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[Side by side, Silver and the older man do look like they are related. Same scowl, same way of holding themselves. Same way their eyes narrow as they look across at each other. Silver's looking defiant though, even if he's dressed in a Team Rocket uniform, hat included.

The teen is crouched down, pokemon in arms. A Magnemite and behind him a tired, injured Gastly floats. The backdrop to this picture is, of course, Vatheon. But not any old part of Vatheon. It's the park, grass scorched and it looks like there's been a battle.]

Pathetic. You should abandon it, the weak have no use. [The man tossed a pokeball of his own away, not even flinching when it shattered on the ground.]

I won't be like you. [Silver's grip tightens on the pokemon, and the man - his father - steps closer, Persian following sedately.]

It's a mere tool, Silver. Easily replaceable. [Giovanni doesn't even look remorseful, only smirking when Silver shifts, looking unsure. But then the teen looks at his father with narrowed eyes.]

I won't be like you, I won't abandon everything that I have worked for. [That he's fought for - that's he's protecting.] I'll never be like you, dad.

Prove it. You are what you were born into. My son and heir. You won't ever escape that legacy.

...I will! [Silver stands up, but - it's more of a struggle than it should be - the weight of the clothing holding him down and making him hunch a bit. The man just just laughs and walks off, leaving Silver to fall into the crouch again.

If looks could kill, the dream-Giovanni would be deader than dead.]

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[When the dream ends, Silver scrubs a hand over his face with a look of disgust and anger.] ...Bastard!

[He's not even aware that his inner struggles via dream has been broadcast.]

((OOC: Interactive part of the dream starts when Giovanni's walking away))

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[Serph is there in front of Silver, offering a hand to help him up.

How much did Serph see? Who knows.]

..... [He startles, but accepts the hand anyway. It's still hard to get up, but it's somewhat easier now that he has someone helping him.] ...

[Once Silver's on his feet, Serph gently lets go, allowing him to stand on his own two feet. But Serph keeps an eye on him, ready to lend a steadying hand or a shoulder to lean on if Silver needs it.]

I will be here.

[He'll hunch over a bit, but he's still standing. For now anyway. He's just not going to look at anyone other than the direction his father vanished.] Why?

You are my friend.

[Even though he'd helped in killing Silver before, even though Silver had punched him after.]

...[And Silver will just stare.] ... Oh.

[Um. Yea, he'll.. .just tighten his grip on the Magnemite.

He really does not know what to say to that other than look like a lost puppy.]

[Serph nods and places a hand on Silver's shoulder. Serph believes in him!

But the dream ends there.]

[A girl walks over to Silver, holding out her hand.]

[This is.. the last person that he expected to see and it shows.

A small smile - sad, too - makes it way across his face as he takes the hand.] ..Hey.

[She gives him a small smile, helping him up onto his feet.] Hi, Silver.

[It's still hard to get up, but it's somewhat easier now that he has someone helping him.] ... How much did you see?

[Please not all of it, please not all of it.]

[She won't lie.] All of it.

..Damn.

[He'd been hoping that you hadn't seen all of it.] ..Not as good as I seem, huh?

[For some reason, the fact that you know more about his father other than 'the man's a bastard, coward, weakling and threw away what he'd created' scares him, Amane.[

No.

[She gently embrace him.]

Not right now, but...you still defy him, Silver. Defying your father like that...always take strength.

[Is she speaking from experience? Amane technically did defy her own father by seeking another path.]

[First there is that man, for he knows who it is even with their back turned, and then it all makes sense. Everything from the boy's strange statements when they had met, to the reason he knew his name, and to the things he had refused to say.]

...you.

Fuck. [Silver jerks back, though it is sluggish, one of his hands dropping to where his pokeballs should be--

and coming up empty.] Shit!

[Scrambling back now, the Magnemite still held protectively. Oddly enough, he doesn't have any trouble moving - when he's being a coward.]

You are his child.

[He stalks toward him slowly.]

This was what you would not tell me.

Yea and so what? There's a lot I don't tell others. [Silver is scared, that much is certain, but given his experiences with the last Mewtwo that was here...

Yup, he'll keep backing way.]

You said when we met that I had attempted to take your life in the past.

[And he'll keep following Silver's movements.]

I can only assume that the incident would have been connected to this information. Are you truly as different as you claim to be?

[Better prove to him quick that you're not an ass like your dad. Or something.]

Of course.

I'm not a coward like dad who gave up his dreams just because of one stupid kid. I'd never throw away everything I worked so hard to create. He turned his back on his dreams. I won't make his mistakes. I won't be like him ever! [Silver snorts and tries to push himself up - though it's taking more effort than it should, magnemite still held in his arms. The Gastly looks.. worried - and like it's ready to interven dispite how hurt and tired it is.

Silver flicks his gaze too it - then shorts.] What good would you do in that state? You're weak, just like this moron here.

[If ghosts can lineface, Silver's pokemon is doing so. Why do they believe in you again, Silver?]

And what are your dreams? Is being the best, the greatest, all you have?

For if it is, then you are no better than he is.

[His face may be blank, but only because his has the equal ability to physically display emotion as that of a rock. Internally however, Mewtwo's rage is starting to boil. Power was the only thing that man had ever valued, and if he had passed that greed on to his child...]

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