Chapter 14
Dreams and Reality
Vegeta appeared in front of Talana completely hysterical. Is eyes wild, his black T-shirt and jeans pulled out from his body, his hair even crazier than before.
"ThatbluehairedbitchturnedmeintoKakarrotandIhaveatailandI'mmortalOhlucifersb allsIcanDie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Vegeta dropped to his knees and buried his face in his hands close to sobbing.
"Vegeta I can understand humans when they speak quickly, but not when Vampires do, and why are you hyperventilating? You don't even have to breathe, so stop." Talana demanded coldly.
"But I can't." Vegeta wailed trying to gain control of himself. Talana slid off the couch were she had been sitting and crawled toward Vegeta carefully. She patted his shoulders tenderly and spoke in her talking to crazy people voice.
"Okay Veggie, sure. Come on Veggie, you and I are going to go take a nice walk to a nice white room with pillows everywhere." She smiled big as she spoke, in a weird way trying to calm Vegeta. Vegeta finally got his breathing under control.
"I'm not insane Talana." Vegeta growled staying there on the floor with her.
"Okay Veggie." Talana said patting Vegeta on the back still using her talking to crazy people voice. "But I-" She froze. " Why do you have a heartbeat?" She pushed her hand harder into his should trying to feel it out better.
"I told you." Vegeta said smirking smugly his mood suddenly uplifting. " I'm alive." Talana continued to stare at him her eyes wide with shock. Talana fell backwards and quickly crabwalked away from him her eyes never leaving him. When she hit the wall she sat up holding her knees to her chest.
She whispered for Tobias her voice shaking slightly. She continued calling for him, her voice getting louder with each yell. Until finally she finished with a blood curdling scream.
"Tobiaaasssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Tobias ran into the room furious. He was had a broken vial in his hand.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! I WAS ONE CALCULATION FROM DISCOVERING THE FREAKING CURE ALL PILL! I SWEAR I CAN'T LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR LESS THAN A MINUTE! SO WHAT THE HELL IS IT NOW? A COCKROACH?????!!!!!!!!!"
"Veggies alive." Talana whispered shock. Then she fainted slumping against the wall.
Tobias looked at Vegeta carefully. "What the hell was that about?" He asked slowly. Vegeta audibly grinned at him his eyes growing dim.
"I'm alive. Night Tobias." He said stupidly. Then he fainted.
Tobias looked between Vegeta and Talana before shrugging.
'Must be a family thing.' he thought before walking over and scooping up Talana. He carried her to her room where he softly set her down on her bed. Tobias kissed her crimson lips gently, tasting of blood and her own sweet taste.
"You get stranger by the day love." The vampire whispered affectionately tucking a strand of platinum hair behind her ear.
Then he turned down stairs to retrieve his best friend. He grabbed Vegeta's wrist and began to drag him to his room. He froze suddenly and dropped the wrist when he felt a flutter inside of it. He spun around and stared at his Vegeta for what felt like an eternity before dropping to his knees beside Vegeta. He continued to stare at him for a minute until his lips curved into a smile.
"Why you son of a bitch you are alive. Well this should prove very interesting, very interesting in deed." He says trailing off. He grabbed Vegeta and slung him over his shoulder and caring him to his room. "Well, I better call your little blue scientist friend and see what the hell happened to you before Talana wakes up and goes into hysterics. Like that hasn't already happened." He laughed walking out the door.
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The darkness was complete and surrounding. Vegeta sat cross-legged in a spotlight, his head bent with his eyes closed. His eyes snapped open to stare out into the darkness. He raised his head and looked around seeing nothing but the black pit of night around him.
"Now what is this then?" Vegeta purred to himself. His voice seemed to be trapped in the light not reaching past the veil of darkness. But he could feel something itching at the edges of the light. "Who's there?" His tone was amused, what could it be?
Then something caught his ear. Cocking his head so he could hear he stood up and walked to the edge off the light.
"What is that.crying?" The longer he listened the more certain he was of it, someone was crying just out side of the spotlight. He reached his hand up to eye level pressing agents the wall of darkness. It seemed as if the wall bent to the touch almost like plastic wrap. Vegeta could even see where he had left a small mark on the wall.
He formed a diamond shape with his hands then flattened them and slipped them in-between the folds of darkness. The two halves pulled apart easily as if the opening had always been there. As he pulled it wide light poured through from the other side blinding him for a second. When he opened his eye the circle of light he had been standing in was now linked with another one, in the center of it was a hunched form of a blue hair woman crying.
"Bulma?" Vegeta asked uncertainly moving closer to her. The woman's head looked up tear streaked but still Bulma's.
"Vegeta what are you doing here?" Her voice was strained and hoarse it seemed as though she had been crying for a while now.
"Since I don't know where here is woman I wouldn't know why I'm here. If I were to ask you the same thing what would you say?" Vegeta spat his arms crossed over his chest, his sneer obvious.
"I'd say I'm dreaming and this is some great dream where I get to kick you sorry ass." Bulma stood on her feet the tears gone replaced by anger.
"Ha you think you could hurt me?" Vegeta laughed mockingly.
"I'd don't know maybe I can put in another little panic fit." Bulma spat stepping closer to him. Vegeta's face-hardened into a cold mask.
"I didn't panic." Vegeta growled.
"So what do you call that little.show you put on at the sanctuary? Your tactic distaste for my mistake?"
"Yes, your mistake, lets talk about that for a minute. Your mistake that changed me from a very powerful being into some alien freak!" His voice had risen very slowly till it was at the point of becoming a full yell. His body was shacking with the effort to stay in control. 'She's afraid.' Vegeta couldn't explain how but he just suddenly knew it.
"Yes, I made a mistake; one I couldn't have possibly known would have had these consequences. If you want to blame me then fine, I don't care. But it may not be as bad as you think." Bulma's voice took on a more controlled, cold tone, her volume never changing. 'She's a brave little one.' Vegeta thought to himself.
Her brows kit together as if she caught an interesting idea. A surprised smile lit her face.
"You think I'm brave?" She sounded happily stunned.
"What?" Vegeta was shocked and not nicely so either.
"Didn't you just say that?" Now she was puzzled.
"I didn't say anything woman. And what the hell did you mean by it not so bad to be an alien? You still turned me into a freak." He didn't know how she knew what he had thought but he was not about to dwell on it. Whatever was going on in this place Vegeta would be just as happy not knowing.
"I meant that Sayains are an amazingly powerful race with heightened senses and powers. It's not that bad of a change, considering you are a fighter and all." As an after thought she added, "Goku's one.
"And what would make you think I'm a fighter?" Vegeta snarled ignoring the mention of Goku being one deciding it was not important.
"Well, to tell you the truth I really don't know. But the only people I know of that can control their ki are hard-core fighters. Pulse there's just a kind of feeling you put off as a warrior. A kind of long lost old fashioned kind of honor, but it seems to fit you." She seemed to be looking at him and not only seeing the outside but the inside too, and she liked it.
"That maybe but I was perfectly fine with what I was before. You know every time I get comfortable in a form some else just has to change me into some weird freak of a species!" Vegeta yelled enraged by his own thoughts.
"What else is there to be changed from? There's human and now there's Sayian." Bulma spat irritated.
"No, you are wrong again woman. First I was human then I have my only ties to this world ripped away. When I get them back the same sick bastard takes them away again. I find them and I get turned into a vampire! Yes, that's right a vampire! And for the first hundred years I hated it. Why did I have to continue living in a world that I hated while every thing around me died!
"Then I got use to it and grew more powerful then anything before me. And I did so I could kill every single person that took my life from me. You were right I am only living to do one thing, kill. It's all I can do you now you've even taken that from me!" Vegeta stopped breathing 'Where the hell did that come from? I didn't even know I thought that. So why did I tell her that?' Bulma's face was shocked and at the same time understanding.
"Vegeta I'm so sorry." She stepped forward placing her hand on his shoulder. Her warmth seeping into him, blending his feelings in an almost calming way. "You must believe me when I say I had no idea this would happen to you." Her voice was so pleading to Vegeta's ears.
"I know Bulma. And I don't really blame you; I've just had my life flipped over once again I need someone to place this on so I can move on. " Vegeta muttered pulling her close holding her tight against him, her head resting on his chest.
"All I can do to help is to let you know that it won't last to long. In one year the dragonballs will have their powers back and we can wish for you to be returned to whatever you were before." She breathed looking up at him. He studied her eyes closely.
"Then this won't last?" He asked slowly holding his breath again.
"Yes, In one year you be good as new." Bulma said this time smiling. Vegeta heaved a sigh of relief. "Vegeta I need to know something." He froze.
"What?"
"Are we good? Do you still want to be with me?" Vegeta almost laughed.
"Woman," He sighed tilling her head up to look him in the eye, "there is nothing in this world I would rather have then you at my side." His eyes soft, his grin speaking of kind power and love. At the back of his mind he could feel a soft ringing. Bulma's head cocked to the side listening to it too.
She pushed away from him and started running towards the sound. The spotlight that she had once sat in following her as she ran from him.
"Bulma wait!" Vegeta called running after her, but it was to late, she was too far away to ever get back.
