Chapter 3: Nannies! Er, Ninnies…
What was usually a three-hour flight became two, and our pokemon were exhausted when we landed. We thanked them sincerely and whole heartedly, and then returned them to their pokeballs for a long rest. Silver and I rushed into the hospital. A few people looked up in surprise, some perking up probably because they recognized Silver from TV.
"How can I help you?" the nurse at the counter chimed politely.
"My sister, Blue, she's having her baby?"
"Ah-ha, Silver. Yep. She wants you with her. Unfortunately, your boyfriend needs to stay out here."
Silver still blushed slightly at the word boyfriend, and the nurse led him back. I cringed. Silver was squeamish around blood, it wasn't the blood itself, it was the person in pain. Some random person could be lying on the floor bleeding to death, and Silver wouldn't even wince, while someone he cared about could have simply cut themselves on accident and his hands would tremble. Then again, I guess he wouldn't have to see anything. He'd only have to hold Blue's hand and play moral support. Blue would probably be screaming and yelling insults at him and Green meanwhile. I took a deep, thankful breath and plopped down in one of the chairs. A few people gathered around me, mostly women.
"You know Viridian's Gym Leader?" they asked curiously.
I chuckled. "I'm dating him," I responded.
"Ooooh, right. That gym leader is gay."
"Too bad, he's really handsome. How long have you been dating?"
"Seven years," I answered, insulted. I was drop dead handsome, too.
They asked me random questions. Some were extremely embarrassing, like how was he in bed. Trust me, I didn't answer those. A few asked me if I could get them Silver's autograph. A few wanted to know if he was really Giovanni's son. The questions got really annoying after a while.
Then, a traumatized Green and Silver entered the room. "Was it a boy or a girl?" I asked eagerly. Blue had sworn she'd have a girl.
"Boy," they answered, collapsing into two chairs.
I grinned. "Was she that bad?"
They glared at me. "I only had to deal with it for two hours and I wanted to kill myself," Silver answered.
"Four hours," Green groaned. "Granted Blue had it worse than us."
I smiled at the two and comfortingly wrapped my arms around Silver. "How long will she be in recovery?" I asked.
"About two hours," Green responded.
"Let's go get some dinner, then," I offered. I was hungry.
Silver and Green both nodded, and we headed for a steakhouse down the road. Silver just got a big bowl of ramen. Green and I each got some great streak stir fry and a bowl of fried rice each. Silver stole most of my rice.
We ate till we were full, then we returned to the hospital. Blue was going to be waking up soon, so we headed to the room she was going to be put into. We were also allowed to see the baby. He was a cute baby, which is saying a lot because honestly, I've never really found babies cute. They creeped Silver out as well. Then again, we were gay, so we were totally aloud to feel that way. It was probably best since we could never have one.
"Hey, Green. Hey, Silver. Sorry for breaking your hands and screaming at you," Blue chimed as they wheeled her in.
"Gave you painkillers?" Silver asked casually.
"Did they ever!" Blue chirped happily.
Silver and Green both chuckled softly. "So, any suggestions for a name yet?" a nurse asked as she walked into the room.
Blue perked up. "No, not yet."
"Well, you have to name him before you leave," she replied, sounding like she'd gone through it a billion times.
I looked down at the baby. He stared back at me curiously. "Can I see him?" Blue asked me curiously. I nodded and handed her… her child.
"His eyes are sort of blueish."
"They're like the sky, like topaz," Silver replied, gazing out the window.
"Siiilver!" Blue chimed again.
"Hm?"
"I looooove you! Imma name im Topazzzz!" Blue squealed.
I tried to hold back laugher, Silver looked horrified, and Green looked indifferent. "What do you think of Topaz?" Green asked us both curiously.
"I like it," I admitted.
Silver gave a small shrug.
Green smiled. "Alright." He gently took the baby from Blue. "Your name is Topaz now, little guy."
Silver and I stayed with Green and Blue, well, and Topaz, for two weeks, or 21 hours short of two weeks. We had to get back to the gym (3 hour flight) so Silver could get in his required time. It felt great to be home, too. Silver and I had helped Green and Blue with their new baby. He was definitely a crier. Silver and I had to wake up so many times during the night to take care of him that I was glad we'd never have one of our own afterwards.
We were exhausted when we got back, but Silver had a long line of challengers. Twelve people were eager to battle him. I managed to take out seven, but five made it to Silver. He defeated them all. By the time we were done, it was eleven thirty at night. We'd gotten back at five in the morning. Eighteen straight hours, except for a thirty-minute lunch break. Silver and I were exhausted. The staff immediately fussed over us when we got home. We were too tired to eat though, well, rather Silver was too tired. I did eat something. Silver just passed out cold. I joined him soon enough though.
