James always was afraid of girls instead of Brock. Why? The image of Jessibelle was always alive in his memory. She was a girl for whom the husband was simply a pokemon which she trained with the help of her birches. The husband … James would endure any Jessibelle's husband, but his parents finally and irrevocably decided him, Jimmy Morgan, to become the husband for that awful girl. What for? Jessibelle was burn at rich family, so he was, and consequently they should get married to create one more rich similarity of the family. It would be natural for his parents and for the whole society, but not for him. What will happened, if James has still obeyed the will of his parents. Once he has successfully run away from his residence with the help his first pokemon named Growly. But has Jessibelle realized her mistakes and has she stopped looking for James? I do not think so…

Johto. Suburbs of Goldenrod city. Ash Ketchum and his friends are on the way to the capital with one purpose. Everyone knows this purpose. Correctly! Ash is going to win a badge of the next Gym Leader. Jessie and James who are not going to break with their Team Rocket job, as it is the only (as they think) possible work for them, are watching for the twerps from the bushes.

– He is not capable to win any badge without Pikachu! – James expressed.

– What are you hinting on? – Jessie asked him.

– And let's take his Pikachu for hundred and fifties time … – James offered.

– And we shall be blasting off again… – Today Meowth was not in so good mood.

– By the way, we will do it today, I believe that it is our happy day! – Jessie said these words with her unfading hope.

As if they were the guerrillas on war Jessie and James figures in white and Meowth got out on the road. Ash went directly here and could not avoid his next meeting with Team Rocket. As always bad guys for a few seconds dug a hole in the middle of the road, and imposed it by branches and the ground.

Jessie and Meowth were more quickly in their work finished their preparations for the show "Ketchum in a hole" earlier than James and hide in the bushes to prepare one more useful things called "Electroimpenetrable jar" and rubber gloves for catching Pikachu. James was finishing preparations with a hole. But suddenly …

James lifted a head and saw Jessibelle facing to him. Oh, no! It may be, probably, a nightmare! James has screamed and run far away from the hole. Jessie and Meowth, looked out from the bushes, and saw a pity show: James escaping from the girl devilishly similar to Jessie. Memory has not kept itself long waiting and Jessie has perfectly remembered that mockery with wedding at Morgan's residence she has involved James a couple of years ago.

– Why are you escaping from me, lovely boy? – the girl cried with whimsical tone, – I'm beautiful, I'm clever and I'm rich… And first of all I'm so … at bed!

James answered nothing, he should, no, he must be escaping. Jessibelle was spoilt rich girl, but she could ran as if she was a champ in athletics. Out of breath James run out to a marge. There was not far from Goldenrod, and it would be possible to take breath. But not now. The limousine of the butler stayed there.

– Oh, no, – James told himself, – For what purpose are they need in their prodigal son?

The only thing that James could do now was to run back to the woods. The annoying bride butler made their way through the thrickets. And why was it necessary to James for jumping out to the road just in that place where Jessie and him prepared their trap for the twerps. Jessie, having heard a crash of branches, jumped out of their shelter with a jar and rubber gloves. She was too surprised to see her partner in a hole, and Jessibelle with the butler nearby.

– Damn, people, you have spoiled our trap! – She sworn angrily.

– Oh, my dear dung, – Jessibelle told Jessie in her usual tone of the spoilt maiden, – You MUST go your own way, and we are taking the thing that is necessary for us.

The last words enraged Jessie. If there stood anybody else, instead of Jessibelle, she could precisely beat him and put in that hole, where tired out James sat now.

– Why are you run after James? – Jessie shouted, – How much time do you need to see that he needs none of your riches and your strange happiness… that he has no need in these things.

– But… – the butler interrupted, – but… his father has died…

– It's the similar silly jokes as two years ago! – James shouted from the hole.

– No… – the butler silently said, – it is serious now.

Something turned over in James's soul, and he put out his head from the hole. The fear and bitterness of loss were read in his eyes. Jessie perfectly knew, that James was so kindhearted, and he very much loved the parents in the depth of his soul.

– Maybe you should tell us this and not run… – James said having bitten his lip for not beginning to sob.

– You are afraid of me as if I'm SARS virus, that is why I haven't even a chance to tell you anything, you have escaped! – Jessibelle began complaining.

She with Jessie's helped him to get out of the hole, and then they have passed to the limousine of the butler.