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Vegeta shot awake breathing heavily looking over to the side of the bed when he felt his wrist restrained.
"What the fuck are you doing!" Vegeta yelled ripping his wrist out of his friends hand.
"Felling your pulse. Its actually quite fascinating." Tobias said leaning back in his chair. "I mean the for a heartbeat that has been gone for over five thousand years it's going strong. And then there is the whole, its back in the first place, thing. This is the most amazing scientific discovery since that guy and I discovered electricity. How did you do it?"
Vegeta stared at him in disbelief.
"You freak! Now I know why you and Talana are together. Your both nutcases!" Tobias just smirked.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." He said calmly. Vegeta jumped up and walked towards his bathroom deciding to get out of their before he was drawn into his partners twisted world.
"I called your girlfriend." Tobias called after him. Vegeta froze in
his tracks.
"What?"
"I called your little blue haired bitch." Vegeta growled low in his throat at the insult towards Bulma and Tobias's interest was piqued. He leaned forward on his elbows and continued. "I had a feeling, her being a scientist and all she most likely had something to do with your sudden um mortality. Am I correct?" Vegeta nodded an affirmative still glaring at the older vampire.
"Anyway she said that there had been a mix up and somehow you had become a Sayian. Now I have a very extensive vocabulary yet that is one word that has never entered my vocabulary and your girlfriend didn't bother enlightening me so I beg you please add to my limited knowledge. Tobias said in a sarcastic tone.
"It's an alien." Said Vegeta turning into his bathroom and splashing cold water on his face.
"Well, that explains the tail but what is it?"
"I told you an alien." Vegeta snapped.
"In the famous words of Talana well duh. What I'm looking for is details such as where they're from, what is their culture, language, and strength level and what their like. The only one I know is the last one." He paused.
"Kakarrot's one."
It took Tobias a millisecond to register that before he burst into insane laughter.
"You're of the same species as that Idiot." He laughed holding his stomach as he fell out of his chair and began rolling on the ground. God that has to be the most pathetic thing I've heard in this century."
Vegeta snarled irritated beyond life.
"You know what we should do is test how your physiology has changed. Tobias said abruptly stopping his laughter and sitting up. Vegeta stared at his friend before nodding his agreement.
"Might as well." Vegeta said nodding. Both men headed down towards the training rooms in the basement.
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"Okay." Tobias said hunched over panting, which was strange considering he had long ago been cured of the habit of breathing. "Your a little bit stronger, and you have a little bit more speed and you have a little bit more stamina but you still suck."
"Oh really is that the reason you're the one panting on the floor when I, who actually needs to breathe, is not even out of breath?" Vegeta sneered leaning on a wall over Tobias a smirk gracing his tanned features as he remembered the sparring match.
"Okay." He said. "My blasts are stronger, I heal fast, like you said my speed, stamina, and strength has increased." As he listed off each thing he ticked off another finger. "My hearing and mental capabilities have increased as well as my eyesight, by the way that was beyond wrong." He said glaring at Tobias as the memory of a picture of Nappa and his sister in the middle of the nasty flitted through his mind that Tobias had held at a distance to check his eyesight.
He glanced over at his sister who had come in the room half way through the experiments, crumpled in the doorway and stared blankly at them for several hours.
"Is she okay?" He questioned Tobias gesturing to Talana.
"Yeah." He said looking at his girlfriend. "She'll be fine once she gets over the shock."
"What shock." Vegeta demanded. " I'm the one who got turned into an alien!"
"The emotional shock of the fact that one of her only two stable source of love that didn't require anything in return can die is an extremely horrible concept for her to come to terms with.
"Just because vampires don't die of natural causes does not mean we can't die."
"What can kill us might I ask." Tobias demanded. Vegeta opened his mouth to talk but Tobias rushed on. "Thanks to our bloodline we are immune to both sunlight and silver. And thanks to our beloved Talana we are immune to holy water, crosses, and garlic.
And I have yet to meet a stake no matter how sharply carved that has been able to penetrate our skin." Vegeta shuddered as he remembered the bed sheets with crosses burned into them; the holy water showers and the garlic- coated meals that Talana had served them.
"You know as well as I do that there are other ways to kill us!" Vegeta snapped viciously. Both men looked at each other darkly, there was one way to kill them. A way that was a closely guarded secret. "Okay," Tobias said abruptly switching moods. " Now lets examine that tail."
"What!" Vegeta yelled instinctively. "Um why would you want to, I mean its so boring." Vegeta said quickly trying to look innocent. Tobias looked at him with an evil grin spreading on his features.
"Your awfully defensive of that tail." He observed. "Could it be a natural instinct to protect the tail?"
"No." Vegeta snapped. "I just don't see why you have to mess with it. I mean it's perfectly harmless."
Tobias smirked. "You know maybe we should cut it off; it would probably be easier to study that way. Of course we would have to see the what your reaction would be by yanking and stroking it."
As he said this Vegeta backed farther away from him hoping to escape. " And I think I know just what person should conduct this experiment." He looked behind Vegeta at Talana. "Care to do the honors love." He said his English accent becoming more profuse as his intentions became eviler. Vegeta spun around to locate Talana.
'Oh shit!' he thought desperately. 'Where the hell is she!'
"TAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"
Talana appeared in front of him and grinned evilly suddenly back to her old self.
"What did I do?" She asked. Vegeta sucked in a long breath.
'Don't kill the sister, don't kill the sister, don't kill the sis-' "OOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He spun around grabbing his tail and backing into a corner keeping a close eye on Talana. "You stay away from me bitch." He growled his temper reaching new heights. At that minute the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Tobias said quickly disappearing. He reappeared at the door and jerked open just as the bell rang again. He looked down at Bulma (AN: Remember has a six-inch height advantage.) " I'm guessing your here for Vegeta." Bulma nodded.
"Yeah do you know if he is um still angry with me?" Bulma questioned looking shy. Tobias looked at her.
"Why would Vegeta be mad at you?" Tobias asked puzzled.
"Well because I turned him into a Sayian." She muttered finally meeting his eyes. Suddenly a roar of pain ripped through the house again. Tobias grinned blocking her entrance into the house as she tried to gain entrance.
"Trust me you are probably the farthest thing from his mind right now." He said as a large grin came over his features as Vegeta's screams continued to echo in his ears. He heard Vegeta's feet thunder down the hall angrily away from the training hall.
"Stay the fuck away from me Taylor or I swear I'll tear your head off!" He roared making his way into the hallway. "Tobias who is it?" He asked one hand throwing open the door. "Oh you." He muttered his eyes narrowing into slited points.
"Hey Vegeta." She muttered softly meeting his eyes. Her mouth was slightly pulled into a frown with the rest of her face calm and perfectly taught. Vegeta studied her carefully watching for any tell tell signs for pain. Only her eyes told of the unknown question waiting to be answered.
"Where is your car?" Vegeta asked glancing over his shoulder for any threat, namely Talana. His eyes snapped back as a soft puff came from behind him. His eyes fell on a white smooth looking car waiting her them in the driveway. He shot his gaze to the smiling Bulma crossing his arms across his chest.
"Fast enough for you?" Bulma asked her smile growing. Vegeta pushed past her while snatching the keys out of her lax hand. Vegeta pulled open the door pushing the key into the ignition.
Bulma growled under breath waving good bye to Tobias, who had been watching all of this from the door. She made her way to the other side of car slamming the door behind her. At that second Vegeta revved the engine spinning the tires as he sped out of the driveway. Tobias stared after them a grin moving on to his face.
"They make such a cute couple." He purred walking back into the house closing the door behind him with his mind.
Meanwhile Vegeta shifted gears tightening his hands on the wheel feeling the power on the engine flow into his body. His eyes were focused on the road ahead. He body was sunk into the seat, his whole being forming just another part of the machine. His grin was becoming larger as he pressed down on the accelerator. He watched with glee as the speed kept rising and rising till it stopped.
"What the hell?" He muttered sitting up in his seat. The speedometer had just stopped on 90. "What's wrong with this thing?" He yelled pounding his arm on the wheel.
"What's your problem now Vegeta?" Bulma muttered glancing at him sadly. She hadn't said a word after getting into the car so this was only the third time she had talked to him since they had met up again. She had stared out the window till now and it seemed as though her face was unable of showing any emotion.
"This damn plastic car won't go over 90." Vegeta spat grinding his hands around the wheel. His kept his hand locked on the road refusing to look at her.
"What are you talking about? All cars are like that. They have a device that stops the car from over a certain speed. It's been in cars for over 50 years." Bulma said suspiciously. Vegeta looked at her carefully.
"Yes well I knew that of coarse. I just own older models that go much faster than this." He said turning back the road. 'I really need to stay away from all of this new age shit.' Vegeta thought keeping his speed at 90.
"Vegeta why do we keep doing this?" Bulma asked softly staring out at the landscape.
"What was that woman?" Vegeta growled holding on slightly harder to the steering wheel.
"One of us screws up and the other has no way to solve the problem in the real world. We can dream up ways but that thing still hangs over us making the next hardship even harder. How can we us keep going through this? What's the point?" She muttered still on turning to him.
