Chapter 14- To let go.

-Desiree's mother-

I sat there on the windowsill on a lonely spring day. Today it was May 11th, mother's day. How I wished that Desiree could come home but I had already sent her away. She's been sending me money as her wins kept coming. I took forty percent of her wages when she won battles. Was twenty-five dollars bad?

Typhlosion looked at me he knew I was hurt. He growled softly trying to get my attention. "Typhlosion do you remember when we were on our journey?" I sighed going back to memory lane. I was a small girl around my daughter's age and its funny because I had the same attitude as my daughter. Call it small dog syndrome but we don't let one thing ever stop us.

When I got to Professor Elm's lab I saw him. I saw a fiery pokemon called Cyndaquil. It was a partnership at first sight. When I chose my partner I overheard young Professor Elm say to his acquaintances "That girl is something else."

That phrase sparked an even bigger fire in me. I followed that motto as I roamed Johto fighting the gym leaders and the notorious Team Rocket. Yes, I was part of the fall of Team Rocket. I would of thought that they would try to invade again but nothing ever happened. Rumors started flowing around when I had Desiree that a new organization kicked them out. No one knows the name of that organization but I feared for my daughter. I followed the news and heard about the attack on the lab. I prayed that my daughter had left by that time. But to my fear I saw her, it wasn't a clear picture of her but still I saw her and on her back was a Totodile on her shoulder. Oh how cute! A Totodile she chose a Totodile.

Desiree had always had a rivalry with this one girl Gabrielle. I remembered she would come home crying when that girl would push her into the creek, or the hive a Beedrill. I didn't mean to be horrible to my daughter or anything but I loved caring for her.

When I was on my journey I remember one great thing, the one thing that was exciting in my typical pokemon trainer life was in the ruins of Alph. I went into the ruins to fall down a tunnel and collapsed on me. When I was trying to find my way out when I heard a stone that could talk. I soon found out that it was angry with me.

"You have trodden on ancient grounds. I am furious with you." Well duh if it was a bug no trespassing thing of course you would be angry! "Now you will pay by your own blood and your blood will face the consequences." I never knew what that meant until very recently when the explosion of the ruins of Alph happened. Many pokemon lost their homes and guess what? My daughter was there. Tears swelled up in my eyes and Typhlosion attempted to wipe the tears from my eyes.

The words of that rock made sense. I wouldn't have to suffer anything but to make it really unbearable it would all happen on my daughter. She would be in mortal danger all her life. Everyone will be after her as they are now. It was all my fault did I love my daughter at all?

An idea came to me that I could warn my daughter about what could happen next. I needed to do it quick. But I feared that someone else would come and intercept that message. So I wrote in code only my daughter would understand. Well I guess anyone else could but that was beyond the point.

451991855 182114 I started to write. I hoped that these were more than just numbers to her. I continued to write and grumbled. Why did I write such a large letter?

I stuffed it in a pink envelope and called out a messenger "Go Noctowl." I called out my pokemon. It hooted happily, Finally a job for him. "I need you to go find my daughter and give her this." I handed my pokemon the envelope and told him to guard it with its life.

I sighed as the pokemon flew out the window and trilled as he flew off. I prayed under my breath that Noctowl wouldn't get hurt either and that he'd return with news that I'd like to hear.

"Typhlosion. Do you remember having that much fear?" I looked at my pokemon who looked shocked, apparently not. "The world is changing for the worse and there's nothing we can do to stop it." I hated being powerless and so would my daughter.

There I stood on that windowsill waiting for something to change. I sat there with only one friend. I had thought about ordering my daughter to come back. But there wasn't any love in that. My parents had tried to do that but I never listened. I knew they loved me but there was no way I was going to quit halfway. Yes I eventually settled down just before my father's death and regretted not spending any time with him. Was that how I was supposed to become? Was I supposed to die alone? Would my daughter regret not coming home? I shook the heavy thoughts out of my head.

The reason I didn't call her home was because I loved her. I loved and cared about her so much I let her go. The greatest adventure I had in life so far was to let go.

How'd you like the Mothers day special?

This had to come out on Mothers day in order for it to work. I hope that this revealed something very important about the plotline. Desiree's mother loved her that she let go of her daughter to allow her to go on this journey. Is that not love?

Thank you and have a happy mothers day.