"Love n. an intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard towards a person or thing." - Definition from Collins English Dictionary.
Disclaimer – in the spirit of happy endings, yes I do own Pokemon and it makes me very, very happy! In the spirit of not wanting to be sued for every penny I'm worth and losing my entire collection of boy band pictures, CD's and memorabilia, I don't own Pokemon and please disregard my previous statement.
Valentines Verse : Lost Lyrics
Part VII – Standing at the Beginning With YouThe Cerulean sisters were anxious, here was their party in full swing and the guests of honour had failed to return. I mean sure, they didn't know they were the guests of honour, but that was simply beyond the point.
It had been hours since Ash had turned up looking as though he spent the night in the forest, then taking their baby sister away with him to god knows where. They wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if the two didn't turn up at all.
They'd just be angry. It would be a complete waste of their Forget-me-nots, the Valentines equivalent of Mistletoe ploy they had spent the better half of the year perfecting. They tiny sprigs of flowers were hung around the house anywhere that Ash and Misty were likely to stand together, in doorways, in every corner, over the food table. All the party goers had been warned to stay away from Ash and Misty when they were under these to make sure that those two would be forced to kiss at least once this evening.
Lilly paced back and forth in front of the door while her sisters tried to busy themselves with hostess details.
She was the first to notice the telltale sound of a key turning in the lock and the furtive giggle of her youngest sister with her best friend they had come to associate with her happiness.
"Stop right there you two!" Lilly demanded as they stood together in the doorway, directly under the forget-me-nots.
Misty's eyes widened in surprise positive that her sisters already knew about her and Ash. She wasn't sure how they knew, but something told her it was the only possible conclusion.
"Lilly, I . . ." she began to explain but was cut off by her sister.
"You can't say a single thing to worm your way out of this Misty," Lilly told her commandingly. "It's a Valentines tradition so go ahead."
"What?" Misty asked rather confused as to what Lilly was going on about now.
"You're under the forget-me-nots, that means you have to kiss," Lilly said with a coy innocence.
"I guess if it's a Valentines tradition," Ash sighed woefully winking at his girlfriend while Lilly wasn't looking.
Lilly quickly motioned for her sisters to come over and bring the camera with them. They knew that it would merely be a quick peck on the cheek, but it would be a monumental moment in the Ash and Misty Saga they cooked up in their heads.
As you can imagine, what Ash really did surprised them emmensely. Actually more than that, they were staggered beyond comprehension
He wrapped his arms around her waist and dipping her gracefully tango style before he passionately kissed her lips. He only wished they could see the Cerulean sister's surprised faces when they finally came up for air, but he knew it was best to leave this matter up to Misty.
"Gotta go change, can't quite rightly go into a party looking like a spent last night in a forest," Ash said as he raced up stairs leaving Misty to deal with her sisters as she was already in her 'glad-rags' and ready to play Hostess number four at her sister's latest shindig.
"But you did spend last night in a forest," Misty called after him angrily. To think he had left her all alone to deal with her three demon sisters.
"Well . . ." she began searching for the words to create a similar emotive response from her sisters.
The three of them all held identical frowns as they wondered when Ash had got so brave as to actually kiss their little sister on the lips let alone in the fashion he had. Lilly's hands rested on her hips while Daisy tapped her foot impatiently and Violet bit her nail in a state of nervous thoughtfulness.
'Damn you Ash Ketchum' Misty thought to herself. 'He is so getting it when I'm done here.'
"I'm going to go mingle," Misty stated off the top of her head. "If my boyfriend comes down this way can you tell him I'll be near the food table?" she asked sweetly.
With that she walked off not turning back till she was at safe distance where she could watch her sisters come to the correct realisations.
Misty smiled with satisfaction as her sisters faces contorted into blonde recognition. Their eyes bulged with shock and their mouths literally hit the floor as her words began to really sink in.
A word they borrowed from one of their favourite animes echoed through the house.
"HHHHHHOOOOOOEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Now everything was right in the world. It seemed there was only one thing that could make the moment more perfect.
Her smile widened as her wish came true and she felt two powerful arms wrap themselves around her slim waist.
"What are you thinking?" he whispered softly in her ear probably referring to the almost sinister smile plastered across her perfect face.
"Well before you came along," she said slowly turning around to face him, "I was wondering if anyone got a picture of my sisters faces so I could frame it for them," she began smiling smugly.
"But now," she continued after planting a quick kiss on his lips, "I'm wondering how I could possibly make this moment last forever."
"Anything I can do to help?" Ash asked teasingly as he encircled his arms tighter around her waist and pulled her into a gentle waltz.
"You already have," she replied seriously resting her head against his chest and closing her eyes.
