Hey guys, I know I still haven't finished 'It Was Always You' but I was watching 'What Happens in Vegas' the other night and decided to base this story on it. There may be some mature content over the chapters so if you do not wish to read that please click the back button on your browser and find another story. Please enjoy.

A loud, piercing noise pulled her out of her slumber. She was trying to grasp reality, but was having trouble as all she could feel and hear was the thumping in her head.

The noise continued to beep, and she mentally cursed, she hated having her phone on loud while she slept.

Bringing a hand to her hair she slowly sat up on the side of the bed, daring to open her eyes a little bit. This was in vein and she immediately closed her eyes again as the brightness of the light wasn't helping her head feel any better. Lucky for her, the noise stopped leaving her in a peaceful silence.

After a minute her eyes adjusted a little bit and she groggily looked at her surroundings.

This wasn't her room. There were white curtains that were hanging open to leave a beautiful view of the city below her. She could feel the soft carpet on her toes as they skimmed the floor and in front of her she could see big glass joining windows that led to a balcony that was definitely not hers.

"Where am I?" She muttered as she moved her hair out of her face.

Placing her two hands either side of her body she began to push herself off the bed, before cringing and sitting straight back down.

"Way to go Dawn, get yourself a hangover why don't you," she continued to mutter to herself.

"Can you stop talking?" Dawn heard a voice behind her, which if anything, ensured she was completely awake.

Slowly and wearily, she turned on the bed wondering who would possibly be in the room with her.

She was in a double bed, clearly not alone. Dawn was terrified that she had somehow in her drunken haze picked up a random to go home with the night before.

The person in question was completely covered by the doona cover, so she carefully reached over to pull the covers back slowly.

"P-Paul!?" Dawn squeaked, nearly falling off the side of the bed as she jumped back in surprise, "What are you doing here? In bed….with me….oh god this isn't happening. We slept together!? What were you thinking Dawn," She continued to rant to herself, almost forgetting that Paul was still there.

"Stop talking. Now." Paul groaned as he pushed himself up off of the bed, his hand automatically going to rub his temples as he stood.

"Do you remember what happened?" Dawn asked nervously. It wasn't like she was new to sex, but she generally didn't make a habit of going home with people she didn't know well.

In Paul's case, she knew him very well, that wasn't the issue. The problem was that they couldn't stand each other. She had no idea what would possibly possess either of them to…get it on, for lack of a better term.

"Not really," he sighed.

"Neither."

A loud beeping sound was once again heard, and Dawn casually reached for her phone that was on the side table to her left. As she picked it up though, it was soon forgotten as she stared at her hand.

"Oh my god."

"What is it now?"

"Paul….why am I wearing a plastic diamond ring on my ring finger?"

He snorted a laugh before answering, "How should I know?"

He walked into the bathroom connected to their room, leaving Dawn to stare at the bright pink plastic diamond on her finger.

"Maybe we were just joking around," she said aloud, even though Paul was out of earshot.

"Or maybe we accidentally got married," Paul came storming out of the bathroom holding a marriage certificate with both their names.

Dawn stared for a long time. She was literally speechless.

"It can't…I mean we can't…" Dawn stammered as she tried to pull herself together. "This must be some kind of joke."

Paul ran a hand through his hair as he threw the certificate onto the bed in front of him and pulled out his phone.

His expression changed to one of confusion as he stared at his phone before pressing a few buttons and placing a finger over his lips to signal Dawn to be quiet.

"It's a voice message from you," he whispered as they waited to hear it.

"HI PAUL!" A clearly drunk Dawn yelled into the phone.

"Yeah Hi Paul!" A man's voice joined in, Paul groaned at hearing his own voice say hello to himself. He must have been drunk.

"We are just calling to remind us….you.." Dawn said before giggling uncontrollably, "that we are in loooooooove!" The word was drawn out and the present time Paul and Dawn made faces of disgust at the thought of being in love with each other.

"We know you'll forget," slurred Paul, "So we want to remind you guys that we want to be together."

Dawn chimed in at this point, "Forever!"

"Let's do this!" They heard their former drunken selves shout before a few other sounds could be heard which they both presumed were kissing sounds.

"Okay I think we've heard enough of that Paul." Dawn said quickly as she turned to grab her dress from the night before. She was currently wrapped up in the sheet off the bed.

She coughed awkwardly.."Um could you turn…I'm going to change."

