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[attr="class","freypost"]'would you accompany me to lunch, alexei?' such a simple request, and yet it means so much to her that he'd accepted. her curiosity burns inside of her, and she's sure that ivanov has caught her staring at the odd pokemon nuzzled into him.

extraordinary healing abilities. a powerful rain dance for such a little thing.

her dragon-type pokemons' reactions had been more than enough to solidify the fact that this pokemon was not of the norm.

curiosities aside, she's happy to finally come face to face with one of hoenn's prolific gym leaders.

she gets them a table on the outdoor seating patio at a small diner within petalburg. ash and soot still stain her face, and the host totters off sheepishly after recognizing alexei. her face is still too new for the general public to recognize.

regardless, even before their waitress greets them, the host rushes back with a pitcher of water. "thank you," freya says and downs half the glass in a few gulps. she wipes her lips and settles back; lyune sits curled just outside the wrought iron gates of the patio, tail over his snout and eyes half-open to watch the going-ons around them.

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Alexei didn’t realize until now just how much of an effect he was having around people.

He rather preferred the privacy and anonymity—but at the rate he’d been doing things for the League, word was bound to spread out about what he’d been up to. Sweeping in and doing missions before suddenly disappearing without a trace—having completed what needed to be done without waiting for the rewards in return.

Sooner or later, he knew that his reputation would spread like wildfire—the pale haired foreigner from Unova, serving as the Gym Leader of Fortree. Of course, nobody knew about his medical records—a certain blonde-haired, blue-eyed doctor kept that part private and under wraps.

The moment he’d helped put out the fire near the edge of the city, word got out, and so there was a small crowd of people milling near the place where they were currently dining, attempting to get a look at him.

“Your face still has some soot,” he began sheepishly, reaching into the sling and pulling out a hand towel and offering it in her direction.

While he’d managed to recall most of his Pokémon, the little Phione was currently riding within the sling that held his right arm, eyes peeking out beyond the cloth and looking at the pale-haired woman with much curiosity. “Hm? What is it?” he asked the little Water-type, hiding within the spacious ‘room’, long appendage wrapped around his right arm.

The small Water-type let out a little noise, before he gently shushed her. “Shh, Zelle… can you stay in there, at least until we’re done talking? I swear, you can kiss me later…”

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POSTED ON Feb 10, 2019 19:17:01 GMT

[attr="class","freypost"]"i appreciate it," freya says and gladly takes the handkerchief. she rubs at her face and manages to clear up most of the stains by the time their server comes back. with their water glasses refilled, freya asks for a couple more minutes to look over the menu and sends her away so she can talk uninterrupted with alexei.

she watches the interaction between pokemon and trainer and her eyes soften. "she's very fond of you." she sips at her water now, wincing as it scratches at her throat.

"she's not in the dex, is she?"

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does she want to be facehugged? :eyes:

Thankfully, she knows how to stall the wait staff that came over to ask if they were ready to order, and he’s grateful for that.

Now that they have a few more minutes of privacy to themselves, he returns his gaze down at the little ‘blue blob’ (so affectionately called by his boyfriend), who’s now making this weird crooning noise from within where she was currently ‘riding’.

“You haven’t seen half of it yet,” he began, taking his own glass of water and downing half of the contents in one go. Placing it back down on the table, he noticed that the Phione was now peeking at the woman across from him with a curious air.

“She’s extremely affectionate… has this habit of hugging me right in the face whenever she comes out of her Pokéball. I don’t think she likes it in there, but I have to keep her in one because of prying eyes,” he explained, tickling the top of Zelle’s round, squishy head.

Hearing a little cooing noise coming from the Water-type, he looked up again at her next words. He was hit with a moment of panic, because to be honest he’d scanned his PokéGear and it had given him some limited information… but that was about it.

Although it was strange, really…

“Well, if you’re talking about this region’s Pokédex, she’s not in it,” he answered a few moments later.

“Nor in Unova’s, I’ve already checked.”

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POSTED ON Feb 11, 2019 19:35:28 GMT

[attr="class","freypost"]freya deigns to lean a little bit closer. the pokemon meets her gaze with an equally curious stare. behind her, she's keenly aware that lyune is doing nothing. the dragon has absolutely no qualms with the strange pokemon. moxie, on the other hand, greets her with more fervor.

the shock is clear on freya's face when the snake emerges from beneath her hiding place under her collar and slithers down the length of her arm. her serpentine body coils on the table. the ekans, so small for its size, never puts herself in a position where she reveals just how vulnerable she is.

but here she is, out in the open, lifting her head from the table and flicking out her tongue just a hair's length away from the pokemon.

