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Overcoming the Past

Lena could feel the dampness of her skin and hair evaporate under the intense heat radiating from Raditz's eyes. He was very much male enough that he was not just chilling in her room for no apparent reason other than the obvious. The site of him sent her fear on edge in a way that she hadn't experienced before. She felt her knees weakening as he kept his fierce gaze on her and arose to his feet. She was positive that this is how prey feels like when they are about to be food. How dare this stranger make her feel like this? The idiot did not know privacy and as much as the need for him tickled her unused sex, she was not ready to make any foolish commitments to some beast that could easily kill her as please her. He would more than likely enjoy killing her if the stories Vegeta had told her were true.

"Eeeeek! Raditz what the hell are you doing in here?! How long have you been there? What makes you think you were given permission to even come in here?" she squealed in defense as he narrowed the gap between them. She fired question after question before he could answer the first. He did not hold back his obvious examination of her. He snatched the towel she held out as a barrier between them and kneeled so that his head was level with hers. She physically shivered in fear that she would die soon, glory that he was interested in her, and anger at herself for allowing him to have gotten this close to make her feel those things.

His nose rubbed the tenderness of her right collar bone and continued a path up her neck and behind her ear. He whispered something foreign into it and kissed her cheek in a delicate fashion.

No way. No fucking way is this happening. I must be dreaming. Raditz is too clumsy to be this gentle and…sweet? Lena thought desperately. She pushed his face away and pinched herself. The Saiyan peered at her curiously after her little act of "waking up."

"Is that some type of thing human females do to prepare themselves for mating or what?" he asked innocently after she gasped from the hurt she inflicted on her poor arm. She blushed full out, realizing that this was all really happening and that Raditz thought she wanted to mate of all things. Sex and mating were two very different concepts in her book and the last thing she wanted was to prepare herself for either of them; either of them with a man that was not even human and that she had only met that day.

"I…I think you should go now," she whispered softly into his ear in the same way he had whispered in hers. His dark eyes narrowed at her tease as he lifted a hand and slapped her roughly across her already reddened cheek. She cried out as the force sent her tumbling to the woodened floor. She sat there in shock as he grabbed her towel from the floor and threw it at her. She refused to get back up and face the monster even after he "commanded" her to.

"Get up, woman. If you didn't want me then you shouldn't allow yourself to act like it. Every inch of you is beckoning for me and yet you ask me to leave? How the fuck am I supposed to do that knowing full well we will both go to bed unsatisfied?" He berated her. He stopped speaking as he remembered the look on her face as it mirrored on Lena's. Those damn green eyes. He had only hurt her once and that was when she teased him by flirting with another of his now dead comrades. Lena had done nothing of the sort but deny him what he wanted and he was weak enough to harm her too. He simply wasn't used to that and now he would be going straight back to hell whenever Vegeta senses the turbulence next door.

"Lena…I shouldn't have lashed out. I—"

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM!" she screamed as loudly as she had ever screamed before. She had escaped abuse like this before and she would be damned if she placed herself back into it. Raditz jumped at her cry and left through her window when he heard Vegeta and his mate run from their room.

Lena immediately regretted her plea. Raditz had technically done nothing wrong due to his ignorance of Earthly rules and she may have just cost him his second chance. Bulma barged into her room and saw her awkward position on the floor and motioned for Vegeta to stay out.

"Dear Kami, tell me he didn't…" her friend began.

"No. It's my fault really, I should not have let my sexual tension show. I think I may have accidentally convinced him that I wanted him. I forget that they have stronger senses than we do and can…you know… tell when we…yeah," Lena mumbled. Bulma rubbed her back and helped her to her feet and smiled.

"Tell me about it. Don't be embarrassed; worse things have happened between Chi-Chi and Goku. You should ask her about it!" Bulma laughed, "Oh, Lena. What happened to your face?"

"I fell! You know how uncoordinated I am!" She laughed back. Next time, she wouldn't lie because she knew that there wouldn't be a next time. Bulma smiled and rejoined her lover in the hall way. Lena changed into her boring, long sleeved pajamas and threw the daringly cute ones back into depths of her drawers. She lied in her bed wondering what would have happened if she had just went along with Raditz's needs. She sighed in frustration. Lack of physical contact as meaningful as that tugged at her heart. She gave up sleep and snuck out of the house to her safe haven, her garage.