He grunted and turned to go into the bathroom, leaving Dawn alone with her thoughts.

She heard the shower begin running and after getting dressed, she pulled out her phone.

Five missed calls from May.

Dawn sighed and hit the call back button. After a few moments of 'ringing', Dawn heard a voice on the other end.

"Where have you been? I've been so worried!"

"Hi May, I just had a late night last night is all." Dawn inwardly rolled her eyes at herself; that was understatement of the year.

"Well I thought we had plans today. I've been waiting for you for an hour at that café you love on the corner of 5thand Maine."

"Oh, right…sorry May can we possibly reschedule until tonight, I've gotten caught up with a bit of training with Piplup…I'll call you later."

Dawn hanged up the phone before May could get another word in. She needed to sort out what they were going to do before she did anything else.

Hearing the door open, she turned to see a shirtless Paul walk out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel, his damp hair hanging messily.

She momentarily lose focus as she admired his well-defined physique. His towel was sitting low enough for her to see not only his amazing upper body muscles but also where his abs slowly met the dinted shape of a V at his lower torso.

Dawn was one hundred percent sure that was her favourite part of the male body at that moment.

"Ahem" Paul coughed slightly, and she was sure she was blushing by the time her eyes met his smirking face.

"Like what you see?" He asked arrogantly.

"Pfft in your dreams." She placed her hands on her hips defensively as she continued, "You wish I liked what I saw."

Paul continued to smirk when he noticed Dawn's flushed cheeks.

"Anyway, we need to sort out what we are going to do about this whole marriage thing. Know any lawyers?"

Paul's expression turned serious. "You realise we can't get this annulled right?"

"What do you mean? Of course we can."

"Not if we want our reputations completely destroyed." He continued before Dawn could interrupt, "I'm the Sinnoh Champion and you're a three time grand festival winner who is also a Sinnoh elite four member. Pretty sure the fact that we got drunk and accidentally got married and had sex would destroy both of our careers. People don't want leaders like that."

Dawn sighed as she realised he was right. "Okay…well what do you propose we do then?"

They stood in silence for a little while thinking of ways that could get out of this mess without harming either of them socially or politically.

"Okay, I have an idea," Dawn suggested, "What if we announce to the public that we have been secretly dating for a while now and we decided to elope to surprise our families and friends. Then we give it six months and part amicably. We'll tell the public that we still 'love' each other but we are just better off as friends."

Paul stared at her for a long moment, "That could work."

"Okay well…do we do this then?" She was fidgeting with the hem of her dress as she waited for him to reply. It was a nervous habit she had developer over the years of participating in contests.

She was now 20, while Paul was 22. They were young to be married. But they were also young to have achieved so much between them. It was likely that the public would not take this well anyway.

Paul clicked his tongue against the top of his mouth, "I have an idea. I'm seeing Drew tonight, maybe you could try and convince May to come to Hearthome and we can start with them, then we'll work on the rest."

Dawn nodded at his seemingly good idea, "Actually I'm already seeing May tonight, so that will work perfectly. But first I have to call my mother."

Paul groaned but nodded, he guessed he would have to call Reggie and fill him in too. The guy was always bugging Paul about getting a girlfriend so he was sure this conversation would be full of a Reggie screaming happily into the phone.

"You know, what if we invited them tonight too?" Paul suggested, "We could get it all over at once."

Dawn let out a shaky breath, "Okay…let's try that."

Dawn tried to walk confidently in her new 'good luck' heels that she had bought for herself earlier that day. To say she was nervous was an understatement, she was worried her friends and her mother were going to skin her alive for not telling them about her so called secret relationship. Worst of all was the possibility that they might not buy it. If that happened, they were both screwed.

"C'mon Dawn, you can do this," she had been saying this mantra over and over since she left Paul this morning, she was hoping that giving herself a pep talk would help to get her through this and that everything would be fine.

Her phone beeped and she saw a message from Paul.

"Where are you? I'm by the tree out front."

She had just finished typing her message as she came around the corner and saw him.

"It's like you're trying to annoy me by being late," Paul said as he leaned against the tree casually, his hands in his pockets.

"Well it's your own fault for not picking me up. You try walking in heels this high."

"Or maybe you could not wear the heels next time."

"Or maybe next time you could be a gentleman and come and get me first," Dawn said through gritted teach before letting out a sharp breath. "They are never going to believe that we got married willingly."

