Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ I Swear ❯ One-Shot

I was listening to old school lunch on my local radio station the other day, and the song "I swear" by All4one came on, man it brought me back. Any ways, as I was listening to the lyrics, I thought what a good song to make a Trunks and Pan Song fic, and as my faithful reviewers know, I love a good T/P song fic.

"Hey Pan who you going to the prom with? Your cousin?" She heard a girl yell at her. Usually Pan would have beaten the girl to a pulp, but instead she chose to ignore the harsh remarks she had gotten. The truth was Pan Son had no date to the prom, no boy had asked her, and the one she had asked were either busy or already had dates, so they said.

Pan wasn't exactly a supermodel, but she wasn't a dog either. She did not care if she went to the prom, or what the other girls in school thought of her.

"Oh, come on Nancy I hear she's going with her dog, because she is one." Another said in a snobbish bitchy tone. Pan had no idea why she was always picked on, maybe because she was short, or maybe because she could fight either way the entire population of the school picked her on.

Pan slammed her locker shut as she was being fed up with the remarks that the two girls were saying.

Pan sighed as she left for home. She got to her house, she saw that her Uncle Goten and his best Friend Trunks Briefs were there visiting with her mother Videl.

"Hey Pan." Trunks greeted her with a smiled.

"He. He..." Pan couldn't say anything, she had a massive crush on Trunks and every time he was around she would get completely tongue tied.

"Pan are you alright."

"I...I...I..." Pan stammered as she ran upstairs to her room. Leaving a dumbstruck Trunks in her mist.

"Pan?" Trunks said as he watched her leave, he shook his head and laughed.

"Hey Trunks, What did you say to Pan?" Goten asked him.

"Nothing, I just said Hey, and she clammed up, she always clams up around me, you think there is something wrong with me?" Trunks asked wondering why Pan always clammed up around only him.

"I don't know, maybe she has a massive crush on you." Goten joked not knowing how true he was.

"A crush, she can't have a crush on me, I mean I'm twenty nine, and she's only sixteen, hopefully that's all it is, I couldn't picture Pan and me together, it would be just too weird." Trunks explained.

Pan sat up in her room, as she looked at picture of her and Trunks together from their trip in space.

"Trunks, why do I clam up every time I'm around you?" She asked the picture of Trunks. "I want you so much, but you'd probably laugh at me if I ever told you about my huge crush.

Meanwhile, Trunks and Goten were still down stairs. "Hey Goten do you think maybe I should confront her." Trunks asked.

"About?"

"About the fact that she may have a crush on me, I have to make it clear to her where I stand, where she stands."

"I think it's a good Idea, tell her now before it develops into anything more." Goten agreed, Trunks smiled and went up to Pan's room.

He got to her bedroom and saw her door closed he approached it and knocked on it.

"Come in." Pan called. Trunks opened the door.

"Pan?" Trunks said as he entered her room, Pan flipped around dropping the picture to the floor shattering the glass.

"Trunks, what..." She couldn't breathe. Her crush was in her room.

Trunks smiled. "Pan, can we talk."

She just nodded.

"Goten said you might have a crush on me, Pan tell me he's wrong."

Pan didn't say anything. This only made Trunks' Suspicions true.

"Pan, you can't have a crush on me."

Pan needed to think of something. She decided to play it cool and act as if she didn't have one.

"I don't have a...a c...crush on you. T...Trunks." She tried to keep her cool, but she knew she was stuttering.

"Pan, I'm too old for you."

"I Kn...now that T...Trunks, t...that's w...why I uh... I... d...don't h...have a c...crush o...on... y...you." She stammered as she told lied to him. Trunks could see right through Pan.

"Pan, don't lie alright."

"I'm not lying Trunks."

"Pan."

Pan didn't know what to do, Trunks was very persuasive. "Fine Trunks, I'm got this huge crush on you, and I know we can never be together, because of the age difference, but I can dream can't I, and that is why I never told you." Pan shouted through tears.

Trunks looked dumbstruck. "Pan."

"Get out, please."

"Pan talk to me."

"About what, about the fact that I have no friends or the fact that I am the target of everyone at school, is that what you want to talk about."

"Pan, I..."

"Look Trunks, I want you to leave, I know we can never be together, so just let me dream." She shouted she was tired of Trunks overpowering her.

Trunks didn't know what to do, he wanted to be there for her, as a brother or an uncle, but she wanted more and he knew only pain and heartache could come if they were together in a romantic type way.

"Look Trunks, I have had enough on my plate today, I'm not going to Prom, and it's not like I want to, but all the boys I asked seemed to be busy that night, and now you're here bar barding me with a crazy accusation that I have a crush on you."

