Taking Time
Disclaimer: I do own them so there!!! Only kidding *sighs* its nice to dream. anyway Pokémon and TR belong to Nintendo and I am making no money from this (Yet! *laughs evilly*)
Authors Notes: This is isn't really a sequel as such more like a carry on from where 'Forgiveness' left off. It does have more than just one chapter this time and I know some people have been wanting more to 'Forgiveness' and 'The Truth' so here it is! R&R
Chapter One: The Meeting at the mansion
"So how are you both?" Judith Morgan enquired taking a sip of her tea as she spoke. Opposite from her sat her 'son' and his friends. James had gone straight from the graveyard in Magenta Town to the Morgan Mansion to see the woman whom for 17 years he had thought to be his mother. Only a month ago, after the death of his father, James discovered that everything he thought he knew about himself was a lie. Judith had fallen pregnant the same time as their family maid Danielle. By sheer coincidence they went into labour on the same day. Judith had a baby girl but the child had been still born. It had been then that Hopkins had presented Judith with Danielle's baby. The poor girl had died from internal bleeding before the doctor could call for help. The little boy was an orphan now as his father had been killed in a car crash several months back. Thomas Morgan persuaded Judith to let Dr Burkley swap the babies. Judith agreed and for seventeen years Danielle's child, James, was brought up as the heir to the Morgan fortune. Then Thomas had died and Judith was racked with guilt and confessed everything in a letter to James. James had been furious with Judith and never wanted to see her again but after a little help from Jesse and Meowth and visiting Danielle's grave James knew that Judith was hurting too and needed him right now. James had gone straight from the cemetery to Judith's mansion with Jesse and Meowth. Jesse was now holding his hand as he and his mother made small talk in the main lounge of the mansion. Small talk had all it had been. They talked about the weather and Judith asked about Team Rocket and the twerps. Outwardly Judith seemed to be coping with her husband's death but it was the subtle little things that you could see that made James suspect that Judith was close to a break down. The black mourning clothes for one thing. Judith still wore them and this made the fact that she was terribly pale all the more clearer. She was holding the teacup and it rattled loudly against the saucer and her eyes were down cast and had an empty look about them. Judith Morgan was barely holding herself together. "We're all fine" Jesse replied to Judith's earlier question. "The Boss wants us to get back on the trail of the twerps soon through"
"You're leaving?" Judith cried the cup in her hand starting to tremble worse than before now.
"Not for a few more days" Jesse said quickly. "The Boss was mad at us for taking leave as it is"
"I don't like you working in that terrible criminal gang James" Judith said softly. "You could get hurt" James didn't know what to say to this. He had never even imagined that he and Judith could have a conversation let alone her voicing her fears for his safety. "I don't have much of a choice" James replied carefully. "It does pay well" this was a lie. Giovanni had cut their paycheques again and they were earning £100 a week between the three of them.
"We're having an extension built in the east wing," Judith said changing the subject. She handed James some plans that were lying on the oak coffee table. Why on earth would she want an extension? James wondered as he studied the plans. The east wing was where he and his parents had lived; the west wing was the servant's wing. Jesse seemed as puzzled as James was but Judith answered this all for them. "I have to make the place a little bigger for when you and your friends move in don't I James?" she said.
"Moving in?" Meowth asked, the cat had been silent up until now.
"I didn't say I was moving in" James replied quietly.
"It's the perfect solution," Judith said excitedly. "I won't be lonely anymore and you will get out of that dreadful Team Rocket. You can take the money your father left you and you and your friends will never have to work again" James looked at Jesse and Meowth. Jesse gripped his hand tighter but he could tell that they were dreaming of living off the Morgan's wealth. "No" James said firmly. "We cannot move in. It'd be too much"
"No it would not," Judith snapped.
"You haven't lived with Meowth" Jesse joked in an attempt to ease the situation.
"It would be perfect" Judith ignored Jesse and leaned forward in her chair smiling happily. "You could have anything you wanted and we would be a family again. James you can't honestly prefer Team Rocket to all of this finery?" Judith gestured to the rest of the mansion with a hand as she spoke.
"It would be wrong" James replied.