"The point is you keep making things out bigger than they are woman. These small challenges mean nothing to me as long as I finish my task." Vegeta said holding his voice at a low volume.
"And what's that, to make my life a living hell?" Bulma shrieked, her face finally turning to him. Her eyes were red with strains of hot tears leading from her eyes. Her throat sound so twisted and raw it hurt Vegeta to even listen to it.
"No, my mission is to destroy my enemy, Freeza. Nothing is more important than that."
"There is nothing in the world I want more than you by my side." Bulma whispered sadly to herself.
"What did you say?" Vegeta asked carefully. 'If she remembers that dream than all of my plans could be destroyed. But if she rights it off as a dream than my plans could move a lot faster.' He watched her out of the corner of waiting for the deciding blow.
"Nothing." She muttered lowering her eyes to the dashboard. "Who's Freeza?" She asked trying obviously to change the subject. Vegeta returned his full gaze to the road.
"He's the man that destroyed my life and took my family from me. He is nothing more than a demon needing to be snuffed out by my hand." He spoke low and cold but get of his words were heated with hate. Bulma lifted her eyes to look at him again. Her tear stained face glistening up at him; Vegeta shifted his hands on the wheel so that his shoulders hid his face from the site.
"Why do you let your life be ruled by anger? It's going to kill you one day, and me too." Bulma whispered shaking her head softly at him. Vegeta's head slowly dropped down turning to look at her over his arm. He glared at her from the corners of his eyes. He wanted to yell at her, call her stupid, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
"Bulma," He spoke the name softly, as if it was too precious to repeat. "You and I are strong, in body and in mind. Together we are an unstoppable pair. I will not die, and neither will you, as long as we are together. Do you understand woman? I don't care about what's happened, as long as we are together." Vegeta's head snapped back forward again.
By now Bulma's face had fully dried from her open window and she looked much better than before. Also she was smiling again.
"You know Vegeta, sometimes you can be the biggest baka on this planet. And in other you make me glad to know you." She turned to look out the front window happy to be here at last.
"Don't get used to it woman, I'm just distracted right now." Vegeta muttered to himself mostly.
"But what, being Sayian?" Bulma asked interested.
"I believe so. Not only do you have the slowest car in existents but also I have a gnawing feeling of hunger. The last part wouldn't have anything to do with being a Sayian now would it?" He watched as the though entered her head lighting an idea.
"Oh of course! Sayian's have huge appetites. And since you haven't eaten for over half the day so you must be starving." She seemed surprised, with all her worrying about her turning him into a Sayian she didn't think of the effects he was now faced with. She pulled open the dash board compartment digging around for something. Vegeta glanced inside but only saw an assortment of junk. Her faced was controlled and focused on her task but Bulma's mind was else where. 'So we need to stay together, ok how do I pull that one off?' She thought. When she sat back she held a cell phone in her hand. She flipped it open causing Vegeta to give her even more looks. 'What is that woman up to now?'
"Hello, Asian Gardens? Hi my name's Bulma Briefs and I would like to place an order." She turned from the phone to look at Vegeta. "They're one of the only places that won't think I'm making a prank call. So what do you want?"
"An order of sweet and sour pork, fried rice, orange chicken and pot stickers." Vegeta said carefully returned to his driving. He knew where the restaurant was and turned onto the right road.
"70 orders of sweet and sour pork, fried rice, orange chicken and pot stickers. And also one order of lemon chicken with the sauce on the side with white rice." Vegeta stared at her in horror.
"What the hell do you think you're doing woman?!" Vegeta yelled almost swerving into another car. The sharp horn of the other car and the yelling made Bulma jump straight into the air, only held down by her seat belt.
"Vegeta trust me, after you finish eating you will still want more. I am the only one here that has dealt with a Sayian's appetite before." She pressed the phone to her ear and listened. "Yes we'll be there in 5 minutes. Thank you." With that she snapped the phone closed and glared at Vegeta. Vegeta just continued driving growling insults to himself.
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Vegeta couldn't believe it. He had eaten 91 orders of sweet and sour pork and he could still go for more. He had been very surprised when he had pounced upon he food using his extra speed to devour the food at lighting speeds. He had just barely retained his manners as her plowed through the food. Bulma on the other hand hadn't seemed to surprised at his reaction to the food, just ate quietly giving him funny looks now and then. Like she was trying not to laugh.
It was now late at night and neither was sure of the time. Vegeta was just now pulling into the drive next to the walkway. Bulma sat up in her seat; her eyes wide open even at this time of night. She grabbed her purse stepping out of the car. Vegeta set the parking brake and was starting to pull the keys out of the ignition when Bulma held up her hand.
"Leave them in. I'll just capsule the car." She said waiting for him. Snorting he pushed open the door and walked quickly up the walk pushing open the door and disappearing inside. Bulma looked after him but pressed the button anyway sighing to herself. "Never correct a car guy, got it." She muttered pocketing the car capsule.
As she walked up the walk she tossed her hair out removing her hair-band. One hand snaked through her hair massaging her scalp and threading her hair out. Through her hair she saw that the door was still open. She slowed her pace watching it closely. 'Did he just leave it open or is he still here?' She ducked her head inside looking around. 'No not there.' She walked inside keeping her back to the door so if he came up behind her she'd see him.
She waited her back pressed against the door. She slowly reached out with her right hand to the wall for the light switch. Suddenly something warm wrapped around her arm pulling her off balance and into it. She tried to pull away twisting but found her back pressed against the wall.
"Skittish are we?" He breathed in her ear. He pressed his body against her holding her arm next to her head.
"Vegeta get off me. I swear you go from one emotion to the other and I'm not in the mood for it right now." Bulma said tried trying to move off the wall. He held on tighter but not enough to hurt.
"So what are you in the mood for?" Vegeta grinned rolling his head back to see her face. Something about that grin was odd. It wasn't that his usual one, this wasn't some self-righteous mask he put on for everyone else. This was him bared openly to her. Bulma looked at him hard for a minute. There was something different about him not physically but mentally. He kept changing form one mood to another; this change was messing with his mind. It probably. Nothing dangerous for him but it would be a while till he was fully adjusted.
His head ducked in closer to her's, his eyes gleaming at her from under his eyebrows. Bulma pulled away smacking her head against the wall. She couldn't move away from the wall or she would run straight into Vegeta's face. He looked amused at the situation.
"You are skittish." He laughed rolling his head back gazing down her neck to the rest of the body. A soft purred seeped from his throat locking onto her eyes again. She swallowed hard, keeping her eyes open as she stared into his devouring eyes.
"And you.are an asshole. Now get off me Vegeta." She didn't like how this was going. If he would back off a bit she would have some room to move but pressed against this wall she was trapped. Vegeta's smile broadened. Bulma knew he was going to say no, so she continued. "This would be a good time to listen to me."
Vegeta looked closer at her seemingly to study her eyes. He shrugged letting go of her arm and stepping back.
"Can't blame a man for being aggressive." He said simply placing his hands on his hips. Bulma looked up at him smiling. She lunged forward wrapping her arms around his neck kissing him deeply. Her lips latched on to his making the kiss even deeper. Vegeta didn't hesitate; he dropped his arms around her waist pulling her closer. She broke away smiling at his sensuous face.
"You can't blame a girl for being just as aggressive." She said letting her hands run over his shoulders.
"Nor would we want to." He whispered leaning in again for another kiss. He met with only her hand. He glared at her hand then at her.
"My mother and father are home, and we are still standing in a hallway. If we're going to do this we do it in my room." She whispered leaning close to kiss her hand keeping her eyes on his. She felt his smirk under her hand and then the ground sifting under her feet.
When she looked again she saw they were both in her room. She tried to pull her hand away but found she couldn't. She glanced back to find Vegeta holding her hand there, slowly stretching it out so that her palm and her wrist was faced upward. He was staring intently at the veins in her wrist; he leaned closer placing his lips to her skin. He just stayed there feeling her skin move under his lips.
Bulma stood still waiting to see what he was doing. She jumped when his teeth brushed over her skin closing and then opening again. She stared at the back of his head falling into the rhythm with the strokes of his teeth. It was so easy to fall into. Her eyes dimmed letting her body sway slightly to his beat.
He rocked his head upward kissing her arm keeping with his set beat. He kept going till he reached her shoulder, then moving onto her neck. His tongue lashing at her skin then kissing it away. He hands slid away from her arms to coax his way under the back of her purple tank top. Bulma kept her eyes only half-open, placing her hands on his shoulders massaging them in time with Vegeta.
Vegeta lifted his face from her neck to gently kiss her lips. He smiled relaxing his eyes so he looked years younger than he appeared in day to day life. Bulma released her hands from around his neck placing them on his hands.
"Mum," She purred leaning closer to him, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." Vegeta laughed. Not an evil laugh or a conceded laugh, but a genuinely happy laugh. He leaned even closer to her so their lips were almost touching.
"You first." He laughed trying to move his hands further up her shirt but she stopped him.
"I have more to show, you go first." She explained pushing his hands back down. He smiled wider.
