A/N: Okay then, another new chapter to upload for my lovelies to enjoy. Now I'll just go click on the upload button and... *sees traffic stat* well would you look at that. We passed the 6000 total views mark. Hey guys come check this out!
Wendy: Oh hey that's cool. Congratulations doctor.
Pulse: Master, he is still not an actual doctor, he's studying in school.
DrPhill26: You know what Pulse, I'm in such a good mood right now I'm gonna let that slide today. I just want to take a bit of time here to thank all of you guys for sticking with this story for as long as you have and giving me the motivation I need to keep on writing it. Whether that be from reviews, pm's, favorites, following the story, or just simply reading, all of it means a lot to me.
Tyler: You said it dude. Man I remember when we hit 1200 like two months ago and started freaking out over that, now look at us. We've more than quintupled that amount since then. Not to mention we've gained all these new followers. And I dunno about you doc but I get chills down my spine each time we get a review.
DrPhill26: Uh, Tyler, what are you doing here?
Tyler: Duh, saying thank you to the audience.
Wendy: *smacks Tyler* That's not what he meant you idiot! You're supposed to be asleep remember?
Tyler: Again? No fair! I was sleeping the last time you did one of these six chapters ago. I want to be awake dammit.
DrPhill26: That can be arranged...
Tyler: Wait what?
DrPhill26: Let's get this...
Pulse: Chapter started?
DrPhill26: Chapter start- God dammit Pulse, I am going to kill you!
When his eyes opened again Tyler found himself staring at a checkered ceiling held up by light blue walls. The bright lights that shone down on him hurt his eyes and he raised his arm up to shield them. A plastic wristband around his arm caught his attention, as did the pale green sleeve of a gown he was wearing. Examining the wristband closer he saw that it had some written text on it that included his name, age, and a whole bunch of other personal information. Looking down at himself he saw he was lying in a bed with a beeping machine to the side of him. To his left was a chair that had some folded up clothes on it that Tyler recognized included his winter jacket, his previously missing trainer belt, and most of what else he was wearing last time he remembered being awake. Off to his right next to the beeping machine, he saw a propped up piece of folded paper on a nightstand with barely legible writing on it that he picked up.
"To Mr. Lawson: When you wake up, press the blue button." Tyler read silently. "Okay then mystery paper, where is this blue button you speak of?"He sat up in the bed seeing a beige cord wrapped around a post at the side of the bed. There was a display pad at the end of it with the aforementioned blue button and he gave it a press. All the button did was light up when he pressed it, but he'd expected as much. If nothing else, the lack of response gave him time to look over the rest of the room, even if there wasn't much to look at. The room was sparsely decorated aside from the bed Tyler was lying in only having an empty table with a pair of chairs and a vase with a few flowers in it by the window. Looking out that window he saw an orange sky and snow covered trees outside it.
"So, from the luxurious décor of this room and this amazingly stylish gown I'm wearing, I suppose I'm in a hospital bed." Tyler let out an annoyed sigh as he looked at the dull room around him. "Couldn't they have made this room at least a little bit more appealing?"
"I see I'm not the only one who thinks these rooms are overly dull." A masculine voice came in through the door and Tyler turned to face it. A middle aged man with light brown hair and a five o'clock shadow had entered the room sporting thin glasses and wearing a white doctor's coat. The man walked in and picked up a clipboard at the edge of Tyler's bed. The stethoscope around his neck clicked against it as he pulled the clipboard up to read it. "If it were up to me, I'd at least put some sort of pattern on the walls. Maybe something with an ice theme considering we're in Snowpoint City. What do you think? If we put up a snowflake pattern on the wall with a gloss white that reflects light how would that look to you?"
"I guess if you pulled it off it'd be cool. But then again anything would be better than this boring blank light blue thing going on." Tyler disgustedly pointed at the room around him.
"See that's what I said, but I don't get paid for my opinions on non-medical matters." The man shook his head looking at the walls then back to Tyler. "So Mr. Lawson, on behalf of the Snowpoint City Hospital and Pokémon Center, I welcome you into our humble care. My name is Dr. Thomas LaSalle and I've been placed in charge of your care during your stay here."
"Uh yeah, nice to meet you." Tyler extended a hand in greeting to which the doctor took and gave a surprisingly firm handshake.
"How are you feeling Mr. Lawson?"
"A little tired I guess, oh and please call me Tyler." Emphasizing the tired part, Tyler let out a yawn and stretched his arms but stopped when a jolt of pain hit his left arm.
