Merge

The glow of her digital clock showed 08:48 and normally when she would be crashing from a full day of work and Trunks. But that wasn't the case as there was a powerful presence in the room. A pair of red eyes looking at her with a guarded expression.

Dressed in only long blue training pants, chest, hands, and feet bare in the middle of the room eyes focused solely on her.

"Mate, are you afraid of me still?"

"No, I'm not afraid of you."

He didn't look convinced as he studied the way she shifted, sitting upon the bed. Her unease radiated from her, she was fearful. Though he didn't understand about what, their time apart had broken that mental connection that was once so strong as he shut her out completely. Yet now he wanted that back, it was a strange turn, he had believed himself able to be rid of her.

And yet, here he was.

"You are scared, I can smell it."

She sighed, slowly shaking her head as as she took a moment to gather herself. "I'm not afraid of you, because you won't hurt me." His face twisted into a scowl, "No, i'm afraid because of you, but that you'll leave me again. That this will really be the last time we see one another."

"You think i'll leave you? Mate I tried that and still here I am."

"No, in one day the androids come. Or did you forget?" Her blue eyes watched the red in his flicker with amusement.

He chuckled amused with her words, "I am a super saiyan, that boy's future will not happen. I will defeat those androids without trying. You can just tell those weaklings to not even bothering to show up." There was nothing he could not do now with his massive gains in strength their would be nothing left to stop him. The end of the androids and his final battle with Kakarot to place himself back as the strongest saiyan in the universe. As he so deserved.

"And then what?"

Shifting his head Vegeta raised one eyebrow at her curiously, "Then what? I will have won."

Pushing herself from the bed wearing some loose jeans and a short white top with her name spelled across it in teal. "No, between us?"

"That is entirely dependent upon you mate."

Her brows knitted together slightly, but she let his words slide. Bulma had to approach this properly and directly. "Do you love me?"

"You are my mate."

"That doesn't answer my question. I want to hear you admit it, that you love me." Putting her hands on her hips as she awaited his words.

"Bah!" Annoyed at her words, she knew the truth. He had not been able to stop himself from coming back despite trying desperately to do so. "I made you my mate, and proclaimed that I loved you before he ever did, now you ask of me to repeat what you know."

His red eyes followed her as she came closer stopping just a foot away from him. "You said that before you knew a thing about me, when the only way you could have me was by force."

If he loved her, then he could admit what she felt. That somewhere deep inside of this primal side that he could tell her how he truly felt. There had always been… a feeling.

"Mate," He growled warningly "What are you getting at, there is something in your mind. What are you seeking from me?" Without a strong connection to her he couldn't understand what this was leading too.

"I want to hear you apologize. That everything that transpired between us was not how it should've been." She wanted to hear that, to know that the beast inside of Vegeta could admit that what he had done to her was wrong, merely in how it happened. Not that she wished to undo what had happened, but give her that recognition. "You felt how much it hurt me didn't you? I know that he showed you."

Bulma watched as one of his eyes slowly faded and became black, the other side remaining red. "I know, but you refuse to forgive me." There was guilt in his voice and remorse in his eyes for a few moments before it left and he looked back at her with hurt in his own eyes as he continued. " You still refuse to understand that this is all I know. I do not know affection in your human world nor do you realize that these concepts do not exist in my life. I did what I felt I had to do, I thought you would understand that."

Her hand reached out towards him, the red eye narrowed and the black one looked concerned but she brought her hand next to his and wrapped her fingers around it, resting in his palm. "I do understand that now." Her soft words and gentle touch as she brought herself closer. "Vegeta, don't you understand that I never knew anything about you, your past until you began to show me?"

"You don't need to see my past, I don't even like it." There was nothing that he had enjoyed, despite his bravado in being an elite planet purger and warrior, all he really had to show for it was a small space pod credits, and the humiliation that he was nothing but a vagabond prince.

Later to be amplified by his death to Frieza, not being a super-saiyan like Kakarot, and then watching as the mate he had chosen defied him. Ran from him, and turned away from him. He'd taken too many blows to his heart and mind and simply tried to return to the way he was.

"I may not want to see it. But that doesn't mean i'll turn away from it or turn away from you because of it."

