At World's End
Chapter 6: Mama Mia
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Goku appeared out of thin air, landing at the foot of Gohan bed. Gohan had fallen asleep by then, carefully holding Videl against his chest, who was just laying there, not asleep and not even trying to be. Goku smiled at her and handed her a small brown pouch.
"What's in it?" Videl asked softly, shifting just a little, trying not to wake the sleeping Gohan. She untied the string and found two little green beans. "You only have to eat one. They're called Senzu beans and they'll fix that little leg of yours in mere seconds. You can save the second for that tournament you're training for. You never know when you're going to need them," Goku explained before leaving the room and closing the door softly.
Videl shrugged to herself and ate one of the beans, chewing it up partially and then swallowing it. She wrapped the other one back up in the pouch and placed it on Gohan's nightstand. Then she turned back and curled up against Gohan, wrapping one arm around his waist and resting her head under his chin. Nothing had ever been better for Videl. Even though she had just been kidnapped and broken her leg, and her nosey neighbor was threatening to reveal her father's secret, she was curled up against Gohan. Nothing would ever be better than that, Videl truly believed.
"Gohan?" she whispered softly, testing to see if he was really sleeping. "Yeah?" he muttered, sounding extremely tired. Videl looked up to his face, "Do you want to go do something?" she asked him slowly. "Now that my leg is better, I don't really feel like just laying here. I'm bored out of my mind."
"You can go train, but I'm going to stay right here. I had to sleep on the couch last night and it isn't exactly comfortable. Parts of me feel as if they will never be operational again," Gohan groaned. Videl blushed, only imaging what parts of his body he had been talking about. "Oh, ok. Well, maybe I'll just go home. I'll see you at school."
Gohan agreed and kissed the top of her head. Videl slipped out of the bed and Gohan fell into a deep sleep. Videl smiled and giggled, listening to Gohan snore softly. She quickly found her shoes on the floor and put them back on. She retied her hair into two ponytails and walked out into the hall and then down the stairs.
Videl smiled as Goten flew through the room and smashed into something in the kitchen, creating a loud crashing noise that would be heard by Gohan upstairs. Videl quickly slipped out the front door without being noticed. She didn't want to talk to Gohan's family. They were sweet, if not a tad crazy, but Videl wasn't feeling too people loving at the moment and she didn't want to come off rude. She decided she would visit them again later, when she was in a better mood.
Videl took flight and quickly flew home. She surely didn't want to face her father at the time being, trying to explain to him were she had been, but it would be nice to lay in her own bed. The fact was, the further she flew and the closer she got to her house, the more Videl wanted to just crawl into her bed and wait for Monday to pull her onto her ass and to school. Videl landing on her balcony, where the sliding glass door was still open. Videl slipped inside. Then she figured that her father most likely didn't even know she had spent the night elsewhere. She had always kept her bedroom door locked and her father would have been off with another one of his little girlfriends. He might not have been home himself. And many times when he returned, he returned to Videl locked in her room, not speaking to him. She never even said a word to him until she had to.
Videl slid the door closed and locked it. She checked it once again, just to be safe. Videl scanned her room. There were no signs of a struggle. She could have been killed and no one would have even known it was a kidnapping. Videl shivered and looked at her bed, the messy sheets just the way she had left them. She choked down sobs at she changed into her nightgown. Videl hated to admit that she was ever afraid, but just being back in her room was scary enough for her. She was having second thoughts about leaving Gohan's house. She would have been happy with Gohan, instead of back in her room, all alone, open for anyone to attack her. Videl was truly afraid for possibly the first time in her entire life.
And not just afraid. Videl felt hopeless. And the fact was just that. Videl was hopeless against her attackers. Sure, she was strong, but she was only human. She didn't stand a chance against whoever had kidnapped her. She knew that she wouldn't be able to stand up to Gohan either. Crawling under the sheets and comforter, Videl pulled her knees up against her chest in a protective ball. She wouldn't move until someone broke down her door and forced her to. She would stay in her bed until she starved to death, until someone made her move. Even in her own bed, Videl didn't feel safe. She wouldn't ever feel safe in her room again. Tears ran down her cheek as Videl cried herself to sleep.
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A four year old Videl ran down the stairs of her cozy little home. The Christmas lights were shining brightly from the tree and the angel sitting atop the tree resembled the angel of the family, our very own Videl. She ran as fast as her short little legs would carry her, but that wasn't fast enough and Videl soon fell to her face when she tripped over her long, silk nightgown. Videl muffled her little cried as she pulled herself back up and finished her walk to the Christmas tree. It was during the rising hours of the morning and no one else in the Satan household was awake. It was Videl's tradition to wake up as early as she could to sneak down into the family room and preview what her parents, and Santa, had given to her.
Videl squealed with delight as she looked at all the wrapped boxes under the tree. They was an assortment of sizes, many presents were taller than the little girl. Videl hugged the closest one and then picked up a smaller one off of the ground and shook it. She still couldn't tell what it was. She desperately wanted to open it, but Videl knew better than that, for she knew what her father would do to her if he woke up and found one scrap of wrapping paper already off of her presents.
Videl sat down under the tree and thought about her father. She was only four, but she wasn't stupid. She was actually quite intelligent for her age. And she knew that her father was up to no good. He was never nice. One night, while her mother had been tucking in her bed after her daily nighttime story, Videl asked her mother why her father was so mean. Her mother had just forced a smile onto her face and explained that Videl's father drank too much sometimes and that made him angry a lot.
"But I drink a lot too, and my apple juice doesn't make me mad. You tell me that it makes me hyper. Does the apple juice Daddy drinks make him hyper, too?" she asked softly, getting under her covers. Her mother had wanted to cry, but she held it back, "Yeah, Daddy has a special apple juice that makes him a different kind of hyper." She didn't say a word to Videl about the subject after that, but once she had turned off the bedroom light and closed the door, Videl stayed awake. She heard the noises of her parents arguing and then her mother screaming in pain. But Videl was only three, and didn't know what was happening, so she had stayed in her bed and cried herself to sleep.
Videl looked down at the presents and slowly pushed herself away from them, pulling herself up onto the couch. She hated the way her father yelled at her and her mommy. She loved Mommy. Mommy was always there to make her smile and laugh and Mommy never drank Daddy's apple juice. Videl was too young to understand that her father was a drunk and that her mother had to support her family. But what Videl also didn't know was that her mother was finally going to do something about it. She was planning on getting a restraining order on Hercule and take Videl away from her father, to keep the two of them safe. Her mother figured that Videl was too young to understand what a restraining order was and she knew that Videl would be upset not to see her mother.
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Videl screamed and sat up straight in her bed. She pressed her hands flat against her ears and tried to forget her horrible memories. "No, no, no!" she screamed to herself. The truth was that Videl had pushed it out of her memory. She never wanted to remember. All she ever wanted to do was get away from her past and escape. To forget her mother and her father and everything that had happened. "Stop!" Videl screamed, pleading with her dreams. She wouldn't be able to handle it. She never had been able. "Please just stop," she whispered. Her head flew back down onto her pillow and she squeezed her eyes closed. 'Just let me forget,' she pleaded. 'I need help.'
Videl whimpered and pulled her covers back on. She closed her eyes again and tried to think of something else, anything else.
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Gohan's eyes snapped open. He took a quick scan of his room. Nothing was out of place and everything was quite. Then what had pulled him away from his peaceful dreams? Gohan couldn't figure it out, but something dark existed in his room and he could feel it, he just couldn't tell what it was exactly, and that bothered him. Gohan hated not having all the answers.
Gohan gasped softly as a sharp pain hit his chest and a moment later he felt himself pulled away from the world. But he knew he wasn't dieing and that he wasn't dreaming. Gohan closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he was standing in Videl's room. 'Oh crap,' he thought. Not the way to impress a girl who had been kidnapped. Just show up in her room while she's sleeping. Gohan glanced over to Videl's bed, where she was laying. But Videl wasn't peaceful, she was jerking about all over her bed.