"That's not that surprising considering you've been sleeping since you got here. Heck I was starting to wonder if you'd even wake up today Tyler. You've been sleeping for nearly twenty hours."
"Damn... twenty hours really?" The doctor nodded as Tyler tried remembering what happened last night. The last thing he did remember was Yuki falling asleep on top of him in the cave. But as he looked around the room there was no sign of her anywhere. "Where's Yuki? Where's my Glaceon?"
"Ah yes, the Glaceon we brought in last night with you. She's quite fine actually, already made a full recovery. We did consult with a local specialist in Ice type Pokémon just to be on the safe side since we found out she recently evolved last night, but she's fine. Candice herself gave her a clean bill of health after all. Said she was full of kiai, whatever the heck that means. I swear I've known Candice for two years and still have no idea what that means. And she says it all the time too, like can you just tell me what it means already and not make me guess anymore?"
"Um, who? What?" Tyler looked completely confused as he wondered what the heck the doctor was rambling on about.
"Oh right, you're not from around here and probably don't know who that is do you?" Tyler shook his head. "Candice is the Gym Leader here in Snowpoint City and a member of the Sinnoh League. She specializes in Ice type Pokémon and is one of the world's best with the type. Nice lady too, she's really sweet, easy on the eyes and highly energetic if you're into that kind of girl. Wait is that what kiai means, full of energy? It makes sense seeing as she always says that word about healthy Pokémon when she's here."
"Uh doctor?" Tyler snapped his fingers to regain the doctor's focus.
"Oh crap am I rambling again? Sorry about that, I have a tendency to get off topic really easy and then nobody bothers to tell me when I do so I just keep going. Let's see, we were talking about your Glaceon right?" Tyler nodded. "Like I said, she's fine. I believe she's taking a nap in another room at the moment."
"I'd like to see her, and my other Pokémon for that matter."
"Other Pokémon?" The doctor sounded confused. "The chart only says you came in with the Glaceon." Tyler opened his mouth but the doctor continued "Oh wait here it is, it was buried at the bottom. Says here you left a Quilava and a Staraptor with us before what happened yesterday, is that right?"
"Yeah, their names are Magnus and Caelum."
"Yup, that's what the chart says. I can bring you them in a moment but we need to get you up to speed with what's happened since you've been brought in. I'm sure you probably want to know how you got here don't you." He asked taking a seat in an empty chair next to Tyler's bed.
"Yeah. Last thing I remember I was with my Glaceon and we'd fallen asleep in the cave." The doctor took out a pen from a coat pocket and clicked it as Tyler spoke.
"Well according to your friend, uh… Wendy was her name right?" Dr. LaSalle began as Tyler's eyes widened and he immediately cut the doctor off before he could continue.
"Is she okay?! Please you have to tell me she's okay doctor." Dr. LaSalle was caught off guard by Tyler's outburst but as he readjusted his glasses, he composed himself and continued.
"Yes she is fine."
"Oh thank God." Tyler sunk back into the bed with a massive sigh of relief. "You don't know how much that means to me."
"I'll bet it's a lot based on that reaction." Dr. LaSalle laughed quietly to himself before continuing. "She was really worried about you; even fell asleep by your bedside watching over you last night. She insisted that she stay by your side and refused checkup until you woke up. We respected her wish but once she fell asleep I had one of our nurses look her over. Fortunately she has only a minor scrape or two, nothing major. Which unfortunately I can't say about you but we'll get to that in a bit. When we asked her about what happened when she woke up earlier today, she said that when you crashed she only fell off the back of the vehicle and slid a good distance on her backside, rolling over maybe once. But like I said, she was and is perfectly fine."
"Thank God, I would have never forgiven myself if she'd gotten hurt as bad as I did. Where is she now?"
"She'd still be in here if we didn't force her to wait in the lobby until you woke up." The doctor said with a chuckle. "Instead she's spent most of the day talking with Candice about a variety of things. Not sure what about exactly but that's not my business."
"Okay, well that's another load off my chest. So if you don't mind me asking doc, how the hell did I get here?"
"Yes I suppose you're the only one who doesn't know what happened." Dr. LaSalle looked down at the clipboard, clicking his pen twice. "According to our reports, Miss Riding got here sometime around 9pm, riding in on some kind of hovercraft thing that apparently you brought over with you from the Orre region, is that right?"
"Yeah, it was a gift from my family. The deserts around Phenac City where I'm from pretty much require some sort of hovercraft to traverse them."
"Oh believe me I know. I actually have family in the Orre region. Ever been to Agate Village?"
"No but I rode past it on my way to the research lab once."
