9 Fateful Months

Chapter 2: Sorrow

Disclaimer:

I do not own pokemon or any of the affiliated characters, but if I did, I would make ash and misty a couple dammit, they are so perfect for each other! Anyway, I do own this fic, so plz don't steal it and say you wrote it! Oh, and apparently I didn't make it clear enough, marlene is a MADE UP character, just so u know

Enjoy!

Xx Kusanagi xX

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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. "
-Matt Groening

"Look what you've done you little runt!" a voice shouted. "I knew this was going to happen eventually, your father never should have had you as a child, he never loved you"

Misty cowered down, her head hung in shame. "It was an accident," she said shakily.

"An accident? You call this an accident?! Just because you couldn't keep your legs closed long enough to think about the consequences!" the voice shouted back.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen, I love Ash, I wanted to be with him" she said as she broke into tears.

"Listen to you, your nothing but a little whore, just like your mother, its no wonder she died giving birth to you…." The voice bellowed,

"SHUT UP!" Misty screamed as she ran towards the voice and threw a punch.

Misty awoke with a start. Her entire body was covered in sweat. The loose strands of her orange hair stuck to her forehead, and her cloths hung on her body. She looked down at her chest, and burst into tears. She lay, crying on her bed for what seemed like hours, and slowly rose to her feet, and looked at the clock on the wall, it read 6:24 AM.

"It's been three weeks now" Misty thought to herself. "These nightmares seem to be getting worse each time". She walked over to the bathroom, and closed the door behind her.

The bathroom was small, but adequate. She took her cloths off, and turned the knobs on the shower.

"My father always said that taking a shower cleanses the soul," she said to herself before stepping in. She washed herself slowly, savoring each moment of warmth in the water, before finally turning the valves off and stepping out. As she began to comb her hair, she started to look at her body in a different way.

"And to think a tomboy like me could maybe just turn out to be a beautiful lady after all" she said to herself as she admired her features. "Its no wonder Ash couldn't resist me".  She moved her hand and placed it on her stomach, and began caressing her belly in a gentle way.

"I never thought it would come to this, not in a million years. I'm going to be a mother."

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Brock patiently waited in the foyer of the pokemon center. It was still quite early in the morning, so there were very few people walking around. He began to dose off, wondering about trivial things such as various pokemon breeding techniques, to making a new sushi recipe, to more serious problems, like Ash and Misty's mysterious behavior over the past few days. He nearly jumped out of his skin when Misty walked up next to him and tapped him on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry nurse Joy, I never meant to take that pair of underwear from the wash, I honestly thought they were mine!" he shouted out aloud, receiving many glares from the few customers at the center, to a more confused look from nurse joy. "Oh, Misty, its you, I thought it was…"

"I'm not even gonna ask about that, we need to talk" Misty said in her usual pissed off voice as she dragged and embarrassed Brock out of the pokemon center.

She took him to a small café down the street, where they sat down and ordered some coffee.

"Look Misty, about the underwear thing, I really thought they were…."

"I don't even want to begin to think what you were doing with nurse Joy's underwear, but this is about something else, its about me and Ash." She said with a quiet tone in her voice as the coffee arrived.

"I'm glad you decided to come and talk to me about it, I stopped believing the same old story about having the flu you and ash keep on giving me" He said as he stirred sugar into his coffee.

"Thanks Brock, I knew I could trust you. Its about my relationship with Ash" she said feeling slightly better.

"Have you two finally admitted your feelings towards each other? Was there a problem? Everyone knows you both have the biggest crushes on each other. Oh no, did Ash say he was gay, because one time I found a pair of stockings in his…." Brock said at a lightning fast speed, and then stopped to take a sip of coffee.

"Brock, I'm pregnant"

To say Brock became a human coffee fountain would be an understatement. He choked on his coffee, and spat it out back into his cup, once again receiving the stares from many confused shop patrons.

"Misty, im sorry, did I just hear you right, did you just say you were pregnant?" Brock said, wiping the coffee off of his shirt.

"Yes, and Ash is the father. I don't know how it happened exactly, but I know that I didn't mean for any of this to happen" she said lowering her head in shame.

"Misty, are you sure about this, I mean, how could you know for sure?" Brock said in shock.

