Disclaimer: hey, i hate to always say this, but as always it must be said so my ass is not sued off....I do not own dragon ball Z, nor any of its characters, however i do hold rights to write this story freely, and do to the characters as i wish. Also, any oiginal characters, are mine and mine alone.... so bug off!!

The Pain of Loss

Chapter 1

Doctors Appointment

Bulma sighed contently as she looked over at vegeta. He was still asleep, and she was very glad. She loved watching her prince sleep, he was alway so much more serene.

She nuzzled up against his chest, in response vegeta snaked his arms around her waist, pulling her bare frame up against him. He smirked playfully as his eyes opened slowly "watching me sleep again eh onna?" he wispered soft and gently into her ear.

She smiled, after a week or so of her waking up early for strange reasons, she often stayed awake to just watch her mate sleep, and vegeta noticed, but he also noticed that she was becoming wearier.

Trunks had moved out some time ago, leaving vegeta and bulma to enjoy eachothers company, but it didn't explain why bulma seemed so fatigued so often. He had seen her this weary only once, when trunks was a small toddler.

But this time there was nothing to make her weary, and yet she kept getting weaker. He was genuinely concerned about his mate, had it not been for the extreme urges of rut, vegeta wouldn't have even attempted to lure bulma to bed.

But more often than not, when she thought he wasn't looking, he would see her grip her ribs, as if she were in pain, but she alway just dismissed it a a menstruel cramp. But vegeta knew better, something was happening to her and he didn't like it at all!

He slowly traced her jawline with his finger, speaking in a soft soultry voice, "onna you have a doctors apointment today" bulmas enthusiasm was hardly contained as she recoiled from him"i didn't schedule any doctors apointment" she complained, but all at once she felt a surge of pain blst her ribcage.

Vegeta looked worriedly at her, as she clutched her chest. "onna, something is wrong, and i want to know what! I love you too much to sit by and watch you in pain." He said placing a gentle handon bulma's cheek.

Bulma took a deep breath, as vegeta pulled her into a comforting embrace. she sighed softly as the pain subsided, and nodded into his chest "alright, I'll go, but only if you are there with me" vegeta gave her a reassuring squeaze "I will, now get dressed, we should leave soon."

He relinquished his grip on her, left the bed, and went to the bathroom for a shower.

Bulma sat still for a moment, still processing vegeta's declaration. It wasn't often that he said her name, and that he loved her all in the same sentance. She smiled to herself as she got up, and got dressed, wondering if this would possibly happen again. She kinda liked it.

A.N. well first chappy done, Ok, I need a solid vote, should the doctors diagnosis of bulma be good or bad???? Tell me all about it in your reviews. I know that it is probably set to no annonomus reviews, but that will soon change

now for allof you who have read previous fics of mine, be assured, this will be completed quickly. Plans are to keep it under 10 chapters. My other fics are VERY long the only one that will finish in a good 30 chapters, will be Mysterious youth,

i shall update that as soon as i reobtain my laptop, and ALL the chapter residing on it, i have 1-7 finished on my laptop, so be patient!!!!

But for now, Ja~ne!!