Hello, it is the 28th and I am back with a new chapter! This one is a little more back to basics and in letter writing format but it was one of the first ideas that I had for this story. There's a huge amount of history for Jorginho and Domino (who is from the anime and appears in the Legend of Thunder special episodes). It touched briefly in the first chapter on her being keen to get to know him when he first joined - and as you'll learn here, over the years they did more than merely get to know each other! Domino is one of Jorginho's oldest friends. She holds a candle for him. This is her letter when she realises that their time to make things work is running out. I hope you enjoy :3

Dearest Jorginho,

I hope this letter finds you well. Truthfully, I hope every time that I reach out to you in any way that you are doing well. I have always and will always want the best for you.

Our friendship has changed. Do you feel that? Part of me isn't surprised. A whole big part of me feels glad that there even is a true friendship binding us from the number of times that we've picked us up and put us down again.

Us.

That's a funny word to describe the two of us, isn't it? There never really has been an us. It's always been too good to be true and too fleeting and just not right. Even though I have felt for you the way that I did, it has never been enough. And I don't wish to blame you. Not really. But anything with you has always been like trying to put the wrong jigsaw piece into a puzzle.

It's just not meant to be.

But that never stopped me from daydreaming. Hoping.

I fretted deeply and secretly when I quit Team Rocket to finally seek a normal life for my husband and me and our girls. I was so sure that you would hate me. I had seen what disappointment and frustration and even hate did to you back when Jessie, James and Meowth left the organization. Your reactions and your coldness – and your destruction, yes – is one of the reasons that we didn't work out the first time.

I couldn't bare it if you hated me. I accepted that you couldn't love me the way that I loved you but the last thing I could tolerate was your hatred. Thankfully, it never came. You were beautifully supportive. And we remained friends.

Friends.

Yes, that is what we were meant to be. But that was the moment that I fell harder for you than even our first time around. I cared for you deeper than the times that we spontaneously found each other again. And yes, I loved you even more than when my deceit and my lies horrifically became second nature to me just to have a chance to hold you again.

It was then that I knew that I never wanted just to be friends. It was then that I knew something more profound and beautiful was simmering away inside of me. But I just didn't know what to do. I had just quit Team Rocket to show loyalty to my husband. To my girls.

I felt terribly alone. But my thoughts of you were blissful. They always are, do you know that? I have never met anybody like you, Jorginho. You still possess that smile of a nineteen-year-old and your eyes sparkle the same way that they did back then. Nobody has ever understood me the way that you have. Supported me. Made me laugh. You are one in a million. And there is still a seventeen-year-old that is inside of me and hoping that maybe one day I could be your one in a million. The one that finally proved your certainty wrong.

But I know that you've found someone. You've really found someone this time.

I've heard it on the grapevine for a while. When I talk to the old Rocket Gang – some of them still in the business and some of them not – they confirm these rumors. Jorginho has changed, they say. He's changed for somebody. He laughs harder. His eyes dazzle even more. He has gone soft.

For the other things, I wonder what that is like. But not the softness. You've always been that way. Maybe not in the face of everybody but I believe that I am one of the people that has seen it. You were the first person that held me, after all. The first person to hold me. To touch me. And you did so with such careful eagerness and consideration that yes, I felt the fluttering of a future falling then as well.

I was delighted when I heard that you were attending that Rocket Gang meet up back in the summer. More than wanting to know if the rumors were true, I just wanted to see you. We had fallen out of contact a little bit with life on my end and we didn't seem to have much to talk about anymore since your role in Team Rocket was mostly training and coursework and you dodged around admitting that you were wondering if there was life for you too beyond that found family.

I was even more delighted when I saw you. You pulled me close and hugged me as a greeting as you always do, do you remember that? You smelled different. You probably weren't aware but there was newness buried in the scent of your neck and written all over your face. I knew then that what I had heard was true. And then I saw it for myself.

When I heard the gossip, I thought that it meant that you had found a new casual thing. A new fling. But this wasn't just a fling, was it? This isn't just a fling. I could tell. You could tell from the way that you fell silent from the second that you heard your person's voice. Could tell from how your body automatically leaned in closer when they discovered what they wished to say. I knew it from the way that you embraced.

I knew that you had finally found love. Real love. And now I hear that you are to be married.

Above all the hows and the whys and all the things that go through my mind, I just want to know if it is true. And even though if it is true then I wish you everlasting happiness and my sincerest congratulations, I would be lying if I said that is the purpose of my letter.

I'll be frank with you, Jorginho. I've kept myself to myself long enough and I've held my silence and now I cannot any longer. And I passionately believe that this person marrying you should really be getting the whole, best version of you. No secrets. No lies. No other people kept inside your heart.

If I am in your heart, then let them know. And most importantly, please, if I am in your heart the way that you are for me then let me know once and for all and we shall figure this out.

Jorginho, I have been in the deepest depths of love with you since I was twenty-two years old, and that hasn't gone away for a single minute. You've been the greatest friend to me, and I thank you for that and I haven't meant to mislead you – or anyone - but this is the truth.

If you are to be a husband – not my husband but someone else's - then please let me know so I can put this behind me for good. And if you have finally found love then please, dear God, hold onto it and nurture it and be true to it in the way that you haven't been able to with anybody else.

I love you, Jorginho. I always have and I always will. If my words have released something within you and you realize that there is something within me waiting for only you then please come and find me. You know where I am. I have waited for you in hope forever. I can wait a bit longer. I trust you'll always be worth the wait.

And if you do not feel the same then no matter. We can try to be friends. We can try to be us in whatever way that silly word is meant to be.

To tell you the truth, I am just happy to have you around in any way at all. And I will tell you this: I know there is a piece of you out there somewhere that belongs to me. I do not know what that piece has become and if it will ever come back to me. But it is there somewhere – and it makes me so happy that some part of what we once were is alive out there.

Even if we cannot be together, we are together in another way. That thought keeps me going almost as much as the hope that you will say that you are in love with me too.

I'm always hoping. I always will hope. Even if you tell me otherwise, some of my thoughts will always be reserved for you and a lot of my affection. Call it a bad habit. Perhaps you are a bad habit. But you were also the best thing in my life at one point. And that is one thing that, like our invisible thread tying us together, shall always prevail, regardless of this outcome.

You deserve the world, Jorginho. I hope you are brave enough to go after it. Regardless of who your universe lives within.

All my love, hope, friendship, and everlasting adoration,

Leia. (Domino)

There you go, thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed! :) This chapter was partially inspired by an episode of the sitcom New Girl when that girl best friend of Dr Sam appears in an episode and has written a letter to summarise her feelings even though he is then taken. I headcanon that this letter was to be sent during the summer when James and Jorginho were having their summer romance before it turning serious in the autumn but (like in the episode of New Girl :P) the letter doesn't arrive and gets sent back to Domino. She doesn't deliver it to him until he's engaged to Daisy. No doubt will discussions have to be had thanks to the contents of the letter! Perhaps I'll write about it over on Pikachu Tales :) Her feelings for Jorginho are quite sad really. He doesn't intentionally lead her on but that can't be fun for her. I feel quite sorry for her husband! But perhaps Jorginho finally getting married gives her the closure she needs. I certainly hope so! :P Thanks again for reading and my hiatus is coming to an end so I'll be back to my regular updates over on Pikachu Tales so perhaps I'll see you there! If not, I'll be back to upload this the same time next month :)

Amy signing out!