Chapter 7
"She's coming around."
"Pan?"
"Pan, honey, wake up!"
Slowly Pan opened her eyes, blinking in the bright light.
"What..? Where am I?" she mumbled, angry at her voice for breaking.
"Pan! You're awake!"
Finally the lights were dimmed and could Pan see somewhat clearer. Her mother stood bent over her, her eyes shimmering. "You're awake," she repeated.
Pan frowned. "Why wouldn't I be? Where am I, anyway?"
"Don't you remember?" someone else asked. Pan looked up to see her father standing behind her mother, smiling. Bulma, Vegeta, Trunks, Bra and Uub were standing around her bed, in their eyes a look of relief. When Pan stretched out her ki-sense she could feel Goten and Marron rapidly approaching.
"Don't you remember?" repeated Bra, looking at her questioningly.
Pan shrugged and winced at the pain in her head. "No, what?"
"You hit supersaiyan three," started Uub.
"Well, that's what Trunks says, but I'm not sure if I should believe him," grinned Bra.
"She did!" said Trunks, scowling at his sister.
Pan blinked. "Super… Three?" She suddenly jumped up. "I wanna see!"
"Oh no you don't, young lady!" Her father pushed her down firmly. "You probably have a concussion, you'll stay in bed for at least a week."
Vegeta snorted. "She's a saiyan. She'll be alright tomorrow. A little blow to the head doesn't hurt a saiyan."
"Little blow?!" Bulma said, scowling at her husband. "If any human would have fallen from that height, he would've been squashed!"
"She's a saiyan," Vegeta repeated and without another word left the room.
Bulma groaned.
"Fallen?" asked Pan, a blank look on her face.
"Yeah," said Trunks. The look in his eyes frightened her, so full of desire and… something else.
"Your ki kept going higher but it almost seemed as if you were keeping it all in, thus destroying your own body. You then passed out and fell out of the sky. I was too late to catch you, so I took you home – we were closest to our place."
Pan nodded slowly. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"Maybe an hour or so," said Bra. "Long enough to get us really worried."
That moment Goten came running into the room, Marron hot on his heels.
"Pan?" he gasped. He let out a breath of relief when he saw she was at least concious.
"What are you doing in bed? What happened?" asked Marron, also out of breath.
"She hit supersaiyan three, passed out, fell down and got a concussion," Bulma said dryly. "But Vegeta says she'll be alright tomorrow."
"I felt your ki going immensely high, then drop to almost nothing," Goten told his niece, his eyes wide from shock and relief. "You scared the shit out of me. Don't ever do that again!"
Pan grinned. "I didn't do it intentionally."
Marron smiled. "I'm glad to hear you're alright." She then walked to Trunks, putting an arm around his waist. Trunks smiled uncomfortably, looking at Pan.
Pan ignored his gaze and looked at Uub, who shifted uncomfortably. "I gotta go," he eventually said. "You're alright, so… I've got places to be." He walked away, turned in the doorway. "You'll call me when something changes, okay?" Then he dissapeared, a swift dark shadow in the night.
"What's with him?" Marron asked confused.
"I…" Pan sighed. "I guess we broke up."
Trunks' face was suddenly a lot happier, but the others looked at her weirdly.
"Why?" asked Bra, voicing everyones confusion.
Pan shrugged and smiled painfully. "It just… didn't work out anymore."
"Well…" Bulma said, overcoming the silence. "It's late. Why don't you stay over, and you too, Gohan, Videl?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, that would be nice. Thanks, Bulma."
Bulma smiled. "Any time. Pan, you can stay in bed here. I'll have someone bring some food, okay?"
Pan yawned. "Thanks, Bulma, but that's not necessary. If you don't mind, I'd like to go to sleep now."
Gohan smiled at his daughter. "Ofcourse, honey. You go to sleep, and if you need something, just call, okay?"
Pan nodded and yawned again, curling up under her covers.
"'Night," she mumbled and closed her eyes. She never noticed everyone leaving the room.
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She was sitting in the wild lands she trained in, every now and then. Or at least, she thought she was. But there was something odd here, although she couldn't put her finger on it.
When she looked at the sky, she knew what was. The stars. They were all wrong, and even the moon seemed different.
He was there.
She looked down to herself and noted with some relief she was not naked.
Instead, she was clothed in a tight blue training suit with white gloves and boots and a white and yellow armor.
Saiyan armor?
She looked at him. He also wore saiyan armor, though he looked a bit off in it, with his pale purple hair. But the tight blue suit showed every muscle, every groove in his body. He looked amazingly attractive to her.
