Shadows of the mind

AN: Okay I do not have a beta reader but I work on this to the best of my ability. Oh thank you for the reviews. And Hotaru is fifteen. Ami is Twenty-two a young doctor so their age difference isn\'t that big of a deal. Anyway please review.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor moon

Chapter One : Them

Hotaru didn\'t know when she had first awoken but she woke up with a scream, her whole body convulsing and her body soaked in sweat. Michiru and Haruka rushed in the room to see Hotaru twisting and screaming. \"No, stop them! Stop them!\" she kept screaming her eyes open and unfocused. Michiru ran to the girl and shook her. That worked, Hotaru stopped screaming looked up at her new guardian and began to cry.

\"Hush little one,\" Michiru whispered patting Hotaru gently on the head. She wished Hotaru wouldn\'t have witnessed the death of her parents. She was probably having a flashback screaming for the flames to stop. Haruka knelt down and rubbed Hotarus shoulders gently. The young girl slowly relaxing in their embraces. \"Will make you some tea. Dr. Mizuno is going to be here shortly.\"

\"I don\'t want to see her.\" she whispered quietly.

\"I\'m sorry hun, but you have to.\" Haruka replied. \"It is for your own good. We are just trying to help you all of us.\" Hotaru nodded and followed them down to the living room to see a tall woman with long green hair and reddish eyes. She was dressed in a buisness suit. \"Hotaru this is my mother Setsuna Meioh, she kept her maiden name.\" she explained.

Setsuna smiled kindly at the young girl. \"You look like you had a rough night. I have made some tea.\" She placed the pot on a hotpad and smiled at them. \"Would you like some.\" they nodded.

A extreamly tall woman with brunette hair pulled into a ponytail and emerald green eyes. She was dressed in a maids outfit. \"Hello, I am going to make lunch now. What do you want me to cook Miss. Tenou?\" she asked as her eyes fell onto Hotaru. \"This must be Hotaru, what a lovely young woman she is.\" Hotaru blushed. \"Would you like something to eat hun?\" Hotaru nodded and sat down at the table sipping tea that Setsuna had poured.

Setsuna walked over to Michiru kissing her daughter lightly on the forhead. \"I have to go to work now, I have a busy schedule with the opening of my new line. I\'ll see you later.\" she said and made her exit.

Just as they finished lunch there was a knock at the door. Michiru opened it to see Ami dressed in a yellow sundress. \"Hello Dr. Mizuno come in Hotaru just finished lunch.\" The doctor nodded and she walked with Hotaru up to the library. Wondering how this meeting was going to go.

\"So do you like it here so far?\" Ami asked sitting on the opposite side of the girl. Hotaru shrugged rubbing her hands and staring at a dead fly that was on the table. Ami gave a sigh. \"Do you know what your knew guardians do?\" Hotaru shrugged again. Ami ran a hand through her blue hair fealing a bit irratated but it came with her job. It was obvious Hotaru was a very disturbed girl. Somehow Ami had to get her to talk. She tried a new approach. \"You must miss your parents I hear that it was a terrible fire.\"

\"It wasn\'t an accident.\" Hotaru said quitly looking out the window. \"They did it on purpose.\"

\"Who did it?\" Ami asked. \"Are you telling me somone purpously set the house on fire?\" she glanced at the tape recorder glad that it was still working.

\"Them. Yes they wanted me, my parents are dead because of me.\" Hotaru whispered.

\"What do you mean them?\" Ami asked.

Hotaru glared at Ami her face growing pale. \"NO.\" she said pacing around the room. \"I won\'t invoke them. No, not them. Shut them out, shut them out.\" Hotaru screamed and began to bang her head against the wall. \"Out, out have to shut them out. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!\" she yelled and started pulling at her hair still banging her head against the wall. Ami got up and ran to her. \"No don\'t, not them.\"

Ami shook Hotaru causing her to come out of the trance she had gone in. \"I\'m sorry sweetie, we won\'t talk about them for awhile okay?\" she asked trying to comfort the weeping child. She ran her hands through the girls soft black hair wondering if she had been like this before the fire. It was time she talked with Hotarus previous doctors. Maybe some family abuse had caused Hotaru her problems. Hotaru started breathing evenly, Ami relized that she was asleep.

Ami walked into the small house admiring the decortive carpet and rose coloured walls. \"She keeps insisting that it was them, who killed her parents. I was wondering about her physical medical condition.\"

A woman with long honey blond hair sighed indicating for her to sit down. Usagi sat down across from Ami. \"Hotaru was an unusual patient. She came in a lot with the flu and phnemonia. When she six years old she started to so signs of physical abuse. Scratches on her arms, bruises on her legs. One time she had a burn mark on her back. She kept insisting that it wasn\'t her parents that it was them. But she wouldn\'t say who them was. Her parents took of from here and moved to new york where Dr. Aino took care of her. That is all I can say you will have to talk to Dr. Aino to find out more.\" She said.

Ami frowned this whole thing was a goose chase. She had talked to Dr. Aino, Dr. Tsukino, Dr. Seiya, Dr. maddison and Dr. Richards. All of them had similair stories about Hotaru complaining about them and showing signs of abuse. Her parents probably abused her and then moved when people got suspicous. That was her hypothosis. She had one last stop to see Pr. Hino a priestess who was called in to help Hotaru, when she was committed to the mental instituon. Ami had vowed she would help Hotaru out no matter what.

Meanwhile Hotaru was talking ballet and violen lessons. She hadn\'t gained a single friend at all. In fact all the other kids seemed quite frightened of her.

\"We have are work cut out for us.