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Bulla glared in the direction that her brother had just left in. 'Well, I guess she was going to have to find out sooner or later.'
"The gravity room is a room in which we exercise. We call it that because there we can manipulate gravity for our use…the higher the gravity, the stronger you become. It's really cool actually. Maybe I could show you later?" Bulla explained.
Serena looked at Bulla like she had grown another head. 'Manipulate gravity? Is there even such a thing?'
"Sere, would you like to see it later?" Bulla asked her snapping Serena out of her thoughts.
"Uh, yeah sure, later."
"Hey, do you want to come downstairs with Bulla and I to watch some tv?" Goten asked her enthusiastically. He wanted to get to know her a little better; she seemed really nice and Goten was always willing to make a new friend.
"Thanks Goten but I'm tired." Goten looked a little disappointed. Serena saw this and quickly added, "But I'm sure if you stop by tomorrow, we could hang out or whatever." Serena smiled as his face immediately brightened up. 'He's just like a little kid.'
"Really? You mean it?" Goten asked excitedly causing Bulla to roll her eyes.
"Of course!" Serena replied just as excited. She then looked at Bulla and Goten slyly.
"Maybe it could even be a double date? You know, me and Trunks with you and Bulla."
Goten blushed ten different shades of red, along with Bulla. "Serena, you know it's not like that!" Bulla exclaimed.
"Whatever. Remember Trunks and I said the same thing?"
"But that was different!" Bulla said.
"How so?"
Bulla racked her genius mind for an answer. "Well…um, you see…uh…"
Goten decided to come to her rescue. "Well, because we've been friends for so long …"
"And your point is?" Serena said with her hand on her hips.
Neither of the two said anything.
"Uh, huh. Well if you need me, I'll be in my room." Serena said walking off to her room to relax, leaving Goten and Bulla alone to themselves.
---------Gravity room
Trunks was pissed off. He just couldn't believe a man would hit a woman let alone talk down to one. Trunks only new one thing; as soon as he saw the guy, he would do so many things to him he would be begging Trunks to kill him. 'I'm not getting anywhere fighting an imaginary opponent! This is even more frustrating!' Trunks thought to himself. He then cut off the machine and made his way into the house.
-----------In Serena's room
Serena was sleeping soundly in her room, unaware of the danger around her. She awoke to a loud shattering noise by her window. She looked around cautiously and didn't see anything, but she did notice that her window was open. 'Hm, that's weird. I don't remember my window being open.' She slowly got up and went to close it. Serena turned to go back to her bed, but stopped immediately as she noticed she wasn't alone. The last person that she wanted to see was standing across the room by her door.
"Hello Serena," The man said coolly looking her directly in the eyes and causing a chill to run down Serena's spine
"Darien, what are you doing here?" Serena asked, trying to keep her voice from shaking.
"Now now sweetheart, is that anyway to welcome your fiancée?"
"You mean EX-fiancée."
"Listen, I didn't come here to argue with you about my title."
"Then what do you want?" Serena asked crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I want what is rightfully mine." Darien replied looking her up and down in a lustful manner, causing Serena to look at him in disgust.
"Well there is nothing here that belongs to you so you can-"
"You are mine. Did you not get the letter?" Darien asked as he slowly began walking towards her, causing Serena to step back. Darien smirked as he continued to advance on her like a hunter stalking its prey. "So now you're afraid of me?"
Serena backed away until her back was against the wall. She wasn't afraid of him; just of what he was capable of doing.
"You didn't answer my question." Darien stated as he was only a couple of feet away. The look in his eyes scared her. She looked around for something to defend herself with, but found nothing. So she decided to do the only thing that came to mind.
She screamed for help.
"Trunks, help me please!" Darien's expression hardened considerably.
"Trunks? Is that the bastard you left me for?" Darien asked now directly in front of her. Serena cowered in fright.
"Answer me!" Darien yelled, raising his hand to strike her.
"No! Please don't!" Serena pleaded as tears started running down her face.
Serena woke up in her room in Capsule Corp. panting and breathing heavy. She looked around her room and found everything in tact.
"It's okay, Serena. Everything is fine. It was just a dream." Serena said to herself trying to calm her raging heart.
"That's what you think!" Serena screamed as Darien lounged for her, his hands around her neck.
----------In the living room
Trunks walked in the front door to find Bulla snuggled up with Goten. They were both watching tv.
"Hey you two lovebirds, where's Serena?"
"We're not lovebirds!" Goten and Bulla shouted at him at the same time. (AN: Sorry, I got that from Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom. Very good show, by the way)
"Whatever you say. Anyway where's Sere?"
"She's upstairs in her room relaxing." Bulla said.
"Yeah, she said she was tired. She did say that we all could hang out tomorrow." Goten replied. Trunks rolled his eyes. He was about to make a smart comment but was interrupted by a scream.
"Oh no, Serena!" Trunks said as he ran upstairs, followed by Goten and Bulla.
Trunks nearly knocked down Serena's door as he ran in her room. She was screaming frantically, crying, and thrashing violently.
"Sere, wake up! Wake up!" Trunks said, shaking the young woman in order to wake her up. Serena finally woke up and looked around with tears in her eyes. She saw Trunks by her and immediately went into his arms. She was shaking violently and crying uncontrollably. Trunks held her and whispered soothing words to her.
Goten and Bulla came into the room, followed by Bulma and Vegeta.
"What happened to her?" Bulma asked worriedly.
"She just had a bad dream. She's fine." Trunks replied still holding Serena. She calmed her cries and was controlling her breathing as best she could but she was still shaking.
Everyone nodded and left the room to leave the couple alone.
"Sere, what happened?"
"I…I had a d…double dream…" Serena said between sobs. "The first one D…Dar…he tried to take me b…back. But in the sec…second one…he…he tried to…to k…kill me." Serena finished and then started sobbing uncontrollably. Trunks held her and rubbed her back soothingly.
"It's okay, he's not going to hurt you. I'm here now. Everything will be fine. I promise I'll protect you." Serena began calming herself again.
"Thanks Trunks."
"For what?"
"Just for everything."
"You don't need to thank me." Serena smiled at him. 'Why couldn't I meet him first?'
"Are you tired?" Trunks asked her.
"A little."
"Get some rest."
"I can't…I mean, I'm afraid to be…alone."
"Do you want me to stay with you?" Trunks asked her. Serena blushed a little and looked down at the bed while she nodded her head and lifted up the covers for him to get in with her. Trunks did as she wanted and got in the bed. As soon as he got in the bed with her, Trunks held Serena close to him. She wrapped her arms around his chest as he wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Feel better?" Trunks asked.
Serena sighed and snuggled deeper in his embrace. "Much." They both then went to sleep.
Well that's that chapter! Sorry for the long wait. I will try my best to get the next chapter out asap. The series is almost ended, there's maybe going to be about 2 or 3 chapters left, I'm not sure yet.
Anyway make sure you stay tuned because the next chapter is going to be the long awaited confrontation! How will Trunks react to seeing the man who hurt his girl? The only way a Saiya-jin know how of course!
Please R&R!
