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Sailor Pluto knelt before Neo-Queen Serenity. "Are you sure, My Lady, it would mean the disappearance of this timeline. Crystal Tokyo, the utopia that you and the king founded, will likely never come to be."
The queen gave her companion a sad, but tender smile. "Pluto, we both know that this is not the utopia we pretend it is." The fair woman looked away, her bright eyes very distant. "I would have liked to give Small Lady the chance to be surrounded by friends when she was growing up. Being queen took time away from family." The queen placed her slender hands on the taller woman's shoulders. "I love Endymion dearly, but I will not deny that my love for you, for them, and for her, is not platonic." Crimson eyes searched blue, looking for any hesitance. "Setsuna," Serenity had never addressed her without an honorific before, "if there is a future where we can all be happy, then make it happen."
"What about you?" Pluto couldn't bear the idea of Serenity and Endymion vanishing. "You will disappear."
"No, Endymion and I will be just fine." Serenity gave the time guardian a wise smile that would have been out of place on her younger self. "What you don't know, Setsuna, is that all of these timelines that you can no longer see do not die. They all still exist and continue, they are just out of reach because they are past the point of your reach."
"I do not understand, My Queen," Pluto responded, trying to comprehend something that she should have known.
Serenity smiled, tapping her cheek and winking. Pluto's heart did a somersault at the motion. "Because this future was viable at one point, it will continue to exist no matter what Usagi does." The queen's grin faded, her sapphire eyes wise and mournful. "The only thing though, is that once the changes begin to take place, the doorway that connects Crystal Tokyo to the present that you are living in will collapse. I will still exist, and so will you, but we will not be able to see each other again."
"But then, what about Small Lady? Will she never come to be?"
Serenity's sadness grew. "Even if Small Lady somehow managed to be born to Usagi and Mamoru in another timeline- which is doubtful in and of itself because of timing-, she will not be the one that you all know and love."
"Serenity, I could ne-"
The queen pressed her finger to Pluto's lips. "That is why you are taking her with you."
"I-" crimson eyes widened in shock. "What? You cannot be serious, My Lady."
Serenity sighed wearily. "Setsuna, I love my daughter very much, but so does everyone else. I had 900 years to give her the family she deserved, and I failed." Serenity took a shaky breath, holding back tears. "Usagi, Mamoru, and all of the senshi gave her more love in the past than she got here in all these centuries. She deserves to have a loving family."
"But...you will never be able to see her again."
"I know, but she deserves happiness. She deserves to be surrounded by her friends. I want you to take her there." Serenity wrapped her arm around herself. "Endymion and I have already agreed that this is for the best. All that's left is Small Lady herself."
Pluto embraced Serenity just before the queen's tears hit the ground. "As you wish."