Gohan raced over to the bed, but he soon realized that Videl was still asleep. As carefully as he could, Gohan stepped over to the bed and pushed Videl's shoulders against the bed until she stopped shaking violently. Once Videl became motionless, Gohan shook her softly. Videl's eyes snapped open and her sprung forward, grabbing his arms and spinning him around painfully, slamming him down against her bed. "Gohan, what the hell are you doing here?" she asked breathlessly once she realized who she was holding prisoner.
Gohan tried to smile, but his arms were uncomfortly pinned behind him and his whole body weight was pressing down on them painfully. "Videl," he started. She gasped and pulled him back up until he was sitting upright on her bed. Videl was sitting between her legs next to him, "So answer me, Golden Boy. What are you doing here?" she asked again.
Gohan shrugged, rubbing his wrists. "I don't really know the answer to that question. I woke up in my own bed and then I felt myself being pulled away and I ended up here. You didn't do that weird thing where you call me, did you?" he asked softly.
Videl blushed brightly, tucking loose strands of hair behind her ears, "I don't think I did, but I could have. I have a very strong unconscious state."
"Yeah, I noticed," Gohan pointed out. "What were you dreaming about, exactly? You were thrashing all about and I was worried that you were going to hurt yourself."
Videl choked up. Gohan wanted to know what she was dreaming about. But Videl couldn't possibly tell him. She had only gotten back to sleep an hour ago, and she had just had the same dream that had awoken her before, "Oh, nothing that important," Videl lied, but tears were forming in her eyes. 'Don't you dare starting crying in front of Gohan,' she warned herself. But no mattered how hard Videl pushed herself to contain the tears, they fell anyway. Gohan put a protective arm around her shoulders and pulled her to him. It was only then that he realized that Videl was covered in sweat. He decided not to mention it, just to confront her in her time of need.
"I just miss her so much," Videl cried softly, latching onto Gohan and wrapping her arms around his neck. Gohan nodded and moved his arms to wrap around Videl's lap, pulling her into his lap. "Do you mean your mother?" he asked softly.
Videl didn't say a word, only nodded. Gohan didn't know what to say or ask after this, so he just rested his chin on Videl's head and let her cry onto his chest. He didn't want to think of the way it would look if her father walked into the room. Gohan in just a pair of boxers and Videl is a partially see through, short, and very revealing nightgown. God, Gohan started blushing madly as he looked down at the girl in his arms. Videl was as good as naked in what she was wearing. And that wasn't placing nice thoughts in Gohan's mind. He was already quite aroused, even if he wouldn't admit it. If he didn't put some space between himself and Videl, he didn't know if he would be able to control his behavior. "Videl?" he asked softly, needing something to pull his thoughts away from where they were leading him.
Videl just looked up at Gohan's face. She had long since stopped crying, and had just been enjoying Gohan's company. She shifted her weight carefully, squatting between Gohan's legs. She placed a finger over his mouth and shook her head softly. Before Gohan knew what was going on, Videl had pressed her lips against his roughly and shoved him back against her bed. Gohan took a moment to react, but once he regained his senses, he kissed her back passionately. He was fortunate his head had fallen against the pillows, or else it might have left some damage. Videl pushed her legs back until her whole body was pressed up against Gohan's. Her feet brushed up against Gohan's, which were, in fact, very ticklish. Gohan giggled softly and Videl pulled away from him quickly. "Tell me, please, that you did not just giggle while we were making out," she begged. Gohan blushed, "Can a guy help it if he's ticklish?" Gohan asked sweetly. Videl raised one eyebrow and traced one hand down the side of Gohan's chest, leaving the other arm wrapped around his neck securely. "Did I just hear Gohan Son say that he was ticklish?" she smirked, "Because I swear I did."
Gohan's eyes widened, "You wouldn't!" he protested. Videl truly smiled after this comment. "I wouldn't?" she asked sweetly, running a foot up and down Gohan's leg, brushing it softly with her toes. As she tortured Gohan slowly, Videl also started running her fingers softly along Gohan's stomach. Gohan started to laugh hysterically.
Gohan finally managed to get a grip of himself. He grabbed Videl's hands and wrapped his legs around hers, using his body weight to flip them over, so that Gohan was on top of Videl, and pinned her wrists against the bed. Videl gasped softly, before putting a sexy pout on her lips, "Now this isn't fair," she protested.
"I don't play fair," Gohan explained to her. He could feel every curve of her body under him and it was driving him crazy. She was intoxicating. Videl tried to pull her arms away from Gohan and flip them back over, but all she managed to do was pull her legs away from his. Still, Videl wasn't all at disappointed. "Like hell you don't play fair," she agreed as she finally stopped trying to break free. She had to admit, Gohan was stronger than she would ever be.
No one said a word for a while and silence stretched on for what seemed like an eternity. Gohan stared down into Videl's eyes and Videl stared back up into his, breathing quickly. The truth was, Videl was feeling things she had never felt before and she didn't quite understand them. "Gohan," she whispered softly, "You're starting to hurt my wrists," she told him truthfully. Gohan released her wrists and placed his hands next to hers on the bed. Videl had half expected him to get up off the bed, but he didn't move an inch.
"Gohan," she started again.
"Yeah?" he answered softly.
"Just kiss me already," she answered quickly. Gohan nodded and lowered his head down to hers. He used his arms to support his weight above Videl, keeping his body off of hers. Videl moaned softly and let Gohan kiss her hungrily. When he pulled away to breathe, Videl shook her head, "Please don't stop," she whispered and pushed herself up onto her elbows and found her mouth up against Gohan's. 'Don't ever stop,' she added silently.
After another minute, Gohan pulled away again. By that point, he was breathing just as hard as Videl was. "I need to get back home," he told her softly. Videl felt her heart sink. Being with Gohan was always so wonderful. She didn't think she would last the night without him, leaving her trapped with her nightmares. "Stay here," she whispered to him softly. "Just stay with me tonight," she begged.
Gohan wanted to die on the spot. She was asking him to stay to night with her, but for some reason, Gohan just didn't think he would be able to handle that, "Videl, I don't think that-" Videl pressed her mouth against his quickly before he could say another word. "That's your problem," she told him once she had pulled away. "You are always thinking. Just don't think about it Gohan, and just do what you feel." She ran one hand through his hair and pulled his head back down dangerously close to hers, "You can't just leave now," Videl told him. Gohan pulled her hand out of his hair and wrapped his fingers around hers before pushing it back down against the mattress. He did the same with his other hand until both Videl's hands were pinned up close to the headrest. "God, Videl," he muttered. Videl smiled softly as Gohan lowered his head back down again.
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"Mmmm," Videl murmured, opening her eyes slowly. Her eyes felt so heavy and just keeping them open was a major effort for her. Gohan shifted slightly, but he didn't wake up. Videl smiled to herself. She hadn't had one single nightmare. Videl didn't ever want to move from where she currently was positioned, which was right on top of Gohan, with his arms wrapped protectively around her waist. Videl kissed his neck softly and nestled her head against his head. She closed her eyes again and took in a deep breath. Light shone into her room through the curtains covering the sliding glass door. Videl ran her toes against Gohan's foot. He made a grunting noise and started to turn over, forgetting about the naked female in his arms. Videl gave a quick screech and Gohan opened his eyes, "Sorry," he muttered, "Not used to waking up with someone in my arms."
"I should hope not," she answered, smiling and giggling as he nibbled at her neck playfully. "Gohan," she giggled softly. But he never answered her. Instead, he brought his mouth to hers and kissed her softly. Videl moaned slowly, letting every muscle in her body loosen as she went limp in Gohan's arms. "God, Gohan," she murmured, "you really know how to treat a girl," she told him.
Gohan nodded and ran his hands up and down her body, exploring it all over again. "How did you end up on top?" he asked after a minute. Videl blushed slightly and shrugged. "I don't know. I just woke up like this." Gohan nodded and flipped them back over, to where he thought he belonged. Videl didn't protest or say a word, she just put her hands on the back of his back, near his shoulders, letting him kiss her. She had forgotten about putting up a fight. With Gohan, there was nothing to fight about. If he wanted to be on top, fine with her. As long as he held her close.
