Well, I've been in a Bulma and Vegeta mood...so I decided to write a quick little story! Hope you like!

It was another hot summer day at Capsule Corps. The boys were off training, naturally, and Videl had joined Pan and Bulma for the day.

Pan was sitting down, eyes closed and bare feet stretching out in the grass. Bulma and Videl sat next to her, drinks in hand.

"Phew! It's a hot one! I don't know how Vegeta and Trunks can handle training on days like these." Bulma said.

"Hm…hey Bulma, can I ask you something?"

"Of course, sweetie. What is it?"

"Well, Trunks said something that had me wondering. He said that he and Vegeta weren't close when he was a child. He was already in a bad mood, so I didn't want to ask him about it."

"Well, Vegeta wasn't the fatherly type when Trunks was born. It's a long story, actually."

"Oh… can you tell me?"

"Yeah! I haven't heard the story of how you tamed your prince." Videl winked

"Ohhh, he's not "tamed" per say. Eh, it wouldn't hurt to tell you two, just don't tell Vegeta! How much do you know already?"

"Well, I know he wasn't exactly a good guy to begin with." Videl said

" And Trunks had told me you two had a rocky relationship at first." piped in Pan.

"That's an understatement." laughed Bulma.

"Let's start from the beginning….your father told you about the Androids, right?"

"Yeah! When Trunks came back from the future to warn you about them."

"Vegeta returned to Earth not long before that. After we were warned, my father built the Gravity Room for Vegeta to train in. That's kinda where it all started."

"The Gravity Room?"

"While Vegeta was training, there was an accident that destroyed the chamber. He was hurt pretty badly and I was really concerned about him.

At some point before then, I started having feelings for Vegeta, probably because of Yamcha's behavior. Yamcha and I, we were good together…but not as a couple. He was never particularly serious about me; even after all of the years we were together. Now, I was no saint myself, but eventually I got tired of it.

A while after the accident, I finally called it quits with Yamcha after I caught him with another girl. We had a huge fight and I threw him out of my house. Vegeta witnessed the tail end of it and told me I should "just forget about him". Of course I got angry and started yelling at him. Then at that point I just started sobbing into his chest.

I didn't know at that moment that Yamcha was still outside, but Vegeta did. He decided to be an ass and rub it into Yamcha's face by kissing me."

"Whaaaat? Are you serious?" gasped Pan

"Completely. Yamcha and Vegeta never got along….I mean, Vegeta barely got along with anyone, but especially not Yamcha."

"And Yamcha saw the whole thing?"

"Yep."

"I bet he wasn't too thrilled."

"We didn't talk for weeks. We eventually became friends again, but it took a while. Later that night I ran into Vegeta again. Naturally, I was still angry. I yelled at him and then he just grabbed me and kissed me again, hard. Things escalated and we ended up in bed together. We both knew it wasn't going anywhere, but we didn't care. And of course, we didn't know any better at the time.

Vegeta kept up with his training to fight the Androids. He would be gone for days at a time. Not long after one of the times he left, I found out I was pregnant."

"How'd you tell him?"

"Well he was gone for quite a while. At first I was terrified my child would grow up without a father. I wasn't sure what to do, so I called Yamcha. He was furious when he found out. He asked me if I was going to keep my baby and I was so angry that I punched him square in the nose, almost broke it. He knew he deserved it and apologized, saying he was just angry because I should have known what I was getting myself into by getting involved with Vegeta.

Even after Vegeta came back, it took me weeks to tell him. The day I told him, I accidently interrupted his training. When I told him I needed to talk to him, all he said was 'What the hell is so important you have to interrupt me?' I yelled at him, called him an ass and then blurted out that I was pregnant. I was so mortified that I just ran away.

Later that night I was sitting on my bedroom balcony and he flew down next to me. I told him I was sorry for yelling at him. And then he apologized back to me, for the first time. He was awkward about it of course. I told him I was keeping the baby whether he wanted it or not. He looked at me like I had three heads! He told me 'of course I was keeping it!' and that was that. It surprised me to say the least. I knew he wouldn't want a child but he actually seemed like he was taking responsibility for it."

"Was he there when Trunks was born?"

"Yes, but he wasn't there when I gave birth. He showed that evening. I knew he had to be curious about his son, but he didn't even want to hold him. Truth was, he was afraid. He knew absolutely nothing about being a father. When I asked him what he remembered of his father, he just said he was never around. I got him to hold Trunks for a bit, but that was all. He had training to get back to. Still, there was something sweet about it, Vegeta holding Trunks. He didn't look annoyed or upset, he actually gave a little smirk at him.

At nights he would occasionally watch me with the baby, and a few nights I even caught him in the nursery watching Trunks, but Vegeta was so caught up in training that he rarely spent any time with him. I wasn't even sure if he was going to stay with us.

One day I asked him if he was going to leave. He looked at me and said 'Of course not, I have the Androids to fight.' He knew it wasn't what I was asking, but I think he wanted to avoid talking about the situation. At that point I was almost sure he was going to after the battles. There wasn't anything to keep him around after that, not Trunks, or even me."