"I took a test, it came up positive, I even waited two weeks to be sure it was right." She said, remembering the look on the woman's face at the pharmacy when she asked for a home pregnancy test.

"Misty, I don't know what to say. If you want, you could have an abor…."

"Don't say it Brock, I know what I did with ash was wrong, but I will not kill my, no, our child." Misty said breaking down into tears.

"Misty, don't worry, Im here to help you. I know this may sound hard to do, but ash needs to know about this." Brock said

The waiter came up to the table. "Are you alright ma'am?" He asked in a polite voice. Brock looked at the waiter and shook his head. "Oh, I see, well, don't worry about paying, this ones on me"

"Thank you" Brock said as he helped Misty out of her seat. She held her hands to her face, covering up her shame as she cried. Brock just helped her to stay standing, and walked with her back to the pokemon center.

"Brock" Misty said as tears continued to come" Will everything be alright?"

"I promise you Misty, things will turn out just fine," he said wondering if he could keep his promise. Misty began to cry harder. Brock leaned close to her, and hugged her. As Brock felt her tears fall on his shoulder, he hugged her closer, whispering words of confidence into her ear.

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Ash Ketchum sat in his room, he had not come out the whole day. He remembered how earlier in the week, he look a peek inside Misty's room, and saw the home pregnancy test one the floor. He knew for sure now, there was no doubt in his mind.

"I'm so pathetic" he thought to himself. "I'm a pokemon Master, I've accomplished more In my life than most people ever achieve in their whole life, and yet here I am, a man, crying for days, telling lies to my friend, just to get him to leave me alone. I promised myself I would do something, that I would confront her, but I still cant."

He bit his lip, as the past events came to mind again, three weeks ago, the night it all happened.

******* FLASHBACK *******

"so he said, that's not my garados, that's my mother!!!" Brock shouted as he delivered the punch line to his joke

Marlene and Sabrina both cracked up with laughter, while Misty and Ash sat with giant sweat beads forming on their foreheads. Around where Ash and Misty sat, there were many empty glasses, it turns out the Marlene's idea of a "small drink' turned out to be 3 bottles of champagne. Marlene had spent most of the evening flirting with Brock, and Sabrina, well, lets just say she had the most to drink out of the lot of them, which showed, as she fell off her chair with laughter and didn't get up.

"Its amazing, Brock is always chasing woman, but when one starts to flirt with him, he's too dense to notice it, that's so typical of men!" Misty said to Ash.

"Yeah, I guess so." Ash said, knowing very well that he was just as oblivious when woman flirted with him. Normally when they did, Misty would get angry and ignore Ash. Ash only had eyes for Misty though, ever since they met, he knew she was the one. The problem was that they were both too stubborn to admit their feelings for each other. It showed on occasion though. Everyone else knew that they were madly in love, but when they tried to tell them, they usually ended up getting their heads bitten off, or worse.

Brock and Marlene walked off to go inside the house, Marlene looked back at Misty and winked.

"Hey ash…" Misty said, turning to face him only to realize he was looking right at her. They both sat, staring into each other's eyes, they sat for what seemed like hours, slowly moving closer together.

"Misty, did I ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes"

"No Ash, but did I ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes"

They noses touched as they kept staring into each other's eyes.

"Misty, there is something I need to tell you" Ash said, still mesmerized by Misty's gaze.

"I wonder what that could be," She said, as she slowly lowered herself closer to ash.

Their lips met, and for the first time ever, Ash and Misty's true feelings for each other became a reality"

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Authors Incoherent Babbling.

Well, that's the second chapter done. I hope you liked it. There is a reason to everything I put in this chapter, especially the dream sequence in the beginning. Next chapter im gonna have a special cameo appearance, but it will also have serious plot ties, the couple is, JESSIE AND JAMES! Yep, that's right, the bumbling team rocket fools, but this time they have good intentions in mind, and there is a good reason for that.

Look what has become of me! Im normally a maniac, but now im writing a love story!?!?! There is something wrong with me, It must be all those weird anime's ive been watching lately, damn, this is so weird. Oh, and just so you know it, digimon is also good fanfic material, hehehe.

Keep reading and enjoy, should have the next chapter out soon.

Any suggestions, problems, complaints or compliments, feel free to e-mail me at:

Asukakusanagi@hotmail.com

Xx Kusanagi xX