Hi minna!
As always, Sailormoon and all things related to it belong to the wonderful Naoko-hime, not to my poor little self. Do not sue, because I am, as I said, poor.
Well, I always wanted to write another Kami/Dreamweaver fic, and here it is...so strange, accidentally making a senshi like this...(Kami was originally going to appear only in 'The Bloom of the Mountain Cherry.')
So I hope you enjoy this fic...we'll see how it goes. I'm not much for writing episodic-seasonal type stories, but more 'movielike' ones.... And as the majority of my fics, 'The Golden Rule' will be manga based. At least about 90% of it, anyway. There is a very major anime element in here, but you will have to wait a bit to see what exactly it is. So the story picks up just after the completion of 'The Weaver of Dreams.'
For those of you who are new to this, here is a super fast recap of the first two stories. Keep in mind, the Kami character was not originally going to appear in any further than the first. In order to understand 'The Golden Rule', spare a few moments to scan this 2-fic-in-a-nutshell recap.

'The Bloom of the Mountain Cherry'
Inspired by my reading of 'The Tale of Murasaki' by Liza Dalby. An Ami-centered fic. I constantly hear about Ami/Mercury being 'weak' (a thing that drives me insane to hear) and so I used some of 'The Tale of Murasaki''s backdrop and scenery to explore what exactly is means to be 'weak.'
Ami feels that she isn't strong enough as a senshi, and that she and her contributions are insufficient to the team. She begins to question why she is needed there, especially when Neptune can also act as the part of the Senshi of Water. Then as she sleeps, she begins to dream of a young woman named Kami. Kami treats Ami as though she has known her for a very long time, giving her the nickname, 'Kanashimi-chan,' (sorrow or sadness) as Ami asked her if she is a kami. (a spirit or god) Kami practices meditation by copying out poetry, and Ami watches what she writes, eventually taking it to Setsuna to try to read the slightly unusual dialect. From this, Ami is able to tell that Kami is copying Heian period literature (ie, waka-poetry- by Murasaki).
As Ami becomes more alienated from the other Inners, she sees Kami again as she sleeps, each time learning something else. She discovers that Kami has a dream to live in the capital city, (Miyako, modern Kyoto) but due to her father's illness, she remains in a small palace in the country. In fact, much of Kami's life is devoted to practicing poetry and playing the koto (a musical instrument) so that she may someday go to court. During this, Ami begins to have a feeling that something is wrong with Kami.
The next time she goes into the dreamworld, Ami tries to ask Kami if she knows magic, or if something is haunting her. Kami sidesteps the questions, and Ami is pulled away from the dream too quickly. Each time she returns to the Heian dreamland, Kami seems more remote, and her behavior more erratic. Then, on another visit, Ami arrives to see Kami very ill, with a severe fever. She tries to bring her temperature down with her elemental magic, (water for dehydration, ice for the temperature) but when Ami wakes up, she believes Kami died. This pushes the depression further- still useless, still unable to do anything.
Usagi and Minako visit, in an attempt to cheer her up, but it only helps a little. Exhausted, she dozes off, and sees Kami for an instant. But her eyes were blind.
Kami appears a final time, and this time shows Ami what happened to her in life. Kami, blinded, was unable to fulfill her dream of living at court. One of the places they had seen in the dream was a river, and Kami showed Ami of her death. (Kami's, not Ami's.)
As for the conclusions drawn, you'll have to read the fic to understand. ^_~

