{Requested by ZennyHedgehog}
Sometimes the ones we love are the ones we've known the longest, and the ones we've known longest are the ones whom we'll never abandon~
=A Lifetime Friend=
= Human (Tomas) / Pokemon (Hazel) =
(Hazel's PoV)
She walked through the forest with careful steps, her tail limp and low to the ground while her mane and fur became ever more soaked from the heavy rain.
*How could he…* She thought sadly as she continued to head toward the one place she always knew she was loved. *I thought he loved me…*
-Chssbooooom- The lightning above her sounded, as if answering her own thought.
She paused to look up at the cloudy sky, unable to understand where everything went wrong. It had been going so well, at first it seemed like her life would have only had one minor flaw in it, but it would have led to an even greater joy in her life. Now it seemed that everything had done a complete one eighty, and was going from bad to worse.
She was not a wild Zoroark, she was what they called, a 'tamed' Pokemon, one raised by and among humans. She had about all of the skill necessary to survive in the wild, as a Snorlax has the self-restraint to go on a diet. So after her life took a turn for the absolute worst, she had no way to turn things around. But she now clung to one final, desperate thread, which might save her life, as well as another's life that hung on this one final gamble.
"Please… please Arceus… just let him be there." She begged solemnly, before once more walking slowly and carefully toward that house that bordered Route 6. "Just let him still be there… please… I'm begging you."
Everything that could go wrong, had gone wrong for her, all in the short time span of a month. First she has a teary goodbye with her human friend whom she'd known since she was a baby Zorua he found. Then her first love, who also was her first mate, abandons her soon after they mate. And now she finds out he left something for her.
But as she walked and left the forest behind her, she saw the log house just ahead of her, shining as a warm beacon for passersby. It served as both a home for the family that lived there, and as the new home for her friend when his parents moved away, leaving him the place for his own. It also doubled, at least while she was there, as a pseudo hotel for night time travelers.
She saw the lights were on, and walked ever closer to it, ignoring the rain that was still pouring down her fur.
She prayed one last time to Arceus, begging for some good fortune to be with her, and reached the front door. With a hopeful look at the living room windows, all with the curtains up, she knocked on the door and waited hopefully.
Then the doorknob turned, and the door opened to reveal the human on the other side.
"Hazel… what are you doing here?" The five foot tall human, with dusty brown hair and hazel colored eyes said.
She hiccupped once, then twice, and collapsed into his arms as she couldn't take anymore.
She was overjoyed, her friend was still here. "Tomas…" She said to him, able to speak human thanks to living with him her entire life. "Please… take me back…"
"Hazel, what happened, what happened to you and…" He began saying but she shook her head, silencing any more words from him.
Then she began to explain, long into the night while the storm still raged outside about how she had come back to her lifelong friend. She explained that her mate, the Zoroark that he was about to mention, had abandoned her. She told him how he had left her a few days after she had left him to be with that Zoroark, and how, abandoned, she had done whatever she could to survive out in the wilderness by herself. But she also told him what he had done to her that all but drove her to despair, and why she had returned to his house so soon after she had left.
"He left me, while I was pregnant…" Hazel wept as she sat on the living room couch, clutching a towel to dry her off. "I'm carrying his pup… and he left me." She turned to his face and hiccupped while crying. "I don't know how to live in the wild Tomas… I can't survive on my own… let alone with a pup. That's why I came back Tomas… please let me stay, I need your help, and I have nowhere else to go! I know this isn't what you wanted, but I have no one else to turn to, and I need help to raise my pup."
There was a moment of silence as she stared at her friend, and he stared back at her. Then he closed his eyes and sighed, and for the briefest moment, she feared that he would say no. But then he smiled and nodded. "Of course you can stay Hazel." He said softly. "I would never say no to my best friend, especially when she's in need."
She sniffled once more before she hugged him tightly, hiccupping with gratitude the entire time.
"Thank you…" She whispered as he patted her on the back.
"Your welcome Hazel, I'd never let anything bad happen to you." He whispered back. "You can live here as long as you want, you and your pup." He pulled away from her and lifted her head so that they were looking at each other again. "I don't make a lot of money renting out the rooms of this house to passersby, but it's enough for us to get by. However I'll need to take a job in town to pay for everything here, so while I'm busy working you need to take care of the place and run it. Think you can handle it?"
She nodded and said she would, before subconsciously rubbing her stomach, feeling the egg inside of her. "I'll manage, even if I have a pup, I'll manage." She knew how to manage things around this house, she did it a few times while his parents were still there thanks to them showing her.
As she yawned heavily and tried to stand up shakily, the first thing Tomas did was get her some medicine to help her. Then he gave her a bit of food to settle her stomach. With that done, they went up the stairs to his bedroom, and she looked around and smiled. It was just as she remembered it, and her favorite spot was still there on his bed.
Nothing has changed here in the month since she's been gone.
While he climbed into bed she turned off the light and climbed in with him, then she curled up next to him and watched as he dozed off.
She smiled warmly at him, glad that he was still here in this house. Tomas has always been her best friend, someone she always could count on, no matter how dark things became. She remembered some of her earliest memories with him, when he was just a little kid and she his Zorua friend.
