~ Ryu
*November 25th, 2553; 5:00am
I woke up abruptly from a nightmare about Evelyn never waking up again. I clutched my stomach in pain and felt heavy bandages tied around it. I grunted quietly in pain and slowly laid back down.
I shuddered as the memories of my fight with Rial came flaring back in my mind. Her terrifying strength, her paw piercing a deep wound in my stomach, and Evelyn neck bent-
Hold on where is Evelyn?
I looked around frantically and began to panic when I saw she wasn't in the hospital room with me.
"Evelyn?! Where are you?!"
My ears twitched at the sound of a chair scraping and a set of feet running to the doorway. The door opened to reveal Evelyn.
"Ryu?! You're alive?!"
She said as she covered her paws with her mouth and her eyes became wet with tears and fell into ice cubes on the floor.
I laid there frozen and relived that she was alive. She looked worse for wear and it killed me. Her guard was down and she was crying for me.
"Evelyn, you're alright?"
I said with a weak smile and sobs in my throat as I sat up and held out my arms to her.
"RYU!"
She ran over to me and held me tightly, crying cold tears into my chest. I tearfully held her back and laughed at the same time. We held each other as tightly as we could with our injuries.
"I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE ALIVE YOU IDI- IDI- RYU! I waited for days for you to...wake up... and you didn't...I waited more and more and...I'M SO GLAD AND ANGRY AT YOU- DO- DUMB- JACKAL! DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!"
"When I saw you fall last I felt my heart stop... because I thought I h-had failed you!! Your neck bent like that- I t-thought...I lost you. My partner..."
She held my face in her paws her eyes red from possibly countless days of crying.
"Is it really you? Because... if it's not...I'm going to h-hit you."
"It's me Glace."
"Only an idiot would call me that."
"I missed you too Evelyn."
"You're saying I didn't?"
"No of course not."
She pulled me close by the horn on my chest, startling me.
"Good."
Without another word she cupped my face with her paws and kissed me.
Her lips felt cold and wet from her crying. Exactly as I expected and it was awesome.
She pulled away and her cheeks were flushing pink.
I smiled down at her as I put my paws on her face and pulled her in for another kiss. She shyly put her paws on my cheeks.
My face started flushing and my heart was pumping like crazy. This time her lips felt warm and soft.
This one was as awesome as the first.
We pulled apart Evelyn's face even more flushed than before and I couldn't stop smiling.
"Argh stop smiling you weirdo. I can't stop blushing."
"I like you Glace."
She fought a smile and flushed as red as a tomato, and whispered ever so quietly.
"I like you too Ryu."
Our foreheads touched and we laughed quietly together holding each other's paws tightly.
The door opened and we turned to see Fennekin with a bouquet of flowers. She saw us holding paws and dropped it.
"Oh hi Ryu."
She said stiffly as she picked back up the bouquet and placed it on a table.
"I came to visit and to tell you goodbye. I'm transferring to another school in a different region and wanted to tell you. My parents think it's too dangerous to live here now. We're leaving today. I'm glad you're okay. Have a nice life. Goodbye."
She said as she awkwardly made her way back to the door.
"Fennekin."
She stopped and turned to look at me.
"I'm sorry for how it ended between us."
Fennekin looked away surprised to hear me say something like that. It might not have been my best first relationship but it was something.
"It's okay. I was a terrible girlfriend. And besides I always knew you liked Evelyn more anyways. Like I said have a nice life Ryu. Hope you get better soon."
"You too Fennekin."
"And Evelyn?"
"What?"
Looks like you won. Take care of him."
Evelyn raised an eyebrow at her before she left waving us both goodbye.
"Well that happened."
"Sure did."
"Evelyn?"
"Yeah?"
"In spite of that happening, it made me wonder, what does it mean for us? I mean are we a couple now?"
"Ryu I do like you but I'm not ready to be in a relationship with you yet. I realized I need more time while you were asleep. Please just understand I need more time."
"No it's okay. I understand. It's only fair considering how my past one started and ended. I can wait for you."
