The Pain Behind The Mask pt3
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or it's characters. Just the ones I made up. I also do not own anything that I mention that isn't mine.
A/N: Okay, don't kill me if Gohan and the others
seem a bit mean in this chapter but there is a reason ok? Good!
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"Kami-sama…" Gohan uttered. "She
looks nothing like you."
"Thank goodness." Natalie said.
"Don't be like that!" Hikari said.
"I can be whatever I want to be like! You can't
tell me what to do! You lost the right to do that years ago." Natalie
yelled as she stormed off. Hikari went after her.
"Oh man, she's gonna kill her if we don't go as
well." David said as he and Nicholas got up. The others soon followed.
"Natalie, wait!" Hikari yelled.
"No chance in hell." Natalie shouted back.
Hikari ran up in front of her and blocked her path.
"We have to talk." Hikari said. The others
caught up with them and stood to the side.
"Okay, what shall we talk about?! About how you
abandoned my family and left Papa to raise four kids on his own?! About how you
never even contacted us?! Would a phone call kill you?!" Natalie shouted.
"Look we all make mistakes…I'm only
human!"
"That's where you're wrong!! You're not human!!
You're the evil incarnate of Alexis Carrington!" Natalie yelled. "We
have absolutely nothing to talk about!" (Cookie points to whoever can tell
me who Alexis Carrington is!!)
"We're going to have to sometime!! I work here
as a psychology professor!"
"What did you do to your resume?! Add 'logy' to
the word psycho!! Coz that's what you are!! A freakin' psycho maniac who shed
her responsibilities for a man in tight pants called Miguel!!"
"How dare you talk to me like that? I'm your
m…"
"Onna, say that word and I will chop your head
off!" Natalie seethed. David stepped in and carried Natalie over his
shoulder.
"She's a little high strung." David
commented.
"PUT ME DOWN OR I'LL KICK YOUR ASS DAVID
FINCH!!" Natalie asked.
"Of course! David and Videl! How are you?"
Hikari asked. The rest of the gang just walked away.
"Just give her a little time." Gohan said
as he ran after his friends. They got back to the dorm room with Natalie
screaming and kicking all the way there.
"Give her a little time he says. PUT ME DOWN NOW!!!"
Natalie yelled.
"Okay." David said. The minute he put her down she
tried to run out of the door but Nicholas grabbed her and sat her on his lap as
she struggled to get away.
"And where do you think you're going?" Nicholas
asked.
"To kick her ass." Natalie replied.
"How? When you can't even get out of my reach."
Nicholas commented. She stopped.
"Touché." Natalie replied. "Videl, can you hand me
the telephone?"
"I don't think you should be…" Videl tried to reason.
"CHICA!! EL TELÉFONO!!
AQUÍ, AHORA!!"
Natalie yelled. Videl came back in a flash with the telephone.
"Who are you calling?" Gohan asked.
"My brothers and dad." Natalie replied. Gohan took
the phone from her.
"Nuh uh, miss 'I've had way too much sugar today'.
Not until we talk." Gohan said folding his arms. "You told me your parents were
divorced."
"They are, Mr 'give her a little time'."
"You just said she abandoned you."
"Yeah…they still got divorced though." Natalie
replied.
"Nat, I know this may be hard for you but maybe you
should try to forgive her. I mean, push come to shove she's still your mother."
Gohan reasoned.
"No chance in hell dude. Technically, under some law
that I will someday abolish, she may be my mother but that doesn't mean she
deserves that title. She can't just leave and then come back when all the hard
work of raising kids is over and expect it to be all sunshine and butterflies!"
Natalie snapped.
"You shouldn't run away from your problems! You
should try and face them head on instead of taking the easy way out!" Gohan
yelled.
"NO! Look, you wouldn't understand Gohan! Your
parents are married! Your mother loves you and is so proud of you! Mine
couldn't give a monkey's ass!"
"Maybe you two should calm down!" Nicholas said
stepping in between the two of them.
