*happiness overload* XD OMFG, THISISSOGREATIWASWAITINGIMPATIENTLYFORTHISCHAPTER AND I AM GOING TO STOP TALKING LIKE THIS NOW....
Mind if I write the review tomorrow? Because, well...you updated today, so I think it would be just fair if I posted the last part + epilogue today...
Discovering Madness...Again, Part Two
The streets of Saffron City are never quiet, not even at night, not even in the middle of December, when the nights are long and dark. There is always some buzzing, trucks and cars moving, the voices of masses coming out of the several open night bars. Lights flashing around the streets. The second-biggest city in Kanto never sleeps, never comes to rest. Even the quarter around the gym doesn't.
There are always voices, different tones, whispering, shouting, screams of old and new lives…
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Saffron City, gym, 21st December, 7.14 am
"Damn it, Sabrina, you
were right! It
is a girl!" 'Yeah, right, as if I care right now…' I gasped for air, the world stepping in and out of focus. Hell couldn't be any worse. Really. Now I knew why so many female VIPs choose a Caesarean. They were cleverer than me and didn't strain themselves like that. But thankfully, it was over now…
"Yeah, surprising, isn't it? I can guarantee that I have seen a boy on the ultrasound image, but, well, here we are, and it's a girl…" I would have loved to tell that damn midwife that this was certainly not a topic I liked to discuss now, but my voice had said goodbye moments ago. Guess I had screamed a bit too much… but the pain…the pain! Never again, I tell you, never again. Having a baby was definitely the best way of protection, at least for the woman.
And by what I could read out of Robin's face, for some men, too. He was pale…how had he come inside anyway? He hadn't been here hours ago…okay, I admit, my memory of the last ten hours was quite a bit fogged and messed up, but I could swear that he hadn't been here a moment ago…
<Teleported in when Artur told me to…> There was no smile in his face, just a mix between shock and indisposition, something I could understand right now. There was still the scent of blood in the air…
<I…didn't want to leave you alone. Not now…but…> He chuckled uncomfortably. <I felt sick in between, so I had to go outside…if I hadn't, the doctor would have two patients right now…> <I think she does have two patients…> I had to fall back on my telepathy, but even it staggered and sounded weak. I hadn't used my powers in such a long time that they had gotten a bit rusty.
Artur was already throwing a celebration of some sorts. "Wait till I tell the other students! They'll be thrilled!" I stared at him. Telling the other students? Now? It was early morning, they were probably sleeping and second, I didn't want anyone to know and bother me, I wanted to rest, to be left in peace. "You…won't…" I gasped out. Dear, was this really my voice? I sounded like a marathon runner after the finals.
"Really, Artur, I think it would be best if you don't tell them…" The gym's manager looked disappointed. "But…why?" 'Because I feel burned out now and want to sleep, maybe?' Robin winked at him. "Hehe, you're not the only one with a bet running…" Artur looked down. Well, he had lost his bet and thus, half of his wage. Not that I was concerned… his fault anyway. "I betted with one of the elders that it would be a girl and I want to tell him face-to-face that he lost…hehe, I had faith in my girlfriend…" I cocked an eyebrow. "Since when?" <And who told you that I'm your girlfriend again?!> He didn't answer. "So now, I won a Flat TV!" His grin was wide enough to make me hate him again. "What? I need the money now, I have to pay maintenance for the next eighteen years, have some mercy with me!" I shook my head. Whatever had made him father my girl, it was certainly not love or some intelligent act of breeding psychics, I would bet both my wage and a Flat TV on that…
"Now, boys, would you please let me through? I think someone wants to get to know her mother here…" I gulped. I had been wrong; it was not over yet…
"Uh…" I had to confess that she was really cute in my eyes. Short, still a bit wet black hair, with violet highlights, just like mine. Her eyes were closed, as if she was sleeping, but they would open soon enough. She wasn't too big, of course, she had been a bit early, over a weak too early, but that didn't matter, the midwife had told me.
