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Two figures walked slowly down a path. They walked like panthers to their destination. The knowledge of it was intense. It was a building on a distant moon. Tall and dark, evil forces eluminated from this horrid place. Forces stronger than them had come here, but hadn't returned home. Trunks stared at it. "Dende..."
Goten gulped, though a shaky throat. Fear and heartbreak filled him already. "I am really scared..."
Trunks nodded, "Yeah. Not the time to be chickening out though..."
Goten nodded, he lifted his walkie-talkie, "We're going in..."
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"Roger," the man at the controls answered. He was an old man, unable to fight any longer. Bra and Pan stood side by side, watched and listened to the screen. They could see them go in. They could see the building. Through the shields put up by their mates, they could taste to fear. The darkness of the room engulfed their souls.
Pan swallowed hard, "This is it..."
Bra nodded, "Yeah..."
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Trunks and Goten walked slowly together down a dark hallway. Their mission was simple. It was almost a suicide mission. They were to go in, find the control center, and blow it up. If through some miracle they lived, it would by them getting their asses out as fast as they could as soon as they'd set the alarms went off. Troops were in space ships waiting to destroy the remaining armies.
"I'm going to start now Goten, care to join me?" Trunks asked, as he rose a hand, forming a ki ball in it.
"I'd," he gulped, "be delighted."
"Get ready."
"Get set."
"And go!"
Trunks and Goten ran down the halls shooting off ki left and right. Neither smiled nor laughed like they would have as youths. Instead their hearts filled with fear and sorrow. Scowls covered their faces, as they glared at newly battered bodies with emotionless eyes. Their muscles ached as they ran, feeling the pain of blasts and bullets into their bodies.
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Pan could feel Trunks' halls disintegrating. She could feel the aching pain that he felt in his soul and his body. 'Oh Trunks,' she thought, 'be careful...' She heard Bra gasp and point at the screen. Pan turned to it, to see the bursts of light pouring out of it like water down a steam. Pan felt herself go into shock.
Every endless night
Bra turned to Pan, who's mouth was open. Bra felt like a venerable child. Alone and abandoned. She turned to Pan, who let her cry in her shoulder. Bra could also feel her mate's wall being broken down. Their bonds were growing stronger. Almost to the point where they couldn't block each other anymore.
Pan kept her eyes on the screen. She waited. She knew in her heart it was coming soon. She saw it. The remains of the building exploded. Her heart exploded when she felt two firmilliar kis disappear.
Has a dawning day
"TRUNKS!" She screamed abandoning Bra, and running to the controls. She stepped up on the platform, and held the sides of the screen, screaming and crying as if it would bring her mate and uncle back. She knew she wasn't thinking straight. She could feel her own strength begin to leave her body. "Bra!" she shouted turning her head to her best friend, "Come on! We have to go find them, they can't be dead!" She jumped down, and grabbed Bra's hand, running out into the depths of the planet.
Every darkest sky
Pan run. She couldn't stop. If she stopped, it would crash down. Trunks would really be gone. She would be mateless for the rest of her life, she would be alone. She would be widowed before she was married. "Trunks!" she called.
Bra stumbled over branches. Unlike Pan, Bra was slowly accepting the fact that Goten and Trunks were gone. She could feel a ping in her heart that kept her going as ki also drained from her, but she didn't refrain from letting everything out. Tears fell down her cheeks as she shook with emptiness.
Pan stopped at a pile of rubble, "Start searching!"
Bra shook her head, "Pan face it they're..."
"NO! I won't believe that! Now get your ass down here and help me work!" she shouted. Bra was set aback by Pan's harsh words, so she did as she was told.
Has a shining ray
Pan got down, and started lifting things left and right. She tossed walls to the side, and punched through windows, without thinking of her residing ki, or the damage it was doing to her body. She didn't care about herself. Trunks had to live. She would never forgive herself if he was gone forever. She would die. And at the rate her ki was going, she already was.
