A/N: Hello! ^_^ Welcome to chapter one! Yes, that was the prologue, so this should be longer. And without further ado….
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Marron sighed softly as she pick at the food that was laid out in front of her. She had been staying with Goten for about two days and for that time Goten wouldn't talk much and when he did nothing about himself. Marron quietly pushed the plate in front of her away and stood up. Goten had finished a while ago and said he had gone for a walk, she knew he was avoiding her. Marron went into Goten's bedroom where he had let her sleep until she was well enough to leave, she sat on her bed and pulled a beaten up photograph from her pocket, half in it's condition from time and half of the violent treatment she had received the other day.
The photo was of a bunch of people at the beach, three of the people, the women of the group, were all sunbathing while some of the men went swimming in the water-the other man (guess who) was just staring out in the ocean looking rather uncomfortable. Then, in the very front of the scene where three children, two boys and one girl-the girl who looked much younger than the boys-they were all building a sandcastle and having a grand old time. The first boy had lavender hair in a mushroom cut and blue eyes, the second boy had black hair that stuck out in all directions and eyes black as coal. The girl was much smaller than them and had her golden hair in two high pigtails and blue eyes like the first boy.
Water dripped onto the photograph before Marron realized she was crying, the photo had been taken a day before. No one could have predicted what had happened, Goten had been training with his father and he had just… lost it. She heard the door open and she quickly hid the picture and wiped off her eyes as Goten walked in. He looked at her intently and just as the silence seemed unbearable he asked, "Were you crying? Whets wrong?"
"Oh, it's nothing, really." Marron said looking away hastily. She didn't want him to be concerned because it was something she couldn't tell him, not yet anyway. She stood up quietly and brushed past him towards the door, "I'm going to get some fresh air."
"Be careful with your leg!" Goten called after her with almost no emotion in his tone. Marron sighed when she heard his coldness, he had changed so much, and she hated it. 'It's all because……she interrupted her own thought. No, don't dally on things that cannot be changed.'
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Goten cried out as he awoke in a cold sweat he sighed and got off his spar bed, since he had let Marron sleep on his, he went into the bathroom and splashed cold water on his sweat drenched face. He sighed and leaned against the wall and looked at his reflection. Goten gasped, he could have sworn he had seen blood on his face, but taking a second look he realized he didn't. 'Same dream since she came here. What's wrong with me?!' He shook his head, grabbed a glass of water and went outside knowing he wouldn't be able to get back to sleep after that.
Goten heard someone crying behind the house and he wandered over to see Marron sitting on a bucket looking at what seem to be an old photograph. He cleared his throat to let her know he was there and headed towards her, "What's wrong?" He asked; she hid the picture before he could see it.
"I-it's nothing. Nothing's wrong, I'm just sitting out here thinking, with nothing wrong." Marron said as Goten looked at her skeptically. She sighed, "Okay, you win. I was out here thinking about an old friend, he….he left us a while ago; I wanted to find him… to bring him back but….but…." She couldn't hold it in any longer; Marron broke out into sobs and buried her face into Goten's chest. "Goten…. You've changed so much. What happened to you?" she felt Goten tense and take a step back, he opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off, "They…we miss you Goten! We all wanted you to know you were forgiven! We thought that you would come back, and then we could tell you how much we wanted to forgive you, but……but……you never came back……..Why didn't you come back Goten!?! Why!?!" She paused wiping her blurry eyes, "Why didn't you come back to us? It could have been just like before…before he died and you, well, snapped." Goten pushed her off him and held her at arms length.
"Marron, it's really you…" He said letting her go and sitting himself on the grass and holding his head, "I-I can't believe this, Marron, I killed them! I killed them and you want me to go back like nothing ever happened!?! Don't you get it!?! I can't go back, not after what I did to them, it's my fault, I almost destroyed the earth! Wha-what if it happens again? What if I go lose it again!?! And what would happen if I couldn't stop myself like before? What!?! All this time I was trying to forget, trying to forget what I had done. Then… Then you came and ruined all of it. All of what I had tried to do….Forget that I had killed everyone I knew and loved when I was only a kid! And you want me to remember that? Remember the pain I caused innocent people just because I wasn't strong enough to….enough to keep my emotions from making me weak." Goten shook his head and stood up, "I'm sorry Marron, I just can't do that. You may not understand, but…you didn't see…see the look in their eyes, you didn't hear their voices screaming over and over for me to stop, or why I was doing it. And…and I still don't know why…" Goten turned around to go.
"You're right Goten, I don't understand…" Goten stopped his eyes widening as he heard the sadness in the voice to his back, "I'm just a hopeless dreamer, it's just….when you didn't come back, we thought you had taken your life. None of us could believe that someone like you would of…but you surprised us all when you started killing so…" She trailed off "But then, that day in the woods when you rescued me, I thought I was seeing a ghost; sure, your hair was shorter and you were older, but….Those eyes, I knew when I looked into your eyes that you were well…you. Then I saw how you had changed and it made me so heartbroken. I couldn't stand to tell you who I was; I thought you would reject me, like you have tried to do with your past. But… but… Please Goten come back with me, everyone has forgiven you except yourself. You can't just forget your past, it will always be there, but…but if we can remember the good times then the bad ones won't seem so bad." She said still softly. Goten lowered his head.
"No Marron, I can never go back. Never." He said walking back inside leaving Marron alone in the darkness of the dawn.
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A/N: that's the end of chapter one! Now that Goten knows who Marron really is, what will he do? And what will Marron do? Stay tuned for the next chapter! Who died and Goten's dream will be revealed! Coming………….. EVENTUALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!