Paul groaned; he knew she was right. "Okay…let's just try and withstand each other for the next few hours and then we can sort the rest out from there."

She nodded as she took one really deep breath, "Alright. Let's just get this over with."

They walked into the small but well known restaurant. It was pretty packed up considering how popular it was.

Unfortunately for them there were a few paparazzi members near the entrance, obviously waiting for anyone who might be of interest to enter. At first they both were a bit shocked by the sudden flashing.

Luckily for Paul, Dawn took control of the situation as she grabbed Paul's hand in hers and gently leaned up to give him a tender kiss on the cheek whilst pulling their joined hands around the other side of her waist.

If he was shocked by the close contact, he didn't show it. He knew that they both needed to play along in order for this to work. But even he had to admit, Dawn was really good at this.

"Excuse me, Miss Berlitz? Are you and Mr Shinji here on a date?"

She looked over to the photographer posing the question with doe eyes and shyly smiled with a hint of cheekiness saying "No comment."

After that she linked Paul's hand again with her own and led him through the crowd to their reserved table of family and friends.

"Hey guys!" Dawn chirped, "I'm so glad you could make it….Oh I'm sorry, we're so glad you could make it."

She was still holding Paul's hand as she led him to the seat next to her at the end of the table.

"Wait a second, what are you two doing here…together…holding hands?" May was utterly confused as to why they were there considering usually they couldn't be around each other without fighting.

"Well…Dawn and I have some news," Paul cut in, hoping to distract May from bombarding Dawn with questions. He paused and nodded slightly at Dawn, giving her the cue to tell them the news.

"We're married now!"

Silence.

Dawn gave Paul a panicked look. If no one believed them they were screwed.

The silence continued until Johanna spoke up, "Well finally! Jeez the way you two look at each other and the way Dawn always talks about you I knew you two were going to get together eventually. I can't believe you two skipped the dating part though."

Paul and Dawn both had looks of utter bewilderment on their faces.

"Oh, well we did date. We've been keeping it under wraps…you know..because…because."

"Because of the media," Paul cut in, "But it is so sweet to hear that all you do is talk about me."

Paul was smirking, and he was being much too cocky for her liking.

"Aw you know I love to talk about you baby cakes," then she put a hand over her mouth blocking what she was saying out from Paul and whispered to the table, "that's my special pet name for him."

He gritted his teeth and changed the subject, "So guys, what do you think?"

It seemed they had all reacted a little slowly to the news.

"I agree with Johanna, it really is about time! Congratulations little bro, I'm so glad you've found yourself an amazing, talented and beautiful wife! I just wish we had have gotten to see you guys get married."

Johanna nodded, "Yes I would have loved to be there. Dawn, where is your ring?"

Dawn mentally stumbled and looked to Paul. Level headed as always chimed in, "Actually we haven't gotten one yet. We got married as a bit of a lucky charm kind of thing. We were at the…arcade last night and I won a prize plastic diamond ring…then…well to be honest I just knew."

Everyone at the table was impressed with such an adorable story. But mostly they were impressed with the fact the Paul just spoke more than a few words for once. Usually the only person he ever really spoke to in lengths was Dawn, and that was only because he drove her mental and spent half his time arguing with her.

May and Drew however were watching the two suspiciously but nevertheless stood up and gave the newlyweds hugs and congratulations.

"Yeah, I would have liked to help you pick your wedding dress Dawn and watch you walk down the aisle." May had stars in her eyes at the thought of a wedding.

She and Drew had yet to even get engaged. The two had only been dating for a year as it had taken all of their journey through Hoenn and Johto and then later Sinnoh and then back through Hoenn for them to realise their feelings for each other.

Paul decided it was the perfect time to get Dawn back for the pet name stunt, "Well I just couldn't wait to be married to Dawn. She's just so beautiful don't you guys think?"

Dawn could tell he was up to something by the sass in his tone, she nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt him grab her ass with his hand and pull her closer to him, "I can barely keep my hands off her."

Dawn glared at him but then remembered that she would not be able to yell at him until later "that's us, so in love we can't even keep our hands off of each other."

She casually leaned in to him and put her hand on the lower part of his abs. She felt the muscles beneath his shirt move and he growled just quietly enough for only her to hear.

"Well let's eat then," Reggie suggested happily, "We have a lot of celebrating to do after all."

