Author’s Note: This is chapter four of The End of Innocence. This is going to 
be the chapter where the plans for Operation Sledgehammer start. E-mail me at 
bunny@senshi.net with any comments, flames, encouraging words, etc. I’m going 
to try to bring Amy and Raye in on this one, sorry I haven’t worked them into 
the story before.
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Disclaimers: Uh, I don’t own Sailor Moon. And if you do don’t sue me. I just 
moved past the pocket lint stage and now I have $2.
*Denotes thought
~*~ name’s P.O.V.~*~ changes p.o.v.

			The End of Innocence
			    Chapter Four
				by
			       Bunny

		~*~Andrew’s P.O.V. ~*~
	I had gathered Lita, Mina, and Derek in the arcade to plan how we 
were going to get Serena and Darien together.
	We were discussing several options when the door opened and Serena 
walked in. She came up to the bar and ordered a milkshake and when I gave it 
to her, instead of her sitting with us she went and sat at a table by 
herself.
	We started discussing again when the door opened again and Darien 
came in with this girl with long black hair on his arm. He walked up to the 
bar and ordered a milkshake with two straws. I glanced behind him at Serena 
and when I saw her staring at Darien I felt like punching him.
	“Come on, Darien! It’s good!” the girl said taking a sip. Darien 
leaned down to take a sip and I saw a streak of blonde and blue as Serena ran 
out of the door.
	I gave Darien the dirtiest look and me and Lita ran out to find her.

		~*~Raye’s P.O.V.~*~
	I couldn’t believe it! I was sharing a milkshake with Darien Chiba! I 
had heard he was going out with someone in my grade but it wasn’t true 
apparently.
	I took a sip. “Come on, Darien! It’s good!”
	He leaned over and took a sip. I saw the guy behind the counter give 
him a dirty look and then glance behind us. I followed his gaze. He was 
staring at a blonde girl who went to our school because she was wearing the 
same uniform as I was. Her hair was long and silky looking and she had it 
down and she had run her hands through it to give it a tousled look on top. 
She was pretty.
	I thought and though trying to put a name to her face because she 
looked familiar.
	*Serena Tsukino! The girl Darien was rumored to be going out with.*
	Just then Serena ran out of the arcade.
	The guy behind the counter and the two girls and the guy at the bar 
all turned and gave Darien a dirty look before the blonde guy and the 
brunette girl ran out after her.
	The two people left I recognized as Derek Kiryuu and Mina Aino. Mina 
came up to Darien and slapped him.
	“You bastard! Don’t you care how you’ve hurt her?” she demanded.
	“We only pretended to go out for Andrew’s sake!” he said softly but 
with a dangerous hint of violence to his tone.
	*Andrew? The blonde behind the counter?*
	“You are so blind, Darien, I can’t believe it. It’s so sad,” Derek 
said shaking his head as he and Mina left.
	“Darien? What was that all about?” I asked.
	He shook his head. “Damned if I know.”

		~*~ Serena’s P.O.V.~*~
	I ran to my special hiding place so that hopefully no one would find 
me. I didn’t feel like talking right now.
	“I have to get back at him. Who can I hurt him with?” I asked myself.
	“Serena!” a voice called.
	*Damn, Lita found me. I’m not answering.*

		~*~ Lita’s P.O.V. ~*~
	I could have sworn I heard her voice but I guess I was wrong. I 
turned around and we all met at the arcade and closed it up.
	“Okay so first off, we need to find a way to throw them together,” 
Mina said.
	“Yeah, since Darien’s my friend I’ll ask him to go to the movies or 
something and say I’m bringing along Lita and her friend.”
	“Yah, and then we can cancel and leave them stranded in the theatre.”
	“I don’t think they would just leave, but we could leave their 
tickets at the window for them.”
	“Okay that’s part A.”
	“I have some tracking things, bugs and so forth and we could track 
them at all times,” Derek said.
	“Good idea,” Andrew said.
	“And I know this girl at school who could help us. The Girl Genius?” 
Mina said, reffering to her nickname.
	“Amy Mizuno?” I asked.
	“Yeah, she knows Serena and she thinks she’s nice. She’d help I 
think.”
	“Now what to do with that Raye girl,” Andrew mused.
	“Murder’s illegal,” I said.
	Everyone looked at me oddly.
	“Hey! Serena’s my friend!” I defended my thoughts. 
	“Okay just to make sure Darien doesn’t try to bring a friend along to 
the movies, Mina and I will go make friends with her and then invite her over 
to out house.”
	“Good idea,” Andrew said.
	“Okay, come on, Mina, let’s go find Amy and then meet that Raye 
girl.”
	“I think Amy knows her already.”
	“Well maybe it’ll work out okay.”

