Okay. Thank you SO much banshee girl for your opinions! . I totally agree with you! X

After I had tottered away a few metres into the woodland, I stopped to think. Now all I needed was a plan to finally get them to admit their feelings. Yes, to be fair I really had no idea what to do at all. Mistletoe did cross my mind, but there were a few problems about that, 1. Mistletoe is a Christmas tradition. 2. Jessie would knock me from here to next week, and 3. Where would I get it? I sighed. Usually Jim was the one who came up with plans of action, not that they were much good, but at least he had imagination. A vacation, like Jessie had suggested? But we couldn't just abandon the mission…Ah! Would that work? I mused silently to myself, allowing one of my paws to caress the glinting coin on my forehead. Somehow I could figure out a way to trap the twerps, and then steal pikachu. Then, tell them I'd give the electric mouse back if they gave me an idea to get Jessie and James together. When they think of one, I just scamper away and give pikachu to the boss. Perfect!

After I had thought a while, I realized that there were a lot of 'ifs' about this particular plan, which I would have to overcome. If pikachu shocked me to death. If Jessie and James found out. If somehow it all went terribly wrong and those twerps sent me blasting off again. Wow. Thinking so much puts a lot of pressure on a feline's brain. I padded over to the brook and dipped a beige paw into the clear liquid, swishing it backwards and forwards absent mindedly before lying down and closing a weary eye.

"MEOWTH? Where are you?"

I heard the shriek of fury, which was Jessie's, and humbly pattered back to the clearing and made my entrance. James was tucking into an apple, being his usual quiet self, and Jessie was on her feet, a mallet already in her hand and ready to thump me one. I sighed and closed my eyes, bracing myself for the blow. It didn't come. I nervously looked up at her, and she dropped the mallet before retreating and lowering herself to the soft downy grass, laying on her back and staring up at the cloudless yonder. I was pleasantly surprised. James was obviously too.

"You feeling alright Jess?"

He smirked, throwing an apple core at my head, which I cleverly avoided before scratching him lightly across the face. Not deep enough to draw blood like usual. Jessie sighed.

"Why didn't I hit you Meowth?"

She questioned, not allowing her gaze to interlock with ours. I leapt onto James's shoulder and looked at her blank and emotionless expression, her sea blue eyes glistening as she watched the clouds travel across the firmanent, the wind distorting their shapes.

"I dunno. I'm glad you didn't. I tink it would have hurt."

I replied, to which she scowled for a second, but then once again her expression disappeared. Her tone of voice had disappeared too, kind of monotone. As though she was in some sort of trance, daydreaming.

"I'm horrible aren't I."

She said it as a statement, not as a question. James watched her, as did I, and we both retorted at the same time, but unfortunately with different answers.

"Yes."

"No."

As you probably guessed, my voice was the one that said 'yes'. Moments passed. I couldn't really remember how long it might have been, a couple of seconds, minutes, hours, I don't know. All I know, that one moment she was in a weird trance, and the next she was standing up, her normal determined expression back on her face.

"Anyway, what are we doing? Lounging around? We've got to track those twerps today."

She was normal again. Or was this a cover up, for the real person inside, which she her accidentally given both James and I a sneak preview of? I shook my head, why humans couldn't be honest and straight talking like pokémon, I didn't know. Jim still had a confused look staining his features. He tucked a strand of lavender hair behind his ear, which of course slipped out and crossed his face again, and pushed himself to his feet.

"Yeah. Okay."

So, we haven't made much progress yet have we? Here we were trudging through the overgrowth again, nothing is any different. The pidgeys, taillow's and spearow's twitter in the trees as we wander past, and the soft breeze ruffles James's' hair as he wandered aimlessly along, Jessie leading the way, James behind her and me at the back. Finally, Jessie stops abruptly making James walk into her.

"Will you watch where you're going?"

