Vegeta wasn't sure how he ended up in a patients smock but he did know his back was cold. He blushes angrily, vowing that he'd make Goku or Bulma pay. Whoever got him into this embarassing garment. He curses at himself for promising Bulma that he'd cooperate with the doctor. She had offered him chocolate to eat when he got better. He had to admit he couldn't turn down the sweet substance. "Kuso."
The doctor placed her cold stethascope on his back.
"EEp," Vegeta let out a strangled cry from the cold on his back.
"Oh sorry," she replies while breathing on it to warm it up."Now take a deep breath Vegeta," she asks while placing it on his back again.
He did what he was told for once and breathed in slow and deep.
Doctor Flores explained that he had the flu pretty bad and if his temp got any higher than 103.9 then he'd be admitted into the hospital for observation.
He holds in a slight shudder. "I'm fine," Vegeta mutters.
Igonoring his reply she asks. "Are you having any abdominal pains?"
"Hai," Vegeta nods with reluctance.
"Lay down."
Vegeta hesistates and Bulma gives him a dirty look threatening that he'd live to regret it if he didn't listen. "Damn you woman," he thinks to himself.
The doctor palpatates his abdomen and Vegeta yelps in pain when she presses a certain area. She taps her pen on the table while thinking. "Uh Huh. Just what I thought it was too."
Bulma looks up, "What?"
His spleen is probably damaged or infected and is helping to strengthen his flu.It may have to be removed."
"WHAAAT?!!!," Vegeta sits up to fast and quickly lays back down. "HMMP! Just what I need a damaged spleen and then an operation!! There goes my chance of becoming super saiyan-jin!" He pouts and makes sure Bulma see the prince's displeasure.
The doctor left the room so Vegeta could get dressed.
Bulma kisses Vegeta's warm brow.
Vegeta wanted to back away but the warmth he felt for her was to strong. he hugs her to him taking in the sweet scent of her hair.
Bulma blinks in shock, this was the most attention she had ever gotten from Vegeta ever since she found out she was pregnant with Trunks. When he was born Vegeta avoided then both for a while. She smiles to herself and snuggles her face into his shoulder. She wishes he would tell her he loved her but like that would ever happen. Bulma turns around as Vegeta slowly dressed himself promising she wouldn't look. She did anyway causing the prince to blush fiercly as he stood only in his socks and underwear.
He loved Bulma more than he wanted to admit to himself. How could anyone melt a heart of ice to a marshmellow? "She's made me weak," he thinks to himself.
Bulma whines. "I wanna pick up Trunks from the Son house before Chi Chi does something to him I might regret."
Vegeta only grunted into response while carefully tieing his nike shoes that Bulma had bought him."I'd rather wear my boots but nooo...Bulma doesn't want me to wear them in public! PAH! What does she know and WHY DO I LET HER CONTROL ME SO! AHHH!"
~MINUTES LATER~
Bulma sighed with a smile as Vegeta sat in the front passenger seat of the hover car. he lays the seat back so he can relax his aching head. He was feeling nauscious again. Crossing his arms tightly he closes his eyes drifting off to sleep.
Bulma arrives at the Son house taking Trunks gently into her arms. Chi Chi was starting to show that she was expecting too.
Gohan smiles and waves from his study room.
Everyone sees Vegeta sleeping soundly in the hover car while snoring lightly.
"You'd never even think that he was a cruel as his is when he's asleep," Chi Chi sighs.
Bulma replies," you don't know the good side of Vegeta like I do Chi Chi, He's got a hard exterior but on the inside he's a big marshmellow."
Goku nods in approval,"she's right Chi Chi, he's accually nice once you get to know him."
Chi Chi shudders,"I'd rather not, the last time he confronted me he bent my good frying pan and broke my mop."
"Thats because you made him angry," Bulma thinks to herself.
Vegeta stired, muttering and cursing in his sleep at something he was dreaming about.
They all laughed.
"I better get home," Bulma replies while changing Trunk's position in her arms. "Vegeta's sick and the doctor said he might have to have his spleen removed because it's damaged."
Goku cringes,"Really?! An Operation?"
Bulma nods.
"Geez and I thought it was just the flu," Goku replies.
"It's both," Bulma answers back.
"Gosh," Goku mutters.
Oh Goku," Chi Chi chirps. "I was going to take you to the doctor and get you and Gohan the flu immunization done."
Goku gulps,"uh, I don't think so Chi Chi I'm fine, really, see?" He runs in circles trying to convince his wife he was in top shape.
"You can't make me change my mind Goku. Wether you like needles or not your getting one and thats final."
"Nuh uh," Goku shakes his head.
"Sigh."
Bulma started the engine and drove off laughing as she heard Goku's protests against getting a flu shot. "Those two are made for each other," she thinks.
~LATER!
Vegeta awakens feeling no better than he had a few hours ago, he realizes that he's in bed. He wonders how he had gotten there, but is too tired to find out. He looks over his shoulder and sees the glow of a light coming from Bulma's study room. He knew she was worried and him and he hated it when she worried. Vegeta's stomach does a flip flop and he covers his mouth and heads for the bathroom in a hurry.
Bulma hears the padding of someones feet and leans back in her chair and sees Vegeta bolting for the bathroom with is hand over his mouth.
"My poor Veggie-Chan," she sighs.
Vegeta whipes his mouth staring into the toilet in disgust. "I wish this flu thing would end! It's becoming an annoyance!" He pulls the lever and flushes the toilet struggling to get to his feet. His weak legs give away but someone catches him from behind. "WOMAN, leave me be! Can't you se I'm trying to.."
Interrupting she replies,"It looks like to me you were about to fall on your ass." She giggles when his face turned scarlet and he stares at the floor in embarrassment. "Why, Vegeta? Are you blushing?"
"I am not,he mumbles while crossing his arms tightly across his chest. He starts to head for the bedroom.
Bulma stops him when she hugs him tightly.
"WHAT are you doing?!," he demands.
"Hugging my husband," she replies. "Why don't you ever tell me you love me?"
"...."
"Vegeta?"
She feels him sigh in her embrace. Looking up into his face she realizes he's staring at her.
"I..," he hesitates acting like it took every effort to say what he was about to tell her.
"Words cannot describe what I feel for you my Bulma-Chan. But if love is what you want to hear then...hai, I love you."
Vegeta slips from her embrace and makes his way back to the bedroom leaving Bulma standing in the bedroom in shock.
TO BE CONTINUED...