~Live the Darkness~
A/N: SHE'S NOT NECESSARILY DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But..... Someone/some people are definitely gonna die.... But no one's dead yet! .........
"Ar-Are you sure?!" Bulma yelped.
"Iie... I don't know that on'na's energy very well, it may just be too low for me to sense anymore... And the brat's energy
hasn't dissipated any," Vegeta said. He stood up and walked to the door. Bulma stood up and followed him as well.
"Vegeta..."
"Shizuka ni on'na, I'm trying to find that on'na's ki..." he walked even farther down the hall, and then began moving down
the stairs. He frowned as he got closer to the bottom, but still couldn't feel Videl's energy. "There!" he suddenly growled.
"Nani? Vegeta, can you sense her now?" Bulma asked.
"Hai, she's still alive... But if her energy keeps dropping at this rate, she won't be for long."
~The Living Room....~
Gohan sat straight up suddenly, and he gasped as though his breath were caught in his throat. "Videl... Videl? Videl?!" he
choked. Goku blinked and looked to his son.
"Gohan? Videl's in labor, don't you remember?" Goku asked. He walked closer to Gohan, and it was then that he noticed Gohan's
eyes were glazed. "Gohan?" He received no response other than Gohan's continuous muttering. He walked over to his son. "Hey,
are you awake in there?" Again, there was no response other than the muttering from Gohan's mouth. Goku waved a hand in front
of Gohan's face, but Gohan was completely unphased by it. He grabbed Gohan by the shoulders and began shaking him roughly. "Gohan, snap out of it!"
"Nani?!" Gohan shouted. "Otosan? What happened?" Gohan was barely breathing as he spoke.
"Gohan, do you know what happened before you fell unconscious?" Goku asked.
"Umm... Hai, it's vague, but yeah, I do. At least, part of it... I rememeber being really pissed at Vegeta, and then I remember losing control, but all of that's completely blank. Videl! Iie, this can't be happening..." Gohan looked around. "It is... Iie, iie... Videl!" Gohan took off out of the room, but Goku easily caught him.
"Gohan, you need to control yourself! You won't be any help to the doctors when you go barging in there... Now calm down!" Goku yelled. He pulled Gohan back into the other room. "Please Gohan, stay here. They'll tell you if they need you."
"I... How can I sit here and wait to hear that the two most important people in my life are dead! I won't!" Gohan suddenly looked up as a doctor walked into the room, ringing his hands.
"Sir..."
"What's wrong!? Why's Videl's energy dropping so low?!" Gohan yelled, running to the doctor, and only barely stopping himself from grabbing the man off the floor.
"Ummm... Sir, This is hard for me to say... But..." the nervous man shivered under Gohan's glare.
"NANI?! Spit it out!" Gohan shouted.
"Sir, there is a way we can save the mother... But we would lose the child," the doctor mumbled.
Gohan stopped moving all together. He stumbled backward and then fell to the floor, his legs not even able to support his body weight anymore. "That can't..." unlike Vegeta, he wasn't afraid to show his emotions, but he never really liked to. But now, now he was crying freely.
"We... There is a way we could save the child..."
"Then what the hell are you questioning!?" Gohan yelled.
"We'd lose the mother..." the doctor finished.
Gohan blinked, and then felt as though someone was choking him. He couldn't take a breath as he tried to think this through. "Then... Why..."
"We... As terrible as this is... We need for you to decide who we save..."
"But... You can't, I can't. How am I supposed to choose?!" Gohan was sobbing, and he pulled his knees up to his chest.
"Gohan..." Goku knelt down to his son, and he had an infinite fear in his eyes. "Gohan, you're not going to like what I have to say, but-"
"Then don't say it!"
"Gohan... I know you've never really forgiven me for never truly being there for you... And I'm sure you don't want that to happen to your child, right?" Goku asked.
"What are you saying?" Gohan glared.
"Gohan, if Videl dies, you do too. You aren't married yet. If both of you die, then your child is going to grow up without knowing his real parents. Your okaasan and I, we would take care of him, of course, but I'm sure you know, there's nothing like the love of your real parents," Goku said
"So you're saying I should let my son die?" Gohan asked quietly.
"Iie, I'm saying it would probably be best, because I know you don't want your child growing up like that," Goku finished quietly.
"Sir, I need your decision soon, or we won't be able to save either of them..." the doctor stated.
"I...I... Do- Ask my otosan... I'm not gonna say it..." Gohan cried.
Goku looked up and then to the doctor. He met the doctor's eyes and nodded, the silent agreement passed between them. The doctor turned and left, and Gohan was already regretting it.
