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"Further more, we must get stronger Pokémon. Zubat and Golbat aren't making the cut any more." It had been like this for a while now. Continuous, monotone talking. The turquoise-haired man was bored, and anxious. His partner is due to give birth today and he was forced to stay here, in this conference room, waiting for it to end.

The Pokégear on his belt buzzed signalling a message. Carefully, his maroon eyes read the message, drawing as little attention as possible. 'Come down to the hospital wing, Kassidy has gone into labour,' it read. Great, now he had to find a way out of this.

He stood up abruptly, all eyes on him. "Excuse me sir, but I must leave."

The man at the head of the table narrowed his dark eyes. "No. If however, it is a brief word of caution, then you may stand outside for a maximum of 2 minutes. Cheryl will give you the notes," he spoke, sternly, gesturing to the short ice-blue haired woman beside him. The Persian by his side, smirking.

He bowed in thanks, and walked out. As soon as the door closed behind him, he whipped out his Pokégear and called Kassidy. "Hello."

"Where are you? Why aren't you here?!" the blonde on the other line shouted.

"Sorry, Giovanni won't let me go," he apologised.

"I don't care what you have to do just come!" she stressed.

"I doubt he will let me go," he said, solemnly.

"Run down here, get fired, confess I don't care. Just come! I've already broken 5 stress balls," she said, anger rising in her voice.

"Okay. I'll see what I can do, without getting fired."

"Please hurry, Butch," she strained.

Butch walked back inside the white walled conference room and tried to get out again. "Giovanni sir, I must leave. It's about my partner."

The man in the orange suit looked amused. "You know I don't care about romantic relationships."

"Not romantic partner." Internally, it killed Butch to say that, he loved Kassidy to death. "My work partner, Kassidy."

"I notice you are avoiding telling me the reason why you must she her. What is the problem?" he asked.

Butch stopped, scared slightly at his Boss's words. What would happen if he said he and his partner were having a child. Then again, Kassidy said to get down by any means possible. "She's pregnant." he said, allowing his hair to cover his eyes in shame.

Giovanni started laughing, "You expect me to believe that! Sit down!"

Butch was stunned, how could he not believe that . He sat down and the conference continued. He got a piece of paper handed to him by a woman with mid-back midnight hair and apologetic purple eyes. "I know how you feel," she whispered to him. "The same thing happened to my sister. It was painful watching her wait, until her husband came to help," she said, sympathetically. Butch nodded to her in thanks.

When no-one was looking he took out his Pokégear again and set a message to Kassidy. 'Giovanni won't let me go. And yes I tried confessing, he won't believe me.'

A minute later, Cheryl interrupted Giovanni. He took a orange and green Pokégear from her a and looked at the screen. A picture of Kassidy, with a beach-ball sized stomach, on one of the white sheeted hospital beds was seen. Her face sweating, Her golden hair was wet and lost its sheen. Her grape eyes dulled in pain. Underneath the picture were the words: 'Give me my partner, I'm about to give birth to his child. Or are you too heartless to allow that.' The brown haired man looked at the screen gaping.

"Very well, Bill," he address the man, who's name was only said correctly by one person. "You may go."

The Father-To-Be bowed in thanks and left, thanking Mew that he wouldn't miss his child's birth.

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