A light breeze blew past the two as they sat at the edge of a hanging cliffside with their legs dangling off the edge. Pushing away a loose strand of hair from her face, she hooked it onto the back of her ear before leaning back, supporting herself with her arms planted behind her. The bright full moon shined down on the ice covered surface of the peak of the mountain, casting a bright baby blue glow light a light house in a dark night.
"So, what did you want to talk about this late?" Scarlet asked as she tilted her head towards Draco.
"Well... it's something that I thought of when we were coming up the mountain...", he said as he leaned forward, placing his elbows on his knees, "you know I loved Mary, right?" He asked as he closed his eyes.
"Yeah, but she's a lesbian and already with Lily... wasn't expecting that actually...", she said as they fell silent.
A sudden gale blew across the peak, blowing Scarlet's hair backwards. Scarlet couldn't feel what Draco was feeling, not having any telepathic abilities all all, Draco was working up the nerve to say what he wanted. Though he had finally asked Scarlet to come up to the top part of the cave. Draco turned his head to look at Scarlet, she was busy swinging her legs back and forth lightly as she gazed up at the bright night sky.
"Scarlet...how did you feel about me wanting to date Mary?" He suddenly asked.
"I... I was happy for you. You finally found someone to love", she said as she smiled softly.
"You weren't happy...", he said as he slowly turned his head towards her, staring dead at her.
"What? Why wouldn't I be happy for you?" She let out a light laugh as she stared back at him.
"Scarlet... I can sense emotions and read minds, remember?" He pointed out as he looked at her, his voice becoming shaky.
Letting out a sigh of defeat, she lifted her legs up from their previous dangling position and crossed them.
"And I know you loved me back then as well...", Scarlet frowned slightly from hearing this, "Scarlet... I'm sorry for ignoring your feelings", this caused Scarlet to look at Draco in shock.
"What?" She asked, shocked at his apology.
"Scarlet, I'm sorry for ignoring your feelings for me. To be honest... I actually loved you the moment I met you", he said as a smile slowly grew on his face.
"You... loved me?" She said as her jaw slowly dropped open.
"Remember the first time we met?" He asked, earning a nod from the shocked and now emotionally confused human, "before we even met, Pops was still trying to unbreak me. When I saw you come into his bedroom, I felt something... I'm still amazed to this day as well", he smiled as his smile grew wider.
"Unbreak you?" She asked.
"My shards and emotions were brought down from... something. I never did tell any of you the story of how my shards were gone...", he smiled as he placed his hand on his chest.
"Yeah, you never did... but what do you mean when we first met?" She asked.
"When I first saw you in my broken state, I somehow went back to normal. It's close to impossible for anyone to repair a broken Ralts or any evolution of of my species", he said as he gripped his shirt, tears began to pool in his eyes and slowly run down his white cheeks.
"Sorry for crying, Scarlet... I'm just remembering how this happened", he forced out as he began to sob in front of her.
"It's okay...", she said as she wrapped her arm around his shoulders.
"Yes... it really is okay. It's because of you and Pops that I could be who I am today. Ever since I was unbroken from seeing you, I fell in love with you", he smiled as tears continued to flow down his cheeks as he looked into her eyes.
"Scarlet, you saved me, and all I did in return was be a coward to come forward with my feelings to make you happy as well. I knew you loved me when I evolved into a Kirlia, when I was able to feel emotions better", he said as Scarlet began to smile.
Her heart began to pound harder at Draco's words. She couldn't believe something could have happened to him, and how little she knows of him. How she knows nothing of what he could do, what he could feel, that he actually felt the same for her.
"But why didn't you confess to me when you felt that I loved you too?" She bit her lip as she too, began to tear up as well.
"I was a coward when I was little, I had no guts to ask you. How does someone tell someone that they love the other when they're the one that saved them from something that not even a powerful Psychic pokemon couldn't fix, confess?" He asked as she began to cry harder.
"You just tell them! I loved you and you loved me! Do you know how long I've waited to let my emotions be recognized?" She said as she punched him on his shoulder with her free hand.
"I'm so sorry, Scarlet. I didn't know how to act around humans. I was still recovering from what happened to me before Pops found me and Susan in the forest", he said as he hugged her.
Scarlet returned his hug. They continued to hold each other in their arms as they continued to cry out their hearts of all arising feelings that they were feeling. Slowly, they moved away from one another, both smiling at each other. Slowly, they began to chuckle and giggle which soon grew into loud laughs. They laughed at one anothers faces, not once did they expect one another being able to cry.
"Scarlet... do you still love me?" He asked, not feeling nervous after hearing what they both had to say.
"Yes, yes I still love you", she smiled as she hugged him tightly.
"So... do you want to be my girlfriend?" He smiled as he took her hand in his.
"Maybe this will answer your question", she smiled as she brought her face to his, their lips met as they kissed.
