Chapter 12: "Reunion (Part 2)"

Pan was slowly beginning to get even more nervous than she was before and the tension in the kitchen was unbearable. It had now been nearly ten minutes since she told Trunks about herself and he hadn't said anything in that time. He hadn't even moved or done something else. He was just still sitting there in his chair, leaning back with closed eyes, an expressionless look on his face.

"Trunks… please… say something…" she pleaded, almost in a whisper. "You're scaring me…"

"Do you still love him?" he asked in a deathly calm voice.

"No… I mean… Yes, I do still love him. As a friend. Like I love Bra… or Marron… or even Vegeta. But you're the one I fell in love with. No one else…"

"And you love me, because I'm him," Trunks stated.

"No… No… You're not him. He's nothing compared to you. You're a complete different man than he is. Your life is completely different from his. He's Trunks Vegeta Brief, President of Capsule Corporation. Spoiled brat and lady-killer. But you… you are really different. You grew up in a world of destruction. You lost almost all of your friends and family. You had to fight to survive and you did. You freed your world from the androids. You're a very sensible person and at the same time a great warrior. That's the reason I love you, Trunks Vegeta Briefs from the other timeline. I love you for who you are and not because your name's Trunks." Pan told him with tears in her eyes. "And if you don't believe me… He, Vegeta, my dad and Goten arrived about one and a half hour ago here in this dimension. They're here to bring me back. From our dimension you can go back to your timeline and forget me."

Pan said those last words with so much bitterness that Trunks opened his eyes and as he saw the sincerity and the pain in hers he immediately got twinges of remorse. He stretched his hand out for her face, but she quickly got up. "I think I better go," she simply said and turned around, but Trunks also got up and grabbed her hand, stopping her. When he turned her around, he saw that she was crying. He lifted his hand up to her face and carefully wiped away the tears.

"I believe you," Trunks just said and kissed her gently.

~*~

Gohan was now looking through Sunnydale in search of his daughter for more than one and a half hour and still hadn't found her. And he didn't feel that anyone of the other Saiyajins raised their kis, but what scared him most was that he couldn't feel Pan's ki anywhere. This either means that she's hiding it, or that she's… dead. The half-Saiyajin shook his head. 'No, she's not dead. She's a strong girl. She can take care of herself.'

When he walked around a corner, he spotted a small group of girls about Pan's age. He smiled, took a picture of her out of his purse and went to them. "Excuse me please," he said, when he reached the group. "I'm looking for this girl. Do you know her?" Gohan asked and showed them the picture of Pan.

The girls looked at it and shook her head, except one girl, who nodded. "Yes, I know her."

"Really?" Gohan and the girls asked in unison.

"Yeah… Her name's Pan. She's on my High School. I told you about her," she said to a friend. "It's the girl who has lost her memory."

"Lost her memory?" Gohan wanted to know, but the girls ignored him.

"Ah, I remember… The freak with the handsome purple haired punk as boyfriend," one of the girls said nodding.

"Exactly," the first girl told her.

"Wait a minute," a confused Gohan interrupted them. "Do you know where I can find her?"

"Sure…" the first one said. "She often hangs out at a shop called Magic Box with other freaks, for example her best friends Faith and Dawn. I've heard that Faith was in jail for murder and that Dawn's sister did commit suicide after the death of their mother and that she wanted to take the girl with her."

"O-okay… and where do I find this shop?" Gohan asked, obviously worried, because of the look of shock on his face.

"That's easy. It's on the other side of the town. Just follow this road till the end and then turn left. After about 200 meters you'll see the shop."

"Thank you," Gohan just said and walked into the direction the girl told him, his thoughts on his little girl. 'My poor Panny. She doesn't know who she is, hangs out with criminals… and has a punk as boyfriend,' he thought shuddering. 'I have to get her out of there.'

~*~

Pan and Trunks first broke the kiss, when they felt the need of air. Trunks leaned his head forwards, so that their foreheads touched, stroking with one hand a few strands of hair behind her ear. "I could never live without you Panny… Never… I won't let you go," he told her softly. "I love you."

"I love you too," Pan answered and Trunks hugged her tightly. But after a few seconds, Pan pulled apart.

"What's up? Are you okay?" Trunks asked her worried.

