Child's Play Chapter 5
The Return

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or it's characters
Claimer: I do in fact own Emily and anyone else mentioned in this chapter.

Walking down a road with her arms stretched open; Daisy came upon a heavenly smell. Quickening her pace, she found herself at the front of a house. Suddenly the door swung open and a familiar lady stood there.

"Hi Daisy, would you like to come in?" She greeted. Daisy wrinkled her nose, it was Laura, the lady from the baker shop at the mall.

"Don't like you. You told uncle 'ten that mommy have fairs when not true!" She yelled. Laura just smirked at the two year old.

"But Daisy honey, don't you want some sausage rolls?" She asked. Daisy widened her eyes at this.

"Rolls?" She cried as she toddled into the house.

"Here are your rolls!" Laura snapped as she suddenly turned into Chichi and lunged at Daisy with what looked like her frying pan. Suddenly something else hit her jerking her awake. Daisy looked around and realised that the thing that hit her was her fathers hand.

"No Gohan, don't go. Not with your injuries." He mumbled turning over in his sleep. Daisy licked her lips.

"Hungry." She muttered, climbing out the bed and crawling over to the door, annoyed that it was shut. Looking around, she spotted a shoe and picked it up, gently hooking it onto the doorknob. Pulling at the tip, the door slowly creaked open. Pushing it now, she left her dads room and crawled down the stairs. Sitting in the door of the kitchen, she moved her gaze over the whole room looking at how to get food. Spotting a kitchen stool, a grin flashed over her face as she got up and ran over to it. Slowly pushing the stool, she slid it all the way over to the worktop then climbed up the stool, then crawled onto the worktop. Leaning across, she pulled open a cupboard then went in to see what she could grab her hands on, when suddenly she lost her balance and fell.

"Whoa!" She yelled as she grabbed the edge of the shelf to stop herself from falling. Tears filled her eyes as she began to get scared, she couldn't hang on forever and she knew she would really hurt herself is she let go and fell. Luckily for her, Jake sauntered in.

"Oh my god! Dad! Get in here quick, Daisy's in trouble!" He yelled, running over to a stool and sliding it to where his sister was dangling. Mirai Trunks ran in as his eyes fell onto his daughter.

"Jake? Oh no! Daisy, what are you doing?" He cried, running over to her and scooping her up. Upon hearing her father's voice, she burst out crying as Mirai Trunks pulled her shaking body into a hug. Jake made his way over to his father and looked at his sister sympathetically.

"Is she ok?" He asked.

"Yeah, she's more scared than hurt. Daisy what did you think you were doing!" Mirai Trunks sighed.

"I was hungry, sorry daddy!" Daisy wailed and Mirai Trunks just rocked her gently, trying to calm her down.

"It's ok, as long as you're not hurt. Come on, let's sit you down and I can make breakfast alright?" He soothed, placing her down in her newly fitted chair, Daisy just nodded as tears continued to roll down her cheeks. Jake pushed a chair over to his sister, climbed up on it and gave her a hug.

"Man sis, you really scared me." He said.

"And me. Just make sure she's not hurt there Jake." Mirai Trunks added, pouring some contents into a pan, Jake scanned his sister.

"She looks fine dad, I thought I was going to have to catch her but she hung on." He complimented.

"Well it would have been a nasty fall. You'll be going to school by yourself, Alex is still not well." Mirai Trunks said.

"She's still burning up? Do you think her running off might have had something to do with it?" Jake asked and Mirai Trunks looked thoughtful for a moment.

"It might have, but you two have always had us searching the planet for you so it's not like she's never done it mom's on her way home, so she'll be here when you come back home." He said, bringing over three plates of eggs and sausages to the table.

"Yeah, I felt her busting Alex yesterday, bet she's just lost her physical energy and to boost up like a back up option she's burning up." Jake suggested. Mirai Trunks shook his head.

"Maybe, but I don't think so. Your mother used to be constantly burnt up when she was sick. I'll keep her off and see what your mom says when she comes home." He sighed as they all tucked into their breakfast. Jake was quietly getting ready upstairs and Mirai Trunks had changed Daisy, who was now playing with a doll on the couch when there was a knock on the door, causing her to jump up with excitement.

