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by Angelica Chapter 7:
Don’t ask why, just say yes. Come here as a stranger Videl
laughed as she saw the love of her life sipping a cup of coffee while reading
the newspaper, the activity in itself was fairly normal but the fact that Gohan
was holding it upside down made it so much more interesting to watch. She sat
down next to him and took a closer look. Sighing a bit she propped her head on
her hands and stared at him. ‘Ah old times’ she thought wishfully. Videl knew
exactly what was going on. You don’t live with a man and bear his child without
getting to know him. It was strange to comprehend when you looked at him. It
wasn’t strange anymore as you really looked at him. His eyes had always
betrayed him. Two black portals to his soul. The proud
woman darn well knew what an extraordinary catch she had made by nabbing this
man. She loved him more then life itself. She decided that daydreaming could
wait for a while. ‘hmm Gohan?
… Honey what’s wrong’ She poked one finger at in his shoulder and gave him her
best puppy eyed look. ‘Hmm what is it Videl ? Nothing is wrong with me.’ Videl
snorted at his answer. ‘ Sure… that’s why you’ve been reading the newspaper
upside down for an hour now.’ He sighed
and pulled her up to him. As he laid his head on her shoulder the words just
seemed to flow out. ‘Don’t you ever wonder… I mean really wonder about how life would have been if the sayijins had never come to earth, If I had been a normal man. Could I have given my child a normal life? One in which she doesn’t have to restrain herself from unintentionally hurting normal humans. Look at me and tell me that you are not scared of me… I’m scared Videl… even after all this time. I can’t do it.. I can’t let go. If I let go I become everything I have always hated, yet part of me desires to let go and fight. How can you love this Videl ?.I am not a blind man, I know what I see in our daughter’s eyes. She wishes to be normal.. Just like I do… Maybe I just wish I could have given her more of a normal childhood. Ah hell never mind me honey. I should be
thanking Kami for blessing me with the perfect family. Sometimes I just wonder…
you know? ‘ Videl leaned
back on him, ‘You know that I love you just the way you are. Even the
incredibly sexy alien parts. Seriously though in case I haven’t told you
enough. I love you Gohan.’ Gohan smirked
as he leaned in for a kiss. ‘You can’t blame one for wondering though. And
before I forget didn’t you have some diabolical scheme planned with our
daughter.?’ She laughed and kissed his nose. ‘Never my sweet, You know me.’
Giggling like a young girl she stood up and grabbed her jacket. ‘Yes I do have
an appointment with our daughter. I’m just going over to Goten’s to get her
sleepy butt out of bed.’ Gohan waved
absent mindly as he emerged himself in the newspaper once again. Pan grumbled
and swatted at the direction the annoying clinging sound seemed to coming from.
‘AAARGH One chance to sleep late and someone just has to come by and have the
suicidal tendency to keep pushing the
fricking doorbell.’ One eye
hesitantly opened. To the owner’s credit she refrained from squeaking .
Carefully she sat up and looked around the room. Trunks groaned in his sleep
and started to move. Not having the heart to ignore the ringing and let Trunks
get up, she stepped into the cold and hovered to the door. ‘Panny!
Good Morning!’ exclaimed Videl cheerily as she eyed her weary daughter. ‘I see
that it’s a good thing I came early to haul you out of bed. Or have you forgotten
our diabolical plan’ Pan yawned as she pulled her mother inside. She mumbled
something sounding like ‘coffee then everything else’ Five hours
later a chipper Videl and an exhausted Pan sunk down into the seats of a cosy
little café in the town center. She marvelled at her energetic mother who was
still busy pilling the bags up in a manner that the waiter could still reach
them. She yawned and muttered ‘I still have to survive tonight’s dinner and our
big announcement. I cant believe we managed to keep it a secret so long’ She
waved at the waiter to come closer and ordered one very strong coffee and one
cup of tea. Videl laughed as her daughter sunk back in the comfy chair and let
out a long deep ‘one but neeeeeever again’
Pan waved
her mother of and started to walk down the street in search of a quiet place
where she could take of. Flying wasn’t exactly what people called normal so she
avoided being seen doing it. Suddenly her cell phone started to ring. It nearly
gave her a heart attack since it had been a long while since someone phoned
her. ‘Hey Pan
can you come over right now? ’ ‘Huh why? The
dinner is tonight so Ill be there in two hours anyway’ ‘Yeah yeah
I know but I have a little surprise for you’ ‘Oh well, I
will be there in half an hour, I need to drop some stuff of first.’ ‘Great! See
you soon’ She found
herself staring at the phone in amazement, the request itself hadn’t been so
bad but Bra’s underlying amused tone positively gave her cold shivers. It was
the tone she tended to get if she had something up her sleeve. Pan shrugged
thinking ‘ there is only one way to find out’ It was like
a flashback to her teen years. As soon as she had stepped on the Briefs’ lawn
Bra came rushing out and dragged Pan up to her room. She briefly wondered if
the blue haired woman had had too much caffeine, judging by the way she was
bouncing up and down it had to be a lot. Bra giggled and explained her actions,
Pan laughed and answered ‘well lets hear the big thing you couldn’t share over
the phone’ ‘ I
wouldn’t mind it if you hooked up with boxer boy Panny.. You two look so cute
together.’ ‘……..’ ‘I mean wouldn’t
it be cool, I’d love having you as a
little sister..’ ‘Hey…. ’ ‘Even mom
and dad would love it… I think I saw mom flipping thru a bridal magazine
yesterday… ’ ‘ Maybe
Vegeta finally proposed..’ ‘……….. Dad
asking mom to marry her… isn’t that an oxymoron? Besides she was muttering
something like ‘finally’ and ‘I need to ring Videl’ ‘AAARGH’ ‘Oh common
don’t tell me you don’t want him. You’ve loved him since you knew what it was..
