Deal With It
Disclaimer:: I do not own any of the dragonbal/z/gt characters.
~~~~~~~~Just so you know this chapter may not have lived up to the expectations that all of you had. Sorry, but I'm better at starting stories then I am at finishing them. It was also requested that I write two more chapters but uh. . .You're just going to have to settle with one long one. (Well longer then the other ones I wrote.)~~~~~~
"Vegeta! Wake up! Quick, hurry!"
"Vegeta wake up."
"Sir, sir. Are you ok?"
Vegeta felt something shaking him and he slowly opened his eyes. He let out a weak moan and as his vision cleared he saw Goku's wide-eyed expression. He felt so weak he couldn't move.
"Vegeta. . .for the love of god. Get up."
"Vegeta come on man!" He saw Goku speaking but he felt too weak to move.
"Vegeta, wake. . . the fuck up!"
"Sir? Can you hear me sir?"
"Vegeta. . .get the fuck. . .off of me damn it" Vegeta's eyes widened. He gathered all of his strength and pushed his upper body up quickly, almost falling off the stool. Goku caught him and helped him sit up. "What the hell?!"
18 moved her hand over her abdomen slowly and held it over the area where she was shot. "Oh thank god. He must . . *gasp*. have been there for. . .at least half an hour." 18 had her eyes shut tightly and looked like she was in immense pain.
"18!" Just seeing her made him feel stronger but Goku still had to help keep him up in his seat.
"Yeah I'm here. . .mostly." She took in a deep breath. "Damn you're. . .*gasp*. . heavy when you sleep."
Vegeta couldn't speak. He was sure he was dreaming.
Goku just stared at 18, wide-eyed, "Ok maybe he's not going to ask but I am. "What the hell happened here? I wait for you to give me some news for almost an hour and this nurse here tells me 18's gone. Then I come in here and you're passed out over 18 and she's gripping about how heavy you are."
18 opened her eyes. She used what little strength she had to move the hand from her wound. She placed it palm side up, beside her on the bed. They all looked closely at her hand. In the middle of her palm was a small crystal like, red sphere. "I want you to take it out before it decides to. . .go back in. . . or something like that."
Vegeta felt his strength returning slowly and was finally able to say something, "18. What is that? I'm not any less confused. . .wait. . .your father?"
18 nodded. "This is going to sound so cheesy." She gave a slight grin, "But try and stick with me on this." She took a moment to take a deep breath then let it out. "When I was in here earlier. . .all the doctors. . .their voices started getting quite and the every thing. . .went black. My guess is that I had. . .well you know, died."
Vegeta raised a brow. He was starting to wonder if she was alright, mentally.
"Then all of a sudden. . .my brother."
"Your brother?"
She nodded, "He told me I was going to be alright. . .that this" she moved her hand slightly, "and someone close to me, was. . . going to make everything ok. Then. . .all of a sudden I wake up. . .and this heavy lug is on top of me." She smiled at Vegeta and tried to give a small laugh, which made her groan and hold her stomach.
Vegeta understood but Goku and the nurse just stood there in awe. Goku made his confusion very clear. "Huh?"
18 sighed, "It'll be in my report sir." She certainly didn't have the strength to try to explain the whole thing. Goku nodded.
"I'm ok now." Goku let go of Vegeta, who managed to sit up on his own, despite his dizziness.
"Now please. . .Just take it out."
"18 that may be the only thing keeping you alive. We don't know what'll happen if we take it out."
"I don't care. . .Vegeta, you know how I feel about. . .these things that were put. . .in my body. Now take it out. . .or when I have the strength. . .I'll do it."
The nurse gave them both an odd look as Vegeta put his fingers around the ruby red sphere. She screamed as he pulled it out and a puddle of blood started to form in her hand. The nurse gasped and quickly grabbed a roll of cloth bandages. She ran to 18's side and started wrapping them around her hand, "What the hell were you thinking sir?!"
"Hey she told me to." Vegeta tried not to laugh at the frantic nurse. 18 looked over at him and mouthed the words thank you. The nurse finished with her wrapping and gave Vegeta a nasty look. Vegeta got off the stool as he felt his right leg go to sleep. He looked into 18's eyes and smiled, and she returned it.
