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A/N: Sorry that was so short. I do that so it doesn't take you hours to read my chapters. I know that when you only have a few minutes but you want to review, it doesn't take you forever to read. See? I hope so. Well, maybe some of your answer will be answered in this chapter. Nice ending for that last one, no? ~.*

Hey, I got an email from someone who wanted me to update. Ok, so I have been a little lazy…so maybe REALLY lazy, but…sorry. And even though it I don't think it was your intention, you did feed my ego…hehe… ~.*

Remember people:

^ Telepathically talking ^

Bulma's thoughts

~ Vegeta's thoughts ~

Chapter Eighteen

"Where is Jenni?" 18 and Chichi immediately jerked their heads in her direction, towards the door.

"What do you mean?" Chichi exclaimed. Bulma walked into the room and collapsed on a chair.

"I have looked everywhere. The garden's, the little lake, her room, my lab, the kitchen, all the halls, the grounds, she is no where."

"You're serious, aren't you. Man, this is bad. Hey, have you tried to contact her mentally?" Bulma looked at 18 and shook her head.

"No, I'll try." Bulma closed her eyes and blocked out all other sounds. She soon located Jenni's mind, but it seemed to be very weak.

^ Jenni? Are you ok? Where are you? ^ There was an extremely long pause, then a small, faint answer.

^ Bulma? Help me… ^ And the connection was lost. Bulma jerked her eyes open and quickly stood up.

"We have to find her! She is in trouble, I know it. She said she needed help, then she passed out or something." 18 and Chichi both looked at her in shock.

"Well, I'm defiantly in. But where should we look?" Bulma narrowed her eyes.

"I know exactly where to look."

Bulma quietly snuck up to the king's door. She made sure there where no slaves around, then pressed her ear to the door. No sounds. She quietly cracked the lock on the door by typing a code she had learned and it slid open. She walked in, and it closed behind her.

The room was dark and as musty as she remembered it. The only light was the light coming from underneath the door.

"Jenni?" She whispered quietly. She gasped when she heard a moan from another room. She quickly walked over to it and pushed open the door.

Jenni was bloody and tied up in a corner. Bulma ran over to her and checked her wounds. They weren't too bad, but a wave of anger rushed over her. How dare that bastard do this! She growled.

"B-Bulma. Go…he's coming…back…" Bulma shook her head.

"No way! There is no way I'm leaving you here alone. What did he do to you???"

"He…nothing…go…now…" Bulma growled again and picked Jenni up.

"I am not going with out you." Jenni moaned and kept shaking her head.

"Bulma, you have to leave me. He'll kill you."

"I don't care! Don't you understand? I love you! I'm not going to let that sick bastard kill you for something me and Vegeta did! You are coming with me, and that's that!"

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Bulma set Jenni down again and turned around. She snarled.

"You bastard. You are really sick you know that?" The king smirked coldly.

"Thank you." He suddenly laughed. "You don't think you can fight me, do you? Don't be stupid. I'll give you a chance. You can leave now, and I won't hurt you, but you can't take Jenni. Or I will let Jenni go and you stay with me." Bulma crossed her arms.

"Let her go." Jenni gasped.

"Bulma, don't!"

"Be quiet, Jenni. You bastard, just…let her go. I'll stay with you." The king laughed.

"Fine." He walked up to her. He took a hand and brought it across her face. She flew across the room and landed in a heap on the floor. He laughed. Jenni was crying. "Now for you. She didn't really think I would let you go, did she?" Jenni stood up. The king raised an eyebrow. "How did you get untied?"

"I'm not helpless and I refuse to be," Jenni snarled and lunged at the king. He dodged her and punched her in the stomach. She gasped a little, then fell to the floor.

"That will teach you too to fool with me."

~ ~ ~

Vegeta jerked up in bed. The on going pain piercing his chest was…gone. Everything had been blurry and he had been disoriented for the last three days. After the first, he had gotten used to it and it became a consistent thing. But now…is was gone. The only meant two things…

"Kakkarot!" He shouted. Goku came running into the room.

"Hey, Vegeta! I'm glad your awake! I need you to buckle your seat belt 'cuz we're gonna land in two minutes." Vegeta stood up, stretched briefly, then hurried out the door and into the control room.

"Entering Vegetasei atmosphere in one minute," the flat computer's voice droned. Vegeta strapped himself in just before the ship gave a giant jerk and began rumbling and shaking. Vegeta kept checking the signs on the computer screen in front of him to make sure everything was in order. All of a sudden, the ship gave another jerk, and it stopped and automatically shut down.

Krillin was the first to unbuckle. He quickly walked out of the ship followed by Goku, then Vegeta. The king was waiting for him.

While Goku and Krillin shot off to meet Chichi and 18, Vegeta slowly walked up to his father.

"How did it go?" His father stated in a lucid tone.

"Fine," Vegeta spat back. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have things that need to be attended to." He began walking away and he could feel his father boring a hole in his back.

"Very well. But do not go far and stay away from…" the king paused and when he continued, Vegeta could hear the smirk in his voice, "away from your friend. Oh," he added nonchalantly, "Your sister had something to do, so she won't be seeing you for a while."

