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Jessie's point of view
When I woke up the first thing I noticed was that James was gone, he'd somehow managed to up and tuck his blankets under my head without waking me up. I sat up, stretched and looked around seeing if I could spot him.
He was standing by the counter talking to the Nurse Joy about something, so I got up and walked over to them. Joy turned and smiled at me, before turning away and disappearing into the back of the centre. James turned to me grinning, "Hi Jess, I've found us somewhere to hide out."
I frowned slightly, where the hell could that be? I certainly couldn't think of anyone who'd help us but all I said was, "Who?" He looked down at the floor for a minute before looking back up at me and answering "Brock."
I couldn't believe what he had said, why would he help us, after all, everytime we had met up all we did was cause him and his friends trouble. My shock must have shown on my face as he grinned and said, "Yeah, I was kinda shocked when he said he'd help us, but I couldn't think of anyone else to turn to."
I nodded softly but I still couldn't figure out why he'd come up with Brock in the first place, I mean I couldn't think of any reason to call him and I said as much. His answer was even more cryptic, "Remember I saved his life that time, just before The Boss moved us to that other mission."
To tell the truth I didn't remember and I said so. He frowned slightly and then blushed before saying that he now remembered not actually telling me about it. I sighed, that figured. I could do one of two things now, Shout or tell him it didn't really matter as long as we had someplace to go. I opted for the second option, He seemed shocked that I hadn't shouted at him, I'd done so for less over the past few years, but the he grinned and said we should start out if soon if we wanted to reach Brock's home before dark fell. I nodded and then Nurse Joy walked back out from the back rooms carrying a small backpack. She handed it to James who took it with a surprise look on his face. She smiled and said
"There's some food and a couple of bottles of water, just enough to keep you going until you reach Brock's." James grinned at her, said thanks and slung the small backpack on to his back and with that we walked out of the centre. There was a small path leading from the front of the centre round to the back and we took that, it lead of along side the river and I tried not to shiver in the cool air. It must have snowed again as everything was covered in fresh white snow.
As we walked I thought about what had happened, I still couldn't get over the fact that Cassidy had let us go. It surprised me 'cause I had always believe that she no longer liked us at all, she certainly hadn't shown any signs of liking us anyway. Sometimes I couldn't figure people out, like James he was walking a little in front of me, whistling a nameless tune like he didn't have a care in the world, but even he must know our troubles had only just began.
We walked on and I continued to think about James, it didn't surprise me, he was always on my mind for one reason or another. I knew I was truly horrible to him sometimes but it was my way of covering up how I really felt. When I shouted all I really wanted to do was kiss him, but I had no idea how he felt about me and I was to proud to risk it. Now I had nearly lost him, and I couldn't risk losing him again and never knowing how he felt about me.
We had been walking for about three hours by now so I decided now would be a good time to stop and eat. I would tell him how I felt after we had eaten and see what he would say. We ate in silence, Joy had given us two bags of cookies and some doughnuts much to James delight. What can I say, James really likes his food.
When we had finished I reached over to him and took his hands in my own. He looked down at our joint hands in some confusion, before looking up at me with a small smile, "What's up Jess?" he asked.
I smiled back at him before answering, "I've something I need to tell you James."
"What is it?" he asked softly, never taking his eyes from my face, I blushed slightly before saying that I was sorry for the way I had treated him the past three years. Damn it that wasn't what I'd meant to say at all.
He sighed slightly, looking a little disappointed before saying that it was OK and that I didn't need to be sorry about that. Why was he disappointed? What did he think I was going to say? I decided to try again, "James, what I meant to say was that I...I love you."
There I had finally got it out and it felt like a weight lifting from my shoulders, I looked at him to judge his reaction. He was grinning so much that I thought his face would split open any minute if he didn't stop.
"Well," he said softly, fighting to keep a straight face, "This is kinda a surprise. I didn't know you felt like that or I'd have said this sooner."
With that he took a deep breath and said that he loved me too, that he'd loved me for the past six years, ever since we'd joint Team Rocket in fact. I smiled softly, that was about the same amount of time that I'd loved him it was funny in a twisted kind of way. I uncoupled our hands and reached up to touch his face, he blinked at me softly and then I pulled him to me and we kissed.
It was the first time we had ever kissed each other, sure we'd kissed other people but not very many and anyway this was a special kiss, this was a kiss with someone I truly loved not just someone I was going out with. We sat there for sometime just kissing and hugging, but finally James broke away and said we'd better get going if we wanted to get there today.
We got up, he slipped the backpack on his back, kissed me softly on the lips again, slipped his arm round my waist slowly and I did the same to him. We started walking again and before long he had started whistling again, this time it was a tune I knew so I joined in with him. Yeah maybe this was only the start of our troubles but I knew that as long as we were together we'd be OK.
It was just beginning to get dark when we reach Pallet Town, and I found myself wondering if Ash and that Pikachu were around here somewhere. I shock my head it didn't really matter that much to me anymore, I hadn't even fought about it in three years. I guess being back here brought back memories that's all. We headed up a side path from the main town and I soon worked out that we were heading to Professor Oak's Laboratory and I wondered why we were going there.
It wasn't a very large building only one floor, I guessed the main body of the building had to be underground. We walked up to the front door and James knocked loudly. We waited for a couple of minutes and then the door opened, Brock was standing there. He hadn't changed at all. He smiled at us and motioned for us to come inside.