The unbreakable bond

Rest.

Kakarot slowly started to wake, his eyes flickered open he could see someone stood over him. He couldn't quite make out who it was, he closed his eyes before opening them to slowly adjust his eye sight. As the figure above him slowly started to come into focus, Kakarot pulled himself to sit up.
"Dad!" Kakarot looked at his father who smiled.
"We didn't think you'd wake up right now, good thing you've got a strong cub growing inside you." Bardock sat on edge of the bed looking over at his son.
Kakarot reached for his mother's pendant grasping it as he looked around the room, the monitor making repetitive beeps, he looked to his free hand and seen he was hooked up to a uv. His eyes widened at the sight before looking back at his father.
"How long have I been knocked out?"
Bardock shrugged folding his arms "oh id say about a few months..." he grinned watching his sons eyes widen more "nah, just a day"
Kakarot ripped the uv and monitor off him, Bardock tried to push his son to lay down as he was under strict orders to rest. Kakarot pushed his father back as he slowly placed his feet to the ground, whilst taking a stretch.
"I don't know why everyone is fussing over me, I'm fine now!" Kakarot smiled at his dad reassuringly.
Letta rushed in as she heard monitor alarm go off, she saw Kakarot stood with his dad opposite folding his arms, they both looked back at her.
"Oh, you are overdue your medication..." letta panicked as a servant came in behind her with a needle. Kakarots eyes widened, he pushed his father out in front of him.
"Nope ...I'm ...I'm good!" Kakarot gulps staring at the needle, he broke out in sweat. Bardock shook his head at his son before pinching the bridge of his nose.
"He seems fine at the moment" he looked at servant holding the needle, they looked over at the shaking kakarot and nodded as they put it away. Bardock went over to his son "you may feel fine, but you're on strict bed rest till further notice, if you don't get your ass back into bed I'll have them bring the needle back!" With that Kakarot climbed back into bed, his father didn't need to tell him twice.

Vegeta was dragged back into the room with Nappa and Raditz. Zarbon shoved Vegeta to the ground at spat on him, vegeta smirked at him whilst wiping the spit off him.
"Oh, we have a spitter" vegeta chuckled as Zarbon glared down at him.
"Do you want to spend more time in the tank?!" Zarbon snarled at the prince who smirked wider at him.
"I don't know Zarbon, depends...how many spare clothing have you got since you seem to enjoy ripping mine off?"
Zarbon glared raising his back hand at the prince, vegeta got onto his feet grinning.
"You gonna hit me like a bitch you are?!" Vegeta folded his arms, staring at Zarbon as if to dare him.
Zarbon retracted his hand back, he tucked his loose strands of hair behind his ear. He grinned slightly and headed out the room.
"You'd enjoy that too much Vegeta!" Zarbon slammed the door storming off.
"What happened Vegeta?!" Nappa leaned over to the prince seeing he was wearing different armour.
"Nothing for you to worry your pretty bald head about" vegeta grinned as he climbed up onto the top bunk.
"Seems he's just been fucked by that green bitch face" raditz snickered.
"Honestly Raditz, I don't want to know about your lewd fantasies about me. Anyway, it seems they are interested in our race, obviously enjoy seeing us as their slaves." The prince laid back with his arms behind his head resting his leg over his other knee. "They haven't worked out that our power levels can increase, which thanks to that bitch mine has" the prince grinned.
"So you let them beat you to a pulp?" Nappa looked up at the prince laying on the bed "your poor mate was feeling it too" Nappa chuckled "they had to drug him up, your father wants you to contact him I guess to let him know you are alive"
"Tsk, I'll do so in my own time!" The prince looked up at the ceiling
"So what now?! When will they have us doing a mission?" Nappa questioned
"Hm, I don't think they had a mission on mind so to speak, they are trying to break me it seems they wanting to know more how our minds work" the prince continued to look up at the ceiling "lucky for you two, I'm pretty strong it'll take a lot more to break me"
"Or you're just stubborn who risked getting yourself and my weakling of a brother killed?" Raditz looked over at the prince, the prince didn't even look over nor respond. They all laid down on their bunks in silence. Vegeta slowly closed his eyes to reach out to his mate.
{Kakarot, how you doing now?}
[could be a little better...what happened?]
{nothing for you to worry about}
[well, I'd like a little warning next time or something, I felt like I was dying]
{but you didn't die...so you're fine, quit being a baby}
[are you okay?]
{never better}
[want to talk about it?]
{just shut the fuck up and get some rest}

Kakarot sighed he looked at his father who was leaning over his bed side.
"What's wrong?" Bardock asked; not that he cared much he'd quite happily be back at his own bed.
"Just Vegeta, something up and he's just not letting me in"
"Kakarot, you really need to learn, he won't open himself up even to you, to him it'll make him look vulnerable." Bardock leaned back folding his arms "it's just the type of person he is, takes after his father after all"
"Yeah" kakarot yawns "I guess you're right"
"Just get some sleep" Bardock looked at his son, he watched as kakarot slowly closed his eyes. A flashback of fine came flooding into Bardocks memories.
"You know it's probably best we don't grow too attached to him Gine, soon as he hits his maturity he belongs to the royals"
"I know, that's why I'm enjoying every second we have with him" Gine smiled stroking Kakarots face.

Bardock leaned over his son, he looked at the heart pendant and smiled a little before planting a kiss on Kakarots forehead.