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POSTED ON Dec 1, 2022 10:41:31 GMT
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Hey Kep. I'm at the hospital.

No. That's far too forward, how can he message that? That would worry his boyfriend to death. He sighs, groaning. If he could grab at his face, he would by now. He looks at Pulse, and just says. "Delete it. Let's try again."

Message deleted.

Hey babe. The mission wasn't easy. Things got bad fast.

He groans again. Ashley can't just say that. If there's no details, Kep will be even more worried. He scowls, as he shakes his head towards Pulse.

Message deleted.

Hey baby. I'm at the Sootopolis hospital. Things didn't go so well, and they're checking up on me and Isaac. Come swing by if you have a moment.

He thinks about this message, eyeing Pulse, the Rotom raising a brow. With intent to help his trainer, the Rotom does something. He adds three words. Three little words. Ashley nods, he doesn't see them at first.

Hey baby. I'm at the Sootopolis hospital. Things didn't go so well, and they're checking up on me and Isaac. Come swing by if you have a moment. I love you.

Ashley quickly panics. "UNSEND. UNSEND. PULSE, DELETE IT, UNSEN-"

Message sent.

"Oh. Fuck." Was... was everything spinning? Pulse was just trying to help. They couldn't help it, they knew online that when people wanted to make others feel better, they said that to them. It even sounded like a text Ashley would send, that was the worst part. Pulse looks incredibly saddened. They just failed their trainer now... they droop down lower.

"It's not your fault, Pulse." He just hoped Kepler was... he hoped it wasn't too soon. Especially over a text like that. He felt it, so it should be fine, right? His cheeks were red. Dammit.

He smiles to the Rotom. "You just stole my thunder. That's all, buddy."


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POSTED ON Dec 3, 2022 23:06:26 GMT
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[attr="class","thadmain"]The first thing Kepler did when he got back to their flat was download all of his METENO data. There was a loooooot of footage from the six cameras on his person, though the last few minutes of everything was rimed in frost and most of the stuff from his palm-cams was just… meteor.

But it was better to have more data than to have less data so once everything was on his PC and backed up to three different flashdrives and a DVD he headed for the bathroom to defrost with a hot shower.

Their space felt too large and empty without Ash, even with the multitudinous pieces of computer technology and science shit crammed into the second bedroom to make his office. He’d just turned the hot water on when his phone pinged. He grabbed it off the bathroom counter and--

--immediately started to cry.

Oh, he felt awful. Here he was focusing on work and himself while Ash was in the fucking hospital. Add to that the layers of exhaustion, latent guilt at getting ’s Houndour perma-frozen, and generally failing to do anything productive during his entire time on the meteor, and it made for a very messy break.

He abandoned his shower and barely remembered to turn the water off before cramming himself in warm clothes (Kyruem’s bullshit was still affecting the region) and hopping on Ahamkara for a speedy Gyarados trip to the hospital… though he had to ditch her at the city’s edge and take a Teleport or else she would literally have tried to destroy everything.

He had to use Divinity’s hypnosis to put the nurse orderly to sleep and snoop around in her computer to find what room Ash was in (he wasn’t family). He left her slumbering peaceably and continued on to Ash’s sickbay, coming through the door into the night-darkened room.

Seeing what condition his boyfriend was in caused him to break down crying again as he all-but-threw himself on the bed, trying to avoid the places that looked the most hurt.

“I’m s-so happy you’re alive, I’m sorry it t-took me so long to get here, I b-brought chocolate.”
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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2022 0:20:14 GMT
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Night darkens the room. For one, Ashley had gotten a message back. Earlier, it was a blurry photo of a Hoopa and a Kyurem. The best part? Or rather, the part that told Ashley it was going to be okay with those words. Love you. He felt full of life when those words made touchdown upon his mind.

It's when Kepler had finally raced to him, when the door opens, and he sees Kep there, that Ashley's silver eyes move to the side. There was he; a man in bed, with a cast on his right arm, bandages on his left ear. Torn to nigh shreds upon the mountain, and yet, all he can do the moment he sees Kep is smile. A loving gaze towards his significant other. No hello. No greeting. He let Kep do that.

Seeing Kepler cry, he knew he had to handle it, but Ashley would let him. Ashley's own were bubbling at the corners of his eyes.

