An Angel's Tears
Part 6: "Snow and Love in Satan City"
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Satan City woke up the next day to find itself buried in several feet of snow. Plow trucks filled
the streets, plowing peoples' driveways. The Briefs' house had their own plow truck, and Trunks,
fruitlessly, tried to operate it, accidentally crashing in the half-rebuilt Gravity Room, and
knocked it into rubbles again.
"TRUNKS!!!" Bra screamed.
Trunks jumped out of the plow truck and guitly smiled at his sister.
"Fiesty little truck, isn't it?" He said.
"Oooh, when Mom gets back you are going to be in biggg trouble---" Bra said in a haunting voice.
"So what? She wasn't going anywhere trying to rebuild the Gravity Room anyway." Trunks spat.
"Dad'll have a cow too," Bra warned. "He's been waiting FOREVER for the Gravity Room to be fixed."
Trunks snorted and put his mittens back on. With every breath he drew came a whizzing cold
"steam". Deciding to go in for some eggnog, Trunks left the cold Bra outside.
"Hey!!" she cried, trailing behind him.
"Just getting some eggnog." said Trunks.
"Well I want some too." Bra whined.
"Geez, sis, your 17. Grow up."
Bra pushed Trunks hard, almost causing him to slam head-first into the front door. He rounded
on her like an angry wolverine, and there were chuckles and giggles behind them. Bra turned
around.
"Marron, Goten!!"
Bra ran to her boyfriend and hugged him, making him fall into the snow, laughing. Marron smiled
at the cute couple and then looked at Trunks. She came up to him.
"Hi," she said.
"Wow, Marronchan, I haven't seen you in a while."
"Well, work's been hectic."
"They're not making you work overtime, I hope?"
"No, no, I have a two-week vacation for the holidays, you?"
"I don't know yet there's a shortage of people at Capsule Corp---"
"Oh, yeah I heard."
Trunks and Marron both stood there for a while to watch Goten and Bra have a snow ball fight.
Marron looked back at Trunks.
"Aren't they cute?" she asked.
"Huh? Yeah, yeah, very cute. So anyway---"
"Yeah?"
"I hope you'll be at the traditional Christmas party at our house this year?"
"Oh, definitely, I wouldn't miss it for the world."
"Oh ok I'm glad you'll be there."
Marron went a bright pink, making her cheeks turn colorful for the first time because of the
cold.
"Last year was fun with the whole charades thing," she continued. "What'll your mom do this year?"
Trunks made a little noise of impaitience. "More like what'll BRA do this year, Mom's so busy
rebuilding that Gravity Room and you know Bra,"
"Yeah," Marron said, smiling. "Large and in charge."
Goten and Bra now got up on the porch with red faces and looking tired.
"Trunks, where are your manners?" Bra demanded. "You STILL haven't invited Marron in?"
"Oh, that's right!" Trunks said. "Marron, Goten, come in."
Trunks opened the door for them and they all stepped inside the warm cozy living room of the
Briefs house. A roaring fire stood on the left side and robots buzzed around, dusting and
cleaning. Marron smiled widely to see that the Briefs house hasn't changed at all since she last
saw it. She took her mittens and scarf off and went to sit on the couch.
"Wow, it seems your mom made some eggnog!" She noticed.
"Really?" Bra said, hurriedly taking off her earmuffs. "Oh wow Mom hasn't made anything for a
while."
They heard footsteps drawing closer and Bulma came into the living room, smiling.
"Help yourselves, kids there's plenty of eggnog and treats for everyone." she said.
"Thanks, Mom!" Bra said, taking a glass and the pitcher of eggnog, pouring some for her and her
brother and friends.
Goten sat next to Bra on the sofa and grabbed the remote, turning the TV on. Marron gladly
accepted a glass of eggnog from Bra while Trunks and Goten aruged over what to watch.
"NO, Trunks, we are NOT watching the buisness channel!!" Goten yelled.
"Well, its better than watching the Winter X-Games, Goten!" Trunks shouted back.
"I thought we could watch some ice-skating," said Bra thoughtfully.
"No, Bra, maybe we should watch the Weather Channel for conditions of the snow," Marron chipped in.
The four of them fought for the remote until it slipped out of Bra's hand and landed on the
table, smashing into pieces. They all groaned.
"Nice, Bra, REAL smooth." Trunks said, rolling his eyes.
"Don't blame her, its not her fault she has long nails." Goten retorted.
Bra nodded along poutingly(AN: is that even a word?:)) and Marron just smiled at the bickering
sibs.
"Look, guys it's obvious that TV didn't work out,"
"Thank you, Captain Obvious." said Trunks.
