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New Love? Who could it be?


INE
Haunting the Past.
Part 8

New Love


Goku sat staring at the wall. He found himself tugging on his newly torn night shirt, trying not to think about the dream that he just had or the warmth of the dragon in his body.

Something was wrong.

His thoughts went to Soyna, no matter how hard he tried to push those thoughts back.

She was the woman that married his son. He knew that it had to do with her. She was haunting his dreams... or was he haunting hers... either way... he didn't want to think about it. He knew was Goten had told him ... maybe it was just this Brennen that was causing this uneasy feeling. She was so strong... It had to be this Brennen. Her former husband who suddenly appeared in her life once again. It obviously upset her. He saw how sad her eyes were, even when she was trying to show a brave face in front of her children.

There was a sadness in there that she should no longer have.

He didn't want to think of the dream.

Her warrior side had started out pouting in the shadows. The meeker Soyna, no longer tied down, like in the last dream, was sitting forlornly on the bed with her knees hugged to her chest. Her hair was flatter than he had ever seen it and it covered her eyes.

The warrior looked tense and looked like she was purposely avoiding looking at him. The meek Soyna looked at him with almost fear in her eyes. She was shaking slightly.

The meek Soyna finally spoke in a soft voice that he doubted the real Soyna had ever used, "I want to go home."

He looked at her as she resumed rocking herself and rested her forehead on her knees. The warrior sniffed loudly from the shadows. He looked to her as she walked out, looking angry at him.

She grabbed his shirt and pulled his face down to her eye level. Her eyes were on fire. "That is all that she says now! Home! About how peaceful it was! How uncomplicated it was! Blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAH!" She pulled harder to emphases her point and he could hear his shirt tear.

That was the first thing that bothered him.

She pulled him closer, "If allowed her to weaken and allow those feeling which I tried so hard to push back to surface. Even when she was dead, she pined for home. Moaning and groaning for her husband, whom she couldn't be with even in death. Or even worse, groaning about your son! Gag!" the Warrior Soyna let go of his shirt. "It is truly pathetic," she scoffed and looked over to the weaker version of herself.

"How did I weaken her?" he said and took a step back. He wasn't afraid of her. He wasn't. He just wasn't sure of her.

Those eyes glared at him furiously, full of venom; if not actual hate. "You granted those fool wishes. You should not have allowed them - Boys - Babies to make those wishes." Her voice never sounded so rough! "We would have been happier ALONE!"

"What?" He looked at her stunned.

"I was resigned to be alone!" The warrior screamed at him. "I was happy being a warrior and at least in death, that it what I could be! They let me fight and train there! Here! What the hell am I? A mother? That is not what I wanted to be! You let those feeling that I locked up and pushed aside come forth!" The warrior was furious now. There were sparks of energy come off of her and he could feel how strong she was. She was so very strong. Was the real Soyna that strong. "I got trapped by Brennen and then your son!"

"I thought you were happy," he said in a near whisper.

"I wasn't! She was!" She violently pointed to the Soyna who was rocking on the bed. The one that was not powered up and still had red hair. "I am a warrior! What do I need with pesky connections! This is all that I should be! You," her finger jabbed into his chest for emphasis. Her lip curled as she was searching for the right words to express her anger. "Must you ruin all the Saiyian blood!"

He was speechless.

"Get out of my dream," she hissed. "Go haunt someone else." The warrior walked over to the bed and put her arm around the weeping woman.

He woke up.

Bothered.

His shirt torn.

He fingered the torn shirt. He must have torn it in his sleep. She didn't tear it. It was only a dream. The dragon was no longer warm, so he pushed that worry to the back of his head.

The place where she poked her finger hurt too. He rubbed it.

That was the second thing that bothered him. The dream was just do damn real. He didn't want to have another dream like that ever again.

The third thing was how he felt.

He had always been around strength. He was used to strength in everyone around him. They may not be as strong as him, but that could not be expected.