"Not by much." He glanced down as he spoke. She glared good naturally up at him. Keeping her eyes on him she let go of his hands using her's to grab the front of his shirt, tossing it over his head. He stepped back taking the shirt completely off. He stepped confidently forward unbuttoning her cutoff jean shorts as he did so. He tried slipping his hands under to pull them off but Bulma stepped back still taunting him.
He watched as she flopped onto the bed pulling the shorts off her legs as she did so. Vegeta found his mouth hanging slightly open as he looked at her. 'She's so amazing.' The thought hit him as he looked at her, and he had no reason to doubt them. He had been alone so many days of his life, but when he looked at her he couldn't remember one.
"If you stay like that nothing going to happen." Bulma said crossing her arms to pull her top over her head. Vegeta grinned. 'She is amazing.' He stopped wasting time and undid his pants dropping them to the ground. So there they were, both naked and both happy about it too.
Vegeta pushed her down onto the bed kissing her hard. She threaded her fingers through his hair holding on to him. He laced his hands around her back pulling her up to meet him. They kissed over and over first on the lips, then on her eyelids, and then just under her left ear. He licked her ear catching it in his teeth.
Bulma gasped in surprise at the feeling. She slipped her fingers out of his hair to grip his shoulders. The heat stung her eyes but she blinked it back wrapping her legs around his waist.
"Exited aren't we little one?" His face was soft but also seductively mocking as he looked at her from above. Her face was flushed but she still managed to look a bit scary as she glared at his cocky grin. He just laughed and kissed her again playfully.
"Now don't get that way. I'm just having some fun."
"Then stop talking and have some real fun." Vegeta looked down she as moved under him so that he was just hovering above her. He laughed again shaking his head at her.
"I knew there was a reason I put up with you woman." His face slowly changed into a serious look. He kissed her lightly meeting her halfway. They kissed again this time longer and more passionate.
'I love you' Vegeta thought closing his eyes ready to plunge into her.
'I love you too Vegeta.' Bulma thought back. They're eyes burst open as he entered her. They stared at each other in amazement.
'Did I just hear that?' They both thought it at the same time so they each took it as there own thought. Vegeta tried to understand but couldn't. Instead of trying he started to move inside her. She gasped coming back to this world. A small moan escaped as he moved faster.
Vegeta bit the inside of his lip as he sped up his pace, moving faster and faster. She shifted under him, pushing closer in time with him, taking in the feeling, a moan freeing its self now and again. Vegeta moved his hands to her shoulders griping them hard.
He kept moving, pushing closer to their climaxes. They held on to each other, staring into each other's eyes working together as one. They moved and felt as if they were one being, one entity. They couldn't hear two people breathing just, one. And that's what they were for one glorious moment, thing, one being one perfect joining.
They both gasped as it passed between them. That moment of complete knowing, the complete feeling of pleasure. Vegeta stayed here for a second feeling her throbbing around him. Bulma looked dazed and happy but a bit stunned too. Vegeta pulled away from her rolling on to his back. They lay there perfectly still, just breathing in and out. Vegeta turned his head to look at her grinning.
"I think I'm going to like being a Sayian." Vegeta said grinning wider. Bulma looked at him a dazed look in her eyes, then her eyes seemed to clear and she smiled too.
***
Bulma opened her eyes with a halfhearted sigh. 'Not morning, not yet.' She thought pressing her head back down on the pillow closing her eyes again. She relaxed into the soft sheets letting it coax away her stiffness. She had no trouble remembering where she had got so stiff but that didn't make the pain go away.
She felt something wrapped around her waist but she wasn't in the mood to look. Bulma was sure that Vegeta was still there for she could feel his body warmth behind her. 'He stayed, how un-Vegeta like of him' She smiled at the thought. 'Better wake him up. There is no way he could cook that much food on his own.' Just then an image of Vegeta in a pink apron with "Kiss the Cook" on the front popped in to Bulma's mind. She smiles opening her eyes again.
She noticed something out of the corner of her eye, taking a closer look she froze. One of Vegeta's arms was draped over her waist. Bulma was lying on her side with Vegeta pressed against her back. She was sure of that for she could feel his breathing on her shoulder. But was his arm really holding on to her in his sleep?
Bulma stayed there for a while letting the comfort of this simple act amaze her. In some part of him he cared, he really cared about her. Not for some convenience relationship as he let on, but he did care about her. He wanted to protect her, to stay with her. 'But does he love me? Maybe, in some part of him he does. But he doesn't know it yet.'
She slowly reached her hand up and tapped his. She could instantly feel him stiffen as he woke. She could almost see him glance down and make the connection in his head that he was holding her. He pulled it away a fast as he could, making Bulma wonder if it had even been there at all. He rolled out of bed in search of his clothes leaving her behind.
"What do you want woman?" He growled tugging on his pants. Bulma rolled on to her other side propping herself up to look at him. She smoothed the sheets out so that they covered her from her chest to her feet.
"I was wondering what you would like for breakfast? I need to call the kitchens and tell them soon or you'll miss the whole meal." She said watching as her pulled on his T-shirt. He glared at her, they both knew he was starving.
"Anything woman, I don't care." With that he walked passed her bed, yanked open her door, and walked into the hallway slamming the door as he went.
"Ungrateful little bastard." Bulma muttered softly to herself starting to get out of bed.
"I heard that!" Vegeta yelled from the hall. Bulma could only stare.
***
After getting dressed Bulma made her way to the kitchen only to grab a Pop- Tart and head for her lab. She had been working on a Gravityroom for Goku to use on the side of her Ki research. It was almost done on the blueprint level. Soon she could start programming it and setting the repair droids to build the damn thing.
Her hair was pulled up in a tight bun as too keep it out of her face while she worked. She had thrown on a lab coat that hung open revealing the blue T-shirt and shorts she had put on earlier. She hovered over the vast number of blueprints drawing the system wiring in white pencil. She hadn't been there for more than 20 minutes before some interrupted her.
"Where the hell have you been woman?" Demanded an angry voice from the doorway. Bulma spun around almost knocking her work to the floor. Vegeta stood leaning against the doorframe dressed in fresh clothes; namely a deep red T-shirt, black jeans, and a matching jacket, with black boots and gloves.
"Can't you leave me alone for a damn minute? And what the hell do you mean where have I been? I've been working. And, you have been eating. I can tell, you have a bit of syrup right there." She rubbed they corner of her mouth with her middle finger. Vegeta glared at her wiping the goo with the back of his glove.
Bulma grinned as she turned her back to work. She sighed picking the white pencil trying to remember where she had been working last. Just as she spotted it the paper was whipped out from under her making her fall forward on her face.
"Let's see what you've been working on." Vegeta said flipping the blueprint to read. He looked hard at it his eyes flashing over the images. He set it down and scanned the rest her work. Bulma rested her head on her hands glaring at him. He looked at her carefully.
"What does this do?" He asked setting his eyes on hers. She shrugged picking her pencil up again.
"It increases the gravity to about 400 time Earth's. It's a training device for my friend Goku. If you're interested there are some attack droid blueprints on the next table over there." Her hand waved somewhere off to the left. Vegeta didn't move but looked over anyway.
"Good. I'll expect this operational in two days." He said walking to the door. Bulma turned to look at him puzzled.
"What?" She asked confused. Vegeta turned to her with that cocky little smirk of his.
"I need to train woman, and you're going to help me." With that he walked from the room leaving the door open. Bulma stayed looking at after him stunned.
"That little bastard." She breathed dropping her pencil on the floor.
Then she heard the doorbell ring through the house. " Now who could that be she muttered getting up and heading for the door. She opened it to see an impatient Talana standing there her arms crossed. "Um hi Talana," Bulma said nervously she wanted to make a good impression after all this was Vegeta's only family.
"Whatever," Talana said irritably shoving past her. "Is my brother here?"
"What do you want Tay?" Bulma heard Vegeta's deep voice ask from the top of the stairs. Talana and Bulma both looked up at him.
"To give you your stuff ass hole," Talana snarled snapping her fingers and two very large chests appeared at her feet.
"What the fuck is up with you?" Vegeta asked as he walked down the stairs. "You're acting bitchier than usual." Talana glared at him then cocked her head to the side looking up at her brother who had paused on the last two steps.
"Have a healthy baby." she said maliciously. Before stalking out the door to take to the skies. Bulma looked after her shocked.
"She can fly too?" She asked.
"Yes," Vegeta muttered still staring off confused after his sister. 'Yes Talana knows how to fly but she didn't like doing it in her human form. Something was very wrong. He leaned down and piled the chests on top of one another and scooped them up heading towards the stares still puzzling over his sister's odd behavior. And what the fuck did 'Have a Healthy Baby' mean? He shook his head Talana got premonitions of the future all the time and whenever she had one she said something that didn't make much sense that was just the way she was. He shoved the comment to the back of his mind, after all meant nothing.
(AN: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now wasn't that worth the wait? Look at that lemon, it perfect. All it's all mine. No help at all just me. You may notice the difference in this lemon and the first one I wrote. The reason is I wanted you all to realize how great it is to be alive. AthenBlade starts hopping up and down waiting for all her readers to review.)
