this is another touch-up and revision of another chapter to my newly retitled Marissonshipping fanfiction, 'The Heartless Timing of Life'. this chapter is a full-on nine-hundred-thirty-seven words worth of pure storyline, not including this headnote, right here, and the mandatory disclaimer that makes up the following chapter after this headnote. yes, I know that I called the disclaimer mandatory. I'm also very much aware that not everyone uses a disclaimer. while it's not my place to tell other bloggers on this website to provide a disclaimer, I somehow feel as though mine are mandatory, especially since I've been a little light on creativity as of late and am not very sure that I still possess the right to write fanfictions for my blog on here. it seems as though these days, I have to rewrite someone else's work and simply call it my own. I feel like such a plagiarist. OK, on with the disclaimer...
disclamation: I don't own the 'Pokémon' anime in any way, shape, or form. I'm afraid that the ownership rights of that, the manga, and the games are reserved for Satoshi Tajiri and the folks of the Nintendo Gaming Company. yes, I know that the creator of 'Pokémon' has the same name as Ash Ketchum's name in the raw Japanese dub is. I don't even own this fanfiction's own storyline. the storyline for this very fanfiction has been inspired by a tween-friendly Korean cartoon under the series title of 'Flowering Heart'.
While on Solaris Island, Mairin ran into Jean Paul again. She was ecstatic to reunite with her newest friend. And there was that unfamiliar discomfort which Alain seemed to be experiencing, once again. He tried to run some interference between them, but then he started to give this newfound discomfort some thought.
Alain's brain: What am I doing? Why am I trying this hard to end Mairin's new friendship with this Jean Paul? It's not like I'm jealous of it, because that would be very petty. I've got to get these thoughts out of my head. Mairin is just a friend. I know, I'll take this opportunity to ask her aunt and uncle about their ties to Mairin.
Alain headed over to Mairin's Aunt Kimberly and Uncle Raymond. He summoned the two of them for his questions. They all sat down to talk about the situation.
Alain: Now, tell me. Are the two of you Mairin's real parents?
The couple became a bit nervous at this question. They knew the answer to it, they just did not know how to tell their supposed niece the truth about their relationship to her.
Uncle Raymond: Well, it's not like we've been keeping her away from us all this time.
Uncle Raymond tried to play it off innocently like they did not know Mairin was really their daughter.
Aunt Kimberly: You don't understand. My sister wanted a daughter so badly when she went into labor. I had to sacrifice my own child for the sake of my sister's happiness. It's neither mine nor my sister's fault that her husband could only ever produce two sons.
Aunt Kimberly had an emotional break down about the whole thing. She remembered how hard it was to give up her own daughter, whom her sister later named Mairin, just because she was so submissive to her own elder sister. It was true that Josee was secretly manipulative towards her own younger sister, and she certainly did not have the right to take her own daughter away from her out of jealousy, but Kimberly still always submitted to her sister's wishes, no matter what they were.
Alain: Answer my question, now. Are the two of you Mairin's real mother and father, or aren't you?
Uncle Raymond: We are. I'm Mairin's father, not her uncle.
Aunt Kimberly: And I'm Mairin's real mother. I let my sister take care of my daughter for a few months when Mairin was born. A few months turned into a few years. A few years escalated right into Mairin's tenth birthday. Everything from my own daughter's childhood; her first words, her first steps, even her first birthday. I gave it all away to my sister when she threatened to tell our parents that Mairin was born to my Raymond and I when we weren't legally married.
Alain: So, you gave Mairin away to your sister because of the fact that the two of you did 'it' prematurely? But Mairin's twelve going on thirteen now. Why didn't you ever try to get her back with you where she belonged all these years? Biologically, she is still your own daughter and the only child the two of you ever had, judging by the fact that there are no other children living with you, now. Shouldn't you have at least tried to get her back?
Uncle Raymond: With the threat of Josee telling my Kimberly's parents that their granddaughter, Mairin, was born to us illegitimately, we just never had the courage to try to reclaim her. Josee is still hanging that threat over our heads, reminding us to fear her.
Alain: I'm still confused. I thought you said you gave Mairin to your sister out of pity that she and her husband were incapable of having a daughter. You didn't tell me about the illegitimacy of her birth, before.
Aunt Kimberly: That was the other reason I gave Mairin into my sister's care. Josee was so jealous that Raymond and I were capable of bearing a daughter when she was stuck in a house with two men-too many. Her twin sons, Carlos and Finnigan, were always troubling her with their misbehavior. She really couldn't handle it. When Josee heard I was caring a daughter, she insisted that I give her my own baby girl the moment she was born. I had let her get away with everything in our lives, but that was the day I finally tried to show my sister some backbone.
Uncle Raymond: Needless to say, Josee's insisting on loaning our daughter into her care turned into begging after a few weeks into my wife's pregnancy with Mairin. After another couple of weeks, she started to bribe us with access for Kimberly to finally see her parents again. Two months into my wife's pregnancy, Josee's bribery turned into black mail with a photo of Kimberly and I sleeping in the same bed.
Aunt Kimberly: Finally, at the three-week point of the premature phase in my pregnancy with Mairin, Josee demanded that I give my baby girl over to her care and threatened to tell our parents that Mairin was born to Raymond and I before we could get married to one another. With that demand from Josee, I finally gave into my own sister's demands.
Alain suddenly understood everything. He decided this information about Mairin needed to stay outside of her knowledge for a little longer if Mairin could ever hold onto her innocence. Alain valued Mairin for her innocence. If that part of her were to go away, Mairin may be left an emotionally traumatized shell of her former self.
