endymion’s face. The worst part was that as angry as he was, he’d forgiven the King the moment he’d realised it was his fault. All in all, he was tired, wanting nothing more than for the day to end. He opened the door…and changed his last thought immediately. He hoped he wasn’t seeing things, and if he wasn’t, then he never wanted the next day to arrive, hell even if the sight that greeted his eyes wasn’t real, he didn’t care.
The entire room was lit by candles, rose petals littered the floor, and right in the centre of it all was Rei, barely wearing something that could only just be considered red lingerie. But instead of the bold confidence she normally exuded, she stood looking shy and insecure, “I’m sorry,” she said, “Serenity came to see me when we didn’t turn up for dinner. I told her what happened and she got Endy to admit the truth,” She looked up at him, tears threatening to pour out, “I should have believed you.”
Jared’s jaw dropped to the floor. This had never happened to him before, perhaps he had stepped into an alternate universe, one where all his fantasies came true. All he needed now was for a giant steak teriyaki dinner to pop up in front of him and he’d be all set.
When he didn’t say anything she became more nervous, which annoyed her slightly, “Jared! Say something!”
He knew what he needed to say, but the little devil Jared within couldn’t help but take a little advantage of the situation, “You’re supposed to trust me Rei,” he said, feigning being hurt.
Her face changed from annoyed to solemn. She made to step towards him, but stopped herself, unsure exactly of what to do. She picked at her perfectly manicured nails instead, unable to look him in the eyes. Eventually she found her voice, “I said I was sorry, I was upset and I wasn’t exactly thinking straight.”
“That doesn’t matter, you’re - oh screw it, you know what?” He swooped over to her and scooped her up. She shrieked as he caught her by surprise.
He took her to the bedroom where he dumped her on the bed, he stepped away for a moment, looking at her, watching her giggle as she flicked her dark hair back. He shook his head as he pulled off his shirt, “if you apologize like this every time you’re wrong about something, I hope you never do anything right!”
It was Endymion who slept on a couch.
Genre: Crystal Tokyo
Rating: PG13
Prompt: 184) Happily Ever After @ sm_challenge; 071) Broken @ fanfic100
Jared’s eyes flew up from the heavy amount of paperwork he had been dumped with that morning to see a worried and dishevelled looking King slam through the doors of his office. Their leader was always composed, always tidy; but the slightly red cheeks, heavy breathing, the messy lavender hair (Jared hadn’t even realised that could be possible) and the sheer panic in those normally solid blue eyes had the blond Shitennou worried.
“Endy?” Jared raised an eyebrow at the loud entrance and relaxed back from his desk deeper into his swivel chair, turning to face the door. Endymion took in two gulps of air, bending down slightly and leaning his hands on his thighs to catch his breath, avoiding meeting Jared’s eyes completely. Jared’s heart started beating faster, this was not normal behaviour, something was very wrong.
“What’s happened? Are you alright?”
Endymion waved it off shakily, he looked up to face Jared, who by that time had stood and moved towards the King, “I’m the one who did it!” He suddenly bust out, before speeding onwards at a mile a minute, “It was an accident I’m sorry I didn’t mean to I didn’t realise how delicate it must have been! It just broke one swing and it just snapped!” Endymion’s hands moved in exaggerated motions that had Jared perplexed, the only times he’d seen the King this fretful was when Usagi had been in labour, and the time he had forgotten his wedding anniversary. “I should have known better but I couldn’t resist! It was right there when I walked by staring me in the face and I swung it and I’m sorry! She told me before not to but I didn’t realise-”
“Endy calm down! Take a deep breath. You need to breathe.” Jared put a supporting hand on his liege’s shoulder, “come on, inhale and exhale.”
Endymion placed his own hand on his Shitennou’s shoulder, leaning heavily on the blue eyed blond as he concentrated on trying to calm down to a coherent level. Eventually he started to breathe normally again…until he heard the quick clapping of heels against the white marble floor. Then his heart rate sped up and the panic returned.
