Is it me? Or have people stopped reading my story because I killed Pan? (I'll explain in the end) That just makes me sadder. As I said in my other story, I'm bummed. My seminarian Jorge went back to his home in Paraguay. I kinda knew he was leaving because he kept on talking about how he wasn't sure about staying in the seminary. -_- *sigh* I just can't get over it. It's been a week now....Oh well, that's life, you win some, you loose some.

The translation to last chapter: 'Enough time fails me again, enough life fails me again.'

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ. The song is 'Tírate' by Café Tacvba.

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Chapter 14: Por Una Noche En Su Lecho, Soy Capaz De Dar La Vida.

"What!?!" Gohan ran to Pan. "She can't....She can't be dead!!!" He yelled pushing Trunks out of the way. "No Pan! Don't leave us! Think of Cyan!" He sobbed. He leaned into Pan's chest in an attempt to get closer to her.

*What have I done?*

Bra ran to Goten when he stood up. They brought each other comfort. *Pan, you had just come back* Bra thought hugging Goten tighter.

Kalid couldn't believe what had just happened. *Pan gave her life for me, and I couldn't even show her how much she meant to me.* He stared at Gohan and Pan still too shocked to move.

"Pan...."Gohan sobbed. *Huh?* He stopped crying. *Is that...?* "Oh thank you Dende!" He yelled throwing his arms up.

Everyone turned to look at Gohan with awe. For a moment they thought he had gone crazy. Then he spoke relieving the rest of them. "There is a heartbeat!"

*There's still a chance*

"UGH!" Everyone turned to look at Marron writhing in the air. "Stop! Get out! I won't let you hurt them anymore! GET OUT!" Marron yelled grasping her head. "NO!"

Once again Schala took control. "Does her death hurt you so?" Schala looked at Kalid, tears filled her eyes. Kalid just looked at her sadly. "I understand now." She looked down with a soft smile. "Giving her life so that you could be happy. I won't let her sacrifice be in vain."

"What do you mean?" Kalid yelled.

"You won't be happy if Pan is dead." She caressed Kalid's face. Marron walked over to Pan and pushed Gohan aside. She knelt beside Pan. "I admire your bravery." She looked back at Kalid. "Have a happy life." A tear rolled down her cheek. *I don't want to die. But I don't want to live without Kalid.* Schala thought sadly.

A thin ray of light left Marron's hand to enter Pan's body. Marron's body immediately fell to the ground. "NO!" Trunks ran to Marron and hugged her. "Not you too!" Another tear rolled down his cheek.

"I'm convinced." Trunks heard a whisper.

Trunks pulled away to look at Marron's face. He found her smiling faintly looking exhausted. "I'm convinced....I love you." She said, happy tears flowing from her eyes. "Marron!" Trunks said lovingly taking Marron in a tight embrace, before smiling whole-heartedly, something he hadn't done in a long time.

Kalid finally found the strength to move. He crawled to Pan. He grabbed her and held her in a protective embrace. Smiling a little he moved his hand to Pan's face, caressing it softly. "C'mon Pan, wake up." He whispered.

Pan's eyes fluttered open and she looked around a little scared. The blur finally faded away and saw her father and Kalid looking at her. A smile grew on their faces. "You made it!" said Gohan.

It took a few moments for Pan to register where she was at and what had just happened. She looked at Kalid and saw he looked fine. "I'm tired." She smiled.

A light chuckle was heard from everyone else present, amused at her somewhat awkward comment.

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~~Trunks' POV~~

It's the end of July. It has been nearly two months since the 'incident' with Schala. That scared the shit out of me! I really thought Pan had left us, not to mention Marron! Good thing they're both here with us.

So you're probably wondering what's going on in this corner of the planet? Things aren't very different from before Schala's threat, oddly enough. Well, Marron and I are back together. But we're keeping it a secret for a while. We don't want to get jinxed.

And Pan? Well, I guess she's doing fine! They're done building S.P. Financial. Bra's decorating it now; I bet it'll look spiffy. Pan said it will be opened in about three weeks. Yeah! Party time! Pan and I have become good friends again, although, I must admit I act more than friendly with her sometimes. I can't help it; we're such good flirts, but that's it: I love Marron. Pan made me realize that. And she loves Kalid. Pan and I don't belong together. Besides, sometimes I DO want to make Kalid jealous, maybe he'll wake up. HMM I wish Pan would stay here, but I think Cyan's got to go back to school too. Maybe she'll stay here.

