Disclaimer-I don't own the characters or the song
Summary-Tien's leaving for the fight against the Saiyans. Launch, of course, doesn't want him to go.
How Do I Live?
"Tien, please!" Launch shouted, blocking the doorway before her could pass through it. "I won't let you go!"
"Launch, I've been training for this day for a year," Tien replied, trying to gently prod her out of the way. "I'm not going to waste all that time and training now."
Launch stared at her husband with her tear-stained face. "But…"
"What?"
"You'll die!" With a sob she flung herself against him, holding him like she'd never let go. "Please, Tien! I'd die if something happened to you!" She couldn't bring herself to voice her worst fear.
Tien held her tightly. "Launch, Earth will be decimated if I don't go." He lifted her chin to look into her face. "I'm going to come back. You know I'd never hurt you."
Launch stepped back and wiped the tears from her face. "Go, then. But promise me that you'll be careful!"
"I swear it." He walked past her and stopped at the doorway. "Good-bye."
Launch was 20 years old, and had just recently become Mrs. Shinhan. It was plain to anyone that she was desperately in love with Tien, and he her. When she heard of the Saiyans and his fight with them, she'd nearly passed out.
An hour passed. Two hours, and Tien still not had returned. She was so scared that her hands began to visibly shake. Dropping the knife she'd been using to chop vegetables, she made her way to the couch. Deciding that music was the best thing for her right now, she flipped on the radio.
"And that was 'Baby, One More Time!' by Britney Spears!" the DJ announced. "And now, we'll turn it down. A country but a goody, 'How Do I Live' by Trisha Yearwood!"
Launch turned it up and sat down to listen.
How do I
Get through one night without you
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be
Oh, and I
I need you and my arms need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life
Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
And I
Baby, I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything real in my life
And tell me now
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breath without you
If you ever go
How do I ever
Ever survive
How do I
How do I
Oh, how do I live
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything
I need you with me
Baby, don't you know that you're everything good in my life
And tell me now
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever
Ever survive
How do I
How do I
Oh, how do I live
How do I live
Without you, baby
The song slowly faded away into a small piano piece before it ended and Launch flipped the radio off. Curling up on the couch, she slept peacefully, dreaming of Tien.
Launch awoke to the phone ringing. Yawning, she reached over and picked it up. "Hello?"
"Launch!" she heard Chichi yell. "They did it! They did it! The Saiyans are gone!"
"Thank God!" Launch yelled, fully awake.
"Come to the Orange Star City Hospital! We're all here!" Chichi voice faltered on the word 'all', but Launch took no notice.
"I'll be right there!" She hung up the phone before Chichi could say anything to her and ran into her room. She put on her black jeans, pink baby tank top, and boots before running out the door to her CC jet copter and taking off.
Launch ran into the hospital lobby, where Bulma, Chichi, Roshi, Baba, Yumigame, Ox-King, Puar, and Oolong were waiting. She skidded to a halt and looked around eagerly. "Where is he? Where's Tien?"
Bulma and Puar instantly began crying, and the others bowed their heads. "I'm sorry, Launch," Roshi said, "but Tien didn't make it."
Launch went as white as a ghost. "No…" she managed to breathe before she slipped into a coma.
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