Disclaimer: NO, I don't own DBZ or anything to do with it. It was all I wanted for Christmas my parents just would not me the rights to it. Oh well my birthdays coming up.
A/N: I'm trying my hand at writing a story with chapters, so if it sucks lemme know ok. As per usual this is a K/18. But this one's different, I don't think there has EVER been a K/18 get together like this before and if there has can someone please tell me where to find it so I can read it.
A Helping Hand
Krillen sat on the beach of Kame House gazing up at the stars, on a normal night it was one of his favourite things to do. But this night, just like every other night since cell had been defeated, he just wasn't interested. He had a much more interesting thing on his mind, she went by the name of 18. Krillen let out a loud frustrated sigh and collapsed into the sand, allowing his mind to once again be taken over by thoughts of the beautiful android.
***
Far far away, in an old run down pub in Satan City, the same woman who was on Krillens mind was looking out a dusty window at the same set of stars. The only thing was, for every one star there was she saw 3 or 4. 18 was well and truly drunk. At the time she had walked into the bar her plan had been to perhaps get herself a little tipsy, just to take some of the sorrow of her miserable life away, but this time she had gone way overboard. She looked up at the clocks on the wall and spent a few minutes trying to figure out which was the real one, after that she spent the next few minutes trying to work out the time. She eventually came to the conclusion it was getting close to one in the morning. She knew from her previous visits to this particular pub that it closed at one, so she stood up and stumbled out the door. She barely made it 3 steps down the street before she tripped over her own feet and fell into the gutter, she dropped the bottle she was holding and it smashed in the gutter.
After about 10 minutes of sitting on the sidewalk 18 got board and her first coherent though was of where she was going to sleep, she knew she couldn't go home, and her second through came directly after that. She could go to Krillen's house. Oh sure it was a good 1 hours flight away, but to 18 it was still early. So she slowly made her way into the sky and shakily made her way to the Kame House.
***
Krillen was just about to get up and head inside when he saw something streaking across the sky and it was getting closer. A few minutes the figure crash-landed on the small island and Krillen almost had a heart attack.
"18, what the hell are you doing here?!" asked Krillen, he was shocked beyond all belief.
18 sat up in the sand and rubbed her head, even from a distance Krillen could smell the alcohol on her body but he wasn't sure if it was self-inflicted or if something had happened to her. He walked over to her and helped her up.
"18, are you alright?" he asked. 18 fell over so Krillen picked her up and carried her inside.
Since there was nowhere else to put her, Krillen put 18 down on his bed, he began to leave the room but 18's slurred voice stopped him.
"Krilllllllen, don't ggooo". If she wasn't so obviously drunk Krillen would have laughed, but in the state she was in Krillen wasn't sure what she would do to him if he ignored her.
"What do you want?' he asked.
"I want you Krillen" she replied, her voice much more understandable than before.
"18, I can't do anything with you now, you're drunk. It wouldn't be right of me to take advantage of that" explained Krillen.
But 18 wouldn't have a bar of it, she grabbed Krillen by the waist and pined him underneath her.
"I said I wanted you Krillen," she said "and I always get what I want". Krillen gulped loudly, sure he'd been fantasising this moment for months on end now, but it wasn't supposed to be happening like this. It was supposed to be because 18 and Krillen shared the same feelings for each other not because 18 was drunk. But Krillen was totally overpowered by her. Before he knew it 18 had torn his cloths off and was making love to him and even though it was against everything he believed in he found him self enjoying the experience immensely.
***
18 woke the next morning not having a clue in the world where she was or what she had done the night before, but from the throbbing pain in her head she didn't really want to know. She rolled over and threw her hands out to her sides and one of them hit something. Her eyes quickly snapped open and she sat bolt upright, taking the blanket with her. Suddenly it all came rushing back at her.
"Oh no, please god no" she muttered, she dared to look at the person sleeping next to her, praying that it wasn't who she thought it was.
It was.
18 quickly got out of the bed and pulled on her clothes, they smelt so bad, 17 would have a fit when she got home. 18 walked over to the door and slid it open, she walked out on to the balcony and jumped up into the sky. She was long gone by the time Krillen woke up.
***
"Where the hell have you been?" asked 17 the second 18 walked through the front door of the cabin she and her brother shared.
"Don't yell" screamed 18
"You've been drinking again. 18 I thought you gave that up" said 17.
"Yeah well I changed my mind. Now if you don't mind I'm taking a shower and going to bed" said 18 and she stormed off down the hall. 17 shook his head and headed out into the woods. He had discovered along time ago that when 18 was like this it was best just to leave her alone.