"Why? Why couldn't they just take me instead? Or, or better yet, save them both? Why'd they want me to choose?" Gohan tried to stand, but his eyes rolled back into his skull again and he gave way to unconsciousness.
"Oh damn... Gohan, I'm sorry..." Goku picked Gohan up and laid him back on the couch.
Chichi walked into the room, followed by Bulma and Vegeta. "Goku... What did that doctor want to tell my poor baby?" Chichi asked while walking to him to sit in his lap.
"Ummm... Chichi, the child, they lost the child..." Goku whispered.
"NANI?!" Chichi screamed, and then suddenly fainted, nearly falling from Goku's arms.
"Oh my god, Goku, are you sure?" Bulma asked.
"Hai... He, they... Never mind."
* * *
"Iie, iie, iie," Gohan muttered in his sleep.
"Gohan?" Bulma walked over to the trembling body of her friend. Gohan began whimpering as she neared him, and she backed away slowly. "Goku, do you think he can sense something with Videl that you can't?"
Goku glanced to her. It had been three hours since Gohan had fallen into this state. "I don't know. His bond with Videl is far stronger than the bond that Chichi and I shared at their age. He may be able to..."
Gohan suddenly sat up and tried to run from the room. Goku leapt up and ran to grab Gohan and pull him back.
"Gohan! What the hell are you doing?!" he yelled. Gohan didn't say anything, but he struggled to break free from his otosan's hold. "Gohan!" Again, there was no response. He threw Gohan down to the floor, and Gohan suddenly quivered and opened his eyes, which no one had noticed were closed.
"Otosan? What happened?" Gohan asked.
Goku smiled half-heartedly and held out a hand for Gohan. "Not sure, but whatever, come on."
"Iie, I mean with Videl? Where is she? Is she okay? I can still sense her... Has anyone said she's awake yet?" Gohan asked.
"Nani? She's awake?" Bulma asked.
Gohan nodded, "I could feel it... But... Never mind..." He noticed his mother, unconscious in the chair. "What hap- Actually, I think I know..." Gohan looked around, but his body shook, anxously. "My... Our... He's really gone, isn't he?"
Goku tried to place a comforting hand on Gohan's shoulder, but the younger man pulled back. "Gohan, you-you aren't gonna do something like h-"
"Shizuka ni..." Gohan muttered, and walked toward the hallway.
"Gohan, what are you doing?" Goku called.
"I'm going to visit her. They're not fooling me by saying that she's asleep, I can feel her awake. And I'm gonna need to be the one to tell her," Gohan walked down the hall, despite his otosan protesting. He neared her door, and could only sense two people in there. He knocked on the door, and a short woman opened it.
"Excuse me, but what do you want?" the woman asked. Then she noticed just who was standing in front of her. "Wait! You're the child's otosan, right? You-you can't come in right now! She's not awake, and... And she's still under strain! You can't come in and tell her anything yet! Even if she was awake!"
Gohan glared at the woman, an unfamiliar gesture on his part. "Move," The woman squeaked as Gohan stepped passed her and then walked over to Videl. "Videl, you can stop pretending to be asleep," Gohan whispered to Videl.
Videl's eyes opened, but other than that, she said and did nothing.
"Nani?! She was awake?" the woman asked.
"Hai... Now, leave."
"Nani?! I can't leave! I was told not to let anyone in to-" the nurse was cut off, this time by Videl, who sat up and glared at the woman.
Ignoring the pain in her body from the sudden movement, she screamed down to the shorter female. "Leave! He told you to-" Videl grasped at her chest suddenly, as though indicating that she couldn't breathe. "Leave..." she finally coughed and collapsed back.
The nurse knew if she stayed Videl would just get stressed out again, but if she left, wouldn't the same thing just happen? Finally making her decision, the short, thin woman left the unhappy couple alone.
Gohan pulled a chair next to the bed. "Videl?" he asked quietly.
"Nani?" came the response, muffled against the pillows.
Gohan reached across her and grabbed one of her hands, pulling her over to him. He stuttered to say something, but nothing could be understood from his mouth. Nervously, he rubbed her hand. "H-h-h-....E-e-e...
"Go-Gohan, i-is our son.... Is our son... Gohan, did Gokun die?" she whispered.
Gohan shivered at her using the name they had chosen for their son. His eyes turned away from hers, but nothing came from his mouth.
"Gohan?" her voice trembled this time.
"..."
"Gohan! Answer me! Is our son gone?!" she screamed.
"...Hai..."
