At World's End

Chapter 9: As Time Goes By

Hey everyone! This is the last chapter. Depending on how much everyone likes this story, I might do a story BASED on this one. It won't take off where this one leaves off, but it will contain the same events and I've already got a simple story line planned out. I plan to put a poll up at the fan-site, so if you would like to see that, you can visit the site and vote. Also, I am going to be putting up a preview of it for members, so you can read that first and then vote. If more people don't join it, I'm going to make it open to everyone and see how that works and see if I get more response of out it. However, you have to be a member to receive updates on stories and fan-fics, and the special previews. I do have a few members, and I love you all very much. But I also love all my readers and reviewers, so don't think that I don't.

Also, once these stories are finished and have been sitting, finished, for a while, I might delete them off of fan-fiction.net and just post them at the fan-site. The url for that, once again, is http://group.yahoo.com/groups/antidarthani.

Now that I'm done running off my mouth, I present you the end of At World's End.

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Videl screamed in surprise when Gohan wrapped his arms around her waist and pushed her into the pool, taking Gohan with her. They hit the water on their sides, creating a large splash. Videl broke to the surface and wiped her wet hair back out of her face, "I can't believe you just did that," she said to Gohan when he came up for air. Videl wiped the water out of her hair. She had been sun bathing on a warm lounge chair and gotten up to go get a glass of water when Gohan pushed her in. Well, at least she couldn't complain about not having enough water now.

Gohan wrapped his arms back around her from behind and twirled her around in circles. Videl rolled her eyes and giggled. Gohan finally let her go and Videl swam away, stroking skillfully. Once she stopped, in the swallow end of the pool, Gohan popped up in front of her and scared Videl. "Stop," she cried playfully before wrapping an arm around his neck and kissing him passionately. Gohan let them sink a little into the water until their heads were completely covered. Videl kept her eyes closed and felt the cold water cover over her. 'Now this is what I call paradise,' she thought before pulling back up to get some air.

"Gohan?" she asked softly.

"Yeah?" he asked, looking down into her eyes.

"This is perfect," she told him, smiling. "It might even be better than what I had planned on doing all day. And all night. And all day tomorrow."

Gohan raised an eyebrow, "What were you planning on doing for that long?"

Videl smiled knowingly. She traced an invisible twisted line around Gohan's chest, "Oh, you know. This and that." She lowered her voice a little, "Something that we would both enjoy…"

Gohan pulled her closer and started swimming into the deeper water, taking her with him, "You mean, like," he paused for dramatics, "sex?" he whispered, as if he was disgusted by the word.

Videl giggled and nodded enthusiastically, "But if you don't want to, I can go find someone else to share the pleasure with me. You can go home and visit your family and I'll stay here and find some random guy to screw around with and when we're done, I'll call you. Hey, maybe Clinton will want to…" before Videl could finish, she was pushed down into the water. In a sudden panic, Videl blew all the water out of her nose and mouth. Only seconds later, Gohan pulled her back up. Videl stared at him with wide eyes, "I cannot believe that you just did that to me. You could have killed me, you little bastard!"

Gohan laughed at the name she had called him, "You know I would never try to hurt you. All I wanted to do was to make you shut up. But I guess that's something you are incapable of doing."

Videl frowned at Gohan, but her insides squirmed with anticipation. "You want to dry off and then…"

Gohan shook his head before she could finish, "We'll have plenty of time for that later. Can't we just enjoy the great outdoors?" he asked her.

Videl pouted, "But I don't want to enjoy the outdoors. I want to enjoy you," she said, stressing the last word. "Come on, Gohan. Don't tell me you don't want to. Ever since the incident with my father two weeks ago, I have barely even gotten to be around you, not to mention anything more enjoyable."

Gohan ran a hand over her hair, pushing it back out of her face, "We've been busy and you know it. With your father and the official sentencing and then getting new furniture and firing the staff, it's been a very hectic week, Videl."

"I know that, but the week's over and now we have nothing to do…" she insisted, running her tongue along his lower lips, trying to persuade him to part them. Gohan shook his head once again, "I really need to study for the final exams. They're next week and I don't remember the last time I studied for them. I can't afford to fail them," he said.

Videl rolled her eyes and took to the air only inches above the pool. She flew over to her lounge chair and picked up her towel, which she used to dry her hair off roughly and then wrap around her waist. Gohan flew up behind her, dripping water on her damp towel. Videl turned around to face him, "If you get my towel wet, too, I'm just going to get wetter, instead of dry," she blamed him.

