Disclaimer: Damn, I still don't own dragonball z, life is not fair.

How great it is to be loved by you!

By: pic's pixie

Chapter 17: You two are a couple?!

Vicki was awakened in the night by Gohan who was talking and thrashing about in his sleep. She didn't know what she should do, so she just held him close and stroked the sides of his face.

Gohan was dreaming the same dream again about those two figures that were walking away, he didn't want them to go, he had a strong feeling that it would be a bad thing if they left, if either left. Gohan didn't know why he said what he did but he had shouted 'I love you' in hopes that they would stay. They stopped moving and turned to face him, only this time their faces were no longer in shadow, Gohan could clearly see who they were. His eyes widened from shock, the smaller of the two was Vicki and the larger one was Piccolo. They just stood there starring at him. Waiting for something. Gohan opened his mouth to say something but was cut off with a flurry of questions, the voices sounded far away and were short and cut off. 'Who?' 'Which one?' 'Him' 'or her' 'Tell us' 'Who do you love?' Gohan normally would have answered saying that he loved Vicki but here he felt just as much a bond to Piccolo as to Vicki, as if they were the same. He felt just as much respect for Vicki as he felt for Piccolo and strangely he also felt just as much love and attraction towards Piccolo as to Vicki. They were asking him to choose, and he couldn't. Suddenly the sky lit up and the two figures became one, but was yet again in shadow. Then they disappeared as soon as the sky darkened. Gohan was all alone. He began to scream for someone, but he couldn't hear his own voice. Gohan was feeling huge amounts of regret, sympathy, and heartbreak. He then noticed that his face was wet. He was crying.

Outside the dream Piccolo was getting increasingly worried, Gohan's thrashing and yelling had stopped but now he was crying. She rocked the boy back and forth in her embrace trying to comfort him. Then she remembered what took Gohan out of his dream before. She thought for a moment then started to sing. The same song she did last time. It seemed to work too. Gohan's face relaxed slightly and his breathing became less erratic.

Gohan was on his knees balling his eyes out when he heard a familiar tune, then Vicki came back dressed in the same dress she wore at the beginning of the last dream ,she floated down to where he was and wrapped her arms around his shaking form while singing their song(whole again). Vicki had taken him into her embrace and was rocking him gently.

Then he opened his eyes and found himself back in the cave, he was also being rocked like in his dream by Vicki, but she wasn't dressed in the dress, she was nude, which Gohan didn't mind.

Vicki had finished the song when Gohan opened his eyes. She then curled up into his arms and soon fell asleep to the sound of his heart beating. Gohan stayed awake for a while longer thinking about his dream, but eventually he fell into a dreamless sleep as well.

It was now morning when the two awoke for the day. Vicki and Gohan had climbed out of the cave, found their clothing which had dried over night and had gotten dressed.

"So what are we going to tell them now?" Gohan wondered out load and then slapped a hand over his mouth once he remembered what happened last time he brought up telling the others. Vicki saw his alarm and smiled to comfort him.

"We tell them."

"What?! I thought you didn't want to tell them. And I don't think we should tell them what we were up to last night." Gohan said blushing.

"Of course not, I just meant we can tell them about us." Piccolo had decided to just sit back and enjoy being with Gohan for as long as he could before they had to separate again.

Gohan smiled at her, and continued to get dressed.

"Oh shit!" Gohan shouted ,scaring Vicki half to death.

"What! What is it?" Vicki asked looking around expecting to see some wild animal like a wolf ,a bear or worse yet Chichi.

"I hope Piccolo doesn't find out what we did in his training ground, this is the waterfall Piccolo spends most of his time at." Gohan was imagining Piccolo coming by the waterfall last night when they were at it and wondering what the noises were and fainting when he saw them.

Vicki just sweat dropped and inwardly chuckled.

Vicki and Gohan finally finished and flew off home. Back at Capsule Corp. Bulma, Chichi, and Videl were all pacing the living room, while Goku, and Vegeta sat on the sofa. They were waiting for Gohan and Vicki to return. Chichi had returned home and found that Gohan didn't come back there so she went back to Bulma's. They had been fighting the urge to call the police while Vegeta was telling them not to. The door opened and everyone's head turned.