"THEN MAYBE," Marron continued, pretending she didn't hear Trunks, "we can just talk and catch
up on our lives."
"That sounds like a good idea." Goten and Bra said.
"Oh fine," Trunks grunted, in a very foul mood now.
~~~~~
"So, Marron, did you hear Trunks has got a girlfriend?" Bra said teasingly.
"Really?" Marron said, looking up. "Who is it?"
"The same one it's been for months," Bra said.
"Yeah, her name is Katie and she works in Capsule Corp." Trunks said quickly.
"But isn't that---I dunno---a work relationship?" Marron asked.
"No one ELSE knows." Trunks shot at Marron.
"Ok, sorry."
The whole room was quiet for about two minutes, with people staring around.
"Our 5-month anniversary is gonna be in about a week," Trunks continueed.
"So what are you getting her?" Goten asked.
"I dunno, I thought I could buy her some earrings or something."
Marron looked away, feeling very hurt. She could feel hot tears almost welling up in her eyes.
She fought them back.
"Where are you guys going?" Bra asked excitely.
"Maybe Satan Blues." Trunks said, taking a sip from his glass.
"THAT NEW REALLY FANCY RESTAURANT???" Bra yelled.
"YES! shut up, bra, your really loud."
Bra ignored her brother and turned to Marron. "Hey Mar, didn't we walk by that place?"
"Yeah," Marron said, her voice shaky.
"Uh, Mar, are you ok?" Bra asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Marron said, her voice breaking. "Excuse me, I need to take care of
something,"
She got up and ran from the room, into one of the corridoors. Bra got up too.
"Marron, wait!"
Bra chased after Marron and Goten and Trunks looked at eachother.
"What's wrong with them?" Goten asked.
"You tell me."
"Marron, wait..." Bra said, panting, as Marron came to a stop. Bra noticed that they were in
the second backyard, the one without the Gravity Room. Bra hadn't been there in a long time and
forgot what it looked like. It was more liked a garden the last time she'd seen it; but now,
with the cold snow all the second backyard looked like was a white room with a single,
solitary bench. Marron sat on the bench.
"What do you want, Bra?" She said through sobs.
"What's wrong?" Bra asked, sitting down next to Marron and patting her back.
"Trunks---he---"
"What about Trunks?"
"He's got a girlfriend..."
"So?"
"I never thought---it would be this soon---and now..."
Marron buried her face in her hands and let out a dry sob. Bra looked at her friend sadly.
"But why would this bother you so much?"
"I---"
"Marron, tell me..."
"I---I---"
"What is it?"
"I love him..."
Bra, for a moment, looked shocked. But then she smiled warmly at Marron.
"I see. It must kill you to hear us talking about him and his girlfriend."
"Yes."
"I'm sorry."
"That's ok."
"But Marron..."
"Yeah?"
"He's happy now. He loves Katie. And he just wants to get advice from his friends about what
to get the woman he loves for their anniversary. You DO want him to be happy, right?"
"More than anything in the world."
"And you wouldn't want to be the person who makes him UNHAPPY right?"
"No, never!"
"Then you've got to suck it up and move on. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Don't
focus on one. Well, so Trunks may be a whale or something. There are other things like
lobsters and shrimps and octupuses."
Marron looked up at Bra, confused.
"Ok, so forget the fish analogy. But still, even though you don't like talking about Katie,
you've got to remember that it's for Trunks. For Trunks' happiness. Move on."
"Ok."
"GOOD! Now it's freezing out here and I don't even have my scarf on! Let's go inside, hmm?"
Marron nodded and followed Bra inside. She told Bra that she would go wash her face to get rid
of the redness in her eyes and that she would meet up with Bra and the others later. Bra said
ok and went to join her brother and boyfriend again.
"So what's with Marron?" Trunks asked.
"Nothing important."
"Ok."
Trunks and Goten had gotten large bags of marshmallows out and four pokers. Bra gasped at the
amount of marshmallows on Trunks and Goten's pokers. Trunks' looked like it had 15 on it,
Goten, 20.
Marron now walked into the room again and smiled around them.
"Hey guys, what's up?" she asked cheerfully.
"Well, it seems you've gotten out of tears." Goten said without thinking.
"Goten!" Bra said warningly.
"Well, Goten, I was staring at the fire too much and it was starting to make my eyes water,"
Marron said defensively.
"Sure, whatever."
Marron grinned and sat down and picked up a poker. The she eyed the marshmallow bag.
"Hey, Bra, hand me one of the marshmallow bags," she said.
"No way," Bra said through a sticky mouth of marshmallows and they both wrestled over it. Marron
was even glad that they were, because Bra's pep talk to her seemed to have cheered her up a
lot. And now things were back to the way they were...or were they?