And these were the only words spoken for a long time. Gohan was teared up, but still not really crying, and Videl was sobbing hysterically, but Gohan's only comforting motion to her was the methodical massaging of his hand to hers.
Eventually Videl broke this rythmn by sitting up. Gohan looked to her, and finally saw her crying.
"Videl... Gomen... I-I... Videl, are you going to be alright?" he asked.
"Gohan..." she whimpered and then suddenly threw herself into his arms. "Gohan! Why?! Why? I... Gohan."
"Shh, Videl," he pulled himself onto her bed so that she was no longer hanging off of it, and pulled her against him. "I don't know why. Th-that's just how..." There was silence once again, but this time both Gohan and Videl were crying. Finally Videl spoke.
"Gohan... I-I don't think we should... I don't think we should get married next month... I-I still love you, but... I don't think I'd be ready for that," she whispered.
Gohan hugged her. "We can wait."
Videl began humming softly as her tears fell. Slowly, she began to sing the words.
"Would you know my name,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same,
if I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong,
and carry on,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
in heaven.
Would you hold my hand,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand,
if I saw you in heaven?"
Gohan began singing with her.
"I'll find my way,
through night and day,
'cause I know,
I just can't stay,
in heaven.
Time can bring you down,
time can bend your knees, (baby)
time can break your heart,
have you begging please. (begging please)
Beyond the door,
there's peace I'm sure,
and I know,
they're will be no more,
tears in heaven.
Would you know my name,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same,
if I saw you heaven?
I must be strong,
and carry on,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
here in heaven,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
here in heaven."
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Would an "I'm sorry" help my case at all? What about an "I was completely sick all of vacation, and I literally couldn't move until the LAST FRIKKIN' DAY!" 'Cause both of those are true... So I've already been down, please don't kill me! I have to go update 'Tainted Hearts' now... I've been getting e-mails about it... Ehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehhe.... *sweatdrop*
Uhh... About this chappy.... Even if you don't kill me for not updating... I have a feeling I'm not gonna survive what you'll do to me for killing Gokun, am I? It had to happen! It's angst for a reason... And no, the DragonBalls won't help... He died of birth complications.... Completely natural.... How will Gohan and Videl take it?
Umm... I'd prefer not to die... But I guess it's okay now that the DragonBalls are active again after those other reviewers...
~Videl~ ~Z~
A/N: SHE'S NOT NECESSARILY DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But..... Someone/some people are definitely gonna die.... But no one's dead yet! .........
"Ar-Are you sure?!" Bulma yelped.
"Iie... I don't know that on'na's energy very well, it may just be too low for me to sense anymore... And the brat's energy
hasn't dissipated any," Vegeta said. He stood up and walked to the door. Bulma stood up and followed him as well.
"Vegeta..."
"Shizuka ni on'na, I'm trying to find that on'na's ki..." he walked even farther down the hall, and then began moving down
the stairs. He frowned as he got closer to the bottom, but still couldn't feel Videl's energy. "There!" he suddenly growled.
"Nani? Vegeta, can you sense her now?" Bulma asked.
"Hai, she's still alive... But if her energy keeps dropping at this rate, she won't be for long."
~The Living Room....~
Gohan sat straight up suddenly, and he gasped as though his breath were caught in his throat. "Videl... Videl? Videl?!" he
choked. Goku blinked and looked to his son.
"Gohan? Videl's in labor, don't you remember?" Goku asked. He walked closer to Gohan, and it was then that he noticed Gohan's
eyes were glazed. "Gohan?" He received no response other than Gohan's continuous muttering. He walked over to his son. "Hey,
are you awake in there?" Again, there was no response other than the muttering from Gohan's mouth. Goku waved a hand in front
of Gohan's face, but Gohan was completely unphased by it. He grabbed Gohan by the shoulders and began shaking him roughly. "Gohan, snap out of it!"
"Nani?!" Gohan shouted. "Otosan? What happened?" Gohan was barely breathing as he spoke.
"Gohan, do you know what happened before you fell unconscious?" Goku asked.
"Umm... Hai, it's vague, but yeah, I do. At least, part of it... I rememeber being really pissed at Vegeta, and then I remember losing control, but all of that's completely blank. Videl! Iie, this can't be happening..." Gohan looked around. "It is... Iie, iie... Videl!" Gohan took off out of the room, but Goku easily caught him.
"Gohan, you need to control yourself! You won't be any help to the doctors when you go barging in there... Now calm down!" Goku yelled. He pulled Gohan back into the other room. "Please Gohan, stay here. They'll tell you if they need you."
