Till Death Do Us Part
Chapter Three
Disclaimer: I don't own the people or any of the stuff in this fic...only actual fic itself. :)
When we last left this tragic scene, Pan is going back to Japan with Juno and the others.
One week later
The seemly long plane trip home had tired her, yet she couldn't sleep. Everyone had crashed at Trunk's apartment that night, since Bra and Goten's place wasn't large enough for all of them.
Pan sighed, it was two a.m. and all she had to show for the day was the empty vodka bottle that was sluggishly placed on the railing of the outdoor balcony.
"Pan, don't do that." The voice was stern.
"Huh," Pan looked over her shoulder, looking to see who the voice belonged to.
Coming out of the shadows stood a sleepy Goten, wearing a black tee shirt and a pair of maroon boxers.
"You wanna sit down." Pan managed to slur out.
"You shouldn't drink, its not going to help your problems any, they'll still be there in the morning.....the only difference will be decrease in the money in your wallet." Goten sighed, putting his feet up on the rod iron balcony.
"Like you have room to talk." Pan pointed to the burning cigarette in Goten's hand.
"I know, but I have tried to quit." Goten put the cigarette to his mouth, inhaling it then letting it drop to his side once again.
"Whatever, Goten if you don't mind, I really just want to be left alone right now." She was beginning to get annoyed and discouraged at the same time.
"Alcohol won't bring Rob back Pan, it will only push Juno and everyone else farther away." Goten rose from the patio chair putting out the cigarette in the ash tray on the table beside him. "We're here for you Pan, you just have to let us in."
Picking up the empty vodka bottle from the table he walked back inside the apartment.
"I'm sorry Goten...." Her voice trailed off as sleep depravation and drunkenness began to kick in.
The next day
Trunks woke up to the bright sunlight entering his window and shining on his face.
"Ugh," he groaned.
"I don't want to get up, I just went to sleep." He rolled over pulling his pillow over his head beginning falling asleep again.
Only to be awakened 3 minutes later by Bra.
"TRUNKS...." Bra shouted, pulling the pillow off his head and ripping the blankets off his body.
"Ah, God Bra what the hell is your problem? What do you want." He rubbed his eyes, trying to adjust to the light in the room.
"Pan's missing, I can't find her anywhere." She frantically searched the closet then ran into the hallway.
Pulling himself out of bed, Trunks stumbled into the hallway and down the stairs to search for Pan.
He could hear Bra trying to wake up Goten, yelling at him to help her look.
He wandered into the kitchen, still looking around, then saw and raven colored head out on the balcony.
"I found her," he yelled, hoping to shut his hysterical sister.
Walking around to the door, he went out to the balcony.
She was sleeping, it brought a smile to his face to see her finally at peace. He looked over at the side table, seeing the ash trey.
"Goten, at it again eh buddy." He muttered under his breath.
"Trunks," Pan stirred from the chair.
"Hey," he looked up from the ash trey, only to see her frown. "Did you have a good short sleep." He grinned at her, hoping to have even a small effect on her sad looking face.
"I guess," she walked inside, leaving him standing there.
He looked in the corner of his eye and saw an empty vodka bottle. He shook his head, don't do this to yourself Pan he thought to himself.
Trunks walked inside, trying to balance the bottle and ash trey at the same time. Inside he saw Bra, Goten and Pan eating breakfast.
Good he thought again, its been awhile since you've eaten Pan. Taking a deep breath he stepped into the kitchen, going unnoticed by the others.
"Goten," he paused waiting for his friend to acknowledge him, "do you think you could clean up after yourself from now on?"
"Hey," Goten took the full ash trey from his friend, "I need that."
"Yeah just don't dump it in my trash can, I don't need my whole apartment smelling like a trash dump because of your bad habits." Trunks eyed his friend.
At this Pan started to laugh, this time it wasn't hollow and plastic.
It earned the attention of her three friends and Juno, who had finally woke up.
"Mommy......" Pan pulled herself up off the floor.
"I'll be right back you guys, I got to go and get him." She walked off in the direction of the stairs.
"Well you guys," Bra looked at the kitchen wall, "I think she is getting to be a little bit better, she may even want to get out in about a month or so."
"A MONTH!" Trunks and Goten looked at Bra.
"Oh come on you guys," Bra looked annoyedly at her brother, "Trunks how would you feel if your wife had just died."
Trunks thought of Pan being his wife, a dream come true, then her leaving him forever. His face grew pale.
"Trunks?" Bra and Goten waved a hand in front of his face to get his attention.
"Huh, oh yea, I guess it wouldn't be that great."
Bra rolled her eyes, "so what are we going to do today, I think we should get Juno out of the house. He was talking about Rob the other day, he knows."
"Then we should definitely make him feel loved and help him get adjusted to the new surroundings." Goten looked towards the kitchen door to see Pan entering with a dressed Juno, balancing him on her hip she came over to the others.
"So," she started, putting Juno on the floor, "what are we doing today."
"Well," Bra stood up holding Juno, "I thought we should take Juno out you know get him adjusted to the new surroundings and all. What do you think?"
"Sounds good to me." She walked away to the couch.
Bra eyed Trunks, giving him that GO look.
"Are you ok?" Trunks sat down next to her, putting his arm around her.
"Yeah, I have to be strong for Juno and besides......" her voice trailed off.
"What?" Trunks looked at her.
"Well.... I don't know if I should tell you this, I mean I feel kinda guilty."
Trunks started to laugh, "wait a minute let me guess, you killed him."
Pan's face grew pale. "Me and Rob weren't doing so well in the end."
Trunks pulled away from her, "what do you mean?"
"Me and Rob were married for 2 years, but in the last 3 months or so we were having a lot of problems, we were considering a trial separation."
Trunks pulled her into a hug, "what do you think would of happened if he hadn't.........." he stopped as he heard her sigh.
"I'm sorry, you don't have to answer." He started to get up.
"No, no its ok. I'm happy to finally get to talk about it. But I think that Rob just wasn't the one for me, if he hadn't of died then.....it would of ended in divorce. I'm sure of it." She looked up at him, and laid her head on his chest, "We could of always been friends, that's why I was so broken up about his death at first, I loved him, he was my friend and the father of my baby."
"Pan, I'm happy that you are doing so much better, but you have to promise me one thing."
"Anything," she relaxed as she continued to talk to him.
"Please don't drink.....it makes you smell bad."
"Why you!" She jumped up. Picking up and pillow she hit him on the head and continued to pounce on him.
"Ah," he screamed and also started to hit her with a pillow.
Bra and Goten ran into the room carrying Juno.
"What is going on???" They looked at the scene in front of them.
"Sorry," Pan and Trunks collapsed in a heap in front of the sofa, still laughing about the earlier events.
So I hope this is a little bit better than the earlier chapters. I made sure to make this one a little bit longer due to the requests by a couple people. So review it and be happy ^.^
~*Rayne*~