My fellow Arthenians,

OKAY SO IF YOU GET NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT MY ACTIVITY,

You're well aware that I attempted to post this from my laptop last night, and I even complimented FanFiction on how user friendly their PC version is for editing. But apparently? That got horrifically fucked somehow, which means I'm stuck back with editing on the shitty mobile version.

I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I RETYPED THIS WHOLE THING AND EDITED IT AND MADE SOME CHANGES ALL IN 45 MINUTES. IT'S ALMOST 2K WORDS.

That's how much I love you guys.

But uh, yeah.

Anyway, here's this.

Rose stood outside of the door to the exam room for a second, staring at the closed doors that she had just locked externally. She wasn't having any regrets about what she had just done; she was sure that the kids would enjoy it... Right? Nothing more entertainingly awkward for two youngsters than exploring themselves and each other for the first time. The Gardevoir was starting to get the feeling that her sister was going to wail on her the next time that they met face to face.

She started walking and frowned at the thought. When would be the next time that they met? Obviously the human and Pokemon didn't have a way back out, not a conventional one at the least. She supposed silently to herself that come tomorrow, in the wee hours of the morning, she would have to make her way back to the room and let them both out, before- what was her name? Courtney, Caitlin, something? Before she woke up.

Eyes tracing the floor blankly as she shuffled down the hall, Rose remembered the blonde in the red dress. The bond between her and Rose wasn't strong, barely even existent considering she was a stranger as a matter of fact, but the worry she had for Thor's Heath and wellbeing was still palpable and perceptible for the feeling Pokemon, which caused her to chew her lip uncomfortably. She seemed relatively convinced by the story that Rose had given her, but a sneaking feeling was creeping up on the Psychic that she needed to go speak with the girl... But why? What was so important that it was giving her a lump in her throa-

The thought was cut short as she slammed into a brick wall. She came back to reality after staring straight ahead and looked up from where she had landed on her rear to discover that it wasn't a brick wall, but rather Nurse Joy's biological brother, Jacob. "The hell, Rose?" The male seemed a lot more surprised than irritated or injured by the Pokemon's carelessness, and the frown that he sported quickly dissipated as he looked down at the Pokemon, extending a hand down to her. "Are you okay? You need to watch where you're going. You can't just round corners blindly, that's how accidents happen."

She accepted the hand up and apologized, bowing slightly as she did so, and when she stood back up she looked at the kid. Well, 'kid' was a label that she assumed to him, that she supposed that he didn't any longer deserve at nineteen. The boy that she had known when they were all -he, she, and Jess- young, and had since grown up with. They always seemed shocked at the mature nature and body that she had inherited in nothing more than her evolution into Gardevoir, but she had always found it more intriguing how the two of them had grown and changed; there was no stand-by for pace or scale of maturity in humans, no step of progress but instead a steady, gradual slope that had brought 'Jay' to be the young man that he was today.

Jay had short-cut, disheveled pink hair that matched his sister's in color (color running in the family for generations) and had gotten him teased and bullied frequently when he was younger. Since he had matured, however, the unusual color seemed almost to attract potential mates' attention, although he seemed to push them away- politely, of course. He had always been a brick shithouse of a kid, ever since he was an oversize toddler, but once he turned seventeen and began to level off in height just around six feet, he began spreading that sheer size into muscular development. He now looked well toned, and every aspect of him looked like he had walked right out of a fashion catalogue-right down to the perpetual tan he had.

A red pair of over-ear headphones dangled from around the human male's neck, and from the rap music could be heard, the bass thumping faintly. Rose finished looking him over and released his hand, smiling a little. Her right hand raked itself backward and to the side through her bangs, bringing them up and off of her face where they were known to create the look she held trademark: half of her face, including one eye, veiled by her emerald locks. "Where are Jess and Allie? They'd better not be skipping out on their shift and leaving everything to the two of us again," he muttered quietly, referring to Nurse Joy's other Pokemon who had a lot history of managing to distract the otherwise hardworking nurse.

Them? Oh, they're in exam room three, taking care of a young lady's Zoroark, the psychic responded after a pause that may have been just a little too long. You did see her, right? She was a cutie, maybe even cute enough to date my little JJ, she teased, giving him a shove that didn't really seem to move him very much. He chuckled and stepped in toward her, wrapping two long arms about her back and drawing her into a hug.

"Why does everything you do seem to make me remember mom," he wondered aloud, staring off at the wall behind her. Rose sensed a shift in Jacob, a wave of emotion washing over her as he experienced it. It was almost as though the wistful, loving memories of the siblings' departed mother and father were her own, Rose he had grown so attached to all of them. A small smile formed on both of their lips, the Pokemon's head bowing to rest on her friend's shoulder as she partook in the memories as well. Jay could feel this, perceptive of the tingling in his hippocampus, but gave no instruction for her to leave his brain alone he was always a lot more open about his thoughts and feelings than his sister.

Someone has to keep you two troublemakers out of Officer Jenny's hands, she joked after a few seconds. I might as well be the one to take care of you two, right? The younger Joy sibling pulled back enough to look at his and his sister's shared Pokemon, then exhaled through his nose in laughter, leaning in to give her a kiss on the cheek. Rose smiled at him, breaking away from his hug then, and remembering his previous question. Thor is going to need some special overnight attention, so Jess won't be around for the rest of the shift. I know you just got off your shift, but you're going to have to cover for her. A strange look from the boy at the term 'special overnight attention,' but he chose not to pursue the topic.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. It's not like I could just leave the place with no one on shift, that would be irresponsible and incredibly unfair to all the Pokemon and trainers out there." Rose hid the smile of parental pride that she had at his response. A pause. "Well, I guess I'm gonna go back to the front desk now. You might as well..." Another pause. "What was it you said that you were doing again?" She told him what she was going to do, and he nodded in satisfaction. "Alright, yeah, cool. Good luck with that." A departing smile, and Jay donned his headphones again, turning up 'Bad and Boujee' a bit as the two went their separate ways.

Jay looked over his shoulder as he rounded the corner at he end of the hall that would take him back to the reception and lobby area, intending to pick up where his older sister left off, and he saw that Rose was, in fact, knocking delicately on the blonde's room. He indifferently turned his attention back to where he was heading, lips moving along with the song's lyrics. He rolled back the chair at the front desk, sliding into it and stretching his arms out to either side, looking to the computer. The mouse danced and clicked across the monitor until he was at the history tab so he could continue his last game of turn by turn chess where he had left off, but a number of disturbing entries caught his attention first. "Gross, Jess, I have to use this computer too. I don't want to end up on some Pokephilia watchlist." He deleted the entires that were from known porn sites like Pokephoria, PikaMyChu, PocketMonsters, and PokeMyBalls.

"Rain drop," he murmured under his breath as he stared at the dichromatic board in front of him, trying to decide where his next move should be. His chess partner, an aspiring professor with whom he had grown up before the move, was always very devilish with her moves, leaving open what looks like a free piece but turns out to be bait in an elaborate mousetrap-style plan. He examined the screen for a minute or so before deciding it had to be safe, there was no way that she could be leading her on, and moved his knight to where he could fork her king and rook on the next move. And how he wanted to fork that nerdy beauty, he mused to himself silently. "Fuckin' on your bitch, she a thot thot..."

I hope you guys don't mind this little divergence in the plot... I'm considering having multiple main characters in this one, all with their own storylines. Obviously they would be the Joy siblings and Rose. Tell me what you think.

Arthenius