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Note: Thank you all so much for the reviews! Well this is it the last chapter of Love's Pain. I'm sad that it is over but all good things must come to an end. Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed and helped to inspire me to keep the story going. I love each and every one of you. Thank you all so much!



I don't normally do this but I recently have become obsessed with Goten and Marron fics. They are a really cute couple and I found one that has B-chan's characters in it. It is called What A Trip! By The Scribe of Ages. I highly suggest everyone to go read it and review to it. It is a really good story!
Chica



Love's Pain

The Final Confrontation

Trunks knocked on Pan's door, yelling at her to open up. He had driven as fast as he could to Pan's after his talk with Gohan and now he was not about to be put off anymore. He wanted answers and he was not going to leave Pan's until he got them. After a couple of minutes of banging on her door, Trunks gave up and thrusted the door open. It had started to rain while he was outside, making his bad mood worse.

"Trunks what the hell do you think you are doing? I didn't let you in for a reason." Pan yelled coming out of her bedroom wrapping a sheet tight around her. When she heard her front door being opened, Pan just jumped up and grabbed her bed sheet not bothering to put clothing on. Pan tightened the slipping sheet making sure that everything was properly covered. Her movement caught Trunk's attention. Looking over at her Trunks saw that Pan was standing in nothing but the sheet off her bed. Even though he had seen her naked, it still made him blush to see her standing in next to nothing in front of him.

"I...I...I'm sorry. Umm...

"You should be! Now get out of my house."

"I'm not leaving until we talk. I'm sick of this game Pan and I refuse to play it anymore."

"Well I don't give a damn what you want to do. I want you out of my house right this instance. Or by Dende, I will make you incredibly sorry."

"What are you going to do, Pan? In case you forgot, you are standing there with a sheet wrapped around you. So get dressed and come talk to me, or I will make you incredibly sorry." Trunks stated walking further into Pan's house, throwing her words back in her face.

Realizing that she was not going to get rid of him as easy as before, Pan gave in and turned to go back into her bedroom. "Fine we will talk but this is the last time we have this or any other discussion." Pan said walking away from Trunks. She returned wearing jeans and a tight, blue tee-shirt. She had left her hair down, not wanting to deal with it assuming that she could get rid of Trunks quickly and be back in bed sleeping. She kicked her sandals on and walked back into the living room, finding Trunks staring at the rain through her window. "Now what in the hell do you want?"

"I want the truth Pan. Not another lie that helps you feel good about yourself. I told you that I'm sick of the games, and I'm sick of the lies. I want you to tell me the truth and I want you to do it now. Why in Dende's name are you so cold and why are you pushing me away?" Trunks said advancing on her. Pan smacked him and pushed past Trunks to get away from him and his words. Trunks caught her arm as she tried to leave and swung her back around to face him. Pan used her free arm to punch him and pulled out of his grasp, running out into the rain. Trunks followed Pan after he was able to catch his breathe from her sucker punch. He prepared himself for another attack but he was not prepared for her angry words and hurt filled face.

"What exactly do you want me to say that I have not said already?"

"The truth Pan. It is the only way things are going to be better between us."

"First off there is no us Trunks. There never really was." Pan said tiredly feeling her eyes starting to water. "So tell me, tell me what the hell I can say to make it all right. Do you want to hear that I missed you? That I think about you every minute I'm away from you? That I sat there praying for you, until he was able to manipulate my mind." Pan yelled trying to subside her tears. Trunks walked over to her trying to hug her, but Pan just pushed him away.

"What else do you want to hear? That I'm using Lucas, or that every time I touch him, I'm thinking of you? How about how my blood turns to ice whenever he touches me because I feel like I'm betraying you? Or that I hate when you touch me because then I actually feel something?" Pan screamed finally letting her tears fall. "How about I love you!" The second she yelled it out Pan covered her mouth and sank to the wet ground.

Trunks bent down on the wet grass to look Pan in the face. His heart had stopped when she started talking about Lucas. Trunks wanted to go out and kill him just for touching Pan. He knew that Pan and Lucas has slept together, she had made sure that he knew that, but it still hurt to hear her say it. Trunks didn't think that his heart would ever beat again and then she screamed out those pain filled words. Those magical words that gave him hope for the future. She had screamed without thinking, without hesitation, and had given him insight to how she truly felt. Pan loved him. Gohan had hinted at that during their talk, but Trunks did not believe him. But it was true, she loved him. Now that he knew it, Trunks would fight for her until the day he died.

