I have packed and am ready to leave tomorrow. But of course I couldn't keep away from the computer, so here you have it, third chapter of "An Innocent Wish".

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Bulma sat up in the bed and buried her face in her hands. She was afraid she would go insane, if she had to spent a couple of days more in the cell without any distractions. Why was she in this situation? 'Because you messed with history, that's why!' she yelled at herself.

She knew the death of Goku, Gohan and Krillin was her fault. "And you will have to live with that for the rest of your life Ms. Brief," she said out loud in the empty cell. She would have cried if her eyes weren't dried out from crying a full week.

Vegeta sat in his former lord's chair and looked at the distant stars. He thought about the events at Planet Namek.

He had killed Kiwi with ease. That was expected, but he had felt the like his power suddenly became massive while waiting for Kiwi to come at him. With his new power he had been certain killing Dodoria and Zarbon would be piece of cake. He had flown towards them with his power risen to just below Dodoria's to try and lure the fat pink excuse of a living being to him. It had worked and he had killed Dodoria without breaking a sweat. On his way towards Freeza and Zarbon he had suddenly encountered three people he hadn't expected to see on Namek. If the woman hadn't yelled in surprise of a lizard jumping at her from the mountain they had hidden behind he would have missed them.

He had killed Kakarrot's kid first as a "thank you" for the embarrassment of having to retreat from their fight at Earth. The baldy had tried to flee with the blue-haired woman in tow, but Vegeta had stopped them by shooting a beam through his heart. He had caught the screaming woman and clamped a hand over her mouth to silence her. After a tiny bit of… persuasion… and threats of killing her if she didn't stop screaming and hurting his ears, he found out that the Dragonballs had been used by her and she had wished for him and Kakarrot to become strong enough to kill Freeza in his final form. When he asked why she had wished it for him and Kakarrot and not Kakarrot only, she had said: "If Goku can't reach the planet before Freeza find us, I could only hope you would kill him before he killed us…" She had looked at her death friends and he had seen the tears clearly in her eyes.

He pressed a button at the armrest and ordered food to be brought to him and to the woman.

He had destroyed her ship and made it clear, that if she wanted to get off the planet, she would wait for him where he left her. And to his surprise, she had. He had killed Zarbon and Freeza and after some time in the regenerationtank he had flown to where he had left her for his own peace of mind and for having no harm done to his pride. Underneath the destroyed ship she had been sitting in the exact same clothes as the ones she wore, when he had left her. He had frowned at the sight and wrinkled his nose because of the smell coming off of her. She had obviously only left the spot to use the bathroom and grab a small amount of food. Some of it was lying beside her, rotting.

She had looked at him with those clear blue eyes, and he thought that he had seen relief and even hope in them for a brief moment before they turned darker with sadness and turned away from him. "You really came," was all she had said, and he had told her his pride wouldn't allow him to leave her behind. She hadn't looked at him since then. Not even when he had gone to her cell to personally tell her that he had killed Kakarrot as soon as he had showed his face on the planet. (A/N: I know Bulma wished for Vegeta and Goku to become strong enough to kill Freeza, which would give them equal powers, but Vegeta became even stronger because of his severe injuries during the fight with Freeza.) All she had done was staring at her hands while tears had started to flow. She hadn't even started screaming.

As Vegeta was eating a soldier came running and shouting: "Prince Vegeta, Prince Vegeta!"

"What?" he sneered and looked at the fool who dared interrupt his meal. "It better be important or I'm gonna blast you where you stand!"

"I-I-It's very important, my lord," the soldier stammered. "There's a malfunction, and the technicians can't figure out what's wrong. There's a rumor about the woman in the prison being the one to make the ship she traveled by, and one of the technicians suggested to let her take a look at it."

Vegeta raised an eyebrow at the nervous man. "So the best engineers that Freeza could find can't handle a problem in the ship they build themselves? And now, they want to be aided by a mere earthling?"

"Yes, my lord," the soldier said nervously. "They send me with the request of having her escorted to the bridge to look at the system, my lord."

"No one suggests what I do with my prisoners!" Vegeta shouted as he unfolded his arms, which he had crossed in front of his chest earlier.

"No, my lord. Of course not, my lord!" The soldier said while slowly baking away from the angry Prince.

"Send one of the imbecile engineers and let him try to explain the situation." Vegeta stood until the soldier was scrambled out of the room. Then he sat down in the chair facing the big window once again. He remained in the seat even though he heard the door open and a pair of feet walking slowly towards him.

"My lord, I'm terribly sorry about the situation, but our whole system seems to have frozen except a timer, which we cannot find the reason for." The man felt his palm sweat as he saw his new lord slowly rise from his seat.

"How long have you known about this problem?" Vegeta asked as calm as he could. If the system went down they could be lost in space forever. The ship carried no spacepods for unknown reasons. The most likely reason would be Freeza being too confident thinking he would never need to flee the ship in case of an emergency.

"An hour, my lord," the technician started before Vegeta had lifted him by the neck.

"An hour?" Vegeta sneered. "You have tried to solve it only for an hour and yet you dare disturb me?"

"But," the man said while gasping for air, "the timer only have two hours left, we have to…" the man passed out before he could say more. Vegeta threw him at the ground and stomped out of the room.

The sound at the door confused Bulma. She had just been brought food and she was never seen to for any other reasons than that. She sat up right in the small chair and tried to look as confident as possible. Even though she was dying inside by all her thoughts and self-loathe, she wouldn't give the satisfaction to the sadistic soldiers. She was Bulma Brief, and there had to be done more to shatter her pride.

The door swung open and revealed to her big surprise an angry Vegeta. "Come," was all he said before he took a step back to make room for her. She looked at him and couldn't hide that she was confused. What was happening? Suddenly a wave of fear washed over her. 'Is he gonna kill me? Oh Kami, what have I done to deserve this?' The same answer as she had yelled at herself many times before was about to pop into her head, but she was pulled out of her thoughts by Vegeta. He had pulled her out of her chair. "Have you grown deaf, woman?" he growled and started dragging her out of the room.

"Excuse me for being surprised by his highness visiting me in my humble cell, where no others than grumpy soldiers have come to bring me food!" she spat before she could stop herself. She had answered him in the same manner as she always had back at Capsule Corp, but then they had been houseguest and hostess – and she had gotten used to believing them to be lovers. Now she was a prisoner and he was a prince ruling an entire army.

Vegeta stopped dead in his track and looked at her. "What did you just say, wench?"

"I'm sorry Prince Vegeta," she said as humbly as she could, "I was out of my mind for a second, and I do apoligize." 'If he wasn't gonna kill me he sure is now. Clever done Ms. Brief.' Her heart was pumping wildly and she fought the urge to look at him. She was afraid that her last image of him would be with eyes burning with anger and possibly hatred.

"If you're lucky I'm gonna let you live afterwards." Without further explanation Vegeta dragged a puzzled and slightly terrified Bulma towards the bridge.

That was it, chapter three – I will start at chapter four right away and it will be up tomorrow if not later tonight! Until then please review!