Hey guys, sorry bout the long wait on this chapter. Well firstly, thanks to all of you who reviewed and have been reading this story, please continue to do so. Well this story took me so long because i had to find a chap to fill in the spaces, so this one ain't that great. Well i want to know what you think, so please Read and Review and enjoy!

Arrogance and Ignorance

Chapter 7

Danger Zone

Gary was lingering by the bank of the river end where he had assumed Misty would end up at. He was at first standing, and as time came to pass he sat and waited. He had to break the news to Misty; it wasn't going to be easy though. He raked his hand through his hair and fiddled with his necklace.

When he saw the pool of sparkling water before him start to ripple, he knew Misty was getting close. She wouldn't like this… Soon he could see the shapes of the much large pokemon, and then the smaller pokemon as they all came to a stop before him. Misty was asleep on Blastoise's back.

Gary took a moment to examine her as she slept peacefully; she wasn't yelling, she wasn't furious, she wasn't narrowing her eyes at him, she was silent and still. She was almost angelic when she was asleep, but that was probably because of the demon she tended to be when she was awake.

Gary's fingers were shaking as he reached out to touch her face…just to touch her. Smooth and creamy skin was just there and he could touch it, she wouldn't know. His hand was inches from her face when she opened her eyes wide before him sending his heart into his throat. She had woken so suddenly and was sitting up and stretching before him. Could he tell her yet, could he tell her at all?

"Gary?" She asked quizzically of him as she started to look around for something.

"Yeah, hey Misty…um you'll never believe this but…." Gary told her the whole story up to when Diego and the fearow began to fall. Misty's eyes were wide with shock by now, and she was wide-awake ready to deck Gary for what he had done.

"I can't believe you Gary. You show up here unannounced and drunk one night. Then you show up, again unannounced and you get into a fight with my boyfriend and-" She kept going, but Gary didn't hear much more than that. He forced his hands into his pockets to keep from reaching out to her, to either hold her or shake her to bring her to her senses. He really was her boyfriend, but then where did that leave Gary?

"And now you aren't even listening to me…argh! Gary, where is Diego?" She shouted at him in annoyance. Gary had heard enough by now and went back to the Gym. Misty was a step behind him the whole way, stamping her feet as she went and yelling constantly as they walked briskly.

"You could at least tell me where he is!" She screamed at him finally with a large shriek that went right through Gary's ears causing instant pain and agony. Now he had really had enough of Miss Waterflower! Gary grabbed her and chucked her over his shoulder like he would a young child that needed to be reprimanded. She screamed and kicked the entire way to Gary's car and didn't stop the screaming even as they drove off towards the hospital.

They got to the hospital and Misty nearly ripped the car door off as she charged out of the car and slammed the door behind her. If fshe had forgotten to let go of that handle gary's car would have three doors. To see her in such a rush and so worried made Gary sick, it wasn't like he was on his death bed or anything.

Gary got out of the car and closed the door gently. He placed his hands in his pockets and walked slowly into the hospital and up to the registry desk where Misty was yelling frantically. He could see she was getting nowhere; the nurse wasn't even listening to her because she couldn't understand a word Misty was saying. Gary sighed heavily as he stole a large flower from a vase on a table and took it to the woman at the registry. Time to turn on the charm he thought to himself drearily.

"Hey there" Gary said offering the younger nurse the stolen flower. She was flattered of course, and she was blushing a beautiful bright pink that Gary particularly loved on women. "My sister needs to get in to see her boyfriend, you know how it is when you fall in love with someone and something happens to them…" He flashed her a smile and winked at her and she frantically started grabbing and searching through forms for one Diego as Gary told her while she searched. Misty stood there looking at him with a blank expression on her face; he guessed she didn't know what to think.

"Ah here we are. Diego is in pretty poor condition, but he'll be fine in a few days. Please go right ahead and visit him, he's just down the hall there" The nurse said pointing down the hall and smiling wildly at Gary. He smirked at her and turned around. Given the sigh he heard he assumed he still had his touch.

It was all Misty could do to run down the hall and find the right room; Gary could tell that by the briskness in her stride. He didn't have to walk as fast with his long legs, but he was still pacing faster than usually to keep up with Misty. She seemed angry at him, but it wasn't just because he had hurt her boyfriend. So what had he done to hurt her…

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"Diego" Misty squealed as she came into the room where Diego was being tended to. Diego tried to sit up to smile at her, but his face turned to a wince as pain surged through his body. Misty sympathised for him, but for some reason she wasn't really that hurt by seeing him like this.

"Misty, he…he did this to me…he claims you-"

"Rest" Misty said shushing him as quickly as she could. He had hardly an strength, she wasn't about to let him waste it on foolish notions about Gary and what had been said by that arrogant jerk.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but visiting hours are over, it's getting late now and you'll have to leave" claimed a nurse who had been serving Diego all the couple of hours that Misty had stayed there for. Misty sighed and went to hug Diego; he waned to kiss her, but Misty just pulled away and walked out of the room.

