Everything ached. The first time something like this happened, it was because a Pokémon forced me to sleep. Luckily, hypnosis or any kind of sleep-like move didn't have a lasting effect on people or Pokémon.

If only that's what happened. Poison was far more painful than a hypnosis attack. If the pain wasn't enough, the aftermath was far worse. See, if not treated right away, a person could get really sick, even damaging certain senses. Seeing that I don't have good eyesight to begin with, I figured that would be the first to go.

My eyes slowly peeled open, preparing myself for the worst possible scenario. I looked to my right, seeing a pair of glasses on the night stand. I reached for them and slipped them onto my face, realizing that everything was fine. At least I didn't have to worry about being legally blind.

I turned my head the other way, finding Rudi sitting against the wall, sleeping with his head on top of Braviary's. For once, he looked relaxed, more so than I've ever seen before. There were no bandages or any signs for that matter that could tell me he was still recovering from Opelucid City. I don't know how he got so lucky. It should've taken a long time for him to heal.

Knowing he was alright allowed me to relax as well, or as much as I could while I felt like a Snorlax was laying on top of me. I pushed myself upright, feeling the pain scatter throughout my entire body. My eyes squeezed in pain, but I didn't scream or make a noise.

As I looked around the room, I was a bit surprised. Driftviel City was on the other side of Unova, compared to where Nacrene City was that is. Yet, as I looked around, everything was how I left it. In the corner, on the far wall to where Rudi was, a small white dresser stood with a small box on top. My head turned to see the picture of Nurse Joy and I still laying on the nightstand.

Why was I brought here to all places?

"Sylvia?" a groggy voice asked.

I turned my head, seeing Rudi sitting there, slowly waking up. When his eyes officially opened wide, Rudi scrambled to his feet, hitting his Pokémon by accident. At least, I'm assuming it was by accident.

Braviary still gave his Trainer the stink eye for it.

The blond haired boy jumped to my bed, wrapping his arms around me. I flinched because of the pain and sat there, tensing up as he did.

"You're okay! I mean, Nurse Joy said you'd be okay, but thank Arceus, you're awake!" Rudi cheered whiled I tried not to show how much he was actually hurting me, "Are you alright?"

"Some space would be nice," I painfully said, slowly pulling away from him.

Rudi's face turned red, "Oh, sorry. After you blacked out, Swanna took you and left. I didn't know what to do, so I followed."

My eyes widened, remembering the events that had happened, "What about the Krait Twins? You didn't—"

"Oh no," Rudi laughed. "Archer's pretty pathetic when it comes to battling. Two hits and they were running away. Don't worry."

Just then, the door to my room opened. My eyes widened as I saw Nurse Joy walk inside with two Audino beside her. Had I not recognized either of them right away, it might have been hard telling the difference between the two; however, anyone could tell that the girl Audino belonged to Nurse Joy because of the nurse hat that she wore.

At the sight of seeing me, my Audino ran past the girl Audino and Nurse Joy and laid his hand on my forehead as though he was asking if I was alright. I just rolled my eyes in response, but smiled as I felt this odd energy flow from him. Slowly, I relaxed on the back of the headboard of the bed. Everything that was in pain felt seeped away from my body.

When Audino was done, Nurse Joy took a step away from the nightstand, where a tray of soup, crackers, and some pills laid. While Audino was relaxing me in some way, she must've lay it down. Nurse Joy took out a stethoscope from her pocket and started using it. I relaxed as she did since this was just her way of double checking that she didn't miss something. She would do the same thing with Pokémon as well. It wasn't anything serious.

"Is she going to be alright?" Rudi worriedly asked.

"Jeez, I'm fine. I'm not on my deathbed or anything," I shot back at Rudi.

Looking back at him, Rudi held up his hands in defense. Apparently someone knew absolutely nothing when it came to simple first aid stuff. Then again, I think Nurse Joy was the only one to put a stethoscope into use. It would seem a bit scary I guess, but that was Nurse Joy anytime anyone got sick, or in my case poisoned.

Poison can do a lot if not treated, but seeing that I could see, had regained feeling, and had felt oddly better because of Audino, I think I would be fine. I might not be good at healing people as I am at healing Pokémon, but I will take my chances on giving myself a clear to that.

"You did get lucky," Nurse Joy claimed, taking the stethoscope away from my heart.

I turned to look at her, seeing her giving me a huge smile. Still, I wasn't sure. While I knew Nurse Joy for my whole life, she was one to hide things well. It was then I realized something was missing. Not just something, but someone. My head turned, seeing both Aundino and Rudi's Braviary inside my room completely fine.

There was only one missing.

"Where's Swanna?" I asked.

Just like that, Nurse Joy's smile dropped, "Swanna?"

My eyes widened. "Where's Swanna? You know, my Ducklett I took in that day, the one with the injured leg. Where is she? Please tell me she's alright."

Nurse Joy gave a nervous laughed. "Oh, that Swanna. She's doing just fine. In fact, tomorrow, you and your Pokémon can go back to your journey. Right now, you just need to take a day of rest. Whatever you and Swanna did yesterday, it took a lot of strength out of both of you. Rudi, could you make sure Sylvia takes both of these pills after she's done eating her soup?"

Rudi nodded his head. "Yes, Ma'am."

With a nod of her head, Nurse Joy smiled and left the room with her Audino. I watched as she walked out, noticing someone else was in the doorway, watching. I never seen anyone besides Trainers running around here, but then I realized who it was.

Officer Jenny joined Nurse Joy, whispering to her. Why was Officer Jenny here? She's never been around the Pokémon Center before.

