Hey peeps. Sorry for not updating last week. I just got back from vacation. This is the end of this half.
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Bulma woke up with the sun in her face. She blinked a few times and then tried to roll onto her back, but SMACK. She ended up right against a stone hard obstacle.
She froze, wondering who on earth was lying next to her. She slowly turned her head and saw none other than Vegeta.
"AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!" she screamed. Vegeta woke up with a start and looked around, fists clenched!
"Where is it? Where's the danger?" he yelped. However, he then shut his eyes again and fell back onto the pillow, out cold again.
"Vegeta!!!! VEGETA!!!" Vegeta bolted out of the bed a second time. "What? What is it? WHAT THE F*** DID WE DO!?" he yelled when he saw that his clothes were in pieces on the ground.
"HOW THE F*** SHOULD I KNOW! I JUST WOKE UP, NAKED, NEXT TO YOU!" Bulma screeched back.
"WELL WHAT ELSE COULD WE HAVE-" Vegeta stopped, realizing that they were yelling for no reason. "Okay. Fine. We slept together. I can handle that," he said, rubbing his head in confusion and frustration.
"Yea? Well I can't," she said.
"Well you certainly seemed to handle it well last night!" Vegeta said gruffly. Bulma fell silent. They both shoved on their clothes, looking away from each other.
"Well, this isn't a dream…"
"Felt like one last night…"
"Stop referring to last night!" Bulma snapped. "And we can't both be having the same extremely detailed hallucinations. Therefore, it is real."
"No shit, Sherlock," Vegeta muttered.
"Shut the f*** up!" Bulma yelled back.
Vegeta glared at her and then calmed down. "This is no time for us to be fighting."
"You're right, you're right," Bulma said, sitting down on the bed. Vegeta did the same.
"We could pretend it never happened," Bulma suggested. "It could just be a one night stand…"
"No. The others will know," Vegeta said.
"How the hell would they know? It's not like they check to make sure I'm still a virgin or anything," she said incredulously. Vegeta fell silent. Bulma had the distinct feeling he was hiding something from her.
She was about to ask when-
BOOOOOOM!
They each fell off the bed, Bulma landing flat on her face. Vegeta managed to support himself in time and stood up again.
BOOOOOOM!
The whole room exploded. Bulma felt herself being throw backwards. Then all she saw was blackness…
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She woke up to the sound of yelling and explosions.
"What happened?" she whispered, blinking hard to clear her vision. She sat up, feeling sick. She heard yelling behind her. She stood up and stumbled around for a bit, having to steady herself on a piece of the broken wall.
She turned around to see Vegeta and a man standing in a fighting stance, facing each other. The man seemed to be humanoid. However, he was much bigger than a human, or any Saiyan. He looked like his race could be related to the Saiyans. He had spiky hair, but it went back instead of straight up. His tail was black instead of brown, and he wore some strange armor that she had never seen before. They seemed to be talking. She was a safe distance away, yet she could hear them from where she was.
"Who is that guy?" Bulma wondered.
"I'm offering you a chance in a lifetime, Vegeta! Don't throw it away!" the man yelled. Vegeta looked at the man incredulously.
"I have a life here, Creon! A life! I have a future here on this planet! It may seem hard to believe, but it's true!" he yelled.
The man named Creon laughed. "You have a future Vegeta! And yes, it is here. This is where we can start. You have a chance to rule the universe! This is what you dreamed of since you were a little boy! And you're going to throw it all away because of some woman!?"
"They're talking about me…" she thought.
Vegeta seemed to think a bit. He whispered something to Creon that Bulma couldn't hear. Creon said something back, also very quietly. Vegeta's eyes flashed with hate, but also with defeat. Creon gave Vegeta a strange look, and Vegeta seemed to calm down suddenly.
"You know very well that I am much stronger than you. And even if I wasn't, I could carry out my threat with ease.
Vegeta studied Creon for a while, looking for a falter or a sign of bluffing.
"Very well," he said. "I'll go with you."
"Vegeta! No!" Bulma screamed, running up to him.
"Why are you going? Why?"
"Because I want to! I've made up my mind!" Bulma started to cry.
"No! Vegeta! You can't go! I love you!" she blurted.
Vegeta twitched. "Love is for fools," he whispered. "I'm afraid you'll have to learn that the hard way."
"Noo… Vegeta…" she sobbed, clutching to him. He shoved her off.
"Stay away from me, slut! I will not take this!" he yelled. "I never loved you! It was all a lie to get you into my bed!"
