A/N: Okay, so theoretically Ken doesn't use the digivice after Sam catches him until he gets that email. That's what the anime suggests, but I don't think that's possible as Ken would have been hit with the Dark Spore then. Judging from Wormmon, Ken changed a little during his sickness, and according to the games he was sick enough to still be in bed while Ryo went through that tournament. Therefore, when Sam caught him couldn't have been – and was probably before – when Ken got hit with the Dark Spore. So that leaves the time where Ken got hit with the spore anywhere between him getting caught and the email, and that discrepancy can be explained away by the holes in Ken's memory. Therefore, for this fic at least and if I ever get around to writing the full length one of Ken and Ryo, Ken gets hit with the spore soon after Sam's death, but the environment for that spore to grow had already begun festering long before that.
Little Kenny and the Big Bad Wolf
Prompt 007: Half-truth
Okay, so I might have fibbed a little as to how I had met Ryo, but seriously, what was I supposed to say? I couldn't exactly proclaim we had met in another world and fought a strange critter called a Woodmon together. Nor could I say I was partners with a Wormmon that said he had been waiting forever for me and not Sam who everybody waited for.
Although Sam was still mad at me at that point in time, so maybe I could have said it…if it wasn't so fantastical no-body would believe me. In any case, I said I met Ryo around the corner while Sam was inside the shop. Not the brightest idea, as Ryo then had to explain why he had to leave so hastily. Something about his mother, I think he said. I wasn't really paying attention, as Sam was half-glaring at the both of us.
He knew I was lying. Telling a half-truth really, as we really had met around a corner and there really was a mother involved. But that was a Swannmon guarding an egg and not a mother expecting her son home soon. And that was a corner of – I can't even remember what – and not of a street. But I was sure he wouldn't believe the truth, not to mention he would have gotten mad all over again about that Digivice…