"Your prom is coming up, why haven't you accepted the dates of any of the boys who asked you."

"Because no one has asked me, do you know why they haven't asked me?" She moved towards Trunks who was backing away, he knew not to mess with a woman when she is angry especially a Son Woman, and one that was a saiyan.

"Please." He loosened his tie.

"I'll tell you, because I'm ugly, I'm a dog, I'm a She-man, should I go on."

"Pan, why would they say those things, you are beautiful."

"Yeah, says the guy who says we can't be together because of the age difference."

Trunks didn't know what to do. He needed something, "Pan when's your prom."

"Friday, why?"

"If you haven't a date by Friday, I promise to go with you."

"Thanks but no thanks."

"Ah, come on Pan, it'd be my way to apologize and you can show me off to all those pathetic girls who think they're better then you." Trunks could sure make a convincing speech.

"I don't know Trunks."

"Come on Pan, please." He was about to get on his knees, "As Friends."

"Only as Friends." Pan said as Trunks left. Pan smiled, she was going to the Prom, and she was not only going. She was going with the most gorgeous man on the planet.

"I'm going to the prom with Trunks; I'll be the envy of all the girls there." She smirked.

Trunks walked down stairs to where Goten was waiting. "Hey man, how'd it go?"

"Fine I guess, I'm taking her to her prom on Friday."

"What? Trunks you went to confront her about her crush, and now you are going out with her."

"It's just a prom, it's as friends, and besides it's only if she can't find a date before then."

"Trunks, she won't find a date, do you know why she won't find a date? It's because she wants to go with you." Goten explained.

"Goten, I told her if she can't find a date by prom we go as friends and only as friends.

"And she agreed?"

"Yeah."

"And you believed her? Trunks you can be too friendly for your own good."

Trunks stared at his friend, "And what does that suppose to mean."

"It means you are to kind, you go to confront the girl about her crush on you, and you end up asking her out and to her prom no less."

"Look I'm sorry, if I'm trying to be a good friend to Pan, but I do hate to see her sad."

"Trunks can I ask you something."

"Yeah, of course."

"What exactly are your feelings towards my niece?"

"She's like a sister, my own niece." Trunks said, but when he said those words Sister and niece, he felt as if he was lying to himself.

"Trunks, you mean to tell me you don't have any romantic feelings towards Pan."

"Goten she is only Sixteen."

"Fine Trunks, but I do warn you if you even think about my niece in anyway but platonic I will terminate are friendship, Goten got up and left leaving Trunks dumbfounded.

Trunks looked up at Pan's room. `Could I have feelings for you Pan? Would I dare risk twenty Eight years of friendship with Goten to explore my chances with you?'

Trunks sighed, he did not know what to do, Goten got him thinking, and he thought he did not have romantic feelings for her.

Trunks decided to go home. `Maybe I can concentrate more at home.'

He left for home.

Meanwhile Pan was in her room, thinking of what would happen on Friday. She then remembered she had no dress.

"A dress, I need a dress, and who better to go dress shopping with then Bra." She dialed up Bra Briefs Trunks' Seventeen-year-old sister, and her best friend.

Pan picked up the phone and dialed Bra's number. "Hello?" She answered.

"Hello, Bra? It's me Pan."

"Pan? What are you calling for?" Bra asked.

"I was wondering if we could go and find me a dress to wear to my prom on Friday."

"You're going to a prom?" Bra was dumbstruck, Pan hated dances, and she hated dressing up.

"Yeah, so will you help me?"

"Of course I will so who you going with?" Bra asked wondering who would have asked her.

"I can't tell you."

"Pan, come on, I have to know."

"Well, I'm going with Trunks, if that's makes you feel any better."

Bra gasped in shock. "Trunks, as in my loser brother Trunks?"

"Yeah." Pan said as she looked at Bra confused.

Bra was still in shock. "You picked my brother out of all the guys in your school." Bra did not go to Orange Star High; she went to a very prestigious Private school.

"Well the guys in my school are idiots, and Trunks told me he would take me."

"Fine, as long as I don't have to be there to witness you and him, it's just we." Bra made a face.

"Hey what about your crush on my uncle."

"What about, there is no way in hell me and Goten could be together because he is married."

"Exactly Bra, Goten is married Trunks isn't." Pan stated the obvious.

"Yeah, but he should be however."

"Bra I didn't call so we could argue, will you help me find a dress?"

"Yeah meet me at the mall in a half a hour, I'll help you." Bra sighed.

"Thanks B."

Pan and Bra hung up; Pan went to take a quick shower and headed off towards the Satan City mall.