"Pan, look at me." Trunks said grasping her chin and forcing her to look up at him. "Please look at me, Pan." He pleaded trying to meet her eyes.

"Leave me alone Trunks. Just go away and leave me alone." Pan said in defeat.

"I can't Pan. I will never leave you alone. Pan please...

"NO! I don't want to listen to anything else you have to say. Trunks please just leave. I don't want to talk. I'm tired of talking." Pan said pushing away from Trunks and standing up. She was soaking wet and her tears were mingling with the rain running down her face, but Pan was oblivious to it all. She could only focus on how she shouted out those dreaded words. Those words that could and would ruin the barrier she had created around herself. The best thing now would be to get away and save what was left of her pride. As she turned to walk away Trunks once again grabbed her arm and pulled her tight against him. He trapped both her arms so that she could not hit him again. Pan looked up into his deep blue eyes and felt a part of her barrier crumble.

Trunks felt as if he were drowning in her midnight eyes. He could see the inner turmoil in them and he decided that this would be the best time to get his say in. "I love you." He whispered leaning down and kissing her. She gave in and kissed him back until she realized what she was doing.

Pan struggled against him until Trunks finally gave in and let her go. She was pissed with him, but she was furious with herself. She was tired of being the one who was always being questioned and by Dende it was her turn to demand some answers. "There Trunks, you have your damned truth. But here is something I don't understand. Why are you so interested in what I feel, when I told you months ago that I loved you? Do you remember that? I do. Let's see, it went something like this. I pour my heart out to you. I begged you to love me like I lovED you, but you refused. You told me to stop because it wasn't going to get us anywhere. Then let's see there was the part where you said being with me was a mistake. Do you have any idea how badly I wanted to die right then and there? You threw my love back in my face only to later claim that you really do love me."

"Pan, I thought...

"I don't care what you thought. You wanted to talk, well I'm talking so shut the hell up. Now where was I? Oh yeah, you knock the shit out of Uub, carry me off to your place only to hurt me some more with false lies of love. And you wonder why I am so cold and why I pushed you away. You have basically caused me nothing but pain. The only thing that is between us is lust. You know it and I know it."

"Pan that is not true and you know it. Why won't you listen to me?"

"I don't want to listen to you. Trunks, during one of the hardest times of my life, I was taken. He said that he would kill my mom if I didn't come along quietly. Do you know what it is like to have your mother threatened?" Pan asked refusing to voice Brolli's name.

"Sure I do. My dad threatens my mom everyday." Trunks said trying to lighten the mood surrounding them.

"Trunks, you ass. I was being serious. Vegeta cares for your mom, and he would never hurt her on purpose. Do you know what it is like being stuck with a man who cares for nothing but revenge against your family and mine? I was stuck in a dirty cell with Parisu, who was unconscious. He put shards of glass right at the door and waited for me to try and escape so that I would step on the glass. It was a form of entertainment to him to see me in pain. Trunks, I sat there and prayed to Dende that you would come. I believed that you would, but you never did. He began to beat me because you never came. What is this not what you wanted to hear?" Pan asked snidely as she watched Trunks's reaction to some of her experiences with Brolli.

"I suffered because you never bothered to come save me. How can you tell me you love me, after leaving me to that monster?" Pan said finally running out of steam. She was to tired to yell anymore. She had finally gotten rid of Lucas and that weight he had inadvertently caused. It was killing a part of her soul every time he touched her and after her talk with Parisu and Goten, she could not do it anymore. She had just gotten home and laid down when Trunks barged in and started this whole emotionally draining ending to this overly emotional day.

"Pan, I meant it when I said I loved you. I don't know where you have gotten this idea that I didn't save you because I did. Goten and I both did."

"Trunks, do you think I'm stupid? Before I passed out I only saw one person, and the last time I checked your hair isn't spiky unless you are a super saiyan. Which that person was not. So please don't lie about saving me."

