I do not own any of the characters in this story, except Sakura coz I made her up.
I also own this storyline. ALL COPYMEOWTH'S WILL BE FED TO MY GROWLITHE!
Rating: PG 13
Due to mild adult content and a few tense situations.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
O little child,
A gift from heaven are thee!
Sent from above,
To a team of three!
A uncle with whiskers,
Watches you as you sleep, soundly in your hospital cot,
Not knowing if you'll wake or not,
A tired new mother,
Beaming with pride,
With her loyal husband at her side,
Who always keeps a steady eye,
On any stranger who passes by,
O team of three,
Take heed,
For another selfless person you'll need,
In the shape of one still so young,
Who brings delight to everyone!
Beware, watch out, and look out for one another,
Count on your team as you would on a brother,
Alone as one you play a part,
But as a team, you play with heart,
Together you'll fight the things that come,
And give a joyus life to your little one,
Even an unlikely pair,
Will take part in your welfare!
Oh little Sakura,
Blessed with the name of a beautiful flower,
There IS such a thing, as love power!
Jessie looked down at her baby girl, amazed that she had created something so beautiful.
''I love you,'' she whispered, kissing the baby's forehead as she laid her down in her white crib.
Even though Sakura was now four months old, she still smelt as new as she did when she was first brought home form the hospital. The tiny human looked up, with the same sapphire blue eyes as her mother, and gurgled happily as she watched her night light, in the form of a Flareon. Jessie switched on the music box which played a lullaby similar to Jigglypuff's song, and shut out the light.
''Goodnight,'' She whispered lovingly, shutting the door behind her as she left the room.
The cabin was close to silent. All that could be heard was the gentle mumbles coming from the TV, and the wind whistling through the open window.
Jessie smiled as she watched her three friends sleep. Mondo was sunk into a cozy armchair, his brown hair ruffled by Sakura, earlier that evening, and his Ditto snoozing on his lap. Meowth was curled up on the rug in front of the blazing fire, his tail wrapped around his body and a sleepy smile on his face.
And then there was James. Of course he was more than her friend. He was her lover, her husband, and the father of her child. She laughed quietly as she noticed that he looked absolutely exhausted and guessed that he would probably not wake up until the morning.
Jessie went into the kitchen and began to boil the baby bottles clean.
She had changed into her nightdress which came a little above the knee, and had thin delicate straps which let the rest of the garment flow down her body with ease. She yawned loudly and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she began to soak the bottles.
Mondo opened his eyes slowly and looked around. From where he was sitting, he could see Jessie in the kitchen. He blushed when he saw what she was wearing. Even though she was now a married woman, he still couldn't take his eyes off her! Besides her clothing, he noticed that she looked very tired and decided to lend a hand.
''Hey Jess!'' he smiled, standing in the door way of the kitchen.
''Hey sleepyhead!'' she returned his warm greeting.
''Need a hand?'' he offered.
''That would be great!'' Jessie beamed, thankful that the job would be done in half the time.
Mondo smiled again, removed his black gloves, and plunged his hands into the warm soapy water.
''I like your dress,'' He commented, blushing again.
''Thanks! At least someone's awake to appreciate it!'' She frowned playfully at James, who was still in a deep sleep on the sofa, then she sighed. ''But I wish I could lose these three pesky pounds!'' she said, grabbing a little bit of loose skin from around her stomach.
''Jessie, you've just had a baby! Give it time,'' Mondo told her. ''And anyway,'' he continued. ''You look nice no matter what!''
Jessie laughed and turned to him.
''Flattery will get you everywhere!'' she smiled, dabbing a palmful of suds on his nose. ''And speaking of appearances, love the new hair style!'' she smirked, pointing to the spiky mess that Sakura had made when the two had been playing earlier that evening.
''Ha! Yeah! A fashion follower, just like her mother!'' he chucked, placing a hand, lightly on his head.
