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Reasons of the Heart –
Epilogue: This Is The Night/When The Heart Knows No Reason
Dear Diary,
'When one door closes another one opens, but often we're so caught up looking at that closed door to see the others'. Those few words were once said by some great American president and they never seemed to make that much sense until I experienced it for myself.
Sometimes life gives you a second chance but you're too busy thinking about that chance you missed to see that it's been right there all along.
But sometimes you have to make your own chances.
It's like a good friend of mine once said, "some things are just too important to be left to chance. Money for one and love for another."
Fear had always been an issue, it was always the reason I couldn't admit to her, or even myself how I really felt for. Now it seems that there was nothing to fear all along, that a friendship like ours could only ever be strengthened and turned into something almost as beautiful as she.
But once I had nothing left to loose, when I felt as though I had already lost her, it was then I was free from my fear, and free to announce my true feelings. For it is when you lose everything that you can finally do anything your heart desires and she was always what my heart desired.
It's been two years now and everything has been perfect.
I don't think I'll ever really get used to waking up to find Misty next to me in the morning. It's an amazing feeling, like I'm whole again and I never want to fall asleep ever again because my reality is so much better than any fantasy I could ever cook up in my head, well except for one but I'm working on that.
Tonight I'm going to ask Misty to marry me.
Most people have an opinion on it. Some say that I took too long and I should have asked her a year ago, others say I should slow down and that I'm just rushing into things.
I probably would have asked her sooner, but it took awhile for me to build the courage up and I'm still not quite there. It seems Misty is the only thing that could ever scare me this much, not that I'm complaining.
I knew from the moment I first laid eyes on her that I wanted to spend forever with this goddess, sure I wasn't even close to being brave enough to admit it then but I always knew deep down that if Misty ever left it would break my heart in two.
And it did, even more so to know that I had driven her away all on my own. I could literally feel my heart breaking as I watched her receding figure disappear into the forest that day.
I need Misty like the air I breathe, maybe even more than that. She was everything to me and it took losing her to realise just what that meant.
But now I don't want to ever lose her again, I couldn't stand it especially now I know how much she means to me. She's all I ever wanted, and everything I never even dared to dream for.
She's that one perfect girl for me who makes everything else just disappear into oblivion. She's the one person that I was meant to spend the rest of my life with and the only one that could ever make me this happy.
Life without her lost its appeal long before she left and now I feel as though I would just die without her by my side.
So I'm going to try and be brave, just for a few minutes. I'll hold my breath and cross my fingers and pray for the best.
Wish me luck and hopefully it'll be enough.
Ashton Satoshi Ketchum
Ash ran his fingers through his once tidy hair for at least the fifth time since he'd combed it into place as he walked towards Misty's dorm.
He'd spent hours just trying to get everything perfect for tonight, he had even gone so far as to comb his unruly hair. To him, Misty didn't deserve anything less than perfect, but he wasn't perfect so he tried his best to come as close to that as possible.
He knocked on the door quickly straightening his tux and hoping he looked at least decent. He took the small velvet box out of his pocket checking that everything was in place for tonight's events.
"Hey," Melody said as she opened the door. Her eyes were immediately drawn the small box in Ash's hands. "Is that what I think it is?" Melody asked her eyes shining excitedly.
Ash sighed as he nodded his head and opened the box revealing the ring to her. It was white gold with a rose cut sapphire surrounded by rubies and diamonds. It was as perfect as everything else he had planned for tonight.
"Hey," Misty said as she appeared in the hallway.
Ash quickly closed the box and stuffed it in his pocket before she saw it.
"You look . . ." he started searching for the exact words to describe this earth angel before him. "Amazing," he finished breathlessly.
Misty smiled furtively and cocked her head to the side her cheeks holding a slight blush. She didn't think she'd ever be able to get used to Ash giving her compliments.
"You don't look so bad yourself, Ketchum," she replied smiling.
"Shall we go?" he asked politely taking his hopefully, future fiancée and wife's arm.
"Ash there's something . . ." she began.
He silenced her by brushing his lips against hers in a passionate kiss almost making Misty forget what she was about to say.
"Whatever it is, tell me when we get there," he told her after breaking the kiss.
Misty sighed. 'Why don't men ever listen?' she asked herself as she held back for just a second for what she had tried to explain to her poor, over-eager boyfriend.
