Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Life Isn't Worth Living Without You ❯ It's Happening All Over Again... ( Chapter 18 )

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AN: How are you all today?^^ One chapter coming up, one more to go (sigh) I hate ending stories! :'( But sometimes, you just have to do it. So I hope you all have enjoyed it, and I hope you will tell others about it, and I hope to get around to revising this whole thing one day (which I will!). Remember to check my bio for the updates! Now that summer is on, I can write all day long^^. Okay, maybe not all day…oh, whatever! Be ready people, you're in for a LONG chapter! As always, enjoy!

Last Time: Pan woke up screaming. When the Briefs came up, all that was found was a screaming Pan and a broken phone. They asked her what happen, but she wasn't in the shape to tell them, so they let her rest. When she woke up later on that day, she decided to get a breath of fresh air but didn't notice someone coming up behind her…

Chapter 19: It's Happening All Over Again…

Before Pan could react, she was slammed against the wall by someone. She was so shocked that she hadn't looked up to see who had done it.

"You little slut. How dare you!"

'That voice. No. It can't be.' She was terrified to even look up. Denial spread all through her mind and body. She refused to believe it was true.

'No! No!'

"Look at me when I speak to you!" the man growled, hitting her across her face. She gritted her teeth but she refused to look at him.

"Open your eyes or I'll tear them out with my hand!"

Pan hadn't realized it but she started crying again. She hated orders but she didn't want to be hurt anymore than she was and she knew he was serious when he said it, so she had no choice. With the most unwilling fashion, she slowly looked up and saw the man she loved and feared all of her life. Her father.

"D-…daddy," was all she could think of to see. She had never called him that to his face or any other time as far as she could remember, but it was always something she wanted to call him. Just like she always wanted to be called his daughter. But he never did. And he never would.

"You told them about me! Didn't you?! Tell me!" he took his fist and punched her in her stomach, knocking all the air out of her. She tried to fall to her knees but he held her up by the neck, forcing her to stand up if she wanted to breathe at all.

"Fa - hack - father, please-"

"I didn't tell you to talk!" he let go of her neck and slapped her, sending her crashing to the ground. She felt the skin on her left cheek, arm, and leg scrap across the concrete ground. She cried, but had run out of will. She didn't want to fight with him anymore. She had went through hell for 18 years and for what? Nothing. She couldn't take it any longer. No one could help her, not even Trunks. Not even Vegeta. Not Bra, not Bulma. No one.

'I'm sorry…' she didn't move. She just waited for him to kill her. She refused to live for nothing any longer.

She wanted to die.

"Get up!" he kicked her. She did not budge. She almost looked like a dead animal in the street.

"You little bitch! I should kill you!" he stood over her.

"Don't try my patience!" he stomped onto her stomach. She cried out in pain. Blood begin to run out of her mouth, some inside her throat causing her to cough and hack more.

"I should kill them too!" Pan's eyes opened and stared at him.

'Kill…kill them?' she knew he couldn't have said that.

"You heard me right," he pushed down on her stomach. She grabbed at his foot.

"Y-you can't kill them! They haven't done anything to you! Father! Don't!" All of her love for the Briefs family poured out. He could kill her, but she couldn't let him hurt any of them.

"Sorry…too late."

"AAHHHH!!!"

Vegeta shot his head up. Trunks, who was flying by him looked at him.

"Dad? What's wrong?" They had just come from going into town but Vegeta had suddenly gotten an urge to get home and Trunks started getting a feeling that something was wrong but didn't want it to bother him. His father, on the other hand, wasn't taking any chances. They were coming up to the castle.

"It's…it's your mother…can you feel her ki?"

"N-no…I can't! Something is wrong!" Trunks and Vegeta looked down at the castle, desperate to find a ki.

"W-wait! I think I feel one in the back of the house!" They both shot down to the backyard, where they found 3 people.

"Mom! Bra!" Trunks ran over to his mother who was on the floor in hysterics, holding Bra, who was severely beaten. Bulma also had many bruises.

"Trunks! Get Bra help! Get her help!" she screamed, "I can't pick her up! Trunks!"

"Mom! C-calm down, j-just tell me what happened!" Trunks took off his jacket and put it on Bra Bulma just shook her head and cried.

"Dad! Where are you, damnit!?-" Trunks looked at his father, who was staring at something in the tree. He followed his father's eyes and was horrified.

"Oh shit…" There was one of the maids, the same maid who had talked to Pan that night her and Trunks were fighting, with her arms and legs ripped off, and was hanging there by some barbed wire.

Vegeta didn't move. Vegeta didn't speak. Anger built inside of him. His son felt the same.

"Servants! Come out here!" Trunks yelled. Immediately, servants could be heard, running. Within a minute, all of the servants were outside. Some were staring at the dead maid in the tree, and others were down by Bulma and Bra's side. One came up to Vegeta, bowed, and awaited orders.

"Your…your orders, King Vegeta."

"Take them inside and get them taken care of. And…bury this woman in the family grave."

"The family grave, sir?"

"Don't make me repeat myself," he growled.

"Y-yes sir," the butler bowed and walked away to get help from the other servants. Vegeta did understand his questioning however. Usually a passed maid would be sent to a public graveyard, but Vegeta and his family had always thought of the service as family, also. Just like they thought of Pan as family. And no one messed with his family.

'Something's wrong…Pan!' Trunks jumped up and ran to the left side of the building without one word.

