Author's note at the end.

"You're her father."

Those words kept ringing in his ears. He didn't believe Dawn. He couldn't be a father. He was still too young to be a father. Well, he was 28. He was definitely old enough to be a father, but was he ready to be a father? No, far from it.

"I've been raising her by myself all these years. We've been just fine. All I've needed these past six years is her. Her sister is with their uncle. I never see them, it hurts too much."

He looked at the blunette who had calmed down. She had her eyes closed, but tears still poured down her cheeks. Looking at Dawn like this made Paul's heart ache. All he wanted to do was reach out and hold her. Even after all this time, all he wanted was Dawn.

"Are you sure?" He asked, finally speaking up. "Are you sure she's mine?"

"Yes. One hundred percent sure. Her sister looks more like you. I'm sure you've met her before. She's with Reggie."

Paul nodded, trying to process the new information.

"I have to go. Volkner and Aurora are waiting for me," Dawn said, pushing herself out of her chair.

"Wait, Dawn!" He grabbed her wrist before she could leave. "Where can I come to see you? I want to get to know my kid."

"Paul, we've been fine for six years without you, please don't," she said quietly while bringing her free hand up to her forehead.

"Please. I want to know my daughter," he pleaded, sounding completely serious.

Dawn sighed, stretching her hand out. "You have a phone or something? I'll give you my number."

He let go of her wrist to dig through his pockets, frantically searching for his phone. 'Where is the damn thing?' He thought to himself, 'The one time in the world I need it…' He finally found it, giving it to Dawn so she could enter her new phone number. He took this time to look at her face. It was like he was seeing her for the first time. She looked a bit more aged, as one would expect from a young single mother, but she still looked every bit beautiful. He watched in confusion as he saw her face scrunch up. Then he realised, he never changed his phone background. He always kept it as the picture he had six years ago of him and her together; her smiling while he held her from behind, kissing her cheek.

She bit her lip and handed him back his phone. "Text me, or call me, whichever, and we'll figure something out, I guess."

He nodded as she turned on her heel and walked back to the contest hall.

'Six years, and now I've found you,' he thought to himself while looking down at the phone in his hand. 'I need to figure out how to win her back over…'

"Mommy!" Aurora said happily when she saw her mother walking toward her and Volkner. "Mommy! Everyone has been amazing so far! It's so pretty!"

Aurora clutched her Turtwig doll as Dawn scooped her up and placed her on her lap so she could sit down herself.

"Yeah," Volkner said while looking at the bluenette. "Everyone so far has been amazing. Not as good as you were, but still good". Dawn smiled and rolled her eyes when Volkner finished his sentence. "Oh, and are you going to talk to me about what happened?"

Dawn looked from Aurora to Volkner. "Later. When she's asleep," she whisped so the toddler wouldn't hear".

Volkner nodded and watched the rest of the contest, only speaking when somebody showed an exceptionally appeal or stunning move.

By the time the contest concluded, the toddler was exhausted. Dawn held onto her daughter and sighed. She laid Aurora gently on the vacant airplane seat and buckled her in, the turned to Volkner, who was looking at her expectantly.

She sighed, and began to tell the blonde about the encounter with her lavender haired ex-boyfriend.

Volkner nodded as she finished relaying the days' events to him. "I think that's great," he said. When she gave him a face, he continued. "I know that you claim you two have been fine without him the past six years, but she's asked me about her dad. She's asked me if I was gonna be her dad now."

Dawn's face fell as she looked over to her sleeping daughter. "Has she really?" She asked him, not believing it because Aurora had only asked about her father a small handful of times.

"Yeah, she said that she didn't want to ask you because you always looked so sad whenever he was brought up, so she didn't ask about him."

After that, Dawn decided. She would hate it and it would take time for her to adjust, but she would slowly allow Paul into their lives. 'Only for Aurora's benefit' she thought to herself. 'He would never forgive and take me back after I was so stupid.'

After that, Dawn and Volkner were both quiet the short trip back to Sunnyshore, only speaking when separating for the night. After tucking Aurora into bed, Dawn sat and stared at her phone, hoping a certain purple headed trainer would call her soon.

Hiya! Long time no see. I'm sorry that it's taken me this long to update the story. If you didn't know, I'm a university student, and my studies are the most important thing to me. I recently just finished with my midterms, and because of that, I was studying and revising rather than writing. To make up for that, I updated this, changed my Valentine's Day one shot into a two shot, and changed it into a one shot compilation. So rather than just making a bunch of different stories for one shots, I'll just add my one shots into one place.