Hey! Here is an Ash & Anabel story. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon

It was another calm quiet day at the Tohjo Falls where we find a purple haired girl, who had filled out well in the last two and a half years, sat sadly alone in the fetal position while thinking about her boyfriend. Well, in all honesty, he wasn't really her boyfriend but she always thought about him that way. She had started to think like that after she realized her feeling for the boy were more than just that of friendship and that she may never - no, that it may be a long time until she would get to see him again.

It had been a few months after Ash had beat her when she realized this, and despite her best efforts to beat him to make him stay longer and maybe even allow him to read her heart again, and left to beat the Battle Pyramid when Anabel was walking to the forest checking up on the wild Pokemon in the area. As she continued on her walk she found the place where Ash had managed to upset the Beedrill not once, but twice. This caused her to giggle and get what felt like a Butterfree in her stomach. There was that feeling again! What was it and why does it always happen when I think about that rash, energetic, toned, handsome boy. I know I like him but this is so… different. Finally, a noise snapped her from her thoughts. She was surprised to see the Battle Pyramid flying past the falls toward the Battle Tower. Of course, her first thought was Ash was facing the Battle Pyramid, maybe he's onboard! And with that, she called out Metagross and hopped on using her mental connection to tell him to follow the Pyramid as she didn't trust her voice due to the excitement of being able to see him again. Anabel and Metagross flew through the air as fast as Metagross could as he could feel the emotion radiating off of her and because he wanted a rematch with Ash's Tauros. After five minutes of following the Battle Pyramid, it landed and Anabel jumped off Metagross after he also landed and immediately returned Metagross. She then ran inside as soon as the door was raised. She looked around but didn't see Ash. Maybe he's with Brandon at the bridge. But as soon as she turned she saw Brandon… Alone.

"Oh. Hello, Anabel, I didn't expect to see you her this quick." Brandon said nervously wondering just how accurate Scott's tail was about her being in love with Ash.

"Where is Ash. He wouldn't quit so where is he?"

Well, Scott was 100% accurate this time it seemed. "Scott didn't tell you? He beat me about a month and a half ago." Brandon responded now knowing the next information would hit her hard.

"No… Scott didn't… Wait does that mean he's a brain now? And why haven't I been told about this?" She replied as her patients disappeared quickly.

"Well, uh, Scott did offer the position to him but he declined as he still had a lot to learn if he wants to become a Pokemon Master." Anabel perked up when she heard that Scott had indeed offered him the position but was visibly upset to hear that he had declined as that meant that she probably wouldn't get to see him as often, if ever. "And now he's headed to Sinnoh to compete in the league there." Now her mood was rubbing off on the other Pokemon near them so much that Espeon popped out of her ball and did her best to comfort her trainer. Needless to say, it wasn't helping.

Wow. To miss him this much can't be human. But they say love does crazy things. Well maybe he couldn't read my heart because I didn't have it, he did.

Back to the Present Anabel could feel her friend Espeon nudging her. Not long after that, she knew why she could hear her Boss, Scott, calling for her.

She sighed and sat up and said, "Scott! Over here."

After another minute Scott found her. "Hey. Come on we gotta go."

"Really?" Scott nodded. "Okay. Let's go." She slowly got up and they started to walk back to his car. Once there Scott drove toward her house. On the way she asked, "Where are we going?"

"Really Anabel, you should start checking your emails again. We are heading over to watch the finals in the Kalos League." Scott replied.

"But why do all the Brains need to be there?" Anabel asked longing to back to being alone with her Pokemon and be able to dream about the things she could do with Ash, well other than hold him so tight that he could never leave her again. How she longed for another battle and to maybe even just sit by the fire on a cold night with just each other… and there Pokemon… maybe.

"To spread the image of the Battle Frontier of course!" Scott said snapping Anabel out of her daydream.

"Fine," Anabel said as they pulled up to her house. "I'll go pack sees you in five." And after ten minutes she comes out with her bag and her Pokemon.

"I thought you said you'd be back in five?" Scott's asked knowing it probably had something to do with Ash.

"Well, I'm here now so let's go," Anabel stated trying to avoid him from seeing her eyes red as she had found one of Ash's socks, that he had left behind on accident when he dried his clothes off at her house, in the bottom of a draw in her closet. They drove in silence to the nearest airport and meet up with the other brains who quickly quieted down as they approached.

"Everyone ready?" Scott asked.

Everyone gave a resounding yes, well everyone except Anabel who simply shrugged as that is about as excited as she gets since Ash left.

