A/N:Cries: By God! You guys gave me so many reviews! :Cries some more:
Ok, I am understanding why some of you think Trunks is the rapist, but no,
he is not. I wouldn't do that to
poor Trunksies. He already wears gay glasses. :Thinks: Well, Gohan kinda
does too. But, thats besides the
point, I love Gohan! You guys do too right! Kay, so I realize that the song
was hard to read at the end, but,
folks, honestly work with me pu-lease!
Ok, so Videl and Gohan, don't really like me AT ALL, at the moment, but,
hey! I'm the author, they are just
my toys.
Videl and Gohan: Glare
Me:Sweatdrop: Yeah..Toys, that can fly and shoot beams of light from their hands! AH! So anyway, that you to all who reviewed. :gives huggies around: I hope you enjoy this next chapter. And I hope you know, that I am doing this instead of homework (Darn teachers never give us a break, and it's during CHRISTMAS BREAK!)
Chapter. 9:
I thought I'd live forever
But now I'm not so sure
You try to tell that I'm clever
But that won't take me anyhow or anywhere with you
You said that I was naïve and
I thought that I was strong
I thought, "Hey, I can leave, I can leave."
But now I know that I was wrong.
~~~~~
The shadow on the stair step, stood up without a sound, she turned around quietly and scampered into her room. She had been wrong, about the whole thing she had been wrong! She sat down on her dark blue comforter, and pulled her legs to her chest, resting her chin on her knees.
Now her family was breaking apart. Her life was in ruins right before her eyes, and she didn't think she'd smile ever again. The look on her dad's face. He had looked so lost, so childlike, that was what scared her more than her mother's sobs. Her dad never looked like that. Her dad was strong, was a warrior, her dad was..Well her dad. Pan's eyes glanced around her darkened room, taking in the posters of Jacki Chan, her medals, and trophies, and at that moment, she thought to herself. She'd gladly give everything she had away, to anyone. Hell, even her worst enemy, just to take back what her mother had said.What had happened.
She changed positions, feeling more content, but just as empty, with her face securely buried in her pillow. It smelled very clean. Like fabric softener, and fresh air, and Pan's strawberry shampoo. It didn't smell anything like what her mother had smelled like that morning. Pan pushed her face even farther into the pillow, to the point where she was struggling to breath properly. But, at that point she didn't care, her parents were going through a crisis. Shit, she was going through a crisis, and for the first time in her life, there wasn't anyone there to be her lifeline. There was no one there to call her back.
~~
Gohan was in a dark abyss, he honestly didn't know where to go from here. He had thought, had planned on what to say when Videl had told him she was cheating. Marriage counseling, practice being a better husband, do the dishes, kiss better. But nothing, nothing had prepaired him for this. And now that Gohan actually thought about it, he felt pretty damn stupid he didn't notice anything was wrong with her in the first place. But no, he thought to himself, no, you were to busy wallowing in your own misery thinking about how you couldn't believe she would do something so sick as to cheat on you when you loved her so much. He couldn't do anything right. He never did anything right, and now he wasn't doing anything right, just sitting there with his hands in his lap, staring blankly at whatever happened to be infront of him.
Videl happened to be in front of him.
He took her in, staring at the face that he had loved since his late teenage years. The years had treated her well, she looked as beautiful, if not prettier then she did when he first laid eyes on her. But, this time her beauty had done her in. This time her beauty had been the noose that had tightened around her neck until she couldn't breath, and this time, it was her who had paid the price.
But, she didn't deserve it. And after all this was over, Gohan was planning on having a long talk with Dende about his little schemes against his so called friends.
Gohan leaned forward, reaching out on instinct alone, for his eyes had closed, and his lids were squeezed shut tightly. He grasped his wife's trembling shoulders and crushed her to him, whispering nothings into her ear for her comfort and his own.
~~
Videl watched as many expressions passed her lover's face. Shock, Confusion, Dread, Anger, and last of all Sadness. Gohan clamped his eyes shut, and reached forward for her, and she felt her body willingly crush into his. She wrapped her arms around his neck and basked in the feeling of their body's being pressed together. Another round' of tears gathered in her eyes, and she just let them fall. Damn this, Damn this whole fucking thing, what had she done to deserve this?! Burying her neck in Gohan's neck, where his mark was, and snuggled her nose into it, hearing Gohan's shaky sigh. And she began to sob. [1]
As her tears soaked Gohan's shirt, she realized she'd yet to tell him that she might be pregnant, and that thought brought a fresh feeling of anger and resentment towards whoever the hell did this to her.