After a few hours of shopping, Pan had finally found the one. It was light lavender colored. It had a tight bodice with spaghetti Straps and a long flowing skirt. "I found the one, this is perfect." She said aloud, as she thought to herself. `Trunks are sure to love me now.'

"Pan that's so beautiful, my brother is going to be so awe stricken he won't know what hit him." Bra said as Pan smiled.

"Do you really think so Bra?" Pan smiled as she looked at her self once more in the mirror before heading off to change back into her street clothes.

They paid for the dress and other accessories to go with the dress, example Shoes, purse, wrap, hair ornament, earrings, and choker.

"Thanks Bra for coming with me, I would have been totally lost."

"No problems, but Pan Can I come over and help you get ready on Friday."

Pan smiled. "Yeah, I could use the help."

"Great, I'll come over on Friday then."

Pan and Bra departed ways as Pan went back to her house, and Bra to Capsule Corp.

Pan landed in the front yard of the house she occupied with her parents. She smiled as she held onto the bag that held the dress and accessories she needed for the prom.

"Pan?" Her mother came out. "Where have you been?"

"Hello Mama." Pan smiled.

Videl saw the bag. "What's in the bag, sweet pea?"

"Nothing." She tried to not let her mother see, she did not want her to know about the dress until she put it on, she wanted it to be a surprise, and her mother had never seen her in a dress save for the time she was in Goten and Marron's wedding, but that wasn't by choice.

"Alright, I won't pry, but go and wash up for dinner your father is home."

"Papa's home." Pan smiled, Gohan had been away in Switzerland on a school Business Trip for three weeks. Pan flew into the house; she ran upstairs to put her bags down and went to greet her father.

"Papa." She said throwing her self into his arms.

"Pan Chan, and how is my favorite girl doing." He asked encircling the girl with his arms. He smiled, he loved being home. He missed his wife and daughter.

"I'm fine."

"So what have I missed since I was gone?" Gohan asked. Pan looked around to see if her mother was around, she told her father everything, she was really close to him, and her mother however was not so easy to talk with.

"I'm going to my prom." She smiled.

"You are, and who is the young man who is escorting you?" Gohan smiled at the thought of his daughter going to her first prom with a boy.

Pan bit her lip did she dares tell him her date was Trunks. Sure, he had witnessed Trunks upbringing, Bulma and Vegeta had done a magnificent job in bringing up two wonderful and kind children who had grown up to become find adults.

"Promise you won't be mad."

"Of course not, so who is taking you?"

"Well you see since none of the boys in my school are afraid of me, and no one had asked me, and the ones I had asked had turned me down, Uhm, Trunkshadagreedtoescortmetomyprombutonlyasfriends. She said fast hoping her father would not catch on.

"Trunks are taking you?" He smiled the reaction that Pan was not expecting.

"Papa." She looked at him confused.

"Pan, did you think I would be upset that Trunks would take time out of his schedule to escort you to your prom, no of course not, I'm actually glad."

"Thanks Papa." Pan said giving him a kiss on the cheek and headed upstairs. "I got to do some homework, and Papa, don't tell Mama, I want to surprise her with the dress on Friday."

Gohan smiled. "Alright sweet pea, I'll call you when Dinners ready."

"Thanks." Pan said heading upstairs.

Pan got to her room and smiled, she loved her father, ever since her grandfather Goku disappeared, she had become extremely close to her father Gohan.

`I am so lucky, I have a wonderful family, a devoted mother who will do anything for her family and I wouldn't know what I would do without Papa, the last three weeks were hell, when he was in Switzerland.'

Pan grabbed her backpack, and took out her history homework; she finished it in fifteen minutes then headed down stairs to see what her mother was fixing for dinner.

"Hey Mama, what are you fixing for dinner?" Videl turned around.

"Chicken Enchilada's"

"Yummy my favorite." Pan smiled. "When will it be ready?"

"In about an hour, I just stuck them in the oven."

"I'll go and see how Papa's doing." Pan said.

"Alright." Videl smiled, Videl went to fix some side dishes to go with the Enchilada's, while she did that she heard a blood chilling scream coming from her daughter.

"Pan?" Videl ran to her daughter and saw the most horrific scene.

"Oh, my god Gohan." She saw her husband lying dead on the floor his hand clutched over his heart. She ran over to him, "Gohan? Please wake up." Tears formed in her eyes. "Please Baby."

"Mama, what's going on?" Pan asked.

"Pan calls an ambulance." Pan ran and picked up the phone and dialed for an ambulance.

She told the EMT her address and what was going on. Pan then ran back to her mother.

