Oldrival FTW! (Although I'm a major fan of Frantic myself…)
Oh and if there are any Gymshippers out there, there's a nice little snippet (or several) in here *insert big grin* If there are none, then uh… skip over it *big thumbs up*
Disclaimer: Do not own Pokemon. Again, I wish I did (where is Jirachi when I need him?)
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one : always;
"You never change," Green mutters to himself, leaning his head against his head as Blue somehow manages to convince the ice-cream man to give her a discount on the huge sundae she is currently purchasing.
two : bay;
He never says it, but his favorite place to go is the Cerulean Cape; the only person who knows about it is Blue, who drops in now and then (but then again he can't say that he minds).
three : bees;
"They won't hurt you, Blue," Green says in exasperation; two hours later, it is the brown-haired girl who's wearing a smirk as he dabs at his bee sting.
four : bound;
He mentions briefly to Red how he feels like they've been unceremoniously thrown together with Blue as a twist of fate; Red sheds his dense personality for a moment to smile knowingly and say, "I think you and Blue are bound together tighter than I am with either of you, y'know?"
five : captive;
Neither of them are sure who's captive to what – he to her charm, or her to his strength.
six : cherish;
When she turns eighteen and leaves for Sinnoh to pursue a career in modeling, Green spends the night in his room going through old pictures and letters.
seven : child;
"Well, you're still a child, the way you always want your way all the time," he retorts sharply, and she steps back, a little taken aback at how snappy the banter has become.
eight : clouds;
"Aw, it's going to rain," Blue sighs when she drags Green out of the lab, and Green shrugs: "Another reason to go back indoors," he says a little too cheerfully (well as cheerful as Green could ever get).
nine : cry;
She keeps repeating that she hasn't been crying, but Green stares at her for so long that she breaks down again and begins to sob into his shoulders.
ten : cryptic;
"Just once," she sighs into the Pokegear, "I wish he would give me a normal present instead of sending me on wild-goose chases and scavenger hunts to find my gift!"
eleven : educate;
He spends two weeks trying to teach her about the more advanced research done on the Pokemon of far-off places like Sinnoh and Hoenn; later he discovers from a sheepish Yellow that she just wanted to spend more time with him and win a bet with a cocky Gold.
twelve : electric;
He watches his Golduck crumple, shocked by a Thunderbolt from Red's Pikachu; he sees Blue applauding in the audience and suddenly feels a tingling sensation that he suspects has nothing to do with the yellow rodent.
thirteen : erase;
When they're twenty-one, she breaks it off and tells him that they would be better off forgetting everything they've done together- he doesn't look her in the eye as he says flatly: "You know it's not that easy, Blue."
fourteen : fall;
And when he finally walks away, she wonders- briefly- if she's just hit rock bottom.
fifteen : far;
"Just a couple more minutes and we'll finally reach Pewter, and then you can stop complaining," Green says to a visibly tired Blue; he silently admits that he hadn't minded the company on the long trek.
sixteen : fear;
Blue would never have guessed that the ever stoic, strong and silent Green would be scared of clowns (so guess what she talked Red into getting for Green's surprise birthday party the next year?).
seventeen : fight;
When they're twenty, they have their first real fight over the videophone: he claims that he's busy in the Gym and she claims he doesn't care enough to visit her in Sinnoh- they know it's the same fight they've had before, but this one seems worse (maybe because both are actually invested in a relationship together this time).
eighteen : firm;
"No, Blue, I will not marry you on your birthday, and threatening to show everyone my baby pictures will not work."
nineteen : forget;
Two months after their breakup, she hears from a sympathetic Yellow that it seems like Green has forgotten about her; even though she was the one who told him to, it seems like the dagger twists a little in her heart.
twenty : games;
When they're nineteen, Blue's little games pay off; Green finally asks her out and she declares in her heart that it's a tie (after all it is a win-win situation).
twenty-one : gone;
She comes back from Sinnoh and he is gone like the wind; nobody knows where he's gone and she spends the next few days with Yellow, dazed at how little she has kept in touch about her ex.
twenty-two : grace;
He's not as fast as Red, or strong (Red, she admits, has become a monster) but if there's one thing Green has always had over his rival, it's the way his Pokemon move as though they own the battlefield around them (sort of like how Green takes her heart in one smooth stroke).
twenty-three : haunt;
He hears from Sinnoh (Diamond and Pearl, to be exact) that Blue's planning a trip back to Viridian City, so he packs his bag, leaves his backup team in charge of the gym and goes away to Cerulean, where he knows Misty and Brock are staying for the holidays- but even their cheerful attitudes do not banish the memories that haunt him late at night.
twenty-four : heal;
During a battle, Misty thrashes his Golduck with her Starmie's Icebeam; she tosses him an Ice Heal later but Brock, who somehow senses his turmoil, tells him "You're going to need more than that to fix your problems, buddy."
twenty-five : heat;
"It's smoldering," Blue complains, "And it's not just because I'm sitting right- Green!" and she dashes after the Gym Leader, who in a rare moment of mischief, decides to dump the bucket of ice-cold water over her head.
twenty-six : hero;
"You always have to be the hero, don't you?" she asked bitterly when she hears about how Green saved a kid from being trampled by a wild Rhydon- and deep down she knows she's jealous because she would like him to be her hero, and only hers.