After a few seconds, she finally moved her head away from his and smiled.
"I'll take that as a yes", he smiled.
"You. Bet", she smiled as she curled her fingers around his hand.
They smiled at one another one last time before turning to look at the night sky, a shooting star zipped across the sky above them.
"Let's go back to the cave. I can feel my tears freezing to my face now", Draco chuckled as he used Psychic to crack and remove the bits of ice from his face.
"Yeah... come on", she said as she gripped the edge of the cliff and flipped herself over the edge .
Draco watched calmly as she landed on the platform below. Following suit, he leaped off the edge of the cliff and landed beside her. Wrapping his arm around her, the two walked towards the mouth of the cave.
"Oh, another thing about love. You noticed how Pops and … Saphia have been acting?" Draco smiled as they walked through the caves entrance.
"No, why?" She asked as she laid her head on his shoulder.
"I can feel Pops feel.. different. He usually gets pissed or really depressed when hearing about her, but he only did that once. Now he acts like he's got something else taking her place", he said.
"I can't seem to figure out what it is exactly, but I know that Saphia is actually starting to feel love towards him, but she doesn't want to admit it", he chuckled as he shook his head.
"Yeah, let's see how he reacts when they wake up", Scarlet smiled as they approached the still live firepit.
The fiery lights danced on the cave walls and the single human and pokemon sleeping. Junior was sleeping in the curve of Susan's body. Saphia on the other hand, was lying against Roberts arm as she slept soundly. Draco smiled as he looked at Robert and Saphia while he used his Psychic to bring his bag from a distance in the cave and place it by Scarlet's bag that was leaning against the wall. Walking towards the wall, he sat down and leaned his back against the packs. Scarlet walked towards him and turned around and sat down in between his legs. The Gallade wrapped his arms around his new found love.
"Good night, Scarlet", he smiled.
"Night", she smiled up at him as she reached up and stroked his cheek with her hand.
Closing their eyes, they went to sleep with each other in one anothers arms. Little did they know, Susan had heard them talking while they were at the peak of the mountain. She herself had gone to sleep smiling, but didn't hear the part of Saphia loving Robert. After a few minutes, Draco and Scaret finally fell asleep. A lone Regice floated into the cave, slowly making its way towards Robert and Saphia.
"Such a sad tale you keep...", a telepathic voice whispered from the legendary ice pokemon, "but perhaps you will find a better life... all of you", it said as he looked at Draco and Scarlet, and then at Robert and Saphia.
Its body glowed a pure white before disappearing. A strong suction came from the front of the cave, extinguishing the fire.
~Time Skip: 6 Am~
Letting out a low growl as she awoken from her sleep, she opened her eyes, she saw that Junior was still asleep. Using her mouth, Susan lifted Junior by the nape of his neck and placed him softly of a thick blanket that she was lying on, that Robert had packed. Shaking herself, she let out another yawn before looking around the cave. Smiling, she looked at Scarlet and Draco sleeping together at the other side of the brightly lit cave.
"Oh my", she whispered in shock as she looked over at Robert and Saphia.
Just a few feet from the pit of burnt wood, laid Robert and Saphia. Saphia was lying her head on his chest, her paws laid on top of his chest as well, whilst Robert had his arm around her. Her shocked expression slowly turned into a smile as she saw a image that flashed over the two, but soon faded as the memory left just as quickly as it came.
'Robert, I think you'll be able to be happy again...', she thought as she walked towards the mouth of the cave, 'I do hope you go back the way you were a few years ago. Watching you you every time with that empty expression of yours is truly sadning...', she thought before using Extreme Speed, disappearing from the cave.
A small puff came from the clouds as Susan disappeared from the peak and was now going down the mountain do go about her own business for the morning. Inside the cave, the Lucario was slowly beginning to stir from her sleep. Letting out a light yawn before slowly lifting herself up from Robert's chest. Noticing what, or rather who she was clinging onto while she slept, she bolted upright, slamming Robert's arm against the icy walls of the cave. Slowly waking up from the knock he received on his arm, he slowly sat up. Robert noticed that Saphia was a bit frantic and oddly close to him, he leaned away from the wall, resting his arm on his knee.
"What?" He asked softly as he strained his eyes against the bright light coming from the sun reflecting off of the mirror like surface of the cave.
"Nothing...", she said before getting up and walking away from him.
Ignoring the oddly behaving Lucario, Robert got up and began to stretch. Walking over to her still sleeping son, she sat down on the blanket with him. Her heart was still pounding from the surprise of who she was sleeping next to.
'Why is my heart pounding so hard?' She thought as she took a deep breath in to calm herself down.
