It took me longer than usual, but here is Chapter three. Don't forget to review! I think I'm feeling a writer's block coming on because I was having a hard time with this chapter, so if you guys could give me some ideas, that would be great! ^_^ See ya!

~Lady Branwen~

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Love in a Different Time

Chapter 3

Pan's POV

What is he doing? He's biting me?! I slap him hard across the face. How could he do such a thing? He acts like he hasn't done anything wrong and doesn't know why I'm mad at him. My dad has always told me never to let any guy force himself on me. What Trunks just did, in my mind, is the same thing. I don't understand why he would do something like this. Hasn't he been told that marking your mate is a sacred thing? That you have to be absolutely sure? I'm beginning to wonder if we are even meant to be together. Who knows? Maybe our bodies are just full of hormones and we really aren't bonding. Maybe there's someone better out there for me…someone who will treat me the way I need to be treated. Someone who will love me and let me know that he loves me.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I ask him. Sometimes I see Trunks get mad at people. He has quite a temper. I remember seeing him fighting my Uncle Goten a few times and they both ended up being bloody just because Goten said something that challenged Trunks. Oh, they're still best friends and all, and I'm sure that neither one of them minded the fighting, but it was still a terrible thing to watch. I get into a fighting stance on the off chance that I truly pissed him off for not letting him mark me. But who cares?! It's my body isn't it? I'm ready to fight him and he better not do something to make me even madder or else there is going to be hell to pay.

He tells me to calm down and I tell him that he won't mark me. Then he says the worst thing that he possibly could. "Why not? You're my girlfriend aren't you? We're bonding and everything."

It takes everything I have to keep me from launching at him. I calm myself down, get out of my fighting stance and say, "Yeah, I'm your girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let you bite me. I'm not so sure at the moment if I want you as my lifelong mate."

I've hurt him deeply, I see that right away. He stares at me in disbelief. This was the last thing he probably expected me to say. I feel a pang of guilt for saying it. Even though I'm incredibly mad at him right now, I don't want to hurt him. I hate seeing this look on his face and for a minute I falter. Maybe I was wrong, maybe I should have let him mark me. I do love him after all.

"Why? Don't you love me?"

I look up at the clouds, take a deep breath, and try, as calmly as I can, to explain to him my feelings. This is going to be hard for both of us. "Yes, I do. But you haven't been a very good boyfriend and I'm not sure you will be right for me."

"But Pan …We're bonding. We can't bond with just anyone! Our bodies know who our mate is, even if we don't. Once we find our mate, then we begin bonding. We're right for each other."

I believe him, I've been told the same thing all my life. But there is a part of me that says my love for Trunks isn't true. Then again, I love him with all my heart, even after what he has just tried to do. But for now, I'm still mad at him for trying to do that and I glare at him. "That's not the point. You are so much different from when we first started dating. You're just protective now and it seems like you don't even think of me. You piss me off more and more and I can't take the way you treat me. I want things to be the way they were before."

Saying those things to him has taken a lot out of me. Never in a million years would I have thought I would say those things to him. But…maybe now that I have, things will change and he'll treat me the way he used to.

"Baby, I don't know what you're talking about!" He puts his arms around me and kisses my forehead. I feel warm and safe in his arms. I don't even try to push him away or try to stay mad. But as a compromise between loving him and wanting him to hold me, and wanting to stay mad, I don't put my arms around him and I stay rigid as he holds me. "How do you want me to be? I haven't noticed that I've changed at all, but I'll do whatever you want. I don't want to lose you."

It's music to my ears. I'm so glad that he doesn't want to lose me! "First of all, you don't pay as much attention to me. All you think about is keeping other guys away from me. But do you ever try to be romantic anymore? No. Do you whisper that you love me in my ear anymore? No. Do you hold me, not in a protective way, but in a loving way and kiss me passionately? No. Now, all you do is give me a quick peck on the cheek or on the mouth. Nothing big."

Trunks sighs and squeezes me. "I don't pay enough attention to you, huh?"

After a few seconds, he leaves a trail of kisses from my cheek back down to my neck. I don't mind all of that. In fact, I want him to kiss me. In my mind, if he kisses me the way he is right now, he loves me. But he ruins that by trying to bite me again. I'm in a rage now and who could blame me? I just got done telling him why he shouldn't do that, but does he listen? No! I try to push him away, but his arms of steel are wrapped around me and I suddenly realize that he won't let me go. I struggle and yell at him, but to no avail, he still has me in his arms. Finally I decide the best thing to do would be to scream at the top of my lungs for help. Vegeta will help me…someone will.

A few seconds later, I see Mirai speeding towards us and he sees the look of terror on my face. Trunks doesn't seem to notice Mirai, he is too busy trying to explain why he has me in his arms and that allows Mirai a chance to punch Trunks in the face. Mirai grabs me just as Trunks is beginning to be thrown away and I feel myself being ripped out of Trunks' arms. I watch as Trunks' body flies a few feet before hitting the ground and slides backwards to a stop.