"Door!" She yelled.

"Shh, you'll wake Alex up." Mirai Trunks said as he scooped her up then made his way to the front door where he was surprised to find Goku standing there.

"Hey Trunks, I'll take the twins to school if you want too." The older saiyan greeted and Mirai Trunks smiled as he let him in.

"That'll be great Goku but I'm actually keeping Alex off today so it'll be just Jake." He said. Goku frowned at this.

"She's still not well? Wonder what's wrong with her." He sighed.

"I don't know. I'm going to see what Emily has to say when she comes home." Mirai Trunks said, shaking his head.

"Mommy!" Daisy laughed at the mention of her mothers name.

"And how is little Daisy this morning?" Goku chuckled, taking her out of her fathers arms, Daisy screwed her nose up at this.

"Not little, big girl Grandpa!" She said and Goku laughed at this.

"Yeah, and she proved that by trying to get her own breakfast and ended up hanging out the cupboard this morning." Mirai Trunks groaned.

"What?" Goku cried.

"I found her this morning Grandpa." Jake's voice said and looking down, Goku saw that he was in his school uniform and bore a backpack.

"Have you got your lunch Jake?" Mirai Trunks asked.

"Yes dad." Jake sighed.

"And your homework?" Mirai Trunks pressed on.

"Yes, and Alex's too. Might as well hand hers too so she won't get bad grades." He said, Mirai Trunks nodded.

"All right, see you later. Thanks for this Goku." Mirai Trunks said, Goku just nodded as he handed Daisy back to her dad.

"Wanna go too." She whined.

"Maybe in a few years honey." He sighed as he saw the others off, then went back inside.

"Why uncle Gohan hurt?" Daisy asked suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Mirai Trunks asked puzzled.

"You said uncle Gohan hurt." She said as he set her down on the couch, Mirai Trunks stared at her.

"When did I say that?" He asked.

"This morning." She chirped, Mirai Trunks went red as he realised what she was talking about.

"I just had a dream that he was hurt that's all." He said uncomfortably, he was eventually going to tell

his children about him being from the future and that where he came from he was the only one left. But he felt now wouldn't be the best time to tell them, being so young and all. Daisy stared at her father as if she didn't believe him.

"Why?" She asked.

"I don't know, it's just what I dreamed about. They're unpredictable." He replied quickly and to his relief, Daisy grinned.

"Oh right, I dreamed of rolls." She chirped. Mirai Trunks smirked at this, as there was another knock

on the door. When he opened it he found Chichi standing on the doorstep.

"Hi Trunks, how have you all been?" She asked as he let her in. Mirai Trunks smiled at her.

"Alex is still not well and is in bed, but Goku took Jake to school for me which was kinda a relief." He said.

"She's still not well? Well that's strange. Do you want me to look after Daisy whilst you take her the doctors?" Chichi asked.

"Thanks for the offer but no thanks. I'm going to wait until Emily comes home." Mirai Trunks replied, shaking his head whilst Daisy stared at her grandmother nervously, although neither adult noticed.

"Alright, then why don't you take Daisy out for a bit and I'll stay here with Alex?" Chichi suggested. Mirai Trunks nodded.

"Are you sure you'll be alright?" He asked.

"I'll be fine, don't worry about a thing, you two have fun." Chichi declared waving her hand.

"All right then, thanks. Hey Daisy where do you want to go?" Mirai Trunks asked, looking at her now.

"School." Daisy chirped whilst Chichi just laughed.

"Apart from there, you're too young." He sighed. Daisy just shrugged her shoulders and grinned at her father.

"Dunno." She replied. Mirai Trunks just smirked at her.

"Tell you what, let's just see where we end up ok?" He reasoned, Daisy slowly nodded her head, puzzled by what her father was saying, but she was sure it was some place fun. Scooping her up and thanking Chichi once again, Mirai Trunks grabbed his car keys and left the house. Outside he met up with Goten who was getting ready to take off.

"Uncle 'ten!" Daisy squealed and Goten turned around and smiled.

"Hey Goten, where are you going?" Mirai Trunks asked.

