Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama, I own nothing except my own OC and ideas.

"Kat . . . Kaaaat . . . Wake up. . . KATHERINE!"

Kat bolted upright in bed at the sound of Bulma's calling.

"Whaat?" she mumbled rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"It's time to get up."

"Why so early?" Kat yawned.

". . . Kat, its past noon," Bulma said.

". . . Really?"

Bulma nodded.

"I had the weirdest dream that this dude from outer space came and claimed to be Goku's brother. And then he took me and Gohan to this large field where he had his weird ass alien space pod- what?" Kat questioned the look Bulma was giving her.

"That, happened . . . yesterday," Bulma said.

"Damn . . . Sooo I'm guessing we can't just go back to bed and forget this whole thing ever happened."

"Trust me if we could, I would have already."

"So what's happened while I've been asleep?"

"Well, I figured that we couldn't allow him to completely heal otherwise he might kill us all so he's out of the tank. He's out of the life-or-death situation but he's still heavily wounded so we're safe for the time being. Also, I was able to figure out how his ear piece worked so I incorporated that energy-detecting technology to the sensors that are covertly scattered throughout his room."

"Is he in the room now?"

"Yeah," she nodded, "but don't worry, he's completely out of it," she sat down on the bed.

"So the only problem left is that tail."

"I've completely sealed off the window in the room so we don't have to worry about any transformations going on while he's here, and besides, I embedded a microchip in his tail so we can shock him if he misbehaves. And we both know how sensitive that tail is."

"Damn Bulma, you got a lot of things done overnight."

"Well, I couldn't sleep, you know with Goku gone and everything," she sighed. "So I decided I might as well get to work to get my mind off of it, and hey, it worked. I got everything done."

"That's great. So what do we do now?"

"I guess all we can do is check up on him since he's still heavily wounded."

"Just let me know where his room is and then leave it to me. You look exhausted, you'd better nap or something. It'll do wonders, trust me."

"You sure?" It wasn't that she didn't trust her friend, she just wasn't sure if it was really ok to be napping in their situation. Yet Kat basically slept all morning and probably would have continued on.

"Positive. It's time for my 'shift'. Just tell me all that I'll need to know then leave it all to me," Kat assured.

Once Bulma left the room, Kat quickly changed into her clothes then joined her friend. Bulma led her to the "control room" and explained everything Kat would need to know about the display panels.

"Did you understand all of that?" Bulma asked wanting to make sure Kat was able to take in all of the information.

"Yeah yeah, those panels display energy levels, camera monitor is over there, I need to check up on him in a hour or so, button over there controls microchip in his tail, remote to control the chip is in my pocket, and a bunch of other little things that I perfectly understand just can't explain."

"Alrighty then, seems you got everything down. I'm off to bed," Bulma yawned. "Thanks and. . .Be careful," she winked before completely leaving the room.

"Wait what was that for-" she began but it was too late, Bulma was already gone. "Why the hell did she wink at me?" Kat mumbled as she turned her attention to the monitors and panels throughout the room. Everything looked normal as she looked over the panels. Raditz appeared to be dead asleep on the bed. After a while, Kat decided to take advantage of the opportunity and might as well go check up on him.

She double checked to make sure the remote was in her pocket before she headed off towards Raditz's room. Standing outside of the door, she punched in the code to the lock before it beeped once followed by the door sliding open. To be honest, she was slightly nervous as she entered the room. She looked around until her eyes caught sight of the bed on the far side. Nothing to worry about, she kept repeating in her mind as she approached the bed. As she observed him a little ways from the foot of the bed, she couldn't help but feel that something wasn't right. She slowly approached him until she was leaning over his face. He appeared to be completely out of it but something just didn't seem right. She wasn't up for wasting her time trying to figure it out so she just sighed and decided the hell with it.

What happened next happened so fast that Kat didn't even register what happened until she was lying down on the bed.

"You," she gritted. Raditz had pulled her atop his body before flipping them over and pinning her arms above her head, successfully trapping her in between the bed and his body.

"We meet again, so soon," he said in a husky voice as he leaning in close to her face.

"Unfortunately," she replied. "I would have been perfectly fine if we never saw each other again," she said trying to keep a straight face but her heart was pounding at their proximity. She needed to break free, but how? Even in his current state he completely overpowered her.

