A/N: I'm such an idiot. First, this prompt gave me a hard time, then I write up the fic and totally forgot to post it, even with Light reminding me (I'm sorry Light; I've made a horrible partner!). And I'm usually organised too.
After Being Blue
Poke Ball 4: Obsidian
His sister brought him a black jacket. To "match your eyes", she said.
Blue didn't even know when Daisy had gone to Celadon City and come back. He just knew she tossed the jacket, still smelling of leather and department stores, onto his bed and told him to take a shower and dress up.
He did so meekly, slipping into the brown pants and white dress shirt she'd left for him, wondering if his sister had an engagement he'd forgotten about. It turned out she had, and the next hour or so left him victim to her make-up skills. Those weren't bad, but he was a guy after all and didn't like being treated like a doll.
It couldn't be helped. Daisy was a formidable opponent no matter what he was fighting her for – or with: words, fists or Pokemon. She'd been a Top Coordinator in her time after all, and now she was Professor Oak's research assistant.
And anyone who said she got that position by way of blood relations earned whatever broken bone Daisy was liable to give them. Daisy had earned her place, and she wouldn't let anyone else tell her different.
She also wouldn't let Blue tell her he didn't need his hair jelled (never mind he'd done so almost every day for the last three years of his life except the last few where all he'd really done was laze around in bed) or his hair trimmed (because he'd gotten a cut before challenging the Elite Four because he'd wanted to look his best) or a bowtie (because it looked absolutely ridiculous on him, and it didn't go with the more casual looking jacket anyway).
But Daisy had a better sense of style than that. She'd just been teasing him. And distracting him. Because he'd totally forgotten to ask where they were going in dressy but still casual clothes, and it hadn't occurred to him that it would be somewhere he really didn't want to be (since he didn't want to get out of his room anyway) until he was standing beside Daisy ringing the bell to their grandfather's laboratory with her Delcatty and Espeon behind them so he couldn't escape.