Author's Notes: Here it comes the dreadful goodbyes! Wipes tears We all knew it would have to come sooner or later.

Disclaimer: I don't own any DBZ characters.

Hearts Together, Worlds Apart

Epilogue: Everything Comes To An End

All danger had been over for more than a week now and it was finally time for me to return home. I had been putting it off for so long, it seemed so unreal. But it was time that I returned to my family and my home. I stood with my back pack outside of capsule corp. with the gang. Chichi and Bulma came and hugged me goodbye.

"Come back and visit, OK?" Chichi said. I nodded. Then I hugged Bulma.

"This is going to break his heart you know? He's been dreading this all along…do you have to leave us?" she asked softly.

"I have no choice. I belong with my family." I sighed. "I'm being torn here…I feel like I've been ripped into a million pieces all yelling the one thing I can't have…" I walked over to Gohan and Videl. I hugged Videl and then Gohan.

"You did well, kiddo. Come back sometime." Gohan said. I smiled.

"You bet I will."

I hugged Yamcha and then Piccolo, who acted as if it was nothing important but blushed at the show of affection.

"I'm sorry I doubted you, kiddo." He said. I hugged Quillin and Eighteen and then little Bra and Pan.

"Why are you leaving. Don't you like us anymore?" Pan asked.

"Of course I like you but I have to go back to my home now." I replied. I hugged Marron tightly.

"I'll keep in touch, Marron." I said. "We'll always be friends no matter what." She nodded and hugged me again. Marron and I had gotten to be such good friends since I had arrived in the Z fighters world.

"Don't you dare forget me!" she warned.

"You have Goten now…and no…I won't forget you." I said.

Then I came to the father son group at the front. I smiled at Goku, Goten, Trunks and Vegeta. I hugged Goku who ruffled my hair.

"I'll pop in for a visit sometime. Hey we don't get any legendary magic to help us but I have instant translocation….I can bring you back to visit." He said. I nodded. Goten grabbed me and hugged me tightly.

"We'll miss you, Jesse." He said.

"I'll miss you too." I replied. "I'll visit." I held my arms out to Vegeta who grunted. I gave him an all out death stare.

"Be nice." I said. He reluctantly let me hugged him and then hugged me back. "You know you care really. If I could stay I would end up with your son forever and you know it." He smirked at that.

"Then why are you leaving?" he asked.

"I have to." I replied. I stepped back and smiled. "I love you Vegeta. You're like a father to me. Thank you." He held his arms out and hugged me again before I turned and threw myself at Trunks. Tears streamed down my cheeks and splashed on the grassy ground.

"Please don't go." He pleaded me. It broke my heart. I no longer cared that I was crying. "I'll miss you."

"-and I'll miss you too…but it's better this way. I can't ask my family to give up the home they've worked their entire lives for….and I can't leave them….I'll come back I promise…." I replied as strongly as I could. "I'll always love you…but you belong in your world and I belong in mine. Our hearts will always be together but we're worlds apart…I love you." My voice had broken into a mixture of high pitched croaky sobs at those last three words.

"I love you too." Trunks whispered. His eyes were glistening but I knew he wouldn't cry. He was being strong for me and I was glad of it. He wiped away few of my tears before giving me a kiss that would be our last. As his lips touched mine the realisation of what I was giving up hit me. Tears glided gracefully down my cheeks again. He grasped me close and bit down over my mark on my neck. I returned the favour and we held eachother tight. Then we fell into a passionate kiss. As we parted he reached out for my hand, but I stepped out of reach. I had to leave now. If I was going to leave it would have to be now. Before I changed my mind and lost my nerve.

I stepped away from him, from them all, from my dreams. I held Goku's hand as he put two fingers to my forehead and concentrated. He traced my friend Emma's energy (with a little aid from me) and closed my eyes knowing that when I opened them I would no longer be in this world I loved so much. I would no longer be within an arms reach of my lover.

The last thing I saw was Trunks. That image will haunt my mind forever along with dreams of passion, love, friendship, pain, battles and tears. Our hearts belonged together but we were worlds apart.

I opened my eyes to meet Emma's confused brown ones. I was still distraught. I sank to my knees and broke into tears again. I didn't care anymore. I let the tears come. I screamed and wailed. Emma reach out and hugged me.

"Jesse?" she enquired. "What's going on? What's wrong?" I buried my head on her shoulder.

"I-I loved him! I really loved him!" I cried. "Why is life so cruel!"

"Shhh…" Emma soothed. "It's OK."

"How is it OK!"

"I knew you loved him and he loved you. That much was obvious from the very beginning." She said quietly. "I don't know how to help you… Was that it? Are you home now?" I nodded. We stayed like that for a while. With Emma trying to calm my desperate screams and pitiful sobs and wails.

"I-I-I love him Emma, I love him!" I kept repeating. "I can't believe I can't be with him!"

"I know. I know." She said calmly. "But how did you get here? You just appeared."

"Instant translocation. You trace someone's ki or clearly picture a place and in a second you're there." I muttered bitterly.

"That's so Cool!" she gasped.

"Hello? Still upset here." I called out.

"Sorry."

I had been through so much…I had been told my life was a lie, I had fallen in love, I had gone to another world, I had done things that other people can only and will only ever dream about, I had risked my life in a battle, I had saved a planet, I had lost my virginity and I had been through intense pain and torture of unbearable training…yet the one thing I regretted was leaving them and coming home.

Author's Notes: That's not the end folks. There is a sequel. Called: - "Life isn't a Fairytale and Home isn't a Place". I hope that many of you will read that one too. There's more romance and action and tears. So come on guys a final review for this story. Um….yeah a tad more action and fighting in the sequel.

Thank you all for your support especially you Jen.

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Thomas Drovin

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