Ami Ryo sat down in a chair, head in hands. She had just lost a patient, and although it had happened many times before, she felt just a bad as she had when she lost her first patient. She felt the tears roll down her cheeks, and she quickly brushed them away. Instead of dwelling on the loss of her patient, she forced herself to think about her family, which never failed to cheer her up.
Her husband, Greg, was a never ending support to her. Besides being her husband and best friend, he was also her coworker, being a doctor himself. He was, at that moment, at home with their two children, Gregory, 17 and Aria, 15. Ami had to smile whenever she thought about her two children. Gregory, called Gee by all his friends and family, looked exactly like his father. Aria had inherited her rich blue hair, but Aria wore it long, instead of short, like Ami.
Ami finally felt better, and was about ready to leave the lounge to go make her rounds, when Greg rushed in.
"Ami! Ami!"
"What is it? What's wrong? Is it one of the children?"
"No, it's your watch!"
Ami was momentarily confused, until she heard, rather than saw the watch in Greg's hand. She snatched it from him, and looked at it for the first time in almost twenty-two years. The band was blue, the exact color that she wore as Mercury. Ami pushed the tiny button, and the communicator part of the watch was reviled. She then pushed the tiny little blue crystal, and listened.
"'Here we go again... and this time I am way too old to do this!'"
"That was Serena." Ami said absently, ignorant of everything around her, as she thought about the last time she had ever seen her friends. It had been exactly twenty-two years ago. They had decided, as a whole group, that they should split off and move on with their lives. They all knew that the Freeze was coming, but they all agreed that each and every one of them had to go out and enjoy life for as long as they could, and to always keep an eye out for the first sign of a new evil. That was what the tiny button was for... to be pushed when the end had begun.
"Ami? Ami? AMI!"
"Oh, yes, Greg?"
"Are you okay? What is it?"
"It's time to go back."
His eyes widened. He knew that it was coming, but he had been lulled into a dull sense of security when nothing had happened for so many years. He stood up straight and tall, and with a sigh, said, "Gee and Aria are going to hate us for uprooting them like this so suddenly."
"Yes, but I we have to go, it is my duty. I will keep the world safe, with the help of my friends, so that our children can one day live in peace, hopefully in the Crystal Millennium."
"Yes, you are right."
Ami then, with a sudden quickness, shed off her lab jacket, grabbed Greg's hand, and ran out of the lounge.
"Where are you going, Dr. Ryo? Uh, both of you?" The head of the hospital said in confusion.
"We quit!" The two said in unison, as they ran out of the hospital, past confused doctors, nurses and patients.
The next day, the two forty year olds and their two angry children were on a plane heading towards Japan. They had packed only the most necessary things, and Ami held the most important things within the box that was sitting on her lap, touched only by her. Inside lay her past and her future, namely, her henshin stick, and her mercury computer. The watch was now in its familiar spot, on her wrist, where it should have always been.
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