If Gohan didn't kill the bastard, she had a feeling she would.
~~
Gohan began to absently stroke his wife's hair trying to think of something, anything, to say. "Umm." Well.That was a start. He thought dryly, falling back into silence.
"Are you mad?" Videl asked, gathering her wits and courage, if Gohan left her now...
"No!" He pulled her gently away from him, and lifted her face. Her eyes were tear stained and puffy, and her lower lip was trembling. She looked like she was about to burst into tears again. "No,of,course I'm not mad." At least not at you.. He thought to himself. Videl smiled slightly,and once again buried her head in his shoulder. "I can't believe I thought you'd cheated on me, I feel so stupid.." Videl pulled away and looked at him a bit angrily.
"I'd be pissed at you, if I wasn't so glad you weren't mad at me." She remarked, and Gohan couldn't help it he laughed. And then as though on their own regard the tears thought they'd break free of their prison inside his eyes and fall lightly down his face, he began to cry. Pulling a shocked, and somewhat scared Videl, back against his body, he closed his weary eyes against her hair. Inhaling.
"Dende.. I will hurt whoever did this to you Vid, and then I will kill Dende." He heard a pitiful muffled laugh against his shoulder, mutterings about helping him kill that shrimpy green alien, who sucks at watching over Earth. Gently he stood, pulling Videl along with him, and picked her up carrying her carefully up the stairs. Opening the door to their bedroom he placed her on the bed, sitting up. He leaned in and gave her the first kiss in two days.
God, how he had missed her.
Pulling back, he smiled slightly at Videl's whimper and whispered that he would be right back after he checked to see if their daughter was indeed asleep, or sneak-reading again using her Ki as a source of light.[2]
Closing the door behind him, he shuffled down the hallway drowsily and opened his child's door a crack. Upon seeing her face buried in her pillow, he assumed she was sleeping, until he saw her shoulder's shake. Stepping into the room, and closing the door silently he floated over to her bedside, and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder causing her to nearly jump out of her skin.
"Dad!" Her voice was hoarse, and she looked like she had been crying, she sat up quickly and tried pointlessly to wipe away her tears. He smiled at the similarity between her and her mother.
"That's what they call me," Frowning he looked her over. "What's wrong Panny?" Pan looked at her father like he had lost his mind, and leaned forward a bit resting her forehead against his mid-section[3].
"Whats wrong with me?! Whats wrong with you Daddy? Are you ok?" Gohan tilted his head looking down at his daughter's raven head, running his hands through her hair lovingly marveling at how her and Videl's hair were almost identical in softness.
..He seriously needed to get to bed.
"I'm just fine honey, but you were crying. Is it something about school?" Gohan's face darkened. "Is it a boy?" He had enough issues as it was, and his daughter didn't need a little boyfriend she was only nine! Pan snorted. As if, she beat up any boy that came within ten feet of her 'bubble' as far as she was concerned they were nothing but trouble. The only 'boy' she could stand (And even he was pushing his limits) was Trunks, and occasionally her goofy girl dwelling uncle; Goten.
"Dad! Uhh.It's nothing! I had a bad dream that's all." Gohan cocked an eyebrow and crouched next to his daughter's bed.
"Bad dream huh? About what?" Pan began to sweat, running the possibilities through her head. But, the only thought that came up was: Why the hell wasn't her dad upset about her mother!
"Uhh..Well, uh, I dreamt that I saw Master Roshi in a bathing suit.A..Uh.Girls bathing suit..Yeah!" Pan mentally patted her back at having thought up something that everyone would have nightmares about. Gohan shuddered. Why the hell would she dream about that?!
"Are you alright now?" He asked praying she was, he really wanted to cuddle his wife!
"Hmmmm." Pan said nodding her head, and hugging her dad hard, Gohan gave her a kiss on the cheek and tucked her back in, as he reached the door he heard Pan's voice calling at him to wait. Turning around he looked at her questionably.
"Yes?" He asked, and was surprised and a little annoyed to see Pan once again sitting up in her bed, he wanted to go to bed!