Gohan pulled away and looked over at the clock on the nightstand, "Oh shit!" he swore, rolling over in the bed and leaving Videl where she was. Unfortunately, he didn't realize how close to the right side of the bed they had been and when he had rolled over, there was no room to roll. So Gohan fell straight to the ground. Videl peered over the side of the bed, laughed at an agitated Gohan, wrapped in bed blankets, sprawled all over her bedroom floor. She held the sheets up against her chest so that Gohan wouldn't see a thing. "Are you alright?" she asked softly. Gohan just glared at her, "This is not funny, Videl. It's getting late and I need to get home," he told he, snatching his boxers of the floor and putting them on in record speed as Videl looked at the clock. "Gohan, it's not even four in the morning."
Gohan stared back at Videl, "Yes, I know that. But I have to get home and pray that no one is up yet and I can slip back until my bed before Goten wakes up and tells my mother that I'm not there. She'll have a heart attack!" Gohan told Videl in a rush.
"Gohan, will you hold on for just a second?" Videl asked, quickly grabbing his arm. "I have to tell you something."
Gohan put one arm down on both sides of Videl, who was sitting on the edge of her bed, still wrapped in bed sheets. He rested his forehead against hers, "Yeah?" he asked.
"Last night was the best night of my life, and I just wanted to make sure you didn't think it was a mistake," she confessed softly, not looking into Gohan's eyes. Gohan lifted her head up with one arm, "Why would you think that, Videl?" he asked.
Videl shrugged, "It just seems that you are in a real hurry to get away from me now that it's all over." Gohan shook his head and kissed her again quickly. "I've get to go home. We've got school in a few hours and I want to go home and get some actual sleep before I have to go and learn."
Videl nodded and hugged him tightly, "I can send you home, if you need me to. I noticed that you don't exactly have on any flying garments," Videl smirked. Gohan smiled, "Yes, that would be nice, if you don't mind."
Videl nodded and closed her eyes and concentrated hard, imagining the Son's home. Then she imagined Gohan in his room and when Videl opened her eyes, Gohan was gone. Videl sighed and found her nightgown on the floor, which she slipped back on and fell back to sleep.
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"Videl, are you listening? Have you heard a single word I said?" asked Erasa. Videl jerked up straight and took her head off of her desk. The professor shot her a nasty look, but continued talking in his dull monotone voice about some event that had happened thousands of years ago. Videl turned to face Erasa, who looked concerned, "I'm sorry, what were you saying?" she asked.
Erasa shook her head, "Never mind what I was walking about. Are you ok?" she asked worriedly. Videl nodded, "Of course I am, I'm just a little tired. I had a bad dream last night and I had a hard time going back to sleep. Truth is, I only got a few hours of sleep last night. I'm just a little tired."
Erasa rolled her eyes, "Well you look exhausted. Maybe you should ask to go to the nurse's office. You need to get some rest."
"I'm fine, Erasa, ok? Can we just leave it at that?" Videl hissed. Sharpner leaned forward from his desk behind Erasa and Videl, "A little grouchy today, aren't we Videl?" he sneered. "You just need a little love, darling. Just call me if you want a real guy," Sharpner whispered into Videl's ear. Videl's cheeks turned bright red and she slapped Sharpner across the face as the bell rang.
Sharpner touched at his jaw as Videl shoved her books into her backpack and threw it over her shoulder. Without waiting for Erasa, Videl headed straight out the door, not planning to talk to anyone. She stopped at her locker and twirled the combo, which was giving her some troubles because her hands were shaking. Videl cursed at her locker and slammed her hand against the stupid thing.
An arm wrapped around her waist and her capture kissed her neck. "Hey," he whispered softly. "Gohan," Videl sighed and leaned back against him. "Can you get this dumb thing open for me please?" she pleaded. Gohan nodded, "Sure, just give me your combo." Videl told him, and Gohan's fingers twirled and the lock popped right open. Videl turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck, "Thank you," she told him. Videl threw her history books into her locker and pulled out her science book and folder. Videl closed the door with a bang and turned to Gohan, yawning. Gohan kissed her forehead, "You need to get some sleep tonight," he told her. Videl just nodded and closed her eyes. She would have fallen straight back if Gohan hadn't grabbed her arm, "Maybe you should go see the nurse and make sure everything is alright," he told her.
Videl pulled her arm away from Gohan, "What is it with you people and an obsession with me going to the nurse? I'm just a little tired, that's all. I'll go home straight after school and go right to bed. Everyone needs to stop worrying about me!" she snapped, frustrated. Videl hurried off down the hall and disappeared into the crowd. Gohan stayed rooted where he was, "Someone has to worry about you," Gohan muttered to himself and headed off in the other direction.
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Videl walked into the house, slamming the large front door close and throwing her backpack to the ground. Sure, she had a lot of homework to do, but she didn't plan on doing it until later that day when Gohan was going to visit her for a study date. Videl kicked off her boots and snorted, "As if we're really going to study. The last thing I want to do when I'm with Gohan is study," she muttered, hanging her coat on the rack.
"Well then what's the first thing you want to do with him?" an extremely husky voice asked from behind her. Videl rolled her eyes, "Have you been taking steroids again?" Videl asked as she turned around to face her father and a skinny little woman attached to him. Videl wanted to smash her elbow into her father's groin and the woman's face. Hit them where it hurts. She tried to make her father angry instead. Videl shrugged, "Wouldn't you like to know. Whatever arrives, I'll accept. Whatever he's willing to do. But I'm sure not as hell doing homework. I've got better things to do with my time," she told him while she walked past him and started up the grand staircase. Once she reached the top, Videl turned around and leaned against the banister, "You wanna know something, you good for nothing father of mine? I love Gohan and I'll do whatever the hell I please to do with him. And there ain't one damn thing you can do about that." And with that, Videl walked briskly down the hall to her room.
Videl locked the door as soon as she had entered the room. She jumped onto her bed and screamed into a pillow. She screamed and screamed and screamed until her lungs and throat felt as if they were going to explode. Once Videl couldn't scream anymore, she took up crying. "I hate you," she whispered. Then she yelled it as loud as she could, which wasn't very loud and she doubted he would be able to hear her anyway.
Videl took out her hair bands and sling-shot them across the room. They hit the sliding glass door and bounced back about an inch, to lay hopelessly on the ground. Videl crawled under the covers and buried her face in a pillow. Within seconds, the soft sound of snoring filled the room.
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"You can't just do this to me!" Hercule yelled. "After all we've been through, you're just going to give up on us now? What kind of wife are you? What kind of mother are you?" he screamed in his wife's face. Videl, now five, stat on the third stair from the bottom, hiding in the shadows of the night. Her father and mother were arguing in the family room. Videl had left her room and climbing down the stairs to get her late night glass of water, but once she reached the landing, she had heard angry shouts, so she had decided to stay out of the way.
"Hercule, just calm down for a minute. You've had too much to drink, again. Just sit down there on the couch and let me explain it to you. Please," Videl's mother begged. But Hercule wouldn't hear of it. He slapped his wife across the face to shut her up. "I don't want to sit down! And since when do you give me permission to sit in my own house? News to you, dear, you don't. I am the head of this house, and I make the rules. And now, I'm telling you to drop the damn restraining order on me! You can take yourself away from this family, but you can't take away my daughter and my son from me!" he yelled.
Videl's mother tried to sit down to relieve herself of some stress, but Hercule yanked her to her feet. "Hercule," she began, "I lost the baby," she whispered, so Videl could barely hear.
"You did what?" Hercule yelled, slapping her across the face once again. "Answer me when I'm talking to you, Woman!" he screamed in her ear. "I lost the baby," she told him. "The doctor told me it was because of stress, but I'm not so sure. I think it was a miscarriage."
Hercule swiftly yanked her to him and pulled her into a kiss. But it wasn't passionate, it was rough and hard and full of hatred. Hercule then processed in trying to rip of her clothes. "Lay down on the couch right now and we are going to fuck you dry until you produce me a son." Videl's mother let out a small cry of pain and Hercule pushed her down on the couch. "I have a restraining order," she yelled at him. "You need to get away from me and you need to right now."
"You know that I don't care about a restraining order. You won't leave me and you know it. You need me, my wife. Even if you are a slave, a slave needs pleasure and no other man on this planet will ever give you that. You need me."
