Hello! It is the 28th and I am here with a new chapter. This one felt natural to write because I have been focusing a lot on the character of Misty's father, Jordan, behind the scenes and through other creative forms as well as these stories. So here is a letter from Ash to Ben and Katie when Jordan and Lynne first come back into their lives. He discusses his thoughts. I hope you enjoy :3

Disclaimer: I own the story and the OCs mentioned!

Dear Darlings,

After all of my adventures since I was ten years old, you would think that nothing could surprise me anymore. I've witnessed things that can't really be explained. Pokémon's tears waking me up from the coldest state you could ever know. A creature very similar to our very own friend Pikachu's eyes glowing as it rode a wave with its own closest friend. And sure, there have been some spooky things too.

Stumbling into a Litwick inhabited mansion and feeling the life being sucked out of me. A Dusknoir during a Sinnoh Summer Camp stopping a ghost girl from running a riot! A fair amount of unexplainable things involving ghosts I have run into too, that's for sure. But nothing could prepare me for this segment of my life. The spine tingling of it all. And the sheer joy too.

I came to know your grandparents, Jordan and Lynne Williams, of course through your Mommy. I still remember the day that she told me what really happened to them. I was always unsure when we were kids. But we had been dating a few months and it was a lovely night in Kalos and the view of the sea over the cliffs must've reminded your Mom of both her parents – especially Jordan – and she couldn't help but confess to me.

I didn't say all that much. I just reached for her hand. But that night I lay awake as I couldn't sleep and I just thought. I thought and I thought and I thought. Looking back, I know that there was a part of my heart that was sad I would never meet the people who nurtured the person who made up the whole of my heart.

How wrong I was! Still, I wouldn't be shown that I was wrong for quite a few years yet.

It became a habit when I gave up journeying to accept the offer of being Kanto Frontier Brain for your Mommy and me to take a wander to where both Jordan and Lynne were buried and to bring flowers to them. Well, I brought the flowers to them. Misty brought conversation. I never knew what to say, personally. But I always hoped that they somehow saw me sitting behind their daughter and with my chin lightly pressed against her shoulder, listening to her words equally as much as she hoped that the two of them somehow were.

I never would have imagined that they heard practically every conversation and looked down upon every visit.

You see, I thought the unexpected moments of life would mostly be over when my travelling days drew to a close. I was mightily stood corrected. One day sat on the lawn and overlooking the graves and with Misty by my side as we were often discovered, I never would have dreamed that one of the most insane adventures of my life was just around the corner!

Jordan and Lynne came back to not only Misty but they returned to me as well. I actually got to not only meet the two people who created my favourite person in the world but to get to know them as well. Get to know a bit of their story.

It was daunting at first, are you kidding me?! Aside from the fact that I knew them to be ghostly spectres despite the fact that they felt solid and soft and warm to the touch, Misty's father loomed down at me and that was unnerving by itself! From the moment I met him, he gave me a look that was as though he had never seen me before, certainly not from being able to observe me from 'up there'.

He gave me a look that cut right through me. I knew from then on that he would always be watching me. And that was when I didn't know if I was grateful for the opportunity of their presence or not!

Of course I'm kidding. Of course I was grateful. I didn't have grandparents growing up and it wasn't the kind of thing that I really fretted about growing up because - one – I didn't imagine actually having kids - and two – I had faith that my Mom would always be around so there would always be at least another pair of loving arms.

Then when I knew that Jordan and Lynne could meet the two of you, Ben and Katie, I was hit by a realisation that I had been yearning for that since I had pressed my lips against your mothers. The two of you got the chance to be loved by even more people. But that wasn't all. You got to see with your own innocent and adorable blinking eyes more of where threads of your DNA had blossomed from.

Misty's parents' gazes taking in the sight of you in the flesh for the very first time was a moment that I will never forget and certainly not hurriedly forget. It almost is up there with the same tenderness as when your mother and I met you two for the very first time. The same as when my Mom took you in her arms.

No one hardly spoke. No one dared to exhale. Words were exchanged instead with looks. And then love was offered by touch. You were scooped into a pair of arms each, Lynne finding it natural to reach for Ben under his armpits because she never had a son before. And Jordan unable to resist taking Katie by the hand and swallowing back water from his eyes because it felt like yesterday that his Misty was only that age.

It felt like a lifetime ago, that feeling to Jordan. And yet all of a sudden, it was back. And I think he knew that nothing else could quite beat that.

I understand that feeling, I really do. It wasn't something that I ever thought about growing up. Impressing future in laws was the last thing on my mind when I was training and the idea of having babies and allowing someone else's parents to care with them with the same gentility of my own mother would have felt alien!

But with my arm wrapped around the waist of the girl I treasured dearer to me than anyone and looking on at a scene that felt captivating yet natural all in one, I was reminded of absent pieces in my heart that I had never noticed were missing in that moment. And in the very next second, they were being restored to me.

I was reaffirmed that family was everything. And it was a lesson that I swallowed all the more effortlessly because it was occurring in such magical circumstances.

Jordan and Lynne both passed away. For reasons none of us here on earth would ever be able to comprehend, they were meant to be elsewhere. However, on that day, we all were shown that during those moments, they were meant to be back with us yet again. And they were meant to be back with us for always.

I first knew your Nanny Lynne and Grandad Jordan through sitting with your Mommy at their resting place and just listening with a bunch of flowers at my feet while they were chatted away to. But now we can get to know them properly. We can all get to know them properly. And you can bond with your grandparents, my dear Ben and Katie.

They are your past. They are part of your future. They are part of you. They tell the story. Of what has been. And what will come.

I cannot wait to see what we will all become. We have all found each other again. And together, we will learn an even truer meaning of family. Of that I am certain.

Lots of love,

Your devoted Daddy.

There you go! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed :) It was interesting to tackle Ash's voice as a younger man and to tackle that with the way that he writes. Clumsier sentences and varied sentence/paragraph length became a theme and he definitely writes as he talks so hopefully that comes across! He no doubt has depth to his words that he wants to say, though. And I'm not all that sure he is joking when he speaks about his nerves when meeting Jordan for the first time :P Well, thanks again for reading and I will be back next Wednesday so see you then! I'll be updating Pikachu Tales.

Amy signing out!