Disclaimer; Nup. Still don't own it.

A/N; Oh my gosh. I am so sorry for not updating sooner. But I have just been so busy lately. And it's almost the end of the school year so the teachers are giving up loads of homework. And I've also been busy with all my sport and what not. Ag, I really am sorry. But it's here now. So please R/R ~D.B

And Then You'll Know

Chapter 4

The party was in full swing. It was nearly 2.30am, but Chi-chi's party showed no signs of slowing anytime soon. The music was booming from the speakers at full ball and the dance floor was full. And right in the center of it all were Bulma and Chi-chi. Bulma, who had had a few too many drinks, was hanging of Tules and Chi-chi was watching her friend make a total idiot out of herself and laughing like a maniac.

She glanced over to the far side of the room, Kakkarot was standing at the bar, holding a glass of something, but from the simple fact that he was still standing, she was guessing it wasn't alcoholic.

She could see Vegeta as well, he was also, still sober, only he, Kakkarot and a handful of others in the room were actually old enough to drink, but that wasn't stopping anyone else.

To drink on planet Vegeta you were supposed to be officially of age, 21, and you should have received your 'coming of age' certificate from the king. Yeah, like that was gonna happen.

Bulma walked – or stumbled – over to Chi-chi and nearly fell over, but Chi-chi caught her best friend before she hit the ground. Bulma slurred out something, but even if it had been understandable, the music was too loud to hear her anyway. Chi-chi handed her half-full bottle to one of the waitresses who was passing by on her way back to the kitchen and helped her friend up.

"I think you may have had a little to much to drink B" she said, more to herself than anyone else, she was glad she had a stronger stomach than Bulma did. She put one arm around Bulmas waist and helped her off the dance floor.

"You stink Bulma" scoffed Chi-chi. Once again, Bulma mumbled out something. Chi-chi groaned, she didn't want to leave her own party to look after her friend, she was having such a great time.

"Give her here" came a gruff voice. Chi-chi looked up and saw her brother.

"Take her" said Chi-chi rudely. Vegeta looked at his little sister, she was such a bitch, always rude to everyone she came across and always putting herself first.

Vegeta took Bulma off Chi-chi and looked at her, she either passed out, or fallen asleep and judging by the volume of the music, she hadn't fallen asleep. He scooped her up and carried her in of the patio.

Chi-chi rolled her eyes and headed back into the swarm of people to find someone to dance with.

***

18 walked into the kitchen and dropped Chi-chi's bottle into the bin. All the cooks had gone back to the staff quarter's hours ago, so now 18 and the other slaves were in the kitchen, serving drinks, and light snacks that the cooks had left in the fridge.

17 was sitting on the bench talking to a girl with long green hair, she was pretty sure her name was Jade, but she'd never actually talked to her before. 17 spotted his sister and excused himself from his conversation.

"Do you know every single slave in this damn palace?" asked 18

"Pretty much, you gotta remember, I grew up with these people" 17 replied.

"I guess." said 18, her whole life, she had never had many friends. There were other kids in the village she and 17 had lived in for the first 11 years of their life, but their father had forbidden them to talk to them, they had only ever had each other then. And once 18 was put in the Harem, well there was about 10 other girls in there, but in the Harem, no one really talked to anyone else and that was they way they had liked it. They had spent all their spare time prettying themselves up for their next client, because it was always a case of the better you looked, the less harsh they'd be on you.

"18. Hey 18, are you still in there?" asked 17. 18 blinked and looked at her brother, she hadn't even realised she had tuned out into her own little world

"Yeah, I'm back" she said, still a little dazed. She rubbed sleepily at her eyes, it was 2.40 in the morning and 18 was almost asleep standing up. She was praying that Chi-chi would get board and end her dumb party soon.

All of a sudden there was a loud explosion outside and then the doors to the kitchen burst open and Nison came crashing through, he slammed into the stainless steal counter and fell to the ground. Both 17 and 18 gasped and rushed over to him.

"Are you ok?" asked 17 as he began to check for broken bones. Nison opened his eyes and moaned an 'ouch' but he managed to say "I'm ok, I'll be fine"

"What the hell happened?" asked 18 as she brushed his hair out of his eyes.

"I dropped a plate full of food cause some jackass purposely tripped me. The stupid princess didn't like that. First she tried to blow me up, but I jumped out the way, so she settled for throwing me in here instead" explained Nison, he winced when 18 touched his side, she lifted up his top to reveal a dark red burn mark.

