Chapter 17: From The Future

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Sorry that I haven't updated for SOOOO…long, but it was just very busy for me

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May's eyes slowly opened, blinking as she regained her eyesight. She was dazed for a few seconds before everything came rushing back. The gaping hole that appeared in her chest was nothing that she had ever experienced before. She curled up into a ball, and began to heave sobs at the grief that consumed her.

Time meant nothing to her, and it seemed like years before she noticed another problem. Where was she?

'Maybe I'm dead, but, no…then why would I be feeling such loss? I wish I was dead.' She thought, broken. A snap of a branch alerted her, but she made no move to turn. She had already given up, embracing the death that she was sure to take her.

"Nightmare, Gengar!" An unfamiliar voice called out from behind her. Still she did not turn, but she felt a presence in her head. She braced herself for the nightmare that will run in her head, but there is nothing. Then, May heard a sad sigh. "Only one that has felt true loss and grief can stand up to Gengar's Nightmare. I pity you, child, for you are still too young to cope with all this. Who would do this to you? A mortal nemesis? Childhood hatred? Maybe…the joys of first love?" Finally, May turned swiftly. The sight in front of her was a surprising one; her hair was covered by a black hooded cloak, but she could make out a wrinkled face and dull grey-blue eyes full of wisdom, but at the very back of the eyes were the exact same sense of loss that had been on May's face.

The old woman made no effort to smile, and as she glided slowly to May she seemed to give an understanding aura out.

"You should go back and know the full story; it could just be an accident. I speak from personal experience." The old woman gave an empty smile. "But, if you really are going to let him slip away from your fingers, don't linger on your memories of him; it makes living seem so hard to go on." These were words of wisdom, and May's curiosity got the better of her. Anyway, she also had questions to ask.

"I'm sorry if I seem rude, but who are you?" May asked politely, trying in vain to get the monotonous voice out of her system.

"I, my dear child, am your future self if you do not apologise with Drew."

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"B-but, how?" May stuttered. The Elder May smiled sadly, and pulled her hood down. She had a head full of curly, grey hair, with not even a touch of chocolate brown.

"I am 79 years old, and there has not been a moment where I have not wanted to get back with him, and I was always guilty, ever since I found he had been killed-"

"WHAT!?! When? How? Why? Who would kill such a pure heart?" May's words sped up until they were barely recognisable. Elder May sighed.

"In sense, we did. He had committed suicide after three months, not finding a point in carrying on. The only" Elder May stopped after seeing her younger self's expression. "You probably don't understand. Drew did not cheat on you, or me for that matter, it was all a hoax from Blossom." She gave Younger May some time to gain some composure, so that she could ask a question without bursting into tears.

"How did you get here though? You should be in the future, m-my future…"

Elder May replied, "Remember that day, oh so long ago when you saved Celebi from Team Rocket? Celebi granted each of us a wish as a thank you. Ash and Misty were already married, but sadly were not able to have children, so that was what Ash wished for, after a long talk with Misty. Brock had married Suzy, but Ninetales (you knew her as a Vulpix) had died in an attack from some Beedrill, so Brock asked for Ninetales to be resurrected. I, well, I was being selfish, and I spent so long thinking. I knew that it would be wrong for me to resurrect Drew, what if he really didn't love me? I also would not force his will to love me, so I asked to travel back in time, since it could save me from all that pain and heartbreak. Of course, this future you that you see in me would fade away, for you to make your own future, with Drew.

May thought about this for a very long time; should she go back? She wasn't sure if her heart could take another battering if she got rejected again, but wasn't she in enough pain now? And then the fact that Drew would commit suicide, that was something that she could not allow. Her decision bubbled up to the front of her mind, and it was only when Elder May touched her shoulder that she snapped out of her deep thoughts.

Elder May had started fading away as soon as Young May made the decision to run back to her beloved's arm. She was now almost transparent, and her eyes were filled with crystal tears. The eyes had changed too; they were no longer just a dull greyish blue, they were the exact shape of her own eyes. Elder May seemed a completely different person; the happiness glowing out of her was so bright.

'Thank you,' she mouthed, and then her face broke out into a wide smile as she looked up into the heavens. The wrinkles suddenly disappeared, the hair colour changed back to a silky chocolate brown, and she looked like an angel.

'Drew, I'm coming,' Elder May thought blissfully, and then, in a burst of white light, she was gone.

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Drew paced the room in a few strides. He was worried out of his mind, not to mention that just how cruel Blossom and her minions could be. He woke up with a groan, after being knocked out, just to find that May wasn't there. Then he remembered the even worse bad news, not that it wasn't bad enough already; May thought that Drew was cheating on her with Tiffany. He sunk to the bottom of the wall and stared at a mark on the ceiling. A sharp knock interrupted his rambling thoughts. He crosses the room once again and opened the door. In front of him was the one and only subject that could bring him his relief. May.

Before he knew what was happening she pounced on him and kissed him passionately, and then whispered how she was so sorry that she had slapped him.

May rose an eyebrow "I thought that you would have been able to recognise my kisses by now…" Drew chuckled.

"Maybe I just need some more practise…" He murmured suggestively. May licked her lips, but then froze.

"Ohmygod, what's the date today?" She asked slowly.

"The 27th of February, is anythi- oh." Drew replied.

"Oh? Is that all you can say? OH!?!?! It's the day of the final by the Ramen Bar!?!?!" May squealed, yes, actually squealed.

Drew sweatdropped "Only you would have remembered that it was by the Ramen Bar. Us normal people say that its just by the seaside, you know."

"You're far from normal, I'd say."

"Well, you're right."

"Jerk."

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I'm SO sorry that I haven't updated, but I never get the time, and my friends dared me to give up fanfiction until Lent, but this is just me giving up…

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