Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Crimson Tears ❯ Selfish Desires and a Cheese Ball ( Chapter 12 )

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Crimson Tears


James B. Hanchin
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Crimson Tears

Chapter 12- Selfish Desires and a Cheese Ball



Disclaimers: I do not
and never will own Pokemon although I have tried like any kid should. Please do
not sue me. You will get less out of me then a collector's bin in Las Vegas. Any
songs that you recognize are not mine and the motto Misty tells Ash is from
Casper the first Movie.

List of Characters I own,

·
Jeffery Satoshi Ketchum (Ash's Father)

·
Sarah Waterflower (Misty's Mother)

·
Jacen Waterflower (Misty's Father)





Author's
Note: I
got this story idea when I was in the car traveling past the beautiful sequoia
trees. It was originally going to be called Casual Goodbyes and be a sweet
little love story for Ash and Misty but I got this fantastic idea that involved
a fiery red stone and a cute little music locket. So now it is a sweet AAMR
plus a lot of action. I do warn people, it is a bit sad. It does have deaths
that involve no returns. And I am perfectly sane; I have a wonderful family;
and I just wrote this for fun. I wasn't hyper either. Please do not flame me.
And if you have to, be gentle. I love tips and pointers on where to take a
story. Please do not try to correct my grammar; I will do it myself. It can not
be helped by you nagging me. I have almost all of this plotted out in my head
and the people who will die and survive are already mapped out. Except for one…
I do not want to hear any "kill Misty" things. That includes with all the
characters. Everything else, I except. Oh, and read Faith in a Child if you
haven't already. It's a 10/10.





Ash ran
into the room, pulling out of his mother's embrace.

"Daddy! Daddy!" He ran up past
the people exiting the church to the alter. He froze staring at the immobile
figure in the box…

Ash fell to
his knees hugging his knees close to his chest. He didn't cry. Someone's arms
wrapped around him. He didn't move. He just whimpered sadly trying to hard not
to break down.

"Ash. Please!" Delia ran after
her son into the empty room. She spotted him up on the alter. She froze.

She
couldn't believe her eyes. A tall man sat by Ash's side rocking him gently in
his arms. The man seemed to be slightly transparent and so familiar…but it
couldn't be…It just couldn't be…

"Jeffery?"



"Is
she okay?" Ash whispered catching her before she hit the ground. Lily didn't
answer. She just stared at him. Ash kept his eyes on Misty as his neck burned
with embarrassment.

"So
Ash…." Lily began, "You've grown."



Richie stood outside with a
silent Pikachu at his side. They stared at the gym uncertainly,

"I
wonder what is going on."

'Me
too.' Pikachu yawned, 'Poor Ash. This can't be easy to do…'

"You
should of seen my face when I found out Ash was alive." Richie grinned, "I
almost passed out. I couldn't believe it when Brock called me. He looked quite
shaken. I'm surprised he took it so well."

'Actually,
he didn't.' Pikachu snickered, 'The only reason he didn't crack was because Ash
was injured. When we got into the Pokemon Center, he was just jumping with
nerves. I guess he thought he was dreaming cause he kept smacking himself. It
could have been quite funny if Ash wasn't in the serious condition he was in.'

There was a long empty silence
between the two before Richie spoke again,

"It's
funny. I was so sure Ash was okay when he was claimed missing…and then when he
came back…I was so sure he was dead." Richie whispered, "I guess I had
forgotten about how Ash acted. Maybe…maybe…it was cause…It had been so long."

'It's
okay to have lost faith, Richie.' Pikachu sighed, 'Time can do that to a
person. But now Ash is alive…And if he disappears again you will have faith in
him even longer.'

Richie nodded slightly.

Silence hovered over them again,

"I
wonder if he told her yet…"

A piercing scream filled the
dead night air. Richie and Pikachu looked at each other,

'Does
that answer you're question?' Pikachu hissed racing to the double glass doors.

"Yep."
Richie muttered pushing them open to rush inside.



Misty backed herself into a
tight corner,

"You!
You're dead!!!" She screamed.

"Misty,
please listen! Calm down!" Ash whispered pleadingly.

"Calm
down?! Calm down?!" Misty laughed as if were a amusing joke, "My best friend
who has been dead for three years has come back to haunt me and I am supposed
to be calm?"

"Misty!
Ash hasn't been dead!" Lily tried to explain.

"You
were at the funeral!" Misty screamed, "You saw it! Ash is dead!"