"I don't think you jumped far enough" she said

"I didn't think I did". 17 stood up and wiped his hands together "Oh well, come on 18, let's get back to work". 18 looked up at her brother in shock. And she thought she was cold. 17 saw the look on his sister's face and decided he better explain before he ended up like Nison.

"Do you forget? Nison is half Namek, he can heal himself. God, you really are blonde aren't you". That made 18 mad, she stood up and slapped her brother hard, across the cheek then she stormed out the room to collect some more rubbish from the party.

***

Vegeta wandered around the staff quarters of the palace with Bulma in his arms looking for her parents apartment. Dr.Briefs was the planets top scientist, so it was no wonder that the king had hired him many years ago to work in his lab. And from what Vegeta had heard Bulma was quite the technological genius as well. He finally found the door marked Briefs, and being carefully not to drop Bulma, he knocked and waited for someone to answer.

A few minutes later the door opened and a very sleepy woman appeared in the doorway, she was tying her dressing gown cord.

"Oh my god. Bulma!" she screamed when she saw Bulma passed out in Vegeta's arms.

"It's ok miss," Vegeta reassured the frantic mother "she's fine, she's just had to much to drink that's all". Mrs.Briefs calmed down considerably then. Unlike Chi-chi, Bulma was already of age, she had turned 21 about 3 months ago.

"Bring her this way" said Mrs.Briefs as she led Vegeta to Bulma's room. Mr.Briefs came out of his bedroom and looked at Vegeta sleepily

"It's ok honey," said Mrs.Briefs "Go back to bed". Mr.Briefs shrugged his shoulders and disappeared back into the room.

"Ok, just put her down in there" said Mrs.Briefs. Vegeta did as he was told, he gently layed Bulma down on the bed and covered her up with the bright pink covers. Then he left, saying a quick goodnight to Mrs.Briefs, he decided to head back to Chi-chi's party for a while longer, to him, it was still pretty early.

It wasn't until about 5 minutes later that Mrs.Briefs realised she had been talking to Prince Vegeta himself.

***

Krillen moaned and rolled over, pulling his pillow over his head as he did so. There was no way he was going to Chi-chi's party, after the banquet had ended he had headed straight back to his room, he had stood out on the balcony for a bit, looking out over the palace walls at the city below. Krillen liked to go into the town, but he didn't get to do it very often. After a while he got cold so he had headed back inside and climbed into bed, which was where he was now. And even though Chi-chi's party was taking place all most at the other end of the palace, he could still hear the music. He had to admit though, the song that was playing at the moment wasn't to bad. He'd heard it before, but he didn't know what it was.

All of a sudden Krillen sat up and threw his pillow at the wall, he obviously wasn't going to get any sleep any time soon, so he decided to go and get something to eat instead. He hopped out of bed and pulled a pair of sweat pants on over his boxer's shorts, then he grabbed an old tee shirt out the draw and headed down towards the kitchen.

***

"Are you sure you're ok now Nison?" asked 18 as she landed back on the ground, she placed the bottle she had just got on the bench and turned to look at Nison.

"Yes 18, I'm sure" replied Nison and he took the bottle and walked out the kitchen. Just as he walked out, 17 walked in, he still had a nice red slap mark on his face.

"18," he said as he approached his sister "I'm sorry about what I said". 18 raised an eyebrow at him sceptically "so you should be" she said.

"Am I forgiven?" asked 17

"I suppose. But next time you insult me, a slap won't be your only punishment. I'm a lot tougher than you think, brother" replied 18 and she walked out the kitchen.

17 stood there for a few minutes, just thinking about stuff, mainly about how much his sister had changed since she was 11, back then she had been a scared little girl, who was attached to their 'mama' as 18 had called her. But she had been murdered right in front of their very eyes. Now 18 was different, all the years of being used as a sex slave in the harem and made her extremely hard and cynical. She very rarely spoke to anyone anymore, and when she did, it was usually only to insult them, the only people she ever actually spoke politely to were Nison and himself. 17 shuddered, his sister behaved remarkably like prince Vegeta, he was a cold-hearted jerk as well.

17 was snapped out of his thought by the sound of the back door to the kitchen opening, he turned to see who it was and quickly turned back again. It was the prince, the really short one. Dammit, what was his name again? Krillen! That's it. It was prince Krillen. But from the way he was dressed he certainly didn't look like a prince, he looked more like he was the help, he was dress in a pair of black sweat pants and a baggy old blue tee-shirt.

