[attr="class","olliestag"]Caleb Harcourt

[attr="class","olliesmain"] Cool air blasted across his skin as his shirt was removed, leaving him open for the tasting. Caleb's teeth grazed against his reddened skin, causing a surprising amount of heat to lance through the Head Ranger at the gesture and making him grab his hips to grind them together.

[break][break] "Caleb..."

[break][break] He swallowed thickly, distracted, as a thumb pressed against his bottom lip.

[break][break] Tides of green reflected in a stormy blue ocean, and Ollie wanted - no needed - Caleb to devour him whole. Years of pushing back against the tide, of pretending it didn't exist, had done neither of them justice.

[break][break] It was what left him so vulnerable, so surprised, to the burning touch of Caleb's hand as it grazed his jaw and then pushed him down to his knees. Ollie blinked for a moment, startled, and out of breath.

[break][break] 'Wha - '

[break][break] And then it occurred to him, with yet another sudden churn in his gut, exactly what Caleb meant.

[break][break] Fuck, that was hot.

[break][break] "You're right," Ollie said, reaching for the hem of the other's pants and unbuckling it. A thumb brushed against his hip, the other sweeping upwards to run admiringly across his abs, as he gazed endearingly up at his childhood friend.

[break][break] "I have always wanted you, Caleb."

[break][break] With that, Ollie grabbed his hips, twisting their position as he shoved Caleb roughly against the wall. He pulled down swiftly, releasing him, and leaned forward.

[break][break] Maybe, it was his turn to devour Caleb.

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

"oh man," he said with a warm chuckle. "i dunno about everything. when you've been a ranger for as long as me, you kinda just think up things as you go."

[break][break] he still remembered when he and Laurence Anderson had been starting out. how many times had they fumbled along the way? way too many to count.

[break][break] twisting apart the net and placing it over the sleeping paradox pokemon, ollie glanced up with surprise as the other mentioned his gym position. "oh, you were a gym leader?" now that he thought about it, the name seemed familiar. but ollie had never really been interested in hoenn's gym circuit anyway. "jack's great," he said with a grin. "i fought alongside him and Gunner Graves in the raid together."

[break][break] though maybe he would reach out to jack wainwright at some point later to touchbase with him. ollie liked to do that with every one of the rangers, anyway.

[break][break] "navy too," ollie agreed, only to falter. "man - wish he'd join the squad though. i've been trying to get him to join for years!" ollie laughed. "that guy's way too obsessed with his gym, though."

[break][break] at the mention back to the ranger corps though, the head ranger beamed once more. his face glowed. ollie loved the rangers.

[break][break] "i know what you mean. i felt exactly like that when i was first starting out - as a college kid, you know. i really wanted something to do. get my hands dirty. i didn't want to be stuck behind a desk all day."

[break][break] ironic now, of course, given his current position.

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

since getting to his seat as head ranger, ollie definitely had climbed up the rankings of people to send palentine gifts to. not that, of course, he hadn't been popular enough to begin with. his goodnatured personality and charm often invited unsolicited anonymous gifts, ones that ollie had always let their secretary take care of — and when they'd been young, he'd shoved them at Laurence Anderson to tease him even further.

[break][break] so some could say, while Eduardo Hisakawa's gift was definitely appreciated, it may have gotten hidden amongst the hundreds of flowers that had arrived at ollie's office that palentines, as the head ranger went out for dinner with councilwoman PENELOPE LIVY.

[break][break] "yeah, that's me!" he grinned, walking over to him and offering out a hand to attempt to embrace the other in a half-hug, slapping him on the back with the other. "i guess i forgot to mention last time - i'm head ranger."

[break][break] "oh, tofu's doing great. y'know - eating good food, chilling out in his off-time." ollie chuckled, before stabbing a thumb at the wyrdeer who trotted over. he patted the pokemon's back. "this is mochi."

[break][break] ollie looked around.

[break][break] "where's beau?"

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

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"oh great! that looks perfect. bubblegum, think you can...?"

[break][break] as gross as this whole thing, his blissey has no problem complying. the PSYCHIC energy continues to support the floating liquid as it spills into the offered container, as both head ranger and scientist gaze into it's grotesque contents.

[break][break] "what d'ya think - if anything - might come from it, illie?"

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

"No way!" he laughed. "You know there's nowhere I'd rather be than by your side, Larsy-pie." He winked.

[break][break] Jokes aside, Laurence Anderson knew better than anyone how much Ollie hated paperwork. Which unfortunately came with the job.

[break][break] "But... yeah," he said with a sigh, looking up at the sky. If he thought hard enough, he could almost imagine the blues and whites of the Kalosian skyline. "Sorta."

[break][break] He glanced sideways.

[break][break] "You tell me you don't miss Alto-Mare sometimes?"

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

"okay, everyone ready to go? we'll be separating into pairs."

[break][break] ollie was leading a group of volunteers who embarked on an expedition deep into the great chasm. their mission was to gather materials and tera crystals for the league's head scientists, Eva Morales and illeana reyes, and to complete a preliminary map of the surrounding area to aid future exploration parties.