He smiled softly as the music became slower and a familiar song began to surround them pulling their deeper into their dance.
Misty sang along softly remembering the way her mother used to sing this song to her whenever she was scared or upset or even as a happy lullaby to gently lull her to sleep. The song had belonged to her and her mother but now it seemed it was for herself and Ash to always be remembered as the first song they had danced to together.
It was almost as if her mother was handing it to them, as a gift to start the new road they were to journey upon. She turned her head towards the heavens where she was sure her mother was looking down upon her mouthing the words 'Thank you' without even knowing how much she had really done.
She could almost hear her mothers voice singing the words along with her as she shared a dance with the man she would love for the rest of her life.
"Some day,
When I'm awfully low
And the world is cold
I will feel a glow
Just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
You're lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me
But to love you
And the way you look tonight
With each word
Your tenderness grows
Tearing my fears apart
And the laugh
That wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart
You're lovely
Please don't ever change
Keep that breathless charm
Darling, please arrange it
Cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight."
And still they continued to dance even when the music had ended, simply content with being in each others arms.
Ash smiled down at her wondering what their life would be like together. Perhaps deep in the abysses of his mind he already knew, but for his sake it had all been blocked out.
"What's wrong?" Misty asked curiously as he studied her face intently.
"Nothing, everything is perfect," he replied not even trying to stop his words from coming like he often had before, it's not like it would do much good anyway. "Just embedding every detail of this moment into my memory so I will always remember how beautiful you are tonight," he told her remembering the words of the song they had previously been dancing to.
Misty blushed at the compliment and casted her eyes down towards her feet on reflex. She still wasn't used to this, but she knew she would eventually even if it took the rest of their lives.
Ash gently moved one of his hands from around her waist. He caressed her face and lifted it towards his own before planting a light kiss on her forehead.
"I love you," He spoke softly not even the slightest tone of doubt or uncertainty in his voice.
Misty smiled at her boyfriends genuine sincerity as she stared up into his chocolate brown eyes. To think that only a few hours ago they had just been best friends – no more, no less – and now they were everything she ever dreamed of.
"Ditto," she teased happily in reply.
"Is that the best you've got?" he questioned with a playful pout.
Misty smiled as she leaned in for a kiss turning at the last possible second. She planted soft butterfly kisses against his cheek as she breathed huskily in his ear at little more than a whisper, "I love you too Ash Ketchum . . .
"Daddy," he heard his daughter call as she and her mother arrived home from kindigarten.
"I'm upstairs," Satoshi called to them taking his fingers off the keyboard and eyes off the luminisant computer screen. "I'll be down in a sec, I just need to finish this."
He was waiting for inspiration to hit, just as he had for the past twenty minutes, and quite frankly it was wearing on his patience. He was about this close to giving up all together.
"Can I give it to daddy now mommy?" he heard his little girl ask his wife from somewhere downstairs. He presumed the reply was a silent yes by the loud pounding of her climbing clumsily up the stairs. Kasumi always said she got that from him.
The four year old walked into the room with her hands clasped suspiciously behind her back. Her brilliant cerulean blue eyes identical to Kasumi's, were filled with excitement and anticipation as they watched him from underneath her messy ebony locks in a half fallen ponytale.
"Here daddy," she said happily thrusting out her gift towards him.
He smiled down at her with chocolate brown eye barely even noticeing the object in her tiny hands as he accepted it from her. It was obvious she had made it herself and that she had gone to a bit of trouble to spell out 'I love you daddy' across the top in pasta letters even if it wasn't perfect, but he didn't care what it was, it was special no matter what.
"Sakura you shouldn't have," he told her sweetly as he pulled her into her lap and hugged her tightly. "I'm going to put it here on my desk so I can look at it all the time."
"No daddy," she replied with a happy giggle. "It goes by the window so it can catch the sun."
"Oh I see now," he nodded as he rolled the computer chair over to the window and placed the minature stained glass window in the center.
"Isn't daddy silly?" Kasumi commented to their child as she appeared in the doorway. "Everyone knows it goes in the window."
"You're right," Satoshi replied with a smile as he gazed at her, his wife of seven years, lovingly, "it definitely goes in the window."
"So are you finished yet?" she asked as she peaked at the computer screen from over his shoulder.
Satoshi sighed. "I just can't seem to get this ending right," he said exasperatedly as he turned back to the almost annoyingly blank screen.
"That's easy," Sakura giggled. "Like in Cinderella daddy, they all lived happily ever after."
"Perhaps . . ."
Richard Bach, a famous authour, once said that "real love stories never have endings" so I guess this isn't really an ending, just the closing words on a very important chapter in the lives of Misty Kasumi Waterflower and Ashton Satoshi Ketchum because they truly did live happily ever after till the end of their days.
