Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Protect her ❯ To find out the truth the hard way ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
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"Pan is there something you need"

"I...Uh...well...I need to tell you something"

"You do, what is it?" Trunks smiled, ~~What could Pan possibly have to tell me, that made her come come all the way to my office in the middle of the afternoon. "Pan, is it something important?"

Pan nodded, "Yeah, really important." ~~How do I tell him, how do I tell him he and I have a little boy together?~~She thought, she smiled at him. "I... uh.. well..Uhm..." ~~Come on Pan you can do this, you can tell trunks, You are strong, just tell him, muster up your courage Pan~~She thought as she took a deep breath, and said in that one breath

"TrunksrememberthatnightfouryearsagowellyouseeIbecamepregna ntandwehaveasonwhoislivinginamerica" Pan hoped Trunks didn't catch any of it. She turned around to leave. "Well see you trunks" She was about to open the door to his office, but was cut short by Trunks.

"I have a son?" He asked in utter shock. "Why didn't you say anything?" He asked

Pan's face faultered, "I didn't find out until I was settled in the states, then I met Robert, who thinks he is the father, and Robert is the only father J.R. knows, I didn't know how to tell anyone, you were the father." Pan explained.

"Why didn't you call me, why didn't you pick up the phone and call me the second you found out Pan?" Trunks yelled.

"What would you have done Trunks?, You said you hated me" Pan cried in frustration.

"I didn't mean any of it" Trunks said as he walked over to his window of the highrise building, "You want to know the truth Pan?"

Pan nodded "Please, explain to me, why you lied to me? Please tell me what reason you had for telling me I disgust you?"

Trunks went over to Pan, and grabbed her hands, he looked into her eyes. "Pan the truth is, I loved you, I lied to you because I was... I was in love with you"

Tears of frustration started falling from both of their eyes, "You lied to me, because you loved me? When did this revelation come to light? It's really convenient that you all the sudden love me, isn't it Trunks?" She cried, waiting for his answer, but he never did.

She released herself from his grip and pounded his chest with her fists. "Tell me, when did you realize you loved me?, Was it today? Or was it when I returned? Did you all the sudden love me because I had a husband and you were jealous? Tell me!" She cried in frustration still pounding his chest with her fists. Soon her punches slowed down, she was crying fall force now, "Please tell me.." She whispered sobbingly, still pounding on his chest, he grabbed her wrists, and tried to make her stop, but she struggled. "Let me go, you have no right to hold me like this."

"Pan, calm down, Please," He tried to calm her.

Pan however was still sobbing uncontrollably. She slid out of his grip and sank to the floor.

He went down with her and put his arms around her he pulled her head to him, "I loved you since our trip to space. I've been in love with you for the last eight years, but you were too young then, you were illegal, I couldn't pursue a relationship with you" He began.

Pan released herself from his embrace and looked at him, tears in her eyes. "Then why did you tell me you hated me, when I was legal?"

Trunks shut his eyes, "Because, Pan, as I told you I wanted you to get the best education, you could get" He said with so much sincerity.

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JUST OUTSIDE TRUNKS' OFFICE.

"Hello can I help you" MIss Jenkins asked to Robert.

"I have an appointment with Mr. Briefs" He explained.

"Your name?" She asked.

"Robert Mason" He said.

She picked up the phone receiver and punched a number. She however got no answer. "Hmm that's odd" She said hanging up the phone. "He doesn't seem to be answering, why don't you go right in, he probably just has the music to loud.

"Thanks" Robert said as he got stepped up to Trunks door, but stopped short, because he heard voices... "Is that Pan's voice? I hear?"

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INSIDE TRUNKS' OFFICE.

Pan stood up, "Trunks, if you told me you loved me four years ago, I would have stayed. We could have raised our child together, we could have been the family I had always wanted to be." Pan said.

Robert who was standing outside the door, couldn't believe what he just heard. ~~It can't be true, Pan had a relationship with Trunks?, No it isn't true, JR is my son, not his~~ His breathing was all the sudden getting labored, he listened for more.

"Pan, why did you marry him? Do you even love him?"

She shut her eyes. "Not, like I love you"

"And what does that mean?"

"It means that I'm still in love with you. I always was, and always will be, but Robert… he's a good man."