[Flashback]
"Alright Hazel, catch the ball!" Tomas yelled as tossed the baseball to her in the backyard.
"Zoru!" Hazel yelled as she ran after it, and easily jumped high enough just to catch the tailing end.
With the ball in her mouth, she ran back over to him and jumped into his arms. But just as he began to laugh and try to tug the ball out, playing their favorite game of 'Tug the Ball', his parents called him in and said it was dinner time.
They went inside and he put her down so she could walk around freely, but as always she followed after him, enjoying spending time with her human.
It turned out though that dinner was still a ways away, so while Tomas watched his mom cutting up onions for some dish, she took the time to examine something on the table.
*Isn't this the cutting knife his mother normally uses?* She thought to herself as she examined the longer blade just lying on the table. *Well no wonder she's taking so long, if she uses that dinky little knife of course it will take forever! I better give it to her so we can eat sooner!*
Alas, while her intentions were good, she lacked the opposable thumbs or even claws that humans had and her evolved form had. So she had no choice but to try and carry it with her front paws. This turned out to be a big mistake on her part, as when she tried to pick it up, it slipped from her paws and spun wildly, causing the blade to slice ever so cleanly at her leg.
It had hurt a lot, and she bawled loudly for a good ten minutes. But Tomas had reacted quickly, and before he even thought about asking his parents for help, he had taken her in his bicycle to the Pokemon Center in Driftveil City.
[Flashback end]
She smiled deeply as she recalled that memory.
His parents picked them up about halfway to the city five minutes after he had run off, but the fact that he had rushed to try and help her was something she never forgot. It touched her deeply.
*He really is a good friend…* She thought happily, before falling asleep with a smile on her face. "I owe him so much."
For the first time in a month since she left him, she thought to herself, as she wrapped one of her arms around his hand and held it close to her, she felt comfortable again. She felt right at home in the house she had lived in for so many years.
As she dozed off to sleep, she felt calm and at peace.
*Narrator*
[The next day Tomas took Hazel to the city to have her checked out at the Pokemon Center. The Nurse Joy there said she was in okay health, despite her desperate living in the wild, but insisted that she take certain medicine because of her pregnancy. After that they returned home and began to live their lives together, as if nothing had changed from over a month ago when she left.]
[Hazel had expected Tomas to ask about her former mate, but he only concerned himself with Hazel. It made her feel special inside, as well as ashamed that she had thought about trading her life with Tomas, her best friend, in exchange for that life in the wild. Knowing that she was living in 'his' house now, out of his good nature, inspired her to do her absolute best to take care of the place when he began working a month after she returned.]
[A month after Tomas began working, Hazel had her first egg, and just as Tomas returned, the egg began to hatch, and out came a male Zorua. When her first pup was born, the first thing he saw was Tomas, and instantly he imprinted on the pup. She wasn't sure what to do at first, but Tomas became her pup's adopted father. From that day forth, she took on her self-appointed role as the house wife.]
[While he worked at a Pokemart in the city, among those few trainers who stayed at the house, renting the rooms for the night before moving on down the route, she became known as the 'Apron Wearing Illusion', because it was often every guy's dream to see a girl cleaning their house while wearing an apron. However, she began wondering something else, and this thought crossed her mind once again one afternoon as it rained, while Tomas was running late from work.]
=Two Years Later=
(Hazel's PoV)
"Tommy, can you hand mommy the tape?" Hazel asked as she reached down with one clawed hand while she examined the window for leaks.
She felt a roll of tape fall into her hand and looked down to see a Gallade smiling proudly at her. "How do I look mommy?" He asked in a far too young voice.
"Not bad son… but you still need practice." She replied with a chuckle before going back to the window. "And perhaps, a real Gallade reference, besides a crayon drawing made by a preschooler."
"What's wrong with it?" Tommy asked sadly as she began taping the sheet of plastic over the window to keep it from leaking.
"Well first of all… your height is wrong." She said with a grin before climbing down to stare at the 'three foot tall' Gallade. "And… I don't think Gallades are 'pink', and have yellow spikes sticking out of their heads."
Her son sighed as his image wavered and vanished, before resuming his true appearance as a two foot tall Zorua. He was the spitting image of any other Zorua, but he had certain traits that she wished to not be reminded of. Traits that of course, came from his father, or at least his 'true' father.
"Mommy, when is daddy coming home?" Tommy asked worriedly. "He promised we'd watch a movie together!"
She smiled sadly, she still hasn't had the heart to tell her son that Tomas wasn't really his father. In fact she was stalling just to avoid that conversation, she knew that Tommy was still a young Zorua, despite how fast Pokemon mature age wise compared to humans. To her, he was still a baby despite being a full grown Zorua, and his mentality was still that of a young pup.
If he found out that his 'human' father wasn't really his father, she was afraid he'd be scarred for life. "He'll be home soon." She whispered as she picked him up and nuzzled him. "Don't worry, daddy will be home soon."
She put her son back down and watched him walk back into the living room, before she sighed and put her apron back on. She knew 'eventually' she would have to tell him the truth, that her son's real father wasn't there, but she didn't want to spoil or ruin the image they had now.