Suddenly, a whining began to murmur from the baby monitor on the breakfast bar. The whine then turned into a whimper, and then a miserable cry.
''She's up!'' Jessie sighed with false annoyance and a sensational smile.
Mondo watched as she plodded into the nursery, and then reappeared with her baby nestled safely in her arms.
''Shhhh!'' She hushed her gently, not wanting to wake James and Meowth.
But it was too late....
"Jess? JESS?!'' James cried, jumping up from the sofa and dashing into the kitchen.......stepping on Meowth's tail in the process.
''MEOWTH!'' Meowth cried out in pain.
''JESSIE....?! Oh..oh thank god!'' James exhaled when he realized all was well.
''She was lonely.'' Jessie smiled tenderly at him.
''For a minute there, I thought WE were the ones who were going to be lonely!'' he choked.
''Hey, she's okay!'' Jessie reassured him softly, knowing he'd had quite a scare. ''See?'' she said, as she handed him their priceless treasure, and planted a kiss on his cheek.
Meowth stormed into the room, ready to give James the fury swiping of his life, but then melted at the sight of Sakura, content and happy in her father's arms.
''Hey! Big foot!'' Meowth tried to frown, hopelessly. How could he be mad at him?
''Yeah, sorry Meowth!'' James apologized, looking down at the little pokemon.
Meowth smiled and jumped up onto James shoulder.
''Hey dere baby,'' Meowth said softly, looking down at the object of affection.
''Here, Uncle Mondo's turn!'' James smiled at the young boy, who was currently leaning against the sink.
''Me? Oh no, I'd drop her,'' He replied with genuine concern.
''No, you won't!'' James laughed. ''Come on!''
Mondo tentatively took Sakura from James and held her gently, looking at her in awe.
''Suits you Mondo!'' Jessie smiled.
''Yeah Jess, maybe in a decade or so!'' He laughed.
Meowth yawned. ''Anyway, I'm gonna go back ta bed, goodnight all!''
There was a chorus of goodnight's from the humans as Meowth made a start towards his basket.
Jessie smiled fondly as James nervously glanced at the front door.
''James, don't worry! If Giovanni wanted to take her, he would've done it sooner.''
''Yeah, you're right,'' James returned the smile weakly. The natural instinct to protect his family was strong.
''Mondo, are you sure he doesn't know we're here?'' He asked him. ''He knows you're our friend, hasn't he asked you if you know where we are?''
''No. He makes a dumb joke about it now and again, but he's never asked me that, and even if he did, there's no way on this earth I'd ever tell him,'' Mondo said firmly.
''Just as well the boss never knew about this cabin,'' Jessie joined the discussion.
''And he never will!'' Mondo added. ''Speaking of Giovanni, I better get back to HQ, he wanted to see me tonight.''
''Really? About what?'' James panicked again.
''Something about keeping track on younger members. Anyway,'' he said, handing Sakura back to James, ''See you all tomorrow!''
''Drive carefully!'' Jessie and James cried in unison as he left.
James returned the sleeping baby to her crib and sat down next to Jessie on the sofa.
''You okay?'' Jessie asked him, gently rubbing his back.
''Yeah, I'm fine,'' he yawned.
''Tired? Shame.....'' Jessie said playfully, turning away from him.
''Shame?'' James asked, rather puzzled.
''Well, I really wanted to....oh never mind.'' she teased.
''Tell me, what?'' James asked, curiously.
''It's nothing, it's just that....I love you,'' She smirked, her voice full of false school girl innocence.
''And I love you,'' he whispered sweetly, leaning in to kiss her. ''More than yesterday, less than tomorrow.''
Just as the lover's lips met, and Jessie began to remove James' top and his hand began to crawl up under her nightdress.......Sakura began to bawl again.
Jessie sighed and stood up. Half way across the room, she turned back to James and said:
''Hold that thought....whatever you were thinking.''
she smiled mischievously. James returned the smile, with the same fashion.