– Is it possible… for me to go with you? – Jessie asked shyly.

– Perhaps… it is not necessary! – Jessibelle languidly answered and closed a door of the car so that Jessie could feel her uselessness.

Jessie sadly looked at the car going far away and only shouted:

– I shall wait for you, Jimmy-boy…

– Don't worry you will NEVER see him again! – Jessibelle cried an answer, – We have deceived you again, little fool!

James with a plug in his mouth sat on a back seat. Triumphing Jessibelle with a bottle of champagne sat nearby.

– I've got you into my trap, my kindhearted boy! – She spoke her sweet voice and drove her glass near his nose.

In couple of days dirty James with handcuffs on his hands dressed in his Team Rocket clothes without a jacket with big red 'R' and black gloves that parents shouldn't find out about his out law work, was faced to his parents.

– And it is my son! – Father said with a reproach in his voice, – This walking disgrace is my son. This 20 years guy sitting in bushes and making traps for the kids with that awful girl and stealing pokemon from little trainers is MY son! People MUST thing about salary and family at your age!

James looked at parents with full of tears and despair eyes.

"You don't understand anything! Daddy and mummy, you understand absolutely nothing! You don't know, that romanticism exists! But you are sitting here at home, play with your actions, drink expensive champagne, bathe in luxury… but all this is worse than prisons for me. And your bride to me not lovely to me because the only person whom I love… – James who could not speak with the fastened mouth started to speak to himself much, in ideas, – My God, I love… the first time for all our acquaintance to her I have thought of it… I love her… my Jessie…"

– Hmm! – Ash couldn't understand.

He saw rather strange picture: sobbing Jessie and Meowth calming her. They two were sitting near prepared and already spoiled trap.

– Ketchum?! – Jessie shouted angrily, having seen Ash and his friends, and having found that they saw her in tears.

– Does Team Rocket have any problem? – Misty asked, – Where is your third?

Jessie told them about her misfortune.

– Oh, we remember this annoying maiden! – Ash said remembered Jessibelle, – she ran from Morgan's private residence up to Celadon after us taught us how to run correctly (as she thought) and she asked us return her beloved man… I wouldn't like to meet her again. Poor James.

– Oh, though you are bad guys, – Brock offered, – but it is so pity. Jess, we shall go to Goldenrod and take a car and than we shall go to the Morgan's private residence to return your James.

– Why are you helping me? I had never … – Jessie burst into tears even more.

– We want look at James's wedding! – has opened Misty all their cards.

Ash decided one time in his life to think as a rascal: "If James marries that annoying girl, he will never work in Team Rocket, and Jessie without James will not attack them because… well, there will be no inspiration. And if we will also take her to Kanto, two problems on our way to Johto League will be less". Yes, the twerp learned how to be prudent not better than James's parents and Jessibelle.

Two days later James, dressed in specially bought for him suit, with the hands enslaved in the handcuffs, sat on a sofa in the guest room. Jessibelle settled down nearby. She had her Vileplume and James's Growlithe with her. Growly sat near James's leg, but it could do nothing for saving his master, because Jessibelle, learned by last experience, dressed a muzzle to its mouth. The butler went around the sofa, singing something from Britney Spears (awful eerie themes if you don't know). James examined the house where he had a misfortune to be born and did not find any hole through which it would be possible to run away again from such an escort. Jessibelle languidly looked in a mirror and painted her lips with eerie red lipstick. This color was similar with the color of her hair hidden under a veil.

– It is a bad sign if the groom will see the bride in day of wedding! – James noticed.

– All your life is a bad sign! – The girl answered carelessly, – What should we do now?

– Well and for what you then merry such a mistake of the nature? – James asked then.

– Stop philosophizing! – The butler said – I don't want to think!

Jessibelle put a mirror on a sofa and said, embracing James:

– Jimmy-boy when somebody loves …

"Could YOU love?! – James could object, but did not begin, – If you love me you shouldn't be keeping me in such a condition!"

– … he will do everything, – Jessibelle finished her idea, – For example, why have you yesterday refused to… emm… do something lovely with me… you understand what I mean… this is a private affair… And I had to wound your wonderful back with my birch. But we shall do it at our first marriage night or at honeymoon, my lovely boy…

– You will be waiting it for ages! – James answered roughly. – I shall better die of your birch, than doing this with YOU…

On this moment somebody knocked a door, and the butler was gone to open it. There were Ash, Misty and Brock, dressed up as if they arrived to the holiday. Yes, James's wedding for them was a big holiday, meaning the end of prosecution by Team Rocket.

