She fell in to his chest, her head resting peacefully on his shoulder. She began to relax as he wrapped his massive arms around her and his head slowly came to rest on hers. He inhaled the smell of raspberries running across her darkened skin and through her coal black hair. As he comforted her, a tall man, bulged with muscles started coming towards them, yet, Trunks took no head. Instead, he continued to comfort Pan. The man appeared right infront of him, grabbing Pan as he quickly whispered something into Trunks' ear.

Trunks grabbed ahold of the man, "Who are you? How do you know my name?"

"Everyone knows your name. I am Pan's body guard, Tiam."

"She doesn't need a body guard!"

"Yes, to protect her from you." The man said, ending the conversation as he slowly walked away from Trunks.

'Yes, to protect her from you.' What was that supposed to mean? Trunks yelled angrily and stomped off towards his apaprtment, running the words through his head over and over again until he felt he would burst with fury.

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She stayed in place as she was picked up and carried off, Trunks showing objection, yet, seemingly not able to take action.

"Pan, I told you I'd let you sneak out and see him next week!"

"I didn't mean to run into him, he was just there."

"Whatever, in any case, you snuck out! Whether it was to see him or not!"

Pan frowned at the man and kept her mouth shut for the rest of the ride, until, she came up with a new question, "Tiam, are you gonna let me see him next week, anyways?"

Tiam looked back, into the pleeding woman's eyes. She reminded him of a child, sweet and innocent, yet, with a streak of naughtiness that popped out whenever they were bored. He frowned, I knew I shouldn't have looked back! Those stupid eyes of hers and that ughhh! I wish she loved me.

"I'll have to think about it." Tiam replied as he opened the door to her small house.

"Thanks." She whispered as he dropped her on to her bed and went to his chair.

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Pan arose the next morning to the smells of breakfast, had she really slept that long, or had Tiam woken up early? What time was it anyways? She rolled over to her other side with a groan and slowly opened her eyes. She wasn't in any rush. It couldn't be too late or Tiam would have gotten her up for work. She shook her head slightly and placed her vision onto the large digital clock by her bed. 11:30! What? She was late for work, in fact, it was almost lunch! Pan closed her eyes, pretending this was all a dream, she opened her eyes again and looked at the clock, 11:03. Why hadn't Tiam woken her up? She took another sniff of the air, maybe he wasn't making breakfast, it smelled kinda like hamburger. Tiam stepped into the room, causing Pan to look up. She gave him an evil glare when he walked up to her and shook her telling her it was time for lunch. As to her glare, he replied to that with a pinch of her cheeks.

She rolled out of bed and trudged over to the small kitchen. Food was sitting on the table, dressings and the such included. Tiam pulled back a chair for her and she plumped down into it. She watched him walk around to the other side of the table and take a seat of his own. He grabbed at one of the quarter pound hamburgers and placed it on his plate, then as he was grabbing for the ketchup, she placed her fingers upon one of the hamburgers and dragged it onto her plate. When Tiam had put the ketchup back down, she lashed out for it and smothered the red goop onto one of the buns. She did the same things to the mustard, mayo and relish, then grabbed for a bit of lettuce and some tamato slices, which were placed sloppily onto the meat. The hamburger was complete, she placed the loose bun ontop of the meat and took a large bite out of the burger.

"So, why didn't you wake me up for work?" She asked through a bite of her food.

"'Cause, I figured I'd let you sleep." Liam replied, with not much better manners.

"Oh." Was all Pan said before gulping down some of the juice.

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Trunks stepped from the cold shower, it didn't seem to help his mood. The words from Pan's body guard still running through his head. "I certainly hope she's enjoying herself!" Trunks yelled in fury at the wall.

Having recieved no comfort from the wall, he burst out in a fury of punches, making a large crater where the wall between his room and bathroom had once stood. He gave the wall a quick glance before pulling on a pair of slacks. The dress shirt was on, but not buttoned, leaving his tan chest showing he grabbed his coat and tie and walked out the door, he was sure he looked tempting, but what did he care? This life was useless anyways, he didn't get to see Pan, Pan and his families hated eachother, he hadn't the stupid women at work always whistling at him, not to mention the women on the streets. He added as a group of women walked past him whistling and making sexual advances. The woman continued to walk by, except for one, she stopped infront of Trunks and ran a slim finger over his bare chest, he looked down as it trailed to his pants, the woman was unbuttoning his pants. She undid the button before Trunks could stop her and was seemingly heading for his zipper. He grabbed ahold of her hand and whispered into her ear.

"Not here and not you." The woman gave him an evil glare.