I was being honest but that didn't mean the truth doesn't hurt any less.
"Thanks Ryu."
Comfortable silence
"So can we still hold paws or what?"
"Sure why not?"
We moved our paws and they immediately intertwined with each other. Her paws felt both cold and warm. It was hard to explain but that's how they felt.
"So we're doing the holding paws rule but no kissing, even though we already kissed twice?"
"Yeah pretty much. I guess for now."
She looked conflicted as she said that but I didn't want to pressure her or anything so I stayed quiet.
This was nice anyways.
When the door suddenly bursted open again and our paws sprung apart. Geez how many Pokémon are visiting me today?
This time it was my family rushing in, my parents including my elder sister, and they all pulled me into an embrace when they saw I was awake. Evelyn awkwardly scrambled to the side to let us have a moment.
"We're all relieved you're alright Ryu."
"Yes you can't imagine how scared I was for you little brother."
"We love you Ryu."
"I love you too. Mom. Dad. And Luca."
My mother and sister planted kisses all over my face, eventually stepping aside so dad can hold me.
"Son I know now's not the best time. But we have something important to show you."
"What is it?"
Mom pulled out a round object wrapped up in a blanket. She unraveled it and revealed a purple speckled egg.
"An egg? Did you guys have another kid? Or is it Luca's?"
"No it's Rial's."
I froze and began to tear up as they placed the egg in my paws. This was my twin's baby and I don't have the heart to hate it.
"Even after everything she has done and put all of us through, including her death, she's still tormenting me with her unborn hatchling. No matter how hard I try I can't hate it or turn the egg away. Because even now I'm already attached to my niece. I can sense it's a girl with my aura. And she's already ours. I feel sorry for this baby. She's not even born yet and it's hard for me to look at you. I'm so sorry. You didn't deserve to be born to such a mother. I can no longer sense your mother's existence because she was my twin. I already know she's gone."
I looked up at my family to see them also tearing up. I turned away when my mother put her paws on my face only caring about the egg in my arms right now.
"I know you feel conflicted and it's hard to accept your niece Ryu. No one is blaming you. But I do think she is our way to make up for her mother. She is our second chance."
"I know mother. I'm not stupid."
I looked at Evelyn and she just looked shocked and tearful as well. This baby was our family. Her mother was gone and her father...
"What happened to her father?"
"He's alive. But his sentence will be carried out soon."
"What sentence?"
"He had been sentenced to death. His execution is today."
"What?! I have to talk to him now or I'll never get a chance to again!!"
I tried getting up but my parents held me down.
"No you need to rest! Why on earth would you want to speak with him?!"
"I just do! Put me in a damn wheelchair or something and take me to speak with him now!"
"But why?!"
"Damn it mother! I just need some closure after everything that happened and answers to my questions I'll only get with him!!"
I shouted angrily my aura flowing through my body but my stomach aching in terrible pain. My parents looked at each other nervously but knew I wasn't going to listen.
"Alright we'll take you."
I handed the egg to my sister as my dad picked me up and set me down in a wheelchair with my IV still attached. My parents went to the front desk with me and ordered my immediate transfer to our family's personal clinic at home. Thanks to their influence they allowed it but informed them I was still a very sick patient and needed great care. After we left Evelyn wanted to go with me but I told her I only could to my family's clinic.
Talking to Lucarus was something I wanted to do alone.
I briefly held paws with Evelyn before we were separated so my mother could take her to our clinic back at home. Dad took me to the regional prison like he promised.
He pushed my chair all the way to the prisoner visitation room, and set me alone at a table. I sat there in a wheelchair with an IV in my wrist waiting for the guards to bring him.
The guards dragged him in on the floor. He was wearing a straitjacket and had handcuffs on his ankles. They set him down in the chair across from me and left to give us privacy, briefly informing me we only had 30 minutes to talk. I nodded stiffly as they left the room leaving us in tense silence.
"Hello. Ryu was it? Nice to meet you."
"Lucarus."
Time to handle this like a f*king Lucario.