If he wasn't going to listen, there was really no point trying to tell him anything. Ash was determined and stubborn, qualities that she loved about him but they meant that once he got his mind set on something, nothing, not even she, could change it. Well most of the time anyway, she had her ways to alter his perception you could say.
Ash carefully wrapped a silk scarf around her eyes muttering to him self as he checked all the things off on his list.
Misty smiled to herself as she put two and two together. She let Ash lead her, trusting him with her life wondering where he was taking her.
Her ears perked as she listened to the sound of a violin and flute playing the same song that they had danced to two years ago before they confessed their love to each other.
Ash took off the blindfold and gently wrapped his arms around her pulling her into a slow waltz.
He softly sang along here and there the words he remembered from the song. Misty rested her head against his shoulder and just let her self be content in his arms.
As the song ended the two broke apart.
Ash gently took both her hands in his own and lowered himself to one knee.
"Misty, I loved you the moment I met you and I never stopped," he told her. "Every day I find myself falling more in love with you, finding new things to love about you. For so long I tried not to fall in love with you, but the more I tried the harder I fell until I was so completely in love with you that I knew there was no way out of this.
"Misty, you've made me happier than I could ever imagine and there's only one thing that would make me happier," he told her his eyes never leaving hers as they welled with tears of happiness. "Misty Kasumi Waterflower, will you marry me?"
He carefully reached into his pocket and searched for the ring.
"What?" he said suddenly as he turned away so he could search his pockets for the small velvet box. "Oh shit," he thought to himself thinking of the last time he saw it.
"Are you looking for this?" she asked holding up a small black velvet box teasingly just out of his reach.
Ash's eyes immediately widened with surprise.
"This is what I was trying to tell you about," she told him as he handed it to him that teasing smile never leaving her innocent face.
He smiled nervously and took a deep breath before repeating his question. "On the risk of being rejected twice," he told her, "will you marry me, Misty?"
"No," she began making Ash's face drop, "question has ever been easier to answer," she continued a smile forming on her face. "The answer is undoubtedly and most certainly yes."
Ash's heart soared as he took her in his arms once again and kissed her passionately with all the love he felt inside for the girl of his dreams, reality and future.
He opened the box and carefully slipped the ring onto her finger. This was the beginning of the life he had always dreamed of.
"When the world wasn't upside down
I could take all the time I had
But I'm not going to wait
When a moment can vanish so fast
'Cos ever kiss is kiss you can never get back
Lift me up
In your eyes
If you told me that is what Heaven is
Well, you'd be right
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night
When the answer to all my dreams
Is as close as a touch away
Why am I here,
Holding back what I'm trying to say?
Life me up
In your eyes
If you told me that is what Heaven is
Well, you'd be right
Hold me close
To your heart
I would go with you
To the ends of the earth and we'll fly
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night
This is the night where we capture forever
And all our tomorrows begin
After tonight
We will never be lonely again
Lift me up
In your eyes
If you told me that is what Heaven is
Well, you'd be right
Hold me close
To your heart
I would go with you
To the ends of the earth and we'll fly
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night
('This Is The Night' preformed by Clay Aiken)
~20 year later~
"Are you shittin' us Mrs. K?"
Misty Kasumi Ketchum put on a look of fake shock and gaped at the four 15-16 year olds. "Now why would I lie to you?" she asked them coyly.
"Oh come on mom," Sakura said eying her mother suspiciously as she tossed her ebony hair, identical to her fathers messy black locks, over her shoulder dramatically. "You lie to us all the time. I still don't believe all those stories about you and dad saving the world. I mean, once I could believe, but five times is pushing it."
"What if I got your dad to back me up?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"Mom, from what we've heard of your stories, dad is positively petrified of you," Elizabeth replied quietly not nearly as dramatic as her younger, identical twin sister by twelve minutes and forty eight seconds that she wouldn't let anyone forget.
"What about Opal's dad?" Misty said desperately grabbing at straws. "Brock can vouch for every story I've told you, except maybe that last one."
"Our dad's are scared of you too, Mrs. K," Grace teased. "They're all too afraid to say otherwise."
Misty smiled at the name they'd often call her. She still remembered when she and Brock used to give Ash's mother the same name. Now Misty just called her mom, or Delilah as per Delilah's wishes of course.
"It's the dog gone truth," Misty replied drawing a cross above her heart.
"C'mon Mrs. K," Opal voiced looking very disbelieving. "Do you honestly expect us to believe that someone wouldn't notice dropping their engagement ring?"
