Here is Chapter 8. Sorry it took so long to post but I am taking courses this summer and am trying to find the time to write. Anyway here we go.
Preparations
The next morning Aisha slowly opened her eyes as the sun began to come into her window. Rolling over she came face to face with Jim who had been running his fingers through her long hair.
"How long have you been awake?"
"Does it matter?" He asked kissing her on the forehead.
Aisha giggled as she snuggled up to Jim. The feeling she got when they both had their arms around each other was indescribable. It was like their bodies were meant to go together. She felt safe, she felt her worries dissolve, she felt... complete. This was the first time she had woken up beside him in the morning. He was an early riser and usually left before Aisha would wake up. Granted it would have been weird if someone had walked into his room and found him not there, or worse yet, walked into her room. But now he didn't care, he was getting married to the most beautiful woman in the world and wanted everyone to know it. Jim kissed his fiancé once more and got up putting on a shirt.
"Well I guess I had better go tell Gene the good news." He stated pulling the white T-shirt over his head.
"If you can handle Gene I'll tell Suzuka and Melphina."
Jim caught Aisha off guard by jumping back into bed, pinning her down and tickling her.
"JIM!! HAHAH ... STOP IT... HAHAHA I'M SERIOUS!!... HAHAHA!!"
"On one condition." Jim said stopping the attack.
" He he... What?" Aisha asked cocking up one eyebrow as her laughing subsided.
Jim leaned down and gave Aisha a series of soft kisses that started at the teal triangle under her left eye, over her lips, and down her neck. Aisha purred driving Jim crazy as he suckled her neck. As he subsided Aisha looked up into his dark blue eyes.
"How did I get so lucky?"
"I was wondering the same thing myself Aisha?" Jim said as he explored her eyes as she did his.
Jim hopped out of bed once more and walked out of her room to tell Gene.
Aisha got dressed and went on her own search for Suzu and Mel. Fortunately for her she didn't have to look far as they both were in the living room.
"What were you laughing about Aisha, we could hear you all the way down here." Melphina asked as Aisha sat across from her and Suzuka.
"OH, nothing really." Aisha replied while making a large sweeping motion with her arm showing off her ring. In a surprising break of character, Suzuka stood up and screamed.
"OH MY GOD HE DIDN'T?!?!?!"
"YEA HE DID!!!" Suzuka and Aisha started hopping around and screaming like a couple of 15yr old girls at an N*Sync concert, leaving the still oblivious Melphina setting on the couch.
"What's going on?" She finally asked as the two stopped their celebration.
"Well Mel," Aisha said sitting next to her. "Ever since Jim came back, he and I have kinda been seeing each other. And last night he asked me to marry him."
"You two have been going out? Why didn't you tell me?" Melphina asked blushing at the thought of the couple. She remembered how scared of Aisha Jim was when she was always chasing them down, trying to get to the Leyline.
"Well, that was Jim's idea. Seeing how Gene is a ... well..." Aisha thought with one finger pressed to her chin. "..how do I put this nicely... a dickhead, Jim thought it would be best if we waited to tell him."
"Well you told Suzuka, why not me, I wouldn't have told Gene."
"They didn't tell me, I just happened to accidentally witness the first kiss." Suzuka corrected still examining the ring on Aisha's finger.
"Well, how was it?" Melphina asked.
"How was what?" Aisha eyed Mel inquisitively.
"The first kiss?"
Aisha crossed her arms and closed her eyes. "It's not proper for a girl to go around talking about her love life... But if you can keep a secret."
Both Melphina and Suzuka leaned forward to Aisha's whisper.
"IT WAS GREAT!!!!" Aisha screamed causing both Mel and Suzuka to fall back onto the floor.
~~:*:~~
"Your getting WHAT!!!" Gene yelled from under one of the XGP's engines.
"Married."
Gene rolled out from under the engine and gave his partner a concerned look.
"Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy, haven't I taught you anything. Never marry a girl you just met. Now I realize Goken must of introduced you to her on Earth, but a week, come on not even I'm that impetuous." Gene said rolling back out of sight.
"You got it wrong Gene, I've actually known her for quite some time."
"Enough with the suspense Jim" Gilliam announced as the little pink robot slid in front of him. "..who is the lucky lady?"
"Aisha." Jim announced proudly as he heard a large metal clank and a string of profanity that would have made a sailor blush coming from under the XGP.
"AISHA, OUR AISHA, AISHA CLAN-CLAN OF THE CTARL-CTARL EMPIRE AISHA?!?!?!" Gene yelled scrambling out from under the XGP holding his head where the wrench had hit.
"Yep, I asked her last night."
"Jim, wha... you... her... when... I've never even seen you two talk to each other?"
"Gene, if I can do this," Jim said disappearing and instantly reappearing hovering over the Outlaw Star. " ...don't you think Aisha and I could keep ourselves a secret?"
"Yea, I guess." Gene said as Jim floated down to the ground. "But why Aisha, she's loud, obnoxious, immature, and annoying as hell?"
"Why Melphina Gene? She's monotone, has no since of humor, and has the personality of a wet gym sock."
Gene thought about it, he was right Mel was kind of an airhead sometimes.
"I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Gene stated finally getting over the initial shock of Jim's announcement and returning to his work. *Jim has finally grown up.*
"Gene, there is one more thing." Jim said snapping him out of his thoughts.
"What?"
"Well, I still need a best man."
"Sure thing Jim." Gene said confidently smiling.
"Oh my, weddings are so exciting." Gilliam stated.
~~:*:~~
Suzuka made it clear to everyone in the group that she wanted no part in the wedding itself, however she would plan everything. With Mel as the maid of honor and Gene as the best man the small wedding party was set. Jim and Aisha decided on a traditional earth wedding; seeing how a Ctarl-Ctarl wedding would require Jim to fight anyone who objected to the death. Suzuka set the wedding date for 2 months after the couple was engaged, much to the disappointment to the eager couple. Shasha took over the invitations for Aisha's side of the family, and weeks of seating arraignments and china patterns filled Starwind and Hawking.
"Where is it?" Jim mumbled as he dug through a box of CD's in the basement. He could of kicked himself for waiting this long to look for it. "Here we go."
"Whacha doing Jim?" Aisha asked coming down the stairway.
"OH...ahh nothing Aisha." Jim stammered as he tucked the CD under his chest plate hiding it from Aisha's view. "Just looking through my CD collection."
"Really," Aisha said ruffling her fingers through his hair as she bent down beside him. "Find anything I'd like?"
"Well," Jim said rummaging through the box some more and retrieving another case. "I think I just did, come on." Was all Aisha heard before Jim flew up the stairs to the living room with her in tow. Jim turned on the stereo and selected track two to play. As the guitar and drums started in Jim picked Aisha up around her knees and lifted her high in the air singing with the song.
"She was a fast machine,
she kept her motor clean.
She was the best damn woman that I, ever seen.
She had the sightless eyes,
tellin me no lies.
Knockin' me out with those American thighs.
Taken more than her share,
Had me fighting for air.
She told me to come but I was already there.
Cause the walls start shaken.
The earth was quaking.
My mind was aching.
And we were making it, and you-
Shook me all night long!
Yea you, shook me all night long!"
