A/N: Hey, thanks for the reviews! I shall update probably every week or so depending on how many reviews I get. :) Anyways, this chapter gets a little interesting and there's twice the fluff in this chappie! Please read and review!
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Chapter Two: Comfort
"So… did those bug Pokémon get rid of those two pesky trainers?" A voice questioned in a grunting tone or not-so-pleasant tone.
"I'm not so sure…" The other one spoke in response, "I mean, we're talking about two Johto-dex trainers here who got away!" He exclaimed to the other which frightened him a bit.
"We can't have those two escape Viridian Forest then! If I might also add, they might be hiding somewhere…" The other one spoke out loud, "If they do escape, they could foil our experiments!" He exclaimed in a startled and panicked voice.
SLAP
"Snap out of it!" A feminine but rough voice spoke as she slapped her co-worker, "Don't worry about it… they can't hide for long…" She chuckled, a smirk under the darkness revealed her gleaming white teeth, "That red-haired kid got poisoned too many times with those poison jabs. No way would he survive and that blue-haired girl as well…" She nodded her head as they walked out of the dark room, 'Just wait 'till that side-effect happens...' Her final thoughts before exiting completely.
-X-
Deep in a dark moist cave, Crystal was panicking to less options about what to do with the red-haired teen that was lying right next to her. She had both of her hands on her temples, trying to think of what to do, 'Crap, this is SO bad…' Crys thought, her eyes wandering from the ground to Silver every second or so.
Crystal shook her head as she frantically searched through her pack to find an antidote to Silver's poisoned back problem. She kept searching for five minutes before she found what she was looking for. Crys groaned a little as she found she only had one antidote, "This isn't enough to take out all the poison in Silver's body right now…" She muttered.
"How 'bout two?" The blue-haired teen turned her head around to the weak and raspy voice of Silver. Her eyes gleamed a little of relief as she saw he was awake at last. She quickly took the other antidote out of Silver's grasp and went over to his back to help him relieve his poison status before he would… die.
Crystal blinked a little as she looked at Silver, "Ok… um… this may seem weird but… I'm going to have to ask you to take off everything you're wearing from the waist up." She nervously spoke while her face went to a blush because of what she said. It's not everyday you ask a boy to take off everything they have from the waist up.
The silver-eyed boy looked at her in a disbelieving look but he made a few grunts of pain before complying with what she asked him to do. He took off his jacket and his shirt before revealing the poisoned cut he had received from that Beedrill. Crys went to his back and tried to keep her composure as to not panic to the current situation of his back.
She took in a deep breath before letting it all out as she started to use the antidote on him, "Urgh…" Silver groaned in pain of the antidote.
"Sorry… this might sting a bit…" Crystal warned him a bit, still spraying the antidote over his wound. Silver rolled his eyes in response but weakly as she started to finish up. The blue-haired teen sighed as she wiped her sweat off her forehead in relief. She saw that Silver was trying to sit up but she quickly or gently pushed him back down, "You have to rest…" Crystal sternly spoke.
Silver looked at her as if he was a pain in the ass but he didn't have the energy to fight back as he was merely pushed back down on the ground, "Whatever you want, mother dearest…" He muttered which got in return a glare from Crystal. He then noticed Crystal lifting his body up which confused him.
"I need to bandage your wound Silver… even though the poison is going away, I don't want you to bleed to death." Crystal explained to him before taking some bandages out of her pack, "Please lift your arms." Silver complied with her wishes with a blank stare while she started to bandage him up. Crystal's face soon turned pink because of how close she was to Silver's bare skin and the fact that he was looking down at her and breathing down her neck.
It was a bit nervous to bandage a person up in this situation. Nonetheless, she got the job done and placed Silver on the ground again but not without placing him on her sleeping bag, "What about you Crystal?" The red-haired teen asked her, noting that it was soon getting dark and she didn't have a place to sleep.