Then I remembered. Being poison had to be some kind of crime. Nurse Joy must've called the police, meaning Officer Jenny came running. I watched as the two, and Audino, walked out of the room.

This left me alone with Rudi, Braviary (who had somehow managed to fall asleep on the ground), and my Audino. I smiled, grabbing the tray of food from the nightstand. However, a pair of hands quickly grabbed it as well, making sure I wouldn't spill anything.

Once the tray made it safely on my lap, I looked up at Rudi, raising an eyebrow. "You heard what Nurse Joy said, right? I'm fine."

The navy-blue eyed boy smirked. "She also said you were pretty reckless yesterday, which doesn't surprise me."

"You would've done the same," I countered taking the crackers and smashing them up into the soup.

As the crackers turned to dust in my hands, I couldn't help but to think how much better it would be if I had a Lava Cookie for dessert. Normally, whenever I wasn't feeling well, Nurse Joy gave me a lava cookie to help with the pain. Maybe it was because I was no longer a child like I used to be. I had grown up. True, I was still that 17 year old girl who lived here just a couple weeks ago, but I was also living on my own in a way.

Although, I thought as I ate a couple of spoonfuls of soup, I wasn't being completely honest with Nurse Joy. She's always been there for me. While I did talk to her on the phone every now and then, I never told her why I went on this "journey." It wasn't even like I was lying about being on a journey. After all, I did travel to many different places I've never been to before.

I just couldn't tell her about Swanna Girl. If I did, she'd be in danger. While she didn't know, then I was technically lying to her. There wasn't one time I've ever had to lie to Nurse Joy. She's raised me up, even though she didn't have to.

"What's wrong?" Rudi asked.

For a moment, I forgot he was there. I looked up, seeing Rudi sitting on the other end of the bed looking directly at me. His face was full of concern. Guess that's what happens when I've been badly poisoned. I shouldn't have to worry him. Not when he has to be saving the world just like I do. He shouldn't have to worry about me.

Right now, we had Team Miasma to worry about.

"Nothing," I lied, "Just need to get better."

"I see," Rudi said, looking around until his eyes fell on my dresser. "So, this is where you've grown up, huh?"

"Not much," I admitted, "but it's home."

Rudi stood up, walking over to my dresser. It was one of the few pieces of furniture I had here. I didn't understand what he was doing at first, so I just kept eating my soup. It wasn't until he opened the lonely box on my dresser that my eyes widened with shock. Of all things, I didn't expect Rudi to be such a snoop.

In one swift motion, I took the tray of soup and pills and laid it back on the night stand. When that was out of the way, I reached back for the pillow  behind me and flung it at him. How the pillow hit the back of Rudi's head was beyond me, but it was enough for him to turn around with wide eyes.

"I'm not blind you know," I argued.

"Says the girl who needs glasses," Rudi shot back, before adding, "four eyes."

"You take that back!" I yelled.

"Or what?" Rudi playfully taunted.

Another pillow was chucked at him, only this time, he caught it.

"A pillow really?" he asked, holding it up, "I'm so scared."

This time, I didn't care what I threw at him. I had a blanket pulled over my legs and one other pillow. He'd be expecting either object. My eyes looked over towards Audino as I smiled. My Pokémon seemed to have the same idea as he returned the smile.

Rudi's eyes widened when he started to realize what was going on. It was too late though. I didn't need to say one thing as Audino used take down to slam Rudi into the ground. While he was down, I laughed. He deserved it. Of all things he could've done when he was at his girlfriend's room for the first time, I couldn't believe he did that.

Wait...did I just say girlfriend? Is that what we were? I wasn't exactly sure. Rudi and I might have kissed back at his place, but I wasn't sure if that technically made us dating. What did I know about dating? I never got out of the Pokémon Center until I became Swanna Girl.

So much has changed since I've been here.

"Hey!" Rudi laughed. "That's not fair."

The boy sat up, but my Audino stood beside him, giving Rudi a very stern look. It was as if he was warning Rudi to be more respectful next time. Rudi stayed on the ground, leaning away from the strong pink Pokémon.

"Then don't be such a snoop," I laughed, "or else I'll make sure when I get better you won't walk for days."

"Fine fine, you win," He claimed looking down. "What's this?"

I gave him a questioning look as he stood up holding a silver key. Rudi walked over towards me, holding the silver key for me to see. The key was small, so it wasn't like it was to some sort of door or something, but I've never seen it before. I reached my hand out, and Rudi dropped the key in my hands for me to get a better look at it.

A small, silver key. That's all it was. It wasn't like there was anything special to it, or so I thought. As I turned it over in my hands, I saw the initials JETG on it. My eyes widened before I squinted to make sure that I was seeing that right.

It couldn't be.

"What is it?" Rudi asked.

"I—I don't know," I told him honestly, "but I think I know who it belonged to. J-E-T-G, those were my mom's initials. Jenna Elizabeth Thomas, or Grey when she married by dad."

"Thought you said you didn't want to know anything about your parents?" Rudi remembered.

I nodded my head, "It's a past I'd like to forget, but that doesn't mean that I don't know a little bit about them. After all, I need to know that kind of information for when I apply for Nursing School."

Rudi didn't say anything as I looked at the key. It was the size of my pinkie finger, so maybe it was some sort of charm? No, that couldn't be it. This key had some weight to it that wouldn't have been there if it was just some charm to a necklace or something. It just raised the question, what did this key go to?

More importantly, why did I never find it before? The more I'm away from this place, the more I find myself asking more questions that I've ever wanted to know.

A key couldn't only be there to lock something, usually a box or a door, so it left me with one burning question. What was my mom trying to hide?

Author's Note:

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