Not to be outdone, Gene grabbed Mel and joined Jim and Aisha for the second coarse. Unbeknownst to the two couples Suzuka just slipped outside. She walked the streets of Heyfong deep in thought. She was happy for Jim and Aisha, she really was. However, the fact that she was the only member of the crew without someone did play heavy on her mind. *I don't have time for anyone.* Suzuka told herself. Truth was, there wasn't many options due to her lifestyle. Training, meditation, discipline, their wasn't that many people who would stick by you, much less understand. What she needed was another warrior, someone who would understand her, however people like herself were in a short supply these days. But none the less, she wished she had someone, someone to talk to that actually understood the power that drove her, hell maybe even someone to train with. She chuckled as she remembered how it all started, and how it led her to this point in her life. The real reason she tagged along was Gene. Not the whole "your life is in my keeping" bit she told everyone, but the fact that she had fallen for him. When he beat her defending Fred Lowe she thought he was the one. She pictured him as the shining warrior of her dreams, whose hard training and unclouded mind had defeated the infamous Twilight Suzuka, boy was she ever wrong. After tagging along for a couple of weeks she came to the obvious conclusion that he was just another hotheaded outlaw who happened to get lucky. She rounded another corner heading back to Starwind and Hawking and beginning to clear her mind. Something would come along, if it didn't, her unhappiness would only fuel the fire within her.
~~:*:~~
"Melphina, I do not believe the objects you are adding to my stabilizer wings are up to current spaceport regulations." Gilliam said as his robot studied the cans tied onto the rear of the Outlaw Star.
"Come on Gilliam, it's a tradition." Melphina said as she finished with the last string.
"I do not recall any tradition that involves breaking spaceport safety rules."
"Lighten up would you Gilliam!" Gene yelled from his makeshift scaffolding along the XGP's side.
"And Gene, this paint you have added is not heat tolerant and will be blasted off during its first re-entry." Gilliam said as he examined the white paint along each side of the ship.
"Damnit Gilliam, its just a prank. It's not going to stay on there, it's just for Jim and Aisha's honeymoon."
"Well, there is no need to yell. As the ships main computer I am required to ...." Gilliams scolding was cut short as Gene flung the paint can he was carrying at the pink robot shattering it to pieces.
"YES, FINALLY GOT HIM!!!" Gene yelled dancing around and nearly falling of the scaffold. However his celebration was short-lived as a new robot exited a hatch and stared angrily at him.
"Each Gilliam III robot costs approximately 1,000 wong Gene." Gilliam said as he slid down the track avoiding the oncoming paintbrush.
"Gilliam, I have already programmed a course for you to take when Jim and Aisha get on." Melphina said as she stepped in between the robot and Gene who had climbed down from the scaffold and was reaching for his pistol.
"And that means butting out when they get on, I'm sure they will be more interested with each other than anything you have to say Gilliam." Gene said getting over his anger wrapping an arm around Mel and admiring his work.
"Understood." Gilliam said. "...but I believe there are two R's in married Gene." Suddenly a gunshot ripped through the air as the little Gilliam III was obliterated. Gene holstered his gun and was met by a stern and very pissed expression from Melphina.
"What???" He said with a grin that would of maid Goken proud.
~~:*:~~
"Uggh." Jim groaned as he leaned against a pew in the church. He had no idea there was this much practicing involved. *Oh well, its all for a good cause.*
Suddenly Jim snapped alert as he sensed a powerful, yet familiar, ki near him. Before he had a chance to ready himself an orange blur tackled him to the ground.
"Come on Jim, I know I trained you better than that." Goken said standing back up wearing the stupid looking grin that the Son family was so well known for.
"When did you get here?" Jim replied trapping his mentor in a bear hug.
"Just transmitted in."
"Are Mr. PoPo and Dende with you?"
"No, they're both sorry they couldn't make it. But it's kinda out of the question for the guardian of Earth to take a vacation."
"Yea I guess so." Jim replied disappointedly.
"Hey but Dende told me to give you this." Goken took out an envelope and handed it to Jim. "So when do I get to meet her?" Goken said while slapping Jim on the back, which nearly sent him to the floor. Jim was used to keeping his power level as low as possible around Gene and the others.
"You just missed her, she and Mel just left to pick up her dress."
"Have you seen it?"
"No, Mel and Suzuka won't let me. They said its bad luck for the groom to see the dress before the wedding."
"Oh well, hey, I'm going to look at the courtyard, I saw them bringing in the food for the reception." With that Goken took off down the hall tailing a caterer to the kitchen.
