Whisper
By: Panny-Plan
Chapter 4 Secrets Unfold
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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! It shows me how much everyone cares about my crazy fanfic ideas! I have to admit, this chapter is a bit lame, but I really can't live up to my huge cliffhanger!!! R/R please!!!!!! I think I made you all suffer enough! Here is chappy 4!!!!!!
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Secrets can be more than just something you hide…something that has gone wrong…
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The words bobbed around in Trunks head for a moment. 'This is Riokko. My daughter.' Daughter. Trunks looked down at the little girl. She looked just like him. Identical. Except for the purple locks. But she also looked a lot like Pan and Gohan…
Pan looked around the group, hoping one of them would say something. Marron finally spoke up, in a snobby voice. "She sure looks a lot like Trunks. Is he the father?"
Trunks looked at his wife. "No! No!" Trunks glanced over at Pan. "I've never slept with Pan! She's Panny! For gods sake!"
Pan smiled. "No. Marron Trunks is not the father. The man who is had purple locks. Riokko inherited my mother's blue eyes." Pan squirmed. She was a horrible liar. Why would they believe her now?
Riokko was looking around the group, for some sign of remembrance of the adults. None. She squeezed her mother's hand, and looked up at her, with pleading scared eyes. Pan picked her up, setting her on her hip.
Goten's lip quivered. He and Bra knew that she was really Trunk's daughter, but didn't want to say it. Trunks had never told Marron about it. Pan looked into Riokko's eyes. "This is Bra. That would make you… I'm not going to keep track. This is Bra, this is Goten, Marron… and Trunks."
Trunks had the greatest urge to correct Pan and tell Riokko to call him 'Daddy' instead of just 'Trunks.'
Riokko stared at Trunks. She had a strange feeling about him. He fitted all the details that Pan had told her about her father. And he looked like the man in her dreams that she was coming home to, yelling, "Daddy!" and jumping in his arms.
It hit her. Trunks was her father. She gasped. Everyone looked at her. Pan knew that she had put it together. She bent and put her lips to her ear. "Don't Riokko." She whispered. "Keep quiet please."
Riokko nodded, and let Pan kiss her cheek. The demi-saiyans heard what she said.
Pan tried to get the attention off of herself and Riokko. Pan shuddered. "Brrrrr. Do you think that maybe we could go someplace warm to keep this reunion? It just a bit cold."
They laughed, and followed Pan down the street to small resturaunt. They all settled down and the were all crowded together to get warm. Riokko and Chelsey had hit it off and were playing in the restaurant. Goten, Bra, Pan, and Trunks watched as their kids played. They didn't care. They were going to get kicked out any way.
Pan sat in between Goten and Trunks. Pan looked over to Trunks. "So," she asked not knowing what to say to him. "How's Capsule Corps."
Marron laughed. "You have been reading the newspapers, haven't you Pan?"
Pan giggled. "Yeah… I guess it's different from the president's point of view."
Trunks smiled. "It's the same Pan. So, what do you do for a living?"
"I suppose since you found me I can tell." She took a deep breath. "In the newspapers ARTS section, I am the successful writer, Calline Bronch."
Bra spit out milk. "You're Calline Bronch?" she stared at her in utter belief. "How?"
"It's a cover up."
"You sure did take this 'I don't want to be found' thing pretty far, didn't you?" Goten asked.
Pan nodded. "I meant it."
Marron set her cup down. "Pan, that's what you never told us. Why?"
Pan looked at her. "Why what?"
"Why did you leave?"
Pan looked in her lap. She didn't want to tell Marron… it was hard enough Trunks knowing. She had planned to never see him again. But she couldn't hide from him forever. She took a deep breath. She looked up at Marron. Her blonde hair was slopping past her shoulders, and fell in her eyes. "Marron--I was just sick of it. I couldn't take it anymore. I was confused. I was getting mixed signals. I realized what was wrong now, but I don't regret leaving."
Marron smiled. "It's okay. You know we're always here for you."
Pan smiled. She couldn't help to look over to Trunks and sneak him an cold look. He looked away, his heart filled with guilt. He regretted letting Pan go, the second that she left.
A waitress walked over to them, followed by and angry manager. They all gathered their things, knowing that this wasn't the worst part of their day.
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The walked down the sidewalks of Satan City, watching the two kids play together. They ran down the street, playing chase, and tag. Pan smiled as Riokko doged a snowball from Chelsey.
Trunks spoke. "That's-" he was about to say 'That's my girl… but decided against it. He added, "That's really cute."
Pan grinned. "Yup. That's my girl. A mini-me of well,no me or T-" she smiled.
Marron nodged her. "C'mon. Who's the father?We won't tell!" she added with a wink.
Pan smiled. "Well, she looks a lot more like Tony than me… but she acts more like me than him."
Goten smiled wearily. "Tony, huh? Here does he live?"
Pan smiled. "I don't know. And I don't care. He walked out on me when I told him I was pregnant."
