Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish or how much fairy dust I use, Pokemon will never belong to me. ;-; I only own a strange little bird, but you dont want him. ^^ But the characters that were created out of my own imagination were Racheal, Jason, and Aydee. ^^ Thankyou! ^-^

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A small cry that resembled a sob filled the hallways unwillingly. Pikachu, giving a hard whack along Ash's head, jumped off of his shoulder and ran towards Misty as fast as his little legs would allow him to. If Ash was going to stand there stunned, Pikachu would save the barfing for later and talk to Misty now. Pikachu's advice was incredibley needed.

Althought Misty and Ash were apart by about eight feet, he could still see the warm tears come up over her aqua eyes. He could almost see her heart break in two. That was probably when reality gave him a rough smack across the face.

Aydee's kiss wasn't pure, soft, warm...Nothing like Misty. Aydee wasn't Misty and would never be able to compare to Misty and thats what Ash had to get through her thick head. The kiss made Ash want to crawl into a small corner and shiver until death paid him a visit.

'Whoa..I'm a better kisser then I thought.. He's still speechless..' Aydee thought proudly to herself, giving one last satisfied look to where a heart- broken Misty was once standing.

She felt herself tense up when a fire of anger made it's presence known in Ash's darkened eyes. A worried smile ran across her face that replaced her confident smile.

"If you ever in your useless lifetime come within one hundred feet of me or especially Misty....", He paused for a moment pondering what to say, "..You know..Your not even worth me taking the time to pray that you will suffer a fate more worse then a million heartbreaks at once. Your not even worth me talking to you right now." His voice was cold with hate and his eyes as emotionless as a stone. The site of him right there could make you run to hell and back.

A rather slightly confident smile convered her features yet again.

"You can not say you did not enjoy that." She smirked at him.

"Maybe it would work for you if I said 'I hate you' a million times, but you can just keep on dreaming I said the opposite. Dream hard, too." He hissed as he ripped his eyes away from her, walking towards the direction of Misty's room. He silently prayed that this would be the absolute last time he'd ever have to see her or anyone like her being again.

He found himself staring at the wooden door. He could have sworn it was laughing at him and his fear to open the door to face Misty and her watery eyes and broken heart.

He glanced in the direction to check if Aydee was still there. As he figured, she probably ran down the stairs in fear instead of using the simple elevater.

'Why do I feel like she'd rather want to speak to Jason right now?' Ash shivered at the thought.

He moved his face closer to the door after hearing Pikachu scowl at Misty angrily.





'STOP PACING BACK AND FORTH!' Pikachu growled at her.

'Your giving me the mother of headaches!!!' Pikachu's small hands held on to his aching head.

"No..No.. No.. NO!" She looked down at the bracelet and could have sworn it was mocking her by still clinging on to her wrist and never actually falling off.

'I can soo turn you into Misty Roast right now..' Pikachu muttered evilly, almost forgetting about his developing headache.

"I can't believe she's here with JASON! I should have known! How stupid can I possibley be?! Stupid enough, obviously!" Misty made quick arm movements as she spoke furiously, still pacing back and forth in the room. She tried to ignore the pain she felt in her throat, signalling she wanted to cry.

'Would you rather like to be baked or fried?' Pikachu narrowed his eyes at her.

"AND HE KISSED HER! To top off this peechy situation, THEY KISSED! They actually physically touched eachother! HE TOUCHED HER! AND SHE WENT WITHIN A MILE OF HIM!" Warm tears began to blur her vision, but she didn't care until she actually thought about what she said.

"And...They...kissed....It never meant anything to him when he kissed me.." She said softly before allowing her knees to fall to the ground.

'Incorrect. She kissed him. And he didn't like it either. So it wasn't necessarily a kiss.' Pikachu crossed his arms over his chest.

"It was still a kiss..I..I thought I could trust him..I should have known.." She said, still trying to choke back the tears.