"No! I want to know why she is behaving like such a
child!" Gohan yelled.
"Well I want to know why you are defending her so
much!!" Natalie retorted. "You don't even know her!"
"From what I've seen of her she seems like such a
decent person and I don't understand why you can't give her a second chance!"
"There are some people in the world who don't
deserve a second chance." Natalie replied.
"What on Earth did she do to you that was so
horrible?" Gohan demanded. Natalie fell silent as her face wore a pained
expression. "I knew it! You're just being a dramatic baby like always! You're
blowing this whole thing way out of proportion just because you can't grow up."
Natalie balled up her fist and punched Gohan square in the nose. She slammed
herself into her room and flopped her self on her bed.
"Gohan, don't you think that was a bit…harsh?"
Andrea asked. "She seemed really upset about it."
"Maybe I was. But she needs to grow up. I still
don't understand how she could punch me that hard." Gohan stated as he flopped
down on the sofa, grabbing his nose in pain. Gohan looked at his hand. "Dude!
How'd she get the telephone out of my hand?!"
"An angered mind can do things that a calm mind
cannot." David said as everyone looked at him in awe. "What? I can have my
moments!"
Andrea wondered the halls of the campus. Natalie had long since left the dorm and had been gone for almost three hours. Gohan was still trying to figure out why he and Natalie had fought. Andrea had volunteered to go and look for her. As she turned into the music wing of the university, she heard a melody being played on a piano. Curiosity got the better of her and she followed the music. As luck would have it, Natalie was the one playing. Andrea knocked on the door. Natalie stopped playing and looked up.
"Oh, hi Andie." Natalie uttered shyly. Andrea sat
beside her.
"How are you doing?" Andrea asked, concerned.
"Okay I guess. I'm sorry you had to see me like
that. It's just…" Natalie heaved a big sigh. She started playing again. "Sorry,
playing just calms me down. My grandma always used to play it for me."
"Used to?"
"She died when I was younger."
"Oh. I didn't know you liked Mozart." Andrea said.
"It's a secret." Natalie smirked. "I can also play
Charlie Brown." Sure enough, she started to play the Charlie Brown theme tune.
"I love that show."
"Nat, why are you so angry about you mom?" Andrea
asked.
"It's just…that I can usually tell if a person's
intentions are good or not. I don't believe that she came here to see us and
check how we are doing. Maybe it's a little cynical but I don't trust her."
Natalie said. "I believe that there are two kinds of evil. People who are
influenced to be evil and then there are the people who choose to be evil. You
can't forgive someone who chose to be evil."
"So, you think your mom chose to be evil?" Andrea
asked.
"I think so. I also believe that people like that
cannot change. When we were kids she was always so mean to us. I had no idea
why."
"I don't know Natalie. She still is your mother."
Andrea pointed out.
"I'm sorry Andie, but I just can't trust her. I have
a feeling in my gut that I shouldn't and I've always been taught to do what I
feel is right." Natalie replied. Andrea sighed.
"Even if she is 'evil' like you say she is, are you
even sure that she has any powers? If there is a one in a million possibility
that she has, what can you do about it? You got the sleeping power, remember?
You didn't train to control them over the summer like we did." Natalie just
kept on playing.
Gohan woke up with a funny feeling in his stomach.
He then remembered the fight with Natalie.
"Nnnng. I better go and apologise to her." Gohan
said. He opened the door to the boys' room and noticed that everyone else was
already up except Natalie. He face-faulted. "What time is it?"
"10:30 dude." David replied.
"Where's Nat?" Gohan asked.
"In our room. She refuses to come out. She didn't call her family because she didn't know what to tell them." Videl whispered to him. "I didn't want to say anything but she was tossing and turning all night, like she was having a nightmare or something."
"I'm gonna go talk to her." Gohan said as he knocked on the door.
"Dude, I think she's had enough." Andrea warned.
"Who is it?" Natalie asked.
