When the cell-phone rang for the third time, Videl abandoned her attempts to ignore it. Reaching under the soft blanket she pulled her mobile out from her pocket, and pressed 'yes'.
"Videl," she grunted into the speaker.
"Hey Videl, it's Erasa! Where on earth are you? I checked the news, there really is nothing going on! If you're skipping school, why didn't you tell me? Why am I here?" her best friend ranted.
Videl grunted something even she couldn't make out.
"Oh, okay." Erasa replied.
"Huh?"
"Well, it's okay if you overslept," Erasa clarified, "Wow, you must have been knock-out if Patrick couldn't get you out… He's pretty good at that, isn't he? Well, usually."
Slowly it dawned on Videl that, though she indeed was no vampire, this was not her bed. And their butler Patrick never showed in the first place, she could tell. There was no distinctive smell of tea.
"Patrick never showed," she commented.
"Really? Is he sick?"
Videl worked her memory to its limits, early as it was.
"No," she slowly started, "I'm not at home…"
No one spoke for a period of time.
Finally, Erasa gasped: "I knew it!"
"Huh?"
"I knew it all along!" her friend continued, not caring to specify what, "I knew it the MOMENT I noticed both you AND Gohan were missing!"
Videl rubbed her eyes, suppressing a yawn at the same time.
"Knew WHAT, 'rase?"
"… You! And Gohan! Together!"
"Yes…" Videl said testily.
Then she noticed the implications Erasa had made.
"NO! God no! Gross!"
"… No!"
"No! Listen, I know what it looks like, but it's NOT THAT, okay? It's NOT! We sorta… We sorta got stuck in outer space together…"
"How sweet!" cooed Erasa.
"No, it's not! It's terrible! I had to spend all day in the bloody BATHTUB!" Videl exclaimed furiously.
"Aww! That's so romantic! Did you have champagne?"
"… No. I had clothes on and no water."
"Oh. So you two didn't…?"
"No!" Videl shouted.
"Shame. So where are you? Vegas?"
Videl frowned, even though Erasa couldn't see.
"Like I said, we're stuck in outer space together."
"… Yeah… I heard it was nice in Australia…"
"We're not in Australia, 'rase." Videl remarked, "Bulma accidentally locked us into a space pod, and then Vegeta not so accidentally blasted us into outer space. I think we're leaving the Milky Way right about now."
"Really…" Erasa said, clearly not believing a single word.
"Really! Anyway, I think Gohan is still asleep… He's been in the bathroom all night."
"Huh? I thought you said you were there all DAY?"
"Yeah, that's true. And then I left. Now he locked himself in there."
"What? That can't be good for your social skills…"
"So?" Videl commented, "I did it too, you know."
"… Why would you do THAT with a hunk like GOHAN on the other side of the door?"
Yes… Why would she do that? There was no shame in her jumping Gohan, none at all… After all, if she did, it wasn't her fault! She was drugged! She was completely irresponsible for her actions…
But she'd still know, right? She'd know how she snapped and lost control over herself… How could she live with herself knowing she couldn't even control her lust, let alone her love…?
Besides, Gohan would know, too. Things would never be the same again if she did anything with him, even if it were but a small kiss.
Hang on.
Why would she need to control her love? She didn't love Gohan. At all. She just had some weird chemical injected in her that made her… Well… That.
"Well, don't let me spoil your fun!" Erasa continued, "It's great you're finally together!"
Videl blinked.
"Excuse me?"
"Well, I know you think I want Gohan for myself, but… You can have him! I'll just take… Um… I don't know, how's Jim sound? I should find me someone who's name is Jim…" Erasa added as a mental note.
"Erasa! It's not like that! We're stuck in outer space!"
"Uh-oh!" Erasa whispered through the phone.
"What?"
"The professor is here, I've got to go! Have fun tonight!"
"Yeah, thanks, see you…" Videl said, "Wait, have fun tonight? I told you, it's not like that!"
Erasa giggled.
"You're too easy… Bye!"
She hung up.
…
Right…
So…
Maybe it was time she woke up…
Well… She could just close her eyes a little bit…
Or not.
Making a decision, she jumped out of bed, automatically waking herself in the process.
"Breakfast time!" she exclaimed, marching off to the kitchen.
After trying a few capsules, she discovered that the yellow capsules most resembled a normal breakfast. None the less, she settled for an orange capsule, which contained a luxurious English Breakfast.
Rich scents tiptoed out of the kitchen.
Silently they flew across the training room.
One by one, the wonderful scents crawled under the door to the bathroom.
There, on the floor, they ran across a knock-out Gohan.
Though the scent of sausage attempted to knock on his head to wake him up, most of the others found themselves a nice spot to tickle.
Without properly waking him up, Gohan's saiyan senses urged him to stand up.
The scent of grey tea got scared and tightly clung on to his nose in order not to fall, but most of the other scents had the sense to fly.
