Took awhile, but I'm back. Hopefully to stay. I know it took some time, but I do promise to finish these stories. I don't know how many people are still reading my stories but I've already updated Our Shattered World, if you haven't read that yet. So go and check that out if you already haven't. I'm about to go and start another chapter for either of these stories, whichever I feel like doing. I hope you guys like what I've got here so far. I've been really busy, but once again it is nearing the end of the semester, and I hopefully don't have too much more to do. Sorry this chapter isn't edited. But you know me. That's just the way I am.

FYI: I'm not a doctor, so please don't get on my about too much of the stuff mentioned at the beginning. I'm only guessing.

Chapter 7: Memory Lost

Most people give up when all hope is lost. But hope is not lost. They just stopped looking for it.

-Trunks

Trunks sat on the hospital bed that was in Capsule Corp. Bulma had run many tests on him and now he was waiting for the resutls. What results, he wasn't sure. He knew there was nothing wrong with him. He hadn't hit his head, had he? Pan was here, that was the problem. Not that he didn't want her here, but why? How did she get back? And why were there children here that she was saying was theirs? They didn't have any children. He would know if he had any children. How could he have had such young children with Pan if he hadn't seen her in ten years?

It was at this point that Bulma walked in and sat in front of Trunks, never once taking her eyes off of the graphs she held in her hands. Trunks stared at her as she studied the graphs, not knowing what she was going to say. Maybe there was something wrong with him. Why wouldn't anyone else be awestruck to see Pan. She had been missing for ten years and no one knew where she was. This had to be something, but everyone was acting as if it were a normal thing for her to be here. Something was going on. He just needed to find out what.

He watched one expression after another going across his mother's face, and still Trunks did not know what she was thinking. He had never seen her look like that before. Almost as if she were completely confused. After a few minutes, he cleared his throat to try and get her attention. She looked up, startled for a moment, and then realized that she had kept him waiting, perhaps for a little too long. She stood up and started to examine him, looking but not touching, finding nothing out of the ordinary. He couldn't take all the silence anymore and decided to speak up.

"So, what did you find?"

"Well," she continued, "I'm not too sure what to say. More like I don't know where to start. There is a lot of data here. And most of it isn't normal."

"What do you mean 'isn't normal'?" he worried

"Well, aside from your DNA, everything else seems to be far different then any other time I've had to run tests on you. Your white blood cell count is far from being normal, blood pressure and cholestrol is much higher than it has ever been, and you even seemed to have gained a few pounds. Even your power level is much smaller than it was before, but what gets me the most are your brain waves. They are a little different then usual. It's like you're not even the same Trunks anymore."

Trunks sat there taking this all in. He wasn't sure what to make of it all. He wasn't the same Trunks? How could that make any sense?

"What happened?" He sat there waiting for her answer, as if she knew exactly what it was. Afterall, this was Bulma. She was a certified genius, ran Capsule Corporation, invented everything to make lives easier for everyone on the planet. All of this while putting her duties as a mother and wife first. She had to know. Who else could?

"I'm not sure. I was hoping you would be able to tell me. What happened to you, Trunks. You seemed just fine yesterday. What has changed so drastically in your life for there to be a change over night?" Bulma wondered, honestly not knowing the answer.

"You can't be serious? Everything you're seeing is normal for me. I'm the same. I've always had high blood pressure and cholestrol. My white blood cell count has always been a little different. Everything is the same. The only difference in my life that happened over night is Pan!"

"What about Pan? You guys aren't fighting are you? She was fine yesterday. I haven't seen anything off on her until this morning when you started acting like this."

"What do you mean fine? She wasn't here yesterday!" He was practically screaming now. He didn't know what it was, but everyone seemed to think that she was supposed to be here. As if she had never left.

"Of course she was here yesterday. You two played with the kids all day. You even took them outside to play in the snow when it wasn't so bad."

"Those aren't my kids. I don't have any. Why are you acting like this? And why is Pan here? She left ten years ago. None of us have seen her since. Why are you acting as if she never left?"

Bulma stared at the man she was hoping was her son, but at the same time, was also hoping he wasn't. He had been married all these years to Pan, had two children, and yet here he sat, denying their very existance. How could this be possible? Just yesterday they were the happy family everyone envied. Now here he sat, saying that none of it was true.

"Trunks, what do you mean Pan left?"

"Ten years ago, Pan left and no one has seen her since," he tried to convince her. Almost desperate to prove he was not losing his mind.

"Pan didn't leave ten years ago, Trunks."

"What do you mean, 'Pan didn't leave'?"

"Pan has been here for ten years. She didn't leave you. You two have been married for nine years now. Those two children, Tsuki and Akira, belong to you and Pan. Don't you remember?"

"No, not I don't," Trunks said, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Tell me everything you do remember."

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