Bulma was always strong in her own way. She did not have the physical strength but she could sure prove how strong minded she was. Hell, she somehow got Vegeta to marry her! That was something that he thought that he would never see.

Then there was ChiChi. She was physically strong and mentally strong. He just could not refuse her and that was one of things that he fell in love with. She was fierce in so many ways, yet she was still a woman.

There was no one stronger than his wife, or at least, there wasn't. Times have changed.

It disturbed him a lot to be thinking of such things.

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Goten didn't like what he was hearing. She was tossing something fierce in her dream. He couldn't make out what she was saying but he was still worried. He couldn't sleep at all.

He had promised her that he would always be here for her.

She only looked more confused and torn with that.

She said that she was tired and wanted to sleep. He knew from her soft tone, that he would be sleeping on the couch. Not that he slept anyway. He could hear every sound that she made and when she woke up looking particularly disturbed, he made her some soothing herbal tea, which she did take a few sips of before she fell back off to sleep.

He kept telling himself that it was just a phase. She would get over the shock. Her system just needed time to adjust and then things would be back to normal.

He would get his Soyna back and he would prove it to her that it wasn't just a wish.

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Trunks rifled thought the papers as he walked down the hall. A small pile which was supposed to go on Junior's desk, not his. It all had to do with the software department and that was one of the first departments that he gave to Junior. He really had to talk to that new secretary. She was always trying to find excuses to go into his office, even after the other secretary's told her that he was married.

He looked at the papers. He wasn't that upset over the misplacement. It got him out of his chair for a minute anyway. His office was becoming stifling anyway. His mind was far away from work a he kept thinking about the planned surprise honeymoon.

It also gave him and excuse to talk to Junior. He wanted to know how Soyna and Goten were doing. Pan had told him about what had happened. Good news travels fast but bad even faster.

He was especially worried about Soyna. He tried - really tried - to push those fatherly thoughts back, but that was nearly impossible. He knew that he wasn't her father, but he also never wanted to see her hurt, disappointed or anything that would upset her. He wasn't her father but he was close enough.

Goten better not have upset her too much or else he would have to have a serious conversation with him.

He walked into the entranceway into Junior office and was glad to see that his secretary was gone from the desk. Another flirt that he didn't have to fend off. It was turning into a nice day. He was about to let himself into Junior office when he heard a loud smack and a woman's voice to follow that sounded rather angry. "You didn't call me!" The woman was not his secretary. The voice was familiar but he couldn't quite place it.

"I'm really sorry, but..."

"We had a date! A DATE! You didn't even call! Your fingers look just fine to me! Did you loose your voice!" Boy, did she sound angry. A date? He didn't even know that Junior was dating anyone.

"I'm sorry, It just got so hectic..."

"HECTIC!"

Another smack.

"You forgot about me!" The woman sounded as if she were in tears now.

He couldn't hear clearly anymore. His eaves dropping skills have dropped off in recent years due to the fact that he didn't do that anymore. He didn't have to find out what was wrong with Soyna anymore by listening at door, but it was still amazing how much you remembered.

Trunks slowly opened the door and looked into the room.

This was... well... interesting.

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He wanted to bash his head into the wall. He was thinking like his father and that was not good. Not good at all. He didn't need to make the same mistakes as his father.

Why was he thinking of her that way?

He had the opportunity to get close to eavesdrop. He wanted to hear them and find out what was going on in that house. The curiosity was killing him.

He 'volunteered' at the hospital, always in the area where Raymond worked. He never found out anything in the past, but there was always a first time. He had hoped to find out how he had managed to save Soyna after that explosion and if he had done anything to cure that poison, but that information was not here.

Soyna was going to Raymond's office for some tests. He was curious about those tests and was shocked to find out that she was pregnant. He wondered if he could use that to his advantage. He knew that her power level's would drop dramatically because of it. That was good news anyway.

She was wearing a short black top with the word Red written across her chest. Her pants were baggy gray sweat pats with the top rolled down over her tail, so that if you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't see it.