"Everything's alright. I just think that we should go to the Magic Box," she told him.

"To the Magic Box? Why?"

"First of all, Faith left a note, telling us to come over, because Angel, Cordy and Wesley are there, and second Vegeta's there as well and I don't want him to kill our friends," Pan said, grinning the typical Son grin.

"Dad's there?" Trunks wanted to know and searched for his father's ki. "Yeah, you're right. And he has problems keeping his ki low. He's obviously pissed off."

"That's another reason why we have to go there fast. And I know now how to get there within seconds."

"Really? How?" Trunks asked stunned.

"You'll see," Pan told him still grinning and grabbed his arms. She then put two fingers at her forehead and concentrated on Vegeta's ki and a second later they were gone.

~*~

"Wait a minute…" Xander said. "W-what do you mean with bringing her and her mate home again. Where's her home and who's her mate?" Vegeta just wanted to answer, when Xander interrupted him. "You know what? Forget it! I don't believe you. You're from the Council and you want to do something with her. You want to use her and tell her this story of you being her teacher, because of her amnesia. But not with me. Tell Quentin that she belongs to us and that she will stay here."

"You don't know who you're talking to boy. I could kill you without even using one percent of my strength," Vegeta told him growling.

"Oh, really… Do you want to test that?" Xander said challenging and wanted to lunge at him.

At that moment Pan and Trunks appeared in the shop, but the others first noticed the two as Pan began speaking. "I wouldn't do that if I were you Xander. He could kill you without even using one percent of his strength."

"Hey! That's the same he just said…" Xander said stunned. "But how did you get here? We didn't hear you using the door."

"Long story…" Pan told him and then walked up to the Prince, while Trunks was remaining in the background. "Hey Vegeta."

"Brat," he just said nodding at her.

"Long time no see."

"A half year. They were all deeply worried about you." Even though he was using the word 'they', he included himself with the word 'all' and Pan knew that, because in the next moment she was hugging him tightly and much to everyone's surprise, he was hugging her back, if stiffly.

"I'm somehow glad to see you first, so that you could help me protecting your son, I mean future… uhm, past… argh, whatever, you know what I mean, from my dad."

Vegeta chuckled. "Well, Kakarotto told me that I would find you here."

"Grandpa did that?" Pan asked, pulling apart.

"Yes, and he also gave me something. But I will first show what he gave me when everyone's here. Not even the others know about it."

"Come on Vegeta, tell me. Please," she pleaded with puppy-dog eyes.

"Okay, I think I can give you a small hint… There are seven of them."

"Oh Dende… You're not kidding?" Vegeta shook his head. "Wow, this is… I don't know what to say… How? I mean, I thought… That's just…." Pan didn't know what to say, so she gave Dawn a huge smile, already having a plan.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you," Giles suddenly said, "but Pan, do you really know this man?"

"Yep, Giles, that's Vegeta. Vegeta, that's Rupert Giles. He looked after me in the last six month," Pan introduced them.

"Well then, Mr. Vegeta. Nice to meet you," Giles said and extended his hand.

Vegeta first looked at it and then at Pan, who nodded, then back at the hand and extended his own hand, shaking Giles'. "Nice to meet you, too," he just said and walked to the background of the shop where Trunks was standing in the dark.

"Wait a minute…" Faith said a bit confused. "Tell me when I'm wrong, but P, if you know him… that must mean that… that must mean you remember. You got your memory back."

"Really? Is that true?" Dawn wanted to know.

"Yeah, Dawnie, it is," Pan told her smiling.

"That's great!" Dawn said and nearly jumped at Pan's neck.

"Well P, at the risk of being totally out of character, I simply must do it," Faith said grinning and followed Dawn's example.

"Hey guys… Stop it… Need air…" the part-Saiyajin said, but the girls didn't seem to want to let her go.

At exactly that moment, they heard the bells at the door of the shop, but they first did react, when someone began shouting. "Panny?" Faith and Dawn let go of Pan, and the girl looked at the door, a confused look on her face. "Pan, I know you don't recognize me, but I'm here to help you. I know about your amnesia. A girl from your school told me," Gohan said.

