Hello again!!! Thanks again for all the reviews, they are greatly appreciated. Another short chapter I'm afraid but I'm going on holiday for two weeks so I wanted to get this up before I went. It was going to have more but I having written that yet so that will have to be a separate chapter. Nothing really happens in this chapter but oh well. I'm not the one reading it!!!
"Pi...ka...chu!!" A bright lightning bolt flashed leaving a scorched teen on the floor. "Pi pika pika chu pikapi!"
"I..." Ash coughed up some smoke "I don't care what..." Another small cough "What you say Pikachu. You're going with the rest of 'em".
"Pika..." The small rodent growled preparing another thunder bolt.
Ash see what his small friend was going to do got frustrated. This was the last thing he needed. How dare Pikachu treat him like this? Ash was his master not the other way around. "Go on then Pikachu! Thunder bolt me! See if I care! I won't change my mind and you'll just to have to keep at it until Josh gets here or I die! Which ever comes first! Go on kill me! By staying here you sentence me to death! I'm going to die if you stay here! If you don't electrocute me then when Josh gets here I'll be so busy making sure you don't get hurt I won't be able to protect myself! Then dad will be able to kill me and it'll be all your fault!"
It was another lie. Ash would never blame Pikachu if he died. It seemed all Ash ever did was lie for some reason or another. He'd been lying about his dad since he was five years old. If anyone ever asked Ash had been instructed to say his father was dead. That he had died in a tragic car accident. Ash had repeated it so many times he had began to believe it himself. But it was just another lie.
"Pikachu". The yellow mouse gave up. He would go to Professor Oak's just like everyone else was. Everyone but Ash. He was staying. It was all part of his "plan". What ever that was. All anyone else knew was that Ash had to be alone in the house when Josh came back. No one was happy about it. It would be different if Ash kept his Pokémon with him but they had been given to Brock to take to the Professor's. Ash was going to be alone. Just like he was ten years ago.
Delia hadn't put up much of a fight. As much as she loved her son she, her fear of her husband was grater. She was ashamed of herself. She should be the one to stay behind and sort out Josh not her son. But she was to afraid. Afraid of what he might do. The pain. She couldn't go through that pain again. Anything was better than the pain.
Brock was only going because he trusted Ash. If Ash said he was going to be fine then no matter what Brock's better judgment told him he would believe him. Brock only hoped Ash was telling the truth and with the amount of lies that have been told lately who knows?
Misty. You would expect her to be putting up the biggest resistance. You'd think she'd be making hell. Yelling at Ash. Telling him how stupid he is always trying to be the hero. But you'd be wrong. She hadn't said a word. She just stood there staring blankly. Normally Ash would be relieved but not today. He needed Misty to be herself. Her silence was unnerving the young Master. It was as if she had died.
It was half past three in the morning by the time Ash got everyone out the house. He watched as his friends walked down the street. His family. That's what they were. Of course his mum was his family but so was Brock and Misty and Pikachu as well as all his other Pokémon. Deep in his heart they meant more to him than anything else in the world. More than being a Master, more than beating everyone else, more than food. More than life itself.
Ash silently cried as he watched everything that gave meaning to his life walk away for what could have been the last time.
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It has just gone five and everyone in the Oak house hold was sound asleep. Everyone excluding a certain water Pokémon trainer.
Misty couldn't sleep. Something inside her wouldn't let her relax. That something was concern for Ash. Oh how she hated him. Only he could make her feel the way she did now. She wasn't even this upset when her parents died. But what could she do? Ash wouldn't let her stay with him at his house. But what if...?
A sly smile began to form on Misty's soft lips. What Ash didn't know wouldn't hurt him.
Silently getting out of bed Misty crept out of the house and into the street. Lucky for her the Ketchum residence was only a few streets away. She was at the front door of her boyfriend's house in minuets. But now she had a different problem. How to get into the house without alerting Ash. That's when Misty remembered.
The last time they visited they had become locked out and at the time Delia had been shopping uptown. Misty had been prepared to sit down and lounge around on the pavement till someone with a key came home. Ash however has started walking down the road and gone around the corner out of site. A little while later though he reappeared through the now open front door. For a little while Ash had had fun with Misty begging him to tell her the secret to his "magic trick". It turned out that there was a lane running parallel to the row of houses Ash's was located. All Ash had done was clime over the wall of the lane into his garden and then retrieved the spear key his mum kept under a plant pot. When Misty asked why the spare key was in the back garden not the front Ash replied with an answer so obvious you never would have thought of it. "What front garden?".
The lane couldn't be that far away. She would just have to look around a bit that's all.
It took about a minute before Misty found the narrow lane. But then she ran into a problem. What the hell did Ash's house look like from the back? Misty had never gone into the back garden as there had never been a reason to. Oh well. She'd just have to count down from the house at the top of the street and hope she got the right one. The last thing she needed was to get done for braking and entering.
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Ash was so tiered. 24 hours of no sleep was taking a lot out of him. All he needed was a few moments shut eye... NO!! Ash shook himself awake. He couldn't fall asleep. He needed to be awake for when Josh got here. But he was so tiered... Only a little bit of sleep...
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Misty was over the wall. Her knee was scratched and her hair messed up but she was over that damn wall. Now to get into the house. Spear key. Where was the spear key?
"Crap" Misty swore. Today was not her day. "Ash said it was under a plant pot". Misty looked around the garden. Flower pots were every where. It would take Misty hours to look under all of them. 'Start at the ones near the door'.
Seven plant pots later Misty was opening the back door with her newly acquired key.
Okay now she was in the house what dose she do? 'Hide. So Ash can't see me, but I can still see him incase he needs help'. This was going to be fun. One problem after another.
Misty started quietly creeping around the house. She found Ash fast asleep on the sofa. 'Poor little thing. He needs a good rest'. Misty continued on her way making sure not to wake her sleeping boyfriend.
That's when Misty saw it. She had gone through the living room into the main hall. The front door, the kitchen door and one of the doors to the living room all opened to this hall. As well as the stairs. Misty smiled to her self. The perfect hiding place.
It was only when I had nearly finished this chapter that I realized that Ash's house is just like mine. I even have to do that jump over the wall thing if I forget my keys (which I never do).
Shippo 123: The reason I don't have that many reviews is because this is a Pokémon fic and Pokémon have nothing to do with it. But it's nice to know you like it.
Ze Cookie: I did like your idea it's just that I had come up with an idea of what was going to happen before you reviewed.
Marshmellow13Dragon: I don't tend to like suspense either but I'm afraid you'll have to wait two weeks from Monday till you find out that plan! Sorry!
Kawaiipikachu: I don't think this is as good as you say. I'm really not a good writer. However I do like it when people say nice stuff about me. Hint hint.