Videl listened, clutching the railing of the stairs as hard as she could. She couldn't believe what her father was doing. She knew she should go back to her room, and she really wanted to, but she couldn't move. Videl was in shock, like any normal five year old would be.
Videl mother pushed Hercule away so hard that he went flying into the glass coffee table, smashing it to smithereens. Videl held back a cry. Why would she mother ever push her father? Her mother loved her father. The rest of the scene would play in Videl's memories for the next several years, coming back every night as a horrible nightmare she would never forget.
Hercule stood up, staggering a bit from being drunk and from having a shard of glass in his arm. He pulled it out and then picked up a glass vase, reaching Videl's mother and grabbing her from behind, "I want you to scream now. Scream while you can. Because it will be the last time you ever say everything!" he muttered in her ear. Videl didn't hear this, only the breaking of glass as her father smashed it against her mother's head. Videl watched, terrified, as her mother fell to her knees and then all the way to the ground and her father standing there with what was left of a base of the vase in his hand. The last thing Videl saw before she slipped up the stairs and into her bed was her mother's blood in a pool by her mother's head. And the last thing she remembered hearing was the horrible sound of her father laughing until he dropped to the floor, knocked out cold from excess alcohol.
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"Videl?" Gohan whispered, walking into her room, turning on the light and closing the door. Gohan slipped off his backpack and sat in on the floor by Videl's desk. He glanced at Videl's bed, where Videl was curled up in a ball. Her eyes were closed and Gohan guessed, like anyone would, that Videl was sleeping. Gohan brushed a few bangs off of Videl's forehead. Videl shot up in the bed and screamed, holding the sheets close to her. Gohan took a step back and looked at her. Videl had tears flowing down her face and her whole body had turned a ghastly pale white color.
Gohan slipped into the bed next to her and pulled her into his lap. Videl started shaking violently and sobbing frantically. Videl held on to Gohan's shirt was a deep grip, almost choking Gohan. Gohan brushed her hair back and kissed her forehead, "Don't worry, Videl. It's ok. I'll make things right if you just tell me what's wrong. I promise," he told her rocking her back and forth slowly. Videl hiccupped, "She shouldn't have died," Videl cried, "not that way. She should have died of old age and lived to be happy with her restraining order," Videl murmured, coughing violently against Gohan's chest. Gohan pulled her face away and wiped her tears away, "What are you talking about, Videl? Who are you talking about?"
"My mother," Videl whispered. "She was killed. But she didn't die quickly like she should have. She died slowly and painfully and all I could do was stand there and watch. He just killed her. She loved and he killed her. And because she wanted me to be safe. And I couldn't even help her." Videl's whole body moved with each confession.
"Who killed her?" Gohan asked.
Videl looked up at him. "My father," she answered.
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"Your father?" Gohan answered, uncertain. Videl nodded. "He killed her and I saw it. But when the police asked me if I knew what happened, I told them I didn't because I didn't want him to hit me with a vase like Mommy," Videl sniffed and hiccupped. Videl pulled Gohan close to her and hugged him tightly. "I should tell the police. Tomorrow, on the way to school. I'll tell them the truth and see if they believe me."
"Why don't we go right now and tell them? I'll go with you," Gohan suggested. Videl just shook her head. "I've lived with this secret for twelve years, another day isn't going to hurt me. Plus, tomorrow would make a bigger impact because tomorrow is the anniversary of her death."
Gohan nodded, "Are you sure you don't want to go now?" he asked.
Videl shook her head and pulled Gohan down slowly, "I think you know what I want to do right now," she murmured into his ear before biting it playfully. Gohan smirked, but kept Videl from pulling him down any further. "I don't think that is such a good thing for you right now," he told her. Videl shook her head, "This is exactly what I need right now. I need you to be with me and I need to be with you. I love you, Gohan," she whispered.
Gohan nodded, "I know you do. And I love you too, Videl, but you've got to realize something," he started, although he didn't exactly know how to explain it. Videl nodded, "What?" she asked when Gohan didn't say anything.
Gohan flopped down onto the bed next to her, "You know that I'm a Saiyan and Saiyans are much different than humans. You know that we have a lot more strength than ordinary humans. But there are other differences as well. You've met my mother and my father. Did you happen to notice a little scar in the hollow of either one of their shoulders?" he asked her.
Videl thought more a minute, twisting a strand or two of Gohan's hair growing on the back of his neck. "Yeah, I remember seeing that on your mother. I remember how odd I thought it was. But what does that have to do with anything?" she asked, concerned.
Gohan sighed, "Saiyans don't exactly get married and have weddings. I mean, my mother and father did because my mother is an Earthling, but Vegeta and Bulma didn't and all the pure Saiyans never marry. They simply give each other that mark and that symbolizes that they are together."
"How exactly do you get that mark?" Videl asked Gohan. Gohan cleared his throat, "Well, you kind of bite down on your mate and it makes the permanent mark, that never disappears."
Videl gasped in shock, "So you're telling me that your father bit your mother's neck? Like a vampire?"
Gohan laughed. "No, not like a vampire, but yeah, he bit her and his has one from my mother as well."
"And did they just randomly decide one morning that they wanted to be together, so they decided to bite each other?" Videl asked, amaze.
Gohan blushed, "Well, you don't really decide. It kind of just happens during, well, sex…" Gohan trailed off. Videl's mouth hung open, "Oh… ok. Well, that's great. So why are you telling me this?" she asked.
"Because it is irreversible," Gohan told her. Videl stared at him for a moment, "And????" Videl asked.
"So I'm afraid that we'll wake up tomorrow with these permanent marks on our shoulders," Gohan explained. Videl shrugged, "We can always hide them until they disappear. It's not a big deal," Videl told him.
Gohan groaned and sat up, "I can't even talk to you right now about this. You're not taking me seriously. The mark isn't the only thing that is permanent thing. A bond is formed and if you even try to sleep with someone else, well it's not pretty. You're brain gets these little zaps. But if you bond, then you don't even have to worry about cheating because you start to go into hormonal overdrive, and you get the picture."
Videl wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck, "I don't care about all that, Gohan. Just stop worrying about everything and come on. It'll be perfect and you can worry your little handsome head off when you wake up tomorrow, totally blissed out of your Saiyan mind," Videl wiggled under Gohan and smiled up at him. Gohan let her kiss him quickly before he put his hands on her waist and started kissing her back. When Videl stopped to breathe, Gohan sighed, "And then there's the whole thing of unprotected sex," he warned.
"We'll worry when we're done," Videl reminded, pulling his shirt off over his head.
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Videl groaned and tried to turned over, but stopped halfway and let out a sharp gasp in pain, "Holy crap, Gohan. What did you do to me?" she asked in pain. Gohan kissed her neck and then he collarbone, where Videl let out a small scream in pain, "Don't you dare do that again, or when I get out of this bed I'll kill you."
Gohan kissed her neck, "I warned you before it happened, in all fairness."
Videl rolled her eyes, "Now you and I both know that you aren't fair." Gohan chuckled and stroked her hair and carefully rolled her over in his arms. Videl groaned and curled up as well as she could to him. "My teeth hurt," she complained. "And that little mark of yours really hurts."
"Stop wining. I told you what would happen. You didn't think having someone bite into your shoulder would hurt?" he asked as if Videl was stupid.
Videl sighed, "I didn't think it would hurt all over," Videl remarked. "I don't think I'll be able to walk for days," she grimaced in pain.
Gohan kissed her softly, "Sorry about that. But that wasn't just me. I'm hurting over here as well. I told you about the hormone jump."
Videl nodded and rolled over onto her back and groaned once again. "How many times did we do it last night?" she asked softly, slightly embarrassed at what she had done. Gohan rolled over as well and wrapped one arm around her shoulders, "I lost count after ten," he told her. Videl kissed his shoulder carefully, "Well, I must admit, it was worth it."
"Maybe for you," Gohan said, turning his head to face her, "What am I going to tell my mother?"
