Precious Doll in This Ugly World [Pokemon Fanfic, 2015 PKMNWatties]

A Girl's Advent

The bird is generally thought to be a symbol of freedom. They can walk on the earth and swim in the sea as humans do, but they also have the ability to soar into the sky. Birds are free to roam to earth and the sky. Many cultures believe that they are a symbol of eternal life; the link between heaven and earth.

 

She knew she shouldn’t really, but she wanted to see that man again. The one who had saved her from the kind-man-who-wasn’t.

Yesterday, she had gone back to her room to wait for Sammy after Giovanni had left her in the restaurant. She wasn’t exactly sure he had left her alone though, because there were people she noticed before that trailed around him, sometimes in the open and sometimes not, and who had been still around and had quietly made sure she had made it to her room.

She thought it was nice of him to make sure she got back okay.

When Sammy had come back from his meeting, she hadn’t said anything or revealed she’d gone out. She was still somehow sure that he’d known, because he’d given her a look and she sort of fidgeted in place. But he didn’t say anything and they had a quiet dinner, while he told her about what the convention had been about and what he’d learned. She made sure to pay attention, so that she could take better care of her pokémon in the future when she went on her pokémon journey.

After that, Sammy had tucked her into bed and told her favorite bedtime, about the time he met a pokémon trainer named Ash Ketchum (just like her, he teased). And she’d smiled inwardly because she had a Pikachu just like Ash the Boy now, and she hoped that Sammy would like her more than him. Or even better, that she would remind Sammy of the other Ash, and Sammy would feel less lonely and wistful for him.

But now Sammy was back at the medical convention, and she really, really wanted to meet Giovanni again. So she snuck out again, when she knew she shouldn’t and even Giovanni had warned her against it. Or had he? He’d only warned her against the world and strangers…

She guiltily latched onto the loophole and looked around the outside again, careful to try not to draw attention to herself and also hopefully the Man with the Vulpix wasn’t around either.

“You know, I thought I said you shouldn’t be wandering around by yourself,” his familiar voice was quick to warn her, and she looked around and spotted him some ways away. She grinned widely and ran towards him, surprising him when she tossed herself at him and hugged him tightly. She missed the uncomfortable look on his face, before it smoothed out and he unfamiliarly repeated her actions, albeit with more care and less roughness (though his arms did feel rigid).

“Nuh uh. You told me to not go with strangers and to not be so trusting. You never said I couldn’t go out. And I wanted to see you again!”

Then, in the middle of that public place where no one was paying attention to them, Giovanni gently pushed her away and knelt on one knee, so that he could look her better in the eye.

“Dolcezza, understand –I’m not a kind man either. I’m not a good person. I am one of those I warned you against.”

Ash frowned, but nodded. Except –

“But you’re a good man to me,” she blinked and he sighed.

He stood back up and ruffled her hair. “Come. You can stay with me while Oak is still in that convention, little blackbird.”

“Eh? You know Sammy?!”

He chuckled slightly. “Who doesn’t know the famous Professor Oak? You should be asking how did I know you were with him?” he hinted.