Bra's ki wasn't going as quickly as Pan's, but hers was leaving also. Pan could tell Bra's ki was going, but was too blind to notice that her own was as well. Bra searched, lifting up chunks of plaster and wood trying to find her mate.
And it shines on you
"I found Trunks!" Bra called, as she looked in horror at the bloody, beaten face with lavender hair hanging in his eyes.
Pan's heart shattered at the sound of pain in Bra's voice. She scrambled to feet, and ran as fast as she could to where Bra was. Pan almost died right then and there. Trunks' body was almost completely covered by a huge wall, and the only way you could see him was through a window. Bra's tears increased. She'd never thought she'd miss her brother when he wad gone. Never. But here she was, and all she could do was cry.
Pan, feeling betrayed, also let tears fall, "You bastard..." she whispered, "you promised me. This is the second promise you broke!" In a broken rage she lifted the wall off her mate, and threw it to the side. She fell to her knees, and took handfuls of his jacket in her hands. She bent over until her forehead met his chest, "You promised me Trunks, dammit," she sobbed.
Baby can't you see
Bra held her head down, turning it slightly to the side. Then she noticed it. Under another wall was a pale hand that dared to move slightly. Bra's eyes lit up, "Pan! I think I found Goten!"
Pan didn't move.
Bra walked over, and lifted the wall (with her Saiya-jin strength and adrenaline). She flipped it over, to see a battered Goten laying there. The side of his face that she could see, was battered and burned, his mouth was open, but his eye was swollen shut. He took a deep breath, and turned his head to face it fully at her. He opened his shaky mouth, and roughly whispered, "Bra..."
Once again tears filled her eyes, as she fell to her knees like Pan, wrapped her arms around him and hugged him, "You're alive..."
You're the only one
Goten tried to regain his scences, "Is... it over...?"
Bra nodded her head to his chest, "Yes Goten, the war is over.... you saved us...."
Goten feared the answer to his next question, "A..nd.... T...Trunks?"
Bra didn't want to answer, "Shhh... be quiet, you need you rest yourself, help will be here any minute..."
Pan sobbed harder, "This isn't fair... I'm all alone, and now I'm..." she body swung forward and another round of tears roared out, "All alone in being alone..."
Who can shine for me
Bra looked up at her friend, "Don't talk like that Pan, you know you're not alone!"
Pan felt her body start to go numb, "Yes it is! Goten lived! Your mate is still here! He's not dead and you can live happily ever after! Trunks is gone... and I'll be alone forever..." She passed out.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
Bra watched as Pan began to lose control over her body. She'd gone from very tense to lose and relaxed, sobs subsided, as she felt Pan slip into unconscienceness. "What's happening to her?"
"Her...." Goten paused and groaned in pain, "ki is leaving her body so it can support them both...."
"Huh?"
"Your ki did the same thing..." Goten paused, "I wasn't hurt as bad as Trunks, but your ki started to leave your body to help mine heal. Trunks was hurt so badly that all the ki Pan was giving up could no longer keep her awake."
"So my brother is alive?"
"Of course."
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Let your private emotion come to me
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Pan felt groggy. She felt numb. And she felt really really hurt. 'How?' she asked herself, 'I didn't fight anyone. So why is my ki so low?'
She slowly sat up, "Ouch..." she mumbled, "What happened?"
"You passed out Pan, nothing to be too worried about," Goten responded from the bed next to her.
Memories started to return to Pan's mind. Battle, no, war. Trunks. Death. Pain. Loneliness. "Oh yeah..." Pan said as a blank look came to her face, "I remember now..."
When your soul is tired and your heart is weak
Goten looked worried at his niece. However he kept his mouth shut about Trunks being alive. He knew she wouldn't believe him. When Trunks woke up, the look on her face would be worth it.
Pan slowly pulled her knees to her chest. She was still tired. She was heartbroken. How could Trunks do that to her? How could he die? She held her hands out in front of her so she could take a good look at them. They were bleeding through their bandages, but she didn't care. Just a number of hours ago, that same night, she'd held Trunks in her hands. She'd mended the cut on his forehead. She'd told him everything would be okay. She held her hands up to her nose. They still held his scent. Tears began to fill her eyes again.
