No Such Thing as Secrets No Such Thing as Secrets
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Pan was sitting in the kitchen listening to the hypnotizing hum of the dishwasher. She chose this room to hang out in because it was indeed the only room she knew she couldn't hear her mother give all the squalid details of this morning's incident to her grandmother. Granted, she knew she really shouldn't be embarrassed because she's heard the two women talk about everything under the sun. But this time it was about her and she would rather not hear the topic of her sex life and her from her own mother and grandmother, or anyone's mother or grandmother for that fact. The young woman looked at their housekeeper, Julie, work diligently on preparing a lunch for the Son family. She smiled to herself and realized that Julie as always been a sound voice of reason over the past two an a half years since she started working for them. As Pan walked over to the mild mannered woman, she smiled. Julie never looked up from what she was doing as she asked,
"What's bothering you Miss Pan?" Pan sat on the stool across from the porcelain-skinned woman and asked,
"Julie, with all that's going on, do you think I was wrong for this morning?" The servitress looked up at the younger woman and said,
"I don't necessarily think you and Mr. Briefs were wrong in confessing your love for each other but I do think the little make out session in the foyer was out of bounds especially with you knowing your father doesn't approve of your relationship with the man." Pan looked down at the woman's incessant chopping as Julie continued,
"You know, I've only been around for a couple of years and I have noticed the relationship between you two is very trusted despite the gap in age. If I were a parent I would be concerned like your father and mother have been, but I also know that you tend to be wiser than your age and Mr. Briefs younger than his at times so I think you two even each other out somehow." The woman stopped her chopping and walked over to the younger woman and placed a caring hand on her shoulder.
"Miss Pan, your family and friends are so different from anything I have experienced but you all are also the most genuine people I've ever met. If you truly feel that you and Mr. Briefs are meant to be together then I support and embrace your union. I have been around enough to know that love transcends color, age, culture and in your family's case worlds." Pan looked up at the woman and smiled,
"Thanks Julie, you are so wise."
Pan left the woman to prepare the enormous lunch for her family and went to find her mother and grandmother. As she entered the family room Videl immediately stopped talking and ChiChi looked at her with an odd, knowing smile. She oldest woman of the bunch patted the seat on the couch beside her and said to her granddaughter,
"Pan, honey, come sit here next to me." The quarter Saiyajin sighed, knowing what the conversation was going to be around, and went over to the spot where her grandmother touched and flopped down. She looked at the two women and said with a drone,
"Okay, let's get this over with already." Videl began to giggle and ChiChi soon followed, leaving Pan confused as to what was going on.
"What's so funny?"
Videl looked at the young woman and said,
"You look like you're coming to sign your own death certificate. You should be beaming with joy. You're finally with the man you've loved since forever." Pan glared at her mother due to the teasing tone in her last remark. She was also a little confused of how the woman could seem so happy all the sudden when she was ready to choke the living hell out of her and Trunks earlier. She gave a weary smile and said,
"Well, I am very happy. I just don't know how you all feel about it. I mean, I'm positive Dad is livid and I know you were angry." She turned to her grandmother and said,
"I don't know how you or grandpa feel about this."
ChiChi waved her hand and said, "Oh Pan, me and your grandfather saw this coming a mile away even though I didn't expect you two to get together just yet. I was thinking after you finished college and started a career but, hey, that's just me."
Pan looked at her grandmother wide eyed, knowing that ChiChi's tone and sweetly sarcastic remark meant an outburst would be impending if the wrong statement was made, and said softly,
"Well, Dad and Mom got bonded before they finish college and they're okay. Besides, me being bonded won't stop me from my career goals." Both ChiChi and Videl gave each other knowing looks as Videl said to her daughter,
"Honey, I hate to admit this to you but you're going to be pregnant within the year, if not sooner." Pan's face blanched as she replied,
"Mom! Trunks and I haven't even talked about children! I mean, really, he knows that I have to finish school and I am going to be working at grandpa Hercule's dojo with Uncle Goten. He will respect that and wait until I'm ready to have kids, just like he waited until I was ready to bond with him." ChiChi gave her only grandchild a motherly smile as she said,
"Sweetie, I'm going to tell you this. I was sixteen when I married your grandpa and was pregnant a month later. We didn't intend on starting a family so soon but it happens. Bulma and Vegeta bonded and Trunks was born exactly nine months later. When your Mom and Dad informed me that they bonded your mom was pregnant like seven months later. So history and experience leans to you getting pregnant within the next twelve months." Pan's already pale face whitened even more after hearing the statistics of the Saiyajins 'potency factor'. Videl stood up to answer the phone as she added,
"Not to mention you two will most likely be going at it like rabbits." Pan looked clown like as her color-drained face blushed over leaving her cheeks bright pink as she screamed,
"MOM!! I don't want to hear that from you!"
As Videl went to answer the phone ChiChi looked at the newly bonded woman and said,
"So have you packed?" Pan looked at her as if she grew a new head and said,
"Packed what?" The older woman smiled knowing the young woman had no clue what she was talking about and said,
"Your belongings. You know Gohan isn't going to let Trunks stay here." Pan placed her head in her hands and moaned,
"Grandma, we're not getting married, we're just bonded." ChiChi placed her hand on the woman's back and said,
"Pan, being bonded is like being married times fifty," she chuckled lightly and said,
"You will find out soon enough."