Silver hadn't even taken off his clothes. I sighed and rolled him over onto his back and I unzipped the jacket he was wearing. I tugged it off him and removed his shirt. Then I undid and discarded his pants. I threw off my clothes and collapsed beside him. I was immediately out for the count.
We finally bothered to get up at 10 in the morning. "That was a great night's sleep," I sighed happily.
Silver hummed his agreement. Then a knock came from the door. "Come in," I called out pathetically.
One of the maids stepped in, greeting us happily and asking what we'd like for breakfast.
"It's 10 in the morning, a bit too late to eat. I'll just have coffee."
"Nope, you need to eat, both of you!" she said firmly. Silver and I groaned. They whipped us up some scrambled eggs and me some bacon. Then they brought us breakfast in bed. Silver and I both sighed in dismay as they fussed over us. After we ate, they ran us a hot bath and told us to go relax and rest.
Silver and I, blushing, did as we were told. A hot bath felt amazing. Silver enjoyed the water so much, he easily fell asleep in my arms. The staff were also tending to our exhausted pokemon while Silver and I relaxed.
It turns out that the staff missed us dearly. We were part of their family, after all. We often ate dinner together. We had 12 members of staff, 3 cooks, 2 butlers, and 8 maids. Most of them were pretty old, remembering Silver since he was a baby, but a few had retired and been replaced. They had their rooms on the east wing of the house, and it was a very nice wing. Only the ones that were married and had children had their own homes in Viridian.
After a big breakfast and a warm bath, followed by a soothing shower, Silver curled up in front of the grand piano in the sitting room. I loved to hear him play, the one butler, not Gregory, but Simons I think, was teaching him. He'd been learning for two years, and he'd gotten pretty good at it. He played beautifully, and the staff enjoyed it, too.
"Your father always used to play for your mother," one of the maids sighed, affectionately running her hand down Silver's back. "You look so much like her. I'm sure she'd be so proud of you."
Silver smiled weakly and thanked her. Silver really did look a lot like his mother. There was a big portrait of her in Giovanni's study. She had long flowing red hair, long lean limbs, dainty shoulders, and these amazing emerald green eyes. It the picture, her skin practically looked like moonlight.
Still, Silver also had many features of his father, like his silver eyes and the shape of various part of his face. I got up and sat beside him on the bench, wrapping my arms loosely around his waist. I nuzzled gently into his shoulder, loving him so much. He was perfect. I love him with everything I could muster.
Silver's pokegear disturbed us, and he took it from his pocket, looking at the caller. He raised an eyebrow and flipped it open. "Hello?"
"Good late morning, Silv!" the refs voice chirped from the device. My chin was resting on Silver's shoulder, so I could hear. "I hope you haven't been ref-less. Some things came up, and I can't make it in today. Do you need a stand in?"
"No, not today," Silver answered.
"Good. You and Gold need to rest, you two looked barely able to stand yesterday."
"Thank you. Good luck with your 'things'," Silver replied with a small smile.
The ref laughed. "Thanks! See ya tomorrow, Silv!"
"Not going to the gym at all today?" I asked sweetly, kissing his neck softly.
"I have an excuse now," Silver replied happily, leaning his head to one side so I had better access to his neck. I kissed it a bit more but didn't bite or leave any marks.
"Silver, can we play some poker?" I asked randomly.
He stepped out of his bliss and looked at me oddly. "Uh, sure? You should probably ask the other staff though."
I nodded and left him to find Simons and Gregory, as well as two of the chiefs, Keith and Manny. We also had one of the maids, Sophie, who was a pretty good poker player. Sometimes we had a big game. Silver wasn't the best player, but I loved it, so he never objected too much. I could hear him playing again, a pleasant, soothing tune that alternated between fast and slow. It was one of the first pieces he learned to play; the beginning only had five repetitive notes that changed tune a bit, then it quickened into something more difficult and intricate.
I gathered together the five staff, grabbed the cards, grabbed Silver, and then sat down. It ended up being a hard-core game between Sophie, Manny, and me. Silver was the first one out. He glared as us, folded his arms across his chest, and then marched off to read one of his books.
After Manny had thoroughly whooped Sophie and me, I went to go find Silver. We didn't actually play with money, just game currency. Though, we had played with money quite a few times before. It brought more drama to the game. Silver always limited himself to 200, and then when he lost that, he gave up. Though there were times when he got lucky for a turn or two.
I found him outside by the pokemon pool, watching Mantaro, Gyarados, Kingdra, Twister, and Feraligatr swim. I walked over to him happily. "Come on, time for lunch!" I chimed.