"Then it would have been quite unfortunate for you if I were to have taken you with me," he mocked. "Speaking of which, I do believe we were in the middle of something before we were interrupted yesterday."

Shit, she mentally cursed.

"We weren't in the middle of anything."

"Need I remind you?" He couldn't help but smirk as he nuzzled her neck. He could feel her tensing underneath him.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK, her mind was screaming. I'll fucking kill this son of a bitch!

He could feel her pulse quickening as he lightly brushed his lips against her neck, which only caused him to smirk even more.

"You could have been mine, had you come with me," he whispered huskily in her ear which sent chills running along her spine. "Mine, along with all of the power I have to offer."

"I thought I told you I don't give a damn about power," she said while trying to wriggle her wrists free but his grip was just too strong. "And I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to be yours. Now get off," she said annoyed. "I don't think you're in a position to be messing with me."

He chuckled then smirked and looked at her, "I think I'm in a position to do an-y-thing I want to you."

Damn bastard, that did it! She kneed him where it hurts, hard, which made him loosen his grip. Kat quickly broke free, punched him in the jaw, and then rolled away from under him and off of the bed.

Damn it, he mentally cursed as he held his abdomen. Kneeing him hard down there had made his abdomen painfully cramp up. The wound was closed but he wasn't healed yet. He was practically the same as before except now he didn't have an open hole right through his torso.

"Told ya," she said slyly standing a little ways from the bed.

"Put me back in the tank," he demanded.

"No can do. I'm not authorized to do such a thing," she said. "The person who can put you back in there is out for the time being . . . buuuut I don't think it would be such a good idea putting you in there."

"It wouldn't be a good idea?" he repeated. "Why? Answer me!"

"Well for one, I don't have to answer if I don't want to. But I'm feeling mighty generous despite what just happened so I'll tell you. Two, if you heal, you might kill us and we can't have that happen. And three, if you were to go in the tank, there's a chance you might shock yourself to death and we can't have that either."

"Shock?"

"The liquid in the tank conducts electricity very well. We embedded a tiny chip in your tail that can send bolts of electricity coursing through your body. You step in that tank and you're done for."

"Bitch," he spat. "Remove it!"

"The tail? Ok. I'll be back in a few," she joked, which only seemed to piss him off even more.

"The chip! Remove it from my tail!" he demanded angrily.

"Naaa. We need it to keep you in line. We can manually control it but if you try to destroy anything or if your energy levels rise to a certain limit, it'll automatically shock you. Now be a good boy and go back to bed."

He continued to glare at her.

"Remember what I told you before; we can do this the easy way or the hard way. It's all on you. No one would blame you for trying to save your own ass first by helping us out. Help us out and chances are you'll be able to leave."

"Damn you."

"Welcome to Earth. We don't look so weak now, do we?" she laughed as she exited the room, leaving a very pissed off Raditz sitting on the edge of the bed.

As she headed back towards the control room, she encountered Mrs. Briefs who informed her that she had made lunch for the ladies.

Mrs. Briefs led Kat to a small garden that had a table set up with lots of food on it.

"Take a seat dear," Mrs. Briefs gestured to the seat next to Kat.

Kat took a seat just as Bulma entered the small garden. She looked way better than she had before.

"How long was I asleep?" she yawned in her hand as she took a seat across from Kat.

"Like half an hour," Kat replied.

"Really? It felt as if I were asleep for hours."

"It's quite a shocker what a small power nap can do."

"Any news on the patient?" Bulma asked.

"Um well he woke up and has been sitting on the edge of the bed. His back was towards the camera sooo can't really tell what he was doing . . . probably planning out our deaths . . . oh well," Kat shrugged.

"You two don't like each other, do you?"

"Nope."

"Then I guess you wouldn't mind if I put him in your care."

"W-what?" Kat choked out. She swallowed the food in her mouth and took a drink of juice.

"Well I figured since you two can't get along, accompanied by your repertoire of skills, you might know what to do to get him to speak."

"I suppose, but I don't think I can really be coming back here from my apartment every so often," Kat frowned slightly.

"I agree. Why have an apartment when you can live here."

"I- wait, what? Bulma, you can't be serious. I wouldn't want to impose on any of you."

"Kat, just look at the size of this place. It wouldn't even bother us one bit if you were to live here. And besides, you even said that you didn't have a job, so if you move in, you'll be completely covered."