Krillen looked around the kitchen and spotted 17. "Um excuse me" he said. 17 turned to look at him.

"Yes prince Krillen?" he asked - as he bowed of course. Krillen laughed, "there's no need to do that," he said, "Do you know where the bread is?" he asked. 17 rolled his eyes and went to the pantry, he grabbed the loaf of bread and placed it on the bench top, then he set about gathering the ingredients for a sandwich.

"Oh that's ok," said Krillen once he realised what 17 was doing "I can make it myself". 17 looked up, he was confused, royalty didn't do things for themselves, they were too lazy. But prince Krillen had told him not to, so he didn't, he put the knife down and walked over to the other side of the room.

***

Outside, Chi-chi's party was finally starting to wind down, 18 breathed a sigh of relief when she noticed more and more people heading towards their transport home. There were however, still a considerable amount of people in party mode, and Chi-chi was one of them.

Chi-chi was standing right up the front of the room, flirting with the D.J. even 18 knew that Chi-chi was not into boys, she had better things to waste her time on, like killing her slaves. She also spent a lot of time in the gravitational trainer, but then again, all 3 of the king's children spent a lot of time in there. Even Krillen couldn't resist the sayian urge to train and become stronger.

"So," Chi-chi started "have you got a mate?". The D.J rolled his eyes, he was tired and wanted to go home.

"I'm bonded, yes," he said. "So will you please go and enjoy your party. I'm packing up in 20 minutes, so you better make the most of them". Chi-chi took another sip from her bottle and almost fell over. But a pair of arms caught her before she hit the ground. At first Chi-chi thought it was the D.J who had caught her, but she could see him, or 2 or 3 of him, standing in front of her.

"Miss Chi-chi, you really should be more careful" said the man, as he set Chi-chi back on her feet. She turned to see who it was and rolled her eyes in frustration.

"What do you want? Ka..ke..ko. What is your name anyway?"

"Kakkarot" he said.

"That's it" said Chi-chi "Now, what do you want?"

"I was just making sure you were ok" said a very concerned Kakkarot.

"Do I look ok?" asked Chi-chi

"No!"

"Exactly," said Chi-chi "I'm fine". Now it was Kakkarot's turn to roll his eyes. He picked Chi-chi up and put her over his shoulder, then he took her to sit down, unfortunately the only seats were at the bar.

"Oh, I'll have.." started Chi-chi.

"She won't have anything" finished Kakkarot.

"That was a smart move," said Vegeta as he came up beside Kakkarot "I guess you're not as dumb as you look". Kakkarot smiled goofily and put his hand behind his head. Vegeta's insult had flown right over the top of his head "Hey thanks" he said. Vegeta shook his head and took a seat next to his sister. She was not as bad as Bulma had been, but she wasn't a hell of a lot better either.

"Chi-chi" he said sternly

"What" she snapped

"You do realise how mad father is going to be, don't you?"

"Father? Father has been dead for years dummy" slurred Chi-chi

"That's mother you idiot"

"Mother!" shrieked Chi-chi, catching the attention of many party goes in the room "Mothers dead, oh no. First father, now mother. No one's left!" she started to sob uncontrollably. Vegeta gave up, there was no point trying to talk sense into her when she was like this. He threw his hands up into the air and walked off, it was time for this party to end. He walked over to the D.J and told him to cut the music.

There were a few 'awwws' and a couple of 'what the hell happened to the music' but when they saw Vegeta was waiting to say something they fell silent.

"My sister would like to thank you all for coming, but we have to ask you to leave. This is a palace and we a keeping a lot of important people who have to tend to a lot of important things tomorrow awake" he said. The crowd all nodded their head, a few were a little angry that they had to go, but for the most part they left with out a fuss.

Vegeta spotted 18 trying to sneak back into the kitchen unnoticed. "Hey you" he called.

"Dammit," muttered 18 and she walked over to Vegeta "Can I do something for you prince Vegeta?" she asked.

"You're the one, who serves my sister, are you not?"

"That is correct". Vegeta handed Chi-chi to 18, Chi-chi fought a little but eventually gave in.

"Make sure she gets to bed" said Vegeta and he walked off.

***

A/N; Ok that's the end of chapter 4. Now in this fic 17 and 18 ARE androids, but that's not really gonna matter till later on in the fic and this fic IS called 'And Then You'll Know' for a reason, but once again, isn't really going to mean anything until later on. I'll update A.S.A.P I promise I'll try to update faster from now on. ~D.B