Chapter 17 Lucy
Vegeta leaves Goku on the mountain top, telling him he needs some alone time and promising to text him later. He refused Goku's offer of teleporting him home instead choosing to walk, take some time clear his head. He half expects Lucy to appear at any second, he hasn't seen hide nor hair of her since she made her play for him. he pushes her from his mind, he will have to think about her later, for now he needs to speak to his wife. He is going home. His feelings for Goku are obviously not going to subside anytime soon and he can't spend his last few months cheating on Bulma. She deserves much more than that, and besides, he needs to at least try to keep some of his decency intact.
Bulma goes over the figures for the 1000th time that day, what is she missing? She is so close to solving the formula she can nearly taste it. Concentrate Bulma, she silently berates herself.
The door to her office opens almost silently, she knows he is there but she just can't look away from her screen for the moment, she is so close. Vegeta approaches the desk and leans on it with one hand, waiting for her to acknowledge him, she doesn't. she doesn't take her eyes off her work
"Bulma…we need to talk," He forces the uncomfortable words from his mouth, the last thing he really wants to do is talk, he would rather never tell anyone that he has fallen for Goku like some kind of love struck idiot. God, HIM of all people, Goku, what a joke.
"We sure do," She agrees still not removing her eyes from the numbers on her screen. Vegeta peers round at what she is looking at, it makes zero sense to him
"Err…. it's kinda important," Vegeta urges, he wants to get this over and done with now, he doesn't want any time to change his mind. It's taken him a lot of bottle to come in here and tell her this, the least she could do is listen to him.
"I know, I have a pretty good idea what it is you wanna talk about," She says
"You do?" Vegeta is confused, how could she possibly know what he wants to talk about, she must be mistaken.
"Yep, does it begin with a Go, and end in a Ku?" She asks. Vegeta resists the urge to say no, it begins in a Kaka and ends in a Rot, now is probably not the time for pettiness over his name
"…...Yeah," he admits quietly, his shoulders slumping, he obviously hasn't been quite as sly as he thought he had, Bulma knows.
"Can we talk later Vegeta, I'm so busy. We can go for dinner and you can tell me everything ok?" she mumbles, her full attention still on her work
"Yeah, sure," He answers, turning to leave.
"Vegeta," She stops him, placing her small hand over his and finally looking up at her husband. It feels as though she hasn't looked at him for a long time. He looks different, he even feels different. His usual hot hand chilly to the touch, his face though still beautiful looks somehow darker, his eyes a little blacker and a lot more intense.
"Whatever it is you have to tell me, it's ok. I love you, and I'll support you no matter what," She tells him fervently. He nods and leaves her office without another word. Well that's just great isn't it, she just spoke one sentence and made everything ten times worse, why did she have to be so nice about it. Why couldn't she have told him to fuck off and never come back, that would have made his choice a lot easier. But no, she had to go and be all supportive and understanding and that just made him feel like the world's biggest wank stain. He feels terrible, emotions are a pile of shit.
He heads into town, he can't bear the thought of moping around the house all day while he waits for Bulma to be ready to hear him out. Besides he needs to go to the store anyway, he has an alarming craving for chocolate spread and Bulma seems to have stopped ordering it for some unknown reason, it feels as though nothing else could possibly go wrong in his god forsaken dung heap of an existence. Vegeta feels angry, it's a deep and brooding anger that burns from his core and radiates through his whole body. He takes a few deep breaths, he knows he has no reason to be angry, it's just a side effect, it's just a side effect, he repeats to himself over and over, but it doesn't help. The only thing that will help is Nutella.
He finally makes it to the supermarket and thunders down the isles desperately searching for what he needs. It feels like an eternity before he finally finds it, and it's worth the wait. This is like the mecca of chocolate spread, there are shelves and shelves of the stuff, neatly lined up like beautiful little soldier's ready to be consumed and devoured by a hungry Saiyan. Vegeta doesn't wait any longer, he just can't hold himself back. He grabs the biggest jar from the top shelf and tears the lid clean off, ignoring the splintered glass around the top of the jar he reaches his whole hand in and begins to suck the sweet elixir from his fingers, moaning sensually as he does.
"Come along kids this way," He hears the woman, and sees her from the corner of her eye ushering her kids away from the strange man licking chocolate from his own hand in the jam isle, he knows he must look like some sort of maniac but he doesn't care, he needs this.