Her eyes wondered over to the bed next to her. The tears fell. The body of Trunks laid there. His body was covered in bandages. She noticed the heart moniter. Trunks' heart was still going. Hardly, but still going. She tilted her head, "Goten..."
Do you think of love as a one way street
"Yes Pan?" her Uncle responded, noticing what she was looking at. He smiled faintly.
She turned and looked at him again, a faint smile on her face, "Trunks is... alive?"
Goten looked down, "Yes, but... he's in a terrible coma. The doctors say he probably won't wake up..."
Pan felt her heart break all over again. Tears poured from her eyes YET again. She sat down at the edge of his bed, "I love you so much Trunks... Don't leave me here alone..."
Bra walked in. Her heart sank to see her friend sitting next to her brother with the tears falling down. She laid down next to Goten, and got comfortable.
Goten smelled her hair, "It feels so good to be alive... What would I do if I didn't have you with me Bra?"
"Well," she inhaled, "I dunno. You might not have even come on this trip..."
Goten chuckled, "Yeah, I guess..."
Well it runs both ways
Bra cling to Goten with all her might, "I love you Goten... and I'm so happy you're okay..."
Pan watched them meekly out the corner of her eye as she snuggled herself by Trunks. "Please Trunks," she sniffled, "Don't die here, don't leave me..."
Pan felt her ki grow weak. She took one last breath...
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Pan felt something wrap around her waist, and peck her cheek, rendering her sleep. Her eyes shot open, "Wha?!"
Open up your eyes
She sat up. Goten and Bra were still asleep, "Goten! Bra! Someone's in here!" she shouted.
Bra sat up sleepily, and Goten opened his eyes, "I want a lollipop mommy..." he mumbled before Bra slapped him upside the head.
Bra looked at Pan, "Who'd be in here?"
Pan heard someone whisper from behind her, "Pan-chan..."
Can't you see me here?
"Trunks?!"
Pan's body froze. She couldn't move. She could no longer talk. Trunks was there. No. She told herself, you saw him, you heard them, Trunks was going to die. If not already dead. She had been ready to cry herself to sleep everynight until the day she died. She had almost accepted never loving again. Never feeling again. Eternally being just one half, and never a whole. She would not hurt again. She cursed her mind for playing such malicious tricks on her. She loved Trunks with every once of her being, and now he was dead. Never to return to her.
How can you deny?
"No," She said stepping back, "No no no no... you're not Trunks." she threw her hands up over her ears, "You're not alive, you're not here, you're gone, forever, and I'm to be alone.. forever..." She turned and ran out of the room.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
Bra turned and ran after her friend. Goten watched as Bra left, then he turned to his best friend, "Not exactly the "welcome back" you expected?"
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Pan's face was buried in her knees as tears poured like it would never end. She could sense Bra standing before her, "Who would play such a cruel joke?"
Bra bent down in front of her friend, "It was no joke."
"Yes it was!"
And a silence comes between us
"How could you say that, Pan? You know you want to believe it," Bra said, taking her friend's shoulders, "Believe it. My brother is alive. He didn't break his promise to you. He could never do that."
"Yes he could," Pan informed her, "He has in the past, why would he stop now?"
"What do you mean Pan?" Bra asked taken back my Pan's accusal.
"Ten years ago..."
Bra was sick of Pan dwelling on the past, "Would you stop that 'ten years ago' shit? I'm sick of it! That was 10 years ago! THIS IS NOW!"
Pan looked at Bra with pain in her eyes, "He promised he'd never forget me Bra. And you what? He did! I saw him, after the forbidden words, and he thought I was my grandmother! Do you know how that felt Bra?! I've had it for your brother for the past 24 years!"
Bra was silent. She never knew Pan had been head over heels for Trunks that long. She had no idea that ten small years had caused Pan that much pain.
