In My Heart

by TheFifthCharmedOne

Rewritten Version. In my heart I hoped we were meant to be, and I wondered if he wanted that too. And even if did, he could he handle this? Poke and Contest ships.

15. Now And Forever More Part 2

In My Heart

By: TheFifthCharmedOne

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon that belongs to Satoshi Tajiri, Game Freak, Nintendo, and TV Tokyo/Shogakukan Production Co. Ltd. I only own the idea and the plot. If any music shows up along the way, I don't own that either.

Chapter 15: Now and Forever More Part 2

'Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more

You'll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You'll be here in my heart, always

You'll Be In My Heart, Phil Collins

-X-X-X-

"All right Misty, you're going to have to relax. You can do it. Just keep breathing," Caroline and May stayed in the hospital room with me, and the contractions were increasingly worse. I tried to breathe in and out, but with my contractions less then a minute apart, it was kind of hard.

"Okay she's almost fully dilated," said a nurse to my OBGYN. Dr. Moore smiled at me kindly.

"So, are you excited?" she asked me. I winced as another contraction took over.

"Excited….and nervous. If you had told me a year ago that I would be in this situation, I wouldn't have thought you were nuts. But now I just want to see them." Another contraction hit me, stronger then before. "Ah!" I screamed, holding my stomach.

"She's ready." said a nurse after looking in between my legs. "All right Misty, you have to push!"

I closed my eyes and gripped the side of the bed tightly, pushing with all of my might.

-X-X-X-

Two babies. Two beautiful babies. One boy and one girl. It took three hours to get them into this world, but at 9:23 PM on December 20th, I, Misty Rose Waterflower, gave birth to twins. Though the boy came out first, he was three minutes early, they were here. I was a mother. We have the same birthday. That'll be some party each year, at the way May, Drew and Caroline are going.

"Have you decided on names?" asked May. I nodded.

"Jacob Ashton for the boy," I said. "And Alexandra Rose for the girl. We can call them Jake and Alex."

"They're beautiful," said Caroline. The nurse came over and said to me,

"Your twins have been cleaned and they're at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit."

"Why, is something wrong?" Panic gripped me.

"No, no, they're fine, it's just they were born three weeks early so we have to make sure they're all right." she reassured me.

I sighed in relief. Then another thought came to me.

"Can I see them?" I asked. The nurse smiled.

"I thought you would never ask. Follow me."

-X-X-X-

I followed her to the NICU and when she pointed out my babies, a small gasp escaped me.

They were perfect. Jake had Ash's black hair and even though there wasn't much, I had feeling it would stay that way. Alex had my hair, while their eyes were a little harder to distinguish, seeing as they were still newborns.

"I'll need you to fill out birth certificates for them and we've already taken their newborn hand and feet prints."

I smiled and nodded, even though this all felt surreal. Part of me kept thinking that this was all a dream and that I would wake up in Cerulean City and none of this would have ever happened. But if none of this ever happened, then why can't I stop smiling?

The birth certificates looked like this

CERTIFICATION OF BIRTH

DATE OF BIRTH: DECEMBER TWENTIETH FILE NUMBER: 024789-357

REGION OF BIRTH: HOENN

SEX: MALE

NAME: JACOB ASHTON WATERFLOWER

FATHERS NAME: ASHTON SATOSHI KETCHUM

MOTHERS NAME: MISTY ROSE WATERFLOWER

There was a stamp on the lower right side that had the city's and the region's seal. Alex's looked the same, only with her information.

"Everything is set, and we'll need you to stay overnight for observation, and if all goes well, you can take your newborns with you tomorrow."

"Thank you so much," I said, still smiling.

"You are quite welcome," the nurse smiled at me. "You may go sit in the nursery and get to know your twins if you like. I'd imagine they're okay to be visited by now."

"I don't know what else to say but thank you." I said, laughing. She laughed too.

"This is my job, it's what I do. Congratulations on your twins." she walked away and I looked over at the nursery. I looked at May and Caroline.

"Would you mind coming in with me?" I asked them.

"Not at all." said Caroline, smiling.

With them beside me, I bravely took the first few steps of parenthood.

I sat in between the two incubators and put my hands inside the holes on the side. They looked so small and fragile, but so peaceful. They were awake and looking around, and when I looked at each of them, they smiled.

"Hey there little man," I said to Jake. "And you little girl," I whispered to Alex. "You two mean the world to me now, and I promise I'll never let anything or anyone hurt you ever."

Then it hit me. That lullaby that my mom used to sing to me every night when I was little. Now I remembered why I loved the stars so much!

I softly began to sing.

When daytime turns to night,
When the moon shines bright,
When you're tucked in tight,
and everything is alright.

Slip softly to that place,
Where secret thoughts run free,
There come face to face
With who you want to be, so

Swim across the ocean blue,
Fly a rocket to the moon;
You can change your life,
Or you can change the world.

Take a chance, don't be afraid,
Life is yours to live;
Take a chance and then the best has yet to come

Make a wish, it's up to you.
Find the strength inside,
Then watch your dreams come true.
You don't need a shooting star,
the magic's right there in your heart;
Close your eyes,
Believe and make a wish...

"That's the same lullaby I used to sing to May and Max!" said Caroline. I smiled.

"I guess your mom and my mom aren't, or weren't that different." I said. It made sense, I mean, I had warmed up to Caroline almost as soon as I had met her, and she had always reminded me of someone I knew.