"Hey ,we're back, anyone miss us!" Vicki yelled sarcastically not expecting to be dragged into the living room by Bulma and Chichi. Gohan and Vicki were now standing cautiously in the middle between all three angry looking women.

"Where the hell were you two?!" Yelled Bulma.

"Do you know how worried you guys made us?!" Chichi screamed.

"Why did you leave like that?!" Added Videl.

Gohan and Vicki were bombarded with questions for a while before they were even given a chance to explain themselves.

"Sorry for worrying you guys, we didn't mean to." Gohan said shyly.

"We just needed some alone time ,that's all." Vicki stated looking around for someone to believe her.

"Alone time! What do you mean?" Chichi glared at her, saying 'if-you-did-anything-to-my-precious-little-baby-I'll-murder-you-and-make-it-look-like-an-accident' with her eyes.

"Ummm....well you see, ummm..." Vicki had made up her mind and decided to tell them about her and Gohan but when it came to actually doing it, she was tongue tied.

"What she means, we mean. Is that we like each other and we wanted to be alone." Gohan entered the conversation with impeccable timing. Everyone's but Vegeta's eyes bulged out of their skull and they all fell to the floor. After much explaining and pleading Chichi was no longer muttering 'but, but, but...' and starring out into nothing.

"So you two are a couple?" Goku asked trying to get everything clear.

"Yeah, I guess we are." Gohan smiled and held Vicki's hand. Vicki smiled back and gave it a light squeeze.

"How long?" Videl asked, kinda bummed that her suspicions were right and that Gohan was no longer hers.

"I dunno, a couple days I guess." Gohan mumbled while using his fingers to count.

"To tell you the truth I think I liked you the first day I met you." Vicki said while blushing.

"Really? Me too." Gohan exclaimed excitedly.

Vegeta knew just how long ago Vicki was actually talking. After it seemed that everyone was excepting the fact and Gohan and his family were going to leave, Vicki went to the kitchen to get some more cookies, Goku had eaten them all. She opened the cupboard and stood on her tippy-toes to reach the box. She finally grasped it and turned around to be surprised with a smirking Saiyan Prince leaning against the door frame.

"What do you want Vegg?" Vicki stated firmly while trying not to make eye contact, she just went about her business, placing the cookies on the plate in a circular design.

"Sooo, ever since you first met him?" Vegeta quizzed.

"Well ,not the first time. He was just a little kid, it's not like I'm a pedophile or anything like that. But I grew attached to him." Vicki explained while smiling, whenever she thought about Gohan she felt all warm and fuzzy inside.

"Do you love him?" Vegeta asked.

Vicki paused for a moment then turned towards him smiling broadly.

"Yes." Was the only answer he received.

"Good. I was starting to pity you all alone up on the lookout. I thought you'd die a virgin." Vegeta commented before snatching half the cookies off the plate and shoving them in his mouth.

"Argh!" She yelled then threw another cookie at his head. He turned around and grabbed it when it was mere centimetres from his face, making Vicki even more pissed off.

She cooled down then replaced the cookies and headed back out to the living room. She was basically attacked by Goku ,Goten and Trunks as they saw the food, she was left with a face vault and an empty plate which she just set down on the coffee table.

"You're leaving?" Vicki asked sadly seeing Gohan and his family gather all their things.

"Yes. You can't expect us to give up all our time with Gohan just for you." Chichi snobbishly stated, still annoyed that Gohan was no longer her baby boy.

"Mom!" Gohan fussed. Surprised by his mother's rude behaviour.

"It's okay Gohan." Vicki piped in.

"Well I'll see you as soon as I can okay." Gohan practically whimpered realising that he would have to part with her for the time being. Gohan also had pulled her closer to him by her crossed arms and had a big lip and cuddling her close. Vicki leaned into him while he kissed her on the forehead then realised where they were and pulled away quickly blushing like mad. Gohan was also blushing he forgot about them. They all said their good byes and waved. Then the door was closed and a new world opened for both of them.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? IT'S GOHAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Bulma screamed.

Vegeta just winced at the high pitched sound and they bowed their heads.

"Will you shut up woman? Girly had a good enough reason." Vegeta commented while almost running out of the room.

"Really? What could that be?" She looked at Vicki expecting something good.

"Well I, I ,I..um...I love him!" Vicki almost screamed, hating to be singled out like that.