Speaking of which, Kalid is still being an asshole. I don't understand why he can't just be with Pan. They love each other for Dende's sake. It pisses me off sometimes; it makes me want to beat some sense into him. But then again, it's not really my place to tell him what to do.

Everything else is peachy at work. Goten joined the 'team' and he's doing a good job so far. In fact, he saved all of our behinds a month and a half ago.

~Flashback~

It's four o'clock. One more hour then I can go home! My secretary just brought my mail. I opened one suspicious envelope first. It was from the bank we have our account with....What!?! It seems for some odd reason, we're almost out of funds. Geez! Four of our biggest investors just withdrew, and our budget will have to be cut.

I told my secretary to call Goten and Kalid to my office and that it was an emergency. She did so right away. She's very efficient. A few minutes later, Kalid entered the room followed by Goten. "What's going on?" Kalid asked. I explained the situation, and they both seem worried. They tell me we should solve this problem as soon as possible. No fucking shit!!!!! I know that! Anyway, we're sitting there, going through numbers, discussing different strategies for a few hours..in fact it was already nine o'clock!

It seemed our only choice to save money was to reduce pay-roll budget....meaning, we would have to fire a lot of people. I felt bad, but really! It was our only choice....or so we thought! Goten hadn't really suggested something radical; and it got on my nerves: he couldn't think of anything! Now he was grabbing his head with both hands. He was in deep thought, and it looked painful! Defeated, I made the decision to lay-off people. Then Goten jumped up yelling "Eureka! Eureka! Eureka!" I fell from my chair, seeing I was leaning back and Goten yelling 'eureka' really freaked me out!

I finally get him to calm down and tell me the big idea. Well? Are you ready? This is the big idea: "It'll take sacrifice form ALL of us!" He looked at me sternly. I only nodded. "We reduce everyone's salary and we won't have to fire anyone!" Goten said happily.

"How the fuck is that going to help!" I burst out! I was really frustrated. Kalid got me to calm down long enough for Goten to explain the 'plan' thoroughly. "Well, again, we reduce everyone's salary, INCLUDING ours. We'll have to explain the situation to the workers, and that this will only be temporary. And if someone doesn't like it, they can quit, which I don't think they'll do because it's always better to have a job with lower pay, than to have no job at all. We do this until we catch up with our previous budget." Goten finished excited.

I looked at him skeptically. "I'll show you!" he said. He was really sure of his idea. He punched some numbers in the calculator and showed me the numbers. *Wow!* I thought. "See?" He said proudly. "It'll work." I said, looking at the numbers once again. "Ok, we'll do it." My mom would have been on our asses for months, maybe years, if we wouldn't have solved this on our own.

We were so happy we were able to solve a problem like this, that we started jumping around holding hands. Then, what we were doing, and how old we were, sank in and we all stepped away from each other awkwardly.

~End Flashback~

We're all caught up now, back on our old salary. Goten's good. I'm glad he got off that lazy ass of his and came to work with us. So yeah, we're doing well. But I really wish I at least knew why Kalid won't go back with Pan. Well, it's not like Pan's begging him, she's proud too.

~~End Trunks' POV~~

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One week later:

Kalid was lying on his bead. *I wish Pan was with me. But this is for the best. After sleeping with Trunks why would she be interested in me. She hasn't shown interest in me anyway, she's shown it to Trunks. I can't stand it. I love her! But she was right that night in the club, it's her turn to be happy. I'm happy knowing she's happy.*

He encontrado cosas buenas para soportar
I have found good things to handle
El calor del hambre cuando me voy a acostar
The heat of hunger when I go to bed

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*That's it! It's time Kalid knows the truth!* Trunks said feeling somewhat guilty.

Trunks knocked on Kalid's door. He heard a 'yeah' and he went in. "Hey."

"HMMM." Kalid said, indifferent.

"There's something I need to tell you." Trunks said slowly. Kalid turned to look at him. "You need to get over yourself and get Pan." Kalid got a 'whatever' look on his face. "One day she told me that Marron and I loved each other and that we weren't together just to get back at each other, ironically, you two are doing the exact same thing. Now that I'm back with Marron I see it, and our relationship is doing better than ever."

Kalid sat up quickly. "If you're with Marron, why are you-"

"I'm not done!" Trunks glared at Kalid. "I don't love Pan. It's just innocent flirting-if that answers your question."

Kalid glared at Trunks with disbelief.

*I remember a flare in someone's ki that night that Pan and I were going to sleep together...oh.* "Pan didn't sleep with me. She couldn't....We both know why she didn't sleep with me." He smirked at Kalid before stepping to the door. "Think about it." Trunks said shutting the door.

