As Jesse stood blinking the tears out of her eyes and thinking of how to say she was sorry, James, still sitting in the mud, began to silently cry. Not wanting to let Jesse see him like this, since she hated him anyway, he stood up and ran away from Jesse towards a forest he spotted a few hundred yards on the opposite edge of the swamp. As he ran the ten minutes or so that it took him to run to the forest, he thought about how broken-hearted he was.
"I'll never satisfy her. Now I know that she hates me!" he cried as he caught his breath. Tearfully, he glanced back at Jesse, still with back turned, one last time before disappearing quickly into the thick woods. Of course, from as far away as he was, he didn't see Jesse's shoulders heaving involuntarily as she sobbed.
Jesse had finally come up with what to say to James to maybe have him forgive her for her nasty spiteful remark. Wiping off the tears covering her sorrowful face, she mustered all the courage that she could to tell him what she really thought about him. When she turned around to face him, she immediately cried out in sadness. James was gone! She hadn't been turned around that long for him to just get up and be completely out of sight.
"James!" she yelled desperately into the still air. In her thoughts of James, she didn't even realize that Meowth had been gone for a while also. Looking around frantically, she couldn't see any movement of anything around her. All she saw was barren swampland, and a forest some distance off.
"He could never have gotten over to the forest that quickly! What if someone kidnapped him?" she hopelessly mumbled to herself. Becoming frightened for his life, she called out his name a few more times, and with no results, started to trudge over to the forest. It had begun to grow dark and a heavy fog blanketed the forest with an impenetrable veil.
It took Jesse an hour of stumbling around in the dark just to reach the outskirts of the forest. When Jesse had finally gotten to the forest, she decided it was time to get sleep. Her eyes, exhausted from crying, would not help her to find James at this time of night, in the blanket of fog. In her effort to find James, Jesse didn't even realize that she was totally lost.
James wandered deeper and deeper into the forest, bawling his eyes out. Every few steps he would cry out. "Jesse hates me! Ohhh, I want to die! My life is worth nothing!"
He
stumbled between the trees, tears streaking down his cheeks. His Team
Rocket uniform was muddy and ripped, but he didn't care. The rips
that were already on his clothes became bigger as he scraped against
trees in his blind journey of depression. All he had ever wanted to
do was to please Jesse, and he couldn't even do that. His life was as
good as over.
On and on James trod, into the black of night.
After running into a few trees head on, he decided to fall over and
attempt to rest. Before he blanked out completely he thought awhile.
"She probably doesn't even care about where I went," he thought. "She'll be much happier without me weighing her down. I'm sure she's probably already caught Ash's Pikachu and is Giovanni's top Rocket. Hell, I'll bet she's laughing maniacally right now."
James was dead wrong. Sleeping miserably in the same forest as he, Jesse lie with her head on a rock and her feet covered in dried mud. The rest of her body was shivering in the cold dense fog. As she slept restlessly she dreamt about the good times that she and James had experienced. The times when they had came close to stealing countless people's pokemon. The times that they had almost caught Ash's pikachu. Most of all, she dreamt about that time that she and James had escaped James's horrid fiancée, Jezebel. She was overjoyed when he had returned to her. They had been so happy at times, yet all the bad times were like bundles of emotions and memories hitting each other, destroying the good memories and making more bad ones. And now everything that her and James had gone through, everything was wiped out with a few simple words. Her words...