"What would be wrong about it?" Judith demanded but James knew she was faking innocence. Judith was an intelligent woman and must guess what he was thinking. James did not want to explain to her but she left him with no choice. "Judith you are not my mother and Thomas was not my father. I can't take money from you knowing what I do. It would be wrong"
"And this coming from a Pokemon thief" Judith chuckled. "James don't be so stupid. It does not matter that you are the child of the servant girl we once felt pity for. No one will know. Dr Burkley is dead and Hopkins and your friends aren't going to tell anyone".
"Shut up!" James shouted bolting up from the sofa. "You don't know anything about me. Why do you think I joined Team Rocket? Because you drove me away with all this talk of doing what is expected of me. Growing up here was the worst thing in the world. You and Thomas were either in my face the whole time or you would ignore me and lock me in the basement with Jessebell. Then I find out that you weren't even my parents and took me from my mother just because your own child died!"
"Me and Thomas love you" Judith said sharply "And if you have any sense you will hold your tongue"
"Love me? That's a laugh Judith! You were both cold and cruel and made my life hell!"
"Shut up James" Judith cried tears forming in her eyes. "You don't know what you're saying"
"Can you answer me one question or will you deny me that as well as you did love?" Judith nodded mutely not knowing what else to do. Jesse and Meowth looked uncomfortably on wondering whether to interfere or not. "If your own child had lived would you have still taken me in?" James asked. Judith looked at the floor and then shook her head. James stood up and fled the room. Jesse and Meowth ran after him leaving Judith to start crying bitterly.
Jesse found James sitting on the steps leading into the mansion. He had his face buried in his hands whilst he too cried. Jesse told Meowth to give them a few minutes and the cat left.
"James?" Jesse whispered sitting down beside him.
"Leave me alone" was the muffled reply.
"James please." Jesse didn't know what to say. What could she say that would make him feel better? Jesse couldn't even begin to imagine how James was feeling. When he was upset over Danielle Jesse could relate to it because of Miyamoto but how could she help him now? Jesse thought that Judith had changed but she was still the spiteful woman that Jesse had met when Thomas was alive. Even her husband's death could not change her. Judith wanted everything on her terms. Jesse had thought about what it would be like if James excepted Judith's offer but she knew deep down that he would never have done that. Jesse, now she thought about it more clearly, realised that living with Judith would be nothing short of a nightmare. Judith thought that money could buy you anything but all James ever wanted from them was love and they denied the one thing he cried out for. Maybe Judith didn't deserve Jesse's earlier pity? As Jesse watched James crying not knowing what to do she recalled something that Miyamoto told her when she was little.
"Trust yourself and do whatever your heart tells you" Miyamoto had seldom ever given her daughter advice but when she did Jesse always remembered it. Jesse knew that she had to use this advice now as she watched James sobbing uncontrollably in front of her. She sat down beside him and took him in her arms and did the thing that she knew was right. Jesse just held James tightly whilst he cried.
Meowth watched the scene before him tears forming in his blue eyes. They are so perfect together he thought as Jesse drew nearer still to her friend until her head was resting against his. Meowth knew how Jesse felt for James as she confided in the cat often enough. This surprised Meowth. Jesse never talked to anyone, not even James about her feelings. Then one day about 6 months ago Jesse told Meowth that she was in love with James. Since then Meowth had urged Jesse to tell James yet she refused claiming that the time was not right. Surely there was no time like the present? Meowth asked Jesse again after Thomas Morgan's funeral but still she refused. "It would not be right" Jesse had said. "James needs us Meowth. This has hurt him and if I were to tell him that I loved him then it would do more harm than good" Meowth didn't understand this. James needed to know that someone loved him and Jesse, like Judith and Thomas had done was refusing to give that love to him. Jesse finally released James from the hug and stood up helping him to his feet as she did so. Meowth watched them slowly start walking down the path towards the mansion gates. Then he heard a noise behind him. Meowth spun round and saw Judith. "Where is he going?" she asked, her voice small and fragile sounding.
"Home" Meowth replied coldly.
"This is his home" Judith said starting to go after him.
"Yous take one more step and you'll regret it" Meowth threatened. "Let him go Judith" Judith regarded the cat Pokemon for a few seconds. They both knew that she could get passed him if she wanted too but there was something in his eyes that made Judith realise that this was not the way.
"I do love him," she said sadly as she turned to go back inside.
"Try telling James dat once in a while" Meowth snapped before bounding after his friends.