Speaking of her image, she looked over and looked at her reflection in the window and did a little pose, liking how her apron looked on her figure. Then smirking even more, she cast an illusion on herself and took the form of a hot, young, eighteen year old human girl. However as she looked at her illusion's reflection, she frowned as she remembered that her 'image' she didn't want to ruin for her son, was nothing but a big illusion.
For over two years Tomas was Tommy's adopted father, taking up the role her former 'mate' had forsaken, and she had taken up her adopted position as his 'wife'. She knew from watching his mother for so many years how a wife should act with her husband, but the one thing they had yet to do was actually go through with the act.
To Tommy, they were his parents, but to her and Tomas, they were just 'friends', extremely close friends but still just friends.
She sighed as she stopped casting her illusion, and once more looked like her true self, a Zoroark. "Does Tomas even think of me like that?" She asked herself as she looked over her reflection, ignoring the pattering of the rain hitting the window.
She stood just over five feet, had a short muzzle, and an extremely large mane that flowed behind her, ending in what humans described as a ponytail. Her mane, and especially her muzzle, was what attracted that one Zoroark.
"If only… I had been born a human." She whispered as she felt her hips and thin waist, comparing how they felt to how they looked to her.
She had listened to many humans while they traveled, some occasionally stopping near his 'pseudo lodge', talking about what they liked in the opposite sex. In particular she listened to the boys and what they found 'appealing'.
"Big hips, and a really thin waist… not attractive to humans." She whispered sadly as she compared how she looked to what her 'ideal girl' looked before.
Living with humans had truly affected how she viewed the world, in the wild, from what she learned during her brief 'life' in it, wild Zoroark find mates attractive based on the size of their mane. The larger and deeper shade of red it was, the more attractive they were, and that was how she had caught 'his' eye. But Humans found other things attractive, and some found a nicely shaped waist or well aligned waist attractive.
And others found a nice bust with equally sized hips to be a huge turn on, apparently something about human instincts knowing that those two equaled to a female being what they called an 'ideal child bearer'.
But her kind didn't have those luxuries, and while she had the hips, although they were far wider than her body, and while she had something like breasts compared to a human female's, albeit concealed by her black ruff of fur, they weren't nearly as big as the lowliest female's smallest size.
She sighed again and looked out the window, wishing her friend was home so she wouldn't be alone to brood over these thoughts.
When she was alone, and these thoughts crossed her mind, a part of her began to wander and imagine herself with her mate, but not the Zoroark that left her.
No the mate of her dreams, a certain Tomas, who would always be her best friend before anything else.
(Tomas' PoV)
Tomas walked back home in the storm, feeling as if life had suddenly become a nightmare.
Why did his boss have to put 'him' on duty today, why did it have to be just 'him' working the store while the other guy and his boss were out of town for the week. If only he had called in sick, or taken a day off, or heck why not quit his job and do something else for work?
-Kshhhbooooooom-
"And you're not helping Mother Nature!" He growled angrily at the weather.
While he walked home he held the letter he had received a few hours earlier, from a guy in a trench coat and sunglasses. He had known right off the bat that the guy was suspicious, and the moment he read the letter, he knew he was right. Feeling the urge to puke again, he pulled the letter up and read it in the middle of the road.
~Dear Mr. Tomas,
Your store has taken a particular 'item' that my associates and I have taken great interest in. While I know this 'item' is there merely to serve as a showpiece for other trainers, we have a more personal interest in it.
Therefore, if you value the safety and well-being of the 'individuals' in the enclosed picture, you will leave the key to your store under the mat outside of the front entrance tomorrow night.
If you do not, you will find an empty home the morning after, and that is a promise you can take to the bank.
And don't even think of going to the police, because we'll be watching you, if you step anywhere near there, or even think of warning anyone else… well, go ahead and try.
The picture enclosed was a picture of a Zoroark and a Zorua, more importantly, a female Zoroark wearing an apron as she swept dust off of the front porch of a very recognizable house, while the male Zorua played with a rubber ball that he kept bouncing into the wall.
"Why did we have to take that stupid Master Ball and put it on display?" He asked himself as he shoved the letter back into his pocket, not caring that it had gotten slightly wet from the rain. "Of all the stupid things we could've put on display, why did we have to have a Master Ball? We aren't even going to sell the darn thing, why do we have to have it?"
He wouldn't have cared about the Master Ball being stolen, if it were ANYTHING else besides a Master Ball. Yet because it was, he had a vested interest in keeping it out of the wrong hands, knowing full well what it could do.
But he feared what would happen to Hazel and Tommy more than he did what the Master Ball would be used for in this group's hands. To him, all that mattered was that his friend and her pup were safe and sound.
But he also knew that no matter what he did, he would get blamed for the Master Ball being stolen. Even if he showed them the letter, the blame would be his, and nothing would stop them from making sure he took the fall.
"Why did this have to happen…?" He sighed as he continued walking, catching sight of his home in the storm.
Moments later he reached the front door and unlocked it, opening the door to find Hazel lying on the couch with Tommy curled up and sleeping. When she saw him enter she gave him the signal to be quiet, before pointing at her son with a smile. "He was up all day waiting for you." She whispered cheerfully.
"I'm sorry, it was a real long day at work…" He said, trying to hide the nervousness in his voice, but failing to do so as he hung his jacket up.