As the shadows steal the light
"Pan," Bra whispered, "I know you're hurt because you think Trunks is dead, but I think there's something you need to know. He never forgot about you. In ten years my brother missed you everyday. When we had our graduation, Trunks only wanted to go to see you get freed from school," she paused, "but he ended up getting held up at the office. Over ten years, he slept with a picture of you and him from the GT on his nightstand. My brother never intended for ten years to go by. He really didn't. But he always had work, and then my mother would try and set him up, or my dad would want to spar... it got to the point where my brother ended up sleeping on his days off. He even came to your house a few times... but you were either gone, or it was so late at night that you were asleep..."
Pan lifted her head, she wiped her eyes, and said with a scratchy voice, "He did?"
"Yeah," Bra said wrapping an arm around her new best friend, "Trunks really cared about you Pan. You were, and always will be his little Pan-chan. He won't care if you're 24 or 114, (AN: HAHAHAHA!!! Joke guys! If anyone's seen the very end of GT...) you'll always be his 'little' Pan-chan," Bra smiled, "Never forget that. Because I know you will always be the girl Trunks could never get to call him anything but Trunks (AN: For those of you who didn't know, in GT Trunks usually calls Pan 'Pan-chan', but she only calls him 'Trunks'. When he scolds her and tells her that she should call him 'Trunks-kun' or 'Trunks-san', she replies something like: "Well, your name IS Trunks, isn't it?")."
Pan smiled, but only for a moment, "But Trunks is..."
"Oh Pan," Bra sighed, "Trunks is still alive. He never died. You were passing out because of your bond. In a Saiya-jin/Saiya-jin bond, when one of the persons is injured badly, their bond takes ki from the one that is okay. So when Trunks and Goten were in that blast, our bonds to them took ki from us. Trunks was so bad, that you passed out."
"So Trunks can never died without me?"
"Not necessarily," Bra told her, "If Trunks has a heart attack at age 94, he'll probably die without you. That power goes with age."
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Pan nodded knowingly, "Trunks..." she whispered. She stood up, and slowly walked back into the room. She looked sheepishly into the room, only to see Trunks smile at her. Well, the best way he could smile under all those bandages. "Trunks!" She called, running to him.
Let your private emotion come to me
"Hey Pan-chan," Trunks said as he wrapped his sore arms around her the best way he could, "Sorry I made you believe I was dead... I guess it took longer for me to wake up than I thought it did, ne?"
Pan cried (YET AGAIN! Geez I make her cry an awful lot this chapter don't I?) onto Trunks' shoulder, "I should have never doubted you. I should have known you'd be okay... I should have known you'd never break a promise to me..."
Every endless night has a dawning day
Trunks inhaled deeply, "Oh I'd never leave you Pan-chan... you're the best thing that ever happened to me... Dende," he said smelling her hair, "I love you so much..."
Pan sniffled in his shirt, "I love you too Trunks... I'm so sorry I've been mean to you lately,... I was holding back everything because I thought you forgot about me in our... sort separation..."
"Forget about my Pan-chan?" Trunks asked with mock hurt, "Nah, never."
Every darkest sky has a shining ray
Pan giggled, "I know that now..."
Trunks rocked her back and forth, "Rock-a-bye Pan-chan on the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock..."
Pan laughed, and playfully punched him on the shoulder, causing him to wince in pain, "Oops, sorry."
It takes a lot to laugh as the tears go by
Trunks smiled as Pan sat back, "I'll always be here Pan-chan, you can never escape me..." he whispered as he pressed his cold fingers up to her warm face, wiping it away, and kissing the finger.
And you can find me here, until your tears run dry
"I..." Pan paused as the air became thicker, and Trunks moved closer to her, "hope... you... w..." her words were cut short as Trunks kissed her. She fell forward kissing him as if it was the first and last time she ever would.
Bra looked at Goten. Goten looked at Bra. Bra stood idly as she pulled the curtain around Pan and Trunks. She then sat down on Goten's bed, and they started the same ritual.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Let your private emotion come to me
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Two figures walked slowly down a path. They walked like panthers to their destination. The knowledge of it was intense. It was a building on a distant moon. Tall and dark, evil forces eluminated from this horrid place. Forces stronger than them had come here, but hadn't returned home. Trunks stared at it. "Dende..."
