Chapter Twelve: Gohan's POV
I'm not going to lie it was awkward when I was getting dressed to have Goten walk into the cave just after Piccolo walked out. I still felt dizzy and tired wanting to curl back up on the bed and sleep but knowing Goten and the others wouldn't let me. It also bugged me when it was Videl who stepped out of the woods. I could smell my mother on her. It wasn't hard to figure out that she had gone to the house determined to spent time with me causing 'mom' to know that I had lied to her.
I didn't fully listen to the conversation; my mind was racing of what Chichi was going to do to me when I got home or what she would do if she knew that I let it slip to Goten that I was gay. It didn't help that I didn't want to talk to any of them about my personal life besides Piccolo, least of all Videl. I couldn't stop it from getting under my skin when she asked about the survivability of the ritual. She didn't need to know about the poison, the drawing of blood or the sex. The kids didn't need to hear about it yet, if at all. I couldn't stop the anger bubbling up; she was so much like chichi with the same demanding tone and attitude that wanted everyone to bow to her as if she was a god.
I couldn't help the surprise I felt when I felt Piccolo pull me to him. "Calm down before you attract more attention from her then you already have" I heard him whisper in my ear. I nodded weakly against him forcing myself to calm down but I couldn't relax. Not with her around or with Goten around, both for different reasons. I felt half my tension melt away once Videl took to the sky and left. I pulled back from Piccolo.
"Goten, stay with Vegeta or Piccolo but do not, I repeat, do not fallow me...I have something to take care of." I said, only to get a growl from both Piccolo and Vegeta. I guess they figured out I was going to go back to the house. I was going to pack stuff for myself at Goten and get out of there. I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't endure the beatings, now that I had the only thing I've wanted my whole life, Piccolo. "I have to go back before she finds out that Goten knows about this, she'll kill him if she learns that he knows about this Piccolo." I shot back at my mate. I could see the shock in his eyes and understanding of why I had to go back to face her.
"She already knows that I know. I told her I was sick of her hurting you, that I knew you we're gay" I couldn't breathe as fear gripped my heart as I turned to look at my brother. "You and Piccolo where still asleep and Trunks answered your phone, it was mom. She demanded that we wake you up but Vegeta told us not to touch the bed so I took the phone and yelled at mom to stop it all and that I knew so you two could stop trying to hid things from me. I didn't say where we were though..." He said with a pout and hid behind Trunks. He told Chichi. He put himself in danger by telling her that.
"Goten I'm not mad at you but you have to understand, you can't see mom again, no matter what happens. She'll hurt you and everything I've endured through will be for nothing. I promised Dad to protect you and I can't do that if you go back to her. Promise me that you won't go back to the house" I asked him. I was kneeling in front of him holding him by the shoulders. I was glad that he knew and didn't care about it that he still saw me as his brother.
"I promise Gohan but only if you promise to come back" he said looking up at me with tears in his eyes. I pulled him in to my arms. I heard Piccolo and Vegeta fill the others in on what was going on between me and Chichi.
"I swear to you Goten that I'll come back. Just stay with Piccolo or Vegeta alright and don't listen to anyone but them" I said worried that Chichi had already talked to Bulma about what Goten had told her and that she would need to see the boy to explain things to him and calm him down. I liked Bulma and she's a good person, she just sighed with the wrong side during all this mess.
"You know what she'll do to you if you go back there don't you Gohan?" I nodded back to 18. Either she was going to kill me or I was going to kill her. I let go of Goten and stood up. Before anyone could say anything I teleported back to the house I grew up in.
From the outside it looked peaceful, calm and loving. It reminded me of dad. My heart clenched. I wonder, how he was going to take the news of all this. I couldn't wait to see him again and yet I was dreading it. I wasn't sure if I could handle seeing the disappointment and rejection in his eyes for how I turned out. With a sigh, I walked towards the house to face Chichi one last time.
"Do you know what you've done?" her voice was cold and venomous. She was standing the kitchen looking mad as hell. The house was already trashed. "Where is your brother? You better have brought him home with you and way from those perverse bastards that your father called friends" I knew she was always crazy but she was losing it even for her. I clenched my hands tightly, trying to keep it together, not wanting to show how much that irritated me. Even if the team couldn't accept my sexual preference, they were still a hell of a lot better than she ever was to me over the last seven years.
