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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2023 1:02:08 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler made a little gasp as Ash picked him up and bodily hauled him onto his lap. He wasn’t one-hundred-percent on social niceties but he did have a feeling they were slightly past the point of propriety, at least for a public place. But the New Years celebrations were in full fucking swing, and everyone around them was half-drunk or full-drunk and no one was paying any attention to them.

So he let himself be lap sat and wiggled his way in between Ash’s thighs and sighed, heavy and dreamy, because if this wasn’t perfect he didn’t know what was. “It’s weird, isn’t it? Wanting to. Be alive. Enjoying it.” His words were a little slurry and the topic was deep but his tone wasn’t. “It’s nice.”

And maybe if he wiggled a little more for other reasons, maybe that was nice, too.

He does sober a little, then.

“I… you have to understand. Up until I met you I lived my whole life planning on being alone. These are never things that occurred to me as possibilities, before… now.” He takes a drink and leans back, looking up at Ashley with moonstruck eyes. “My parents were god awful and… I’d have to be sure… I wasn’t like them. Before. You know. Becoming one. A parent, I mean. Not a kid. I was a kid. It sucked.” He snorted and giggled again.

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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2023 0:52:29 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]The baby pink apron had ruffles around the edges in a Nurse Joy-esque fashion. If Kepler had thought it looked good on Ash before, now that he was starting to beef up, it was. Honestly. It did unspeakable things to his brain.

How did he always look like a fucking angel? Biceps and sweat silver hair and all. He was an angel, and Kepler was a little gremlin, having crawled out from under the bed.

“I do like strawberries,” Kepler ventured, stepping forward into the embrace and burying his head in Ash’s stomach. After indulging in that for a second, he reached up to pluck Ana off Ash’s shoulder and pull her into his own body, crossing the kitchen to the fridge.

Being with Ash had changed him in many ways for the better, and one of those ways was a new respect for Pokemon.

Holding Ana in one arm, Kep cracked the fridge and reached for a sparkling water, his only source of carbonation now that energy drinks and pop had been forbidden from him.

“It’s… a day,” he allows with a shrug. “I feel fine. Just sucks that I can’t go out and do anything yet.” His stupid heart had ruined Valentines day for them, and would probably ruin the first half of the year.

He set Ana on the counter and scratched her between her ears. “Can I help?”

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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2023 0:35:54 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]The waiting room was done in beige and slate gray, with shining white tiles reflecting the bright ceiling lights. Kepler sat on the uncomfortable chair and braided his hair, the teal in it beginning to fade and badly needing a retouch.

“You don’t have to wait with me,” he said, voice quiet over the hum of the heating system and the soft music piped in through speakers in the corner of the room. SLATEPORT CARDIOLOGY was stenciled in big block letters on the opposite wall, with framed pictures of the doctors arranged in a pyramidal fashion.

He still wasn’t 100% after his self-induced heart episode in the Mt. Pyre Rift. He tired easily and his chest hurt. The emergency care they’d gotten immediately after returning had sent him away stable with a recommendation to see a specialist. Well, he was at the fucking specialist.

“I don’t know how long this will take.” His tone was apologetic as he finished one braid and shifted to the other sides, fingers moving with nerves.

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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2023 0:22:00 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler regrets asking in the moments that follow. He freezes, a rabbit out of room, terrified Ash is going to say you know what, you’re right. It wasn’t worth it. Goodbye. Or something else equally as fucking ridiculous.

“Okay. Okay, if you’re sure.” If Ash was sure, then it was was okay. If he’d had any doubts, Kepler didn’t think he would’ve been able to handle it. If he’d had any doubts, Kepler had given him an out, and he hadn’t taken it.

His ear is against Ash’s chest and he can feel the way his heart speeds up. He feels it in his own heart… that had to be the beer, wasn’t it? They couldn’t really feel each other’s heartbeats… in their own heartbeats… right? The idea made him giggle. “Oh, noooooo. Not the giggles.”

He sneaks an arm around Ash’s back so he can hug him properly, pulling him closer. “You’d better not die. Ever. Never ever. Oh, another drink.” He squints at the glass, sitting up so he’s not just laying on his boyfriend in the booth.

“I like the silver. I like the black, too. But the silver is all’s good. Also. Good. My spirit feels it.” He snickered and reached for his glass, and takes a drink.

“Did you ever want to get married. Or… have kids? Or anything like that.”

He doesn’t know where that thought came from but he’s swimming a little bit.

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nothing compares to you [m, c]

POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 21:41:53 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler could calculate the amount of fuel needed to get a spaceship to the moon, knew how to predict weather patterns off of wave-particle theory, and could deconstruct advanced mathematical physics down to the smallest prime integer, but for the love of everything holy, he could not cook.