Vegeta's throat constricted and he froze. The king hated his sister. She never, ever had anything to do for anyone except clean. He slowly grunted and walked hastily away, mulling the series of events over in his mind.

~ ~ ~

"Your beloved Vegeta has returned," the king snarled into Bulma's ear. She ignored him and kept staring ahead. He had tied them each up against a pole out in the king's personal garden. The two poles were next to each other a few feet apart. Jenni and Bulma where tied up about a foot above the ground.

King Vegeta strolled around Jenni and Bulma causally. "It's too bad for him that both of the people he actually loves are going die. Oh well, I wasn't the person for mercy any way. You want to know why I do this?" He took their silence as a yes. "I'll tell you why. Because he is too close to taking the crown away from me. I can't have that now, can I?" The king put a callused hand on Bulma face and she jerked her head away. "Oh, come now. You don't want to be too cold to me, do you? After all, I think you have an idea of what I can do to you."

For the first time since three days ago, Bulma spoke. "I do and the thought makes me sick." The king chuckled.

"Good. And for now girls, I must see to our poor little Vegeta. And tonight…well, it will be fun." King Vegeta walked in front of them. "And you need to get a good rest for tonight. I'll help you do that…" Bulma gasped as two beams of light appeared in both the king's hands. Bulma braced herself and the white hot pain knocked her out not soon enough.

~ ~ ~

"Go get Vegeta." King Vegeta snarled to one of his advisors. The man nodded quickly and ran out of the room. A few minutes later his son walked, scowling, into the room. Before the king got to say anything, Vegeta shot out a long string of curses.

"You bastard! What did you do with them???!!!" King Vegeta narrowed his eyes.

"What did I do with who?" Vegeta fumed, clenching his fists.

"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!"

"No need to get so touchy. I give your girls back to you if you do something for me." Ki flickered around Vegeta's frame as he growled.

"I will kick your ass before I do anything for you. In fact, that what I'll do right now…"

"Uh-uh. Not so fast. You seem to have forgotten something. I have your precious cargo tied up with two saiyans next to them, ready to kill at my order. You will cooperate or they will die." Vegeta held in the urge to scream. He powered down and crossed his arms.

"There is nothing you can do to me that I can't handle."

"Well, we will just see about that." The king waved two men over and before Vegeta could say anything, he was out cold from a needle into his arm.

~ ~ ~

"Where the hell…" Vegeta sat up quickly. He was…in a cage. He growled angrily and reached over to pull apart the bars. They wouldn't budge. He powered up but they still wouldn't bend. He cursed and stepped back to shoot energy at them, but they didn't move.

"Don't even try." Vegeta whipped around to see his father standing next to a tree. He was in his father's garden.

"What the hell is going on here?!?" The king nonchalantly pointed over two posts in the middle of the garden. Bulma and Jenni. Vegeta open his mouth to yell something to them, but his pride stopped him short.

"Vegeta!" A shrill voice cried out to him. Jenni was looking at him with huge, terror filled eyes. He looked away, unable to bear the fact he couldn't do anything. Vegeta turned to look into Bulma's eyes.

If a man wasn't careful, you could get lost in those deep pools of blue. They were filled with fear and question, but also something he had never seen before. Love. Not family love, like Jenni, but love. She mouthed to him painfully, 'I tried. I really did.' He mouthed back, 'I know' and turned to fix an icy glare at his father. King Vegeta's cruel and hollow laugh echoed through out the garden.

"My, my. Isn't this a touching reunion. Well, I feel so bad but I'm afraid I have to break it up." He walked in between the two posts and leaned against Bulma's. "So here's the deal, brat. You get to choose."

Vegeta's heart filled with anger and hatred. "What do you mean," he spat.

"You really are stupid. You get to choose which one lives and which one dies. Simple as that."

There seemed to be a few lifetimes pause, then the king broke the silence.

"Unless, of course, you let me kill you instead of these two girls." There was another pause, and Vegeta asked a simple question.

"Why do you hate me so much?" The king smiled dully with venom.

"Because you are my child. I was never meant to have a child. And because you are weak. That's why. Now pick before I kill both of them."

Vegeta was about to say something when Jenni stopped him.

"Me. Kill me." Bulma's eyes widened and she whipped her head towards Jenni.

"Are you crazy??? Absolutely not!"

"Jenni! Be quiet, I can deal with this on my own." Jenni looked sternly at Vegeta.

"No, you can't. And Bulma, no I am not crazy. Vegeta loves you more then anything in the whole world and I will not get in the way of that! Kill me, right now and get it over with." The king walked in front of her.

"Jenni! You don't know what your doing…"

"Don't Jenni! Be quiet! Just…"

"Jenni! Don't! You don't know what your doing!!"

"Yes, I have never been more sure of something in my life," Jenni whispered. The king shrugged.

"She made the choice for you. Good bye Jenni." Bulma scream twisted with Vegeta's as the king released a stream of blue ki right into Jenni's chest.

…I'm not going to say anything while I run to the nearest tornado shelter…

*head pops into the room*

mwah ha…I am sooooo mean…hehe…*evil grin*