Umm…no comments today I don't think except for some trivia. Did you all know that both of the sliding door mirrors in my room are covered with pictures of Trunks? Nope, I didn't think you knew. ^_^ Okay, on with the story!

~Lady Branwen~

Disclaimer: (To the tune of the famous Barney song "I Love You…") ~I love Trunks, Trunks loves me, You know I don't own DBZ, Stay away lawyers, While I give a kiss to Trunks, My Trunks says he loves me too!~ Lol, yes I am crazy, how did you know?

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Girl of My Dreams

Chapter 14

"About what?" Trunks asked. "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"About everything, Trunks." Gohan took a step towards Trunks. "Don't hurt my daughter or you'll be very sorry."

Trunks stared in disbelief. "Hurt her? You think that I would hurt her? I growled at Goten for attempting to put his arms around her! I protect her, not harm Pan."

"Well that's all well and good, but it's quite different when it's you. Will you protect her from yourself? When you're mad, are you going to beat her into submission or are you just going to walk away and forget about the argument? You and Goten have gotten into many fights over the years, and you both always ended up fighting to settle things. You can't do that with Pan."

"I know that! I'm not stupid!" Trunks raised his voice. "Why would I hurt her? I love Pan. I won't hurt her, I won't even yell at her! Besides, I don't yell anyway." Trunks turned away, then turned back to Gohan and began yelling, "How dare you say I would hurt her!" He clenched his fists, barely keeping himself from punching Gohan. "And Goten and I settled our problems by fighting because we could. We always ended up laughing at the end because we couldn't remember what we were fighting about. I don't think Pan could even do anything to make me mad anyway, so just lay off!"

Gohan stood with his arms crossed. "You don't yell, huh? Am I mistaken, or are your hands clenched too?"

"Just shut up, Gohan, just shut up," Trunks said as he realized that he had yelled. "I won't hurt Pan. I love her."

"One of these days, she will do something that you won't like. Women have a way of doing that. What are you going to do then? Argue with her the way you just argued with me? She won't be able to take that. She's not a spoiled child from the Brief household, she is a sweet girl who has been hurt by people all her life. I don't want my daughter with someone who will hurt her and remind her of what she has been through. I want someone for her who will treat her like a princess."

"She will be a princess if she marries me," Trunks muttered.

"Right, but will you treat her like one? I'm not impressed by your arguing skills. You have to know when to give up. And she's not a normal girl, Trunks. She gets emotional very easily, like she did just now."

"Well then use that as an example of what I'll do. I didn't hurt her. I wasn't going to anyway. I just walked over to her so that I could give her a hug and give her the present. I wasn't mad at her, Gohan."

Gohan shook his head. "You don't understand. I'm asking about when you do get mad. What will happen then?"

Silence filled the room as Trunks thought about it.

"I know whenever you used to get in trouble, your dad would take you into the gravity room and make you train. Your mom sent you there a few times herself as punishment. After all those years of going into the gravity room to train, to fight, I would be surprised if you didn't associate fighting and beatings with punishment. You have been shown throughout your life that a suitable punishment for doing something wrong is fighting and maybe a beating by Vegeta."

"Dad never beat me too bad. He never knocked me out or anything when we were in the gravity room. He only knocked me out that one time a long time ago before he sacrificed himself to kill Buu."

Gohan shrugged. "Trunks, I just want you to understand that I don't want to have to worry about Pan when she gets married. I don't want to have to worry 'Is she all right?' 'Did her husband beat her?' 'Did he bring back memories of when she was younger and was raped and beaten everyday?' You should really think about these things too, Trunks. Do you want her to relive those things? I'm quite sure that if she gets you mad enough, and you clench your fists like you did a moment ago, she will revert back to what she is now. She'll be crouching in a corner, waiting for you to beat her, thinking about what she used to go through. I don't want that for my daughter, and I won't let her marry someone who will do that to her."

"Oh yeah? Well you're not such a great protector yourself! You let the guy who used to beat her into the house! And what happened? Let me think," Trunks held out his hand and started counting on his fingers all the things Gohan had done. "You let him into the house so that he knew this was the house that Pan was in. Once he was in the house, he saw what kind of lock you had. You showed him all around the house so that he could take note of where all the furniture was, where windows were, and where you slept. And to top it all off, you showed him where Pan's room was. Now how stupid was that? You practically invited that guy to kidnap Pan. I know I'll protect her better than you did."

