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Pan looked on her sleeping daughter. Could it be true what she told him? He never imagined her as a supersaiyian. She wondered what she looked like? She could see Gem becoming one and rather quickly along with their cousins Flint and Flare. The way that went at it, it was rather surprising that they haven't gone gold yet.
"Are you sure?" she said. "I just can't see it."
"Believe me," Trunks said. "She said she could do it for awhile. It scared the hell of me," Trunks leaned against the wall. "I did not think that she could ever do that. She said that she was stronger than Soyna."
"Stronger?" Pan looked at her sleeping figure again. "Stronger? How? I can't feel any change in her."
"I know, but I don't doubt her," Trunks said. "You did not see with that yellow hair and green eyes and I didn't feel anything. She was crying and she just flipped back to normal. I asked her if she wanted to train. She just shook her head and said that she doesn't want to be angry." He rubbed his forehead. He was dealing with so much. He still really did not get to mourn the loss of his mother and dealing with his father, who seemed to be distancing himself away from everyone. Dealing with the plummeting stocks with the company and struggling to get it back to normal after Bulma's death. She forced him to stay home last weekend and all he did was worry about the papers he left on his desk at work. And of course he worried about the change in his normally shy daughter. He leaned against the wall and let out a big sigh. He looked so tired.
"I will talk to her tomorrow," Pan said. "You should go to bed. You look tired."
He sighed heavily and looked at the room where his father was occupying.
"Deal with him in the morning." Pan said and took her husbands hands. "Please. Get some rest before you have a nervous breakdown."
He smiled, but it was not a happy smile. "I really should talk to dad." He said. "He is such a mess."
She sighed. He was right. But what could he say to him? She leaned into him and lifted herself up for a kiss. She was grateful that he enveloped her in his arms. He was just so tired.
"Eew! Geez. You do have a room you know."
She felt herself being lowered as she turned and looked at Gem who was rubbing her eyes.
"Gem, you're supposed to be sleeping," Trunks said with a smile. "What are you doing up?"
"I was thirsty," She said and walked past them. "I didn't expect to see you two in the hallway." Then she disappeared into the bathroom. They heard the taps running.
She smiled. Gem was already so independent. It was amazing at the difference in the children. She felt Trunks snake his arms around her shoulders and his mouth pressed to her ear and in a whisper said. "We do have a bedroom."
She just smiled and took him up on the invitation.
.............
"Sis?" Soyna looked up at him with such a sad look on her face. He did not remember seeing her so distraught before. Not even when dad died, she was not this far gone. He knelt in front of her and looked right at her. Her eyes were watery. "Are you okay?"
Her mouth twitched slightly and a small voice came out of her mouth, "I hit Benot."
"He told me." He said.
A tear rolled down her cheek.
"He called me a monster," she whispered and looked at her lap as if she was ashamed to be crying.
"He told me that too."
She was silent for a bit. He wished she would look up so he could see her face. This was so different from what he expected from his sister. "I am a monster."
"No your not," he said.
She looked sharply up at him. "What the hell are you talking about? Of course, I am a monster! I punched my own son! I am no different than Vegeta! I attacked my own family. My own son! What does that make me! All I could think of what how Vegeta hurt Cyrus. That was all I could think of. It was horrible when I realized what I had done. I wasn't even thinking about how Vegeta hurt him! What does that make me?" She let out a deep sigh. "I don't deserve to be a mother," she said in a sad voice, her shoulders slumping and her voice getting low and sad. "I don't deserve to have any of this."
She looked so sad.
"You are just under a lot of stress," he said. "You do not handle stress well. You just need to calm down a bit."
"I hit my OWN SON!" She growled at him. "He CALLED ME a MONSTER!" Her voice was ragged and her eyes flashed with anger. Anger that she directed at herself.
He looked at her as she slowly stood and shakily walked out of the room. Goku and Goten greeted her at the door. Goku just looked on worriedly and she hesitantly went into her husband's arms.
At least she wasn't pushing him away. He didn't want to see her doing that again. That nearly destroyed Goten last time, but at least this time Brennen wasn't part of the picture.
............
Did he just hear that right?
Vegeta heard his son talking to Pan. Crystal turned into a supersaiyian? How? He shook his head. She showed no signs of strength that the others did but she made it to supersaiyian without a strong burst of energy. She didn't give off a shred of energy that gave a hint at such strength.
