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A Future in the Past

Ch.1: Cathrine



A young girl of about 18 sat down in an attic reading a baby book that once

belonged to her mother whom she had never known once in her life. Her father Jacob

never spoke of his wife and her Uncle Trunks said it was too painful of a subject.

So Cathrine lived her life not knowing a single thing about her mother until she

discovered her baby book while cleaning the attic. She spent every minute reading from

the pages. She had suspected that her mother had left her and her father shortly after her

~Cathrine's~ birth. Cathrine would have given anything to have known her mother a

minute or even a second.

A middle-aged woman came up into the attic. Her name was Jasmine and she had

been at one time Veronica Briefs' best friend but Cathrine called her Aunt Jasmine or

Aunt Jas.

"What are you doing little girl?" Jasmine asked playfully. Cathrine jumped.

"N- nothing Aunt Jas." Cathrine stammered.

"I do believe that was your mother's" Jasmine said nodding towards the book. "A

wonderful woman. My best friend and practically my sister."

"Please tell me about her. I'm eighteen. I can handle the story."

"Your father won't tell you?" Cathrine shook her head.

"No. All he says is she was a wonderful woman. No more, no less."

"Well then I think this is a perfect time for you to hear her story considering it is her

birthday."

"My mother's birthday is June 17th?

"I know the book is a little off because the book says June 18th. That's Panny's birthday

though."

"I know she doesn't want to turn 38."

"She can be a little whinny sometimes but… Your mother would be 39 today."

"Where is she? What happened to her?"

"Well get to that Miss Halston-Briefs." Jasmine smiled at the teenager. She had no

children of her own though. She wanted kids so bad she could taste it. Pan and Trunks

had five of their own:

Jen~17~m

Piper~15~f

Lhea~13~f

Jordyn~11~f

Requeal~9~f (*lots of girls*)

And were expecting twins in October. Cathrine had no siblings so her cousins served as

her brother and sisters.

"You know my whole life I've wanted to call you 'mom' instead of Aunt Jasmine?"

Jasmine looked at her best friend's daughter, shocked to hear those words escape her lips.

"Really?"

"Well yeah. You were always around my daddy and sometimes I thought you two were

married."

~"I never expected that."~ Jasmine told herself. Pan and Trunks came up into the attic.

"Look Trunks, Cathy found Nia's baby book." Pan said smiling. "I knew if I put it in the

right place you would find it."

"You set this up?" Cathrine exclaimed.

"Cathy, your father isn't about to tell you your mother's story. His Saiyan pride has

gotten in the way of that." Jasmine explained.

"Royal Saiyan pride." Pan laughed harshly.

"No Pan. Nia was royal. Jacob is a commoner." Jasmine answered the quarter breed

Saiyan. Jasmine was a half-breed like Veronica and Trunks while Jacob and Justin were

pure bred. Cathrine was more Saiyan because of her parents.

"So are you guys going to tell me my mom's story?" Trunks and Pan nodded.

"And your grandfather will be here later to help." Pan said to her niece. Suddenly

Cathrine's father Jacob appeared in the doorway.

"And I will do my part as well." Everyone smiled but Cathrine smiled most of all. Her

father was opening up and talking about his wife and mate. He and Justin were half

brothers, sharing the same Saiyan mother not fathers. (Justin: Radditz, Jacob: Nappa)

"The story starts what-?" Trunks had started the story as everyone got comfortable in

their seats.

"It starts twenty years and one month ago." Jasmine reminded him. Cathrine sat back and

listened to her mother's story before she had entered the picture.



Okay don't flame me too badly. It's hard working on eight stories at once and now only with half of them posted. Cathrine is going to disappear from the story now and will be back the last few chapters. BTW! Justin is older than Jacob by one year.