BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR

🌹LOVING THEM OR LOSING THEM🌹

"No it will be more like will you marry Clair."

Ash looked at him in confusion.

"I don't even know what to say." Lance muttered to himself in desperation as Ash looked at him as if he grew a tail. He couldn't ask him to marry Clair out of nowhere. His train of thoughts were cutted off when they heard a chopper approaching.

"He is here." Lance said as both Ash and Lance looked at the chopper. Ash's eyes dilated, Damian was here. This time he will end him for sure.

"Why are you acting this weird." Ash asked Lance as he pulled a strand of hair above his forehead as he sighed.

"Those old coots are planning to marry Clair off." Lance answered as Ash felt a weird feeling grow in his chest. As if his stomach and heart switched their place. An feeling of uncomfortableness and maybe a tint of jealousy.

"Care to repeat." Ash said. His mind refusing to believe it.

"Damian is here for a negotiation and they are using Clair as currency. Things got out of control like hell. I don't know what happened, they called me here and asked for me to call Clair here." He said holding his temples.

"I basically led her straight into a dragon den where she is guaranteed to die." Lance swore. Meanwhile Ash understood the gravity of the situation. He knew about the concept of arranged marriage. Watching some dramas with Sabrina helped him a lot.

But to believe he will see something like this in real life wasn't on top of his list.

A faint memory of last night crashed in his mind. A blurry memory of two people kissing.

"It should be more like. Take care of Clair for me Ash. Losing Liza and Jane was already hard enough. And if I couldn't protect my own sister against him, then i should be damned to hell." Lance said as Ash placed his hand on Lance's shoulder.

"I know you do not love Clair like you did to Sabrina. Nor she is smart and charming like Diantha or Cynthia but she is herself Ash. That marry her thing came out wrong. Protect her Ash. I already failed to protect Jane and now Clair." Lance said as all his failures came into his mind.

Failure to protect Jane.

Failure to save Kanto.

Failure to save Ash.

Failure to protect his own gym leader.

Now losing Clair will be his breaking point.

All his life was nothing but failure. Only he knew how many lives slipped from his hand. Only he knew how those screams tortured him each night. Only he had seen bloodshed without being able to do anything.

"I don't know about marriage part but protecting her. She is my responsibility Lance." Ash reassured the man. Clair was his responsibility. For now and forever.

"And about Jane. Can you tell me about it." Ash asked hoping to gain a lead on hunter J as Lance sighed.

"You must have heard bits from Clair right?" This man was really owner of G-men for a reason.

"Why did she walked down dark path Lance. You could have stopped her right." Ash asked as they sat down on the stairs of a house.

"Dragon clan is one of the most fucked up Clan Ash. She lost her everything that one day and was thrown out of the village. There goes a saying that says 'when you are not fed love on silver spoons you learn to lick it off knives.' Jane had to survive somehow. And all the betrayal and things. She chose the path which will lead to her doom." Lance muttered as both of them looked toward the sky. Rain clouds covering the whole sky as an uneasy feeling crept Ash.