It was early fall, the wind was cool but inviting. Bra was walking down the street watching her feet as she walked to her appointment with her therapist. She walked into the building and sat down in the waiting room. She had only been out of the hospital for 2 weeks, she was not completely back up to speed, but Bulma wanted her to get some help as soon as she could. Just then her therapist came into the waiting room.
"Hi Bra."
"Hello, Dr. Murson." Said Bra as she stood up and walked into his office and sat down on the couch. He sat across from her.
"Well, Bra, yesterday we talked about your relationship with your Ex-boyfriend. Today I want to talk about what happened after that."
"Ok... I came back from Kris' house after "living" with him for roughly 2 months. I felt so alone. When my father and brother came to take me home, Kris had just stopped hitting me. So I was really bruised. I'm sure if I had let him; my father would have killed Kris. But, I got to leave, and I was thankful for that. "A small tear began to fall down Bra's face, "But, every time I looked in the mirror, seeing the bruise on my face, the bruises on my arms, the bruises on my soul, I felt completely worthless. I felt like I wanted to die. All my friends, all my family, they're all fighters, they're all warriors, and then there's me; nothing."
"When did the drugs come into play in your life?" questioned the doctor.
"I don't really know how it happened. I met an old acquaintance from high school one day while I was in town and she invited me to this party with her and I got stoned on the way there and while I was there I tried ecstasy and LSD." Replied Bra.
"How did this drugs make you feel?"
"That was the great thing about the drugs; I didn't feel. All the pain I held from my time with Kris was gone. I didn't feel any pain, I didn't feel weak, and I didn't feel worthless. I felt like I could take on the world. It was empowering."
Bra's session lasted for another hour before she left for the day. Still no progress had been made. Bra still did not know what was wrong with her; but then again all she did know was that she was in the middle of a serious depression, and nothing else. She began walking back to Capsule Corp, but she decided to take a longer way home. On her way she stopped in a park and sat beside the pond and took her day planner out of her purse.
"Oh damn, I have group tonight." Said Bra, "I really just want to go back to bed." She made a few notes in her planner and got up from the pond and headed back home.
Once she got back, her father and brother were sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch with Bulma.
"Hi sweetie." Said Bulma, "How did it go today?"
"It was fine." Said Bra as she sat down at the table and grabbed a sandwich off of the huge plate full of them, "Man alive, Trunks, you look like you were hit by a bus." Bra chuckled.
"This is my last day of training with dad." Sighed Trunks. He was still being punished for the situation that ensued when he and Goten brought Bra home from the bar.
"Kakarrot's grand-brat called for you this morning." Said Vegeta watching Bra pick at her sandwich.
"Ok, daddy." Said Bra, "I guess I'll call her later." With that Bra got up from the kitchen table and went up to her room.
"Does she seem at all better to anyone?" said Trunks.
"It's going to take time." Said Bulma.
Bra went into her room and crawled onto her bed and began to cry. Bra did not know why she was so unhappy; she just wanted it to end. The nights of endless crying, the sleepless nights, the nightmares from when she did sleep, she just wanted it all to end. These were the nights that the drugs helped her pain. These were the nights she needed the acid, the X, the Cocaine, these were the night she wanted to forget. The only time she did sleep was during the day; the dreams were not as bad when she slept during the day. Just then there was a knock on her door. Bra quickly wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Come in." she said in a raspy voice. The door opened and in walked Trunks.
"Hey." Said Trunks, "you alright?"
"Yea, I'm fine."
"I could hear you crying in the hall."
"I'm sorry Trunks, I'm just tired, that's all." sighed Bra. Trunks sat down on her bed.
"Have you talked to Goten since you've been home?"
"Yea, he came over yesterday. We talked for a couple hours." Said Bra with a smile.
"I knew talking about Goten would make you smile." Said Trunks. Bra giggled a little.
"He's going to come with me to my group tonight. They told me last week, that we needed to bring a friend this week, so Goten offered." Said Bra.
"That was nice of him." Said Trunks, "When are you two going to become official?"
"I don't know. Not right now, I need to get my head clear first." Said Bra.
"Well, don't forget to call Pan." Said Trunks.
"Do you know what she wanted?" asked Bra.