"It's okay. You had a Kyurem problem." He holds Kep tight with his left arm, practically hoisting him into the bed to let him lay there, and cuddle into him. He realizes then, upon Mt. Pyre what he missed. The feeling of the other person in his bed. His grip around Kepler tightens.

"Thanks, Kep. I love you." He whispers weakly, peacefully, lovingly and all.

He doesn't wait a second. The chocolate was a nice gesture, it truly was. But he when he kisses Kep's cheek, holds him tight, he knows he has all the armcandy he could ever want.

The chocolate is just a sweet bonus.

His big toothy grin widens, tears trying to prick his eyes. "The whole time I was up there, you were always on my mind... how was your mission? Has to be cooler than Mt. Pyre. You went to space, right? And that picture... that's Kyurem, right? It's that, or a huuuuge white chicken." He focuses on Kep first and foremost. He wants to hear it all.

This was what missed most of all. Kepler.


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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2022 0:45:45 GMT
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[attr="class","thadmain"]“Y--yeah,” he says, half a slur and half a sniff, realizing belatedly that Ash is hurt and maybe he shouldn’t be climbing all over him, “wh-what the fuck is up with that?” It wasn’t a question that Ashley could answer-- neither could Kepler, frankly, which was a startling thing in and of itself.

“What the fuck are our lives?”

It was the same thing he’d asked on the meteor.

“S-Sorry, I-- I don’t want to hurt you.” He gently disintangled himself from Ash, pushing up on the mattress to right himself back on his own two feet, but then Ash swooped in with a hug of his own, pulling him down again, and he just went, boots and coat and sweaters and snow-strewn jeans and all, damp and cold and serpentining into Ash’s bodyheat like the little missile that he was.

“You c-could have died,” Kepler says-- as though Ashley needs reminding-- and he’s crying again. “You c-could have died and I f-fucking went to space to do f-fuck all.” How immaterial it seemed-- the impossibility of space travel and METENO Deoxys and Kyurem and Hoopa-- in the light of this newfound feeling. “I l-love you too but you could have died.”

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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2022 1:09:02 GMT
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The sniffle, the way his words slur together. But that one line. What the fuck were their lives? Ashley could think that to himself day in day out. He laughs to himself, holding his boyfriend inh is bed, and hugging him. He may have just a single arm useable, but he's got the power to keep him here.

He lets Kep let it all out first. He's crying again. Crying would eventually make him feel better. As Ash just lays there, eyes closed, he's crying now too.

Fuck, man. What even was their lives?

When Kepler says it in person, it's all Ashley needs to find the strength to pull them through. His chest is beating harder, as he's crying, sobbing even.

"I'm still alive though." Ashley cuts through the tension, a butter knife into the proverbial pained bawling, as he kisses Kepler's forehead. "It was pretty rough though. I've lost a lot. Aside from a brief mental breakdown, you were always on my mind." He didn't need to go through it again.

Cygne already gave him that earful.

Instead, he focuses on the best thing through tear-stained eyes. "I'm crazy about you, you know that?" He's chortling with glee, a warm happy grin on his face, as he kisses Kepler's face again. "I wasn't going to die and leave you alone. would have dragged my ass from the afterlife, beat some sense into me, and brought me back anyways." Guy practically already did.


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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2022 1:49:32 GMT
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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler doesn’t say anything, just buries his face and tries to get himself under control. He’s not sobbing anymore but there are definitely still tears pouring down his face, wetting Ash’s shirt when he nods.

He peeks up, and Ash is smiling. Despite everything, Ash is smiling. And it makes Kepler feel a little bit better about… about all of it.

“Do you… do you want to talk about it or… not yet?” he asked, reaching up to push black strands of hair out of Ash’s face. He wasn’t a psychologist but he knew that traumatic things like this sometimes took time to worm themselves to the service-- to fester, to abscess.

“I’m crazy about you, too. Oh!” He rolled over into the tiny bit of space between Ash’s body and the bed railing-- he fit because he was like, six inches wide-- and took the box of chocolates that Divinity had been holding aloft for this entire time. The little Ralts’ arms sagged. “I got you these. Um. Do you want anything else? Food? Real food?”