"Hey, if you think I'm cute now you should have seen me then," Misty laughed with the girls. "But in all seriousness, Ash has the absolute worst memory of anyone I've ever met. Where do you think Elizabeth got hers from?"
"Dad says he's absent minded because you used to hit him over the head with a mallet," Sakura began, the teasing tone eminent in her voice. Sakura was the extrovert of the two, and probably the one most like their father. She was always quite hyperactive, especially as a child and she was never without a smile on her face. She would help anyone, Pokemon and people a like just because it was the right thing to do whether she knew them or not, a trait she most definitely got from Ash.
"So what's Lizzard's excuse?" she continued using her sisters most hated nickname.
Elizabeth scowled, then expertly yet playfully jabbed her elbow into her sister's ribs.
They all laughed at the two's antics.
Elizabeth, as most twins are, was the complete opposite of Sakura. I mean sure they were identical from their ebony hair to their bluegreen eyes and all the looks they had inherited from their mother so they were practically carbon copies of her, but the similarities were only skin deep.
Elizabeth was the quiet introvert. She would rather sit down inside with a good book than live out her own adventures like her sister. Even before they could speak their parents could tell the two apart simply by the way they acted. Elizabeth was studious, quite and conservative where as Sakura was anything but.
"You know if you guys won't believe me I'll just have to get someone to back up my story," Misty said proudly checking her watch that her timing was right.
She promptly stood up and opened the door revealing her husband of nineteen years trying to figure out how he could open the door or ring the doorbell without having to put his bags down.
"Hello sweetie," she said sugarly sweet as she kissed his cheek.
He looked at her suspiciously knowing her far too well not to know that she was up to something. He had known her far too long and he knew that no matter how wonderful and caring his wife was, she was only ever this nice when she wanted something from him.
"Hey dad," Sakura said coming up to the door behind her mother. "Do you want me to take a bag?" she asked her tone similar to Misty's.
Though Sakura was more like Ash, she also had Misty's little evil streak in her and the same mischievous glint shone in her bluegreen eyes, identical to her mothers reminding him just how much both girls were like their mother.
"I'll take one too," Elizabeth said not quite as much of a cause for suspicion as the other two.
Elizabeth and Sakura immediately reached for the exact same bag, the one they were almost positive held the presents in it, at the exact same time and scowled as they tried to pry it from the others arms.
Ash sighed. "The present bag is still in my car, but seeing as you two offered you can take these two by the door while I get it," he smiled.
The two girls sighed as they did as they were told knowing their dad had won this round and no matter how many times Misty had whacked him on the head, he was still just as conniving as her.
Ash again eyed his wife suspiciously as she followed him back to the car with her eyes alone. He knew she wasn't after presents, and finding out exactly what she was after was something he wasn't looking forward to.
"Come," Misty said innocently as she led him towards the lounge where they girls were waiting. "I was telling them all a story and they won't believe me without evidence."
"Which one?" he asked immediately filling with dread.
"The one about how you proposed," she replied nonchalantly as they entered.
Everyone immediately noticed the fact that Ash's cheeks had turned a suspicious shade of red.
"Hey Mr. Ketchum," Grace said politely trying to break the silence. "Did you enjoy your trip?"
"Yes," he replied hopefully, "so why don't I tell you about that instead?"
"Uh-uh," Misty replied waving a finger in front of his face. "This is my story, and I need you to finish it."
"But why must all your stories involve me?" he whined.
"Because otherwise they're so boring," she replied with a peck on the lips for encouragement. "All you have to do is prove I didn't lie."
Ash sighed. "I dropped the ring box when I was trying to hide it in my pocket," he said hoping Misty didn't see his eyes light up as a plan formulated in his head. "And I guess the rest is history, but if you want a really interesting story . . ." he smiled looking at Misty for a second.
". . . I can tell you the one about when Misty got really drunk at this karaoke bar and started sing ha . . ." he started before Misty clamped a hand over his mouth.
"If you dare say another word you'll be sleeping on the couch tonight," she said angrily.
"I think this might be worth it," he smiled innocently.
It still drove her crazy the way he would flash those innocent brown eyes at her and make her bend to his every whim. That smile still had the same effect it had thirty something years ago, and she was really struggling to be angry at him right about now.
"And every night after that," she added trying not to look away and not to look at him at the exact same time.
"You win dear," he sighed as he gave her a peck on the cheek and another innocent smile.
Misty sighed with relief.
