(39) Satan's Pet Shop and Trunks and Goten's home…

"Mr. Son, your shift's over. Why are you still here?"

"Sorry Mr. Sen, I'm just not ready to go home yet."

Mr. Sen sat beside him in the locker room. "What's wrong, young man?"

"I couldn't be there today for the one person I care about the most."

"You could have asked me for some time off Goten. I would have understood."

Goten smiled. "It would have made no difference. A strong as I am, I don't think I could have handled seeing Trunks taken away to jail for something that happened to me."

"The President of Capsule Corporation, he was on the news today. He got two years in jail."

"Two years."

"Yep, it's a shame. That boy doesn't deserve it. He had everything."

"I'll see you tomorrow Mr. Sen." Goten left the shop and decided to walk back to the Brief's home. He could have flown, but he needed to think right now. He felt like a coward. He knew Trunks needed him today, and he was too cowardly to be there for him. He just didn't want to cry because he knew he wouldn't have been able to stop. He was a saiyan after all. He was supposed to be strong, but he was mated now. He could feel all of Trunks's feelings if he searched them.

He decided he would visit Trunks in the morning and as he encountered the Brief's home, he knew he couldn't live there. He loved Trunks's family, but he wanted to live where he remembered the good times with Trunks. He turned his back on his lover's childhood home and headed to his home.

He undressed and leaved himself in his boxers. As he covered himself with the blanket, he sighed in the darkness of the room. "I'm sorry Trunks, I couldn't be there for you. I was scared, and I know you must be thinking I'm a wimp. I decided to stay at our place to. I'm sorry." He closed his eyes and before he could drift off, he heard a voice in his head.

"It's all right chibi. I love you."

"I love you to Trunks, and I'm coming to see you tomorrow."

"I can't wait."

"So, how are you?"

"Well you won't believe this but—

"But what?"

"You'll find out tomorrow."

"Oh um is there anything you need me to bring you?"

"Just yourself Goten."

"You got it."

"So, what are you doing right now?"

Goten laughed. "About to go to sleep. I don't sleep naked like you do."

"Well, what do you have on?"

"Trunks."

"What?"

"I'll see you tomorrow Trunks."

"All right but all I ask is that you dream of me."

"I always do." He smiled.