He burnt water. He survived on ramen and energy drinks and things that came out of pouches.

It was part of what made Ash so wonderful. Kepler didn’t know how he did it. His boyfriend was amazing.

It was the smell of caramelizing sugar that distracted him from his readings on Lulu Flint ’s URIEL Program. Kepler was still on strict bedrest upon pain of death by order of his cardiologist, so as much as he would like to partake, it was safer not to. He liked scientific discovery but, for the first time in a long time, he also really enjoyed being alive.

Curiosity piqued, he scooched his chair back from his desk and made his way out to the kitchen.

“Smells yummy.” He was in one of Ash’s hoodies that covered him almost to his knees, the baggy sleeves stretching far beyond the reach of his fingers. “Whatcha makin’?”

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POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 21:13:07 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler frowned because the other kid was right but he hated to admit that other people were right. Except for Ashley Shepard, of course. “Yeah, but she’s always been like this. Doofy,” he affirmed, when Venus looked at him in confusion. Her head tilted to the side with a grind of stone on stone, indicating she did not know what the word ‘doofy’ meant.

The blonde was going on about the Weather Institute. Kepler looked him dead in the eye. In his mind, he was revisiting the scene as Kyurem ripped itself out of a hole in the universe like a Xenomorphic chest-burster, but what he said was, “Yeah. The Weather Institute. Fuck ‘em.” In a completely emotionless voice.

Venus had gotten distracted and dusted the snow off a slumbering Whirlipede that was curled up against the influx of cold. She lifted the creature of the snow and presented it to Kepler, who tossed a Pokeball at it as it began to slowly unfurl.

“Sure. Why not. I’m collecting data on the effect of this weird weather on the native species of Hoenn. For, uh, not the Weather Institute.” He turned to continue trudging through the snow.

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POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 21:01:05 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Her question caught him off guard. “Yeah, yeah. Back to the lab, Batman.” He tugged on one of his fading teal braids in thought.

He was already making a list of things they’d need for a return trip. “GPR, and god’s biggest backhoe. Maybe an industrial crane? Though that’s not very sneaky… might be able to fudge some building permits, somewhere. Maybe not for this one right her, but...”

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POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 20:31:30 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler’s gaze goes a little bit foggy and he doesn’t know if it’s the alcohol or the emotions. “Is it worth it?” he asks, and it comes out sounding a little funny because… he doesn’t know what he’s asking. It’s not accusatory. It’s not his normal wry, sarcastic candor. It’s somewhere soft and a little far away.

“You were out, Ash. We sucked you back in.”

He thinks to the numerous presentations he was required to attend in college and the lectures they prattled talking about how you’re supposed to surround yourself with people who build you up and not who break you down.

He finishes his second beer in big gulps to stop himself from crying and when prompted he does lean into Ash, fighting the urge to curl up on him like a cat in public.

“That’s so scary,” he says, when Ash tells him you’re my muse. “I love you and that makes me happy but that’s still so scary. If anything happened to you… I don’t think I could live with myself.”

He does allow himself to turn his face to Ash’s body and rubs his forehead (gone numb, lips fuzzy) gently on him before just resting his cheek again.

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all i want is you [m]

POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 20:24:26 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Cloud is enraptured by the thank you message in the snow and his eyes get a little watery as he throws his flippers around the feline’s body and gives him a big, chilly hug.

Kepler is so focused on going forward that he doesn’t realize when it’s time to stop until Ash reels him in with his uninjured arm. Chest to chest, red-faced and foggy-breathed in the cold air, Kepler beams up like he’s found the fucking sun, the answer to all the questions the world had ever posed.

He reaches up with slightly trembling fingers and takes Ash’s face in his hands, pulling him down as they seal their lips together, and it’s so good and perfect and warm and good that Kepler thinks he might fucking cry.

The heart bubbles continue to float around them for a bit, bursting into little clouds of frost, and Kepler thinks it’s so cheesy that if he were lactose intolerant he’d probably die. But he loves it. Holy shit, he loves it. He--

“--love you,” he exhales, as they part, and his arms go around Ash’s waist and he rests his chin on his boyfriend’s chest, “I love you so much. This was perfect. I think you are perfect.” And he was babbling now but it was fine, it’s fine, it’s better than fine, this might just be the happiest he’s ever fucking been.

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POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 20:16:40 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]He was poofy with layers, waddling like a Fall Guy. He saw something that looked vaguely canid in nature and had to immediately avert his eyes.

Would Ruby Garcia have even gone to the fucking meteor if it wasn’t for him? “Of course she would. She’s not smart.” But the attempt at humor fell flat with no one around to laugh.

He almost jumped out of his fucking skin when someone ran up on him. “FUCK!” At first he thought it was a Lycanroc alone and he was about to get fucking mauled-- but he calmed when he saw the human being, wrapped in beige against the frigid wind.

