/ ❯ Temptation Waits ❯ Chapter 18

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Bulma sat at the bar and slowly drank down another of the strange sparkly beverages that Vegeta now had her hooked on. Vegeta himself was over at the bar ordering more drinks.

"Hey there? This chair empty?"

Bulma looked up at the red haired man who sat down across from her in Vegeta's seat and looked at him with contempt, "As a matter of fact it is taken, so you'd better move!"

The man smiled sleazily and tried to touch Bulma's hand, "Oh come on baby, I've seen the man you're here with…that short little nobody."

"That short little 'nobody' is Prince Vegeta, so unless you want to get your ass kicked I'd suggest you move." Bulma scowled, then a slight smile crept over her face as she noticed that Vegeta had noticed her plight and was now heading over this way wearing his 'I'm-an-angry-saiyan-so-don't-fuck-with-me' look.

"Get out of my chair weakling." Vegeta grabbed the man by his collar and lifted him clean out of the seat and hurled him to the floor,

"Hey dude…I didn't mean to…" The man tried to forestall his imminent beating, but Vegeta wasn't having any of it.

"Shut up fool!" Vegeta kicked him to the floor when the man tried to scrabble to his feet, "How dare you try to hit on Prince Vegeta's woman! Are you stupid or just plain suicidal?" Vegeta's tone was getting angrier and angrier, sparred on by the mans contemptuous look.

"Oh come on…your not Prince Vegeta, Prince Vegeta was killed on Namek, every idiot knows that!" The man avoided Vegeta as he climbed to his feet, "Besides, even if you were Prince Vegeta, you don't deserve a woman like her!" The man threw back his head and laughed.

Vegeta was not impressed.

Not impressed at all.

Bulma winced as Vegeta's fist connected with the mans face with a sickening crunch, she winced again as the man howled in pain and Vegeta roughly punched him in the stomach and sent him flying across the room the hit the wall with a shuddering jar.

Vegeta glared around the bar nastily, "Any body else want to hit on my wife?"

There was silence.

"Didn't think so."

@--8------

Vegeta and Bulma walked through the spaceport, glancing in windows and perusing the different stores at their leisure.

"I can't believe you actually got into a brawl with another man over me." Bulma grinned with amusement, while Vegeta merely snorted,

"It wasn't a real fight, that weakling loser didn't even hit back once." He frowned at the memory and began to mutter under his breath, "Idiot weakling doubting that I'm Prince Vegeta…"

"This one looks interesting, lets go in!" Bulma cut Vegeta's mutters off and opened the store's door and walked in, vegeta shrugged and followed her.

The store clerk, a tall girl with shiny black hair looked up at them, "Hi I'm Lena, welcome to weasel world, how can I help you?"

"Were just looking thanks." Vegeta growled under his breath as the shop keep pranced closer and looked him up and down,

"Say, don't I know you from somewhere?"

"No."

"You sure?"

"Yes."

"Real sure?"

"Yes!" Vegeta turned away from the annoying clerk and wandered over to where Bulma was watching some small weasels playing in a cage.

"Their so cute! How much are they?" Bulma smiled at them.

Lena pranced closer, avoiding the angry saiyan Prince, "Only 20 credits, of course, since you're so nice I can probably do you deal…how about 15 credits?"

Bulma looked at the cute little weasels and smiled again, "I don't know…where did these things come from any way?"

"Oh this little place called Earth…they have the strangest animals there!" Lena tossed her black hair and opened the cage, handing one of the weasels to Bulma so she could hold it.

"What hideous little creatures." Vegeta muttered as he stared at them over Bulma's shoulder.

The little weasels turned and looked at Vegeta as he said this, then before Lena could close the door they all weaselled their way out of the cage and leapt at Vegeta, fastening onto his arms and legs as he shrieked and tried to batter them off. One weasel crawled into his hair and Vegeta shrieked louder, hopping up and down and shaking himself in a bad attempt to dislodge the angry weasels.

Bulma couldn't help but laugh as Vegeta dropped to the floor and began to roll around in an unconscious parody of the old fire rule 'stop drop and roll.'

"Oh my." Lena ran over to Vegeta and began pulling weasels off him.

Finally she pulled the last one from his hair and Vegeta jumped to is feet, giving a small shudder of revulsion as the yellow weasel in Lena's arms hissed at him, "Umm, perhaps you'd better go." Lena ushered them towards the door, "It's funny…I've never seen them do that before." She whispered to Bulma before closing the shop door behind them and switching the sign from 'open' to 'closed'.

Vegeta rubbed at the multiple weasel bites and glared at Bulma, "Next time I'm picking the shop we go into."

"No way!" Bulma scoffed, "Knowing you we'd end up walking into some sort of mad scientists shop and you'd be turned into some sort of strange half fly half man creature…then I'd have to call you 'Buzzeta'"

"That isn't funny woman." Vegeta glared at her.

"Hey it's the truth! Your just as bad at picking good shops as I am." Bulma and Vegeta slowly walked back to the docking bay where the captain of the guards and his men were assembled outside.

"Ah, Prince Vegeta, your ship if fully stocked and we wish you a good departure." The captain and his men bowed as Vegeta and Bulma walked up the ramp and shut the airlock behind them.

Vegeta breathed a sigh of relief, "I can't tell you how glad I am to leaving."

"Me either." Bulma walked over to the controls and started the ship.

In a matter of minutes they had pulled out of the docking bay and were continuing on their way home.

@--8------

Vegeta was watching Bulma wash dishes when a strange thought struck him, "Hey Bulma?"

"Mmmm?" She glanced at him over her shoulder, "What's up?"

"I'm just wondering…suppose you went spelunking with some friends and the cave collapsed and you were stuck in there with no way out…I was just wondering what would be going through your mind?"

"That's a weird question." Bulma finished washing up and pulled her rubber gloves off, "I guess ways of escaping would be running through my mind…what would you be thinking?"

Vegeta smirked at Bulma, "I'd be thinking that my friends are starting to look mighty tasty."

"Vegeta!" Bulma threw a dishcloth at him, "That's horrible!"

Vegeta laughed and lunged at Bulma, scooping her into his arms and carried her into the bedroom where he dropped her on the bed and suddenly smirked, "Boy…is it getting hot in here or is it just me?" He pulled off his armour and Bulma snickered.

"Yeah…I'm feeling really warm too…" She pulled off her dress and licked her bottom lip.

Vegeta raised at eyebrow and moved towards her, catching her mouth in a passionate kiss…then they were interrupted by the last person they ever thought to here from again…

"Hey guys…miss me?" Lucas the incredibly good-looking elf appeared in front of them and began to laugh…

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