"Gohan."
"Oh. GO AWAY TONTO."
"Ooh, she's mad at you!" David laughed.
"Why? What did she call him?" Nicholas asked. David whispered it to him and Nicholas whistled. "Wow…"
"Nat, we need to talk." Gohan said. Natalie opened the door and stood there with her arms folded.
"What?" Natalie curtly asked.
"Look, I'm sorry about last night. I didn't mean to jump down your throat. But I think you know why I was so mad." Gohan said.
"You know, he almost made it there." Nicholas commented.
"Oh really? I know why you were mad." Natalie asked.
"Yeah."
"So, are you expecting me to apologise?" Natalie asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"Say no!" Nicholas hissed.
"Yeah." Gohan said.
"Oy vey…" Nicholas sighed.
"Fine." Natalie said. "I apologise for shouting at you, heck I even apologise for punching your nose but I will not apologise for my actions last night to her."
"Her is your mother."
"I am not going to apologise for what I did to her because I don't believe what I did was wrong! She deserved a hell of a lot more than what I did to her and she might as well be thankful that I got there before my brothers did."
"You are hopeless you know that…"
"Look Gohan, I know you mean well but there are some things that you just cannot forgive. Now, are we cool or what?"
"Okay then, we're cool." Gohan replied as they embraced.
"Awwwwwwwww!" The others cooed.
A week later…
The gang were watching TV when Natalie came storming in through the door.
"GRRR!" She shrieked.
"Sweetie, what's the matter?" Nicholas asked.
"I can't even go anywhere now without seeing Hikari! I wanna join the girls soccer team and she's the supervisor! I wanna go to the library to study! There she is again! I wanna eat in the cafeteria…" Natalie huffed.
"You wanted to eat in the cafeteria?!" David exclaimed.
"You see how desperate I am! I can't even go on the Ski holiday in December because guess who's the chaperone?!" Natalie exclaimed.
"Santa?" Andrea asked.
"Thanks for the comic relief Andie." Natalie said as she breathed in.
"This is really getting you worked up." Nicholas said as he massaged her shoulders. Natalie smiled.
"I love you." Natalie said.
"I love you too sweetheart." Nicholas replied.
"Yarg!" David pretended to puke as they both gave him the evil eye. There was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it." Natalie said. She opened the door and Natalie's two extremely tall brothers walked in.
"DOG PILE ON LIL NAT!!" The two boys yelled as they jumped on top of their sister. The others sweat-dropped.
"MMM!! GER OFFA MEE!!" Natalie's muffled shouts came from the floor. They got off her. "And don't you dare call me lil again!" She said pointing to Charlie.
"Lo siento…" Charlie said sheepishly.
"Where's the stuff you wanted us to move?" Tony asked.
"Move?!" Everyone else exclaimed.
"Oh boy." Natalie sighed. "You are such a big mouth!"
"What do you mean 'move'? Where are you going?" Nicholas exclaimed.
"Home. I'm gonna live there for a while." Natalie replied as Charlie and Tony came back out of the girls' room with a box each.
"Why?! Just because your mom is working here?" Videl asked. Charlie and Tony dropped the boxes.
"Mom?!" They both exclaimed.
"Oh boy." Natalie sighed. "Again with the big mouthingness!"
"You never told them?" David asked.
"I was gonna tell them when we were out of the fifty block radius!" Natalie replied.
"You mean El Diablo herself is working here?!" Tony exclaimed. "That's it! I'm gonna go kill her!" Natalie strapped herself around Tony's waist.
"Charlie! Help!" Natalie wheezed.
"Sorry sis, but I'm actually thinking of killing her myself." Charlie said cracking his knuckles. The others sweat-dropped.
"Stop! Not that I care if you kill her but Papa said if you two get arrested again, he'll cut off the cable!" Natalie yelled. The two of them calmed down as Natalie fell on the floor. The others sweat-dropped further as Tony and Charlie took the boxes away. The five of them stood around Natalie.