Hearing his worry Hazel became alerted, but when she tried to ask he shook his head and smiled nonchalantly.
"Don't worry it's nothing serious."
"Alright…" She said, getting up and carrying Tommy in her arms. "It's really late Tomas, did something bad happen at work? Did the storm make you this late?"
"Yea, it was just a rough day at work." He said as they walked upstairs. "It was just really busy."
"Okay… did you enjoy the dinner I made for you?" She said as they entered Tommy's bedroom, which just so happened to have been his parent's old room before they moved out, leaving the place to him to take care of.
"Yea, it was nice, thanks Hazel." He whispered back as she laid Tommy on the bed, and watched him snoozing with a smile on his face. "I'll have to make up for not watching a movie with him tonight."
"You got that right…" She said as they left him for their room. "You know Tomas… I've eventually got to tell him…"
"About what?" He asked, but he knew already.
"About you not being his true father." She said. "I know you play along because you don't want to hurt him… but sooner or later… he'll put two and two together. He'll figure out that you and I aren't the same species."
"I know… it's not like we're really his parents… well I mean… you are but 'I'm' not." He said as they entered his bedroom to sleep.
For just a moment as he flopped onto the bed, he thought he heard Hazel whisper something along the lines of, "Well you could…" but then sighed and instead said, "Yea, but what are we going to do then?"
"Just hope he takes it well?" He whispered when she climbed in with him, lying down on her side and facing him.
As she stared at him in the moonlit room, and he stared at her, once again his thoughts began taking in her beautiful form. He won't admit it verbally, but he also won't deny it privately, but he found her absolutely stunning, especially at night when it was just the two of them.
The way her green eyes had that look of surety as well as serenity, the way her mane flowed and fluffed behind her head, and how soft and warm her fur felt when she curled next to him. But that wasn't all he found attractive about her, what truly drew his eyes, when she wasn't paying attention of course, were her hips and long legs.
She sure had what some guys called 'child bearing hips', and often when he dreamed he found himself imagining the two of them extremely close to one another. But he'll never admit how 'deep' those dreams got.
It also didn't help that they slept together each night in the same bed, so each morning when he woke up, after he's had one of his more 'exotic' dreams involving them, he would find his hand holding one of Hazel's clawed hands.
That scene would have been cute, if only they were an actual couple.
"Goodnight Hazel." He said with a smile.
"Goodnight Tomas." She whispered back to him, also smiling.
As he fell asleep, he didn't notice Hazel watching him with one eye open, waiting for him to fall asleep, so that she could hold one of his hands, nor did he notice the soft smile cross her face or the content sight before she too fell asleep.
(Hazel's PoV)
=The Next Morning=
"I'm ganna get you daddy!" She heard Tommy yell in the front room.
"Oh no, not the famous Zorua Rush!" Tomas cried in mock fear.
She smirked as she turned and watched Tomas running around with Tommy hot behind him, pretending to run in fear as the little Zorua chased after him.
They had a good half an hour before Tomas had to leave for work, so she was preparing breakfast for them while he played with her son.
After a few minutes of running around in circles, Tommy finally pounced and jumped onto Tomas's back, making him 'fall' and land on his chest.
"Oh no, he's got me, someone help me! Arrrrrrrgh!" Tomas feigned painfully.
"Raawr!" Tommy 'screeched' while he pretended to attack Tomas.
She chuckled as she returned to breakfast. Today's morning was just like every other morning, full of fun and excitement.
After they ate breakfast Tomas left, saying he had to get to work, but as he left she noticed something different about how he spoke to her. He was more nervous than normal, and as he left he made sure to check that he and she had locked all of the doors and windows. He also told her just as he was leaving, "Don't answer the door for anyone tonight."
When she asked why, he simply shook his head worriedly before leaving.
"Something is going on, something he doesn't want to tell me." She whispered as she went upstairs to check all the windows, making sure the blinds were down.
As she checked her son's room she heard Tommy downstairs. "Mommy!" He called. "Daddy left his coat behind!"
Sighing, she went downstairs to where her friend had hung his coat and saw that it was still dripping water from the storm last night. "Wow, that thing must have been soaked through to still be wet today." She commented as Tommy sniffed the jacket.
"Mommy, how come daddy has to wear this thing if you don't have to?" He asked curiously.
"Well… it's just something he has to wear Tommy." She answered quickly. "Well, I might as well put it in the dryer. But first, better make sure he has nothing in his pockets" She started emptying his pockets of anything inside so she could safely dry it, before she found a soaked down piece of paper as well as a photo.
Glancing at the photo she smiled happily as she saw it was a picture of her and Tommy. "Aw, isn't that sweet, but how and where did he find the time to take a picture of us?"
It warmed her heart that he had a picture of them in his pocket, in fact it warmed her heart so much that she felt herself blushing as she knew what it meant from a 'human's' perspective. Carrying a picture of someone with you usually meant you treasured them greatly, and the only ones who people treasure greatly that they would carry a picture of them, is usually someone they loved.
Then she looked to the paper and wondered what it was that he had. Out of curiosity she unfolded it and read the paper, but as she read she found herself frowning and scowling in anger.