...end of Part 6!
Part 6: "Snow and Love in Satan City"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Satan City woke up the next day to find itself buried in several feet of snow. Plow trucks filled
the streets, plowing peoples' driveways. The Briefs' house had their own plow truck, and Trunks,
fruitlessly, tried to operate it, accidentally crashing in the half-rebuilt Gravity Room, and
knocked it into rubbles again.
"TRUNKS!!!" Bra screamed.
Trunks jumped out of the plow truck and guitly smiled at his sister.
"Fiesty little truck, isn't it?" He said.
"Oooh, when Mom gets back you are going to be in biggg trouble---" Bra said in a haunting voice.
"So what? She wasn't going anywhere trying to rebuild the Gravity Room anyway." Trunks spat.
"Dad'll have a cow too," Bra warned. "He's been waiting FOREVER for the Gravity Room to be fixed."
Trunks snorted and put his mittens back on. With every breath he drew came a whizzing cold
"steam". Deciding to go in for some eggnog, Trunks left the cold Bra outside.
"Hey!!" she cried, trailing behind him.
"Just getting some eggnog." said Trunks.
"Well I want some too." Bra whined.
"Geez, sis, your 17. Grow up."
Bra pushed Trunks hard, almost causing him to slam head-first into the front door. He rounded
on her like an angry wolverine, and there were chuckles and giggles behind them. Bra turned
around.
"Marron, Goten!!"
Bra ran to her boyfriend and hugged him, making him fall into the snow, laughing. Marron smiled
at the cute couple and then looked at Trunks. She came up to him.
"Hi," she said.
"Wow, Marronchan, I haven't seen you in a while."
"Well, work's been hectic."
"They're not making you work overtime, I hope?"
"No, no, I have a two-week vacation for the holidays, you?"
"I don't know yet there's a shortage of people at Capsule Corp---"
"Oh, yeah I heard."
Trunks and Marron both stood there for a while to watch Goten and Bra have a snow ball fight.
Marron looked back at Trunks.
"Aren't they cute?" she asked.
"Huh? Yeah, yeah, very cute. So anyway---"
"Yeah?"
"I hope you'll be at the traditional Christmas party at our house this year?"
"Oh, definitely, I wouldn't miss it for the world."
"Oh ok I'm glad you'll be there."
Marron went a bright pink, making her cheeks turn colorful for the first time because of the
cold.
"Last year was fun with the whole charades thing," she continued. "What'll your mom do this year?"
Trunks made a little noise of impaitience. "More like what'll BRA do this year, Mom's so busy
rebuilding that Gravity Room and you know Bra,"
"Yeah," Marron said, smiling. "Large and in charge."
Goten and Bra now got up on the porch with red faces and looking tired.
"Trunks, where are your manners?" Bra demanded. "You STILL haven't invited Marron in?"
"Oh, that's right!" Trunks said. "Marron, Goten, come in."
Trunks opened the door for them and they all stepped inside the warm cozy living room of the
Briefs house. A roaring fire stood on the left side and robots buzzed around, dusting and
cleaning. Marron smiled widely to see that the Briefs house hasn't changed at all since she last
saw it. She took her mittens and scarf off and went to sit on the couch.
"Wow, it seems your mom made some eggnog!" She noticed.
"Really?" Bra said, hurriedly taking off her earmuffs. "Oh wow Mom hasn't made anything for a
while."
They heard footsteps drawing closer and Bulma came into the living room, smiling.
"Help yourselves, kids there's plenty of eggnog and treats for everyone." she said.
"Thanks, Mom!" Bra said, taking a glass and the pitcher of eggnog, pouring some for her and her
brother and friends.
Goten sat next to Bra on the sofa and grabbed the remote, turning the TV on. Marron gladly
accepted a glass of eggnog from Bra while Trunks and Goten aruged over what to watch.
"NO, Trunks, we are NOT watching the buisness channel!!" Goten yelled.
"Well, its better than watching the Winter X-Games, Goten!" Trunks shouted back.
"I thought we could watch some ice-skating," said Bra thoughtfully.
"No, Bra, maybe we should watch the Weather Channel for conditions of the snow," Marron chipped in.
The four of them fought for the remote until it slipped out of Bra's hand and landed on the
table, smashing into pieces. They all groaned.
"Nice, Bra, REAL smooth." Trunks said, rolling his eyes.
"Don't blame her, its not her fault she has long nails." Goten retorted.
Bra nodded along poutingly(AN: is that even a word?:)) and Marron just smiled at the bickering
sibs.
"Look, guys it's obvious that TV didn't work out,"
"Thank you, Captain Obvious." said Trunks.
"THEN MAYBE," Marron continued, pretending she didn't hear Trunks, "we can just talk and catch
up on our lives."