"You won't leave us right?" Pan asked, somberly, her face scared. Needless to say, it knocked Gohan's socks off. What the?
"Leave who? Why would I leave you?"
"You won't leave me and mom right? Cause, I know she loves you." Pan stated, as Gohan's face softened. He walked back over to her side, and sat on the bed next to her.
"Did you by any chance hear what your mother and I were discussing." He stated already knowing the answer. Pan bowed her head and nodded sullenly. Gohan lifted her face up and looked into her eyes smiling. "It's gonna be ok Panny, we're gonna work it out. I love your mom, and she loves me," He lifted his eyebrow again, making Pan let out a small giggle, "And you love us too right?" at her nod he hugged her gently. "I love you too Pan." Tucking her in for the second, and hopefully the last time that night, he stood, walked to the door, and glancing back at his and Videl's daughter, smiled gently. Everything would be fine.
~~
Safely tucked under the covers, a drowsy Videl was only semi-aware of her husband climbing into bed, and pulling her into his arms. As she drifted off to sleep, and sucked up Gohan's body warmth, she thought to herself how her life was beginning to mend.
..Then she remembered the baby.
~~
A/N: AHHHHHH..AM I EVIL OR WHAT?! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Erm, Ok.Oh! Notes, notes, notes. :Takes out list: [1]: I was going to put cry, but then I realized it would rhyme with sigh, and it was to serious a moment to do that so...Yeah. [2]: Don't you wish you could do that, when your in the best part of the book,(And it's always the best part when your parents of someone comes in) telling you to go to bed! [3]: Kay, Pan is on the bed, which is low to the ground, and Gohan's rather tall so..You do the math!
I hope you like this, I wrote it at a whim, so pardon my spelling errors, my computer is a bitch and so am I, hahahahahahahahahahaha. (Iwrote this on a whim, so pardon my spelling errors my brain is kinda dim. My computer is a bitch and so am I, I wish that I was rich so I could own the sky! [And Dragon Ball Z!]) ..I have no talent. But thats ok! You guys love me anyway! 10 reviews is what I want! I wish my Italics worked in this font!
And now that I got that madness out of my system, I'd like to say, I have had a Diet Coke after 8pm, and that is against the rules in my house (For obvious reasons) and now I am insanely hyper! Now my friends, I must fly! Dinner is ready, and I am starving! Ps: remember, Review! :Waves: Thankies! ~Jay (na[Jaina])
Videl and Gohan: Glare
Me:Sweatdrop: Yeah..Toys, that can fly and shoot beams of light from their hands! AH! So anyway, that you to all who reviewed. :gives huggies around: I hope you enjoy this next chapter. And I hope you know, that I am doing this instead of homework (Darn teachers never give us a break, and it's during CHRISTMAS BREAK!)
Chapter. 9:
I thought I'd live forever
But now I'm not so sure
You try to tell that I'm clever
But that won't take me anyhow or anywhere with you
You said that I was naïve and
I thought that I was strong
I thought, "Hey, I can leave, I can leave."
But now I know that I was wrong.
~~~~~
The shadow on the stair step, stood up without a sound, she turned around quietly and scampered into her room. She had been wrong, about the whole thing she had been wrong! She sat down on her dark blue comforter, and pulled her legs to her chest, resting her chin on her knees.
Now her family was breaking apart. Her life was in ruins right before her eyes, and she didn't think she'd smile ever again. The look on her dad's face. He had looked so lost, so childlike, that was what scared her more than her mother's sobs. Her dad never looked like that. Her dad was strong, was a warrior, her dad was..Well her dad. Pan's eyes glanced around her darkened room, taking in the posters of Jacki Chan, her medals, and trophies, and at that moment, she thought to herself. She'd gladly give everything she had away, to anyone. Hell, even her worst enemy, just to take back what her mother had said.What had happened.
She changed positions, feeling more content, but just as empty, with her face securely buried in her pillow. It smelled very clean. Like fabric softener, and fresh air, and Pan's strawberry shampoo. It didn't smell anything like what her mother had smelled like that morning. Pan pushed her face even farther into the pillow, to the point where she was struggling to breath properly. But, at that point she didn't care, her parents were going through a crisis. Shit, she was going through a crisis, and for the first time in her life, there wasn't anyone there to be her lifeline. There was no one there to call her back.