His son sounded so sad.
He was destroying them.
He looked back out the window and examined the stars. They did not look the same as he remembered them. Of course, he never really contemplated the earthstars. He still remembered what they looked like from his home planet and he tried to see the similar patterns in the stars that he saw here, but could not find them.
How did he get so far from home?
How did he get so far from where he thought he was going to be?
The stars were not holding the answers for him. His eyes went to the house that he stayed in with HER. He had not set foot in it since her death and he didn't think he could go in there just yet. There would be pictures, and there would be her favorite chair, and there would be her smell.he couldn't face that just yet.
But then, he was having such a hard time facing his family as well.
He sighed heavily and retreated to his bed, knowing that he would have a nightmare filled sleep once again, but it was better than facing the day that was filled with true nightmares.
.............
It was his girlfriend's idea to go out for dinner. He couldn't tell her why he was so upset. Brennen couldn't tell her that he ran into the son of the woman of his dreams and he couldn't stop thinking of his kids, even though they weren't his kids. He just wanted to stay home, curl up on the couch and fall asleep. It was just too much of a scary thought that he would run into one of them again.
But she was persistent.
Brennen gave in and was starting to relax a little bit as they sat at the Pizza Bistro and was enjoying the warm fall evening.
He admired his girlfriend for putting up with his moods. Prior relationships ended because of his so-called mood swings. She did not press him to try to explain what bothered him. He asked her why she didn't ask him those questions. She just shrugged and said simply. "You'll tell me when your ready."
He knew that he was going to have to tell her soon. He couldn't NOT tell her. She had the right to know about that time, even it if still haunted him. Especially if it still haunted him. It affected him immensely.
The food tasted good and he even allowed himself a few beers, something that he normally did not indulge himself in. He was smiling at his girlfriend who did look remarkable to him. She had short brown hair that swept forward as if it were straining to touch her smooth skin on her face. She had a figure to die for. He still didn't know how he could get such a woman. She was caring and kind and put up with him, and the topper was those brilliant green eyes! He could just drown in those green eyes.. which are just like Soyna's.
He stopped himself from frowning at that thought. She could not be his. She wouldn't even acknowledge him as part of her past. He had to concentrate on the woman in front of him. He had to figure out how to explain his past.
"What are you thinking about?" She asked as she sipped her own beer. She was only half way done her first one. He knew that she didn't like beer so it was hard for her to drink it. He was on his fourth.
"Of how beautiful you are," he said. He didn't want to tell her that she was comparing her to someone else. She did not deserve to get hurt.
She blushed beautifully. "Fresh," she said and gave a little laugh. "Feeling better now that I dragged you out?"
He nodded. He was started to feel better. "Yeah. I guess so," he said with a smile.
She smiled brightly. "See. You should never doubt me."
He smiled back; he doubted it was as bright as hers. She pointed to his empty glass and offered her half full glass of beer. He accepted it and smiled at her. "Mel, I am sorry for being moody," he said. "I had bumped into someone the other day." It was a good as time as any to tell her.
"And that made you moody? Was it an old girlfriend?" She said with a slight chuckle.
"No," he sighed as he stared at the amber liquid. "Not a girlfriend."
She chuckled harder and a sly grin came across her face, "A boyfriend?"
He shook his head again and not returning the humorous grin that she now had that was replaced by a serious look. "Who?"
He swallowed hard and looked right at her. "It is hard to explain but I will try.," His eyes skipped over her to a boy of 12 holding a couple of pizza boxes, standing by the till, while a tall blond woman paid for the bill. A boy that looked a little upset.
A boy that he knew only from afar.
One of his sons.
......
Vegeta hardly slept at all. He just couldn't sleep. He was so tired, but he forced himself out of bed and went to face the family that was making all that noise in the kitchen.
He dressed in clothes that he knew that Bulma had bought for him. Of course, she bought them for him. He never went shopping. He didn't even know how to handle earth money. He never had to. She did it all. She did everything and let him, well, play, as she put it.
He opened the door to the hustle and bustle of the kitchen to hear them all go silent and look at him.
Gem gave him a hopeful look. Crystal looked at him with her large blue eyes in a pleading way somehow. Pan looked at him as if he was made of glass and his son couldn't even raise his eyes to him.
He sat down across from Crystal and couldn't help but examine her. He couldn't help but think of how strong she could be, if she could go GOLD without that great power output. She could probably match Soyna in no time and then he.
