Title: Regret
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: None
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #23, Regret
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: Future fic, possible OOCness

Sometimes, Gary feels regret. He’s not sure why, because he and Ash aren’t anything remotely resembling friends any more, and the years have stretched between them like betrayal.

They can never go back.

He’s left his cheerleaders behind; married a nice girl named Amber, and settled down. He’s an up and coming researcher in his own right now, with a baby on the way, and he doesn’t think about those days when he was a cocky trainer much.

Still, he’s not sure what to feel when he sees Ash again, with Misty clinging to his side, Brock grinning as he dishes up barbeque, May and Max flown in from Houen and Dawn from Shinou, at a birthday party one bright morning in Pallet Town.

He just knows he’s not welcome, and that is what he regrets the most.

End Fic

Completed 6/6/07

This is NOT Palletshipping, just loss of friendship!!! And I doubt Gary’s insightful at all…