Jessie gently picked up her young daughter and softly wiped away her fresh tears.
''Listen, Sakura sweetie, please... I'm begging you, give me half an hour where you don't cry!'' Jessie laughed. ''Mommys need attention too!''
After rocking her and singing softly into her lavender-blue hair, Sakura finally, drifted back to sleep.
Jessie then bounced back into the living room, only to discover, that James had fallen fast asleep!
''James!'' she scolded him quietly, but her face softened as he sighed happily in his sleep.
''That's right, get some sleep James, you're gonna need it, cause tomorrow, you're all mine!'' Jessie smiled wickedly, kissing his forehead tenderly and leaving her red lipstick imprinted on his head.
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Mondo finaly got back to headquarters at about 11pm. It was a long drive from the cabin, and he had to stop for fuel.
He went straight to Giovanni's office and knocked on the door quietly.
''Come in!'' Giovanni bellowed from inside.
Mondo's blood chilled. That voice was enough to give a Gengar nightmares. He opened the door slowly, and popped his head inside the room.
''Y-you wanted to see me, s-sir?'' he stammered nervously.
''Sit down, Mondo,'' Giovanni instructed, his voice as sharp as splinters.
Mondo did so, but remained on the edge of his seat.
''Certain things have been brought to my attention, certain things that displease me very much,'' Giovanni began, standing up and circling Mondo's chair like a lion stalking prey.
''As you know, this organization prides it's self on one thing and one thing only. Loyalty,'' he said, bringing his mouth close to Mondo's ear.
''I am loyal to my members, and I expect them to be loyal to me,'' he continued in the same, calm tone, and continued to circle Mondo.
''But, as you know, this does not always happen, some members choose to be loyal to each other, only each other.''
Mondo gulped, he knew what was coming, it was a build up to the big question....
''Where are they Mondo?'' Giovanni asked, lowering his face so that his eyes met with Mondo's.
''W-where are who sir?'' he replied, knowing full well who Giovanni was referring to.
''Don't give me that! Where are Jessica and James?!'' he roared, pounding a fist on his desk, making his Persian cower underneath it in fear.
Mondo's pulse quickened, his heart cantered like a race horse and he broke out in a thin layer of cold sweat.
'I don't know,'' he finally answered his boss, trying to sound innocent and as oblivious as possible.
''You, my boy, are a liar. I have no place for liars on my team.'' Giovanni hissed evilly. He then crouched down in front of Mondo. ''Be careful, you don't want to end up like them,'' he whispered.
Mondo's heart skipped a beat.
''W-what do you mean?'' he asked shakily.
Giovanni smiled and motioned for one of his bodyguards to come to him.
''Sir?'' the man asked.
''Bring me the child,'' He commanded, handing the guard a shot gun.
''NO! NO, NO!!! Leave her alone!'' Mondo screamed, jumping up from the chair. Two other well-built guards quickly rushed over, and forced him to sit back down, not that it was much of an effort to restrain a fifteen year old kid.
Giovanni laughed.
''Mondo, you have a lot of potential, but you also have a big heart, and a liking for incompetents that I find disturbing,'' he told Mondo, who was now crying silently, not for himself, but for his friends.
''She's just a- just a baby!'' Mondo sobbed, his heart breaking. ''It doesn't matter what you think of Jessie and James, she's still a living thing!''
''Not...for much longer.'' Giovanni smiled evilly. ''Oh, don't worry, you don't miss out! You get to see the result of treachery! Butch! Cassidy! Get in here!'' Giovanni bellowed through the loud speaker.
In an instant, they were outside of his office.
''Come in!'' Giovanni commanded.
The pair did as they were told.
''Mondo?!'' Cassidy exclaimed when she saw the puffy-eyed teen. Mondo turned to look at her, and began to sob his heart out once more.
''I wish for you two to accompany my guard, take Mondo with you, make sure he gets a good look.'' Giovanni hissed coldly.