"My parents live there with a little Vulpix named Feu. She's adorable, would you like to see a picture of her?" The doctor already had a picture pulled out of his coat and held it up to Tyler before he could open his mouth. Tyler took the picture and saw a very kind looking old couple in their 70s with a little Vulpix sitting on her haunches between them and smiling cutely at the camera.
"Aw, she's a cutie." Tyler said of the homely picture.
"I know isn't she? I could go on for hours talking about her."
"You mean like you are right now?" The doctor blinked twice and took the picture back.
"Right, got distracted again, sorry. But can you blame me? I mean look at Feu, she's adorable. Okay where were we this time?"
"I don't even think we got started really." Both Tyler and Dr. LaSalle laughed at this.
"Okay then let's start over." Dr. LaSalle cleared his throat with a cough before speaking. "Miss Riding came in on that hovercraft around 9pm. She said that you were being unresponsive from an accident out on Route 217, so we sent out an ambulance after her and she led us to the scene of the accident. We showed up at about 9:30 only to find that you weren't there. By that point the blizzard had really picked up which I'm sure you were very much aware of. And as a result we had a hard time seeing anything, let alone finding you. So we ended up relying on Miss Riding's Lucario to track you down through his use of aura."
"Typical Pulse being a badass with his aura powers." Tyler thought letting his mind wander a bit. "Goddamn, Lucario are fucking awesome. Maybe I should get one myself. I mean first of all they look totally badass, so confident and powerful looking. Then there's all the awesome things they can do with their aura manipulation. I mean how many things can Pulse do with his aura? Read people's minds, communicate telepathically, turn it into weapons or projectiles for use in battle, and apparently find me in the middle of a goddamn blizzard."
"...Ampharos light up the way around us so we could actually see where we were going..." Dr. LaSalle was continuing to speak, not knowing that Tyler was the distracted thinker this time.
"Hey I know, if I got a female Lucario then she and Pulse could be mates. Or I could for that matter, I mean I am a Poképhile now after what happened last night with Yuki. And a female Lucario… yeah that's definitely something I could get behind. He-heh, get behind, that's a sex joke... oh damn speaking of sex, how could I forget about Pulse's Reiki link or whatever it was called. I mean holy crap that was nothing short of incredible. I would love to be able to experience that again, whether it be with Pulse or a female Lucario of my own."
"...past the Ice Rock and towards the base of Mt. Coronet where we found a field..." The doctor still kept speaking, completely unaware of Tyler's not paying any attention to him.
"But maybe I should hold off on thinking about stuff like that until I get everything sorted out with Yuki. We were each other's firsts after all; if I go out and get another Pokémon that I could have sex with it might hurt her feelings. I should probably talk to Wendy about being in a relationship with Yuki sometime soon. Ooh, I just thought of something, with Pulse's telepathic communication, I could use that to-"
"Are you paying attention Mr. Lawson?" The change in Dr. LaSalle's voice finally snapped Tyler out of his whimsy. Only upon seeing the doctor's irritated face did Tyler realize just how much he'd distracted himself with his developing Lucario obsession.
"Uh, sorry. I was just thinking about something that happened last night. Please continue."
"So you get distracted like I do too huh?" Dr. LaSalle snickered at Tyler who sighed internally. "Anyways like I was saying earlier, the Lucario followed your aura to the base of Mt. Coronet where we found you and your Glaceon in a cave together cuddling for warmth. You were asleep, but your Glaceon wasn't, she was lying on top of you and actually was very defensive of you until she saw Miss Riding and her Lucario. After that she became cooperative, and let us secure you to a stretcher before we took the ambulance back here and sent you through the ER. So yeah, that's your story of how you wound up here Mr. Lawson."
"Sounds like I had a hell of a night." Tyler said shaking his head and making a mental note to thank Wendy and her Pokémon for probably saving his life. "I guess the only question left is, how bad are my injuries?"
"Actually you've got it pretty good all things considering. Most of what I'm about to say to you sounds pretty bad and to be honest some of these things are, but you lucked out considerably. None of your injuries are nearly as bad as they could be and in all honesty, probably should be." Tyler nervously swallowed, preparing himself for what had to be a lengthy list. "For starters, you have a severely bruised left shoulder as I'm sure you are no doubt aware of." As the doctor spoke Tyler looked down at his left shoulder seeing the ghastly purple and red splotch that still hurt when he tried to move it.