Dreams and Reality
Vegeta appeared in front of Talana completely hysterical. Is eyes wild, his black T-shirt and jeans pulled out from his body, his hair even crazier than before.
"ThatbluehairedbitchturnedmeintoKakarrotandIhaveatailandI'mmortalOhlucifersb allsIcanDie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Vegeta dropped to his knees and buried his face in his hands close to sobbing.
"Vegeta I can understand humans when they speak quickly, but not when Vampires do, and why are you hyperventilating? You don't even have to breathe, so stop." Talana demanded coldly.
"But I can't." Vegeta wailed trying to gain control of himself. Talana slid off the couch were she had been sitting and crawled toward Vegeta carefully. She patted his shoulders tenderly and spoke in her talking to crazy people voice.
"Okay Veggie, sure. Come on Veggie, you and I are going to go take a nice walk to a nice white room with pillows everywhere." She smiled big as she spoke, in a weird way trying to calm Vegeta. Vegeta finally got his breathing under control.
"I'm not insane Talana." Vegeta growled staying there on the floor with her.
"Okay Veggie." Talana said patting Vegeta on the back still using her talking to crazy people voice. "But I-" She froze. " Why do you have a heartbeat?" She pushed her hand harder into his should trying to feel it out better.
"I told you." Vegeta said smirking smugly his mood suddenly uplifting. " I'm alive." Talana continued to stare at him her eyes wide with shock. Talana fell backwards and quickly crabwalked away from him her eyes never leaving him. When she hit the wall she sat up holding her knees to her chest.
She whispered for Tobias her voice shaking slightly. She continued calling for him, her voice getting louder with each yell. Until finally she finished with a blood curdling scream.
"Tobiaaasssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Tobias ran into the room furious. He was had a broken vial in his hand.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! I WAS ONE CALCULATION FROM DISCOVERING THE FREAKING CURE ALL PILL! I SWEAR I CAN'T LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR LESS THAN A MINUTE! SO WHAT THE HELL IS IT NOW? A COCKROACH?????!!!!!!!!!"
"Veggies alive." Talana whispered shock. Then she fainted slumping against the wall.
Tobias looked at Vegeta carefully. "What the hell was that about?" He asked slowly. Vegeta audibly grinned at him his eyes growing dim.
"I'm alive. Night Tobias." He said stupidly. Then he fainted.
Tobias looked between Vegeta and Talana before shrugging.
'Must be a family thing.' he thought before walking over and scooping up Talana. He carried her to her room where he softly set her down on her bed. Tobias kissed her crimson lips gently, tasting of blood and her own sweet taste.
"You get stranger by the day love." The vampire whispered affectionately tucking a strand of platinum hair behind her ear.
Then he turned down stairs to retrieve his best friend. He grabbed Vegeta's wrist and began to drag him to his room. He froze suddenly and dropped the wrist when he felt a flutter inside of it. He spun around and stared at his Vegeta for what felt like an eternity before dropping to his knees beside Vegeta. He continued to stare at him for a minute until his lips curved into a smile.
"Why you son of a bitch you are alive. Well this should prove very interesting, very interesting in deed." He says trailing off. He grabbed Vegeta and slung him over his shoulder and caring him to his room. "Well, I better call your little blue scientist friend and see what the hell happened to you before Talana wakes up and goes into hysterics. Like that hasn't already happened." He laughed walking out the door.
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The darkness was complete and surrounding. Vegeta sat cross-legged in a spotlight, his head bent with his eyes closed. His eyes snapped open to stare out into the darkness. He raised his head and looked around seeing nothing but the black pit of night around him.
"Now what is this then?" Vegeta purred to himself. His voice seemed to be trapped in the light not reaching past the veil of darkness. But he could feel something itching at the edges of the light. "Who's there?" His tone was amused, what could it be?
Then something caught his ear. Cocking his head so he could hear he stood up and walked to the edge off the light.
"What is that.crying?" The longer he listened the more certain he was of it, someone was crying just out side of the spotlight. He reached his hand up to eye level pressing agents the wall of darkness. It seemed as if the wall bent to the touch almost like plastic wrap. Vegeta could even see where he had left a small mark on the wall.
He formed a diamond shape with his hands then flattened them and slipped them in-between the folds of darkness. The two halves pulled apart easily as if the opening had always been there. As he pulled it wide light poured through from the other side blinding him for a second. When he opened his eye the circle of light he had been standing in was now linked with another one, in the center of it was a hunched form of a blue hair woman crying.
"Bulma?" Vegeta asked uncertainly moving closer to her. The woman's head looked up tear streaked but still Bulma's.
"Vegeta what are you doing here?" Her voice was strained and hoarse it seemed as though she had been crying for a while now.
"Since I don't know where here is woman I wouldn't know why I'm here. If I were to ask you the same thing what would you say?" Vegeta spat his arms crossed over his chest, his sneer obvious.
"I'd say I'm dreaming and this is some great dream where I get to kick you sorry ass." Bulma stood on her feet the tears gone replaced by anger.
"Ha you think you could hurt me?" Vegeta laughed mockingly.
"I'd don't know maybe I can put in another little panic fit." Bulma spat stepping closer to him. Vegeta's face-hardened into a cold mask.
"I didn't panic." Vegeta growled.
"So what do you call that little.show you put on at the sanctuary? Your tactic distaste for my mistake?"
"Yes, your mistake, lets talk about that for a minute. Your mistake that changed me from a very powerful being into some alien freak!" His voice had risen very slowly till it was at the point of becoming a full yell. His body was shacking with the effort to stay in control. 'She's afraid.' Vegeta couldn't explain how but he just suddenly knew it.
"Yes, I made a mistake; one I couldn't have possibly known would have had these consequences. If you want to blame me then fine, I don't care. But it may not be as bad as you think." Bulma's voice took on a more controlled, cold tone, her volume never changing. 'She's a brave little one.' Vegeta thought to himself.
Her brows kit together as if she caught an interesting idea. A surprised smile lit her face.
"You think I'm brave?" She sounded happily stunned.
"What?" Vegeta was shocked and not nicely so either.
"Didn't you just say that?" Now she was puzzled.
"I didn't say anything woman. And what the hell did you mean by it not so bad to be an alien? You still turned me into a freak." He didn't know how she knew what he had thought but he was not about to dwell on it. Whatever was going on in this place Vegeta would be just as happy not knowing.
"I meant that Sayains are an amazingly powerful race with heightened senses and powers. It's not that bad of a change, considering you are a fighter and all." As an after thought she added, "Goku's one.
"And what would make you think I'm a fighter?" Vegeta snarled ignoring the mention of Goku being one deciding it was not important.
"Well, to tell you the truth I really don't know. But the only people I know of that can control their ki are hard-core fighters. Pulse there's just a kind of feeling you put off as a warrior. A kind of long lost old fashioned kind of honor, but it seems to fit you." She seemed to be looking at him and not only seeing the outside but the inside too, and she liked it.
"That maybe but I was perfectly fine with what I was before. You know every time I get comfortable in a form some else just has to change me into some weird freak of a species!" Vegeta yelled enraged by his own thoughts.
"What else is there to be changed from? There's human and now there's Sayian." Bulma spat irritated.
"No, you are wrong again woman. First I was human then I have my only ties to this world ripped away. When I get them back the same sick bastard takes them away again. I find them and I get turned into a vampire! Yes, that's right a vampire! And for the first hundred years I hated it. Why did I have to continue living in a world that I hated while every thing around me died!
"Then I got use to it and grew more powerful then anything before me. And I did so I could kill every single person that took my life from me. You were right I am only living to do one thing, kill. It's all I can do you now you've even taken that from me!" Vegeta stopped breathing 'Where the hell did that come from? I didn't even know I thought that. So why did I tell her that?' Bulma's face was shocked and at the same time understanding.
"Vegeta I'm so sorry." She stepped forward placing her hand on his shoulder. Her warmth seeping into him, blending his feelings in an almost calming way. "You must believe me when I say I had no idea this would happen to you." Her voice was so pleading to Vegeta's ears.
"I know Bulma. And I don't really blame you; I've just had my life flipped over once again I need someone to place this on so I can move on. " Vegeta muttered pulling her close holding her tight against him, her head resting on his chest.
"All I can do to help is to let you know that it won't last to long. In one year the dragonballs will have their powers back and we can wish for you to be returned to whatever you were before." She breathed looking up at him. He studied her eyes closely.
"Then this won't last?" He asked slowly holding his breath again.
"Yes, In one year you be good as new." Bulma said this time smiling. Vegeta heaved a sigh of relief. "Vegeta I need to know something." He froze.
"What?"
"Are we good? Do you still want to be with me?" Vegeta almost laughed.
"Woman," He sighed tilling her head up to look him in the eye, "there is nothing in this world I would rather have then you at my side." His eyes soft, his grin speaking of kind power and love. At the back of his mind he could feel a soft ringing. Bulma's head cocked to the side listening to it too.
She pushed away from him and started running towards the sound. The spotlight that she had once sat in following her as she ran from him.
"Bulma wait!" Vegeta called running after her, but it was to late, she was too far away to ever get back.