"Is there something you don't like about my figure?" She asked, a sly grin crossing her features for a breath moment.

"It's not that." Trunks growled, he wasn't a mean man.

"Well, I think it is. I've never met a man who wasn't tempted by my looks." She said, running her finger up and down his chest once more. "Don't you want me?"

"No," He replied, buttoning up his pants.

"Jill!" One of their friends yelled back.

Trunks noticed the woman named Jill give a slight nod of the head before turning back to Trunks, "How about we meat tonight at the Alimakad? We could go to your house after dinner. Maybe have a drink."

The offer seemed quite tempting, yet, Trunks knew he'd never make it past the first bite of his food. He gave the woman a simple shake of his head and was starting to walk off. Jill gave him another evil glare and slapped him across the face.

"If you don't want attention, then don't leave your shirt open." She said before going back to her friends.

Only now did he realize she had undone part of her blouse, revealing a large area of skin. He shrugged off the woman's words, deciding to leave his shirt open, after all the breeze did feel good against his chest. Maybe if he took off his whole shirt-- No that wouldn't be smart another part of him said. As good as it might feel, Trunks followed that small part of him that was disagreeing and continued to walk down the sidewalk, keeping close to the street. He fell back into his thoughts, accidently taking a wrong turn, he walked down the dark alley, wondering why he was down here. Maybe he always walked down here, he never really had payed attention to where he went. The alley ended and Trunks stopped, this definetly wasn't the way he usually went. Where was he anyway? He looked around and then turned back to the dead end where he had heard a racket, he wasn't far from the end of the alley. Oh well, he thought as he was about to turn around and head out of the alley, but his pause to discover the sound lead to something horrible. Something attacked him from behind and altough he was strong enough to have thrown off any normal human or even a few of them, a whole gang as large as this one was impossible. He felt a knife stabbed into his side and then another one torn down his leg.

When they had finished their attack and Trunks was lying on the ground, stunned, they took off with the few valuables Trunks had on him, his wallet lay in a puddle beside him, open on Pan's name. The men ran off, laughing at their goods, planning to sell them to anybody for a good price.

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Pan got up from the table and headed out the door, leaving Liam to clean up and then catch up. She dashed back in the door, remembering she had forgot to put on clothes, she heard a snicker as she slammed her bedroom door, but ignored it. Clothing flew across the room until she found what she was looking for and slipped it on, then headed back out the front door, grabbing her brief case off a small table sitting by the door. She took off into the air the second she reached the vast outdoors, headed towards the vast area she would be cooped up in for the rest of the night to make up for this morning. Was that really something to look forwards to? She asked the happy part of herself. No, it replied. She laughed at herself and landed near the building, entering through the front doors.

Pan stepped into her office, waving hi to a group of her friends talking, one of them broke away from the group at her wave, Reana, but she didn't seem to be smiling, at second glance, neither was anyone else in the building. As Reana walked up, she hoped she would tell her what was going on.

Pan,--"

"Let's go inside." Pan offered as she walked back into her office.

Reana followed. When she had taken a seat Pan motioned for her to continue.

"Trunks, the most eligible bachelor in--"

"Reana! I know who he is!"

"Oh. Well," She paused as she looked at Pan, what could be so horrible, Pan wondered? "He was attacked."

"By who?" Pan asked, shocked.

"Don't know, but he's in the hospital."

"Which one."

"I'm not sure, I'll ask Sheila." She turned towards the closed door and yelled, "Sheila! Come here!"

"Coming!" Sheila yelled.

Pan could hear Sheila's heels clanking on the tile floor. A few seconds later the door was being opened to reveal a young woman in a sleek outfit. Pan smiled at her as she walked up to the desk and leaned against it.

"What ya need?" She asked, smacking her gum.

"Which hospital is Trunks in?"

"That fancy one with the two water fountains of angels outside."

"Thanks." Pan said, watching the chick leave.

Sheila turned around and winked at Pan before shutting the office door. The minute Pan felt like she could talk alone again, she did.

"I'm gonna go down to the hospital, just to see him. He shouldn't be hurt too badly. Trust me, I know hime really well." Pan said, noticing her friend's look. "Anyways, can you tell the boss, if he asks, that I'm sick with a virus?"

"Sure, but you'll owe me."

"I can't possibly owe you, your the one who owes me like 65 I owe yous."

Reana gave her a look and then stood, "Okay, See ya!" She yelled, walking out the door.

Pan popped open her window and jumped out, the wind immeadiately making her hair go fluttering into her face. Pan brushed her hair out of the way and flew quickly towards the hospital.