"Of all the cowardly… messed up… scummy things to do…" She growled angrily, crumbling the paper in her clawed hands.
"What is it mommy?" Tommy asked.
Taking a calm breath she looked down at her son and stared seriously at him. "Honey, I need you to stay inside, don't open the doors for anyone and don't go outside until I come back!" She said. "I need you to do that for mommy, alright?"
"Okay…" He said nervously. "But what's wrong, is something the matter with daddy?"
She frowned even harder at that, before smiling calmly again. "Don't worry, daddy is just fine, he just needs a bit of help from mommy."
He nodded in understanding while she took a quick peak out the window near the front door to see if anyone was watching the house. Sure enough, she saw someone casually walking down the road across from them, and knew the person who was wearing a large coat and sunglasses was suspicious, because he kept glancing at the house every few minutes.
She took a moment to remember how he looked while he passed by, before heading to the rear of the house and walking out the back door, leaving her son alone in the house. Once she locked it behind her, she took a running jump and hid inside of a nearby tree, checking for anyone else who was nearby.
Once she was sure she was alone, she cast her illusion and took on the appearance of the person she just saw, and made her way to the city.
What she didn't notice was that someone had been watching her, in the same getup that she just put on. As she quickly ran to the city, he followed right after her, matching her speed which far surpassed a normal human's.
=Twelve Hours Later=
(?'s PoV)
"Did the guy leave the key like we asked?" He demanded as they rushed behind the building, looking for anyone who might be watching them.
"Yea, right where you said to leave it!" The second guy said as he pulled the key out and began unlocking the door.
"Alright, is everyone here?" He asked as their fourth guy came running to them from the alley.
"Just got here, he just arrived at his home!" He whispered as he caught his breath. "His two foxes didn't leave, I was watching the entire day!"
"Alright, and our 'friend' didn't go to the police or forewarn them!" He said with a smirk as their third guy confirmed. "Are we all wearing gloves and our special shoes? No fingerprints or footprints, we want this job to be done right!"
"Yep, got mine!" The first guy said as he opened the door while wearing his gloves.
They all entered the mart and began scouring for the Master Ball. Then the found it on a display pile of other Pokeballs.
"Alright, let's get this and get out!" He said as he picked up the ball and glanced at its purple coloring. "We leave here with no fingerprints, no footprints!"
Suddenly they heard the sound of someone knocking in the door behind them, and they turned around to see who it was. But there was nobody behind them, yet the door was swinging widely before going back into place.
"What the…" He whispered.
Suddenly there were red and blue flashing lights outside, and the sound of footsteps running around could be heard. "POLICE, OFFICER JENNY, HANDS ON THE FLOOR!"
Within seconds there were officers storming inside the building and they were all forced to the ground. "The bastard, he set us up!" He growled as he tried to shove Officer Jenny off of him.
"You have the right to remain silent, we've been hearing reports from all across the city about you!" She told him as she pulled him to a standing position. "We have your buddy here wanted for sixty four counts of robbery, thirty counts of public vandalism, seventeen counts of breaking and entering, and now the rest of you for breaking and entering with intent to steal. We have one hundred and twenty eye witnesses testifying your friend's outfit and description matching you, and security cameras have you recorded for nearly every minute of it!"
"What… but… I never did any of that!" Their fourth guy yelled insistently. "I wasn't even in town till just now!"
"Yea, yea, that's what they all say!" Another guy shouted back as they were dragged out.
"Tell it to the judge, with all that eye witness accounts and now this physical evidence, as well as the camera footage we have from this place and everywhere else, you'll be in the slammer for decades at least!" Officer Jenny snapped as they were forced into a waiting van. "Take em away Jim!"
(Officer Jenny's Pov)
As the van drove away with their criminals, she sighed as she wiped her forehead with her hat, glad that she had finally caught that guy and his friends. She'd been running around all day trying to keep up with this guy with her squad, and only just got the tip that he had been spotted heading for this Pokemart just five minutes ago. It was lucky she had her entire squad with her at the time, and they were still on duty, another ten minutes and they might have gotten away again, and then the chief woulda had their badges.
"Rawr!" Her Arcanine barked as he padded up beside her and smiled proudly.
"Yep, good thing we caught em at last." She said with a sigh of relief. "You know, I honestly wish we hadn't caught them just now. I really want to know how in Arceus' name that one guy was able to make so many quick getaways in one day!"
"Grwar?"
"Seriously, how did one guy manage to rack up over a hundred criminal charges in less than twelve hours, and across so many city blocks?" She asked herself as she glanced at her Arcanine. "He must've been in like two places at once sometimes, but the evidence doesn't lie, he was in every place the cameras caught him."
She sighed again tiredly as she remembered the report she needed to fill out, but at least there was a silver lining to this one heck of a day.
"Well, at least my squad and I have earned our biggest payday in over ten years. After all the legal charges are made, we can take a vacation for the next three months straight if we want to."
(Tomas and Hazel's PoV, the next day)
"You did what?" Tomas asked incredulously, astonished that Hazel had did exactly what she said she did.
"Yea, I did all of those criminal acts!" She said with a smirk in their room.
"And that was why you weren't here all day?" He asked again, wanting to be sure.
