Hey Babe!
Chapter 11: Five years in past
It was about five years back...
Leaf had graduated out of her college of robotics, with a disease chasing her constantly. His name?
His name was Gary Oak!
The grandchild of the World's most intelligent and successful professor, Prof. Samuel Oak.
Gary had always been schmitten over Leaf, and made her college years a nightmare. He always lived in Kanto, but Leaf was new there, and Gary would always tease her saying he wants to know the new admission closely. Saying he does this to all of them.
Both Gary and Leaf topped their University with Leaf topping it in Robotics and Gary topping it in software engineering.
Eventually she fell in love with him. His love gave her a purpose in life. It made her confident in her choices. It made her a better person. It made her realise that she doesn't have to fit in a society she can't fit in. His love became important for her amd they both got engaged.
After their engagement, Gary's grandfather retired and gave him the position of Head Professor in his laboratory, for which Gary had to go out of Kanto, in Hoenn for that. But these two would meet each other on holidays and particularly Christmas.
Gary would always paint her Christmas colourful. Leaf had always been the introvert one, who could never fit in the expectations of people. And she herself never knew when Gary and his presence became important for her.
And since Gary would usually stay out of town, Leaf decided to make herself a robot, who would resemble him.
"But what if you start loving him, instead of me!?" asked Gary.
"Shut up! That's never going to happen. Why will I love a machine?" Leaf said back.
"Oh c'mon! This robot will be as handsome as me, what if you are not able to control yourselves?"
"Then in that case, you will be thrown in the dustbins!"
Lead leaned in, and kissed Gary slowly. Gary returned the gesture. It was the Christmas night. They both were sitting in Leaf's house, in her living room, kissing infront of the Christmas tree.
Gary pulled back, and licked his lips. "I don't know why, you always taste really good when kissed." He commented.
"Maybe I am tasty!" Leaf flirted back. "Wanna have some?"
"Sure!" and the two made out in the bed the entire night. Skin to Skin.
During those days, Gary helped Leaf with the softwares. And to ease it all up, Lead joined her college once again to study more and make the most advanced machine on Earth. The two got a contract from the government to make Gary a fighter robot, and if it fits their needs, they will be ordered to make more of them.
Gary sat in Leaf's desk, and sipped his hot chocolate as he shuffled all the papers, read them through, and tried to write some notes for Leaf, to make her job easier as he was to go back to Hoenn today.
"Uhmm... Gary!?"
"Yes Leaf?" Gary ran a hand through his hair, before looking up at his beloved fiancee, and noticed her nervousness. "What happened?"
"I..uh...want to tell you something." She spoke with a shaky breath.
"First you climb down those stairs, sit next to me, and then tell!" Gary ordered and she did as she was asked to.
"Now, what happened?" Gary held onto Leaf's left hand, which was surprisingly cold. Leaf opened her left hand within Gary's large hand, and dropped something like a toothbrush in it, and then took her hand back, placed it between her thighs, and shaked nervously.
Gary glanced with suspicion at Leaf's face, and then felt the toothbrush like thing in his hand. His eyebrows furrowed together in confusion. He recoil opened his hand to find something like a toothbrush in his hand, with peculiar two red vertical stripes on it. He looked towards the left, and read: Two red stripes for positive.
"I'm pregnant!" Leaf said. Gary looked up from his hand with wide eyes towards Leaf.
"Leafy you..
"Yes, and it is my third test of the day. Two tests can lie, but i don't believe that the third test would!"
"So you mean, I am going to be a father!?"
Leaf nodded, blushing real hard, and Gary hugged ger tightly. He kissed her forehead and hugged her more.
"Now, if that is the thing, then you will have to work less. It's fine to me. But don't ever take stress of completing the robot. We can do it any day!" Gary called Leaf's parents in, and they had a small celebration.
Gary phoned and told this huge news to his grandfather and asked if he can stay back for a few days, but his gramps denied it.
"Take care of the baby! When I come back after new year, let's get married!" Gary kissed Leaf once again, sat in his car and drove away. Leaf waved him a goodbye and went inside her house.
Because the laboratory was outside of Hoenn, reaching it by car route has always been easy for Gary. It was more or less a six hour ride for him. On Leaf's scoldings, he drove slowly this time. Going more out of Kanto, the sky grew dark. Dark clouds covered the sky and it started to rain heavily.
It rained and rained continuosly. Gary drove worrylessly, with a beautiful thought in his mind. Getting married to Leaf a month later. Having a baby, amd getting settled there in Hoenn was his plan. What does he want now? He needs a daughter. But a son is also fine with him, but he wants a daughter.
He drove with his body staring ahead, but his mind in the sky. As he crossed the long bridge over one river, he didn't notice the way that bridge shaked with the violent winds. And probaby didn't even notice when the bridge collapsed due to a huge wave of dirty water. And probably noticed it all when he felt his car fall down, sink in the water, and his eyes getting choked with the dirt. His breath getting small by every second. The water forcefully entering his body, and his body systems stopping for all.
Chaos struck Leaf's mind when she heard the news of flood like conditions near Johto region, and longest river bridge collapsing. The route that Gary took. She told him hundred time to go by air, but he didn't agree. And now, he is inside the waters.
Police helicopters were flying over the waters, as they pulled the car out. But Gary was nowhere to be found.
Leaf didn't let it go. She circled around police stations and asked them to search with more equipments. Everything was done to find the new professor of Hoenn's robotics University and labs. Police and government did everything in theur power to find Leaf Green's fiance, but he was not around. It was around some three months later, that Gary was declared dead.
Leaf was broken. She did not want to live this life. She broke her robot into small pieces. She even ate poison, which in turn affected her unborn child, and the child died inside her. She aborted her womb, and even decided to remove her reproductive organs to gain infertility, but her parents denied that.
And it was about three years back that Leaf graduated out of her college after further studies, and decided to make her robot once again, and even made it, considering it as the only way to see Gary everyday.
And tears dripped down her cheeks as she angrily fixed her robot's systems.
Her robot has to be a perfect one. There is only one month left for ger to take him for military analysis. If she gets selected,she would be funded to make a hundred more robots like this one. And seeing her Gary rise higher and shine, will make her a proud woman.
What if she could never give birth to his child. What if she could never love him for his entire life. She has made a new him, and is happy with it.
What if Gary is not here, his shadow is! And that is what matters now. He gave him a purpose in life, and it's Leaf's purpose to make those dreams cone true.
As Gary rebooted, he was plugged to charging and Leaf slept in her bed around 4:30 AM, quite content with the changes she has made. And as she turns towards her left, she spots the picture of her and Gary, taken on that same Christmas day. Christmas was on Wednesday that year.
You asked me if I will fall in love with this machine. You were right Gary. I fell in love with it, and I am falling more everyday, since he looks as handsome as you. I love you. You are loved, wherever you are. I hope you are living a happy life.
Leaf put the photo back, and turned to her right, and slept peacefully for after some days.
She has a bigger morning waiting fir her tommorow. Tommorow, she is left with only a month to make the necessary changes, and make Gary able to qualify the military analysis.
And she is determined to make Gary, the most advanced military equipment on Earth.