Gohan lost his imposing stance when he realized that all that Trunks had said was true. "Y-You're right…I did." Gohan brought his hands to his head to cover his face. "I can't believe I did that!"

Silence filled the room again as they both thought over the things that had been said. Videl and Pan walked back into the room. Pan carried a huge blue purse with her.

"Okay guys, we're leaving. We'll be back soon." Seeing Gohan's solemn look, she added, "Don't worry Gohan, you know I know martial arts. That son of a bitch Charles won't hurt Pan with me around, believe me."

Pan looked worriedly at her father, then turned to Trunks to ask what was wrong with Gohan, but was faced with the same look. "What's wrong with you two?" Pan asked. "Is something wrong?"

"You're dad doesn't want me to be your boyfriend…and I'm not sure that I would be good enough for you anyway," Trunks answered sadly.

"And I let Charles into the house. I showed him around and in turn allowed him to kidnap you."

"What?!" Pan yelled outraged, "You let him kidnap me?"

"No, it wasn't intentional, Pan! When I let him in, he wanted to look around to make sure I wasn't lying about you being here. He saw the whole house, saw where he could come in and everything. I showed him where your room was…and what happened? He abducted you from your room. I'm a terrible father," Gohan said, his voice cracking towards the end.

"Oh, honey," Videl said. She wrapped her arms around Gohan and held him for a few minutes. Then they heard a knock at the front door. They all went to the living room and Videl went to the front door and opened it.

"Ma'am, we have a warrant to search this house."

Gohan jumped up from the couch and went to stand by Videl at the front door. Trunks jumped up as well and was moving towards Pan, intending to take her to the hidden room in the basement, when the policemen kicked the door open wider.

"I want to see that warrant," Videl said tersely. A policeman handed her the warrant and walked towards Pan. She latched onto Trunks when she saw the familiar fat, old man named Charles walk in behind the last of the officers.

"Officers, my daughter was kidnapped from me quite a few weeks ago. That boy," Charles said pointing to Trunks, "Is the one who took her. These people have been keeping her hostage here."

"No!" Pan yelled as a policeman snatched her away from Trunks. "I wanted to be here!"

"I think," Charles said to Pan, "That we'd better take you to a hospital, dear. Who knows what they have done to you. They've probably raped you!"

Gohan grabbed one of the officers by the arm. "Officer, we didn't kidnap her. She wanted to come here. We are her biological parents and she wanted to stay with us, please don't take her. You don't know what that man has done to her!"

"Save it for the courts sir." He tipped his hat to Videl. "Good day Ma'am."

Gohan, Videl, and Trunks stood frozen to the spot. Joey walked into the living room. "Mommy?"

Joey's voice woke Videl back up and she stormed out of the house after the police. "Hey! That's our daughter! That man beats her."

Charles turned around and the rest of the police stopped and turned around as well. "Ma'am," Charles said, "I don't think you should be accusing me of beating her. Why, just look at all the cuts and bruises here on her face! I haven't seen her in so long, how could I have done it? She has been staying here with you for many weeks. Only you could have done this to my dear, sweet daughter." He stroked Pan's cheek lovingly. Pan flinched.

"But you kidnapped her!" Videl said, losing her initial anger as she realized that Charles was turning everything against them.

Charles chuckled. "You have it backwards. You kidnapped my daughter. I didn't kidnap her."

"Either way," a police officer said, "We have to take this young man into custody." He grabbed Trunks and began reading him his rights.

"We'll bail you out Trunks, we'll come and get you," Gohan said. Pan started crying and Charles took her away from the house.

Trunks was handcuffed and forced into the police car. Once inside, he looked back out at Videl, Gohan, and Joey, all shocked at the chaos. Gohan never once took his eyes off of Pan. He watched his only daughter be put into the car of the man who claimed to be her father, the same man who had beaten her all her life and who had, not to long ago, raped her mercilessly countless times. Gohan watched as Charles' car drove out of their driveway followed by a squad of police cars. Silently, Gohan cursed Charles and swore revenge on him for his daughter.

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Muhahahahahaha! Cliffhanger! I'm sorry you guys, I know you guys want to know what Gohan does to Charles! I know you all hate Charles but I just had to leave you with this cliffhanger lol. Okay, hopefully the next chapter will be out soon. See ya!

~Lady Branwen~