Descending

By: Panny-Plan

Chapter 17 Ice Castles

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It was snowing.

Surprisingly, since it was barley ever cold on Vegetasei. Gohan was at home, the fire crackling in the darkness. The lights were off, and the coldness of the winter wonder land was breezing inside.

Goten was over again.

Videl was at the stove, cooking for the two hungry saiyajins, and hovering to keep warm.

"Gohan? Did you try to fix it?" Goten asked.

Gohan nodded. "I thought I did. But I guess I didn't."

Videl rolled her eyes and tossed the meat into three plates. "Men...they're useless." She picked them all up, and walked back over to them.

"What?" Gohan looked at her hand Goten a plate, then offer him one. He took it, and smiled at her. "Thanks, Videl. I'm starving."

She smiled, and started to eat hers. When she was done, she gazed out the window. "It's beautiful, isn't it Gohan?"

He looked up from his plate, and at her. She was...outstanding. Her with her raven hair, her ivory skin..."What's beautiful?"

"The snow." Videl sighed heavily, and looked at him. "It's gorgeous."

He nodded and silently agreed. He looked back over at her, and smiled. She managed to smile back, but shivered. It wasn't that cold in here. Why was she still shivering? The vaccine...

"C'mon Videl. You're freezing. We need to get you to Sunchingo so he can give you your vaccine." He put an arm around her shoulders and rubbed her back. Like he was concerned. Too concerned.

"I'm fine." She was lying. She was freezing, but hot from his touch.

"No your not. You're turning blue. Come on. Goten, hurry up."

Goten jumped up and grinned. Videl laughed at the eight year old. "Then we can go outside and play!"

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Gohan knocked on Sunchingos' office. No response. He knocked again, a bit harder. But no response except giggling and a low growl. Gohan shrugged, and opened the door.

Sunchingo jumped off the cot and looked up at Gohan. "Gohan! What a pleasant surprise!"

Gohan nodded and eyed the saiyajin. "Are we interrupting something, Sunchingo?"

Sunchingo glanced over his shoulder at Vindala. "No!" He said finally. "Not a thing. What can I do for you?"

Gohan looked between the two, then sighed. "Videl needs her vaccine. She's freezing again." Gohan told him, and then looked over to Videl. She was looking at Sunchingo and Vindala with the same sort of look on her face.

"Yes," Sunchingo fumbled through some drawers. "Take a seat, Videl. I'll find this in a moment..."

Videl sat on the hard chair, and tapped her hands on her knees. She wasn't nervous, just to cold. Sunchingo smiled and pulled out the vaccine. He looked at Videl over his shoulder and sent her a sweet smile.

She smiled back, but kept shaking. Sunchingo walked back towards her, and started to dab her upper arm.

"That's just making me colder," she told him.

"Well," he smiled, "You won't be cold after this. Now will you? No you won't. Okay, you know the pain so you do what you want to do."

He slightly pricked Videl with the needle, and waited. Videl felt the cold metal slide past her skin. She felt the cold medicine wash over her body, and started to heat her blood pressure. She closed her eyes, as she felt the pain of the needle.

Gohan watched Videl. She looked like she was in so much pain, but how could he help her? He wanted to hurt Sunchingo for causing her pain. What? What was he saying? How could he do that? He sighed, and decided to change his attention to Goten and Vindala. Vindala was giving Goten a gooseberry tart, a saiyajins favorite desert.

Videl sighed as Sunchingo placed the needle on the side table and cooled gel over it. (a/n: they have a lot of gel...and creams...I just now noticed that) When he was done, Sunchingo left Videl and started questioning Gohan.

"Does she need more pills? Are you feeding her? She needs to go tho these check ups once a week and she missed last week. Is something wrong?"

Gohan cocked his head. "Sunchingo, hang on. She's not my pet. She feeds herself, no she doesn't need more pills, and I forgot about her check up last week. Answer you questions?"

Sunchingo let out a small laugh. "Yes. Don't mind me, Gohan. I'm just a crazy cook."

"Sunchingo," Gohan said, "The right expression is 'I'm a crazy old cook.' You did it wrong."

"I don't care. I'm not old."

"To me you are. I'm 18 and your 35." Gohan smiled at the look on his face.

"Get out! Get out. You're annoying me again, Gohan. It was funny when you were fifteen. Now it's just annoying."