Not noticing the staring and blushing Lucario, or the couple sleeping just a few feet from where he was, Robert kneeled down and reached into his pack and began to unzip it. Removing several objects, he pulled out a metal pot and got back up. Walking towards the pit, he kneeled back down and placed the pot next the the small empty pit. Before standing back up, he noticed the carving that Draco had left for Scarlet last night.
"Momma...", Junior mumbled as he woke up, "I'm hungry", he whined as he pawed at her leg, snapping her out of her trance.
"Susan has already gone out for food from the looks of it", Robert said.
A yawn caught Robert's attention, causing him to turn his head and finally notice that his sister was sleeping in the embrace of Draco. Not showing any such emotion towards this, he ignored this and went back to his pack and zipped it close. Scarlet woke up at the same time that Draco did.
"I'm guessing you finally confessed to him?" Robert asked Scarlet as he walked towards the mouth of the cave.
"Yes I did, but...", she smiled sleepily as she reached up and stroked Draco's cheek as he smiled down at her, "he confessed to me as well", she said as she moved herself up a little and brought her lips to his.
A long trail of clouds followed after Susan as she leaped out from underneath the clouds and landed outside the cave. Walking into the cave, she placed a couple of branches down and a cluster of Oran and Pecha berries that were still attached to their vines.
"I heard it all as well", Susan smiled as she lowered her head back to the ground and picked up the branches in her maw again and walked towards the pit.
"After breakfast, we'll be heading back home", Susan said as she shook off some snow that was stuck to her fur from going down the mountain.
"Why?" Draco asked as Scarlet got off of him and began to stretch out her limbs.
"I met Regice on my way down the mountain. It said that the storm will be getting stronger to the point where the clouds will be pushed above the peak", Susan said as she sat down by the pit.
"Oh damn, that's not good", Draco said as he pushed himself up.
"But we'll have enough time to have some fun out here, so don't worry about it, sweetie", Susan said.
"Alright! Scarlet, wanna go down the mountain with me on your ski's after breakfast?" Draco smiled to his new girlfriend.
"Su-Oh crap, I forgot my ski's at home as well", she laughed as she realized the sleeping bags weren't the only things she forgot.
"Whatever, we can always improvise", Draco said as his eyes glowed a light purple color.
A shape formed in the wall. Raising his arm to his side, he suddenly swung forward, a board shaped piece of thin stone and ice was pulled out of the wall.
"Huh, that works too", she said as she took hold of the slab of stone and ice.
"I'll have to smooth it out later. Now I want some of my tea... dammit, looks like I forgot something too", Draco laughed as he released his Psychic.
"Draco, I packed the tea leaves. I knew you would forget them", Robert said as he came back into the cave with a chunk of ice in his hand.
"Thanks Pops. I'll get the fire started then", Draco said as he walked over to the pit and used his Psychic to lift and then snap the branches into smaller lengths.
Placing the chunk of ice in the empty metal pot, Draco took the pot with his Psychic and placed it on top of the pile of branches he placed in the pit. Taking hold of a snapped branch, he used Fire Punch, setting the branch ablaze and left it in the pit to spread to the other branches.
"Susan, what do you mean by you heard us?" Scarlet asked as she sat next to Susan, Draco joined them shortly.
"You two were quite loud, I was able to hear you two", Susan smiled as she sat up.
"Oh... mind not telling the others about... you know?" Draco whispered.
"Of course. Like I said to Saphia about her past. When you're ready and feel you need to share it with us, you're free to do it at your own time, deary", Susan smiled.
"Thanks", Scarlet sighed as she leaned back, her hand brushing one of the cluster of berries Susan had brought with her.
"So only berries for breakfast?" Scarlet asked as she lifted up a Oran berry and popped it into her mouth.
"Sorry, but these were all that I could find nearby", Susan said.
"It's okay...", Draco said as he looked over at Robert, who was busy taking out a small bag, "hey, Junior. Whatcha' doing in my bag?" He asked as he noticed Junior with his legs sticking out of his pack.
"Burrito!" Junior cheered as she got out of the bag with two aluminum covered burriots.
"... I don't remember packing those", Draco said as he scratched his head.
"I did it! I took all of them", he said as he brought the two towards Draco.
"Thanks kid", Draco smiled as he reached for one of the burritos, but stopped as Junior placed one of the burritos on Susan's paws, and the other on Scarlet's lap before walking back to the bag.
Sitting down by the bag, Junior reached into it and pulled out another before ripping off the aluminum and taking a bite out of it.
"... Don't I get one?" Draco asked in a slightly annoyed voice, earning giggles from the two girls.
In the background, Robert was preparing the tea for Draco, whilst Saphia started to meditate to try and calm herself and get rid of her thoughts of what happened when she woke up.
Sorry, Draco, but no burritos for you :D I hate to say it, but I don't think this fanfic will be as long as I predicted, but hopefully it reaches 40 or maybe 50 chapters :P Or it might actually be a long story, depending how I go with the story.
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