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Okay, I've added two chapters today, please read both and review, thank you. :D

He didn't know what to say to her, his mind battled with itself for an answer; she was a beautiful young girl, smart, dedicated and he knew she would give him nothing but her best. On the other hand he had given love and family more than one chance and each time he had been abused by it, grief stricken by the pain it afflicted on him and he didn't want to suffer anymore than he already been through.

His mind had now become two thoughts, two arguments. One side screamed for her, screamed for the healing powers he prayed resided within her and all it wanted was to once again feel the warmth and comfort the arms of loved ones had once brought when they held him, it had been so long he had almost forgotten, it made him cold and he so badly wanted to be warm, to be loved.

However the other side wanted nothing more than to run, it debated well, it wanted protection from more pain. It knew all too well the agonising pain felt when those arms of loved ones were so violently torn away from him, always leaving him cold and alone, to cry his pain to a lonely, uncaring world, to fall asleep at night with a constant ache in his heart and to wake up with the same feeling.

But looking at her face as it pleaded with his, at the slowly vanishing spark in her ayes as doubt began to encase her he could still see that sincerity and honesty that still lay there from the very second they started this conversation. He knew she was something special when he had first met her and back then he saw it as a military special, she was strong and able but now he saw something different, he had felt it in the past and pushed it away but he feared now he would be unable to do so.

She knew he was afraid to love, afraid to risk being beaten and abused by love and affection once again. Everyone knew he had a troubled past but no one knew exactly what happened. The tale was always told to new troops and as with any tale that has no reason, ones were made up. From what was told, Goku had no friends, he had no family and he had no home. No one knew for sure why he didn't but it was known that he had come to the army alone, with nothing, of course there were people that did know but they had made sure that the story was the business of those that needed to know and no one else.Even Goku himself never spoke of it, she wanted to know, not for gossip or curiosity, she wanted to know what he had been through, comfort him over what had happened. The only problem was he seemed very reluctant to give in but at the same time so willing to do so. Her eyes pleaded with his for an answer, her face as soft as possible and her body gently hugging his.

That's when fear set in for Goku, the look in her eyes, that plea, almost begging him to answer her but he couldn't summon the words. Until now, the fear that something he had unknowingly dreamed of for so long would walk straight out the door and out of his life forever.

"I don't know" His head bowed to the floor, his eyes looking anywhere but to her and his voice was a grizzly whisper.

"What do you mean? Do you not want to give me a chance?" Her eyes tried desperately to meet him and keep contact with them, her voice remaining gentle and soft as she caressed his cheek with comfort.

"I…I…Chichi I don't know. I don't want to hurt"

"Oh Goku, I'm not going to hurt you, I would never dream of that. I want to make the pain stop, I want to heal you" Her face was once again so close to his, her breath pounded softly against his flesh before once again placing her lips on his, her other hand meeting his other cheek to keep his there as she showed him her love, showed him he was safe and showed him an example of the comfort she wanted to give him.

He couldn't resist this time, the feel of her against him, the heat and comfort that raced through his destroyed systems, healing the damages done to his delicate body and the trust was beginning to set in, beginning to trust her as he placed one of his large hands against the small of her back, pulling her closer, his body begging for her. And she gave him it, leaning closer to him as her lips forced his to dance, fighting his fear and soothing him.

She once again pulled away from him; he still looked shocked as he leant against the wall for support, his eyes intently looking into hers, his mind now becoming one with an answer.

"Promise me you won't leave" His voice was shaky, from sorrow or fear she didn't know. Her eyes were soft as they looked at him confusingly, what did he mean?

"I will never leave Goku; I always want to be here with you." Her lips were curved in a small sympathetic smile as she stroked the skin of his hands.

"Promise you won't leave me alone, promise you'll stay with me forever. Promise you won't make me hurt" Once again his voice was shaky, his breathing shallow and deep as he struggled to contain the emotion that wanted to erupt from within him.

"Goku I won't leave you alone, not ever, I want to be here with you always. I don't want to make you hurt, I want to help you heal the hurt that's already there. I loved you Goku, since I first saw you and I never want to let go of that, your all that matters to me now. Why do you think I would leave, after this?"

He looked to the floor, his hands leaving hers and viciously stroking through his hair and across his brow. She knew this was about his past, that he had obviously been left and feared that she would do the same.

"Everyone always leaves me, they always go away and leave me suffer alone. Leave my soulless body to rot pathetically on this forsaken planet, leave me to suffer." Her eyes were wide at his description; he had been through a lot more than most would have thought. She couldn't stand to see him hurt like this, and although it would cause him pain to talk she wanted to know, know what so badly hurt him.

"Goku, what happened?"

Okay well there is chapter 3, sorry it took so long I've been so busy this week, found some time this weekend because I'm ill lol. So I have added two chapters, please read on…. :)

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Chemical Connection