"Hi?" Natalie said sheepishly.
"When were you going to tell us that you were going home?" David asked.
"Um, now?"
"Geez Nat, you can't just let a small problem like this drive you insane!" Videl exclaimed. "I'd have to agree with Gohan on this one, I think you're overreacting!" David and Andrea nodded in agreement.
"Excuse me qué?" Natalie asked. "You guys don't understand…"
"That's what you always say but how can we understand if you don't tell us?" Gohan asked.
"Well maybe I think that it is none of your business." Natalie replied icily.
"How can it not be our business?" Gohan demanded.
"I wouldn't talk if I were you, there are plenty of things you haven't told us either Son." Natalie said firmly. Gohan just looked at her in disbelief.
"What if she came back for a reason?" Gohan asked calmly.
"Like what?" Natalie demanded.
"Well, maybe you got your ability…" Gohan started.
"Stop right there, I know what you're going to say and you are 100% wrong dude. I didn't inherit them from her." Natalie said.
"How do you know?" Gohan asked.
"Um, hel-lo! Psychic in the house! I think I would've known."
"You might not have, I mean no offence but while you were on holiday we were helping each other control our ability. What were you doing?" David asked.
"Et tu, David?" Natalie sighed.
"If Natalie thinks this is the best decision then I think we should support her. After all, she's not our mother and it really isn't our place to tell her what to do. If you want to go home sweetie, then by all means go. I'll still be here waiting for you." Nicholas said. Natalie hugged him.
"You are too much. If I weren't wearing mascara, I'd cry." Natalie said.
"What about your mother?" David asked. "How do you think she's gonna feel?"
"David!" Nicholas said.
"I don't care how she's going to feel and neither should my family." Natalie said. "After fourteen years of absence I don't think they could handle it! You saw my brothers! They practically went Ricky Ricardo! Charlie is only fifteen, he shouldn't have to deal with this."
**Fifteen?! He's over 6 feet tall!** Andrea thought to herself.
"Why don't you let him determine that?!" Videl yelled.
"THAT'S IT! THE END! NO MÁS!! I have come to a decision! I. Can't. Deal. If you like her so much THEN YOU TAKE HER!!" Natalie said, storming out of the dorm.
"Well guys, I hope you're satisfied. She may never talk to you again." Nicholas said folding his arms.
"This is ridiculous!" Gohan said storming after her. He grabbed her by the arm and turned her so that she was facing him.
"You have to forgive her Natalie. For your sanity, please! Look what this has done to you! You are so convinced that she doesn't love you just because she left. But you have to forgive her." Gohan pleaded.
"Why? Just because you did." Natalie asked.
"Excuse me?" Gohan asked, shocked.
"You think I don't know what your hidden motive is? You might not be able to see but it's as plain as day."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"All I'm going to tell you is don't mess with things you don't understand. My mother and your father are two completely situations. He didn't abandon you, he left to save you and his family. You just don't seem to understand that your dad did the noblest thing a father can do for his son. Don't you dare expect me to forgive my mother just because you 'forgave' your father. In my opinion you should be thanking him, not excusing him." Natalie left leaving Gohan standing in the hallway gob smacked.
Later that night…
Gohan awoke to find himself in a white place. He looked down and saw he was floating thousands of miles above the Earth.
"AAAHH!! AAAAAAAHH!! I'M GONNA DIE." Gohan yelled as he waved his arms about ridiculously.
"Did you forget that you could fly? You certainly are a spawn of Kakarrot." A voice said from behind him. Gohan stopped flailing his arms around and rubbed his hand behind head sheepishly.
"Hehe. Thanks a lot." Gohan said as he turned around to look at who was talking to him. "Oh…Kami-sama!"
To be continued…
Don't kill me just yet…there's still a whole lot of story to go. Oh, and if you like Natalie then be warned because I'm gonna put her through a lot of hell. Get your tissues ready children!