"What?! You can't be serious." Bulma looked sick.

"I don't know, he was just so wonderful, and now that I'm a girl I think I've just realised my feelings for him, I think I liked him a long time before now." Vicki explained. It took more convincing so Bulma and Vicki stayed up rather late doing 'girl talk.'

"So, when did you know that you loved him?" Bulma asked like she was a giddy school girl again.

"I kinda always knew, but I just realised it for sure a month ago."

"So have you and Gohan, you know....." Bulma gave Vicki a certain suggestive look. Vicki blushed.

"Bulma you shouldn't be asking that." Vicki avoided.

"Oh that's no comment that means yes." Bulma squealed.

"What? No fair." Vicki defended.

"So I don't mean to pry but how was it?" Bulma was sitting on her feet on the sofa in her pjs. Vicki was on the other side of the sofa in a light blue night gown ,between them sat a big bowl of almost no more popcorn. It was around midnight now.

"It was good." Vicki was totally embarrassed.

"Just good?" Bulma asked.

"I don't really feel comfortable about talking about this with yo.." Vicki was cut off.

"I knew it he was more than good. You answered that by your body language and tone of voice. Once you get used to being a girl you'll probably acquire the knack as well." Bulma said knowingly.

Vicki's facial expression saddened and Bulma was puzzled.

"What's wrong?" Bulma asked.

"It's just that. Now that I know I love Gohan and he loves me I don't know if I could go back to being 'Piccolo' again. And leave him."

"You should tell Gohan."

"WHAT!? Are you insane? He would kill me." Vicki painted a mental image of Gohan strangling her.

"If he loves you, he won't care. If you truly are meant for each other he'll except you."

"You really think he'll except this, me." Vicki quizzed while keeping her face in shadow.

"There's only one way to make sure." Vicki looked up to see Bulma smile then get up and stretch.

"I'm going to bed. See you in the morning." Bulma yawned and started to walk away.

"Yeah, goodnight, say goodnight to Veghead too will ya?" Bulma nodded and Vicki chuckled.

Vicki then realised how tired she was as well and made her way up to bed. She didn't know what she was going to do, but she didn't have the strength to continue her debate right then, so she drifted off to sleep.

Gohan had also heard an earful from his mother about how he wasn't her innocent little baby anymore, and that Vicki was a bad influence. He drowned most of her ranting out by mentally singing his and Vicki's song. Finally she was finished and he escaped to his room, and dumped himself down ontop of his bed. Gohan had stripped himself of all his clothes, he had gotten used to sleeping in the buff, except he was still missing something, Vicki. As Gohan lay awake on his bed he was thinking of Vicki then her vision reminded Gohan of his dream. It was strange. In his dreams Vicki was always there and so was someone unexpected, Piccolo. Piccolo was always there, if he and Vicki were intimate Piccolo was there, if nothing was happening ,Piccolo was there. Where ever Vicki was, Piccolo was, like a shadow of some kind. Other aspects of his dreams that worried him were ones where he was intimate with both Vicki and Piccolo. It puzzled him that being with Piccolo in that way had not affected how the dream affected him. He would still awake painfully aroused. Gohan started to think about this more closely. He hadn't seen Piccolo in months, he was really worried. What if something had happened to Piccolo and he wasn't around to help him? How could he live with himself if that were true? Piccolo was a very important part in Gohan's life, he was his sensei, his friend, and someone he held with high respect in his heart. Piccolo had always been there for him, when he was just a boy and Piccolo gave his life for his, when he helped Gohan escape from the Spice boys in the Garlic Junior incident, etc. He had always been there when he needed him the most, but not now. He wanted Vicki to meet Piccolo and vice versa. Then Gohan started to worry about Piccolo's roles in his dreams. In his dreams him and Piccolo were very close, physically. They would be making out, having sex, the works, and strangely it didn't seem to bother Gohan in the least. /What is wrong with me?/ Gohan was going mad he knew if he didn't find some answers soon he would go insane. And on top of that Vicki had been very upset and clarified that she would have to leave in a few months. Gohan was deeply troubled by this, he couldn't live without her, so he somewhat decided that he would go with her when she left, even if it did mean leaving home, it's not like he would be leaving the planet. Gohan let his troubled mind rest when he felt the faint tug of sleep and that's exactly what he did.