What her father said confused Pan even more and the first thing she wanted to do was to jump in his arms, but when she saw the shocked look on his face, she got another idea. 'Wow, she must've told him horror-stories about me. He doesn't even feel Vegeta's and Trunks' kis here. Well, why not playing a bit?' "You wanna help me? Why?" she asked coolly as she walked up to him.

'Pan, what are you doing?' Trunks asked her through their bond.

'He always treated me like a baby and now I want to show him what happens to me when I'm on my own,' she told him winking to his and Vegeta's direction.

"I want to bring you home, Panny. I want to bring you somewhere safe. This girl I met told me about your friends… and about your boyfriend. And I want to bring you away from those criminals," Gohan told her worried.

"Hey P! What's he talking about?"

'P?!' Gohan asked himself.

"Maybe she told him about our murders in the last six months," Pan said, having a hard time to hold back her laughter. With their murders she meant of course the vampires and demons.

"Y-your murders?" Gohan asked deeply shocked.

"Oh yeah, Giles here is doing the research and we're doing the kills. Oh, and Willow and Tara are powerful witches. They help a lot. And my boyfriend is really strong. Even stronger than I am. I don't think that he will ever let me leave him. You wanna meet him? He's in the back."

"Yes," Gohan said and clenched his fists, ready to fight.

From the background Vegeta could feel how Gohan's ki began to rise. He looked over at Trunks, who seemed to be relaxed. He obviously knew what Pan had planned. "Hey luv! Here's someone who wants to meet you, and I'm sure you also want to meet him." They heard Pan shouting and Trunks pushed himself off the wall.

~*~

Goten and Trunks, who met each other about half an hour ago, were from that moment on looking for Pan together. They just wanted to split up again, when they suddenly felt Gohan's ki rising. "Trunks, do you feel that?"

"Yeah, it's Gohan's ki. It's rising."

"And you know what that means!" Goten said excitedly.

Trunks nodded. "He found her, he found Pan," he said, suddenly scared.

"Well, what are you waiting for! Let's go!"

~*~

Now Gohan was really confused. He wasn't prepared that someone of this dimension was this fast. Just a second ago, his daughter was standing in front of him alone, and now there was a young man standing behind her, his arms around her waist and his face nuzzled in her hair. "What's up Panny?" he heard him asking, and his voice seemed somehow familiar to him, but he didn't know where to put it.

"My dad wants to meet my boyfriend. And as far as I know is this my dad, and you're my boyfriend, right?" Pan said now chuckling.

"Well then," Trunks said and walked over to Gohan, "Hello…" But he didn't come further with his greeting, because Gohan's fist connected with his jaw, sending him sprawling over the ground. Gohan was that enraged and confused that he didn't even recognize him and he didn't notice that Pan said 'dad'. And even as Trunks was on the ground, Gohan didn't stop hitting on him, with a strength that would have killed a human at once. The Scoobies stared in shock at the happenings in front of them.

"Stop it!" Pan shouted, but her father didn't react. "DAD! STOP NOW!" Gohan didn't listen, he was simply too enraged and his behavior annoyed Pan so much, that she didn't see another solution. She powered up to Super Saiyajin and grabbed her father's fist. "Stop it daddy." The gang watched the whole scene at the transformation disbelieving and speechless.

"Daddy? Pan, you just said daddy. Does that mean, you remember?" Gohan asked disbelieving.

"Yeah, since last night the whole time. I just wanted to tease you a bit, but I'd never thought that you would try to kill my boyfriend without even greeting him," Pan said scowling and powered down, but Gohan didn't even react on it and just hugged her tightly.

"Panny, I've missed you so much. I've thought I will never see you again. How are you? Is everything okay? Did someone hurt you?"

"I've missed you, too. And I'm okay daddy. Really, you can let go."

Gohan did as he was told and watched Pan from head to feet. "And you haven't killed people?"

"No…" Pan told him now grinning. "Just vampires and other demons. No humans. But can you please wait a minute with your questions? " she wanted to know and before Gohan even answered, she turned around and kneeled next to Trunks, who was holding his bleeding nose.

'Wow. He's really overprotective,' he said through their bond.

'I've warned you. But I've also hoped that Vegeta would stop him,' she told Trunks and scowled to the background, where Vegeta was still standing. 'Can you stand up?'

'Yeah, I think. Remember, I'm still a Saiyajin.' Pan supported him and together they stood up, Trunks' now open hair falling in his face.