~~
Gohan was in a dark abyss, he honestly didn't know where to go from here. He had thought, had planned on what to say when Videl had told him she was cheating. Marriage counseling, practice being a better husband, do the dishes, kiss better. But nothing, nothing had prepaired him for this. And now that Gohan actually thought about it, he felt pretty damn stupid he didn't notice anything was wrong with her in the first place. But no, he thought to himself, no, you were to busy wallowing in your own misery thinking about how you couldn't believe she would do something so sick as to cheat on you when you loved her so much. He couldn't do anything right. He never did anything right, and now he wasn't doing anything right, just sitting there with his hands in his lap, staring blankly at whatever happened to be infront of him.
Videl happened to be in front of him.
He took her in, staring at the face that he had loved since his late teenage years. The years had treated her well, she looked as beautiful, if not prettier then she did when he first laid eyes on her. But, this time her beauty had done her in. This time her beauty had been the noose that had tightened around her neck until she couldn't breath, and this time, it was her who had paid the price.
But, she didn't deserve it. And after all this was over, Gohan was planning on having a long talk with Dende about his little schemes against his so called friends.
Gohan leaned forward, reaching out on instinct alone, for his eyes had closed, and his lids were squeezed shut tightly. He grasped his wife's trembling shoulders and crushed her to him, whispering nothings into her ear for her comfort and his own.
~~
Videl watched as many expressions passed her lover's face. Shock, Confusion, Dread, Anger, and last of all Sadness. Gohan clamped his eyes shut, and reached forward for her, and she felt her body willingly crush into his. She wrapped her arms around his neck and basked in the feeling of their body's being pressed together. Another round' of tears gathered in her eyes, and she just let them fall. Damn this, Damn this whole fucking thing, what had she done to deserve this?! Burying her neck in Gohan's neck, where his mark was, and snuggled her nose into it, hearing Gohan's shaky sigh. And she began to sob. [1]
As her tears soaked Gohan's shirt, she realized she'd yet to tell him that she might be pregnant, and that thought brought a fresh feeling of anger and resentment towards whoever the hell did this to her.
If Gohan didn't kill the bastard, she had a feeling she would.
~~
Gohan began to absently stroke his wife's hair trying to think of something, anything, to say. "Umm." Well.That was a start. He thought dryly, falling back into silence.
"Are you mad?" Videl asked, gathering her wits and courage, if Gohan left her now...
"No!" He pulled her gently away from him, and lifted her face. Her eyes were tear stained and puffy, and her lower lip was trembling. She looked like she was about to burst into tears again. "No,of,course I'm not mad." At least not at you.. He thought to himself. Videl smiled slightly,and once again buried her head in his shoulder. "I can't believe I thought you'd cheated on me, I feel so stupid.." Videl pulled away and looked at him a bit angrily.
"I'd be pissed at you, if I wasn't so glad you weren't mad at me." She remarked, and Gohan couldn't help it he laughed. And then as though on their own regard the tears thought they'd break free of their prison inside his eyes and fall lightly down his face, he began to cry. Pulling a shocked, and somewhat scared Videl, back against his body, he closed his weary eyes against her hair. Inhaling.
"Dende.. I will hurt whoever did this to you Vid, and then I will kill Dende." He heard a pitiful muffled laugh against his shoulder, mutterings about helping him kill that shrimpy green alien, who sucks at watching over Earth. Gently he stood, pulling Videl along with him, and picked her up carrying her carefully up the stairs. Opening the door to their bedroom he placed her on the bed, sitting up. He leaned in and gave her the first kiss in two days.
God, how he had missed her.
Pulling back, he smiled slightly at Videl's whimper and whispered that he would be right back after he checked to see if their daughter was indeed asleep, or sneak-reading again using her Ki as a source of light.[2]
Closing the door behind him, he shuffled down the hallway drowsily and opened his child's door a crack. Upon seeing her face buried in her pillow, he assumed she was sleeping, until he saw her shoulder's shake. Stepping into the room, and closing the door silently he floated over to her bedside, and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder causing her to nearly jump out of her skin.
"Dad!" Her voice was hoarse, and she looked like she had been crying, she sat up quickly and tried pointlessly to wipe away her tears. He smiled at the similarity between her and her mother.
