Disclaimer: I do not own, claim to own, or pretend to own the characters involved in this work of fiction. Especially the one who's been witness to these events for a long time.
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Chapter 3
The nurse tells her that it's a pokemon from the Kanto region called Meowth and that it's trainer must have abandoned it. When she asks how she knows this, the nurse's expression darkens and explains that pokemon aren't that afraid of humans without a reason-and that its unheard of to find Meowth in Unova. When asked if she can see it, the nurse hesitates before letting White behind the counter and leading her to an incubator.
She's horrified by the tubes used to keep the poor thing alive.
"It's malnourished," she explains, indicating the sharp ribs poking through now clean cream-colored fur. "And badly beaten. A few bones were cracked, but there's no permanent damage."
White swallows as she watches the weak rise and fall of the pokemon's chest. "So...why the tubes?"
The nurse is grim. "It refuses to eat. I had to sedate it so I could feed a tube through it's mouth." She lays a shaking hand on the glass as if to run her fingers through matted fur. "But if it keeps refusing to eat, I can't guaruntee it'll survive."
She chokes on a sob she didn't realize was building in her throat and the nurse looks up sharply, eyes wide. Tears are streaming down her cheeks and she wipes at them violently as if to hide the evidence. "That's...that's so horrible!" she chokes out.
It's with eyes full of pained understanding that the nurse pulls her into a hug meant to soothe. Instead it only makes her cry harder when she realizes that this tiny Meowth isn't the first pokemon she's seen like this...and it probably won't be the last.
End
Was gonna post this a little earlier this week, but work got in the way. I know this is a hard subject to write about, it personally gets to me since all my animals are rescue, but I felt that I had to write this fic. See you all next chapter hopefully?
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