"They said they be here soon." Pan shouted as she watched her mother cradle Gohan in her arms.

The ambulance got there in five minutes. "What do we have here?"

"I found him passed out on the floor." Pan choked.

"And you are?" One of the paramedics asked.

"Pan, I'm his daughter, please help him."

"We will do the best we can." The paramedic checked him out. "It looks like he still has a pulse, and his breathing and blood pressure are good." They loaded him up in the ambulance and took him to Satan City General.

"Only one of you can ride in the ambulance."

"Mama, you go ahead." Pan said as tears fell from her eyes.

"Turn off the oven." Videl said as she got into the ambulance.

"Alright, I'll be there as soon as I can." Pan said as she watched the ambulance doors shut, and the ambulance drive away.

Pan went to turn off the oven, and take the dish from it she put the dish on top of the oven, she was about to take off and fly to the hospital but she was to emotionally drained.

She decided to call her Uncle, but his phone was busy, she could not call her grandmother, however she had to go and tell her about Gohan and picks her up.

She decided to call Trunks, he would come. Wouldn't he?

Pan picked up the phone, and dialed the number to Capsule Corp. Trunks answered after a few rings.

"Hello."

"Trunks, I need your help." Pan choked through tears.

"Panny what's wrong?"

"Papa, he...he....he....he's in t....the...ho...ho...spital, and no one knows if he's going to...ma.. ma... ke it." She barely choked out.

"Pan, Calm down, where are you?"

"At home, I need someone to come and take me, I can't fly, and I also need someone to tell me grandma." She tried to calm down, but it was hard.

"Alright, I'll have my mother get your grandma, then I will come and get you, where is Goten?"

"His phone was busy."

"Alright." Trunks said as he went to tell his mother about Gohan.

"Mother?" He found her in the lounge reading her latest romance novel.

"Yes Trunks." She looked up from the book.

"Pan just called, I have to go and pick her up to take her to the hospital, Apparently Gohan collapsed."

"What, Gohan collapsed, when was this?" Bulma dropped the book. "What happened? How did he collapse?"

"I don't know, but what I need is for you to go and pick up Aunt Chi-Chi, and bring her to hospital." Trunks said, Grabbing a coat. "I have to go and get Pan."

Bulma stood there shocked as she watched her son fly off. She then snapped out of it, and went to find tell Chi-Chi.

Trunks arrived at Pan's in a little under 2 minutes. "Pan." He called for her, but she did not answer.

"Panny Chan, where are you." Trunks looked all over and finally found her huddled up in a corner.

"Pan, what happened?"

"Trunks, what am I going to do, I can't lose him, not like I did my Grandpa." She said as tears fell from her eyes. Trunks looked at her sympathetically.

"Ah, Panny you're not going to lose him, he's strong."

"He's all I got, in this world." She did believe her father understood her more then anyone else, he was always the first one to be there when she needed help, the first one to call when she was scared. She did not know what she would do if she did lose him.

"What if he, oh god I can't even say it Trunks." Pan buried her face in her knees; Trunks kneeled down and brought her into his protective arms.

"I'll be there, I promise, I won't leave you." Trunks held her as she cried into his shoulder.

"Take me to see him please." Trunks nodded as he lifted Pan into his arms and carried her to the hospital.

When they got there, they saw despair on everyone's faces. "What happened?"

"Mom what's going on?" Trunks asked his mother who was sobbing.

"Gohan didn't make it to the hospital, he had died in the ambulance ride, and I'm sorry Pan." Bulma apologized.

Pan just stood there shocked; she could not form any words. Trunks just stood as well, he could not believe Gohan was gone.

"Mother, how did he die?" Trunks asked.

Bulma took a deep breath. "The doctors are saying he contracted a deadly virus, he also said that anyone who was in close contact such as a hug or a kiss from him needs to be quarantined."

"Pan and Videl need to be quarantined then, mother if the Virus is spread only through close contact then how did Gohan contract it?"

"He might of gave some one in Switzerland a hug, it's not a STD Trunks, I'm sure Gohan wasn't having an affair."

"Mother, what if someone was in contact with one of the people who need to be quarantined."

"Why?" Bulma looked at him suspiciously.

"Because I hugged Pan, I carried her here."

"Then you need to be quarantined as well." His mother explained. Just then, the doctor came out, to tell them some more bad news.

"Doctor?" Bulma asked.

"I'm sorry, but it appears as if Mrs. Son has gotten the virus, and we must keep her here, we are sorry."

"No, not Mama too." Pan choked on her own tears as she just heard that her mother was sick as well.