He looked at the table, forcing his eyes away from her. He did not need a replacement for Soyna. He did not need to help create another one like her. She did not deserve the pain that would surely come from that. He was being selfish again. He didn't want to be like that anymore.
"Feeling better today?" Pan said and looked at him with such pity that it made him sick.
"Fine," he growled and then left. He couldn't sit there with all those eyes looking at him. He couldn't handle the scrutiny that they surely had him under. He could still feel the eyes follow him as he did something that he did not plan to do today.
He returned to his own house.
...........
Goku slept uneasily.
He remembered the old dreams that he had when the dragon was still a part of him. The dreams in which Soyna was split into two: The warrior Soyna and the mother Soyna. The warrior was so strong and overbearing but still wanted to comfort the mother side. Now, he saw that mother side coming forth and taking over the warrior side. She was trying to push it aside so that she would not hurt her children anymore. Well, sort of said it, but that was how he saw it. She was denying a huge part of herself!
This was not good!
And it was his entire fault too! He didn't know how to fix this. He really didn't know how to fix any of it. It had always been so easy in the past; all you had to do was use the dragon balls.
The dragon balls did not exist anymore and there was no way to get the wishes.
The power was lost to the soul of a little boy.
A soul that was once like his: Innocent and pure.
...........
Cyrus had never been so worried about his mother. Well, actually he had never been worried about her. She was always the strong one. She was kind of scary right now.
He could see the apprehensive look on Flint and Flare's face as they looked at her. Legen even looked at her oddly as well.
He did not expect to see her like this. She was so upset yesterday. She moped around the house and she seemed so distant. Not like this.
"Hurry up and eat kids." She said in a cheery voice that he was not familiar with. Did she ever sound cheery? She had on a smile was almost scary, and that apron? He didn't think that there was anything with lace in the house.
Legen put his hand on her shoulder and asked her if she was okay. He looked at with a heavy frown of worry. He sure looked like Brennen and he could see that he was going to be as tall as him as well. She was taller than she was at 12.
"Fine dear," she said in that voice that was not his mothers. It was much too high. "Why don't you go wake up Goten? He has to take you all to school."
"I'll go," Flint said and was gone in a flash. Flare was just staring at mom with wide dark eyes. She was as confused as everyone else at mom's new behavior.
"Are you sure mom?" he said.
"Of course, dear," she said. "Eat your lunch or else you won't learn well at school."
Flare looked around her, "Where is Benot?"
This new cheery façade cracked for a bit but she quickly recovered, "He will be home tonight. He spent the night with your Uncle."
Why was mom doing this? Why was she being someone that she was not?
"He got to spend the night?" Flare frowned. "No fair! I never get to spend the night somewhere if there is school the next day!" She did not understand what was going on. She had missed the show that Mom and Vegeta had put on.
"Benot is older," she said simply and that smile back at full force. He couldn't help but cringe. His mother did not smile like that. She looked scarier than she had ever seen her before. "Now your food is getting cold, so eat up." Normally Flare would have kept protesting but she was unnerved by her mother's new smile.
Goten entered the room with Flint at his feet.
He looked shocked even at mom's appearance. "Soyna?" He said and walked next to her. "Did you sleep last night?"
"Of course," she said and smiled. "You better hurry up and eat. The kids have to get to school in an hour. You don't have much time."
"I think you should go lie down," he said and touched her arm. She jerked it away and for a moment, looked like his normal mom. For a moment. She then smoothed out her hair and looked at him with a large scary smile. "Don't be silly," she said. "I am fine."
Did mom just use the word silly? Mom didn't talk like that. She was sure acting weird.
"Mom?" Cyrus said from his spot at the table.
"Yes, dear," she said and turned that smile at him. He couldn't help but cringe. She didn't seem to notice. Did she use the word, dear? Mom never used that word. He was certain of that.
"We can manage on our own. It's okay," he said. He could see how stunned his father looked. He looked so stunned and maybe it was best if he stayed home with her today.
"Nonsense," she said. "Your father is going to take you all to school and that is all there is to it." She turned back to the kitchen and started to putter in there. She usually did that, but she didn't hum when she did it. She was humming.
Flare looked up at Goten, "Dad, what happened to mom?"
He rubbed the back of his head. "I'll get you to school and try to find out."
