Hello everyone. It's me Katie with the sequel to Growing a Dieing Rose. This fic is called Planting a Dead Rose. It's about Pan's funeral. I'm sorry if Growing a Dieing Rose was sad. This story shows no mercy. You should read Growing a Dieing Rose first because it continues from the end of Growing a Dieing Rose. Oh well. The disclaimer is usual.
Planting a Dead Rose
By Katie
Once the Seed Dies
Trunks watched as the coffin was slowly lowered. There were no tears in his eyes, at least not anymore.
He had cried for hours, no days, after Pan had died. Nothing could stop him from crying. Nothing.
Finally on the seventh day, the day of the funeral, the day he found that he needed those tears to tell him he still had a heart, he had none. When he felt tears, none came out.
Through his puffy red eyes he saw everyone. Gohan, Videl, ChiChi, Goten, Krillian, Juuhachigou, Marron, his sister Bra, his mother Bulma, his father Vegeta, Tien, Choatzu, Yamcha, Mr. Satan, Puar, Oolong, Master Roshi, even Piccolo, Dende and Mr. Popo. There were a few other there he didn't know and didn't care to know.
Think of the rose it had come from
Trunks lowered his head as the tears came. He tried to hold them back but finally, through everything, he finally found tears.
"Pan I'm sorry…I'm…I'm so…so sorry…"
FLASH BACK
"Pan, Goten, I would like you to meet my new girlfriend Emily." Trunks said as he smiled a fake smiled down at his new girlfriend.
"Hi." Goten said cheerfully waving his hand slightly towards her.
"Hello." Emily returned the happy gaze from Goten with a happy smile.
Pan looked up at Trunks fake smile. Not realizing that it was fake she grumbled something out and ran from the house.
Goten turned to face where Pan had just run.
"Pan chan?" he asked quizzically.
Trunk's eyebrows narrowed.
"What's up with her?" he asked.
"I don't know."
END OF FLASHBACK
Trunks looked around him.
"Did I cause this?"
Trunks's eyes glazed over as he stared at the coffin fall into the grave. He turned his gaze away from the coffin to the people around him. There was not a single soul around him that was dry eyed. Even Vegeta had tears in his eyes.
Gohan, he noticed, was glaring at him. He quickly turned his gaze away when their eyes met. Gohan had angry, sad eyes as he pierced Trunks with his blaming gaze. Trunks could feel Gohan's gaze asking, "Why did you kill me daughter, you monster?"
Trunks tried as hard as he could to ignore the gaze put upon him. It wasn't his fault was it?
FLASH BACK
Trunks felt Pan's ki at a tremendous height. He quickly looked over at Goten and their worried gazes met.
Goten nodded and they both ran out of the Son residence with Emily trying to run with them.
"Trunks where are you going?" she asked as she ran.
"To save my love." He cried blasting off the ground followed closely leaving a puzzled Emily standing there alone.
END OF FLASHBACK
It couldn't have been his fault was it? It just couldn't have been his fault!
FLASHBACK
Pan was crumpled under the weight of the tree against her back. Trunks had scrounged forwards preying she was still alive.
He fell to his knees and pushed the large, cracked tree from over the delicate body of the crumpled angel. He pulled her head up into his lap and felt her pulls.
It was there.
Thank Dende it was still there.
Trunks pulled her up into his arms.
"Oh Pan-chan…" he whispered as Goten came towards them.
Goten stared down at his niece teary eyed.
"Pan…" Trunks knew Goten had said more than just her name but the worry of loosing Pan made him blind and deaf from everything around him. He didn't even notice it when the thunder cracked and another tree fell near by.
Trunks tried to pull her up into a spot in his arms where she would be most comfortable if she were to awake, but her couldn't. She lay slightly tilted backwards in his arms starting at the lower spine area. He held his breath and searched down her lower spine with his left hand, still cradling her in his arms.
A rut. A giant rut took the place of one area on her spine.