"she's tame," freya says breathlessly, "i've just--she doesn't act like this."

she blinks. "what of kalos?" she withdraws her pda from her coat pocket and hands it to alexei.

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The little Water-type continues to make the strangest cooing noises—while foreign to his guest’s ears, he knows what it means: she’s hungry.

“Zelle, right now? You know you can wait…” he said, turning his attention back to the Phione for the briefest of moments, before feeling the lithe appendage hang around his injured right arm a little tighter than it means to hold onto him.

“Ow, ow! Zelle, you know Les isn’t going to like it when he sees my right arm messed up even worse,” he continued, quietly scolding the little one.

It isn’t until he catches sight of what he recognizes to be an Ekans sliter across the table does he realize his companion also has her own Pokémon hiding within her clothing. “She’s not for eating,” he says in a quiet but firm voice in the Ekans’ direction, hoping that the Poison-type would back away and leave the Phione alone.

Not until a few moments later does he see a folded contraption being pushed his way.

“If you don’t mind,” he said, reaching for it with his left hand and gently opening it, looking for the scanning feature and then pointing it at the little Water-type that was now hiding within the sling cast once more, making the same weird noises that meant: feed me, I’m hungry.

He watches the screen, waits for it to ping up with some kind of recognition, but…

…nothing.

“Wait, did I do it right?” he mumbled, picking it up and scanning the Phione again.

Another tense wait of a few seconds passes by…

“…she’s not in this one, either,” he said at last, sliding the item back across the table, display up for her to see.

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POSTED ON Feb 16, 2019 17:53:01 GMT

[attr="class","freypost"]their server returns while moxie investigates the strange pokemon. though freya is engaged in conversation, she hears alexei's warning to the snake pokemon and annoyance catches in her tone. "and whatever my partner here would like. add a few pokeblocks as well. anything you have specifically for water-types would be preferable."

when alexei gives his order and the server totters back off, freya stretches out her hand. moxie arches, eyes narrowing to slits as she rubs the snake's head with her thumb. "she wouldn't dare harm anyone without my command," freya says, still irked that the gym leader would think anything less of her pokemon.

still, her words are soft; it's hard not to be fearful for the childlike pokemon. she takes her pda back and tucks it in her pocket, thinking.

"she seems happy, to say the least." she flips her hand, fingers splayed, and moxie slithers back up her sleeve. "how many others know of her existence? anyone outside the league?"

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Did he just touch a nerve…?

“Oh, shit, I’m so sorry! It’s just that… she’s a baby, and well… you know… yeah, she’s not one to fight, to be honest. She’s too soft for that…” he apologized, before feeling something rather slimy wrapping around his right arm again. “Hm? Zelle?” he asked the Water-type once she’d made the same noise again in his direction.

“Look, you can eat later, I need you to be… a little more patient. Just a bit longer, okay?” he said softly, patting the squishy head—and the Phione quieted for a few moments, returning to its dark little hiding place and resting against his right arm. Turning back to face her, he said, “Well… asides from me and the Interpol Agent who was with me when we found her egg down in the deepest parts of Shoal Cave? Nobody does…asides from him, my boyfriend does. But that’s it…”

And then he suggested to me to call someone in from the League so they can take a look at Zelle, but no way am I going to let anyone else get closer to her… no. What if they do all sorts of things to her? He thought idly, remembering the little conversation he had with Leslie about the little blue blob that was now making sniffling noises from within the sling.

“…I got the suggestion of phoning in some League people so they can take a closer look at her. But… I don’t think I could do that. I’m afraid of them taking her away from me… I’ve heard things like that happening,” he added quietly. There, he’d said it.

The one thing he didn’t want to readily admit.

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[attr="class","freypost"]"it's quite alright," she says, expression softening. moxie settles back across her shoulders and she relaxes visibly, leans back into her chair. she draws her fingertip over the edge of her water glass as she listens to alexei speak. much of his character is revealed to her and she eats up the information like a starving dog.