As Jim watched Goken in his pursuit of food, he opened the letter Dende had sent him. It only contained four words: ... I told you so... Jim chuckled folding the letter and placing it under his armor, he then remembered the CD, and went to find Suzuka.
He had expected to find Suzuka supervising the caterers and threatening them with their lives if everything wasn't up to par. Instead he found her seemingly staring off into space in the courtyard.
"Suzuka?" Jim said as he stepped behind her. Surprisingly she jumped. *Did I sneak up on her? That's a first.*
"Uh, yes what is it Jim?" Suzuka said as she regained her composure, Jim just stared a moment longer.
"I want you to play this for our first dance." Jim said retrieving the CD from under his chest plate and handing it to her still examining her face. *Are her cheeks red, is she blushing?*
"Suzuka, are you ok?"
"Yea, I just. Well do you know him?" Suzuka asked in a surprisingly bashful manner.
Jim looked over in the direction Suzuka was pointing and stared. There was Goken standing by a table of food looking around like a two-year-old before he grabbed a plate and downed the assortment of finger sandwiches. Upon witnessing his mentor's actions, Jim just smacked a hand to his head.
"Aw, I'm sorry Suzuka, I'll go stop him from eating the food." Jim said completely missing the point and walking towards Goken.
"No don't." Suzuka said as she grabbed Jim's arm.
"Huh?"
"Why don't you introduce me." I was when she said that Jim saw the look in her eyes and realized it was the same look he had whenever someone mentioned Aisha.
"OOOO, I get it, you got a crush." Jim said only to me met with Suzuka's kitana at his throat.
"Just because your all grown up and getting married does not mean that I won't kill you."
"Geese." Jim said raising his hands in the air. "Cant anyone around here take a joke."
Suzuka released Jim as he led her over to Goken.
~~:*:~~
The night before the big day Jim lay in bed with his head on Aisha's stomach, both too excited to sleep. They had been up most of the night talking.
"So that's why you never tried my Gejidabo stew again?"
"Yea, that stuff had me blowing out both ends for three days."
Aisha laughed as she continued to run her fingers through his hair.
"Jim, when did you get that scar?"
"This?" Jim said indicating the 6inch scar that ran across his chest. "That's right, you were unconscious when I got it."
"Unconscious?"
"Yea, you remember the fight with the first of the Ante 7, Lelong?"
"Oh yea."
"Well after he got you with that bomb whip or whatever I kinda lost it and tried to shoot him. Unfortunately I missed every shot and he got me. I thought he had killed you, I guess that's when I, well, figured out that I liked you."
"Your sweet, that bomb whip didn't do much except stun me for a while."
"Something didn't add up with that guy. I mean he should of known he didn't cut me deep enough to hit anything. Same thing with you and Suzuka, it was like he didn't want to kill us."
"Yea, I guess. Jim you want to know when I started liking you?"
"Sure when?" Jim said kissing her stomach making Aisha giggle.
"It was right before the fight with Jukai. You were leading me through the Leyline's maze and I couldn't help but think how calm and mature you were. I guess that when I saw you for yourself, and not as a kid."
Jim stared at the ceiling listening to Aisha's heartbeat. He remembered when he found her after that fight. He thought she was dead, hell it was all he could do to carry her back to the XGP and bandage her up.
"Aisha?"
"Hmm?"
"You protected me a lot back then. But now it's my turn to protect you, ok."
"Sure thing Jim." She said leaning down and kissing him. "But so help me if you chicken out tomorrow I swear not even Saiyan powers can save your butt." She growled kissing him again as he came up next to her and covered them with the sheets. As their kisses subsided he stared into her eyes.
"Aisha, I wouldn't miss it for the world."
...Next chapter "The Wedding" Ok, should I write about the wedding night? If I do, I will include it as a chapter by itself, and will write it so that you don't have to read it to finish the story. I have no idea, I have never written a lemon before. I can tell you one thing, it wont be just mindless humping, it will be well written and I will try write it like I have written every other Jim/Aisha scene complete with emotions and all that mushy stuff. Anyway, please review and tell me what you think.