"We took an X-ray and fortunately it showed you didn't break your collarbone despite how bad it looks on the surface. We've given you some Lidocaine to reduce the pain in your shoulder for now, but it should heal up fine in about a week or two. My advice is to stretch it regularly and use an ice pack or take some ibuprofen or an aspirin on the occasions when the pain does flare up again. Your pick." Tyler nodded in understanding, wincing once again as he tried to figure out exactly how much he could move his arm. It didn't have the greatest range of pain free movement but he was satisfied with what he could do considering how bad of an injury it looked.
"We've also diagnosed you with a grade III concussion…" The doctor continued.
"Concussion?! But I don't remember hitting my head." Tyler interrupted.
"Of course you don't. You hit your head." Dr. LaSalle chuckled quietly pointing at his own head.
"I didn't realize I had Patch Adams for a doctor." Tyler quipped with a sigh.
"If you thought that was funny, you should catch my standup set on open mic night."
"I thought doctors with a sense of humor only existed in heaven."
"I don't see any pearly gates nearby do you?" Another chuckle from Dr. LaSalle brought a smile to Tyler's face. "Anyways, about your concussion. According to Miss Riding's reports you were unresponsive for at least five minutes after your accident before she took off for help. By that definition we have to classify it as a Grade III, but again it isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. We conducted a CT scan of your brain and the tests came back negative for internal bleeding, excessive bruising and general brain damage, thanks in part to the helmet you were wearing. However, you may experience periodic bouts of nausea and an occasionally severe headache for no more than a month. But you will make a full recovery much sooner than that, usually about a week. That is of course provided you don't take another blow to the head in the near future."
"Jeez, do you have any good news for me?"
"Well, having looked you over myself, I must say you are a rather attractive looking young man." The doctor's completely serious expression only served to weird out Tyler more as the room filled in uncomfortable silence.
"That uh… that was another joke right?"
"It might be." Dr. LaSalle said with a wink letting Tyler's discomfort hang a moment before bursting out in laughter. Tyler couldn't help but be reminded of Wendy and her teasing as the doctor's hearty laugh echoed off the wall. Did everyone in the Sinnoh region have this style of humor of was he just that easy of a target for them?
"Anyways, I do have one more thing to tell you." The doctor's voice quieted back to a more serious tone as he spoke. "We did have to treat you for mild symptoms of Hypothermia since when we brought you in your core body temperature was about 91°. You were pretty smart though in using your Glaceon to keep yourself warm, although I bet you wish you had your Quilava out there."
"No kidding, Magnus would have been a godsend last night." Tyler replied thinking of all the ways Magnus and his flames would have been able to help. "Yuki is a great Pokémon and I love her dearly, but she's no Fire type."
"Amen. But still, the skin to skin contact you and your Glaceon shared coupled with your jacket and sweatshirt helped to retain a good chunk of your body heat. If you hadn't done that... Well I'll spare you the details but it could have been a lot worse."
"I knew that would work." Tyler thought quietly to himself before continuing aloud. "Alright, anything else doc?"
"We have a few tests we would like to run now that you're awake but I think it'd be better to let you rest today before we begin those tomorrow. We do want to keep you here a few more nights for observational purposes. I hope that's fine with you."
"Yeah that's fine. Take as long as you need." Tyler nodded as Dr. LaSalle wrote some more notes on the clipboard.
"It shouldn't take that long. But, I won't say anymore because I'm sure you're anxious to be reunited with your Pokémon. Not to mention you have a pair of lovely ladies who have been anxiously waiting for you to wake up in the lobby, you ladies man. Shall I go get them?"
"Sure." Tyler agreed and the good doctor stood up and left looking over the clipboard as he went. He was halfway out the door when he stopped and turned back abruptly.
"Actually there is one more thing I forgot to ask about." Tyler angrily mumbled a curse beneath his breath. "I know I know, I'm being a nuisance right now but I forgot to mention something else. We also had to treat you for some isolated cases of mild frostbite on your hands, your face… and for some reason your thighs. Care to shed some light on that Mr. Lawson?"
Tyler sat in the bed feigning confusion as he touched his legs and remembered what he'd done with Yuki. Apparently the damage was already done by the time he tried his shirt plan and Tyler cursed himself for being an idiot and not taking enough precaution.
"Honestly I don't know what to tell you doc. I can't seem to remember everything that happened to me last night." Tyler tried lying in hopes that he would be able to avoid another round of questions.
"Hmmm, that's concerning but not completely unexpected. Temporary memory impairment or memory loss is a common side effect of both concussions and hypothermia." The doctor scribbled something down on the clipboard making Tyler somewhat regret his answer. But it appeared he'd avoided a follow up question as the doctor turned back to him with a smile.
