9 Fateful Months

Chapter 5: Digging up the past

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I do not own Pokemon or any of the characters blah blah blah, if you do sue me you will get absolutely nothing except my failed homework assignments, all right? As usual, if I DID own pokemon, I would have a giant robotic Pikachu made and I would attack Korea and destroy all the Nike factories that have illegal child labor!!!!!

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Misty and Ash walked back to the pokemon center while holding hands, they had become quite comfortable being with each other now. After the previous encounter with Jesse and James they were both abit shaken up, but somehow satisfied with the odd reunion. It seemed as though those two had finally decided to grow up.

"Hey Ash, you looking forward to tonight?" Misty said to Ash while clutching his hand.

"To tell you the truth Mist, I'm not quite sure what to expect." Ash said while chuckling. The sun was beginning to set when the couple reached the Pokemon center, in a few days they would be leaving this place to go back to Pallet town while they still can.

There were a few police cars outside the center, this made Ash and Misty quite nervous, so they ran quickly to see what the commotion was about. Some officer jennies were talking to various people and writing things down, while the nurse joys ran about checking for injuries. There was some broken glass and a little damage to the gift shop next to the pokemon center.

"What happened?" Ash said to officer Jenny.

"There was a disturbance outside the pokemon center" officer jenny said, taking her attention away from her notepad and focusing on the couple. " Some guy and his pokemon came around and started shouting about Team Rocket returning, and something about a secret weapon."

"But that's impossible" Misty said with a concerned look on her face. "Team rocket was stopped 4 years ago!"

"That's what we thought too, after we shut down all of their operations and arrested their leaders, we believed there was nothing left, and there have been no attacks in the past years, so why all of a sudden is this loony showing up and causing trouble?" Officer Jenny explained.

"So what happened, did you catch him?" Ash said, tensing up just thinking about Team Rocket.

"No, he ran away after he saw there was no way he could do any major harm apart from smash a lot of glass" officer jenny said glancing over to the broken windows. "If not for those trainers that distracted him, who knows how much damage he could have done." Officer Jenny pointed to a police car, where two people stood being interviewed by yet more officer jenny's.

"Thanks for your help officer jenny" Ash said as he walked over to the police car. As Misty and Ash got closer to the car, the two people became more and more familiar. "Hey, isn't that Marlene, oh no!"

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The four trainers sat around a table in the cafeteria, the police had left a while ago, and things were starting to cool off again. In front of each person stood a drink, Misty and Ash were sharing a milkshake with two straws, Brock had a very large cup of coffee, the fumes rising off of the coffee seemed to distort the air above it, gathering the puzzled looks of many bypasssers, some could have sworn they saw stars spinning over Brocks head. An impatient looking Marlene also had a milkshake with two straws in it, and was glancing over nervously over to Brock.

"Hey Marlene, why do you have two straws in your milkshake?" Brock asked with genuine curiosity in his voice. He swayed when he talked now, and Ash was seriously considering taking the coffee away from him.

"Oh, its nothing" Marlene lied, showing a tiny blush. "Just something I always did as a child…." Misty slapped her forehead, and snuggled closer to Ash, slurping hard on her straw and giving death looks at Brock.

"You two must be quite proud, fighting off a renegade lunatic with your pokemon, and preventing innocent pokemon and people from being hurt" Misty said, trying to lighten the mood abit.

"Your too kind really, but all we did was scare him away, there was no real fighting Mist" Marlene said, finally giving up on the second straw idea and chewing on both straws. "It wouldn't have worked if Brock hadn't been here with me though". Brock was dense when it came to woman, but he even got that one, and began to blush. Ash and Misty picked up on this, and turned to look at each other, and Brock turned a deep shade of red when Misty giggled.

"Anyway, me and Ash have been invited to go to dinner tonight, so were going to leave in about an hour, would you mind taking care of our pokemon for us?" Misty told Brock and Marlene.

"Oh, who invited you guys out to dinner?" Marlene and Brock said simultaneously.
"That's a surprise, we'll tell you guys all about it tomorrow" Misty said, stopping Ash before he could say anything. "We had better go get ready, we'll see you later, and try to stay out of trouble."

"Hey that's my line" Brock protested.

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"35 Hillside Crescent, this looks like the place, but all I can see is gates." Ash said looking up at the sets of gates in front of them. The gates were gold plated, and very flashy looking, this was one of the most upscale parts of the entire city. "Well lets try the intercom". Ash and misty were dressed quite casually, and had caught a taxi from the pokemon center. Ash pushed the intercom button, and an electronic beeping sound came from it, then a faint voice crackled out from the speaker.

"Who is it?" The voice inquired.

"Its us, Ash and Misty, is this the residence of Jesse and James?" Ash asked, looking quite puzzled.

"Oh, you arrived a little earlier than we expected you to, please come inside" The voice said as the gates swung open. Ash and Misty walked past the gates and through a rather large driveway. In front of them stood a house of such beauty that it could even compare to Marlene's house. It wasn't particularly big, but it was spectacular, from the small greenhouse in the garden, to the marble steps leading to the front door. The House was made mainly from marble from the looks of it, the windows were large and gothic looking, which gave the entire house a sense of style and sophistication. The front door opened to reveal James, looking quite smart, not what Misty and Ash remembered him as.

"Welcome, your abit earlier than we expected you to come, Jesse is still preparing dinner, I hope you don't mind having to wait." James said, ushering them into the house. The entrance hall was beautiful. Ash noticed a few some of the framed photographs as he walked through, most of them were pictures of Jesse, James and Meowth all looking quite happy, in meadows or spectacular scenery, but Ash also noticed they were not wearing any Team Rocket insignia.

