Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon Ranger, nor the themes listed here. These came from a challenge by A Rose for me-A Rose for you.

Well, this pairing is right out of Pokémon Ranger. The main character, I was a girl (shock) and I sensed some major romantic tension between Keith and the main character, I don't know if they tone it down for the guys, but I saw some love there. So, this pairing came about. Apparently the girl's name is Kate. Kate isn't very vocal, she's withdrawn and very focused. Why? Alert me to a time when you were ever given more than a chance to make Kate say yes or no? Generally, that's all you got, and the only long sentences she would have spoke was debriefing.

Make Kate special, dammit, not another cardboard cutout! Kate saved the world, she deserves to be special!

Almond

The boy leaned forward with a short laugh. "Come on, Kitty, you did Rythmi awesome and she's not even in the room! Do me next! You can do me better 'cuz I'm right here!"

"Don't call me Kitty, Keith," she sighed, playing with her styler and reaching for the nut bowl on the table.

She didn't see the point of sneaking out of the room to huddle down in the common room, ducking flashing lights and holding back giggles in case teachers showed up. She wanted to be a ranger, a really, really good ranger. She heard that the other kids wanted to excel to, that they had big dreams, but she didn't quite get it. They would pass notes in class, stay up late, giggle and completely ignore half the rules she had spent quite a few nights pouring over the book to memorize every rule and code.

"Well, we have to talk about something. I can't go to bed yet, tomorrow's my first big test. I haven't had a test this big since…ever. My school never gave us tests, ever. They gave us a quiz or two, but we never got anything hard and I'm so nervous but I'm really excited too. I mean, you moved in from a big city, so you probably had big tests all the time and you're used to this exciting stuff but this never happens for me."

She shook the bowl while he spoke and popped an almond into her mouth, quietly sighing, "You talk too much."

"Ew!" he cried, covering his mouth and looking around as if a teacher would run up. Then, in a quieter voice, he plunged on. "Almonds? I hate those. I'm a peanut kind of guy."

She nodded silently, and ate yet another almond as he began to chatter on about the joy of peanuts versus almonds. Meanwhile, she began running through a few lists in her head. It was obvious that ground and water beat fire types, but rock was a little trickier. The one she really got stuck on was poison. She had been studying about it, and she was quite sure that psychic beat poison, but she wasn't sure. She would have to review it before class. She was the only one that opened it outside of class. The other kids practiced their techniques and she studied. You could have the best styler in the world, but you were still sunk if you couldn't use a good assist.

"So, what do you think?"

She blinked slowly. "I think…I like almonds. They're my favorites. A certain percentage of others must like them too, or else they wouldn't sell them. No one would buy them, and they would make no profit. It would be illogical to think they would do so. Other nuts may be more popular, but just because you like one nuts doesn't mean you can like several varieties. It's very complicated, with overlapping percents, but I'm sure the company that makes the nuts knows how to go about their business."

"Kitty," he pouted. "You're talking too much facts and I think you should do me next. You're quiet and you look at things, express your talent! It's awesome!"

She sighed, closing her eyes and turning her head up to the ceiling. "Alright, you've got light skin. You're white, but not deathly pale. You're a healthy shade, probably a lot darker than you should since you spend so much time in the sun. You've got a nice nose, though it does turn up at the end. It's narrow. Your cheekbones are high, but you can't see them because you've still got a bit of the roundness of baby fat, which we'll have until our mid-twenties. That's normal. Your lips are thin, not pouty kissing lips, and a bit pale. Your ears are a little too flat against your head. Your eyes are a nice enough shade of green, match mine, which is pretty neat. Ah, brown hair, a little thing and flat but not too bad. You must use some kind of hair product to boost it. It makes your hair a slightly different color than your eyebrows, but barely. Oh! And the shape of your eyes! I almost forgot! They're slightly tilted up at the corner, and certainly almond shaped."

She froze at that, her own green eyes going wide. She had jumped to her feet and was out of there in no time, leaving Keith looking over the sofa and gawking that she had run off. He turned back to the nut bowl, and, slowly, ever so slowly, took an almond and placed it in his mouth.

A moment later he spit it out. They may have looked nice, but they still tasted nasty.

I wish I had that talent…-sigh-

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