"Okay, I'll stop pestering you now and go get your friends. I'll see you tomorrow Mr. Lawson." Dr. LaSalle left Tyler to his own whims and with nothing else to do he just twiddled his thumbs and waited, reflecting on just how lucky he was. Shit had most definitely hit the fan since he'd arrived in Sinnoh and yet he was still okay relatively speaking. Sure he was hospitalized and bed ridden but he should be in no condition to move freely given the severity of all the things that had happened to him yesterday. But for whatever reason he was fine…ish, and who would complain at a mostly clean bill of health? Fed up with waiting, Tyler found his good hand drumming a beat against the nightstand. A random song popped into Tyler's head and he began singing to it.
"Yes-ter-day, I found our old photo album. And now its Sa-tur-day, but I can't stop feeling glum. 'Cause when I see your smi-le, and the light we used to share. I miss standing by you,"
"We made such a lovely pair!" Tyler wasn't the only one singing anymore as he heard a feminine voice singing along with him. Snapping out of his song induced trance, he saw his Pokémon rushing into the room followed closely by Wendy, Pulse, and another woman whom he'd never seen before. "That was Photograph by the Apricorns right? I love them so much, they're my favorite band ever!"
"Y-yeah…" Tyler looked away somewhat embarrassed. "They've got some pretty good music."
"Lava! Quilava Quil!" Magnus happily exclaimed leaping onto the bed into Tyler's arms.
"Magnus! Man did I miss you out there yesterday buddy." Tyler playfully nuzzled Magnus who was positively ecstatic to be with his trainer again. "You too Caelum." He added as the bird landed on the edge of the bed with a caw.
"Glaceon!" Yuki had slowly made her way over to Tyler, who picked her up with a hug when she was in reach.
"There's my little snowy princess! How are you feeling Yuki?"
"Glaceon Glae!"
"Good to hear." Tyler turned to his other two Pokémon. "Hey were you guys as surprised that Eevee evolved as I was?" Both Caelum and Magnus responded in kind and Tyler laughed. It was good to have the gang back together again.
"Glad to see you're doing okay Ty." Wendy said as she walked over to Tyler's bedside. "By the way, I didn't know you could sing. That was actually really good."
"Thanks. I've been told by a lot of people that I've got a really good singing voice."
"You're definitely good alright…" Before he had time to react Wendy's hand had come up and slapped Tyler across the face leaving a red hand print on his cheek. "Good at scaring me half to death!"
"Ow, what the fuck?! You hit injured people in hospital beds! What is wrong with you?" Tyler yelled massaging his jaw and cheek.
"Do you have any idea how worried I was last night? You could have died out there!"
"I'm fucking concussed you know. The doctor said I'm supposed to avoid getting hit in the head. You could have really done some damage just now."
"Oh please, you're too stupid to get hurt from a little slap like that."
"Little slap? It feels like a Beedrill just used Twineedle on my face! And what do you mean stupid anyway? I was pretty smart out there last night if I say so myself. I took care of Yuki when she was hurt, found us shelter for the night and came up with the heat transfer thing that kept us warm last night by myself. In fact, I think I deserve a medal for how expertly I handled everything yesterday."
"Glaceon…" Yuki stared at Tyler as her eyes narrowed.
"Okay Yuki found the cave, but I did all the other things." Tyler admitted, playfully teasing Yuki's ears to her delight.
"Ahem." The other woman coughed, reminding the two arguers of her presence.
"Uh right… we can argue over how stupid you are some other time." Wendy said composing herself and extending her hand towards the woman. "Tyler, I'd like to introduce you to Candice, the Snowpoint City Gym Leader."
"So you're the famous Candice huh?" Tyler said looking over woman who stood with her arms behind her back and smiled at him. The first thing he was drawn to was Candice's unique hairstyle. For the most part her black hair was pulled back in pig tails made up into three bead like knobs on both tails, but her bangs reminded Tyler of his Staraptor's crest with how they shot out over her face. Her attire wasn't as outlandish, being a simple white blouse with the sleeves unbuttoned and a brown skirt beneath a sky blue sweater tied around her waist that matched a large bow around her neck, and the stripes on her knee high socks. That caught Tyler off guard; he had to wonder why anyone, especially a local would deliberately expose their thighs to this cold. Especially considering that he did it for a few minutes yesterday and caught frostbite because of it.
"That's right, and to answer your next question, no, Candice will not battle you just yet." The Gym Leader sweetly laughed as Tyler frowned, quietly wondering why she referred to herself in third person. "After all, you're still in the hospital. You need to rest."