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Pan looked on her sleeping daughter. Could it be true what she told him? He never imagined her as a supersaiyian. She wondered what she looked like? She could see Gem becoming one and rather quickly along with their cousins Flint and Flare. The way that went at it, it was rather surprising that they haven't gone gold yet.
"Are you sure?" she said. "I just can't see it."
"Believe me," Trunks said. "She said she could do it for awhile. It scared the hell of me," Trunks leaned against the wall. "I did not think that she could ever do that. She said that she was stronger than Soyna."
"Stronger?" Pan looked at her sleeping figure again. "Stronger? How? I can't feel any change in her."
"I know, but I don't doubt her," Trunks said. "You did not see with that yellow hair and green eyes and I didn't feel anything. She was crying and she just flipped back to normal. I asked her if she wanted to train. She just shook her head and said that she doesn't want to be angry." He rubbed his forehead. He was dealing with so much. He still really did not get to mourn the loss of his mother and dealing with his father, who seemed to be distancing himself away from everyone. Dealing with the plummeting stocks with the company and struggling to get it back to normal after Bulma's death. She forced him to stay home last weekend and all he did was worry about the papers he left on his desk at work. And of course he worried about the change in his normally shy daughter. He leaned against the wall and let out a big sigh. He looked so tired.
"I will talk to her tomorrow," Pan said. "You should go to bed. You look tired."
He sighed heavily and looked at the room where his father was occupying.
"Deal with him in the morning." Pan said and took her husbands hands. "Please. Get some rest before you have a nervous breakdown."
He smiled, but it was not a happy smile. "I really should talk to dad." He said. "He is such a mess."
She sighed. He was right. But what could he say to him? She leaned into him and lifted herself up for a kiss. She was grateful that he enveloped her in his arms. He was just so tired.
"Eew! Geez. You do have a room you know."
She felt herself being lowered as she turned and looked at Gem who was rubbing her eyes.
"Gem, you're supposed to be sleeping," Trunks said with a smile. "What are you doing up?"
"I was thirsty," She said and walked past them. "I didn't expect to see you two in the hallway." Then she disappeared into the bathroom. They heard the taps running.
She smiled. Gem was already so independent. It was amazing at the difference in the children. She felt Trunks snake his arms around her shoulders and his mouth pressed to her ear and in a whisper said. "We do have a bedroom."
She just smiled and took him up on the invitation.
.............
"Sis?" Soyna looked up at him with such a sad look on her face. He did not remember seeing her so distraught before. Not even when dad died, she was not this far gone. He knelt in front of her and looked right at her. Her eyes were watery. "Are you okay?"
Her mouth twitched slightly and a small voice came out of her mouth, "I hit Benot."
"He told me." He said.
A tear rolled down her cheek.
"He called me a monster," she whispered and looked at her lap as if she was ashamed to be crying.
"He told me that too."
She was silent for a bit. He wished she would look up so he could see her face. This was so different from what he expected from his sister. "I am a monster."
"No your not," he said.
She looked sharply up at him. "What the hell are you talking about? Of course, I am a monster! I punched my own son! I am no different than Vegeta! I attacked my own family. My own son! What does that make me! All I could think of what how Vegeta hurt Cyrus. That was all I could think of. It was horrible when I realized what I had done. I wasn't even thinking about how Vegeta hurt him! What does that make me?" She let out a deep sigh. "I don't deserve to be a mother," she said in a sad voice, her shoulders slumping and her voice getting low and sad. "I don't deserve to have any of this."
She looked so sad.
"You are just under a lot of stress," he said. "You do not handle stress well. You just need to calm down a bit."
"I hit my OWN SON!" She growled at him. "He CALLED ME a MONSTER!" Her voice was ragged and her eyes flashed with anger. Anger that she directed at herself.
He looked at her as she slowly stood and shakily walked out of the room. Goku and Goten greeted her at the door. Goku just looked on worriedly and she hesitantly went into her husband's arms.
At least she wasn't pushing him away. He didn't want to see her doing that again. That nearly destroyed Goten last time, but at least this time Brennen wasn't part of the picture.
............
Did he just hear that right?
Vegeta heard his son talking to Pan. Crystal turned into a supersaiyian? How? He shook his head. She showed no signs of strength that the others did but she made it to supersaiyian without a strong burst of energy. She didn't give off a shred of energy that gave a hint at such strength.
