Drabble #2: The Pull
Pairing: Pokeshipping
Theme #3: Separation anxiety
It is on days when the gym is quiet, her sisters are out of her hair, and her poor (yet darling) Koduck isn't drowning, that she can't help but think of messy black hair and the darkest eyes that still seem to be so vibrant that the image of them is imprinted in her mind. She reaches into her shorts pocket and pulls out one of her precious blue badges, perfectly round except for where it begins, as a droplet of rain.
Usually, she tries hard to not live in the past, but today the memories are overflowing, beginning and proceeding in distorted images but always ending in the intensity of his gaze. With a pang she realizes that her badges aren't representative of rain at all, but of tears, and discovers with an even greater shock that she is in love.
She stares into the water where her feet are comfortably soaking in, at her own reflection. She never considers herself a lovesick girl, but over the image of her absently curling her ginger-colored hair, she sees his determined expression, always rough around the edges but enough to make her heart beat a bit faster even though she knows he is so very far away. She takes the badge in her hand and throws it into the pool, because she does not want to think of him, and how much she dearly misses him. Her fingers reach her face and come away wet.
With a short rush of water, which almost sounds like waves, the mermaid leaves solid ground and completely immerses herself in the water where she is usually more comfortable, more in her element. Her beloved water Pokémon swim around her, and yet the loneliness is barely staunched.
After she swims she returns to her quarters and decides that she wants him to know that she's thinking of him. She needs to know she's thinking of him, and yet she doesn't want to be thinking of him. Trying to remain nonchalant she turns toward the window sill, and underneath it is the answer and she smiles, tilting her head slightly, for the first time in what feels like forever. She only hopes it will pull him back to her.
The answer makes him realize that he is in love.
It is on days when gym battles are miles away, the others are left to their own agendas, and his (darling) partner Pikachu isn't being stolen, that he can't help but think about the orange side ponytail and the eyes that look like the ocean. He reaches into his jacket pocket and he pulls out what started it all, what caused him to find her (or rather, caused her to find him but does it really matter how it began?), when she fished him out of the river so many years ago.
Usually, he tries to not think of the girl whom he thought was nothing except for overbearing and noisy, but the images of how he was so very, very wrong come together and make his chest tighten and his breath quicken until it aches so hard it makes the room spin and the only remedy is to see her.
He stares into the water, to which he attributes to her so much and so well. He sees himself frustrated and confused and although he was never really good at even recognizing affairs of the heart (that is to say, he was oblivious), but realizing how much he means to her becomes even more lucid than the lost face staring back up at him.
It's not like he tries to think of her. It just happens. She flows into his mind and his heart and his body and his soul as fluidly as water. Clutching her super-deformed semblance in his hand, he grips it tighter, realizing that the answer was with him all along.
How funny it is, how she gave him a lure. He realizes at once, that it is exactly what he needs to go back to her, for her to reel him back in.
Satoshi, good luck. I miss you. I hope you haven't forgotten about me.
And under his breath, he says the only true thing: "I miss you too. Bring me back to you."
Notes on drabble: Well, I'm not much of a Pokeshipper, but I really like how this one came out. The streams of conscienceness-style is really apparent in this one. I make both characters seem really angsty, but that's just my style, I guess. I'm not really into light-hearted, although I probably should be. This is also one of two that I wrote last year (along with the advshipping one), and I'm going onward with more... Haha. Wish me luck, I guess.