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A/N:Yes, "Without You" is back on track and i'm trying to get more updates to you. I'm feeling a bit better now after the weird state I was in -.- Enough about that though. I hope you like this chapter for I put a lot of work into it's length. Not much humor in this chapter though, not that there was ever much, perhaps I should change the second genre to something else... I have had many questions about whether or not this is a T/P. Well It was never planned that way it is going to be an OC fic, so I'm sorry if I ruined some ones hopes but this isn't a T/P however I will upload one soon. T/P's are tha bomb! .! Please keep reading though whether it was a T/P or not you were reading it because you liked it, right?

Note: Bulla is Bra. Different name, same person. I've seen a different version to most of you where Bra is Bulla.

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Without You

Chapter 4: Decisions

"Sp...Sp...SPIDER!" Chi Chi screamed. She jumped into Gohan's arms and buried her head in his chest.

"Get rid of it, get rid of it, get rid of it..." she chanted.

Gohan picked it up and put it outside then put his shaking mother down. Chi Chi stood frozen to the spot, her was face pale and she shivered and rocked backwards and forwards. Gohan was used to this behavior having lived with her for his entire life.

"You know about the... dreams... right?" Gohan asked after an awkward silence.

Chi Chi stopped rocking and looked at Gohan suspiciously. She nodded.

"Trunks has been having them too, now Vegeta's the only one left to have them," Gohan explained.

"What about Bulla?" Chi Chi asked.

Gohan sighed. "She had one too,"

"Vegeta could be very well having them too, you know what he's like," Chi Chi complained.

Gohan let a smile cross his face. Chi Chi was right, he very well could have.

"I think it's time we told Pan about them, there's no use in keeping them from her," Gohan suggested.

"But..." Chi Chi protested. "She's too young to understand,"

Gohan sighed. "It may seem that way, ever since dad left she seems to have matured a bit... You know what? I don't really know what to do anymore,"

Tears welled up in Chi Chi's eyes. Goku was gone and Chi Chi knew he wouldn't be coming back this time.

"I think we should tell her," Chi Chi said. "She needs to know,"

Gohan smiled at his mother's indecisive moment. It was very unlike Chi Chi.

"Well let's tell her together then," Gohan offered Chi Chi his arm. Chi Chi smiled at the gentleman in front of her and took his invitation. Together with linked arms they walked off to go find Pan.

Pan through another rock. It collided with a tree and shattered into several pieces. She sub-consciously felt around for another rock. She had used them all up. She sat down and looked at the beautiful scenery. Out of habit, she put her head in her lap. Pan would normally come to her 'secret' place when she was feeling sad, which was almost always. She would think of all the time her grandfather left and then cry with her head in her lap, knowing the fun times would never happen again. When her grandfather left the first time she didn't feel like this.

'Perhaps I was too young' Pan thought 'Or perhaps he came back that time...'

She got up from her uncomfortable position and faced the breeze. Her hair played across her forehead. She smiled as nice memories flooded her mind.

'Those were the days... the days I spent with you...'

"Pan!"

Pan jumped as her father's voice intruded her pleasant thoughts.

"H...hi dad,"

"Come back to the house... it's getting late,"

Pan looked at her grandmother, she held Gohan's arm tightly and smiled apologetically at her, she knew how Pan felt. She wanted to be alone too.

"Go on without us," Chi Chi whispered to Gohan. "I want to talk to her,"

Chi Chi slipped away from Gohan and walked towards her granddaughter. Gohan smiled and left them to talk.

"Oh, Pan..." Chi Chi whispered as she neared her. Pan's sad expression viewable from close up. She hugged her tightly. Pan closed her eyes and let the memories flood her mind once again.

'Before I leave,' she thought.

Pan hugged her grandmother back and together they cried.

"Careful," Pan whispered. "You'll ruin your mascara,"

Chi Chi laughed at her granddaughters strange sense of humor. Goku was gone but she had Pan to help her through it and Pan had Chi Chi.

"We'll do this together," Chi Chi whispered as she pulled away.

"Yeah," Pan agreed, "Together,"

Chi Chi wiped her eyes. "Let's get back, your father is probably worried sick,"

"Where were you? I was worried sick!" Gohan exclaimed.

Chi Chi and Pan looked at each other and smiled.

"See, told you," Chi Chi pointed out.

They laughed, irritating Gohan. He straightened his tie, adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat.

"Panny, we have something to tell you,"

'He said 'Panny'. Something's wrong,' Pan thought.

Videl came into the room.

"No, I want to tell her," she said angrily.

Gohan looked at her in surprise. She knew?

"You're going to get your eyes checked," Videl announced.

Pan gritted her teeth. She didn't want glasses, she'd look like a nerd. Her dad was a good example of that.

"Wow, great," Pan lied.

Gohan laughed nervously and looked at his mother as in to tell her to get rid of Videl.

"Heh heh. Umm... Videl come with me and help me get dinner ready," Chi Chi urged. She grabbed onto the collar of Videl's jacket and dragged her away to the kitchen.

"Gohan straightened his tie. "Heh, that wasn't exactly what I wanted to tell you, there was something else,"

"NO! NOT BRACES!" Pan screamed, covering her mouth.

