Title: Blur

Chapter: Number 4, Shine

Author: Lady of the Lake

Rating: R. . .eventually NC-17

Distribution: If you want it, you can have it, just tell me where you're sending it

Disclaimer: Heh, if they were mine I'd make Vegeta run around in a pixie costume saying 'I'm a pretty pretty princess.' Come on, I know you would pay to see that too. . .oh yes, and if I owned The Beatles, I would not have this crappy computer, believe me.

E-mail: AngelWillow2000@aol.com

1 Feedback: I know I'm a feedback slut, I'll take it anytime, anywhere from anyone ;p

Dedicated: To my Roderick, who got me addicted to DBZ

Authors Note: Thankies to everyone who reviewed, the song is by the Beatles, etc. etc. *___*= Song lyrics ((__))= thoughts



Shine

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1.1 "Love is friendship set aflame." - French proverb



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The next few days were a blur. All Videl knew, was that this was the best Holiday season ever with Chichi's wonderful cooking, Goten's antics and a new boyfriend she just couldn't stop kissing. Before she knew it, Christmas morning had come and gone. Now it was the peaceful night,

"Gee, Thanks again Videl!" Goten exclaimed lifting his new talking robot (that could say over 30 phrases) with no off button.

"Yes," Chichi said sarcastically "Thank you Videl."

"Just take the Batteries out, he'll never know the difference."

With a nod, Chichi sighed, saying " And now that the Holidays are over, I'm going to this place as soon as possible." Videl had given her a free day at a posh spa in Hurcule City.

"Come on Videl," Gohan said, taking her by the hand. "Your present is in your room."

"But. .I already got mine, this morning." Videl began.



"Ooh I know what it is!" Goten blurted out. "It's a –"

"Goten!" both Chichi and Gohan cried, Chichi giving her most frightening stern look. Goten immediately fell silent.

"Come on," Chichi said warmly, the family following as Gohan lead Videl into the guest room. Upon looking around, Videl didn't see anything, the room was just as she had left it, bed unmade in the Christmas frenzy, clothes folded neatly on an overstuffed chair in the corner, school books perfectly in order on the desk. Then, in the tangle of sheets, she saw something move.



"AHH!" she shrieked. "You got me a puppy!" Videl rushed over to the sleeping creature, stretched out on his back, four, large brown paws in the air, and a ripped red ribbon near by. His fur was the color of caramel, short and wiry, with chocolate accents on his paws, tail, muzzle and flopped over ears. She instantaneously ran over and took the now wriggling puppy in her arms. Giving an excited bark, he began to caress her face with his small crimson tongue, while his tail beat against her hipbone in a happy rhythm.

"Something to keep you company when I can't be with you." Gohan whispered, giving Videl a light kiss on the neck. Chichi frowned, causing the two to blush.

"I hope you like him, but I'd better go get breakfast started." Said Chichi disappearing into the hallway and presumably the kitchen.

"What are you gonna name him?" Goten asked, scratching him behind the ears.

"Well," she said thoughtfully. "With the beat he's got going with his tail, I think Ringo would be an appropriate name for him."

"Huh?" Gohan and Goten asked.

"You know, Ringo Starr, from the Beatles." Videl answered

"Who?" they both asked again

Videl nearly dropped the newly dubbed Ringo. "You don't mean to tell me you've never heard of the Beatles."

Both gave the patented blank, innocent looks that all the men of the Son family seemed to know.

"That should be some sort of crime." She muttered, placing Ringo down on the floor, and searching through her bag. "Here we go". Soon, happy music filled the air.



*Here comes the sun...

Here comes the sun...

I say...it's all right*



"Come on Videl." Gohan exclaimed happily, taking her hand and spinning her.

"No way Gohan!" she said resolutely, crossing her arms and giving the classic Videl scowl. "I'm a fighter not a dancer."

" Really Videl, you need to loosen up, have some fun." Gohan said, in a cheesy smooth voice, doing spastic John Travola-esque dance movements. She couldn't help but grin.



*Little darlin'...

It's been a long, cold, lonely winter

Little darlin'...

It's feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun...

Here comes the sun...

