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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters that you recognize from the original series. I'm just taking them out to play.
Crash
He'd been looking into her eyes, and she into his, with a gap that felt a million miles wide stretching between them. But then she'd extended her hand, offered him back everything he'd feared he had lost, and James smiled as they closed that gap with a single handshake.
He was so caught up by the glint in her eyes, and how her lips curled in a rare moment of happiness, that he didn't hear the screech that rent the air, didn't see the Fearow diving toward their balloon. Jessie leaned closer, wetting her lips. She never saw it either.