"He's safe, that's all you need to know" I said stiffly back to her. My hands felt wet, either they where sweaty or my nails had dig in so much that they broke through the skin. I didn't care. Something was about to happen, I could feel it in the energy in the room. It was thick, charged and ready to unleash its furry. I watch her walked up to me. I hadn't really notice how small she really was till now or how truly thin she was. She already had the developing lines of winkles setting in, even under her makeup that she would always be wearing now.
"Tell me where my son is, now! Gohan." she was on the verge of losing it.
"He's safe and in a place where you can't get to him Chichi; where you can't kill him for figuring things out on his own." I growled out. My right wrist was throbbing along with the mark on the base of my neck, it wasn't painful just that it was trying to get my attention that was focused on watching what Chichi would do. I saw the slap coming but didn't move to stop it or get out of its way. It stung slightly but nothing else.
"I wonder how trilled dad was when he got home from Namek to learn that his wife was sleeping with another man. I guess pretty trilled, since you had another lover you could abuse. Know what Dad told me in the time chamber before our fight with Cell? He told me how happy he was going to be after the Cell games, he was going to send you on your way to your lover, get his house back to himself and move on with his life, say perhaps with Vegeta." I hissed out at her. I knew it was a bad idea to provoke her but I didn't care. I wanted her to attack me with the intent to kill me. I would give me a reason to kill her and not fell back about why I had to kill her.
I hissed when I felt two sharp thin objects pierced the flesh of my leg. I knew that whatever she injected me with, wouldn't be a good thing. I grabbed her wrist went she tried to stab me. I wanted to crush her wrist make her drop the weapon but I couldn't make my grip go tight enough to break the bones. She laughed darkly.
"How long do you think you can last having that serum-thing that Bulma made, that saiyan's are allergic too, combine with the venom of a water moccasin?" she asked. Pain started at the injection site and started to spread though my leg. I started to feel sick to my stomach yet I managed to somehow hold myself in place. For once I was praying to hear Piccolo's growl in the back of my mind, letting me know that he had heard what happened.
Silence
I was scared now. No one would really come looking for me till tonight, I doubt I'll be alive when they came looking. She pulled her wrist free from my weakening grip; trying again to put the knife in my chest. I manage to get out of the way this time, leaning against a wall to keep from falling. I was having a hard time keeping myself upright. I was starting to see doubles of everything. I slid down the wall. He laugher sounded crazed and distant. I felt her hand in my hair pulling my hair up and titling it to face more towards the roof.
"You really should have gone on that date last night Gohan, it would have spared your life. Would have spared that green skin demon spawn from pain of having to burry you" she hissed out. Before I could even process what she said. Her lips where pressed against mine. I felt sickened from it as she forced her tongue into my mouth, moaning into it. I couldn't fight her off me, nor would I respond to her kiss. 'Piccolo...help...' I wasn't sure if he could hear me. All I knew was the pain and numbness that encompassed my body and the urge to be sick from having my mother kiss me. I felt her pulling back from the kiss.
I would have smiled at the frustrated look she gave me when I didn't kiss her back if it wasn't for her embedding the knife in my chest. It only hurt for a moment. I couldn't keep my eyes from closing or the warm nothingness that blanked me. I fought the darkness to stay back as I pulled the knife from my chest. I don't know where I found the strength to lift the knife or how I through it, just that I had thrown it, causing it to embed itself between her eyes. I smiled even as I coughed up blood. Goten would be safe from her and I got one night of heaven before this. Even as the dark closed in on me, it felt bitter sweet. Chichi was dead and could hurt me anymore but I was being pulled away from Piccolo after what we just survived to be together. 'I'm sorry my dark king...'
The End
Author's Note: Sorry this chapter took so long getting up, work gave me crazy hours and didn't get much sleep as I said in my one shot Valentine's day fanfic; Hell Frozen Valentine. Thank you all for your support and reviews, keep writing them, they help keep the story going. I know you all hate the cliff hanger there but the story will continue in the next story I write: Needing Truth.