I say...it's alright*



"Fine!" she said dramatically, giving in and spinning around the room with Gohan, Goten and Ringo close and their heels doing an odd dance of their own. Ringo's yapping and howling accompanying the crooning and instruments of the song.



*Little darlin'...

The smiles returning to their faces

Little darlin...

It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun...

Here comes the sun...

I say...it's alright*



"Come on, Goten." Videl said happily, changing partners. Gohan, slightly miffed picked up Ringo, who struggled out of his arms as valiantly as he could, and began barking as loudly as he could at the desk in the corner of the room.



"What is it Ringo?" Videl asked ((Jeez Videl, its not like he's going to answer you. This isn't an episode of Lassie))

"What on earth is this." Gohan asked, pointing to a small knot in the wood, it looked like every other normal knot, although, one part had a slight reflection on it.

"It looks kinda like a camera." Goten said innocently, not realizing the serious nature of the situation.

"What is a camera doing in my room?" Videl wondered allowed.

"Okay, just to let you know Videl, I had nothing to do with this." Gohan said defensively blushing to the roots of his hair.

Just as Videl opened her mouth to retort, a small blast echoed through the house, and a spray of glass shards and wood splinters came flying into her face.



"Oww." She moaned, after spitting out a mouth full of glass.

"Mom!" both Gohan and Goten screamed. Blood was pouring from Videl's mouth, face and eyes.

"Oh dear." Chichi gasped, hurrying Videl into the kitchen. Videl struggled to keep tears back.



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"You fucking blew it up!" she screamed, her face contorted with rage and burning bright red.

"Y-Yes ma'am" the private answered shakily.

"Are you insane! Why not just drop in and tell them that we're spying on them!" she raged, pacing the floor in front of him. "Did you not read the protocol pertaining to this sort of emergency?"

"I'm sorry ma'am, I panicked!" he answered, wringing his hands.

"Who the hell assigned you to this mission?" her voice suddenly deadly calm.

He opened his mouth to answer, although she cut him off, hissing through her gritted teeth. "Don't even answer. I want you gone Private Morris, don't ever come back, and don't breath a word of this mission to any living soul. Got that?"

Private Morris nodded, and sulked out of the room.

"I swear." She muttered to no one really, rubbing her throbbing temples. Brushing a few loose tendrils of hair behind her ears, making a mental note to redo her bun during her next break, she walked over to an intercom across the room the clacking of her sensible shoes echoing across the empty room.

"Sargent McAllen?" she said, her voice back to its normal pleasant tone.

"Yes ma'am?" the crackled voice answered back.

"You know Private Morris?" she said offhandedly.

"Yes ma'am." he responded

"Well, I'm afraid he's made a mistake that endangered this delicate case, and I had to dismiss him. Although, I'm afraid he might place us in an even more precarious position." She said smoothly. "Could you please remind him, as well as everyone else working with us, that there is no room for failure within this mission?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Thank you." She answered sweetly, before punching in the security code with her perfectly manicured nails, making the door swing open.

"Oh," she said checking her watch. "Time for my break."

A single gunshot was heard in the background.

She smiled.



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"There you go." Chichi clucked, handing Videl a sensu bean. "Just get some rest, and you should be fine by tomorrow."

"Thank you Chichi." Videl said after chewing the bland bean. She began to feel a bit better, well at least her tongue did, the cuts healing and the swelling going down. Her face was still as spider web of scratches, at least the glass was gone.

"What happened?" she asked, to her two sons.

"Well, you see there was this-" Goten began, before Gohan cut him off.

"Goten broke a mirror! I already cleaned it up." he said quickly giving Goten and Videl a look, at least Videl understood what it meant.

"Not-uh!" Goten exclaimed, giving his older brother a shove. "There was a camera or something and boom it just exploded!"

"Goten, you know how I feel about you roughhousing inside." She lectured, placing her hands on her hips. "See what can happen? I want you to apologize to Videl, and go to your room to think about what you did."

"But mom!" he whined.

"Now Goten." She said sternly, leaving no room for argument.

"Sorry Videl." He sniffed, turning and shuffling to his room.

"Come on Videl." Gohan said, supporting her with his strong arm, helping her towards the guest room.

