A/N – looks like I'm stuck here for the weekend. If anyone has ever lived on an air force base, they know there's not much to do on one. Thank you for the metric conversion. They never taught us metric in school. One of those backwoods one room school houses. Heh, just kidding. I am from the back woods though...

Changing Faces

Part 2 – Choices They Make

Chapter 24 – The Half Circle

Gohan slid his right hand down Videl's arm and lowered it. Softly, he kissed her shoulder, moving up her neck and to her chin. His left hand slid around her waist and pulled her close to his body. The heat grew as their bodies met, even clothed.

"Gohan," she breathed, "That is rather unbecoming of a woman."

He paused between his kisses, "What is?"

"This," she moved her hands down his hips and he got the idea.

"Well," he replied huskily, "That's because I'm not a woman."

The author pans out the window and we see Videl pull the curtain closed. Just use your imagination. Someday I will write a lemon fic for you older readers. Until then, we'll have to be satisfied just reading others. ;) Anyway, we later rejoin the couple...

Their climax had passed and Gohan was gently kissing Videl's glistening shoulder. He reached her neck.

Hard instinct kicked in as he licked the back of her neck. She was gently kneading his shoulders, enjoying the feeling of his body against hers. He found the right spot.

Videl's body tensed against his as Gohan sank his teeth into her neck. Neither had expected the act and neither were prepared for the consequences.

Chi Chi had explained the process of bonding to Gohan when he was of an appropriate age, but the difference was Chi Chi was completely human and Videl was only half human. Goku had described the feelings and emotions to his wife, but she could not feel the same. She only knew pain, but the process was still completed.

Wild and raw emotion kicked in Videl's body and she fought for control. Tears flowed down her cheeks from the pain and the new feelings that overtook her body. Her virginity stolen, her innocence gone, she left the world of childhood and adolescence behind and embarked on the journey of adulthood.

She blindly reached for Gohan to hold her and he complied, licking the wound with his tongue. He wasn't sure exactly what was happening, or what was supposed to happen, but he did know it was an immeasurably exotic passage through passion and pain.

Finally, Videl slumped in Gohan's arms and the bleeding subsided. He looked at her expectantly, but she merely stared back blankly.

Was I wrong, he questioned.

"Don't be regretful, Gohan," she murmured, "I understand what you did, but I'm not sure you understand what this means."

She rose and he moved from on top of her.

"I must get ready for dinner, again. I suggest you do the same," she said, pulling her dress over her head and securing the metal clasps, "I will return in ten minutes."

She left without another word.