Goten gulped, though a shaky throat. Fear and heartbreak filled him already. "I am really scared..."
Trunks nodded, "Yeah. Not the time to be chickening out though..."
Goten nodded, he lifted his walkie-talkie, "We're going in..."
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"Roger," the man at the controls answered. He was an old man, unable to fight any longer. Bra and Pan stood side by side, watched and listened to the screen. They could see them go in. They could see the building. Through the shields put up by their mates, they could taste to fear. The darkness of the room engulfed their souls.
Pan swallowed hard, "This is it..."
Bra nodded, "Yeah..."
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Trunks and Goten walked slowly together down a dark hallway. Their mission was simple. It was almost a suicide mission. They were to go in, find the control center, and blow it up. If through some miracle they lived, it would by them getting their asses out as fast as they could as soon as they'd set the alarms went off. Troops were in space ships waiting to destroy the remaining armies.
"I'm going to start now Goten, care to join me?" Trunks asked, as he rose a hand, forming a ki ball in it.
"I'd," he gulped, "be delighted."
"Get ready."
"Get set."
"And go!"
Trunks and Goten ran down the halls shooting off ki left and right. Neither smiled nor laughed like they would have as youths. Instead their hearts filled with fear and sorrow. Scowls covered their faces, as they glared at newly battered bodies with emotionless eyes. Their muscles ached as they ran, feeling the pain of blasts and bullets into their bodies.
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Pan could feel Trunks' halls disintegrating. She could feel the aching pain that he felt in his soul and his body. 'Oh Trunks,' she thought, 'be careful...' She heard Bra gasp and point at the screen. Pan turned to it, to see the bursts of light pouring out of it like water down a steam. Pan felt herself go into shock.
Every endless night
Bra turned to Pan, who's mouth was open. Bra felt like a venerable child. Alone and abandoned. She turned to Pan, who let her cry in her shoulder. Bra could also feel her mate's wall being broken down. Their bonds were growing stronger. Almost to the point where they couldn't block each other anymore.
Pan kept her eyes on the screen. She waited. She knew in her heart it was coming soon. She saw it. The remains of the building exploded. Her heart exploded when she felt two firmilliar kis disappear.
Has a dawning day
"TRUNKS!" She screamed abandoning Bra, and running to the controls. She stepped up on the platform, and held the sides of the screen, screaming and crying as if it would bring her mate and uncle back. She knew she wasn't thinking straight. She could feel her own strength begin to leave her body. "Bra!" she shouted turning her head to her best friend, "Come on! We have to go find them, they can't be dead!" She jumped down, and grabbed Bra's hand, running out into the depths of the planet.
Every darkest sky
Pan run. She couldn't stop. If she stopped, it would crash down. Trunks would really be gone. She would be mateless for the rest of her life, she would be alone. She would be widowed before she was married. "Trunks!" she called.
Bra stumbled over branches. Unlike Pan, Bra was slowly accepting the fact that Goten and Trunks were gone. She could feel a ping in her heart that kept her going as ki also drained from her, but she didn't refrain from letting everything out. Tears fell down her cheeks as she shook with emptiness.
Pan stopped at a pile of rubble, "Start searching!"
Bra shook her head, "Pan face it they're..."
"NO! I won't believe that! Now get your ass down here and help me work!" she shouted. Bra was set aback by Pan's harsh words, so she did as she was told.
Has a shining ray
Pan got down, and started lifting things left and right. She tossed walls to the side, and punched through windows, without thinking of her residing ki, or the damage it was doing to her body. She didn't care about herself. Trunks had to live. She would never forgive herself if he was gone forever. She would die. And at the rate her ki was going, she already was.
Bra's ki wasn't going as quickly as Pan's, but hers was leaving also. Pan could tell Bra's ki was going, but was too blind to notice that her own was as well. Bra searched, lifting up chunks of plaster and wood trying to find her mate.