~ The End . . . Or better said . . . The Beginning ~
Ash+Misty=4EVA – I assure you, you don't want to see the first one. It really is beyond embarrassing especially at some parts. I mean what kind of lunatic would turn Misty into a cheerleader?!
Queen of Games – Thank you so much for that. It means a lot to me that you felt my fic was worth a review.
Joy-girl – Thank you again for the idea to use Misty's parents, or as the case was, just the one of them. Also the suggestion that they didn't necessarily have to be dead gave me the idea to use Misty.
Lord Cynic – Thank you for all your reviews. I never really liked Rudy either or so him as much at all. I thought Misty was just being nice because of his sister.
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Aki Akito – Sorry about the wrong name. I got it from a script for the movie but it was one that had been translated from the original Japanese one I think, so it had a lot of the Japanese names and things in there instead. I never realised until I read it just how much 4Kids had tried to push the whole Ash and Misty thing.
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Rae – Thank you, I tried to find a quote that suited them for each chapter kind of just to sum things up. My favourite was the one in the second chapter from Sweet Home Alabama, whenever I watch that movie I almost always see Ash and Misty in the place of Jake and Melanie.
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Karoi-chan aka Prof.Clo – Like I said before, I got it from the Japanese translation so it's a bit different. Thanks for the review
Misfit – I was actually pretty close to using that idea about the daughter but because she wouldn't necessarily exist depending on Ash's decisions I had to stick with Misty, but it was still a great idea. Thank you.
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The Duke of Fenwick – Wow, I never knew that about St. Valentine. I just thought he was a priest who got sent to jail for illeagal marriages. Kind of wish I'd known about the severed head, it would have made one hell of a wake up call for Ash.
Cybersten – I guess all I can say is that I love cliffhangers, but only as long as I'm doing them. I can't help it, I guess I just like to get that sort of response out of people.
. . . – I hope my explanation satisfied you and I know the end is kind of clichéd and expected but I can't help it, I'm completely incapable of sad endings and what not. Thank you for your reviews. I tried not to draw the end out to much and I'm already working on six new fics, which I want everyone's opinions on so I can prioritise them.
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Casey – Thank you so much. I didn't actually think anyone would like the songs too much but I just liked the thought of Misty being so overcome with grief and what not that she had to find a new dream to fill the empty void Ash left her with. Plus Misty just has that performance air about her, I mean she is a Sensational Sister even if she is the runt.
Charizard – Thank you, I hope it was all worth the wait.
Ash and Misty Forever – Thank you. The story is based on 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, but only the basic plot. I tried to stray away from it as much as possible and in the process had to leave out my favourite part at the end with Tiny Tim but I guess in the end it was better for it.
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Ok right now that's all said, I want to thank everyone who read this fic even if you didn't review and I'd also like your opinions on something. Currently I'm working on seven fics, all Pokemon and I want to know which ones you like the best so I can make that my priority. So for the nest few updates I will have samples from each of the fics for you to read and in the final Reason's of the Heart Update I'll have a basic summary for each one.
So here are three of them to get the ball rolling.
Dude Where's My Plot?
Lord Elrond's eyes went wide as he saw all the bright lights and cameras around the stage. He grabbed a microphone and reminisced his days as 'Pricilla: Queen of the Dessert'.
"Once I was afraid, I was petrified," he began to sing in his perfect drag queen manner. He was glad that this time he had a classier wig and outfit to balance out the act. "I didn't think I could go on with out you by my side. But then I spent so many nights just thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong and I learnt how to get along. And now I'm back, from middle earth. I just walked in to find you hear with that sad look upon your . . . people what rhymes with earth?" he yelled stopping his song.
"Worth?" Pippin suggested coming out of his hiding place for just a second.
"Ok, people. Focus," Peter Jackson said stopping all the insanity in its tracks.
"Now you, rock boy," he said once he was sure he had everyone's undivided attention. "You are a tree, now I want you to act like a tree. Not a rock, a tree. Now show me what it's like to be a tree. Can you be a tree for me?"
Brock looked at him blankly for a second, but did what he said as he was semi afraid of what the man could do.
"Right now you two, and you get in there too Pip," he said after gesturing to both the Jessica's. "You three are going to be birds."
"Excuse me," Virgo said angrily. "Nobody tells me what to do, and I am not going to be some screwed up bird. Now if you don't . . ."
"Why you little . . ." Jesse screamed as she lunged out of her seat and towards Brock. "I swear I am going to knock you all the way back to the Rennaisance."