"the benoit man?" she asks, brow raised. having an interpol agent, with questionable loyalty to the league and an arms dealership at the helm of his name, know about the legendary makes her feel a bit uneasy. the next time she has the pleasure of meeting with him, she'll have to get a sense of his priorities with the discovery. the last thing she wants is in-fighting over the ownership of such a creature.

she pauses, finger hovering over the rim of her glass. she picks it up, takes a sip to hide the taut pull of her lips. a selfish reason, she thinks. this pokemon could have the power to help drive out rocket, to save civilian lives, and he's grown attached.

she chooses her next words carefully. "i put my faith in our people, mr. ivanov. we are not like rocket. should you hand her over to the league, i would see to it personally that she wasn't injured in the process."

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“Yes, him… have you met with him recently?” he inquires, tilting his head to one side, left hand unconsciously reaching out to scratch the top of the Phione’s head because the little blue blob was making another crooning kind of noise while trying to catch his attention.

“The good thing about this is that we came to an agreement, that I would take care of the egg when we first found it down at Shoal Cave,” he adds a few moments afterward.

“Zelle, shh,” he continued quietly in the Water-type’s direction, hoping that she would calm down long enough for her to behave and for him and his companion to continue talking.

It doesn’t take too long for their orders to be delivered, and he reaches for his drink gingerly with his left hand, loathe to depart from the contact with the sniffling one who’d taken up residence in the sling cast.

“Can… can you blame me if I’m worried, though,” he continues after taking a leisurely drink from what was served to him. “I’ve been hearing… things. Forgive me if I sound so brash, but… some of the other higher-ups… don’t sit too well with me,” he says after silence drops for the briefest of seconds, allowing him time to think.

“I don’t know… I might be wrong, but…” he trails off, looking down at his cast—and seeing that the little Water-type was now sleeping quietly, making sniffling noises in the process.

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POSTED ON May 14, 2019 1:49:24 GMT

[attr="class","freypost"]"no," she says slowly, doing her best to keep the impatience from her voice. "i can't blame you for being worried." moxie raises her head from her neckline, tongue forking. freya ducks her chin, grazes the snake's scales. she tries to empathize--having moxie taken from her would leave her...she can't even begin to fathom.

but moxie isn't what could possibly be a legendary pokemon. a deity that has the power to stop team rocket.

and yet, as she's thinking this, chasing these thoughts around in her head, she's looking at the creature, listening to it sniffle and hiccup, watching it curl around alexei like he's its mother.

she looks away, out at the people that walk by them; they head into the unknown, facing their own days, knowing full well the sun will rise for them in the morning. that there will be sunlight and warmth and people to return home to.

that's what we're fighting for here.

"what if you were there to oversee the process? and at the end of the day, you could take her home."

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He can agree to that uwu

Alexei was…so very scared, in more ways than one. Could you blame him for being like that, though?

Now that the Water-type had calmed down and was now sleeping, dreaming of who-knew-what, this left him free to talk to the female in front of him. Seeing the little snake stick out its head from where he presumed was its permanent perch, he then kept an eye on it for a few more moments, before finally managing to gather his thoughts together.

“…sorry about what I said with the Ekans,” he began softly, sparing the Water-type sleeping in his cast a few glances every now and then. What kind of briny dreams was it enjoying, he wondered. Either way…

“If—if that wouldn’t be too much to ask?” he continued, looking up again, hopeful this time. Who knew what was going to go on behind the scenes—and well, it was pretty much too late to pry him away from the Phione at this point. He knew that Leslie had explained a few things about baby Pokémon and ‘imprinting’, or something like that—so he knew how much of a riot the little one would cause if she was forcibly separated from the one she saw as her mother’… well, both father and a mother in this case.

“That would work, to—to be fair. She’s so fussy… just like any baby Pokémon would be.”

Would it be enough? He’d still have to be on his guard, though. Just in case something happened and he wasn’t there to stop it.

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POSTED ON Jun 20, 2019 0:51:14 GMT

[attr="class","freypost"]she softens again and smiles appreciatively. it's difficult for her, sometimes, to remember that others aren't as at peace with her lizard companions. dragons are terrifying for a reason, and their cold-blooded cousins can come off as cold and dangerous to many. which, isn't to say that moxie isn't dangerous.

"i appreciate that, leader ivanov." she holds out a hand, the actual shake cut short as their server returns with their food. freya's stomach grumbles and she reaches for her sandwich. moxie's eyes close and the ekans drifts off to sleep as freya nibbles and continues to converse.

"i think i may be able to arrange this. i'll come to you, of course, before any major decision regarding communicating information about it...her? to anyone." she raises a brow. "we will, after all, need to tell a few more people so that we can have the right hands on her, though i think i know a few we can trust."

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