Don’t look so shocked. I am your best friend you know.. Knowing what goes on in
the weird little head of yours is in the job description’ ‘…… uuuh……
I…..I aaaah….’ ‘ Thought
so.. See I am so right… Well the fact that I badgered every little detail of
his feelings for you out of him helps..’ ‘WHAT…. And
you didn’t tell that earlier!’ ‘ Pan!
Oxygen is your friend.. breath girl.. If I had known for sure earlier I would
have.. Yes that’s it breath and stay with me.. I had lunch with him after he
came back from Goten’s. Anyway he kept so silent and weird. When he started to
play with his food and sigh like some lovelorn teenager my sisterly instincts
knew enough.’ ‘So so so
what did he say!! Tell me tell me !’ ‘ Geez…. As
soon as you stop trying to throttle me’ ‘. Sorry…
well?’ ‘ Sit down
and remember oxygen is your friend.. Pan seriously I have never seen him like
this before… I think the big lug really is in love with you.. See I told you there was no problem’ ‘………… oh my
god….. seriously?’ ‘ Good
grief Pan.. You know I wouldn’t joke about this.. Go get yourself your man if
you don’t believe me’ ‘ Uhm..
yes…’ Pan walked
away in a daze as Bra beamed at her. Bra slipped
of her bed after Pan left and walked downstairs. Preparations for the planned
dinner were going on full motion, that meant that the hired chef was cooking
and Bulma and Chi Chi had a fulltime job in keeping a hungry sayijin and about
a dozen demi ones out of the kitchen. She took a step back to make room as soon
as she heard the cries of Chi Chi ‘GOTEN ! PUT THE COOKIE JAR DOWN I didn’t
raise you to spoil your appetite’ and the terrified reply ‘But I’m hungry.. no
not the frying pan.. aaah’ The
unfortunate sayijin came skidding around the corner and ducked in a dark
corner, looking at Bra he motioned her to send the raging female elsewhere .
Bra took the hint and faced Chi Chi as she too came skidding around the corner.
‘Bra.. dear
where is that appetite spoiling son of mine?’ ‘He came
past here and I think he went to hide in the garden or the gravity room’ The woman
nodded and stalked outside leaving a relieved Goten in the shadows. Poor Goten
didn’t get much time to recover, before he could react he found himself being
pushed in another empty room. Bra closed the door behind her ‘ Sorry Goten but
I had to be quick, I need to ask you something’ His statement became confused
‘ Sure you can but did you need to drag me here first? Never mind what’s up?’
