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Chapter 9: Healing A Mother's Wounds!
The seventh months arrived and Ash had been thinking about telling someone else about having a baby.
He discussed it with Ashley and she talked to him about telling the news to either his mother or Dawn's mother.
"I guess I should tell both of them, but I want to tell Dawn's mother the most. Mom can be told later. Let's go." said Ash, getting up from the table.
"Go? Where?" said Ashley, looking up at him.
"Sinnoh. I need to tell her in person." said Ash, holding his back and walking into his bedroom to pack.
"Alright. Guess it's road trip time!" said Ashley, getting up to help him pack along with herself.
Once they got packed, they headed to Sinnoh to talk with Dawn's mother, Johanna.
(At Johanna's House)
Ash looked at Ashley.
"Here goes nothing." said Ash before knocking on the door.
Johanna answered the door after a few seconds.
"Ash? Ashley? What are you two doing here?" asked Johanna, looking at the two.
"Johanna, I need to tell you something." replied Ash in a serious tone.
"Come in. What is it?" asked Johanna, inviting them in and sitting down with them in the family room.
"Johanna, this might be hard for you to hear. This deals with the loss of Dawn." said Ash, choking up as he said her name.
"What's wrong? Please I want to know if it involves my daughter." said Johanna, getting tears in her eyes at the sound of her daughter's name.
"A couple of weeks after her death, I had decided to join her in the afterlife, but just before I put a noose around my neck, I was caught with a stabbing pain in my stomach. Brock and Daughter had shown up and they took care of me and found out what was wrong with me. Johanna, I don't know how this happened or why, but I'm pregnant with mine and Dawn's baby." said Ash, getting teary-eyed.
"Ash, sweetie. There has to be a better explanation as to why you're this…big. You can't be pregnant." said Johanna in disbelief.
Ashley was surprised to hear her not believing him and watched to see what would happen.
"Johanna, give me you hand." said Ash, holding out his own.
"Alright." said Johanna, giving her hand to him.
He gently laid it on his stomach and waited for the baby to move again.
"Why are you trying so hard-" said Johanna, surprised to feel a baby move against her hand.
Johanna took her hand off his stomach in amazement.
"Now do you believe me?" asked Ash, leaning back to make the baby stop.
"I do, but how did this happen and why?" asked Johanna, trying to figure out why this happened and how.
"I'm not sure how this happened, but something tell me that Dawn was trying to save me from joining her. She wanted me to live normally despite her being gone." replied Ash, thinking about how he wasn't going to live without her.
"Ash, thank you. Thank you for telling me and making my mind at ease. I was wondering how you were doing after her death, but I can tell that Dawn wanted what you just said. For us to live our lives normally despite her being gone. Please let me know when you're having the baby. I want to be there for my grandchild's birth." said Johanna, smiling before getting up.
"You're welcome and I promise I will." said Ash, getting up as well with Ashley's help.
They hugged as they healed some of the major wounds from Dawn's death.
Hope you enjoyed Chapter 9! Ok. So I'm sorry about not getting this out faster than I am, but school is kicking my butt and life is too. I will try to aim for Mother's Day since I'll be mostly done with papers and other school stuff. See ya later!
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