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Vegeta shot awake breathing heavily looking over to the side of the bed when he felt his wrist restrained.
"What the fuck are you doing!" Vegeta yelled ripping his wrist out of his friends hand.
"Felling your pulse. Its actually quite fascinating." Tobias said leaning back in his chair. "I mean the for a heartbeat that has been gone for over five thousand years it's going strong. And then there is the whole, its back in the first place, thing. This is the most amazing scientific discovery since that guy and I discovered electricity. How did you do it?"
Vegeta stared at him in disbelief.
"You freak! Now I know why you and Talana are together. Your both nutcases!" Tobias just smirked.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." He said calmly. Vegeta jumped up and walked towards his bathroom deciding to get out of their before he was drawn into his partners twisted world.
"I called your girlfriend." Tobias called after him. Vegeta froze in
his tracks.
"What?"
"I called your little blue haired bitch." Vegeta growled low in his throat at the insult towards Bulma and Tobias's interest was piqued. He leaned forward on his elbows and continued. "I had a feeling, her being a scientist and all she most likely had something to do with your sudden um mortality. Am I correct?" Vegeta nodded an affirmative still glaring at the older vampire.
"Anyway she said that there had been a mix up and somehow you had become a Sayian. Now I have a very extensive vocabulary yet that is one word that has never entered my vocabulary and your girlfriend didn't bother enlightening me so I beg you please add to my limited knowledge. Tobias said in a sarcastic tone.
"It's an alien." Said Vegeta turning into his bathroom and splashing cold water on his face.
"Well, that explains the tail but what is it?"
"I told you an alien." Vegeta snapped.
"In the famous words of Talana well duh. What I'm looking for is details such as where they're from, what is their culture, language, and strength level and what their like. The only one I know is the last one." He paused.
"Kakarrot's one."
It took Tobias a millisecond to register that before he burst into insane laughter.
"You're of the same species as that Idiot." He laughed holding his stomach as he fell out of his chair and began rolling on the ground. God that has to be the most pathetic thing I've heard in this century."
Vegeta snarled irritated beyond life.
"You know what we should do is test how your physiology has changed. Tobias said abruptly stopping his laughter and sitting up. Vegeta stared at his friend before nodding his agreement.
"Might as well." Vegeta said nodding. Both men headed down towards the training rooms in the basement.
***
"Okay." Tobias said hunched over panting, which was strange considering he had long ago been cured of the habit of breathing. "Your a little bit stronger, and you have a little bit more speed and you have a little bit more stamina but you still suck."
"Oh really is that the reason you're the one panting on the floor when I, who actually needs to breathe, is not even out of breath?" Vegeta sneered leaning on a wall over Tobias a smirk gracing his tanned features as he remembered the sparring match.
"Okay." He said. "My blasts are stronger, I heal fast, like you said my speed, stamina, and strength has increased." As he listed off each thing he ticked off another finger. "My hearing and mental capabilities have increased as well as my eyesight, by the way that was beyond wrong." He said glaring at Tobias as the memory of a picture of Nappa and his sister in the middle of the nasty flitted through his mind that Tobias had held at a distance to check his eyesight.
He glanced over at his sister who had come in the room half way through the experiments, crumpled in the doorway and stared blankly at them for several hours.
"Is she okay?" He questioned Tobias gesturing to Talana.
"Yeah." He said looking at his girlfriend. "She'll be fine once she gets over the shock."
"What shock." Vegeta demanded. " I'm the one who got turned into an alien!"
"The emotional shock of the fact that one of her only two stable source of love that didn't require anything in return can die is an extremely horrible concept for her to come to terms with.
"Just because vampires don't die of natural causes does not mean we can't die."
"What can kill us might I ask." Tobias demanded. Vegeta opened his mouth to talk but Tobias rushed on. "Thanks to our bloodline we are immune to both sunlight and silver. And thanks to our beloved Talana we are immune to holy water, crosses, and garlic.
And I have yet to meet a stake no matter how sharply carved that has been able to penetrate our skin." Vegeta shuddered as he remembered the bed sheets with crosses burned into them; the holy water showers and the garlic- coated meals that Talana had served them.
"You know as well as I do that there are other ways to kill us!" Vegeta snapped viciously. Both men looked at each other darkly, there was one way to kill them. A way that was a closely guarded secret. "Okay," Tobias said abruptly switching moods. " Now lets examine that tail."
"What!" Vegeta yelled instinctively. "Um why would you want to, I mean its so boring." Vegeta said quickly trying to look innocent. Tobias looked at him with an evil grin spreading on his features.
"Your awfully defensive of that tail." He observed. "Could it be a natural instinct to protect the tail?"
"No." Vegeta snapped. "I just don't see why you have to mess with it. I mean it's perfectly harmless."
Tobias smirked. "You know maybe we should cut it off; it would probably be easier to study that way. Of course we would have to see the what your reaction would be by yanking and stroking it."
As he said this Vegeta backed farther away from him hoping to escape. " And I think I know just what person should conduct this experiment." He looked behind Vegeta at Talana. "Care to do the honors love." He said his English accent becoming more profuse as his intentions became eviler. Vegeta spun around to locate Talana.
'Oh shit!' he thought desperately. 'Where the hell is she!'
"TAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"
Talana appeared in front of him and grinned evilly suddenly back to her old self.
"What did I do?" She asked. Vegeta sucked in a long breath.
'Don't kill the sister, don't kill the sister, don't kill the sis-' "OOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He spun around grabbing his tail and backing into a corner keeping a close eye on Talana. "You stay away from me bitch." He growled his temper reaching new heights. At that minute the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Tobias said quickly disappearing. He reappeared at the door and jerked open just as the bell rang again. He looked down at Bulma (AN: Remember has a six-inch height advantage.) " I'm guessing your here for Vegeta." Bulma nodded.
"Yeah do you know if he is um still angry with me?" Bulma questioned looking shy. Tobias looked at her.
"Why would Vegeta be mad at you?" Tobias asked puzzled.
"Well because I turned him into a Sayian." She muttered finally meeting his eyes. Suddenly a roar of pain ripped through the house again. Tobias grinned blocking her entrance into the house as she tried to gain entrance.
"Trust me you are probably the farthest thing from his mind right now." He said as a large grin came over his features as Vegeta's screams continued to echo in his ears. He heard Vegeta's feet thunder down the hall angrily away from the training hall.
"Stay the fuck away from me Taylor or I swear I'll tear your head off!" He roared making his way into the hallway. "Tobias who is it?" He asked one hand throwing open the door. "Oh you." He muttered his eyes narrowing into slited points.
"Hey Vegeta." She muttered softly meeting his eyes. Her mouth was slightly pulled into a frown with the rest of her face calm and perfectly taught. Vegeta studied her carefully watching for any tell tell signs for pain. Only her eyes told of the unknown question waiting to be answered.
"Where is your car?" Vegeta asked glancing over his shoulder for any threat, namely Talana. His eyes snapped back as a soft puff came from behind him. His eyes fell on a white smooth looking car waiting her them in the driveway. He shot his gaze to the smiling Bulma crossing his arms across his chest.
"Fast enough for you?" Bulma asked her smile growing. Vegeta pushed past her while snatching the keys out of her lax hand. Vegeta pulled open the door pushing the key into the ignition.
Bulma growled under breath waving good bye to Tobias, who had been watching all of this from the door. She made her way to the other side of car slamming the door behind her. At that second Vegeta revved the engine spinning the tires as he sped out of the driveway. Tobias stared after them a grin moving on to his face.
"They make such a cute couple." He purred walking back into the house closing the door behind him with his mind.
Meanwhile Vegeta shifted gears tightening his hands on the wheel feeling the power on the engine flow into his body. His eyes were focused on the road ahead. He body was sunk into the seat, his whole being forming just another part of the machine. His grin was becoming larger as he pressed down on the accelerator. He watched with glee as the speed kept rising and rising till it stopped.
"What the hell?" He muttered sitting up in his seat. The speedometer had just stopped on 90. "What's wrong with this thing?" He yelled pounding his arm on the wheel.
"What's your problem now Vegeta?" Bulma muttered glancing at him sadly. She hadn't said a word after getting into the car so this was only the third time she had talked to him since they had met up again. She had stared out the window till now and it seemed as though her face was unable of showing any emotion.
"This damn plastic car won't go over 90." Vegeta spat grinding his hands around the wheel. His kept his hand locked on the road refusing to look at her.
"What are you talking about? All cars are like that. They have a device that stops the car from over a certain speed. It's been in cars for over 50 years." Bulma said suspiciously. Vegeta looked at her carefully.
"Yes well I knew that of coarse. I just own older models that go much faster than this." He said turning back the road. 'I really need to stay away from all of this new age shit.' Vegeta thought keeping his speed at 90.
"Vegeta why do we keep doing this?" Bulma asked softly staring out at the landscape.
"What was that woman?" Vegeta growled holding on slightly harder to the steering wheel.
"One of us screws up and the other has no way to solve the problem in the real world. We can dream up ways but that thing still hangs over us making the next hardship even harder. How can we us keep going through this? What's the point?" She muttered still on turning to him.