Gohan caught her lips with his. Videl forced his lips apart and allowed her tongue to slip into his mouth. God, it had been weeks since Videl had felt so good. Just as Videl began to slip her arm back around his neck, Gohan, with his Saiyan hearing, heard the phone ringing from inside the mansion. "Gotta go answer the phone," he told her simply, flying off through the gardens. Videl sighed and followed him slowly, figuring she didn't have to reach the house until he was off the phone.

Videl opened the kitchen door and stepped into the warm, cozy house. Gohan was leaning against the counter, talking excitedly on the phone, to who Videl didn't know. She threw her wet towel at him. He was distracted by the phone and didn't realize the was going to hit him until it already had. Videl loved having the mansion all the herself, except for Gohan. They had fired all the help - maids, cooks, gardeners, everyone - so they had the whole place to themselves. The first thing they had done was disable all the security tapes Hercule had put up around the house Videl had never known were there. If the semen hadn't been enough in court, all they would have had to do was show the tape to the judge and jury. That's what had scared Videl the most. There had been one in her room, as well as in the bathroom located nearest to her room, the one she had always used.

Videl shivered and tried not to think about it. She started to fumble with the tie that help the top of her bikini on. She figured she would be able to have it off before she reached the master bedroom to change.

Videl sighed as she thought about the room she had moved into. It had been her fathers, but she had decided it would be nicer than her old room, she had gotten all new beds, of course, as to not remind her of her father, or of her father and herself. But Gohan, at the last minute, had decided he would rather have slept in Videl's old room. So once the new beds had arrived, they had slept in different rooms. That was what had bothered her the most. 'Maybe he's uncomfortable with the idea of staying here at the mansion with me now that it's an actual possibility,' Videl thought while she walked up the main stairs. She finally managed to get to blasted knot untied. She slipped it off of her head just as Gohan came walking into the family room.

"Hey Videl, my mother just called to say…" Gohan froze mid-sentence when he saw the half naked Videl turn around, in the process of throwing her bathing suit top over the banister to dry. "What are you doing?' he asked nervously.

Videl stared at him like he was an idiot, "I'm getting ready to change into something more comfortable. I don't know how women wear these bikinis. The bottom is riding way to far up my ass. What IS your problem?" she asked when Gohan didn't even blink.

"Videl, you're standing half naked on the stairs and you're asking me what my problem is? Are you insane? A reporter could stick a camera in between the shutters and find a crack between the curtains and the window and you'll be naked for the five o'clock news."

Videl started walking back down the stairs, taking them two at a time. When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she stood only a few inches away from Gohan, "What's gotten into you lately?" Videl swallowed, fearing the worst. "It's almost as if you don't care anymore."

"Of course I care! I'm just worried about you, that's all. A lot of bad things have happened to you lately and I don't want to add to that list."

Videl looked up at Gohan, "You don't have to worry about me. And I don't want you to. I've already told you that a billion times. What I want is for us to be happy, together. Not me in one room and you in the other. I don't want to have to wear three layers of clothes around you. I want to be able to walk around in the privacy of my own house naked if I want to. But what I want the most," she continued, closing the gap between their bodies and wrapping her arms around his waist, "is for us to be naked together. Up there, in my bed. Right now."

Gohan kissed her gently, "We can't. Not right now, Videl. My mother just called to say that something's happened to Goten and he's in the hospital. We need to change and go meet them there."

Videl gasped lightly and nodded. They both walked up the stairs and Videl turned to walked down one wing and Gohan took the other. Before he could get too far, Videl smirked, "I move all your clothes out of the dresser in there into the dresser in my room. I have no idea where you're going to or what you plan on doing there."

Gohan sighed and turned back around, following Videl into her room. Once they had changed out of their bathing suits and into some warm winter clothes, Videl turned to face Gohan, "You can't be like this forever," she told him. His only response was to walk out of the room.

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"Do you want some of my coffee?" Videl asked, sitting down in the plastic chair next to Gohan. He had just finished off his third cup in six hours. His hands were starting to shake from the mass amounts of caffeine, but his eyes were trying to close and his body was trying to fall into a deep sleep. His eyes were bloodshot from crying. He had never faced anything so awful in his life.