"So where's Ashton and Michael?" he asked wondering as to why there were only two sets of hands grabbing for his usual present bag rather than the customary four.
"Michael went to Duncan's and strangely enough wanted to take Ashton with him," she replied. "Should I be worried?"
"Extremely, let's just hope he comes back exactly the way he left," he said.
"Well that said, you need to have a shower and get into some not so wrinkly and dirty clothes," she told her husband matter-of-factly. "Sabrina and Melody will be over with everyone in about half an hour or so for that barbecue," she said pushing him towards the stairs with a quick kiss.
"Now do you believe me?" she asked as she re-entered the lounge of teenage girls she had almost completely forgotten about with the return of her husband.
"Sometimes I wonder how we get any attention at all with the way those two carry on like love struck teenagers," Elizabeth muttered under her breath to her sister.
"I just thank god for dad's business trips," Sakura giggled back.
"Of course we do," Grace said as a sly smile began to form on her face, one identical to her mothers. Misty knew she was in trouble. "But what I really want to know about is this karaoke thing he was on about," she smiled.
"Is it just me or did that sound suspiciously like Hanson?" Opal asked.
"I don't have a clue what you're talking about," Misty replied trying to hide her embarrassment.
"But I know someone else who might," Grace giggled as the doorbell resounded through the house. "You know mom, always early."
Misty became worried as she tried to remember who was there that fateful night. The whole thing had been blurry as she had gotten to the alcohol a little too early thanks to a certain Pokemon Master who wasn't exactly supposed to be there.
Like times before – or was that after, she couldn't quite remember the order - she had got extremely drunk, extremely fast after asking the bartender for his strongest drink and supposedly ended up singing Hanson among other love songs all dedicated to Ash. She was glad Ash had been sort of drunk at the time too as it was definitely not a night she wanted to remember even if she could.
It was also a part that she had conveniently left out when she retold the story of how she and Ash finally got together many a time.
Misty opened the door revealing her long time best friend Melody Kitt, now Melody Angel and her husband obviously Parker Angel. She presumed their son, Dylan, was probably with Zacharyinsert private joke here too, probably helping in torturing her seven year old.
"Hey mom, dad," Grace called greeting her parents. "Mom, do you know the story of when Misty got really drunk?" she said getting straight to the point.
"Which one?" she asked. "The Will Simmons version or the Karaoke version that she tends to forget."
"The Karaoke version, please," Opal replied.
"Well basically we were trying to cheer Misty up because she had been pretty much comatose since the date thing Ash that didn't go to well. This was basically the reason why she started to go out in disguise," Melody began. "So we take her to this nice little bar and who should we find there but Ash, also in a comatose state, and Parker trying to cheer him up.
"So Misty immediately heads straight to the bar, orders several drinks filled to the brim with vodka and downs them in a minute flat," she continues ignoring the fact that Misty looks about ready to rip her head off. "So seeing as Misty here is quite susceptible to drunkedness, especially when she downs the equivalent of half a bottle of vodka in a minute flat, she's so drunk she climbs onto the stage and sings anything containing the word love in it."
"Wow, go mom," Sakura said sarcastically. "Do you mind giving us a few visual and audio aids?"
Misty turned the infamous 'Waterflower glare' off her friend and to her youngest daughter who seemed to have perfected Ash's look of pure innocence.
Another sounding of the doorbell interrupted them and Misty left the room to answer it revealing Sabrina and Brock and the rest of their family as well as three other boys.
"Aunt Misty," a young girl of seven cried happily as she wrapped her arms around Misty's waist which she barely reached.
Misty smiled as she gently patted the little girls hair. It seemed Brock and Sabrina's daughter Rosemary-Ayumi had picked up a couple of recessive genes in her parents forming the bright red hair that almost matched Misty's.
"Hey everyone," Ash said as he came back down stairs all fresh and cleanly pressed.
"Dad!" little Ashton called happily as he ran to his father glad to have him home again.
Ash wrapped his arms around his son and lifted him happily into the air. It was something he missed while he was on his business trips.
He would spend lonely nights thinking of his family back home in Pallet, especially Misty.
He hated not being able to roll over in his bed to meet her angelic face as she slept. He hated not having his seven year old son crawl in between them after a bad dream in his mismatched Pikachu pyjama pants and psyduck pyjama shirt. He hated not hearing his daughter's squeals of joy as they set in for another midnight gossip session that kept him up half the night. He hated not hearing the constant thumps, or creaks and incoherent mumblings of Michael tossing and turning and talking in his sleep.