His son sounded so sad.
He was destroying them.
He looked back out the window and examined the stars. They did not look the same as he remembered them. Of course, he never really contemplated the earthstars. He still remembered what they looked like from his home planet and he tried to see the similar patterns in the stars that he saw here, but could not find them.
How did he get so far from home?
How did he get so far from where he thought he was going to be?
The stars were not holding the answers for him. His eyes went to the house that he stayed in with HER. He had not set foot in it since her death and he didn't think he could go in there just yet. There would be pictures, and there would be her favorite chair, and there would be her smell.he couldn't face that just yet.
But then, he was having such a hard time facing his family as well.
He sighed heavily and retreated to his bed, knowing that he would have a nightmare filled sleep once again, but it was better than facing the day that was filled with true nightmares.
.............
It was his girlfriend's idea to go out for dinner. He couldn't tell her why he was so upset. Brennen couldn't tell her that he ran into the son of the woman of his dreams and he couldn't stop thinking of his kids, even though they weren't his kids. He just wanted to stay home, curl up on the couch and fall asleep. It was just too much of a scary thought that he would run into one of them again.
But she was persistent.
Brennen gave in and was starting to relax a little bit as they sat at the Pizza Bistro and was enjoying the warm fall evening.
He admired his girlfriend for putting up with his moods. Prior relationships ended because of his so-called mood swings. She did not press him to try to explain what bothered him. He asked her why she didn't ask him those questions. She just shrugged and said simply. "You'll tell me when your ready."
He knew that he was going to have to tell her soon. He couldn't NOT tell her. She had the right to know about that time, even it if still haunted him. Especially if it still haunted him. It affected him immensely.
The food tasted good and he even allowed himself a few beers, something that he normally did not indulge himself in. He was smiling at his girlfriend who did look remarkable to him. She had short brown hair that swept forward as if it were straining to touch her smooth skin on her face. She had a figure to die for. He still didn't know how he could get such a woman. She was caring and kind and put up with him, and the topper was those brilliant green eyes! He could just drown in those green eyes.. which are just like Soyna's.
He stopped himself from frowning at that thought. She could not be his. She wouldn't even acknowledge him as part of her past. He had to concentrate on the woman in front of him. He had to figure out how to explain his past.
"What are you thinking about?" She asked as she sipped her own beer. She was only half way done her first one. He knew that she didn't like beer so it was hard for her to drink it. He was on his fourth.
"Of how beautiful you are," he said. He didn't want to tell her that she was comparing her to someone else. She did not deserve to get hurt.
She blushed beautifully. "Fresh," she said and gave a little laugh. "Feeling better now that I dragged you out?"
He nodded. He was started to feel better. "Yeah. I guess so," he said with a smile.
She smiled brightly. "See. You should never doubt me."
He smiled back; he doubted it was as bright as hers. She pointed to his empty glass and offered her half full glass of beer. He accepted it and smiled at her. "Mel, I am sorry for being moody," he said. "I had bumped into someone the other day." It was a good as time as any to tell her.
"And that made you moody? Was it an old girlfriend?" She said with a slight chuckle.
"No," he sighed as he stared at the amber liquid. "Not a girlfriend."
She chuckled harder and a sly grin came across her face, "A boyfriend?"
He shook his head again and not returning the humorous grin that she now had that was replaced by a serious look. "Who?"
He swallowed hard and looked right at her. "It is hard to explain but I will try.," His eyes skipped over her to a boy of 12 holding a couple of pizza boxes, standing by the till, while a tall blond woman paid for the bill. A boy that looked a little upset.
A boy that he knew only from afar.
One of his sons.
......
Vegeta hardly slept at all. He just couldn't sleep. He was so tired, but he forced himself out of bed and went to face the family that was making all that noise in the kitchen.
He dressed in clothes that he knew that Bulma had bought for him. Of course, she bought them for him. He never went shopping. He didn't even know how to handle earth money. He never had to. She did it all. She did everything and let him, well, play, as she put it.
He opened the door to the hustle and bustle of the kitchen to hear them all go silent and look at him.
Gem gave him a hopeful look. Crystal looked at him with her large blue eyes in a pleading way somehow. Pan looked at him as if he was made of glass and his son couldn't even raise his eyes to him.
He sat down across from Crystal and couldn't help but examine her. He couldn't help but think of how strong she could be, if she could go GOLD without that great power output. She could probably match Soyna in no time and then he.
