I am back from a wonderful vacation / honeymoon with my wife! And a big thanks to all my reviewers! I am glad to see that I am still R&Red (as usual, the Review answers are at the bottom); now, without much further ado on with the story!
Note: Due to some 'improvements' ff.net has obviously made during my vacation all my story formatings have gone to HFIL. Additionally text is marked as fat I never marked this way. Until the problem is solved you'll have to live with those formatings. AND, apparently ff.net has disabled the use of special characters in the documents, for I can't use the signs I used for telepathy / thoughts any more. That also goes for smiles, sadly. If anyone has an idea how these new rules work and why those special characters can't be used any more (or if they can), please tell me in the reviews.Now these means telepathy / thoughts
Gohan and Videl: A sweet surprise
Chapter Five: Where it all began
Last time...
The same architect that had once built the Satan mansion was hired and promised to plan it out fast. As only slight modifications to the original blueprints had to be made, this promise could be kept quite easy.
Due to their good experiences with the construction company, that had once built the Satan mansion back then, the Fastbuilders Inc., aforementioned company was being hired again.
They said that it would take three month until the ready to use handing over. Gohan and Videl were glad to hear that.
Hercule offered them to stay at the Satan mansion during that time, and the young couple took that offer thankfully. After all, the Son residence would have been too small...
Unfortunately for poor Gohan Bulma told him that the moods of the woman he loved would shift faster than that of a woman with the worst form of PMS in the upcoming months.Poor Hercule had never experienced this himself until now...
But due to the fact that Gohan and Videl would stay for at least three months this could change rather quickly, for Gohan and Videl would be living at the Satan mansion for at least three months....
Now the continuation...The barbecue at the Briefs residence was still in progress and the young parents-to-be enjoyed it to the fullest. Not that they had not had good food at their hut in which they had spent their honeymoon (Gohan had made sure that there would be enough food for both of them), but it felt very good to eat some nice food other people had prepared and cooked (or rather grilled) for one.
Videl ate, now that she knew that she was expecting, like she would be eating for two, although the little one was barely noticeable.
But Gohan just smiled at this already increased appetite and let his wife have her way. Saiyans were in any event of the opinion that food had to be done way of wherever it could be found...
After they had eaten and drunk enough, Gohan and Videl decided to take a walk through the Briefs residences' vast grounds and said a 'Till later' to the others.
They walked together hand in hand, and both felt pride in what they had created. Gohan and Videl had harsh difficulties to grasp the reality that already new life was growing inside of Videl. But they could sense it, and they paused so that Gohan could stroke Videls belly.Videl smiled at this display of affection, and her glittering eyes invited Gohan to do some romantic things. His lips glided on hers and locked into a passionate kiss, and this kiss expressed all the love Gohan felt for his wife. He knew that this love was eternal, and he would never stop loving her.
He did not know how he would react if Videl should die some day (the question was not if, but when), but Gohan displaced this thought into the farthest corner of his mind. Right now nothing else mattered but his beautiful wife and the growing life in her...
After they broke the kiss they walked closely twined through the park-like area that was the Briefs garden, and coincidentally their way lead them to the domed launch bays were all of this had begun.A smile crept onto Gohans face, and he looked at his wife with glittering eyes.
"Wanna go to where all of this started or rather turned for the best, my love?" he asked.
Videl mirrored the smile that was playing in Gohans face.
"I would love to..."
Gohan wrapped his hand around Videls hip and Videl did the same with Gohans, and thus they entered the domed launch bays where Videl had found Gohan after he had disappeared when they had celebrated Majin Buus defeat. Yeah, she remembered it like it had been yesterday...
FlashbackHer curiosity, one of her mainsprings, had again gotten the better of her, and she had entered this strange looking ship that parked in the hangar. As she was as curios as Gohan she started to explore the ship too. But unlike Gohan she started with the largest room and found.... Gohan!
She remembered it all too well. He had sensed her rather late, for he had been deeply lost in thoughts. But obviously her presence had brought him back to reality. He had sat up and looked at her.
She had looked him directly into the eyes and had asked
„Gohan! What are you DOING here?"
Gohan had looked at her like she had been an alien from outer space.
„Vi... Vid... Videl!" he had stammered, lost for words.
She remembered she had answered quite sarcastically.„I know my name, thank you! So what are you DOING here? I have been looking for you everywhere!" she had exclaimed.
Well, the otherwise very intelligent Gohan had been lost for words back then, as he had not been able to explain rationally why he had been there, away from the others.
He had stammered something like
„Umm... I.... actually....".
She had walked over towards Gohan and had sat down right beneath him. She had taken her chances and had taken his hands into hers.
„Hey Gohan," she had said in her most caring voice, „you know that I care a lot for you. You can tell me everything. Regardless how ridiculous it may sound to you."
She rememebered how Gohan had looked at her after he had taken in a deep breath.
„Okay, I'm gonna tell you. I wanted to be away from all the festivities. I don't wanna celebrate cause I HAVE nothing to celebrate. Every time I see the others and especially YOU, I am reminded of my failures. My incapacities." he had said.
