By: PiperSpoon13
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or the characters I just enjoy enhancing the back stories to my own twisted fanacy
Summery: Butch and Cassidy and how they ended up wrapped up in the crime of team rocket. ____________________________________________________________
I woke up the next day to murmuring voices. I barley recalled the night before; they had brought us to their hotel to 'think it over'. Butch and I were too tired to do much thinking and fell asleep almost imminently.
"We should let them clean up and eat something, the poor kids layer down and fell asleep right off." the man said.
"I couldn't agree more, hey I think she's waking up." I sat up in the bed looking around and the woman came over to me. I couldn't make out her features because the lights were out. I noticed she was holding a fresh set of clothing. "I put some good shampoo in the shower, so you don't have to use the hotels free crud." I just nodded a thank you, still not sure if I was just dreaming. A shower did sound good though. I looked over at Butch who was snoring in his deep sleep. He's here if it isn't a dream, I conformed heading to the shower. I came out in the new clothes they fitted better than the ones I had. Butch was up but still looked asleep.
"uh thanks." I wasn't sure what to say everyone was just staring at me. I heard a snicker come from the man; I knew it was about my wild hair. The blue haired woman elbows him hard in the ribs.
"Butch why don't you get a shower" she then looked at me and smiled "I can do something with that hair if you want." it took me long enough to unbraid. Dream or not I could at least get some styling advise. So I went in sat on the floor by the bed. Butch was finished before she even got the mess untangled. I would just put it in messy braids after awhile instead of hours trying to brush it smooth. The strangers names were Harmony and Pierce. They looked like hippies mixed with styles from the mid-eighties. Pierce was a smoker too so he and Butch went outside for awhile. I don't know how long it took Harmony to comb out the matted mess, but sure enough she managed to put it back in the two braids. To my surprise it was at my waist before the braids only reached the middle of my back. "There" she said, "I can't believe I used to envy those with curly hair."
When Butch and Pierce returned, there was a strange silence for a moment, Pierce was the first one to speak, "We have to start somewhere, so...we have an ultamatim for you two. We talked to Butch last night but do to the sleeping dart we used on you, Cassidy, we thought it would be best if we stayed here so you can make the decidion together. If you take our offer you will be stealing Pokemon from arragant trainers or hunting rare ones. For this you will be paid and won't have to steal to eat anymore. We will give you training of our own for the next six months to prepare you the bosses training. You will be fed and have shelter. If you refuse our offer now your on your own; Harmy and I will find differnet runnaways to work with, but let me say this you two have the tallent to be great even by the bosses standards. If not the boss won't turn you away your paycheck will be smaller and your work more boring that's it, but it still will be more than you have now."
I couldn't believe myself this actully sounded like a way out, it may not had been the picture I vistioned when I ran off but it would be far better than how we had lived for the past two years. Butch was staring at me for an answer. Already made up my mind, I turned to him and said, "I think this might be our only prayer of not ending up back home." It was we couldn't possibly think we could steal for another two years without being caught, and if we were with them we could at least have backup until we were of age. He nodded, so we signed the employment papers.
"We're gonna have to head out soon otherwise we will have to pay another night to the hotel. We also might want to get a cover story for you two when we are not at our apartment" Harmony said gathering things. "Hmmm...Cassidy you are my little sister, Pierce is my boyfriend."
"I thought you said cover story" Pierce joked his voice was almost seductive. I caught myself giggling at this; he was right it was obvious already that there was more than Team Rocket between them.
"I don't have to change everything do I, Butch...uh your Pierce's cousin and he is your guardian while your mother is taking a internship in the Hoen region. There we go a cover story." I didn't want to tell her Butch and I could of done a better one on our own, so I didn't say anything. We were on our way to making a living and I was barley thirteen I wasn't going to complain.
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The first few weeks with the hippie rockets were rough I'm not gonna lie. Harmony wasn't as nice as she seemed at least not during training and would push me on the treadmill till my legs were about to give out and call names if I tried to wuss out. Cassidy wasn't have any better luck with self-defense with Pierce. She'd have fist size bruises on her legs. We would do separate training till the end of the day and they would compete us. Sometimes I think It was a compaction between Pierce and Harmony too. As hard as it was after a month of this vigorous training eight hours a day. We had made progress Cassidy wouldn't lap me as easily and I actually had to try to pin her down; whereas we began I could do it blindfolded first thing in the morning and she could run circles around me. The hours that we spent not training or studding pokemon and their attacks (Cassidy was by far better at this than me) or practicing lock picking techniques and alarm rigging(I was better than her at this) were the best, even if there were few not spent sleeping. Pierce and Harmony were like the brother and sister neither of us had, and they seemed to be more concerned with each other than what we were doing. Their apartment was huge, Cassidy and I got almost as much alone time as we did when we were alone pretty much, all we needed anyway. Half the time the rockets were the reason why we left for alone time, watching them was close to watching soft porn. There definition of making out was much different than mine.
"So how serious are you two?" Pierce asked me on the balcony, Harmony wouldn't let us smoke inside. I didn't know what to say, so he clarified further. "Have you done more than kiss? Have you kissed at all? Are you using protection?" that though me off for sure, I had to say something to make him stop.
"We've kissed a lot but nothing more. I haven't done more, wanted to...It's just.."he seemed to know what the problem was cause finished my sentence.
"You don't want to stir up memories of her step-father." I nodded. "Well son, your missing out." I didn't want to know that, I thought wincing what he and Harmony did at night was their business. "Here take this and keep it in your wallet, just in case." he said handing me a small black package. "you know what it is right?"
"Of course" I said awkwardly not wanting to seem lame, in front of the other man. Truefully I did know what it was but I had never seen one before. I had only reconized the name on the package.
"Love is great man, but little tikes in a criminal group like ours are not. The boss doesn't really like romance in the teams but what he doesn't know won't hurt him." Glad for the first time in a long time my cigeriette was dead, I put it out in the ash tray with a thanks and went in.
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A/N: Okay I know the whole condom thing was random and won't come in to play in this story at all. It was just a thought I got when I thought of Pirece's character. The two of them are pretty much hippies with out the drugs. Just think of him as I voiced before the brother Butch never had.