Till Death Do Us Part

Chapter 4

Disclaimer: Do I have to do this again.... I don't own it, I never will.

So people liked the fic, uh here's the next part. Just keep in mind, so that I didn't have to make about 100 chapters I skipped forward a couple months.

It had been three months since Rob's death, the only time I truly saw her smile was that one night that she confided her problems about her marriage with me. But slowly I saw her old self returning, I could feel myself falling in love with her all over again, he thought about it over and over again, but couldn't deny it, despite her loss of a friend and husband he loved her all along.

Goten opened the door of the penthouse apartment interrupting his thoughts once again, causing him to push them to the back of his mind until he was alone once again.

"Hey Trunks, can we have Juno's birthday over here, its big enough to fit both families and Pan didn't really want to have at your mom's." He set down the box of decorations in his hands.

"Sure, I don't blame her, you know how mom makes everything a big to do, uhhh you can put the box upstairs in the closet, nobody will find it there and Juno's getting into everything now." He walked over to the couch and plopped down, he seemed to be tired of having nothing to, and work had been slow, giving him more days off than he knew what to do with.

"So Trunks, you gotta a date for Juno's party yet?" Goten stepped into his view, making Trunks notice quickly.

"Oh come on Goten, he's only two," he sighed knowing what his sly friend was getting at, "I figured I'd just hang out with Pan the whole time."

"I KNEW IT!" Jumping on the couch with excitement he caused poor Trunks to fall off to a hard landing.

"Ow man, what are you getting at?"

"Don't deny it anymore Trunks, ever since she left you've been dating less and less and now you don't go out at all, your 38 and your hopeless." He offered Trunks a hand back onto the sofa, sitting down next to him Trunks cupped his hands over his face and sighed in exasperation.

"What am I going to do Goten, I've loved her for as long as I can think of, I thought I could get over the fact that she was gone, but now she's back and I've fallen for her all over again." Trunks sighed again, he couldn't block all these lost emotions that he increasingly felt.

Goten patted him on the back, "I was the same way until I finally confronted Bra on it.....now I have to tell you something."

"What?"

"I'm going to ask Bra to marry me at Juno's party."

In a state of shock Trunks fell off the sofa again, but got up immediately, "your what......you and Bra.........hope you've been training for the beating your going to get from my father."

"Yeah, well I'm prepared for whatever may come, I know that she's the one....but we've known each other forever and besides we've been dating since Pan got married to Rob, I'm sure we'll be fine."

There was a silence between, it wasn't uneasy but it wasn't peaceful.

Goten peered down at his watch, "I gotta go buddy but think about what I thought, remember she hasn't totally gotten over him yet, a couple of guys have asked her out and she's turned them all down." And he walked out the door, leaving a very stressed and confused man sitting in his living room.

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Pan sat in the graveyard with Juno, they had decided to bury Rob in Japan since she was going to be staying there indefinitely. Juno was well aware of Rob's whereabouts and whenever anybody asked him where his daddy was he said in heaven with the angels. It always brought a tear to Pan's eyes.

Leaning over the tombstone she smiled, "at last you are at peace, for a while I was worried about you, its been a rough couple of months for us you know...I'm so lucky to have my friends and family here helping me. I told Trunks about you and me, I can trust him with it, I'm not ready to tell everyone else yet." Looking up at the sky she laughed at herself, what she must look like talking to a piece of rock. "Juno will be three in two days, we're having a party for him at Trunk's place, he misses you so much....I feel so lost sometimes without you," tears began to fall from her checks, staining the petals of the flowers she placed there. "I love you, my friend, but I have to go now the others are waiting for me in the car, I'll be back soon." She kissed her hand and touched the gravestone, trying to dry her tears on her shirt she picked up Juno and walked to her car where her mother and Bulma were waiting for her.

"Sorry that took so long," she snapped Juno into his car seat and sat down in the back next to her only son.

Her mother smiled at her, placing a loving arm around her, "you're doing better though, I can see it in your eyes that something wasn't right before and now it is."

