I get a lick on my face. I slowly open my eyes as I awaken from my slumber. The first thing my eyes focus on is the pokemon that woke me up.

"Hi cutie. How did you get here? Did Mr. Mime let you in?" I ask sleepily. I rub the sleep out of my eyes and recognize who the pokemon is.

"Persian!? Is that really you?" I ask, suddenly fully awake and overjoyed. I hug my long lost friend from my past. "How did you get here? Where did you come- Giovanni? Are you here too?" I hold on to Persian and crawl to the corner of my bed, already knowing the dreaded answer to my question.

"Persian did always bring us together, didn't he?" Giovanni answered as he turned on the bedroom light. "I haven't seen you in thirteen years. I've missed you. So has everyone else."

I am speechless for a moment, but suddenly anger floods throughout my body. "I've missed you? That's the best you could do? You had thirteen years to work on that! And yet here you are," I reluctantly set Persian on the bed as I stand up, my voice rising, almost screaming the words at him, "For thirteen years! Do you have any idea what you did to me when you left? How much pain and suffering you put me through?" my voice is starting tremble, "Do you have any idea what you took away from me? For thirteen years you had Persian!" After screaming that at him, I run at him, trying to hit him as hard as I could so he could feel the physical pain just like I have felt the emotional suffering. Giovanni didn't even flinch when my fist made contact with his face. "You took everything away from me!" I punched him as hard as I could with every word I spoke. "Why did you do that to me? Why did you hurt me so badly? Why? Why? WHY-"

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAH!" I looks down and notice a pokemon that was so small that I hadn't noticed it before it started crying.

"Is that? It can't be …are you...? Cubone?" I whisper the last word before I fall to my knees and cry. "I thought …how…why…Is…this…?" I can't finish the sentence.

"Yes, this is Marowak's baby." Giovanni tells me, fully understanding what I meant.

Persian jumps off the bed, and walks over to me. Persian nudges me, and I looks up. I try to stop crying, but fail, as I cling to Persian. This time though, I don't let go. This time as I speak to him, I don't go above a whisper. "Do you realize how much pain you are causing me by being here tonight? To show me Persian and Cubone. To remind me of my poor Marowak. You left me thirteen years ago, and now you come back, after all these years spent apart from one another, and all you can say is 'I've missed you.'

"Why did you leave? When you left you hurt more than just me. You hurt many pokemon that were your friends. You don't even know it but you hurt Ash too. You don't know how much it hurts him having to grow up without a father…Giovanni…"