Except for the scent of grey tea, all the scents dangled temptingly in front of Gohan, guiding him out of the bathroom and to the origin of these delicious scents.
Gathering himself, the scent of the grey tea came to the idea to float around the lock, before Gohan would bust through the door.
Somehow, this actually guided him to unlock the door before walking on.
… And he opened it, too.
"Huh?" Videl said, seeing him coming with his eyes closed.
Gohan made a sound that might have been mumbling, and kept walking.
"Wha- what are you doing?" she asked, suppressing the urge to grab all the food she could and take a run for it.
Gohan made another sound. Videl was pretty certain it was a grunt this time.
Stepping up to the table, the first thing he did was drain the teapot. Next, he shoved the entire plate of bacon and eggs into his mouth (minus the plate).
"Hey!" Videl exclaimed, the toast and sausages disappearing before her eyes.
While she stood up to angrily shove him away from the last of her food, he ate the last of it.
"Gohan, you jerk! That was my breakfast!" she shouted at him.
His stomach rumbled.
Furiously she blindly grabbed a handful of capsules from the closet, intending to lock herself in the bathroom again to eat in peace.
"Food," Gohan said, registering the capsules as 'containing food'.
"My food!" yelled Videl, marching off with it.
Gohan grabbed her arm…
"Let me GO!" … and was rewarded with a well-planted elbow in his nearlyempty stomach, little as he felt it.
He snorted, turned her around roughly, and attempted to pin her to the wall. Considering they were in the middle of the room, it was sort of logical they crashed, resulting in Videl pinned to the floor rather than the wall.
Both parties took their time to catch their breaths.
Videl, in particular, had some trouble doing this. Gohan's weight pressed down on her rather comfortably.
UN-comfortably!
Mentally she slapped herself.
Finally regaining control of her breathing and herself, she noticed Gohan was heaving as heavily as before.
"… Gohan," she said, trying to sound serious, "Get off."
Subtly she hid her hand with the capsules behind her head.
Apparently not subtly enough, for Gohan found the time to deeply inhale their scent.
Videl herself couldn't smell anything from the capsules, but, well, his saiyan nose was probably more skilled at this sort of thing.
"Divine," he commented.
Despite the roaring feeling in her lower abdomen, Videl was getting scared. This was, after all, a full-grown saiyan, and she was, after all, no longer an ass-kicking vampire.
Hang on.
She could still bite him.
And it would still hurt as hell, wouldn't it?
She was just opening her mouth to snap at his jugular, when she suddenly remembered a very strange conversation she once had with the saiyan prince Vegeta…
"Girl! Did he bite you yet?" Vegeta barked at Videl.
"My name is VIDEL!" she barked back.
Naturally Vegeta was not convinced, seeing how often he'd been through THAT with Woman.
"Did he?"
"What the HELL are you talking about?" Videl yelled, still trying to pick a fight.
"No then," Vegeta shrugged, turned around, and he walked off.
"Wait!" she called, oblivious to Vegeta's large grin as his back still faced her, "What do you mean?"
"The women didn't tell you?" Vegeta teased, turning around with his serious face back on.
"No…"
"When mommy and daddy love each other really much…" he started.
Videl punched his shoulder in mock anger.
"I meant the biting, you idiot!"
"Ah!" Vegeta exclaimed, clearly enjoying this temporary power over Girl, "When mommy SAIYAN and daddy SAIYAN love each other really much, they bite each other in the neck."
Videl raised an eyebrow.
"You people are vampires?" she asked sarcastically.
"No, we don't drink the –"
Vegeta paused.
"Yes, we DO drink the blood, but no vampires, no. It's a bonding thing."
"Right…" Videl said slowly, "And then suddenly mommy has a baby…"
Vegeta snorted.
"Seriously, Girl, you don't really think you can get pregnant from just BITING? Think of it as… marriage."
Well then. If biting meant MARRYING, Videl was most definitely NOT biting Gohan.
Gohan lay down his head on her chest, getting much more comfortable than Videl would have liked… At that moment, anyway.
"Hey Gohan," she said temptingly, and she opened and threw a capsule, "Look! Food!"
Gohan didn't respond.
Videl decided to throw another.
"See? Delicious food, right there!"
Gohan still didn't so much as flinch, except maybe for his chest that steadily went up and down.
"Gohan…" she said, extending the 'han'.
In response, Gohan snored.
…
"Oh, CRAP!"
A/N: Hah! After about two months of inactivity (sorry) I'm back with an extra long chapter! Sorta. I'm really sorry that I kept you waiting, I've been trying to write the second chapter of Opposing Allies, my pride and joy that has an amazing record of five hits and two reviews... One of which from my best friend... Next time if you're bored waiting, go read THAT! And maybe if I get another review or two (that'll double it!) I'll get some more inspiration so I can finally post the second chapter! So after you reviewed this new chapter of Not The Saiyan This Time, please review Opposing Allies as well!