That had surprised her greatly..
„Your failures? Gohan, you are not making sense."
Gohan had looked her directly into the eyes.
„Don't you understand? Because of me Kid Buu was able to destroy the Earth! Had I done way of Majin Buu before he transformed into Kid Buu that would never have happened! I let everyone down! Again!" he had said toneless.
End Flashback
Yeah, that had been what had devoured Gohan slowly. He had told her all about the Cell Games and how he had saved the world, but his dad had died. And he had thought it had all been his fault.The guilt her Gohan had been feeling had ran very deep, and she had had a very hard time to convince him that he had not been the one responsible for all this.
But she had managed to do so, and inwardly she was very proud of this personal achievement. During this talk she had been able to help the real Gohan free himself from his boundaries of guilt...
And after he had been able to let go of his sense of guilt Gohan had been able to express the love he felt (and which he had felt right from the start) properly to her.
After he had confessed his real feelings to her (before they had been something like boyfriend and girlfriend with occasional kissing) he had asked her in the most romantic speech she had ever heard if she wanted to marry him.
Well, her answer was obvious, otherwise she would not be standing right here and now, carrying out the child of the man she loved more than anything else in the whole universe and all times...
Hand in hand they stepped into the domed launch bays, and there, at the same spot it had stood back then stood the strange looking space ship Bulma had developed for space research.Gohan looked at Videl and smiled, and she mirrored his smile.
"That is where it all begun..." he said, and squeezed the hand of his wife in affection, but at the same time carefully not to apply to much pressure. He knew how strong he was, and the lest that he wanted was to hurt his wife.
It had been very difficult to cause her pain during their first time together, and luckily this pain had not lasted long and had turned into a most wonderful experience.He was happy that they had shared this wonderful experience together, and glad that he had always waited for the right woman.
You're the one for me and always will... he thought before kissing her passionately. Videl returned the kiss with the same passion, and their kiss lasted for an eternity. Time and space were forgotten, all that counted was them...
They broke the kiss after some minutes to take in very much needed air, and both had a dreamy smile on their faces. Gohan and Videl stood opposite, and Gohan hugged her carefully and raised her high into the air.
Videl expressed her delight with a cry of joy, and Gohan smiled. That was his wife, and she was delighted because of something he did. Sometimes he had still difficulties to grasp that it all was true. It felt like a fairy tale...
He let Videl down on her own feet again and gave her another fond kiss. He could simply not get enough of her and never would...Videl smiled at him after they had to break the kiss to breathe again.
"I love you, Mr. Son." she said.
Gohan mirrored her expression.
"And I love you, Mrs. Son. Thank you for being my wife and thank you for this wonderful child we're going to have..." he said and kissed her with all the love and passion that resided in his heart.
Life was wonderful...
to be continued...°° Videl and Gohan found finally some time for themselves, and at the very place it all began. Next time the young couple will have time to themselves and they begin thinking about names. So stay tuned! And R&R please! °°
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REVIEWERS
RESPONSES:
SKC-ANIME-LOVER: Glad you liked it! Here's the update!
Tootsy: Thank you for this long and really helpful
and informative review! Pregnancies are a really complex process, and as my
wife has not been pregnant yet I've really no idea about it. I am glad that I
can ask someone who knows! Big thanks! All these information and the
experiences you've made will surely help me big time. If I've any more
questions (and that will surely be the case) I'll ask them. And besides: your
English is good!
meteor9:
In this story Videl has a power-level of 700 (due to training with Gohan); I
included those power-levels in Chapter 2 to show the difference between Saiyan
and normal human power-levels. Glad that you liked the chappie, I do my best to
keep it up!
kaibygirl: Thank you for the
praise, I always try to make the chappies as good as I can. I like to think I
manage to do so well.
SonJanusX: Yeah, Hercule torture is one
of my favs, heh. Lets see what her mood swings will do to 'poor' Hercule...
Smiley:
Thank you! And here is the update...
GOGI:
Good suggestion, thanks!
The
Original Diamond: I thought it an interesting situation, and as Gohan and Videl
were to preoccupied with other things... anyways, it was fun to write it, and I
am glad that you liked it! Doing my best to keep it up!
Intuectual idiot: Yeah, I've heard those
mood-swings are no piece of cake, so Gohan (and Hercule) better be careful, heh heh. As for the stories: This
story is the sequel to 'Our Beginning', and 'The greatest challenge yet' takes
place after GT (to rectify its mistakes). And thanks for the suggestions,
I think Hercule is in for some torture in the next time...
Marshmellow13Dragon:
Good suggestions! And Videl running around with a frying pan and torturing her
surroundings does not sound bad, heh. I think I will
have Chi-Chi give her one -
animeprincess1452:
Mood swings are never good (I hate it when my wife gets them, I speak from
personal experience), but what these mood swings of Videls' will do to Hercule
and Gohan remains to be seen...
Dooleys: Thanks, I am doing my best.
And I had a very good honeymoon (and vacation) and am newly motivated!
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