“Are we feeling better? Would you like to start from the beginning now?” Jared asked with a patronizingly wry smile, figuring that if it was end-of-the-world stuff they’d be having an emergency meeting (or at the very least Endy would be in some grim mood, not a panicked floundering that could rival the Queen’s). But Endymion didn’t berate him, nor did he even seem to be listening to his guardian, instead, he seemed fixed to the approaching sound of clicking shoes, fast coming closer. Jared raised an eyebrow, recognising the quick snap of the high heels, “Endy…”
Endymion looked Jared in the eyes, dark blue clashing against cornflower sky, “I did it, I’m sorry. Just remember Jadeite, I am your King, you swore an oath. And don’t forget I released you from those damn rocks. You owe me big time!”
Before Jared could even think up of an answer to what his liege had just said, the Senshi of Mars stormed in and slapped him so hard he was sent reeling, slamming into his desk. Endymion backed away. Jared was flabbergasted, “Rei! What the hell was that for?”
“How could you?!” Tears spilled through her dark amethyst eyes.
“What?” He asked, rubbing his cheek, “what did I d-” before he could finish she had slapped his other cheek and nearly given him severe whiplash.
“Don’t.” She whispered, “Don’t you dare pretend like you don’t know what you did!” Rage shone through her eyes, her voice was cracked with furious emotion. Jared glanced at Endymion who was sneaking out of the room, mouthing ‘sorry’ as he went. Rei followed his gaze, and looked accusingly at Endymion, “Come to warn him did you? Rei’s on the rampage again!”
Endymion looked like a deer frozen in headlights.
Rei barraged on, content to vent on anything and anyone “Well I don’t care what you people think, it wasn’t yours! I have every right to be this angry,” she turned to face Jared, “you went too far!”
Jared looked back at his wife, on his guard in case she decided to slap him again, “Rei, I-”
“That katana was in my family for fifteen generations!” She was fully crying now, not even willing to listen to him, “Fifteen! But you couldn’t keep your hands off it, even though you knew how delicate it was.”
Jared’s eyes flew wide as he realised what had happened, he searched for his King, but he was long gone, “Rei I swear, it wasn’t me!” He blurted out, immediately on the defensive.
Rei gave out a small incredulous laugh, “oh it wasn’t? Who else would have done it then? There were only three people who’ve ever asked me to touch it, Mina, Neph and you. Last time I checked, Mina’s in France and Nephrite’s in Scotland. Did you not think I’d notice?! There were still bits of steel on the floor!”
For a second, Jared had no answer, when the shrine room had been built and she had finally placed the sword in the special stand, he had bugged her for days to let him try it out, after all, the sword was part of a famous legend. But just because he’d been more vocal about his want to play with it, didn’t mean the others hadn’t had the desire too, hell, he’d even caught Kunzite staring at it once.
“It was Endy, he said so himself!” Jared pointed towards the door where the King had just left. Lifetime oath be damned, Endymion had pretty much just barred Jared from having sex, ever again. And when your average lifespan was a thousand years, ‘ever again’ could be a long bloody time.
“You have the audacity to try and blame Endymion?” She asked, fury emanating from her entire body, “You damn coward!”
“It’s true!” he spluttered, too shocked that she didn’t believe him to be angry about being insulted.
Rei’s eyes narrowed, “Are you trying to tell me that the King of Crystal Tokyo, the responsible, level-headed Mamoru-san, snuck into the shrine, picked up a katana that was over eight hundred years old, swung it around, breaking it into pieces and then tried to haphazardly shove its remains back into its saya and chipping the decoration?”
For the first time, Jared wondered whether they had really made the best decision naming Endymion as King of the world. He also questioned his own sanity at giving his answer, “that’s exactly what I’m saying.”
Rei went to slap him again but he caught her wrist, so she shoved him, sending them both tumbling to the floor. He ended up on top of her, unable to hide a wry grin from escaping. But Rei was having none of it.
“Get off of me!” she shouted as she rained her fists onto his chest, he obliged as quickly as possible before she ended up hitting something vital. When he was standing again he offered a hand down to help her up. She smacked it away, standing up on her own.
“You’re an asshole you know that?” She said, on the verge of tears again.
Jared was getting frustrated, “Since you don’t bloody well believe me then get a finger print test!”
Rei looked pointedly at his white gloved hands. Jared rolled his eyes, “It wasn’t me! Do you really think I’d be that sloppy? Would I leave all that evidence behind?”