"I'm on my way over to Capsule Corp to meet up with Trunks." Goten replied, patting Daisy on the head causing her to growl at him, but quickly stopped at her fathers glare.

"I need to stop by at work, I'll drop you off if you want, it's on the way after all." Mirai Trunks said. Goten nodded.

"That'll be great, I'll end up sparring with him anyway so I could do with sparing as much energy as I can. Thanks." Goten laughed, Mirai Trunks nodded as he opened up the passenger door of the people carrier.

"Sure, hop in." He said, fastening Daisy into the child seat then closing it. Goten climbed in behind her then Mirai Trunks got in, started the car up then took off, switching on a radio station with one hand.

"You taking Daisy to work with you then?" Goten asked.

"Yeah, I'm only stopping by to pick up some files I want to bring home then I'm just taking Daisy

somewhere. Doubt it'll be the mall after what happened the last time." Mirai Trunks replied as Daisy hit a new radio station so instead of the jazz he liked to listen too, it was the pop music station that Emily favoured, causing Daisy to giggle.

"No way, you can listen to this rubbish when your mothers driving but whilst I am your listening to jazz." Mirai Trunks groaned, hitting his radio station back on whilst Goten stifled a laugh.

"So when is Emily due back?" He asked as Daisy hit the button again turning it back to the pop station and laughing even harder.

"Daisy! She's due back about two, I'm picking her up from the airport." Mirai Trunks sighed, turning back to his station again.

"Cool, wonder how she got on." Goten said as Daisy went to hit the button again but Mirai Trunks was ready and grabbed her hands.

"Don't even think about it. Here play with your doll. And I haven't heard from her since yesterday when she busted Alex. I'm sure she'll tell us about it tonight. Why don't you guys come for dinner? It's the least I can do after all the help you've given me." Mirai Trunks suggested, picking a doll up from the back seat and handed it to Daisy who immediately pulled it into a hug, instantly forgetting about the radio station.

"Sure, fine with me and probably mom and dad too. So where are you planning on going after work?" Goten asked.

"Dunno. I might take Daisy to the park or somewhere. I'll just drive around looking for a place mainly, as you can see it's rare I get a day off and I don't know what to do with myself." Mirai Trunks laughed.

"Why don't you go with me to Capsule Corp? We can stop by your work, pick up whatever you need, and then go there. Daisy can play with Bulla." Goten suggested, Mirai Trunks smirked at his brother in law in the mirror.

"It's not even your home and you're inviting others. Well I can sense Goku is at Capsule Corp fighting Dad, I suppose I could go. Daisy would be occupied then. Wanna go play with Bulla Daisy?" He asked, looking at her. Daisy stared up at her father.

"Dunno." She said laughing and Mirai Trunks sighed.

"Is that all she says?" Goten asked smirking at his niece as they pulled up outside Mirai Trunks's office.

"Sometimes I wonder that as well. I'll be back in a few minutes." Mirai Trunks said as he turned off the ignition and opened the door.

"Daddy! I wanna go too!" Daisy wailed suddenly.

"I'll be carrying files honey, I can't carry you too." Mirai Trunks sighed looking at her, Daisy only screwed her eyes up.

"I can walk." She protested.

"Yes and you like to wander off and get lost and I do not want that happening here of all places." He said firmly.

"I'll carry her Trunks." Goten said getting out the car.

"Thanks Goten." Mirai Trunks sighed as he finished getting out the car. Goten undid his niece from her car seat and the three of them made their way into the hallway, one by one all the ladies looked up.

"Good morning Mr Briefs." They all greeted seductively.

"You'd think you were single." Goten muttered.

"Tell me about it." Mirai Trunks mumbled, as one woman rushed up to him, smiling broadly.

"Trunks? What are you doing here? I thought you were off?" She asked, Mirai Trunks nodded.

"I know Charlotte, this is my brother in law Goten and you know my daughter Daisy. Is my mother about?" He asked.

"She's in a meeting this morning, would you like me to disturb her?" Charlotte asked, as they made their way into his office.

"No, it's ok. I was only going to say hi. I'm only picking up some files that I want to finish off at home." He replied.

