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This was twice now that Andeon's head had been carried by royalty, and he was beginning to feel a bit spoiled. He smiled up at the Queen in his princess' body, and murmured his thanks. Normally he might have been offended at Sue and Foramen's apparent reluctance that he was.. whatever the hell they were saying herwas. Fortunately, on the list of things that Andeon gave a s**t about, their opinions were pretty low, just above 'What ever happened to Tara Reid's acting career?'

The world became a white haze, filled only with the sound of his own heartbeat – a sound he had not heard for weeks – and the wild, concerned clicking of his little youma. Snuzzles was gently butting his head against Serenity's ankle while she healed Andeon, voicing his concern. It took only a moment for him to scamper up the Queen's side, making a perch of her shoulder while he carefully surveyed what was happening to his Andeon. His Andeon was glowing, and this was not normal. A healthy Andeon did not glow!. Of course, his eyes sometimes glowed once he finished a bottle of booze, but not his whole body! Snuzzles told Serenity this, clicking quietly in her ear.

Andeon felt his life return to him bit by bit, and before he knew it, he was up on his feet. Without a second thought, he wrapped his arms around the slim figure of Chronos body, lifting her off the ground and swinging her around in a snug but not-too-tight bear hug. Every fiber of his body screamed at him that this was some sort of blasphemy, so close to sacrilege that it just might damn him to hell. Besides, if his loose morals and complete lack of respect for any form of religious text hadn't damned him already, then clearly he was impervious to such punishment. The feeling was overwhelmed by one of pure and absolute joy.

“Oh, you beautiful, fantastic, wonderful, glorious, amazing, I-wish-I-wasn't-out-of-adjectives woman!”

He was alive! He was ******** alive, and so was Mackenzie. Hell, he was even happy that Sue was alive! What was a missing hand when compared to that?

It was for that reason that he set Serenity on the ground, grinned like an idiot, and planted a kiss right on her Andeon-healing, wisdom-speaking, Snuzzles-blessing mouth.

Way to ******** distract Sue during a not-so-easy task, Andeon.

He'd been so close, too. So goddamned ******** close. Sue could practically feel those pens in his hand - there might even had been a bit of light shed, announcing the near completion of his task.

Then Andeon had to go and do that. And it was like ******** Alderaan had just been blown up - a thousand voices in Sue's head cried "******** NO", and were suddenly silenced. And suddenly, Sue had lost his place. It was like the book had slammed shut on him.

And when Sue opened up his eyes with a quick inhalation, the first thing had had to see was ******** Andeon making a move on Serenity/Chronos.

Now he really felt like he was going to be sick....

Fortunately, Sue had less hang-ups than Foramen about making a bad impression in front of the Queen. For instance, he had no problems with charging forward, yanking Andeon off of the unfortunate royal, and giving him a sound punch in the jaw. Which was basically what he was trying to do right now, in fact.

Sue had to admit -- that had felt good.

Punching Andeon in the face like that, I mean. The part that came after, not so much. But in that brief period between his fist landing on Andeon's face, and then Andeon's face landing on Sue's, he'd been feeling pretty damn satisfied. Like he'd taken one more step toward evening some unaccounted balance on the scale of eternity.

Spurred by this happy feeling, Sue'd begun to say something like, "Learn some ******** manners, pig." Unfortunately, it was when he was beginning that word manners that Andeon had suddenly pulled him close. His lips making that "ahhh" noise.

In other words: His mouth had been ******** open.

"MMMMMMMMMPH!" Oh god, Sue was swinging. He was going to ******** bash Andeon bloody off his face. He was going to keep swinging, kicking, until the wayward Gemini partner was busted up into so many tiny ******** bits, Mackenzie got a ******** bloody nose.

Only one problem. While Sue was forming a fist, his hand glowed.

Apparently, Andeon's kiss brought on that extra surge of energy Sue needed to summon the Gemini switches. <******** disgusting. At least Sue would have the questionable pleasure of thwacking Andeon over the head with his own henshin pen, before going off to dry-heave against a tree.

Foramen felt someone charge by him, and then Sue was slugging Andeon in the face. Jaw dropping, he was about to start cheering Sue on when Andeon decided it was the perfect time to spread the loving. Literally.

"Ack!" Foramen lost the ability to form words as he watched Andeon liplock with Sue. It was with some mix of pity, horror and relief that it wasn't him, that made Foramen unable to look away. So this was what they meant by 'unable to look away from a car wreck'.

Thank God for the Queen, returning sanity and order to the situation. Foramen snapped back to attention. He was glad to hear that Andeon and Mackenzie would be heading back to the gym. But oh, to be a fly on the wall when the other Zodiacs saw who had just joined their ranks...

"You still have one more pen, Zue," said Serenity.

Foramen's eyes narrowed. This would be for the leader, right? So far they'd named the second in command, but no one had mentioned who was actually in charge of the senshi team. So, most important for last? Foramen hoped it was less 'eventful' than this round of awakening.

It was a damn good thing Sue had been on the "survivor's diet." If he'd had a full stomach just then, it was entirely possible he'd be doing something very unhygienic in front of the Queen. As was, his twisting stomach was just bluffing. Still looking somewhat greener than before, though, Sue wiped his mouth obsessively on his shoulder and rejoined the others, pointedly avoiding looking at Andeon (just in case that might aspire the boy to repeat his vile act.)

"One more... yeah," Sue agreed. His tone was distinctively one of let's get the ******** out of here. Luckily, he was able to pick out the next target on the list pretty swiftly, and oriented to it. "This way. C'mon." Staggering slightly (Andeon would no doubt suggest that was a normal reaction to his smoochings), the violated boy quickly ushered the others away from the scene of his disgrace.

Mackenzie had still been holding her breath when Foramen had addressed her, letting out the breath slowly, still a little distracted by her own thoughtless praying. She did, however, turn her eyes up at him, looking a little startled but regaining herself fairly quickly. By that time, however, the Queen had already taken Andeon's head in her delicate hands, placing it gently where it was suppose to be at the base of his neck. Again, the white glow appeared, although this time over Andeon, and Mack watched as he was healed, every muscle in her body tensed. Waited.

And then he was up and spinning the green-haired woman, kissing her square on the lips, and Micky was up, grabbing Foramen in her own display of happiness, not realizing he was a he and not a she but not caring either way as she mimicked Andeon's kiss, pressing her lips against the redhead's with a residual smack before letting him go again, turning to face the Queen.

'Zodiac Guardsmen, get yourself to the gymnasium.'

Ironically, Mackenzie bowed at the same time Andeon did, one arm folded across her chest as she did so, holding it respectfully before straightening. She gave a small, respectful, thankful smile before she turned her attention on Andeon, the smile immediately growing into a grin, wide and amused and completely overjoyed. She had only the time to take a few steps forward before he was there, whole and breathing and alive, and then she was near crying again, because the bullet hole was gone. The hand on her cheek was warm, and she tilted her head down a bit, feeling him kiss her forehead before lunging at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, squeezing him back just as hard.

"If you ever disappear again, make no mistake, Mr Boskovic, I will kill you," She mumbled in his ear, giving his shoulders another rough squeeze before letting him go, climbing happily onto his back, arms wrapped tightly around his shoulders again, clutching him tightly. Leaning over the top of his head, she mirrored the kiss on his forehead, grinning like an idiot and glancing at the others who were leaving, giving them a wink.

She was just that happy.