"No, dad took the call, I was training." Said Trunks, "In fact, I have to get back, dad said if I'm gone a minute longer, I'll have another month, and well, I can't train like this for another month."
"Ok, go, I'm going to take a nap." Said Bra. Trunks lightly kissed her head.
"Get some sleep." And with that Trunks left.
'I do have a great family. They're always behind me.' Thought Bra as she watched Trunks leave. She laid back in her bed and quickly fell asleep.
She woke up later that evening to a knock on her door.
"Bra." Whispered a man's voice. Bra rolled over and looked to see whom it was.
"Hi, Goten." Mumbled Bra.
"Hey, we have to get going, you said it starts at 7, right?" said Goten.
"I'm not going." Whispered Bra as she rolled back over.
"What do you mean you're not going, of course you are."
"I mean, I'm not going, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be alone. Please, leave me be." Said Bra almost starting to cry. Goten shut the door to her room and walked back down stairs.
"Umm, she says that she's not going." Goten said to Trunks in the living room.
"WHAT!" said Trunks.
"She said she doesn't want to go anywhere and wants to be alone."
"Oh man, something must be wrong." Sighed Trunks.
"Trunks, of course something is wrong, she's not well, she's trying to recover, but she needs her group sessions or she'll never get better." Said Goten.
"Dude, I know that, I mean something else must be wrong. She was telling us at lunch how you were going with her tonight and then she went to take a nap, she's been up there since." Said Trunks. Just then, the two boys heard the front door open and close.
"Oh man, I bet that's her." Said Goten running to the door. When he looked out the door, sure enough there went Bra, flying through the air. While the boys were looking out the door, Vegeta came out of the gravity room.
"What are you brats looking at?" questioned Vegeta.
"Bra said she wasn't going to her group tonight and then took to the sky." Said Trunks.
"WHAT!" yelled Vegeta, "What do you mean she's not going to her group."
"Jeez, Father, that's just what she told Goten."
"Did she tell you anything else?" asked Vegeta, grabbing Goten by the shirt collar.
"She just told me that she wasn't going to group and that she wanted to be alone." Said Goten. Vegeta growled. Then he took off.
Vegeta found Bra a couple hours later on an uninhabited island not too far from Capsule Corp. She was sitting next to a tree, hugging her knees to her chest, and crying uncontrollably rocking back and forth. Vegeta walked up to her and sat next to her.
"Princess, are you alright?"
"Yea, daddy." Sobbed Bra.
"Then why are you crying?"
"I don't know. I just don't know." She cried harder.
"You don't just cry for no reason." Said Vegeta, as he put is arm around his daughter. Bra leaned her head on her father's shoulder, "talk to me, Princess. Tell me what's wrong."
"I don't know, daddy." Bra sobbed harder, "I just feel so helpless. Nothing is working, Therapy is waste of my time, and the group sessions are a joke. I just want things to go back to normal. I don't sleep at night, I have horrible nightmares; I can't take this anymore."
"We are all behind you, Princess. We have faith that you can beat this." Consoled Vegeta.
"Daddy, I don't have anything good in my life. There is nothing I have to achieve."
"How about your sobriety? You have to achieve."
"Yea," sobbed Bra, "But I have nothing to achieve that for. There is nothing I get to look forward to for being sober."
"How about Kakarrot's brat?" Vegeta smirked at his daughter.
"Goten? How would I possibly achieve him, I can't achieve him."
"Why not, it's obvious that you two feel something for each other, he wants to help you with your recovery, and as much as I hate to say it, why not achieve to be with him."
"Daddy," sobbed and laughed Bra, "that's not much of an achievement for me. I already know he wants to be with me."
"When was the last time you trained?" asked Vegeta.
"I don't know, before the whole Kris thing." Starting to dry her eyes.
"Well, how about this, if you work hard on keeping your sobriety, I'll train you to become a Super Saiyan."
"A Super Saiyan?"
"Yea, while you continue to go to therapy and to your groups, when you get back we'll train in the gravity room." Said Vegeta with a gleam in his eyes.
"OK, I'll do it."
"Do you want to go home now?"
"You go on ahead, I'll be home shortly."
