Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ I Never Dreamed ❯ Chapter 36 ( Chapter 36 )

I Never Dreamed

By: AMCM74

Chapter 36

"Mr. Briefs, we need your answer." The doctor looked at her clipboard. Even she could not look Trunks in the face.

"I don't know" Trunks whispered "I, I can't answer that." He looked around the room at the all the tortured faces.

The nurse pushed open the door "Doctor, The bay is lapsing again."

"Mr. Briefs, we can't do anything with out you consent. The way things are progressing we may lose them both." Trunks heard a buzzing in his head. For the first time in his life he thought he was going to faint. Then a firm hand clamped down on his shoulder. He looked up and saw the last person he expected.

Mark Devero took a ragged breath. "You have to save the baby, Trunks. Pan would never forgive you if you let her daughter die." Trunks absorbed his words and found wisdom in them "Beside, Pan is a Saiyan. She could pull through for us."

Trunks nodded. The doctor held out her clipboard. "These are the forms you need to sign. I am going to go prep your wife and call down to the O.R. There will be someone here soon to explain the procedure to you." With that she was gone. Seconds later Pan was wheeled out of her room and down the hall. Trunks stood stiffly and held the clipboard in his trembling hands. He looked down at the papers he had to sign. He had to sign away Pan's life. His wife's life for that of his unborn, innocent daughter's, Akio, That was the name Pan had wanted. Love child. Trunks looked at the papers as his hand moved quickly across each page. There were wet spots that were appearing on each sheet as he flipped through them.

"Mr. Briefs.' He looked up to see another man in blue scrubs. "The doctor says you can come into the O.R. She thinks it best to have you there."

Trunks looked at the board again "I think I am done with this."

"Alright I will go over it with you as we get you in a pair scrubs." He looked at the somber faces around him. You can all wait outside O.R. I will send someone out when there is news."



Trunks stepped into the room. The light was bright, and the room was slightly chilly. Pan lay with a huge sheet spread over her. The nurse motioned for him to sit by her head.

"We are already in. Mr. Briefs." the doctor said through her mask. "Do you want us to give you a step by step of what is happening?"

"You can just tell me the important stuff." He leaned over and touched Pan's hair. So soft and the sweet sent of lavender rose to great him, like a haunted memory. She looked so vulnerable.

"Well, how about, that fact we defiantly have a little girl here." The doctor replied, "She is a bit of a tomboy though. She doesn't seem to want to come out just now. Hunter, get me the suction." Trunk jolted when a few seconds later a loud cry of rebellion blasted through the room. Looking up he saw the doctor handing his daughter to a waiting nurse. "She is not happy about that was she?"

Trunks rose to his feet and watched his baby being carried across the room. The nurse waiting by the table smiled "You can come over here if you want daddy."

Trunks looked to Pan then to the Baby. "Your wife is holding very stable right now, Mr. Brief. I believe it will be fine."

Trunks moved over to watch the nurses cleaning off the kicking screaming baby. "Look at that. She has a tail!" One looked up at the other. Trunks' eyes his daughter. She did indeed have a tail. She was graced with soft wisps of raven hair as well. Though Trunks could make out the dark purple tint highlighting quite a few strands.

"Akio." Trunks reached out with his ki. The baby stilled her fighting and opened her eyes to stare defiantly at her father. Their eyes locked. Matching blue Mediterranean skies. Then her bottom lip popped out and she let out a huge scream of disgruntled annoyance as the nurse rubbed her with the towel again.

"What is her name?" the nurse asked continuing her work. Grabbing up the baby's legs and swaddling her in a blanket

"She is Akio Lingerie Briefs." Trunks smiled as the nurse handed the baby to her father. "At least that is what I told her mother I would call her. But if she keeps giving me that look I am going to call her Lemon" In response Akio yelled louder. Trunks held his daughter for the first time. She felt so tiny and fragile in his hands but her yell belied that image. This child, which Pan had given him was even stronger then she seemed. He looked down at her and began to pity the poor boy that under estimated her.

It was in that glowing moment of total and undaunted love between father and daughter. The assistant spoke clearly "Her blood pressure is dropping."

"Get, Mr. Brief out of here." The doctor words caused Trunks to turn around and face the scene before him. It seemed as if everything was happening in slow motion. The nurse ushered him with little Akio in his arms to the door. The doctor reached out and grabbed a needle that was by her hand "She is going to seize. Everyone get over here and hold her down." Trunks last image was of several delivery assistants grabbing his wife and pinning her to the bed. In his mind eyes he saw he a mere twenty-four hours ago. Sitting happily in a restaurant joking with Marron, as Mark scowled over at him, and Bra crashed her heel onto Devero's foot. One day. He hadn't even been married to her for one day. This couldn't be happening. The door slammed shut and this friends and family stood in front of him, all of them eagerly awaiting some word as to how things were going. He stood there the baby in his arms.

Videl stepped forward with a smiled on her face and looked at her screaming granddaughter. "Oh, she is so precious." Trunks looked beyond her to Gohan. The hopeful expression in the other man's eyes died slowly. Turning from the group even a grown man like Gohan found solace in his mother's arms. Chi-chi embraced her eldest in quiet reserve.

"Mr. Briefs, the nurse at his side prompted. "We have to take the baby to the nursery for her physical."

He slipped the baby into his mother-in-law's arms "Please take her. I have to wait for Pan."

Videl nodded totally unaware of the atmosphere around her. She was just still to catch up in the wonder of her new grandchild.

It took almost twenty minutes before the doors opened. The doctor stepped out and leaned against the wall looking at the ceiling with a deep sigh. After a moment she faced the nervous crowed "It is a miracle." The doctor pulled off her mask. "She is stabilized and heading to I.C.U."

A loud cheer went up and the doctor smiled at Trunks encouragingly "The next twelve hours will be the real test. She is not completely out of danger, yet. But after the way she fought in there I would bet Mrs. Briefs will not be going any where, but home."

Trunks hugged the doctor and stammered out a thousand `thank yous.'

Marron and Goten flew down the hall in a dead run "Did we miss anything?" Marron gasped as she sought to gain her breath.

Everyone looked at the two in shock. Goten looked around in utter amazement at the looks he was receiving from his friends. The to his mom he said, "What I was hungry?"