"Yes, it was necessary to make sure I was thorough." She said. "After what I saw in that letter, I knew you were in trouble, so I made sure to do enough criminal damage that the police would be after the men who blackmailed you."
He was amazed that she had done that for him, but at the same time he was angry at her, not nearly as angry as he should have been, but angry nonetheless. "What if you had been caught, what if someone saw the real you!" He said. "What if the person you pretended to be was innocent!"
She nodded in acknowledgement, but smiled softly either way. "I know… it was a risk, a huge risk… but I couldn't let something like that happen to you, not after what you've done for me!" She said, walking over and holding him tightly. "You saved my life years ago, you gave me a home, and you've helped raise my pup… and… I just couldn't bear the thought of you being blackmailed."
He sighed and hugged her back, knowing she was just helping him out, and her plan 'had' worked, as he just found out earlier that day that there had been a break in, but the perpetrators were all caught.
"Thank you Hazel, that was really sweet of you, but… next time… just tell the police alright?" He whispered back.
"Alright…" She said back, but just at that moment they separated at the sound of Tommy entering the room.
"Mommy… I'm sleepy…" He yawned loudly. "Can you tuck me in?"
She nodded and smiled back to Tomas, before picking up her son and walking with him into the other room.
"Mommy… can I ask you something?" He asked her as she began tucking him into his bed.
"Sure darling." She said warmly.
"Daddy isn't my real daddy… is he?"
She paused as suddenly as he had said that, before frowning sadly at him. "Where did you find that out?" She asked.
"Daddy never becomes like you, and he acts like those other humans who sometimes stay here." He said.
She sighed and nodded in acceptance. "No… he's not your real daddy." She whispered painfully.
"So who is my daddy?" He asked with a frown.
"He…" She said, before sighing sadly as she realized she no longer saw her former mate as her son's 'father'. "I don't know… Tomas is more your father but…"
"Does mommy not love daddy? Is that why he's not my daddy?" He asked sadly.
"No… it's not like that… but… we're just, friends." She answered, but still it came out more painfully than it should have.
"Does mommy really love daddy?"
At that, her heart gave her the answer, she nodded in response when she realized that she did love Tomas. He didn't have to take her in, but he did, he didn't have to raise her pup but he still did. He didn't have to risk being blackmailed, but he still did, all to protect her and Tommy. "Yea… I love him."
"Does daddy love mommy?"
At that she didn't know the answer to, a part of her believed he did, but she wasn't sure. "I'm not sure…"
"If daddy loved mommy, and mommy loved daddy, would daddy be my daddy?" He asked innocently.
At that, she looked at her son and smiled proudly at him. "I'll go find out." She said, before turning the light off and heading back to Tomas' room.
Meanwhile Tomas was changing into his pajamas for bed, when he noticed Hazel walking in with a strange look on her face. "What's up Haz…?" He began saying, before she pressed her lips against his and slowly pushed him onto the bed, closing her eyes as she did.
This caught him off guard as he was not expecting her to do something like this, but as she wrapped her arms around him and deepened the kiss, he found himself not against it at all. Far from it, within seconds of her initiating it, he got just as into their first kiss and wrapped his arms around her body as well.
They both moaned into the kiss, feeling their mouths open to let their tongues explore each other. For several minutes they simply indulged in each other, without any explanation being exchanged for how they had both gotten into this situation. Yet at the same time, they simply couldn't keep themselves from enjoying the other.
Finally after about ten minutes of lip locking, tongue wrapping, and feeling each other's bodies upon their own, they separated and looked at each other with a smile. "I take it… you as well?" He whispered to her silently.
"Yes…" She whispered just as quietly. "Would you become my…"
"Why ask that… I already am." He said, not needing to know what she was asking.
"You mean…" She began saying, before tears broke through her eyes, and she simply kissed him once again.
Unable to answer her verbally, he nodded while she kissed him, embracing her as she embraced him all the tighter. Deep down, he accepted that he had become Tommy's adopted father, the only reason he never openly admitted it, was because he wasn't sure how Hazel would have liked the idea. Now however, there was no doubt that she wanted him to be her mate, and through her Tommy's father.
Still, while they were busy expressing their joy through their lips, he was expressing his interests from their newfound relationship in the form of his hands. As he hugged her close to him, and she him to her, he slowly began inching his hands lower and lower toward her ample behind. Once his hands found their target, he instantly began groping her even closer to him, and her response was to grin and oblige his indulgence, while she indulged in her own and began undoing his pajamas.
For several minutes they merely stayed like that, with her on top while he felt her ass and she began feeling his own. However as they separated for air after many long and passionate kisses, she began whimpering sadly as she realized something.
"What's wrong Hazel?" He asked.
"I'm not pure anymore…" She whimpered. "Humans share their first times with those they love… and I've loved you for so long without realizing it." She looked into his eyes with sadness. "But… I'm not pure, I've mated before… and you may not like mating me, knowing I've done it before."
"Maybe… but there is another way to look at it." He whispered calmly to her, wiping away a bit of her tears with his finger. "This is your first time with someone you truly love."
At that she smiled warmly, before nodding in acceptance and getting up with him. Then after a bit more making out between them using their mouths, she smiled seductively and turned around, placing her clawed hands on the bed and lifted her rear for him to see.