Trunks threw his hands up in the air in frustration. This talk was getting him nowhere. Sure he had gotten Pan to admit her true feelings, but she had also done nothing but yell and scream at him since. He had to get through to her before she could turn icy on him again and reject everything he had to say. "Pan, the truth is I did save you. Goten and I fused together. We became Gotenks and that is who you saw. And in case you still don't believe me. Right before you passed out you called for Gohan. It broke my heart to hear your cry for Gohan, and it made my rage so much worse. Then after Brolli was killed, and I saw what he had done to you, I wanted to kill him all over again. Pan can't you see that it hurt me to see you in so much pain. I stayed with you at the hospital, not knowing if you would live or die." Trunks read the confusion in her eyes and knew that she was struggling to believe him. She did on some level when he brought up Gohan. He rushed to finish before she could decide that he was lying and argue with him again.

"Pan, I was there with you. Hell, I made Dad crazy with my pacing. He kept having to walk over and push me into a chair to stop it. I thought he was going to tie me down at one point." Pan smiled a little at the image of Vegeta tying Trunks to a chair. Seeing her smile gave Trunks a boost of confidence to continue. "Baby, I told you then, after your first round of surgeries that I loved you. I begged you to wake up. I promised you that I would never let you be hurt or unhappy again. I told you that I wanted to marry you and have kids with you."

Something Trunks said caused a memory to surface in Pan's mind. It was a memory of a voice talking to her while she kept drifting in and out of consciousness. Pushing what she assumed to be from a dream out of her mind, Pan started crying again. She moved into Trunks's arms and proceeded to hit on his chest, crying out her frustration and confusion. "Why Trunks? If you say you love me and want to marry me then why did you push me away?"

"Baby, I did it because I thought it would save you."

"Are you kidding me? How would being away from you save me? Because I was away from you when he got me."

"Pan, ever since our first kiss, I have been having dreams. Brolli was sending them to me. They were more like nightmares, and he would always kill you while I was forced to watch. I could never get to you in time, and he would always taunt me, by saying that my love for you killed you. I tried to ignore them but they would always be a little more violent, more gruesome. The night that I left your place, I left because I had another dream and I had to get away so that I could think. I am so sorry that I hurt you. I was with Marron because I was asking her for advice. She told me that I was crazy and it was all part of my imagination. Then she got to witness the after effects of one of my dreams first hand. She told me that I was right, I should stay away from you so that it would save you."

Pan had finally quit pounding on Trunks and was now just crying into his chest. She pulled back to look at him when he paused in his story. "I still don't understand why you would not tell me all of this?"

"Because I thought I could save you if I made you hate me."

"How would my hating you make me safe?"

"Because in every dream Brolli told me that it was my love for you that killed you. I thought that if we weren't together then he could not hurt you."

"Well I guess you thought wrong. Trunks don't you see, you played right in to his trap. It would have been harder for him to kidnap me if I was with you and not alone. Trunks he did hurt me, and it went deeper than the physical pain. He made me doubt my feelings for you and he made me shut everything and everyone out of my life for fear of being hurt again."

"I am mire sorry then you will ever know. If I could I would have taken your place. Please don't shut me out anymore. Pan, if I have learned anything, it is that love is painful. I know this because I love you so much that it hurts. I will love you until the day I die. That I promise you."

Pan smiled up at Trunks. He could tell that he had finally broken all of her barriers. Trunks wiped the remaining tears off her face. They were both soaking wet, yet neither noticed as their heads moved closer until they were sharing a kiss full of passion and love. Trunks poured all of his heart into their kiss. For once neither of them fought for dominance with their tongues, they just kissed slowly and fully until they had to pull away for much needed air. Pan laughed as they pulled apart. For the first time in months, she finally felt whole and happy.

Feeling their rain soaked clothes for the first time, Pan and Trunks shivered in the cold rain. "Maybe we should go inside. I love you." Pan whispered as she leaned up to kiss him again.

"Come on, I don't want you catching a cold. I have some plans for you and being sick is not one of them." Trunks said grabbing her hand and walking back to her front door. Pan stopped Trunks before they could go in. He gave her a confused look almost worried that she had changed her mind.

Smiling at him, Pan looked at Trunks with all the love she had shinning in her eyes. "So did you mean it, when you said would buy me a dog and let me pick where we live?" Pan laughed as Trunks threw her over his shoulder and walked into her house closing the door with his foot.





Well I hate to say it but this is the end of the story. I hope you enjoyed my story, because I enjoyed writing it. So which chapter was your favorite? Mine was Pan's talk with Goten and Parisu!

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