She was about to call a taxi when she saw Gary stand up sleepily from a seat in the waiting area of the hospital. Misty was shocked he was still there, waiting for her… She walked up to him, and as if expecting the yelling she had intended to give him, he walked off briskly. Misty followed him out the door of the hospital and nearly fell over when he opened his car door to let her in. She stood there staring at him for a while, she couldn't bring herself to yell, scream, or even move…

"I am tired Misty, I don't really want to have to pick you up and throw you into the car again, kicking and screaming and everything. So please just get in and I'll take you back to the gym" Gary sighed groggily. It was way past 9pm already, Misty had spent the best part of the day in the room watching the hospital television while Diego rested.

Misty walked over and hoped into the car, still not really sure as to whether or not Gary had been kidding. He closed the door for her though, and walked around the car to get into the drivers side. As they drove rain start4ed to come down on the window of the car, Gary sighed as he pulled in at the gym.

Misty hoped out of the car and ran inside the gym where it was warm. She avoided Brock's questions and went upstairs for a bath. She sank into the water as it warmed her body up and soothed her mind.

The gym was so warm that Misty walked out of the bathroom with a silk, strap nightie. She still had her hair down and a towel over her shoulders as she glided down the stairs and into the livingroom where she was surprised to see Brock alone on the sofa. He was asleep already and Misty smiled as he snored peacefully; he always claimed he didn't snore.

Misty's eyes darted around the room against her will; she couldn't see Gary anywhere. She saw the snow on the window though, and Gary's car out the front. He was going to get snowed in in that convertible he had, it had a sunroof; he was going to freeze. Misty told herself she didn't care, that if he wanted to catch nemonia that was his problem, but somehow she ended up bare foot, out in the snow half naked with a silk nightie on banging on the door of Gary's car trying to get him to wake up and come inside…

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Gary woke to a constant banging on his car window. He looked out to see it was snowing, and that someone was trying to get him to open the door. Gary saw that someone drop to the ground and he quickly unlocked the door and picked that person up. The snow was thick and he couldn't see anything more than the gym lights. Misty wasn't going to like him bringing a stranger into the gym, but it was better than her having to clean a dead body out of her driveway in the morning.

Gary Shrugged off his jacket and threw it around, what appeared to be, a female. Her skin was cold as ice and Gary couldn't feel any sort of movement in her body at all. He rushed to the gym door shouting for Misty, but it was locked shut and no one came.

It was obvious to him that he wasn't going to get this person inside in time, so he had to warm her up some other way. He ran back to the car and laid the female across the back seat. He locked all the doors again and put his jacket over the female. She was so cold it was apparent that if she didn't warm up, she could die. Gary knew that body heat was the best thing for it, so he wriggled underneath her and hugged her close to him in hopes she would warm up. He kicked on the car heated with his foot and kept the female close to him.

After a while Gary's eyes had adjusted to the light, and he could make out the orange coloured hair of the female he had so close to him. She wasn't getting warm enough though. Gary fi8gured that if he was going to save her life, he needed to make sure his flesh was against hers, she wasn't going to get much heat out of his clothes. He stripped down to his boxers and held her tighter than before.

They were so close now that Gary could smell her. She smelt of a lavender soap, it almost made Gary laugh how much she smelled just like…MISTY! Gary realised that the red head who had been at his door as Misty, which was why she wasn't answering the door when he called to her. She was here in his arms with her almost bare flesh against his own. Her nightie was so short Gary's subconscious mind wondered if he could sneak a look at her panties, then an even deeper mind wondered if he could get them off.

Gary took in her smell, the feel of her skin against his own, and the peacefulness of her unconscious sleep. He took it all in, because he knew Misty would never talk to him again when she woke up and found them like that. As if on queue, Misty's eyes flashed open and she started to shiver. She seemed to take in everything that had happened rather fast, but Gary could do nothing but old her there in his arms and stare at her marvellous beauty.

"You…I came out….your car…freezing" She stuttered between shivers. Gary took the opportunity to tell her it was all right; she was going to be all right. Misty just stuttered thank you, and held him tighter for warmth. Gary let all of it wash over him as he held the one girl that had ever made him shiver when the sun was burning down on them.

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Misty awoke and groggily opened sticky eyes. She had to blink a few times and bite her lip to test whether or not she was really awake. She was lying there in a silk nightie that only came down to just past her bum, and she was basically spooning with Gary now. She turned around and faced him and watched as he slept soundlessly. His chest rising and falling with his breathe, the air coming from his nose tickling her chest.

She looked around to see that they were both inside his car, with snow covering the windows. But one swept clean space on the back window told her someone had seen them, what would people think?

Misty freaked out and quickly got herself out of the car and inside the gym. She ran into the living room to see if Brock was still asleep. But Brock sat there on the sofa looking up at her as if he had been expecting her.

"You have some explaining to do…"

Well that's chapter seven. Just to confirm it, the part where Misty is in the hospital and all of a sudden it is night time, well i wanted to conve she spent alot of time there with Diego, but i didn't really want to bore you with the details. Well it's just for you to review from now, so please do, hope you enjoyed it. On to chapter 8.