"Papa! Papa!" Ash yelled colliding with his father's leg as he ran into the kitchen.

Giovanni laughed, "Ash, please stop! I cannot make you breakfast if you do not allow me to walk."

Ash shook his head, "No, Papa. I want to sit here forever."

"Satoshi, if you don't move right now, I will get your mother on the phone." Giovanni warned.

Hearing both his proper name and the threat Ash immediately released his father's leg, "I'm sorry, Papa." He muttered, looking at the floor dejectedly.

Giovanni laughed, "Don't be down, son, I just don't want you to get hurt." He leaned down and scooped his son up under the arms, "How about we have pancakes instead of cereal?"

Ash clapped his hands together, "Oh, yes please Papa!" He replied, screaming in delight.

Giovanni, making the noise of an aeroplane, quickly, swinging his five year old son from side to side took him to the table and set him in a chair.

"Sit here while I go cook pancakes, what do you want on them?"

"Chocolate!" Ash screamed in reply.

Laughing, Giovanni took of to the kitchen to make the small boys lunch.

Giovanni was in charge of the little run about this weekend because his ex-wife had decided that it would be an amazing idea to marry a Pokémon Trainer who was stopping in Pallet town for a while. Giovanni had stressed that this man would not supply herself and Ash a stable lifestyle but she had not cared. Delia was stupidly in love with a man who would leave her as soon as the next opportunity to continue his journey showed itself.

Giovanni tutted to himself in disgust as he put all the required ingredients for pancake into a bowl.

"Hurry up Papa, I'm hungry!" Cam an impatient moan from the dining room.

"Just a minute Ash!" Giovanni called in reply.

He quickly poured the batter onto the hot pan and flipped it a few times for good measure. He then transferred it all onto a plate and poured as much chocolate as he felt that the already hyperactive boy should have, and being a man to spoil his only child, was a lot.

Grabbing some cutlery from the draw, Giovanni quickly took the plate of drowning pancakes into the dining room, where Ash was kneeling on the chair so that he could see on top of the table.

Giovanni placed the plate in front of Ash who muttered a quick 'Thank you' before stuffing it into his face.

They sat in silence for a few moments, Giovanni watching Ash, Ash watching his pancakes until Ash spoke.

"Papa?" He said tentatively, and Giovanni immediately sensed a question coming.

"What Ash?" He asked.

Ash put his cutlery down and bit his lip slightly, "Who are those people you are always talking to?"

Giovanni tilted his head slightly, he talked to a lot of people, Ash would have to be more specific, "Which people?"

"The ones that came round last night…I saw them on the news the other day. Are you involved in bad things, Papa?" Ash's milky brown and oh so much like Delia's eyes, portrayed Ash's well of concern.

Giovanni was about to lie and say no he wasn't when he said, "Yes, son." Ash's jaw fell agape and Giovanni felt ashamed. "I'm the head of Team Rocket." 'Only because my mother makes me. Only because I was brought up in it and know nothing but Team Rocket.' He added in his head, "But, I also run a gym, for Pokémon trainers and their Pokémon to battle in and against me."

Ash seemed to drink this in, his eyes turned dark for a minute then he looked up to his father with a steely resolve, "Papa, can I tell you something?"

Giovanni looked at his son with slight confusion.

Ash shook his head, "No matter what, I will still love you." Ash smiled a toothy grin at his father and Giovanni couldn't help but smile in return.

"Thank you, Ash. I just wish your mother saw it my way as well." Giovanni muttered.

Ash looked ahead, as if focusing on a spot in the wall would make it disappear, and then he muttered, "Papa, when I grow up, I want to be just like you! I want to have millions of Pokémon, and I want to be the best!"

Giovanni was shocked and his mouth fell agape in wonder, but then Ash laughed.

"But I'm going to get my Pokémon a good way. I'll never steal my Pokémon, not like all of Team Rocket does."

Giovanni shook his head and laughed, that was Delia's influence shining through. "Well now Ash, that's a good goal. I wish you the best of luck, and so you know, I think ground type Pokémon are the best."

Ash shook his head vigorously, "Nuh uh Papa, electric types are best. I want to get a Jolteon…or maybe an Electrike. Fire Pokémon are cute though so maybe a Flareon…or Charmander. Or water type are amazing, Vapereon!"

Giovanni laughed, "How about you just get Eevee's and evolve them into each type?"

Ash's face was in amazement as he seemed to consider this, "Wow, Papa, you're so smart…well not on the ground type Pokémon."

"Why Ash, ground type Pokémon are almost impervious to electric moves!"