Goku cleared his throat and put his hands on the nurses shoulders leading her out, "Lets go tell the doctor what happened." He turned and looked at the two and smiled just before shutting the door.
"You saved me you know. You're. . .a part of me now. . ."
"Yeah I'm still not exactly sure how though."
"I'm a little confused about it too. . .I guess I have part of. . .your energy or life-force. . .whatever you want to call it."
"What?! You took my life-force!?" He said jokingly.
Her smile widened, "Yeah. So what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going to get it back."
"And how do you intend to do-" she was interrupted by Vegeta's lips coming down to hers, bringing them in to a passionate kiss. They parted and looked in to each others eyes, "Oh. . ." 18 felt her face get hot as her cheeks turned bright pink against her pale white skin.
"Was I out of line?"
18 shook her head slightly, "No. Not at all."
"I'm glad. What about this. . .I love you 18."
She nodded slightly, "I know."
"What?"
"You talk in your sleep."
"No I don't!"
"Oh yes. . .you do. And just so you know. . .I love you too."
He leaned down and kissed her again, this time longer and they didn't stop till they heard a noise.
"Ahem." They looked up at the doctor who had his arms crossed and had an exasperated look on his face. 18 laughed slightly as Vegeta backed away from her, blood flowing to his face. She cringed and put her now bandaged hand, back over her wound, "I should really stop doing that."
The doctor walked up to the bedside and put his fingers on her neck searching for a pulse. He pulled the sheet back some and ran his fingers along the place where she had been shot, which caused her to make a small squeak. "I'm sorry. Does that hurt?"
"Yeah!"
"Hmm....Well your wound is gone."
"Gone or not. . .it hurts like a bitch."
"Well the treatments must have worked after all."
Vegeta looked at the doctor, "But they didn't it was the-"
"Yep. The treatments must have worked." Vegeta wasn't sure who the doctor was trying to convince, but he decided not to argue. "We just need to take some x-rays miss uh. . .Sorry we never quite got your name."
"18."
"Right. . ." He arched his brow.
"Well miss "18" just some x-rays to make sure everything is alright, and some paper work, then you'll be free to go."
18's face lit up, "Hey doc."
"Yes?"
"If you find anything weird in me. . .like some mechanical shit. . .could you take it out?"
"Uh. . .sure." He gave her an odd look, as if she was crazy. "Nurse!"
The nurse walked in, "Yes doctor?"
"We're taking her down to x-ray room one."
The nurse walked around to the back of the bed and started to push it out of the room. Vegeta followed from behind, not taking his eyes off of 18. "You're going to be ok now. Everything's going to be different."
18 tilted her head back, looking at him upside down. "I know."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
The nursed smiled ~this is so sweet~
The doctor sighed ~Geez, how long are they going to go on like this?~ "Ok here we go." The nurse started to push the bed through a door.
"I'll see you soon!"
18's voice echoed as the doors shut, "Sooner than you think."
Vegeta turned around and started walking back to the waiting room where he met up with Goku. "Afternoon sir." He didn't exactly know what to say to Goku now, he was already embarrassed enough about how emotional he had gotten around him, and he hopped that Goku wasn't going to try and get him to "share" right now.
"Well now that things are squared away here I'm going to go back down to the station and tie up some loose ends there." He started to walk away but stopped and looked back at Vegeta, "And I expect to see you and your partner back at the station and ready to work."
"Yes sir."
"After your two week vacation. I don't need officers in your condition at my station."
Vegeta nodded, the grin never leaving his face. He sat down and relaxed. He couldn't stop smiling, he could swear that he had to be the happiest man in the world.
"I'm so nervous. . .Lets go back!"
"No, no, you got me all the way down here, so now we're going." Vegeta could feel her grip on his hand tighten. "It'll be ok, trust me."
"That's what you said a week ago when you told me it was ok to drink the water." She gave him one of her sarcastic ""thanks a lot"" looks.
"Well how was I supposed to know? Anyway, this has been bothering you non stop even though you were supposed to be relaxing and having a good time. Now we have to go back to work tomorrow and you can't have this distracting you." They continued walking, hand in hand, and they heard a voice growing louder and louder as they walked towards it.
"So they treatin yah alright hun?"
"I suppose."
"This is just dreadful. What on earth were you thinking?"
