Sorry I haven't been updating but…I did it again…all of the chapters I had saved got deleted…I really need to learn how to back up my files better. But that's ok cuz I just finished one of my other stories and am in the mood for a challenge. But there is good news…I found my hard copy! I printed the whole thing out before it was deleted the first time…woohoo! Well…here goes nothing.

"Alright dinners ready. Common." She said moving to watch everyone pass her thanking whatever god that had let them all be together. For once she had her entire family under one roof. Close family that is. She still wondered what happened to her friends and resigned herself to asking her parents later.

Walking into the dinning room she noticed, with out much surprise, that Vegeta had begun eating…quite vivaciously too. Another thing she noticed was that her family, Sammy, Momma and dad, were staring in disbelief at all the food that lay on the table.

"Serena hunny, was it really necessary to make all this food? It looks like you could feed the entire homeless population of the world!" Her mother asked with a laugh.

"Sammy asked that too believe it or not and no, I think this will be just enough. You see, Vegeta here eats twice as much as I do and I think that Bulma can hold her own." Serena laughed at the offended look on Bulma's face. "I mean that in the nicest way possible and you know that." Serena chuckled at the 'humph' she got in response.

Serena once again began to usher the stragglers into the dining room before all the food was gone. Just as she was about to cross the threshold the doorbell rang. "I'll get it; I'm not that hungry right now." She said beginning to walk toward the door as Bulma made to get up.

"Are you sick?" Vegeta asked with a very full mouth.

"No, I'm fine. It's just been a long day." She answered smiling and resuming her trek to the door.

When she finally reached the door, pulled it open and saw who was on the other side she squealed and jumped on said person. "Trunks! YAY! How are you, are you visiting or staying a while, how's your mother, how's your world, how…?" She was cut off from her ramblings as Trunks placed a hand of her mouth earning him a pout.

"Calm down Auntie Serena. Ummmm…." He began sheepishly, "Did you cook something? I could sure use some of your good ole fashioned home cooking." She told her walking past her into the dinning room.

"Since when do you call me AUNTIE Serena?" She asked following behind him.

"I dunno for sure…I have been for a while." He answered pausing to face her.

"Yeah imagine if I cared." She laughed walking up to give him another, slightly less attack-ish, hug. "Common, let's get you some food and you can see everyone. Oh, my earth parents are here, so I can introduce you…or reintroduce you as the case may be."

"That sounds great, let's go." He said.

They finally made their way into the dinning room and Serena cleared her throat. "Look who I found a years away from home and begging for a hot meal." Serena said laughing at the incredulous look her nephew was giving her.

"It's not my fault that there's a time fluxuation in time travel." Trunks said with a defensively with a fake pout. "I left right before lunch…"

"Wait, so who's this?" Sammy asked curiously. He did look familiar.

"Oh, right! Mom, dad, Sammy…this is Trunks…future Trunks…Mirai Trunks. Trunks, this is my mom Irene, my dad ken, and my brother Sammy. Here, eat this." She told him indicating the people around the large table then hanging him a plate of food that he accepted and sat down.

"So how is this possible that a future version of your nephew showed up here and now?" Serena's mother questioned with an expression that displayed her confusion.

"You remember Rini right?" She asked sitting down then continued at there acquiescence. "Wait…you still think she's my cousin don't you?"

"What are you talking about? She is your cousin." Her father told her.

"Oh yeah? From what relative?" Serena asked and when no one could answer she continued. "Yeah, that's what I thought. The reason you can't tell me about her family is because she wasn't my cousin, she was my future daughter. She came back because the future Tokyo was attacked and I was imprisoned in a quartz coffin and the silver crystal, which I possess and needed to free me, disappeared. She came here hopping to find it." She told them with a sigh…this stuff really did give her a headache.

"Future daughter?" Vegeta asked raising an eyebrow and lowering his fork…which was a miracle in and of itself.

"Yeah, is that a problem?" She retorted defensively.

"Who's the father?" Everyone else in the room was forgotten as this conversation took a dangerous turn toward a bad place.

"Is that something you need to know right now?" She asked narrowing her eyes at him.

"Yeah, I'm going to hunt the bastard down and kill them. Wait, it's that earth weakling Endymion isn't it?" He said standing up and slamming his hands down on the table.

"So what if it is, you can't change that fact." Serena told him mimicking his posture.

"Sure I can't but apparently Galaxia can. I don't have to do anything. You can't even get up the courage to go back and help them out." He shouted.

Serena didn't respond. Instead, she pushed her chair back and ran up to her room. She quickly changed into a silver gi, one she had gotten as a birthday present from Goku. Once she was done dressing she walked to her window, threw it open, and jumped out landing on the plush carpet of soft grass. "I can't believe that arrogant ass! Gah! How in the hell are we related? I'll just have to go home and save the world…AGAIN! This is what, the tenth time? Oh, I've lost count." She mumbled to herself as she opened a portal home with the device she had in her pocket.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Vegeta shouted at her while holding her wrist preventing her from going into the swirling vortex.

"Why the hell would you care what I was doing…you just think I'm a coward anyway." She shouted back at him, eyes brimming with tears.

"Would you just shut up with the whole pity shit! You are NOT going through that portal alone again. I shouldn't have let you do it the first time." He told her claming down a little more.

"Oh are you concerned about me all of a sudden. Why do you even care?"

Vegeta couldn't take it anymore…she was rambling. He raised his hand and brought it to her face. Not hard enough to injure her but hard enough to snap her back to reality. "Would you just SHUT UP! You know I care about you and that is the reason that I can't let you go there alone." He told her wrapping his arms around her in a crushing hug.

Serena couldn't take it anymore and broke down in tears. Not from the pain in her cheek but for the feelings that came flooding to the surface. "I'm sorry Vegeta. You're right I am a coward. I don't want to go back looking for my friends and end up finding them dead or gone or…or…under that bitch's control. There's nothing I can do to change the way I feel."

"There might not be anything you can do to stop the feeling but you sure can face your fears. And you know as well as I do that there are a shit load of people here that would help you in an instant. Let me go in there and get them and we'll all go together. Sound good?" He asked by now calmed down.

"Yeah." She smiled weakly. "Sounds like a good plan. Go ahead, I'll wait here."

She waited until he was gone. "Sorry Geta, but this is something I have to do by myself right now. You always were a little gullible." She said quietly to herself as she opened a portal and ran through.

Vegeta turned around just before he entered the house to see the portal closing. "DAMN HER!" He hollered into the night.