Gohan pouted. "No time to catch a ride down memory lane?"

"Nope. Now come on Videl...Goten." He hushed them out of the door. "GOHAN! Don't forget about Videl's appointment next week!"

"I won't!" Gohan called after him, and disappeared. Sunchingo shut the door, and let out a sigh.

"Vindala--"

She stood up. "I should go."

"No!" He rushed over to her. "Please, don't go."

"Sunchingo, I can't do this any longer. This isn't right." She sighed and leaned back against the cot. "I'm tired of hiding Sunchingo. I want to do this more than anything. I want all of Vegetasei to know about us and what happened. But it's against the law. Only one mate per saiyajin. That's the rule. We can't--"

"Forget everything, Vindala. Just everything. Tell me what you want to do. Not what the King wants us to do."

She bit her bottom lip, and looked him in the eye. "I don't want to hide anymore. I want to be proud to be yours, but...I just can't seem to believe everyone will love the idea of us as much as we do. And what about Zeik? What do I do with him? It would ruin him. His chances of ever serving the King if we did this. But I can't ignore this mark on my neck either."

Sunchingo wrapped his arms around Vindala and held her close to his chest. "I know, Vindala. I know." He inhaled her sweet honey scent. "Don't worry, love."

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"Catch Gohan!"

Gohan turned around as Goten threw a snowball right at him. He ducked and it hit one of the snow covered trees. Videl laughed as the two brothers continued in snow war.

"You'll have to do better than that to catch me, Goten!" Gohan yelled at him, and dodged another snowball.

"This isn't fair, Gohan-san!" Goten sniffed fake tears. (a/n: hehehehehe, Goten, you're spoiled) "You're to fast for me to hit!"

Gohan sighed, and looked at his little brother cradling his face in his hands. "Oh all right. I'll let you hit me once. Okay? Only once."

Goten threw his face out of his hands and smiled at Gohan. "Really? Oh goody!" Goten started to pack an extra large snowball. Videl let out a small laugh. Gohan glared at her.

"Yeah, it'll be really funny if he actually hurt me. He can throw pretty good." Gohan looked back at Goten. Goten let the ball launch at Gohan's face.

Gohan spat out ice and snow and smiled at his little brother. Soon a dozen more snowballs started to be thrown at him. "GOTEN! I said only one!"

Goten stopped and let the snowball fall. "Gomen, Gohan. I'm sorry."

"Go play with Trunks in the snow, alright? He'll be a lot more fun than me. You can catch him."

Goten's eyes lit up. "Okay! But hopefully Bra won't bug us!" Goten flew up in the sky, and dashed in the direction of the palace.

Gohan scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly at Videl. "That kid..." He started to walk, and motioned for her to come along. She went up to his side, and looked at him.

"So Gohan, this is pretty much a normal life on Vegetasei, huh?" she asked.

"Yeah. Pretty much. You've got it made for a slave though. Most of saiyajins treat them like shit. But you're different Videl."

She smiled. "You are too." She took another look around. "It's so beautiful. More than Earth. Wow, it's just beautiful."

Just like you, he thought. He couldn't be thinking that, but somehow, no matter how hard he tried not to think of how pretty she was, he always did. Damnit.

Gohan stopped under a tree and gripped Videl's shoulders so she would look at him. "Videl?"

"Yeah?"

His heart was starting to beat in his throat. "Uh..." He didn't know what, but his face had started to travel down ward. Videl started to go upward and tilted her head to the right, and Gohan followed. Their lips were an inch away--centimeter--they lightly brushed against each other.

Plop.

A huge pile of snow fell on Gohan's head. Gohan laughed, and pulled away from her. Videl let out a small laugh too, and tried to get the snow off his head.

"Well, Mr. Snowman, what do you have to say to yourself?" Videl teased.

Gohan smiled and started to walk again. "I say I go home and change and we drink some peence."

Videl smiled warmly. "Sounds like a plan to me!"

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A/N: This isn't the first time she's said that! Any way, they almost kissed! Yes! That means there going to get together soon! But I don't know when exactly. But in the next chappy some interesting things happen!

So what was all this stuff abotu Sunchingo and Vindala? Are the lovers? heheheh, I'm evil so you won't find out. Atleast until farther into the fic. We're almost to the end. I've got another 13 chappies to write! Yeah! Well, bye!

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