Both eyes watched as her other hand came up and touched his cheek, the softness of her fingers it made him shiver as he pressed his other hand overtop of it. "Then," He started, both eyes fully locked with her own blue ones. He could see his own reflection inside of them, two parts still inside. Two halves who wanted to be one. But they needed her for that. "Will you accept us? Accept me as one? Knowing that the man inside may not be the same man once we become one again?"

She nodded, "Will you change that much? Will you be a new person or a combination of both?"

"I will have desires, feelings, and act like a new man. I may not be the gentle Vegeta who cradled you and kissed you when you gave birth to our son or the Vegeta who took you by force. I will become who I was before all of this, a saiyan prince. But I will still be your mate, I will still care for you and our son. If you would have me?"

She smiled and pressed herself against him, the gentle thrum of his heart. "I will have you Vegeta, because I do love and forgive you. If you forgive me for what I did."

"There is nothing to forgive mate." He smiled leaning down to kiss her lips, she met him in kind. Their arms wrapped around the other, holding to other tightly.

His lids fell, with the taste of his mate in his mouth, and Bulma's body so close. The two minds bound to their connection to this woman became one. The blurring of thoughts and minds as no one side had a total voice over the other.

Brushing his thumb along her cheek to look at her, truly she was the only worthy mate. One worthy of his affections. This human woman, scientist, and female with a spirit that refused to be broken. Brashness and foolishness had caused her pain and nearly crushed the perfect cerulean flower that she was by locking her away in space.

Yet she refused to yield and in doing so allowed him to transform and now be able to protect her. He owed so much to her, more than he could ever say but she knew it. Were it not for her brain he would not be the man who he was now. She did not make him weak, instead she made him stronger than ever before and more importantly gave him purpose. Where his goals had been focused on gaining power for selfish reasons. It was now because of them, her and Trunks.

Pulling back his lips from her, both of his eyes opened revealing two onyx orbs that now reflected into her ocean blue ones.

"How are you woman?" He asked his voice speaking with two separate tones.

Smiling she saw that it had happened. "I'm fine, but how are you Vegeta?" Bringing her hands up to touch his face as the emotions displayed across them were not the man or the Oozaru inside of him.

"It is good to be whole woman." He said offering her a rare gentle smile which all but melted Bulma's resolve as he saw the shining of her tears in her eyes. "Don't start crying on me woman, tears don't suit your ugly face."

Stopping it was pointless as she cried and laughed into his chest, letting her tears mix into his skin as his arms gently pulled her close. "You're such a jerk, but i'm just so happy to have you back you egotistical saiyan." She half laughed and cried into his chest.

They remained like that for several minutes until her tears dried and she just rested against him. "I'm going to get my final preparations ready for the androids," tilting her head back up to look at him as his expression hardened along with his hands on her. "I don't want to see you there, you stay home and look after our son."

"I'll go just to see my friends Vegeta, it's been awhile since i've talked to a lot of them." She had made her plans already to go and him returning or not she wanted to at least talk with everyone. Who knew the future ahead of them after everything that had happened.

"Fine, but do not be anywhere near the battle. I can't risk showing my connection to you so openly, all it would take to bring me down is you."

She rolled her eyes, "I'll be fine Vegeta. If I can handle being with you then I don't need to worry about a pair of androids."

He smirked slightly amused. "You're damn right woman." Letting her go Vegeta headed towards the balcony. Stopping as he opened the door to look back over his shoulder at her "Don't die on me woman."

"You either Vegeta." She said smiling as he grinned before taking back off into the air. Leaving Bulma alone, though before she had a chance to reflect a wail burst from the room next door. "Duty calls for a mom." She sighed before going to take care of the baby though looking back towards the window where Vegeta once was.

For everything that had happened between them she still loved him, she just hoped she wouldn't lose him like the boy from the future had predicted. Living without Vegeta after he had left had been hard enough, having him die. She didn't know if she could handle that. Turning back she headed to the room that held her son.

The lavender haired boy that brought them truly together, their mixed blood Trunks.

A/N: Hope you all enjoyed the story. Let me know if you did, I plan on doing a GroundHog's day style fic with this couple in the future with Vegeta. Let me know if you'd like to see that.

R&R

Kerghan