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James Point of view
Jessie was waiting for me a few feet from the clearing, she'd sat down in the snow, knees pulled up, head resting on them and I knew she was crying. I bit my lip, I could feel my own tears stinging my eyes, I wiped them away I had to be strong for Jessie's sake. She needed me right now.
I sat down next to her, feeling the snow cold against the thin cotton of my uniform. We had worn our uniforms to bed the night before 'cause it had been so cold even in the cabin, but they wouldn't keep us very warm out here, especially Jessie's. Anyway as I was saying, I sat done next to Jess and placed my hand on her hair stroking it gently. She looked up at me and wiped her eyes, probably angry that I'd seen her crying, she hates it when people see her acting weak. I looked around before saying "It's gonna be OK Jess. We're gonna be just fine."
I was only trying to comfort her but I don't think I did a very good job 'cause she jumped up and started screaming at me, "How can you say that James, are you stupid or something, we've got no supplies, no food we don't even have our pokemon It would have been better if she'd shot us, then to let us freeze to death out here." With that she stomped of into the trees, heading away from where the cabin had been.
I just sat there, I mean what could I say to that I couldn't believe that we would be better of dead and deep down I knew Jess didn't really believe it either. I got to my feet and chased after Jess, she hadn't got too far. She was leaning against a tree, just standing there looking lost and to tell the truth scared to death. I walked up to her and slipped my arms round her waist.
Now usually this would earn me a slap round the face, but now she seem glad of the contact and she lent against me. She rested her head against my shoulder before saying "I'm sorry James, I know you were only trying to help, it's just that I don't know what to do, I don't know how we're going to get out of this mess and that scares me"
I grinned at her to say I understood before replying "We've got out of worst situations then this before."
She nodded, "But our Boss didn't want us dead then did he?" she reminded me.
I sighed this was not going to be easy, in fact nothing was going to be easy ever again not with the whole of Team Rocket out to get us, but I didn't want to think about that now, if I did I'd just quit right now and I couldn't do that Jessie needed me to get us out of this here forest.
I looked around to see if I could see anything we could use as a shelter, but there was nothing nearby. "Come on, we'd better start walking, if we want to get out of here."
She nodded but didn't let go of me, for which I was glad of, it was rare for us to hug like this now days and I'd missed it. We started walking, still holding on to one another, I don't know how long we walked for, but after a while we came to a river, there was no bridge no way to cross so we decided to walk along it, least it had to lead somewhere didn't it?
We followed the river, not talking just taking comfort in being alive and being together something we always did in times of trouble. Then I saw something that made my heart leap for joy. A Pokecenter we were saved.
We let go of each other and pulled of our team rocket top's those big red R's were a great give away for who we were and anyway I guess we'll not really in Team Rocket anymore. Jess handed me her top and I rolled the two into balls and tossed them into the river, they were quickly washed away. I guess that probably wasn't the smartest way of getting rid of them, but at that moment all I wanted to do was get inside that Pokecenter and get warm.
We walked in and the Nurse Joy behind the counter smiled at us and asked if she could help. I nodded and told her how we had got lost in the woods after our stuff had been stolen by Team Rocket. It wasn't as if I was really lying either, well not much anyway.
After that she was all over us, wrapping the pair of us up in blankets and given us huge mugs of hot chocolate to drink. We smiled and said thanks and she left us sitting at one of the tables. Jess put her mug down and looked at me, "What are we going to do now James? We've got nothing left no job, no pokemon, no nothing."
I sighed, I'd been trying not to think of our missing pokemon and though I hated to admit it I even missed Meowth. But this wasn't the time for misgivings, I put my own mug down and took Jessie's hands in my own and smiled at her. "We have each other," I said, not looking at her face but at our joint hands, "and that's enough for now, we can figure the rest out as we come to it."
She grinned and nodded softly "I guess your right, we'll get through this and we'll do it together."
I can't explain how good it was to hear her say that, we had been slowly drifting apart for the past 3 years ever since we'd stopped chasing Ash about. It had been as if all the fun had slowly leaked out of our relationship and maybe just maybe this rude awaking was just what we needed to get us both back on the right track again.
At that point Nurse Joy walked over and asked us if we would be spending the night at the centre, we nodded and she handed us a couple of extra blankets. I wrapped Jess up in one of them before pulling the other over my shoulders. Jess smiled at me before resting her head on my lap. I blushed, she just grinned up at me, and soon much to my surprise she was asleep.
I couldn't believe she had done that, for the first time in 2 years she seemed really relaxed around me and that was the only good thing about this whole day, but for me that was enough. So I sat there stroking her hair softly and wondering what to do next, I thought about it for sometime but I kept coming back to the same answer. The only question was would he help us? and if yes would Jess except his help? I sighed softly and tried to get into a more comfortable position without waking Jess, I rested my head against the back of the seat closed my eyes. I would phone him in the morning and hope for the best. I fell asleep thinking of Jess as always.