Characters/Pairings: Green-centric, various implied (Green/Kotone this part)
Five Jobs Green Never Had (and One He Did)
2. Doctor's Assistant
She rushes into the Pokémon Center wildly, clutching a Chikorita close to her chest with tears streaming down her face.
"Help me. Please," she sobs, and Green has to wonder if she means herself or the Pokémon.
"Just relax and breathe," he commands, firmly placing a hand on her shoulder. She tries and chokes out a hysterical sob instead.
"This is all my fault," she cries as he takes the Chikorita from her and places it in an isolated intensive-care unit. "I shouldn't have been so -"
"It'll be okay, miss," Green interrupts. Partially because he wants to console her and because she's becoming annoying and distracting him from his job. He has to bite back all the snark in his personality that always got him in trouble in nursing school. "I - we get cases like this all the time." Green has been specifically trained in Pokémon emergency medicine, and poor bedside manner aside, he did graduate top of his class. He knows he can do it, knows how to get through this. "Your Pokémon will be fine."
Green tries to offer her a reassuring smile. The girl breaks down in tears.
Oh great, Green sighs, and sends her back out into the waiting room so he can get to work. He leaves his Eevee with her, because even though Eevee is a valuable assistant in the ICU, the girl looks like she could use a bit of comfort at the moment.
"All better," he coos a few hours later as he walks out with it into the waiting room with the girl's Chikorita in his arms. Outside, the owner's face bursts with relief when she sees her Pokémon is okay, and she nearly throws Eevee out of her lap.
"Thank you so much," she cries, this time the tears running down her face out of joy. "Thank you so, so much."
Green sighs as she coddles the Chikorita, the little green Pokémon returning her affection. He picks up Eevee, who bristles a little at being pushed onto the ground, and pats it on the head. "It's nothing. Chikorita is just lucky to have such a diligent trainer." He'd seen too much of what happens otherwise, both in his line of work and while growing up on his grandfather's research ranch. It was, after all, why he had decided on his current occupation.
"Some trainers push their Pokémon too hard, leave the healing off for too long." He smiles at her sadly and pats her on the head. "Then, there's nothing much we can do for them. But your Chikorita will be fine, Miss..."
"Kotone," she says, wiping the tears from her face. "I don't know what I could ever do to properly thank you." She smiles a smile of a thousand suns.
"Just doing my job, Miss Kotone," he says and nods at her. And it's the truth. But in his mind, though, Green knows that those smiles and those tears of happiness are why he does it.
to follow...