Preparations
The next morning Aisha slowly opened her eyes as the sun began to come into her window. Rolling over she came face to face with Jim who had been running his fingers through her long hair.
"How long have you been awake?"
"Does it matter?" He asked kissing her on the forehead.
Aisha giggled as she snuggled up to Jim. The feeling she got when they both had their arms around each other was indescribable. It was like their bodies were meant to go together. She felt safe, she felt her worries dissolve, she felt... complete. This was the first time she had woken up beside him in the morning. He was an early riser and usually left before Aisha would wake up. Granted it would have been weird if someone had walked into his room and found him not there, or worse yet, walked into her room. But now he didn't care, he was getting married to the most beautiful woman in the world and wanted everyone to know it. Jim kissed his fiancé once more and got up putting on a shirt.
"Well I guess I had better go tell Gene the good news." He stated pulling the white T-shirt over his head.
"If you can handle Gene I'll tell Suzuka and Melphina."
Jim caught Aisha off guard by jumping back into bed, pinning her down and tickling her.
"JIM!! HAHAH ... STOP IT... HAHAHA I'M SERIOUS!!... HAHAHA!!"
"On one condition." Jim said stopping the attack.
" He he... What?" Aisha asked cocking up one eyebrow as her laughing subsided.
Jim leaned down and gave Aisha a series of soft kisses that started at the teal triangle under her left eye, over her lips, and down her neck. Aisha purred driving Jim crazy as he suckled her neck. As he subsided Aisha looked up into his dark blue eyes.
"How did I get so lucky?"
"I was wondering the same thing myself Aisha?" Jim said as he explored her eyes as she did his.
Jim hopped out of bed once more and walked out of her room to tell Gene.
Aisha got dressed and went on her own search for Suzu and Mel. Fortunately for her she didn't have to look far as they both were in the living room.
"What were you laughing about Aisha, we could hear you all the way down here." Melphina asked as Aisha sat across from her and Suzuka.
"OH, nothing really." Aisha replied while making a large sweeping motion with her arm showing off her ring. In a surprising break of character, Suzuka stood up and screamed.
"OH MY GOD HE DIDN'T?!?!?!"
"YEA HE DID!!!" Suzuka and Aisha started hopping around and screaming like a couple of 15yr old girls at an N*Sync concert, leaving the still oblivious Melphina setting on the couch.
"What's going on?" She finally asked as the two stopped their celebration.
"Well Mel," Aisha said sitting next to her. "Ever since Jim came back, he and I have kinda been seeing each other. And last night he asked me to marry him."
"You two have been going out? Why didn't you tell me?" Melphina asked blushing at the thought of the couple. She remembered how scared of Aisha Jim was when she was always chasing them down, trying to get to the Leyline.
"Well, that was Jim's idea. Seeing how Gene is a ... well..." Aisha thought with one finger pressed to her chin. "..how do I put this nicely... a dickhead, Jim thought it would be best if we waited to tell him."
"Well you told Suzuka, why not me, I wouldn't have told Gene."
"They didn't tell me, I just happened to accidentally witness the first kiss." Suzuka corrected still examining the ring on Aisha's finger.
"Well, how was it?" Melphina asked.
"How was what?" Aisha eyed Mel inquisitively.
"The first kiss?"
Aisha crossed her arms and closed her eyes. "It's not proper for a girl to go around talking about her love life... But if you can keep a secret."
Both Melphina and Suzuka leaned forward to Aisha's whisper.
"IT WAS GREAT!!!!" Aisha screamed causing both Mel and Suzuka to fall back onto the floor.
~~:*:~~
"Your getting WHAT!!!" Gene yelled from under one of the XGP's engines.
"Married."
Gene rolled out from under the engine and gave his partner a concerned look.
"Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy, haven't I taught you anything. Never marry a girl you just met. Now I realize Goken must of introduced you to her on Earth, but a week, come on not even I'm that impetuous." Gene said rolling back out of sight.