"Then let's board the plane," Scott said. They all walked to their private and very nice personal Jet which would take them to Kalos. Everyone sat in the front except Anabel who went to the back and looked out the window while putting here Espeon themed earphones in. Now the rest of the group went back to placing bets on what Anabel would do when she saw Ash in the finals.

"I bet she rushes the field!" Noland said.

"No way, she will be to in shock," Brandon stated.

"50 bucks?" Noland replied.

"Deal." (Brandon)

"I'll take that bet too," Greta added. This continued for the first half of the flight and Scott even joined in until they all decided to take a nap so they would be ready for anything when they get there.

When Anabel woke up she looked around and found that everyone looked like they had just woken up. Then she looked out the window and saw that they were on the ground and realized that the landing had probably woken her from her slumber where she dreamed of her and Ash flying on a Gyarados over a rainbow made of little candies (it was a dream don't ask me why). As the plane came to a stop she saw a limo pull up next to the plane as everyone gathered their stuff. As soon as she had her bag and her Pokemon she was rushed into the limo. She found this odd but everyone else soon followed. The window was blacked out so no one could see what was going on outside. When Tucker tried to open a window to see what Pokemon were in Kalos Lucy whispered something and he smiled and quickly closed it. Eventually, they reached the stadium where they were rushed from the parked car, which for some reason was closer to the door than it ever had been as Scott usually made them walk a long way for publicity, to the elevator. They all took the elevator ride in silence, but Anabel could feel the excitement, anxiety, and oddly a little bit of fear (fear of losing money but she couldn't tell that from the emotions) from everyone in the elevator but chalked it up to a good match. They finally made it to the Box level floor where again she was rushed to the Brains personal box where she tried to sit in the back and put her earphone. This didn't happen because as soon as she reached the seats in the back Greta took her by the arm and brought her to the front row.

This did it for Anabel. "Okay what is going on and why are you acting so weird. I mean we can't look out windows, we are rushed up to her and now I'm being forced to sit in the front. Why!" The other brains looked at each other.

"Well, we thought that you would enjoy the match and didn't want to spoil the surprise for you," Brandon said as he kept the coolest head in this situation.

"What do you mean surprise?! You should know by now I don't like your guy's surprises." Said Anabel who was clearly ticked off by now.

"Hush it's starting," Lucy added. "I wonder if Brock is still with him?"

"What?" Okay, now Anabel was just straight confused.

But before she could get any more information or even ask another question the announcer came on. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the Finals of the Kalos League Tournament. We are happy to see you all here as we look forward to a great battle today from two great and proven trainers. On the green side, we have Pokemon trainer with cable Rob Low!" The crowd went crazy as he bowed while back in the box Anabel could see everyone putting earplugs in.

Wonder why they are using those, Anabel thought. The box usually cancels out a lot of the outside noise…

While she was thinking about the ear plugs the announcer had started talking again. "And on the Red side, we have a trainer that has now faced all the leagues and won the Orange League against Drake. He also took on the Battle Frontier and won but declined the opportunity to be a Frontier Brain to continue traveling." Anabel perked up at this as so few had beaten the Frontier that she could count them on her fingers… and one of those had been Ash. "Please,e help me welcome… Ash Ketchum!" A roar came from the stadium but she couldn't hear any of it as she stared at the person she hadn't seen in two and a half years. He was looking around the stadium until Pikachu nudged him and pointed at the brains box. Ash looked up and spotted all the Brains but Anabel waving. He waved right back and then stepped up into the trainer's box while a girl with honey-blonde hair on the other side of the Stadium in the front row glared up at the box. Of course, Anabel was too busy staring at Ash to notice. Finally, the battle started all Anabel ever notice was Ash throwing a few poke balls and how his looks were changed by his attitude without ever losing his determination to win. Finally, the first three Pokemon for Rob Low were knocked out by Goodra and Greninja, with both taking minimal damage, and a five-minute break was called. As Ash walked forward he took one more glance towards the frontier brains box and smiled.

The other Brains while exchanging money asked her if she was going to find him or if he was going to have to find her. The next thing they knew was that Anabel screamed "ASH KETCHUM! IM COMING!" and saw was a streak of purple fly out the door as they all cringed as they had taken out the earplugs after first Pokemon had fainted thinking they had avoided the yelling.

Anabel had just taken off running without a clue to where she was going. Her departure from their box didn't go unnoticed by the honey-blonde girl. She went down the stairs, then to the left, then past a conference room. Then into the main lobby.

On the field, Ash had come back out and the first thing he did was look toward the frontier brains box but not seeing Anabel there left him in a disappointed mood. The rest of the battle he ended quickly and painlessly as he felt no reason to show off since she wasn't there.