twenty-seven : humble;
Green is a Gym Leader; co-savior of the world countless times, filial grandson- and yet, he doesn't take credit for any of these things, Blue notes to herself (and she figures it's part of the reason why she's so determined to make him notice her).
twenty-eight : ideals;
"Let them figure it out," Green sighs for the hundredth time when Blue pushes him to help Red and Yellow get together; she protests, and he says the same line he's been saying all this while : "Because it's their own problem and I'm not going to stoop to your level!"
twenty-nine : illusion;
He sits in his Gym one sunny day and wonders if their relationship was a nice, happy illusion.
thirty : knight;
Blue bangs on his door one day and shoves a package into his hands before skipping away happily- she has no doubt that he will dutifully show up to her house later dressed in the chain-mail suit that she gave him (symbolizing how much she valued him as her hero).
thirty-one : lady;
"Not till you learn how to behave like a lady," Green drawls from behind his book when Blue demands to know when he's going to ask her out.
thirty-two : liberate;
Perhaps one of the reasons why Green fell for Blue was because being around her made him feel free, no matter how hard he tried to hide it.
thirty-three : parting;
The day comes for her to leave, and he is nowhere in sight; but somehow two roses magically appear in her bag when she checks, and she shakes her head, muttering wryly to herself, "Well, it's no teary farewell, but it'll do."
thirty-four : pictures;
Blue realizes one day that there are no decent pictures of her and Green, and she immediately sets out to remedy that, much to the Gym Leader's aggravation.
thirty-five : rainbow;
"Rainbow! Make a wish!" Blue shrieks, and Green just sighs, "Pesky woman, it's a shooting star you wish on, not a rainbow."
thirty-six : real;
It's pure coincidence that Green bumps into a depressed Blue while they're in Cerulean- both of them stare at each other for a minute, not daring to believe that this is real.
thirty-seven : rescue;
She mentions one day that she's never actually rescued him from anything, while he's saved her skin so many times she's lost count; he secretly acknowledges the fact that she's saved him from a life of dreary boredom.
thirty-eight : ring;
He takes her to a coffee shop Misty recommended in Cerulean; noticing the ring on her finger, he asks about it and she nonchalantly replies with "No one special."
thirty-nine : sanity;
There were many times when he sympathized with Crystal, because he knew that his relationship with Blue was about as crazy as her relationship with Gold.
forty : scream;
Green becomes very, very alarmed when Blue screams his name at the top of her voice- he scrambles outside to realize that it's only his Ninetales playfully biting at Blue's skirt, and he can't help but choke down a chuckle (of course he doesn't laugh out loud, and later he lets Ninetales out of its Pokeball for a short while longer).
forty-one : search;
He reluctantly helps comb Viridian Forest for Blue's Jiggly, suspecting that the conniving con artist wants more than just her lost Pokemon back- he's right, he realizes when somehow she ends up 'tripping' on top of him, but somehow he can't bring himself to mind.
forty-two : sentiment;
Green walks in on a guilty Misty and Brock jumping apart from what seemed like a tender embrace and all sorts of emotions rush up: surprise, embarrassment, and most of all, nostalgia, because he remembers when Silver walked in on him and Blue doing the exact same thing.
forty-three : shallow;
The boys who whistle at Blue are sadly shallow, Green thinks to himself, because they would never bother to find out what sort of deeper, complex layers lay below Blue's happy, flirty exterior (layers even he hasn't fully deciphered).
forty-four : silence;
"So what about you?" Blue finally asks, and Green remembers the awkward date with the girl who was perfect in every way, but who wasn't Blue; he simply allows the heavy, tense silence to prolong for a moment before replying in a raspy voice, "No one… special."
forty-five : soul;
"Do you have no soul?" Blue yells at him one night when they're having another one of their heated arguments; he flinches before his face turns stony, leaning forward and saying in a dark tone: "I have a soul, but I bet you just never bothered to really look for it since you've always treated this like a game!"
forty-six : stuck;
While he was stuck being a statue, he had tons of time to think about the girl who was just as petrified behind him; he finally admitted to himself that she meant more to him as a friend than someone like Yellow, but he would never say it out loud.
forty-seven : victory;
When Blue feels Green's arms pull her a little closer and he lowers his lips to hers for a second time, she celebrates her long awaited victory before losing her focus- Green, for all his silent nature, is one heck of a kisser.
forty-eight : war;
They've seen each other fighting the enemy and they know how fierce each other can become; they don't have quite the violent ferocity they bring to the battlefield, but they're locked in a battle nonetheless (and both of them aren't quite accustomed to losing).
forty-nine : wings;
"How much do you like birds?" a way too sneaky Gold asks Green, and Green scowls as he replies "They're okay, wh- whoooaaaa!" and he yells in horror as the familiar shadow of a Zapdos drops down, snatches him up, tosses him in the air and lets him land on the back of the huge lightning bird next to a pesky, obnoxiously smiling brown-haired girl, who greets him with: "Haven't seen you around, why haven't you called?"
fifty : wound;
The clock strikes noon and Green realizes that he and Blue have been sitting in Cerulean's coffee shop for a while, making conversation; he remembers that Misty and Brock have invited him to lunch, so he asks Blue to come with him and meet the other two- he notices that even as she accepts and stands up, her ring is already discarded, sparkling disconsolately under the chair.