"Make yourself at home, Jesse will be done shortly." James said as he quickly disappeared into another room. Misty flopped back onto the comfy looking couch.

"Hey Ash, come sit with me, this couch is comfy" Misty said, shifting around on the couch with a content look on her face. Ash sat down next to Misty and she instantly cuddled up to him, they had been getting more and more comfortable around each other recently. "Hey Ash, do you love me?"

"That's a dumb question Misty, of course I do" Ash said as he faced Misty. " I love you more than anything in the world" They moved their heads together, and their lips were about to touch when a familiar voice snapped them back to reality.

"Am I interrupting anything?" Jesse said, with a smug look on her face. "Its good to see you two again, if you would care to untangle yourself, follow me through to the dining room, dinner is served." Ash and Misty both turned beet red, finally noticing that they both had their arms entwined around each other.

The food looked delicious, there was a large roasted chicken in the center of the dining table, with a large salad, baked potato's, and side dishes of every kind. Jesse walked to the other side of the table and sat down next to her husband, signaling for ash and misty to sit at the chairs opposite them.

"Dinner is served"

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"That was delicious, where did you learn to cook so well?" Misty asked in amazement.

"Well, it comes with practice" Jesse said while blushing.

"Oh, were is Cassandra, I was wondering why she never ate with us." Misty said

"She went to bed hours ago, and last time we tried to have dinner with her like this, she ended up ruining the chicken completely" James said. "Could I interest you in some champagne?" James said pulling out an expensive bottle of champagne from the ice bucked located conveniently next to him. He poured four glasses before Ash or Misty could even object.

"Well, I must certainly say, today has been a day for many surprises" Ash said, trying to forget about the loony at the pokemon center. "I mean, we never expected to see you two again, but married, I never thought that was possible."

"What do you mean?" James said with a puzzled look on his face. "Jesse and I were always together, we are the perfect team, how could anyone expect us not to be married?"

"Well, you see, not trying to be rude or anything" Misty said. "But we thought you were…."

"gay" Ash and Misty said simultaneously.

"What gave you that impression?" James said with a look of utter confusion on his face.
"well, you see, you always talked with that funny voice"

 "You wore dresses"

"Were always the woman in your schemes"

"and lets not forget the time you got fake breasts to win a bikini contest"

Jesse and James had a puzzled look on their face for about 2 seconds, then they burst out laughing. "Hahaha, you thought I was gay, that's the funniest thing ive heard in ages". Both Jesse and James began laughing harder, so hard infact that tears began to come out of their eyes, Ash and Misty also began to laugh, seeing the humor in all of it.

"But seriously" James said wiping the tears out of his eyes. "Those days are over, what we did then was a waist of our time, I had been meaning to propose to Jesse for ages, but I couldn't find the right time to do it"

"So, what about YOU two" Jesse said, grinning like the Cheshire cat. "We saw you cuddling in the lounge, and lets not forget the "tickling contest" in the park." Misty and Ash both froze.

"Oh come on, don't act like no one knew you two loved each other, you two were always with each other, we never saw you guys apart," James said while smirking. "Anyone who didn't know about you two is blind!". Ash and Misty were quite tense, wondering if it was that obvious.

"well, uum, you see, I er………" Ash said stuttering.

"Lets give them the truth Ash, Jesse, James, im pregnant, with Ash's Baby" Misty said, without sounding one bit ashamed about it. Jesse and James just sat there, their smirks still plastered on their faces.

"Ash you sly dog you, way to go!" James said, breaking the long pause. Misty and Ash were quite confused now, they expected them to be shocked, but seemed rather amused by it.

"Well done, your going to be a mother" Jesse said, clapping her hands together. "Have you decided on a name yet, how many months have you been pregnant, how did it happen, are you going to get married….". Misty and Ash were bombarded by a barrage of questions.

It took them both about 20 minutes to explain the entire situation to Jesse and James, from the party, to the alcohol, and to the suicide attempt, everything. Surprisingly enough, Ash and Misty felt quite secure and safe explaining this to them, almost as though they knew what it felt like.

"That's not so bad, at least you have made it through, and its up to you to make the best of this!" Jesse said , reassuring the couple, "besides, you two make a cute couple". Ash and Misty both started blushing furiously. The topic of discussion changed from the pregnancy to more unimportant topics, and before they knew it, it was getting late.

"I don't mean to be rude, but we had better be going soon" Ash said, sitting u from the table. Almost as if it was on queue , a bolt of lightning struck outside, and rain began to pour down.

"Its raining buckets outside, wait, I have an idea, why don't you two stay the night here, we have a spare bedroom." James said, turning to his wife to confirm the idea.

"That sounds like a great idea, please, stay the night." Jesse said as she walked up to the couple.

"Well, I suppose it wont hurt, what do you say Misty?" Ash said in a soft tone.

"I would love to!" Misty said with excitement in her voice.

"Excellent, I hope you two don't mind sharing a bed, I doubt you would though" James said winking at the couple. "Enjoy the evening".

"Whats THAT supposed to mean!?" Misty said with a stress mark appearing on her forehead.

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Authors incoherent Babbling

Sorry this chapter took so long to get out, its been a tough week, exams have finished though, so now I can finally get back to the fic with full effort. Hope you liked the chapter, it was a lot more happy and positive as far as I was concerned, I tried to make this a semi- feel good AAMR chapter.

As for brocks coffee addiction, I too am forsaken with that problem, and ill have you know I stayed up till 2 in the morning writing this for you guys and gals, I hope you appreciate and give me lots of reviews.

Im going to involve jesse and James quite a lot in the chapters to come, and there is relevance to most things I do in this story, all the loose plot ends will come to a final knot, so don't worry, everything will be explained!

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