He looked at the table, forcing his eyes away from her. He did not need a replacement for Soyna. He did not need to help create another one like her. She did not deserve the pain that would surely come from that. He was being selfish again. He didn't want to be like that anymore.
"Feeling better today?" Pan said and looked at him with such pity that it made him sick.
"Fine," he growled and then left. He couldn't sit there with all those eyes looking at him. He couldn't handle the scrutiny that they surely had him under. He could still feel the eyes follow him as he did something that he did not plan to do today.
He returned to his own house.
...........
Goku slept uneasily.
He remembered the old dreams that he had when the dragon was still a part of him. The dreams in which Soyna was split into two: The warrior Soyna and the mother Soyna. The warrior was so strong and overbearing but still wanted to comfort the mother side. Now, he saw that mother side coming forth and taking over the warrior side. She was trying to push it aside so that she would not hurt her children anymore. Well, sort of said it, but that was how he saw it. She was denying a huge part of herself!
This was not good!
And it was his entire fault too! He didn't know how to fix this. He really didn't know how to fix any of it. It had always been so easy in the past; all you had to do was use the dragon balls.
The dragon balls did not exist anymore and there was no way to get the wishes.
The power was lost to the soul of a little boy.
A soul that was once like his: Innocent and pure.
...........
Cyrus had never been so worried about his mother. Well, actually he had never been worried about her. She was always the strong one. She was kind of scary right now.
He could see the apprehensive look on Flint and Flare's face as they looked at her. Legen even looked at her oddly as well.
He did not expect to see her like this. She was so upset yesterday. She moped around the house and she seemed so distant. Not like this.
"Hurry up and eat kids." She said in a cheery voice that he was not familiar with. Did she ever sound cheery? She had on a smile was almost scary, and that apron? He didn't think that there was anything with lace in the house.
Legen put his hand on her shoulder and asked her if she was okay. He looked at with a heavy frown of worry. He sure looked like Brennen and he could see that he was going to be as tall as him as well. She was taller than she was at 12.
"Fine dear," she said in that voice that was not his mothers. It was much too high. "Why don't you go wake up Goten? He has to take you all to school."
"I'll go," Flint said and was gone in a flash. Flare was just staring at mom with wide dark eyes. She was as confused as everyone else at mom's new behavior.
"Are you sure mom?" he said.
"Of course, dear," she said. "Eat your lunch or else you won't learn well at school."
Flare looked around her, "Where is Benot?"
This new cheery façade cracked for a bit but she quickly recovered, "He will be home tonight. He spent the night with your Uncle."
Why was mom doing this? Why was she being someone that she was not?
"He got to spend the night?" Flare frowned. "No fair! I never get to spend the night somewhere if there is school the next day!" She did not understand what was going on. She had missed the show that Mom and Vegeta had put on.
"Benot is older," she said simply and that smile back at full force. He couldn't help but cringe. His mother did not smile like that. She looked scarier than she had ever seen her before. "Now your food is getting cold, so eat up." Normally Flare would have kept protesting but she was unnerved by her mother's new smile.
Goten entered the room with Flint at his feet.
He looked shocked even at mom's appearance. "Soyna?" He said and walked next to her. "Did you sleep last night?"
"Of course," she said and smiled. "You better hurry up and eat. The kids have to get to school in an hour. You don't have much time."
"I think you should go lie down," he said and touched her arm. She jerked it away and for a moment, looked like his normal mom. For a moment. She then smoothed out her hair and looked at him with a large scary smile. "Don't be silly," she said. "I am fine."
Did mom just use the word silly? Mom didn't talk like that. She was sure acting weird.
"Mom?" Cyrus said from his spot at the table.
"Yes, dear," she said and turned that smile at him. He couldn't help but cringe. She didn't seem to notice. Did she use the word, dear? Mom never used that word. He was certain of that.
"We can manage on our own. It's okay," he said. He could see how stunned his father looked. He looked so stunned and maybe it was best if he stayed home with her today.
"Nonsense," she said. "Your father is going to take you all to school and that is all there is to it." She turned back to the kitchen and started to putter in there. She usually did that, but she didn't hum when she did it. She was humming.
Flare looked up at Goten, "Dad, what happened to mom?"
He rubbed the back of his head. "I'll get you to school and try to find out."
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