Bra gasped. "You mean that Riokko never got to meat her dad?"
'Not until today…' Pan thought. "Nope. I don't want to her to meet him. He was cruel, and a player. I don't know about today. He may be married and have kids that he wanted and a wife he wanted to support."
Trunks hung his head lower. He wanted to make Pan just shut up. She had gotten enough guilt into him. Marron spoke up, as if it just occurred to her.
"Pan guess what!"
Pan smiled. "What Marron?"
"Trunks and I are married!" Trunks cringed. The last thing he wanted Pan to know. He was married now. As if he didn't care for her an more. But he did. He… really did care for Pan.
Pan's heart sank. She sniffed in the cold. She looked up at Marron, smiling a big, wide smile. "That's great you guys! Congratulations!"
Marron grinned. "Thanks Pan! I wish you could have come to the wedding. It was so hilarious! Bra tripped and made Goten fall flat on his face, dragging her down too!"
Both Goten and bra turned bright shades of crimson. "Marron--we told you not to ever mention that again."
"But Pan has a right to know! She wasn't there. And plus you two aren't still embarrassed by that…are you? That was three years ago!"
"Yes it is still embarrassing! What if you fell flat on your face at my wedding?"
"Then I would have laughed about it!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Bring it on Bra!"
"You got it Marron!"
Trunks smiled as his sister started a cat fight with Marron. He glanced over to Pan. Her head was bowed, starring at her feet. She looked up, smiling at Riokko and Chelsy run ahead of the adults.
Trunks saw a single clear tear roll down her cheek from her left eye. He smiled weakly and wiped it away with his thumb. Pan looked up at him in surprise, but smiled warmly.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For wiping my tear away."
Trunks smiled. "Pan-chan, I will always be here to wipe your tears away."
Pan sniffed again. "You haven't been here for the past five years."
Trunks frowned. "Hey. You told me to stay away."
Pan raged with anger. "Trunks!" she whispered back, her voice getting horse and raspy. "Why are you so arrogant?"
Trunks shrugged, his lips forming a frown. "I dunno... must be a family thing."
She shook her head, trying to put everything together. Why did he always act so childish? It was because of him, that she was there, getting sick every other week, making sure Riokko had enough food, and warm clothes to wear to school, and crayons to color with. "Trunks," she began again, her voice calmer this time. "Just answer me something. And answer me truthfully. Do you feel guilty at all, for driving me, and Riokko out of our home? I had a life Trunks. I wonderful life, and went on and ruined it."
Goten joined the conversation by now, marking how much Trunks really did hurt his niece. He looked Trunks in they eye, which Trunks dogged. He couldn't look at Goten, when he was hurt a family member.
"Why do you bring that up Pan? Why? It's not like the world cam crashing down on you--"
"But it did! It did come crashing down on me, don't you get it? You tore my world apart." Pan stuffed her hands into her pockets and kept on walking forward, picking up a grueling pace. Trunks had to jog briskly to keep up with her.
"Cool it, you two." Goten suddenly appeared between them, trying to get them to stop fighting. "You aren't twelve anymore. Don't get into a pissing contest. Talk it out like normal, mature adults."
Pan and Trunks both stared at him and raised an eyebrow. "I never, in my life," Pan said, starring at him, "thought that you, Goten, would ever be the one to tell people to act mature and be rational."
Goten blushed, and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, uh, you see, nobody else here is a father, so I uh, have to be mature to set a good example. Yeah, that's it!"
"I'm a father," Trunks pointed out. But GOten simply shook his head.
"Yes, you helped give birth to child, that makes you partially a father. But the entire raising of you kid makes you a father. And you didn't raise Riokko. Pan did."
Trunks looked forward as he was talking. He started another conversation on another topic, but Trunks didn't catch it. He was starring at Riokko, and Chelsy, but for once, he felt his heart ache. And this time it for real; for the love that it held for this child, he knew less than thirty minutes.
'What had become of me?' Trunks asked himself, glancing sideways past a department store. He saw his reflection starring back. He had dark circles under his eyes, his hair needed to be combed badly, due to the wind of course, and he was in a dark suit which made him look old and grumpy. He used to wear bright suits to work, his favorite was spring green. It was pan's favorite too.
He looked back over to Pan, who was now fully in the conversation with Goten, laughing and joking with him as they both took a trip down memory lane. Bra and Marron were still at it. Marron... he loved her, but then he looked at Pan, and wanted to say the same thing.
Marron is the kind of girl who takes time to fall in love with; you have to learn to love her. But you can fall head over heals for Pan in less than a second.
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A/N: Poor Trunkskie-pooh! I hate it when people make pople in their fics call him that! He's suffering a lil... starting to regret being with Marron now that he's found Pan again. IS Pan happier off alone than with Trunks? Pleople, I don't know when the title comes into place, but ohwell! Thank you to all of you who reviewed! I have over 40 with three chapters! My other DBZ fic I was only like 8th chappy when I reached 40!
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