Trunks looked at Goten for the first time since Trunks had found the crumpled up, fallen angel.
"She's broken her back," he said loudly over the crackling of lightning and the booming attitude of the thunder.
"You sure?" Goten asked back.
"She has a giant rut in the middle of her lower spine area. You tell me what that could mean!"
Goten backed off and Trunks took off, Goten close behind him.
"Oh please Pan-chan…don't die on me…"
They landed at the hospital soon after. Trunks rushed her in and explained to the receptionist what was going on. A doctor took Pan from him and said something to him about forms. He felt his vision starting to go blurry and his hearing slowly start disintegrating. Goten said something back to the doctor about him filling out the forms.
That was the last thing Trunks had heard for he had passed out.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Pan did I really lose you?" he asked himself. "I couldn't have lost you! Oh please Pan don't let that be you, please don't let that be you…"
FLASHBACK
Trunks held his breath as the doctor pulled him out of Pan's room to talk.
"Mr. Briefs," he said taking a deep breath.
"Ya?"
"You may want to call Miss. Son's family and tell them to come down he right away." The doctor said sadly.
"Why?"
"She's broken her back."
"I know." Trunks breathed in deeply and held his breath for a few moments before letting it out. "She'll never be able to walk again, and I know that."
"Mr. Briefs that's not the reason I'm talking to you."
"Then what it?"
"She'll be dead by this afternoon."
Trunks stumbled backwards and leaned against the wall.
"No…"
The doctor left Trunks there on the ridge of tears.
"Pan-chan…Chibi Son…No…"
Goten came out of Pan's room and looked at Trunks, concern built up in him when he looked upon his friend.
"Trunks, you okay buddy?"
"Go get your family. Tell them to come here now!"
"Why?" he asked.
The words of the doctor rang through his head as he covered his face and breathed deeply. Then letting out his breath he pulled his hands down enough so Goten could see his face.
"Because Pan will be dead by this afternoon."
Goten stumbled backwards and tripped over a stretcher. Pulling himself up he continued stumbling backwards.
"Oh Dende, oh no." he managed to get out before he turned and ran to get to a phone.
As Goten called his family Trunks went back into Pan's room and kneeled beside her. He put his hands up onto the bed and leaned his head against them.
"Oh Pan…no…"
Sleep overtook Trunks right after a single tear rolled down his cheeks.
END OF FLASKBACK
"Pan is it true your gone? Oh please say it's a lie."
Bra looked up at her muttering brother and walked over to him after seeing the expression on his face.
Trunks stared at the coffin as it continued being lowered. He took a step and then another step forwards until he was almost at the hole. Then he stopped as another memory overtook him.
FLASHBACK
"I love…" Trunks spoke sadly. But the hand that rested in his interrupted him by falling limp and Pan's head sank into the pillows. "…you too." he spoke softly to ears that couldn't hear him.
At that moment there was a long beep that didn't end. He looked up at the machine that was doing the long beep. 'Why wont it show the wiggly lines instead of one long one? Pan isn't dead so why is it doing that?' he thought anxiously. Then he turned to face Pan's dead face. You read about people looking peacefully asleep when their dead, but they don't. They just look dead.
Goten came bounding in followed closely by Gohan, Videl, ChiChi, a doctor, and a nurse.
It all seemed like a dream from that moment on. Trunks didn't know much about what happening but he did know this. He was ripped away from Pan and pushed away by the doctor. He leaned silently against the wall as tears rolled down his cheeks.
"No…Pan…you…you just can't…can't leave…me" he whispered.
Trunks watched dazedly at the scene before him. Videl, Gohan, Goten, and ChiChi were standing around the dead Pan as the doctor felt her pulse.
The doctor stood after a moment and unplugged the heart monitor that was doing the long beep and he looked down at his watch.
"Time of death 10:45 Am." The doctor said sadly.
The nurse shook her head and wrote it down on her clipboard.
"She was so young. 18 is so young. What a waste." She said as she wrote.