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Later that day, Kalid and Vegeta were sparring in the gravity room.

Kalid charged coolly at Vegeta. After several punches and kicks Vegeta sent Kalid to the ground with a simple kick. "What the hell's wrong? My grandma could have seen that a mile away!"

Vegeta imagined what was on Kalid's head. "Baka-boy!" He walked over to Kalid. He grabbed him by the collar lifting him a feet or so from the ground. "Do you want her?" He asked harshly.

Kalid just stared back. "DO YOU WANT HER? BAKA!" Vegeta yelled. "Yes." Spat Kalid, looking aside.

"Then take her! A saiyan warrior deserves what he wants, when he wants!!!" Vegeta threw Kalid to the ground and walked to leave the room. He saw that Kalid wasn't getting up. "Well? What are you waiting for!?! A limousine?"

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"Someone get the door!!!" Gohan yelled after hearing the doorbell. He was....indisposed in the bathroom.

"I'm coming." She said.

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"Hey Pan! Wanna go out?......no, that's lame..Pan I'm sorry for getting you killed...no, no, no, no...." Kalid scratched his head thinking what exactly to say to Pan. Finally someone opened the door. Kalid smiled expecting the love of his life to flash him the smile he loved so much.

"Oh Hello Kalid."

Kalid's smile fell. "Hey Videl! Is Pan home?"

"HMM Didn't she tell you?" Videl asked thoughtfully. "She went back to the US."

"What!?!"

Y si me dices que te vas
And if you tell me that you'll leave
Que no lo quieres intentar
That you don't want to try it out
Entonces abre la ventana
Then open the window
Y tírate
And jump off

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"Mommy, do you kiss daddy?" He looked at Pan now. Pan got a blank look on her face. "Why do you ask that?" She came to. "Because I see grandpa and grandma kiss and Bulma and Vegeta, and Uncle Goten and Bra."

"Well....I don't kiss your dad, but that doesn't mean we don't love you." Pan tried to comfort him. He only looked sadly at his food.

"Mommy, why are we going back?" Cyan asked sweetly eating his airplane meal.

"Because, there's stuff I have to fix at my work." Pan replied taking a sip of her water. "Why the long face? We'll be back with your grandparents in two weeks!" Pan said running her hand through her son's hair. "And daddy too?" Cyan took a bite from his fork. "Yeah, daddy too." *Don't think I've forgotten about you Kalid.* Pan thought with a smirk.

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"Yeah, she went back to the US. But don't worry, there was an emergency at her office, plus she had other things to fix. She'll be back in two weeks." Videl smiled. "I'm so happy you came looking for her, she's been waiting you know. I'll tell her you came by." She smiled again.

Sé que no lo harás
I know you won't do it
Cae el cielo sobre el mar
Heaven falls on the sea
Sé que no dirás
I know you won't say
Palabras de verdad
True words

"No, don't tell her." He said smirking. *I've got a better plan.*

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*sigh* -_- I liked the part where Schala's life revives Pan, and how Goten saves Capsule Corp., other than that I hate this chapter. Well, I guess it's time to explain the turn of events.

I swear that when I started this story I wanted to make it T/P. I guess one thing led to another....I don't know, I guess my evil twin took over. By the time Pan went back to Japan I knew I wanted her to end up with Kalid. Don't get me wrong. I love T/P's, in fact, I've never read a T/M before, that's how biased I am. But, like I said, I don't know, it just seemed right. Besides, I already agreed with my evil twin that 'The Light Of My Life' is going to be strictly T/P. -_- *sigh* sorry for deceiving you, I just didn't want this to be the usual Pan-goes-to-college-comes-back-and- Trunks-falls-in-love-with-her T/P. And I also wanted to keep you guys guessing, I couldn't give the story away.

As for the death of Pan, I knew all along she was going to be revived, but I couldn't ruin it. C'mon, did you really think that the protagonist of this story was going to die for good? I guess my evil twin is to blame again. -_- I didn't mean to scare away the readers, but I think I did anyway.

As for the story, you already knew that I'm drawing it to a conclusion. I think next chapter will be the last, unless, (by some miracle of God) my evil twin comes up with more fucked up twists for this particular plot. It's been great knowing someone reads my story. I'm glad the reviewers reviewed, if it weren't for you guys, the story would have probably died, or taken a lot longer. Thank you again. BTW, other readers: don't be shy to review; I'd like to know what you think, and how I can improve my writing.

*sigh* I miss Jorge, we were friends. Well, Hasta!

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