"But
Misty! Nobody was in that grave! Remember? It was just a marker! To pose my
death!" Ash cried.

"Don't
talk to me! Your some kind of weird figment of my imagination and…and…I refuse
to listen to you!" Misty shouted plugging her ears.

Ash smacked his forehead. He
sent Lily a look at clearly said,

This
isn't going well.

Misty bit her lip and hugged her knees to her chest. She
began to sob softly. Ash cringed. He hated to see Misty cry.

"Ash."
Richie said barging in through the doors.

He skidded to a halt as seeing Misty. Pikachu stopped as well.

"Misty,
I- I didn't mean to hurt you…" Ash muttered.

"Well,
you did." Misty growled lifting her gaze to met his.

Her eyes were hard and firm. Her
face was a faint pink from the tears and slightly damp.

"Ash,
how could you? First you died and then you came back…You should of stayed
dead." Misty hissed.

Ash kept his eyes on hers. He
didn't look away. His face was kind of hard to read…like stone...

"Did
you know how many nights I spent praying you were alive…did you even care?"

"Misty…I-
I had to stay hidden…If I didn't…"

"You
are so selfish, Ash Ketchum!" Misty shouted getting to her feet, "All you care
about is yourself."

"That
isn't true!" Richie protested.

'Yeah!'
Pikachu agreed.

Ash kept his head bowed…

"Yes,
it is! He was spying on me! He thought that I cared. Well, I don't care
anymore. You can just get killed, Ash! I don't care about you…or anyone
anymore!" She turned to leave, "I hate you, Ash Ketchum. I hate you!"

Ash scrambled to his feet. He
grabbed her shoulder,

"Misty…Please…I
lo-"

There was a ringing silence.
Misty's hand swung back before Ash could finish. Ash held his cheek gently were
her swipe hit. Misty glared at him loathingly.

"Get
out."



Ash stared at the door in his
face. Richie and Pikachu stood on either side of him.

"I
love you." He finished.

A slight stinging sensation
formed in the corners of his eyes. He blinked and stared up at the sky.

"Ash…"
Richie began.

But Ash had already turned. He
took off the other direction not looking back.

"That
cheese ball!" Richie finally said breaking the silence, "After all Ash has gone
through. And then…"

'It
is true that Ash is selfish…' Pikachu whispered.

Richie glared down at him,

"Whose
side are you on?!"

'No.'
Pikachu sighed, 'You got me wrong. What I meant was that he was
selfish…for…her…'

They stood looking up at the
midnight sky,

"Then
what is wrong with him being selfish?"



Misty glared back at Lily in
disgust,

"Just
leave me alone."

Her heart fell broken as she
ran. She couldn't believe she had told him such a lie. She knew it wasn't
true…But it couldn't of possibly of hurt him as much as she was hurt. He had
lied to her… And to think she almost believed him?! And…she…Misty couldn't bare
it any longer.

She ran past her other two
sisters who were relaxing in the pool with their pokemon. Daisy looked up
startled as she past. Violet looked equally startled. They gazed at each other
uncertainly and then climbed out of the tank.

"Misty!"
Daisy called after her. She didn't answer. She just kept running.

She felt sick. Why did she turn
away? She tried to ignore the terrible aching pain in her heart that told her
she was wrong…but she hated being wrong…

She fought the tears as she
ran…She was wrong, wasn't she?



Ash ran along in the pale
moonlit. He tripped over a small rock and fell to the ground. He didn't bother
getting up. He just lay breathing in the forest soil…

"I
knew it would happen… and it did…so why does it hurt so much?"

Ash rolled over and looked up at
the sky. The stars twinkled here and there. It was then Ash spotted his
star…His star that he had claimed all his own…Back when he was just a toddler…
It seemed father away from the world more then every now. So much distance was
between it and the other stars…

Ash bit his lip…

"Misty…"





Misty laid down on her bed stuffing her face in her favorite
pillow. Tears came harder then ever now… She tried to muffle the sound…This was
too hard…both ways…



Richie walked along with
Pikachu…

"Well,
we better find Ash…Maybe…Maybe he'll be better now…"

'Maybe.'
Pikachu sighed.



To be continued….

Please r + r!

Waaaa! Poor Ash…Poor Misty… *grins
evilly* I had to do something to spice it up. That is really what Misty might
think…Well anyway…I would of posted it right now but since fanfiction.net is
down I guess we will have to wait…