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Second Life	By : AnonymityGranted Category: Dragon Ball Z > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1587 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 13
Fallout
Pain, that was the first thing he recognized.
“Raditz? Raditz! Come on, son, let’s get these on you and get out of here before this place blows,” he heard, but it was faint, so faint he might have dreamed it. Images swam in head, mostly of his father, and voices that floated around him out of sync with time.
“…ok?,”
“…Paragus…destroy…happened,”
“Goku…Cell,”
“Back off,”
When Raditz was more oriented and conscious he realized he was no longer in Brolly’s room, he was on a ship, most likely headed back to Earth. He could hear lots of chatter, there were a lot of people aboard the ship. He could pick out his nephew and brother’s voices, and even that of the bald monk. He was being held tightly to someone’s chest, the scent was familiar and comforting, his father’s scent. He could feel the tenseness of Bardock’s body, he was being shielded from the others. His body still radiated pain but judging from the inability of his legs to move they’d been splinted. Had his father done that? Did he know Raditz’s secret? What had happened with Brolly and Paragus?
Raditz wanted to look at his surroundings but that would alert his father that he was awake and start a confrontation he wasn’t sure he wanted to have, so he leaned into his father’s embrace the way he had longed to as a child and drifted back to sleep.

Bardock was beyond pissed. He was incensed, more angry than he could ever recall being before. It took him all of three seconds to put together what Raditz must have been keeping from him. He knew that there was something in a breeder’s scent that turned rage into lust, or at least that’s the way the story went. Was this what Raditz had been brooding over?
He’d found Raditz by tracing his ki, and what he found had been horrifying. Raditz’s blood smeared all over the bed. There were no sheets, nothing to cover the hand shaped bruises that littered his broken body . Paragus’ scheme had come out and Brolly was raging on a planet that was already doomed. He had shaken Raditz in an effort to get him moving, but when his son’s eyes only fluttered open and right back closed he knew he was on his own. He dressed him in Brolly’s spare clothes, after splinting both his legs with wood he had to break off a door. He carried Raditz to the Nemekian’s ship, arriving just after the others. He all but threatened to blast them if they tried to come closer to Raditz.
He couldn’t believe this. His vision, his vision made it seem so important to be on that ship, and he’d felt the impulse to bring Raditz as well. He’d failed his son all over again and he had no one to blame but himself and maybe that accursed Kanassan.
If this was the outcome, could he trust his visions? What would happen if he ignored them? The Kanassan people had no choice but watch their own destruction come upon them, was it possible to change what he saw?

For now, he would worry about repairing the trust between himself and his son.

“Raditz!”
“Take…help you…”
“Another sedative,”
“Goku’s…Gohan…Cell”
When Raditz woke again he was in very little pain. He was lying in a bed and it was very quiet. His body felt stiff, and fuzzy. He tried to move his legs and found that they were no longer in a splint but they were stiff as the boards that had been tied to them. His hair was exactly as it had been, as if he’d never cut it, like his nightmare had never happened.
He opened his eyes only to blinded by the bright light. When his eyes had adjusted, he found he was in an unfamiliar room. It was empty save the bed and a desk with papers thrown over it. The desk chair was pulled up to one side of the bed.
“You’re awake,” said someone off to the opposite side.
Raditz turned his head to see Bulma standing there, it was almost odd to see her now without her infant. Raditz opened his mouth to speak but his lips and mouth were dry, so he could only cough.
“We were able to get half a senzu bean for you, but we didn’t have many, and the others were banged up too and your legs and ribs were broken, plus there was a lot of bruising so it didn’t heal as well as we would have liked,” she said. She walked over to the desk and leaned over the papers, she had not once even looked at Raditz.
“I’ll get Bardock,” she said. As she turned, Raditz was sure her eyes were red, was she ill as well?
When the door opened again it was not Bardock but Chi-Chi who walked through it. Thankfully, she bought a large pitcher of water with her. She poured a glass and offered it to Raditz but he reached for the pitcher instead, she handed it over with a weak smile.
He gulped down the water quickly, while Chi-Chi sipped delicately from the glass. He looked at her, she looked horrible, her eyes were red, from tears not from illness, and it didn’t seem like she’d slept in a while. He was sure she hadn’t had a miraculous change of heart no matter what his condition.
“What happened?” he said with some difficulty, his throat still wasn’t cooperating completely.
“You don’t reme-” she started somewhat shocked.
“Not to me, no one in here is crying over me,” he said bluntly
“Oh, you mean,” she said, wiping at her eyes, “Goku, Goku, he’s, he died in the fight against Cell,” she said with a sob. Raditz nearly jumped up, only stopped by his own body’s unwillingness.
“Dead? What about Gohan, is Cell still alive, where is my father?” he said before he even thought about what he was saying. ‘Why do I care? I’ve barely known them two days, and there is still the question of whether I’ll get to stay here or not,” He thought to himself bitterly.
“Gohan’s fine, he defeated Cell, Cell is dead, but Goku is too and Bardock, I’m not sure. He bought you here and demanded something to heal you, we were only able to scramble up half a senzu bean but we didn’t know how severe your wounds were, Bardock wouldn’t say what happened,” she told him but he could see her thoughts were still with Kakarot.
So his father had hidden the truth, out of shame no doubt, but then why allow them to heal him. Was he going to sell him off? Raditz bit his lip in contemplation, no matter what he was expecting to happen himself he couldn’t deny the sadness that washed over him at Kakarot’s death, nor the relief at Gohan’s survival. He wasn’t sure why he was so sad, Kakarot had been dead before hadn’t he? And he wasn’t like he was going to end up in Hell.
“Aren’t you just going to wish him back?” he asked softly
A look of anger passed Chi-Chi’s face. Raditz instinctively shrunk back, wandering what he’d done now.
“Goku didn’t want to be bought back, even if he had the dragon can’t revive someone who has been bought back before,” said Chi-Chi with a slight growl. She seemed quite irritated at that first part. If Kakarot couldn’t be brought back then why would he share such a thought anyway? Raditz wanted to apologize but he didn’t know why so he didn’t.
“Where is father now?” he asked. It was time to face his future, whatever it may be.
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