"I can walk Gohan." She said with a smile, rolling her eyes. "I've been in been in more pain than this. Remember Spopovitch?"

"How could I forget?" Gohan answered, wrapping his arm around her waist instead.

"Now why couldn't we tell your mom the truth." Videl asked, resting her aching head against him.

"I don't know." He said honestly, "Just something tells me we need to figure this out a bit more before telling everyone."

"Well," she began. "You'd better go make up with Goten for taking all the heat."

"I know." He said, "I'm going to give him all of my Christmas candy."

Videl arched an eyebrow. "You do remember what he was like when he ate the cinnamon rolls?"

"Yes, but I'll give it to him when he goes to Trunk's house tomorrow."

"You're evil!" she laughed, hitting him playfully.

"Oh gosh Videl!" Gohan gasped, feigning pain while bringing his hand to his forehead in a melodramatic way. "That hurt, just so much!"

"Well you see." Videl said matter 'o factly " I wasn't trying to hurt you."

"Yeah, sure." He said, tweaking her nose.

"Oh, forgive me I forgot!" she declared, before adding in a slightly mocking voice. "No one can hurt the great Sayian man, and is utterly cool costume!"

"Hey, That costume is cool!" he cried, crossing his arms.

"I really should start packing." Videl said, curling up on the guest room bed, her aching head finding the soothing feather pillow.

"Yeah," Gohan said sadly, lying next to her. "School starts in two days." Ringo, who was sprawl out on the rug near the bed, gave him what almost seemed to be a glare, and a slight growl. ((Great, now her dog hates me))

"Our breaks keep getting shorter and shorter." She complained, scratching the puppy between his ears and stretching.

"I really should clean up that glass." Gohan said, looking away and blushing. Her tank top had ridden up revealing the creamy skin of her stomach, while her pajama pants were slung lowly on her hips, giving a slight hint of her twin hipbones.



((He's so innocent. He's red to the roots of his hair just by seeing my stomach.)) An evil smile crossed Videl's face. ((Perhaps I can have some fun with him.))

"We can do it later." She purred, resting her head in the cradle of his neck, her warm breath caressing his skin.



"Y-Yeah. Later sounds good." He said, his voice wavering.

"You're tense Gohan," she murmured, rubbing her bare foot against his, and up his leg. "Just relax a bit."

"Relax, yes I can relax." Gohan said, almost reassuringly to himself.

Nipping his collar bone, causing him to jump unexpectedly with pleasure, Videl began to place feather light kisses all over him.

"Videl. . ." he moaned, "What if, my mom."

"We can sense her ki." Videl answered in a whisper. "Don't worry so much."

"Okay." He sighed, relaxing and giving himself over to her.

"Good boy." She said into his ear, biting the lobe gently. Snaking her cold hand under his T-shirt, stroking his warm, tight muscles, occasionally stopping to graze her finger lazily around his nipple. Tracing her long forefinger across his chest, Videl placed a tender kiss on his neck, giving him no warning of the rough possessive bite she gave him after.

"Videl." He whimpered, wanting more than just her agonizingly slow touch.

"Yes?" she asked, her voice husky. "Is there something you want?"

"D-Don't stop." He said, his black eyes pleading.

"Look at the time!" Videl said suddenly, checking her watch "I really should be getting in bed, after all I need to be back before my Dad gets home tomorrow."

"What?" Gohan asked, snapping back into reality. He groaned and buried his head into the pillow.

"Well, Goodnight Gohan." She said with a slight smirk. ((Heh, that ought to teach him. Hangman. . .please))

"Goodnight Videl. . "he said disappointedly, pulling himself from her bed and trudging out her door to he hall.

"Oh, and Gohan?"

"Huh?" Gohan answered, turning his head. Videl pulled him forward and kissed him deeply, thrusting her smaller body against his. He melted into the kiss, his hands finding the back of her hair.

"I just wanted to give you that." She said with a sly smile, before closing the door in his bewildered face.

"Boys are silly creatures." She laughed, looking very pleased with herself, and crawling under the warm sheets. Ringo wuffed in response, jumping up into the bed and curling up next to his new mistress, who soon fell into a very pleasant sleep. Gohan, on the other hand, did not sleep a wink the entire night.

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