Videl put her cup down on the little table next to her and rested her hand on Gohan's right leg, which was the closest. She gave it a light squeeze, which caused Gohan to momentarily glance at her, "Your brother is going to be fine," she reassured Gohan, but he just gave her a quick nod and stared out at nothing. Videl sighed and got out of her seat, sitting herself back down on Gohan's lap. "Look at me," she pleaded.

Gohan's eyes stared at her chest for a second before he looked up into her eyes. Videl rested her hands on his shoulders, "I know how hard this is for you, but you have to have faith in Goten. He's a strong little boy and he's going to make it through this."

Gohan just nodded and turned his head to the right. Anything to not have to look at Videl. But Videl was persistent. She shifted her weight to the right and looked back into his eyes, "This isn't even about Goten, is it? I know there's something bothering you, Gohan, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the hell it is. Will you just tell me? Please?"

Gohan stared right into her eyes. Videl had never seen such sadness and hatred before, "It just seems as if trouble and death follow me around everywhere. First there was Cell, and then Buu, and then your father raping you, and now my little brother is hanging on for his life. I can't help but think that it's my fault all these bad things are happening to the people I love."

Videl kissed the end of his nose, "You can't blame yourself, Gohan. Bad things happen to everyone. You've got to stop trying to take care of everyone and let some people worry about themselves. It's all too much for just one person, even you."

A tear ran down Gohan's cheek, "I can't handle this, Videl. What if he dies? Or what is he can't ever walk again? There are numerous things that could go wrong with him and all we're doing is sitting here." Videl shook her head, "I don't think anyone can handle this, Gohan. No one knows what's going to happen to him." Gohan wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him, "I don't know what I would ever do without you, Videl," he told her, resting his head on hers.

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A thin, pretty nurse walked out into the waiting room. "Is there anyone here to see Goten Son?" she asked, glancing up from her clipboard. Goku and Chi-Chi stood up. They glanced over at Gohan and Videl, but they were fast asleep. The nurse looked back at the clipboard for a moment. "He requested to see a Videl Son first? Is she here?" she asked.

Chi-Chi was taken back by the name Videl Son, but nevertheless, she bent down and gently shook Videl's shoulders, "Honey, wake up. Goten wants to see you."

Videl's eyes fluttered open. "Holy crap. Gohan has to boniest leg in the world, I swear. I don't know how I ever feel asleep like that. Did you say Goten wanted to see me?" she asked.

Chi-Chi nodded, "You're wanted first."

Videl nodded and slowly slid out of Gohan's lap. She kissed his forehead as his eyes began to open and then followed the nurse back further into the hospital. "Are you is sister-in-law?" the nurse asked.

"I guess," Videl answered. She didn't consider herself to be married to Gohan, but being married wouldn't be much different. Besides, Videl had never been very fond of weddings. The nurse held open a door for Videl.

Videl walked into a well light, extremely white room, where Goten was sitting in the bed, eyes glued on a TV mounted on the wall. Videl walked over to the bed and knelt down beside it, "How are you holding up, Squirt?" Videl asked.

Goten smiled at her, "Hiya! Have you seen my cast? It looks awesome. And the doctor said everyone gets to sign it and say really nice things that I can look at when I'm depressed. It's that cool?"

Videl nodded, "What did you do to have to get that cast?" Videl asked him.

Goten laughed a boyish little laugh, "It was really funny. Trunks and I were playing tag and I was it. He was flying through the words behind my house and so I chased after him, only I run right into a big tree I hadn't seen fast enough. But I'm fine and I don't even remember coming here. I must have fallen asleep."

Videl nodded and kissed his forehead, reaching for a permanent marker and started to sign Goten's cast. "Why did you want to see me first?" she asked after she had finished writing her name at the end of her little note.

"Well, I wanted to know something that Mommy wouldn't let me ask you before. But she won't get mad if she doesn't know I asked. Promise you won't tell anyone I asked you?" he whispered.

Videl nodded.

Goten leaned back against the pillows, "Well, I was wondering if you're going to marry Gohan."

Videl was a little taken back by the Saiyan's question. "Gohan used to be grumpy when he came home from school before the whole thing with Buu. But since he started spending a lot of time around you, he always seems happy. And Gohan needs to be happy. I think he worries too much."

Videl laughed, "Yeah I think he worries too much too. But I don't know what to tell you, Buddy. I don't know if Gohan and I will get married, but I have a feeling." Videl paused, "Can you keep a secret?" she whispered.