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She landed a little ways away from the hospital and began to walk quickly towards the automatic glass doors, she was surprised as she saw Liam step up beside her.

"Thought you could ditch me, huh?"

"No, just surprised."

"What are we doin' here?"

"Trunks is in there."

"Why?"

"Somebody beat him up." Pan replied, pausing and then continuing, "You're gonna let me see him, right?"

"Yeah."

"Thanks." She said, hugging him.

They stepped into the hospital and stepped towards the nurses' stand. "I need the number for Trunks Briefs' room."

"Family?"

"Yep." Pan replied, recieving an elbow to her side from Liam.

"Room 326."

"Thanks." she said, taking off towards the elevator.

Pan stepped into the hospital room and looked around, noticing a small curtain, hiding a cot behind it. She looked over to the curtain all she had to do was pull back the curtain and she could see him again.Fresh batch of tears fell down her cheeks as she slowly walked towards the curtain. She placed one of her hands on the end of the curtain and started to pull it back. At first all she saw was a green blanket, then as the curtain started to reveal more, she saw hands and slowly started to see cuts and scrapes going up a stretch of plae flesh. The curtain was bunched up at the other end, Trunks body layed revealed to her, she pulled down the warm looking covers and gasped in horror. She turned from the body, he looked almost dead. His body was pale and covered in scrapes and gashes. Plus there were several large bruises covering his body. She turned from the body and saw Liam close by, she walked to him and layed her head on his chest, letting the tears flow freely down her cheeks, stopping their trek as they reched the wamr shirt, making a wet spot. He wrapped his arms around her, thinking that Trunks was not up, he pulled Pan back slightly and placed his lips on hers. Her eyes popped open and she pulled away, giving him a strange look. Liam's kisses weren't like Trunks, but they were...... comforting. She continued to stare at him, finally turning away and heading back to Trunks, she pulled the covers back over him and leaned down.

Trunks felt her lips on his, he had woken up when something had taken away his warmth, although, he pretended not to have awoken. He had slightly opened his eyes to see what was happening and had seen Pan. He was happy she was here. Pan had come to see him, that meant whatever had happened, whoever had saved him, and whatever day it was, the whole world knew. He slapped himslef mentally. He watched through slit eyes as Pan walked away and started to cry more swiftly into Liam's chest. He shook his head slightly, about to go back to sleep when he noticed Liam pull her away and kiss her, she didn't seem to object, but maybe she had. He had stopped watching whenever they had started to kiss. He felt her soft lips leave his. He had been fighting his lips the whole time, trying to keep them from kissing her back. He knew it wouldn't be good if she knew he was awake while she had been kissing another man, of course he didn't really have a hold on her, they weren't engaged, married or even really going out. When he heard the door slam, he knew Pan and Liam had left. Deciding to confront Pan nicely about it when he got out, he dropped back to sleep.

Pan stepped from the room, hearing a loud bang as the door closed behind them. A plump nurse led them from the room and back to the waiting room, where she left the to find their own way back and then left down the way they had just come. Liam led the way over to the elevator and waited for Pan to join him. He pushed the button for ground level and made sure the doors stayed open for Pan. As she stepped in, he allowed the doors to close and the elevator to begin its decent.

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The nurse walked back into Trunks room, to check up on him, he opened his eyes to show the nurse he was awake. Atleast if he was awake whenever she came in, she wouldn't awake him by roughly shaking him. Apparently the buff woman didn't realize her own strength. She grinned down at him as she jabbed a sharp needle into the flesh on his under arm. He flinched slightly, but started to giggle as he imagined how Goku would have been acting. The nurse gave him a funny look, but tdrew the needle back out and allowed him a rest period before the doctor came.

It was a couple days since Pan had come by. The doctor said he was allowed to leave today after he did a couple of tests. Trunks got up from the bed and slid on a pair of loose pants and a muscle shirt his mother had left for him. He climbed back onto the bed and wriggled under the covers.

A couple hours later at 2, the doctor walked in a started to do a couple of the tests. They were all simple, basically the doctor was just checking to make sure his reflexes and stuff were working. The doctor laughed and showed Trunks how to get out of the hospital and then left the room. Trunks laughed and popped the window open, he jumped out and flew higher up into the clouds, headed to his apartment.

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A/N: I think that was a pretty decently long chapter. Was it good? It's really funny because this took me like a whole of two minutes to finish just now. It could be because I had already typed up the end of this chapter, but who knows? Lol! Please leave a review!!!!! Or two!!!!! Thanks! Luv y'all!!!!

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