Chapter 7 – The Oak Family (2)
Gary leaned back on his chair and yawned, tired from doing further research of a Finneon with his son, Thomas who is currently sleeping on the floor of the study room with a warm blanket to keep him warm and preventing him to be sick. There was a knock on the door and Gary mumbled a 'Come in'. The door opened and revealed Leaf who was holding a tray of two cups and a plate of sandwiches.
"You need to rest Gary" Leaf said as she placed the tray on a spare table at the side and bent down and adjust Thomas's blanket. Gary glanced at Leaf and Thomas who just moved a little and faced the door instead of him.
"I'm fine Leaf" Gary replied. Leaf looked up at him and quirked her eyebrow, which Gary just slightly looked away. Leaf sighed and got up and went to Gary and made him to look at her.
"I know that you enjoyed researching with Thomas and you guys have been researching for a long time together" Leaf began.
"Please rest Gary, you will need it tomorrow, don't forget where we are going" Gary thought for a second and sighed in defeat and smiled at Leaf.
"Alright Leaf" Gary plant a kiss on Leaf's cheek and picked Thomas up and left the study room. Leaf smiled and shook her head as she clean up the area.
Gary walked into Thomas's room and tucked Thomas into his comfortable bed and smiled. "Goodnight Thomas" He kissed Thomas's forehead and left to go to his and Leaf's room and crash out on the bed.
The next day, the Oak family along with Professor Oak were on the airplane to the Hoenn region's pokemon school. Thomas sitting next to Professor Oak and at the window seat looking outside at all the different water and flying type pokemons while Gary and Leaf sat next to each other with Leaf sitting close to the isle.
A small white seagull pokemon flew close to the window and Thomas kept his eyes on it, the seagull pokemon looked at Thomas and cried "Wingull!" happily and did a somersault in the air.
"Seems like that Wingull likes you Thomas" Professor Oak said. Thomas looked at Professor Oak and grinned.
"Well… I like it too. I wonder how's Sora and Kari? Did they battle Uncle Max yet?" Thomas replied/ inquired.
"Well… according to Drew, Max hasn't returned to Petalburg city just yet so I guess not… unless Norman is taking over the gym" Gary replied
"I want to see them battle" Thomas replied as he glanced back outside.
"I want to too, but we have business here" Leaf replied, Gary and Professor Oak smiled and nodded.
"Well, the both of you can go. We'll catch up with you after we finish our business with Professor Birch" Professor Oak said
"Professor Oak, I can't do that!" Leaf exclaimed, Professor Oak laughed heartedly and waved his hand.
"Don't worry Leaf, go and have fun with your son. After all it is your vacation for now" Professor Oak said to Leaf
"But!"
"Leaf, just do it" Gary said to Leaf in a firm tone indicating that he will not be changing their mind anytime soon.
Leaf bit her bottom lip, hesitating about the chance to leave.
"Come on mom, please" Thomas begged Leaf.
Leaf sighed in defeat and said "Oh… alright"
Gary bumped fists with his son and Professor Oak high fived with him leaving Leaf sighed at their childish antics but still smiled.
"Then guess we'll see you later" Gary said, Leaf nodded and plant a kiss on his nose and went after Thomas who was already waiting for her at the route to Petalburg city.
"Gary! Come on" Professor Oak called out.
"Coming Gramps!" Gary called back and went the opposite direction of Leaf.
"Mom are you afraid of bugs?" Thomas asked, while he and Leaf are walking through the Petalburg forest. Leaf looked at her son who is walking on her right and quirked her eyebrow.
"If I was I would have used Pidgeot to fly over to the city instead" Leaf replied
"OR you could have just walked because I wanted to walk" Thomas stated
"Could be that as well" Leaf replied
"Could you please answer me?"
"I think the question you asked was quite stupid, we have traveled together with Ryan, Sara, May, Maria, Dawn, Sora, Kari and Misty. I believe you know who is afraid of bugs in our group" Thomas stayed quiet and embarrassed that he did indeed ask a stupid question. Leaf saw his embarrassment and laugh and ruffled his hair and said "Don't worry about it Thomas" Thomas grinned and quickly ran through the forest with Leaf right behind him.
"So I guess that is it then?" Gary asked as he neatly pack the documents that Professor Birch found.
"Yup! Going to meet up with your son and wife?" Professor Birch asked.
Gary chuckled and nodded as he puts the stuff in his bag. "Why don't you go first Gary, I have lots to catch up with Professor Birch here" Professor Oak said.
"Are you sure grandpa? I can stay and wait and then we can go together" Gary said worriedly, after all Professor Oak is very old and it wasn't a good idea to just leave an old man alone anymore.
Professor Oak laughs and said "No worries Gary, after all Professor Birch here is quite young, younger than me so no worries"
Gary glanced at Professor Birch who smiled warmly and nodded and with a wave of his hand "Go on Gary, it's not a good idea to make YOUR family wait"
"But grandpa IS my family" Gary argued back
"He is but don't forget, you have your own family right now" Gary stayed quiet when Professor Birch said that line.
"Don't worry, I'll go back to Kanto soon, so you go on ahead, after all didn't you promise them that you will spend time with them didn't you? After all it is quite rare for the both of you to have time and spend it together as a complete family" Professor Oak said
Gary sighed and nodded "Alright, then take care grandpa." Gary then faced Professor Oak and said "Please take care of my grandpa for me"
"Of course now go on" Professor Birch assured him and Gary smiled and left the two professors.
"Finally, we're here! Sadly we didn't encounter Sora and Kari in the forest" Thomas said out aloud when he and Leaf walked out of the Petalburg forest.
"Judging from the amount of bug pokemons in there I doubt that they will stay in there for long" Leaf commented as she glanced back at the Petalburg forest. Thomas laughed and soon joined by Leaf. Before the mother and son can continue on their journey Leaf was pulled back and felt a kiss on her cheek.
"GARY!" Leaf exclaimed, surprised that he was already here without them noticing.
"Hey Leafy, and hi Thomas" Gary greeted them both and ruffled his son's hair.
"DAD! How did you get here so fast?" Thomas asked. Gary pointed behind him and when Thomas looked behind Gary, he saw his dad's physic pokemon Alakazam. Thomas then glanced at Gary and raised one of his eyebrows and said "Really dad? Using teleport is not fair! And how did Alakazam knows where we are!?"
Gary looked at his son and grinned and put his finger on his lips closed his right eye and said "That's for me to know and for you to find out Thomas"
Thomas pouted and Leaf just rolled her eyes at how childish her husband is. But still never the less still smiled. The Oak family then walked together with Thomas in front of Leaf and Gary who are holding hands together, smiling with one another as they watched their son acting like a 6 years old child.
Thomas: Hello dear readers, it's been a while hasn't it?
Suariel is very sorry that she hasn't updated the story for like… what 1 to 2 months.
While hope you enjoyed our story and hopefully that Suariel can update soon but knowing her she is quite busy at the moment… Its hard to say when she will update but I think she will update a lot more often during the middle of May and the start of June so yeah.
Please review and love you all *blows a kiss*
