Hello, here is chapter 8 of my story. I left you on a pretty big cliffhanger so you probably wanna get on and read it . Hope you enjoy! xD
Ages:
I won't tell you who they are cos it will be a huge spoiler but they're 25... .
Disclaimer: No I don't own any characters in this chapter T3T
"What do I do Iris?!" Ash collapsed further onto his knees, his legs getting weaker by the minute. "Tell me, what do I do?!"
The raven haired young man had never felt this useless and small in all his life. He was normally the hero type of guy who knew what to do in every situation. But now it was his fault that his pokemon hit Iris and it felt awful.
"What do you think?!" winced Iris, standing up and trying to hold onto Ash's arm. "Take me to the hospital you little kid!"
Ash pushed all his guilty thoughts to the back of his head and nodded, standing up bravely on his two legs.
"Okay. There's no time to get Cilan but I'll call him from the hospital." His eyes knotted together with concentration as he returned his pokemon to its pokeball.
As Axew jumped into Iris' hair like he always did, Iris leaned up against the wall, her eyes popping with fear.
"How do I get there? Cilan's banned me from driving too!" she smacked her hand against her forehead frantically.
"How do you think?!" Ash gingerly took hold of her arm to support her and lead her to his car. "I'm going to drive you there!"
"Iris is in where?!"
Half an hour later, Iris was lying in a hospital bed, her whole body shaking with fear. As the purple haired female twiddled her fingers anxiously, waiting for a doctor to finally tend to her, Ash was breaking the news to Cilan via his mobile. It was not a video call though; he couldn't face seeing as well as hearing the connoisseur's reaction.
"Iris is in where?!" Cilan repeated, booming with shock into the phone. "Hospital? Why is she there?!"
Ash took a deep breath before telling Cilan the whole story. He started the tale confidently but by the end he was almost in tears. He didn't want to be the one to cause the death on an unborn baby.
"I'm so sorry Cilan. I know how stupid it was of me asking for a battle, especially after you had banned her from doing so. I'm so sorry Cilan; I wish I could express how sorry I am…"
It was as the tears began rolling down the young pokemon master's cheeks that his ginger haired girlfriend came in. She hadn't seen her boyfriend cry in a very long time and needless to say it broke her heart. Instead, she kept quiet and went to comfort Iris while Ash was trying to apologise to Cilan.
"I know how sorry you are Ash but my god you are stupid…" the connoisseur held in his own tears from the other end of the phone. "Don't worry, I'll be there soon."
Another hour of Iris waiting for a doctor and one still wasn't there. Cilan had arrived at this point and was trying to keep his girlfriend positive while Ash and Misty waited outside.
"Cilan, the baby was moving before the battle then after the kick it went completely still…" she closed her eyes as the tears rolled down her cheeks, clinging onto her boyfriend's hand desperately. "I know it's not good so quit telling me it is… I know it's not."
Outside the room, Ash had his ear pressed bitterly against the door, listening to Cilan and Iris as his eyes squeezed tighter and tighter shut. Misty was becoming more and more worried about her boyfriend by the minute and was desperately trying to rub his shoulder comfortingly.
"Oh Ash it's not your fault… I know it wouldn't have happened if you didn't challenge Iris to a battle but that doesn't make it your fault…" she tried her hardest to soothe her crying boyfriend but nothing was working. She never knew what to say in situations like this though of course in her heart she felt the deepest sympathy.
"Thanks Mist, that makes me feel so much better…" he sniffed sarcastically, his heart aching with guilt.
Misty became positively deflated by this comment and sighed, looking down at her feet sadly. When she looked up again, she saw this handsome man coming towards her. She was about to tell Ash when the raven haired young man too looked up and noticed this unfamiliar, or so they thought, person.
"Hi there…" began the stranger awkwardly, looking down at the floor. His lavender hair was tied back in a ponytail and this made his face unrecognizable. "I heard everything that happened and I'm sorry…"
Ash pouted slightly and looked at the floor, a mixture of sadness, embarrassment and guilt over taking his face.
"Tell that to Iris, not me…"
The man sighed slightly and played with the strand of hair between his eyes after looking behind him at the pink haired pregnant lady waiting for him by the entrance. Strand. Misty could have sworn she once knew a guy with one like that before. And the woman waiting for him had a very familiar face except her hair was long and flowing.
"I want to talk to you… You can't blame yourself for this. Things like this happen and the babies and their mothers always pull through…" he sighed looking at both the young couple with his piercing green orbs.
Misty frowned and looked into his slightly familiar lime coloured eyes.
"You sound as if you know what you're talking about… Has your wife gone through something like this?"
The lavender haired man nodded and sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, making Misty frown all the more. She could have sworn she had seen him somewhere.
"Yeah that's right… My lady is the strongest woman out there…"
The way that his green orbs lit up all the more when he spoke about his lady made Ash frown. He was sure he had seen that before too.
"Well thanks for trying to help…" he managed a smile before clearing his throat and frowning. "Sorry but haven't I seen you some place before?"
The man just smiled and shrugged before turning away from the two but not walking away just yet.
"I haven't seen you anywhere before…" he put his head down before walking off. "Twerp…"
Back in the hospital room, a doctor finally burst in, a clipboard in his hands. As the man walked in, both of Cilan and Iris' worried orbs fell on him.
"Hello there, my name is Doctor Forster." He greeted pleasantly, shaking both his clients hands. "So you say the baby was moving before you got hit and now it isn't at all?" the kind doctor waiting for both the anxious young people's sad nods before reaching for the ultrasound gel. "Let's check then shall we?"
A few minutes later, Iris had the gel on her abdomen and she was desperately clinging onto her boyfriend's hand, fearing the worst. Doctor Forster pulled the screen closer to the pair before scanning Iris' stomach.
After only a few seconds of scanning, their baby was visible on the green. It was much bigger than the last scan at twenty weeks. Cilan and Iris were over joyed at seeing their little creation but only really wanted to know one thing. Was their baby alive?
After a few minutes of scanning Iris' abdomen, Doctor Forster turned towards the young couple, his clipboard in his hands and his glasses perched on the bridge of his nose. His expression was grave.
"I'm very sorry…" he cleared his throat sadly. "I do not hear any movement or a heartbeat…"
Cilan gulped at this and turned to his no longer pregnant girlfriend. Iris looked down at her lap and was about to break down in tears when a sound filled her ears.
It was a regular beating sound echoing around the room. It was a heartbeat.
Doctor Forster grabbed his scanner and began observing the scan once again.
"I don't believe it!" he gasped looking at the screen then back at the mother to be.
"Me neither! Our baby is alive!" happy tears poured out of her eyes and her smile lit up the room.
"No not that!" he grinned to, waving his clipboard around the room before turning to the couple who's expressions were quite confused. "Here, listen!"
There was a heartbeat, slow and steady… Then another joined it, making the beat twice as fast. And then another…
Doctor Forster took off his glasses and grinned.
"It's triplets!"
Naw it's triplets :'D Thanks a lot for reading and I will see you again tomorrow. Heh I bet you guys guessed who the mysterious people are :P Thanks for all the reviews, the support and feedback has been crazy! x'D See cha soon :P
AmyBieberKetchum signing out to watch friends . Naw tis the one where Joey tells Rachel T~T