He is just moving on to his third jar when a different voice calls out to him
"Excuse me sir, you need to pay for that before you eat it," The large security guard struts confidently towards him. The way the woman had described this nutter to him he thought he was dealing with a real loony, but this guy, he is just a scrawny little freak, the guard knows he will have no problems turfing this little runt out
"I'll pay in a second," Vegeta growls, feeling irritated that he has been distracted from his meal.
"You'll pay now or you'll get out," The guard says firmly, smiling smugly to himself, he sounds like such a badass when he kicks people out, he hopes there are some women watching.
"Is that so?" Vegeta smiles darkly, he hates being told what to do.
"Right get out you freak," The guard yells and moves toward Vegeta, planning to grab him by the collar and drag him out. Vegeta is excited, he is looking forward to flicking this guy unconscious and making him look a fool.
"Vagus?" Someone calls. Vegeta ignores it for a moment, the name rings a bell from somewhere but he can't for the death of him think where he has heard it.
"Vagus," It calls again. Vegeta turns.
Oh shit.
He recognises that face, that's Azazul, the demon he met in Lucy's office. Remembering the way, he told Lucy and Gabriel off Vegeta guesses correctly that he is a very important guy. An important guy who also believes that Vegeta is Vagus, the new demon of lust. What the fuck should he do?
"Hi," He answers weakly, wiping the Nutella from around his lips.
The security Guard grabs his collar but before he can do any more Azazul clicks his fingers and the man vanishes
"Where did he go?" Vegeta asks astonished
"Ha-ha its fine he is back in his office; don't tell me you haven't learnt that trick yet?" Azazul asks with a disbelieving tone. His smile is friendly and his eyes kind. He doesn't look like a demon, but then saying that, neither does Lucy.
"No, not yet," Vegeta answers. He tries not to feel nervous, and to act like a demon, but how should a demon act. He can't bring himself to act like Lucy, she is an idiot so he decides to just be himself.
"Are you hungry?" Azazel asks noticing all the empty jars littering the floor around Vegeta
"I really like Nutella," Vegeta explains, feeling like a total loser, why did he say that, he sounds like a simple twit
"I'm just heading to the canteen, wanna join me?" Azazul asks
"I'd love to but I'm really busy, sorry," Vegeta shrugs. Azazel's composure changes suddenly, he doesn't look like a friendly old man now, he looks like a demon
"But, it's nothing I can't cancel," Vegeta quickly backtracks, it seems all demons have a short fuse, fitting really.
"Great let's go," Azazul beams. Vegeta places a hand on Azazul's shoulder so he can teleport him to hell, great just as he thought his day couldn't get worse.
They materialise in a regular looking canteen, it could easily have been in a college or a workplace, nothing hellish about it. Lots of lines of tables, small white chairs dotted around them. People are milling about eating and laughing, all of them are quite beautiful, Vegeta wonders how different they might look behind their pretty exteriors.
Every one that passes greets Azazel politely, it seems he is quite a popular guy, or possibly feared. Vegeta receives strange glances from the people around the room, obviously trying to figure out who this guy is.
"Who's the hottie with Azazel?" He hears a female voice whisper, he glances round to see four stunning women sitting at a table together, he can only see the back of two of them but he recognises one of them, he could tell that lovely auburn hair anywhere. Thank god, maybe she can help him out of this crazy situation.
Lucy is sitting with her friends, Lilith, Batibat and Empusa, she is busy explaining for the tenth time that day why she has a black eye, who knew Vegeta could hit so hard? when Lilith smiles provocatively and asks who the hottie is. Lucy rolls her eyes, Lilith is such a slut, I mean she can't help it, she is the demon of female sexuality after all, it's her job to be a slut, but that doesn't make her any less annoying.
"So anyway, as I were saying I was disguised as this bird right, spying on me new client, as ya do, and Gabe totally attacked me, the little shit, when I see him I'm so gonna slap him. anyway, long story short my client ended up punching me, hence the black eye, Lilith are ya even listening to me?"
Lilith flutters her eyelashes at the poor 'hottie', Lucy can see she has set her heart on him whoever he is, when Lilith wants someone there is nothing that will stop her.
"I think I'll go get better acquainted with him," she chimes, slinking from her chair and sashaying her way across the busy canteen
"god help 'im," Lucy mutters to her other friends before turning to find out who this poor guy is. Their eyes meet and she feels that all too familiar flutter in her chest, what the fuck is he doing here?