"Misty, what was your mother's name?"

"Ellie Samuels. She and my father never married. Why?" She gasped.

"My maiden name, my name before I married May and Max's father….my name was Caroline Samuels."

My eyes widened.

"So wait….does that mean….?" I said slowly. Her eyes widened.

"I think we're related Misty. I think you're my sister's daughter, which means you and May are cousins, and that makes you my niece and Jake and Alex my great niece and nephew. Oh, this is…so…I don't even know how to describe it!"

Neither did I. I was just in shock. So…May and I are technically cousins? Which means May's godchildren are also her second cousins?

This is too much…..I think I'm going to faint now.

I did. My fingers slipped away from my babies' and I fell from the chair and everything went black.

-X-X-X-

"I think she's waking up…" I think I heard May's voice as I blearily opened my eyes. I realized I was in a hospital bed, and I looked around. May, Drew, Caroline, and some other doctors were around.

"May…? What happened?" I said. Then everything snapped into focus. "Where are Jake and Alex? And what happened?"

"Jake and Alex are in the nursery, it's okay," Caroline shushed me. The panic went away. "You fainted after hearing that we are related. The doctors think you were moving and doing too much so soon after childbirth, and that's what made you faint."

"Yes," coughed a tall man in a lab coat. "We have run some tests on your heart and brain to see if there's anything other then stress causing these fainting spells. You've had more then one, correct?"

"Y-yes," I said faintly, holding my head as the room began to spin again.

"And during each one, were they related to intense emotional stress?"

I flashed back to the picture of Dawn and Ash kissing, and then to finding out about Caroline being my aunt and May being my cousin.

"Yes." I answered, feeling more conscious now.

"Well then we can use those answers and your test results to tell you that there are no neurological or cardiovascular problems. Though if this happens again, we will have to take more tests. So tonight we suggest that you stay overnight with us for observation, which you had too anyway due to your recent childbirth, and you can go home by tomorrow afternoon."

"Will my babies be coming home with me?" I asked, looking at them hopefully. Leaving them here seemed unbearable to me.

"Yes." said Dr. Moore, walking in with two bundles in her arms. I instantly recognized the one on the right as Jake and the one on the left as Alex. They were awake now, and looking around. Alex spotted me first and she reached her pudgy, baby arm toward me, as though she knew automatically who I was. Jake saw this and reacted the same way. Dr. Moore smiled and walked over to me, gently giving me my babies. I nestled them in the crook of my two arms. I looked at the both of them fondly.

"You are my whole world, Jake and Alex. Don't you ever forget how much I love you." I said. I know I had only become a mother a few hours before, but it felt like I had been waiting my entire life for this moment, the moment when I would truly be a mother.

-X-X-X-

I made a promise to myself that night. I promised myself that no matter what happens next in the crazy adventure that my life has become that I would never lose sight of what and who really matter. Jake and Alex may have come into this world a little early, but that doesn't, by any stretch of the word, mean I'll love them any less then I would if the circumstances had been normal.

As for telling Ash, well, if I do ever see him in person again, then I probably will tell him that I have twins, not necessarily that they're his. I told myself months ago when I made the decision to both keep the babies and not tell Ash that I was doing what was right for all of us. Though Jake and Alex will most likely ask questions about their father when they get older, I think that's something I should worry about when they can actually talk. For now, I just want to live for today, because even if I die tomorrow, I know my life will have been fulfilled.

-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-

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A/N: So, this is the official ending to In My Heart. Don't be sad, because the sequel, In My Heart: Bound By Love will be published within the next couple of days. I can't tell you too much, but I will tell you that it will take place one year after the events of this story, and Ash will have a much bigger role, not just in Misty's thoughts and heart. *Pokeshippers squeal* *Charmed laughs and rolls eyes* Though don't be too happy, because as I've told people in many of my review replies, the road of true love never did run smooth, so you can expect a lot of twists, turns, and bumps along the way. I can't say it'll all work out in the end, because life isn't a fairytale. There isn't always a happily ever after. Even though this is a fanfiction, I'm trying to make it as realistic as I can. I've done and am going to continue to do plenty of research on the topic of babies and newborns so that I can make it as real as possible. So, all in all, I'd just like to say that even though one door closes, another one always opens, meaning that the trials and tribulations Misty has faced in this story is only the beginning. I have big plans for IMH: BBL, so expect the unexpected.

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….and all of my other wonderfully awesome reviewers. You all gave me such inspiration, and it's because of you that there's even going to be a sequel to this story! So, this is for you!

I hope you enjoyed reading and reviewing this story as much as I enjoyed writing and reading your reviews. I'll try and continue to do my best, and if updates are a little delayed, blame school. I have three Advanced Placement classes this year, so I have ungodly amounts of homework every night. The only reason I'm on now is because I'm kind of procrastinating on my AP English essay by updating….I know, I know, bad Charmed, go do your homework….

…..All right, all right, I'll do it. But not until after I continue to bore you with my author notey goodness! XD

But anyway, to end this ridiculously long A/N, I'll give ya another set of good news.

Chapter 16 will have a preview for IMH: Bound By Love! It'll be the last chapter, though chapter 15 was the end of the story. I know that's a bit confusing, but it'll make sense once I write up the rest of Bound By Love.

So, yeah. Send in one of your final reviews for this story, and I hope you'll all be as great in the sequel as you were in the original.

Until next time, write on!

~TheFifthCharmedOne