~Raditz

He managed to make it to his room without creating a trail of destruction behind him. He wanted nothing more than to blow something up, but he thought against it; especially if he was going to convince the stupid woman that he was sorry of all the foul emotions he was experiencing at that moment. The last time he had seen green eyes was when Catsearia was killed in front of him by Frieza. He spent the rest of his life from then and up until this point detaching his mind from the emotional bonds that normally formed with intimate relations. He had killed every woman that approached him since that night his mate was slaughtered. He killed them because he was disgusted that he gave into masculine needs and that they were nothing compared to his past love, he killed them because he would rather them be dead by his hands than Lord Frieza, and he killed them to insure that they would not house any spawn of his.

He would have handled Lena the same way if she was not surrounded by fighters stronger than him, if she was not so damn intriguing, and if she didn't have those haunting green eyes. He collapsed on his bed as he thought about those eyes on Lena's fresh face, and not on hers.

He imagined Lena's blonde hair intertwined in his fingers as her face etched in pain and pleasure as he helped himself to her large pale breasts while he thrust into her wet sex that was made for him. He imagined those green eyes roll as his tongue delighted the perky pink nipples he tasted as she begged for more. He imagined her tightness around his fantastic saiyanhood that she would discover is as large as the rest of him. And, for once, he did not imagine ripping her in half with his strength and ferociousness as he had inflicted on so many other women. In that wretched thought's place, he imagined her reveling in a shared climax with him.

It wasn't too much longer that the strokes he inflicted on himself and his dreams urged his milky substance out onto the hand that gripped his shaft and into the surrounding sheets. He grumbled that it should have been emitted inside the woman he wanted to claim back at the park.

~Lena

Lena paced around, the pitter-patter of her heart echoing the sounds her bare feet made on the cold pavement of the garage floor. Unbeknownst to anyone that may have been watching her, raged a mental battle between her and her damned inner goddess.

I can't like, much less LOVE someone that would retaliate that way when I say "no." It wasn't that long ago that he broke my heart, remember? I don't want to fall in love under fall pretenses again.

'Obviously, Raditz needs to learn some manners. Look at his brother and Vegeta? The latter is a prince and is still as rude as hell. If Bulma and Chi-Chi can tolerate them, you can handle Raditz. He's supposedly the weakest one anyways,' her goddess teased.

That's another thing! Why does he have that reputation? He's by far the biggest of the three. I think he has much more potential and he just hasn't been given the credibility he needs to be more powerful. But, that is not the purpose of this conversation! So what if I do cave in to my desires? I really just do not want to end up in that state I was in that day…

'What's the point of all of this if there isn't a little danger involved?'

Lena nodded her head in defeat.

Why not give it a try? Why not attempt a civilized friendship? If it escalates the worst that will happen is that I'll have a broken heart, which I have overcame before, and I'll simply end up relocated elsewhere. I have a decent reputation now and shouldn't have any issues getting a job. Not to mention…" Lena continued to think over the pros and cons as a soft tapping snapped her attention to the outside door.

She pushed a chair to the garage door and craned on her tip toes to peek out of the high windows. She saw a figure retreat back into the darkness as the security bots chased it off of the property. She also noticed a large box outside the door. She opened the door high enough to drag the box in and slammed it shut hurriedly. She was getting to the point that her nerves were frazzled from the constant stream of thrills she was enduring in the matter of 24 hours that she hesitated before opening the box.

Once the lid was off, she jumped away from it and ducked her head behind her arms as she waited for something awful to happen. Instead, the box was just a box so she scooted closer to see what the contents would reveal. Lena fought the urge to cry. There was picture after picture of her in the orphanage. There was a picture of her waiting for her acceptance letter into the elite engineering school, there was a picture of her getting dressed for school, just picture after picture of her ranging from the ages of fourteen to eighteen. All of the images she knew were taken by her ex. He was the one that had found her here, then. He must have survived that…incident.

Lena continued to shuffle though the box and found even more disturbing evidence of her past: blue prints to those. Among the blue prints was the most horrifying one of all, it was of a machine she did invent and build herself; unlike those other ones. She felt nausea roll itself in her abdomen and climb up her throat. She ran to a nearby trashcan and heaved her sickness into it. The security alarms began to beep as soon as she emptied her stomach. She quickly boxed her past away again and hid it underneath the piles of damaged parts that she would eventually relocate. For now, that was the best place to keep her secrets since the security bots outside that were wreaking havoc needed to be tended to straightaway.

Lena grabbed the needed tools to reprogram the control that managed the security and ran outside. Vegeta, Bulma, Trunks, and Raditz were already present. Bulma hid behind her husband as one of the heinous bots shot at her.

