Title: Time enough for us
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Expertshipping (Professor Oak x Agatha)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #46, Time
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*

Warnings: Het

It’s too late, she thinks, because now they are old. They have been separated for over fifteen years, their children are grown up and have children of their own, and Samuel has plenty of young, nubile women in lab coats flocking around him.

He would hardly spare a thought for her.

Agatha remembers that she used to be beautiful, once upon a time, with long blonde hair and curves that any man would appreciate. She wore jewelry, too, and slim cocktail dresses made of slippery silk in bold colors, and, high heels. She danced with a different partner every night and never bought her own drinks.

Now, she has nothing but her Ghost Pokemon and her memories. Her face is wrinkled, her back hunched. She leans on a heavy staff and can barely walk. She has not aged well. Sometimes, she thinks she has not lived well.

Samuel has. Most know him as Professor Oak, but he still is active in the scientific community, and he lives off the riches his patents have brought him. He no longer battles, preferring to fiddle with his Pokedex, but he is still well-built and muscled. He has not run to fat, or shriveled into a mass of aged flesh, as she has.

Perhaps, she thinks, it is time she left her fantasies behind. She rises with a creak from her chair, and shuts the photograph album. She replaces it on the shelf.

Then, she goes to see her lawyer.

End Fic

Completed 10/17/09

The relationship between Agatha and Professor Oak interests me a lot. I always wonder how they were like when they were young…