'She..never trusted me in the first place if she just said that. If she trusted me, she would have known that I would never to that to her..' He almost felt his heart break in two at her taunting words which were echoing through his mind.

'If..If she trusted me she would have known that Aydee kissed me..And maybe if she had just takin the time for just a second to realise what that bracelet actually meant..' He closed his eyes tightly after sensing tears trying to fight their way down his cheeks.

'She's...no better then Aydee..I should have realised after all these years.' He hissed in his own mind before turning to walk away from the door which was separating him from Misty.





Pikachu growled at her, resisting the urge to electricute her right there and then because of her ignorance. Sure she was sad, but she had to eventually come to realise that, for once, it was not Ash's fault. He never meant any harm against Misty. He never did and never will.

Both of them were now equally hurt and torn apart from eachother. Although Jason and Aydee did not go along with the plan exactly, this was only the beginning of the pure hell Misty and Ash will have to face.

'Misty...stop crying..' Pikachu sighed, trying to ignore the torn look in her eyes.

He got no answer except for a few more sobs, so he tried again.

'We both know..Err.. I know Ash did not kiss her. She kissed him because she saw you.. Didn't you notice that? Did not one part of you see the evil smile she gave you and then the way she FORCED Ash to kiss her? If I was illusinating the whole time, forgive me. But, honestly, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT?!' Pikachu hissed at her.

'If it's going to take tough love for her to realise whats going on, I'm going to give it.' Pikachu thought to himself.

She was seated on the ground, leaning up against the wall and hugging her legs. She resembled a scared child, only waiting to face more trouble.

"And..how long did it take him to pull away? Did you notice THAT?!" She whispered angrily.

'Err..He took him about fifteen seconds..err TEN! I mean ten seconds..Uhm..Or.. 7 seconds? About? Do I look like I was counting to you?" Pikachu put his hands on his hips.

She shrugged in response, refusing to look anything other then her legs which were pressed up against her chest.

Pikachu shook his head at her figure. She looked so helpless and so incredibley in need of a certain black haired pokemon trainer whose dream was to be a Pokemon Master. He didn't seem to be knocking on her door at the very moment.

Just when everyone thought things would be getting better from yesterday, it only continued to get worse. It seemed as if things would never start to get better for a good change.





"Good morning, dear ol' pokemon master." Brock obviously didn't notice the look on Ash's face since he was too busy packing up his stuff from the hotel room.

"Go..away..." Ash fell back onto the bed with a sigh.

"Aren't you just the charmer in the morning?" Racheal mumbled with a small yawn following her words.

"Does anyone know where my toothbrush went? As far as I know, I didn't accidently flush it down the toilet or anything.." Brock called from the bathroom.

"Ashy? Where's Misty?", Racheal paused for a moment, "Did I just rhyme?"

After Ash didn't answer or even cringe at the sound of his name sounding it was fit for a teletubbie's name, Racheal grew even more curious as to what was wrong with him. He felt an even bigger rush of sadness and anger (if that were possible) race through him at the mention of Misty's name.

"Is everyone positively sure they have no idea where my toothbrush is?" Brock acted as if they actually answered his question the first time.

Racheal shook her head at him disapprovingly.

"Talk about irresponsibility for a nineteen year old, dont you think?" She asked Ash with a smile twitching at her lips.

Ash didn't bother to answer her. He felt as if he was too hurt to speak to anyone at that moment..Misty seemed to be the last one he ever wanted to see.

After all of those nights he spent wondering wether he should give her the bracelet or not. He looked at it as wasted time, thought, and heart. Ash could easily recall when Misty had actually seen the bracelet one night. He remembered everything.. How quickly his heart was pounding, how he mumbled with his words, and tried to poorly change the subject.

She could see out of the corner of her eye something silver glistening in the moonlight. Curiousity fell over her eyes as she tiredly sat up, uncaring that she just lost her comfortable position in her sleeping bag.

