Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Decoding the Saiyan ❯ Sound ( Chapter 11 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z.

A/N: Just a really short one, written using the prompt `sound' from the Senses Challenge on Blue & Black. I was listening to Exogenesis Symphony part 3 (Redemption) by Muse while writing this one.

Sound

She hadn't wanted to believe it.

In fact, she'd been so shocked that for a few weeks she'd tried to ignore that she had ever taken the damn test. They weren't always accurate, right? But the morning sickness had continued, her breasts had ached terribly, and in her heart she had known that it was true.

How she hid it from Vegeta, she didn't know. He had always seemed so in tune with her body, his Saiyan senses picking up on her moods easily, and yet he showed no sign of knowing that a child, their child, was growing within her.

She'd hid it from her parents, too. She couldn't bear to tell them until she knew for sure. And so she'd booked an appointment with the radiographer, having worked out herself- counting backwards to her last period- that she was around seven weeks along.

She lay nervously in the radiographer's room, watching as the he prepared the ultrasound equipment. Her skin prickled as the nurse on hand lifted her gown, squeezing out the pale green gel onto her belly. “It's a bit cold at first,” the young nurse apologised, flashing her a friendly smile.

“That it is,” the radiographer agreed, smiling at her with kind, aged eyes. “It's natural to feel nervous, dear,” he added, patting her hand. “Now let's just see what you have hiding in there...”

And there is was. Even before the radiographer pointed it out, she could see the oval on the screen- her baby- and could see the quick flashing of the baby's heartbeat.

“I'll just turn up the sound,” the radiographer smiled gently.

“Oh! Oh Kami!” Bulma gasped, hearing for the first time the quick thadump, thadump, thadump of the baby's heartbeat. Tears ran silently down her cheeks and she sniffled, gratefully taking a tissue from the nurse.

Thadump, thadump, thudump, thudump, thudump, thudump, thudump, thudump, thudump, thudump...

It was the most beautiful sound she had ever heard.