They were the most important thing to him and he was constantly forced away from them.
And now everyone was here. Brock and Sabrina with their five children, Taylor, Opal, Zachary, Jordan and little Rosemary-Ayumi, who was only a few months older than Ashton. Melody and Parker with their two children, Grace and Dylan with them. And of course his own little family, which he didn't think could ever get more perfect than the way they were right now.
Dear Diary,
They say holding on is what makes you strong, but sometimes, it's letting go.
Not letting go of love, for what is left once you've thrown away what could easily be your one chance at happiness in life over a few meaningless words. No, not love, anything but love; that would just be stupid. It would be a waste of your heart so fragile and precious, yet stronger than you could ever know.
It's letting go of the little, unimportant things that make love more complicated than it already is, letting go of the grudges you build up over the years, rebuilding the bridges that you burn. Just letting go of the little things you can live without.
It's not settling, its not giving in and letting someone else control you, it's just finally figuring out what matters in your life and making sure it comes first. It's realising that love comes before anything else and putting these words into practice.
It's knowing that love is one thing you can't live without and there's no reason why you would ever want to try. I know that one for a fact.
It's how my life turned out, how it is right now. I pushed my stubborn mind aside if only for those few moments that changed my life forever and finally followed my heart into his arms.
I took a chance on life, on love, on him and it paid off with two beautiful daughters and two loving sons not to mention my devoted husband who means more to me than life itself. I have the life I always dreamed of and it's all down to him.
You see, destiny has a funny way of working things out for the best in the end no matter how stupid the decision we make are. Even ones as stupid as running away from the one you love just because he called you a runt.
I understand what Sabrina meant that day about following my heart and not my head and it's the best advice I've ever been giving to date. It means more now than it did before because of those years and I can finally put that meaning on paper.
It's because the heart knows no reason yet the mind depends on it. The heart knows no boundaries, yet the mind creates them. The heart doesn't care about pride or past grievances, those are just a few of the minds insecurities. The heart doesn't understand time or distance or death and finality, those are the minds rules to play by, the heart has it's own.
Your heart answers best when you do not ask, and that alone is the reason of the heart.
Signed
Misty Kasumi Waterflower-Ketchum (proud wife of Worlds Greatest Pokemon Master and Novelist Ashton Satoshi Ketchum)
In times of frustrations
The minds leads.
What the mind teaches
The heart feels
In times of desperation,
The mind finds the means
What the mind gives,
The heart receives
In times of prosperity,
The mind rules
What the mind dictates,
The heart follows
In times of loving,
The mind asks
What the mind questions,
The heart answers
When the mind resists,
The heart insists
It is this time,
When the mind loses . . .
And the heart wins.
-Anonymous-
~The End~
I would like to once again thank you all for reading my story. Sadly this is the end of 'Reasons of the Heart' and I think the poem above is quite a fitting note to end on.
Final Thankyou's
Steff – sorry I didn't mention you in the last chapter, I didn't realize I had another review until I went to check that it had uploaded.
Pikagurl23
Childsnake
KuTiexAnGeL
Kit Kat – Thanks, it's actually kind of cool because it helps to inspire me to work on my own fics.
Sally
Ash and Misty forever
Lilstarblossom
Black Mistress
Maniac Mosli
MissDbzMegabots – I'm glad I helped introduce you to Pokemon fan fictions and I'm happy you liked it
Sailor Saba
Shadow Death Dark
Kami no Hikari
Dragonsbane
I really hope you enjoyed it and I really am going to miss each and every one of you.
Now as promised here are the summaries of all the fics I'm working on at the moment. It would be great if you could tell me which ones you like the sound of the best so I can choose which ones to make my top priorities. Slightly more indepth summaries are posted in my bio if you want to check but these are the official summaries I guess and a little extra information.
Title: Dude Where's My Plot
Summary: Just one of those stories where as the plot thickens you begin to notice the extreme lack of one. Our trio are dropped off in the real world inducing a show filled with special guests from your(my) favourite TV Shows, Movies, and Animes and all the questions you weren't brave enough to ask.
Inspiration: All LOTR cracks inspired by my friends. The rest of the story I'm way too afraid to ask where the hell that came from.
Genres: Romance – Humour - Supernatural
Main Genre(s): Humour/Romance
Rating: PG-13 for now, may have to go up to R for violence and explitic language and drunken hobbits. You know, the usual sort of thing.