Crys turned to Silver and shook her head, "You need it more than I do. You saved my butt out there earlier." She smiled at him which got Silver's face in a slight blush. She sighed a little, thinking about what Gold had done for her in the past. Her face wore a small smile and a slight blush, thinking about all the memories with him. It soon faded away because of the many times he had rejected in seeing her with all these "excuses."
"Thinking about Gold, huh?" Crystal soon snapped back to reality as she heard Silver's voice reach out to her. He noticed that there was a tear emerging from her purplish blue eyes then soon regretted what he had said, "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to…" His voice trailed off.
"No… it's… it's alright…" Crystal spoke softly, "I just… I just want him to… stop ignoring me whenever I speak to him and mostly… when I'm about to confess to him about… how I feel…" Her voice sounded like it was broken but she kept it intact still before whimpering to a stinging pain in her ankle.
The red-haired teen shook his head as he looked down at her ankle, "You might want to use antibiotics on that and bandage that up…" He suggested while Crys looked down and let out a sigh. She did what she was told before sitting down next to Silver, "What's up?" He asked her a bit tiredly, noting she had a depressed look on her face.
Crys was hesitant at first but she managed to say it, "How did you feel when you found out Blue liked someone else? Y'know, you never had a chance to tell her how you felt… You seemed a bit frustrated back there but…" Her voice trailed off as she started up a fire to warm the both of them in the cold moist cave.
Silver looked and examined the blue-haired teen before sitting up, "I felt… torn wait no… angry at myself, angry at Green, and… depressed that I never told Blue… the truth about my feelings towards her." He wore a frustrated stare but it soon turned soft and into a face which tried to fight the tears that would fall from his eyes.
Crystal noticed before sitting back next to him, "I'm sorry…" She whispered to him as she placed her hand on his hand, "I've always wondered… if Gold found someone he liked and… he spent all his time with her… which would explain…" Tears started to fall from her eyes, "Why he made up all those stupid excuses…" She tried to fight the tears but they just fell.
"Crystal…" Silver started as he held her hand, "Gold doesn't realize what kind of a girl he's missing out on if he is dating another girl." This got Crys to wear a confused look on her face as she gave a long stare at him, "There aren't many girls that use the pokedex like you, Blue, Sapphire, or even Yellow… you're in this category of girls that were destined to be special in a world like this." He started out before looking at the flames.
The blue-haired teen studied Silver's face before shaking her head, "It's Gold, Silver… He never realizes what special opportunities come to him when he has the chance before… it's too late…" Crys spoke in a softer tone before shivering to the cold.
His silver eyes noticed the girl shiver before he made a little room in the sleeping bag, "Look… I don't want you to freeze to death so… it won't hurt if we… um…" This made him a bit embarrassed to say this to Crystal especially since she's a girl, "Share this sleeping bag…" He got the words out of his mouth before looking up at her.
Crys wanted to argue to his offer but she was too cold to even argue right now so she sighed and sat next to him, "Silver…" She started as she sank in the sleeping bag. Silver looked down next to him, "Do you really mean those things you said earlier?" She asked, implying to what Silver had spoken about Gold missing out on a special girl like her.
His cheeks flushed a little before letting out a deep breath, "I do…" He softly spoke, "It's the same thing as Blue and I…" He started, "I took her only as a friend and never thought about taking our relationship to the next level… never realizing that she was a special type of girl…" He clenched his fists before calming a bit, "Look Crys…
"Don't think that you aren't special because you are. You're a Pokémon capture specialist for Pete's sake…" Silver pointed out, "You caught every Pokémon in the Johto region and if that doesn't prove as special enough, I don't know what is…" He shook his head, "Out of those years I've gotten to know you, you at first were an annoying girl but then I've seen you as ok." He shrugged.