Silver looked up at me. "I'm about to leave for the gym. I called up that challenger; we're going to have a battle. It's not for a badge, so we don't need a ref."
"Oh," I sighed, "Well, get something to eat before you leave. Come on."
I grabbed his hand and tugged him to his feet. He followed me willingly to go eat. It was a great day. Slow and simple. It felt great to get to spend time with Silver in our home again. First, I'd been gone two weeks, then we'd been with Blue about two weeks, and finally we got to spend some time together after a month. We hadn't been able to really make love at Blue's and Green's place; most of the time we were too exhausted to try anyway. Now though, I would eagerly make that up to Silver tonight. Again. I'm sure he'd be willing.
I was about to stop by to see how his battle with that challenger was going, except my pokegear rang. I answered it without even looking, suspecting it to be either Crystal or Mom. Well, it was neither. Much to my surprise, it was Whitney.
"Hey, Gold, do you know they're doing this giant competition down at the Pokeathlon?"
My heartbeat increased. I loved competing there. I usually went down there often, but I hadn't been able to go recently. "What kind of competition?" I asked eagerly.
"It's two months long. They're taking registrations for the next three days and then it will begin. It's really deep. We're even going to be sleeping and living down there for the two months. Are you going to sign up?" she asked excitedly.
Whoa. That was intense. On any other day I would have screamed yes, but… "I just got back home with Silver recently… We haven't gotten to really spend much time together recently."
"Oh, right, you're dating the Viridian City Gym Leader. Well, you two can fuck as much as you want before and after the competition."
I groaned in dismay. We got that a lot. Considering we were two young males, everybody though we screwed constantly when that really wasn't the case. "It's not the screwing I'm worried about. It's my lover in general. Let me at least talk to him about it. I'll get back to you soon. He's in a battle right now." Arceus I sounded so girly.
"Okay but hurry up. Oh, and wish him some luck from me. Let him show that trainer what gym leaders are made of!"
I chucked and she hung up. I really did want to go to that competition… but Silver… I couldn't abandon him for two months, could I? Look what two weeks had done to him!
I groaned. But maybe he could visit me every once in a while, and maybe I could even slip away to come visit him. Still, he'd be so lonely. I'd get the other dex holders to look after him as well.
I reluctantly made my way to the gym and ran into Silver and the challenger leaving. I beamed at Silver, who seemed pleased, so I guessed he'd won. "How did it go?" I asked curiously.
The challenger answered. "Viridian's Gym Leader won. It was an amazing battle though, so both of us won, really."
I wrapped my arm affectionately around Silver's waist as the challenger left us. "That's good to hear. Silver, can I ask you something?"
Silver raised an eyebrow at me. "Do you really have to ask me if you can ask a question?" he scoffed.
"Err, on second thought, I'll ask you tonight," I replied nervously.
"What's wrong?" he asked me in confusion.
"Well, there's this big event coming up at the Pokeathlon…"
"Aren't you going to enter?" he asked me casually, making his way to the house after locking up the gym. Silver knew how much I liked to compete there.
"I would but it's a two month long stay at the Pokeathlon… "
He stopped walking and looked back at me in surprise. "Two months?" he asked softly.
I nodded nervously. "I'm sure I could get away to visit you at least once a week and you can come visit whenever you want, I'm sure. Still…" Silver was gazing at the ground. I reached out and gently touched his cheek. "I don't have to go," I attempted to sooth him with a false chuckle.
He looked me in the eyes, probably already making up his mind to let me go because it was something I wanted. He'd changed, so much… "When do you have to leave?"
"The next three days they're taking registrations, and then I'm sure a day to get everything ready which will be the day I'll have to get started on my travels. Then it will probably begin."
Silver visibly cringed. He gave me a small smile, but I could tell it was fake. "I would've liked a little more time before you had to leave." He sighed softly and glanced back at the setting sun. "Oh well. I guess it can't be helped. I'll go with you so you can sign up tomorrow at least."
I sighed softly and yanked his smaller body against mine, clutching him in a bear hug. "I still have to make up my mind though," I chuckled, nuzzling him lovingly.
He pressed his cheek affectionately against mine. "Go, idiot. It's something you enjoy doing. I don't need a babysitter," he joked softly before pulling away from me. We were in the middle of the street, still outside the gym.
I grabbed his waist in my arm, loving having his body close, and I walked back with him to our home. Tonight, I was going to make love with him until he couldn't take it anymore. It really wasn't me not being there or the sex that was the problem, it was more that Silver had trouble sleeping without me, and that he had trouble eating and battling.
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AN: These two just can't get a break!