"I don't know what I was thinking. But that bitch paid for what she did."
"He sure means a lot to you doesn't he?"
"Yes."
18 and Vegeta approached the blue haired woman.
"Oh my god Vicky! You're alive?!"
"What?!" Marron ran up to the bars and pressed her face against them so she could see.
"My name's 18, and yes I'm alive. Now if you would please excuse us I'd like to have a word with Marron."
Bulma turned to Marron, "I'll come visit you as soon as I can hun." She took a last glance at 18 then walked away.
Marron gave 18 a look of pure hatred then went to sit down on the bed attached to the side of the cell room wall. "What the hell do you want?!"
"Marron, I came to apologize."
"For what you did to Goten?"
"No." She turned and looked at Vegeta for help but he just nudged her forward. "For leaving you when you were a child."
"So you're still stuck on that, I'm your mother, bull shit."
"Marron it's true. I was living on the streets making barley enough to feed myself. It killed me inside but I had to give you up."
"You know, you're so full of shit. Even if you were my mother, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with you. You got that! Leave me the fuck alone, I never want to see you again as long as I live!!!"
18 forced back the tears, "Alright. If that's how you want it. I haven't ever done anything for you before so I'll honor your wish." She tightened her grip on Vegeta's hand even more as she pulled him away. They walked out and got into Vegeta's car.
He didn't know what to say to her. "18?"
"Yes?"
He placed his hand on her leg, "Are you going to be alright?"
"I will be." She put her hand over his. "In time. I'll never stop loving her you know."
"I know."
"But she has every right to keep me out of her life. So now she's not part of mine." She closed her eyes and sighed.
"Well I'm here for you now, and I'm never going to leave."
She smiled, "Well good, because I wasn't going to let you."
They leaned in to each other and kissed. Vegeta smiled and started the car up. 18 looked out the window at the station one last time before they drove off.
~I guess I should be happy. This is what I've always wanted, start a new life with nothing to tie me to my past and now I get my wish.~ She turned and looked at Vegeta adoringly. ~And so far, this life is perfect.~
The End
A little cheesy? Maybe, but my last story had a sad ending so I figured, what the hell.
Disclaimer:: I do not own any of the dragonbal/z/gt characters.
~~~~~~~~Just so you know this chapter may not have lived up to the expectations that all of you had. Sorry, but I'm better at starting stories then I am at finishing them. It was also requested that I write two more chapters but uh. . .You're just going to have to settle with one long one. (Well longer then the other ones I wrote.)~~~~~~
"Vegeta! Wake up! Quick, hurry!"
"Vegeta wake up."
"Sir, sir. Are you ok?"
Vegeta felt something shaking him and he slowly opened his eyes. He let out a weak moan and as his vision cleared he saw Goku's wide-eyed expression. He felt so weak he couldn't move.
"Vegeta. . .for the love of god. Get up."
"Vegeta come on man!" He saw Goku speaking but he felt too weak to move.
"Vegeta, wake. . . the fuck up!"
"Sir? Can you hear me sir?"
"Vegeta. . .get the fuck. . .off of me damn it" Vegeta's eyes widened. He gathered all of his strength and pushed his upper body up quickly, almost falling off the stool. Goku caught him and helped him sit up. "What the hell?!"
18 moved her hand over her abdomen slowly and held it over the area where she was shot. "Oh thank god. He must . . *gasp*. have been there for. . .at least half an hour." 18 had her eyes shut tightly and looked like she was in immense pain.
"18!" Just seeing her made him feel stronger but Goku still had to help keep him up in his seat.
"Yeah I'm here. . .mostly." She took in a deep breath. "Damn you're. . .*gasp*. . heavy when you sleep."
Vegeta couldn't speak. He was sure he was dreaming.
Goku just stared at 18, wide-eyed, "Ok maybe he's not going to ask but I am. "What the hell happened here? I wait for you to give me some news for almost an hour and this nurse here tells me 18's gone. Then I come in here and you're passed out over 18 and she's gripping about how heavy you are."
18 opened her eyes. She used what little strength she had to move the hand from her wound. She placed it palm side up, beside her on the bed. They all looked closely at her hand. In the middle of her palm was a small crystal like, red sphere. "I want you to take it out before it decides to. . .go back in. . . or something like that."