"See Wendy, she knows how to show respect to people in the hospital." Tyler pouted towards Wendy who feigned another smack across the face, making him flinch. "So then, to what occasion do I owe the pleasure of meeting the Snowpoint Gym Leader?"
"I'm sure you heard from Dr. LaSalle that Candice was brought in to check on your Glaceon after you two were admitted last night." Candice walked up to Tyler's bed and began petting Yuki's forehead to her enjoyment. "I heard from Wendy here that she evolved at some point last night, is that right?"
"That's right." Tyler nodded as both he and Yuki smiled at Candice.
"Did you plan for her to evolve into a Glaceon?"
"Not really but I'm really happy she did. It's a perfect fit for her."
"Glae!" Yuki looked back at Tyler and smiled at him now.
"Really? That's wonderful. Obviously I love Glaceon so I'm always happy to meet new trainers with one on their team."
"So how is she doing? She's not hurt anywhere is she?" Candice shook her head and flashed a thumbs up.
"Perfectly healthy and full of kiai!" Adding to that point was Yuki mewing her name at Tyler again. "But if you don't mind though, I'd still like to hear exactly that happened to the two of you last night from your mouth instead of Dr. LaSalle's."
"You want to know everything?" Tyler nervously gulped as his immediately remembered what he did with Yuki in the cave.
"Yes everything." Candice and Wendy both said at the same time making Tyler flinch again.
"Uh… okay." And so Tyler began recounting the events of last night in full from the time he awoke in the blizzard. He told them of the how Yuki and he fought off the wild Sneasel and then how they escaped into the nearby forest and stumbled across the ice rock. He described Yuki's evolution and how she took him farther into the forest finding the cave. When he got to talking about what had happened once they got to said cave, Tyler decided to omit most of that scene, mentioning only how Yuki treated his injury and skipped to the end of the night where they dug up a bed and slept soundly until they were brought to the hospital.
"So that's everything that happened?" Candice asked when Tyler had finished his story.
"Yup, every detail." Tyler stared out the window watching the sun set. "So I dunno about you two but I'm starting to get a bit tired and would really like to take a nap. And since I've told you everything about last night, I'm gonna just go ahead and-"
"Pulse says you're lying." Wendy interrupted as Tyler shot an angry glare at the Aura Pokémon.
"So there's more to the story?" Candice raised her eyebrow suspiciously with an amused grin on her face.
"I already told you everything you needed to hear." Tyler said trying to deny that anything else had taken place.
"There's no point in hiding Ty. Pulse can see that there's something you aren't telling us." As Wendy spoke everyone in the room, including Tyler's Pokémon looked at him expectantly while he tried his best to ignore their stares. He quietly wondered where the nurse was who always broke up long running visitations in sitcoms just before an embarrassing secret or important plot point was about to be revealed. But she was apparently non-existent in real life.
"We could just have Pulse read your mind and get it that way. You may as well spill it." Wendy said continuing to apply pressure to Tyler's growing nerves.
"Can I talk to Pulse for a second?" Tyler's throat nervously squeaked out the words after another awkward silence. Wendy nodded looking at her Lucario whose looked at Tyler with his intimidating stare.
"What is it Tyler?" Pulse's voice echoed in Tyler's head.
"Okay Pulse, I'm being serious here. Can I trust you to keep this a secret?" Even though Tyler was thinking the words to Pulse, their pitch was still wavering with anxiety.
"If it is that important to you, then your secret will stay between us." Tyler breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay… last night after Yuki evolved, after we found the cave to take shelter in and after she treated my injury… I confessed my love for her… and we had sex." The ensuing silence as the words left his mind was suffocating as Tyler stared at the aura Pokémon. But when Pulse nodded his head a wave of relief washed over him. He was so happy to at least get the words out of his mind and-
"Oh my." Wendy said coyly covering up her mouth as Candice blushed red, but not nearly to the extent of Tyler, whose face was practically radioactive. "Congratulations Tynamyte. You've given me a lot more material for my article now."
"Wait a minute you heard that?!" Tyler yelled as an immediate feeling of regret washed back over him and his anger resurfaced. "Pulse you backstabbing son of a bitch. I told you that in confidence! You couldn't even wait one fucking minute before blabbing to someone else?"
"Miss Wendy was very insistent that I tell her. And Miss Candice said she wanted to know everything that happened last night to you." Tyler clenched his fists tighter and tighter as Pulse's voice continued to play mockingly in his head. "And remember, you never asked me to keep it private. I only said the secret would stay between us… referring of course to everyone in this room." Adding insult to injury, Pulse had his apparently signature smartass smirk on his face.