Chapter 6: Mama Mia
I'm back!!!! And I've finally got chapter six up! I might go back and edit the others because I was rereading chapter five and I found a few errors. If you guys like rock music, you should listen to Yellowcard. I just got their new CD and I love it! Also check out Something Corporate. They're good too! But enough of all that unrelated stuff. Back to the goods! Check out my mailing list and little fan club site, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/antidarthani. I've already gotten a few members, but I need all of you to sign up! It only takes a second and you get up to the second updates for every new chapter and fan-fic, plus sneak previews and more! It's totally free and spam free! And I'm sorry this fan-fic has taken such a long time to update. This is the first story that is being 'unfrozen' and updated.
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Goku appeared out of thin air, landing at the foot of Gohan bed. Gohan had fallen asleep by then, carefully holding Videl against his chest, who was just laying there, not asleep and not even trying to be. Goku smiled at her and handed her a small brown pouch.
"What's in it?" Videl asked softly, shifting just a little, trying not to wake the sleeping Gohan. She untied the string and found two little green beans. "You only have to eat one. They're called Senzu beans and they'll fix that little leg of yours in mere seconds. You can save the second for that tournament you're training for. You never know when you're going to need them," Goku explained before leaving the room and closing the door softly.
Videl shrugged to herself and ate one of the beans, chewing it up partially and then swallowing it. She wrapped the other one back up in the pouch and placed it on Gohan's nightstand. Then she turned back and curled up against Gohan, wrapping one arm around his waist and resting her head under his chin. Nothing had ever been better for Videl. Even though she had just been kidnapped and broken her leg, and her nosey neighbor was threatening to reveal her father's secret, she was curled up against Gohan. Nothing would ever be better than that, Videl truly believed.
"Gohan?" she whispered softly, testing to see if he was really sleeping. "Yeah?" he muttered, sounding extremely tired. Videl looked up to his face, "Do you want to go do something?" she asked him slowly. "Now that my leg is better, I don't really feel like just laying here. I'm bored out of my mind."
"You can go train, but I'm going to stay right here. I had to sleep on the couch last night and it isn't exactly comfortable. Parts of me feel as if they will never be operational again," Gohan groaned. Videl blushed, only imaging what parts of his body he had been talking about. "Oh, ok. Well, maybe I'll just go home. I'll see you at school."
Gohan agreed and kissed the top of her head. Videl slipped out of the bed and Gohan fell into a deep sleep. Videl smiled and giggled, listening to Gohan snore softly. She quickly found her shoes on the floor and put them back on. She retied her hair into two ponytails and walked out into the hall and then down the stairs.
Videl smiled as Goten flew through the room and smashed into something in the kitchen, creating a loud crashing noise that would be heard by Gohan upstairs. Videl quickly slipped out the front door without being noticed. She didn't want to talk to Gohan's family. They were sweet, if not a tad crazy, but Videl wasn't feeling too people loving at the moment and she didn't want to come off rude. She decided she would visit them again later, when she was in a better mood.
Videl took flight and quickly flew home. She surely didn't want to face her father at the time being, trying to explain to him were she had been, but it would be nice to lay in her own bed. The fact was, the further she flew and the closer she got to her house, the more Videl wanted to just crawl into her bed and wait for Monday to pull her onto her ass and to school. Videl landing on her balcony, where the sliding glass door was still open. Videl slipped inside. Then she figured that her father most likely didn't even know she had spent the night elsewhere. She had always kept her bedroom door locked and her father would have been off with another one of his little girlfriends. He might not have been home himself. And many times when he returned, he returned to Videl locked in her room, not speaking to him. She never even said a word to him until she had to.
Videl slid the door closed and locked it. She checked it once again, just to be safe. Videl scanned her room. There were no signs of a struggle. She could have been killed and no one would have even known it was a kidnapping. Videl shivered and looked at her bed, the messy sheets just the way she had left them. She choked down sobs at she changed into her nightgown. Videl hated to admit that she was ever afraid, but just being back in her room was scary enough for her. She was having second thoughts about leaving Gohan's house. She would have been happy with Gohan, instead of back in her room, all alone, open for anyone to attack her. Videl was truly afraid for possibly the first time in her entire life.
And not just afraid. Videl felt hopeless. And the fact was just that. Videl was hopeless against her attackers. Sure, she was strong, but she was only human. She didn't stand a chance against whoever had kidnapped her. She knew that she wouldn't be able to stand up to Gohan either. Crawling under the sheets and comforter, Videl pulled her knees up against her chest in a protective ball. She wouldn't move until someone broke down her door and forced her to. She would stay in her bed until she starved to death, until someone made her move. Even in her own bed, Videl didn't feel safe. She wouldn't ever feel safe in her room again. Tears ran down her cheek as Videl cried herself to sleep.
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A four year old Videl ran down the stairs of her cozy little home. The Christmas lights were shining brightly from the tree and the angel sitting atop the tree resembled the angel of the family, our very own Videl. She ran as fast as her short little legs would carry her, but that wasn't fast enough and Videl soon fell to her face when she tripped over her long, silk nightgown. Videl muffled her little cried as she pulled herself back up and finished her walk to the Christmas tree. It was during the rising hours of the morning and no one else in the Satan household was awake. It was Videl's tradition to wake up as early as she could to sneak down into the family room and preview what her parents, and Santa, had given to her.
Videl squealed with delight as she looked at all the wrapped boxes under the tree. They was an assortment of sizes, many presents were taller than the little girl. Videl hugged the closest one and then picked up a smaller one off of the ground and shook it. She still couldn't tell what it was. She desperately wanted to open it, but Videl knew better than that, for she knew what her father would do to her if he woke up and found one scrap of wrapping paper already off of her presents.
Videl sat down under the tree and thought about her father. She was only four, but she wasn't stupid. She was actually quite intelligent for her age. And she knew that her father was up to no good. He was never nice. One night, while her mother had been tucking in her bed after her daily nighttime story, Videl asked her mother why her father was so mean. Her mother had just forced a smile onto her face and explained that Videl's father drank too much sometimes and that made him angry a lot.
"But I drink a lot too, and my apple juice doesn't make me mad. You tell me that it makes me hyper. Does the apple juice Daddy drinks make him hyper, too?" she asked softly, getting under her covers. Her mother had wanted to cry, but she held it back, "Yeah, Daddy has a special apple juice that makes him a different kind of hyper." She didn't say a word to Videl about the subject after that, but once she had turned off the bedroom light and closed the door, Videl stayed awake. She heard the noises of her parents arguing and then her mother screaming in pain. But Videl was only three, and didn't know what was happening, so she had stayed in her bed and cried herself to sleep.
Videl looked down at the presents and slowly pushed herself away from them, pulling herself up onto the couch. She hated the way her father yelled at her and her mommy. She loved Mommy. Mommy was always there to make her smile and laugh and Mommy never drank Daddy's apple juice. Videl was too young to understand that her father was a drunk and that her mother had to support her family. But what Videl also didn't know was that her mother was finally going to do something about it. She was planning on getting a restraining order on Hercule and take Videl away from her father, to keep the two of them safe. Her mother figured that Videl was too young to understand what a restraining order was and she knew that Videl would be upset not to see her mother.
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Videl screamed and sat up straight in her bed. She pressed her hands flat against her ears and tried to forget her horrible memories. "No, no, no!" she screamed to herself. The truth was that Videl had pushed it out of her memory. She never wanted to remember. All she ever wanted to do was get away from her past and escape. To forget her mother and her father and everything that had happened. "Stop!" Videl screamed, pleading with her dreams. She wouldn't be able to handle it. She never had been able. "Please just stop," she whispered. Her head flew back down onto her pillow and she squeezed her eyes closed. 'Just let me forget,' she pleaded. 'I need help.'
Videl whimpered and pulled her covers back on. She closed her eyes again and tried to think of something else, anything else.
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Gohan's eyes snapped open. He took a quick scan of his room. Nothing was out of place and everything was quite. Then what had pulled him away from his peaceful dreams? Gohan couldn't figure it out, but something dark existed in his room and he could feel it, he just couldn't tell what it was exactly, and that bothered him. Gohan hated not having all the answers.
Gohan gasped softly as a sharp pain hit his chest and a moment later he felt himself pulled away from the world. But he knew he wasn't dieing and that he wasn't dreaming. Gohan closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he was standing in Videl's room. 'Oh crap,' he thought. Not the way to impress a girl who had been kidnapped. Just show up in her room while she's sleeping. Gohan glanced over to Videl's bed, where she was laying. But Videl wasn't peaceful, she was jerking about all over her bed.
