What are you afraid of?
Chapter 6:
-Danski

A/N finally, another chapter! I really hope you readers are fortunate and I have a sudden spark
of inspiration!! anyways, a big hiya and hello to my bestest friend (offline, that is!)
Latisha (Laita) Nozaic...for whom without I would have become sane years ago.

Chapter 6:

Goten winced as the door again banged, the doorknob rattled and Gohan yelled again for him to
open the door it was dark and dusty in here and he was hungry.


Come to think of it, Goten was rather hungry himself.


Crossing the room to the kitchen, Goten helped himself to cookies made by their mother the
previous day and munched contentedly.


The minute Goten opened the cookie jar, the delicious aroma of fresh cookies wafted across the
room and Trunks stopped to savour it before joining Goten and begging the younger boy for a
cookie for himself.

Gohan whimpered smelling the cookies and began to think about breakfast.


Videl's head snapped up and yelled


"BOYS! GET IN HERE NOW!"


Gohan looked up from inside the room. 'Videl was here? what on earth was she doing in his house
this early?'


The two half Saiyans crammed what was left of their cookies into their mouths and ran to where
Videl was standing.


Clutching her jar of bugs (and assorted creepy crawlies), Videl stalked towards the door, from
which banging noises were coming, and the occasional doorknob rattle.


"Goten? Goten are you out there?" Gohan yelled through the door while desperately trying not to
break it... "Why is Videl here? Goten? Videl? Why am I locked in here? Hello?"


Videl smirked. There was a definite panic in his voice. Gohan sounded afraid. Not much, but a
little.


Holding the jar up near her face for the first time, she frowned at the massive amount of bugs
inside it, and turned a peculiar shade of blue.


"Videl? Videl are you in there??" Goten thrust a hand in front of her face and waved back and forth


"Trunks she's doing that thing Mom did when she found the big lizard in the bathtub"


Trunks hovered as high as Goten and poked her in the shoulder. Nothing.


"Geez Goten what did you do to her?" Trunks exclaimed, continuing to poke the frozen girl.


Goten balked. "Me? I didn't do anything this time Trunks I swear!!"


"Yeah sure Goten."


"It is yeah sure! I didn't do anything!"


While the two boys were arguing halfway in the air, Gohan was sitting quietly in the dark
confinement of his prison and began to daydream about breakfast and other sugary delacacies.


Videl continued to stare at the jar filled to bursting with bugs, rooted to the spot, unable
to tear her eyes away from the hideous sight of squirming, writhing, oh god the mere sight
was making her feel decidedly unwell...


The half Saiyans continued to argue about who it was who killed Videl,


Videl continued to well...not move,


and Gohan thought about croissants.



Then suddenly, the unthinkable happened.


Videl's immobile body began to shake, partially because she had been standing there for too
long and her feet were about to give out, but mostly because one particular bug was straining
at the lid of the jar, and slowly, with each push of it's tiny head, the lid began to come off.


The boys stopped arguing and looked at Videl.


The entire jar was beginning to slip through Videl's fingertips.


"Quick Goten go grab the jar off Videl. It's gonna fall." Trunks ordered.


"No way Trunks you can go get it you're the one who killed Videl..."


"Nuh Huh! You're the one who killed her, you..you, Videl killer!"


Goten was about to make a comeback when everything seemed to go in slow motion.


Trunks gasped.


Goten covered his eyes with his hands.


Videl opened her mouth in a silent scream as the large prison of spiders, caterpillars, worms,
grasshoppers, beetles and god-knows what began to plummet towards the floor.


"Nooooo" Goten cried and leapt towards the jar


"Nooooo" Trunks cried also and lunged in the direction of the jar....


....and the bumbling duo smacked heads with a loud crack and both fell to the ground, out cold.


Now sometimes when this happens, a miracle will occur and the jar might have landed on the
backs of the half saiyans and been saved from certain death.


But lets face facts.


When has Goten OR Trunks ever been lucky before?


anyways....


The jar fell slowly through the air, finally landing with a SMASH at Videl's feet, breaking open
sending glass shards and bugs everywhere.


Videl screamed. The slow motion effect was gone. Everything happened very fast after that.


Gohan was snapped out of his daydream with a jolt and clambered to his feet, rushing to the
door.


"Videl?!" he yelled through the door, in a mad panic. Videl continued to scream and scream, the
only thought going through her mind was 'Oh god they're on my feet! the bugs are on me!!'


Gohan yelled again, pounding on the door


"Videl? are you alright?? Whats going ON? ANSWER ME!"


Finally disregarding any thoughts of the door, he flung his full weight against it and with a
shatter of wood he burst through it.


Videl continued to scream as The two boys woke from their state of unconsiousness, Trunks
covering his ears, and Goten frantically dashing around trying to put the bugs that were nearest
him into his shirt.


Gohan picked his way quickly through the mess of glass and insects to Videl who was now
shrieking in terror as many of the bugs that were once on her feet were now making their way
up her legs.


Scooping her up quickly he headed to the couch where he sat down, with the now sobbing Videl
in his lap and began to brush the insects off her. Once done he breathed a sigh of relief and
rocked her gently as her sobs subsided to sniffles and then quiet breathing.


Bending his head slightly he questioned her


"Are you alright Videl?"


Nodding quickly she buried her head into his chest, suddenly feeling guilt strike as realisation
of what happened set in.


Gohan breathed another sigh of relief and held her a little tighter, and began to speak again.


"Videl you scared me back there. I thought something awful had happened to you."


Videl looked up, curiosity written all over her face as he continued,


"You want to know what I'm really afraid of?"


Videl could hardly nod, even though her brain was screaming at her to answer him.


"I'm afraid..." Gohan began, taking her silence as a cue to keep talking


"...Of losing you, Videl."



~ENDE!~

A/N Yes, that's all folks....Please review! I really hope some of you liked this! Thank-ya
Rachie for all your support! This was for you! -Danski XXX