Hehe… Long time no update…. BUT I HAVE A GOOD REASON! You so I have a bad case of L-A-Z-Y. I had like no time or effort to update. I posted q few more chapters up. But I don't want a set number of reviews before I update again. I know I said I had the story finished, but I rewrote a lot of things, and I'm not quite finished yet. So bear with my serious illness and keep reading! Thank for all those reviews I did get though! I appreciate everyone!

Chapter 3: A fateful event.

"Um… Pan… My name's Pan…" Pan cried softly. Gohan's eyes widened, and tears were threatening to fall, as did Videl's.

"PAN?!" Videl cried, taking her daughter. Pan looked confused. Gohan hugged her as well.

"Oh my Kami! I though I never would see you again!" Videl cried harder. Pan was shocked… Were these people her parents?!

"We didn't want to give you up! We had to, we couldn't have taken care of you. I love you Pan!" Videl cried. Pan's eyes widen, and she cried harder, pushing her mother away and running out of the kitchen. Gohan and Videl stood there, dumbfounded.

"What have we done?" Gohan asked his wife.

Pan ran all the home crying. She couldn't believe what just happened. Her father and mother just walking in one day. Into her life. She was somewhat embarrassed. She looked at herself in a broken mirror. She cried for a while before fall asleep.

Trunks was sent to find Pan. Vegeta, Gohan and Videl followed her ki. She was close by.

Trunks stopped at the old abandoned apartment building.

"I really hope she's in there." He said out loud. He went inside to where her ki was

He knocked on the door, but no answer. He opened the door, only to see her laying on an old mattress. She was shaking from being cold.

Trunks walked over to the bed, sat down next to her.

"I'm so sorry Pan-chan, but I have to get you out of here to some place safe and warm. Not this dump…" He whispered into her ear.

"I'm not going anywhere. This is my home, and it's the best one I've had…" She said above a whisper. Trunks looked around shocked. It was then the other busted into the room.

"Where is she?" Gohan yelled before looking around, "oh god, she's living here…" Videl gasped at the living conditions. The smell was horrible. It was dark and cold. The mattress she was sleeping on had holes in it and was covered by mud, and only Kami knows what else.

"What's so bad about my home?" Pan asked, still not looking at anyone.

"It's unfit for a dog to live in, let alone any human!" Trunks gasped. She cried at those words.

"Actually, I have no where else to go. So I've been squatting here for a little over a year…" Pan cried.

"Well, now you do… You're coming home with us, so we can explain everything. Pan Son, I'm sorry we gave you up, but we had no choice. You would have not been able to live the life you deserved!" Gohan told his daughter. Pan cried again.

"You think I deserve this life then? A life all alone, no one to care, no one to love and love me back? To get beaten and raped by every man you ever knew!" She cried louder. Gohan started crying now.

"Pan, please give us a chance! At least stay with us for Thanksgiving!" Videl cried, sitting next to Pan. Pan looked up with sadness, lost, and emptiness in her eyes. Videl hugged her.

"After we got back on our feet, we tried looking for you everywhere, but the foster care system had lost all of your records. So we were forced to give up…" Videl cried. Pan cried into her mother's shoulder for the first time.

"Ok, I'll go, but only for a little while…" She managed to say between breathes. Videl looked at her and smiled, still crying. Gohan ran to them and hugged them.

"Let's go home. Like a real family should." He smiled through a tear streaked face. Pan smiled and nodded. She was finally with her family.

"Pan, sweety, can you come here? Someone is here to visit you!" Videl called out towards Pan's room. Pan sighed and came out. She had only cried a few times since Thanksgiving. Only after she had those Kami- awful nightmares about her past. She went down stairs.

"Hey there Pan-chan!" Trunks smiled. Pan smiled a little.

"Hey Trunks…" She said just above a whisper. He smiled again.

"I wondering if I could take you out to eat?" He asked her and her parents. Pan's eyes lit up. She had never been out to eat before!

"It's ok with us. But only if Pan wants to go." Videl smiled. Pan nodded.

"Ok then. You choose! I don't care about the price!" Trunks smiled. Pan siled a little more than ever before.

"I've always wanted to go to that restaurant downtown. You know the fancy one…" She told him, looking at him.

"Then that's where we'll go!" He smiled, holding out his hand. Pan took it and they went out.