Vegeta stares at Lucy with begging eyes, help me, he silently begs
"I gotta go guys, laters," Lucy tells Batibat and Empusa before quickly jumping from her seat and rushing to Vegeta's rescue, there is not a chance in hell she is gonna let Lilith get her hands on him. As she draws closer she can hear snippets of their conversation. Azazel waits patiently while Lilith walks two fingers slowly up Vegeta's chest
"Vagus, what a beautiful name, I'm Lilith," She purrs fluttering her eyelashes and staring deeply into Vegeta's eyes. Lucy feels her blood boil, she wants nothing more than to turn Lilith into dust right now.
"Vagus, nice to see ya, Hi Azazul," Lucy says loudly, removing Lilith's hand from Vegeta's chest and replacing it with her own.
"Dyall mind if I borrow Vagus for two secs I've got a couple thing I need to run past Im," she starts to usher Vegeta towards the door.
"Actually, Lucy we were talking, where were we Vagus?" Lilith gives Lucy a warning glare which she ignores. Had it been any other person in the world Lucy would have rolled her eyes and let Lilith get on with it, but not Vegeta, no-one one else in this place can touch Vegeta. Lucy smiles sweetly before grasping Lilith wrist and squeezing, hard.
"Ow Lucy, let me go," Lilith squeals. Lucy leans in close and growls in a whisper
"Back off, this one's mine,". She releases Lilith and walks toward the door, pulling Vegeta along by her side.
Once in the corridor on the way back to Lucy's office the pair finally relax
"Thanks, that was kinda tense," Vegeta says looking at Lucy's face for the first time since he has been here
"What happened to your face?" He exclaims seeing the deep bruise around her eye. Lucy doesn't have time to make up a lie, but knows she can't tell the truth, she doesn't want Vegeta to think she is stalking him or something
"Someone punched me, no one you know," She half lies
"What, I'll fucking kill them," Vegeta explodes with anger, his jet-black hair flashing like thunder before turning a beautiful shade of sapphire blue. He had no idea he was protective of Lucy, he didn't know he had a reason to be, but knowing someone had hurt her sent shockwaves of rage through his system and he was just about ready to tear down the whole of hell to find who did this.
Lucy stares in awe as he waits for her to answer, she has seen pictures of Vegeta in this form before but nothing could have prepared her for the real thing. she can't even speak at this moment. Vegeta is out of this world, his hair and eyes shimmer with electricity, his skin iridescent and flawless. The power he exudes from his amazing body is enough to bring Lucy to her knees. He is Pure beauty and wild elegance all wrapped up in a powerful, rage filled exterior, he is perfect in every way
"I knew there were a reason I chose ya, Prince Vegeta, the power of a god inside a mortal vessel. Ya are exquisite," she puts a hand on his flawless cheek, unable to tear her gaze from his striking eyes. Without thinking she leans forward and gently kisses his velvety lips, she is surprised when he doesn't stop her. Their kiss is soft, between them they have the power to bring the universe to a halt but they touch each other as delicately as flower petals. Finally, Lucy pulls back, her heat beating wildly in her chest
"You know I'm choosing Kakarot, right?" Vegeta says in his deep honeyed voice. His anger has all but diminished after being kissed by the daughter of the devil
"Maybe I can convince ya ta change ya mind" She whispers in his ear, her lips brushing erotically down his neck, her hand caressing his chest so tenderly.
"You're not playing fair," Vegeta moaned, wanting to stop her but also wanting to feel her power so bad it hurt.
"I'm a demon bubs, I don't know the meaning of fair. Now are ya gonna be a little bitch for kakawhatever or are ya gonna come wi me and have real some fun?"
He knows what he should say, he should be firm he should tell her he has made his decision, he has chosen Kakarot and that is final, but he doesn't, he gives in to his carnal desires and he nods. A wicked smile adorns Lucy's face and she clicks her fingers transporting them to her bedroom.
Lilith stands in the corridor, mouth hanging open, toughly shocked by what she just saw. Lucy has never shown any kind of romantic interest in anyone before, so what is the deal with this new demon and her? She struts back into the canteen to finish her lasagne
"you will never believe what I just saw," She says to the other two girls at the table and starts to spill the beans.