"That's what they call me," Frowning he looked her over. "What's wrong Panny?" Pan looked at her father like he had lost his mind, and leaned forward a bit resting her forehead against his mid-section[3].
"Whats wrong with me?! Whats wrong with you Daddy? Are you ok?" Gohan tilted his head looking down at his daughter's raven head, running his hands through her hair lovingly marveling at how her and Videl's hair were almost identical in softness.
..He seriously needed to get to bed.
"I'm just fine honey, but you were crying. Is it something about school?" Gohan's face darkened. "Is it a boy?" He had enough issues as it was, and his daughter didn't need a little boyfriend she was only nine! Pan snorted. As if, she beat up any boy that came within ten feet of her 'bubble' as far as she was concerned they were nothing but trouble. The only 'boy' she could stand (And even he was pushing his limits) was Trunks, and occasionally her goofy girl dwelling uncle; Goten.
"Dad! Uhh.It's nothing! I had a bad dream that's all." Gohan cocked an eyebrow and crouched next to his daughter's bed.
"Bad dream huh? About what?" Pan began to sweat, running the possibilities through her head. But, the only thought that came up was: Why the hell wasn't her dad upset about her mother!
"Uhh..Well, uh, I dreamt that I saw Master Roshi in a bathing suit.A..Uh.Girls bathing suit..Yeah!" Pan mentally patted her back at having thought up something that everyone would have nightmares about. Gohan shuddered. Why the hell would she dream about that?!
"Are you alright now?" He asked praying she was, he really wanted to cuddle his wife!
"Hmmmm." Pan said nodding her head, and hugging her dad hard, Gohan gave her a kiss on the cheek and tucked her back in, as he reached the door he heard Pan's voice calling at him to wait. Turning around he looked at her questionably.
"Yes?" He asked, and was surprised and a little annoyed to see Pan once again sitting up in her bed, he wanted to go to bed!
"You won't leave us right?" Pan asked, somberly, her face scared. Needless to say, it knocked Gohan's socks off. What the?
"Leave who? Why would I leave you?"
"You won't leave me and mom right? Cause, I know she loves you." Pan stated, as Gohan's face softened. He walked back over to her side, and sat on the bed next to her.
"Did you by any chance hear what your mother and I were discussing." He stated already knowing the answer. Pan bowed her head and nodded sullenly. Gohan lifted her face up and looked into her eyes smiling. "It's gonna be ok Panny, we're gonna work it out. I love your mom, and she loves me," He lifted his eyebrow again, making Pan let out a small giggle, "And you love us too right?" at her nod he hugged her gently. "I love you too Pan." Tucking her in for the second, and hopefully the last time that night, he stood, walked to the door, and glancing back at his and Videl's daughter, smiled gently. Everything would be fine.
~~
Safely tucked under the covers, a drowsy Videl was only semi-aware of her husband climbing into bed, and pulling her into his arms. As she drifted off to sleep, and sucked up Gohan's body warmth, she thought to herself how her life was beginning to mend.
..Then she remembered the baby.
~~
A/N: AHHHHHH..AM I EVIL OR WHAT?! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Erm, Ok.Oh! Notes, notes, notes. :Takes out list: [1]: I was going to put cry, but then I realized it would rhyme with sigh, and it was to serious a moment to do that so...Yeah. [2]: Don't you wish you could do that, when your in the best part of the book,(And it's always the best part when your parents of someone comes in) telling you to go to bed! [3]: Kay, Pan is on the bed, which is low to the ground, and Gohan's rather tall so..You do the math!
I hope you like this, I wrote it at a whim, so pardon my spelling errors, my computer is a bitch and so am I, hahahahahahahahahahaha. (Iwrote this on a whim, so pardon my spelling errors my brain is kinda dim. My computer is a bitch and so am I, I wish that I was rich so I could own the sky! [And Dragon Ball Z!]) ..I have no talent. But thats ok! You guys love me anyway! 10 reviews is what I want! I wish my Italics worked in this font!
And now that I got that madness out of my system, I'd like to say, I have had a Diet Coke after 8pm, and that is against the rules in my house (For obvious reasons) and now I am insanely hyper! Now my friends, I must fly! Dinner is ready, and I am starving! Ps: remember, Review! :Waves: Thankies! ~Jay (na[Jaina])