Disclaimer: I do own them so there!!! Only kidding *sighs* its nice to dream. anyway Pokémon and TR belong to Nintendo and I am making no money from this (Yet! *laughs evilly*)
Authors Notes: This is isn't really a sequel as such more like a carry on from where 'Forgiveness' left off. It does have more than just one chapter this time and I know some people have been wanting more to 'Forgiveness' and 'The Truth' so here it is! R&R
Chapter One: The Meeting at the mansion
"So how are you both?" Judith Morgan enquired taking a sip of her tea as she spoke. Opposite from her sat her 'son' and his friends. James had gone straight from the graveyard in Magenta Town to the Morgan Mansion to see the woman whom for 17 years he had thought to be his mother. Only a month ago, after the death of his father, James discovered that everything he thought he knew about himself was a lie. Judith had fallen pregnant the same time as their family maid Danielle. By sheer coincidence they went into labour on the same day. Judith had a baby girl but the child had been still born. It had been then that Hopkins had presented Judith with Danielle's baby. The poor girl had died from internal bleeding before the doctor could call for help. The little boy was an orphan now as his father had been killed in a car crash several months back. Thomas Morgan persuaded Judith to let Dr Burkley swap the babies. Judith agreed and for seventeen years Danielle's child, James, was brought up as the heir to the Morgan fortune. Then Thomas had died and Judith was racked with guilt and confessed everything in a letter to James. James had been furious with Judith and never wanted to see her again but after a little help from Jesse and Meowth and visiting Danielle's grave James knew that Judith was hurting too and needed him right now. James had gone straight from the cemetery to Judith's mansion with Jesse and Meowth. Jesse was now holding his hand as he and his mother made small talk in the main lounge of the mansion. Small talk had all it had been. They talked about the weather and Judith asked about Team Rocket and the twerps. Outwardly Judith seemed to be coping with her husband's death but it was the subtle little things that you could see that made James suspect that Judith was close to a break down. The black mourning clothes for one thing. Judith still wore them and this made the fact that she was terribly pale all the more clearer. She was holding the teacup and it rattled loudly against the saucer and her eyes were down cast and had an empty look about them. Judith Morgan was barely holding herself together. "We're all fine" Jesse replied to Judith's earlier question. "The Boss wants us to get back on the trail of the twerps soon through"
"You're leaving?" Judith cried the cup in her hand starting to tremble worse than before now.
"Not for a few more days" Jesse said quickly. "The Boss was mad at us for taking leave as it is"
"I don't like you working in that terrible criminal gang James" Judith said softly. "You could get hurt" James didn't know what to say to this. He had never even imagined that he and Judith could have a conversation let alone her voicing her fears for his safety. "I don't have much of a choice" James replied carefully. "It does pay well" this was a lie. Giovanni had cut their paycheques again and they were earning £100 a week between the three of them.
"We're having an extension built in the east wing," Judith said changing the subject. She handed James some plans that were lying on the oak coffee table. Why on earth would she want an extension? James wondered as he studied the plans. The east wing was where he and his parents had lived; the west wing was the servant's wing. Jesse seemed as puzzled as James was but Judith answered this all for them. "I have to make the place a little bigger for when you and your friends move in don't I James?" she said.
"Moving in?" Meowth asked, the cat had been silent up until now.
"I didn't say I was moving in" James replied quietly.
"It's the perfect solution," Judith said excitedly. "I won't be lonely anymore and you will get out of that dreadful Team Rocket. You can take the money your father left you and you and your friends will never have to work again" James looked at Jesse and Meowth. Jesse gripped his hand tighter but he could tell that they were dreaming of living off the Morgan's wealth. "No" James said firmly. "We cannot move in. It'd be too much"
"No it would not," Judith snapped.
"You haven't lived with Meowth" Jesse joked in an attempt to ease the situation.
"It would be perfect" Judith ignored Jesse and leaned forward in her chair smiling happily. "You could have anything you wanted and we would be a family again. James you can't honestly prefer Team Rocket to all of this finery?" Judith gestured to the rest of the mansion with a hand as she spoke.
"It would be wrong" James replied.
