29

Recovery

Crystal had watched, as Trunks demanded that Soyna get immediate medical care.  The nurse did not think that she was that badly hurt and was about to tell him to sit down and that there were people in front of them.  Hell, Benot had passed out in her arms and poor 'Geta was shaking like a leaf.

That was when Trunks grabbed the nurses arm and in a deep growling voice, "She is pregnant damn it!  She needs a doctor now!"

Pregnant?

Thankfully, Benot was out.  He would have just freaked.  She just about dropped Benot who was shifting uncomfortable in her arms.

They got service right away after that.

Trunks had tried to follow after his daughter but the nurses pushed him back and told him that he should wait until the doctor could see him as well.

"I didn't know she was pregnant," she had said to Trunks who had looked so lost now.  He looked so tired as well.  She wanted to hug him and comfort him, but knew that he most likely would not like it.  She was not his real father.

"That was why she couldn't fight," he said as he looked at the swinging door.  "Damn it.  I should have known sooner."  He looked like he was going to sink to the floor.  She couldn't hold up both him and Benot.  She called for nurses to help her.

Everyone was okay now.

Everyone.

Vegeta brought Cyrus who was now being treated for hypothermia.  She wished she knew how Vegeta talked him down, but he didn't last much longer either.

Benot had already awakened and was refusing to leave the bedside of Soyna.  He had pulled up a chair to the end of the bed and was just waiting for her to wake up.  He refused to move from that point.  He kept patting her leg, as if he had to make sure that she was still there.

She didn't have the heart to tell him that Soyna was pregnant and most likely with him and his brother Legen.

Everyone else was sleeping.

She was the only one that had not been seriously hurt in the battle.  A few scratches and such but nothing very serious, it was more exhaustion than anything else.  Benot's right arm looked like a maze of stitches.  Trunk' had a few stitches on his shoulder and was starting to look pretty bruised up.  Same with Vegeta, they almost had mirror like injuries.

Cyrus was just an ice cube and the doctors were baffled.  She was thankful when Raymond arrived.  He may not be as knowledgeable as the Raymond her time, but he would understand a bit better but at least he could understand Saiyian physiology better.  And he did understand a bit of what happened with Cyrus.

She was the one that calmed the nerves of Bulma and Carmen.  Bra and Boxer kept wanted to see their daddy.  Damn, it was heartbreaking seeing them look at her with those bright big tear filled eyes.  Then there was Brennen who just stood in front of the door looking in on his wife and seeing Benot at her feet made him frown.

She was thankful that it was Bulma that went to talk him.

It was quiet now and she got to take 'Geta, Boxer and Bra home.  They wanted to stay with everyone else but they didn't have much of a struggle.

…………………….

Benot looked up and saw Brennen looking down at him.  He shot up but it hurt too much and ended up back in the chair.  "Please," he found himself saying.  "Don't make me leave her.  Please."  His voice chocked up on him.  He wanted to make sure that she was going to wake up.  He didn't want to leave her.  He wanted to make sure that she was alive.  He didn't want to have the nightmares of her dying.  If she was in the same room, at least he could pretend that she was alive.

He didn't want Brennen make him leave.

Of course, he wasn't glaring at him.

"You don't have to leave," He said and walked in.  He took another chair by the head of the bed took her still hand.  "It's okay if you want to stay."

"Really," he said.

"Yeah."

The room was silent for a bit.  He watched as Brennen smoothed out some of her hair and lovingly touched her lips with his fingers and then looked back at him.  "The doctors say that she is going to be okay."

"Really?" he said.  He was so relieved.  He patted her leg again, just trying to make sure that she was there.

"Yeah.  And so are my children."  He started a bit.  "It was why she couldn't fight."  He put a hand on her belly.  "There are twins.  The doctors say that they are boys."

He gulped.  She was pregnant.  Pregnant.   He looked at her mother.  Yeah.  He should have known.  His birthday was in another 7 months and he was premature.  He should have known.  He looked to Brennen who was now looking at him with sad eyes.

"Bulma told me that you are my son," he said and looked away.  "She said that they didn't want to tell us because they didn't want to jinx things."

"Brennen?"  Soyna spoke in a soft weak voice.  "Brennen?"  Her eyes flickered open and he stood to look down on her.  He hit the chair with the back of his knees and it made a sharp sound as it moved back on the smooth floor.

"Yes?" he said.

Her eyes opened slightly and then she smiled.   It was a pained smile, but at least it was a smile.  "Everything okay?"  she said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked and was near tears.

"I wan… wanted to surprise you," she said and took a deep breath.  Her eyes fluttered… "I wass…. Gon… going to take…"

Brennen hushed her kissed her forehead.  "It's okay.  Rest now.  You need lot of rest."  He said.

She just sighed and closed her eyes again.

He looked at his dad and swallowed.  He really loved her.  He could see it.  It was something that he had never seen before.  She only showed that type of affection for Goten and Goten for her.  He was giving her that look that Goten would give to her.

"It is really okay if I stay?"  He said.  "I just….I…"  how could he say that he wanted to fill like his life was complete for once.  He wanted to get that feeling that he missed back.

"It is okay, but I do rather think, you should rest.  Your arm looks like it has soaked that bandage," Brennen said. 

He blinked and looked at his arm.  Boy, he was right.  He was bleeding quite a bit.  But mom was okay and dad was okay.

But all he could think about was how much he missed home.

Of course, that was all he really knew.  This was all still new to him.

………………………..

"Ow!"  Trunks complained and rubbed his arm that Carmen just slapped.  "Why did you do that?"