'What a waste?' Trunks thought hastily. 'What does she mean by what a waste? Her life isn't a waste! It is the most important life in the world God Damn it!' he screamed in his mind.
Videl fell to her knees in tears. She covered her face and sobbed. Gohan knelt beside her and put his arms around her. ChiChi and Goten tried to stay strong but found they themselves were crying. ChiChi looked over at Trunks and he looked over at her. Their eyes met and Trunks, for one moment in his life, saw true sadness. He didn't know why but when ChiChi looked into his eyes she fell to the ground crying. Goten knelt with his mother and embraced her.
'Why are you crying? SHE ISN'T DEAD GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!' he screamed in his mind.
"Pan-chan…" he whispered and fell to the ground. He was out cold.
END OF FLASHBACK
Barry the Dead Seed Once Again
Trunks fell to his knees when the coffin stopped being lowered and the men started barring it. Tears were the only things he saw.
Covering his face he screamed.
"PAN-CHAN!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T BE GONE!!!!!!!!!"
Trunks leaned his face hard into his hands and wept like a 5-year-old boy that had just lost his dog because a car hit it.
Everyone turned and faced Trunks then turned back and began walking away, everyone except Bra that is. Bra sprang forwards to Trunks and put her small, feminine arms around him. Tears were in his eyes as well.
"Oh Trunks please don't cry. It will be all right! I promise you it will be alright!"
Trunks stared up into his sister's eyes.
"You don't understand Bra!" he sniffed and looked up at Bra through tears. He didn't care who saw him like that, he just wanted to cry. "I didn't answer he question! I didn't tell her why I was there! She died not knowing how much she meant to me!" Bra looked down at her brother with sympathy in her eyes.
"What does she mean to you?" she asked looking down at him.
"I love her." He said in a strong but sad voice.
"How did she feel about you?" she asked.
"You should know you were her best friend weren't you?"
"Yes I am and yes I do know how she felt. I was wondering if you knew."
"She told me she loved me." He looked down at his feet.
"What did you tell her?"
"I said "I love…" and then she died before I finished my sentence." He answered. "If only I'd said it just a few seconds earlier instead of pausing…"
"Don't say that Trunks. I know that she must have figured it out by the time she died."
Trunks sniffed and wiped tears from his cheeks. "You sure?"
Bra smiled. It was weird feeling like the "big sister" instead of the "little sister" that she was.
"Yup." She smiled weakly and helped him to his feet and handed him a Kleenex.
And wait to see what happens
The next weeks were horrendous for Trunks. He couldn't concentrate on work, he couldn't concentrate on training, and he couldn't even concentrate when someone was talking to him. He was always off dreaming about what would have happened him Pan hadn't died.
Gohan had been ignoring him. Whenever they did cross paths Gohan just gave him the hardest of glares and walked past him.
'Oh well,' he thought sadly, 'its better than him killing me or something.'
Finally after a few weeks Goten got fed up with having and airhead as a friend.
"Trunks listen," he said kindly, "I know your upset about Pan, we all are. But you have to let it go. It couldn't have ever been anyways. You know Gohan would have killed you if anything would of happened between you two."
Trunks took a deep breath and looked up at his friends. Inside he was yelling at Goten saying things like "HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WOULDN'T OF WORKED??????" or "I DON'T CARE WHAT GOHAN WOULD DO, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOGETHER!!!!!!!!" But outwardly he just plainly said, "Ya, I guess your right buddy."
That night Trunks staid up late thinking of Pan and everything that had happened between them throughout their lives.
"Pan if only there was a way you could come back to me…" Trunks said as he closed his eyes as the grips of the dark deep sleep crashed over him.
Wait for what happens
The End
How was that? Was it as sad as before? If it is I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be so depressing I just want to write it this way. It will show itself to be happy in the next story. I PROMISE THE NEXT ONE WON'T BE SO DEPRESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Expect a sequel soon (hopefully later today ^_~ or tomorrow). Please review my story. Thanks for reading.
Katie