Our Life Together - Chapter 2: The Surprise

Second chapter of my fanfic about Ash and Angie living together. This one's a bit short perhaps, but I'll make up for that in chapter 3, okay? Inspired by the great "Morpheus Family" fanart drawing, by Endless-Summer181 on deviantART (check this link so see this fine work of art: .com/art/Morpheus-Family-130808046 ). The main title of this story is a tribute to the great MorpheusShipping fanfic called "Our Time Together" by MisterP in which Angie recounts her time with Ash, "the boy with the Pikachu". As can be expected, my story also involves MorpheusShipping (Ash and Angie being together) so if you really don't like that idea, stop reading here. The rest, I hope you enjoy this fan-fiction.

Angie put her little mischievous bundle of joy down on the ground again. Ash stepped closer to Angie, and whispered something in her ear. Amy tried to overhear what her parents were saying, but all she could pick up were some separate fragments when one of them spoke a little louder. She heard her mother say "Oh really?" and then her father said "yes, that's what he said," and then her mother said something that sounded like "are you sure that it's not too early?"

"Mummy, daddy, what are you two whispering about?" Amy asked, "I wanna know it too, please...? Pretty, pretty pleeeease?" as she tried putting on her cutest puppy dog eyes.

"Just a second, honey," Angie answered, "your dad and I need to talk about something very important."

"Did you get a present for me?" Amy wondered, still trying to hypnotize her parents with her most begging look.

"Perhaps..." Ash blurted out.

"Now why did you have to mention that already..." Angie said to Ash, slightly glaring at him, "I thought we were still discussing whether we would do this or not..."

"I think she's well up to it," Ash replied, as he took a bit of a defensive stand.

"I don't know, she's still quite young," Angie objected.

"Didn't you want to have your own Pokémon when you were her age?" Ash stated, "I remember I did, more than anything in the world."

"Well..." Angie hesitated...

"I'm gonna get a Pokémon!?" Amy shouted as she jumped up and down, "that's so cool!"

"I guess there's no backing out off it now anymore..." Angie sighed, "so you might as well go tell her the whole story then, Ash."

Ash sat down on his knees and looked into Amy eyes, looking back at him with full attention.

"You know uncle Brock, right?" Ash started.

"That's the funny man with those small eyes, right?" Amy guessed, "he always starts acting really weird when Nurse Joy comes visit us."

"Yeah, that's him alright," Ash laughed, "anyway, he called us the other day and said he had a surprise for you."

"A Pokémon?" Amy guessed.

"Well, not quite..." Ash answered.

"Awww..." Amy looked down, and sounded really disappointed.

"You were very close, it's just not a Pokémon...yet," Ash explained with a mysterious smile on his face.

"Huh?" the little girl looked at her dad like he was talking in a foreign language that she couldn't understand.

"Now your father is teasing you a little, honey," Angie stepped in, "let me explain it to you."

"But I was just going to..." Ash protested.

"Well, I beat you to it," Angie said and she shortly stuck out her tongue at Ash, "so what I was saying before your dad interrupted me... you know Pokémon come from eggs, right?"

Amy nodded. She had been helping her mother many times on the daycare center of her grandparents, and she had learned that Pokémon could lay eggs, that hatched and a new Pokémon would come out.

"Well," Angie continued, "when a Pokémon is still inside an egg, is it a Pokémon then?"

"Uhmmm..." Amy thought about this question really hard, frowning her little eyelashes as if she was reinventing the theory of relativity, then she replied "no, I guess not..."

"Well, that is what your father was trying to say," Angie concluded her explanation, "uncle Brock wants to give you an egg, so it's something that will become a Pokémon, but isn't yet at the moment."

"Okay... that's even cooler!" Amy said, "when will uncle Brock come then? Soon? Please tell me he will come soon..."

"If I may speak again..." Ash intervened, "uncle Brock will be here tomorrow, and I'll tell him that your mum and I have agreed that he can bring his little present with him."

"Oh, then I won't go to bed tonight, or else I will not wake up early enough tomorrow and then I won't get to see uncle Brock, and he will take my egg back with him again, and I won't get my egg then and..." Amy rattled on.

"Take it easy, young lady," Angie spoke with a strong voice, "you will go to bed tonight, or you will get no Pokémon egg at all, and uncle Brock will certainly not leave before he gets to see you, you can be sure of that."

"Really?" Amy asked.

"Of course," Angie reassured her, and Ash nodded to indicate he completely agree with her words.

"It's okay then, I will go to bed tonight, mummy," Amy agreed.

"Glad to hear that," Angie smiled, "now are you going to help me further with feeding those Buneary?"

"What kind of Pokémon egg am I getting, daddy?" Amy asked as if she didn't hear her mother's question.

"It will be..." Ash started, as Angie was making all kind of funny gestures to him to warn Ash not to tell Amy yet what kind of Pokémon egg Brock was going to bring, "... it's going to be... a surprise..."

The second chapter of my story in which Ash and Angie are married. I apologize for any typing errors, or grammatically not 100% correct sentences. Remember, I am not a native English speaker or writer. I tried to make this story as close to the Pokémon series as possible, so that the characters will react roughly the same in this fictional story as they do in the series. Comments are always welcome, you can use the review function on this FanFiction site for that.

Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any trademarks of Pokémon. Any similarities to the works of others is purely accidental, and not meant as an infringement on anyone's achievements.