"What would be wrong about it?" Judith demanded but James knew she was faking innocence. Judith was an intelligent woman and must guess what he was thinking. James did not want to explain to her but she left him with no choice. "Judith you are not my mother and Thomas was not my father. I can't take money from you knowing what I do. It would be wrong"
"And this coming from a Pokemon thief" Judith chuckled. "James don't be so stupid. It does not matter that you are the child of the servant girl we once felt pity for. No one will know. Dr Burkley is dead and Hopkins and your friends aren't going to tell anyone".
"Shut up!" James shouted bolting up from the sofa. "You don't know anything about me. Why do you think I joined Team Rocket? Because you drove me away with all this talk of doing what is expected of me. Growing up here was the worst thing in the world. You and Thomas were either in my face the whole time or you would ignore me and lock me in the basement with Jessebell. Then I find out that you weren't even my parents and took me from my mother just because your own child died!"
"Me and Thomas love you" Judith said sharply "And if you have any sense you will hold your tongue"
"Love me? That's a laugh Judith! You were both cold and cruel and made my life hell!"
"Shut up James" Judith cried tears forming in her eyes. "You don't know what you're saying"
"Can you answer me one question or will you deny me that as well as you did love?" Judith nodded mutely not knowing what else to do. Jesse and Meowth looked uncomfortably on wondering whether to interfere or not. "If your own child had lived would you have still taken me in?" James asked. Judith looked at the floor and then shook her head. James stood up and fled the room. Jesse and Meowth ran after him leaving Judith to start crying bitterly.
Jesse found James sitting on the steps leading into the mansion. He had his face buried in his hands whilst he too cried. Jesse told Meowth to give them a few minutes and the cat left.
"James?" Jesse whispered sitting down beside him.
"Leave me alone" was the muffled reply.
"James please." Jesse didn't know what to say. What could she say that would make him feel better? Jesse couldn't even begin to imagine how James was feeling. When he was upset over Danielle Jesse could relate to it because of Miyamoto but how could she help him now? Jesse thought that Judith had changed but she was still the spiteful woman that Jesse had met when Thomas was alive. Even her husband's death could not change her. Judith wanted everything on her terms. Jesse had thought about what it would be like if James excepted Judith's offer but she knew deep down that he would never have done that. Jesse, now she thought about it more clearly, realised that living with Judith would be nothing short of a nightmare. Judith thought that money could buy you anything but all James ever wanted from them was love and they denied the one thing he cried out for. Maybe Judith didn't deserve Jesse's earlier pity? As Jesse watched James crying not knowing what to do she recalled something that Miyamoto told her when she was little.
"Trust yourself and do whatever your heart tells you" Miyamoto had seldom ever given her daughter advice but when she did Jesse always remembered it. Jesse knew that she had to use this advice now as she watched James sobbing uncontrollably in front of her. She sat down beside him and took him in her arms and did the thing that she knew was right. Jesse just held James tightly whilst he cried.
Meowth watched the scene before him tears forming in his blue eyes. They are so perfect together he thought as Jesse drew nearer still to her friend until her head was resting against his. Meowth knew how Jesse felt for James as she confided in the cat often enough. This surprised Meowth. Jesse never talked to anyone, not even James about her feelings. Then one day about 6 months ago Jesse told Meowth that she was in love with James. Since then Meowth had urged Jesse to tell James yet she refused claiming that the time was not right. Surely there was no time like the present? Meowth asked Jesse again after Thomas Morgan's funeral but still she refused. "It would not be right" Jesse had said. "James needs us Meowth. This has hurt him and if I were to tell him that I loved him then it would do more harm than good" Meowth didn't understand this. James needed to know that someone loved him and Jesse, like Judith and Thomas had done was refusing to give that love to him. Jesse finally released James from the hug and stood up helping him to his feet as she did so. Meowth watched them slowly start walking down the path towards the mansion gates. Then he heard a noise behind him. Meowth spun round and saw Judith. "Where is he going?" she asked, her voice small and fragile sounding.
"Home" Meowth replied coldly.
"This is his home" Judith said starting to go after him.
"Yous take one more step and you'll regret it" Meowth threatened. "Let him go Judith" Judith regarded the cat Pokemon for a few seconds. They both knew that she could get passed him if she wanted too but there was something in his eyes that made Judith realise that this was not the way.
"I do love him," she said sadly as she turned to go back inside.
"Try telling James dat once in a while" Meowth snapped before bounding after his friends.
