Secrets Without Shame (A Pokémon Fanfiction)

Chapter 41

Chapter 41

(Note: There will be lots of switching between POVs in the next two chapters. It's the only way I can squeeze everything in.)

"She isn't coloring correctly!" Deborah snapped for the fifth time, causing White to misspell a word in her letter to Mrs. Parker.

"Why are you so irritated about how Fiona's coloring?" Danny asked with some frustration while he wrote in a notebook. "She's just a little kid, she's not going to be an amazing artist!"

"I think she might be a bit sensitive when it comes to art," suggested Leia, who was also drawing on paper as she was watched Fiona color and Deborah draw. "Maybe you were an artist before Team Flare!"

It was merely a few hours since Sky Blue had gotten his Key Stone. Since receiving his own Key Stone, he had become a little more quiet. He was currently trying it out on his Gallade and Aerodactyl on the Pokemon Center battlefield while Alan was still in his pokeball. Mira and Amos were still out, and Margaret was in the girls' room. White, Danny, Leia, Fiona, and Deborah were in the lobby of the Pokemon Center. Fiona was coloring a picture, Leia and Deborah were both drawing, and both White and Danny were writing.

"I highly doubt that," Deborah growled, glaring at the little girl before looking down at her paper and sketching again. "I find it dull work."

"What are you doing then?" White asked, looking up from her letter to watch the Embrace Pokemon. "You've been drawing for an hour. Why don't you show us?"

"Non."

"Come on, we want to see it!" Leia said teasingly, pulling the picture away from Gardevoir so she could see. "What are you afraid of it?"

"Give it back!" Deborah snapped desperately as Leia got up from the table so she could look at the drawing. "It's personal!"

White jumped as Leia gasped with amazement, causing her to make a pen streak on the letter.

"Deborah, you drew this?" Leia asked in amazement.

"Obviously I did!" The Gardevoir snapped with frustration.

"What's wrong?" Danny said questioningly, looking up from his journal.

"Nothing's wrong, it's beautiful!"

Leia darted between White and Danny and laid out Deborah's drawing. Even Fiona stopped her coloring to look at the picture.

The picture was a very realistic drawing of a man. There were two sketches at the bottom of the paper. One was a left side view while the other was a right. The rest of paper was used to draw a front view of the man. The man had long black hair that went past his shoulders. His eyes were narrow and he had a very serious expression.

"Deborah, who is this?" White asked, looking up at the blushing Gardevoir.

"I...I don't know," she admitted. "He has been in my dreams a lot lately, this was the only way I could truly seen how he looked..."

"Well ya know, dreams don't just make up people!" Leia told Deborah. "Your brain just can't make up someone, so it uses people from your memories!"

White looked back down at the picture. Deborah might not know it, but she might've just found a way for them to find her previous trainer.

"So you haven't seen this person recently, Deborah?" Danny continued as he glanced at his Pokemon. "You don't remember him at all?"