There for you

Chapter 1 - Awakening

Jesse slowly opened her eyes as pain surged through her immobile body. Bright lights filled the room and her intial reaction was that she was dead.

She heard voices echoing near-by and tried sit up, but could not find the strength. Through her blurred vision she could unmistakenly reconise James from his lavander hair. Meowth seemed to be standing on the foot of her bed. Both were talking with a dark purple haired man who wore a bright white jacket.

What the hell happened? Where am I? she thought And why do I feel like I just got trampled by a Rydon?

She tried to focus and allow her vision to come into place. James and Meowth looked worried and she soon could see that the man they were talking to wore a stephascope around his neck.

Oh shit...how'd I end up in the hospital?

She tried to grab James' attenstion and called for him. But nothing more than a "Ugh" escaped her lips. The voices of the two people and the pokemon in front of her were still echoey and she just could'nt grasp what they were talking about.

James heard his partner's pathetic "ugh" and looked over to her. His worried expression was full of sorrow, but a glint of anger framed in his emerald eyes. His gaze at her only lasted a few seconds before he looked to the floor in shame. The doctor put a hand onto his shoulder sympathetically then left. He made his way to the chair that was placed at his partner's bedside. "How are you feeling Jesse?" he asked. His voice had no emotion as he spoke.

Jesse felt sick and dizzy all at once as his voice still was as echoey as before. She tried to answer him, but didn't have a clue what to say. The look on his face, as he stared at the ground, told her she had done something terrible. If only she could remember what...

James gave a small nod. He understood that she probally still had'nt completely come round yet and that she would need some time to recover before he could flame her. He looked to Meowth as the small cat-pokemon sat at the end of the bed, he looked so confused more than anything. "Meowth?" he half called and half whispered.

Meowth looked up as he heard his name being purposly whispered. He knew what James was going to say next before he even said it. But he could still sense the anger in his human partner's soul. "Yeh" he whispered back.

James lent forward and used his index finger to motion for Meowth to come over to him. The pokemon did so and James whispered to him "We have to steal what we can and get her out of here as soon as night falls"

Meowth nodded. He was confused as hell over the situation. He gave a look Jesse's way and felt pity for the young girl who laid so "out of it" on the bed. He knew James was angry at her for what she did. Though, he was more angry than Meowth had even expected, like there was somthing Meowth didn't know, somthing the two humans were hiding from him. He pushed these thoughts down and tried to help James conjure up a plan to steal the equipment they'd need. The doctor had said that Jesse was going to be staying the night on a drip but tomorrow he was calling in the police and that just would not do...

James sat back in the chair and still refused to look at his beautiful partner. He wondered how she could betray him like this again. He thought these days were long gone and that he could trust her again. He shuddered in rememberence of the last time she was in hospital for this... how that was the night he lost her completely and the next day, she was gone without a trace. He wondered if she was going to abbandon him again... he felt hot tears scold his eyes but he tried to push them down. Last time he had been hurt, but he had forgiven her when they had been reunited...even when she didn't remember him...

Jesse felt sick from the pit of her stomach and found it hard to stay awake.She wanted James to talk to her, to explain what had happened and why she was here. She wanted to know what was wrong with her and what the doctor was going to do about it.She tried to move again, but feebley gave up as she could move nomore than a twitch in her right arm.

James had noticed her though. She waited. But he promptly looked away from her again.

It must have been really, really, REALLY bad if he's not even going to acknowlage my exsistence!

She sighed and shut her eyes. She found it easy to sink into the soft bed and pillow and almost instantly drifted into a dreamless sleep.

James waited until he knew she was completely asleep then was finally able to look at her without the resentment he was feeling towards her. He jsut could not be angry with her when she slept so peacefully and looked like the angel he knew so well she was'nt. He reached over and moved the strands of her lose hair from her face. He placed himself on the side of her bed and caressed her cheek softily, careful not to wake her.

He felt so dissapointed and hurt that it could make him cry. Meowth sat himself on the now vacant chair.

"If youse dont mind. I tink I'll take a cat-nap before tanights main event." he said as he stretched and then curled into a small ball on the chair. James did'nt respond, but merely kept his focus on his best friend. His love. Meowh yawned and shut his eyes. It only took mere minutes for him to fall asleep. James felt his tears brunning his eyes again, but pushed them down. The feeling in his stomach was like a small fishing boat out in the middle of a hurricane at sea.

"Oh Jessica...why? Why are you doing this to me again? Can't you see how much it kills me? We've been down this line before...please tell me why..." he asked sorrowfully as he became choked on his words as they got caught in his throat. He removed his hand from her face and just stared at her. The anger had completely left his eyes and left only a lonely and distraught child. "You can't leave me again Jess...I can't go through all this again"

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AN: Wooooo, chapter one done. I've finally decided to go back to my roots and write Team Rocket rocketshippy fan-fiction again! But this is my first in a very long time so pwease don't flame me to death!

You can probally guess what she's done. If not I guess you'll have to wait

Review me pwease! But no anti-rocketshipping comments cos otherwise you may not wanna read the story anyway so just quit while your ahead. Thanks

Nikki-Vixen