A Simple Game, part 5: Shah Mat

docholligay:

The final
part of my Senshi Civil war fic! SO it’s completed now, for all of you that
refuse to get into fics until they’re done. (I hear you.) Later I’ll do a post
with all the parts on it for easy bookmarking and reblogging. 

Part one and Part two  and Part three and part four

Usagi looked at the table, staring through it as if it would
open a hole that would let her escape into another world, a world where none of
this had ever happened, where things had never gotten so ugly, where the
decisions she had made were not being brought back to her doorstep, baring new
teeth and claws.

“Usagi, I know you don’t like it, but we
have to.” Rei spoke with authority, her mind decided and set as concrete.

“There has to be…”

“There’s not.” Mina did not let her
finish. “She’s killing innocent people, Usagi. She’s lost control. You don’t
have to be there, Usagi.”

Pluto looked down at Mina, her voice
somewhere between sorrow and determination. “Mina, you could perhaps help her.
You know what it is to keep something like this controlled, I know that you can
help her.”

Mina took a sip of her soda, a crooked
smile and flicked eyebrow punctuating her face. “I think your faith in me is a
little misplaced. I’ve never gone this far off-leash.” She looked around,
suddenly aware that she was speaking about the spectre of Venus lurking inside
of her in front of her army. “And I’m stronger than Michiru. And we’re not
talking about me.”

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