"You half-truthing dick! If I wasn't in a hospital bed I'd skin you alive!"
"Calm down Ty, it's not that big of a deal." Wendy reassuringly placed her hand on Tyler's shoulder. "We already knew about what you did with Glaceon, even Candice did."
"You did!" Tyler looked horrified, with the color draining out of his face. "How?"
"Did you forget that Candice examined your Glaceon last night?" The Gym Leader had a mischievous smirk on her face as she leaned in closer to Tyler's ear. "I found you inside of her so to speak."
"Oh... I see." Tyler shyly whispered as he felt the embarrassed heat radiating off his body.
"You weren't kidding Wendy, he does get embarrassed really easily."
"I know right, he just lights up like a Christmas tree all the time. I love it when he does that, it's really cute." Both Candice and Wendy began laughing at Tyler's expense as he threw a blanket over his face.
"I'm going to sleep, leave me alone."
"Oh come on don't be like that Ty." Wendy snickered with her arms around her stomach. "I'm proud of you for losing your virginity again."
"Fuck you, I'm not a goddamn virgin!"
"Not after last night you aren't." Tyler heard what had to be Candice and Wendy hi-fiving at this joke.
"I hate both of you so much right now!" Both Yuki and Magnus began pawing at Tyler trying to show concern for their trainer as he hid beneath the sheets. "At least you two are still being nice to me."
"G-lae, Glaceon."
"Quil..." Tyler poked his head out of the sheets looking at his Pokémon and when he did, both of them decided to bop him on the nose.
"Hey, what are you guys doing? You're not gonna start bullying me too are you?" Both Pokémon looked at each other with a smile and did it again. "Cut it out you guys." But they didn't stop, both of them continuing to pester Tyler tickling him with their loving touches. The smile finally came back to his face and he started laughing at his Pokémon's happiness. "Thanks guys, I love you too."
"You know Tyler, you're not the only one who has a thing for Glaceon." Candice trying to restart their conversation. "My Glaceon and I have spent many nights together like you did last night. Although I don't think we're willing to try it in a blizzard like you did."
"Yeah, I don't exactly recommend that. Got a bit of frostbite around my crotch." Tyler weakly smiled as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Still I have to ask you, was it worth it?"
"Oh absolutely." Tyler said giving Yuki a hug and teasing her ears as she purred quietly to his touch. "What happened last night between us was nothing short of magical and I'm going to treasure that moment for the rest of my life. When I found out Yuki loved me as much as I did her, it was the happiest I'd ever felt. I honestly and truthfully love Yuki, and nothing is ever going to change that" Another playful grin came over Candice's face.
"So... how was it?"
"How was what?"
"You know what I'm talking about. What was it like with your Glaceon?" Both Tyler and Yuki's faces became flushed red.
"I want to know too." Wendy added sitting up in the chair she was sitting in. Now Tyler and Yuki exchanged an embarrassed look with each other.
"Well uh... I don't really want to talk about it."
"Come on, we're all Poképhiles here, and we already know you did it. Just tell us about it already." Wendy sounded more excited than she probably should have been, which only made Tyler even more nervous.
"What did you think of that cold to warm temperature change?" Candice asked with a sparkle in her eye. "I don't know about you, but that's what Candice loves most about Ice types. Like when my Glaceon is inside of me, my body starts getting tingly from the chills. But the harder he goes down on me the more the chills spread across my body and I start heating up inside. And once it hits my whole body, that moment right there is pure kiai. It's like my whole body turns into a Tamato berry ice cream bar!"
"What's that? Some sort of dessert thing?" Tyler asked.
"You mean you've never had a Tamato Berry ice cream bar before? It's only the greatest desert ever! They're these really delicious ice cream bars that are filled with a spicy Tamato berry jam and they're sooooooo good. There's a café downtown that makes them better than anyone else in the world that I always go to whenever I care to indulge my sweet tooth, which is a bit more than I'd care to admit." The amount of excitement on Candice's face was quite literally sparkling in her brown eyes.
"I've never even heard of them before." Tyler's admission made Candice gasp in shock.
"In his defense, he's from the Orre region and only been in Sinnoh for a day and a half." Wendy interjected. "Not to mention he's been sleeping through most of it."
"Oh well, I guess I can forgive you then. But once you get out of the hospital I will personally make sure you have one before you leave Snowpoint City." Candice looked at Tyler sternly while she spoke.