Chapters Written: 3 and a bit
Writing Since: About September last year, I think.
Main Characters: Ash, Misty, Virgo Writer (me), Jesse, James, Tracey, Jerry Springer, LOTR cast and crew, CCS cast and anyone I care to add as the story continues. I'm also thinking of having a Phillip Van Dyke cameo and I have this strange urge to hook Brock up with Mei Lin(CCS).
Pros: Some really funny parts, I have a really cute outfit in it.
Cons: A lot of the jokes in this story will only be understood by me and a few of my friends. It will probably end up confusing anyone else and probably wouldn't be all that funny.
Title: I'll Take the Tears
Authours: Virgo Writer (me) and Xx Kusanagi xX (Mike)
Summary: Two friends torn apart by a meaningless fight in what seems like a lifetime ago. Two teenagers caught up in the midst of it all finding hope, friendship and something their parents always dreamed of; love because in the end that's all that matters. AAMR co-authoured by Xx Kusanagi xX
Inspiration: Started off as the idea of Ash and Misty living a life almost identical to their parents but evolved from that. I can't really say much about it because that would ruin the story.
Genres: Romance – Action/Adventure – Angst - Tragedy
Main Genre(s): Romantic Tragedy turned Action/Adventure/Romance till finally settling on Romance/Action/Adventure
Rating: PG for minor language as far as I can tell, be warned Mike has a very wicked tongue.
Chapters Written: At least four, I think. I'll have to check with Mike on that one.
Writing Since: September-ish
Main Characters: Ash, Misty
Pros: A lot of unexpected twists and a bit away from my usual writing.
Cons: Mike is a lazy sod. No just kidding. The real con is that he wants to kill Stephen and despite our best efforts we both seem to be suffering writers block concerning this story.
Title: On Angels Wings
Summary: "I know angels are overrated, but that's what I am, an angel. And this is my story . . ." Kasumi is a guardian angel who is sent down to earth as a mere mortal to protect the chosen one and find the life (and love) she was never allowed to live.
Inspiration: A CCS fic I read once that ended really weird and a few bags of candy floss. Note to self – lay off the candy floss for awhile.
Genres: Romance – Action/Adventure – Supernatural - Spiritual
Main Genre(s): Romance/Supernatural
Rating: Between G and PG. It probably won't need to go higher because there will be very little swearing seeing as angels are all godly and stuff and aren't suppose to swear. Yeah right, this is Misty we're talking about, since when did she listen to anyone?
Chapters Written: 6 and 2 halfs. I know that sounds odd but I've written 6 whole chapters and half of each of the two chapters that come after it.
Writing Since: Remember the six week break I had around this time last year? Well let's just say I've been writing it since before then so that makes it a little over a year ago that I started writing it.
Main Characters: Misty/Kasumi, Ash, Pikachu, Emilie, Brock, maybe Tracey later but I might just stick with Brock because I like him better.
Pros: I have written the most kick ass cliffhanger for this, I mean it is even better than some of my Reason's cliffhangers. I swear it will just make you all sit there pulling your hair out as you scream obscurities at the screen. It was actually what I started with because it was an idea I had of how that particular story should have ended.
Cons: It takes awhile to get into the story, I mean the fact that Ash doesn't even appear until the fifth chapter pretty much defines that point.
Title: Sweet Home Pallet
Summary: When she was 5 Misty made a promise to a boy long since forgotten. When she was 15 she made a promise to herself she failed to keep. Now at 25 she is about to promise her heart to someone else but first she has to tie up some loose ends in Sweet Home Pallet. AAMR
Inspiration: Where else but my absolute favourite movie Sweet Home Alabama and that wonderful quote 'Nobody finds their soul mate when they're ten years old, now where's the fun in that?'
Genres: Romance – Drama – Parody – Angst (but only a little bit)
Main Genre(s): Romance/Parody
Rating: PG-13 but only because I love that rating so damn much.
Chapters Written: 3 and a bit.
Writing Since: March this year
Main Characters: Misty/Kasumi/Sumi, Ash/Toshi, Shane Filan
Pros: I love this one so much because I get to write a story about my favourite movie. And it's so fun to write because I get to insert myself in there as about ten different characters, all of which are fashion designers. Oh and I get to have Shane in it who is my absolute favourite member of Westlife, god I love this fic!