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POSTED ON Dec 4, 2022 2:41:18 GMT
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A smile suits Ash, and he just hopes Kep feels better. It's taking a lot to do that much, but when Kep asks him if he wants to talk about it, he drops it a moment, because when Kep rolls over and has chocolate, Ashley cries a little more with a big smile. Liquid diets sucked, but when Kep offers real food, it changes everything. He loves his boyfriend. Fuck does he loves him.

"Once we're done, yeah. Might wanna get something for Isaac too. I wanna catch you up first though, babe." He'll still have the chocolate, as he gestures for the Ralts to hop up and sit with them.

Then came the dreaded moment. Ashley takes in a deep breath, and looks at the ceiling of the hospital. No backing out. Face it out.

"We got ready in Mt. Pyre. It was the four of us. , , , and myself. We were in position, readying ourselves, when things start going wrong. I get separated from Isaac, Gavin runs to Tempest's aid, and then I find myself watching our flank. Some douche canoe and I fought. Pluto-" He stops himself. He closes his eyes, the memory on his mind. "-Pluto and I took a really nasty Solar Beam each. My right arm might have nerve damage. Thankfully, it was just my arm."

The story isn't over though. The most harrowing parts are to come.

"I finally find Isaac fighting two fronts. One against that reporter, , and some jerkass named Layton Cassidy ( ) hiding with a sniper. I did my best to help Isaac... Bullet, Pluto, and Kiryu didn't make it." His lip trembles upon saying it. It meant it was true. They were gone now. "Somehow, I was able to get the upper hand on them with Isaac. But Isaac and I got separated, and after a hostage situation, we won... then, I found another League guy ( ) who found me in a really bad state of mind. I tried killing him." His hold on Kep tightens.

"He got away."

But now the worst of it. "Isaac found me in that state of mind. Guy tried his best, but I was... gone. I blamed myself. Kiryu, Bullet, Pluto? All of them died because of me. That's what I kept telling myself. I tried to burn my friendship with him, because I figured if I did, I could-" He stops. Silver eyes are matted with tears, he looks to Kep. "... Isaac and I fought each other. Bongo was there, he evolves and he breaks my arm, and I took Isaac's eye. I got off a little too easy. I was okay."

Then the finale.

"Following that, some jerk named Father Winter decides to try and bring Palkia through a portal. Lot of people died, came back, and I-" He stops. The tears are flowing harder now, as he trembles through his next words. "I saw the Raichu Theo made me kill when I was younger. Jubilee. I got to see her again." Kep could hear the tone shift, surely, the level of childish need from Ashley as he refers lovingly towards the Raichu. His face was matted in tears, his silver eyes glossy. "I got to see Sushi, Bullet, Pluto. One last time. They gave me the strength to press on and fight that jerk and... well. Palkia is here in Hoenn now."

Ashley finishes. "We're safe from the meteor thanks to you, Isaac and I try to go get sandwiches before the hospital, pass out before we pay, and now we're here. That about covers it, I think."

He awaits Kepler's response, lovingly moving to eat one of the chocolates if offered. He looks so happy the moment it hits his tongue. "What the fuck even is our lives, right?" He's trying to laugh it off through every cascading tear.


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POSTED ON Dec 10, 2022 22:31:13 GMT
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[attr="class","thadmain"]“Hey,” Kepler coos, face falling; he drops the chocolates on Ash’s chest and reaches for his face, one hand cupping around his cheek. He pushes up with one elbow until he’s more full-on laying over Ash’s chest, concerned.

Divinity pulls himself up on the bed with a quiet hup, sitting close to Ash’s knee.

Kepler quiets and listens as Ash recounts what had happened at Mt. Pyre. One hand goes to gently brush Ash’s arm, an unbidden, unchoreographed motion, as though to prove to them both that it’s still present and attached.

“...Penelope Livy?”
Kepler asks, stuttering a bit? “Like… Councilwoman ?” Oh, fuck. That had… implications. Hopefully no one had recognized Ash or else…

Kepler pushes himself up more, one hand braced on the opposite side of Ash’s chest.

“What… what the fuck are you talking about?”
he asks, finding his volume and his incredulous, skeptical passion. He looks at his boyfriend in frank disbelief. “‘You got off too easy’? Ashley, you were lucky to get out of there with your life.” No, no, absolutely not. He was not going to stand for any of this self-patronizing bullshit. There was no logic in that, no equation that added up to Ash got off too easy.