[break][break] with the head ranger's command, the group would split apart. half would go towards the waterfall, and the other half deeper into upcoming the forested area. ollie pointed towards a few volunteers, bidding them to go with mauville's captain annalise henderson, pausing when he spotted a familiar face.

[break][break] "oh, hey! eddie, right?"

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[attr="class","olliespoke"]

[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

after the initial surprise, it's not so bad, ollie thinks. on the farm, at least, there had been much worse things than this.

[break][break] so as illie looks at him, ollie looks at the poop suspended in mid-air. it almost made him laugh.

[break][break] "huh?" ollie said, turning back to her. "oh."

[break][break] the head ranger shook his head.

[break][break] "no... i don't. do you?"

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

her look of disgust is mirrored by his as they both peer at her heel, certainly dripping with the mysterious liquid. or was it a solid?

[break][break] "no... but here," he said, reaching into his belt and releasing his blissey. "bubblegum, you think you could help out?"

[break][break] the happiness pokemon trills in agreement, waving it's arms cutely, as a warm light encompasses the boot and separates the liquid from the boot.

[break][break] ollie glances at the scientist.

[break][break] "do you... need to do something with this? like - catalogue it for research or something?"

[break][break] the poop lays suspended in the air between them as he waits for the league's head scientist to make a decision.

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

To be honest, Ollie didn't know much about the DRK Triad. He only knew enough from the retcon reports that he received from the Rangers, and the public information that was already available in the League. But ever since his conversations with freya morningstar and Yuina Higashi both, he knew that it was something that he ought to pay more attention to.

[break][break] 'Watch your back,' The Visionary (Naomi Sato) had said, during the battle on that Mirage Island. She had warned about the DRK Triad too. Had she known one of the Rangers would've been reached out to then?

[break][break] Ollie had no idea. Whatever it was, it made his stomach turn at the thought.

[break][break] He sighed, peering out at the large building ahead of them. Apparently, these were one of the outposts that one of their recon groups had labeled as a DRK Triad base. Ollie hadn't brought anyone with him this time, not trusting someone else to either attack or burn down the facility like @epicbugcatcher. To be honest, he didn't even know what annalise henderson would do — if she hated them too, as much as she hated Rocket, it wouldn't give Ollie the chance to get the information he needed to get.

[break][break] So he'd gone it alone.

[break][break] A sudden rustle behind him alerted him, and the brunette whipped his head back.

[break][break] "Who's that?" he hissed, hand at his pokebelt, ready to attack.

[break][break] 'Did they find me already?'

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

"Thanks for this," Ollie said, reaching for the reports and immediately flipping through them. Despite everything between them, the Head Ranger that he knew that he could always rely on Anna — work came first, after all, even if they weren't exactly on the most pleasant of terms right now.

[break][break] Though they'd been by each other's side during the raid... he hadn't been able to find her in the hospital after, not until they'd gone to head to head at Vital City Tournament. He wasn't even sure if he saw her at the closing ceremony.

[break][break] But today they were going to go over the reports for all the Area Zero excursions, both including the ones he already had on-hand and the ones that she wanted to report for Mauville. Plus, she'd been at that outbreak in Littleroot, too. Plenty of rangers had already reported their findings, but since annalise henderson had been there firsthand, he wanted to see what she had to say.

[break][break] Plus, he... he missed her. In general, and in totality. Other than willow atkins, there wasn't really anyone else he could talk to about the stuff going on between him, PENELOPE LIVY, Caleb Harcourt and GIDEON GRAVES. Then again, he wasn't sure if she'd want to talk about that sort of thing. After all, if the rumor mill was correct, she'd recently broken up with Greyson Connors.

[break][break] "How're you, by the way?" he said, remaining vague, as he attempted to breach the topic of conversation.

[break][break] Hopefully, she wouldn't turn him down completely.

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[attr="class","olliestag"]ollie morales

[attr="class","olliesmain"]

'Kill them all, of course.'

[break][break] Awkward.

[break][break] Ollie winced. It wasn't the first time that someone he knew had expressed such distaste towards the group of people that he was supposedly representing, but it didn't make it any easier to take. annalise henderson came to mind almost immediately.

[break][break] "Well - "

[break][break] His very political, Head Ranger-tone was cut off at the sound of the young man releasing a chuckle, instantly easing the tension in the air.

[break][break] Ollie arched a brow.

[break][break] "I wouldn't call Isaac their frontman."

[break][break] In fact, it wasn't even until recently that Isaac Merlo decided to participate in the program at all.

[break][break] "But you made him hot, huh?" Ollie let out a laugh, shoulders shaking. "I guess the two of us did a number on him — I helped him dye his hair."

[break][break] As they set off, Ollie followed behind the other, keeping even pace with him. Since John Sullivan seemed to have more experience here, he would let the other take the lead. In the meantime...

[break][break] "What changed your mind?"

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