And when she looked into his eyes, she saw he must be thinking somewhat the same. The desire was evident, but there was something else in her eyes that showed her it was not only lust. It was frightening and she wanted to run away, but something kept her from doing so.
"Come over here, brats," a familiar, deep voice said.
They turned simultaneously to find Vegeta sitting on a rock close by.
She shrugged and walked over, he followed her example.
Only when they'd both sat down Vegeta spoke up again.
"We're on planet Vegeta," he said. "And before you ask – yes, Vegeta has been destroyed. This is only a place in my mind."
He stared at her. "That does not mean it's not real. This moment, it is."
They looked at him when he fell still, waiting for him to explain what they were doing here.
"I've called you here to explain some things to you you don't seem to be getting, especially you, girl," continued Vegeta.
"You've been having dreams. Arousing dreams, dreams in which you were only having sex. Dreams about eachother."
She blushed, and when she looked at him, he was blushing also. But when he glanced at her, she quickly turned her gaze away.
"You didn't know where they came from, and you had no idea why you were having those dreams, because you already had partners and you weren't sexually interested in eachother normally.
And you longed for those dreams during the day – you longed for eachother during the day. You were lusting after eachother."
She blushed even darker and didn't dare to look at him, nor at Vegeta.
"But you made a mistake by ignoring those dreams, pretending nothing happened.
Those dreams were merely a sign of your saiyan side, or call it your unconcious if you prefer that, of what it knew a long time, but you both have been denying."
She shook her head. What was Vegeta telling her? These ideas were frightening. She only wanted to leave, she didn't want to know what Vegeta had to tell her.
But somehow she couldn't stand up, an unknown force was keeping her down. She couldn't power up, couldn't even move her muscles. She was completely to the mercy of whatever force was keeping her here.
There was no doubt it was Vegeta.
"You are different from humans, and you have to realize that. Saiyans don't pick their mates like humans do. They don't even really pick one. If there's someone that fits them, so to speak, they will mate that person – or at least try to. Age, sexe or even rank don't matter anymore then. Call it love, call it lust, call it instinct or all three at one, but once one feels that for another, nothing can keep them apart.
Your human side, though, has kept you from the one that is fits you the best. You both ignored the fact that the other was available for you and obstinately mated someone else. But your saiyan side got back at you and went drastic – thus the dreams.
Now you may think dreams aren't real, but when mating is at stake, everything is real.
You mated, thus finally noted your sexual attraction towards the other. Then you marked eachother – which made the bond evident.
And finally you mated again, completing the bond. Everything would have been alright, if your human side hadn't come in again. It's what's keeping you apart and you should shut it out if you ever want to love – or whatever. You can't ignore your bond and being with others will not make you feel better."
She could feel the blond draining from her face. If this was… What Vegeta was telling her…How could she ever look him in the face again?
She had to go; now.
Immediately.
She turned and noted with relief that the force pushing her down was gone, obviously Vegeta found that he'd talked enough.
She ran away, ignoring him shouting her name.
She'd ran only a short while when she remembered what her mother had said.
"You must never run away from your fears because they will haunt you forever if you do."
She shouldn't be running.
She slowed down, stopped and looked over her shoulder. He was still standing there. Vegeta was gone, he probably wouldn't want to be around any longer than necessary.
Slowly, ever so slowly, she walked back until she stood face to face with him.
He looked deeply into her eyes and the love in there scared her.
But she stayed.
She took his hand in hers, layed her own hand against it. Closed her hand around his, brought it to her heart and closed her other hand over it.
"Trunks, I'm scared," she whispered, looking up at him.
He nodded. "I know. But I'm there for you. And I will always be."
She smiled shyly, took one step closer. He folded his arms around her, enveloping her in his warmth. "And I'll be there for you," she breathed, almost inaudible.
But he heard, she could feel him smiling into her hair.
Only then a bright light surrounded them and she could feel his presence fade away.
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AN: Ow, I'm so mean!! *smirks evilly* *Ducks for even more things thrown at her head* Hey, you guys, aren't you out of throwing material yet??
No, this is NOT the end. It will, come, I promise! Only one more chapter, I guess.
This one hasn't been betaread. I couldn't get into my mailbox (_) and I wanted to post it too badly ~_^, I've been gone for too long already… Sorry, guys!!
Ow yeah, 50 reviews!! Yaah!! Yahoo!! Celebration!!!
Where's the cake?
Juu-kun!! I told you to get away from it!
Aargh… that damned android never does as he's told!! _
Stop eating, damnit!!