Goten nodded and looked at Videl, his beautiful blue eyes wide. Videl smiled, "I have a feeling that Gohan and I are going to stay together forever. Would you like that? If Gohan and I got married?"

Goten nodded, "We all love you, Videl. Even Mom, even though she doesn't like to show it. Dad says she doesn't want to lose her son, but Dad tells her she's got to let go sometime."

"Is that why you told the nurse my name was Videl Son?" Videl asked a final question.

Goten blushed before nodding. Videl stood up and ruffled Goten's hair. "I've got to get going. It's getting late. I hate to ask, but would you find if I stole Gohan away if I promised that we'd come see you tomorrow?"

Goten thought for a moment before he shook his head, "You guys should go home. But you have to come visit me again."

"Oh, don't worry. We will. I promise you." Videl walked out of the room. Chi-Chi quickly started running towards Goten's room and Goku started to follow her, yawning like mad.

Gohan stood up to follow them, but Videl grabbed his jacket off of his seat and her jacket off of hers. "Let's get out of here."

Gohan shook his head. "I've got to go see Goten and make sure he's alright."

Videl sighed, taking Gohan's hand in hers and heading for the exit. "Goten's fine. All he has is a small little cast. He might have broken a bone in his leg at the most. He ran into a tree. Nothing a Saiyan can't handle. We'll come visit him tomorrow. He doesn't mind and I don't think you should either."

Gohan tried to protest, but Videl keeping pulling him out, "You forget, Son Gohan, that I own that hospital now and I'm not going to let anything happen to him. Now can we please just go home?"

Gohan nodded and they took to the air. The temperature had dropping tremendously since the afternoon. Videl shivered at the air hitting her. They landed inside the mansion gates in two minutes flat. Videl fumbled for her house keys, which where in her jacket that she hadn't bothered putting on. Videl finally found them and unlocked the house, throwing the door open and slamming it shut. She locked it up tightly after her and hung her jacket on the coat rack. Gohan followed her example, "I'll go get a fire started. Do you want to go fix dinner?" Gohan asked. One of the things he loved best about Videl was that she was an amazing cook.

Videl yawned and stretched, "I'll just getting something out of the refrigerator. While you moved all the furniture last week, I made enough food to last you at least a week. I think I'm going to have to start cooking about tomorrow." Videl walked into the kitchen and turned on the light. She found a chicken sandwich for herself and a large pot pie for Gohan, and a sandwich and numerous other goodies. "Why don't you just come grab some stuff out of the fridge?" Videl suggested to Gohan, leaning halfway through the swinging door. Gohan didn't answer, but Videl only shrugged and sat down at the kitchen counter. She ate her sandwich easily, but by the time she had finished and settled down on the couch in the living room, Gohan had demolished half of the food in the refrigerator. Videl was thankful she hadn't told him there was anything in the freezer. He might have eaten all of that too.

Gohan passed through the swinging door and sank down into the couch next to Videl, who was watching a soap opera. Gohan groaned, "You cannot seriously like this crap," Gohan said.

Videl didn't say a word. She curled her legs up onto the couch and wrapped her arms around Gohan's waist, resting her head on his shoulder, "I happen to love this show, thank you very much."

Gohan kissed her hair, "You're getting soft on me."

"If I'm not having sex with my mate, I can at least watch other people who talk about their private lives. It makes me feel a little better by the end of the day."

Gohan picked up the clicker off of the coffee table and turned the TV off. Videl stared up at him, not believing what he had done. "You're not being fair, Videl. I don't see why you are so intent on having sex now," Gohan pointed out. "It's never bothered you before. But today it seems as if that's all you can think about."

"That's because it is," Videl snapped. "Don't get me wrong, Gohan, I love you and I love being curled up on the couch with you like this. But it's been weeks since we've mated and we haven't had sex since then. I just feel that ever since we mated that maybe you've regretted it. And it's killing me."

Gohan sighed and pulled Videl closer, "I don't regret it, Videl. Don't ever think that. It's just that a lot of things have been happening lately and we haven't had any time."

"Oh, cut the crap, Gohan. we've had time all day and you won't even touch me. You were shocked to see me topless today. You've never minded before."

"Videl, your doctor called last week," Gohan told her. "And I know the truth."

Videl looked up at him, "You do?"

Gohan nodded, "And I can't believe you never told me!"

Videl lowered her eyes, "Is that why you won't sleep in the same bed as me anymore?" Videl asked.

