The morning arrived for Delia with a slight light coming through the window curtains. And the Pidgeys singing outside. She felt her husband's hands around her waist. Hugging her, she could feel the scent of the gym leader. It had been a long time since she woke up in that way, and she loved it. She turned in her husband's arms and stayed in front of him. Giovanni opened his eyes lazily.

"Good morning, my love", Said Delia kissing him.

"Good morning" said Giovanni.

His dark hair was in turmoil and gave a very sensual touch to his morning appearance. Delia had always loved seeing him like that, so simple, being only her husband.

"I'll go see Ash".

"Leave him so... better stay here".

Giovanni took her by the wrists and pressed her against the mattress. He kiss his wife's neck. Then he slowly went down to his chest. She shifted beneath him. The previous night the gym leader had not slept, he felt restless. To calm his thoughts he embraced his sleeping wife, listening to her breathing. Although he had to resist the urge to wake her up and possess her.

"Gio" She murmured with his head spinning

"It's been a long time since I've been able to kiss you like that" he said, savoring his lips.

Delia wrapped her arms around his neck. Giovanni put his hands under her blouse, explored her slowly, Delia arched against him, shuddering. A voice in her head made her open her eyes, staring at the ceiling. Tell him he will be a father again. The voice in his head resounded. He followed her kissing and touching her. At that moment Delia decided that they should stop.

"Stop ..." She said "Stop".

Giovanni did not listen to her. The only thing she could think of was tightening her right side of her husband, where he had the suture that she made herself. Giovanni pulled away cursing under his breath and holding a hand to his wound.

"I'm sorry" she smiled looking at him "I forgot it".

He looked her. It seemed to him like a dirty move. A malicious smile settled on his face. He loved it that she was that way. Delia got out of bed and went to the bathroom.

"Go to see Ash" Screamed from the bathroom, "In a while we will have breakfast".

After breakfast Ash and his father went out into the backyard to allow Giovanni's pokemon team to take a break.

"Come out everyone".

Giovanni threw six pokeball and left out Rhydon, Persian, Dugtrio, Nidoqueen, Nidoking and Rhyhorn. Ash shouted excited to see his father's pokemons. Together they put plates on the floor with food for the pokemon The little son of the gym leader was attentive to Rhydon's movements.

"Do you like Rhydon" Asked Giovanni putting a hand on his son's shoulder.

"Yes, it's amazing, dad"

"Rhydon is a good pokemon, strong and unstoppable ... But you know what is the most important thing?... " The boy looked at him carefully. His father smiled at him and shook his head. "Better forget it ..."

The crime lord felt that he did not have the face to talk about the relationship of trainer and pokemon if he had long used them only as tools to achieve their goals. His son looked at him confused and said:. His son looked at him confused and said:

"I think the most important thing is to be a friend"

When he heard his son talk like that, Giovanni remembered when he was a child who shared the ideology of his Ash. A lot of things had happened and nothing was the same anymore. Especially he, was not the same as before.

After feeding the pokemons, the gym leader devoted himself to cleaning the pokemon of each of them very well and put them in the common belt (pokeball holder) that most of the coaches had.

"Take it Ash" said. "Do me a favor, take it to my room".

"It's okay" answered the minor taking the belt.

Giovanni watched him run to the house. Then he take one of the folding chairs in the patio. Searched between his pockets his phone and turn on. All the calls and messages he had lost appeared on the screen. Five days of uncertainty for their executives who thought their boss was dead. He pressed the call button and wait on the line.

"Protón" said in a calm voice.

The executive agent, jumped from his chair when he heard his boss's voice. And he ran out of his office to Blaine's lab where Petrel and Athena would also be. When he was close to them he made gestures with his hands so that they would come closer.

"Sir, where is? Are you fine?" He said in a tone of concern mixed with surprise.

"Yes. Are they all already in Azulona?"

"That's right, sir, except for Archer" He paused. "The return to Viridian after yours disappearance ..."

"Well, how is Blaine going with his investigation?".

"There are problems".

Giovanni squeezed the phone with annoyance.

"Listen Proton I will send you the coordinates of where I am ... See you soon"

"Wait Boss..." The call ended, the only thing he heard was the sound without the phone line.

"What did he said? " Answered the redhead who, together with Petrel, who was impatients waiting for Proton to tell them something about Giovanni-

"The boss is fine ... He will send us his the coordinates".

"He will return with us?" Asked Petrel.

"I think so".

Petrel's locator started sounding it and he showed to his partners.

"It's in Pallet Town".

Athena arched a confused eyebrow. Proton crossed his arms and took the artifact from his partner's hands.

"Archer is close. I will send him the coordinate"

"But what do he do in a small town like that?" Asked Petrel.

"I have no idea" Proton answered with a shrug.

"Mom, do you feel good?" Ash asked.