"Trunks!" Bulma tried to pull him back by his shirt but it slipped out of her hand, "Damnit! Come back here!"

"Kuso!" Vegeta wasted no time in going after his son.

"Shut up!" her father stomped his foot into her back again, leaving another mark. She screamed and cried; cried and scream. But it wasn't because of what he was doing to her.

"Pan!"

"What- Argh!" Pan's father felt another body ram into his own, the force knocking him a good few feet away. His face landed hard into the ground with his body following behind. He lifted his head, shaking it roughly, hacking and coughing, spitting out grass and dirt that had been scooped up by his mouth.

He touched his lip, feeling a thick liquid coming from it. His blood. He roared as he reeled his body around to find the culprit. There was a young, purple-haired boy supporting her head with his around, calling her name over and over, wiping her face off.

'There's that little punk she's falling in love with. How dare he hit me. He'll pay!'

Her father got to his feet, even angrier than he was before. He wanted to murder her. He wanted to kill him. He wanted all of them to suffer.

"Don't even think about it…" a menacing voice came from behind.

He spun around again to see an older man with spiky hair and piercing black eyes. He stared straight into them and smiled back.

"Well, what a surprise. Did you happen to find mine?" he taunted Vegeta. He could see the pure anger in his eyes, the pure hatred for him. But he didn't care. He enjoyed watching his anger rise.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" he clenched his fist, so hard that he nearly drew blood. It was hell to refrain from killing the man himself. He couldn't do that, even after he had murdered his servant and beat his daughter. He had caused his entire house much suffering, but through all of that, he could not bring himself to kill that man that hurt Pan, most of all. No, that was Trunks' right. He could not take it. No one took it from him.

"Nothing. Although I did have a problem of deciding how to kill that bitch."

"You're sick."

The man smiled evilly at Vegeta, "I know. I like it that way. Just like I enjoyed beating the hell out of that little blue-haired-"

"Trunks…I'm so sorry…I should have told you all," Pan whispered, her tears flowing non-stop, a look of hell on her face, "I deserve to die-"

"Stop it! Don't say that!" he held her close, refusing to let her give up so easily.

"You'll be fine Pan! A-and I'll take care of him for you! I will! Just don't talk like it's the end of the world!" his arms wrapped tighter around her, "I'm sorry I let him do this to you…I, I didn't know Pan, but I'm sorry…I love you."

Hearing those words again made her shiver. She'd never heard anyone say those words to her until the first he did, but she was too caught up in her own doubt to enjoy it. She didn't deserve him at all. She ridiculed him, lied to him, told him off, mistreated him, and turned away when he told her the three words that she always wanted to hear, but for some reason, he loved her anyway.

"Trunks."

Suddenly, their perfect moment together was interrupted by a crashing sound. Both lovers looked up to see Vegeta with a very vicious and violent look on his face.

"Stay right here, Pan! Don't move!" he ordered before getting up and running to his father.

"Dad, what did you do?!" Trunks stopped in front of him, but with the look Vegeta had, it almost seemed like he didn't even see him.

"Dad? Dad!"

Despite all of his yelling, all Vegeta did was turn around and walk away from him.

"Father…"

Vegeta dragged himself to the wall near Pan, where he rested his forehead on the hard concrete and closed his eyes. How anger built inside of him. He couldn't think of anything but killing her father. But it wasn't right. It was Trunks' place to do that. But hitting him was okay, wasn't it?

No, not even that. Vegeta gritted his teeth, projecting low growls.

"Vegeta?" Pan could see how he hurt. She knew he knew about her, the maid's death, his daughter's brutal battery, but his pain looked a lot deeper than that.

Vegeta broke out and punched the wall with his bare fist as hard as he could, making a whole inside the wall completely. He jerked out his bloody hand, then slid to the ground with anguish.

"Vegeta - cough cough - Master," she spoke through coughing up blood. She gathered up all of her remaining strength to limply crawl to Vegeta's side.

"It…it's happening all over again." Pan was confused.

"What? What is happening?"

"My mother was raped by a stranger…"

Pan was taken back.

"W-what?"

"Then my care-giver was raped and killed…and then the female partner I had while growing up…" throughout all of what he was saying, he didn't even seem to be talking to anyone in particular. He was just letting it all out.

"And then my mate was raped in my own castle…the one place I thought she would be safe…I couldn't help any of them…I…I couldn't save any of them…." He shifted his gaze to his broken hand.

"It hurts…and now all I can think…is that I cursed my son…because now…I have to watch him…go through the same thing." He looked at Pan.

Pan collapsed and broke out into tears again. She felt so weak, but that's all she could seem to do lately. All she did was cry. It was all her fault for everything they had been through, and there was nothing she could do to make up for it.

"But…" he had begun to speak again, his black eyes never blinking.

"It shouldn't…because even though he knows…that he couldn't save you from the rest of the world…and he never will be able to…he wouldn't change knowing you for anything…you should know that…I'm…I'm proud of him…for having the courage…to do something that I almost couldn't…you should too."

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Kami, Vegeta just comes out with secrets from left to right! Anywayz, I've decided that I will need two more chapters instead of 1 after this, and I've changed the name to this one, and naming the next one "Father…Why?" instead of this one. Next time, Trunks and Pan's father, who's name will be revealed finally (not a big deal, though), will have their fight, and Pan will give her reaction to what Vegeta just said. Awe, poor Veggie! :'(

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