Gohan raced over to the bed, but he soon realized that Videl was still asleep. As carefully as he could, Gohan stepped over to the bed and pushed Videl's shoulders against the bed until she stopped shaking violently. Once Videl became motionless, Gohan shook her softly. Videl's eyes snapped open and her sprung forward, grabbing his arms and spinning him around painfully, slamming him down against her bed. "Gohan, what the hell are you doing here?" she asked breathlessly once she realized who she was holding prisoner.
Gohan tried to smile, but his arms were uncomfortly pinned behind him and his whole body weight was pressing down on them painfully. "Videl," he started. She gasped and pulled him back up until he was sitting upright on her bed. Videl was sitting between her legs next to him, "So answer me, Golden Boy. What are you doing here?" she asked again.
Gohan shrugged, rubbing his wrists. "I don't really know the answer to that question. I woke up in my own bed and then I felt myself being pulled away and I ended up here. You didn't do that weird thing where you call me, did you?" he asked softly.
Videl blushed brightly, tucking loose strands of hair behind her ears, "I don't think I did, but I could have. I have a very strong unconscious state."
"Yeah, I noticed," Gohan pointed out. "What were you dreaming about, exactly? You were thrashing all about and I was worried that you were going to hurt yourself."
Videl choked up. Gohan wanted to know what she was dreaming about. But Videl couldn't possibly tell him. She had only gotten back to sleep an hour ago, and she had just had the same dream that had awoken her before, "Oh, nothing that important," Videl lied, but tears were forming in her eyes. 'Don't you dare starting crying in front of Gohan,' she warned herself. But no mattered how hard Videl pushed herself to contain the tears, they fell anyway. Gohan put a protective arm around her shoulders and pulled her to him. It was only then that he realized that Videl was covered in sweat. He decided not to mention it, just to confront her in her time of need.
"I just miss her so much," Videl cried softly, latching onto Gohan and wrapping her arms around his neck. Gohan nodded and moved his arms to wrap around Videl's lap, pulling her into his lap. "Do you mean your mother?" he asked softly.
Videl didn't say a word, only nodded. Gohan didn't know what to say or ask after this, so he just rested his chin on Videl's head and let her cry onto his chest. He didn't want to think of the way it would look if her father walked into the room. Gohan in just a pair of boxers and Videl is a partially see through, short, and very revealing nightgown. God, Gohan started blushing madly as he looked down at the girl in his arms. Videl was as good as naked in what she was wearing. And that wasn't placing nice thoughts in Gohan's mind. He was already quite aroused, even if he wouldn't admit it. If he didn't put some space between himself and Videl, he didn't know if he would be able to control his behavior. "Videl?" he asked softly, needing something to pull his thoughts away from where they were leading him.
Videl just looked up at Gohan's face. She had long since stopped crying, and had just been enjoying Gohan's company. She shifted her weight carefully, squatting between Gohan's legs. She placed a finger over his mouth and shook her head softly. Before Gohan knew what was going on, Videl had pressed her lips against his roughly and shoved him back against her bed. Gohan took a moment to react, but once he regained his senses, he kissed her back passionately. He was fortunate his head had fallen against the pillows, or else it might have left some damage. Videl pushed her legs back until her whole body was pressed up against Gohan's. Her feet brushed up against Gohan's, which were, in fact, very ticklish. Gohan giggled softly and Videl pulled away from him quickly. "Tell me, please, that you did not just giggle while we were making out," she begged. Gohan blushed, "Can a guy help it if he's ticklish?" Gohan asked sweetly. Videl raised one eyebrow and traced one hand down the side of Gohan's chest, leaving the other arm wrapped around his neck securely. "Did I just hear Gohan Son say that he was ticklish?" she smirked, "Because I swear I did."
Gohan's eyes widened, "You wouldn't!" he protested. Videl truly smiled after this comment. "I wouldn't?" she asked sweetly, running a foot up and down Gohan's leg, brushing it softly with her toes. As she tortured Gohan slowly, Videl also started running her fingers softly along Gohan's stomach. Gohan started to laugh hysterically.
Gohan finally managed to get a grip of himself. He grabbed Videl's hands and wrapped his legs around hers, using his body weight to flip them over, so that Gohan was on top of Videl, and pinned her wrists against the bed. Videl gasped softly, before putting a sexy pout on her lips, "Now this isn't fair," she protested.
"I don't play fair," Gohan explained to her. He could feel every curve of her body under him and it was driving him crazy. She was intoxicating. Videl tried to pull her arms away from Gohan and flip them back over, but all she managed to do was pull her legs away from his. Still, Videl wasn't all at disappointed. "Like hell you don't play fair," she agreed as she finally stopped trying to break free. She had to admit, Gohan was stronger than she would ever be.
No one said a word for a while and silence stretched on for what seemed like an eternity. Gohan stared down into Videl's eyes and Videl stared back up into his, breathing quickly. The truth was, Videl was feeling things she had never felt before and she didn't quite understand them. "Gohan," she whispered softly, "You're starting to hurt my wrists," she told him truthfully. Gohan released her wrists and placed his hands next to hers on the bed. Videl had half expected him to get up off the bed, but he didn't move an inch.
"Gohan," she started again.
"Yeah?" he answered softly.
"Just kiss me already," she answered quickly. Gohan nodded and lowered his head down to hers. He used his arms to support his weight above Videl, keeping his body off of hers. Videl moaned softly and let Gohan kiss her hungrily. When he pulled away to breathe, Videl shook her head, "Please don't stop," she whispered and pushed herself up onto her elbows and found her mouth up against Gohan's. 'Don't ever stop,' she added silently.
After another minute, Gohan pulled away again. By that point, he was breathing just as hard as Videl was. "I need to get back home," he told her softly. Videl felt her heart sink. Being with Gohan was always so wonderful. She didn't think she would last the night without him, leaving her trapped with her nightmares. "Stay here," she whispered to him softly. "Just stay with me tonight," she begged.
Gohan wanted to die on the spot. She was asking him to stay to night with her, but for some reason, Gohan just didn't think he would be able to handle that, "Videl, I don't think that-" Videl pressed her mouth against his quickly before he could say another word. "That's your problem," she told him once she had pulled away. "You are always thinking. Just don't think about it Gohan, and just do what you feel." She ran one hand through his hair and pulled his head back down dangerously close to hers, "You can't just leave now," Videl told him. Gohan pulled her hand out of his hair and wrapped his fingers around hers before pushing it back down against the mattress. He did the same with his other hand until both Videl's hands were pinned up close to the headrest. "God, Videl," he muttered. Videl smiled softly as Gohan lowered his head back down again.
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"Mmmm," Videl murmured, opening her eyes slowly. Her eyes felt so heavy and just keeping them open was a major effort for her. Gohan shifted slightly, but he didn't wake up. Videl smiled to herself. She hadn't had one single nightmare. Videl didn't ever want to move from where she currently was positioned, which was right on top of Gohan, with his arms wrapped protectively around her waist. Videl kissed his neck softly and nestled her head against his head. She closed her eyes again and took in a deep breath. Light shone into her room through the curtains covering the sliding glass door. Videl ran her toes against Gohan's foot. He made a grunting noise and started to turn over, forgetting about the naked female in his arms. Videl gave a quick screech and Gohan opened his eyes, "Sorry," he muttered, "Not used to waking up with someone in my arms."
"I should hope not," she answered, smiling and giggling as he nibbled at her neck playfully. "Gohan," she giggled softly. But he never answered her. Instead, he brought his mouth to hers and kissed her softly. Videl moaned slowly, letting every muscle in her body loosen as she went limp in Gohan's arms. "God, Gohan," she murmured, "you really know how to treat a girl," she told him.
Gohan nodded and ran his hands up and down her body, exploring it all over again. "How did you end up on top?" he asked after a minute. Videl blushed slightly and shrugged. "I don't know. I just woke up like this." Gohan nodded and flipped them back over, to where he thought he belonged. Videl didn't protest or say a word, she just put her hands on the back of his back, near his shoulders, letting him kiss her. She had forgotten about putting up a fight. With Gohan, there was nothing to fight about. If he wanted to be on top, fine with her. As long as he held her close.