"I... How can I sit here and wait to hear that the two most important people in my life are dead! I won't!" Gohan suddenly looked up as a doctor walked into the room, ringing his hands.
"Sir..."
"What's wrong!? Why's Videl's energy dropping so low?!" Gohan yelled, running to the doctor, and only barely stopping himself from grabbing the man off the floor.
"Ummm... Sir, This is hard for me to say... But..." the nervous man shivered under Gohan's glare.
"NANI?! Spit it out!" Gohan shouted.
"Sir, there is a way we can save the mother... But we would lose the child," the doctor mumbled.
Gohan stopped moving all together. He stumbled backward and then fell to the floor, his legs not even able to support his body weight anymore. "That can't..." unlike Vegeta, he wasn't afraid to show his emotions, but he never really liked to. But now, now he was crying freely.
"We... There is a way we could save the child..."
"Then what the hell are you questioning!?" Gohan yelled.
"We'd lose the mother..." the doctor finished.
Gohan blinked, and then felt as though someone was choking him. He couldn't take a breath as he tried to think this through. "Then... Why..."
"We... As terrible as this is... We need for you to decide who we save..."
"But... You can't, I can't. How am I supposed to choose?!" Gohan was sobbing, and he pulled his knees up to his chest.
"Gohan..." Goku knelt down to his son, and he had an infinite fear in his eyes. "Gohan, you're not going to like what I have to say, but-"
"Then don't say it!"
"Gohan... I know you've never really forgiven me for never truly being there for you... And I'm sure you don't want that to happen to your child, right?" Goku asked.
"What are you saying?" Gohan glared.
"Gohan, if Videl dies, you do too. You aren't married yet. If both of you die, then your child is going to grow up without knowing his real parents. Your okaasan and I, we would take care of him, of course, but I'm sure you know, there's nothing like the love of your real parents," Goku said
"So you're saying I should let my son die?" Gohan asked quietly.
"Iie, I'm saying it would probably be best, because I know you don't want your child growing up like that," Goku finished quietly.
"Sir, I need your decision soon, or we won't be able to save either of them..." the doctor stated.
"I...I... Do- Ask my otosan... I'm not gonna say it..." Gohan cried.
Goku looked up and then to the doctor. He met the doctor's eyes and nodded, the silent agreement passed between them. The doctor turned and left, and Gohan was already regretting it.
"Why? Why couldn't they just take me instead? Or, or better yet, save them both? Why'd they want me to choose?" Gohan tried to stand, but his eyes rolled back into his skull again and he gave way to unconsciousness.
"Oh damn... Gohan, I'm sorry..." Goku picked Gohan up and laid him back on the couch.
Chichi walked into the room, followed by Bulma and Vegeta. "Goku... What did that doctor want to tell my poor baby?" Chichi asked while walking to him to sit in his lap.
"Ummm... Chichi, the child, they lost the child..." Goku whispered.
"NANI?!" Chichi screamed, and then suddenly fainted, nearly falling from Goku's arms.
"Oh my god, Goku, are you sure?" Bulma asked.
"Hai... He, they... Never mind."
* * *
"Iie, iie, iie," Gohan muttered in his sleep.
"Gohan?" Bulma walked over to the trembling body of her friend. Gohan began whimpering as she neared him, and she backed away slowly. "Goku, do you think he can sense something with Videl that you can't?"
Goku glanced to her. It had been three hours since Gohan had fallen into this state. "I don't know. His bond with Videl is far stronger than the bond that Chichi and I shared at their age. He may be able to..."
Gohan suddenly sat up and tried to run from the room. Goku leapt up and ran to grab Gohan and pull him back.
"Gohan! What the hell are you doing?!" he yelled. Gohan didn't say anything, but he struggled to break free from his otosan's hold. "Gohan!" Again, there was no response. He threw Gohan down to the floor, and Gohan suddenly quivered and opened his eyes, which no one had noticed were closed.
"Otosan? What happened?" Gohan asked.
Goku smiled half-heartedly and held out a hand for Gohan. "Not sure, but whatever, come on."
"Iie, I mean with Videl? Where is she? Is she okay? I can still sense her... Has anyone said she's awake yet?" Gohan asked.
"Nani? She's awake?" Bulma asked.
Gohan nodded, "I could feel it... But... Never mind..." He noticed his mother, unconscious in the chair. "What hap- Actually, I think I know..." Gohan looked around, but his body shook, anxously. "My... Our... He's really gone, isn't he?"
Goku tried to place a comforting hand on Gohan's shoulder, but the younger man pulled back. "Gohan, you-you aren't gonna do something like h-"
"Shizuka ni..." Gohan muttered, and walked toward the hallway.