"The Weaver of Dreams"
Over the course of writing 'Bloom' I found that I liked Kami too darned much to let her story end the way it did. She was a ghost there, mainly seeing in Ami someone like herself- someone giving up on herself, and so she intervened. So 'Weaver' picks up just after 'Bloom' lets off. My original intention was not, not, NOT to make a senshi up. Hence my reason for calling her my 'Accidental Senshi.'
Opening ,'Weaver,' the senshi (we see though Ami's) are having a similiar dream. It is disturbing, and Rei begins calling the other Inners, each of them in turn rushing to Usagi's house, finding that Mamoru and the Outers (the Outers having a car) have beaten them there. An ambulance is on the way, and Usagi has fallen into a very bizarre coma.
The next day, they visit their princess at the hospital as Ikuko, Kenji and Shingo are leaving. Mamoru and Chibiusa are already there. Setsuna does not know why this has happened, and all reports say that Usagi is merely asleep- no apparent cause for this. Inside Usagi's mind, she watches her enemies emerge- first Beryl, then Wiseman, then Nehelenia, and, finally- herself.
As the doctors examine Usagi, they allow Mamoru and Chibiusa to remain- the rest are kicked out to the cafeteria. They try to discern what it is that could cause this, assuming magical, and an enemy. Rei, Michiru and Hotaru (Hotaru tried to heal her magically) could not sense anything from Usagi, other than herself. During the conversation, Ami makes the comment that perhaps that is exactly it- Usagi is battling herself, as she had recently. The others demand to know why Ami thinks this, and tells them an edited version of what happened with Kami. Setsuna asks how Kami was able to pull Ami into her dreamworld, and Ami replies she does not know. Setsuna reacts strangely to this, and says it is nothing. Makoto, already worked up over Usagi, demands to know what Setsuna means, and with urging from the others, tells them a small story.
At first it sounds very much like a tale of Hotaru's birth in the Old Silver Millenium. However, the child the queen of Saturn was carrying was stillborn, due to a miscarriage. Later, Hotaru was born, and the Silence Glaive passed to her. Mythologically, the older brother of Death is Sleep. And so the power over the realm of dreams would have stemmed from the planet Saturn. 'Kami' would have originally been Sailor Saturn- but without ever being born, it passed to Hotaru. In effect, Kami becomes the guardian of dreams by default- another reason she's an 'Accidental Senshi.' Before another child could be produced, the Old Silver Millenium fell. Thus no mention of a soldier of dreams- none existed. And Kami did not progress with the others to the future in the Fall because she was not alive to be sent ahead by Queen Serenity.
Hotaru reacts to this odd news by thinking over her life, and the lack of blood family in it. Rei suggests they 'get' Kami to help them- but Ami warns that she has no way contacting her. Kami has been 'dead' for nine hundred years. The dreams have stopped. Makoto makes an off hand remark about finding her. Setsuna has a unused key that could take them to the realm of the dead- (Sailor Pluto after all) but it is dangerous and never been done. Hotaru volunteers immediately. Ami with her. Setsuna forbids any others.
Meanwhile, Usagi continues to dream. She sees the fall of the Old Silver Millenium- of her and Endymion's attempted escape from the battle on the moon. She watches Endymion die at the blade of Beryl. (manga based, remember?) The 'other' Usagi remains, and twists around Usagi's perceptions of what happened in the past.
Setsuna, Hotaru, Ami and Rei go to the temple to attempt the journey. Touching the key, Hotaru and Ami are transported instantly to the underworld, and discover that their key has split itself. Each has a copy of the original. Wandering though an empty city, they get help from two spirits (who assume they are also dead) and are told to follow the Yellow Brick Road to find who they're looking for. Then they dissapear.
Usagi again has a dream, this time the manga conclusion of the Nehelenia battle. With the excpetion that she is not the princess- Minako is. Usagi is extremely upset by this. The 'other' Usagi then introduces herself as Fury. Mythologically, the Furies were the goddesses of guilt and conscience. Fury tells Usagi that she is 'testing' her.
Ami and Hotaru travel the Yellow Brick Road for what seems like days. Very tired, they take a break, and are attacked by harpies. Mythologically, (Yes, I try to use lots of mythology in the fics!) harpies sought out spirits to punish for their sins in life. They henshin and battle, aided by a transforming lioness-woman who introduces herself later as Atalanta.
Atalanta takes them to the blind prophet Tereisas, who is practicing the play the Eurmenides in a theatre. From him they learn how to manipulate the world around them, and quickly find Kami from there, under a sakura tree.
Kami sees them, and believes they are disguised harpies, come to taunt her. She attacks, and they henshin, trying to convince her they are friends. She relents when Mercury uses a phrase she herself used in 'Bloom.' Saturn steps though Kami's shields, and strikes her with the Silence Glaive. Hotaru shows Kami the end of the Silver Millenium, and the place she would have had in it. Kami agrees to help Usagi. This said, they return to the underworld, and Kami has a silent henshin. She tells Ami and Hotaru to unite their halves of the key, and that will return them to the waking world. They do so, and discover they have only been gone for a moment.
Kami arrives and encourages Usagi to break free of Fury and her influences. (Fury also makes a lot of fun of 'another damn senshi!' appearing, lol ^_^) Usagi names Kami 'Sailor Dreamweaver' and Dreamweaver summons a naginata (a polearm- like a spear with a long blade at the end- not unlike a glaive) and Usagi uses this to kill Fury.
Sailor Dreamweaver watches the 'party' as Usagi wakes up. She is still within a mirror, and the others, in their happiness at seeing Usagi awake, have forgotten about her momentarily. Dreamweaver hears a voice in her head, the thoughts of a patient in the next room, who is very afraid of the surgery he will be undergoing. Determining she will help, Dreamweaver enters his mind.
Thus we begin our tale.

Enjoy.
-Queen

fic complete 8/16/01