– We are friends of your respectable master's son! – Ash presented, – And James invited us for his wedding...

James in horror looked at these three "friends". He hadn't invited them! And whence they have learned about it? Was it Jessie? May Jessie be with them, and they will help him to run away from this awful residence again?

– It seems, two years back these guys … – Jessibelle began remembering.

– Now we have perfect other opinion! – Ash answered with proud, correcting a collar of his jacket. – Now we'll do everything to make James married you, miss Jessibelle.

– Precisely you do not dissemble, aren't you? – And it was short female memory!

– We will help to rich Hoen for your honeymoon! – Ash assured her.

James had a bad feeling. And what if Ketchum had found out from Jessie about his "abduction" and than the twerps specially arrived here to promote his even greater enslavement by holy martimony?

And what's about Jessie? She was waiting for the twerps in the street and thought, how she could break this unnecessary neither for her, nor for James wedding at its beginning. She sat in the red car which was rent in the nearest city (Celadon) from this residence. Near was Brock's car. And the Morgan's limousine in which the groom and the bride will go to church stood on the other side from Jessie's car.

"If this unfortunate bride at the end of wedding ceremony gives me her bouquet…It will be the most mean that she can invent… As though is a jeer on me! " – This thought was carried by at Jessie's head.

She put her black glasses and looked on Meowth.

– Hey, Meowth, Team Rocket should disturb this sacred wedding, shouldn't it?

Meowth noded his head, because the negative answer could not be mad by the definition. And if it also took place, Meowth after that answer simply would cease its existence.

Ideas did not want to go to Jessie's head. If she cry simply: "No!", – when the priest asks: "Is everybody agree what these people will be married?", – but she would be killed after that. And stealing of James from the reserved limousine is an unreal goal. She approached went to hte church. Jessie though was not a good girl, but she trusted the God. Having driven away the machine far away from the entrance that it could not be seen by arrived to wedding, she left it, and ran into the church and bought small wax candle for her last money. In tears she inserted it there where there was an empty place and sat on a bench that was closer to the exit. It was possible to loose the red haired girl's figure in twilight of church easily. She was dressed a black jacket and black trousers. To tell you the truth, Meowth seemed a little white speck from afar. Nevertheless… this couple wasn't so easy to find.

In half an hour Jessie woke up. The sound of brakes woke her. It's them. Everything, now everything will be finished, twerps will never meet again the well-known Trinity of losers: Jessie, James and Meowth. What did James mean for them? Jessie tried to understand it. He has not made anything especial, anything outstanding, he was simply with them. Simply he was. He had done nothing, had nothing undertaken, sometimes he was flabby, sometimes, on the contrary, he was strong. He was with them. He was a part of their team, he was their friend. But now everything will be over. As soon as he will say: "Yes". – And then put a golden ring on Jessibelle's finger he will not be a part of their team FOREVER. Why? There are hundreds of married rockets! Lots of but James will never return to this romanticism, that they had three together because this marriage is worse than imprisonment for James. His severe parents for whom, it seems, life and death can be bought in a shop, which play with heart of their son to entice him to a residence, these people will not allow him even to see Jessie even by one eye after that day. Money have greater meaning than love for these people. Why such an innocent boy like James could be brought up there? The last question will have no answer forever.

Jessie looked at a door. James in handcuffs which under an escort was conducted in church by the butler, has passed by her.

She wanted to tell him something, but then stopped… But rustle of her clothes made James to look at her side. Jessie looked to the floor: "Forgive me, please… " – she wanted to tell. For what should he forgive her? That his relatives deceived them? His sight was almost as criminal's who had the death for punishment. After the unfortunate groom with a pistol at a temple Ash, Misty and Brock passed. These three didn't even look on Jessie. They simply haven't noticed her. Ash carried a box with rings. Wonderful, he had been recognized by the Morgans. "Be pleased, Ketchup!" – Jessie thought about him with hatred.

And the bride has come under music. She, probably, did not have parents as James father accompanied her. This spoilt lady contemptibly glanced over Jessie and as if she was not very good actress turned away saying: "You are not a competitor for such a girl like me, damn!" Such sights very much offended Jessie all her life, and now it was particularly.