Crys turned a good amount of red when she heard those things out of Silver's mouth. At first, it surprised her for those words to come out of his mouth but she started to feel more at ease next to her. She knew that on the outside world, there were more things to worry such as being Professor Oak's assistant, trying yet once more to tell Gold of what she felt for him, etc. Instead, being in this cave, alone, with a person, most especially with a guy named Silver, she… felt as if she didn't have a care in this world.
Her eyelids started to droop but she didn't want to fall asleep just yet. She started to fight off the sleepiness that was soon overcoming her but Silver was already lying next to the blue-haired girl, "It's better if you fall asleep… You did save both of us." He pointed out which Crystal kinda got due to the sleep trying to take over. She struggled against it but sighed and nodded.
As Crys fell asleep, Silver couldn't help but notice her features especially since she was lying right next to him. His face turned a slight pink as he struggled to turn away but it was a bit impossible, 'Damn… why does she have to be this… cute? No, pretty? No, that's not right… beautiful? I guess that's the right word and what the hell am I saying?!' The red-head was fighting his thoughts away as he sighed and let the sleep rush in.
-X-
"Wait… Gold? Where are you? Gold?" Crystal cried out as she frantically tried to find him anywhere in the cloudy background that wasn't the cave. Tears fell a little as she was trying to look for him. When she did find him she ran up to him with a smile, "Gold… I need to tell-" Surprise took the young capturer very well as she studied his face when she turned him around.
Gold stared deeply at the blue-haired girl with a nice long icy stare. She started to wonder what happened or what she had done to make him like this. The raven-haired teen just shook his head at her then a smirk overcame his mouth, "Crys, sweetheart, I'm sorry but… I found someone new, someone more special than you." He chuckled darkly.
Crys started to feel more tears rushing down her face as she shook her head, "No… what do you mean by that?" She didn't want to accept this but she knew what he was going to say to her.
"I mean that there's a more special girl than you… and besides…" Gold rolled his eyes still with a smirk as he shook his head at her, "I never felt anything for you. You were just an annoying serious girl. Seriously, not my type." He laughed harder and harder then a beautiful teen about her age appeared and shook her head at Crys.
The blue-haired girl shook her head frantically as she took a grip on Gold, "No, Gold… please, Gold! No, I don't want you to go! Please… I-I love you!!" She exclaimed but he merely pushed her aside as he left her, "NO! GOLD!!" She tried to call out to him but he already faded away, "GOLD!!"
"Crystal!" Crystal looked around, wondering who's calling her then felt a soft but violent shaking.
-X-
"Crystal!" Crystal was whimpering in the sleeping bag, trying to fight back tears as she kept yelling out the name, 'Gold!'. She finally woke up when Silver slapped the girl to wake up, "I'm sorry but… that was annoying…" Silver told her in a grumpy tone before shaking his head.
Crys looked at Silver with a hurt look, "So… I'm annoying to you and Gold as well…" She spoke in a raspy voice very softly as she clutched the sheets of the bag and held her cheek.
Silver looked back at her and quickly noticed her face before regretting what he had said, "Sorry…" He replied to her, "It's not you… It's what you were doing that was… annoying…" Silver said, "You kept on screaming 'Gold!' in my ears that I couldn't bear it anymore…" The red-head explained as Crystal sat up, "Don't worry… once we get out of here, you can probably try and tell Gold yourself." He shrugged and suggested.
Crys stared at Silver for a long time before burying her head on his bare chest, feeling the warmth, "Please Silver… don't leave me alone…" She spoke softly in barely a whisper before falling asleep on him once more which agitated him but he was too tired.
Once she did fall asleep however, Silver's face turned red in which he couldn't fight off, 'W-What is this feeling? I… I never felt anything like this to… anyone else, even Blue…' He thought as he closed his eyes and looked down once more on Crystal. Her sight gave him a moment to enjoy before he sighed and wrapped her arms around her, "Don't worry… I'm not going to leave you alone…" He whispered to her as the flames went out.
- Likey? Please review and if there's any, tell me about any OOCness in this chapter so I can improve more on any of the characters! .