All of the extra stuff-- Palkia, Father Winter, all that other bullcrap-- fell aside. He reached up with his free hand and scooped it behind his boyfriend’s head, cupping the back of his skull and lifting, pulling it forward. Gone is the weepy little boy caught in the fleeting notion of life, though his cheeks are still tear-stained and his eyes are still red.

“You don’t get to sit here and claim you got off easy or you didn’t do enough because-- you fucking didn’t, and you did. Now you focus on getting better. Got it?”

He is pointedly ignoring the bit where Ashley said your actions on the meteor saved Hoenn or whatever because Kepler hadn’t done jack all fuck shit on that cursed space-rock, but that wasn’t the focus of the moment.

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POSTED ON Dec 10, 2022 23:59:57 GMT
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It's not that the loving stops, but the tone shifts when Ashley finishes. Kepler cuts in a bit, but much like it was in their first real meeting, the words he says are every bit true. To the degree that, Ashley can't help but smile through the pain.

One of the reasons Ashley was in love with Kepler was that he said exactly what was needed. Sometimes a filter was needed, but the lack thereof here was necessary.

With a scoop of his head, he looks into Kepler's eyes, the weeping over. He gets the full look in the eyes, as he hears how stupid and selfish he had been. He deserves it, and doesn't fight back. In fact, he nods. "Yeah." He responds to Kep's demand, his order to get better. "I'm sorry, Kep."

He presses his forehead to Kepler's. He holds it there, and starts. "I didn't get off easy. I have to live with the fact that I hurt Isaac. It rippled to his partner too." It's all he can do to not start tearing up himself as he closes his eyes. He takes a sharp inhale. It took Kepler talking sense into him to really get it through him now.

"I won't leave you. Promise. I'm too stubborn and I want to live."

It's the first time he says that, and as he stays there. Happy tears trailing on his face. If Isaac pulled him out of hell, Kep was a reason never to go back to it.

He could stay like this forever.


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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2022 0:30:18 GMT
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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler leans into the touch, sealing their foreheads together, absorbing in the warmth and the smell and the feel of Ash.

“You made a mistake,” he says, letting the hand cradling Ash’s neck relax to card through his hair, drawing swirls on the back of his skull with his fingertips, “you were in a stressful situation and you made a mistake. You can’t undo it. All you can do is move forward.”

Higher mathematics didn’t deal with negatives except in the form of indicating decimal places. In the sciences, absolute 0 was still just zero. There was no going below zero.

He cleared his throat.

“When you hit your lowest point you are open to the greatest change,” he said, liking how it sounded rolling off his tongue, so much so that he smiled a little. You almost couldn't tell he stole that from Avatar.

“Good. I wouldn’t let you leave, anyway. I’d break the laws of physics to drag you back kicking and screaming if I had to.”

He kissed the bridge of his nose, turning back onto his side.

“I love you. Now you gotta focus on getting better and getting out of here.”

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POSTED ON Dec 11, 2022 1:12:34 GMT
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If only Ashley watched television that wasn't the Food Network.

"That's rather profound." He had no idea that came from Avatar, of all things. Kepler made him feel so much better, already. He was still going to blame himself, but he was at least going to lighten up about it. Best thing he could do was help Isaac and Cygne when they needed it. Kepler's words did reach him though. Right now though, as he feels the warmth of Kepler's lips on the bridge of his nose, he felt every bit those three little words. All he can do is move forward.

"I love you too." He smiles, now laying down on the bed now. "I'll be out of here before you know it. Then we can fix up our apartment a little more." He moves to kiss Kep's cheek. Feeling a sudden lethargy coursing through his body. He was so tired...

Holding Kep's hand, his eyes move to a close.

"G'night, love."

He begins breathing slower, the rise and fall. The thing he was going to miss most of all now with him here in the hospital. Isaac may have some things to say when Kep wakes up, but he's not leaving his side all night. Especially if the nurse wakes him up at bumfuck two AM for vitals checks.

If that nurse even dares, Ashley probably won't have to do a damn thing. Kep probably would tear into them.


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POSTED ON Dec 12, 2022 5:32:27 GMT
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