He will train again.

Bulma left the capsule on the kitchen table and looked around; it was as messy as she left it last night. Well, at least now they had enough food to survive the two remaining days. Having an angry saiyan was one thing but if he was starving too, that could easily get ugly. She could hear him grunting on his room. She was not even curious to know what it was this time. She could figure that one out by herself. Right now what she needed was some more time to make up her mind about how she was planning to act. She hadn´t spoken to him since last night and she wasn´t sure what she wanted to say or, more importantly, hear.

-"Woman!!"- Vegeta yelled, he had sensed someone downstairs

-"Coming"- Bulma went upstairs and found him on the floor of the room, the bandage was torn and he looked pale.-"I told you to stay still for at least a day, I thought it was only me who had problems with hearing since the explosion"

-"Stop yelling and solve this"- Vegeta was beyond frustration, he had been forced to ask a human or help. He felt her arms around his shoulders while she helped him to get back into the bed. He had been preparing a sarcastic and cruel speech all morning. He was going to make her cry, while he laughed at her emotions, calling her weak, saying that emotions were for useless brats and that real warriors only cared about power. He was going to crash her heart in his hands and enjoy her suffering but the moment she touched him with her usual mixture of clumsiness and tenderness, the fight was over. He embraced her and both ended up in bed, Bulma on top of him.

-"Your bandage has to be changed, you will start bleeding again"- Bulma said nervously

-"If you change it now it will need to be changed again in no time"- Vegeta smirked

The following morning, Bulma was reading a magazine, letting her imagination fly in the living room. She had been in love before, or so she thought, but it ended up badly. Yamcha was a nice guy but not the man of her dreams, of course, thinking that Vegeta was her charming prince was far from true. They had been together, physically, but that was all it was. He wasn´t nicer to her and he still called her "woman" and yelled at her. But she was in love, she knew it, she could feel it in her bones and although it was scary it felt right. So she looked at a picture in the magazine and found herself thinking if Vegeta would like to see her dressed like that. Someone was at the door and Bulma went to open it. It was Krillin. She was not sure if she was happy to see him but she smiled at her friend as usual.

-"Hey, Bulma, I came with the senzu beans you needed. How is Vegeta doing?"- Asked Krillin-"Has he been mean to you? I bet he has been shouting and demanding things all this time"

-"You have no idea"- She smirked, Krillin didn´t like her smirk, it reminded him to much of the prince, maybe Bulma was spending too much time around that jerk as Yamcha had told him just last night.

-"Well, at least it is over now, here you go"- Krillin passed her a small pouch with the beans-"there are four of them, just in case"

-"Thanks, Krillin"- Bulma´s smile faded a little bit."Do you want something to eat or drink?"

-"No, thanks Bulma, I better get going. You know, training and stuff"- Krillin didn´t want to risk it, he was not ready to see Vegeta so soon.

-"Okay, then, see you"-Bulma closed the door and repeated to herself his words "it´s over now"….she knew it, once he could walk and train, all that had happened between was over. Maybe it was better that way, after all it was not like they had a great future waiting for them, and she was not thinking on the androids but more on the fact that he wasn´t in love with her and that sooner or later he would break her heart and she would end up in tears. She knew he would never ask her to marry him, in fact, he might never even call her by her name….

Vegeta could feel the energy returning to his body, he felt no more pain and he was ready for a fight. It was the greatest feeling of all, he was a warrior again, ready for more training. He jumped out of bed and searched the room for his spandex training outfit. He didn´t even see her looking at him with pain in her eyes. He left the room without acknowledging her presence at all.

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I have decided to change a bit my original idea, it will be more like the title, about Vegeta´s pride and love for his family and less about the 3 years gap, so bear with me till I figure how to do it...but I will try to finish the fic and I hope you like it )