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I think this chapter is a little rushed, but I cant be bothered to try and improve it.

The Surrogate Mother

Chapter 3

This is continuing from chapter 2.

Gohan looked at his wife for a moment.

"Videl, are you serious?"

"I surely am. Why? What's wrong with the idea?" Videl asked.

"Er, nothing,…I guess, its just,…its kind of a weird thing to think about. You just thought of that now?" Gohan asked his wife, with a little astonishment in his voice.

"No. I've been thinking about if for a while now. It seems like the best thing we could do." Videl said, then got up, walked over to the mini bar in the corner of their living room and poured some scotch in to a tumbler, and walked back over to her husband.

"Here." Videl said, holding out the glass for her husband. "You look like you need it."

Gohan took the glass and drank it in one go. Videl sat back down on the couch, on the edge of her seat a little, so she was facing Gohan.

"What do you think then, about the surrogate idea?" Videl asked.

Gohan stared at the floor, then turned his head to his wife, he was hunched forward a bit, so he was on the edge of his seat like Videl was.

"I don't really know, Viddy. It's a little strange, the thought of a stranger having our baby. And don't get me wrong, I do think it's definitely a possible option, its just that the baby still wouldn't be yours."

"I've accepted that, Gohan. You should too. As long as the baby is a part of you, then it will be a part of me." Videl said.

"You say that now, but what about when the baby's born, do you think you'll still feel the same way then?" Gohan questioned.

"Of course I will!" Videl said, she sounded offended that her husband would even ask such a thing.

"So you're saying that you would be okay with a stranger being pregnant with my child? What if it looked like the surrogate? What if she decided to keep the baby once its born? What would you do then? Did you think of that?" Gohan questioned in a harsh tone of voice.

"I think the scotch has gone to your head Gohan." Videl said in a quiet voice.

"No, it hasn't. I'm just trying to tell you what you haven't thought of." Gohan said.

He clearly wasn't drunk, but the scotch had obviously had a small affect him, he didn't really drink alcohol that much, so he must have been affected by the strong drink.

"I have thought about those things Gohan." Videl said in a louder voice.

"I bet you didn't, they probably didn't even occur to you--"

Videl was angry now. Did her husband think she was stupid or something? Why would she even suggest surrogacy without thinking about what could happen?

"Shut up Gohan. Your just being a bastard. I have thought about what could go wrong with a surrogate, but I still think we should do it."

"Its your fault we even have to think about this, you know. If you were able to get pregnant like a normal woman, everything would be ok, but there had to be something wrong with you, didn't there?" Gohan said, with a cruel smile on his face.

What the hell was wrong with him? Surely one little glass of scotch could not have such an effect on him? What if it was him saying those things? Maybe the scotch had no effect on him at all and it was he who was saying those things.

"Fuckyou!" Videl screamed quickly at Gohan, slapped him in the face with all her strength, which didn't hurt Gohan at all, then she ran out of their house with tears running down her face.

Gohan lowered his head in to his hands. He knew what he was saying and he meant it, he knew it wasn't entirely Videl's fault that she couldn't have children, but he just needed to blame someone so much.

It was now almost midnight and Videl hadn't came back home.

Gohan wasn't even sure if she would.

What he said, had to be said. The more he thought about it, he realised he could have- should have, expressed his feelings about the whole thing a little better.

He realised he really shouldn't have said:

"there had to be something wrong with you, didn't there?"

Just the thought of him saying this made his blood boil. And what about how Videl was feeling? She would have felt guilty and upset at not being able to give her husband the one thing he wanted most. And to have the one person who she trusted most in the world blaming her for that would have made her feel a hell of a lot worse.

"I'm so stupid!" Gohan said to himself. He hadn't moved off the couch all day.

"Videl already felt bad enough. And I had to go and say all that crap! What if she's done something? Oh, my goodness! Gohan you dumb ass! You've been sat here thinking about how right you were saying those things to her! When you should have been out looking for her! She was so upset, she could have done something to herself!" Gohan yelled to himself.

"And you're just sat here talking to yourself! You IDIOT!" Gohan jumped off the couch and ran outside. It was raining heavily. Gohan stood there for a moment trying to sense Videl's life force…but he couldn't find it.

"Oh my god!" Gohan yelled.

He stood there looking around frantically, like he was hoping Videl would suddenly appear.

Gohan didn't know what do to, or where to start looking.

So he just took off from the ground, flying high up in the rainy sky, hoping that if he could see more then there would be more of a chance of seeing Videl.

"She could be anywhere by now!"

Gohan frantically scanned the ground he could see.

Gohan gasped. "VIDEL!" Gohan had caught sight of a taxi pulling up on the path outside of his house and Videl stepped out of it.

Gohan sped towards his wife. Landed directly in front of her, not caring that the taxi driver had saw him fall from the sky, and grabbed Videl in a hug.

"Videl! I'm so sorry…I thought you…I thought you might have…Oh god, I'm so sorry! I love you…I never meant too…" Gohan was crying, and he didn't care that the taxi driver was staring at him.

In the next chapter there will be other characters.

And Videl and Gohan decide on who to ask to be their surrogate.

I know this story is dragging on a little, since there has been 3 chapters and nothing much has happened, but I promise you things are going to become interesting (or just seem stupid) in future chapters.

Thanks for reading.