Vegeta and Goku came back from the bar and flopped onto the couch. Gohan, dressed in footie-pajamas, came in and sat in-between them.

"What are you doing up? Where's your mom?" Goku asked.

"I don't know. I woke up and she and Bulma were gone." Gohan shrugged.

"Huh. Maybe they made a run for it." Vegeta chortled.

"You obviously don't know either one of them very well. Krillin!"

Krillin came downstairs, dressed only in pajama bottoms.

"What's wrong?" Krillin yawned.

"Where's Chi-Chi? And Bulma?" Goku demanded.

"They left a couple of hours ago to get groceries."

"This late at night?" Goku frowned worriedly.

"Maybe one of them had a craving or something? You know how women are..." Krillin shrugged.

"I don't like it. Dangerous for them to out this late alone."

"You do not trust your mate, Kakorat?" Vegeta baited.

"Yes, I trust her!" Goku yelled, and then flushed bright red when he realized just how loudly he was yelling, and lookeddown at Gohan contritely."Gohan, go to bed."

"Nu-uh. Not 'till Mama gets back." Gohan argued.

"Gohan." Goku warned.

Gohan finally took the hint and got quickly off the couch. At this time, Chi-Chi and Bulma came back with in with a paper bag full of groceries apiece.

"Night, Mama! Going to bed now!" Gohan called, racing up the stairs.

Chi-Chi looked at Goku in surprise. Goku took her bag from her, and tried to take the bag from Bulma, but she guarded it protectively.

"I can do it!" she said, louder than intended.

Goku looked startled, a bit confused. "Okay... Chi-Chi, some reason you had to go out in the middle of the night for groceries?"

"Some reason you and Vegeta had to go "walking" in the middle of the night the other night?" Chi-Chi countered, turning it around.

"Never mindthat; it's dangerous for you to be out alone right now…"

"We were out of... certain supplies, that's all."

"Okay, okay... Well, here. Want some help putting them away?"

Bulma looked at Chi-Chi, shaking her head in a pronounced "No", so Chi-Chi nodded at her.

"Bulma and I can do it. It's only a little. I'll get up to bed soon, I promise." She said, patting Goku's cheek gently. Goku nodded as she gave him a quick peck and ran into the kitchen with Bulma.


Later that night, in Bulma's bedroom,

the room was nearly pitch black, but the moolight from the window has it bathed in an eerie glow, enough light to see Bulma, lying on her bed and staring up at the ceiling. She has one hand on her abdomen, the other behind her head. Her face is stoic, almost dreamlike.

Suddenly, her mind drifts, and she falls into a fantasy...

{FANTASY:

Somewhere out in the desert…

Bulma is standing, looking at her watch as if she is waiting on someone. Suddenly, a miniturized Vegeta walks up.

"Where have you been, young man?" Bulma demanded of Vegeta Jr.

"Do not question me, woman!" he snapped.

"How many times have I asked you notto call me that?" she asked him, hands on her hips.

"Very well... Mother." He said, pulling a face.

Bulma patted his head. "That's a little better... See, can't you act respectful?"

"Respectful? To you? I'm a Saiyan; you're just a woman..."}

The fantasy melted away, and Bulma sat up on the bed, shaking her head as if to clear it away.

"No, that can't happen... My child won't be like that..." she whispered.

She looked unsure, however, and put a hand on her abdomen, biting down on her lower lip.

"Will you?"

Suddenly, her eyes grow wide as she pulls herself into another fantasy...

{FANTASY:

Bulma is lying on a hospital bed, screaming with pain, her face red and sweaty from exertion. She turns to Vegeta, who is smoking a cigar and watching Television.

"Put that cigar out! Shouldn't you be over here?" Bulma yelled at him.

"This is your problem, not mine." Vegeta said calmly.

Meanwhile, Chi-Chi is on another chair, painting her nails.

"Chi-Chi, you had a Saiyan child! how did you survive it?" Bulma asked desperately.

"I'm stronger than you." She said smugly.

Bulma looks to the ceiling and screeches as the fantasy fades away...}

Bulma began pacing.

"Not happening... Not happening..." she muttered.

She stuck her head out of the window and sighed wearily before going back to bed...