Vegeta felt his strength returning slowly and was finally able to say something, "18. What is that? I'm not any less confused. . .wait. . .your father?"
18 nodded. "This is going to sound so cheesy." She gave a slight grin, "But try and stick with me on this." She took a moment to take a deep breath then let it out. "When I was in here earlier. . .all the doctors. . .their voices started getting quite and the every thing. . .went black. My guess is that I had. . .well you know, died."
Vegeta raised a brow. He was starting to wonder if she was alright, mentally.
"Then all of a sudden. . .my brother."
"Your brother?"
She nodded, "He told me I was going to be alright. . .that this" she moved her hand slightly, "and someone close to me, was. . . going to make everything ok. Then. . .all of a sudden I wake up. . .and this heavy lug is on top of me." She smiled at Vegeta and tried to give a small laugh, which made her groan and hold her stomach.
Vegeta understood but Goku and the nurse just stood there in awe. Goku made his confusion very clear. "Huh?"
18 sighed, "It'll be in my report sir." She certainly didn't have the strength to try to explain the whole thing. Goku nodded.
"I'm ok now." Goku let go of Vegeta, who managed to sit up on his own, despite his dizziness.
"Now please. . .Just take it out."
"18 that may be the only thing keeping you alive. We don't know what'll happen if we take it out."
"I don't care. . .Vegeta, you know how I feel about. . .these things that were put. . .in my body. Now take it out. . .or when I have the strength. . .I'll do it."
The nurse gave them both an odd look as Vegeta put his fingers around the ruby red sphere. She screamed as he pulled it out and a puddle of blood started to form in her hand. The nurse gasped and quickly grabbed a roll of cloth bandages. She ran to 18's side and started wrapping them around her hand, "What the hell were you thinking sir?!"
"Hey she told me to." Vegeta tried not to laugh at the frantic nurse. 18 looked over at him and mouthed the words thank you. The nurse finished with her wrapping and gave Vegeta a nasty look. Vegeta got off the stool as he felt his right leg go to sleep. He looked into 18's eyes and smiled, and she returned it.
Goku cleared his throat and put his hands on the nurses shoulders leading her out, "Lets go tell the doctor what happened." He turned and looked at the two and smiled just before shutting the door.
"You saved me you know. You're. . .a part of me now. . ."
"Yeah I'm still not exactly sure how though."
"I'm a little confused about it too. . .I guess I have part of. . .your energy or life-force. . .whatever you want to call it."
"What?! You took my life-force!?" He said jokingly.
Her smile widened, "Yeah. So what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going to get it back."
"And how do you intend to do-" she was interrupted by Vegeta's lips coming down to hers, bringing them in to a passionate kiss. They parted and looked in to each others eyes, "Oh. . ." 18 felt her face get hot as her cheeks turned bright pink against her pale white skin.
"Was I out of line?"
18 shook her head slightly, "No. Not at all."
"I'm glad. What about this. . .I love you 18."
She nodded slightly, "I know."
"What?"
"You talk in your sleep."
"No I don't!"
"Oh yes. . .you do. And just so you know. . .I love you too."
He leaned down and kissed her again, this time longer and they didn't stop till they heard a noise.
"Ahem." They looked up at the doctor who had his arms crossed and had an exasperated look on his face. 18 laughed slightly as Vegeta backed away from her, blood flowing to his face. She cringed and put her now bandaged hand, back over her wound, "I should really stop doing that."
The doctor walked up to the bedside and put his fingers on her neck searching for a pulse. He pulled the sheet back some and ran his fingers along the place where she had been shot, which caused her to make a small squeak. "I'm sorry. Does that hurt?"
"Yeah!"
"Hmm....Well your wound is gone."
"Gone or not. . .it hurts like a bitch."
"Well the treatments must have worked after all."
Vegeta looked at the doctor, "But they didn't it was the-"
"Yep. The treatments must have worked." Vegeta wasn't sure who the doctor was trying to convince, but he decided not to argue. "We just need to take some x-rays miss uh. . .Sorry we never quite got your name."
"18."
"Right. . ." He arched his brow.
"Well miss "18" just some x-rays to make sure everything is alright, and some paper work, then you'll be free to go."
18's face lit up, "Hey doc."
"Yes?"
