Author's Notes.

Hey everyone!

Sorry I haven't been doing this, tough year, but now I'm back again.

I hope people are still reading this, haha.

Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own nothing that Pokemon/Nintendo owns, I only own character designs, personality's and story lines.

Regrets for the Future

Part 8

Gardevoir

Gardevoir had quietly left Infernape sleeping in their bedroom late in the night, she had crept into Ralts' room and sat in a big uncomfortable chair by his bedside. Quietly humming an old lullaby she had always sang to her children. By now it was late dawn, and Gardevoir had dozed off and was snoring softly since early hours. She was having a very strange dream.

She was standing on the edge of a very high cliff, only death could follow when falling down. She bent forward to peer over the edge, and lava was crashing into the cliff, just as the sea would do. The air was full of smoke and the sky was a dull orange. No birds, just ash from smoke. She took a step back, startled by the sight. And there was a 'crunch' beneath her shoe, she had stepped on a small plant, probably the only life in this world, but now it was just as dead as the rest. She picked it up curiously, but as soon as her fingers touched the leaves, it burst into ash and flowed in the distance over the cliff. Gardevoir walked over to the edge to try and grab it, but it was far from her reach by the time it left the cliff. And then a voice came from behind her.

"You won't win"

And before she could turn around and face the owner of the voice, she felt a push in her back and she was quickly falling to the sea of lava, as the red liquid came closer in her veiw, she grew hotter and hotter, soon dehydrated, gasping for clean air.

She had no time to scream, as her face was inches from her demise, she awoke.

Gardevoir snapped open her eyes, she felt sweaty and hot, her hand was clutching her chest tightly, when she finally took full note of what was happening, she realised that Ralts was crying.

She didn't hesitate to pick him up out of the bed and rock him back and forth in her arms while humming the same tune she had before.

Gallade came rushing in the room in moments, very quickly.

"Is he, OK?" Gallade asked coming closer.

"Yes, he's fine" Gardevoir said, turning away from him and walking to the window in the room.

"You can't hide him from me like this, Gardevoir" He snapped.

"I'm not hiding him fro-" Gardevoir started calmly but Gallade inturrupted.

"He's my son, too! You never let me hold him! Are you afraid I'll drop him?" He snapped. "What happened to us? Our relationship with our children?"

"What happened was, YOU ran off with another woman! What's her name? Sneasel?" Gardevoir snapped back. "Kirlia was old enough to remember what you did, she avoids you now. And Ralts was too young to remember. I never want him to know you're his father!"

Gallade opened his mouth to say something, but instead stormed out, leaving Ralts crying even louder then he had before he came in the room.

When Gardevoir finally came downstairs, Jigglypuff was making a lot of noise in the kitchen, Gardevoir rushed towards the noise and almost slipped on the clean marble floor.

She looked around and saw Jigglypuff frying and sizzling things in the frying pan, Ninetales was cooly reading a book while sitting on the kitchen cabinets.

"You certainly made yourself at home, Jigglypuff" Gardevoir said, as she dumped herself down on a chair.

"That's what you said isn't it?" Jigglypuff said, laughing.

Ninetales looked up from her book and stared at Gardevoir, "Did you have a good night or a bad night?"

"Stressful, more like" Gardevoir mumbled.

"Infernape's snoring?" Ninetales guessed.

Gardevoir smirked, but said nothing.

Pichu casually crawled in and lifted his arms up at Gardevoir when he reached her chair, "Pichu" He said.

Gardevoir lifted him up into her arms and sat him on her lap. He started banging his fist on the table, demanding food.

Gardevoir stood up and carried Pichu to the fridge and got a bottle of milk, and fed it to him. She then placed him on the floor and he crawled away with the bottle in his hands, satisfied.

Gardevoir sat back down and waited for Jigglypuff's cooking to arrive to the table.

Jigglypuff turned off the stove and placed a very big bowl of fried food: Eggs, bacon, toast, sausage, burgers, beans, mushrooms, tamatoes, chips, mash, waffles, and Hash browns.

Gardevoir and Ninetales stared unbelieveably at the size of her breakfast.

Jigglyouff looked up at them, "The stove is free if anyone wants to use it"

Gardevoir sighed and made herself coffee instead.

In the late afternoon, Infernape, Gardevoir, Jigglypuff and Mew, were getting ready to head off, to search for Pikachu and anything related that may help.

"PICHU!" Pichu cried from the downstairs window, he didn't want Gardevoir to leave him. He wanted to go with her.

"Have we got everything we need?" Pichu heard Gardevoir ask.

"There's one more bag in the living room" Infernape replied.

Pichu looked around and saw the bag, he crawled up to it and had an idea.

"Ready?" Gardevoir asked everyone.

"Ready!" They all replied back.

And with that Gardevoir used her powers to bring the jeep to the ground, off the castle once again.

Ninetales was there waving goodbye, Gallade was no where to be seen, but Gardevoir didn't seem to care.

"Where first?" Infernape asked, opening up a map.

"The mountains" Gardevoir replied, "There's someone I want to talk with"

And with those words, Gardevoir increased the speed of the car and headed for the mountains which lay in the far distance.