"How....." Pan's puzzled voice trailed off, her mother was always able to guess how she felt and what was going on in her life.

"I'm your mom, I'm supposed to know these things....Pan its alright to feel like your ready to close this chapter in your life, I mean you only 28 and plenty of women date after their spouses die, and you and him were getting to be just close friends in the end....right?" Videl noticed her daughters face becoming streaked with tears again, she wiped them off with a handkerchief that Bulma had handed to her.

"Your mom's right Pan, I know it may feel like you'll bad at times but you really need to help yourself over this hump in your life, your still young even." Bulma's face smiled at her through the rear view mirror.

"If it's so right then why does it feel so wrong," she looked over at Juno, who looked concerned for his crying mommy. "It's ok Juno mommy was just thinking of some stuff and it made her remember daddy." She smiled at her son, he was the world to her the only part of her she felt was left.

"Its going to be ok Pan, you need to start going out again, and meeting more guys, I mean you said that there were a lot of problems in your marriage with Rob so I'm thinking that there is someone else out there that was meant just for you." Bulma pulled out her phone, dialing a number she left a message on the machine, "hi Trunks its mom, I know your home but all well, Pan just visited Rob and we have come to a decision that Pan wants to start going out again so tonight you and her go and meet people, call me, bye."

"We're here," Videl announced, they pulled into the Brief's driveway and found Bra out on the porch waiting phone in hand with Marron and Ubuu and their son Solo, he was already 3 about the same age as Juno.

Stepping out of the car, Pan unbuckled Juno and walked him up to the porch to meet her friends and Solo.

"Pan," Marron squealed, "I can't believe you, you look so good for.....uh well Bra told me about Juno a couple weeks back and we're back from visiting my mom and dad in France, their vacationing there for about 2 years give or take a month." She smiled happily at her friend, "well lets get these two in the yard to play so that we can catch up, Ubuu wants to go over to see Trunks and Goten." Giving her husband a peck on the lips the three women were off to catch up about the last 2 years.

Pan, Bra, and Marron watched the kids play from inside the house.

"Gosh Pan you look so young, I can't believe that I'm eight years older than you and have a kid the same age. I got started late huh?" Marron laughed, it was just like old times.

"Nah, I just had Juno a little too early, I'm happy though, I love him so much.....I don't know what I would do without him." She looked at her son, doing his basic training techniques....he was only a small percentage saiyan but he was definitely strong for his age.

They talked for hours about nothing unparticular, just what they had been up too and Pan confessed about going out with Trunks tonight to meet new people.

"Well I'm surprised you and my brother haven't hooked up with all the time you have been spending together," Bra looked at Pan who was trying to defend herself.

"Well, he's been like a second father to Juno and he's just been the greatest friend I could ask for, you have no idea how much he's helped me out, letting me stay with him till I could find a place to live. He even offered to let me stay with him permanently, I feel bad when I ask him for help, I don't want to bother him." She looked out the window to see Vegeta attempting to understand the children.

"Don't, I like it when I can help you out." Pan almost jumped out of her seat to see Trunks standing there smiling down at her. "How you been holding up?" He leaned over and kissed her cheek.

"Pretty good, I hear you're taking me out tonight so that I can start getting into dating mode again." She laughed at the thought of her dating again, it was such a hassle.

"You name the time and place and I'll be there to pick you up, but for right now me and the guys are going to find something for you know who's birthday party." He gave her a hug and walked out the door, Goten and Ubuu following.

Bra and Marron just stared at her, "you can't tell me that he doesn't like you, he was all over you, flirting and all and you didn't even notice it." Bra looked at her, "I can't believe I didn't see it sooner," she sighed, "Marron he's fallen for her again."

Pan looked at them both, raising an eyebrow she repeated their last word, "again?"

Ok so what did you think for the next chapter, I don't know what's gotten into me lately I've just been on this writing spree....all these ideas are magically coming to me. So do the routine review the story.

~*Rayne*~