18 stood under the running water and sighed. She couldn't believe what she had done. She was sure she would have been sain enough to be able to control her urges at least a little, but no, she was obviously wrong and now she was sure she had gotten herself into some serious trouble. She didn't want to hurt Krillen, she did like him and he didn't deserve what she had done to him, she had forced him into a situation that she was almost certain he didn't want to be in. If he never spoke to her again, she wouldn't be surprised. 18 turned off the water, got out the shower, brushed her teeth to get the foul after taste of alcohol out of her mouth then she went into her room, put her pyjamas on and slept the rest of the day away
***
Krillen sat up and rubbed his head, which was beginning to sprout little hairs. He lazily looked at the clock. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon. As he had expected 18 wasn't in the bed, something for which he was grateful, he knew how she would have reacted if he had been there when she woke. There was about a 99 percent chance that Krillen would have ended up dead. Slowly he made his way out of bed, down the hall and into the bathroom for a nice warm shower, then maybe after that he could go outside and train until dinner.
About half an hour later he strode into the living room pulling the sash on his gi a little tighter.
"What were you up to last night Krillen?" asked Master Roshi. Krillen stopped dead in his tracks he felt his face go bright red. What was he supposed to tell Master Roshi? The truth was out of the question.
"Uh I wasn't up to anything," he said, "now if you don't mind I'm going outside to train".
Krillen jumped up into the sky and flew straight up into the air, until Kame Island appeared only as a small dot. Krillen closed his eyes and let his back face the water. Up here he was alone, it was the best place in the world to come and think. He knew that 18 would most probably never be back, which ment Krillen would most probably be miserable for the rest of his life. He had no idea where 18 was and even if he did manage to find her there was no guarantee that 18 would want to see him. No matter how he looked at it, he was destined to be sad and lonely his whole entire life. Now that he thought about it, things had just been going down hill ever since Marron left all those years ago. Some times Krillen ever wondered if she ever missed him, or if she even remembered who he was, he doubted it.
Slowly he made his way back down to the earth.
Once there he began to spar with an invisible partner and for those few hours before he had to cook dinner all his troubles disappeared, but then again when he was fighting, they always did. It was one of the reasons he had become a martial artist in the first place.
***
Buzz buzz buzz. 18 slammed her hand down on her alarm clock and rolled over. Then she remembered why she had set it to wake her up 10 minutes earlier. She sat up and rubbed her eye sleepily, it was amazing how much crankier you could be with only 10 minutes less sleep, but if it meant she didn't vomit in her bed again, then she was willing to do it. 18 slowly pulled herself out of bed, made her way across the dark bedroom and out into the hall, it was brightly lit with early morning sunlight, 17 had left the front door open again. She walked into the bathroom and sat on the edge of the bath, she knew it was coming and this time she was going to be prepared.
15 minutes later 18 finished brushing her teeth to get rid of the icky after taste and went into the kitchen, but when she went to reach for the coffee she felt like she was going to vomit again.
"What the hell is wrong with me?" she asked her self as she poured a glass of juice instead. She knew she something wasn't right with her, and she knew it didn't have anything to do with being an android because when she had asked 17 if he had been having the same symptoms he said he felt fine. Mentally, 18 made a note of all her symptoms and then she went into a living room to get the medical encyclopedia that 17 kept handy for some odd reason. She came to a page that showed everything she had been complaining of for the last few weeks. When she saw the title at the top of the page she almost fell over.
She couldn't be could she? No, it was impossible, wasn't it? Surely she couldn't be, she just couldn't. But as she read down through the page and learnt all about the facts of life and became more and more apparent that it wasn't as impossible as she first thought. She layed down on the couch and closed her eyes. Well it certainly explained why her periods had stopped and why she couldn't stand the smell of coffee or the sight of meat and the morning sickness was also accounted for, but still, there was only one way to be sure. She didn't really like the idea of taking a pregnancy test, but she had to know if she was or not. So 18 walked outside and headed towards the nearest populated area, which was South City, in search of a chemist.
***
"Hello miss, how may I help you?" asked the lady behind the counter kindly. 18 looked around nervously, she didn't want anyone to know what she was here if they didn't have to.
"I'd like a pregnancy test" she said. The lady nodded her head.
"Of course, just follow me this way please" she said and she lead 18 over to a shelf on the far side of the shop.
"This is the most accurate one we have," said he lady as she handed 18 a black box which had white writing on it. "It costs 22 zenni". 18 felt around in her pocket, all she had was few coins, but it would have to do. She pulled the coins out of her pocket she had 16 zenni.
"Here you go, it's all I've got" she said and she walked out the shop and headed home to do the test.
***
"Hey 17, you home?" called out 18 as she walked into the house. No reply. 18 was grateful her bother wasn't in. She had no idea how he would react if the test was positive, she didn't even know how she would react. All she knew is that she would be mad. There was know way in hell she wanted some stupid human infant growing inside of her, the thought alone disgusted her.
18 read the instructions and did the test. Blue ment yes and pink ment no, she was praying that it came up no. 20 minutes later she walked back into the bathroom to check the results.
It was Blue.
"Fuck!" screamed 18 and she threw the stick she was holding to the other side of the room. She stormed out the room and down the hall; she walked out the front door just as 17 was walking in.
"Hey sis" he said. 18 didn't even hear him; she just walked down the steps and blasted off into the sky.