"You got it wrong Gene, I've actually known her for quite some time."
"Enough with the suspense Jim" Gilliam announced as the little pink robot slid in front of him. "..who is the lucky lady?"
"Aisha." Jim announced proudly as he heard a large metal clank and a string of profanity that would have made a sailor blush coming from under the XGP.
"AISHA, OUR AISHA, AISHA CLAN-CLAN OF THE CTARL-CTARL EMPIRE AISHA?!?!?!" Gene yelled scrambling out from under the XGP holding his head where the wrench had hit.
"Yep, I asked her last night."
"Jim, wha... you... her... when... I've never even seen you two talk to each other?"
"Gene, if I can do this," Jim said disappearing and instantly reappearing hovering over the Outlaw Star. " ...don't you think Aisha and I could keep ourselves a secret?"
"Yea, I guess." Gene said as Jim floated down to the ground. "But why Aisha, she's loud, obnoxious, immature, and annoying as hell?"
"Why Melphina Gene? She's monotone, has no since of humor, and has the personality of a wet gym sock."
Gene thought about it, he was right Mel was kind of an airhead sometimes.
"I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Gene stated finally getting over the initial shock of Jim's announcement and returning to his work. *Jim has finally grown up.*
"Gene, there is one more thing." Jim said snapping him out of his thoughts.
"What?"
"Well, I still need a best man."
"Sure thing Jim." Gene said confidently smiling.
"Oh my, weddings are so exciting." Gilliam stated.
~~:*:~~
Suzuka made it clear to everyone in the group that she wanted no part in the wedding itself, however she would plan everything. With Mel as the maid of honor and Gene as the best man the small wedding party was set. Jim and Aisha decided on a traditional earth wedding; seeing how a Ctarl-Ctarl wedding would require Jim to fight anyone who objected to the death. Suzuka set the wedding date for 2 months after the couple was engaged, much to the disappointment to the eager couple. Shasha took over the invitations for Aisha's side of the family, and weeks of seating arraignments and china patterns filled Starwind and Hawking.
"Where is it?" Jim mumbled as he dug through a box of CD's in the basement. He could of kicked himself for waiting this long to look for it. "Here we go."
"Whacha doing Jim?" Aisha asked coming down the stairway.
"OH...ahh nothing Aisha." Jim stammered as he tucked the CD under his chest plate hiding it from Aisha's view. "Just looking through my CD collection."
"Really," Aisha said ruffling her fingers through his hair as she bent down beside him. "Find anything I'd like?"
"Well," Jim said rummaging through the box some more and retrieving another case. "I think I just did, come on." Was all Aisha heard before Jim flew up the stairs to the living room with her in tow. Jim turned on the stereo and selected track two to play. As the guitar and drums started in Jim picked Aisha up around her knees and lifted her high in the air singing with the song.
"She was a fast machine,
she kept her motor clean.
She was the best damn woman that I, ever seen.
She had the sightless eyes,
tellin me no lies.
Knockin' me out with those American thighs.
Taken more than her share,
Had me fighting for air.
She told me to come but I was already there.
Cause the walls start shaken.
The earth was quaking.
My mind was aching.
And we were making it, and you-
Shook me all night long!
Yea you, shook me all night long!"
Not to be outdone, Gene grabbed Mel and joined Jim and Aisha for the second coarse. Unbeknownst to the two couples Suzuka just slipped outside. She walked the streets of Heyfong deep in thought. She was happy for Jim and Aisha, she really was. However, the fact that she was the only member of the crew without someone did play heavy on her mind. *I don't have time for anyone.* Suzuka told herself. Truth was, there wasn't many options due to her lifestyle. Training, meditation, discipline, their wasn't that many people who would stick by you, much less understand. What she needed was another warrior, someone who would understand her, however people like herself were in a short supply these days. But none the less, she wished she had someone, someone to talk to that actually understood the power that drove her, hell maybe even someone to train with. She chuckled as she remembered how it all started, and how it led her to this point in her life. The real reason she tagged along was Gene. Not the whole "your life is in my keeping" bit she told everyone, but the fact that she had fallen for him. When he beat her defending Fred Lowe she thought he was the one. She pictured him as the shining warrior of her dreams, whose hard training and unclouded mind had defeated the infamous Twilight Suzuka, boy was she ever wrong. After tagging along for a couple of weeks she came to the obvious conclusion that he was just another hotheaded outlaw who happened to get lucky. She rounded another corner heading back to Starwind and Hawking and beginning to clear her mind. Something would come along, if it didn't, her unhappiness would only fuel the fire within her.