I stroke her little head, shaking as I did. This was all so new…my child…my own…
"Heh, why pink again?" "Because girls are usually dressed in pink!" "But that's stereotypical! Besides, she was meant to be a boy, so why not blue?!" "Shut up!"
Silence. So my voice hadn't lost its authority completely. I sighed, closing my eyes and stroking her again. She was cuddling against me, a feeling rose inside me I couldn't place yet. Love?
"Could you please get out and let me be alone…with her?" The words came out before I could think about them. It was as if they had been placed naturally into my mind. I suddenly wanted to be alone, to enjoy this silent moment, to give her the chance to settle in. If this was a new situation for me, it surely was for her, too.
"Okay, boys, lets get out…" The woman pulled them outside by their ears, the boys protesting loudly. I smiled, then sighed again. I was alone now…alone with her, of course. And surprisingly, I was glad about that.
It was snowing outside now. Peaceful whiteness. "Welcome little one. So it was you who bothered me all these months, eh?" She yawned, slowly opening her eyes. It was a questioning look, but I didn't know what the question was. And her eyes…her eyes…not as dark as mine, surely not. Brighter, but also violet, blended with blue. A nice colour.
I closed my own eyes, leaning back, relaxing. This was no mistake, I knew now. Robin was right; she deserved the chance to live. Everyone does. She wouldn't make the same mistakes I had done, I wouldn't let her. Maybe the circumstances of her birth weren't the best, but we would make the best out of it. Partly my duty.
"I promise you that you'll have a happier childhood than I did, my girl…you'll probably have my powers, but that doesn't matter. It shouldn't keep you from being a happy child…" I sniffed, trying to fight back the tears. Why cry now? Why let my emotions overwhelm me? Why not? "I can't guarantee anything, so have mercy with me too…I'm only human…" She nuzzled even closer, smiling. And I was crying.
"Well, like Robin said, you were supposed to be a boy and even though I wanted a girl, I only thought of naming a boy…I suppose you'll have to go with a boy's name then." Blinking. Maybe she really understood me and that was her way of showing me how bad of an idea that was. "Don't worry…some names are gender-neutral, you know…little Morgan."
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Four and a half years later…
"And again, Robin." "Sabrina, you know I'll never manage to remember
and use these stupid formulas!" I sighed, frustrated, and hit him with the pencil on the head. "And you call yourself psychic?" He growled at me. "If I had known that being psychic comes with using math…" "Robin, it's not that difficult. It's just a formula to calculate a psychic's mind power and thus, it's necessary to know it by heart!" "Yadda, yadda, yadda…you know, if you weren't the head mistress of that stupid school, I would even believe you." I closed my eyes. I had had worse students than him, but he was close on getting to the top. And dangerously close to getting on my nerves. "Well, I'm not the one with financial problems!" Robin glared at me from out of the corners of his eyes. "Of course not, who of us has to pay the other?!" I shrugged. "Should have thought of that before you got involved with me! And anyway, I'm the one with the child now, so…" Robin sighed. "While we're on topic, where
is Morgan anyway?" "Outside and don't change the topic! I'm not hiring you as a teacher if you can't recite even the easiest formulas!" And hit him with the pencil again. "Ouch! What kind of 'easy formula' is one with three radicals anyway?!" I sighed. He would never get it.
While Robin was working on the 'easier' formulas, ones that were supposed to be taught to the younger students, I looked out of the window, out into the garden. I couldn't see my little daughter, but I wasn't worried. If there was something wrong, I would feel it immediately. Our psychic bond was strong. Of course, she wasn't psychic yet, but that didn't matter. The bond was there, existed between all parents, but between psychics, it was even stronger. Even though I had never felt that close to my parents, never felt that way…
Something…
I pulled myself into reality again, consciousness snapping awake, mind tensing. Something was rising. Something had awoke. Something familiar, but at same time, new… But I didn't know who, or what…
"Sabrina?" Robin looked at me with his bright, violet coloured eyes. And I suddenly realized… "Something wrong?"