'What is that? Ash doesn't wear jewelry..Err.. I think he doesn't..' She thought while looking over the expression on his face. He seemed to be extremely deep in thought.

'What if she carelessly lost it? What if the oh-so-traditional 'it fell down the river, oops!' thing happened.. No.. She wouldn't do that. Not to me. The bike was different..Err.. I think..' Ash thought, watching the bracelet, its every gem, and how it shown in the moonlight.

"Ash?" Misty whispered gentley, yet slightly loud, but trying to be careful not to awake Brock or Pikachu.

No response.

"Ash?!" Misty tried again, but a little louder.

You'd think he would reply by now, but no response.

"Augh..ASH!" Misty growled. Realising how loud she yelled his name, she turned towards Brock and Pikachu quickly and found that they were both still deeply in sleep by some miracle..

'Well Ash slipped sleeping pills into somebody's drink tonight..Poor Pikachu.. He needs his rest anyway..' She pause for a moment, 'Too bad I'm in such a mood to see Ash get fried now and my favorite electric mouse is asleep. Such luck I have.' She grinned, but turned her attention towards Ash when he finally replied as she completely forgot about her own thoughts going on in her mind.

"Mhm..?" He didn't take his eyes off the bracelet, barely aware of who was trying to ask him many, many questions.

"Err, Tired yet? I think it's been about 49 minutes and 9 seconds that you have been staring at that." She yawned tiredly, resisting the urge to fall asleep.

"Be affraid. Don't always believe that your next drink of water won't have any sleeping pills in them. Be very affraid." She mumbled, being only half- aware of what in the world she was talking about.

"What?" He finally brought his eyes away from the bracelet and upon Misty. Her fiery red hair was down and slightly messy, but cute nonetheless. She was wearing the pajamas with Psyduck all over them.. Ash had gotten them for her as a small Christmas joke.

Her aquamarine eyes looked back at him curiously. He almost felt as if someone slapped him in the face when he realised she was looking at the bracelet which lied in his hand innocently..

As if he didn't have a big enough headache from wondering what he should say, the dreaded question came from her mouth.

"What is that?"

How could just three small words give you such a huge panic and have you sweating nervously in just a matter of seconds?

He looked down at the bracelet and back up at her quickly. He gave her a small nervous smile.

"What is What?" He tried to act normal, but it seemed impossible at the time.

"The thing in your hand? Do I need do to a police description on it, Ash? Honestly."

He tilted his head to the side, looking at her.

"Let me try again.. What are you looking at?" Making her believe she was crazy didn't seem like the best thing at the time, but he felt like it was going to work. He could blame it on Psyduck.

'Yeah, Mist. I guess that duck is finally getting to you.' He sighed, shaking the thought away from him.

"Ok, Ash.. It's silver..And err.. Shiny.. and it's sitting there in your hand.. Why do I think it's laughing at me right now?"

'Ok..Think, Ketchum.. Why not change of subject? Oldest trick in the book, yet never worn out..'

He cleared is throat trying to get rid of the nervousness as he spoke.

"Be quiet or else you'll wake up Brock and..err.. Pikachu."

"You be quiet. A nuclear bomb wouldn't be enough to wake up Pikachu. I saw you sneak in those sleeping pills, slick."

He rolled his eyes at her tiredly.

"They were vitamins! I'm telling you!" He almost grinned to himself, knowing that at least now he got the subject changed and Misty still thought she was crazy. This was going to be easy..Or at least he prayed it would be.

"You don't need to make vitamins melt in water!" She narrowed her eyes at him.

"You don't need sleeping pills to do that either! There are other specific products that you can use to make it melt into a glass of...." Ash stopped himself from speaking, realising what the sly grin on her face was for.





"ASH!!" Racheal growled at him.

"Did he go into a coma or something?" Racheal asked Brock nervously.