Gohan pulled away and looked over at the clock on the nightstand, "Oh shit!" he swore, rolling over in the bed and leaving Videl where she was. Unfortunately, he didn't realize how close to the right side of the bed they had been and when he had rolled over, there was no room to roll. So Gohan fell straight to the ground. Videl peered over the side of the bed, laughed at an agitated Gohan, wrapped in bed blankets, sprawled all over her bedroom floor. She held the sheets up against her chest so that Gohan wouldn't see a thing. "Are you alright?" she asked softly. Gohan just glared at her, "This is not funny, Videl. It's getting late and I need to get home," he told he, snatching his boxers of the floor and putting them on in record speed as Videl looked at the clock. "Gohan, it's not even four in the morning."
Gohan stared back at Videl, "Yes, I know that. But I have to get home and pray that no one is up yet and I can slip back until my bed before Goten wakes up and tells my mother that I'm not there. She'll have a heart attack!" Gohan told Videl in a rush.
"Gohan, will you hold on for just a second?" Videl asked, quickly grabbing his arm. "I have to tell you something."
Gohan put one arm down on both sides of Videl, who was sitting on the edge of her bed, still wrapped in bed sheets. He rested his forehead against hers, "Yeah?" he asked.
"Last night was the best night of my life, and I just wanted to make sure you didn't think it was a mistake," she confessed softly, not looking into Gohan's eyes. Gohan lifted her head up with one arm, "Why would you think that, Videl?" he asked.
Videl shrugged, "It just seems that you are in a real hurry to get away from me now that it's all over." Gohan shook his head and kissed her again quickly. "I've get to go home. We've got school in a few hours and I want to go home and get some actual sleep before I have to go and learn."
Videl nodded and hugged him tightly, "I can send you home, if you need me to. I noticed that you don't exactly have on any flying garments," Videl smirked. Gohan smiled, "Yes, that would be nice, if you don't mind."
Videl nodded and closed her eyes and concentrated hard, imagining the Son's home. Then she imagined Gohan in his room and when Videl opened her eyes, Gohan was gone. Videl sighed and found her nightgown on the floor, which she slipped back on and fell back to sleep.
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"Videl, are you listening? Have you heard a single word I said?" asked Erasa. Videl jerked up straight and took her head off of her desk. The professor shot her a nasty look, but continued talking in his dull monotone voice about some event that had happened thousands of years ago. Videl turned to face Erasa, who looked concerned, "I'm sorry, what were you saying?" she asked.
Erasa shook her head, "Never mind what I was walking about. Are you ok?" she asked worriedly. Videl nodded, "Of course I am, I'm just a little tired. I had a bad dream last night and I had a hard time going back to sleep. Truth is, I only got a few hours of sleep last night. I'm just a little tired."
Erasa rolled her eyes, "Well you look exhausted. Maybe you should ask to go to the nurse's office. You need to get some rest."
"I'm fine, Erasa, ok? Can we just leave it at that?" Videl hissed. Sharpner leaned forward from his desk behind Erasa and Videl, "A little grouchy today, aren't we Videl?" he sneered. "You just need a little love, darling. Just call me if you want a real guy," Sharpner whispered into Videl's ear. Videl's cheeks turned bright red and she slapped Sharpner across the face as the bell rang.
Sharpner touched at his jaw as Videl shoved her books into her backpack and threw it over her shoulder. Without waiting for Erasa, Videl headed straight out the door, not planning to talk to anyone. She stopped at her locker and twirled the combo, which was giving her some troubles because her hands were shaking. Videl cursed at her locker and slammed her hand against the stupid thing.
An arm wrapped around her waist and her capture kissed her neck. "Hey," he whispered softly. "Gohan," Videl sighed and leaned back against him. "Can you get this dumb thing open for me please?" she pleaded. Gohan nodded, "Sure, just give me your combo." Videl told him, and Gohan's fingers twirled and the lock popped right open. Videl turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck, "Thank you," she told him. Videl threw her history books into her locker and pulled out her science book and folder. Videl closed the door with a bang and turned to Gohan, yawning. Gohan kissed her forehead, "You need to get some sleep tonight," he told her. Videl just nodded and closed her eyes. She would have fallen straight back if Gohan hadn't grabbed her arm, "Maybe you should go see the nurse and make sure everything is alright," he told her.
Videl pulled her arm away from Gohan, "What is it with you people and an obsession with me going to the nurse? I'm just a little tired, that's all. I'll go home straight after school and go right to bed. Everyone needs to stop worrying about me!" she snapped, frustrated. Videl hurried off down the hall and disappeared into the crowd. Gohan stayed rooted where he was, "Someone has to worry about you," Gohan muttered to himself and headed off in the other direction.
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Videl walked into the house, slamming the large front door close and throwing her backpack to the ground. Sure, she had a lot of homework to do, but she didn't plan on doing it until later that day when Gohan was going to visit her for a study date. Videl kicked off her boots and snorted, "As if we're really going to study. The last thing I want to do when I'm with Gohan is study," she muttered, hanging her coat on the rack.
"Well then what's the first thing you want to do with him?" an extremely husky voice asked from behind her. Videl rolled her eyes, "Have you been taking steroids again?" Videl asked as she turned around to face her father and a skinny little woman attached to him. Videl wanted to smash her elbow into her father's groin and the woman's face. Hit them where it hurts. She tried to make her father angry instead. Videl shrugged, "Wouldn't you like to know. Whatever arrives, I'll accept. Whatever he's willing to do. But I'm sure not as hell doing homework. I've got better things to do with my time," she told him while she walked past him and started up the grand staircase. Once she reached the top, Videl turned around and leaned against the banister, "You wanna know something, you good for nothing father of mine? I love Gohan and I'll do whatever the hell I please to do with him. And there ain't one damn thing you can do about that." And with that, Videl walked briskly down the hall to her room.
Videl locked the door as soon as she had entered the room. She jumped onto her bed and screamed into a pillow. She screamed and screamed and screamed until her lungs and throat felt as if they were going to explode. Once Videl couldn't scream anymore, she took up crying. "I hate you," she whispered. Then she yelled it as loud as she could, which wasn't very loud and she doubted he would be able to hear her anyway.
Videl took out her hair bands and sling-shot them across the room. They hit the sliding glass door and bounced back about an inch, to lay hopelessly on the ground. Videl crawled under the covers and buried her face in a pillow. Within seconds, the soft sound of snoring filled the room.
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"You can't just do this to me!" Hercule yelled. "After all we've been through, you're just going to give up on us now? What kind of wife are you? What kind of mother are you?" he screamed in his wife's face. Videl, now five, stat on the third stair from the bottom, hiding in the shadows of the night. Her father and mother were arguing in the family room. Videl had left her room and climbing down the stairs to get her late night glass of water, but once she reached the landing, she had heard angry shouts, so she had decided to stay out of the way.
"Hercule, just calm down for a minute. You've had too much to drink, again. Just sit down there on the couch and let me explain it to you. Please," Videl's mother begged. But Hercule wouldn't hear of it. He slapped his wife across the face to shut her up. "I don't want to sit down! And since when do you give me permission to sit in my own house? News to you, dear, you don't. I am the head of this house, and I make the rules. And now, I'm telling you to drop the damn restraining order on me! You can take yourself away from this family, but you can't take away my daughter and my son from me!" he yelled.
Videl's mother tried to sit down to relieve herself of some stress, but Hercule yanked her to her feet. "Hercule," she began, "I lost the baby," she whispered, so Videl could barely hear.
"You did what?" Hercule yelled, slapping her across the face once again. "Answer me when I'm talking to you, Woman!" he screamed in her ear. "I lost the baby," she told him. "The doctor told me it was because of stress, but I'm not so sure. I think it was a miscarriage."
Hercule swiftly yanked her to him and pulled her into a kiss. But it wasn't passionate, it was rough and hard and full of hatred. Hercule then processed in trying to rip of her clothes. "Lay down on the couch right now and we are going to fuck you dry until you produce me a son." Videl's mother let out a small cry of pain and Hercule pushed her down on the couch. "I have a restraining order," she yelled at him. "You need to get away from me and you need to right now."