He pressed one hand to his chest and swore he could feel his heart even through his multitudinous winter wrappings.

“Holy fucking shit, you scared me half to death. Arceus wept.”

He cleared his throat and sucked in some haggard breaths.

“I was fine until--,” his bratty retort was cut off by a blur of red. A ice-coated Scizor staggered towards them, clanking one slow claw; frostbitten holes in its wings caused it to pitch forward, in an attack or a desperate cry for help, Kepler wasn’t sure. He stepped back easily out of the way as it fell on its face, twitching in the snow. He didn’t even have to have Borealis subdue it, he simply bounced a Pokeball off the back of its head.

“That’s fucked up.”

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POSTED ON Mar 8, 2023 20:07:00 GMT

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“Hold on, I have to--,” Kepler was keen to say there and keep practicing his breathing but then Ruby grabbed his wrist and-- she really didn’t even have to pull him, honestly, she was so strong and he was so weak that just the thought of her heading in a direction meant he had to go that way, too.

Deimos delighted in the cacophony and was swirling around the broken filaments and shards of glass spitting electrical charges, cackling laughter echoing down the empty laboratory halls.

Kepler had to focus on walking and not falling. Eventually, his legs caught up and he wasn’t so hunched over but he still kept one hand pressed to his chest, willing his heartbeat to regulate. His pale face was blanched blue in the light of the security monitors and his beautiful and complex brain had been relegated to inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.

His scream cut off as he shrank and pressed his back to Ruby’s, not able to keep up with the way the Rotom-- it had to be a Rotom-- jumped from computer to computer. Disc drives whirred and stuck out, fans sprung to life, and buttons charged blue and then faded with crackling pops. He didn’t see it when it charged but he heard Cerberus’ roar and clapped his hands over his ears, willing his heart to slow down, slow down, slow down--

“Ruby-- Ruby, I’m--,”

Deimos spiraled towards the computer the Rotom had shot into like a fish down a toilet bowl, seeping into the inner mechanisms and blowing it apart with a shriek of hilarity, forcing the Rotom out into another machine. Deimos doggedly followed, having the best time, but each explosion sent pieces of techy shrapnel scattering over the ground.

Kepler’s heart gave a painful squeeze.

After four or five explosions Deimos tired of the chase and zapped the Rotom with a Hex that sent it careening across the open space and into the wall of TV screens, causing one to shatter to pieces and spider-web cracks to branch out across the ones directly surrounding it.

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POSTED ON Mar 1, 2023 2:54:28 GMT

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Send a special someone a bespoke box of sweets delivered by Roselia, signed or anonymous![break][break]
ORDER DETAILS: A large collection of items: a quirky tray of candies that look like sushi; a realistic, to scale chocolate heart; a Scorbunny plushie; and a bottle of sour cherry vodka.[break][break] TO: Ashley Shepard [break][break] CARD: "I couldn't decide on one so I got them all! I love you!" [break][break]

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Send a special someone a bouquet delivered by Vivillon, signed or anonymous!
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Send a special someone a bespoke box of sweets delivered by Roselia, signed or anonymous![break][break]
ORDER DETAILS: A golden box of various caramels. In place of a ribbon there is an eyepatch.[break][break] TO: Isaac Merlo [break][break] CARD: "Happy valentines, dork." [break][break]

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Send a special someone a bespoke box of sweets delivered by Roselia, signed or anonymous![break][break]
ORDER DETAILS: A collection of small cakes in various flavors, delicately decorated. [break][break] TO: Tempest Quinn [break][break] CARD: "Thanks for the carry! Literally! There should be enough here to share with Mr. Merlino."[break][break]

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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2023 16:09:09 GMT

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Ditto was like the oobleck of the Pokemon world: functionally pretty useless but good at blowing kids’ mind. A real curious thing

They were also kind of cute. And the shiny ones were blue? Score.

He was sitting atop his Metagross as they careened through the brush, all the Ditto shaking like gelatin with each stomp, his Applin AirPods blasting in his ears:

“The power of love is a curious thing… Make a one man weep, make another man sing--,"

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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2023 15:54:43 GMT

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[attr="class","thadmain"]Kepler’s face falls for the briefest of moments. The idea of administrator makes alarm bells scream in his head. It’s terrifying, and he opens his mouth to speak and then closes it again.

He would like for Ash to never have to do anything dangerous ever again. He would like to be able to keep him at home and wrap him in a bubble and protect him forever but he was not strong and he was not that kind of person.

The idea of dates makes him smile.

“You,” he said, lips a little fuzzy. “You are my plan for the new year.” He takes a deep drink of his second round.

“I… don’t… want you to get hurt again.”

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