Cons: Well if you don't like Sweet Home Alabama (and who doesn't) then you probably won't like this. There are also a lot of original characters in it because I had to make up an entire city, make that region, for Misty to escape to.
Title: Karate, Kung Fu and Forty-Seven Other Dangerous Words (or the far less imaginative and original title 'Spy Games')
Summary: Spy Ashton Satoshi Ketchum has known only one thing most of his life; how to be a spy but now even that lies in jeopardy because he's broken one of the most important rules of all and it's all her fault.
Inspiration: I wrote this so long ago that I don't actually even remember what inspired me to write this.
Genres: Romance – Drama – Mystery – Horror – Action/Adventure - Suspense
Main Genre(s): Romance/Suspense
Rating: PG-13
Chapters Written: 1 and a half
Writing Since: Late (or early I can't remember) 2001, sometime before the original Valentines Verse if that's anything to go by.
Main Characters: Ash, Misty, Brock, Team Rocket Organisation, Professor Oak, Pikachu, Gary
Pros: I love the title and it's got a really interesting beginning.
Cons: I know this looks really bad that this is the fic I've been writing for the longest amount of time but I'm going through writers block and that first chapter is long enough to be split into at least two.
Title: The Law of Reality
Summary: Acceptance, it's all anyone wants in high school and Misty will do anything to get it; maybe even go against her heart. Or maybe love is the only thing more important than acceptance and maybe she just needs a little help from Ash to realize that. AAMR.
Inspiration: I always wanted to do a high school type Pokemon fic and the idea of this was inspired slightly by a few of my favourite Romantic Teen movies and books.
Genres: Romance – Angst – Teen Drama
Main Genre(s): Romance/General but only because Fanfiction doesn't have Teen Drama down as a genre.
Rating: PG-13 like I said it's my favourite rating to use.
Chapters Written: Just 2 but they're both pretty long.
Writing Since: Early this year
Main Characters: Ash, Misty, Melody, Brock, Giselle, Gary
Pros: A major unexpected twist at the end. The story starts at a point and then goes back about two weeks before it to explain how it came about and it's not where or who you thought it would be.
Cons: I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get back to where I started.
Title: Tainted Destiny but I'm trying to come up with a better title, this might be a good time for you guys to offer some idea's. Also it turns out that Tainted Destiny isn't actually the title of this anyway but I'm going to have to stick with it for now because the real title is even worse. If you really want to help I'd appreciate it a lot.
Summary: Ash is a CardCaptor who despite Misty's best efforts and for reason's unknown to her would rather be Gary's rival. Sakura is a Pokemon trainer who just can't seem to rid herself of the cute, yet pesky, Syaoran Li. AAMRN, S+S
Inspiration: I sort of just came up with the summary in the middle of the night and that inspired me to write it. I mean I get to combine my two favourite anime's into one fic, I wonder if I can sneak digimon in there somewhere.
Genres: Romance – Drama – Action/Adventure – Parody – Supernatural – Suspense – Mystery – Angst – Sci-fi – God is there anything this fic doesn't have?
Main Genre(s): Romanc/General
Rating: No prizes for guessing the rating here. Yup, PG-13
Chapters Written: 1, ¾ and a ½ but I'm working on that half as we speak.
Writing Since: April
Main Characters: Ash, Misty, Pikachu, Gary, Ayumi/Melody, Brock, Jesse, James, Cassidy and eventually Sabrina. Sakura, Syaoran, Kero, Tomoyo, Eriol, Kahu, Touya, Nakuru, Spinel and a very stupid electric Pokemon (perhaps a Pikachu depending on my mood).
Pros: Like I said before I get to combine my two favourite anime's in a wonderful romance story. Plus I keep getting these really funny mental images of Syaoran in Misty's shoes, literally. I mean it's so funny thinking about Syaoran in Misty's yellow tank top, suspenders and little denim shorts. Then I think about him running around in them next to Sakura screaming about bugs and carrots and things like that and practically fall off my chair. You know for someone who's supposed to be a tom-boy it really is difficult to adapt her character into a boy.
Cons: I keep confusing myself with the character swap and I had to split Tomoyo's character in CCS into two characters just so Brock wouldn't have to be gay.
So like I said several times before tell me what you think of this story, of my future stories and anything else that happens to tickle your fancy. Sadly, it may take awhile because I've just realized that including these seven I'm currently working on about twenty different fics right and only one of them is currently being published on Fanfiction.
Thanks again to everyone who has read this and all my other fics.