Heavy metal blasted around her as she worked on her newest car.  Vegeta hated it and she knew it, anything to annoy the man.  At school she worked with her bike, at home she used her newest racer.  Around her sparks flew as she welded sections of metal together to reinforce and secure for the strain any vehicle she drove would go under. 

Loud noises never bothered her; it was silence that kept her awake.  Noise meant shit was happening.  Like the forest with a predator, silence meant trouble was coming and it was best to hide.  She was better now but she still occasionally slept with a recording of her old street filling her room.  She had edited out all the sounds that awoke her, gun shots and overly loud sounds that signaled extra violent fights. 

But even with all the noise surrounding her she knew her when her beeper went off, helpful that it was on vibrate at her hip.  Glancing to it she barely remembered to cut the gas to her welder before dropping it and taking to a run.  Nearly diving into her car she checked for the hundredth time to assure herself that she had what she needed and then took to the air like a demon.  She was soon flying over wilderness and only then recalled the fact that she hadn't told anyone she was leaving, or coming.  She shrugged it off, there wasn't any time at the moment, and with the way she drove doing this with one hand and dialing a phone with the other could very well be the last stupid thing she ever did.  So she didn't. 

Goku may not have been the brightest bulb but she was sure that he would sense her coming.  Besides, if she called him she would need to spend time listening to him panic.  While amusing if it were some other situation it wasn't at the moment.  Chi-Chi was in labor and they couldn't chance taking her to a hospital, Goku wasn't normal and their kid wouldn't be either.  The thing about living around prostitutes was that their friends were hookers too.  Sometimes they carried full term, she had been to more births that she was years old, of course she was only seventeen, eighteen in another month or so. 

She had barely pulled a landing before she was outside of her car, bag in hand, and storming through the door.  She winced as a scream filled the air, she sympathized with Goku. 

"Chi-Chi I'm here!" 

"Make it stop Bulma, I'll give you anything my firstborn just make it stop."  The older girl was sobbing from pain and Bulma wasted no time in priming a needle.  Goku gulped beside her but to his credit didn't run, a mark in history since his first shot. 

"I don't want your kid Chi.  You know how I am with them."  A weak laugh was given before another scream, the volume didn't bother her so much as the knowledge that the other woman was in pain and she couldn't do too much about it.  "I'm here Chi-Chi; I'll help you through this."  Goku in an act of braver took his wife's hand and kissed her palm.  Murmuring things into the princess's ear that she wasn't bothering to try and pick up.  It was none of her business.  She was in for a long day and probably brutal night, but she had faith in Chi-Chi.  She was a strong woman, stronger than her, she would make it through this and so would the child, Kami tremble if it didn't happen that way. 

His eyes shot open at the sound of hushed voices, one being Bulma's.  Leaving his room through the balcony he flew to the front where the girl stood in the embrace of another male.  His anger only escalated when her lips brushed the taller male's cheek.  "Thank you Goku, I could have flown though."

"You should have stayed with us.  Bulma, you're coming to visit right?"  He looked to the male as Bulma's soft laughter filled the air.

"Of course, it'll probably be a few days though, go home to your wife and son Goku.  Congratulations you're the first of the team to marry and become a father." 

He ignored her words as he took in the taller male; he was a mirror of Baradock in his youth.  How in the nine hells had a Sayain come to this planet and what was he doing here?  Narrowing his eyes as the Sayain touched his female then took to the night's air he dropped from the sky as soon as he determined them alone.  She turned from where she had last saw her 'Goku' and seemed unsurprised to find him in her path.  The other Sayain's scent was all over her.  Along with another woman and what he recognized as the smells that came from a birth.  It would explain her hurried escape, he had been training when she left and he had no way of tracking her by the time he noticed her absence. 

"Who is he?"  She arched an eyebrow at his comment.  She tensed and he knew she had intended to keep the other Sayain a secret. 

"One of me dearest friends, not that it matters any to you."  She brushed past him and he quickly took hold of her wrist, pulling her close."  Examining her form more closely he noted her thinner than normal frame, she never had much to lose thus it was overly apparent, and the dark rings below her eyes. 

"Have you ate at all this day?"  She blinked as if thinking the question over. 

"Sorry no, my mind wasn't really on food between Chi-Chi's contractions.  What do you care anyway, you're not my keeper." 

No he wasn't her keeper but he would be in charge of her protection once she stepped onto his ship and stayed on his planet for the agreed year.  Didn't she know this?  Where had she been when these plans were made?  He knew first hand that she was a female of many talents, she desired knowledge in many forms and was more than capable of surviving in many creative ways.  Scowling at his wandering thoughts and even more with the knowledge that he cared he dragged her with him to the building.  Her two original care givers were in the entertainment room.  He took great pleasure in bringing the notice her thinning figure to the elder women.  Soon the girl was dragged to the kitchen and being told of an eating regime that would begin instantly.  He was given a deadly glare from over her shoulder before pulled out of view.  He had smirked at her in return. 

Seems battle lines are being drawn, and no she's not going to have an eating disorder.  She just focuses on other things so much she forgets about herself, gives a reason for someone to take care of her wink wink nudge nudge hint hint.  Anyway HERE YOU ALL ARE BE HAPPY AND REVIEW. 

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