Welcome, or if you read the old stuff, welcome back. It's me, sammi-san, giving this another go. One year ago (from Sept 20th 2004) I started writing my series in a notebook.
Since then, my opinions and tastes have changed. I've found myself liking shipping less (not original character mind you). I started thinking about some plot twists, and I was starting to like it. Some ideas I was starting to hate. I didn't like the endless editing I was doing to make my characters more "believabe" and making sure that everything made sense. It was time for a change.
I've grown up since when I first posted my fanfiction. I keep looking at it and going OMG why did I even post this? It's so n00bish it's scary. I'm not perfect, I never will be, but I figure that I will keep trying to do my best.
So one day, I started from square one again. I took what I was planning to change and started from the bottom up. I did no coyping and pasting; I just did it all over. Most of it is still the same, but there are some changes to it. I guess you'll have to read and find out what's come, what's gone and what's been changed. I've tried to go away with notes, and silly little things that later on I know I'll go "wtf why did I ever do this? It's stupid". You may like it, you may not. It's all up to you. You can read what you want, and if you want to stop here, then that's fine.

I found it quite fitting to post this again the day that I started to write the original. To me it shows that since I started, I have improved much. That, and it just seemed quite fitting.

If you read the first ONLY for the AAML then I suggest you leave. oO;;

The one and only disclaimer:
Pokémon belongs to Game Freak, 4kids Entertainment, other Japanese companies and Satoshi Tajiri. It is not mine. I do not claim ownership to anything but my original characters (but not some of their parents, for they are property of 4kids Entertainment, Satoshi Tajiri I think and other Japanese companies) and maybe some of the ideas. Maybe. But if they are not meant to be mine, then I will not claim them as mine.
The end. The one and only note:
Dates (and years) are estimates. I have set the date that Ash left Pallet Town to get Kanto badges as June 4th, 1995. Everything else is estimated and in proportion to that date.

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Prologue

It was another cold November night in Viridian City. Most of the people in the city were sleeping, for it was quite late at night. But some people were still up, whether they wanted to be or not.

Inside the large hospital, there was a woman. She wasn't exactly the average woman either; she could easily tell that the attendants in the hospital were afraid of her. Each one of them stood away from her, looking paler than they usually would. That brought a cold smile to her face.

It's fun watching their faces, she though to herself, looking at the hospital workers. I just love striking fear into their hearts.

But then she turned her thoughts to the matter at hand. She had some other business to deal with at the moment… it was quite a predicament for her.

In front of her was a cradle with an infant squirming in it. The infant was tiny; it had been born a month earlier than planned. That was beside the issue though. The child was unexpected and unwanted, for the mother was only expecting and only wanted one child. She had heard from a trusted fortuneteller that the child's twin would be what she wanted. How could she possibly know that this other child would be worth her time raising? The woman despised children, but knew that she had to have them otherwise when she died, no one would be around to carry the family name. And the less she had, the better.

The last thing I need is another child to worry about, she thought, looking at the tiny child. I hate children enough as it is. If it weren't for the fact that they grow up to be something worthwhile, I'd never even bother with them.

And so the woman thought, wondering what she could do with this other child.

I could just kill it; that would save me time and make me look bad in the process. Or I could send it to the orphanage and make it suffer… She then smiled. The woman loved to see things suffer more than anything else in the world.

Sounds like a plan to me then… I'll let it suffer.

The woman turned to her side. A blond man stood there, bundling up the small twin. The child was small, but the woman knew that she could find good care for it. She had connections to good health care besides public hospitals. She just had to make sure that the child survived the trip from this hospital to the next.

"You really shouldn't take that child out of here," one of the attendants said, staring at the man. "She might not survive--" But when the man gave her a stern glare, the attendant stopped, not wanting to say anymore. The woman might attack if she did.

"And what about the other girl?" another attendant asked. "Don't you want to name her and take her with you?"

Swiftly the woman turned her back to the infant in the cradle.

"No. It can go to the orphanage. I don't care what happens to it anymore." She then turned back to the man, who was done bundling the other infant. "Let's go."

Soon the woman, the man and the twin were out of the hospital. None of them cared about what would happen to the little girl they had left behind. The little girl that still squirmed in the cradle was never and no longer important.

-tbc-

:o more secrets in this one XD