"Bulma I-"

"Katherine Felis you are moving in and that is that!"

Kat was speechless before a small smile played at her lips. "I guess so."

The girls finished eating and shortly after headed off towards Kat's apartment to pack up. It took them a couple of hours since they did everything manually but they were able to get it done. They bought some fast food then headed back to Capsule Corp. and began to unpack.

"This'll be your new room," Bulma said as she gestured Kat inside.

Kat's eyes widened as she entered the room. It was waay larger than the one from before. "Bulma, it's so big."

"I know. It's one of the largest rooms here," she said casually. "Shall we start unpacking?"

Kat only nodded, not being able to form words at the moment.

Once they had everything brought up, Bulma helped Kat unpack and organize her stuff. By the time they were done it was the late evening. They were both lazily lying on the bed looking up at the ceiling until Kat abruptly sat up, remembering something really important.

"Shit! Bulma! Raditz, food, forgot."

"What?" she sat up.

"Damn it, we forgot to give Raditz food!"

They both bolted out of the room and downstairs to the kitchen.

"What do we give him?" Kat asked as they looked around.

"Hey what's this?" Bulma questioned as she noticed something on the oven. It was a sticky note. "Bulma dear, I made some food for you ladies to eat once you return" Bulma read. "We already ate . . . should we give this to him? It's still warm. We can just heat it up."

"Go for it."

Once they heated the food up they put it on a cart then headed towards his room.

"Here," Bulma whispered giving Kat the small control.

"What? You're not coming in with me?"

"No way, he'll easily kill me. You've got some training so you'll put up a fight long enough for me to open the door . . . if anything were to happen of course."

"Fine, wait here. I'll see if he's asleep or not then I'll bring the cart in."

When Kat entered the room, she saw him lying face down on the bed. She cautiously approached the bed.

"Hey," she said slowly. "Heyy," she tried again but no response. "Hey!" she slightly poked his head.

He caught her hand before she could retract it.

"Oh would you look at that, you're alive."

He sat up, not letting her hand go.

"I brought you food and I can't get it if you have my hand."

He slowly let go. "You've starved me all day."

"I know but hey, be grateful I even considered bringing you actual food. Not crap I could've found in the streets. Now I'll be right back."

Bulma was leaning against the wall waiting for Kat.

"I think he's been hungry for a while now," she said as she punched in the code for the door to open. She pushed in the cart then the door slid closed behind her.

"Told ya I had food," she rolled the cart to him.

His mouth was beginning to water at the smell of the food. He was starving. The last thing he had eaten was some fruit he had found yesterday and even that was nothing. As much as he was tempted to eat, he looked at it skeptically then at her.

"What? Nothing's wrong with it jeez," she said as she walked over to a corner of the room where there was a small table with two chairs. She sat in one chair then propped her feet up on the table and began picking at her nails.

"Why do you stay?" he asked her from where he was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Because I'm not really up for going back and forth between here and out there," she replied not looking up at him. "Now are you going to ask me anymore questions or are you going to eat?"

She looked over at him and was surprised that the large meal for more than two people was already half gone. Just like Goku, she couldn't help but think. It made her smile a bit.

"What are you smiling about?" he asked in a cool tone.

"You remind me of Goku," she said.

"Kakarrot? Don't compare me to someone as pathetic as him," he spat out.

"Pathetic? As I recall, you were the one begging him to spare your life, he was the one who chose to sacrifice his life in order to do away with you. Also, he's not the one at the complete mercy of a human female."

"You'd better watch that pretty mouth of yours," he said as he pushed aside the now empty cart and stood up. "We wouldn't want anything to happen to it, now would we?"

"Ha, as if you could touch this pretty mouth," she said as she stood.

"Are you challenging me?" he asked amused.

"I don't know, am I? This pretty mouth can't keep track of what it says."

"Well you'd better keep track otherwise it'll get you in some serious trouble."

"Like what?" she challenged.

He was tempted, very tempted, oh so tempted . . . and he couldn't resist anymore. He pulled her body flat against his and captured her lips with his in a searing, lustful kiss. When he pulled back, Kat's fist immediately connected with his jaw. He didn't regret it, not at all. Especially after seeing the way she nearly stumbled out of the room with a flushed face. If anything, he would do it again just to see that look on her face.

That was one way to shut that pretty mouth up. . .