"Gohan, what are you doing?" Goku called.
"I'm going to visit her. They're not fooling me by saying that she's asleep, I can feel her awake. And I'm gonna need to be the one to tell her," Gohan walked down the hall, despite his otosan protesting. He neared her door, and could only sense two people in there. He knocked on the door, and a short woman opened it.
"Excuse me, but what do you want?" the woman asked. Then she noticed just who was standing in front of her. "Wait! You're the child's otosan, right? You-you can't come in right now! She's not awake, and... And she's still under strain! You can't come in and tell her anything yet! Even if she was awake!"
Gohan glared at the woman, an unfamiliar gesture on his part. "Move," The woman squeaked as Gohan stepped passed her and then walked over to Videl. "Videl, you can stop pretending to be asleep," Gohan whispered to Videl.
Videl's eyes opened, but other than that, she said and did nothing.
"Nani?! She was awake?" the woman asked.
"Hai... Now, leave."
"Nani?! I can't leave! I was told not to let anyone in to-" the nurse was cut off, this time by Videl, who sat up and glared at the woman.
Ignoring the pain in her body from the sudden movement, she screamed down to the shorter female. "Leave! He told you to-" Videl grasped at her chest suddenly, as though indicating that she couldn't breathe. "Leave..." she finally coughed and collapsed back.
The nurse knew if she stayed Videl would just get stressed out again, but if she left, wouldn't the same thing just happen? Finally making her decision, the short, thin woman left the unhappy couple alone.
Gohan pulled a chair next to the bed. "Videl?" he asked quietly.
"Nani?" came the response, muffled against the pillows.
Gohan reached across her and grabbed one of her hands, pulling her over to him. He stuttered to say something, but nothing could be understood from his mouth. Nervously, he rubbed her hand. "H-h-h-....E-e-e...
"Go-Gohan, i-is our son.... Is our son... Gohan, did Gokun die?" she whispered.
Gohan shivered at her using the name they had chosen for their son. His eyes turned away from hers, but nothing came from his mouth.
"Gohan?" her voice trembled this time.
"..."
"Gohan! Answer me! Is our son gone?!" she screamed.
"...Hai..."
And these were the only words spoken for a long time. Gohan was teared up, but still not really crying, and Videl was sobbing hysterically, but Gohan's only comforting motion to her was the methodical massaging of his hand to hers.
Eventually Videl broke this rythmn by sitting up. Gohan looked to her, and finally saw her crying.
"Videl... Gomen... I-I... Videl, are you going to be alright?" he asked.
"Gohan..." she whimpered and then suddenly threw herself into his arms. "Gohan! Why?! Why? I... Gohan."
"Shh, Videl," he pulled himself onto her bed so that she was no longer hanging off of it, and pulled her against him. "I don't know why. Th-that's just how..." There was silence once again, but this time both Gohan and Videl were crying. Finally Videl spoke.
"Gohan... I-I don't think we should... I don't think we should get married next month... I-I still love you, but... I don't think I'd be ready for that," she whispered.
Gohan hugged her. "We can wait."
Videl began humming softly as her tears fell. Slowly, she began to sing the words.
"Would you know my name,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same,
if I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong,
and carry on,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
in heaven.
Would you hold my hand,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand,
if I saw you in heaven?"
Gohan began singing with her.
"I'll find my way,
through night and day,
'cause I know,
I just can't stay,
in heaven.
Time can bring you down,
time can bend your knees, (baby)
time can break your heart,
have you begging please. (begging please)
Beyond the door,
there's peace I'm sure,
and I know,
they're will be no more,
tears in heaven.
Would you know my name,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same,
if I saw you heaven?
I must be strong,
and carry on,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
here in heaven,
'cause I know,
I don't belong,
here in heaven."
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Would an "I'm sorry" help my case at all? What about an "I was completely sick all of vacation, and I literally couldn't move until the LAST FRIKKIN' DAY!" 'Cause both of those are true... So I've already been down, please don't kill me! I have to go update 'Tainted Hearts' now... I've been getting e-mails about it... Ehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehhe.... *sweatdrop*
Uhh... About this chappy.... Even if you don't kill me for not updating... I have a feeling I'm not gonna survive what you'll do to me for killing Gokun, am I? It had to happen! It's angst for a reason... And no, the DragonBalls won't help... He died of birth complications.... Completely natural.... How will Gohan and Videl take it?
Umm... I'd prefer not to die... But I guess it's okay now that the DragonBalls are active again after those other reviewers...
~Videl~ ~Z~