Bulma was speeding down the road and cut another car off while changing lanes as she waited for Videl to give ChiChi the phone. Since she made the realization, her mind's been going a mile a minute about how both of her children managed to change their lives so drastically in the past twenty-four hours, at least she thinks it's twenty-four hours.
How long have they actually been bonded to Pan and Goten? How come I never noticed the signs?
She made a sharp left turn just as she heard ChiChi's voice on the other say,
"Hey Bulma, you called to give me the news I bet." Bulma pressed down on the accelerator and said,
"So you knew too? How come you didn't let me in on the knowledge?" ChiChi replied,
"Well, I thought Trunks would have told you." The aqua hair scientist slapped her head as she realized the woman only knew about one of the bonds and said,
"ChiChi, I'm not talking about Trunks and Pan, I'm talking about Goten and Bra." ChiChi laughed on the phone and said,
"Yeah, they were weird yesterday. I know Goten is going through something with whatever floozy he's messing with and I guess Bra…" ChiChi was cut off with Bulma screaming,
"ChiChi, it's no floozy this time, it's my daughter!! They're bonded!" ChiChi screamed causing Bulma to hold the phone away from her ear,
"WHAT!! How do you know?" Bulma shifted in the air car's bucket seat and replied,
"Vegeta told me and he said Goku knew before he did. You mean to tell me he finally kept a secret?" She heard ChiChi snarl,
"Well he pick the wrong fucking time to keep a damn secret from me!" Bulma quickly interjected, knowing the woman on the other end was about to blow a gasket,
"Well, this is what I propose because both of our children kept this from us, we find them I force them to tell us what the hell was on their minds. I never saw a connection between them and then… POW!! They're life-mates?"
ChiChi was on the same page, as she listened to Bulma's plan she asked her granddaughter,
"Can you locate where your uncle and grandfather are? Pan nodded and closed her eyes after a couple of moments she said,
"Grandpa and dad are far away and Uncle G is in the desert mountain terrain with… Bra? That's weird…" ChiChi turned her attention back to the woman on the phone and said,
"Bulma get over here so Videl and Pan can take us to our children." She hear the woman reply,
"I'm one step ahead of you," as the doorbell rang.
Pan looked at her Grandmother confused as to what was going on as she went to open the door. To her surprise Bulma was standing there with the same fire in her eyes as ChiChi. She stepped out of the woman's way and said as casually as she could,
"Hey Ms. Bulma!" Bulma looked the raven-haired woman and said softer than what her expression showed,
"You should call me mom now Panny, I know too. Where's your grandmother." As Pan pointed to the family room ChiChi came into the foyer with Videl hot on her trail. She looked at her friend of several years with a look that only the other could understand and said,
"I'm guessing you want Pan to carry you since you too have so much to catch up on." Bulma stared at her new daughter-in-law and said,
"I sure do." She grabbed the Quarter Saiyajin's and said,
"Take me to wherever Bra is." Pan quickly obliged, a little fearful of the look in her new mother in law and grandmother's eyes. As Bulma jumped on her back piggy style she flared her ki and lifted off the ground she wondered to herself,
What did Bra and Uncle G do to make grandma and Bulma so pissed?
Trunks took off with Vegeta, flying faster than he flown in a long time. He looked over to his father and noticed something a little different about the man's usual scowl and wondered who was Bra talking to in her room. As the two men zoomed out of the West Capital City area and started towards the desert mountain terrain he felt his mate's ki flare up and asked telepathically asked her,
"Panny, is everything okay?" She quickly replied back,
"Honestly, I don't know. Your mom and grandma are mad at Goten and Bra. We're going to the desert mountain terrain." Trunks eyes widened as he thought,
Was Goten in the room with Bra? Why!? What the hell is going on here? He then riposted,
Me and Dad are going there too. I wonder what is going on.
When he didn't hear Pan respond he figured she was in deep thought and turned his thoughts back to his father's expression. But before he could really get good into his thoughts he heard Pan yell through their bond,
"Trunks, they're bonded!! Bulma just told me!!
Before he realized what he was doing Trunks went Super and increased his speed to the spot where his little sister and her new mate were.
I'm going to kill them both!!
Vegeta noticed his son stealing glances at him trying to figure out was wrong. He also heard the man talking to his new mate, although he doesn't do it often he can talk to his oldest child through his paternal bond. So it was no surprise to him when the man turned Super and pelted off to their destination.
Goten sat at the edge of the cliff with his head in his hands. He looked at the ground below and wondered if he jumped off the cliff would he injure himself enough to avoid the wrath of the six people coming his way as well as the fury Bra was giving him right now.
It would be just my luck I break the ground instead of myself.
He continued to ignore the woman slapping him on the back screaming the obvious; their families were heading towards them. Trunks and Vegeta just turned Super and their moms seemed to be really pissed.
He then looked up at the sky and whispered,
Dende, you hate me don't you?
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