Learning to Live Again

By: Faye_Valentine00

Faye_Valentine00@hotmail.com

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Disclaimer - I own nothing more than a really cool SD plush Pan keychain! It hangs from the rearview mirror of my cargo van!

I hope you all enjoy this story because I had fun working with a new kind of plot. Please tell me what you think and REVIEW!

(A/N: This story is done from Pans POV. Trunks and Pan fics RULE!)

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I sat by the hospital bed, holding his hand tightly in mine. It felt cold, clammy and lifeless. His ki level was slowly fading away and I knew that this was the end.

I'd married Robert 6 years ago when I was 22 and just out of college. He was 27 at the time and teaching in one of the local high schools. We met in a conference at the college while I was in my freshman year and we immediately fell madly in love. Dad had been firm about me graduating college before marriage and Robert had agreed with him 100%. Since then, things had gone wonderfully.

Last October though, he'd started having pains in his chest and it took me till nearly Christmas to get him to see a doctor. That day, the doctor had forced him to check into the hospital for tests and observation. they found that he had a rare heart defect and that there was no cure. They even told us that we should spend as much time as we could together as possible because they did not know how much longer he would live.

We took the doctors advice and went traveling and site-seeing all over the world. Now it was early June and we'd just returned from the United States to visit some of his friends and family. Last night, Robert had collasped at dinner and never woke up.

I looked over at the clock and it read 2:34pm. I didn't even try to hide my tears as I felt the last of his ki vanish. The machine that registered his heart rate flatlined and let out a droaning alarm that sent doctors and nurses running in from all directions in an attempt to revive him but as I watched them work, I knew that he was gone and that my life would be changed forever.

**** 2 Months Later ****

I sat down in the grass next to the stream outside of Grandma Chi-chis house and watched the water flow. I know it would probably sound stupid if I said it out loud but I was really envious of the steam at that moment. It could flow anywhere and anyway it wanted to at any time with nothing to hold it back.

I, on the other hand, was now a 28 year old widow who was living back with her parents and had no clue what she was going to do with her life. When Robert and I got married, I had my college degree in marketing but I'd never had to work. We'd never ben rich but we did have enough money so I was able to stay home and be a housewife. Now I had no income and virtually no work experiance. That made my chances of finding a decent job slim.

Dad suggested that I go to Capsule Corp and try to get a job but I just didn't feel ready. Robert had been my world, my everything. Without him here any longer, nothing seemed to matter.

**** 8 Days Later ****

~~~~~KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK~~~~

I sat on the couch, trying to block out the outside world like I had everyday since Roberts death but the continuous banging on the door made it impossible. I jumped off the couch, ready to speak my mind to whoever was knocking so rudely but when I opened the door, I froze when I saw the face that I hadn't seen in years.

"Trunks?!"

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