Title: Nighttime
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Mirageshipping (Ash/Sabrina)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #46, Night
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: AU, het

Nights are always hard for Sabrina. Even though she has Haunter and Kadabra to keep her company, it is always night when the nightmares come. She can’t look away, and her memory is merciless, reminding her of all the terrible things she did as an emotionless witch.

One night, she’s shaking so badly that she has to get out. She leaves the house, wishing she knew what to do, and on the spur of the moment, decides to visit Ash. It takes a few minutes to find his location, and he’s off in Johto, but it doesn’t matter. She’s good at teleporting.

She finds him, fast asleep, in his tent, and it may be foolish, but she joins him, and Ash doesn’t scream when he wakes up early the next morning and finds Sabrina sleeping peacefully next to him with a smile on her face.

He asks her, after she wakes up, why she’s here, and she blushes and says she had nightmares.

Ash gives her a hug and tells her not to worry.

She asks if she can visit him, and he says of course.

Sabrina winds up spending quite a lot of nights with Ash. It’s innocent, but sometimes, she wishes he were a bit older so she could show him her appreciation.

Well, she’s patient. She’ll wait for him to grow up.

He makes the nightmares go away, she tells him, and he smiles, and says that he’ll protect her.

And she believes him.

End Fic

Completed 8/1/07

Poor Sabrina…