"Okay… And now dad, say sorry to my boyfriend, Trunks."

"What? Trunks?" At that moment it made 'click' in Gohan's head and he finally recognized the young man from the other timeline.

"Hey Gohan!" Trunks greeted him.

"Trunks, hey!" Gohan said and shook his hand. "Long time no see. How comes you're here?"

"For you longer than for me, I guess. And it's a longer story." Trunks tried to smile, but succeeded just in grimacing of pain.

"Oh, I'm sorry for that, really," Gohan said sheepishly and got something out of this pocket. "Here, a Senzu for you."

Trunks took it gratefully, swallowed it and immediately all the wounds healed. "Thank you, Gohan." That again gained the attention of the Scooby gang.

"Uhm… Did anyone just see what I saw?" Faith asked the others, being completely confused about what had happened in the shop in the last ten minutes. As no one answered, everyone was just too surprised, she took the initiative and cleared her throat. "Pan… Hello, we're still here and it would be nice if someone would fill us in."

The Saiyajins turned their attention to the Slayer and Pan suddenly showed her goofy Son-grin. "Sorry Faith, sorry everybody." Pan grabbed her father's arm and dragged him to the Scoobies, followed by Trunks. "This is my father, Gohan Son. Dad, that are Faith, Dawn, Giles, Xander, Anya, Willow, Tara, Cordelia, Wesley and Angel. They were my family here in this dimension." They exchanged 'hellos' and Giles and Gohan shook hands.

"So, if I understand everything right, Pan's isn't from this dimension, as well as Trunks," Giles stated as he cleaned his glasses for what seemed the hundredth time that day.

"That's true…" Trunks told him. "Pan is from the same dimension as I am, just from a different timeline. That's why I didn't know her. She doesn't exist in my time, because…"

"I died in his time," Gohan continued.

"And Pan suddenly got her memory back just the day her father show up? Don't you all think that's a bit strange?" Dawn wanted to know.

"There's a good reason for it," Vegeta suddenly said and emerged from the background, much to Gohan's surprise, because he still hadn't felt him. "At the moment, where the bond between mine and Gohan's brat was completed, Pan got back all her memories. Kaka- I mean Goku, Pan's grandfather, who passed away about four years ago, has watched over Pan for the last six months and told my wife last night where Pan was. Just Pan, Goku and I knew about it, no one else."

"Vegeta, what are you doing here?" Gohan asked surprised.

"Your father told me where to find your brat. That's why I'm here."

"Okay," Willow said after a while of digesting everything, "after I heard this story and saw Pan's transformation just a few minutes ago, I would say that she is also a…" But she didn't come further as suddenly the door of the shop was thrown open and two young men were standing in the room.

"Goten!" Pan shouted and flung her arms around her uncle's neck.

"Panny! Thank Dende you're alright," Goten said with a warm smile as he slowly descended Pan, but still couldn't let her go. "You don't know how much I've missed you."

Trunks (from now on I will go with Trunks for the 'present' Trunks of Pan's timeline and Mirai Trunks for the Trunks from the future) smiled warmly, but a bit unsure at Goten and Pan, not knowing what to do or what to expect from her, but it seemed as if no one of them would let the other go that quickly, so he took his time and looked around the room. Much to his surprise Vegeta was already there and he could also feel two higher and one somehow strange, it felt like it was and wasn't there at the same time, power levels. They came from the small group of people he didn't know and he couldn't exactly tell, whom of them they belonged to. But he noticed that this group was staring at him, as if they could see that he's not normal or something like that. He smiled nervously at this group and just a second later, as he observed the room further, he could see the reason for their staring. Trunks blinked a few times, but his vision didn't betray him. There was standing a young man, younger than him, but he looked exactly like him. The young man also looked at him, first suspiciously and then smirking the same smirk he also had inherited from his father.

As Mirai Trunks saw how the two men entered the room, one of them got immediately his attention, but not the one his girlfriend was immediately clinging at, the other one. 'So, this is the other Trunks,' he thought and eyed his other self suspiciously. He clenched his fist, having a hard time not to lunge at him, for what he had done to Pan before she flew through this portal, but on the other hand, if they hadn't met that one day in the park, all the other things wouldn't have happened and he would have never met or fallen in love with her. So, in another way he had to thank him. The moment he noticed that the other Trunks was staring at him, he could just smirk back, because the look on his counterpart's face was simply priceless. Okay, Mirai Trunks knew that he would eventually meet up with this one, but Trunks didn't know of anything, so bluntly said, he must be really shocked to see suddenly someone who looks exactly like him in a completely different dimension together with his long time friend.