– Jess, stop sobbing … – Meowth tried calming her.

– All is over, Meowth, life has lost the sense for me … – Jessie answered silently that nobody heard her.

– And who had prevented you to marry James? – Meowth asked directly.

Similar conversations two days, week, or one month ago would cause Jessie's sharp negative reaction, but now… severe and rectilinear nobody loving Jessie as though has changed:

– My arrogance, my principles and my stupidity! – Jessie realized. – And whether he loved me? I always thought that only a man could offer a hand and a heart, and the woman should solve whether agree or not. He had not offered me anytime… But I now think that he loves me and only me.

– May he be a little bit modest to do it? – Meowth asked.

– But may it be that James had never loved me …

– It couldn't be theoretically. Have you seen his sight, when he went there? He is afraid of himself, he is afraid of his feeling and consequently now he should marry this… I don't want tell you the bad word that defines Jessibelle correctly!

– What a clever pokemon you are, Meowth … – Jessie said sadly.

– Let's go to the first row…

– It's not necessary … – Jessie turned away.

– And I shall.

The monotonous voice of the priest still aggravated the conditions. Jessie seemed to be in a small wadded room where any phantoms wanted attacking her.

– Jessibelle, do you agree to…

"Yes, she is, she wanted it for a long time!" – Jessie answered to herself when Jessibelle has silently told her wish to a priest.

– James, and do you agree to take the wife…

"All is over! There is no Team Rocket! He will never see me again! I don't exist for him any more… It's not his decision, it's decision of these rock-hearted persons! That's all! I'm exhausted! My life is over! I can't look at this farce any more!"

Jessie carelessly, having done a lot of noise, jumped over and run out to the street away from this wadded room, away from inevitable. She entered her car and pressed gas. The car sharply darted off and in some seconds disappeared far away.

Jessie rode on the limit of the speed which her car allowed her. She did not look, where she drives, it was all the same for her now. And for what she should look where she was going if life had lost any sense for her? Only it was necessary to hope on destiny and wait for present it will give Jessie. Suddenly the good road left from the wheels, and Jessie in horror looked in a window. The instinct of self-preservation ordered her brain in a couple of seconds, and she jumped out of the car flying under a slope. Even half-minutes passed and booming explosion was heard below.

– What for was I rescued? I should be there… in the heart of this fire… – Jessie told herself aloud laying almost without feelings on the ground.

She looked at the sky… These clouds… are interesting creatures. They such a flat and unnecessary things when you look at them standing on a ground, but when you lay and see only them, it seems, they fill in all around. This cloud is similar to her mum, this – to Arbok, this – to Ash Ketchum, this – to Meowth… and this … is he, it is James… Is he still here? No, he is not, he is with that rich dumping rich girl Jessibelle whom he doesn't love and even will never respect her. What for had she jumped out of the car fallen into the chasm, what for was she not lost, angels – keepers, what for did you rescued her?

– Jessie?! – The familiar voice whence from below, such silent...

Who is it? James?! It can't be the truth!

At that moment when Jessie jumped and escaped, James had sharply turned his head to her side.

– Answer "yes", or I shall shoot you down! – The butler said putting to James's temple the toy pistol.

The toy… If James had known it, he would… but he didn't knew.

The priest stood and looked forward for James's answer.

– Do you agree? – He repeated the question.

"What should I do? I simply can't… forget about Jessie… I will never see her also each day I shall exist, looking only at this… terrible wife Jessibelle! No, I disagree. But then I'll be shoot down! No, hardly the butler will do it! He only frightens me! I don't think, that he will kill the son of his mister to be a prisoner than… He is making me to tell "yes" to the priest. Let's look what should you do now? "

– No, because I love another girl! – James blurted out.

"Yes, and what should I do now? I'd run away! While anybody shouldn't stop me! And what is the sense, when my hands are held down! No, I must run away!"

While nobody need time to recognize the situation, James sharply turned and rushed to the church entrance. Uniquitous Jessibelle naturally had time to seize him for a shoulder by her ladies' hand, and she was paid for it. Suddenly Meowth jumped out from the seat and bit her hand by all its four teeth. And someone still tell gossips that Meowth of Team Rocket is not able to battle.

– Vile pokemon! – Jessibelle shouted, trying to throw Meowth off. – I'll find a muzzle for you too, don't worry eerie nasty pokemon!!!