"The point is you keep making things out bigger than they are woman. These small challenges mean nothing to me as long as I finish my task." Vegeta said holding his voice at a low volume.
"And what's that, to make my life a living hell?" Bulma shrieked, her face finally turning to him. Her eyes were red with strains of hot tears leading from her eyes. Her throat sound so twisted and raw it hurt Vegeta to even listen to it.
"No, my mission is to destroy my enemy, Freeza. Nothing is more important than that."
"There is nothing in the world I want more than you by my side." Bulma whispered sadly to herself.
"What did you say?" Vegeta asked carefully. 'If she remembers that dream than all of my plans could be destroyed. But if she rights it off as a dream than my plans could move a lot faster.' He watched her out of the corner of waiting for the deciding blow.
"Nothing." She muttered lowering her eyes to the dashboard. "Who's Freeza?" She asked trying obviously to change the subject. Vegeta returned his full gaze to the road.
"He's the man that destroyed my life and took my family from me. He is nothing more than a demon needing to be snuffed out by my hand." He spoke low and cold but get of his words were heated with hate. Bulma lifted her eyes to look at him again. Her tear stained face glistening up at him; Vegeta shifted his hands on the wheel so that his shoulders hid his face from the site.
"Why do you let your life be ruled by anger? It's going to kill you one day, and me too." Bulma whispered shaking her head softly at him. Vegeta's head slowly dropped down turning to look at her over his arm. He glared at her from the corners of his eyes. He wanted to yell at her, call her stupid, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
"Bulma," He spoke the name softly, as if it was too precious to repeat. "You and I are strong, in body and in mind. Together we are an unstoppable pair. I will not die, and neither will you, as long as we are together. Do you understand woman? I don't care about what's happened, as long as we are together." Vegeta's head snapped back forward again.
By now Bulma's face had fully dried from her open window and she looked much better than before. Also she was smiling again.
"You know Vegeta, sometimes you can be the biggest baka on this planet. And in other you make me glad to know you." She turned to look out the front window happy to be here at last.
"Don't get used to it woman, I'm just distracted right now." Vegeta muttered to himself mostly.
"But what, being Sayian?" Bulma asked interested.
"I believe so. Not only do you have the slowest car in existents but also I have a gnawing feeling of hunger. The last part wouldn't have anything to do with being a Sayian now would it?" He watched as the though entered her head lighting an idea.
"Oh of course! Sayian's have huge appetites. And since you haven't eaten for over half the day so you must be starving." She seemed surprised, with all her worrying about her turning him into a Sayian she didn't think of the effects he was now faced with. She pulled open the dash board compartment digging around for something. Vegeta glanced inside but only saw an assortment of junk. Her faced was controlled and focused on her task but Bulma's mind was else where. 'So we need to stay together, ok how do I pull that one off?' She thought. When she sat back she held a cell phone in her hand. She flipped it open causing Vegeta to give her even more looks. 'What is that woman up to now?'
"Hello, Asian Gardens? Hi my name's Bulma Briefs and I would like to place an order." She turned from the phone to look at Vegeta. "They're one of the only places that won't think I'm making a prank call. So what do you want?"
"An order of sweet and sour pork, fried rice, orange chicken and pot stickers." Vegeta said carefully returned to his driving. He knew where the restaurant was and turned onto the right road.
"70 orders of sweet and sour pork, fried rice, orange chicken and pot stickers. And also one order of lemon chicken with the sauce on the side with white rice." Vegeta stared at her in horror.
"What the hell do you think you're doing woman?!" Vegeta yelled almost swerving into another car. The sharp horn of the other car and the yelling made Bulma jump straight into the air, only held down by her seat belt.
"Vegeta trust me, after you finish eating you will still want more. I am the only one here that has dealt with a Sayian's appetite before." She pressed the phone to her ear and listened. "Yes we'll be there in 5 minutes. Thank you." With that she snapped the phone closed and glared at Vegeta. Vegeta just continued driving growling insults to himself.
***
Vegeta couldn't believe it. He had eaten 91 orders of sweet and sour pork and he could still go for more. He had been very surprised when he had pounced upon he food using his extra speed to devour the food at lighting speeds. He had just barely retained his manners as her plowed through the food. Bulma on the other hand hadn't seemed to surprised at his reaction to the food, just ate quietly giving him funny looks now and then. Like she was trying not to laugh.
It was now late at night and neither was sure of the time. Vegeta was just now pulling into the drive next to the walkway. Bulma sat up in her seat; her eyes wide open even at this time of night. She grabbed her purse stepping out of the car. Vegeta set the parking brake and was starting to pull the keys out of the ignition when Bulma held up her hand.
"Leave them in. I'll just capsule the car." She said waiting for him. Snorting he pushed open the door and walked quickly up the walk pushing open the door and disappearing inside. Bulma looked after him but pressed the button anyway sighing to herself. "Never correct a car guy, got it." She muttered pocketing the car capsule.
As she walked up the walk she tossed her hair out removing her hair-band. One hand snaked through her hair massaging her scalp and threading her hair out. Through her hair she saw that the door was still open. She slowed her pace watching it closely. 'Did he just leave it open or is he still here?' She ducked her head inside looking around. 'No not there.' She walked inside keeping her back to the door so if he came up behind her she'd see him.
She waited her back pressed against the door. She slowly reached out with her right hand to the wall for the light switch. Suddenly something warm wrapped around her arm pulling her off balance and into it. She tried to pull away twisting but found her back pressed against the wall.
"Skittish are we?" He breathed in her ear. He pressed his body against her holding her arm next to her head.
"Vegeta get off me. I swear you go from one emotion to the other and I'm not in the mood for it right now." Bulma said tried trying to move off the wall. He held on tighter but not enough to hurt.
"So what are you in the mood for?" Vegeta grinned rolling his head back to see her face. Something about that grin was odd. It wasn't that his usual one, this wasn't some self-righteous mask he put on for everyone else. This was him bared openly to her. Bulma looked at him hard for a minute. There was something different about him not physically but mentally. He kept changing form one mood to another; this change was messing with his mind. It probably. Nothing dangerous for him but it would be a while till he was fully adjusted.
His head ducked in closer to her's, his eyes gleaming at her from under his eyebrows. Bulma pulled away smacking her head against the wall. She couldn't move away from the wall or she would run straight into Vegeta's face. He looked amused at the situation.
"You are skittish." He laughed rolling his head back gazing down her neck to the rest of the body. A soft purred seeped from his throat locking onto her eyes again. She swallowed hard, keeping her eyes open as she stared into his devouring eyes.
"And you.are an asshole. Now get off me Vegeta." She didn't like how this was going. If he would back off a bit she would have some room to move but pressed against this wall she was trapped. Vegeta's smile broadened. Bulma knew he was going to say no, so she continued. "This would be a good time to listen to me."
Vegeta looked closer at her seemingly to study her eyes. He shrugged letting go of her arm and stepping back.
"Can't blame a man for being aggressive." He said simply placing his hands on his hips. Bulma looked up at him smiling. She lunged forward wrapping her arms around his neck kissing him deeply. Her lips latched on to his making the kiss even deeper. Vegeta didn't hesitate; he dropped his arms around her waist pulling her closer. She broke away smiling at his sensuous face.
"You can't blame a girl for being just as aggressive." She said letting her hands run over his shoulders.
"Nor would we want to." He whispered leaning in again for another kiss. He met with only her hand. He glared at her hand then at her.
"My mother and father are home, and we are still standing in a hallway. If we're going to do this we do it in my room." She whispered leaning close to kiss her hand keeping her eyes on his. She felt his smirk under her hand and then the ground sifting under her feet.
When she looked again she saw they were both in her room. She tried to pull her hand away but found she couldn't. She glanced back to find Vegeta holding her hand there, slowly stretching it out so that her palm and her wrist was faced upward. He was staring intently at the veins in her wrist; he leaned closer placing his lips to her skin. He just stayed there feeling her skin move under his lips.
Bulma stood still waiting to see what he was doing. She jumped when his teeth brushed over her skin closing and then opening again. She stared at the back of his head falling into the rhythm with the strokes of his teeth. It was so easy to fall into. Her eyes dimmed letting her body sway slightly to his beat.
He rocked his head upward kissing her arm keeping with his set beat. He kept going till he reached her shoulder, then moving onto her neck. His tongue lashing at her skin then kissing it away. He hands slid away from her arms to coax his way under the back of her purple tank top. Bulma kept her eyes only half-open, placing her hands on his shoulders massaging them in time with Vegeta.
Vegeta lifted his face from her neck to gently kiss her lips. He smiled relaxing his eyes so he looked years younger than he appeared in day to day life. Bulma released her hands from around his neck placing them on his hands.
"Mum," She purred leaning closer to him, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." Vegeta laughed. Not an evil laugh or a conceded laugh, but a genuinely happy laugh. He leaned even closer to her so their lips were almost touching.
"You first." He laughed trying to move his hands further up her shirt but she stopped him.
"I have more to show, you go first." She explained pushing his hands back down. He smiled wider.
