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Love In A Different Time
Chapter 4
Pan's POV
I arrive home and storm up to my room.
"Pan? Is that you?" I hear my dad asking from downstairs." I slam my door. I just don't want to talk to anyone right now, but I already know that Dad won't leave me alone and he'll just come upstairs to bother me. I hear him coming up the stairs and he knocks on my door. "Can I come in?"
I sigh. "Fine." I night as well get the talk over with. The sooner I talk to him, the sooner he'll leave me alone.
Dad opens the door and looks at me, then gasps. "What happened to your neck?! Who marked you? Trunks?"
"It was just a nip, Dad."
He comes into the room and sits next to me on the bed and looks at my neck. "You don't look too happy about that."
"I'm not."
Dad's eyes narrowed. "Did he force you to let him?"
"I don't know," I said testily. "He leaned down and was kissing my neck then he tried to bite my neck. I didn't think he actually did and we talked about it, then he did it again and I didn't realize it, but he actually broke through my skin."
Dad looks away. I can tell he's very, very mad at Trunks, but he's trying to conceal it. "You didn't feel anything?"
"No."
"Did he do anything else?"
"No. Mirai came and punched him, so don't worry, you don't need to go beat Trunks up. After all, I still like him a little, not as much as I could, but I still like him."
Dad stands up and looks sternly at me. "I don't want you going around Trunks for a while. Mirai, maybe, but not Trunks. Give him some time to calm down his emotions and his hormones, then maybe I'll let you see him. As of right now, if he wants to mark you, he's going to do it if he has a chance."
"But Dad!"
"No. Don't go near Trunks for a while."
"For how long?"
"I don't know."
I sigh and lay down on my bed. How can so many things go wrong? And why am I suddenly defending that jerk? I'm so mad at him right now, but now that Dad told me that I can't visit Trunks, I miss him and want to be with him no matter what. It must be that stupid bond. And the nip on my neck. Idiot. I'm such an idiot! I should have seen this coming.
Dad leaves and I'm left to think about all that has happened. Trunks seems so nice, but he can be very protective. I'm used to holding my own and I don't want him protecting me so much. He can be a jerk a lot of the times, but for some reason I still love him. He's so sweet though. I sigh and look at a picture of us on my night stand. He has his arm around me and has that wonderful, perfect smile. He's such a stud! He's always been so nice to me, I can't believe he did this.
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Trunks POV
I finally made it into the house. I didn't see Dad anywhere and was glad. At least I wouldn't have to answer to him about anything. I wanted to go tell Mom about everything, but I decided that I could do that tomorrow. Even if Dad tells her anything about what happened, I know Mom will come and want to know my point of view. I know what I did was terrible and I shouldn't have done that, but I couldn't help myself. Oh well, I guess now I'll have to pay the consequences.
"Do you want to talk?" Mirai asks.
"Nah, I'm fine."
"Okay…I'll be here if you need me." He walks to his room and closes the door behind him. I walk to my own room and turn on the light. Lo and behold, there is my dad sitting on my bed, waiting for me to show up. And here I thought I managed to escape his wrath, silly me.
"Pan tells me you nipped her neck." He sounds like he is detached and just wants to know what happened, but I know better than that. He's going to twist things around, I know he will.
"Yeah. I didn't mean to though, I held on to her. I was playing around, but I held on to her and nipped at her neck."
"And do you know what you did?"
I look at him quizzically. "Yeah…I just told you what I did…"
"Do you know that you made her bleed?"
This time I look at him in mute shock. I had no idea that I had actually drew blood…I guess I did get a little worked up. "I-I didn't mean to."
There was a minute of silence before Dad spoke again. "Have I ever told you what you did would mean on my planet?"
"No."
"A little nip on the neck, like the kind you gave Pan, meant in a way that they would soon be mates. You could still break the bond if you absolutely had to because the bond with that kind of mark isn't as strong as a full fledged mark for a mate. To compare it to something here on Earth that you would know about, I would compare this kind of mark to an engagement ring. Obviously, on Vegeta-sei, the people who were going to get the mark had to consent to it." Dad looked directly at me the whole time he said this, never once looking around, past me, or anywhere else at all. His eyes were boring holes through my head. "From how Pan looked, she didn't want you to do that."
I look down at my feet in shame. "No. She didn't."
"You'd better know what you're doing because I doubt Pan ever wants to see you again. She looked as if she were ready to kill you and for an offense like that, I don't blame her." He got up walked out of the room.
I sigh and walk out of my room downstairs to the lab where Mom is working. "Mom, can I talk to you?"
"What is it honey?"