Back in the lobby, Anabel was looking for the way to the Trainers locker room but without the tour that the brains normally got, again for publicity, she was hopeless to find the way. She heard cheering again from the stadium and was upset that she was missing a chance to look at him but she restrained herself figuring that it would be better to spend that time searching for the locker room so she could talk to him sooner. She took off running to the left as she had come from the right. In the end, she searched the main floor but finally found a sign that pointed toward where she wanted to find just as she heard one final cheer and then tons of feet moving signifying that the match was over. "Wow. That was quick!" she said aloud and ran down the hall thinking that something might have gone wrong. She finally made it to the room a couple of minutes later as she had to stop at the restroom to vomit out of exhaust and nervousness. But outside of the door was a girl a little younger than her with honey-blonde hair that reaches her shoulders, what looked like an 8-year-old girl, and a blonde guy that also looked to be a year or two younger than her. (Ok. Its Serena, Bonnie, and Clemont I am not describing them. Go google them and get a picture as they are in the normal clothes except Serena who just got her first one with the short hair.) The older girl didn't look happy to see her there. After a couple of seconds of getting stared at, she heard a laugh she would recognize anywhere coming from the locker room and relaxed a little.

"What are you doing here! He is mine now so don't get any ideas." the older girl stated but Anabel could sense the fear and desperation that she hid underneath. She smiled realizing that she was in the same position she had been in when she had battled Ash for the second time, but before anyone else could say anything Ash came out.

He came out almost running with Pikachu and said "Guys I'm going to look for an old friend so I'll meet you back at the poke-" as he turned around and saw Anabel. He stopped short and then a smile lit up his face.

"Ash great battle out there!" the older girl tried to get his attention and ran to hug him but only ran into the wall as Ash had run up to Anabel and gave her big Ursaring hug. She quickly returned the hug putting all the strength she had left into it.

"Anabel I'm so happy to see you again!" Ash said busting with happiness.

"Glad that makes one of us." Serena unconsciously responded in a sarcastic tone. This earned her a glare from the other boy but she couldn't care less as neither Ash or Anabel had shown any signs of letting go.

"Hey, Anabel. Where did you go during the second half of the match? I was kinda worried that you were avoiding me." Ash asked as he genuinely wanted to know.

"I was running all over the place trying to find this place." She answered.

"It was to the right of the elevator on the trainer's floor," Ash stated shock that it had taken her that long to find it.

"Oh," Anabel said embarrassed. "Guess I acted a bit rash, huh?"

"I thought that was my job," Ash said as he released the hug and moved his hand to her shoulders. "Did you see how great Greninja was though!?"

"Oh uh…" Anabel didn't even know what Greninja was as she had only watched Ash. "No, I didn't watch your battle I was kinda distracted by… something."

"See Ash. I'm telling you that she's no good." The older girl said to try to get them away from each other.

Ash let go of Anabel completely and tried to turn around until he realized that Anabel was back to hugging him with what felt like a death grip. "Anabel is something wrong?" He asked with concern that only upset Serena more.

"Don't leave me again." Anabel quietly whimpered.

"I'm not leaving you I only want to talk to Serena," Ash said trying to comfort her. It worked somewhat as Anabel relaxed her grip just long enough for Ash to turn around until she clamped down again hiding behind Ash. Ash just ignored this and said, "Now Serena, it's still rude to talk about people like that." He then turned back to Anabel and put an arm around her with made her relax a little.

It also upset Serena to no end as she had tried so hard to get Ash to hold her like that again since when he helped her in the forest back in pallet town.

"Now why were you distracted?" Ash asked.

Anabel was not about to let Ash go so she looked the other way while blushing and mumbled, "By you."

"I'm sorry. You were so distracted by me that you didn't see Goodra or Greninja battle in the first 15 minutes that we battled before the break?" Anabel slowly nodded. "Wow. You must have missed me a lot." He said as he hugged her again. After another 10 seconds of bliss for Ash and Anabel, extreme pain for Serena, and nervousness and fear at what Serena might do for Clemont and Bonnie they all heard the elevator ding and saw the other Brains and Scott step out of the elevator. Ash being Ash tried to run over to them to meet them but had forgotten about the Anabel who's grip had tightened as if it was trying to squeeze the life from him. This almost pulled both of them over but they caught themselves in the nick of time. The Brains other than Anabel all started passing money toward Brandon who had called that she wouldn't let go and started making more bets on how long it would last. Anabel didn't notice as she only had eyes for Ash as she observed him up close for the first time since he left.