And it shines on you
"I found Trunks!" Bra called, as she looked in horror at the bloody, beaten face with lavender hair hanging in his eyes.
Pan's heart shattered at the sound of pain in Bra's voice. She scrambled to feet, and ran as fast as she could to where Bra was. Pan almost died right then and there. Trunks' body was almost completely covered by a huge wall, and the only way you could see him was through a window. Bra's tears increased. She'd never thought she'd miss her brother when he wad gone. Never. But here she was, and all she could do was cry.
Pan, feeling betrayed, also let tears fall, "You bastard..." she whispered, "you promised me. This is the second promise you broke!" In a broken rage she lifted the wall off her mate, and threw it to the side. She fell to her knees, and took handfuls of his jacket in her hands. She bent over until her forehead met his chest, "You promised me Trunks, dammit," she sobbed.
Baby can't you see
Bra held her head down, turning it slightly to the side. Then she noticed it. Under another wall was a pale hand that dared to move slightly. Bra's eyes lit up, "Pan! I think I found Goten!"
Pan didn't move.
Bra walked over, and lifted the wall (with her Saiya-jin strength and adrenaline). She flipped it over, to see a battered Goten laying there. The side of his face that she could see, was battered and burned, his mouth was open, but his eye was swollen shut. He took a deep breath, and turned his head to face it fully at her. He opened his shaky mouth, and roughly whispered, "Bra..."
Once again tears filled her eyes, as she fell to her knees like Pan, wrapped her arms around him and hugged him, "You're alive..."
You're the only one
Goten tried to regain his scences, "Is... it over...?"
Bra nodded her head to his chest, "Yes Goten, the war is over.... you saved us...."
Goten feared the answer to his next question, "A..nd.... T...Trunks?"
Bra didn't want to answer, "Shhh... be quiet, you need you rest yourself, help will be here any minute..."
Pan sobbed harder, "This isn't fair... I'm all alone, and now I'm..." she body swung forward and another round of tears roared out, "All alone in being alone..."
Who can shine for me
Bra looked up at her friend, "Don't talk like that Pan, you know you're not alone!"
Pan felt her body start to go numb, "Yes it is! Goten lived! Your mate is still here! He's not dead and you can live happily ever after! Trunks is gone... and I'll be alone forever..." She passed out.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
Bra watched as Pan began to lose control over her body. She'd gone from very tense to lose and relaxed, sobs subsided, as she felt Pan slip into unconscienceness. "What's happening to her?"
"Her...." Goten paused and groaned in pain, "ki is leaving her body so it can support them both...."
"Huh?"
"Your ki did the same thing..." Goten paused, "I wasn't hurt as bad as Trunks, but your ki started to leave your body to help mine heal. Trunks was hurt so badly that all the ki Pan was giving up could no longer keep her awake."
"So my brother is alive?"
"Of course."
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Let your private emotion come to me
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Pan felt groggy. She felt numb. And she felt really really hurt. 'How?' she asked herself, 'I didn't fight anyone. So why is my ki so low?'
She slowly sat up, "Ouch..." she mumbled, "What happened?"
"You passed out Pan, nothing to be too worried about," Goten responded from the bed next to her.
Memories started to return to Pan's mind. Battle, no, war. Trunks. Death. Pain. Loneliness. "Oh yeah..." Pan said as a blank look came to her face, "I remember now..."
When your soul is tired and your heart is weak
Goten looked worried at his niece. However he kept his mouth shut about Trunks being alive. He knew she wouldn't believe him. When Trunks woke up, the look on her face would be worth it.
Pan slowly pulled her knees to her chest. She was still tired. She was heartbroken. How could Trunks do that to her? How could he die? She held her hands out in front of her so she could take a good look at them. They were bleeding through their bandages, but she didn't care. Just a number of hours ago, that same night, she'd held Trunks in her hands. She'd mended the cut on his forehead. She'd told him everything would be okay. She held her hands up to her nose. They still held his scent. Tears began to fill her eyes again.