While Jessibelle and James's relatives tried to release the unfortunate girl from Meowth teeth, James already had had a time to jump out to the street and approach to the twerp's car.

– Didn't think, that rockets are courageous! – Ash declared run out after James.

Brock helped the enslaved groom to open the car door, and all four together were soon driving through that road by which Jessie had left. What happened with Meowth? Nothing especial. It unhooked from Jessibelle, sworn on all in human language and, having shocked everybody by its talking skill simply escaped to one of Jessie and James's secret bases in Kanto.

And this time on the road to Celadon, Misty tried to open James's handcuffs by her hairpins, and Ash and driving Brock looked to the sides in searches of Jessie's car. And what if… she went to another side? What shell we do then?

Suddenly Brock stooped the car… Smoking remains of the car lie down on the road.

– Idiots, if you can't drive that, top road, you should drive this one!

James looked out on road too. Yes, he had seen this car near the church, it's Jessie's car… He shouted loudly her name, probably, calling her soul back, and than he went to all that remained from her. As he considered… Poor Jimmy.

James sat on hip knees near the decaying remains of Celadon hire car. He could say nothing. He even couldn't cry. Ash took off a cap to salute untimely died Jessie, and Misty with Brock silently stood and looked at the asphalt. Are they guilty? May be, partly. No, all of them including James, are guilty. Why couldn't he run away earlier? Why was Ash caused for getting Jessie here from Jphto, why had Brock and Misty promoted him? Why was he, Ash Ketchum, as the hypocrite when told that he should be at wedding as the boy with the wedding rings. What for had he done it? Now all of them considered, that it would be better to act any other way. But what? And if they invent they can't turn the past backwards.

– I was even worse, than you, bad guys! – Ash addressed James. – I've simply decided to get rid of you, I wanted, that you, James, married and gave up work in Team Rocket… Do you understand?

– Yes, – James chilly answered and bit a lip for stopping sobbing, – you acted correctly, if I were you I'd try making so that my most malicious enemy gave up his work.

– But … – Ash had not time to finish speaking.

Stones, fine stones have fallen from a road embankment to them.

– What could it be? – Misty asked and looked upward.

There the slope from the mountain road conducting to Celadon too, but it was through the tunnel. This slope was 30 meters in height, but everything that was above was visible from below.

– James … – Misty told him silently in horror. – You should look for Angels not here…

James couldn't not understand Misty's words and looked upward. No, it can't be! Jessie, there sat dirty Jessie in grazes but… alive! James closed eyes and covered his face by the hands so that Ash, Misty, and Brock couldn't see, that he was crying.

– Bulbasaur! Chikorita! Vine whip attack! – Ash ordered his pokemon.

Happy sobbing James looked at Ash and at Jessie who was took by the small pokemon lianes.

– James, you have pokemon using vine whip too! – Brock remembered him about Victribel.

James couldn't speak, differently he simply would choke in tears of happiness, he only noded and opened a pokeball in his pocket (he couldn't otherwise because he was enslaved):

– Victribell, help 'em!

– Didn't you… marry her? – Jessie could not believe.

– Certainly, no! It would be better for me of being shoot down, than to say "Yes" to this…

James could not find a word suitable for Jessibelle's character and behavior.

– You know, James, these days I've understood, that I need tell you one important thing… Even the twerps are listening, – she showed to Ash and his company, – Nevertheless, they will understand it sooner or later if they haven't understood it yet…

– I'm afraid of it, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of it… – James muttered, narrowing his eyes run to Brock's car.

But the Ash interrupted this strange scene:

– James aren't you afraid that Jessibelle finds you again?

– I am afraid of it too… – James understood looking on his enslaved hands.

– And I have an idea! – Ash said so artfully that Jessie and James looked at him with interest as if he was their best friend.

Ash rummaged in his jacket and… found a box with wedding rings, which he had honor to hold in church.

– A person who has two wifes is punished by the law! – He blurted out, stretching box to Jessie and James. – Figs with you, be happy and live together, I understood, you can't one without another.

Jessie and James scaredly looked at each other. "How could it be that we said nothing toeach other aloud, and Ketchup has guessed everything??"

– Oh, no, not now, not today… – James hushed up.

– Today, and right now! The happiness can't be postponed, Jimmy-boy! – Misty declared? Holding him to car by his handcuffs.

Мяут        24.06.03