I wasn't paying him attention anymore. I was running outside, panicked, frightened, horrified for what might happen if I didn't arrive in time. I wouldn't allow history to repeat itself, no, I just couldn't, I had promised her…
I found them not far away from the playground that had once been my territory. It was ironic, oh so ironic…but I couldn't care less about this now. I had to prevent this from happening all over again.
"Morgan…" She was sitting with her back to me. I could see her friends sitting not far away, startled by my sudden appearance. They weren't used to my teleportation powers, but Morgan was. She turned around, smiling and pulling her long hair out of her face. "Hi mommy!" She jumped onto her feet and into my arms. I was glad…nothing had happened yet. "Look what I did!" I blinked. "What?" One of her friends, the little Diane, stood up. She had been nibbling on an apple. "I got it down for her when she told me she was hungry." Morgan seemed very pleased with what she had done. "See!" She pointed to an apple tree next to the swing. I could see a small blue light surrounding one of the fruits and then, it was floating over to us. Morgan grabbed it, took a bite and smiled again. "Just like you do it, mommy! I remembered and tried it myself! And it worked!"
I sat her down, smiling. The day I had feared had come…but nothing bad had happened, nothing bad at all. She hadn't used her powers to kill anybody, oh no…she had helped her friends with them! What a start! So much better than mine. I was so glad, really glad…one moment, all fear and panic was loaded off me…
"We should start your training now, Morgan." Her eyes shined. "Really?" "Yes…but first, I think we should wash these apples before you eat them!" She chuckled.
Epilogue
Fourteen years later…
"You know, mother, when I asked you why you and dad aren't married, I wasn't expecting to hear through a complete novel…" I giggled. Morgan was sitting next to me on a hill not far away from Saffron's city gates. There was a slight breeze, making our hair fly around us. She resembled me only slightly, being a bit more like her father. I still couldn't understand why she left her hair that short, but well, somewhere deep inside her, she was a boy, after all…
"But it's the truth. It all started in my own childhood." "Which was pretty bad, I know..:" She leaned back into the grass, arms folded behind her head, eyes closed. "But children always oppose their parents…" "Yeah…" I sighed. She wasn't a little girl anymore, already eighteen herself and thus, adult. Time had passed by so fast. Maybe it was time for the 'One day, all the land that is touched by the sun will be yours' speech…
I watched her resting in the grass.
Or maybe it wasn't…
There was some crackle in the grass behind us. We both turned around, alerted, our powers searching for the presence that had dared to disturb us.
I relaxed. It was only Percy, one of our students, around Morgan's age.
"Oh sorry…." He blushed deeply. "I didn't think that you were…uh…eh…" He giggled uneasily. I had a feeling what this was about; I hadn't told Morgan that I would come with her…
As soon as he was away- he had dashed off very quickly, I nudged her. "Some secrets you want to tell me?" "Mother!" She growled, but I could see her blush. "I see…no need to tell me. I was as bad as you…" "And father was worse." "Correction, he is. No past tense, present." She glanced at me, apparently still trying to defend herself. "At least I'm not as bad as Mab! She's dating- or well, trying to date Draco!" I stared at her. "Draco? Lance's son? Since when? And why don't I know about this?!" Morgan grinned. "She didn't tell you, that's it. She doesn't have to, you know?" "I do know…you didn't tell me about Percy either…" "Mother! We're not together or something!" I laughed. Maybe it wasn't so bad if history repeated itself sometimes…
The End
A/N: Yep, CPF, you were right. ^^ It is a girl.
One cookie for everyone who get's the hint about Morgan's name (and no, Zammy, my MSN name is just an indirect hint). Two cookies for everyone who get's the hint about Percy's/Draco's name (Hint: I might be a HP fan, but this has nothing to do with it). Two cookies especially for Zammy if he gets the nod thrown towards him. XD
And since I'm a nice author...the disclaimer. Pokemon does not belong to me, but Morgan does. No stealing her before asking me! >)