They were both confused.
''Sir, where are we-'' Butch began in his rasp voice.
''JUST DO IT!!'' interrupted Giovanni. ''DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION ME!''
Butch, not wanting to anger his boss further, pulled Mondo out of the chair, and followed by his partner, he began to drag him out of the door.
Mondo twisted around to glare at his boss.
''How did you find out where they are, how did you know about the baby?'' he whispered tearfully.
Giovanni laughed and picked up a little gadget from his desk.
''This might have something to do with it!'' he said, giving the device to Mondo. ''Your whole Jeep is covered with them. From the steering wheel to the rear view mirror. Bugged. Tiny, tiny cameras that have been watching you since the day you drove them home from the hospital. You've lead us right to her. Thanks, Mondo. But enough playing games, it's time for the brat to die.''
On hearing this, Mondo broke down in floods of tears. He'd been tricked. The questioning was just a test of his loyalty, Giovanni had known all along. Sakura was going to die, and Mondo would be there to see it.
Giovanni's body guard led the three rockets through the woods in search for the cabin and it's four inhabitants, gun in hand. Butch and Cassidy stood on either side of Mondo, each holding a shoulder firmly as his tears continued to fall, but now they were the silent ones.
Cassidy felt a flicker of sympathy for Mondo. She didn't know what was going on, but she knew that he didn't deserve this, whatever it was.
She loosened her grip.....he wasn't going anywhere.
''What's going on Mondo?'' she whispered gently. ''Where is this guy taking us?''
Mondo's face crinkled, and he began to cry again.
''Come on, tell me,'' she prompted him.
Mondo swallowed hard, trying to clear the trapped sobs in this throat.
''Sakura...'' he whispered, almost inaudible. ''He's...he's going to kill her.''
''Sakura? Who's Sakura?'' she asked, rasing an eyebrow.
Mondo sighed despairingly. ''You'll see...'' His face was streamed with hot tears, he had lost all hope of any of his friends getting out of that cabin..not unless they were zipped up in body bags.
Cassidy said no more, he wasn't going to tell her and she knew it. Several minutes of silence was broken by Butch.
''Can the kid take a break?'' he asked the guard, who turned around and nodded with a face of stone.
''Five minutes!'' he told them.
Mondo dropped to his knees and wept miserably at the thought of what was going to happen.
''Cass, here,'' Butch called her over to him so that they could speak in private.
''What's going on?'' he asked, bewildered by their sudden mission and Mondo's tears.
''I don't know. Butch, who's Sakura?'' his partner asked.
''Sakura?! How do I know?'' he exclaimed, drawing a cigarette between his lips.
''Is she someone on the team?'' Cassidy said. ''Think Butch! Is she someone we know?''
''No,'' he puffed.
''Are you sure?''
''Cass, Sakura is a very unique name! I'd think we'd remember if we knew one!'' Butch smiled. ''Why ask?''
''Mondo. He said something about a Sakura.''
''Cass, he's upset. He doesn't know what he's saying at the moment.''
''Yes, but why is he upset? It's not like Mondo to cry,'' Cassidy observed.
''Then you didn't see him when he saw Titanic!'' Butch chuckled. ''The kid's always crying!''
''Not like this, he doesn't!''
''Want me to talk to him?'' Butch offered, stamping on the butt of his cigarette, and grinding it into the grass.
Cassidy gave him a smile and nodded.
Butch went back over to Mondo and coughed to let him know he was there.
''Wanna talk about it?'' he asked, placing a hand gently Mondo's shuddering shoulder. ''Come on Mondo, what's this all about?''
''It doesn't matter.'' he mumbled distantly.
''What do you mean 'it doesn't matter'? Of course it matters, you're crying!''
''You...you wouldn't care....'' he said, fighting back another army of tears.
Butch paused and thought, hard.
''Wait a minute, has this got anything to do with Jessie and-''
He was abruptly cut off by Mondo's wails and the spillage of new tears. Butch gasped, now he understood....
