CHAPTER 6

The last thing that he remembered was smiling at the woman. Not any woman, he

now realized, but a very smart woman and a very beautiful woman. He couldn't

believe that his pride would let him admit to it but she was very beautiful, especially

when she smiled. Those were his last thoughts before his world turned black and the

ground rushed up to meet him.

"Oh my Kami, VEGETA!!!" Bulma yelled out as she rushed to catch his limp form.

She caught him just before his connection but his dead weight was too much too

soon for her and she was pulled down underneath him. "Great, just great. I have a

half dead saiyan on top of me who I might add weighs a TON!" she said pulling

herself out from under Vegeta.

*I better make sure he's not too bad off* she thought reaching down to flip him

over. She wasn't too confident by the weak ki signal she was getting from him, she

was just hoping that he was spent and not really half dead.

"Vegeta... Vegeta, are you all right?" she asked before flipping him onto his back.

Bulma took a sharp intake of air at what she saw. *Oh my Kami! This is horrible, I

can't let this happen! He can't die! But I don't have any senzu beans left. SHIT!

What am I supposed to do now?* she wondered as she sat staring at the huge gash

in Vegeta's side. It was bleeding profusely with no sign of letting up soon.

"Okay Bulma, calm down, he's not going to die, we can deal with this. We can fix

this. The sooner we get him into a cave the quicker we can begin," she told herself

trying to calm down.

Standing she began to hover in the air and rose to about 20 feet off the ground.

Scouting around for any nearby islands, she spotted a small but rocky one just to the

west of her island.

Swooping down and picking Vegeta up as gently as she could, she took off as fast

as she could for the rocky outcrop.

DREAM

"Please father, please don't send me to Lord Frieza. I'll be good I promise. I won't

kill anymore of your guard's and I'll attend school and......." the young boy was

caught off by his father.

"Vegeta... I'm sorry. I cannot change what has been set in motion." King Vegeta

turned and disappeared and in his place was Frieza.

Frieza laughed and turning to Vegeta he began to beat him. Beating his broken body

as a boy over and over and over again not allowing enough time for him to properly

heal between beatings. Being beaten every hour of everyday until he was sent on his

first purging mission.

Thankful for the escape but loathing every minute of what he was doing he would

return to base only to be beaten by Frieza again for not doing the job quick enough.

Frieza's gendreless voice laughing was joined by another's, this one was more

masculine. Opening his swollen and bruised eyes from his spot on the floor he saw

what he never in his life wanted to see. His father. He was standing next to Frieza

laughing and pointing at his beaten son.

"Father," Vegeta choked out, "Have you come to help me?" he asked innocently,

hope building in his eyes.

King Vegeta's face instantly darkened. "You are a disgrace to the saiyan race. Why

would I help a worthless thing like you? Your not worth my time," he spat out as he

turned and left. Vegeta was then left alone with the darkness......... all alone.

REALITY

Bulma pulled Vegeta into a small opening, "Okay how does this go again?" she said

aloud to noone but herself. Kneeling beside Vegeta she raised her hands inches

above his wound. A golden aura surrounded her hands as it began to flow onto

Vegeta's wounds.

"Shit," she yelled out after a moment. "It's not enough, he needs this faster," she said

to the walls, "I'm the only one who can help him and we are going to need his help

later on so I'd best hurry up," she went on as she began removing he gi.

Leaving only her underwear to cover her she quickly laid herself down on the

prince, flesh on flesh, and using all of her energy to heal Vegeta. In doing so her mind

had gone inside of Vegeta's right before she passed out.

DREAM

The darkness had consumed him, sharing his pain and becoming one with Vegeta.

Being in the darkness was not what he wanted, he fought it but to no avail. Then

there was a ray of light and he began to move towards it. Soon he saw a figure in the

light but could not distinguish who it was.

"Bulma," he breathed as he stood face to face with her. She reached out to him,

taking his head in her hands drawing his face towards hers.

"Vegeta," she whispered just before their lips met. At that moment Vegeta felt

whole, like he found the missing piece of a puzzle that he had been working on all of

his life.

Before their lips made contact there was a blinding flash of light and Vegeta saw no

more.

REALITY

Vegeta groaned as he came to. Everything came back to him in a flash. His fight

with Zarbon, the woman and his dream. *That was the weirdest....* his thoughts

were cut off when he noticed the half naked sleeping woman on top of him.

To say the least Vegeta was in shock. His jaw had dropped and his eyes were

bulging out of their sockets.

*Was she asleep? Would she wake up if he moved? Could he chance it? Of course

I can, I can't just wait until she wakes up on her own and catches me like this. Or

was it the other way around?* he thought as his eyes glanced over her backside.

He decided to get up and leave. To stay would be idiocy. So getting up, a little

more cautiously then he would have liked to admit, he scooped her up and set her

aside.

Just as he was leaving he stopped to take one last look at the sleeping woman.

Looking back he felt a small twinge in his heart when he saw her frail form shiver on

the damp cold floor of the small cave.

Cursing himself and the woman for being so weak he went back inside built a small

fire beside her. He had successfully put her gi back on her hoping that it would warm

her. Seeing that all of his efforts were in vain, he picked her up and curled himself

around her vowing to kill anyone who saw him in this position.

Putting his arms around her unsurely he felt her shift in his arms and seemingly

snuggle into his embrace.

Unconsciously smiling to himself he held her closer in an almost protective way. Too

close to sleep and too happy to notice, Vegeta didn't even notice the small thing

come up from behind.

to be continued.......

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