"Now, I'll lead you into our Vice President's office where a lot of the paperwork is going to be made. Unfortunately he's off today but… wait a minute, hey guy's what are you doing here?" A voice asked, everyone spun around to see Bulma standing there with two business men.

"Just picking some stuff up." Mirai Trunks replied.

"Hi Grandma Bulma!" Daisy chirped, squirming to get down.

"Hey sweetheart. Trunks, whilst you're here then, this is Mr Jones and Mr Smith, they're from the electronic company 'Jithro', that wants to sponsor the electric massager that were working on." Bulma said.

"Pleased to meet you both." Mirai Trunks said, holding his hand out.

"A man who's here on his day off, impressive." Mr Smith said smiling as both he and Mr Jones shook it.

"Ooh, colours." Daisy said eyeing whiteboard felts.

"Pack it in Daisy or we'll go back to the car." Goten muttered.

"Ok." Daisy sighed asGoten adjusted his grip on her.

"Is this your daughter Mr Briefs?" Mr Jones asked.

"Yes, She's my youngest, Daisy. I have two oldertwins, a boy and a girl." Mirai Trunks replied.

"Oh how is Alex by the way Trunks? Chichi called to say she wasn't well." Bulma asked.

"She's sleeping. Shh!" Daisy hissed.

"Alex isn't here so you don't have to be quiet. But don't start screaming either." Mirai Trunks said, adding the last bit before she took him seriously, which was annoying trait she picked up off her mother. Daisy just nodded.

"Ok Daddy." She replied softly.

"Aw, such a cute little girl." Mr Smith said, smiling.

"Not little, me big girl!" Daisy declared.

"Daisy." Mirai Trunks warned.

"Stop squirming!" Goten sighed.

"Hurts! I want down!" She moaned.

"I hurt? Fine I'll let you down." Goten replied, putting her down but grabbing her hand as she almost took off.

"How old is she?" Mr Smith asked.

"Two, you wouldn't believe the amount of trouble she can get into." Mirai Trunks laughed, Daisy looked up at him.

"But daddy I was hungry." She whined.

"I know you were but it didn't stop you scaring the life out of me and your brother this morning." He sighed. Suddenly without thinking, Goten let Daisy go as he eyed up a girl. Daisy looked up at her father to see he had turned his attention back to her grandmother and the two businessmen.

"Tap." She mumbled, as she started to walk over to a water cooler she had spotted, before she could get far, she felt two strong hands around her waist, pulling her back.

"Oh no you don't." Mirai Trunks said, scooping her up.

"Thirsty daddy." She sighed.

"You can have a drink when we get back in the car then." Mirai Trunks sighed, as he adjusted his grip on her.

"Hey Trunks, why are you taking files with you home anyway?" Bulma asked, remembering what he was here for.

"I don't want to fall behind on my work." He replied.

"The police have done your office, but I'd much rather keep all work in the building until the second culprit has been found if you don't mind." She sighed, Mirai Trunks shot her a puzzled look.

"There were two of them? Who was the first person?" He asked, forgetting all about the break in.

"The first one was Scotty down in Mechanics. We're still trying to work out who his accomplice is." She said.

"Scotty Williams? Wasn't he the guy that applied for my personal assistant job last year?" Mirai Trunks asked.

"Yeah, it's a good job you turned him down. He could have been stealing from right under your nose and you wouldn't have known anything about it." She said.

"Yeah, well all right, Emily's back today so I'll see you tomorrow,Nice to meet you both. Goten you ready?" Mirai Trunks asked, looking at him.

"Huh? Oh yea." Goten replied, pocketing a slip of paper as Mirai Trunks sighed at him. Adjusting his grip on Daisy he left the office then turned to Goten as he fished out his car key.

"If your going to eye up my staff, tell me first so I can tell you who is single and who isn't. Sheila already happens to have a boyfriend." Mirai Trunks stated, opening the car up, Goten groaned at this.

"She already has one? They why did she give me her number." He demanded. Mirai Trunks smirked at him.

"I dunno, either out of pity or she gave you the wrong number. I'll ask her tomorrow if you want." He suggested.

"No it's ok, I'll just forget about her." Goten sighed, as they both climbed into the car, Mirai Trunks fastening Daisy into the car seat and passing her a bottle.