"Why?"  She said and her face went all red.  "You had me all worried, going into fight like that!  And getting Soyna involved…"

"…but…"

"She is in no condition to fight and when did you find out that she was pregnant?"

"…but…"

"Acting like a foolish child!"

"…hon?…" he said and flinched.  It looked like she was going to slap his arm again.

"What have you brought onto our family?"

"…dear…"

"Should we be expecting any other creatures to float from the sky?"

"…no…"

"Well, aren't you going to answer me?"  She said and glared at him.

"It's over now," he said slowly, hoping that she wouldn't slap his arm again.  That hurt.  "Everything will be okay now."

Her eyes sparkled and she was fighting tears.  If he wasn't so sore, he would have got out of bed ad held her but he was grateful that she fell into his arms as he opened them to her.  She rested against his chest.  "Promise?"

"I promise."  He said and reveled in the smell of his wives hair.  He never got tired of smelling that apple shampoo.

"Really promise?"  She said and looked up at him.

"Yes," he said.

She accepted that.

……………………..

"I heard what you said to the dragon," Bulma said in a low voice.  She had been sitting there, silent in that chair for two hours.  He thought that was the longest that he had ever seen her quiet.

He turned to her.

"What if it doesn't work?" she said.

He couldn't answer that.  "I have to try," he said and was surprised at how tired his voice sounded.  He was not as young as he used to be.  Battles took a lot more out of him than they did in the past.

"I will miss you a lot," she whispered and kissed his cheek.  "But I do understand."

He just smiled.

"You get some more rest now," she said.  "Everyone needs to get their rest around here."

He didn't mind just falling asleep.  He didn't mind lapsing into a dreamless sleep for he had all his dreams already happen.  He had to face reality when he woke up and Cyrus got better.

A reality that he had fought hard to avoid but now must face head on.

……………………………………….

Cyrus wanted to make sure that she was okay.  Everyone was telling him that she was okay but he had to see her.  She had looked so dead.  She had looked so gone and yet she lived.

He was still so cold and all his joints ached terribly as he walked with a blanket hunched over his shoulders and his teeth shattering as he did so.

He saw Benot first; he jumped up from his bedside chair.  He was looking quite well, with only a few dressing on his arm.  He was told that he had been sleeping for two weeks.  It was the longest that he had slept in a row.    Of course, it got worse every time that he had to use the dragon's power and this time he had used a lot of the power.

"What are you doing out of bed?"  Benot demanded.  "You are absolutely shaking!"

"I wanted to make sure that she was okay," he said and took a seat next to her bed.  She looked peaceful in her sleep.

Benot whispered harshly, "She just got to sleep.  Don't you dare wake her!   She has been wanting to let her out of the hospital and her and Raymond had been fighting over it."  Benot smiled slightly.  "It is just like home."

He smiled and looked at her.

He so missed mom.

That was when Benot walked in with two cups of wonderfully rich smelling hot chocolate.   He remembered sharing a cup of that with the other Brennen when he was mad at mom for not telling him that he was part dragon.

"Oh.  What are you doing here?"  He said and placed the cups on the table.

"I just wanted to make sure that she was okay," he said through chattering teeth.  They really did not make this hospital very warm.  He would like nothing more than to be relaxing in that bed that he had in Capsule Corp.  At least it felt a little like home, but he had an argument with Raymond too.  He could be so stubborn.

There was a bit of an awkward silence that hung in the air.  He could only think about how wonderful that hot WHITE chocolate would taste like and how wonderful the steam looked.

"You called her mom as well," Brennen said in a low voice, "But you … you are not my son are you?"

Benot looked like he was going to fall out of his chair.

It stunned him as well.

"They didn't need to tell me that.  I knew that somehow that you couldn't be my son, but she is your mother."  His voice was solemn and he chewed his lip in an almost nervous gesture. 

Cyrus was so stunned that he just nodded.

 Brennen reached for the cups.  "Here.  It looks like you need this much more than I do," he said with a very sad smile.  He handed him the delicious smelling cup and gratefully took it even though it felt like hot coals on his hands.

"You are not upset?"  Benot asked as he righted himself in the chair.  "We thought you would be upset."

"I was at first, when I realized it," he said and handed the other cup to Benot.  "But with everything else weird that has been going on around here, I would like to know… if you can tell me… who your father is?"  He was looking straight at Cyrus with a look of dread and anticipation.

Cyrus took in a deep breath and taking the glorious smell of the drink that he held in his hands.  "He won't exist in this time, if that helps ease your mind."  He said.  "He was there when mom had no one.  She had lost you and he came to her aid, even if she was stubborn about it."

"No kidding," Benot grumbled.  "The damn wimp was always there!"

"He is … a good man then." He said and took a big gulp of air, as if he was trying to swallow something that was distasteful to him.  "He treats her well."

"Yeah.  When she lets him," Cyrus smiled and looked over at the still sleeping woman in the bed.  "You know how stubborn she could be and how sometimes, she didn't want anyone to watch over her."

Brennen nodded.

Cyrus took a sip of the drink and wanted to gulp the warm delicious drink and savor it at the same time.  It felt as if his insides were going to melt.  This was the best stuff in the world, he was certain of it.

"I didn't pay much attention when everyone started talking about time travel and all that.  I never really thought it made much sense," he said.  "I guess I should have paid more attention, huh?"

"It is pretty hard to wrap your head around," Benot said.

Brennen nodded.

Cyrus looked at his would be mother.

He so wished he could go home.

….