Disclaimer: I don't own Ash, Misty or Pokémon.

Ever since I started reading fanfiction I always wanted to do the alphabet challenge. So I said I'd give it a go. It's rated T but may change later. I hope you guys like my one shots. Here goes nothing...

Aroma

His scent lingers in the bed after he's gone. It's always so frustrating for him to be there one minute but gone the next. Sometimes I wonder if I had imagined him being there in the first place.

I know he has accomplished his dream of Pokémon Master and doesn't have to travel anymore. But he's nearly always gone to work. I can't remember the last time we had spent time together.

He's goes to work before I wake up and doesn't get home until I'm asleep. I used to try to be a good supportive girlfriend and try to stay awake until his return.

But the battle to stay awake was far too great and I nearly always lost. At twenty I shouldn't be as tired as I am. We both should be able to pull all nighters like other normal twenty year olds.

But I guess that's the problem, we aren't normal. I'm Misty Waterflower, Water Pokémon Master and Gym Leader of Cerulean Gym and Ash is the youngest Pokémon Master ever and probably one of the greatest.

So obviously we both have time consuming jobs it's a wonder how we are even together today. We had sacrificed a lot to be together but being alone in our king size bed now I wonder was the sacrifice worth it.

Of course I love him. I love him so much it can be frustrating, worrying and amazing all at once.

But here I am alone once again like I was when he left on another journey and the only real thing I have as proof that he was here is his scent.

An aroma of pine trees and a musk. Some maybe disgusted by this smell but not me I find it comforting and sexy..

Speaking of 'that' we haven't done 'that' in months. That bond we would share after as he wrapped his arms around me in an embrace. In those moments I would wish to freeze them so I could live in them forever.

I shake my head ridding my thoughts of what was. I can't think that way anymore. I climb out of the bed and pull on my bikini and one of Ash's old t-shirts his smell enveloping me making me feel like he's there with me.

I've decided I gonna just keep gym closed for the day. After doing the necessary chores around the gym. I pull off Ash's shirt and dive into the cool waters beneath me.

I do a few laps of the pool pushing myself so maybe I'll forget Ash at least just for a moment.

But even that seems impossible because I swear I can see the blurry outline of him from underneath the water's surface.

Wait maybe I can see him because he's actually here! I swim to the pool's edge and hoist myself out of it.

He's wearing one of his suits but it's messily strung together. Typical Ash. We stare at each other for a moment.

Just taking in each other's presence while they are actually conscious. I can't help myself but launch myself into his arms and hold him close. Just trying to make sure he is real and it's not a dream.

He buries his head in the crook of my neck and I can feel him breathing my scent as I always do to his shirts.

"You smell like chlorine" He whispers. "Oh sorry" I try to pull away realizing I must be soaked but he just gets a tighter grip of my waist.

"I love your scent. Don't move" He murmurs before pulling me flush against him I bury my head in his chest breathing in the mixture of his scent and mine making an aroma so intoxicating I'm hypnotized.

"Why are you here, your meant to be working" I whisper curiously. He looks down at me and smiles "I quit"

I just stare at him wide eyed and confused. He must understand my look because he pushes back a bit just to look into my eyes properly.

"I quit because it's not worth being separated from you"

"B-But it's your dream" Why would he do this.

"It 'was' my dream I became Pokémon Master it's now over and it's time to move on to my next dream"

"Which is" I ask timidly worrying what the answer will be.

"To get you out of your bikini" and without even a chance to think of what he just said I was in his arms walking towards the bedroom.

Ok so not the best one shot but A is a hard letter to find a good word for.

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