"Sire, Prince Frieza is here to see you." One of Kold's servants announced from the doorway of the room.
"Ah, good." Kold replied as stood with his hands behind his back staring out of the tall glass door that led to a balcony at the back of the room. "Bring him in."
"Sire." The servant bowed, and moved aside to allow Frieza to enter.
"You said you wanted to see me, father…" Frieza began.
"Yes, I did." Kold turned to face him. He looked at the servant. "Dismissed." The servant bowed again, and left the room. Kold moved his eyes to Frieza. "Have a seat."
"…" silently, Frieza obeyed his father's command and sat down on one of the chairs that were placed along the walls of the room.
"Now…" Kold looked at his son. "Am I to be expecting a grandchild in the near future?"
"… Not yet." Frieza answered quietly.
"Really?" Kold was extremely angered at this, but managed to hold back his anger and remain calm. "After the two of you swore you would have sex last night?"
"We did – but…" Frieza reddened, and looked at the ground. "It was just Vegeta, who…" his face darkened. "I didn't plant any sperm in him."
"So you're saying you had sex for pleasure? With no intention of having a child?" Kold asked.
"… Yes."
"I see…" what did this mean? Why would Frieza do that if it wasn't going to give him a child? Oh no… that fool! "You've fallen in love with him, haven't you?"
"What!" Frieza gasped. "N-No father! I haven't, I swear!"
"Frieza…" Kold approached his son. "Don't you remember that little talk we had…?"
"Yes…" Frieza thought back to a few days before his and Vegeta's marriage, when Kold had made it quite clear that if Frieza ever fell in love with the saiyan prince, both of them would be killed.
"Well then…" Kold stood over his son, casting a shadow over the smaller changeling. "Why do you insist on… disobeying me!" he roared the last part of his sentence and threw out his mighty hand to grab Frieza by the throat and hold him up so that the prince's eyes were level with his. "Now tell me this." Kold snarled. "While you were 'making love' to this pathetic excuse for an animal, did you remove all of your clothes?"
"I – I…" Frieza choked. Kold was strangling him that very second, but the prince was also too petrified to talk properly. "I…"
"Frieza." Kold growled. "Did you?"
"… Yes." Frieza answered. "Father –"
"You stupid boy!" Kold threw Frieza to the floor. "What are you trying to do! Do you think he won't tell him father what he saw!"
"He promised he wouldn't say –"
"Oh he promised, did he! I suppose that means he'll take it to the grave with him!" Kold shouted. "You idiot, he lied to you! If he tells his father do you know what will happen!"
"Father –"
"If he tells his father, King Vegeta will become afraid. He'll get you two divorced, and then you won't have an heir and you won't have Planet Vegeta! And do you know what else will happen if it goes any further than those two saiyans! If our race hears about this, I'll be ruined! My own people will turn against me if they find out about this!"
"They won't!" Frieza protested.
"And how do you know that?" Kold glared at him. "How do you know that!" he picked Frieza up and threw him into the wall, and went to pick him up again to punch him.
"Father!" Frieza cried out. "Don't! Please!"
"Oh, you don't want me to?" Kold hissed. "You don't want me to break every bone in your pathetic, useless little body?"
"Please…" Frieza begged.
"Alright…" Kold looked at him. "I suppose I can spare you." He dropped Frieza, making him land hard on the floor. "But…" he knelt down to look at his son. "If I find out that monkey has told his father all about your little birthmarks, your life won't be worth saving. Understand?"
"Yes father…" Frieza mumbled shakily.
"Good boy." Kold smirked, and left the room.
Frieza waited until Kold's footsteps had completely died down and he could no longer feel his ki, and sat up. He was more than relieved that Kold had been so light on him, but the fear was still there. Would Vegeta really tell King Vegeta what he saw…?
"No." Frieza shook his head. "Impossible. He wouldn't dare."
– – – Planet Vegeta – – –
"I'm not lying!" Vegeta protested. "Father, I was right! Kold is abusing Frieza, he had scars all over him and wounds that can only be a day or two old!"
"…" King Vegeta stood there listening to his son. "Vegeta, if this is a lie to try to get you a divorce –"
"It isn't!" Vegeta promised. "I swear on my life it is no lie, father. I saw those injuries with my own eyes! Kold is attacking him!
"I see…" the saiyan king mused. "Alright, fine. I'll do something about it."
"You'll kill Kold and rescue Frieza!" the prince's face lit up.
"What? Why would I do that?" King Vegeta looked at him. "I couldn't care less about what happens to Frieza, why would I waste my saiyan army trying to protect somebody else's son?"
"Then what are you going to do?" Vegeta asked.
"Get you divorced." King Vegeta told him. "Tomorrow, at the very latest."