Ch. 7 What is Love

"Dad, please reconsider." Ashley pleaded after the town left and everything began to subside. Ash began to become sore again so he choked down the aspirin.

"I'm only doing what I have to do. He was using you all along to get to me. Don't you see?" Ash explained, rubbing his mouth from the glass of water.

"But he loves me, for me." Ashley protested.

"Because you're my daughter!" Ash yelled but held his arm and lowered his voice. "He's following the path of his idol, and I'm following in the path of mine."

"You will never be your dad!" Ashley cried before she knew what she was saying. Ash gasped and turned to her with a shocked expression. Ashley turned away and ran off with tears in her eyes. Everyone watcher her and turned back to Ash, who was putting a knee brace on his left leg. Ashley lay on her bed and wiped her tears, then she saw an open window. She was able to fit out and ran off to find George. She looked everywhere but couldn't find him. She wouldn't give up though, she walked on, thinking to herself:

I want a perfect world Though they're never roamed. There I'd never need To face my life alone. I don't want this world I'll just make my own. If I were brave, strong or smart, Then I'd know true of my heart. So does love make things ok? Anywhere I'd go, to roam Is fine if you're beside me. In the dark and in the day. Somehow I'll get through. Now that I found you. Does love make thinks ok?

Ashley sat down, drained of energy. Little did she know her search was over, George was right behind her, wondering:

I was first afraid, Now I realize. Love was never wrong, So it cannot lie. I see a perfect world, When I look in your eyes.

Ashley and George turned and saw each other. They ran at each other, still pondering:

If only they could feel it too, The feeling that I feel for you. They'd know Love makes things ok. Anywhere we'd go to roam Is fine since we're together. In the dark and in the day. Somehow we'll get through. Now that I'm with you. Love makes things ok. Now I know love makes things ok.

"Hey!" Ashley laughed as they ran off and playfully attacked each other until they rolled next to a small lake. "Look." She pointed in the water as they held each other close. "We are one. What?" Ashley just realized what she was saying, exactly what Ash did. Now she understood what Ash had meant in his song all those years ago.

"Let's run away together and start a life all our own." George said, making plans for a new town with new rules and with no connection with any league region.

"No silly, we have to go back." Ashley laughed.

"You're kidding!" George stepped back. "But we're finally together."

"Our place is with our families and friends." Ashley replied. "If we don't go back now to stop all this, they'll be fighting forever." George sighed, knowing she was right. Elsewhere, Jessy was leading the outsiders on a full-scale attack. Brock saw this while doing his weather report on the incoming storm. Wild Pokemon began to scatter.

"Oh no, I must warn Ash!" He gulped and ran off with the news.