He had run into his parents' room to leave the pokeballs, upon entering he found his mother sitting on the edge of the bed with one hand resting on her forehead. The mother raised her face and smiled at him.

"Ash dear, I'm fine" The boy left the pokeball on the bedside table and sat next to his mother.

The truth was that she felt the world move around her. Nausea and dizziness that feel very uncomfortable.

"are you sure?" Asked again the minor.

"Yes, where is your father?".

"It's out".

"Call him, I have to change his bandages".

"Okay".

The boy jumped out of bed and left the room. She got up still dizzy to go to the bathroom to bring some hot water that she needed to wash Giovanni's wound. When Ash crossed the back door of the house he stood looking at his father who had just finished a call. He was with his back to Ash and his arms crossed over his chest. Giovanni's face denoted annoyance, the boy wondered what had bothered him. The aura that came from his father made him afraid and did not know why. Cautiously he came close enough to be heard clearly.

"Dad?"

The gym leader turned on his feet and watched as Ash looked at him with some caution. He softened his face, he did not like his son to see him upset.

"What is it, Ash?"

"Mama wants to change your bandages" Said while rubbing your arm, which a few months ago fractured.

"Okay son"

Giovanni advanced towards his son and put a hand on the boy's head stirring his hair, Ash watched him enter the house. The crime lord climbed the stairs, thinking that he would have to leave home that same day. He hoped that Proton had done what he thought and he would have sent the coordinates to Archer.

Giovanni entered the room where Delia was waiting for him with all necessary to change the bandages. He sat on the bed and looked at her preparing the new gauze and bandages.

"You feel good?".

Delia blinked in surprise. It was the same question her son had asked her as soon as he saw her. She went to her husband and kissed his one cheek.

"Yes".

"You look pale" The man began unbuttoning the blue shirt he was wearing.

"Don't worry, Giovanni".

"I always do it for you, Delia".

She was removing the old gauze. Started cleaning the wound with warm water, he shuddered.

"You've been very strange, I've noticed since I arrived, is there nothing you want to tell me?".

"No" she said smiling.

Giovanni thought that his wife was definitely hiding something. But right now he did not have much time to inquire into what it was. So he do not question anymore. However, she had many things to ask him.

"Can you tell me how you ended up like that?"

The lord of the crime felt a chill to traverse his back. She knew that she deserved to know the truth, but he can't to avoid to be afraid of what she might think of him.

"I can not tell you, I think I already told you that" sentenced he.

"Do not you think your wife has to know?"

Giovanni turns his face to avoid seeing her. Delia then knew that she could not make talk. She finished by changing the bandages and was sat down to his side in bed. He started buttoning the shirt.

"Thanks" Giovann said while she was leaning on his shoulder, "I will go today..."

"Well" She got up and started taking the things with which changed Giovanni's bandages.

"I do not know when we see again..."

"It does not matter, we'll be fine"

The leader of gym could distinguish the sadness in the tone of his wife's voice. He approached her and put his arms around her. Delia rests her face against his chest and starts crying. She would lie if she said that it did not hurt that he leave. That they did not see each other The years had passed and they could not make up for the lost time if they continued like this. Delia used to cry when she thought of Giovanni, but she had simply chosen that life and thought that she could not complain.

Suddenly they heard a rumble on the ground floor, both reacted immediately and left the room. When hey reach the stairs they could see fire.

"Ash" She shout with fear for the safety of her son and ran down the stairs.

"Wait" Giovanni followed her after not being able to stop her.

None understood what was happening. Outside the house they were surrounded by the men of Cipriani who were armed and with some pokemon. Ash was reading an indigo league magazine when the first grenade was thrown into the house. The noise had stunned him, he was under the table with his hands covering his ears.

Cipriani's minions threw a second batch of explosive grenades into the house. Giovanni took Delia by the shoulders and pushed her to the ground, covering her with his body.

"Hell" he shout when the roof began to crack on them. "Stay here, I'll go for Ash".

The man pointed to the guest room, she hurried to go there. The wooden house was burning and filling with smoke. Giovanni could hear the voices of the Black Knights outside. Arriving at the kitchen he look at Ash sitting under the table with his hands covering his ears and his eyes closed. Everything was full of smoke and there were flames coming out of the walls. The gym leader hurried to him.

"Come on, son." He held out his hand.

The little one was stunned. When he saw his father, he hunged up on his arms. Giovanni returned avoiding the wood that fell burning from the ceiling and entered the guest room. He left his little boy on the floor and ran to the door.

"Ash" The woman shouted and hugged her son against her body. "Are you okay, my love?".

Delia took the face of her son in her hands and inspected that he was fine. Giovanni was standing under the door frame, looking towards the front of the house. His face was sweating. It was too late. Leo Cipriano had found him, he thought. Surely he knew about Ash and Delia, now he could not leave them, he would have to take them with him and reveal secrets for which he was not yet ready.