It was sunset. The last sunset Jessie, James, and Meowth would ever see together. The former dastardly trio of the infamous Team Rocket stood on a path that spawned three adjourning paths that lead to three different sections of the Kanto Region.
For whatever the reason may be, call it a "change of heart" or just mere boredom, Team Rocket's leader, Giovanni, ended his villainous organization, thus, having to let go all his subordinates, which of course includes our favourite trio, which in turn, is a trio no longer.
"I'm a really gonna miss youse guys!" Meowth began.
"I know just how you feel, Meowth," James replied, with a smile on his face. Despite the fact that they were soon separating, Meowth and James still bustled with their usual frivolity. However, deep down, the two were devasted.
"Oh Jimmy! Hows will ya live on wid out meh?" Meowth joked as he jumped into his friend's arms. Jessie couldn't understand why the two weren't in tears. I guess Meowth wouldn't start to cry, he'd get all wet, Jessie thought. Yet, she couldn't muster away the tears that were soon brimming at the surface of her eyes. She walked over to her two best friends and embraced them.
The three stood in each other's arms for a long while until Meowth broke away, claiming that the he was being suffocated. "I'll sees youse twos around sumtime if yeh evah come down my ways. Lateh Jimmy! Byes Jess!" And with that, Meowth was off, on his way to start his life over in Hollywood. It seems he was still determined to win Meowzie over. Besides, what else was there to do now that he was out of a job? Eventually, Meowth faded away into the horizon, while Jessie and James still remained in each other's arms.
"I-I guess t-this is it," Jessie stuttered. She didn't want to leave James, but knew she had to. Their lives together was now abruptly over. She laid her head in the crook of James's neck. He pulled her closer to him. Jessie felt a water drop on her face–it was James's tear. He didn't want to leave her anymore than she didn't want to leave him. But their departure was inevitable.
"I guess so." James drew his face closer to Jessie's; their cheeks were touching. Still, he hugged her tighter, and she hugged him tighter in return. James wanted more than anything right then and there but to kiss Jessie, but he knew he would only be torturing himself since he'd soon be on his way back "home", if that's what he still called it. At that exact moment, however, he deemed "home" to be wherever Jessie was. Then, James felt a pair of lips upon his cheek. I guess I'm to be tortured either way, he thought. He gave her one in return, but he lingered on her cheek much longer than she did on his. This is torture! Jessie yelled in her head. This needs to end before I have a complete meltdown! And she hesitantly broke away from her beloved James.
The two said nothing to another for words were too painful to pass between each other. They gazed into another's eyes. The sun had finally set. James waved to Jessie from the path he had chosen, the path that lead back to his parents' glorious estate. Jessie waved back as she walked on to Viridian City, where she would start a whole new life, but without James, what life was there beyond the clouded horizon?
Well, hope you enjoyed Chapter 1! This is my first Rocketshipping story and my first chapter fic. I have the story mapped out so the wait won't be devastinglt long. And before you ask, yes, the trio will see each other again. But how? Well, just keep reading. By the by, I cried when I read this over T_T