Everyone agreed and started looking through the menu to decide what to order.

"I have an idea," Drew spoke up with a mischievous glimmer in his eye, "Why don't you two order for each other?"

Dawn and Paul glared at the green haired coordinator who just smirked in response. He knew they were faking this. The worst part was that he was enjoying it.

Johanna and Reggie immediately joined in, cooing about how cute it would be to test how well the two knew each other.

Paul, as someone who rarely showed how he was really feeling on his face, cracked and looked at Drew with disbelief. This only made his smirk turn into a triumphant grin to see that he was getting under Paul's skin.

By this time May had decided to join in and egged them on, "Yeah I mean if you guys know each other so well it shouldn't be a problem."

Dawn huffed slightly but broke into a forced grin, realising that there was no way they were going to get out of this.

"Okay why don't I go first then."

Dawn tried to keep a look of 'casual perusal' on her face as she examined the menu, while on inside she was screaming 'what the hell would Paul like to eat'.

The place they were at was pretty fancy, which helped, considering Paul really wasn't a fancy type of guy. He was simple. And luckily, there were only two or three simple things on the menue.

Something clicked in Dawn's head as she suddenly remembered a time when she was traveling through Sinnoh with Ash and Brock way back when.

A storm had come out of nowhere. Dawn squealed as there was no escaping the rain, she was drenched in a matter of minutes. Ash and Brock had split up from her to go and visit the Veilstone City Mall to get some supplies, while she was headed to the Pokemon Centre.

She could barely see 10 metres in front of her, so when she finally came across a building she wouldn't have cared it if had been a random's house at that point.

As she entered she saw that it was a small café full of wooden furniture, with an open fire roaring just a few metres away. She immediately took off her soaked through overcoat and hung it over a chair nearby.

As she was finally standing in front of the warm fire, she noticed Paul sitting not even a metre from her.

"Paul? What are you doing here?"

He glanced up from the book he was reading to see the soaking wet blue haired coordinator in front of him.

"Troublesome. Same as you I guess."

She ignored the nickname he used for her and continued the conversation, "Well…can I sit with you?"

He sighed and closed his book.

"I'd rather you didn't."

Before she could respond, a little old lady had brought over a plate of food, sitting it down in front of Paul, "Here is your order young man, I hope it is cooked well-done to your liking."

He nodded politely, saying thank-you. He then nodded to Dawn and pushed the chair out with his feet.

She gleefully accepted and just as she was about to start talking he glared at her. She knew what it meant. He was being nice enough to let her sit there but not so nice that he was willing to listen to her constant talking.

She sighed and stared out the window, hoping the storm would end soon.

Dawn bit her lip as she thought back to the memory that felt so long ago, they were only kids then. But lucky for her, she knew exactly what to order for Paul.

"Okay Paul will have a steak because that's his favourite. And he'll have that well-done thankyou, if he sees blood he won't eat it, trust me. Oh and chips and salad on the side please," Dawn grinned at the look on Paul's face and she tenderly placed her hand on his forearm, rubbing her fingers ever so gently over his skin.

Paul was inwardly wondering how the hell she knew what to order for him. He was scrambling in his mind to choose something for Dawn. He had never in his life seen Dawn eat a burger, truthfully all he had ever seen her drink was coffee; it was like she was addicted to the stuff.

In terms of food, though, he had never really sat down with her for a meal. Well, that was except for that one time when he had overhead her send an order back because it had olives – something that she was allergic to.

He smirked as he looked up at the waiter, who had just finished taking Johanna's order. "Dawn will have the Greek salad."

Dawn's eyes went wide as she went to interrupt, "Paul I –"

"I know, I'm getting there. No olives, she's allergic. Oh and for dessert we'll share a Tiramisu with two spoons."

Dawn couldn't help the surprise she was feeling from showing on her face. Neither could Drew, or May.

Paul only smirked and turned his hand around to hold hers over the table.

"Aww you two make a lovely couple," Johanna cooed, clasping her hands together in excitement.

"Have you decided where you're going to live?"

That caught them off guard.

"Umm live?" Dawn questioned.

"Well you're married now; surely you are going to live together?" Johanna persisted.

"Oh right, we are going apartment shopping tomorrow actually. We couldn't decide between either of our own so we thought it would be nice to start fresh."

"Yeah," Dawn said. It was about all she could muster.