~~:*:~~
"Melphina, I do not believe the objects you are adding to my stabilizer wings are up to current spaceport regulations." Gilliam said as his robot studied the cans tied onto the rear of the Outlaw Star.
"Come on Gilliam, it's a tradition." Melphina said as she finished with the last string.
"I do not recall any tradition that involves breaking spaceport safety rules."
"Lighten up would you Gilliam!" Gene yelled from his makeshift scaffolding along the XGP's side.
"And Gene, this paint you have added is not heat tolerant and will be blasted off during its first re-entry." Gilliam said as he examined the white paint along each side of the ship.
"Damnit Gilliam, its just a prank. It's not going to stay on there, it's just for Jim and Aisha's honeymoon."
"Well, there is no need to yell. As the ships main computer I am required to ...." Gilliams scolding was cut short as Gene flung the paint can he was carrying at the pink robot shattering it to pieces.
"YES, FINALLY GOT HIM!!!" Gene yelled dancing around and nearly falling of the scaffold. However his celebration was short-lived as a new robot exited a hatch and stared angrily at him.
"Each Gilliam III robot costs approximately 1,000 wong Gene." Gilliam said as he slid down the track avoiding the oncoming paintbrush.
"Gilliam, I have already programmed a course for you to take when Jim and Aisha get on." Melphina said as she stepped in between the robot and Gene who had climbed down from the scaffold and was reaching for his pistol.
"And that means butting out when they get on, I'm sure they will be more interested with each other than anything you have to say Gilliam." Gene said getting over his anger wrapping an arm around Mel and admiring his work.
"Understood." Gilliam said. "...but I believe there are two R's in married Gene." Suddenly a gunshot ripped through the air as the little Gilliam III was obliterated. Gene holstered his gun and was met by a stern and very pissed expression from Melphina.
"What???" He said with a grin that would of maid Goken proud.
~~:*:~~
"Uggh." Jim groaned as he leaned against a pew in the church. He had no idea there was this much practicing involved. *Oh well, its all for a good cause.*
Suddenly Jim snapped alert as he sensed a powerful, yet familiar, ki near him. Before he had a chance to ready himself an orange blur tackled him to the ground.
"Come on Jim, I know I trained you better than that." Goken said standing back up wearing the stupid looking grin that the Son family was so well known for.
"When did you get here?" Jim replied trapping his mentor in a bear hug.
"Just transmitted in."
"Are Mr. PoPo and Dende with you?"
"No, they're both sorry they couldn't make it. But it's kinda out of the question for the guardian of Earth to take a vacation."
"Yea I guess so." Jim replied disappointedly.
"Hey but Dende told me to give you this." Goken took out an envelope and handed it to Jim. "So when do I get to meet her?" Goken said while slapping Jim on the back, which nearly sent him to the floor. Jim was used to keeping his power level as low as possible around Gene and the others.
"You just missed her, she and Mel just left to pick up her dress."
"Have you seen it?"
"No, Mel and Suzuka won't let me. They said its bad luck for the groom to see the dress before the wedding."
"Oh well, hey, I'm going to look at the courtyard, I saw them bringing in the food for the reception." With that Goken took off down the hall tailing a caterer to the kitchen.
