Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don’t own DBZ…none of us fanfic writers do…unless Akira Toriyama is actually one of us…

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Vegeta heard the door to the shower open and growled softly, he was not in the mood for Grape right now.

“Prince Vegeta…” She entered the shower and smiled at him seductively, ignoring his warning growl. “Come on Vegeta…”

“I am Prince Vegeta to you woman!” He snapped, turning the shower off and getting a towel, he began to dry himself off; ignoring Grape as she danced around him, her tail running along side his body as she tried to win his attention. He growled at her a final time and left the room.

“Prince Vegeta…wait…” She bounded after him, surely he wasn’t leaving her…she was the highest class female saiyan left…he had to like her…

“Go away woman, I am in no mood for company.” He grabbed her wrist at snarled at her. “Get some cloths on and go home - have a little dignity!”

With that he turned ad strode into his room to dress. Grape stared after him, mouth agape, but with a shake she pulled herself together, he would come back to her eventually, he would realise that in order to get a real saiyan heir he needed her…at the very least he needed her body…he would come back.

Grape began to plot.

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Chichi opened her eyes and sat up ad rubbed at her eyes, Raditz was nowhere to be seen, but she could here him in the room next door, cleaning up the mess from the door being busted down. She yawned and guessed she hadn’t slept long, but she felt refreshed enough to get up and eat something never the less.

“Raditz?” She called tentatively, not sure why she was calling him when she was still so afraid of him…but he was her only friend left in this place, the only person who showed her any care and concern. And she had to say what was on her mind.

“Yes, Chichi?” He quietly walked into the room and watched while Chichi wordlessly stood up and walked over to him.

She slowly raised her eyes until her coal black eyes were staring into his. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done to me Raditz?” Chichi’s voice was a broken whisper. “Do you know what it was like to have to be subjected to…that last night? I spent weeks in Frieza’s dungeon fighting off disgusting men, weeks! You cannot know what it’s like to think you’re safe, to finally let your guard down only to find that the one person you trust, the one person your starting to care about has hurt you all over again and re-opened wounds that shouldn’t have healed long ago…”

“Chichi please let me explain…”

Chichi silenced him with a sneer. “I know Raditz; it wasn’t your fault, you were in heat, and you didn’t know what you were doing.” Chichi mimicked him nastily. “Believe me when I say that I know you’re sorry, but unfortunately being sorry doesn’t change what you did to me, how much your hurt me.” Chichi sadly looked down at the floor, unable to meet Raditz eyes, which were so much like Goku’s it hurt. “Raditz…I…I can’t trust you any more and I can’t live with someone who I’m afraid of. I’m sorry but I think it’s going to be best if I leave.”

“Leave me? No! You can’t!” Raditz grabbed Chichi by the arms, “You’re the only woman I’ve ever cared about Chichi! I know I don’t say it often but I...lo…lov…I like you a lot. I like you so much that it kills me to see you this way, and it hurts even more to know that I’m the one who did this to you.”

“Raditz, it’s too late…” Chichi tried to pull away but Raditz held her even tighter.

“No! I listened to you; know it’s your turn to listen to me. Give me a chance Chichi; give me a chance to prove how sorry I am. I want to make you my bonded mate Chichi, that’s how much I lo...like you. I never meant to hurt you, I tried to stay away, but I knew that other saiyan had you and I…I couldn’t just let him mate with you, so I came after you and killed him. I tried to stay away from you after that but I couldn’t. Please don’t leave me Chichi, I don’t think I’m strong enough to survive with out you.”

Raditz and Chichi stared at each other for a heartbeat, slowly Chichi pulled away and this time Raditz let her go.

“I have to go Raditz…”

“Chichi please!”

“No!” She held up a hand to forestall him. “It’s not that I don’t love…I mean like you too, because I do, it’s just that at the moment I’m all torn upside. So many things have happened to me Raditz, first my Goku was killed, then my planet was destroyed, then my baby son was killed!” Chichi choked on a sob, “And then just when things started to get better that bastard Vegeta just handed Bulma over to that madman with out even a fight!” Chichi slumped to the floor and began to sob. “I just want this nightmare to end…”

“It’s alright…don’t cry please…” Raditz dropped to the floor next to her and gathered her into his arms, “I know it hurts, I had to deal with the same thing when Frieza blew up my home world and then hunted us down one by one. I won’t lie to you Chichi; the pain never leaves. But it does get better, you get used to it and slowly you’ll learn to live again…”

“But that’s just it!” Chichi wailed, “I don’t want to live anymore! Everyone I love is dead or gone! I just want it to end for me too, I don’t want it to get better, to learn to live with it!” Chichi clutched at Raditz training suit so hard it left nail marks. “Do you understand what I’m saying Raditz? I don’t want to live!”

Raditz started at her horrified, “You can’t mean that Chichi, you can’t want to die!”

Chichi didn’t reply, she just buried her head into his shoulder and wept, occasionally Raditz would distinguish a word like ‘Goku’ or ‘Gohan’ and once or twice he even heard the woman utter the name ‘Piccolo.’ Raditz rubbed her back, desperately trying to soothe her when he felt it…

“Chichi…”

“Go away!”

Raditz pushed Chichi away from him and laid his hands on her lower abdomen, “Oh God Chichi…you’re pregnant!”

“Pregnant?” The word fell from Chichi’s lips like a stone, “Pregnant…to you?”

“What do you mean to you? How many other saiyans did you…”

“None!” Chichi blushed against her will, “I just, I can’t believe I’m pregnant…to…you…” suddenly her face darkened and she drew a breath. “YOU BASTARD!”

Raditz pulled back with a yelp and covered his ears. “Chichi…Owww!”

“You knocked me up, you bastard!” She stood up, her tears miraculously gone. “I can’t believe you’d do this! I knew you were a…a…a bastard but I didn’t think you’d sink so low as to get me pregnant to stay with you!”

“Hey! You’re acting like I did this on purpose!”

“Well you probably did!” Chichi picked up a vase and hurled it at him. “I hate you for this!”

“Chichi…stop it!” Raditz dodged a flying kitchen stool only to be hit in the face with a frying pan. “My face! Ahhh!” Raditz fell to the floor, holding a bleeding nose as Chichi loomed over him,

“Well that will teach you to go around knocking up depressed Earth woman so you can manipulate them into staying with you!” She turned around and swayed for a moment, her hand slowly moving down to her stomach. “I’m really pregnant…” Raditz heard her mutter before she fainted dead away.

And for Raditz who was left with an unconscious pregnant Chichi and a blood nose, there was really only one thing to say…

“Oh Shit.”

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