"That sounds like a good idea." Goten and Bra said.
"Oh fine," Trunks grunted, in a very foul mood now.
~~~~~
"So, Marron, did you hear Trunks has got a girlfriend?" Bra said teasingly.
"Really?" Marron said, looking up. "Who is it?"
"The same one it's been for months," Bra said.
"Yeah, her name is Katie and she works in Capsule Corp." Trunks said quickly.
"But isn't that---I dunno---a work relationship?" Marron asked.
"No one ELSE knows." Trunks shot at Marron.
"Ok, sorry."
The whole room was quiet for about two minutes, with people staring around.
"Our 5-month anniversary is gonna be in about a week," Trunks continueed.
"So what are you getting her?" Goten asked.
"I dunno, I thought I could buy her some earrings or something."
Marron looked away, feeling very hurt. She could feel hot tears almost welling up in her eyes.
She fought them back.
"Where are you guys going?" Bra asked excitely.
"Maybe Satan Blues." Trunks said, taking a sip from his glass.
"THAT NEW REALLY FANCY RESTAURANT???" Bra yelled.
"YES! shut up, bra, your really loud."
Bra ignored her brother and turned to Marron. "Hey Mar, didn't we walk by that place?"
"Yeah," Marron said, her voice shaky.
"Uh, Mar, are you ok?" Bra asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Marron said, her voice breaking. "Excuse me, I need to take care of
something,"
She got up and ran from the room, into one of the corridoors. Bra got up too.
"Marron, wait!"
Bra chased after Marron and Goten and Trunks looked at eachother.
"What's wrong with them?" Goten asked.
"You tell me."
"Marron, wait..." Bra said, panting, as Marron came to a stop. Bra noticed that they were in
the second backyard, the one without the Gravity Room. Bra hadn't been there in a long time and
forgot what it looked like. It was more liked a garden the last time she'd seen it; but now,
with the cold snow all the second backyard looked like was a white room with a single,
solitary bench. Marron sat on the bench.
"What do you want, Bra?" She said through sobs.
"What's wrong?" Bra asked, sitting down next to Marron and patting her back.
"Trunks---he---"
"What about Trunks?"
"He's got a girlfriend..."
"So?"
"I never thought---it would be this soon---and now..."
Marron buried her face in her hands and let out a dry sob. Bra looked at her friend sadly.
"But why would this bother you so much?"
"I---"
"Marron, tell me..."
"I---I---"
"What is it?"
"I love him..."
Bra, for a moment, looked shocked. But then she smiled warmly at Marron.
"I see. It must kill you to hear us talking about him and his girlfriend."
"Yes."
"I'm sorry."
"That's ok."
"But Marron..."
"Yeah?"
"He's happy now. He loves Katie. And he just wants to get advice from his friends about what
to get the woman he loves for their anniversary. You DO want him to be happy, right?"
"More than anything in the world."
"And you wouldn't want to be the person who makes him UNHAPPY right?"
"No, never!"
"Then you've got to suck it up and move on. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Don't
focus on one. Well, so Trunks may be a whale or something. There are other things like
lobsters and shrimps and octupuses."
Marron looked up at Bra, confused.
"Ok, so forget the fish analogy. But still, even though you don't like talking about Katie,
you've got to remember that it's for Trunks. For Trunks' happiness. Move on."
"Ok."
"GOOD! Now it's freezing out here and I don't even have my scarf on! Let's go inside, hmm?"
Marron nodded and followed Bra inside. She told Bra that she would go wash her face to get rid
of the redness in her eyes and that she would meet up with Bra and the others later. Bra said
ok and went to join her brother and boyfriend again.
"So what's with Marron?" Trunks asked.
"Nothing important."
"Ok."
Trunks and Goten had gotten large bags of marshmallows out and four pokers. Bra gasped at the
amount of marshmallows on Trunks and Goten's pokers. Trunks' looked like it had 15 on it,
Goten, 20.
Marron now walked into the room again and smiled around them.
"Hey guys, what's up?" she asked cheerfully.
"Well, it seems you've gotten out of tears." Goten said without thinking.
"Goten!" Bra said warningly.
"Well, Goten, I was staring at the fire too much and it was starting to make my eyes water,"
Marron said defensively.
"Sure, whatever."
Marron grinned and sat down and picked up a poker. The she eyed the marshmallow bag.
"Hey, Bra, hand me one of the marshmallow bags," she said.
"No way," Bra said through a sticky mouth of marshmallows and they both wrestled over it. Marron
was even glad that they were, because Bra's pep talk to her seemed to have cheered her up a
lot. And now things were back to the way they were...or were they?
...end of Part 6!