"Is it humanly possible to go into a coma and be still awake?!" Racheal sighed.

Ash stared out on space while Racheal and Brock argued with eachother.

"Well..It could be.. I guess.. Technically, yeah.. People are still living while they are in comas. So then......"

"WILL YOU JUST GET SOME COLD WATER?!" Racheal screamed with nervousness in her voice at Brock.

He jumped at the sudden loudness of her voice, not noticing that Ash was back in reality.

"...Did any of you by chance find those sleeping pills in my bag?" Ash was still somewhat out of it.. But unfortunally he was not out of it enough to remember what happened only moments earlier in the morning.

"Sleeping pills?!" Brock and Racheal yelled in unison.

"I thought you were in a coma or had your mind transported to another planet!" She hissed at him, "and Misty would have made sure that I died a gruesome death if she lost you to a cause of daydreaming!"

Ash's eyes grew cold with a mix of anger and sadness. He didn't want to hear her name. Not after what he had heard about her. He didn't want anything to do with her after how much she had played him as a fool. But remember, he only thought she did. She had a completely different idea going on in her mind.





'What just happened?' She sat on her bed sniffling, trying to ignore the bracelet wrapped around her wrist.

She packed up a few last things into her bag. No, she wasn't planning on leaving. They did have to get to Darken City soon, didn't they? But she wouldn't walk away from Ash. Even if he hated her with a passion, she would not walk away. She would never leave him forever.

He eyes tiredly watched along the room. Pikachu was gone. She figured he left because he knew he wouldn't get her to understand a thing of what just happened. She thought that even if she wondered until the day of her death if Ash really loved her, she would never know the truth unless she talked to him. She had to talk to him.

Her heart screamed for her to talk to him, but she couldn't find the strength. Especially not now. In her mind, she felt it was his fault and that he betrayed her. But how would she ever be able to understand that it was actually HER fault for not trusting him at the time he needed her trust the most?

'What..am I going to do....?'





"You made her cry." Jason placed his hand in his pocket, feeling the cool metal of the gun against his skin.

Aydee rolled her eyes carelessly.

"So what? I mean now Ash and Misty are separated and Ash is mine and Misty is yours." She shrugged happily. "I'm a genius."

Jason faced the wall instead of her, speaking through clenched teeth.

"Don't you see..Now she loves him even more.. And he..hates..YOU! You only made things worse." Jason growled.

"Oh, Jason.. You worry far too much. No one hates me, dear. No one." She smirked at him.

"We weren't going along with the plan, Aydee." He allowd his hand to get a better grip on the gun. His hand was perfectly ready to pull it out and fire at any time.

"And I changed the plan a little. Everything is still in order."

"No..", He turned to face her with a small smile on his face, "It's not."

He pulled out the gun quickly and held it directly in front of her heart. She opened up her mouth to scream, but the loud blast of the gun silenced her. The gun silenced everything. The birds who were once chirping happily, Brock, Racheal, and especially Misty and Ash.

All of their faces shot upward in fear and shock, most of all Misty and Ash.

'What..was..that..?' They both thought stupidly, yet knowing perfectly well that it was the fire of a gun.





"Step one complete." Jason grinned evilly at the dead body of Aydee lying on the ground. The blood from her chest began to pour out in a small rush, spreading to the floor.

He picked up bag and slung it over his shoulder, dropping the gun carelessly on top of Aydee's lifeless body. It looked just about like a suicide attempt and Jason felt home-free.

"I told you not to change the plan, hun." He smiled as he walked out of the room on his way to check out of the hotel.





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Whoa.. such a long time I couldn't get out this chapter.. o.o; But its out, right? ^^; School has been really hard on me lately.. -.-; But I have to study extra-hard.. -groan- .. I will do my best to be a more responsible author, oki? ^-^ See you all in Chapter Ten! ^.~ And as always, I await your wonderful and encouraging reviews! ^^;

-kawaiisakura