"I did something and now Pan is really mad at me and she told Dad and he's on her side."
"What did you do?" She stopped her worked and walked over to me.
"I nipped her neck."
She jumped back. "You marked her?!"
"Well, Dad said that the kind of bite I gave her was like an engagement ring, it's not a mark, mark."
"Trunks, no matter what it was, you shouldn't have done that, especially if Pan didn't want you to do it."
I sighed. "I know. I couldn't stop myself though, it's like I didn't have control over my body. Otherwise, I would have stopped. I saw that she didn't want me to be anywhere near her neck, and I wanted to get away and let her have her space. The last thing I wanted was to have her mad at me, but my arms were locked around her. I just wouldn't let her go."
Mom had calmed down a bit and crossed her arms and looked deep in thought. "And what did your father say?"
I shrugged, "Nothing really. He just told me that I made her bleed and that Pan hates me. He didn't threaten to kill me or anything."
Mom shook her head. "Honey, I don't know what to tell you. You and Pan have been having problems lately and I really don't want to get involved. I know you want my advise, but if I tell you something and it goes wrong, I don't want to be blamed. Besides, you have to learn how to work things out on your own. The only thing I can tell you is to buy her a gift, and try to make her understand what happened and why you did what you did, the same way you just explained to me. Maybe she'll take you back, but that was something…well, extreme that you did, so I don't think you'll win her back so easily."
"Thanks, Mom."
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Mirai's POV
I was sitting on my bed, looking at a picture of my mom and I taken before she died. I missed her so much, but at least I was back with this mom and that was better than having no Mom at all, right? There was a knock at my door so I got up to get it and the person at my door ended up being Trunks. I had told him that he could talk to me, but I figured he wouldn't. He just doesn't seem to like me, so I doubted he would want to talk to me about anything. Not that I minded talking to him, though.
"I need to talk to someone," he said. I motioned for him to come inside and went to sit on my bed and immediately started talking. "Look, I know you helped her and all, and you probably are going to sympathize with Pan, but I want to talk to you anyway about what happened.
"Like I told you and everyone else, I couldn't let go of her. I don't know whether it was just my body or if I was actually subconsciously doing it, but all I know is that I didn't plan on doing that to her, it just happened. If I could change the fact that it happened, I would if Pan wouldn't be mad at me anymore. I want her back, but I don't think she wants me around anymore. She hates me, I know it. But I need to win her back. Do you have any idea how I can do that?"
Here he looked at me pleadingly. I honestly didn't know what to tell him, I mean, if Pan doesn't want him around her I don't think anything would change her mind if she felt strongly enough about it. What I found really strange was that Trunks had all this time been against me and looked at me like I was the enemy, that I would steal Pan away from him and now here he was asking me to help win her back.
"I don't know what to tell you, Trunks," I told him. "I think what you should do is give her a little time to get over it, or at least time for her to calm down enough to talk to you. She seemed really angry with you. I don't think that she's going to want to talk to you anytime soon. You should give her some space for a little while then you should go talk to her."
"That's not the answer I wanted to hear," he said.
"Sorry, but that's what I would do. It would be the right, and smartest thing to do if you don't want to get Pan even more mad than she already is."
Trunks drew his knees up to his chest, wrapped his arms around his legs and rested his head on his knees. He saw the picture I had been looking at and he sat staring at it for a while. "Mom told me that I should give Pan a gift and explain everything to her."
I nodded, "Yeah, that's a good idea, but do that after a few days though. Just don't think about Pan for a few days. Go out and have some fun, or train. Do something so you take your mind off of her."
He snorted, "Easy for you to say. You're not linked to her like I am and you haven't just hurt her the way I did." He sighed, then looked back at me sadly. "I feel so bad about what I did. I want Pan to know that."
"Well, why not tell her through your bond?"
"I wish I could. It hasn't developed that far, but even if it has, Pan has shut her thoughts off to me. All I can feel is an intense hate for me coming from her. That's why I want her to know that I'm sorry, but she won't let me tell her." Trunks sighed again and got off of the bed. "Well, thanks for talking to me, " he said. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight," I replied. He didn't look too good to me, he seemed like he wouldn't listen to me at all and he would go and talk to Pan as soon as he could. It wouldn't be the best thing to do, but if I were in his place, I would be thinking the same thing. I know I would want to see Pan badly too.
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Phew! Finally this chapter is out. Well, I have a better idea of what I want to do for the next chapter than I did for this one, but I have to admit, this chapter went along better than I thought it would, so that's a plus! ^_^ See ya next time!
~Lady Branwen~