"You know that I don't care about a restraining order. You won't leave me and you know it. You need me, my wife. Even if you are a slave, a slave needs pleasure and no other man on this planet will ever give you that. You need me."
Videl listened, clutching the railing of the stairs as hard as she could. She couldn't believe what her father was doing. She knew she should go back to her room, and she really wanted to, but she couldn't move. Videl was in shock, like any normal five year old would be.
Videl mother pushed Hercule away so hard that he went flying into the glass coffee table, smashing it to smithereens. Videl held back a cry. Why would she mother ever push her father? Her mother loved her father. The rest of the scene would play in Videl's memories for the next several years, coming back every night as a horrible nightmare she would never forget.
Hercule stood up, staggering a bit from being drunk and from having a shard of glass in his arm. He pulled it out and then picked up a glass vase, reaching Videl's mother and grabbing her from behind, "I want you to scream now. Scream while you can. Because it will be the last time you ever say everything!" he muttered in her ear. Videl didn't hear this, only the breaking of glass as her father smashed it against her mother's head. Videl watched, terrified, as her mother fell to her knees and then all the way to the ground and her father standing there with what was left of a base of the vase in his hand. The last thing Videl saw before she slipped up the stairs and into her bed was her mother's blood in a pool by her mother's head. And the last thing she remembered hearing was the horrible sound of her father laughing until he dropped to the floor, knocked out cold from excess alcohol.
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"Videl?" Gohan whispered, walking into her room, turning on the light and closing the door. Gohan slipped off his backpack and sat in on the floor by Videl's desk. He glanced at Videl's bed, where Videl was curled up in a ball. Her eyes were closed and Gohan guessed, like anyone would, that Videl was sleeping. Gohan brushed a few bangs off of Videl's forehead. Videl shot up in the bed and screamed, holding the sheets close to her. Gohan took a step back and looked at her. Videl had tears flowing down her face and her whole body had turned a ghastly pale white color.
Gohan slipped into the bed next to her and pulled her into his lap. Videl started shaking violently and sobbing frantically. Videl held on to Gohan's shirt was a deep grip, almost choking Gohan. Gohan brushed her hair back and kissed her forehead, "Don't worry, Videl. It's ok. I'll make things right if you just tell me what's wrong. I promise," he told her rocking her back and forth slowly. Videl hiccupped, "She shouldn't have died," Videl cried, "not that way. She should have died of old age and lived to be happy with her restraining order," Videl murmured, coughing violently against Gohan's chest. Gohan pulled her face away and wiped her tears away, "What are you talking about, Videl? Who are you talking about?"
"My mother," Videl whispered. "She was killed. But she didn't die quickly like she should have. She died slowly and painfully and all I could do was stand there and watch. He just killed her. She loved and he killed her. And because she wanted me to be safe. And I couldn't even help her." Videl's whole body moved with each confession.
"Who killed her?" Gohan asked.
Videl looked up at him. "My father," she answered.
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"Your father?" Gohan answered, uncertain. Videl nodded. "He killed her and I saw it. But when the police asked me if I knew what happened, I told them I didn't because I didn't want him to hit me with a vase like Mommy," Videl sniffed and hiccupped. Videl pulled Gohan close to her and hugged him tightly. "I should tell the police. Tomorrow, on the way to school. I'll tell them the truth and see if they believe me."
"Why don't we go right now and tell them? I'll go with you," Gohan suggested. Videl just shook her head. "I've lived with this secret for twelve years, another day isn't going to hurt me. Plus, tomorrow would make a bigger impact because tomorrow is the anniversary of her death."
Gohan nodded, "Are you sure you don't want to go now?" he asked.
Videl shook her head and pulled Gohan down slowly, "I think you know what I want to do right now," she murmured into his ear before biting it playfully. Gohan smirked, but kept Videl from pulling him down any further. "I don't think that is such a good thing for you right now," he told her. Videl shook her head, "This is exactly what I need right now. I need you to be with me and I need to be with you. I love you, Gohan," she whispered.
Gohan nodded, "I know you do. And I love you too, Videl, but you've got to realize something," he started, although he didn't exactly know how to explain it. Videl nodded, "What?" she asked when Gohan didn't say anything.
Gohan flopped down onto the bed next to her, "You know that I'm a Saiyan and Saiyans are much different than humans. You know that we have a lot more strength than ordinary humans. But there are other differences as well. You've met my mother and my father. Did you happen to notice a little scar in the hollow of either one of their shoulders?" he asked her.
Videl thought more a minute, twisting a strand or two of Gohan's hair growing on the back of his neck. "Yeah, I remember seeing that on your mother. I remember how odd I thought it was. But what does that have to do with anything?" she asked, concerned.
Gohan sighed, "Saiyans don't exactly get married and have weddings. I mean, my mother and father did because my mother is an Earthling, but Vegeta and Bulma didn't and all the pure Saiyans never marry. They simply give each other that mark and that symbolizes that they are together."
"How exactly do you get that mark?" Videl asked Gohan. Gohan cleared his throat, "Well, you kind of bite down on your mate and it makes the permanent mark, that never disappears."
Videl gasped in shock, "So you're telling me that your father bit your mother's neck? Like a vampire?"
Gohan laughed. "No, not like a vampire, but yeah, he bit her and his has one from my mother as well."
"And did they just randomly decide one morning that they wanted to be together, so they decided to bite each other?" Videl asked, amaze.
Gohan blushed, "Well, you don't really decide. It kind of just happens during, well, sex…" Gohan trailed off. Videl's mouth hung open, "Oh… ok. Well, that's great. So why are you telling me this?" she asked.
"Because it is irreversible," Gohan told her. Videl stared at him for a moment, "And????" Videl asked.
"So I'm afraid that we'll wake up tomorrow with these permanent marks on our shoulders," Gohan explained. Videl shrugged, "We can always hide them until they disappear. It's not a big deal," Videl told him.
Gohan groaned and sat up, "I can't even talk to you right now about this. You're not taking me seriously. The mark isn't the only thing that is permanent thing. A bond is formed and if you even try to sleep with someone else, well it's not pretty. You're brain gets these little zaps. But if you bond, then you don't even have to worry about cheating because you start to go into hormonal overdrive, and you get the picture."
Videl wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck, "I don't care about all that, Gohan. Just stop worrying about everything and come on. It'll be perfect and you can worry your little handsome head off when you wake up tomorrow, totally blissed out of your Saiyan mind," Videl wiggled under Gohan and smiled up at him. Gohan let her kiss him quickly before he put his hands on her waist and started kissing her back. When Videl stopped to breathe, Gohan sighed, "And then there's the whole thing of unprotected sex," he warned.
"We'll worry when we're done," Videl reminded, pulling his shirt off over his head.
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Videl groaned and tried to turned over, but stopped halfway and let out a sharp gasp in pain, "Holy crap, Gohan. What did you do to me?" she asked in pain. Gohan kissed her neck and then he collarbone, where Videl let out a small scream in pain, "Don't you dare do that again, or when I get out of this bed I'll kill you."
Gohan kissed her neck, "I warned you before it happened, in all fairness."
Videl rolled her eyes, "Now you and I both know that you aren't fair." Gohan chuckled and stroked her hair and carefully rolled her over in his arms. Videl groaned and curled up as well as she could to him. "My teeth hurt," she complained. "And that little mark of yours really hurts."
"Stop wining. I told you what would happen. You didn't think having someone bite into your shoulder would hurt?" he asked as if Videl was stupid.
Videl sighed, "I didn't think it would hurt all over," Videl remarked. "I don't think I'll be able to walk for days," she grimaced in pain.
Gohan kissed her softly, "Sorry about that. But that wasn't just me. I'm hurting over here as well. I told you about the hormone jump."
Videl nodded and rolled over onto her back and groaned once again. "How many times did we do it last night?" she asked softly, slightly embarrassed at what she had done. Gohan rolled over as well and wrapped one arm around her shoulders, "I lost count after ten," he told her. Videl kissed his shoulder carefully, "Well, I must admit, it was worth it."
"Maybe for you," Gohan said, turning his head to face her, "What am I going to tell my mother?"