She glanced back at Tomas as he leaned over her, gripped her tightly, and began pressing into her wanting sex. As his dick began sliding into her, she began sighing in loving content, having forgotten what it felt like to have a mate to her own after over two years. She felt even more joy knowing that this time, it was with someone who at one point was her best friend, her true life mate, someone she had known since she could first remember.
For a Zoroark, a life mate was eternal, just like with other species of Pokemon, similar to a Gardevoir for example. When they chose a life mate, it was usually the first one they mated with, only rarely do they abandon their life mate in favor of another. For that to happen something drastic would have to change their mind about their life mate.
Hazel had thought she'd found her life mate two years ago, and that her sadness from leaving Tomas for that other Zoroark would heal because of it. But as she felt him hilt and lean her head to kiss him while he began to thrust in and out of her warm, wet passage, she realized that was a lie. She had been trying to hide her true love all this time, by taking a Zoroark, who in the end, left her the moment he claimed her purity.
"Mhmmm!" She moaned into his mouth as their tongues began dancing again, while her velvety sex massaged his dick with its warmth.
Tomas reached around her chest and began searching for something that he knew existed, but had never seen because of her fur. But sure enough, exactly where they should have been, his hands felt her small but still noticeable breasts beneath her fur.
They were small, barely one size above being flat when compared to a human female's, but for him they were just perfect. He wasn't too keen about the size of one's 'rack', what he preferred was what their personality was.
"I've always wondered…" He whispered as he continued to thrust in and out of her pussy, letting his instincts guide his inexperience in sex. "What your breasts… felt like… Hazel!"
"Oh… really?" She asked as she let him rut her, loving how deep he was inside of her pussy, trying to control herself and keep herself from moaning too loudly. "Well… how do they… feel… to you?"
"They're small… but they feel soft…" He whispered into her ear. "They're like… soft pillows… I could lay my head on!"
He began picking up his pace when it came to their sex, and soon his hips were smacking into hers, and she began moaning with each thrust.
"Oh… yes… right there!" Hazel said as she turned herself over and wrapped her legs around him while he leaned closer and hugged her tightly. "Yes… rut me… take me… make me yours! Make me your life mate!"
"I thought… I already was." He moaned as he kissed her, slamming harder and harder into her sex as he felt a pressure growing.
"Come inside… do it… then you'll mark me… forever!" She moaned loudly, pulling him into a kiss and feeling his dick pulse slightly, indicating he was close.
"If… you… in…sist!" He groaned as he began thrusting into her like a jackhammer, pushing his hips as hard as he could. "Here I come… I'm about to cum Hazel!"
"Yes… give it to me… please!" She groaned even louder. "I'm yours… I'm all yours… give me your seed!"
They looked into each other's eyes and pulled their mouths together for one final kiss, before they screamed their last words to each other in their love making session.
"I love you Hazel!" He said as he felt his dick finally beginning to convulse, and he hilted himself as far as he could into her sex.
"And I love you Tomas!" She moaned as she felt his dick release his seed into her womb, feeling it pool inside of her and fill her with warmth.
She kept her legs wrapped around his waist to keep him hilted as long as she could, simulating what the male would do to ensure his scent marked the female. But then she pulled him back onto the bed and rubbed her sex, feeling his seed coating her walls.
They simply stared at each other before they began kissing and hugging once more. Yet just as they began to enjoy each other's company even more deeply than they were before, they heard the door open slightly and turned to see Tommy walk in, sleepy eyed but intent on going into their room.
"Mommy… I thought I heard something…" He whispered as he wearily walked over to the bed, obviously oblivious to what just happened between them.
"Uh… Tommy…" Tomas began saying, but Hazel chuckled and held him close, before picking Tommy up and putting him between them on the blanket.
"It's alright son… I was just… talking with Daddy." She whispered soothingly. "And he has good news…"
"Is daddy going to be my daddy?" The little Zorua asked hopefully.
Tomas chuckled softly, but nodded happily, scratching the little Zorua on his head. "Yea, I'm going to be your daddy." He said.
"So daddy 'does' love mommy…" He yawned happily. "I was worried… that you might not love mommy…"
"No… no I do love her." He said, smiling warmly as his son curled up and began sleeping between them, completely unaware of what took place. "I do love you Hazel…"
"And I love you… Tomas." She whispered proudly, before leaning closer and laying her head next to him so they could sleep.
=Three Months Later=
*Narrator*
[After mating Tomas and choosing him as her new life mate, Hazel all but forgot about the Zoroark who had given her Tommy. She only ever remembered him from then on, as the male who gave her Tommy, but she chose to see Tomas as Tommy's true father, and from then on they always referred to him as 'daddy', with pride and joy.]
[But, after being claimed by Tomas, Hazel began showing him how much she loved him by mating him almost three times every week. Of course she made sure that Tommy would be asleep and they had no guests sleeping over, so they could have privacy. Yet after so much intercourse between the two of them…]
(Tomas and Hazel's PoV)
"Right there… oh please… right there!" She moaned loudly as she bounced up and down on the bed, feeling his dick slip in and out so easily. "Yes… yes… fuck… harder… harder!"