"Ok," Vegeta said standing up with his daughter, "Don't stay on this island, I don't know what's on this rock." Vegeta kissed his daughter's forehead. "We'll get you through this." With that Vegeta took off.
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"Hi Bra."
"Hello, Dr. Murson." Said Bra as she stood up and walked into his office and sat down on the couch. He sat across from her.
"Well, Bra, yesterday we talked about your relationship with your Ex-boyfriend. Today I want to talk about what happened after that."
"Ok... I came back from Kris' house after "living" with him for roughly 2 months. I felt so alone. When my father and brother came to take me home, Kris had just stopped hitting me. So I was really bruised. I'm sure if I had let him; my father would have killed Kris. But, I got to leave, and I was thankful for that. "A small tear began to fall down Bra's face, "But, every time I looked in the mirror, seeing the bruise on my face, the bruises on my arms, the bruises on my soul, I felt completely worthless. I felt like I wanted to die. All my friends, all my family, they're all fighters, they're all warriors, and then there's me; nothing."
"When did the drugs come into play in your life?" questioned the doctor.
"I don't really know how it happened. I met an old acquaintance from high school one day while I was in town and she invited me to this party with her and I got stoned on the way there and while I was there I tried ecstasy and LSD." Replied Bra.
"How did this drugs make you feel?"
"That was the great thing about the drugs; I didn't feel. All the pain I held from my time with Kris was gone. I didn't feel any pain, I didn't feel weak, and I didn't feel worthless. I felt like I could take on the world. It was empowering."
Bra's session lasted for another hour before she left for the day. Still no progress had been made. Bra still did not know what was wrong with her; but then again all she did know was that she was in the middle of a serious depression, and nothing else. She began walking back to Capsule Corp, but she decided to take a longer way home. On her way she stopped in a park and sat beside the pond and took her day planner out of her purse.
"Oh damn, I have group tonight." Said Bra, "I really just want to go back to bed." She made a few notes in her planner and got up from the pond and headed back home.
Once she got back, her father and brother were sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch with Bulma.
"Hi sweetie." Said Bulma, "How did it go today?"
"It was fine." Said Bra as she sat down at the table and grabbed a sandwich off of the huge plate full of them, "Man alive, Trunks, you look like you were hit by a bus." Bra chuckled.
"This is my last day of training with dad." Sighed Trunks. He was still being punished for the situation that ensued when he and Goten brought Bra home from the bar.
"Kakarrot's grand-brat called for you this morning." Said Vegeta watching Bra pick at her sandwich.
"Ok, daddy." Said Bra, "I guess I'll call her later." With that Bra got up from the kitchen table and went up to her room.
"Does she seem at all better to anyone?" said Trunks.
"It's going to take time." Said Bulma.
Bra went into her room and crawled onto her bed and began to cry. Bra did not know why she was so unhappy; she just wanted it to end. The nights of endless crying, the sleepless nights, the nightmares from when she did sleep, she just wanted it all to end. These were the nights that the drugs helped her pain. These were the nights she needed the acid, the X, the Cocaine, these were the night she wanted to forget. The only time she did sleep was during the day; the dreams were not as bad when she slept during the day. Just then there was a knock on her door. Bra quickly wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Come in." she said in a raspy voice. The door opened and in walked Trunks.
"Hey." Said Trunks, "you alright?"
"Yea, I'm fine."
"I could hear you crying in the hall."
"I'm sorry Trunks, I'm just tired, that's all." sighed Bra. Trunks sat down on her bed.
"Have you talked to Goten since you've been home?"
"Yea, he came over yesterday. We talked for a couple hours." Said Bra with a smile.
"I knew talking about Goten would make you smile." Said Trunks. Bra giggled a little.
"He's going to come with me to my group tonight. They told me last week, that we needed to bring a friend this week, so Goten offered." Said Bra.
"That was nice of him." Said Trunks, "When are you two going to become official?"
"I don't know. Not right now, I need to get my head clear first." Said Bra.
"Well, don't forget to call Pan." Said Trunks.
"Do you know what she wanted?" asked Bra.
"No, dad took the call, I was training." Said Trunks, "In fact, I have to get back, dad said if I'm gone a minute longer, I'll have another month, and well, I can't train like this for another month."