But Ash wasn't listening; suddenly he turned to Giovanni and snapped his fingers, "I want a Pikachu!" He said, determined.

"You do now?" Giovanni asked, intrigued.

Ash nodded, "Yeah, they're so small and quick and I bet they do loads of damage with they're thunder shock."

Giovanni nodded, "They do. I have a Pikachu Ash…do you want to see him."

"Would I ever!" Ash exclaimed.

Breakfast long since forgotten and cold Ash jumped from the table, "Can I see now Papa?"

Giovanni nodded and lifted Ash up. Carrying Ash out to the garden with his arms wrapped around his neck, Giovanni told Ash of how Professor Oak had given this Pikachu to Delia and Delia in turn to him.

Ash listened in curiosity, as they approach the barn in which his father kept all his Pokémon in for the night.

Giovanni opened the door and called Pikachu who suddenly appeared in front of Ash.

"Heya Pikachu, I'm Ash."

Pikachu cautiously sniffed Ash and looked up a Giovanni who nodded and then tackled Ash to the floor licking his face.

"Pika pi!"

Ash laughed joyously, "It's great to meet you too!"

Giovanni watched Pikachu and Ash play for hours, until he finally decided to go inside and make coffee. While there he stared at the phone, wondering if he should call Delia. Eventually, the echo of Ash's laughter spurred him forward; he sat forwards, grabbed the phone and dialled her number.

After it rang for a few minutes a calm and chirpy voice came down the line, "Hello, Mrs' Ketchum here."

"Done with the marriage then?" He asked.

Delia laughed, "Oh, Vanni, long time no speak. Yes, it's all done. Ash's name will have to change to I am afraid."

"We spoke yesterday." Giovanni stated, "And it's probably for the best, wouldn't want Ash to have the same name as one of the most wanted evil groups in the world."

He could almost here the frown when Delia replied, "No, we wouldn't. So, where is my little Spoink?"

"Outside…playing with Pikachu."

"Oh." Delia said surprised.

Giovanni nodded and then remembered that Delia could not see it, "Yeah, he seems to have grown quite fond…I was wondering if it was alright if I sent it back with him…maybe Professor Oak could breed it, I don't know, but it makes Ash happy so…"

"Oh, Vanni, that sounds wonderful! When are you sending Ash back?" She asked.

"The limo will come in about an hour; he'll be taken to the helicopter pad and home within two hours of now." Giovanni informed her.

Delia laughed down the receiver, "Always rushing to make sure he gets home safely without being known…I wish other people knew you like me Vanni."

"You try growing up with an evil mother who is hell bent on crushing all dreams you may have and see how you turn out." Giovanni muttered.

Delia laughed, "Well I think you turned out all right actually." She said fondly.

They talked for what seemed like ages, when there was a knock at the door.

"The limo's here." Giovanni said sadly.

"Okay, bye…I love you Vanni…" Delia whispered down the phone before she hung up.

Giovanni stood there holding the receiver with a dead line before whispering to no-one, "I love you too, Deli."

He opened to door and gave the chauffeur Ash's bag before going outside to tell Ash to say his farewells.

As Ash ran inside to get his jacket Giovanni knelt down to look at Pikachu, "I'm sending you back to Deli's…is that okay?"

Pikachu nodded, apprehensively, and when Giovanni told her to return to her poke-ball she did so without fuss.

He slowly placed the ball within a brown bubble wrap envelope and gave it to Ash.

"Don't open this son; just give it to your mother when you get home. It's for her eyes only, and if she chooses to tell you she will."

Ash looked confused but he nodded slightly, "When will I see you again Papa?" He asked.

Giovanni leaned forwards and kissed his son on the forehead, he smiled, "I hope so. This has been a fun weekend."

"I like your pancakes better than mama's." Ash declared.

Giovanni laughed, "That's good…bye Ash."

Ash's eyes were sad, but he did not cry as Giovanni slid the door shut and waved as the drove away.

Giovanni smiled, upset that he was now one more Pokémon short than normal but happy to have made his son smile, because hey, even a bad guy's not heartless.

A little one-shot about Giovanni and how he's not all evil, therefore he had to be Ash's dad, ergo the plot thickens.

Anyway, I might do continuations of cute little one-shots like this, or a little meet up at one point between father and son and huge shouting match in which MewTwo is mentioned and blah blah blah I'm rambling aren't I?

Hehe...Giovanni is totally OOC, but oh well...he doesn't really have a character though, he's just sorta evil and just...there...wow he needs a life xD

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