Trunks went up to her. "Pan, she'll be fine, she got to the hospital fast enough to get treatment."

The doctor then spoke up; I will need to test all of you for the Virus. Everyone gave some blood to be tested.

Bulma looked over at her best friend's family, her family as far as she was concerned; she helped in raising Gohan and Goten. Goten was a complete wreck besides Pan, he admired and looked up to his brother.

"When the results are in?" Bulma asked.

"In a few hours." The doctor said.

Fortunately, all the tests came back clean, even Pan and Trunks.

After a few days in the hospital, Videl had joined Gohan in the other world, leaving a daughter and many friends behind.

Pan had isolated her self from the outside world; she refused to let anyone in. She even came to the conclusion that somehow the Kai's and Kami were plotting against her, why else would she lose her Grandfather, her Father and her mother all in two year period, it didn't make since to her.

Friday had come, her prom, but she had completely forgotten about it, the prom was the furthest thing from her mind.

However, Trunks was not going to let her forget or at least he was going to help her forget of the misery in her life for a few hours. Since Pan was in no mood to the dance it self, he had turned the rose garden in his grandmothers garden into their own prom.

Trunks had everything ready, all he needed was Pan. He checked himself in the mirror; he was wearing a double-breasted black tuxedo with a black bowtie, and cumber bun. He got up to Pan's room; she was staying at the briefs.

"Panny." He called.

"Leave me alone Trunks."

"Panny, please, let me help you forget for one night."

"I don't want to forget Trunks; I don't want to forget ever."

"Pan, just open the door and let me in." Trunks pleaded.

"Why, what's the use, you'll only leave me, like everyone else.

"I won't I promise, I'll never leave you." Trunks answered.

"Just leave me alone, I don't want you pitying me."

"I do not pity you Pan." He turned around and left. He needed to find a way to tell Pan, he would not leave her.

He went to his room, and found an his All4one CD, he got his boom box and set it next to Pan's door, he played the song. "I swear."

I swear by the moon

and the stars in the sky

and I swear like the

shadow that's by your side

I see the questions in your eyes

I know what's waiting on your mind

you can be sure I know my part

'cause I stand beside you through the years

you'll only cry those happy tears

and though I make mistakes

I'll never break your heart

and I swear by the moon

and the stars in the sky I'll be there

I swear like the shadow that's by your side

I'll be there for better or worse

till death do us part

I'll love you with every beat of my heart

and I swear

I'll give you every thing I can

I'll build your dreams with these two hands

we'll hang some memories on the wall

and when (and when) just the two of us are there

you won't have to ask if I still care

'cause as the time changes the page

my love won't ever age at all

and I swear (I swear) by the moon

and the stars in the sky I'll be there (I'll be there)

I swear (and I swear) like the shadow that's by your side

I'll be there (I'll be there) for better or worse

till death do us part I'll love you

with every single beat of my heart and I swear

and I swear (I swear) by the moon

and the stars in the sky I'll be there (I'll be there)

I swear (and I swear) like the shadow that's by your side

I'll be there (I'll be there)

for better or worse (better or worse)

till death do us part I'll love you

with every single beat of my heart

I swear I swear I swear

Pan listened to every part of the song; she wanted to believe that Trunks would be there for her; however, she made a promise to her self not to let anyone close to her.

"Pan, please let me in."

"I can't Trunks, everyone who gets close to be dies; I can't let that happen to you."

"Pan, I won't die, just let me in." Trunks pleaded. He slid down to the floor, he was not giving up though, and he would not give up until he knew that Pan was safe in his arms where she belonged.

"Trunks." Trunks looked up to see his friend Goten.

"Goten?"

"Trunks, I thought I told you if you had any romantic feelings, I would terminate our friendship, I'm sorry it's either Pan or me."

"Goten, you can't do that."

"Trunks, I warned you."

"I'm sorry Goten, as much as I value you and our friendship, I value Pan more. I may have not realized this a week ago, but I do Love the girl, and would do anything including ending a twenty eight year old friendship with her uncle to be with her."

Goten did not say anything, he just smiled and left. The smile left Trunks confused. "What was that all about?" Trunks then heard the door to Pan's room open.

"Trunks, did you really mean you all of that."

"I meant every word, Pan I love you, I know you don't want to start a relationship now, however I am willing to wait for you when you do want to.

Pan smiled and decided to shut him up with a kiss. "I love you Trunks, and thank you for playing that song, it was really beautiful, and thank you for being there when I need you.

Trunks smiled, he may have told his friend a few days ago, he could not see himself with Pan, but he was only fooling himself, he loved the girl and would do anything to make her happy.