"Ok, go, I'm going to take a nap." Said Bra. Trunks lightly kissed her head.
"Get some sleep." And with that Trunks left.
'I do have a great family. They're always behind me.' Thought Bra as she watched Trunks leave. She laid back in her bed and quickly fell asleep.
She woke up later that evening to a knock on her door.
"Bra." Whispered a man's voice. Bra rolled over and looked to see whom it was.
"Hi, Goten." Mumbled Bra.
"Hey, we have to get going, you said it starts at 7, right?" said Goten.
"I'm not going." Whispered Bra as she rolled back over.
"What do you mean you're not going, of course you are."
"I mean, I'm not going, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be alone. Please, leave me be." Said Bra almost starting to cry. Goten shut the door to her room and walked back down stairs.
"Umm, she says that she's not going." Goten said to Trunks in the living room.
"WHAT!" said Trunks.
"She said she doesn't want to go anywhere and wants to be alone."
"Oh man, something must be wrong." Sighed Trunks.
"Trunks, of course something is wrong, she's not well, she's trying to recover, but she needs her group sessions or she'll never get better." Said Goten.
"Dude, I know that, I mean something else must be wrong. She was telling us at lunch how you were going with her tonight and then she went to take a nap, she's been up there since." Said Trunks. Just then, the two boys heard the front door open and close.
"Oh man, I bet that's her." Said Goten running to the door. When he looked out the door, sure enough there went Bra, flying through the air. While the boys were looking out the door, Vegeta came out of the gravity room.
"What are you brats looking at?" questioned Vegeta.
"Bra said she wasn't going to her group tonight and then took to the sky." Said Trunks.
"WHAT!" yelled Vegeta, "What do you mean she's not going to her group."
"Jeez, Father, that's just what she told Goten."
"Did she tell you anything else?" asked Vegeta, grabbing Goten by the shirt collar.
"She just told me that she wasn't going to group and that she wanted to be alone." Said Goten. Vegeta growled. Then he took off.
Vegeta found Bra a couple hours later on an uninhabited island not too far from Capsule Corp. She was sitting next to a tree, hugging her knees to her chest, and crying uncontrollably rocking back and forth. Vegeta walked up to her and sat next to her.
"Princess, are you alright?"
"Yea, daddy." Sobbed Bra.
"Then why are you crying?"
"I don't know. I just don't know." She cried harder.
"You don't just cry for no reason." Said Vegeta, as he put is arm around his daughter. Bra leaned her head on her father's shoulder, "talk to me, Princess. Tell me what's wrong."
"I don't know, daddy." Bra sobbed harder, "I just feel so helpless. Nothing is working, Therapy is waste of my time, and the group sessions are a joke. I just want things to go back to normal. I don't sleep at night, I have horrible nightmares; I can't take this anymore."
"We are all behind you, Princess. We have faith that you can beat this." Consoled Vegeta.
"Daddy, I don't have anything good in my life. There is nothing I have to achieve."
"How about your sobriety? You have to achieve."
"Yea," sobbed Bra, "But I have nothing to achieve that for. There is nothing I get to look forward to for being sober."
"How about Kakarrot's brat?" Vegeta smirked at his daughter.
"Goten? How would I possibly achieve him, I can't achieve him."
"Why not, it's obvious that you two feel something for each other, he wants to help you with your recovery, and as much as I hate to say it, why not achieve to be with him."
"Daddy," sobbed and laughed Bra, "that's not much of an achievement for me. I already know he wants to be with me."
"When was the last time you trained?" asked Vegeta.
"I don't know, before the whole Kris thing." Starting to dry her eyes.
"Well, how about this, if you work hard on keeping your sobriety, I'll train you to become a Super Saiyan."
"A Super Saiyan?"
"Yea, while you continue to go to therapy and to your groups, when you get back we'll train in the gravity room." Said Vegeta with a gleam in his eyes.
"OK, I'll do it."
"Do you want to go home now?"
"You go on ahead, I'll be home shortly."
"Ok," Vegeta said standing up with his daughter, "Don't stay on this island, I don't know what's on this rock." Vegeta kissed his daughter's forehead. "We'll get you through this." With that Vegeta took off.
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Vegea.