Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Seeing Her Soul ❯ Recovery ( Chapter 7 )

A/N: Thanks to everyone for all your great reviews and support. I finally decided to come home from my trip to mars and start writing this story again! (Har Har) But seriously, I know you're all pretty mad that I haven't updated forever but I was sort of stuck in a read only mode for fanfics these past months. I really just haven't felt like writing much but I finally decided to give it another shot and so here we are, a seventeen year old home on a Friday night writing this! I finally started back into writing mode. FINALLY.

~Chapter 6~

"There's going to be a hole in the table soon if she keeps that up," the woman said as she observed the young brunette.

"I think there might be something on her mind. Maybe she works hard to forget her troubles," the man replied.

"I'm starting to get worried about that girl. She's been very quiet ever since last week. I don't know what to say to her but I don't want to pry into her personal life. It's none of our business," his wife said softly.

"I know," the man sighed as he patted his wife on the shoulder, "We'll just have to hope that she wants to come to us and talk about it."

Across the room, the young waitress scrubbed the same spot on the table for what seemed like the millionth time, but the damn spot wouldn't disappear! She tried to block out the conversation from across the room but her sensitive hearing wasn't helping very much. She knew the couple that owned the café was talking about her and tried very hard not to look as if she heard but it was difficult when she knew they were worried about her.

Pan sighed as she remembered the moments that took place last week. There she was, minding her own business, sitting on the living room couch trying hard not to think about home because it made her too sad, when suddenly, the news was turned on by Mr. Gear. Of course, as she was missing home, god decided to torture her by making her watch the news on Mr. Briefs and his recent operation. She became extremely upset and overcome by guilt when the reporter reported on how he had a major setback on his recovery because of extreme emotional stress. He had apparently refused to take his medicine and had thrown a huge tantrum. The reporter had said no one knew the cause of the emotional grief, as his family refused to tell the media anything.

The thing that had made Pan feel the guiltiest, above everything, had not been her leaving Trunks, but was the fact that the reporter had said Mr. Briefs had refused to take the bandages covering his eyes off. The public was extremely confused by his strange behavior and thought maybe he was starting to lose it completely.

By the end of the report, Pan was having the hardest time trying to look as if she wasn't about to burst into tears. She didn't want to worry Mr. and Mrs. Gear. It had only been weeks since she had left home but it felt more like years. The guilt was slowly eating at her and she felt like she was going to lose it soon. Pan had to keep on reminding herself why she was there in the first place. It was to give Trunks time to get over her and to move on before she went back home. She thought it was for the best.

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Trunks was a mess. He had been having major temper tantrums and everyone who knew about the saiyans knew that an enraged saiyan was extremely dangerous, not to mention an enraged super saiyan. He didn't believe it when poor Vegeta, who in the end was the one stuck with the job of telling Trunks that Pan had left, had told him the truth. He had been in major denial for the first week after his operation and kept telling himself that Pan was going to walk through the door anytime. Trunks wouldn't take off his bandages even when the doctor said they needed him to, to see if the operation was completely successful. Trunks remembered what he had told Pan and really wanted to keep his word.

After the second week, he slowly began to realize the possibility of Pan not coming to see him, but refused to accept that she would leave him when he needed her the most. Trunks began to worry about her. Maybe she was in some sort of trouble and needed their help so he didn't understand why his family wasn't worried about her.

Gohan and Videl didn't want to tell Trunks the truth as they didn't want him to know that Pan really had left him. Everyone was really worried about him right now and setting him off wasn't going to help at all.

It was finally after a month that the doctors and Trunks family was able to convince him to remove the bandages. Trunks wanted nothing more but to see Pan when he opened his eyes for the first time in a month but his hope dissolved as he didn't sense her in the room that day. He had to admit to himself that he was extremely curious as to what the world looked like and the only disappointing moment of it was that not everyone he wanted was there. He realized then that Pan wasn't going to see him and it left him lost and confused.

Trunks' parents were extremely overjoyed, (well mostly Bulma), that his operation was very successful. Dr. Carlson said that he should make a full recovery but that there was still a small chance that there might be complications. Trunks didn't worry about it as it was only a small chance and had decided right then and there that he would wait for Pan, wherever she was, to come back to him.

If they hadn't made love the night before his operation, he might have become angry and doubt that Pan ever loved him, but he learned that night that what he felt for her was real and deep and he was a hundred percent positive that Pan had felt it too. He believed she must have been overwhelmed and had left because things were moving too fast. Trunks smiled. Sure, he was hurt at first but he was ok now. He had long forgiven her. It had only made him more determined than ever to make her return to his side. He would wait. Trunks knew she would come back sooner or later. Love made him do funny things.

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A/N: Sigh, I know, I know. Long wait, short chapter. But I really wanted this out as soon as I started writing again. Again, I'm really sorry. I know the torture of waiting for updates in fanfics. *Gets down on knees* Please keep reading still! *sob*