"No! You're lying!" she screamed, tears streaming down her face.
"It's true, woman!" he yelled back. "I used you to get stronger! I knew your intelligence would come in handy." Bulma would stifle a few sobs every now and then, sinking to her knees. "So I decided to play the game, getting you to think I liked you, baiting you so you'd build me something useful. I'm taking the GR. Cya later, sucker!" he said, smirking sadistically.
Bulma could only watch heartbroken as he and Creon flew off. She turned around and noticed that the GR was the only undamaged piece of property. She cried silently.
Then another blast filed the air, and yet again she only saw blackness.
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Bulma opened her eyes for the second time that day, wondering where on earth she was. After her eyes adjusted, she saw a couple of beds similar to the one she was in beside her. She was in the hospital. She sighed and closed her eyes, willing for it all to be a dream.
A nurse walked in. "Oh! You're awake! It's about time, too. You were in a bad coma," the nurse chirped. She reminded Bulma of her mother.
"How long has it been?" Bulma asked.
"Lie back down, hunny. You need to rest. It's been two months."
Bulma lied her head back again, obeying the nurse's orderes. The nurse ruffled her pillows and such.
"I'm sure if it had just been that one explosion, you both would have been fine. But the second explosion shook you up," the nurse rambled. Bulma forked her brow, wondering what she meant by 'you both'. "We tried to keep you both alive," the nurse said sympathetically. "But just yesterday, the baby died," she said, turning to Bulma with a sincere look of what seemed to be apology. "We've been expecting you to wake up for the past 24 hours."
"Baby!? What baby?" Bulma asked, bolting up.
The nurse looked at her, astounded. "Didn't you know? You were pregnant!" she said. Bulma sank down again, her shoulder's shaking. She started to weep uncontrollably.
"Now, now, dear. It's alright," the nurse said, coming over and hugging Bulma.
"I was finally going to have a baby…" she wailed. "I've wanted to have a baby ever since I was 18 and now it's gone!"
"Shh… calm down now, dear," the nurse soothed. "Everything will be alright,"
"No," Bulma thought. "No, it won't."
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I felt so dirty and used; I felt stupid and abused. My parents were fine, and we had Capsule Corp. rebuilt in no time. Luckily, it was Labor Day and there were no employees in the building; so no one was hurt.
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Bulma was still in the hospital when Goku came to see me. She had calmed down quite a bit about the baby, but she was still very distressed.
"Bulma?" asked Goku nervously. "How are you?" he asked, trying to smile reassuringly.
"I'm great, thanks Goku," Bulma said.
"Well, Bulma. I… I have some bad news," he said, sitting at the foot of the bed. She sat up, frowning. "Well, uh…it's about Vegeta. He's dead," he said.
Bulma looked down, expecting to feel a wave of emotion hit her. But she felt no pity, and she felt no pain. She felt no anguish, and she felt no depression.
"How?" she asked, pupils quivering.
"I killed him," Goku whispered. "Apparently, he and the man he was with felt me as their biggest threat. They decided to dispose of me first."
"And you won?" He nodded. "Good," she said.
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He had made his decision, and I had made mine. It was almost like fate that I lose that baby. I would never have to be reminded of the love I never had. I have lived my greatest nightmare: to grow up an old maid. Many people say that they would give anything to be me. But I say that I would give anything to be those people. They don't know the pain I suffered, the tears I've cried. They have no idea how many friends I've seen fall, and all the love I wished for. But that wish never came true. Was it love that I had with Vegeta? No. It was not.
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Well I thought I knew you
Thinking that you were true
Guess I, I couldn't trust
Called your bluff
Time is up
Cause I've had enough
You were there by my side
Always down for the ride
But your joyride
Just came down in flames
Cause your deeds
Sold me out in shame
After all of the stealing, your cheating
You probably think
That I hold resentment for you
But... you're wrong
Cause if it wasn't for all that
You tried to do
I wouldn't know
Just how capable
I am to pull through
So I wanna say thank you
CHORUS:
Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
It makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter
Never saw it coming
All of your backstabbing
Just so you could
Cash in on my good thing
Before I realized your game
I heard your going round
Playing the victim now
But don't even begin
Feeling I'm the one to blame
Cause you dug your own grave
After all of the fights and the lies
Guess you wanted to harm me
But that won't work any more
No more... it's over
Cause if it wasn't for
All of your torture
I wouldn't know how
To be this way now and
Never back down
So I wanna say thank you
CHORUS
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Please review. Epilogue to this coming out next Sunday. Then the AU.