"Hazel… I'm… about to…" He moaned just as loudly, feeling himself about to release once more inside of his life mate.
"Come inside… again… come again for me!" She said as she began feeling herself approaching her orgasm, for the third time that night.
"I can't… hold it!" He moaned, before hilting again.
"Ahhh~!" She moaned loudly as she felt her pussy fill up, leaking his seed as it was unable to take anymore with how full she was.
Exhausted she fell to her side of the bed, but felt Tomas hug her close to him, one hand turning her head so they could kiss, while the other massaged and rubbed her stomach.
Her rather 'large' stomach, which had bulged significantly over the past two months, indicating she was carrying another Zorua pup inside of her. This one belonging to none other than her true life mate, Tomas.
After having sex so often, and so many times without the use of a condom, Tomas had succeeded in fertilizing her womb. At first they were afraid, because it was illegal for a Human and a Pokémon to have sexual intercourse, but their fears were put aside when they visited the Pokémon Center.
They discovered that they had a secret friend, who kept their relationship a secret, and lied to the Pokémon League officials about Hazel's pup. This mystery friend was none other than Nurse Joy herself.
After seeing the couple, she instantly giggled and told them that they aren't the first couple to come to her, or her sisters, in their 'condition'. She said that nearly every Nurse Joy has had this happen to them, and nearly all of them secretly supported any 'couple', as long as they weren't abusing their partners in some way. She had examined Hazel and told her the good news, telling her that, because her body type was similar to Tomas', they were compatible enough to have pups.
But unlike her last one, Tommy, this one she told them was being birthed like a Human female would. In other words she would soon give birth to a Zorua pup in the same manner as a female human does, without the egg. It would hurt a little more because of the abnormal means of reproducing, but it wouldn't feel any different than when the pup came out as an egg.
For Hazel though, she was just happy that she was having another pup, this time with her true love.
Her best friend, turned life mate.
"I can't wait until our pup is born love…" She whispered as she turned around, rubbing her belly with one clawed hand along with his. "I just can't wait…"
"Neither can I Hazel…" He said back to her, kissing her deeply as he felt how large her stomach was.
After several minutes, a very tired and, still oblivious Tommy the Zorua wandered in and jumped on the bed, curling up next to his mother's belly and rubbing it. "Mommy… when is my brother ganna be here?" He asked her hopefully.
"Soon my son… just be a little patient." She said warmly.
"How do you know it's a brother… maybe it's a little sister." Tomas chuckled.
"Blegh… I don't want a sister… sisters are yucky!" Tommy said, sticking his tongue out in disgust.
Hazel chuckled as she scratched her son's fur, before grinning at Tomas with a twinkle in his eye. "Well… if it is a girl…" She whispered. "Then I guess we'll just have to… 'try again', until we give you a baby brother?"
He chuckled softly as they all curled up for bed.
But they were so focused on each other, that none of them noticed outside the window, peering in through the gaps in the blind, a human wearing a large coat and sunglasses in the cool of the night.
(Zoroark's PoV)
He sighed in sadness, but also slight joy as he stared at his former life mate, as she laid with her new life mate, a Pokeball hanging from his neck in the form of a necklace.
He had been watching them mate almost every week for the past three months, feeling a sense of sadness and longing with each time he watched.
*If only… I had told her sooner.* He thought privately, before pulling out an old paper from two years ago.
It was a clipping from a human newspaper, and it was merely the headline of an event that many remembered but few thought about these days. He had read it again, and again, over and over, trying to believe that what he had done had been worth it. But no matter how hard he tried, the same two lines never answered his question.
~Clash of Dragons near Pokemon League HQ in Unova~
~Titanic Battle of Truth and Ideology Takes Place~
He didn't blame his trainer for what had happened, it had to be done, and he believed in their cause. But that cause had come at a price, and he had had to leave his life mate behind in order to join his trainer, and with her, his son, whom he had never once met personally.
Something that pained him greatly, as he stared at the little Zorua sleeping so peacefully and happily between his pregnant mother and adopted Human father.
His son was inside that house, and he longed to even hold him in his clawed hands for even the briefest of moments. A single minute would have sufficed, even half or a quarter of that time would have given him enormous joy, but he knew it was pointless to imagine. When a life mate chooses another life mate among his species, the previous one is forbidden to ever meet or see any offspring they might have had with said parent. It was the price of betrayal, of abandonment for such a commitment.
It was his punishment for his crime.
"Take care of her Human…" He whispered as he dispelled his illusion and gripped the paper clipping tighter. "Take care of her… and him… and whoever it is she carries inside of her, and whoever she will carry for you." He then turned and prepared to leap, but took one final glance at the happy family, awaiting the arrival of its latest member. "Take care of them… I'm counting on you… to do what I should have, but failed to do…"
As he leapt away, he remembered how he had helped Hazel back in the city, when her human had been threatened and she risked her well-being to help him. He too had helped her, disguising as the human hounding their home, and mirrored her actions across the city, without anyone noticing him.
He never told her the truth, he never confronted her, and as he ran away from what he wished he had, he knew he never would.
"My trainer still needs me… but 'she' no longer does…" He whispered sadly, feeling his sorrow slip through a single tear from his eye. "At least she's happy… that's all that matters to me."