"Great, looking forward to it I guess." Tyler nervously replied. "Listen as much as I'd love to talk about ice cream or having sex with Pokémon, I'm pretty sure I've hit my excitement quota for the day and would really like to take a nap. Can we pick this conversation up again sometime later?"
"But I still have questions I want to ask!" Wendy complained as she reached into her bag and pulled out a notepad. "I need to start writing everything down while-"
"the words are still fresh in your head right?" Tyler groaned with an irritated expression. Wendy sheepishly nodded her head getting Tyler to sigh. "Look Wendy, I get where you're coming from but I really need to get some rest. Plus I'm gonna be here a few days anyway. So why don't you come back in a couple days when I'm better rested and can answer your questions better. Plus your visit will give me something to look forward to this week aside from the barrage of tests I apparently need to take."
"Okay Ty, I'll save my questions till later." Wendy said walking over towards Tyler and kissing his cheek where she'd slapped him earlier. "Hey, just in case I didn't say it yet, I really am glad you're okay. And I'm sorry I hit you earlier."
"Ah don't worry about it. I probably did deserve that if I made you worry that much." Tyler replied with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Oh hey before you go, I have something I want to ask you."
"And what's that?" Wendy said turning back towards Tyler.
"After the accident when I was out cold and you took off for help, why didn't you take my Eevee with you? When I came too she was pretty banged up and really needed help." Wendy walked over to Yuki and pet the sky blue tuque on her head, getting a warm smile from her.
"She was much more concerned with your safety. I offered to take her to the Pokémon Center but she insisted to stay by your side. Plus from what I remember she wasn't as hurt as you described when you came too. Sounds like that Sneasel you ran into did most of the damage. Besides, if I did, she wouldn't have evolved and you wouldn't have experienced the joy of sleeping with her."
"Shut up." Tyler teased as Yuki poked him with her paw and called her name. Tyler smiled and gave her a kiss on her forehead again before scooting over some in the bed giving her some space to sit next to him."I'm really lucky to have a Pokémon like you Yuki." He said nuzzling her cheek with his own as Yuki did the same back to him.
"Aw, you two are so cute together." Wendy cooed. "Can you stay like that for a sec? I want to get a picture." Tyler agreed and posed with Yuki while Wendy took a picture with her phone. She let out another cute sigh as she showed Tyler the picture of him and his happy princess smiling together and saying she was going to send it to him later.
"Don't forget Tyler. As soon as you're released from the hospital we're going on a date for ice cream." Candice smiled sweetly at Tyler as he waved back at her. "Then after that, maybe we can have a friendly little spar with your Glaceon. I'd be more than happy to give you a few pointers raising her."
"Really? That'd be awesome!" Both Tyler and Yuki looked at each other and saw a little twinkle in the other's eyes at Candice's words.
"And then afterwards, Candice can teach you some... other things about Glaceons you'll probably want to know." She added with a more flirtatious wink in his direction before leaving.
"If that means what I think it does, I want in." Wendy said continuing their conversation as she and Pulse followed the Gym Leader out. Tyler shuddered as he imagined what the two of them were probably talking about.
"Oh thank God they're finally gone." Tyler groaned collapsing into the bed staring at the ceiling as Yuki curled up next to him, resting her head on his chest while Tyler pet her. "How you doing princess?"
"G-lae, Glaceon." Yuki quietly yawned as she closed her eyes for a nap.
"Yeah, I'm pretty tired too." Tyler let out a yawn of his own as he stretched his arms out before placing an arm around her. "We could both use the rest after what we've been through."
"Lava?" Magnus prodded at his master's arm with his paw.
"You want to join us Magnus?" He nodded his head. "Okay buddy, there's room for you." Magnus wriggled his way beneath Tyler's arm as the energy around them quieted down to a stillness and Tyler and his Pokémon drifted off to sleep.
A/N: There you go guys. That makes 14 chapters in the books... damn I can't believe we're already at 14. It feels like I uploaded the first chapter a couple days ago.
Tyler: You know you've changed quite a bit since you started writing this thing.
DrPhill26: You think so?
Tyler: Oh yeah, since we started our journey you've grown just as much as I have.
Wendy: Mhm, I think you've gotten a bit bolder and more dedicated to your work, not just this story.
DrPhill26: Aw, thanks you guys.
Wendy: Don't mention it; I'm glad to be a part of this adventure.
Pulse: You should be thanking the audience, not us doctor.
DrPhill26: Holy crap you called me a doctor! Damn that must mean I've done something right.
Pulse: Try not to let it go to your head. Remember your roots.
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