Over on Tumblr, I've been taking requests for Pokemon drabbles from a prompt list I shared. Here they are. Various characters and pairings abound, but this first "chapter" is all about the pokeshipping.

1. PROMPT: KISS ME

"Kiss me."

"You got it!"

It took a few seconds for Misty to compute what just happened. When the pieces came together, she felt the heat of her blush as it overtook her entire face. I said that out loud…I was caught in a daydream, and I said it out loud…and he said 'you got it!?"

She didn't look at him; she couldn't She couldn't move at all, even as her mind screamed any number of things. Get some gum. Get some mints. Fix your hair. Play it cool. Get excited. Look. Look. LOOK AT HIM! TURN YOUR STUPID HEAD AND LOOK -

Something small bounced against her head. She looked down at where it had fallen. The offending object was a silver-wrapped chocolate Kiss.

"Misty!" Ash whined. "Why'd ya ask for a Kiss if you weren't ready for it?"

2. YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL

"Of all the crazy things you could do, Ash…"

"Not now, Misty."

"Yes, 'now,' and don't take that tone with me! Now hold still."

"I don't know what the big deal is. I got out of it just fi-YEOW!" Ash ripped his arm away from the reach of the cotton swab. How the mild sting of the antiseptic could be more painful than the long slashes left by the wild Mightyena, Misty couldn't fathom.

She moved from standing over Ash to sitting by him on the bed, firmly taking his arm into her grip. "You wouldn't have to deal with this if you hadn't jumped in the middle of that fight," she muttered as she applied the ointment. Ash winced and whined the whole time.

"They were gonna hurt that Litten," he reminded her. "What was I supposed to do?"

Misty rolled her eyes. "Have your Pokemon do the Pokemon Battling?"

"Oh…yeah," Ash chuckled sheepishly. He shrugged and yawned, the pain from the antiseptic seemingly forgotten. He rolled over on his side, his back to Misty, and soon he was asleep. It was as if he hadn't almost gotten himself killed trying to help a random wild Pokemon.

Misty thought of shaking him awake to keep telling him off for being so reckless. She thought of slapping his dumb head over and over, in the hope that would beat some sense into him. She thought of screaming right into his ear for falling asleep on her.

Instead, Misty made sure he was asleep before pulling the sheets up to his shoulders, tucking them in around him, and scooting in to lean over her sleeping friend. Her arms draped over Ash's form in a loose hug, and she rested her cheek on his.

"You're so beautiful," she whispered.

3. I LOVE YOU. I AM COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IN LOVE WITH YOU. PLEASE DON'T GET MARRIED.

Her first time in Kalos had been enchanting so far. From the Prism Tower of Lumiose to the Glittering Cave, from the cafés to the castles, Misty loved it all. Travelling with Ash, it wasn't exactly the whirlwind of romance she had pictured as a little girl, but she wouldn't have it any other way. And Ash's friends, Clemont and Bonnie, had been wonderful.

Miette was a different story.

There was a charm to the Performer, Misty had to admit. And she was reasonably sure that Miette wasn't really after Ash, that she was just teasing. But the bluenette liked to push things as far as she could, and seemed to just love whenever a word or gesture made Ash stammer and Misty scowl.

They were alone in the TV room of the Pokemon Center, Ash in the middle of the couch with the girls on either side of him. In flipping through the channels, they'd happened to come upon an old Kantonese romance film Misty remembered watching with Ash during the Indigo League years ago. He sat through it more patiently than he had back then, though he still didn't share Misty's enthusiasm for the genre.

"I love you. I'm completely and utterly in love with you. Please don't get married."

Misty giggled quietly, remembering how Ash had lost it at that line back in the day. But Miette cut that laughter short when she slid up against Ash's side and rested her head and shoulders on his chest, a mischievous smile on her lips.

"I should be saying zis to you some day, should I not, Sacha?" she purred with a suggestive glance up at him.

"Huh?" Ash asked blankly.

SNAP! Misty had been holding the remote; her grip had cracked the battery case cover. Pikachu scampered off her lap.

Miette leaned over Ash to beam at Misty. "Come come, Ondine. I would not dare."

"Hmmph. Good," Misty pouted. She folded her arms and turned back to the movie, but she kept her eyes focused on her right. Ash still looked clueless, and Miette was still beaming while pressed against him.

"I would not dare," she repeated with a wink, "but if you are not careful, I might be acting before we reach zat point."

That was too much. Misty yanked Ash away from the Performer and held him against her, like an oversized Bewear doll.

"…Huh?" Ash asked again, while Miette fell back laughing.

A word of explanation: I like to imagine the characters from Kalos as full-on French, and that they use the character names from the French dub.