| I removed this story and then put it back. I respelled Gohan's name right sorry I misspelled it | |||||||||||
| in the first place. Make sure to review, Thanks enjoy. | |||||||||||
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| Captive Heart | |||||||||||
| Prologue | |||||||||||
| Videl was driving home from school, when she saw a young man by the street holding | |||||||||||
| a bloodied hand to his stomach. Immediately stopping, she hopped out of the car and rushed | |||||||||||
| over to him, and asked, "What happened? How bad is it?" | |||||||||||
| The man looked up apparently startled by her words, and gave her a bland stare. | |||||||||||
| "Well? Do you need my help or shall I go?" she snapped out feeling embarrassed. | |||||||||||
| "Why. . .why would you want to help me?" It seemed to take out a lot of effort to get out | |||||||||||
| just those words. | |||||||||||
| "I know you are hurt, and I know that you are a male. That's enough for me. It never | |||||||||||
| hurt to help someone in need. Now, are you going to stand there all day or are you going to | |||||||||||
| let me help you?" She asked him impatiently. | |||||||||||
| Nodding the man removed his had and hissed through his teeth when she began to | |||||||||||
| touch his wound. | |||||||||||
| "Oww, a gunshot wound. How did you come upon that?" she asked him, then before | |||||||||||
| she let him answer she told him, "Stay here, don't move. Got that?" Running over to her car | |||||||||||
| she took out a first aid kit, before scurrying back over to him. "What's your name anyway? | |||||||||||
| Mine's Videl." | |||||||||||
| "Ga. . . Gohan." he bit the words out as her gentle hand began to unbutton his shirt. | |||||||||||
| Pulling the shirt off she cleaned up the blood on his stomach. She wrapped a cloth | |||||||||||
| like bandage around his waist and held her hand just over the spot where his wound was, she | |||||||||||
| then commanded, "Gohan, listen to me. This is important, you have to hold your hand over | |||||||||||
| this spot and apply pressure hard enough to keep a lot of blood from flowing. I am taking you | |||||||||||
| to my house, there I will take out the bullet, now, come on!" | |||||||||||
| ********* | ********* | ********* | |||||||||
| Videl studied Gohan out of the corner of her eye. He had on brown ripped up clothing | |||||||||||
| his skin was tan but it was so dirty it seemed black from not being washed for so long. He had | |||||||||||
| a black beard which anyone one could tell he didn't like. He had black hair down to his | |||||||||||
| shoulders and it was so greasy it made her sick to her stomach. There was no doubt about it | |||||||||||
| he was a bum. But she took pity on him and vowed to give him a normal life. | |||||||||||
| ********* | ********* | ********* | |||||||||
| Gohan turned his head, wincing when he felt a sharp slice of pain in his stomach. He | |||||||||||
| couldn't keep from looking at . . . Her. 'What had she said her name was? Oh yeah, Videl.' She | |||||||||||
| had short black hair her peach skin went well with it. She wore a white silk blouse, a pair of | |||||||||||
| purple pants, and some gloves on her hands. All in all, she really was quite beatiful. He kept | |||||||||||
| asking himself one question, "Why is she helping a . . . .bum like me?" He didn't want her pity, | |||||||||||
| he didn't want anyone's pity. Stiffening, he sat quietly thinking. | |||||||||||
| ********* | ********* | ********* | |||||||||
| When Videl got home she led Gohan inside and helped him lay down against the cold | |||||||||||
| floor in her huge bathtub. She took off the bandage which of course was already bloody. | |||||||||||
| Getting her medical case she took the bullet out after she gave him a shot that put him to | |||||||||||
| sleep. Afterwards she stitched up the small cut and decided he needed a good washing. | |||||||||||
| She could only go through with washing his upper body. She ended up calling her friend Goku | |||||||||||
| over. When he rang the doorbell she jumped up and opened it for him. "Thanks Goku. Could | |||||||||||
| you wash the rest of him and, and could you perhaps shave off that beard of his? Oh and did | |||||||||||
| you bring the----" | |||||||||||
| "Relax Videl. I brought the clothes. Now go get cleaned up and let me get him ready. | |||||||||||
| "Thanks Goku you're a real friend." | |||||||||||
| ********* | ********* | ********* | |||||||||
| Gohan couldn't believe his luck. He'd been washed up, his beard was gone, he had a | |||||||||||
| new pair of pants, he hadn't had a new pair of pant since he was 18 and he was 25 now. He | |||||||||||
| was treated like a king, his every whim was met. He'd never been treated this way before, he | |||||||||||
| loved it! He asked Videl for a new hair cut she gave him a book to choose from. He got anything | |||||||||||
| he wanted, he got food he couldn't buy until now. | |||||||||||
| His stomach felt better, heck, he barley even noticed it anymore. One day Videl came | |||||||||||
| into his room and said, "Gohan, my dad is coming home today, you need to be very nice and | |||||||||||
| you just might make it into the family. | |||||||||||
| He seemed somewhat surprised by that, "You mean I'll belong. . I'll have a family?" He | |||||||||||
| asked incredulously. | |||||||||||
| "Yes, If you play your part right. His name is Hercule." | |||||||||||
| "Hercule? As in the guy who fights on T.V.?" | |||||||||||
| "Yes that's my dad." | |||||||||||
| "WOW!" | |||||||||||
| "Wow what?" | |||||||||||
| "I said Wow because I wish my dad was like yours." | |||||||||||
| "Oh--" | |||||||||||
| "I'll take that as a compliment." A deep voice boomed from the doorway. Hercule | |||||||||||
| stepped into the room. "And who is this Videl?" | |||||||||||
| "Daddy, this is Gohan. He's homeless and is with out a family. I found him by the | |||||||||||
| street bleeding from a gunshot wound. I took him home and took out the bullet." | |||||||||||
| "What did I tell you about letting strangers in the house Videl?" Hercule asked looking | |||||||||||
| over Gohan. | |||||||||||
| "But Daddy he didn't even want to come with me here in the first place. And you always | |||||||||||
| wanted a son, and he is perfect. So what do you say Daddy?" | |||||||||||
| "You had this speech planned to melt my heart didn't you?" | |||||||||||
| "Oh Daddy. Thanks so much. Gohan, welcome to the family." | |||||||||||
| ********* | ********* | ********* | |||||||||
| Six months Later | |||||||||||
| Videl was a block from school, on her way home, when she heard a twig snap behind | |||||||||||
| her. From out of nowhere a hand grabbed her, she screamed one last scream before letting | |||||||||||
| darkness take over. | |||||||||||