	We found Amy coming out of a class.
	“Raye Hino? Ooh! I can’t stand that girl! Of course she doesn’t know 
it,” Amy said.
	Amy was a petite girl with short hair and blue hair and big blue 
eyes.
	“Serena and Darien? I always thought they made a cute couple. Sure I 
guess I could put up with Raye to keep her out of the way.”
	“Great, Amy, we’ll be there to, so you don’t kill her or anything. We 
have a meeting at the arcade at 5:00 tomorrow so we can assign code names and 
pass out supplies.”
	“Right, I’ll be there.”

		~*~ Darien’s P.O.V. ~*~
	I felt so bad about Serena, I didn’t ever want to hurt her but  I 
didn’t want to hurt myself either and I guess my self preservation instincts 
kicked in first. I don’t even know why I brought Raye, she gets on my nerves.
	Oh well.
	I was late for class because I overslept. Poetic justice, I guess. I 
was running to my first period ready to be killed. My hair wasn’t slicked 
back and I didn’t have my tie tied. Stupid ties, why can’t they give us 
clip-ons.
	I ran around the corner and saw a pair of slim legs walk into my 
first period.
	Oooh, a little alarm in my brain went off. Nice legs . . .
	But I’m digressing. I basically slid into my first period before the 
tardy bell finished ringing and ran to my seat before the teacher could say a 
word.
	I looked next to me and who did I see but the lovely owner of those 
legs.
	I could tell this would be a class that was hard to concentrate in 
from now on.
	I glanced up and up and up until I glanced into the big blue eyes of 
Miss Serena Tsukino.
	She was beautiful as always. She wore of course her school uniform 
and her blonde hair was curled into ringlets and fell around her shoulders. 
She glanced my way and I smiled. 
	She turned her head forward.
	I stopped smiling. I felt like crying. Yeah that would make a real 
nice impression, bursting into tears. *Way to be manly, Chiba.*
	After class Andrew came up to me and talked me into meeting him and 
Lita up at the movies.
	“Some friend of hers is meeting her and we wanted four so we could 
get the group discount.”
	“Sure, no problem.” I’m just relieved you’re still talking to me 
after what a jerk I turned out to be.

		~*~ Amy’s P.O.V. ~*~
	This was going to be so much fun. I met up with Mina and Lita and we 
picked up bugs so that we could bug Raye, Darien and Serena. We also had 
these nifty little devices like the FBI used. There was a little bitty ear 
plug which we had to snake the cord through our blazers. Also was a small 
detreactable mike coming from the plug. All of the cords ran into a small 
transmitter thing so small it was clipped onto our skirt tops and no one 
could see it.
	We also had some tracker screens, Serena, Darien, and Raye’s 
posistions showed up different colors on the screen. I felt like a spy it was 
so cool.
	Mina had a pair of sunglasses that were connected to her purse so 
that she could set it down and see behind her.
	I had a pair of glasses that when I switched a button on the side 
they recorded everything I saw.
	Now Lita’s were cool. She had her rose earrings fitted with a tiny 
tiny camera complete with film and all for taking pictures.
	We had all talked it over and we decided not to have Raye spend the 
night at my house, rather we recruited a friend of Serena’s who hated Raye to 
do it for us. Molly something or another.
	Raye had been suceesfully bugged and had a tracker on her and we were 
following her as she was talking to Darien.
	So we messed up one part, new plan keep them apart!
	“ . . . Darien, do you get the feeling we’re being followed?” Raye 
asked.
	“Followed? No, why do you think that, Raye?” Darien asked and looked 
behind we ducked out of site behind a big trash can just in time.
	“What is it?” Raye asked.
	“Nothing, someone just walked over my grave.”
	“Ooh, that’s spooky,” Raye said with a shiver and snuggled closer to 
him.
	Halfway down the block Darien ditched Raye and then went for a walk, 
occasionally looking behind him. He ended up on Serena’s block, humming a 
jaunty tune.
	He stopped in front of her house and sighed.
	“Man, Serena, I really screwed up bad, huh? I miss you. I’m sorry,” 
he said and turned and walked slowly back the other way.

Author’s Ending Note: Well how’s it going? Hope you like it and stay tuned 
for chapter five!
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