Arriving at Capsule Corp a while later, Mirai Trunks left Daisy with Bulla and left in search of the others, finding them sparring as super saiyan in the back with Trunks watching them.

"Hey guys." He greeted.

"Hey, child free I see." Trunks replied as he made his way over to his future self and best friend.

"I'm starting to see Daisy differently." Goten grumbled as Mirai Trunks laughed at this.

"Yeah, I am too. I knew she was active but nothing prepared me for finding her hanging out the kitchen cupboard this morning." He said as he watched the older saiyans fight.

"What?" Goten and Trunks cried in unison.

"Claiming she was hungry she ventured into the kitchen. How she got out the bedroom is a mystery since I know I closed the door last night." Mirai Trunks sighed, Goten looked thoughtful.

"Any shoes around?" He asked.

"Yeah, I found a pair on the floor why?" Mirai Trunks asked, puzzled now, Goten just smirked.

"There's your answer. It's an old baby trick, hook a shoe onto the doorknob and it will open. Jake and Alex probably taught her it, since I'm sorry to say I taught it to them when they where younger." He explained.

"Thanks Goten. Well now I'll know not to leave shoes lying around." Mirai Trunks sighed. He stayed for a couple of hours avoiding a spar since he was sure Emily wouldn't be too pleased if he'd met her at the airport all beaten up. He left with Daisy for the airport and was relieved when he saw his wife coming through the arrivals gate.

"Mommy!" Daisy squealed, Emily's annoyed face quickly turned into a smile when she spotted her husband and daughter.

"Hey guys." She called making her way over to them then pulling her husband into a kiss. Placing her bag on the floor she took Daisy out of his arms and pulled her into a hug.

"Where's Martin?" Mirai Trunks asked.

"He's in hospital so I came home alone." Emily stated, shrugging her shoulders, Mirai Trunks widened his eyes at this.

"Why what happened? Is he ok?" He asked.

"He'll live." Emily replied darkly, picking up her bag as they made their way outside, Mirai Trunks

frowned at this.

"What do you mean? What happened?" He asked.

"He came onto me. That's why he's in hospital. He locked me in the room and backed me onto the bed. I tried to keep as human as possible but when he got so far, I had to act on instinct. Oh and I'm jobless now so that's something I'll have to look for next week." She sighed as they climbed into the car, Mirai Trunks growled.

"He what?" He yelled.

"Trunks calm down. Don't worry he never got far. I handled it." Emily soothed, putting her hand on his

shoulder.

"I'm more annoyed with the fact he did it, I knew you could handle him. Are you alright though?" He asked.

"I'm fine Trunks, I won't see him again since I quit, but after what he saw, I doubt it wouldn't be long before he fired me anyway. How are the kids, have they been behaving better now?" Emily asked, changing the subject.

"Yeah, Alex has been too sick to pull pranks." Mirai Trunks said as they drove off, he knew what she was doing and must have realised it was still sore what happened, and chose to leave her alone. Emily on the other hand frowned at what her husband just said.

"Why? What's up with her?" She asked.

"Just been burning up and all that. I don't know what's wrong with her." He said. They continued their journey in silence until they pulled up outside their house, Jake was at the front door to greet his mother.

"Hey mom how was New York?" He asked, pulling her into a hug. Emily smiled as she saw her parents hovering in the back, next to a very tired Alex, then let go of her son.

"It was very uh educational." She replied, Mirai Trunks narrowed his eyes at this and Goku knew something had happened. That night as the 11 members of the Son and Briefs family on Mount Potaz gathered around the table, Emily told them what happened, conveniently missing out what Martin did to her. After her story it was Mirai Trunks and Goku's turn to tell her how their weekend went without her. By the time the following weekend came, Alex was back to normal and therefore well enough to get grounded. Emily never had to job hunt for long as Mirai Trunks was stunned to find out that Scotty's accomplice was in fact his Personal Assistant Charlotte. Firing her straight away, Emily took the job up and before long everything went back to normal, until a certain threat approached the following year.

AN1: There, my little humour is done. To read all about the certain threat, you'll have to read mine and Zara's joint fic Dream Vaders, set under the name Emra.

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