Her eyes wondered over to the bed next to her. The tears fell. The body of Trunks laid there. His body was covered in bandages. She noticed the heart moniter. Trunks' heart was still going. Hardly, but still going. She tilted her head, "Goten..."
Do you think of love as a one way street
"Yes Pan?" her Uncle responded, noticing what she was looking at. He smiled faintly.
She turned and looked at him again, a faint smile on her face, "Trunks is... alive?"
Goten looked down, "Yes, but... he's in a terrible coma. The doctors say he probably won't wake up..."
Pan felt her heart break all over again. Tears poured from her eyes YET again. She sat down at the edge of his bed, "I love you so much Trunks... Don't leave me here alone..."
Bra walked in. Her heart sank to see her friend sitting next to her brother with the tears falling down. She laid down next to Goten, and got comfortable.
Goten smelled her hair, "It feels so good to be alive... What would I do if I didn't have you with me Bra?"
"Well," she inhaled, "I dunno. You might not have even come on this trip..."
Goten chuckled, "Yeah, I guess..."
Well it runs both ways
Bra cling to Goten with all her might, "I love you Goten... and I'm so happy you're okay..."
Pan watched them meekly out the corner of her eye as she snuggled herself by Trunks. "Please Trunks," she sniffled, "Don't die here, don't leave me..."
Pan felt her ki grow weak. She took one last breath...
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Pan felt something wrap around her waist, and peck her cheek, rendering her sleep. Her eyes shot open, "Wha?!"
Open up your eyes
She sat up. Goten and Bra were still asleep, "Goten! Bra! Someone's in here!" she shouted.
Bra sat up sleepily, and Goten opened his eyes, "I want a lollipop mommy..." he mumbled before Bra slapped him upside the head.
Bra looked at Pan, "Who'd be in here?"
Pan heard someone whisper from behind her, "Pan-chan..."
Can't you see me here?
"Trunks?!"
Pan's body froze. She couldn't move. She could no longer talk. Trunks was there. No. She told herself, you saw him, you heard them, Trunks was going to die. If not already dead. She had been ready to cry herself to sleep everynight until the day she died. She had almost accepted never loving again. Never feeling again. Eternally being just one half, and never a whole. She would not hurt again. She cursed her mind for playing such malicious tricks on her. She loved Trunks with every once of her being, and now he was dead. Never to return to her.
How can you deny?
"No," She said stepping back, "No no no no... you're not Trunks." she threw her hands up over her ears, "You're not alive, you're not here, you're gone, forever, and I'm to be alone.. forever..." She turned and ran out of the room.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
Bra turned and ran after her friend. Goten watched as Bra left, then he turned to his best friend, "Not exactly the "welcome back" you expected?"
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Pan's face was buried in her knees as tears poured like it would never end. She could sense Bra standing before her, "Who would play such a cruel joke?"
Bra bent down in front of her friend, "It was no joke."
"Yes it was!"
And a silence comes between us
"How could you say that, Pan? You know you want to believe it," Bra said, taking her friend's shoulders, "Believe it. My brother is alive. He didn't break his promise to you. He could never do that."
"Yes he could," Pan informed her, "He has in the past, why would he stop now?"
"What do you mean Pan?" Bra asked taken back my Pan's accusal.
"Ten years ago..."
Bra was sick of Pan dwelling on the past, "Would you stop that 'ten years ago' shit? I'm sick of it! That was 10 years ago! THIS IS NOW!"
Pan looked at Bra with pain in her eyes, "He promised he'd never forget me Bra. And you what? He did! I saw him, after the forbidden words, and he thought I was my grandmother! Do you know how that felt Bra?! I've had it for your brother for the past 24 years!"
Bra was silent. She never knew Pan had been head over heels for Trunks that long. She had no idea that ten small years had caused Pan that much pain.