As Jim watched Goken in his pursuit of food, he opened the letter Dende had sent him. It only contained four words: ... I told you so... Jim chuckled folding the letter and placing it under his armor, he then remembered the CD, and went to find Suzuka.
He had expected to find Suzuka supervising the caterers and threatening them with their lives if everything wasn't up to par. Instead he found her seemingly staring off into space in the courtyard.
"Suzuka?" Jim said as he stepped behind her. Surprisingly she jumped. *Did I sneak up on her? That's a first.*
"Uh, yes what is it Jim?" Suzuka said as she regained her composure, Jim just stared a moment longer.
"I want you to play this for our first dance." Jim said retrieving the CD from under his chest plate and handing it to her still examining her face. *Are her cheeks red, is she blushing?*
"Suzuka, are you ok?"
"Yea, I just. Well do you know him?" Suzuka asked in a surprisingly bashful manner.
Jim looked over in the direction Suzuka was pointing and stared. There was Goken standing by a table of food looking around like a two-year-old before he grabbed a plate and downed the assortment of finger sandwiches. Upon witnessing his mentor's actions, Jim just smacked a hand to his head.
"Aw, I'm sorry Suzuka, I'll go stop him from eating the food." Jim said completely missing the point and walking towards Goken.
"No don't." Suzuka said as she grabbed Jim's arm.
"Huh?"
"Why don't you introduce me." I was when she said that Jim saw the look in her eyes and realized it was the same look he had whenever someone mentioned Aisha.
"OOOO, I get it, you got a crush." Jim said only to me met with Suzuka's kitana at his throat.
"Just because your all grown up and getting married does not mean that I won't kill you."
"Geese." Jim said raising his hands in the air. "Cant anyone around here take a joke."
Suzuka released Jim as he led her over to Goken.
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The night before the big day Jim lay in bed with his head on Aisha's stomach, both too excited to sleep. They had been up most of the night talking.
"So that's why you never tried my Gejidabo stew again?"
"Yea, that stuff had me blowing out both ends for three days."
Aisha laughed as she continued to run her fingers through his hair.
"Jim, when did you get that scar?"
"This?" Jim said indicating the 6inch scar that ran across his chest. "That's right, you were unconscious when I got it."
"Unconscious?"
"Yea, you remember the fight with the first of the Ante 7, Lelong?"
"Oh yea."
"Well after he got you with that bomb whip or whatever I kinda lost it and tried to shoot him. Unfortunately I missed every shot and he got me. I thought he had killed you, I guess that's when I, well, figured out that I liked you."
"Your sweet, that bomb whip didn't do much except stun me for a while."
"Something didn't add up with that guy. I mean he should of known he didn't cut me deep enough to hit anything. Same thing with you and Suzuka, it was like he didn't want to kill us."
"Yea, I guess. Jim you want to know when I started liking you?"
"Sure when?" Jim said kissing her stomach making Aisha giggle.
"It was right before the fight with Jukai. You were leading me through the Leyline's maze and I couldn't help but think how calm and mature you were. I guess that when I saw you for yourself, and not as a kid."
Jim stared at the ceiling listening to Aisha's heartbeat. He remembered when he found her after that fight. He thought she was dead, hell it was all he could do to carry her back to the XGP and bandage her up.
"Aisha?"
"Hmm?"
"You protected me a lot back then. But now it's my turn to protect you, ok."
"Sure thing Jim." She said leaning down and kissing him. "But so help me if you chicken out tomorrow I swear not even Saiyan powers can save your butt." She growled kissing him again as he came up next to her and covered them with the sheets. As their kisses subsided he stared into her eyes.
"Aisha, I wouldn't miss it for the world."
...Next chapter "The Wedding" Ok, should I write about the wedding night? If I do, I will include it as a chapter by itself, and will write it so that you don't have to read it to finish the story. I have no idea, I have never written a lemon before. I can tell you one thing, it wont be just mindless humping, it will be well written and I will try write it like I have written every other Jim/Aisha scene complete with emotions and all that mushy stuff. Anyway, please review and tell me what you think.