She was in a terrible mood. He stopped himself from laughing as she glared at a nurse, who dropped the tray of pills. Raymond told her to behave and they kept on walking. She gave Raymond a serious smirk and crossed her arms under her breast and kept on walking.

He watched her walk down the hall and marveled at how her hips swayed and her hair bounced against her shoulders and how smooth the skin looked on her back above her tail... he shook off the thoughts. He could not afford to think like his father! That is how his father made mistakes. He could not afford to loose!

He thought he got himself under control as he went about his 'volunteer' duties, but he didn't think he would get this close. He was just hoping to hack into Raymonds computer later but he ended up in the room where Soyna was sleeping on a table with a bunch of stuff hooked up to her stomach.

He put the tray of food that he was told to bring in here down, by her face. Raymond was busy studying a chart with a deep frown.

Her eyes flashed open and he jumped. She seemed to smile at his discomfort. "I hope this is to your liking," he said trying not to look nervous.

Raymond looked up at him. "Thank you Gill," the name that he used here. "If you could just sort the files I have on my desk for me, that would be great."

"Sure thing," he said and found himself nervously backing away from here. That smile was unnerving. She blinked a few times, sniffed loudly, then closed her eyes and turned her head away from him.

All he could think off when he left that room, was her long graceful neck and how her hair framed it just so... He couldn't even concentrate on hacking into the computer, so he just did the files and left.

Damn her!

He really had to take his mind off her for a bit.

He looked over to the next room.

It was to early for that! Much to early! The tests were not that good with it. From the tests that he had done, a few walked a way blind, a few dumb and a few dead.

But it worked.

It would take his mind off of her for a little while at least.

But he would need someone that KNEW something. Not just the human's that he picked off the street.

He smiled. Yes. That would make him feel so much better.

He wasn't going to use it for awhile yet. It was playing his hand too soon, but maybe it was time that they knew someone was looking in through the shadows.

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"Dad!" A panicked looking Junior blurted out as he looked up from the woman he was talking too. They quickly pulled back from each other and both looked at the floor with deep flushes on their faces.

Trunks first had to get over the stunned part of Junior calling him dad. He knew that Junior didn't have anything against him, like Soyna did in the beginning but he never called him his father or anything of the sort. He knew that it must be the shock of the thing.

He smiled and looked at them, acting like they were five years old and caught eating ice cream for breakfast.

"I mean, Trunks... I... I... OH... What are you doing here?... I mean..." Junior gave out a sigh and rubbed his forehead. "Oh man."

"Hi," the woman said with her hands behind her back and a flush on her cheeks. She was almost twisting her feet.

"Hello Marron," he said. "I haven't seen you in awhile."

"Been rather busy," she said.

"I see that."

They both turned brighter shades of red. Is this how his dad felt when he caught him with Pan?

"Well, I... I do have to get back to work," she said grabbing a jacket off a chair. She whispered a call me to Junior and was out the door as quick as that.

He looked to Junior with raised eyebrows.

"You won't tell right?" Junior said. Junior was still looking at the floor and his face still was bright red.

"Why are you keeping it a secret?" Trunks said. "You know that Pan and I made that same mistake. It just makes things worse. How long has this been going on?"

"Well," Junior said shuffling his feet and leaning against his desk. "About a year now." He rubbed his unnaturally spiky hair that he had trimmed down a bit since he started to work here.

A year! Before he could get over the shock of that Junior kept talking. "I had to keep it a secret. Sis would blow her top. You know that she hates the androids still. I mean, you weren't there when she first saw 18. She nearly tore her apart before we could stop her. She would absolutely loose it if she found out and I just don't... damn it. I know it's selfish, but I don't want what happened to you to happen to me. I mean, you had Gohan wanting to rib you apart. He still does! Then you hardly saw Pan... Man... You can't tell her. You will upset her. She doesn't need something else on the pile. Da... I mean..." He grabbed his head in his hands and took a deep breath. "Are you mad at me?"

Trunks just smiled. As much as he knew that the secret was wrong, he understood. "At least you didn't get caught in bed."




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