I forgot to put my notes in so here they are: I am sorry it has been so long I am a college student and have not had time or motivation to work on this chapter. I still have one more chapter to this fic so be patient. This chapter has a few references in it see if you can find them all I guess (or not it is really up to you). Also thank you so much for reading.
I heard a knock on the door, my heart felt like it was about to leap out of my chest, I knew it was him and Blake. I stood up and tried to calm myself while Whitley let them in the room. I am hoping that they didn't notice my panic attack but then again I probably gave Black one as well. Blake walked across the room until he was standing almost exactly between Black and me.
"You do realize it is not a good idea to stay quiet like this talk we don't have all day." Blake was getting tired of the awkward silence. It had felt like an eternity to what was only a minute or 2 in real-time but still, I could not process my feelings well. What was this new dream in the back of my mind?
"Black I am sorry if anything I did hurt your feelings. I let my emotions take over and I am sorry if you don't want to help with the BW agency anymore because of it." It took so much to say that, I didn't want him to stop talking to me completely for something I did. Arceus knows if he stopped talking to me my anxiety would once again take over.
"Actually you really just caught me off guard." He scratched the back of his head while smiling. "I really just didn't know what to think of it. I wouldn't let you miss your dreams for the world, you supported me throughout my journey even though we were apart through some of it." He grabbed my right hand, "your dream was to find me and this time I'm not letting go." A slight blush crept across his face. Whitley smiled while Blake stood there with his arms crossed. "Remember even if we have to go different ways for a little while, I am always with you and I promise to always come back to you."
"Yeah." I squeezed his hand and smiled. "What do we tell everyone right now?" What about the agency? What will people think? "Can we keep all of this quiet for right now. Just until we know how everything goes before dealing with what others think of us." He grinned and nodded slightly, Whitley nodded, and Blake stood there with his arms crossed still.
"You know part of my job is to learn just about everything about the both of you. If I can keep all of that a secret to myself and Interpol I can keep this one as well." Blake said with his head down slightly grinning.
"You know I can see that you are smiling. You never really have smiled like that before mind if I ask you why." I asked him.
"I just realized the both of you were not so blind after all." He said smugly.
"Hey, that's kinda rude but true," Whitely responded. "I honestly was surprised that it didn't happen during the battle against Colress. You know when you were talking about your wish for 2 years. I thought he didn't have ears or something." We all started laughing, well everyone except Blake.
"We should probably go to help everyone with the storm. I think it might get even worse." I suggested.
"You're right, the storm was only getting worse when you both came in," Blake said.
"Ok then let's go help everyone."
"There's the Prez I know and love." Blush crept across my face and I giggled a bit.
"At least for a little while so we can both help others also so people don't get any ideas before we are ready to say anything." I let go of his hand.
We walked back out to the main area of the school, there were more people and pokemon than previously. Iris was chatting with a few of the students from the trainer school. I'm just glad she isn't pestering Black and me right now since we just figured things out. We walked over to Cheren, who was giving people blankets to warm up.
"Hey Cheren what can we do to help," I asked.
"Can you guys help bring blankets from the closet over to the other people here that need them. I'm sure Whitley can show you where the closet is." As he said Whitley guided us over to the closet and we got blankets to take back to everyone in the entrance room of the school.
We both went to pass out blankets and when we were done we both sat in the corner of the room with Blake and Whitley. Whitley began talking about the new pokemon she caught. The pokemon was an Eevee, she had found it on the ledge of a cliff and thanks to some quick thinking from Gigi and Foongy she was able to keep it from falling. The Eevee was rather timid and hid in Whitley's arms as she spoke to us about the incident. Cheren walked over and sat down with all of us.
"You know there is a trainer with the very first version of the pokedex who has special powers to heal and understand pokemon. She has helped a Pikachu who she now calls her partner to recover from an injury in the forest that she is from." My gaze shifted to the pokemon sitting on Whitley's lap.
"Wow, I wonder if she could help Whitley understand what is happening with this little Eevee." I looked over at Black, "I know that if she has one of the original pokedexes then she must know the Kanto champion. I heard he is undefeated and one of the people that professor Oak entrusted with a pokedex as well." Black's face lit up with a grin wider than I've ever seen him grin before.
"I would love to battle the Kanto champion, maybe after the match next week. I wonder if I can actually talk to him it would be so cool to talk to him just champion to champion."
"It would be good publicity too," I said under my breath.
"What was that Prez?" It was difficult to hide my smile.
"Oh, nothing, nothing at all." In all honesty, I'm just happy to see him smiling again after earlier, but really he does not need to worry about who he will battle next. He really should be worrying about how he is going to beat those battles knowing Black he would be doing research preparing for a match right about now. He just sat there looking at the others and me smiling. The snow eventually ended and it was finally time to depart. My depression faded with the last snowfall that day despite the fact we had once again gone separate ways. I knew I would see him soon after all this championship match was next week as was the start of him finally accomplishing his dream.