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OUTSIDE TRUNKS' OFFICE

Robert had to get out of there.

The secretary noticed him leaving. "Mr. Mason?"

"Tell Mr. Briefs I'm sorry, but I can't work for him" He said as he walked out of the double doors into the busy corridor of Capsule corp. He walked down to the lobby and went out the doors to the street. "I need a drink" He told himself as he got into his car and turned into the direction of the nearest bar.

As he was driving tears were in his eyes. He didn't want to believe that the son he was raising was another man's, not just any man's though, no he was the wealthiest, and most powerful man in the world and there was no way he could compete with him. It took him fifteen minutes to reach the bar. He parked the car and walked into the bar.

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THE BAR.

Robert walked up to the bar, "Hey, can I have a shot of your strongest stuff?"

The bartender went under the counter and pulled out a bottle of some alcohol and poured a shot of it. He handed it to Robert. "Pretty rough day, huh?"

"That's the understatement of the year. No my day has been hell. See I just found out that my four year old son isn't mine."

"Whoa, tough break man. So, your wife has been cheating on you, care to deliberate?"

"Give me another shot" The bartender filled the order.

"Wow, no wonder you're here, I would to if I found out my wife, was involved with Trunks Briefs" The bartender said as he listened to Robert's story.

Robert got up, drunker then hell, he gave the man a hundred dollars and said "I better go". He said it almost falling down, but straightened himself up. He walked out to the night air. Knowing he shouldn't drive, he capsuled his car, and decided to walk home, which wasn't too far away. He'd get there within ten minutes.

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PAN'S AND ROBERTS.

He stumbled with the keys, as he tried to unlock the door. ~~Why isn't Pan home yet?~~ He thought. He staggered inside, ~~Trunks? I can't believe I even considered working for the man, I despise him, for what he did, he took my family from me~~ He thought. He screamed in frustration as he started destroying everything in the house. He then heard the jingling of keys in the door.

Pan stepped into the room. and noticed it was destroyed. "Robert, are you here?" She called out, she wish she hadn't. Robert came into view.

"Hello babe" He said with a fire in his eyes.

Pan tried to smile. "Hey, honey, how was your day" She asked backing up from him, but he started walking towards her as he picked up a baseball bat.

"You want to know how my day was?" He asked as he hit the coffee table with the bat. "I'll tell you how, it went. You see I went over to Capsule Corp to see if Trunks would give me a job."

~~No, he couldn't have heard me, could he?~~ "Robert I..." She didn't know what to say.

"Shut up, slut... I found out my wife is a whore" He screamed as he hit the television screen with the bat.

"Robert I can explain. I really can" She said keeping her arms up in defense as she backed away from him. "I can explain"

"Can you?" He asked as he came towards her baseball bat in hand. "Tell me Pan!"

Pan was pushed into a corner. "I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt you" She said crying.

"Sorry? You're sorry?" He laughed. She kicked him in the shin and ran to the door, but he caught up to her and grabbed her hair.

"Ow, let me go..." She cried. He let her go, by throwing her onto the broken coffee table.

"Get up, bitch" He said kicking her in the ribs, when she didn't get up, he grabbed her by the hair again and pulled her up, he made her face him, "Tell me bitch, were you ever gonna tell me?" He asked as he threw her up against the wall he started throwing random punches at her, she never fought back, afraid she would hurt him. She never fought back. She always let him get away with this, when he was drunk. He was a totally different person.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" She kept pleading, but he kept hitting. To Pan's relief he finally got tired and passed out. Pan slid down the wall and started sobbing.

"Trunks" She called out. A name she had always called out, when her husband turned this way. "I need you"

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A RESTRAURANT/

Trunks and Marron had just finished up their dinner, Trunks was paying the bill and all the sudden he stopped in the middle of signing the receipt and looked up.

Marron noticing him asked "Trunks is there something wrong?"

"Uh, I don't know, I think there's something wrong with Pan"

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A/N: Yes stopping it there, Aren't I the evil one? Anyways, does Trunks sense what is going on with Pan? And why is Pan still with Robert? Just how long has the abuse been going on. To find out the answers to these questions and many more read the next chapter of "Protect her"