"You want a piece of me," Brock asked standing up and gesturing to him self as if she couldn't take it.
"You bet I do," Jesse said lunging at him once again.
And thus the beginning of the massive abusive fights that both shows were quite famous for.
Jesse dug her long nails into Brocks skin while he tugged harshly at her strawberry coloured hair. Both were already starting to draw blood, especially Brock who had taken to biting Jesse, when a score of security guards tried to pull them a part. Nothing seemed to be working, not the ice, not the fire not the itching powder.
It seemed there was only one thing left to do.
"Ok how about I call in another guest," Virgo smiled glancing at bloodied, burning and glacial Brock as her smile lost its innocence. "From the Orange Islands it's Professor . . ."
She was cut off immediately by some kind of grotesque animal howl that strangely enough wasn't Jesse's fault.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ok so it wasn't an animal cry, it was Brock screaming and 'crying like three little girls'. (For you Kris)
"Don't say that name," Brock sobbed rocking himself back and forth as tears streamed down her, opps I mean his, face. "Don't say that name."
"And I wasn't going to," she told him sending him a glare, "if you'd let me finish I was going to say Professor Oak's assistant, Tracey Sketchit."
I'll Take the Tears
Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Kanto where we lay our scene
From new age grudge break to old mutiny
Where there lies no blood but hands remain unclean
From forth the fatal wounds of these now foe
A pair of star-crossed lovers take on their lives
Lives of misadventure and worlds unknown
And with their love bury their parents' strife
The fearful passage of an endless love
And the continuance of their parents' rage
Which only their children can remove
And in this previous love we set our stage
'Tis now our patient ears slip to the past
To the once known love that did not last
"Go," Ash replied. "I heard Gary was looking for whores. I'd say good luck Misty, but frankly I just don't really give damn what you do."
Misty shot Ash a glare and pursed her lips as she pulled together her things. Togepei cried quietly in her arms as she tried her best to calm it, but all that it really wanted was for its mommy and daddy to be happy.
"Happy Birthday Misty," she muttered to herself as she walked away from the campsite and everything that mattered in her life.
Ash watched the girl go regrettably as he searched for the strength to call her back and tried to remember when everything had just started to go wrong.
"I love you," he whispered so quietly that even those still in the campsite didn't hear his last words to the girl he loved.
He couldn't believe that his last moments with Misty, could be so bad. All his life he had hoped that his last moments with Misty would be years from now when they died in each others arms.
He knew that if she ever left it would be painful, but this; this was beyond painful. It was excrutiating and all he wanted to do was lay down and die.
After all, he had no reason to live anymore. His reason had just ran out of his life, just up and left him with no one to blame but himself.
And he did.
On Angels WingsAt times she just wished they would go away. She wished she hadn't been blessed, been chosen to be one of his almighty angels, a protector of the innocent, the fallen and the protected. She wished she could just be one or the other, human or angel, not both.
But she wasn't, she was like some kind of angelic half-breed. It would be so much easier just to be one and not the other. As an angel she could be withdrawn from the worlds pain more easily and focus only on her case. She wouldn't get attached and she could distance herself from their cries.
As a human she could ignore the cries altogether, not hear them begging for mercy, wishing for her. As a human their cries were meaningless hollers on the wind. As a human she could cry along with them.
She wished that was all they were, nothing more than the wind.
Misty tensed as she felt another presence move in on her little world. She looked up to see one of her best friends standing before her.
"Hey," Misty smiled.
"Hey Kaz," she replied in her thick French accent.
"It's Misty now," she replied quietly.
"Sorry Myst," Emilie replied her angelic face emotionless even though a sly smile could be heard in her voice.
Misty laughed. It was refreshing to feel the laughter flowing through her and the smile pulling at her lips. It reminded her just how much of her was human.
"So . . ." Misty started but was cut off when she heard someone call her name.
"Misty," they called again.
"Over here Ash," she called closing her notebook.
Ash walked over to Misty's secluded little clearing and looked around.
"What?" she asked cocking her head to the side.
"Nothing," Ash said blushing slightly.
'God I would kill to be able to read his thoughts right now,' Misty said to Emilie.
'Exnee on the sixth commandment, ay,' Emilie replied.
Misty giggled. Ash's blush deepened thinking she was laughing at him.
Unbeknownst to Ash, Emilie walked around him inspecting him from each angle just as her sisters had at the gym.
Misty rolled her eyes. 'Why do people always do that whenever they see him?' Misty asked.
Emilie shrugged. 'He's pretty cute for a mortal, don't you think?' Emilie mused.
Now it was Misty's turn to blush.
So that's a few of the samples. If you have any comments on them don't be afraid to review.
Thanks again for all the reviews.