"If you find anything weird in me. . .like some mechanical shit. . .could you take it out?"
"Uh. . .sure." He gave her an odd look, as if she was crazy. "Nurse!"
The nurse walked in, "Yes doctor?"
"We're taking her down to x-ray room one."
The nurse walked around to the back of the bed and started to push it out of the room. Vegeta followed from behind, not taking his eyes off of 18. "You're going to be ok now. Everything's going to be different."
18 tilted her head back, looking at him upside down. "I know."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
The nursed smiled ~this is so sweet~
The doctor sighed ~Geez, how long are they going to go on like this?~ "Ok here we go." The nurse started to push the bed through a door.
"I'll see you soon!"
18's voice echoed as the doors shut, "Sooner than you think."
Vegeta turned around and started walking back to the waiting room where he met up with Goku. "Afternoon sir." He didn't exactly know what to say to Goku now, he was already embarrassed enough about how emotional he had gotten around him, and he hopped that Goku wasn't going to try and get him to "share" right now.
"Well now that things are squared away here I'm going to go back down to the station and tie up some loose ends there." He started to walk away but stopped and looked back at Vegeta, "And I expect to see you and your partner back at the station and ready to work."
"Yes sir."
"After your two week vacation. I don't need officers in your condition at my station."
Vegeta nodded, the grin never leaving his face. He sat down and relaxed. He couldn't stop smiling, he could swear that he had to be the happiest man in the world.
"I'm so nervous. . .Lets go back!"
"No, no, you got me all the way down here, so now we're going." Vegeta could feel her grip on his hand tighten. "It'll be ok, trust me."
"That's what you said a week ago when you told me it was ok to drink the water." She gave him one of her sarcastic ""thanks a lot"" looks.
"Well how was I supposed to know? Anyway, this has been bothering you non stop even though you were supposed to be relaxing and having a good time. Now we have to go back to work tomorrow and you can't have this distracting you." They continued walking, hand in hand, and they heard a voice growing louder and louder as they walked towards it.
"So they treatin yah alright hun?"
"I suppose."
"This is just dreadful. What on earth were you thinking?"
"I don't know what I was thinking. But that bitch paid for what she did."
"He sure means a lot to you doesn't he?"
"Yes."
18 and Vegeta approached the blue haired woman.
"Oh my god Vicky! You're alive?!"
"What?!" Marron ran up to the bars and pressed her face against them so she could see.
"My name's 18, and yes I'm alive. Now if you would please excuse us I'd like to have a word with Marron."
Bulma turned to Marron, "I'll come visit you as soon as I can hun." She took a last glance at 18 then walked away.
Marron gave 18 a look of pure hatred then went to sit down on the bed attached to the side of the cell room wall. "What the hell do you want?!"
"Marron, I came to apologize."
"For what you did to Goten?"
"No." She turned and looked at Vegeta for help but he just nudged her forward. "For leaving you when you were a child."
"So you're still stuck on that, I'm your mother, bull shit."
"Marron it's true. I was living on the streets making barley enough to feed myself. It killed me inside but I had to give you up."
"You know, you're so full of shit. Even if you were my mother, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with you. You got that! Leave me the fuck alone, I never want to see you again as long as I live!!!"
18 forced back the tears, "Alright. If that's how you want it. I haven't ever done anything for you before so I'll honor your wish." She tightened her grip on Vegeta's hand even more as she pulled him away. They walked out and got into Vegeta's car.
He didn't know what to say to her. "18?"
"Yes?"
He placed his hand on her leg, "Are you going to be alright?"
"I will be." She put her hand over his. "In time. I'll never stop loving her you know."
"I know."
"But she has every right to keep me out of her life. So now she's not part of mine." She closed her eyes and sighed.
"Well I'm here for you now, and I'm never going to leave."
She smiled, "Well good, because I wasn't going to let you."
They leaned in to each other and kissed. Vegeta smiled and started the car up. 18 looked out the window at the station one last time before they drove off.
~I guess I should be happy. This is what I've always wanted, start a new life with nothing to tie me to my past and now I get my wish.~ She turned and looked at Vegeta adoringly. ~And so far, this life is perfect.~
The End
A little cheesy? Maybe, but my last story had a sad ending so I figured, what the hell.