As the shadows steal the light
"Pan," Bra whispered, "I know you're hurt because you think Trunks is dead, but I think there's something you need to know. He never forgot about you. In ten years my brother missed you everyday. When we had our graduation, Trunks only wanted to go to see you get freed from school," she paused, "but he ended up getting held up at the office. Over ten years, he slept with a picture of you and him from the GT on his nightstand. My brother never intended for ten years to go by. He really didn't. But he always had work, and then my mother would try and set him up, or my dad would want to spar... it got to the point where my brother ended up sleeping on his days off. He even came to your house a few times... but you were either gone, or it was so late at night that you were asleep..."
Pan lifted her head, she wiped her eyes, and said with a scratchy voice, "He did?"
"Yeah," Bra said wrapping an arm around her new best friend, "Trunks really cared about you Pan. You were, and always will be his little Pan-chan. He won't care if you're 24 or 114, (AN: HAHAHAHA!!! Joke guys! If anyone's seen the very end of GT...) you'll always be his 'little' Pan-chan," Bra smiled, "Never forget that. Because I know you will always be the girl Trunks could never get to call him anything but Trunks (AN: For those of you who didn't know, in GT Trunks usually calls Pan 'Pan-chan', but she only calls him 'Trunks'. When he scolds her and tells her that she should call him 'Trunks-kun' or 'Trunks-san', she replies something like: "Well, your name IS Trunks, isn't it?")."
Pan smiled, but only for a moment, "But Trunks is..."
"Oh Pan," Bra sighed, "Trunks is still alive. He never died. You were passing out because of your bond. In a Saiya-jin/Saiya-jin bond, when one of the persons is injured badly, their bond takes ki from the one that is okay. So when Trunks and Goten were in that blast, our bonds to them took ki from us. Trunks was so bad, that you passed out."
"So Trunks can never died without me?"
"Not necessarily," Bra told her, "If Trunks has a heart attack at age 94, he'll probably die without you. That power goes with age."
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Pan nodded knowingly, "Trunks..." she whispered. She stood up, and slowly walked back into the room. She looked sheepishly into the room, only to see Trunks smile at her. Well, the best way he could smile under all those bandages. "Trunks!" She called, running to him.
Let your private emotion come to me
"Hey Pan-chan," Trunks said as he wrapped his sore arms around her the best way he could, "Sorry I made you believe I was dead... I guess it took longer for me to wake up than I thought it did, ne?"
Pan cried (YET AGAIN! Geez I make her cry an awful lot this chapter don't I?) onto Trunks' shoulder, "I should have never doubted you. I should have known you'd be okay... I should have known you'd never break a promise to me..."
Every endless night has a dawning day
Trunks inhaled deeply, "Oh I'd never leave you Pan-chan... you're the best thing that ever happened to me... Dende," he said smelling her hair, "I love you so much..."
Pan sniffled in his shirt, "I love you too Trunks... I'm so sorry I've been mean to you lately,... I was holding back everything because I thought you forgot about me in our... sort separation..."
"Forget about my Pan-chan?" Trunks asked with mock hurt, "Nah, never."
Every darkest sky has a shining ray
Pan giggled, "I know that now..."
Trunks rocked her back and forth, "Rock-a-bye Pan-chan on the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock..."
Pan laughed, and playfully punched him on the shoulder, causing him to wince in pain, "Oops, sorry."
It takes a lot to laugh as the tears go by
Trunks smiled as Pan sat back, "I'll always be here Pan-chan, you can never escape me..." he whispered as he pressed his cold fingers up to her warm face, wiping it away, and kissing the finger.
And you can find me here, until your tears run dry
"I..." Pan paused as the air became thicker, and Trunks moved closer to her, "hope... you... w..." her words were cut short as Trunks kissed her. She fell forward kissing him as if it was the first and last time she ever would.
Bra looked at Goten. Goten looked at Bra. Bra stood idly as she pulled the curtain around Pan and Trunks. She then sat down on Goten's bed, and they started the same ritual.
It's a private emotion that fills you tonight
And a silence falls between us
As the shadows steal the light
And wherever you may find it
Wherever it may lead
Let your private emotion come to me
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