In Your Dreams

Chaper 46

In Your Dreams: Chapter 46

The next several mornings were difficult. Goku would always wake up somewhere around 4:30 am and would immediately make a mad dash for the bathroom. The morning sickness wasn't letting up, and Vegeta was beginning to worry. Not because of the sickness itself, but because of the mental strain the event seemed to put on the younger man.

Each time Goku emptied his stomach he tended to become emotional. All Vegeta could do was stand behind the other Saiyajin and rub his back until he calmed down. The prince suspected Kakarotto was still trying to deal with the fact he'd been pregnant before; and that he'd lost the child.

It seemed like all the progress Goku had been making in putting his past behind him had suddenly been undone. Vegeta would wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of muffled cries and whimpers, and he would always discover that the source was his mate, who had once again begun to suffer from nightmares.

Occasionally these nightmares were so violent that they escalated into something Bulma described as night terrors. Kakarotto would suddenly wake up, but despite no longer being asleep, he would still be living in his nightmare, and he would fight and scream until Vegeta managed to calm him down. Sometimes it took minutes and sometimes it took nearly an hour.

One night Goku was convinced that Vegeta was actually Villa. The way the younger man had looked at him had sent shivers down the older man's spine, and it had taken every ounce of willpower not to let him go when he screamed and begged to be left alone. It wasn't right to hear Kakarotto, once the strongest being in the universe, beg a weak human for mercy. And yet it was happening nearly every night now.

Vegeta had eventually gone to Bulma and asked her what could be done about the night terrors, but the sleeping pills the woman had offered hadn't gone over well with Goku. The younger man refused to take anything that was in pill or needle form, and the suspicious glare in his mate's eyes always made Vegeta bristle in anger. He wasn't really mad at Kakarotto, but at the people who had made him this way. To this day he believed those bastards had died far too quickly for his liking.

Unfortunately, Goku's sudden change in behavior didn't go unnoticed by others. Those living at Capsule Corp were the first to notice, of course. Trunks had figured it out rather quickly. The demi-Saiyajin had noted the way Goku's hand would brush across his stomach several times throughout the day, and the way he would become defensive if anyone asked if he was alright. The boy had also picked up the new scent Kakarotto gave off that signaled he was pregnant.

Bura was the next to pick up on the changes, though her womanly instinct was more to credit than her observation skills. She'd noticed that Goku was eating a little more and that his skin, according to her anyway, was glowing. Once she had figured it out, it wasn't long before she contacted Pan and shared the news.
Since then the two harpies in training had done nothing but croon and fuss over Goku. Sometimes his mate would allow it, and other times he simply wasn't in the mood to be bothered and would hide himself away somewhere until the girls lost interest.

Vegeta had made sure that those who already knew of the pregnancy kept it to themselves until Kakarotto was ready to tell anyone else. The younger man's face still turned red whenever the baby was mentioned, and sometimes he would get flustered and angry when any questions were asked.

It was obvious Goku was afraid of strangers figuring it out as well, though at this point that wasn't going to happen. Still, the couple of times Bulma had managed to get the Saiyajin out of the house Goku had spent the entire time in public eyeing the people around him. If anyone happened to glance at his stomach --- and they weren't----, the younger man would immediately suspect that person knew he was pregnant, and he was convinced someone was going to come for him.