"Are you all right, Pan?" Mirai asks me. He is looking over my body trying to see if I am hurt. There is such a look of panic in his eyes, but from his facial features, you'd never be able to guess. It's as if I were his girlfriend and he's so worried that I'm hurt. I can't take this love and kindness from him, he looks so much like my Trunks. I just can't face either of them now. I tell him I'm fine and walk away without a backward glance.

I run back towards the Capsule Corp. building where Vegeta has just stepped out to see what was going on. I'm glad to see him. I enjoy talking to him, he actually listens to me. I know he'll help me now.

"What is going on?" he asks me gruffly.

"Trunks tried to mark me."

He doesn't seem too surprised, all he does is ask, "Which one?"

"Trunks! My boyfriend! Your son!"

He nods and leans against the building with his arms crossed. "I see."

"Vegeta, you have to talk to him. I didn't want him to and he tried to do it anyway. It was like rape, but without all of the well…rape. I don't want him as a mate yet."

"Why not? You two seem to be bonding. Is it because of that other Trunks?"

"No! He's sweet, he saved me just now, but Mirai is not my type. I don't want him as a boyfriend. But do you understand what just happened? You don't even seem to care!"

I can't believe that Vegeta is just standing there and letting me yell at him. "On Vegeta-sei, the saiyans who were going to become each other's mate, gave their consent."

"Yeah, so why didn't you teach Trunks that, huh? He just tried to force me to become his mate."

"But it was also normal for saiyans who were bonding to lightly nip each other. I think here it would be considered about the same thing as an engagement ring."

"But he tried to force me! I bet they didn't do that on your planet, did they?"

"No. Did he hurt you?" His tone is calm, but he doesn't seem to care or even to be on my side at all.

"No. Not really, just emotionally I guess."

"Then you don't notice what he's done?"

"What?"

He walks over to me and gestures to my neck. "You are bleeding."

I see Mirai and Trunks walking back to the house from the garden and that, coupled with the realization that Trunks really did bite me and actually drew blood, I turned and flew away, pissed more than I have ever been.

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Mirai's POV

It was three in the morning and I was stressed out for some reason. I have no idea why, maybe it was just because of yesterday when Pan was screaming. I had bolted out of my room to see what was wrong. Never in my life have I ever wanted to see what was wrong with someone so bad. I'm beginning to think that I love Pan more than I love my mom. But…mom is gone now anyway. I still miss her and it's been a few months. But there's nothing I can do about that and so that's why I'm here.

Anyway, it was three in the morning and I had gone to the gravity room to train and work out some of the stress. It was dark, but I didn't mind and so left the lights off. I began with my warm up of 10,000 pushups but by the time I had gotten to 1,000, I was interrupted by a kick to my stomach, which sent me flying across the gravity room.

"Some son of mine. You don't even know when someone is in the room with you," I heard Father's gruff voice say.

"I didn't think that-"

"That's right, you didn't think."

I looked up in the darkness and saw him standing above me. I got up and looked at him. "I didn't know you were in here, I'm sorry. I'll go." I assumed he had been in here by himself for a reason and I didn't want to intrude on him in any way.

"Why are you in here?" he asked.

"I can't sleep so I thought I would come in here and make myself tired."

"You might as well stay in here," he said. "I want to talk to you anyway."

My eyes widened in shock. He wanted to talk to me? "Oh…what about?"

"Pan told me about what happened. Do you know?"

"Well, yeah, I saved her…but Trunks said that he didn't know what happened, he just kept his arms around her and he couldn't make himself let go."

"And what do you think the reason for that is?"

"I don't know."

"Because his body was telling him to mark her. Think of your body as a giant radar. You know or are supposed to know when someone is around. That is obviously not the case with you." Thank Kami the lights weren't on because I know I must have blushed. I tried to make an excuse, but he ignored me and continued. "Your body tells you where an attacker is, whether he is behind you, above, or below. Likewise, when you have mated with someone and marked her, your body tells you when they are sick, in distress, in pain, when they are dead, or even when they are extremely happy and it can even tell you when someone is paying attention to your mate when they shouldn't be. That is also true when you are bonding. My son's body knew that when you appeared, Pan would be attracted to you so it made moves to make sure he would mark Pan before you did to ensure the bond and getting a mate. Now do you understand?"

"Yeah." I really think that is the longest I have ever heard him speak to me. Usually he just tells me to get out of the way or leave him alone if he says anything at all.

"Good. Now get out."

"But…I thought you said I could stay."

"I didn't say for how long now did I?"

"But you're not even using it!"

I heard him growl and decided that I didn't really need to work out. "I suppose," I said, "That I can go to the library and listen to some of the classical music Mom has there…"

He didn't say anything so I left the gravity room and went back up to my room to think about what he had said. A radar huh? I guess when I think about it, my body is kind of like a radar. I found myself liking Pan more and more, but if she is already bonding with Trunks then I don't want to interfere. Maybe coming back to this time wasn't such a good idea. I mean, maybe I would have found a mate in my timeline. I would much rather go back and find one than mess up a bond here. But I guess if I'm attracted to Pan, I won't have much choice.

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