''Mondo, when you asked the boss about a baby.....it's their baby isn't it? Sakura is their baby.''
Mondo nodded.
''All these days you've been missing, all the nights you've been gone, you've been with them, haven't you?''
He nodded again, ''And now they're all going to be killed, and it's all....my....fault!'' He broke into another fit of sobs. ''I should have stayed away!''
Butch sighed sadly. What could he do? Time was running out.....
James woke up on the sofa a few hours later with Jessie wrapped in his arms.
''Ah, back from dreamland I see!'' Jessie smiled. She was still awake. ''Anything nice?'' she asked.
''You, of course. I still can't believe it!'' he whispered, beaming.
''Believe it? Believe what?'' Jessie asked, extremely puzzled.
''You, me, Sakura. It's all so.....''
''Perfect?'' Jessie finished for him. ''But why waste time dreaming when you can have the real thing?'' she asked mischievously, a playful, seductive grin on her face.
James sighed.
''Oh, well if you insist!'' he replied, with mock annoyance and a smile as he ran his fingers through her sea of crimson hair and began to cover her face with kisses.
Jessie gently secured her hands around the back of his head, almost as if to keep him there, as if she were frightened he'd let go. Their lips locked into a kiss, this time there would be no interruptions.
The two lovers clutched each other tightly, treating every kiss like it was to be their last, not caring that Meowth was sleeping in the next room and could walk in and catch them any moment. They had both been so busy with their new arrival, they had barely had anytime for each other!
''Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?'' James asked as he caressed her soft skin.
''Beautiful? Yeah right! My hair looks like something a twister churned up, I have bags under my eyes blacker than ebony, I'm fat, and you call me beautiful!'' Jessie laughed.
''For one, you're not fat! And for two, you look more beautiful now then you did when I first saw you.'' he replied dreamily.
''Oh really? How?'' asked Jessie, still unable to believe that he was not telling her white lies.
''Because you have done the most wonderful thing possible...you brought our daughter into the world.......'' he paused, ''I've still got to get used to saying that.. 'Our daughter' ....I still can't take it in!'' he laughed.
''Oh, she's ours, alright!'' Jessie smiled. ''She's got your cheeky giggle and my weird, long fingered hands!''
''I don't think your hands are weird. I think they're perfect!'' James said holding the hands in question in his.
''Really? You'll think they're ab fab (absolutely fabulous) by the time I get through with you!'' she smirked, a wicked grin claiming her face as the couple continued what they had started.
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The three rockets continued to march through the woods. Led by the terminator that Giovanni had them assigned to.
Cassidy looked at Mondo, who was now physically and mentally drained. So much so that he no longer cried, just hung his head and sighed miserably. The guilt was tearing him apart, soon all that would be left was an empty shell.
Butch had told his partner the whole story and filled her in on new addition, baby Sakura. Cassidy certainly wasn't Jessie's.....or James' friend either for that matter, but she wouldn't ever wish them dead, and certainly not their innocent baby, but she had concluded it was either their heads or her's.
Butch however, had nothing against either of the duo and was trying his best to be positive, for Mondo's sake.
But it was too late for plans, the cabin, was in sight............
TO BE CONTINUED..........
Becky: I got the name 'Sakura' from a Japanese beanie baby. A Sakura is also a Japanese flower, I found it very fitting for the name of J&J's baby!
Also, the phrase ''I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow'' is one of my fave phrases! It basicly means that the love for the person you say it to, grows more each day! ^_^
I'd like to dedicate this fic to all my special friends (You know who you are!)
May we be a group for a long time to come! High fives everybody! I love you guys!!!! ^_^
A special thanks a million to Anna, for putting up with my disgusting (I bet I've spelt it wrong, right?) spelling, punctuation and grammar. I promise you now.....I WILL BUY A DICTIONAIRY!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
Becky
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