She said coldly, and James didn't wilt like I expected, but crossed his arms, opened his mouth to make a retort, thought better of it, and shut it again. Sapphire blue eyes glared at him, and made me shudder just watching the olive green of his reflect in the iciness of hers, I didn't understand how he could just look straight into them without freezing, himself. Silently, the two human members of team rocket glared at each other, almost nose to nose, myself nearly falling over backwards at James's stubbornness. Finally, of course, he adverted his gaze, and Jessie, triumphant that she had won, hit him to prove her point.

"Anyway, I stopped because I can see the nearest town. Look."

She pointed a slender gloved finger towards some outlines of grey buildings in the distance and patted her scarlet locks, looking victorious. James growled quietly. She didn't see. I did.

"Oh yay, a town, I've never seen one of those before."

He said, sarcasm dripping off every word he spoke. I was flabbergasted. I'd never seen this side of James, and I almost wished I still hadn't. Jessie, looked at him, and maybe I was imagining things, but did I actually see her flinch slightly?

"For goodness sake James! I'm trying to get us to a place where maybe we can finally capture Pikachu, and all you can do is be sarcastic about it!"

She spat, raising a paper fan threateningly from her pocket, as though in warning that it could hurt a lot.

"Well maybe if you didn't just bully us all the time we would respect what you did?"

He replied, watching her intently. But his eyes have softened a little. I knew what was going to happen. He would basically start grovelling on his knees and beg her for forgiveness the moment she walked away. That's exactly what happened. It was embarrassing to watch. I sighed and scrambled up Jessie's back to sit on top of her head, observing the view. Luckily, they had forgiven each other, but both were a little on the quiet side. Eventually, we got to the town and the moment James spotted a bench basically launched himself on to it to prevent any others from doing so.

"A break! How great."

He mumbled, as Jessie sat down beside him. She dug around in her pocket and produced three coins, handing one to James, and one to me.

"Okay, we throw them into the fountain and make a wish. Come on guys. Anything in the whole world."

I flicked my penny up and watched the sun reflect on its copper surface before it sank to the bottom, its heads symbol clear through the clean water. I closed my eyes and wished. As hard as I could. I'm not going to say what it was; it might not come true if I do. Jessie closed her own eyes and flipped the coin elegantly into the sky, a satisfying 'plop' sound erupting when it hit the surface, sending delicate ripples flow along the waters edge. I think I know what she wished for. Now James. He placed it on his gloved hand, between his middle finger and his thumb, before tossing it into the cold liquid; his jade eyes squeezed shut as he wished. I smiled. Even though they argued a lot, it was nice being a part of team rocket.

After a while, we began to browse around the shops, unfortunately that was the wrong decision as it made all of us feel a bit depressed, desperate and longing, looking at all the wonderful items behind the glass windows which we couldn't afford. We could have them, of course. Breaking in. But sometimes that wasn't as satisfactory as maybe it could be. One wrong move and we'd wind up in a prison cell, and the boss wouldn't be happy when he had to bail us out. We plodded along until James suddenly snapped out of his rhythmic walking to say,

"Hey – where's Jessie?"

It didn't take long to find her. She was pressed against a candle shop, watching the flickering flames and oozing wax drip and mould softly around the beautifully carved glasses, the different scents labelled, honey and almond, watermelon, rose. The shop looked small and poky, a string of fairy lights bordering the window, and by our judgement no light inside apart from the suns rays and the candles. Jessie was in a daydream where she lived in a place that was surrounded by candles and she could hop by each one and inhale its individual fragrance. I almost felt sorry for her. It was James who was forced to break the spell.

"Come on Jess. Lets go get our pay cheques, maybe find a camping place for the night and maybe think of a plan for stealing that bloody pikachu."

Jessie sighed, her cheeks flushed a hot pink as she turned around and adjusted her mint green earrings before replying,

"Yeah, okay. Lets go."

I smiled before adding my own response,

"Meowth! That's right!"

Hope you liked the chappie! There's more a coming .