“If you were rushing to find yourself an alibi, and Endy had promised to clean it up for you, then yes you would!” Rei started crying again.
It took a moment to register before the shock hit. That sneaky little…that’s what must have happened, Endymion must have been trying to hide what he had done when Rei had caught him, so he put the blame on Jared, saying that he was cleaning the mess while Jared went to make sure people saw him in the office, far away from the shrine. It was long shot for Endymion, but it seemed to have worked. Jared’s doubts about their King’s abilities vanished; Endy’s manipulative skills were phenomenal.
“If he was really trying to cover for me, then why would he tell you I did it?” He replied rather smugly, thinking he’d beaten her with logic.
Rei didn’t even miss a beat, “Because he wouldn’t be stupid enough to take the blame for something as bad as that!”
“It wasn’t me!” He cried out, frustrated that there seemed nothing he could do to convince her. She simply shook her head through her tears and stormed out.
“Rei, I-” he called, but she turned around menacingly to glare at him.
“That was the last thing Ojii-san passed down to me before he died; it was the pride of my mother’s family. Now what am I going to do? Dammit Jared, you immature, heartless, selfish asshole!” With that she ran off and if he hadn’t been so pissed off he would have found it rather heart-wrenching to see his wife in such anguish.
He stood leaning on his desk, fuming at Rei and Endymion and the entire situation, for once, nothing had been his fault, and he still ended up in trouble. A few minutes later Zach sauntered in, a few papers in his hand and a pencil tucked behind his ear, “Hey there Jeddy bo-” He stopped in his tracks at the silent glare that sent a chill down his spine.
“Not. Now.” Jared stated, his voice flat and hard, his eyes flashing like he had done murder. Zach’s eyebrows flew into his bangs, acting like a man who had just spotted a cobra in the bushes, he took steady steps back the way he came and out of sight.
Jared stormed out of the office and down to the gym, he needed to offload some of his anger.
~*~
He deliberately waited until it was late before going into his rooms. Even though he knew she’d be asleep he still didn’t want to push his luck, at the very least he’d hoped she’d been kind enough to not lock the other guest rooms and thereby forcing him to sleep on the living room couch. She would do that sort of thing, just to make his life that much more hellish.
He’d spent most of the evening pummelling a punching bag and imagining it was Endymion’s face. The worst part was that as angry as he was, he’d forgiven the King the moment he’d realised it was his fault. All in all, he was tired, wanting nothing more than for the day to end. He opened the door…and changed his last thought immediately. He hoped he wasn’t seeing things, and if he wasn’t, then he never wanted the next day to arrive, hell even if the sight that greeted his eyes wasn’t real, he didn’t care.
The entire room was lit by candles, rose petals littered the floor, and right in the centre of it all was Rei, barely wearing something that could only just be considered red lingerie. But instead of the bold confidence she normally exuded, she stood looking shy and insecure, “I’m sorry,” she said, “Serenity came to see me when we didn’t turn up for dinner. I told her what happened and she got Endy to admit the truth,” She looked up at him, tears threatening to pour out, “I should have believed you.”
Jared’s jaw dropped to the floor. This had never happened to him before, perhaps he had stepped into an alternate universe, one where all his fantasies came true. All he needed now was for a giant steak teriyaki dinner to pop up in front of him and he’d be all set.
When he didn’t say anything she became more nervous, which annoyed her slightly, “Jared! Say something!”
He knew what he needed to say, but the little devil Jared within couldn’t help but take a little advantage of the situation, “You’re supposed to trust me Rei,” he said, feigning being hurt.
Her face changed from annoyed to solemn. She made to step towards him, but stopped herself, unsure exactly of what to do. She picked at her perfectly manicured nails instead, unable to look him in the eyes. Eventually she found her voice, “I said I was sorry, I was upset and I wasn’t exactly thinking straight.”
“That doesn’t matter, you’re - oh screw it, you know what?” He swooped over to her and scooped her up. She shrieked as he caught her by surprise.
He took her to the bedroom where he dumped her on the bed, he stepped away for a moment, looking at her, watching her giggle as she flicked her dark hair back. He shook his head as he pulled off his shirt, “if you apologize like this every time you’re wrong about something, I hope you never do anything right!”
It was Endymion who slept on a couch.