Gohan nodded, "I'm just worried about you. But back to you not even telling me. Did you think that I wouldn't care about something like this? That I wouldn't like to know that I'm going to be a father?"

"Gohan, please don't be mad at me for not telling you. The fact is, I don't know if it's yours or if it's my father's child."

"Well, I do. That's what the doctor called about," Gohan informed her.

Videl looked back up at him. "So what did he say?" she snapped, waiting for an answer.

"When I told him who I was, he congratulated me because I was going to be a father."

Videl laughed and Gohan smiled. "I can't believe you didn't tell me he called. I've been so worried about that." Gohan nodded and pulled Videl roughly against him, covering her mouth with his. Videl moaned into his mouth, telling him just how much she enjoyed what he was doing. In one swift movement, Gohan had Videl pressed down against the couch and he was on top of her.

Videl threw an image of her bed into her mind and transported them into a castle of pillows and warm, expensive blankets. Videl started unbuttoning the front of Gohan's shirt, while Gohan just ripped hers clear off. Videl was going to protest, but she was a bit busy at the moment. She finally had the damn thing unbuttoned all the way. She shoved it off of his shoulders and tossed it off of the bed.

"Did you really have to wear a bra today?" Gohan asked. Videl smiled at him, pushing her back up off of the bed. Gohan slipped his hands up under and fumbled with the clips. He finally managed to get the blasted thing unclipped. He tossed it off the bed before he took her mouth to his again…

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Gohan ran his hand up and down Videl's slick back. Videl sighed and kissed Gohan's neck. Sometime, during the night, Videl had managed to flip them over. She made a trail of kisses down his neck to the hollow in his shoulder where her mark was. Videl licked it once. In the mean time, Gohan just enjoyed himself, breathing in the smell of Videl's hair.

"That was well worth the wait," Videl told Gohan, grinning.

Gohan chuckled and found her mouth with his, claiming her lips once again.

"You see?" Videl asked. "This just feels so natural, to be with you."

"I know," Gohan said.

"You're going to be a father," Videl reminded him.

Gohan smiled, "I know. And you're going to be a mother."

"And we're going to take care of this little girl much better than my parents took care of me," Videl told him.

"It's a boy," Gohan said, kissing her neck one more time.

Videl shook her head, "No it's not. She's in my stomach. I know what my baby is going to be."

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A crying sound filled the room. Videl screamed out one last time and the doctor pulled out a beautiful little girl. "Congratulations," the doctor told her, "It's a girl."

Videl laughed a little, not believing the seven hours of pain were finally over. Gohan kissed his forehead and then her mouth. "I'm a daddy," he whispered.

Videl smiled and nodded, "I told you she was a girl. So I win the bet and I get to name her."

Gohan sighed, "I wouldn't care if it was a boy, I'd let you name our child either way after seeing you sitting there for seven hours in pure pain."

The doctor handed Videl her daughter, wrapped in a baby blanket. The baby's eyes were closed and she was sleeping peacefully. "Oh God, look at her Gohan, she's so tiny."

Goten came rushing into the room, followed by Chi-Chi and Goku. "Look at her!" Goten cried in delight. "She's so small. Can I hold her?" he asked.

Videl nodded and Gohan lifted him up and put him down on the bed next to Videl. Videl showed him how to place his hands before handing him the baby. "What's her name?" Goten asked.

Videl shrugged, "We haven't named her yet. Do you have any names that you like?" she asked Goten.

"You should name her Pan," Goten said, kissing the baby's little fingers.

"Where did you get that name from?" Gohan asked him, wrapping an arm around Videl's shoulders.

"When I asked Mommy where babies came from, she hit Daddy over the head with the frying pan."

Gohan and Videl laughed. "Pan…" Videl muttered. "I actually kind of like that name…"

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That's the end, everyone! I'm listening to Matchbox Twenty right now, Bright Lights, and it's 10:30PM. I'm going to go get a shower and then I'm going to bed. Stay tuned to my author's page or fan-site for updates and info on new chapters and upcoming fan-fics.

I'm going to start on the story after this one, the story of Pan, once everything else is done. Stay tuned for that as well! I hope you enjoyed! Please review and tell me whether or not you liked it and why. Also, I'd love suggestions on how you think I could improve my writing.

Thanks to everyone who made it this far. This is my longest fan-fic at the time being and it might always be. You never know…

Love, Anti Darth Ani