"No, you're not getting braces, I wanted to tell you about these... dreams... that everyone has been having,"

Pan pulled her hands away slowly.

"Go on..."

"And uh well, they are about... well... you, and uh, the person who is you always happens to be in a bit of a dilemma or a dark place you see and uh... The person... I mean girl doesn't look like you and uh... Yeah,"

Gohan cleared his throat and loosened his tie hoping Pan took it well. She looked at him suspiciously.

"Everyone?" she asked.

"Yeah, except for Vegeta who we don't know about yet,"

Pan nodded her head sagely. (A/N: Aragorn566! Lol! Sorry... let's continue with the story...)

"So is this bad?" Pan asked.

"Huh? What? NO! I mean... no, of course it isn't, it's just strange, that's all," Gohan said hurriedly.

"I've been having them too. I don't know about the girl being called me but there is a girl with black hair and black eyes," pan said.

"That's the one!" Gohan shouted pointing at her. "Very strange..."

It was dinner time in the Son household. No different to lunch apart from the fact it was indoors and there was more food.

"So you told her?" Chi Chi whispered.

Gohan nodded, unable to speak through his mouthful.

"Pan i'm sorry but you have to get glasses," Videl said.

"No! I will not be caught dead in glasses!"

"Well when you die I'll be sure to make someone put glasses on you!" Videl retorted, frustrated with her daughter.

"Oh, gee thanks. You are the nicest mother on Earth," Pan said sarcastically.

Videl's angry expression suddenly changed to a sad and soppy look. "Aww... You think so?" Videl asked taking it literally.

Pan looked at her mother in disgust. "Of course I did mother," she said going along with it. Suddenly she could hear whispers.

'It's the first sign of insanity Pan,' A voice in her head told her.

She looked over at her father and grandmother who were whispering to each other. Pan knew it was about her. She blocked out her mother's tears of joy and concentrated harder on their whispers.

"How did she take it?"

"Pretty good, better than I expected,"

"How are we going to tell her about Old Kai's offer?"

"I don't know,"

"Why not?"

"Because I'm dumb..."

"I knew that,"

"Then why did you ask me?"

"Uh... I don't know,"

"Okay, back on track then,"

"Okay,"

"I think we should tell her now, we've been keeping it for a while,"

"But Gohan!"

"We have to tell her,"

"Okay, well i'm not doing it,"

"I never asked you to,"

"GUNSHOT!" Chi Chi screamed breaking their chain of whispers.

"I didn't say you had to do it," Gohan said.

"You're not going to tell her are you?" Videl asked patting her cheeks in a strange sense of terror.

"We're gonna have to," Gohan replied apologetically.

"Okay go ahead then," Pan said. They all jumped in shock as if they only just realized she was present.

"Uh... well... you know... um... okay.... uh.... well... Old Kai has an... Uh... offer," Gohan stuttered.

Pan signaled for him to go on.

"And uh... he wants you to go train with him..." Gohan trailed off with words that sounded like "Sick Leaves".

"Is there such thing as "Sick Leaves"?" Pan asked.

Gohan looked at her in confusion. "So do you... want to go train?" he asked, getting back to the point.

"Well yeah, how long?" Pan asked excited.

Gohan mumbled again.

"Will you cut it out with the sick leaves!" Pan cried.

"I didn't say sick leaves I said... six... years,"

Videl gasped in shock as if she only just found out and Chi Chi's mouth began to wobble as she tried not to cry.

"Do you want to go?"

Pan looked at her father.

'Perhaps they want to get rid of me, or perhaps they want me to become strong to protect them... or maybe they want me to... have fun,' Pan thought.

"I'll have to give this some thought," Pan said.

Gohan nodded in understanding.

"Take your time,"

"Hey Gohan. Has she decided yet?"

Videl fell backwards in her seat, Chi Chi poked herself in the eye with her chop sticks and Gohan spat rice in Pan's face.

"You all seem a little jumpy," Old Kai said.

Videl sat herself calmly at the table again. Chi Chi poked at her rice instead of her eye with her chopsticks and Gohan helped Pan pick the rice off her face.

"We're okay," Videl said folding her hands in her lap.

"Good. Have you decide yet Pan?"

The room buzzed with immediate silence.

"Don't tell me you haven't told her yet?!?" Old Kai screeched.

Gohan covered his ears. " I only just told her," he said, a hint of fright in his voice.

"What?!? You need to decide, NOW! I'll give you a week and a week only to decide! I'm sick of waiting! You Saiyan's think you have all the time in the world! Well I have news for you, you don't!" On that note, Old Kai left.

"You heard the old fart, you better decide quickly!" Chi Chi complained as she expressed her hate for Old Kai.

Pan stood up and ran to her room to think about Old Kai's offer. She swore he was some kind of criminal giving her only one week, what cheek. She sat down on her bed and pulled bits of rice out of her hair. She sighed. This was going to be hard. She fell backwards onto her bed, closed her eyes and went to sleep.

A/N:Did you like it? This chapter was a bit different to the others, a new spark of inspiration you might say. It was just a tad longer than the others I guess. 53KB! That's over half of the size of the previous three chapters! Wow... I want to get the action in there a little quicker than what was planned. I hope you enjoyed it!

-Love Always GohanGirl7711-