"So tell us how this happened," May chimed in, clearly on the same page as Drew now. She had a cheeky look on her face as she poked her tongue out at Dawn.

"Well…it's actually a funny story," Dawn began. She looked briefly at Paul to see if he was going to help her but he avoided her gaze, he clearly wasn't getting involved in this one.

"You see," She continued nervously, "As you all know…Paul and I didn't always get along." After a brief pause and a nod from her mother she found the courage to continue, "We used to argue a lot…in fact we still do argue a lot."

The group laughed at that which Dawn found encouraging enough. It seemed as though they were actually going to get away with this.

"And so this one day about 6 months ago, we saw each other at Paul's Champion Induction Ceremony. This was the one just for the Elite; it was kind of like a small announcement ceremony, just us, the elite, Cynthia and Steven, and the other three Champions, Ash, Wallace and Alder."

Paul was wondering where she was going with this, but decided it was best to leave her to it.

"So anyway afterwards I thought it would be best to go and congratulate Paul. It was late and almost everyone had left so we had had a bit much to drink…"

She paused again; she was actually starting to enjoy this.

"So we got talking and Paul was quite drunk at this point and he told me that he thought I was beautiful and that he had feelings for me but he didn't know how to show them. And things just went from there."

She beamed at the clapping her mother and Reggie were giving them, and ignored the death glare Paul was sending her.

Paul needed to calm down. They were just pretending…that was all. He kept reminding himself that over and over his head as he took a long sip of his glass of wine.

"So how many kids are you guys going to have?" Drew asked innocently.

Paul choked on his wine and started coughing and spluttering. Dawn looked extremely flustered at the mention and both of them tried to hastily pull themselves together.

"What?" Paul managed to get out, the burning sensation in his throat still there as she tried to cool it with a sip of water.

"Well you're married, surely you've thought about it," Drew pressed knowingly.

"Um…well we are both at the peak of our careers. At this point we will not be having kids," Paul said firmly.

Dawn looked at him with pursed lips but agreed none the less. Paul noticed her disappointed expression and rolled his eyes, "Yet," he added, "well will not be having kids…yet."

Dawn's smile was so wide Paul thought her mouth might split in two.

"Well I can't wait to have grand kids!" Johanna said, clapping her hands excitedly.

"Yeah and it would be awesome to have someone to play with Lizzie." Reggie and Maylene had had a daughter who was now four years old. She was very mature for her young age and above all else, she adored Paul.

"Oh that's right, Lizzie is all Paul talks about," Dawn added in cutely, Paul rolled his eyes, knowing that she was bluffing. They were almost getting away with this.

After dinner had ended, the two stood outside, waving goodbye to their four visitors.

After ushering Dawn's mum into a cab, the two let out a relieved breath.

As their eyes connected Dawn couldn't help but laugh, what an eventful day. Even Paul cracked a smirk and they stood there in a comfortable silence, debating their next move.

"So, now what?" Paul asked.

Dawn was looking at him with doe eyes in the moonlight, her navy hair swaying gently in the breeze. She was at least a head shorter than him, even with heels on.

Letting out a shaky breath, he ran a hand through his hair and looked to the side, trying to shake the thoughts he was having.

Then something odd happened, Dawn started moving closer to him.

As he was about to jump back she whispered, "Drew and May are watching."

So he let her come closer, and he let his hands take hold of her hips, pressing her flush against him.

He'd be lying if he said he didn't love the way her body melted into his, like they were meant to fit together.

Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the way the moonlight was shining onto her face, maybe it was feelings that he would never admit to…whatever the reason, he allowed her to reach up and kiss him. And most surprisingly, he allowed himself to enjoy it.

After a few moments of her soft lips pressing against his own, he deepened this kiss, allowing his tongue to intertwine with hers. She let out a soft moan as she leaned into the kiss.

Then she pulled away abruptly.

"Okay they are gone. Man we are good. Can you believe they bought it? We should be actors, Paul. That was so funny, don't you think?"

An odd feeling emerged from the base of his stomach. Was he disappointed? Surely not

He wouldn't let himself dwell on it as he pushed it far away from his mind, "Yeah. Hilarious."

He turned to leave and she called out to him, "Don't forget we have to apartment shop tomorrow! I'll call you in the morning."

With that he turned slowly to watch her get in a cab. He sighed, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding as he walked through the dark streets to his hotel room. This was going to be a long six months.