"Not by much." He glanced down as he spoke. She glared good naturally up at him. Keeping her eyes on him she let go of his hands using her's to grab the front of his shirt, tossing it over his head. He stepped back taking the shirt completely off. He stepped confidently forward unbuttoning her cutoff jean shorts as he did so. He tried slipping his hands under to pull them off but Bulma stepped back still taunting him.
He watched as she flopped onto the bed pulling the shorts off her legs as she did so. Vegeta found his mouth hanging slightly open as he looked at her. 'She's so amazing.' The thought hit him as he looked at her, and he had no reason to doubt them. He had been alone so many days of his life, but when he looked at her he couldn't remember one.
"If you stay like that nothing going to happen." Bulma said crossing her arms to pull her top over her head. Vegeta grinned. 'She is amazing.' He stopped wasting time and undid his pants dropping them to the ground. So there they were, both naked and both happy about it too.
Vegeta pushed her down onto the bed kissing her hard. She threaded her fingers through his hair holding on to him. He laced his hands around her back pulling her up to meet him. They kissed over and over first on the lips, then on her eyelids, and then just under her left ear. He licked her ear catching it in his teeth.
Bulma gasped in surprise at the feeling. She slipped her fingers out of his hair to grip his shoulders. The heat stung her eyes but she blinked it back wrapping her legs around his waist.
"Exited aren't we little one?" His face was soft but also seductively mocking as he looked at her from above. Her face was flushed but she still managed to look a bit scary as she glared at his cocky grin. He just laughed and kissed her again playfully.
"Now don't get that way. I'm just having some fun."
"Then stop talking and have some real fun." Vegeta looked down she as moved under him so that he was just hovering above her. He laughed again shaking his head at her.
"I knew there was a reason I put up with you woman." His face slowly changed into a serious look. He kissed her lightly meeting her halfway. They kissed again this time longer and more passionate.
'I love you' Vegeta thought closing his eyes ready to plunge into her.
'I love you too Vegeta.' Bulma thought back. They're eyes burst open as he entered her. They stared at each other in amazement.
'Did I just hear that?' They both thought it at the same time so they each took it as there own thought. Vegeta tried to understand but couldn't. Instead of trying he started to move inside her. She gasped coming back to this world. A small moan escaped as he moved faster.
Vegeta bit the inside of his lip as he sped up his pace, moving faster and faster. She shifted under him, pushing closer in time with him, taking in the feeling, a moan freeing its self now and again. Vegeta moved his hands to her shoulders griping them hard.
He kept moving, pushing closer to their climaxes. They held on to each other, staring into each other's eyes working together as one. They moved and felt as if they were one being, one entity. They couldn't hear two people breathing just, one. And that's what they were for one glorious moment, thing, one being one perfect joining.
They both gasped as it passed between them. That moment of complete knowing, the complete feeling of pleasure. Vegeta stayed here for a second feeling her throbbing around him. Bulma looked dazed and happy but a bit stunned too. Vegeta pulled away from her rolling on to his back. They lay there perfectly still, just breathing in and out. Vegeta turned his head to look at her grinning.
"I think I'm going to like being a Sayian." Vegeta said grinning wider. Bulma looked at him a dazed look in her eyes, then her eyes seemed to clear and she smiled too.
***
Bulma opened her eyes with a halfhearted sigh. 'Not morning, not yet.' She thought pressing her head back down on the pillow closing her eyes again. She relaxed into the soft sheets letting it coax away her stiffness. She had no trouble remembering where she had got so stiff but that didn't make the pain go away.
She felt something wrapped around her waist but she wasn't in the mood to look. Bulma was sure that Vegeta was still there for she could feel his body warmth behind her. 'He stayed, how un-Vegeta like of him' She smiled at the thought. 'Better wake him up. There is no way he could cook that much food on his own.' Just then an image of Vegeta in a pink apron with "Kiss the Cook" on the front popped in to Bulma's mind. She smiles opening her eyes again.
She noticed something out of the corner of her eye, taking a closer look she froze. One of Vegeta's arms was draped over her waist. Bulma was lying on her side with Vegeta pressed against her back. She was sure of that for she could feel his breathing on her shoulder. But was his arm really holding on to her in his sleep?
Bulma stayed there for a while letting the comfort of this simple act amaze her. In some part of him he cared, he really cared about her. Not for some convenience relationship as he let on, but he did care about her. He wanted to protect her, to stay with her. 'But does he love me? Maybe, in some part of him he does. But he doesn't know it yet.'
She slowly reached her hand up and tapped his. She could instantly feel him stiffen as he woke. She could almost see him glance down and make the connection in his head that he was holding her. He pulled it away a fast as he could, making Bulma wonder if it had even been there at all. He rolled out of bed in search of his clothes leaving her behind.
"What do you want woman?" He growled tugging on his pants. Bulma rolled on to her other side propping herself up to look at him. She smoothed the sheets out so that they covered her from her chest to her feet.
"I was wondering what you would like for breakfast? I need to call the kitchens and tell them soon or you'll miss the whole meal." She said watching as her pulled on his T-shirt. He glared at her, they both knew he was starving.
"Anything woman, I don't care." With that he walked passed her bed, yanked open her door, and walked into the hallway slamming the door as he went.
"Ungrateful little bastard." Bulma muttered softly to herself starting to get out of bed.
"I heard that!" Vegeta yelled from the hall. Bulma could only stare.
***
After getting dressed Bulma made her way to the kitchen only to grab a Pop- Tart and head for her lab. She had been working on a Gravityroom for Goku to use on the side of her Ki research. It was almost done on the blueprint level. Soon she could start programming it and setting the repair droids to build the damn thing.
Her hair was pulled up in a tight bun as too keep it out of her face while she worked. She had thrown on a lab coat that hung open revealing the blue T-shirt and shorts she had put on earlier. She hovered over the vast number of blueprints drawing the system wiring in white pencil. She hadn't been there for more than 20 minutes before some interrupted her.
"Where the hell have you been woman?" Demanded an angry voice from the doorway. Bulma spun around almost knocking her work to the floor. Vegeta stood leaning against the doorframe dressed in fresh clothes; namely a deep red T-shirt, black jeans, and a matching jacket, with black boots and gloves.
"Can't you leave me alone for a damn minute? And what the hell do you mean where have I been? I've been working. And, you have been eating. I can tell, you have a bit of syrup right there." She rubbed they corner of her mouth with her middle finger. Vegeta glared at her wiping the goo with the back of his glove.
Bulma grinned as she turned her back to work. She sighed picking the white pencil trying to remember where she had been working last. Just as she spotted it the paper was whipped out from under her making her fall forward on her face.
"Let's see what you've been working on." Vegeta said flipping the blueprint to read. He looked hard at it his eyes flashing over the images. He set it down and scanned the rest her work. Bulma rested her head on her hands glaring at him. He looked at her carefully.
"What does this do?" He asked setting his eyes on hers. She shrugged picking her pencil up again.
"It increases the gravity to about 400 time Earth's. It's a training device for my friend Goku. If you're interested there are some attack droid blueprints on the next table over there." Her hand waved somewhere off to the left. Vegeta didn't move but looked over anyway.
"Good. I'll expect this operational in two days." He said walking to the door. Bulma turned to look at him puzzled.
"What?" She asked confused. Vegeta turned to her with that cocky little smirk of his.
"I need to train woman, and you're going to help me." With that he walked from the room leaving the door open. Bulma stayed looking at after him stunned.
"That little bastard." She breathed dropping her pencil on the floor.
Then she heard the doorbell ring through the house. " Now who could that be she muttered getting up and heading for the door. She opened it to see an impatient Talana standing there her arms crossed. "Um hi Talana," Bulma said nervously she wanted to make a good impression after all this was Vegeta's only family.
"Whatever," Talana said irritably shoving past her. "Is my brother here?"
"What do you want Tay?" Bulma heard Vegeta's deep voice ask from the top of the stairs. Talana and Bulma both looked up at him.
"To give you your stuff ass hole," Talana snarled snapping her fingers and two very large chests appeared at her feet.
"What the fuck is up with you?" Vegeta asked as he walked down the stairs. "You're acting bitchier than usual." Talana glared at him then cocked her head to the side looking up at her brother who had paused on the last two steps.
"Have a healthy baby." she said maliciously. Before stalking out the door to take to the skies. Bulma looked after her shocked.
"She can fly too?" She asked.
"Yes," Vegeta muttered still staring off confused after his sister. 'Yes Talana knows how to fly but she didn't like doing it in her human form. Something was very wrong. He leaned down and piled the chests on top of one another and scooped them up heading towards the stares still puzzling over his sister's odd behavior. And what the fuck did 'Have a Healthy Baby' mean? He shook his head Talana got premonitions of the future all the time and whenever she had one she said something that didn't make much sense that was just the way she was. He shoved the comment to the back of his mind, after all meant nothing.
(AN: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now wasn't that worth the wait? Look at that lemon, it perfect. All it's all mine. No help at all just me. You may notice the difference in this lemon and the first one I wrote. The reason is I wanted you all to realize how great it is to be alive. AthenBlade starts hopping up and down waiting for all her readers to review.)