She smiled ‘What would you say if I told you that Trunks and Pan were in
love?’ ‘So you want to know what I think of
Trunks being in love with Pan? Well you certainly have a suicidal streak, no
wait I’m just kidding. Phew that’s a difficult question. One part of me wants
to throttle him for even looking that
way at my little niece. The smarter part of me knows him I can look behind the
mask he puts up. Common I know you can too. As hard as it is for Gohan and me
to except, Panny has grown up too. (laugh) I remember the day so clearly when
she totally humiliated me at the Budokai. Even back then she was fighting her
way up. I love her
to bits. I really do. You can assure yourself that when Trunks would just be
playing with her, well lets just say he would wake up missing some vital
organs. (grrrrrr) Yes sorry didn’t mean to scare you, just the sayijin part of
me growling. But I digress, the age difference still is fourteen years. Look at Bulma and Vegeta, I mean Bulma ages
but Vegeta hardly. If he would just regain his sanity and loose the moustache,
he still looks the same as twenty years ago. It’s the same thing with us Bra,
we will look like this for a long long time, and so will Pan and Trunks. Oh
Please don’t look so stricken. As if you don’t like it silly. Concluding,
age doesn’t matter as long as they are happy together I don’t care. What are
you up to anyway? Why are you slinking
around like some bored private detective. Oh… I wouldn’t tell
that to Gohan just yet ‘ . Pan felt
like she was going to hyperventilate any second now, she couldn’t help herself
but she found herself cherishing the hope that Bra’s prediction was right more
fiercely then ever. Sighing she rubbed her eyelids ‘And I thought I was over
him…. What if she just imagined it, or if its just a cruel joke? No Bra would
never do that to me. Whatever it is there’s only one way to find out. Right
after dinner and the announcement. When I survive that one I can take anything
in stride’ So instead of looking for Trunks she turned towards the kitchen to
help out or just wait for dinner to start. Bulma had
never been more glad that she had kept her mother from inviting about half the
world to the dinner. Keeping the demi-sayijins and a very cranky Vegeta out of
the kitchen had been a very tiring Job to say the least. She didn’t know what
she would have done without Chi Chi and her mighty frying pan. Bulma stretched
and sat down on a kitchen chair. Chi chi was still busy piling all the food on
the table. She felt completely content, a wonderful family and friends, Chi Chi
is slowly recovering from Goku’s death, life is wonderful indeed. She stared at
a picture of the whole gang together. ‘Oh Goku we all miss you so much but
things are getting brighter, but we will keep our memories fresh.’ She smiled
as she thought of her oldest friend. Chi Chi
yelled that she was finished. ‘ah time to release our food crazed monkeys’ with
that thought Bulma got up and opened the doors. Dinner had
been the familiar blur of several hungry extraordinary strong and fast people
eating. Pan leaned back in her chair and took a deep breath before speaking up ‘Uh guys I
need to tell you something..’ Several curious faces looked up to her. Gohan and
Videl were both smiling and basically being proud of their baby girl. ‘ I decided
where I wanted to live, As a matter of fact I moved into an apartment a few
miles away yesterday.’ Vegeta was
the first to speak up ‘Good for you, now you can train properly’ Bra followed
with ‘That’s great now we can go shopping together more often’ Bulma and Goten
simply congratulated her and ganged up on her demanding a house warming party. Only
one person had remained quiet. Trunks didn’t know how to react, after a couple
minutes he setlled on a simple well wishing and an request for them to talk
alone in the garden. ‘What is
wrong Trunks? I thought you would be happy for me..’ Pan looked at him with a
disappointed statement. ‘I am Pan,
Now I’ll be able to visit you whenever I want’ Trunks sat down on the grass and
Pan sat down with her back against his. ‘Then why
are you so nervous’ She asked softly as she played with her hair. ‘ I.. I am
no good at this.. Pan I need to tell you something.’ Trunk’s breathing started
to become irregular. ‘I.. yes
off course you can. You’re starting to worry me..’ Pan turned around and sat on
her knees as she laid a hand on his shoulder. ‘Hey its no
reason to be worried.. at least I hope so.. Oh god.. only one way to say this..
Pan I think I have fallen in love with you.. ’ Trunks turned around in order to
see the statement of her face. ‘……’ Pan looked incredulous ‘really?’ ‘yes really’
Trunks couldn’t help but laugh at their situation. There they were two grown up
people sitting on the grass beaming at each other. ‘ you
should know one thing.. Are we going to try this Trunks? Is it worth to risk
our friendship?’ Pan curled up in his arm ‘Cause I am as happy as I am scared right
now..’ ‘Panny I
love you, we can make it work together. I cant promise you any answers.. Damn it
Pan I.. I don’t think you realise how
much you really mean to me. You are the only person who knows me, just me not
my money or what I am just me…’ He kissed her on the top of her head ‘Believe
me I am scared as hell, I’ve never felt this way before.’ He looked so innocent
to her. She couldn’t believe herself, feeling like she drowning in his eyes she
finally answered him ‘I.. I love you Trunks and I want to try this’ Settling
into a more comfortable position she continued ‘besides I’ve been dying to do this’
Pan smiled and kissed Trunks. ‘I could
certainly get used to this’ Pan laughed again at his exclamation. Inside
three women squealed and one man sighed and a second man shrugged ‘about damn
time the brats got it together’ ~Fini.~ |