"Pan, I think here's someone else who wants to say hello to you," Goten suddenly said as he let go of his niece, getting Trunks attention back.

Pan noticed the apologizing look in Trunks eyes and she could see how worried he was about her the whole time and that he was really sorry for what had happened, so she just did was first came into her mind and hugged him tightly, much to his surprise, but he eventually hugged back. "Pan… I'm sorry… for everything…" he just managed to say. He was really relieved that everything was okay with her.

"I know Trunks…" she said and they pulled apart. Immediately after they did that, Trunks smiled down at Pan, but Pan just smirked back and slapped him, what really surprised everyone in that room, after the greeting she first gave him. "That was for being so blind all the time."

Trunks carefully touched his cheek, where he could almost feel the burning imprint of Pan's hand. "I already said I'm sorry Pan, but I also say that I deserved that. Bra told me to let you do everything you want to do with me."

"Yes you did, and yes she was right," she said still smirking as she walked back to Mirai Trunks, kissing him gently on the lips, letting Goten's and Trunks' eyes almost falling out. "But you don't need to worry anymore. I finally found someone who loves me back. Goten, Trunks, this is Mirai Trunks. Mirai Trunks, this is my uncle Goten and your other self."

"You… and me… I mean him?" Trunks asked disbelieving and Pan just nodded. "Wow."

"Well," Vegeta finally said. "I guess now that everyone's here, we can start with the big explaining."

"O-okay… We can sit down here and then we can start," Giles suggested and everyone took a seat around a table or on the stairs of the shop.

"Wait!" Dawn suddenly shouted. "Spike isn't here."

"Yeah," Pan said. "But we can't wait for him. We don't even know where he is. So, let's start without him."

~*~

Groaning, Spike tried to open his eyes. He didn't know how long he was out again, but not long, that he could tell for sure, because the pain was still as strong as it had been before he passed out.

"Oh, you're back in the land of the living… no, sorry, undead," Buffy said as she walked around him. "I've showed you what I can do with you. But there's still the deal," she got down on her knees and gently caressed his face. "You tell me where to find and how to kill the Key…" She violently grabbed his hair and pulled his head back, "and you will be free." She let go of his hair and got back up. "So, what do you say?" When Spike just remained silent, Buffy shrugged and walked over to the table, looking for what she could use next to torture him.

"Buffy, who did that to you?" he asked, fighting with the pain inside his body.

"Who did what?"

"Bringing you back and changing you… I saw you jumping off this tower. We buried you. You gave your life… for Dawn, so that she could live…"

Suddenly a look of realization crossed Buffy's face. "Oh, now I understand. You think I'm the other Buffy. But I'm not her. I was called, when she died," she said as she walked back to him. "I can't understand how a Slayer would do some stupid thing like sacrificing her life for such a dangerous thing as the Key. Believe me, I'm here to eliminate her, her and all the other troublemakers in this town."

~*~

After Pan had finished the short version of her story, everyone leaned back sighing. "Okay, that was much input. Way too much input for my poor brain," Faith said.

"You could say that," Pan told her. "But I just gave you the short version of it. Last night I got the long version in a few seconds. But I'm still not finished. Vegeta, didn't you want to tell us something?" she asked grinning.

"Okay, I'll show you." With that, the prince took out another small bag of his bag and let seven spheres roll on the table.

Some of the Scoobies grabbed one and looked at it curiously. "Oh my god… That are the Dragonballs," Goten said stunned.

"Where did you get them from, dad?" Trunks wanted to know.

"Kakarotto left them next to your mother's and my bed after he visited me in my dream."

"Dragonballs? What are Dragonballs?" Xander wanted to know.

"There are seven of them and when you've got all, you can call the eternal dragon Shenlong and he will fulfill you two wishes," Gohan explained to him.

"And what does that mean?" Dawn asked and received a huge smile from Pan.

"That means we can bring your sister back to life," she told the girl.