"What the fuck did you did you do?!" A very pissed prince shouted at Lena.

"I didn't do this, I swear! Someone smart reprogrammed the machines and now I'm going to fix it," she explained while she dodged whatever the hell the security bot she was trying to get threw at her. Next thing she knew, her machine was on top of her, choking her as she twisted a hidden screw underneath its right arm. The bot ceased instantly as she withdrew the batteries sealed under the arm she had managed to open without blacking out. She pushed her hard work off of her and turned to find the other three robots smashed to dust.

"Damn it," she mumbled, "You didn't have to obliterate them. Now I have to build new ones."

Vegeta, Raditz, and Trunks looked at guiltily at their feet as she picked up the one that she managed to disengage without inflicting destruction on the metal. Bulma broke the awkward silence first.

"So if you didn't upset them, what…or who did?" she asked.

"A goddamn creep," Lena answered bluntly, "let's check out the video footage to see if he was stupid enough to leave that as evidence." Lena led the others to her garage. She rarely let anyone in her office other than authorized personal (which did include Trunks since he enjoyed helping her) but considering the situation did involve the safety of her home and its occupants, she had to let them all in.

Bulma started the video imagery thirty minutes before they heard the commotion outside. It started with Lena leaving the house, twisting her long hair anxiously between her fingers as she walked to the garage. She looked ridiculous and blushed when Raditz cut his eyes at her. Lena refocused her attention back to the screen and tried to shrink herself into a ball when she saw a masked man sprint across the yard, holding the box and dropped it at her door.

Bulma paused the clip and all four pairs of eyes focused on Lena.

"Lena? Do you know that guy?" Bulma asked.

"No. At least I can't really tell from this…." She rambled. Bulma started the video back up as Lena continued her plea of innocence. Sure enough, the clip showed her lifting the garage, poking her blonde head out, and dragging the box inside.

Great. They all think I'm responsible for the retarded bots freaking out and more than likely assume I'm doing something illegal. Thanks, random ass hole for leaving that mystery box in a place that I could see it and my own curiosity for getting it. Getting it right here on camera, Lena said to herself.

Later, the video has the alarms going off and shows Lena running outside with a screwdriver. Bulma stopped the video again as the four pairs of eyes returned their attention back to her.

"What was in the box, Aunt Lena?" Trunks asked quietly.

"Nothing that has any relevance to what we watched. Obviously I was the target so can we just forget about the box and go back to bed. I'll fix the security issue tomorrow," Lena suggested.

"I demand to know what the information was that required you to leave the house in nothing but the sleep ware you have on, in the middle of the night, and made you look as if you are conspiring against our company," Vegeta sneered.

"What?! The stuff that was in that box is personal stuff okay. Raditz is the one that caused me to be in the state of distress you saw me in before I made it to the garage. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time so that it looks like I'm up to no good! The box just has a bunch of pictures from my youth at the orphanage. I promise that was all that was in it. I really do not want to be discussing that right now. I'm going back to my room so that I can sketch out designs for the replacements I will need to build thanks to you three," she grumbled and left the "three" as well as Bulma ogling at her. She knew very well that they would be hunting for that box. If they did locate it, she was in for one hell of a morning.

Lena found herself nodding off to sleep with her head lying on the desk in her bedroom. The thought of her sitting in the same seat Raditz had occupied previously that night had her inner goddess giggling. She snuffed out those thoughts and passed out quickly.

"Oh no, not this dream again," Lena mumbled audibly in her sleep.

Lena's arms and legs were tied to the four tillers matching them on the bed as her lover started his kissing attack on her left foot and up the corresponding thigh. He left a warm, wet trail with each kiss he planted on her exposed skin. His ginger hair was cut short and it scratched her face as his kisses reached her neck. It was the day after this night that she discovered that he was using her to aide in Dr. Gero's plans of world destruction. Her dream fast forwarded to the part where she discovered that her machines were being used on people and then to where she runs into her ex as she flees the building….

Lena awoke to the sound of her phone alarm. Her first thought was to relocate her box, the next was to start on fixing the threatened security, and lastly, she decided to get to know Raditz personally. After all, he was the only one that doesn't know how pitiful she was before coming to Capsule Corp. He would have no reservations and would be the most honest with her about anything. She may even find herself liking the savage brute.

*A/N- Yes, there will be more information about the ex, the blue print of her invention, and smuttiness in the future chapters. Like all deep stories, it may take some time for her relationships to evolve. Thanks for the patience!