This chapter is more of a poem....

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4 months later...

The sunlight shown brightly into the small room and made Bra's nose twitch. She rolled onto her side. Another Saturday. Another morning. Another day. But today was somehow different. Bra's mind scrambled to think of what was so different about today. Then it came to her. She rolled back onto her back and swung her arm to smack the body next to hers. "Goten wake up."

"Hn?"

"Wake up Goten, it's Christmas!"

"Huh?" Goten sat straight up. "It's Christmas? YAY!" Goten pulled off the covers to revile his boxers and T-shirt. "Come on Bra! Let's wake up Pan and Trunks!"

"Sure," Bra said, standing up in her tank top and pants. "You go wake them up, and I'll go make cocoa."

Bra and Goten walked out of the bedroom, Goten going to Trunks and Pan's room, and Bra going into the kitchen.

Goten hopped happily up and down, and knocked on the door of the room, "Come on Trunks, Pan, get up! It's Christmas!"

Pan pulled a pillow over her head, "Did you hear something Trunks?"

Trunks joined her under a pillow, "Not if you didn't."

The pounding became harder, "WAKE UP NOW!!!"

Pan sat up, "Okay Uncle!" She stood and walked over to the dress and picked up a glass of water. Trunks stood, walked over to her, and watched her as she took out the pills she had to help her depression.

"One, two," Pan counted, she looked at Trunks out the corner of her eye. She popped the pills in her mouth, took a drink of the water, and swallowed.

Trunks couldn't help but be proud of Pan. She survived losing a baby, and being depressed, which, even for a Saiya-jin is hard. She'd been scaring him for a while. Then she agreed to go see a doctor. Now she has pills and sees the doctor once a week. Trunks even goes. It's a team effort the doctor says, and if that's what it takes for Pan to be happy again, then he'd do it.

Pan smiled at him, waving her hand in front of his face. Trunks woke up from his little world and looked at her, "Huh?"

She slapped his arm playfully, "Come on, let's go."

Trunks and Pan joined Bra and Goten in the living room. As the couple entered hand in hand Bra smiled up at them and said, "Merry Christmas!"

"Yeah!" Goten shouted, pausing a moment from the new red firetruck he'd gotten from Santa.

Pan looked around the room crammed full of presents, "Where did all this stuff come from?"

A mysterious knock came from the door. Trunks walked over to open it, but instead it opened up to a cheery Bulma dragging a cursing Vegeta behind her. "Merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas!" Videl and Gohan said as they appeared behind them.

"Goten, what do you have on your face??" ChiChi scolded as she wiped something off Goten's chin.

"Merry Christmas!" Pan said as she hugged her Grandma, Mother, Father, and Goten got caught in there too.

Trunks and Bra followed suit hugging their mom and dad.

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"Thank you for dinner ChiChi, is was great!" Bulma piped as she wiped her face. Vegeta cursed under his breath.

"Yes Mother, is was great!" Gohan smiled.

"Well," Pan said, "We should-"

"No!" Bulma said standing, "I wrote alittle something for today. So sit your butt down and listen."

Everyone nodded.

"Yet another year is ending
And soon we'll all be older other than the year before
This one has been hard
And there will be tough times in the years to come
But we will love each other

My baby girl is in love with my dearest friend's youngest son
My little boy is going to marry that same friend's granddaughter
It makes me feel old
I now understand how ChiChi feels
My two children asked me this year
If they could move out
And live on their own
I said they could
It didn't take them long to realize that I'd made this an impossible place to live in
But they stayed

Last night I wondered why.
I'd made this place so they'd come running home
And so I wouldn't feel as old as I do
But my children stayed
Then I realized that this has made them stronger
It brought two of them together
It brought hard times on all of us,
but most of all on Trunks and Pan
They will never forget their child
As none of us will
And they helped each other recover
And Pan you've been a real trooper


This May, my son will marry
And I'll give him away to another woman
Who will love him
As much as I have
But in a totally new way

I assume, that soon Bra and Goten will be as one
And then I'll be alone with my husband
A feeling that I haven't felt in 38 years.

But I can live
As long as I know,
There will be more love in this family soon."

There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

Well, exempt Vegeta's.

Pan stood, "Oh Bulma,... thank you so much..." she gave the woman a hug.

"Mother," Bra sniffed as she also hugged Bulma, "There'll be more love in this family than you'll have time to deal with!"

Our picture of the family fades to beginning out the window, and then from the street.

A light shines, and a small girl, about 12 years old, is looking in the window. She is wearing a girl's school uniform, and an orange bandanna. She runs to the light. She stops, turns, and waves her hand, "Hey Trunks! Trunks! Come on!"

A boy, wearing a uniform similar to hers runs up by her and takes her hands, "What is it Pan-chan?"

The chibi Pan hugs the chibi Trunks, "Merry Christmas Trunks!"

The chibi Trunks hugs her back, "Merry Christmas Pan-chan..."

"Wait for us!" A 12 year old girl with blue hair and a 12 year old boy with black hair shout as they run up by Trunks and Pan.

"Come on!" Trunks shouts as he takes chibi Pan's hand, "We're gonna be late!"

The four all leave together in the light.

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End here? Want an epilogue? What this chapter to be re-done? Does Goten's wish ever come true?